Dragon Ball Z: Dynasty

By Feraligreater328

Chapter 44: "Pleasure"

Cold Capital City – The wrecked Affluent District...

Cold looked towards each of his advancing, ape foes as they drew closer to him. He looked utterly unimpressed. Filthy, Saiyan apes walking freely on his soil and trampling the ruins of his once mighty city. Cold had seen hundreds of these disgusting, hairy apes before. Four of them ganging up on him, in his eyes, was the height of insults.

The only notable thing about the four of them, in King Cold's eyes, was the state of those two he was fighting before: Goku and Vegeta. Somehow, those two had managed to combine their Oozaru forms with that golden form they had adopted before. And, although Cold refused to allow the mindset of defeat to enter his thoughts, he was well aware that at their current powers, those two might actually be able to injure him. Maybe even kill him if he were to slip up.

King Cold sighed...and then he whipped around as fast as he could and fired two Death Cannons at the Power Ball. Bardock, reacting quickly with his rapid Oozaru reflexes, leapt between the two blasts and the Power Ball. The Death Cannons crashed into the center of Bardock's chest and sent him falling backwards.

The attacks hurt, they hurt a lot, but Bardock's increased mass served as a cushion for him. He landed and did a backflip, and then he lunged forward. Bardock let loose a cacophonous roar and slammed his fist into the building that Cold was standing atop of.

Cold leapt away, dodging the attack with relative ease. But the King was shocked to see that the other three Oozaru were already behind him. Each of them threw a punch and Cold just barely managed to weave through each without getting hit. These apes were faster than they looked. He had to be careful.

A quick regrouping later and all four Oozaru were coming at him at once. The bloodlust that the form gave each of them was apparent in their massive, red eyes. Goku swiped and Vegeta swung and Raditz lunged and Bardock stomped. And each time, Cold got just a little closer to actually being hit. Cold paused, aiming his finger at Raditz's heart. He hoped to kill the weakling first. But, in that split second, Vegeta managed to get the first hit in.

The Saiyan Prince's massive fist slammed into Cold and sent him flying backward. Cold slammed into the shattered side of a once prominent building and the sheer force of his impact caused it to topple over. He tried to recover, but Goku was already above him. The orange clad Saiyans massive boot smashed into Cold and drove him through the wreckage of them building. With a massive crash and a rumble, Cold was impacted into the ground.

As the King tried to recover, Bardock and Raditz came rushing in for another attack. Goku leapt back and the other two Saiyans got to work. Raditz dragged his fingers through the ground and ripped Cold high into the air, leaving the King as a target for Bardock's attack.

The older Saiyan had prepared a Riot Javelin in each hand. He waited until Cold was in position, and then with a smirk he fired both Riot Javelins as well as a powerful Mouth Cannon. All three blasts shot towards Cold, spiraling around one another, until they crashed into the King with a massive explosion.

Cold fell from the sky as all four Saiyans watched on. He came within inches of the ground before, in a massive surprise, catching himself midair and instantly summoning two Death Balls. With a devastating attack in each hand, Cold rocketed towards the four Oozaru. He threw both Death Balls and then followed them up with his Gravity Bolts. Cold smirked, thinking that this maneuver would take out at least the two non-Golden apes. But he was quickly surprised when Goku, Vegeta, Bardock, and Raditz all roared at the top of their lungs and then fired four, simultaneous Mouth Cannons. Cold's attacks were all swallowed up and the King had no time to react as the four beams all crashed into him.

King Cold was swallowed up by the searing blue light of the Mouth Cannons and sent flying back into a large, wrecked portion of his once mighty city. The attacks exploded in a brilliant display and left little more than rubble and smoke in their wake.

The four Saiyans stood confident. They knew that Cold was not dead, not from an attack like that, but they took quite major advantage in this battle. They had evened the playing field. Vegeta chuckled and turned to speak to his less-than-Elite comrades. "Is everyone doing okay? Have you all managed to keep your wits about you?"

Bardock nodded. "This ain't my first time in the saddle Vegeta. I'm fine."

Raditz was clutching his head, as if he was in the middle of a migraine. "Me... am...fine. Still...here..."

Vegeta turned to Goku. "Kakarot. What about-"

Goku was a much different case from Bardock and Raditz, however. While the two of them appeared to be holding it together reasonably, Goku was already off in the distance throwing buildings and smashing anything that got in his way. Vegeta sighed. "Goddammit..."

Meanwhile, hovering up in the stratosphere...

In his small scouting ship, a Cold Force soldier had tears in his eyes. He sat at the controls to his vessel and mumbled to himself. "D-Dammit... King Cold is going kill me..."

He gripped the controls to the ship tightly and sniveled to himself as he followed the path that his kidnappers had set out for him. "I... I swear...I going to kill all three of these-"

The barrel to his own blaster pressed into the side of his face and the soldier instantly began to whimper. The person threatening him, Genoa, placed her thumb on the trigger. "I'm sorry, what was that?"

He shook his head, nervously chuckling. "N-N-Nothing, m-ma'am~!"

As Genoa threatened that hapless fools' life, Faline Phars and Salam, wearing her Camera Scouter, stood nearer to the viewing screen of the ship. Phars motioned to the window, showing a full panoramic of the situation below, and continued to give her report. "You're seeing it here live, folks. The state of Planet Cold is in flux as it would appear that four Saiyan insurgents have taken the planet by storm! Cold's reign appears to be, ironically enough, coming to a bitterly frigid end as these four rebels have left his castle and his army in ruins!"

Phars adjusted her glasses. "The long-thought-extinct race has come back with a vengeance, going against their former boss. A boss who, as the documents that I leaked in one of my more recent posts revealed, allowed his son to destroy the Saiyan race so many years ago. That callous act has paid dividends as it would appear that the sins of the son are now reflected on the fath-"

A stray Mouth Cannon shot by the ship and made the entire thing shake midair. Phars, Genoa, Salam, and the soldier all screamed in fear, but the soldier quickly got the vessel back on course. Phars stood up and brushed her hair out of her face. "What the hell was that?!"

She and Salam both looked out from the viewing screen and came upon a truly interesting sight. Phars spoke again. "Well...ladies and gentlemen...it would appear as if the Saiyans, formerly a seemingly uniform fighting force have...turned on each other..."

She scratched the back of her head. "Uhm...stay tuned, I guess..."

Back on the ground...

With a burst of energy, King Cold exhumed himself from his tomb of rubble. The King creaked and cracked as he stood up, dismayed at his current condition. Cold examined all of his fresh, if superficial wounds and the state of his once pristine armor. The chest plate was almost totally gone and his cape was little more than tatters. Unwilling to step back out looking a fool, Cold simply pulled his armor away and tossed it aside.

He snarled at the state of himself, his dignified form being so scuffed and bruised and burnt. His prominent tail split down the very center and his pierced stomach still leaking his noble blood onto the ground. Cold picked up his sword and stepped from behind his hiding spot, ready to rain vengeance upon his foes. But, to his shock, the King did not find the four Oozaru waiting to continue their brawl. Instead, he found the sight of the four of them wrestling with one another.

Goku roared in confusion and frustration as Vegeta, Raditz, and Bardock all pinned him to the ground. Not in his right mind, the Saiyan from Earth roared in anger and frustration and fired his Mouth Cannon wildly. Vegeta jerked his head out of the way of the devastating attack and then gave Goku as shake. "Kakarot! Get a hold of yourself!"

It was an unfortunate situation, Goku had worked himself to the point of exhaustion as Vegeta tried to teach him how to maintain one-hundred percent control in his Oozaru form. But the technique to learning self-control was something that took both skill and time. Maintaining his consciousness against the overwhelming pull of his wild instincts was quite difficult for him.

As Vegeta held Goku down, his father and brother tried their best to calm him. Raditz spoke soothingly, in his rudimentary way of speech, trying to get Goku to regain his senses. "K-Kakarot...stay...calm. You...are...Saiyan...and..."

Raditz's attempt at a heartwarming speech was quickly cut off as Goku snatched his hand away from Vegeta and punched his brother directly in the face with it. This sudden attack jarred Raditz and, also being a low-class with little Oozaru training, Raditz immediately lost his sense of rationality and began to rampage as well.

Infuriated and targeting one another specifically, Goku and Raditz began to batter each other as hard as they could. The back-and-forth clash lasted only moments before Goku managed to get the upper hand, throwing Raditz to the ground and pounding on him with his massive fists. Bardock sighed in frustration, quickly stepping in and separating his two sons. He grabbed Goku by the back of his tattered shirt and heaved his son off of him and across the ruined city. And then he knelt down and began to try and talk some sense into his older son.

Goku had already recovered behind the two. He opened his mouth and began to charge a Mouth Cannon to fire at Raditz and Bardock, but Vegeta quickly stepped in to prevent that. Vegeta grabbed Goku by the throat and choke-slammed him to the ground. Vegeta got on top of Goku and held him down as Bardock continued to talk to Raditz.

Bardock spoke into his older son's ear. "Raditz! Come on! We need to stay focused and keep things together so that we can get back to your mother! Gine is counting on us to all come back alive, so we can't have you and Kakarot trying to kill each other! Not again!"

Raditz snarled and snorted, but Bardock's words eventually worked. Soon, relaxing a bit, Raditz came back into consciousness. "R-Right...I'm...so...rry..."

Bardock stood his eldest up and gave him a hearty slap on the back. Meanwhile, Vegeta was still trying to get Goku to snap out of it. "Kakarot! We've trained for this! I trained you for two months to handle this! You need to conduct yourself with dignity and pride! This form is the culmination of everything that the Saiyan race ever strived for!"

Goku roared in Vegeta face and Vegeta responded with a punch. "Get it together, Kakarot! Or I will personally rip your tail off!"

With that punch, Goku seemed to calm down a bit. The Saiyan from Earth snarled and growled, but his consciousness slowly returned to him. Goku sighed out and shook his head, and then he cracked a small smile. "Th-Thanks...Vegeta..."

Vegeta got off of Goku and allowed the Saiyan to stand up. Goku scratched the back of his head and chuckled. "I'm sorry...still...kinda hard..."

Vegeta shook his head. "You need to learn to conduct yourself better. You represent the entire Saiyan race in this form. Don't embarrass us, Kakarot!"

Goku pointed to his clothes, made from Frieza Force materials by Bulma and Chi-Chi for when he transformed. "At least...not...naked~"

Vegeta slapped his hand onto his face. "Is the new standard for dignity really that you aren't naked?"

And then, Vegeta cringed, realizing that he had just used his broken arm to facepalm. Vegeta clenched his fist tight as a wave of pain passed. The Prince snarled. "We need to focus up. Cold is still alive. We need to kill him quickly!"

The others were all quick to nod in agreement. Bardock spoke up. "We should split up and cover the area. He's smaller than us, so he's probably hiding somewhere in the rubble. We flush him out and then swarm him!"

Raditz and Vegeta both nodded in agreement. Bardock turned to his younger son. "Kakarot! Think you can do that?"

Goku nodded. "Y-Yeah, I think-"

Suddenly, Goku's entire body was enveloped in a thin, white light and he was forced to stand up as straight as a rail. Goku's face cringed and he instantly looked confused. Raditz, Bardock, and Vegeta all flinched back, but then they caught on to what was happening as three massive Death Beams came shooting towards Goku's chest.

Vegeta acted quickly, jumping in and kicking Goku out of the path of the beams and saving his life in the process. The beams flew further and further into the distance, over the ruins of the castle, and hit a tower in the distance. The tower exploded in short order and the burning debris rained down onto the town below.

Goku struggled to stand, having landed badly on his already broken leg. He limped over to Vegeta and bowed his head. "Th-Thanks..."

Vegeta sneered. "I was only returning the favor for you saving me from Frieza's disc attack back on Namek."

The four Saiyan all turned towards the source of the attack and seethed at the attack. King Cold was floating there, totally naked and gripping his sword. He had a look of cold fury on his face. "You Saiyans seem too comfortable. You should know that I am nowhere near dead yet."

Cold wasted no time. He thrust his hand out and fired his Gravity Bolts once more. Vegeta roared in response to this and charged right at them. To Cold's surprise and dismay, the Bolts did not seem to affect Vegeta all that badly. The Prince's larger frame seemed to absorb most of the impact of the attack, allowing him to charge through and deliver a mighty punch to Cold. "That petty little technique won't work anymore, Cold!"

King Cold went spiraling into the air. He caught himself after flying a little way and sneered down at Vegeta. "I suppose it's a good thing I am not a one-trick pony then!"

Cold held up his hand and produced more of that same toxic, blue fog from before. Rather than just shoot it at Vegeta, however, Cold coated his blade with it. He thrust his sword high into the air, and then Cold swung it downward. As he did that, the area around the blue fog sparked and resulted in a burning, flying slash launched directly at Vegeta.

The slash hit the Prince dead on and cleaved a burning wound into his chest. Vegeta fell onto his back and Cold smirked. "Allow me to introduce another technique of mine: my Vacuum Mist! Another brilliant combination of my own extraordinary spiritual and psychic powers and the skills I have accrued over such a long life!"

Cold gently placed his blade over the opposite shoulder and smirked. "Normally, my mist is only used to destroy oxygen. But when applied to an object and swung at a high enough speed to create friction. Well..."

Cold chuckled. "I have no need to breathe, but I do keep this planet oxygenated for a reason~"

The King swung his blade yet again and created another giant, burning arc with his sword. This slicing flame went flying down towards the still recovering Vegeta, crashing into the Prince's chest again and smashing him into the ground. Vegeta roared in pain and his other comrades quickly rushed over to help him.

Goku and Raditz leapt up into the air and began to swing wildly on King Cold. Cold weaved through their attacks, occasionally being clipped by the side of a fist or the edge of a boot, but managing to stay mostly unharmed in the exchange. Cold summoned a small blast in his hand and allowed it to explode once Goku and Raditz drew close. Both Oozaru were momentarily stunned and Cold dropped. He fired off two more burning slashes at the Saiyans...but this time he had a specific target in mind. Both burning crescents were aimed squarely at Goku and Raditz's tails!

The two brothers were dumbfounded. They were both still slightly stunned and stuck in the non-maneuverable airspace. At this point, they were both doomed to lose their Oozaru forms and be at the mercy of Cold on the ground. However, salvation came from a very unlikely source. As the slashes nearly hit their tails, Goku and Raditz were both suddenly engulfed in a massive energy blast. This attack might have hit both of them head on, but it also completely dispelled the burning slashes.

Goku and Raditz both smashed into the ground and Cold turned to glare at the one that had ruined his plan. Bardock stood there, smoke curling from his mouth and a smile on his face. He reached down and yanked Vegeta back onto his feet. Goku and Raditz both quickly recovered as well. They were a bit damaged, but still safely in their Oozaru forms.

Wordlessly all four Saiyans charged at Cold, coming from all sides. And another great struggle broke out between the four of them and their one mighty enemy. Cold weaved between their attacks, eventually rising above them with a confident smirk. "Big or small, simple apes are simple apes~"

And then, the King fired another errant blast towards the Power Ball. Bardock was quick to react, rushing over to Cold's blast and slapping it out of the air. Cold raced over to Bardock, trying to remove the older Saiyans tail with his blade, but Raditz and Vegeta stepped into with a punch and a kick.

Cold was sent flying by Vegeta's kick, but caught himself and launched another slash at the Power Ball. Goku leapt in and blocked the slash with a Mouth Cannon before falling from the sky and trying to body slam Cold. Cold managed to get out of the way and slash Goku across his left flank, only for a surprise punch from Bardock to send him flying once again.

It was pandemonium and chaos as the King and the four Oozaru held each other at a stalemate. Each upper hand that the Saiyans gained was distracted by Cold launching an attack on the Power Ball or on one of their tails and damage was inevitably dealt to them in their distraction. But, each attack on the Power Ball or the tails left Cold open to absorb more punishment as well.

Vegeta stomped Cold into the ground, but Cold slashed at his tail in response. Vegeta cartwheeled out of the way of the attack, but then Cold aimed for the Power Ball. Raditz leapt up and blocked the attempt on the Power Ball with his body, injuring himself but giving Bardock the opportunity to rush in and attack once more. Cold sneered and froze Bardock in place with his telekinesis before firing a Death Beam right towards the Saiyans heart, but Goku leapt in and shoved his father out of the way at the last second. Vegeta took that advantage and caught Cold by surprise with a Mouth Cannon blast, sending Cold flying away and resulting in a massive explosion.

This confusing brawl continued on and on for quite a while, but eventually fatigue began to set in on both sides. Another Mouth Cannon from Raditz was easily dodged and Cold flew high into the air again. He was getting so very tired of all of this. Cold aimed for the Power Ball again, but he was forced to evade by four Mouth Cannons firing up at him. He avoided each of the cannons like nighttime searchlights and snarled to him. "Cease this pointless rampaging! I am so desperately sick of this fight!"

Cold raised his hand above his head and his eyes began to glow. Using his powers, Cold summoned a massive, icy blue blast above his head. "This is the end, you dirty little Saiyans!"

In a flash, Cold threw his hand downward and launched the blast. However, it was not aimed at a single one of the Oozaru beneath him. Rather, it was aimed at the surface of the planet itself! All four of the Saiyans instantly realized what that meant: Cold was pulling a Frieza! He was trying to destroy the planet, knowing that the vacuum of space would kill the four of them for him!

In a panic, all four of them dived towards the blast and intercepted the blast. And Cold responded by chuckling at their foolishness. "Freezing Death Ball~"

None of the Saiyans made it in time. The blast hit the ground full force, but the planet was not reduced to ashes as the Saiyans thought it would be. Instead, the ball burst and released a massive cloud of frigid energy for miles around the impact zone. The fallout of the attack settled on the ground after a while and Cold admired his work: four perfectly frozen Oozaru statues in the middle of a wintery wasteland. Cold smiled. "My third and final secret technique. The Frigid Waves~!"

Cold splayed his hands out to his sides and laughed out loud. "With my Gravity Bolts, my Vacuum Mist, and my Frigid Waves, I am truly the ultimate, dominating force in the Universe! Not just powerful, but a living natural disaster! A sentient antithesis towards the concept of life itself!"

Cold stared down at his captive foes and sneered. "I must say now...I truly despise the four of you. You took my Frieza...my beautiful, supremely talented Frieza...and you killed him..."

Cold gripped his fists tightly. "And I was so close...I had developed my skills. I had managed to create the ultimate offspring. I had managed to establish a massive army and forced over 80 percent of the Universe to supplant itself to my family. I even managed to install my own personal base of operations here in the Core Galaxy. I was so close..."

The King raised his hands into the air and his power surged. "My goal of supplanting the Gods of this Universe and replacing them with my own, magnificent rule was so close! I could feel it! I could taste it! And you Saiyans ruined everything! How dare you rob me of my ultimate weapon to establish myself as God?!"

Cold glared down at the frozen Saiyans, and then he smirked. "Oh well...it's not like I can't just make a another. I've lived for so long, I took so long to make Frieza just right...I can wait a little longer, I suppose..."

Cold turned away from the Saiyans. "I will just ensure that this one is made with some common sense. Constructed to be powerful and intelligent and loyal. I will not make the same mistake for a third time."

The King's attention turned toward the Power Ball, still glowing in the sky, and sighed. "My my, I think I have waxed lyrical on my goals for long enough. I think it is time to end this little Saiyan rebellion for good."

Cold drew his sword to his side and smirked. "I will destroy your hope, break your bodies, kill the four of you...and then I will raze your precious little Earth into ash!"

And, with that, Cold rocketed towards the Power Ball. However, as he set about crushing the Saiyans hopes up close and personal, he began to hear something. It started out low and nearly silent...but then it began to get louder.

"Ka...Me...Ha...Me..."

Cold turned and looked down to a sight he had not expected. Goku, in his Oozaru form, was still frozen solid. But he was frozen in a position where his mouth was wide open, and he was staring right next to the Power Ball, right where Cold currently was. And, beneath the ice encasing him, Cold saw a glowing force within Goku's mouth. Cold realized his error, and he realized it was too late to avoid what was coming. "Conniving Saiyan bastard..."

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The beam fired from Goku's mouth, reducing the ice that encased him to nothing. It smashed directly into King Cold and missed the Power Ball by merely a hair. The wicked King was sent flying into the sky, taking the full force of the explosion that the Kamehameha Mouth Cannon caused.

Goku, meanwhile, stood and roared as loud as he could. The flaring power from his Golden Great Ape form echoed out in waves, colliding with his fellow Saiyans and rapidly melting away the ice encasing them. Vegeta, Bardock, and Raditz all stood up, now freed. The four Oozaru glanced at one another and Bardock eventually spoke up. "How in the hell did you manage that?!"

Goku chuckled. "I... saw opening...when saw blast was freezing us...realized Cold would go for Power Ball...so looked to it to...catch Cold off guard."

Vegeta cracked his neck and chuckled. "Well done, Kakarot. If you keep up doing things like this, I might not be able to call you an idiot for much longer."

Goku chuckled. "We need to...get serious..."

Raditz nodded. "This is...our...chance..."

Bardock punched his fist into his open palm. "Let's finish this!"

In the distance, Cold had just managed to recover from Goku's devastating attack. In the aftermath of such a heavy blow, Cold was indeed quite heavily injured. He pushed himself up and snarled. "Accursed Saiyans. I will make you all pay for these continued offenses against me. Against my well-laid plans. I will pay vengeance upon every single person you collectively care for..."

Cold summoned another Death Ball into his hand. "You will-"

King Cold gasped as he laid eyes upon his foes. Not in the distance, as he had thought they would be, but right on top of him. Cold was injured. Too injured to dodge as he had before. And, as a result of this, he was left at the mercy of the vicious Oozaru.

Multiple blows rained down upon Cold. Punches and kicks and swipes sent him flying from ape to ape in some twisted game of pinball. The evil King was being rag-dolled by his foes. Cold snarled as he was sent flying into the distance and levied his sword at the Saiyans once again, launching a series of burning slashes towards Goku and Vegeta. He was disdained, however, to see that these no longer did the trick. Goku bodied the burning slashes, taking the damage from them but taking it in stride. Goku ducked down out of the way and Cold was then met with an even more unnerving sight.

Vegeta was standing there, Galick Gun charged in his hands and Mouth Cannon charged in his gaping maw. He fired them both at the same time. While both blasts surged towards Cold, the King erected a powerful barrier to block the oncoming assault. Vegeta smirked. His Mouth Cannon hit, full force, against the shield, but his Galick Gun shifted upwards. Vegeta directed the attack past Cold and around to the King's back. The Galick Gun struck against the wicked monarch and forced him to drop his shield, allowing the Mouth Cannon to crash into him with full force.

The end result of this assault was an even more damaged Cold. The King was in pain and his sword had been obliterated by the attack. He couldn't even react as Bardock came lunging from behind. The older Saiyan grabbed ahold of the mad king and forced him into his mouth, and then he fired Cold away with a mighty Mouth Cannon. Cold was stuck on the end of the blast, unable to escape until another Mouth Cannon from Raditz struck him from the side. The sudden change in direction disoriented the King, so much so that he did not notice until the last moment that Goku and Vegeta were waiting. The two Saiyan both reared back their fists and punched forward at the same time, catching Cold between them and crushing him between their knuckles.

As he was held there, between the pressure of the two apes' fists, Cold's temper broke. Cold's last gasp came out and he fought back against his feral foes one last time. He roared in utter fury and the force of his power sent Goku and Vegeta stumbling back. "This nonsense ends here! I will kill you all!"

Bardock and Raditz wasted no time, both of them came rushing in to assault Cold from the front, but the King responded with a massive cloud of Vacuum Mist. The devastating cloud spread out from all sides around Cold, destroying any and all oxygen around him and rendering the entire area without an atmosphere. Unable to breathe, both of the Saiyans were forced to retreat. They each fired a blast at King Cold, but Cold responded with a force of his own. The blasts cancelled each other out, and then Cold immediately started spamming Death Beams at Bardock and Raditz.

Unfortunately for him, Vegeta had already recovered. The Saiyan Prince took a deep breath and then, with a mighty gust, he forced all of the air out of his lungs. Vegeta closed his eyes tight and then, with his lungs empty, Vegeta charged into the atmosphere bereft area and sent Cold flying out of it with a massive punch. Cold was thrown off guard and barreled forward in the air, leaving him open to an attack from Goku. Goku came launching forward and stomped Cold into the side of a building. This was followed up with Raditz rushing in. The elder brother ripped the entire building from the ground and fired all of his ki into it, and then he threw it as hard as he could.

Cold could not move. His stamina had given out and the pressure of Raditz's energy was holding him still. Raditz's throw sent Cold and the entire building he was trapped in flying into the distance, all the way back to the ruins of his very own castle. The building crashed into the foundation of the castle and exploded with a mighty burst. The rubble settled down and smoke rose from it, but that was all blown away with a massive surge of power.

Cold was left standing there and shaking. He was weakened and he had reached his limits in this form of his. "Okay then...I suppose that my hand has been forced. Now...I will transform and give you a sight of true hell!"

Cold's power began to swell. It was clear what was happening. The mad King was trying to transform. But this transformation was immediately cut off by Goku, Vegeta, Raditz, and Bardock raining down from the sky. Cold glanced up at his enemies and saw each of their mouths wide open. Four Mouth Cannons shined down upon Cold: Kamehameha, Galick Beam Cannon, Weekend, and Ravage Cannon respectively. All four Saiyans glared down at Cold...and then they fired!

The four mighty beams crashed into Cold and drove him into the ground with total power. The mad King was driven into the bedrock of his own castle and, after being forced far, far into the ground, a magnificent explosion erupted. The four Saiyans leapt back as their own energy and lava and flames spewed from the ground. The stared as the magma spread out, engulfing all of what used to be Cold's throne room and melting it into nothing.

And, with that, the Saiyans began to celebrate. They were victorious! They couldn't sense Cold's power anymore! They had won!

The four Oozaru began to celebrate. But their celebration was incredibly short-lived. Before the four of them could even start to discuss their next move, a deep and sinister laugh began to echo out. Goku, Vegeta, Raditz, and Bardock all stared back up at the flaming Hell that Castle Cold had become. They still couldn't sense any power level, but what they were hearing was unmistakably that of King Cold!

Cold chuckled again and spoke, his voice now much deeper than it was before. "Congratulations, gentlemen...you have certainly pushed me quite far..."

A low growl began to emerge from the hole that Cold had been forced into. "I must ask...did you make Frieza transform before you killed him? You had to have, yes?"

Raditz flinched back. "Oh no... Cold...did...did he...?"

Bardock sneered. "We can't act like we didn't see this coming. Cold looks exactly like Frieza when he was in his second form. It's easy to assume that he was probably in his second form as well..."

The older Saiyan clenched his fists tight. "It was stupid to think that we would be lucky enough to just kill him without something going awry..."

Cold let loose a dark, echoing laugh. "Indeed. Indeed. Indeed...it was quite foolish~"

And then, suddenly and without warning, a massive spiked appendage burst from the ground like a missile smashed into Raditz's side. The weakest of the four Saiyans gurgled in pain and went flying high into the air. The appendage, what appeared to be a tentacle covered in spikes at the very tip, quickly sank back into the ground.

And then, to the other Saiyans horror, a second tentacle came shooting from the burning hole. It shot through the air and wrapped around Raditz, catching him as he was falling. It wrapped around the elder brother tight, and then yanked him into the burning hole.

Raditz's bloodcurdling, pained screams rang out from the hole, making his three comrades flinch in shock and disgust. Cold, meanwhile, continued to speak calmly. Too calmly. "Let me tell you Saiyans one more time. I am nothing like my children. I am quite comfortable in utilizing my own power. And, in that comfort, I have shed the need for the numerous frivolous forms that Frieza required to meter his strength."

Cold chuckled. "As such, I only have two forms. Each of which is tailored to suit my personal comforts. There is the first one, the one you are familiar with, which I have dubbed my "Business" form. And then there is my second form..."

A massive, silver and white and navy blue, serpentine head rose from the depths of the flaming pit. Its hideous maw spread wide, from end to end into a vicious smile, and it spoke in a deep, devilish voice. "Pleasure."

A second head, identical to the first, rose from the pit. It had a furious scowl on its face and blood running from between its teeth as it chewed something. "Pleasure."

A third head rose with a playful glint in its eye. This one had a large tuft of brown fur stuck in its teeth. "Pleasure~"

Goku, Bardock, and Vegeta all took a step back as these three massive heads loomed over them. A pair of massive wings soon rose from the pit as well, wreathed in flames. They delivered a single flap and sent clouds of toxic smoke and burning ash rushing down into the city all around.

Cold flew from his burning pit and landed atop the last remaining tower from his ruined castle. His massive legs and spiky tails were wrapped around something large as he landed. Bardock got a close look and gasped: it was Raditz!

The elder brother was in bad shape. His body was singed and burnt, and he had massive chunks of flesh missing from his right shoulder and the left side of his neck. He appeared to be totally unconscious.

Cold's three heads all pointed to the sky and then they let loose a massive roar, causing the entire planet to tremble uncontrollably. The Saiyans all took fighting stances, ready to fight this new threat as best they could, but Cold merely chuckled. The two side heads both stared down at the Saiyans, one hateful and one playful. The middle head smiled at them sinisterly.

Bardock realized what was happening. He leapt as fast as he could to prevent it. "Nooooooooo!"

But it was too late. To Goku, Bardock, and Vegeta's horror, Cold's center head stretched upwards and snapped its jaws down, swallowing the Power Ball in one mighty gulp.

Vegeta cried out. "No!"

Goku flinched. "Dammit!"

Bardock sneered and immediately started charging a Mouth Cannon, Cold's left head quickly whipped through the air and smashed the older Saiyan to the ground. He, Vegeta, and Goku could only dismay and despair as the power granted to them by the Blutz Waves rapidly went away.

Goku, Bardock, and Vegeta all shrank back to their normal forms and were left standing there, right under Cold. The monster loomed over them, all three of his heads glaring right down at them. His power was tremendously high, even higher than Frieza's at 100 percent!

Cold's three heads all let loose a chuckle. And then, they opened their mouths and rained attacks down: the left head spat fire, the right head spat ice, and the center head spat lightning. Goku, Vegeta, and Bardock had no time to dodge. They could only stand there and brace for impact as all three attacks came rushing right at them!

Proofreading: StevenBodner