Dragon Ball Z: Dynasty

By Feraligreater328

A/N: And here we are in a new saga. Please let me know what you think of this one, I would love some feedback on the direction I've chosen for this.

Also, because I probably won't have another chapter out before it happens, we're nearing the one year anniversary since I started this. I wonder where we'll be at the end of year two?

Chapter 52: A New Invasion

Mt. Paozu, the Son Family Household

Two months had passed since the Makyan Invasion of Earth and all had been peaceful since then. Sitting in Gohan's room, a ceiling fan rotating above head and two glasses of iced tea sitting on the nearby table, grandmother and grandson were having a pleasant time working on his schoolwork together.

Gine stroked her chin. "So...X would equal...12?"

Gohan shook his head. "No Grandma. You have to multiply to solve for X, not divide. X would equal 48 in this case."

Gine nodded. "Ah. Sorry. I... uh...rank-and-file soldiers and meat depot workers don't really require this sort of math..."

Gine blushed. Gohan chuckled. "It's fine. You're still really good at geometry~"

Gine sheepishly nodded. "Mhm. That kind of math, right there, is something I used a lot back in the day..."

She leaned back as Gohan continued to scribble down notes and solve problems. "This is nice, ya know?"

Gohan turned to her. "Hmm?"

Gine blissfully smiled. "All of this. Sitting here with you and helping you learn this sort of stuff. I could, you know, get used to this sort of thing. Settle down and learn how to help other children with this kind of stuff~"

Gohan chuckled. "I could see you being a teacher, Grandma! I bet you'd be great with kids."

Gine smiled at her grandson. "Ya think so?"

Gohan nodded. "I know so~!"

All around the Earth...

Peace had set in all around the Earth, the Makyan Invasion being little more than a night terror in most peoples' minds. A quaint air set over the entire planet.

Krillin was still diligently training at Kame House. Yamcha was on the baseball field, developing a new type of pitch. Tien and Chiaotzu sat atop their secluded mountain retreat, taking turns farming and meditating to increase their spiritual might.

And, at Capsule Corporation, Bulma was busily working on a new Capsule vehicle: The Stomp Cycle. Bulma held a cigarette between her lips and fiddled with the hydraulics on the legs. She mumbled to herself as she worked. "Gotta make the legs stiffer...not suitable for mountainous navigation yet...damned weak hydraulics..."

Bulma tightened the bolt holding the hydraulic line in place and, to her shock and annoyance, the line burst from the excess pressure and sprayed hydraulic fluid in her face. Bulma groaned, tossing her ruined cigarette aside. "Ugh...damned hydraulic fluid on everything..."

She turned with a ragged sigh and walked over to her desk, picking up a towel to wipe the greasy fluid from her face. As she did though, a sudden alarm caught Bulma's ear. She looked down at her laptop, touching her finger to the screen and pulling up her special monitoring program. "What the hell?"

Bulma watched the program, her specially develop Capsule SpaceGRiD program, and flinched back as the satellite near Mars sent an alarm signal. "Something is coming towards the Earth. And it's coming really fast too..."

In the arctic...

Piccolo opened his eyes, rousing from a deep meditation. The Namekian warrior glared up into the sky and sensed more deeply the mass of power levels approaching the Earth. "One...no, two-hundred! Two-hundred...and two power levels approaching the Earth."

The Namekian floated into the air and sighed. "It never ends. I don't know how Goku has the patience for this crap..."

Back at Mt. Paozu...

Gohan, Gine, and Chi-Chi all stood outside, staring up into the sky. Gine was absolutely flummoxed. "Two-hundred people?! That's..."

Chi-Chi turned to Gine, worried. "Is it that King Cold guy?"

Gine shook her head. "Definitely not. King Cold wouldn't invade with any less than 10,000. Unless he had one of his sons with him. But, Frieza's dead and I definitely don't sense Cooler on that ship..."

She cocked her head. "As a matter of fact, I don't sense anything close to a member of Frieza's clan on board. But...there are two Ginyu Force caliber power levels..."

Gohan walked up to his grandmother. "So, what do we do Grandma Gine?!"

Gine sighed. "Well...an army of two-hundred is an army of two-hundred. So, I would say that studying and housework should be put on the backburner at the moment."

She turned to her grandson and daughter-in-law. "You two up for a little side trip?"

Gohan smirked, looking excited for a little bit of action. "Yeah! I'm ready! Just let me go and change really quick!"

Gohan ran back inside, his yellow overcoat billowing around as he did. Chi-Chi and Gine looked at each other. Chi-Chi seemed worried. "Are...Are you sure this isn't too dangerous, Gine?"

Gine shook her head. "It's fine. There are a lot of them, but most of them don't even top 800 from the feel of things. They could do some damage if they're allowed to run loose, but..."

Gine winked and shot a finger gun at Chi-Chi. "I think we got this."

Chi-Chi flinched back, but then she smiled and let loose a playful chuckle. "Well, if that's the case, then..."

Chi-Chi unclasped her house dress, tossing it aside to reveal her training outfit underneath. She chuckled and started stretching her arms. "You said they're at an average of 800, right? I think I'll come along and have a nice, little workout."

"You're coming too, Mom?"

Gine and Chi-Chi turned to see that Gohan had returned, dressed in his freshly repaired Saiyan armor. The boy had a cheerful smile on his face. "You're going to come and fight alongside us?"

Chi-Chi nodded with a smile. "Of course, I am! I can't just let my family go out and have all the fun! Not again! Unless I'm turned into a vampire again, of course..."

Chi-Chi's face turned into worry. "...they aren't going to turn me into a vampire again, are they?"

Gine rolled her eyes and chuckled, rising into the air with Gohan and Chi-Chi following behind her. Chi-Chi sounded a bit panicked. "G-Gine?!"

Gine shook her head. "No, Chi-Chi, there are no Makyans in the Frieza For-"

Gine paused. "...Oh, hey Piccolo! You sense it too?"

Chi-Chi cocked her head. Gohan turned to his mother. "Mr. Piccolo is speaking to Grandma Gine with telepathy."

She nodded. "Oh, okay. Telepathy. I always forget that Piccolo can do that."

Meanwhile, Gine continued her mental conversation with Piccolo. "So yeah, nobody in this sudden army can even TOUCH us, much less cause any sort of harm."

Piccolo responded. "Agreed. I contacted all of the others to tell them to get to the spot it seems like they're going land. If we can all meet this head on, these invaders don't stand a chance."

Gine smiled. "Yeah. Gohan and Chi-Chi are coming too. So, everything should be fine."

A bit later, in the Northern Wastelands...

Gine, Gohan, and Chi-Chi all landed onto a nearby rocky platform, finding that the others had already arrived on the scene. Gohan immediately ran up to Piccolo and began to chat with him and Krillin. Gine and Chi-Chi, meanwhile, started a chat with Tien and Chiaotzu.

After a few minutes, Yamcha finally joined them. "S-Sorry guys! The team manager wouldn't let me leave right away."

Piccolo rolled his eyes, grumbling under his breath. "Well, now that we're all here, it's time to discuss a battle plan."

The Namekian warrior turned to address his fellow fighters. "Nobody on that ship is that much of a threat, battle power-wise. So, it should be simple enough to...what the hell are you doing here?!"

Everyone flinched at Piccolo's sudden, harsh tone. They all turned to see who he was talking to and were collectively shocked to see Bulma riding up on her Capsule Cycle. She stopped the bike and stepped off, pulling off her helmet and waving at her friends. "Hey guys! Wassup!"

Yamcha flinched and stammered. "H-Hey Bulma. What are you doing here?"

Bulma flipped her hair. "My sensors went off to tell me that a ship of some kind was approaching. I tried to call ahead, but none of you answered your phones, so I assumed you were all here."

She reached into her back pocket and pulled out Capsule Case. Bulma pulled a pink-labelled capsule. With a click and a poof, a camera appeared in Bulma's hand. She chuckled. "I'm here because it seems like some cool alien tech is about to land!"

Piccolo growled. "That's a stupid reason to be here. Get lost."

Bulma planted her fists onto her hips. "Why should I? You just said that no one on that ship is any sort of threat to you guys, right? So, it's simple! While you all fight, I can sneak around and stea... examine the stuff that these guys have brought with them~"

Piccolo rolled his eyes and turned away from the group, marching away from the group. "Whatever."

Gohan called out and gave chase. "Mr. Piccolo! Wait!"

Krillin chuckled as the kid chased after the Namekian. And then, he turned to Bulma. "Hey. It might get a bit hairy with all of the people on that ship, Bulma. Are you sure you wanna be hear for all of that?"

Bulma shrugged. "I was on the frontlines for the fight with Frieza, right? I should be alright here."

Tien cocked his head. "What is it you even hope to gain from this?"

Bulma fiddled with her camera. "There were all sorts of technology on Frieza's ship that I wanted to take, but it was all ruined when Frieza blasted the damned thing. A lot of that stuff could be used to make life better for people here on Earth. Make some real leaps and bounds in the technology department, ya know?"

Gine smiled. "That's pretty noble Bulma. I think you could-"

All at once, all of the warriors snapped their attention to the sky above. After a moment, a Frieza Force ship broke through the cloud high above and coasted through the sky, landing over some mountains in the distance. Gine nodded. "Okay, time to get serious."

She pointed at the others, one-by-one. "Krillin, Gohan, Chi-Chi, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu. You all split up and be prepared to welcome the soldiers aboard that ship. They're probably going to split up and try to go and destroy the nearest cities they can. So be prepared for that!"

Chiaotzu nodded. "Y-Yes ma'am! And what about those two big powers?"

Gine pointed to Piccolo. "He and I will take care of them."

The Saiyan mother started walking over to Piccolo. She turned and called back to the last member of their group. "Bulma! You can stick around to harvest technology if you want. Just try to stay out of trouble. I don't want you getting hurt or killed, okay?"

Bulma nodded. "Yes ma'am, Miss Gine!"

Gine clapped her hands. "Okay everybody! Break!"

Over the mountain, at the landing sight...

Coming to a rest upon the barren ground, the Frieza Force ship opened up and all two-hundred troops immediately filed out, forming five, single-file lines of forty troops each. They all stood in attention, waiting for their commanders to emerge.

Both of the commanders emerged from the ship, the sun shiny down on their round, somewhat gelatinous forms. The two of them stood side-by-side, one blue and one red, and observed their men. The blue one looked up and squinted at the sun. "The day-star on this planet is unbearable..."

The red one chuckled. "Well Bro, look on the bright side. At least we won't be here long."

The blue one nodded. "True. Very true."

And then, he thrust his hand out towards his men. "Okay troops! You know what we're here for! We're going to avenge Lord Frieza's death! Blood for blood!"

The red one thrust out his hand. "Oh yeah! So, you all know what to do! Go into every Earth city you can find and raze it to the ground! Don't leave a single piece of Earthling scum left alive!"

They both withdrew their hands and then thrust them forward again, this time with their pointer fingers extended. The two spoke in tandem. "Now get going!"

The troops all howled in pleasure and immediately split into four groups of fifty, each speeding off in a different cardinal direction. The blue one turned to the red one. "Now then, Kado. How about we go and hunt down some Saiyan filth~"

Kado chuckled. "Oh yeah! Let's go smash 'em, Abo!"

Abo began to step forward, his brother following. But he quickly came to a stop. "Wait! We forgot the secret weapon!"

Kado gasped. "That's right! We can't forget that!"

They both turned and started walking back to the ship, but then a feminine voice called out to them. "Hey, you two!"

Abo and Kado both turned to see Gine and Piccolo standing atop a nearby rock pillar. Abo stared at the two of them for a second, noticing the green skin and the freely moving tail. He chuckled. "Hey Kado! We don't even have to go and look! They came to us~"

Kado scratched the back of his head. "Y-You think they got the others?"

Abo shook his head. "Nah! The Scouters would have picked that up. I'm sure the others are slaughtering Earthlings as we speak!"

To the North...

One of the troops cried out as suddenly his movements were totally halted. "What kind of Guldo bullshit is thi-"

Chiaotzu cut him off with a sharp kick to the throat before slapping him to the ground below. Off in the distance, Tien's multiform clones were each handing an individual beatdown to several soldiers at once. The primary Tien grabbed one of them by the side of the head and smashed him hard against his knee.

Tien dropped the unconscious soldier to the ground. "This is easy. Too easy. Something about all of this feels off..."

To the West...

A soldier charged, screaming at the top of his lungs. He threw a punch at the Earthling that had dared to impede their destructive campaign, and was met by a harsh fist to the gut for his troubles. He buckled to the ground and Yamcha smirked, rubbing his thumb across his nose. "Come on, guys! You can do better than that!"

Another charged and he and Yamcha began to spar, it immediately becoming clear who the better man was. While this was happening, a soldier with a hand blaster scaled to the top of some nearby rocks and pointed his target reticle directly at Yamcha's head. "Time to die, Earth scum~"

He fired his shot but then, to his shock, Yamcha caught the energy bolt, winded up, and pitched it straight back into his face. The soldier fell from the rock to the ground below and Yamcha chuckled to himself. "Damn I'm good~"

To the East...

Krillin landed on top of a soldier's head, reaching down and knocking on the glass of his helmet visor. The perplexed soldier looked up and tried to swipe at Krillin, but the monk easily dodged and sent him flying into his comrades with a harsh kick.

A big, brutish soldier came rushing in from the back, but Krillin was ready. Quick as lightning, he delivered seven kicks, a punch to the face, and then an overhead axe-kick to bring the oaf down. Krillin cracked his neck and leapt into the air to dodge several blasts. "This is pathetic. Is this, like, Frieza's C-Team or what?"

To the South...

A soldier screamed in frustration as he was sent skidding backwards with a fresh boot mark across his face. "It's just a woman, guys! How are we having this much trouble with a wo-"

Immediately, all of the air was pushed from his lungs. His feet slid out from under him and he was sent flying back with a palm thrust to his chin. The other soldiers all stood in a circle, unnerved by their opponent. Chi-Chi stood between them all, her left hand gripped into a fist at her side and her right hand fully extended and ready to strike. "Come on! Who's next? I've been training with my mother-in-law for months for something like this! I'll take all of you on!"

One of the soldiers buried his face in his hands. "What the hell is going on this planet?!"

Immediately, he was bowled over by one of his comrades crashing into him from behind. Chi-Chi turned and glared. "Gohan!"

Gohan flinched, he himself surrounded by a circle of angry and confused troops. "S-Sorry Mom! Did I hit one of yours?"

Chi-Chi nodded. "Yes, you did! And I know I taught you better than that, young man! We share equally in our household! So, what do we do now?"

Gohan pressed his fingers together. "Umm...you get one of my twenty-five?"

Chi-Chi nodded. "That's right! Good boy!"

One of Chi-Chi's opponents slumped over, his face looking hollow. "No, seriously! What the hell is going on here?!"

Back at the ship landing...

Gine cocked her head. The longer she stared at these two...the more and more familiar they started to look. The Saiyan woman stroked her chin and mumbled to herself. "I... I know that I know these two from...somewhere..."

Piccolo was stern and silent. He whipped his cape and turban off and tossed them to the side.

As the two of them stood there, their opponents immediately made their presence known. The blue on struck a pose, splaying his hands out in a pathetic imitation of Captain Ginyu's signature flair. "Traitors to Frieza beware! For I am the almighty, aggressive arbitrator! I am Abo!"

The red one did a similar, awkward pose. "Offenders to Frieza beware! For I am the kingly cream of the crop! I am Kado!"

The spoke in tandem, both of them adopting an evil, cocky smile. "We are the leaders of the Avocado Special Squad!"

Abo chuckled. "Lord Frieza's second most decorated field unit!"

Kado pumped his fists. "Second only to the overrated Ginyu Force in terms of value to the almighty Frieza!"

They spoke in tandem again. "And we are here to rain a mass extinction down upon this miserable planet!"

Gine flinched back. "A-Abo and Kado...I..."

She cocked her head. "I still don't remember who these two creeps are..."

Piccolo growled, cracking his neck. "I still don't care."

Gine tapped her finger to her lower lip. "I... I'm pretty sure King Cold had two bootlicking yes-men that were blue and red... a couple of decades ago... I think..."

She scratched her head. "I don't remember them being anywhere near Captain Ginyu though..."

A vein popped out of Abo's head. "Speak ill while you still have a tongue, monkey! That won't be for much longer!"

Kado snarled. "Yeah! Cuz we're gonna tear you apart!"

One again, speaking in tandem. "Because we are the leaders of the Avocad-"

They were both cut off by a sudden assault. Abo was slugged across the face by a brutal left hook from Piccolo and Kado was sent flying by a hefty punch to the chest from Gine. The two of them went flying back, their fat, jiggly bodies bouncing across the ground until the both smashed into the side of their ship.

Gine flinched as the two of them crashed through the side. "T-That felt like a cheap shot..."

Piccolo shook his head. "What is this, a tournament? There are no cheap shots in a desert fight. Especially when your opponents are threatening a mass genocide."

Gine nodded. "I know. I know. It's just...they're so outmatched. Like...going Super Saiyan for this would be overkill..."

Abo and Kado both shakily stood, Abo spitting a tooth out and snarling. "Y-You think just because the two of you got a lucky shot that you're suddenly on top in this fight?!"

Kado was wheezing. "Y-Yeah. Wh-What he said. Y-You haven't w-won this y-yet..."

The two of them went charging again, but Piccolo and Gine barely had to react. Piccolo slammed his elbow down on Abo's head, brutally smashing him into the ground and making the earth shatter beneath him. Kado gasped, his eyes bugging out, and Gine caught him with a gentle, but forceful kick to the face. Kado fell back and instantly began to shake in fear. "Wh-What the hell is going on here?!"

Abo pushed himself up, his face streaked with fear. "How are you two so strong?!"

Piccolo cocked his head incredulously. "How do you idiots think Frieza was defeated? Common cold? Poisoned soup? Did you come here thinking we snuck up behind him and pushed him down a flight of stairs?"

Gine nervously smiled, a sweat drop sliding down the side of her head. "I... I don't really know what to say. He's got a point. What did you two really think was going to happen when you came here?"

Abo chuckled. "You think that we weren't prepared for a bit of resistance?! Puh-lease!"

The rotund, blue alien pressed his finger against his Scouter, the lens completely broken off but the communicator still functioning. "Everyone! Scrap the genocide plan for now! Get back here and assist us in killing Lord Frieza's murderers!"

No response. Abo pressed the button again. "Men? Hello?!"

Kado pressed the button on his Scouter. "G-Guys?!"

At various points across the wasteland...

Abo and Kado's men all lay prostrate at various points across the wasteland. Yamcha sat atop a rock, admiring his work. Krillin had his hands clasped in front of him, honoring his fallen enemies with a little prayer. Tien stood stalwart as Chiaotzu bound their fallen foes with a rope behind him. He was still uneasy about something in all of this. Chi-Chi was squat down in the middle of a ring of fallen soldiers, gently assuring Gohan that she was okay as her son doted on a bruise on Chi-Chi's cheek.

It was a total defeat for the Avocado Special Squad.

Back at the spaceship landing site...

Abo and Kado were both speechless as they sat there, Gine and Piccolo standing victorious over them. They both suddenly felt very, very small. Gine sighed, putting on her best smile in spite of the awkward situation, and tried to be civil. "So, where do we go from here fellas?"

Piccolo extended his hand, pointing it at Abo. "Let's just kill them and get it over with."

Gine calmly reached out, placing her hand on top of Piccolo's wrist and pushing it down. "Let's not be so quick with the violence."

She stepped forward, kneeling down. "Abo, Kado, listen to me. You came here to avenge Frieza, right?"

Kado stammered. "H-Him and King Cold..."

Gine flinched back a bit, her eyebrows raising. But she continued on. "Well, just think about it this way. You've been working under Frieza and his family for the longest time. Committing acts of cruelty and hatred. Wouldn't just be nice to, ya know, not do that anymore."

The both of them flinched. Gine continued. "I'm not one for bloodshed. I'd prefer not to kill or harm unless it's absolutely necessary. You too aren't threats. Not on this planet. Not with us here. So... why not just leave? Go and start a new, peaceful life somewhere. It's such a beautiful universe out there. Surely...you could find something to do other than seek revenge for a tyrant that wouldn't do the same for you if you were the ones who died..."

Both of them were silent. Gine shot them a sympathetic smile. "No one has to be what Frieza or King Cold made them be. It's never too late to change. So... just go and gather your men and leave. Okay?"

Abo and Kado looked long and hard at Gine's sympathetic smile. And then they looked past her at Piccolo's grim expression, their faces reflected in the steely eyes of a killer. And then, the two of them looked at one another. Kado sighed. "O-Okay..."

Abo stood. "We will now retreat back to our ship."

And, with that, the two of them both marched directly back to their ship, and disappeared into the doorway.

Gine turned to Piccolo, a cheerful smile on her face. "See? Everything ended peacefully and uneventful. And it doesn't feel like anyone had to die either. Now Abo and Kado can just gather their troops and leave and we'll never have to hear from them again!"

Piccolo skeptically stared over at Abo and Kado's ship, noticing that the door hatch had yet to close. "Uh-huh..."

Gine was upbeat. "Piccolo. Come on. You have to appreciate the little things in life. We managed to solve this problem without having to take any lives. Doesn't that feel good?"

Piccolo remained silent. Gine asked again. "Doesn't it?"

And then an energy blast hit Gine dead center in the back. Gine tensed up, her eyes squinted, and let loose a sharp, annoyed burst of air from her nose. Gine let loose a ragged sigh. "That...wasn't one of our friends playing a joke, was it?"

Piccolo smirked, amusement in his voice. "What do you think?"

Gine opened her eyes and turned, glaring back at Abo and Kado. The two of them stood there, in front of their ship, with dreadful smirks on their faces. Gine sighed. "Really?! What was the point of that?!"

Abo chuckled. "The point, monkey, was to let you know that we aren't finished yet!"

Kado chuckled as well. "We still have a secret weapon that you couldn't possibly imagine!"

Piccolo shook his head. "A secret weapon? Like what? Unless you happen to have a couple of clones of Frieza on that little ship of yours, I guarantee that this little resurgence isn't going to end well for you."

Abo chuckled. "We might not have an clones of Lord Frieza on our ship, Namekian..."

Kado sneered. "...but we have something that's going to throw you for a loop~"

Piccolo and Gine noticed the unshaken amount of confidence in both Abo and Kado's voices and, using caution, they each took a fighting stance. Abo and Kado both let loose one more hearty laugh, and then Kado produced a bag. They both reached into the bag and then, to Gine and Piccolo's confusion, the two Frieza Forcers each pulled out a massive, lumpy red fruit, almost resembling a rotten lychee.

Gine cocked her head. "Your secret weapon is a fruit?"

Abo smirked. "YES, IT IS!"

He took a massive bite. Kado snarled. "NOW DIE YOU PIECES OF TRASH!"

He bit into the fruit as well. The two of them both finished their meal and, for a brief moment, it seemed like nothing had changed. And then the two of them began to erupt with dark energy, their power levels sky-rocketing!

Piccolo and Gine both flinched back. This was an unexpected turn of events. Suddenly, Abo and Kado went from being slightly weaker than Captain Ginyu to above the power of Frieza's First Form. And their power only continued to rise from there! A malevolent, howling aura surrounded the two of them, sounding like an embittered shriek directly from Hell. Abo and Kado both smirked, and then they launched themselves forward and clashed with Piccolo and Gine once more.

This time, the battle was not quite so one-sided. Abo and Kado were much faster and much stronger than before, their blows actually having some impact on Gine and Piccolo. Kado roared, his knew power sending him into a blind rage, and kicked Gine in the face. She stumbled back and he leapt into the air, slamming down on her and stomping her face into the rock. Abo drew his arm back and, with a scream of his own, chopped Piccolo's left forearm off in one swift motion. Piccolo roared in pain and frustration, doubling over in pain as Abo and Kado leapt back.

The two of them were satisfied at their first assault, glowering at Piccolo and Gine as their power levels continued to scale up.

As Abo and Kado shuddered under the heft of their steadily rising power levels, Piccolo and Gine regrouped. Gine stood, coughing up a bit of blood and shooting a bit more out of her left nostril. "Damn it..."

Piccolo roared in anger and regrew his missing arm. The two of them looked at one another, to their increasingly stronger foes, and then back to one another. They both nodded. It was time to end this quickly. And so, with that, Piccolo unfurled his full power and Gine went Super Saiyan. And then the four fighters all charged at one another. The battle continued on.

Meanwhile, across the wasteland...

Everyone felt it all at once. Yamcha, Krillin, Tien and Chiaotzu, Gohan and Chi-Chi. They all felt that same, sudden snap back towards Abo and Kado's ship. Out of nowhere, the pressure of the two aliens power levels became as heavy as a boulder, pressuring down upon the entire Northern Wasteland.

Krillin stared into the distance, his jaw slack in disbelief. "Wh-What the hell?! Where did those guys get all of that power from?"

One the ground, one of Abo and Kado's men gasped as his Scouter started to beep. Krillin looked down and saw that the soldier's face was as white as a sheet. "N-No way...did those two really eat that shady fruit?!"

Krillin flinched. "Sh-Shady fruit?"

Back at the battlefield...

Radiating with golden light, Gine clashed with Abo. Their fists smashed into one another and sent out a sonic boom so powerful it fissured the ground beneath their feet. Gine's empathy and caring nature had to, as much as she hated it, take a backseat for now. This fight somehow just went from one of the easiest victories of the poor woman's life to one of the most challenging fights she had ever actively participated in. Gine slugged Abo across the face, but the blue blimp responded with a vicious headbutt right to the center of Gine's forehead.

Piccolo, meanwhile, had shifted his attention over to Kado. The two of them fought, with Kado's power steadily getting closer to Frieza at 100%. Piccolo was furious that they hadn't just killed these two when he wanted to, having to deal with this foolishness as a result.

Taking another heavy shot to the face, Gine snarled. "That's it!"

She returned with several heavy hits of her own, drawing strength from deep down, before thrusting her hands into Abo's face. "NUTURE CANNON!"

The giant blast engulfed Abo, who screamed in pain, and shot him directly downwards and into the ground. Kado gasped, glancing over at Gine's massive blast. "B-Brother!"

Piccolo took immediately advantage, punching Kado in the throat before firing a Destructive Wave pointblank. Kado was engulfed and his body sent flying backwards, crashing into Gine's massive blast and creating an even bigger explosion in the process. The massive explosion not only swallowed Abo and Kado deep within, but also swallowed up their spaceship along with them. Once all was said and done, only a massive, smoking crater remained where the ship once stood.

Piccolo sighed in relief. He could no longer feel Abo or Kado's energy. It seemed as if it was all over. Gine landed next to her Namekian comrade, letting her Super Saiyan form disperse. She was exhausted. "That was...that was a... that was a lot of energy to expend all at once..."

Piccolo glanced down into the crater. "At least it seems to have killed them."

As the two of them glanced down into the crater, their comrades all started flocking back towards them. Krillin arrived first, looking frantic. This was followed by Yamcha, and then Tien and Chiaotzu, and finally Gohan and Chi-Chi. All of the warriors of Earth gathered around the crater and stared into it cautiously. Yamcha spoke up. "Y-You think they're both dead? They felt super powerful when I was rushing back over here, so-"

As Yamcha was saying that, two massive blasts shot out from beneath the rubble in the crater. One was red, the other blue. Following this, a red flash and a blue flash leapt from the bottom of the crater and stood on the other side. It was Abo and Kado, both heavily damaged.

The two aliens glared at their enemies, standing on the far side of the crater from them. Abo snarled in frustration. "D-Dammit! That damned, lying Namekian bastard! He told us that these fruit would make us invincible when he sold them to us!"

Piccolo flinched. "Namekian?"

Kado placed his hand on his brother's shoulder. "It's not over bro! Not yet! I can...I can still feel so much power inside of me! The Namekian didn't lie to us! We have the power! We just have to let it all out, all at once!"

Abo turned to Kado. "You think so?"

Kado smirked. "Yeah! Let's give it our all and kill these maggots!"

The both of them started screaming again, making their full battle power rise to the surface. The Z-Fighters on the other side of the crater all took fighting stances. Gine summoned her Super Saiyan power once again. Piccolo sneered. "Come on already! This is getting ridiculous!"

Abo shouted, a hurricane of dark energy forming around him. "FOR THE GLORY OF LORD FRIEZA!"

Kado shouted as well, a vortex of wicked power engulfing him. "FOR THE GLORY OF KING COLD!"

The both spoke in tandem, their unnatural power pouring from them. "WE WILL NOW END YOUR MISERABLE LIVES!"

And then, once again, something strange and unexpected occurred. Suddenly, Abo and Kado's power went from so high it seemed to eclipse Frieza, to nearly zero. Both of them began to tremble, the dark energy still flaring out from them in small bursts. Abo shakily looked down at his hand. "Wh-What?"

And then his hand began to melt, flesh and muscle and bone all reduced to one, unidentifiable, blue slurry. Abo screeched in fear. "WHAT?!"

Abo fell to his knees, screeching and screaming in shock and horror and pain. Kado ran over to his brother. "Abo! What's wrong?"

Kado placed his hand on his brother's shoulder, only for it to ripple and pop like a ketchup-filled balloon. Kado screamed in confusion. "Wh-Wh-Wh-WHAT THE HELL?!"

On the other side of the crater, the Z-Fighters could only watch on in confusion and horror as their newest foes seemingly melted in front of them. Chi-Chi, feeling as if she was going to be sick, clamped her hands over Gohan's eyes. "What's happening to them?!"

Chiaotzu stammered. "They're...they're turning into puddles..."

Piccolo sneered. "Those fruit that they ate...whatever those fruit were granted them so much power. Too much power it seems. Their bodies weren't ready for the strain. And now..."

Gine finished. "They're paying the price..."

Abo and Kado had both lost most of their physical forms. They were both still erupting with the power that the fruit had provided, but they were both also reduced to little more than quivering puddles of red and blue jelly at this point. Kado weakly called out, the fear in his voice overpowering all else. "M-Mama! Mama...help...me..."

Abo screamed in pain and fear one last time, still unable to comprehend what was happening to him. "W-What the hell...was...that...f..ru...it...?"

All went quiet, Abo and Kado were both gone. Reduced to puddles that were still shooting off dark energy. The red and blue piles of liquid flesh that had once composed them was sliding down the edge of the crater, melding together in purple as it pooled at the very bottom. Everyone was stunned speechless as they watched this all happen. Gine stared horrified at the massive puddle of liquid flesh, still shooting off a column of black energy.

As everyone stood there, struggling to form any sort of words to describe what they had just been forced to witness, they were suddenly met by the shrill sound of a familiar voice. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OVER HERE?!"

Krillin and Yamcha both turned to see Bulma pulling up on her Capsule Bike. She dismounted and ran up to the group, frantically looking around. "Guys! Where's the ship?! Please don't tell me it got caught in whatever the hell that explosion was!"

Yamcha shook his head. "B-Bulma. Not now, okay? We...uh..."

Bulma looked down the line, seeing that everyone was slightly green in the face. "What's the problem guys? What happened?"

Tien's mouth was dry. He swallowed a massive lump in his throat and turned to Bulma. "Please. Just...stop for a second, okay? We all just had to watch-"

With an audible frothing noise, the purple goo at the bottom of the crater sudden began to violently spasm and twitch. Everyone flinched back in shock. Piccolo snarled. "Oh hell, what could it possibly be now?!"

Gohan pulled Chi-Chi's hands from over his eyes. "What?! What's going on?!"

The purple goo began to twitch more and more, twitch and spasm violently. It rose up into a column and then fell. And then it tried to rise up again. At this point, alongside the unnatural movement, the puddle of melted flesh began to scream as, to the horror of everyone above it, it began to take a vaguely person-shaped form. The mass of flesh gurgled and screeched in pain, arms and legs roughly forming from it.

Soon after, more detailed features began to emerge. Eyes caved in and a massive hole in the round mound atop the puddle's shoulders formed a mouth that more clearly allowed the sounds of screaming to come through. Pretty soon after, the two distinct screaming voices merged into one screaming voice. And finally, it all began to solidify back into a singular being.

This new creature stood there, a column of black energy still erupting from its body. It had a distorted, bottom-heavy frame with a massive, bloated jaw covered in fleshy spikes. It was naked, but featured no genitalia. And the spaces where eyes were supposed to go were little more than pitch-black pits. This being threw its head back, looking at nobody in particular, and then it screamed in a distorted, hellish voice at the top of its lungs. "A-KAH!"

And with that scream came a massive explosion. A wave of energy shredded all across the Northern Wasteland, swallowing and killing all of Abo and Kado's beaten troops along with it. The blast could be seen from space as a massive cone of black energy erupted from the Earth.

A few minute later, about a mile away from the battlefield...

Shakily, Bulma pushed herself up from beneath the pile of sand that she had been buried under. In her mind, the last flashes of what she saw before the explosion went through her mind. She groaned. "My head..."

She recalled Chiaotzu screaming about what to do, and someone screaming that herself and Chi-Chi needed to be shielded from the blast. And then she felt the cold snap of Chiaotzu's psychic energy around her. And then it was blank.

Bulma looked up. "What ha-"

She was rendered speechless. Bulma shakily stood up and saw, to her shock and horror, a massive mushroom cloud rising from the center of the explosion. "Oh no..."

Bulma frantically started dashing towards it. "EVERYONE!"

Back on the battlefield...

Everyone laid around the now much larger than before crater, most of them buried to some degree in sand. Chi-Chi groaned, feeling the warm trickle of blood pouring down her head. She shakily sat up and found, to her shock, a damaged Piccolo lying atop her. "You shielded me from the blast..."

She gave him a shake. "Piccolo...thank you..."

She looked over, across the battlefield, and saw that everyone else was pretty banged up as well. Tien and Yamcha and Krillin and Chiaotzu all laid, half-buried. Gine was embedded in a nearby rock, her head hanging limp. And Gohan was lying a bit of a way away, nearer to the mushroom cloud than any of them. Chi-Chi struggled to push Piccolo off of herself. "Gohan..."

As Chi-Chi struggled to move, however, the sound of a deep, bellowing laugh made her blood run ice cold. From within the plume of smoke, that purple monster, Akah, stepped out. He still had that column of sickly, black power rising from his body. His footsteps, as he walked, seemed to make the entire Earth quake under the sheer force of his rancid, overflowing might.

The beast sniffed the air, and then he smiled. He immediately turned and began to plod towards Gohan, the boy being the closest to him. Chi-Chi's pupils shrunk. "Gohan..."

Akah reached down and grabbed Gohan by the ankle, plucking him from the sand like a carrot. Chi-Chi tried to stand, but her legs felt like jelly. "Gohan!"

Gohan was still dazed, unsure of what was happening. Akah held his open palm next to the boy's head and began to charge a blast. Chi-Chi felt the power in the blast and shuddered. That was enough power to kill her son. "GOHAN! GOHAN NO! WAKE UP! GOHAN!"

The sound of Chi-Chi's frantic screeches made the others all slowly stir. Shakily, each of them pushed themselves up and looked towards the source of the power. And they all caught an eye-full of Akah readying himself to blow Gohan's head off.

Krillin gasped and got to his feet. "No!"

Yamcha did as well. "Dammit!"

Tien as well. "Put him down you bastard!"

And Chiaotzu. "Stop!"

And Gine. "No! Please don't!"

And finally, Piccolo. "GOHAN!"

Akah bellowed, his laugh demonic, and prepared to fire the blast that would end Gohan's life.

*SLASH*

Akah screamed in pain, the arm charging the blast suddenly no longer in place. As they purple appendage flopped to the floor and exploded into a purple puddle, the monster stumbled back. Rancid, black energy streamed from his arm like a faucet and, in his pained confusion, Akah let loose his grip on Gohan.

The boy fell, still not entirely aware of what was going on, only to be caught and held close. Whoever was holding him felt warm, but Gohan didn't recognize them. Not the energy signature, nor the scent, nor the feeling of denim against his skin.

Hearing the piercing sound of Akah screaming in the background, Gohan looked up and observed an unfamiliar face: a fairly strong-looking young man with a mop of neatly trimmed purple hair and piercing blue eyes.

Gohan was confused, but the young man smiled warmly down at him. "It's okay. You're okay, Gohan."

Gently, the purple-haired young man set Gohan down in the sand before carefully stepping over him and marching directly towards the beast. Gohan looked towards his savior and got a better view: a blue, denim jacket with Capsule Corp patches on the shoulder, a pair of baggy, gray pants with yellow work boots, a massive, sword sheath strapped tightly to his back which he gingerly deposited his blade into as he approached the vile Akah.

Just who was this person?

The purple-haired youth walked up to Akah and placed his hands into his pockets. The monster responded by screaming right in his face. The youth responded with a smile and a chuckle. "You're Akah huh? I've heard about you in stories..."

The boy's eyes were closed. He shook his head. "You can roar in my face all you want to, monster..."

He opened his eyes to reveal that they had shifted from a piercing blue to a distinctive emerald green. "This will all be over in a flash!"

Proofreading: StevenBodner