Dragonball Z: The Catalyst
Act II:
Chapter 22: The Saiyan-Ginyu War Part I
"You're dead."
Two anger filled eyes stared at Captain Ginyu with a sneer on his face. This was a theft. Stealing the Dragon Balls from right under all of them. His chance at immortality was now on the line. Every moment he saw the purple skinned Alien he felt his anger and disgust rising. So, these were the notorious Ginyu Force? They'd be remembered only as his victims by the time he was done this. It was one thing to come looking for a fight, it was another to go about stealing his property.
Especially when he had worked so hard for this opportunity. Making compromises with Vegeta and the Earthlings in order to obtain his ultimate wish, eternal life. And now some smug, purple skinned, veined headed fool and his rag tag band of morons had decided the balls were theirs?
The only thing they'd find here would be a death sentence. And it was going to be an enjoyable death sentence for him to carry out.
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Hearing the words from Turles's mouth, Captain Ginyu just grinned back in response to the rather furious looking saiyan. So he was mad at the idea of losing the Dragon Balls? Well he should have never received even one, these were the property of Lord Frieza. Still, the purple skinned body snatcher was hardly impressed by some random saiyan's threats. Vegeta was a joke compared to him, let alone some no-name.
"Vegeta, would you keep your little dog in line?"
Of course Vegeta was hardly in a position to control Turles, Raditz, or the Earthlings. The only thing that kept them together was common interest. The idea of keeping them 'in line' made Vegeta only give a revolted sneer in the direction of Captain Ginyu.
"Now then, you and your friends will be handing the Dragon Balls over, and then you and your friends here will be surrendering to Lord Frieza."
Guldo quickly moved forward however, staring at Vegeta.
"At long last, I shall have my-" in a blink, he was in Burter's arms flying into the air, where the fat little alien had stood was now a smoking hole in the ground.
An irritated Turles stood there, his hand still out from where he'd tried to kill the fat little alien. What a pathetic creature. Calling itself somehow one of the most powerful fighters in the universe, perhaps one of the most obese fighters in the universe. Far from the most powerful in Turles's mind. It was a shame that his attack had been countered. Turles very much watched to see what the toad looked like when he was in bits and pieces.
Recoome stood there, looking very irritated as the huge humanoid glared at Turles.
"You should learn to respect your betters!"
"That's quite enough Recoome," Ginyu responded.
When Burter landed, he dropped Guldo off, who looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
"Please tell me I get to kill the fat one?" Turles asked Vegeta, before looking at Raditz. "I mean, none of these guys can be that impressive. But the fat one just makes me want to kill him, just looking at him. He's an embarrassment of a warrior."
In Krillin's mind however, it wasn't about that. It was about how fast the blue alien had been. He'd saved the little guy before anyone even knew what happened.
"Guldo. Please help our saiyan friend over there with his Dragon Ball."
Guldo was still shaken from his near death experience, but was not shaken enough to dare ignore one of the Captain's Order.
Fiercely holding the Four Star Dragon Ball still, Raditz glared at the little four eyed bastard.
"I dare you to try and take this from me, you obese toad."
Then Raditz felt, without even a second between, the l feeling of holding the Dragon Ball disappear. Panicked eyes darted everywhere for it. How was that possible?! Where was it?!
However, the dark chuckles of the Ginyu force soon revealed it. Standing there, Guldo held the ball with a large grin on his face, the four star ball in his possession.
"Looking for this?"
That fat little toad isn't that fast. Raditz thought, his very being trembling with frustration.
A trick, there had to be some kind of trick involved in it, but one thing was certain, the fat one was going to die, very quickly. If it weren't for the Blue one, he'd already be dead.
Quietly Jeice leaned over to Burter.
"Apparently the two saiyans with Vegeta are just some third classes. Even with all this fighting there is no way they've got a high power level. Whoever gets Vegeta is going to get all the fun," he muttered.
With almost a crocodile's smile, Burter responded. "Well then, let's hope one of us gets him. Whoever doesn't will just have to deal with the rest of these weaklings."
"Now then, the last Dragon Ball," Ginyu spoke up. "Hand it over. Please."
With a glance towards one another, Vegeta effectively signalled to Turles what to do. Jumping in the air, and with all his might, Turles hurled the Dragon Ball into the distance. Smiling cunningly at the Ginyu Force Vegeta narrowed his eyes on them. The look almost seemed to dare them to try anything.
It was when Burter disappeared that things became a problem. Reappearing less than a second later, the giant monster had the Dragon Ball in hand.
Turles had barely landed on his feet and turned, than Burter had the Dragon Ball.
"Fast. Very, very fast," Turles said, eyeing Burter with merciless eyes. He'd see Burter suffer before he died for interfering.
Now the Ginyu force was laughing once again.
"A valiant effort on behalf of you saiyans I am sure. But as you can see my friend Burter here loves a good game of catch."
The others in the group were horrified, Gohan was quivering, as was Krillin. To Raditz and Vegeta, it was unnerving to watch this guy move that fast, especially with the idea that they would have to fight him.
"Now then, we have what we came for. I will secure these Dragon Balls and deliver them to Lord Frieza," Ginyu stated with a sense of amusement in his voice. "Oh yes, and these five weaklings. Make sure you treat them nicely boys."
To everyone however, this intimidating encounter seemed to tone itself down as Jeice spoke.
"Yea! And when he says treat you guys nice, that don't mean we're gonna buy you flowers or nothin' like that. No, it means we're going to kill you."
The arrogant stupidity of Jeice's words and the smile on his face had Captain Ginyu next to him looking like he was going to have an aneurism.
"You idiot, you don't have to explain that!"
The group of Earthlings and Saiyans stood near one another in quiet shock. They'd need a battle plan to deal with these monsters. Turles looked to Vegeta, smirking as he did.
"Any great plans, oh mighty Prince?"
The mockery of his tone irritated Vegeta almost as much as Jeice's speech irritated Ginyu.
"There is no use in running, we'll have to fight," The Prince announced to the others.
With that observation, Raditz openly glared at his former Prince. What kind of answer was that? Of course they couldn't run.
"Oh, and next you'll have to tell us that fighting involves our fists. Of course we have to fight you idiot," Raditz snapped.
Turning to glare at Raditz, Vegeta could almost see the red in his vision. How dare this low class rat challenge him? Openly no less! This couldn't be accepted. Closing his fists and expecting a fight, Vegeta took the first steps towards open conflict with his own ally. Turles saw this as well and internally groaned. These two were going to get along as good as Ice and Fire.
"Well then, I guess we're fine that no one sought the opinion of a low class fool with one corpse too many on his conscience. You're still pathetic, I can't even believe I allowed you to live as long as I did! I should have killed you the day I met you. My own weakness is the only reason you are alive Raditz. I-"
"Ahem," Ginyu cut in before the argument could continue.
"We world normally be happy for all of you to kill one another, but unfortunately that may take a bit too long for Lord Frieza's tastes."
"Now then, we get to sort out who gets Vegeta."
Immediately the force was up in excitement, calls of "I want Vegeta!" and "You got the last good one!" Was rife amongst the four members. Ginyu however, raised his hand and smiled.
"We'll settle this as we always have. Through the sacred trial by Rock Paper Scissors."
Each member immediately looked serious, forming into a collective of four.
Before however, Jeice stopped, reaching up for his scouter. It began to beep to life taking in the readings.
"So, we're going to have two playoffs. We've got Vegeta, at 24,000 it looks like. Then the rest of them, combined total of..."
Jeice seemed to be doing math in his head.
"Well, the long haired Saiyan, that's Raditz in'it? He's got a reading of 3,000. Then we've got the stupid looking one over there." He said, pointing at Turles. "He's clocked in at 5,500. Then the two brats, 2,000 a piece. So I guess it is fair if one of us gets Vegeta, and one of us gets the four idiots. So first round is for Vegeta."
Internally, each and every one of the fighters on the other side were smiling with satisfaction. These idiots didn't understand that they could conceal their real power levels.
With that, the four went at it.
"Rock. Paper. Scissors!" Was their chant, each time thrusting their arm forward with a their fingers in a different pose, trying to gain the advantage.
Suddenly, the victor was proclaimed.
"ALRIGHT!" Recoome shouted. "I get Vegeta! I get Vegeta!'
To the side, Guldo looked depressed, his four eyes tilting downwards.
"You always win." the little green alien complained.
"Hey Guldo, tell you what," Burter said. "Me and Jeice will give you the four minions. There is no reason to feel down, hey?"
The offer somewhat lifted the green alien's mood.
"And I'll tell you what, I'll even let you finish off Vegeta, how's that?" Recoome added, grinning towards his friend.
Stepping forward, Guldo now had a smile on his face.
"So, it looks like this is it," Vegeta said seriously.
"I can't wait, these idiots are in for a surprise," Turles chuckled.
With that however, Ginyu hovered the Dragon Balls into the air. "I bid you farewell men! And the best of luck! Remember, Vegeta alive! The rest can be dead!"
With that, the Captain took off, Dragon Balls in tow.
Recoome was overjoyed at the idea of fighting Vegeta, this would allow him to demonstrate his truly powerful abilities and of course the feeling of pummelling an arrogant brat like Vegeta always brought a smile to his face. With a puny power level of 24,000, this wasn't going to take long, but he'd stretch it out as long as he could. It'd been months since they'd been sent on a job worth doing.
"Krillin," Vegeta ordered over. As the human arrived, he looked up at Vegeta. "Yea?"
"Don't attack the little fat one directly if you get into it. He's more dangerous than he appears. We need to hold out as long as we can. Kakarot is on his way, isn't he?"
Within a heartbeat Raditz spoke up.
"Really? Concerned about a fat, out of shape midget with two useless eyes and an even more useless brain? Please, I could kill him with my feet. I'm not even going to bother fighting that useless toad."
Guldo was standing next to Recoome when the harsh comments were spoken, the chubby alien began to tremble with rage.
"That does it!" he wheezed out furiously. "Recoome, the chaff dies first, we'll deal with Vegeta after!"
"Alright little buddy, you can take point," Recoome chuckled.
When Guldo made his intentions known, Turles and Raditz smirked in response. The least prepared member of the Ginyu force had just been brought into the battle.
"Alright, which one of you idiots is first?" Guldo demanded, placing his hands upon his hips and looking at his potential targets.
Smiling, Raditz tapped Gohan on the shoulder and inclined his head towards Krillin. "I think he wants to fight you two first, I don't want to waste my time. But it'll be a good warm up for you two."
However, arms crossed and walking forward, Turles walked next to his nephew and Krillin.
"Let's see how strong this pathetic little frog is," the twin of Kakarot remarked, just staring down into Guldo's two eyes. "Vegeta, what do you think? Should I be merciful? Or should I be entertained?"
Beside Turles, Gohan and Krillin braced themselves.
To Gohan this was going to be the first chance to showcase his new strength. It'd be a lie if he said he weren't scared, he was just a child thrown into a situation that even a year ago he couldn't imagine. But right now, he needed to get past these evil men for any chance of bringing Piccolo back to life. This was it, if they failed here, not only would Piccolo be stuck in the afterlife, but he'd be joining him as well.
The more veteran of the two warriors, Krillin, knew that they had to make a big impact and quickly. He thought that they could easily take the chubby guy, especially if they followed Vegeta's advice. They needed to buy time for Goku to get here, he should be there any time. Once his best friend made his arrival they could get the Dragon Balls back, he was sure. With any luck, Raditz, Vegeta, and Turles could match up to the Ginyu goons.
"Hey Gohan?" Krillin asked.
"Yea Krillin?" the child responded.
"Remember the power you have within," the human warrior reminded.
Guldo sighed, looking at the three fighters in front of him. At least the two earthlings were putting up fighting stances. The saiyan looked so underwhelmed he wasn't even taking a position, just staring at him with that stupid arrogant smirk! Usually his opponents just gave up, or begged for their lives.
"I was hoping they'd given up," he muttered, walking towards the three.
"Don't worry Guldo, you've got this!" Jeice shouted.
All he could notice was that the two earthlings looked more and more tense. Maybe they were just scared of him after all?
"You ready Gohan?" Krillin finally shouted.
The nod from the boy in response confirmed it.
"Let's turn up the heat!"
Two white auras burst around the fighters, drawing in the light around them almost as they began to power up. Both of them roaring at the exertion of drawing out their energy. The scouters amongst the Ginyu force started to clock up higher and higher as the two fighters revealed their true power.
23,000 for the bald guy, and 27,000 for the kid? But they weren't near that before! Jeice thought hurriedly.
Ascending towards the heavens, Krillin and Gohan launched into the sky. Their white auras leaving long tails of energy following them as they climbed. Forming blasts and preparing to fire, Guldo just stared up in disbelief. These fools were supposed to be weak!
In front of him, he just heard a chuckle.
"I'd run if I were you."
The four eyes glued on Turles angrily, before looking towards Vegeta, and then back up into the sky.
Once the shots fired, all that Guldo could do was follow Turles's advice. There was a brief moment where Guldo did manage to voice his discontent however.
"Aw shit!"
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The training had been rigorous. Goku now stood there with a bag of senzu beans tied to his belt. His eyes looking forward with determination. He would be on Namek soon.
King Kai had warned him now a dozen times to not go to Namek and face the darkness that was there. That was something Goku would never be able to listen to. His son, and his two best friends were down there, they needed the Dragon Balls to bring their friends back on earth, and most importantly of all someone had to stop that darkness, no matter how bad the odds looked.
100x Earth's gravity had formed a truly formidable Goku, his strength grossly exceeded even the most experienced fighters by and large. Imagination could run wild within Goku's own mind, but he never believed he could be as strong as he felt, it was like he could move mountains with his very thoughts. It was however going to be needed if what King Kai said was true.
The challenges that awaited him on Namek were enormous. Frieza, the Ginyu Force, Vegeta and Turles, but it was Frieza who truly worried the Kai more than anything.
Don't go to fight Frieza, Goku! You aren't ready yet!
The Kai begged him desperately, but this was something he had to do.
With his new found power, Goku was even able to feel the powers on Namek.
Besides Frieza, there were a lot of big players now, and most of them were wrapped up in one battle it looked like.
Hold on everyone. I'll be there soon.
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Time was utterly frozen, and he'd been running for his life almost ten minutes now. Just what the hell was he supposed to do? A member of the Ginyu Force, running for his life from a bunch of kids and a washed up saiyan?!
Every time he ran out of breath, they were immediately on him again. This was a nightmare without end. Finally finding some rocks to run behind, Guldo took a dive.
I just need to regain some strength. Then I'll crush those two fools like they were nothing!
With that, the little toady alien let his breath out. The world immediately went back into motion. He felt himself relax for a moment, knowing his enemies were confused.
"You are pathetic, you know that?" Turles asked, standing in front of him with arms still crossed.
How did a being this useless ever get into the Ginyu Force if they are so elite?
Guldo froze, before turning his eyes forward onto Turles. How? How did he find him right away?
It was then from above that Krillin and Gohan appeared, attacks charged.
"Oh shit!"
Guldo immediately began to sprint again, the rocks behind him exploding from Gohan and Krillin's assault.
This was it, this was his last chance, if he couldn't put them down now they'd surely kill him, he couldn't keep holding his breath.
Turning on the spot, putting both his hands in position, Guldo shouted his attack at the oncoming attackers.
"MIND FREEZE!"
Gohan and Krillin immediately froze in place, in the air. They were completely unable to move, their minds feeling locked as they desperately tried to move.
What just happened?! Gohan thought desperately before Guldo started to laugh.
"Yes! Yes! That's what you little brats get for messing with the all powerful Guldo!"
It was then that Guldo started to laugh maniacally. This was great, a truly wondrous victory which he had achieved.
"Well my frozen little friends, I think it's time for you to die," he laughed.
"Hey four eyes?" Vegeta called over. "How can you be so stupid? I really would like to know."
Anger boiled in Guldo's veins at the remark. How dare Vegeta insult him like that?! Had he not just proved his worth yet again?
"What do you mean Vegeta?! And like you're one to talk, you can't even help these two!"
"No you idiot, you don't get it. Weren't you fighting Turles as well?" Vegeta asked with an entertained voice.
Guldo blinked before a fist came down, grabbing him by the top of his head and pulling him into the air. The fat little alien shrieked madly as he flailed about in Turles's grip, the saiyan looked at the other three Ginyu Force members.
"Well, I think I've got a grip on this situation," Turles remarked. A dark chuckle followed as Guldo squirmed in his grip. "I wonder if that skull of yours is going to make a popping sound. I love it when they pop."
"No! No! Get him off me!"
Guldo, in one last desperate bid, held his breath. Time froze, and despite his thrashing and flaying could not break the iron grip of the saiyan. Desperation was so great he nearly passed out from lack of oxygen. As soon as he lost his breath however, he lost his life.
Turles's fingers dug into the skull, applying enough presure for the bone to begin to fragment. Within another second, the sound of bone cracking was heard, before a terrible pop. Purple blood splattered against his hand as the eyes in Guldo's head gruesomely popped out, half of his brain crushed.
"You ruin all my fun Turles, I wanted to kill that one," Vegeta seemed to almost snicker.
Flicking his hand several times to dispose of the purple gore covering his hand, Turles laughed to himself for a moment. "I knew it. I knew that one would pop."
As soon as the chubby alien's body hit the ground, the remaining Ginyu Force members jumped ahead, landing in front of Turles, Gohan and Krillin.
Gohan and Krillin had broken free of the attack the moment the alien died.
Once Gohan's eyes fell on the half headed body, his insides leaking all over the blue grass. Gohan immediately felt like he was going to retch. Gagging several times, the boy floated away, trying to avert his eyes from the grizzly scene.
Raditz and Vegeta landed next to Turles. The two sides squaring off.
"I get Vegeta," Recoome said with a grin.
"I'll call the one who crushed Guldo's head," Burter then added, looking very upset, furious even.
"I suppose that leaves me and crazy hair over there doesn't it?" Jeice laughed.
"You're one to talk," Raditz shot back.
These guys are incredible strong, even that orange skinned idiot. This must be handled with care. Vegeta thought to himself.
With that however, Burter immediately shifted his body, his knees bent and his two arms went back in a stance.
"They call me... BURTER!"
Jeice then began assuming his own pose, throwing one of his arms in the air and striking a stance.
"JEICE!"
With that, making an almost a stance born from a Body Builder expo, Recoome finished his own pose.
"RECOOME!"
"Together we are!-" The three shouted in unison. "The Ginyu force!"
That was all the three saiyans needed to see. That was all they could stand as well.
"Let's hope you aren't as weak as I think you are Raditz." Vegeta snapped.
And let's hope these Ginyu fools aren't as strong as they seem.
There was a snarl back in turn, however the three then began to raise their energy. Auras bristled out of them. Light began to be drawn in as the always sunny Namekian sky grew dark. Each one began to roar as their full, real powers were revealed.
The three posing Ginyu members broke their stances, taken back by just how off they'd been on their scouter readings.
"That's... not bloody possible," Jeice whispered aloud, of the saiyans clearing 30,000... and it kept going up.
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A/N: Hey guys.
I hope you enjoyed.
Reviewers:
Pointer39: Thanks for the review dood
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Wolverines: bows
Milli: Yea, the Catalyst had to learn the hard way XD
Treeger: I thought I did a good job over the last few chapters as well XD. Let's just hope I can keep it up.
Gogglegirl: Turles and Vegeta will get more flashbacks, but I don't know about dedicated chapters to it. But you never know.
Impaler: I hope this was good enough to satiate your Ginyu-Saiyan battle wants :P
Jason9000: Turles loathes Ginyu for interfering with his eternal life wish. He's not one who likes having interference ran on his play.
Coldblue: You'll have to read to find out. XD
And you'll not be disappointed by the Frieza fight.
Fightingchampion: I hope you like next chapter, the bigger fights starts then.
Demod: The maturity is suspect in both Vegeta and Turles. They are both childish.
Ultimate Black Ace: Turles was super upset over having his plans ruined by five assholes who pose funny.