Chapter 4 - Enter Cooler

Decades later, 11 months after Freezas defeat on Namek.

Mizuna awoke with a start, kicking the blanket off her body. She had had the dream again, the one of Freeza destroying her world. She knew why it still tormented her mind after all these years, she had yet to go after the Frost Demons. Too many distractions. She knew she was strong enough now to win, despite the haunted rumors of their transformations. They couldn't be that powerful. "I'm a Saiyan, I have no limits. I will surpass them!" She yelled into the night air at no one.

Though doubt threatened to enter her mind, she wouldn't allow it. She had other things to worry about. She had made camp on the outskirts of Freeza Planet #396, you know for being a megalomaniac as well as a tyrant, he had an abysmal naming system. On that note, both Cold and Cooler named everything the same way too, strange family traditions she supposed.

Sporadically over the past few years, since she had finished her various trainings on multiple worlds, she had took to the stars and went planet to planet, systematically retaking worlds from the Cold Empire, it took awhile and many of them were utter lost causes. Many of the original inhabitants of these worlds have long since been wiped out, but that wasn't important. Wiping out the forces that held the planet captive was what mattered. She moved on so quickly that she never saw the repercussions. Before starting her quest of revenge, she had never realized just great an undertaking this would truly be. She had taken many breaks over the years and returned to Xion, which was the world she had originally landed on after her home was wiped out.

She spent a lot of time with the inhabitants there over the years, they were basically her family now, and Sesa her brother. She had long eclipsed even the strongest of their people in strength, but she was just happy to go back and enjoy the simpleness of their lifestyle. They were very strong people, but still they enjoyed farming, even though they could do much better for themselves. Though she is a Saiyan, a naturally bloodthirsty and battle hungry race, she was young the last time she had met other Saiyan, some of their worse tendencies had been reduced in her since she took up new residence.

Speaking of Saiyan tendencies, turning into an Oozaru about 2 weeks after living there was a rough start to her living there. They had to destroy their own moon to make it safe for themselves to have her there. Thankfully they didn't just remove my tail.

During her travels, she had heard word of other Saiyan survivors, four so far. Vegeta, Raditz, Nappa, and Turles, who had went renegade apparently. Rumors among Freezas people was that only Prince Vegeta was still currently alive, and he was opposing Freeza last she had heard. Good on him, I'd expect nothing else.

At the present, camping out on Freeza Planet #396, the original name lost to time. She had only finished her cleansing of the world hours ago, and helped herself to their food storage's. Nothing felt better after a battle then food, after all. She had left her scouters communication on, always hoping for some good news in the transmissions that she listened to.

A year ago, when she first started this campaign, she had tracked down some of Freezas former Ginyu force members, there were three in total and they had split from Ginyu over some ridiculous difference in opinion over poses and formed their own trio. She hadn't paid much attention before caving their skulls in, current or former members of Freeza's elite, she wasn't going to risk letting any of them live. Their power levels had been somewhere around 40,000. She was much more powerful then they were then. It wasn't a fight. Honestly, she was itching for a real challenge, her Saiyan blood was burning for a real battle. To make all her endless preparation worthwhile. She had taken a lot of losses, but many victories as well. It was time to go after Cold and his sons.

As she stared up at the stars, she thought to herself, as she often did lately, that her power had plateaued, despite training hard and seeking out new ways to gain strength, she continued to hit a wall, but she felt a deeper power within her, but it was faint. Distant. As distant as the stars in the sky were from her grasping hand.

A crackle was heard over her scouter that was on the ground next to her. A familiar voice reached her eyes as she clicked it back on her ear. She didn't really need scouters anymore, she had learned to sense ki on her own, but it was still helpful for communication at least. "Mizuna! Come in!" It was Sesa, of course. He spoke to her often now after she stole a bunch of fancy new scouters and gave them to his people to use. His voice seemed urgent, a bad sign. "I read you, what is it?"

"A ship just entered our atmosphere, and they're attacking us! It looks like some of the Cold Empires has found us. Three strange posing fighters came out of it and are raining destruction. Please hurry!"

It seemed like her inner desire had betrayed her. Not a great start to the day. she wanted a fight and one came calling. Except they got the people of Xion involved, something she could never forgive. "I'll be there momentarily."

She focused her energies on planet Xion and she teleported through space and time to arrive there. It was the final ability she had learned from them. She knew there were other versions of it, like Instant Transmission. There's was superior in that you didn't need to sense out a specific person to get there, you just needed the place in mind. It was more dangerous for that fact though, an unskilled user could teleport themselves directly into a sun or a black hole and that would be fatal.

She looked around, there was no one in her general area, but she could feel them all nearby. The three that Sesa had spoke of, the fading energies of her friends, and a much more powerful one. Freeza? Did he find me himself? She rocketed off the ground towards their location. When she arrived to their village, which had grown considerably over the years with her help. It was burning. But the majority of the civilians were hiding or running. There were many

The first foe she came across was a dark orange brute in the typical armor of the Cold family armies. She wasted no time in kicking him through a building before he noticed her. Two more of them quickly arrived and helped their friend up. One brown alien with a thin neck and a blonde haired one. Neither looked impressive. They were up decently strong, nothing impressive. Around 100,000 each.

The blonde one spoke up first, in a foreign accent she couldn't place. "Just who the hell do you think you are?" He noticed the tail wrapped around her waist. "Ah, you are that miserable monkey we've been sent here to kill."

"You three are going to die for what you've done," She said, looking up at the ship hovering just inside the atmosphere. "Then I'm going after Cooler up there."

The three of them grew visibly angry. "You think you can harass the Cold Empire for years on end and not have us catch up to you? Coolers Armored Squadron will put you down along with the rest of this planet!"

The three of them did a brief pose before charging at her at once. Neiz the lizard looking one, came in low with a punch towards her face. She grabbed his fist and threw him end over end towards Dore, who was directly behind him. They crumbled to the ground in a pile. While Salza, the leader she assumed, had moved towards the air directly over her. He shot a barrage of energy blasts down at her.

She let them all connect, using the ensuring smoke screen from the attack to move faster then they could perceive behind the group.

The two downed soldiers got back up on their feet quickly and the three of them stood there like utter buffoons waiting for the smoke to clear. Truly terrible fighters, they were. Mizuna wasted no time launching a savage punch to the back of the green one, which shattered his armor and spine immediately, he was dead before he had time to scream in pain. Then she formed an energy attack inside him and let it turn his corpse into nothing but ash. The other two had only noticed this happen when he was being incinerated. They came on again, clearly angry, throwing sloppy kicks and punches, trying to kill her for slaughtering their comrade. She dodged their attacks without effort. "You guys are boring me, I thought the equals of the Ginyu force would be somewhat fun to beat on, but oh well. Time to die." She suddenly rushed them, grabbing both of their faces in one hand and smashed their skulls together. They both dropped to the ground, dead. She blasted their bodies to nothing just as a precaution.

She looked up at Coolers ship, and waited. She could see Cooler standing on top of it now, clearly miffed that she waltzed through his elites like nothing. "Well Lord Cooler? I'm expecting better then the likes of you before I put you in the ground too! Better make it count for something!"

Cooler didn't respond to her taunts, he just floated to the ground about 20 feet away from her, the anger she saw on her moments earlier was replaced by an eerie sense of calm. "Apologizes for dropping in on you like this, Saiyan. I had heard tale of you and your incredible power. Though I'm no fan of my brother, I can't let a primate such as you continue to disgrace my family."

Mizuna only grinned at him. "Don't worry about it. The only offense you did was not coming sooner. I was hoping I'd have drawn you out sooner. I've been looking forward to wiping the stain of your family away from the universe forever.

A frown crossed Cooler's face. "I see you think you're capable of playing the elite now, are you? We own this universe, we own everything in it, you're no exception to that rule. The time for words has passed, I'm afraid. The only thing that'll put a filthy monkey like you back in her place in pain." He said, his voice and face going deadly serious.

Mizuna assumed her fighting stance, despite her bravado. She knew this would be no easy fight. She didn't know if this was his full power or not, he had clearly learned how to hide his real strength. She had amble strength in store herself but she'd still be fighting for her life, she knew. He was in the true form of the frost demons after all, no one usually gazed on it and lived. Her blood was burning at the prospect of a real challenge like this. The real fight was on.