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Chapter 7 - Time to Abandon Ship!
Mizuna floated in the air in the main viewing area of the ship, in meditation. The hustle and bustle of the crew only the faintest sensation in her mind. They knew not to disturb her like this, but why she wanted to do it in the middle of everything all the time was beyond them. She had been doing this a lot of the time lately, well this or using the reasonably sized training room in the center of the ship they had that no one had really used previously.
When she had originally made herself at home on their ship, she taken two of the only fighters left on board in order to have sparring partners. She kept her strength down to their level, but training with someone far weaker then you doesn't really help with your own improvement. Mizuna had quickly given up on that idea, and simply trained alone or meditated. She didn't really interact with the crew much after the first few days, which was fine with them. Though the chance of actual freedom at some point in the future was nice. None of them enjoyed working for the frost demons after all, who would? They kill their own employees for the fun of it, they weren't even paid. Or as Freeza would sometimes put it to others. "Allow them to live." Hopefully she'd only need them to take her a few places and be done, she never even told them her name, the nerve of some people.
Mizuna had been focusing on bring her Super Saiyan power to bear at will, she had wanted it to be an easy transformation to access. The first few days had been challenging, but it was much easier now. It had taken anger to activate for awhile, which made the form dangerous on use for the people around her. Now, it wasn't half as difficult. But it was draining to use for long periods and her body felt off after awhile. Something that could most likely be overcome, but she didn't feel strong enough to achieve such a state yet. If mastering a power like this is even possible..
It's current drawbacks aside, it's still incredible. She also noticed her previous block on her power disappear, she knew this was only the tip of the iceberg and she could grow far more powerful in the future. Just achieving the transformation had increased her base power by a considerable margin. She'd need a proper training partner to get there though, someone strong. Thoughts for later.
Some time ago, she had reached where this Planet Namek had supposedly been. Finding nothing but asteroids and a trail to follow. Yet another broken world. King Cold had been there, but from they detected, he had left shortly after. She wondered why he came to begin with. Currently, since is the personal ship of a frost demon, they had been able to follow this path rather easily. They had been two weeks ahead of them, but they stopped on one of their planets. One specializing in medical technology. Even more curious was as they got closer, days ago she could sense a second large power level along with Colds, not possibly Freezas, and it had split off from him days prior. She could teleport directly there, of course. But she was feeling a bit dramatic today and this was the grand finale ultimately, she wondered how Cold would react once she arrived and revealed she had killed one of his sons. She also wondered how strong he really was. If he was anything like his son, it'd be a challenge. The thought of it is enticing, though. Nevertheless, perhaps I should just blast him as soon as I get there and call it good enough. It'd be the smarter move.
They weren't far now, only mere minutes from arriving on-planet. She'd leave the ship in space and go down herself. No need to risk it getting damaged. She opened her eyes and spoke aloud to the crew. "Stop here, I'll go down and won't be gone long. Stay here for now." She said with in a lenient, but firm tone that left no room for argument. The two alien pilots at the controls only turned their heads back and nodded in assent. "Fine, but if you get yourself killed down there, we don't come looking." Mizuna only scoffed in answer. "Your compassion truly touches me."
She walked out of the room and towards the ceiling exit in the roof. Only stopping briefly to open the hatch. In that brief instant, she felt Colds power make itself wondered where the second power had gone off she took off. Flying through the atmosphere like a falling star towards the planets surface. When she broke through the atmosphere and saw the sprawling metropolis beneath her, one building stuck up to her in particular, a large multi towered castle in the center, on one of it's landing pads stood a massive creature with it's arms crossed. He had purplish skin, ans two large horns. He wore dark armor with a flowing robe.
He looked different from Cooler, taller and darker colored, but that was King Cold, alright. She had only seen him once before this in passing. He was strong, that was certain. He was weaker then her Super Saiyan form right now, but if he could transform too like she guessed he could..this could get ugly. He'd easily surpass her then. Best not give him the chance. From going through files on Coolers ship, she learned they had suppression forms to help control their power. He appeared to be in this second form, so he had two more transformations, if he could access even further power from a fifth form like Cooler, just the thought was chilling.
She touched down on the same pad as him, about 15 feet distance between them. Colds cloak billowed out behind him in the gentle breeze as he stared at her, a grin on his face.
"Bold of you to face me all alone, Saiyan." His voice was deep and booming. "You Saiyans have become a huge nuisance to my family. You must be friends with the other one that defeated Freeza."
"Other one? There is another Saiyan around and he killed Freeza?" Mizuna asked in shock, she hadn't expected that. All the more reason to find out who.
Cold shook his head. "Don't play innocent, I knew you're in league with him, trying to systematically take apart my family. Well it won't work." Cold brought his hands up on either side of them and clenched them shut. "Freeza has been rebuilt and is headed towards a planet called Earth to take revenge on the Saiyan Goku. He should be there by now. I stayed here when we realized you were following us."
Cold continued speaking "I learned of you defeating Cooler shortly after it happened. One of those flunkies you're traveling with has betrayed you, it seems."
Mizuna looked up at where the ship sat near the planet. Rage filled her. She knew she should've have let that woman roam freely. She'd deal with it later. She looked back at Cold, a smile crossing her face now. "So what? Just knowing that isn't going to save you."
"No, it wouldn't. But you see, I've been working on controlling my other forms. You Saiyans have inspired me to master my own strength. I've never had to bother before, and my true form is too unstable to use still, but my third is more then enough but with all you Saiyans gaining incredible powers far too quickly. I didn't want to leave any room for error." His power suddenly began to rise as he focused.
"You're not transforming today!" Mizuna shouted as she flashed into her Super Saiyan form and blasted forward. One solid punch to his face sent him careening through the floating landing pad and into the tall spire connected to it. The building collapsed around Colds body. She followed that up with a barrage of energy blasts that turned the entire castle into a smoldering crater.
Cold came rocketing out of the rubble and threw a precise but slow kick aimed towards her head. She avoided it easily enough. Just from his form, she knew he was far more skilled then Cooler, but he was too weak to do much now. She returned an onslaught of punches that all struck home. He was yelling in agony at every hit, she relished it. She slid under his counter attack and grabbed his tail, whirling him around in a circle and launched him back towards the ground. He landed in the middle of what appeared to be a park, but now it was another crater. With Super Saiyan power fueling her, it made her even more battle hungry then before, the lives of small people unimportant before the promise of a worthy battle. then she'd normally be. she didn't really care about casualties here. Cold had to die.
Mizuna could still feel him there, his power had dropped a bit, but he was alive. She waited to see if he would come out himself or not. His power skyrocketed immediately and a massive purple aura shot out from the debris. She charged down towards him, not wanting to give him a chance, but the force from his power momentarily shot her back. As it completely wiped the city off the face of this planet. So much death in an instant, he didn't even care he was slaughtering his people, they were replaceable.
Just when she thought he was done, it climbed even higher. The entire planet started vibrating. His strength how grown so high that she knew she had no chance. He skipped over a form, she could tell. When the high winds and rumbling of the planet stopped. She saw him. He was still massive, but his skin was white and smooth and he had deep cobalt colored orbs on his head, shoulders and forearms. His power was fluctuating wildly but as he lowered it, it seemed to come under his control. Cold stood still as he felt his power stabilize. He barely recalled the last time he used it. He never needed to. His lower forms had always been more then enough to battle his sons.
Even from here she could hear him. "You shouldn't have given me time, I can transform much quicker then my sons. This is my true form."
Mizuna lowered herself to the ground, she could feel herself sweating from the amount of power he was putting off. She'd use her scouter, but she knew it would only tell her what she already felt. He was far stronger then her. Yet she had defeated stronger foes before. He'd be no different. "You're dead, Demon!" She roared.
Mizuna flew up and then down towards him and stuck out her left leg as she could down in a brutal downwards kick then he block with one hand, and didn't even drive him into the dirt an inch. She launched into a variety of ferocious punches and kicks that he barely seemed to notice as he blocked them with both of his arms. Why wasn't he fighting back?! "Are you going to fight or stand there like a statue, you damned demon?" She called out at him.
Cold only mockingly laughed at her as his fist shot out towards her like lightning and caught her just under the chin as she attempted to avoid it at the last minute, but was too slow. She toppled over on her back, and he accompanied that was a crushing foot stomp that she avoided with a backwards roll off of the ground and few feet back from him. She lunged forwards him again, an a small energy blast forming in her palm. She threw it at him and he smacked it away from his chest casually. She managed to get several more punches him in on him that he blocked before a quick kick connected to his face. His pleasant smile never even left his face as he returned yet another bone crunching punch to her stomach that put her on her knees and a kick that sent her skidding across the ground like a well tossed stone across a lake.
It took her slightly longer to get up the next time. She rubbed off a trail of blood from his mouth on the back of her hand. The sight of it irritating her greatly. Her golden aura flared around her intensely again as he composed herself. Trading blows wasn't working terribly well, but she'd figure something out. Her flexible fighting style was allowing her to made contact with him, but it was just getting shrugged off like nothing.
"So this is the power of a Super Saiyan? I'm honestly a little let down, Freeza made this power out to be something worth fearing." Increasing his speed, Cold launched himself forward, even faster then Mizuna could follow and grabbed Mizuna by her face and dragged her across the landscape by her head, grinding a deep furrow in the dirt. Then throwing her up in the air and rainnig blows on her undefended body. She had begun to see stars at this point and slammed her back down to the ground with an uppercut, and placed his massive foot on her torso. "Pathetic, I had been holding back before, but if this is truly the best you can do. I'm wasting my time."
Mizuna silently looked up at her, her vision had grown fuzzy but was beginning to clear now. She couldn't win this battle in her current state. She had been an idiot to think she was ready. She let her new power cloud her judgment. She hated to admit it, but she had to cut her losses and leave. Super Saiyan for all it's might, simply wasn't enough to close this massive gap, she'd need to leave and do some serious training again. But where would she go? She closed her eyes and focused, pushing her senses out into the wider galaxy to find a spot worth retreating to. She felt a distant power, it felt much like hers. It was worth a shot, at least.
She strained her muscles as she gripped either side of his foot with her hands and pushed. She managed to lift it and throw him on his back before she stood shakily to her feet. Her legs were trembling from tire muscles and pain. Just maintaining Super Saiyan was growing difficult. Putting out a joke version of her usual fighting stance. "Come on, you big lizard. I can do this all day."
Cold only smiled and raised his palm, light purple energy formed in it and he released a large ball that rushed towards her, she jumped over it and rushed towards him, appearing to be readying a punch to resume the fight again, once she got close to him she only smile and said: "Not! I'll com back for you, Demon! Bye!" Then she was gone. She teleport across the stars and ended up in a desert like area. There was a large rock that she sat down and leaned against to rest. There were many power-levels around here. She quickly reverted to her base form and hid her power level. She looked around, and in the air, the power that had attracted her here was apparent. Freeza was here, fighting what appeared to be. Another Super Saiyan?! Impossible. He was close to as strong as she was at her maximum, and he looked young. There were other strong powers on the ridge off in the distance, but they seemed to be moving close slowly. What was going on?
Power Levels
Mizuna: Base - 12,000,000/ SSJ - 160,000,000
Cold: Second Form - 140,000,000/ True Form - 190,000,000 (Bare minimum)
I'm using the Bringer of Death system for SSJ forms. Instead of the 50X multiplier that fans tend to stick with, makes for an easier time.
