Yo! Son Goku and friends!

by Lucky8ofspades

If you've ever found yourself wanting Yamcha, Krillin, Tien, or Piccolo to contribute in the latter half of Dragon Ball, then this is the story for you. There is but one simple goal in this story. It's not about fighting, it's about martial arts.

11. The Tree of Might

Yo! Son Goku and friends! Saiyan Saga (Chapter 10)

Yamcha

Gusts of wind wooshed around as Tien and Yamcha clashed in the air. They threw strikes as The Wolf slowly descended. Yamcha looked to the ground for only a moment and then plummeted.

SLOOSH!

"Fuck this! I haven't gotten any better!" He proclaimed with rage, splashing out of the water.

"Shut up, yes you have!" Krillin threw back immediately. "We've only been training two weeks. You can't expect to master flight in two fucking weeks dude."

"Rrrrrrrrgh…" He let out in a low growl.

"Stone the fuck up, Wolf." Tien commanded as he waved in Yamcha for a challenge.

"I'm gonna kick your third eye out of its socket!"

Yamcha launched into the air and started his flurry with Tien.

Fwufufufu! SOOF! WSH! Fufufufufufuf! WAFF! SWUF! KrrrrrrrrrrrrAK!

"GAH!" Yamcha yelped as he careened into the pool, splashing huge waves from the middle crevice.

Tien stood stoic, eclipsing the sun with his form. Yamcha looked up at the light streams from below the surface. His shape wavered intensely.

Vluuuuoush!

"Hhhuuuu...heeee." He let out in a heavy breath.

Yamcha pulled back his hair and wiped the water away from his eyes.

"It's the focus, try to maintain that focus!"

"How the fuck am I supposed to focus on that when Tien's beatin' my ass!?"

"Just don't think about it." Chiaotzu interjected.

"Oh yeah, great idea. Except I'm not built different." Yamcha claimed as he pointed to himself.

"Yamcha." Tien spoke in a real tone as he floated down. "I'm not sure but I don't think Goku has even learned to fly yet."

"Get out of here."

"No I'm serious." Tien said as he sloshed about the pool, taking deliberate strides towards the wolf. "When we fought Raditz, Goku stayed on the ground, he flew over using The Nimbus as well. I see no reason for Goku to have practiced it when he has a tool like that."

"Well yueh, he has The Nimbus."

"You don't." Tien claimed boldly as he crossed his arms. "This might be something you could hang over Goku."

"Hmph." Yamcha averted his gaze to the courtyard's elaborately decorated flowerbeds.

"You can't fly, if the battle with the Saiyans goes to the air you can't help out the team. We need you." Krillin laid it on, closing in.

"Tch." Yamcha scoffed as he looked at the dark dragon crevice at the bottom of the pool.

"You got this, Champ." Krillin patted Yamcha on the shoulder. "We'll help you every step of the way."

"Hmmmmm…" The Wolf grunted out. "Okay, fine." He huffed, wiping back a loose strand.

"Let's run it back!" Tien clapped his hands together and rose to the air again in front of the waterfall.

"Ffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…" Yamcha breathed in deep and looked to the sky.

Tien waved The Wolf back in again with his right hand.

"Again!" He shouted loudly downwards, his loud voice causing a ripple in the pool.

Yamcha's eyes sharpened intensely, almost forming into slits and he got down into a crouching position.

"AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Turles

The walls of the hallway were painted red with blood and Turles tiptoed around the mess with a raised brow.

"Oho-ho~" A tall, slender green man with a braid let out pompously in a sing-song kind of manner. "Didn't expect to see you here, Degenerate. If you don't get out of my way this could be you."

Turles glared at him strongly, maintaining fierce eye contact as he passed.

"Ahh~ I don't like that look you just gave me." The man stopped dead in his tracks, his elegant green braid snapping over his shoulder pauldron as he made a face of bewilderment.

Turles kept walking down the hallway.

"You! Saiyan! Apologise right now or I redecorate the hallway again. Your choice~" He propositioned with his left hand and a bored look.

Turles knew better than to mess with Zarbon, he's one of Frieza's right hand men. Dealing with him is like playing a game of chance. Him and his partner Dodoria pretty much have free reign to do whatever they want as long as they don't kill major political figures in the Cold Estate. In his base form he clocks in at 200,225.

"Fuck!" He thought to himself, touching the scouter's button.

Beyuuuuuw~

"I'm talking to you, Monkey~ Can you not hear me?" Zarbon asserted, raising his left hand and gathering pink energies in it.

"Tahless! Whaht's ahp, buddy? Yohh Zahban! You still rockin' the pink panniehose eyy!?"

"Mmmmmmm." He lowered his hand and let out a disappointed grunt.

Jeice wrapped his arm around Turles and stared up at the tall green figure.

"Not really my stoile."

"You mongoloids in the Ginyu Force still prance around in the speedos. I don't really think you're in a position to be mocking me, Sunburn." Zarbon made a mocking pouty face, placing his hands on each side of his cheeks.

"Wehl, Oi'm not whan to complain. No skin off moi back."

"I just know it peels easily. Your skin care routine has just got to be dreadful if you're palling around with that mongoloid. Have you seen Ginyu's head? It looks like a purple cantaloupe~ Just awful."

"Sheesh. Get a loada' this goi! He got jokes for days ey?" Jeice laughed a bit and pointed at Zarbon with his thumb. "Keep it classy, Sugatits, Oi'll seeya round!"

Jeice wheeled Turles around and walked away with him down the hallway. Zarbon just scoffed and looked on with disgust. A blue creature wearing the Cold Estate uniform walked into the hallway and froze at the sight of him.

"Clean this filth up this instant!"

"Right away sir!"

Turles peered back at the braid as it left the building. He had a bit of intensity in his eyes.

"Crikey! You jus' know how to roile em' ahp, doncha' Tahless?"

Turles just let out a laugh breath from his nose and shook his head at the absurdity of it all.

"Oi'm gonna hafta keep an oiy on ya' at this raite. Hua-eheheheheheeheh!" Jeice cackled out in a rapid fire chortle.

A smile escaped from Turles and he forcibly let out a few chuckles.

"Wow! The bugga can laff, imagine moi suprois."

"Thanks for the assist. I'll be going now." Turles stated dominantly.

"Now hold on, hold youa horses." Jeice cut off the Saiyan mid-way.

"What?"

"I gotta message from the Cap'n."

Turles raised his right brow.

"You free this week?"

"I could spare an afternoon, I need to speak with Bardock first."

"Greoit. Seeya when Oi seeya." Jeice waved back and jogged down the hallway with pep in his step.

"Tch." Turles smacked his lips as he looked at the goofy red man's white mane fumble around.

Bardock

"Yeah yeah. I'm on Vampa right now, what's up?"

There was a pause as Bardock backed up. Other Saiyans and aliens blasted away at enormous black spider-creatures who in turn squealed out loudly during their demise.

"What? Yeah no, I'm not going anywhere." Bardock placed his index in his left ear. "Ahuh. Yeah I'll wait."

Bardock laughed a bit and a wide smirk crept across his face.

"You don't normally sound this excited. Musta been a big discovery."

The Saiyan paced around the dirt plainly as if he were taking a phone call for a business meeting while blasts, explosions, and screeches of pain rang out in the background. He looked at the ear grime on his left index and grimaced at the yellow goop.

"Yuck! ...Yeah, I got you." He wiped the wax off on his armour and returned to listening to the call.

He nodded for a while before a thunderous blast blew out behind him.

KA-KOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!

"Like I said, I'm not going anywhere so you can pull up whenever. But I gotta go, see ya son."

Be-beeee!

"Bardock! We need back up you fuck!"

"Yeah, yeah, I heard you, you lug. I'm comin'!"

Bardock sprinted off towards the large spider swarm and gathered energy in his left bicep. Blue streams of light poured out of the crevice as he flexed. The energy then shifted from his bicep muscle and followed the line to his left palm. He cocked back his hand with some suspense and then fired a large blue beam.

"You guys are some real ugly bastards!"

ZWuuuwuw~VZHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BOMMMM!

"EIIIIIIYEEEEEERRRRREAAaaaaa~" A row of them screeched out loudly in pain.

Turles

Turles stepped out of the Saiyan pod and into the desert wasteland. He shielded his eyes from the dirt and dust the sandy streams kicked up. Clicking on his scouter, it displayed a battle power of 10,900.

"I suppose that is father. Who else?"

Turles looked through the crimson glass and found other weaker battle powers.

"Hmmm."

Turles blasted off, the sand spot caved in a bit at his forceful exit. He passed green ponds with fur over the top. He raised a brow at the strange site.

"Is that algae? What is that?" He thought aloud as he flew by.

Explosions rang out distantly as Turles soared through the dry climate. The scouter bipped and beeped in response to battle power fluctuations. He flew for just a while longer until he was a hoard of insect creatures bearing down on a group of Cold Estate soldiers. Turles kept quiet as he landed, his entry was somewhat stealthy as no one turned to face him.

He gathered a sparking orange circle in between his hands. It squeaked and squealed and churned, letting out a metallic cry as the circle's size grew.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

"DIE!"

Turles fired off the large circle and it came into contact with the insects, slicing through them with ease, large circular hole shapes in the spiders that the attack left in its wake.

Kill Driver is the ultimate technique of Turles. It cuts through anything that lands in the whole on the inside of the circle.

Turles brushed off his hands in a dramatic display before turning to his father.

"Huh. Just come to show us up?"

"Tch." He looked away at the still oncoming hoard. "Well no, since I'm just so nice I thought I'd help clean up your mess for you, father."

"What a sweet boy I have." Bardock sassed back as the pair rushed the arachnids.

Bardock and his son slammed team attacks onto the group of insects with ease.

"So what's up!? HUAAAGH!"

"Turn off your scouter!" Turles commanded as he dug his burly Saiyan fist into the guts of a spider.

BVUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Bardock's scouter grew dim as his son blasted a large orange beam through the spider next to him.

"Alright, so why are we going off the grid!?"

"Where are these vermin nesting!?"

"I'd guess below the surface, Vampa has a lot of cave systems!"

"Lead the way!"

The pair punched their way through waves of the creatures before they took the fight underground.

"HA-dieYAH!" Bardock exclaimed as he punched one of his arachnid foes into nothing, yellow goop splattering all over the wall.

Turles clicked on his scouter and a flashlight illuminated the underground.

"Damn, this must be really important if you're going all this way just to talk to me alone."

Turles looked to the light from above and waved his father even deeper into the cave system.

Clikikikikilikilikilililklilklilklilk.

The father and son raised their guard as even more enemies surrounded their position and clicked their mandibles.

"I have discovered something interesting on Acrose!" He shouted out as he blasted a huge wave of orange energy at a group of 5 spiders.

Ba-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The blast rang out and dust came down in chunks on top of the two in response.

"What's the discovery!?"

Bardock laid in a one-two on a spider's face, causing it to reel back. He finished it off with a low crouching stance into a roundhouse kick with his left, completely demolishing it.

"Whatever happened to Acrose caused a strange tree to grow. The Tree of Might is its name!" Turles shouted in between fucking up the enemy with haymaker hooks.

"Tree of Might!?"

"The tree's fruits increase one's battle power starting at about 6-ish percent all the way to 13 percent upon a full fruits consumption."

"You're bullshittin'!" Bardock cried out instinctively as he delivered a spinning kick with his left, slamming an arachnid into the wall.

More debris came down onto the father and son at the power of the attack.

"After we finish these fools, I've got a fruit with your name on it!"

The two spent a while beating up on the helpless creatures but it was done soon enough.

"Heffff…" Bardock breathed out, sweating.

He took off his white bandana and used it to wipe his face. Turles sat down next to him. Bardock looked over to Turles and noticed he wasn't sweating nearly as much as he was. The son brandished the orange fruit with small spikes on it.

Turles just shot a serious look to his father and handed it off. Bardock positioned it below his nose and took a deep inhale.

"Tch. Pumpkin spice? Who do you take me for, boy? That shit's for women."

"Eat it, dumbass."

Bardock chomped down with ferocity and almost cleared the whole fruit in one bite. He chewed for a while before tossing in the rest of it.

Chom!

Bardock's cheeks were full for a while.

"Manya really- chom chom. -gotta- chom chom. Chew this thing."

Bardock's sweat ran cold and he felt a surge of energy pulsate through his being, his fatigue lifted and his eyes widened.

"No way…"

Even some of the scrapes he had accumulated that day had lessened in severity.

"I'd wager that you're going to be above 12,000 when I turn my scouter back on."

Bardock looked to Turles with eyes wide as the little device ran its calculations.

Be-beeee! Dululululululu-leet!

"Hmph!" Turles declared with a grunt and a smug smirk.

He handed off the red scouter to Bardock and the numbers were clear:

C- BP: 12,300 units ~ Saiyan

Turles snatched up the device and snugly rested it back on his right ear. Clicking on it again.

"I can't believe it."

"The Tree of Might uses all of the planet's resources and funnels them into the fruit. The nutrients are so rich it powers up whoever consumes the fruit."

"So… what do we do from here?"

"Frieza cannot know anything about this, so we must NEVER have our scouters on or allow randoms to listen in. I've formed an alliance with the Ginyu Force so they'll help us with planting it but I can't just go out of my way and make Trees of Might without a care in the world. The fruit I gave you is still from Acrose."

Bardock stared intensely at his son in the low lighting of the cave.

"I went out of my way to test, leaving this fruit unrefrigerated and these things don't go bad father."

"What!?"

"They're otherworldly and I need to make sure I play my cards carefully."

"You think allying with Ginyu's boys is a good move?"

"Look father, they're the only squad in the Cold Estate history that has been running the same units with no casualties for over 6 years. I have to go out on a limb and assume they take care of those in their circle. The Ginyu Force were the only people besides you that I thought had a decent chance of helping me."

Bardock's jaw loosened and he looked to the cave dirt in awe.

"Well boy, do you think these fruits can overthrow Lord Frieza?"

Turles looked to the cave walls and said loudly:

"Not as we are now, but if we join Ginyu there might be the faintest of chances. It grinds my Saiyan pride to dust to rub tails with those goofballs but I'd be an even bigger goofball to let a chance at freeing my people slip my grasp. WE'RE THE CONQUERORS FATHER! THOSE SLIMY SNAKES DON'T EVEN LIKE TO FIGHT!"

Turles punched the wall with force and rage, huge mounds of dust and dirt fell around the pair.

THMM! Fffffffffffff~

"Lead the way, boy." Bardock stated with pride as he palmed his son's shoulder. "I'll be the proudest father alive if Lord Frieza dies at your hands."

Turles met his father's gaze and nodded with confidence.

Zarbon

"So Zarbon, why did you take precious time out of my day to request an audience?"

Zarbon bowed his head to the small lord and was kneeling. His right arm was practically glued to his chest. He opened his eyes and attempted to stand.

"I didn't say you could rise."

"Uh~yes! Sorry, Lord Frieza." Zarbon swallowed harshly and returned to his kneeling position.

"Apology considered. … Go on." He gestured with his tail, brushing back Zarbon's green braid.

"I wish to lead the Ginyu Force."

"Hah!" Frieza let out a single laugh pompously. "How scandalous! That's so ridiculous I might grant it just for shits and giggles."

Zarbon smirked deep.

"But!"

"Of course Lord Frieza."

"I'm not going to let you lead Ginyu's squad unless you show that you deserve the position. Beat him in single combat and it's all yours."

"Oh thank you Lord Frieza, thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Zarbon praised his Lord with waving bows using both his arms.

"Get off the ground, Zarbon. You're whack for that."

"Apologies, Lord Frieza." He reiterated as he clasped his hands together.

"Salza."

"Yez Lor Freeza?"

"Send out a message to Ginyu and tell him to get his purple ass in here."

"Right awei Lor Freeza." Salza replied as he turned around and touched on a glassy pad.

"Zarbon?"

"Yes." Zarbon turned around, only steps away from the doorframe.

"Why?"

"Excuse me, Sire?"

"You heard me, tell me why your fae ass really needs to lead the Ginyu Force."

"I'm sorry?"

Frieza's tail snapped and lashed out at the ground below him, cracking it loudly and upheaving some of the tile.

WhhhhhhhhhuAACK!

Frieza shot Zarbon a chilling smile and batted his lashes like he was not about to beat the ever loving shit out of him without a second thought.

"Don't lie to me~" Frieza sing-songed at his green subordinate from across the room.

"Duh…" He let out dumbly. Zarbon breathed out deep before responding. "Jeice really pissed me off today so I wanted to boot him from the team." He made a throat cutting gesture with his right hand.

Lord Frieza blinked a few times in disbelief.

"I'm probably gonna give it right back to Ginyu after the fact anyway."

"My, my. You're becoming really petty, Zarbon." Frieza turned back around to stare at the stars through the window. "Keep it up."

"Oh! Thank you Lord Frieza!"

"I was kidding! You're whack for that! 100 pushups on your knuckles."

"Ohhhh~" He groaned out before getting to work.

"I can't believe you'd so easily kill your own people."

"Permission to speak sir?" Zarbon asked as he repped it out on the floor.

"No."

Salza almost broke out laughing and stepped out into the hallway to catch his breath.

Cui

Cui walked the hallway with an intense stride and focused eyes. He scratched his right whisker as he rounded the corner into the Command Centre. Cui smiled pretty wide as he saw Zarbon doing pushups. Frieza spotted Cui's entry through the window's reflection.

"Cui."

"Lord Frieza." He responded promptly with a salute.

"What is it?"

"Just an in person report that Planet Dark Star is far too strong for units below Ginyu level."

Frieza turned around curiously and maintained fierce eye contact with Cui.

"Interesting."

"I barely got out of there in one piece."

"And you came to me with nothing?"

"No sir, that's not what I said, I came to you with a new vital task for the Ginyu Force." Cui sweated bullets in response. "Please don't kill me…" He kept to himself.

Zarbon shifted his gaze from the floor and looked at Cui with malice.

"Why does this disgusting purple rat get to speak out of line but I don't?" Zarbon mused internally.

"Hmmmm. Perfect timing, Cui. We'll see who gets to take on the mission to Planet Dark Star."

At that moment Ginyu's impressive physique walked through the door. Guldo and Recoome followed behind. Recoome had to duck under and palm the doorframe as his hulking stature was clearly not well accounted for. Recoome and Guldo stepped aside to the corner and held a salute.

"That's my boy Lord Frieza. Dab me up." Ginyu propositioned his right hand.

Frieza let out a chuckle and slid his hand along Ginyu's and then rebounding for a fist bump.

"Sir!" He saluted with seriousness after the greeting.

"At ease, Ginyu."

Zarbon stared at Ginyu with malice as well. Ginyu took a more casual pose with his hands on his hips in a loose cowboy type of way.

"What you got for me?"

"Zarbon had requested to lead the Ginyu Force."

"Hahahaha! And you listened!?" Ginyu laughed loudly.

"And I granted it."

"And I oop-" Ginyu let out with a duck face, looking over to Recoome and Guldo who also had wide eyes.

"On one condition."

"Oh yeah of course. I know my boy wouldn't just throw me to the wayside like that." His calm demeanor returned immediately.

"You two are to fight until death, knockout, or submission."

"That all?"

Frieza nodded.

"Where we throwin' hands?"

Frieza just maneuvered his tail and pointed to the middle of the room.

"Alright! I always wanted to fight in here!"

"But Lord Frieza, I would never wish to do harm to the Command Centre!"

"Shut up and put up your dukes!" Ginyu strutted around the room with some sass.

"Cur. I am going to snap those black horns off of your ugly face."

The Captain just smiled in response.

"You might wanna take off the circlet, looks expensive. I wouldn't want to break it." He taunted, wagging his index finger.

Ginyu took a horse stance and put his left palm out, spreading the fingers wide. He positioned his right arm out the side and in a fist with the knuckles facing the ceiling. Ginyu shifted the pose and grabbed at nothing in the air and then returned to the original pose in a flourish.

"Oh how bothersome."

Frieza examined his nails with little enthusiasm. Guldo looked on to the combatants with a stern look. Recoome kept it cool with a poker face. Cui had a big smile on his face as he watched the pair square off. Salza tapped on the pad and just stole glances as he waited for them to start.

Ginyu stomped with some force onto the tile. Zarbon brought up his guard quickly in response.

"We're jumpy huh?" The Captain asserted goofily as he wiped his lip with his thumb.

"You had better take this seriously or things aren't going to end well for you."

Ginyu took an actual fighting stance as opposed to a pose and bobbed up and down on the balls of his feet. Zarbon flared out his arms and crouched low in a receiving manner like a wrestler looking to tackle.

Fuf-FSH!

Captain Ginyu VS Zarbon

Objective: Maintain/Steal the Ginyu Force

Ginyu cleared the space in an instant and threw two left jabs at his opponent's head. Zarbon dipped low and took Ginyu to the tile. Zarbon mounted quick and started throwing strikes at Ginyu's guard. Yellow streams of light pulsed through the veins in The Captain's neck and he opened his maw wide. Zarbon dodged preemptively to his left and Ginyu fired a blast at the ceiling.

Kuh-KOOFF!

Zarbon looked to punish the attempted attack with a low drive-by punch but Ginyu brought in his body tight and weaved the strike in a back handspring. He wiped his lip again with his thumb and smiled.

The braided man scoffed at Ginyu and pushed his braid back before taking his low stance again.

The pair circled around the room and Frieza stepped back further into the room, tongue in cheek as he watched on.

"Hmm…"

There was a stillness before Zarbon blasted a blindingly fast projectile at The Captain. He tucked his thumb in and grabbed his right shoulder with his left hand as he fired it. Ginyu ducked the beam by dropping into a pushup. Zarbon rushed him intensely to follow up. Ginyu pushed up hard from the position and clapped loudly as he went. The Captain leaned back and threw a snappy left kick once he reached standing height.

The strange timing and strike caught Zarbon in the mouth. He reeled back less in pain and more in shock, grabbing at his mouth.

"Did I chip a tooth?" He pondered. "You degenerate!" He screamed.

Ginyu attempted to rush his foe after the kick but only met a mean counter-hit right from Zarbon, throwing him all the way back into the wall.

WHOKK! THUM!

"Disgusting creatures like you don't get to harm me!"

KONGG!

Zarbon's fist tore clean through the metal wall as Ginyu weaved out of the way.

Eaaaaaack!

"Hmph." He blew out a small gust of wind to move a loose green hair strand.

"Recoome!" Ginyu yelled as he pranced around the room with pizzazz.

"Mmm?"

"Should I just beat the dog out of him?"

"Your call, Captain. Though I know I wouldn't want this green skinned poser ordering me around."

"That's what I was thinking." He replied with a smile.

"Take me seriously!" Zarbon cried out, slamming his fists on his chest.

"You got it!" The Captain yelled back, sprinting to Zarbon's location.

Ginyu spun around in a twisting twirl like a ballerina before slamming his right leg into Zarbon's guard.

Swuwuwuwuwu-THONK!

"Grr…" He let out as he blocked it.

As Ginyu's foot landed on the floor he took a karate kata pose with his right arm extended out and towards the ground in a knife hand while his left arm stayed tucked by his side. He exhaled in a war cry and stomped as he took the kata pose.

"Whoo!"

Ginyu unleashed a chamber punch with his left and it blew Zarbon back. Recoome and Guldo dipped out of the way as the green man came into contact with the wall. Cui whistled at the ordeal.

THUM! Skweeeeeeeeeeeeee! TOPP!

"Quiet, rat." Zarbon commanded as he brushed more green hair strands out of the way.

"Galaxy Dynamite!" Ginyu roared as he took another pose. He stuck both his arms out and with his fists balled up. They were parallel with his knuckles facing the ceiling and floor. Ginyu then took a low pose like a football player and sprinted at Zarbon.

Sparkles of little galaxies twinkled off of Ginyu's hands as he threw tons and tons of punches.

The rapid fire attack was too much and forced Zarbon on the backpedal, Ginyu walked him to the wall for pressure. The snaps of his fists making contact with Zarbon were so intense it sounded like machine gun fire.

Zarbon's brow turned down sharply and his veins as well as little blemishes rose to the surface. Ginyu unleashed his barrage but Zarbon held the line and started expanding in height and weight.

Tututututututututtutututututututututu!

Ginyu shoved as many punches as he could into Zarbon's form but he was smacked away by his large hand. The Captain slid along the tile before catching himself in a pushup position.

"Hup!" Ginyu popped up and hit the pose from before the fight began with his jazz hand ringing out in a taunt.

"You made me take on this disgusting form. Now you're gonna pay." Zarbon's voice was otherworldly and intimidated Cui, who backed up a bit.

Zarbon pointed at Ginyu and then made the same motion he did about Jeice earlier. Ginyu smiled at the threat.

The thick green man took heavy stomps at Ginyu and shook the room as he went. He swung wide and fast but The Captain ducked adpetly and manuevered through his adversary's legs in a pushup position again.

Zarbon stepped harshly and leaped at Ginyu with his back turned before jamming an elbow at The Captain's head.

DOMMM!

"Gah!" Ginyu let out involuntarily.

Zarbon shifted his stance, turning around quickly and palmed the back of his foe's head with his left hand. He took a fierce step forward and smashed Ginyu's face into the floor, a dull thud ringing out with tiles flying everywhere. But Zarbon wasn't done, after the attack he winded back his left arm and looked to chop at Ginyu's neck.

Ginyu reacted quickly and shot a firm gust of Kiai at Zarbon's chest, causing him to slide across the floor.

"Strong Jersey!" He exclaimed as he hopped to his feet.

The Captain sped across the room and jammed his left elbow into the face of his foe. Zarbon got knocked through a loop and onto the tile in a thud. The green beast cursed loudly and brought up his hand to blast, yellow streams filing into his palm.

Ginyu responded in kind and shouted loudly as he prepared his own attack. He stood proudly with his right arm extended outwards towards the green monster.

"Milky Cannon!"

Ginyu fired his purple ray of energy and it clashed with Zarbon's hulking blast of yellow plasma. The struggle caused winds to kick up in the command centre. Cui shielded his eyes from the intense lightshow.

BWuwuwuwuwuwwuwuwuwuwuwuwwuw~ZHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh

Zarbon tightened his stance, standing up and supporting his firing hand with his off hand. Grabbing tightly to his right shoulder.

Ginyu only took his drama theatre posing to the next level and neglected to look at the beam struggle. Closing his eyes and shifting his head to the sky.

"YOU'LL REGRET CHALLENGING ME GINYU!" He roared out before blasting an intense wave into the clash, Zarbon almost fell over at his own power.

The clash zoomed in favour of Zarbon and the yellow aura engulfed everything in the room in a flashbang.

ZVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

The dust settled and Zarbon looked on in awe at Ginyu's dumb pose. He spread his legs wide and looked back through the gap.

Zarbon's will was crushed and he reverted to his normal state. Ginyu cracked his neck and tore off the beat up Cold Estate uniform. His skintight black bodysuit showed off his physique very well and The Captain rotated his shoulders with a pained look.

"Gotta long way to go. I'm not handing this squad over to anyone." Ginyu lashed back with a shit-eating grin.

Zarbon's eyes were glazed over in bewilderment.

"Ginyu. A word." He waved him in with his right hand.

"Of course Lord Frieza."

Bardock

"Sor areya' gonna git in hea or whut?"

"Hmph." Bardock replied with a grunt, stepping on to the drop down platform.

His steps made small clangs as Turles waved him into the bay. The platform began rising and clamped over the ship.

"Jus so wea' on tha levul. Wea' pretty generous blokes lettin' ya fahther in on this operation."

"I'm aware." Turles shot back with crossed arms, leaning against a far wall.

"Haven't seen you in action Bahdock. You any good?"

"Pretty good."

"Bahta, getta loada' Bahdock. He claims 11 thou is pretty good."

"Hehehehehe!" Burter chuckled out in a taunting cackle, the type that's absolutely hilarious if its not at your expense and just the opposite if it is.

Bardock rolled his eyes and looked out the window of the ship. Recoome stepped in front of the Saiyan father and commanded his attention.

"If they're messing around with you, that just means they like you." The big guy placed a firm palm on Bardock's shoulder.

"Whatever." He brushed it off with ease and Recoome took a neutral pose in the corner.

"Burter!"

"Yess Cap!?" He hit a salute immediately.

"Pilot seat, green lights!"

"Yess ssir!"

"We bringing Bardock?" Ginyu looked to Turles pretty seriously.

Turles just kept quiet and nodded.

"Welp. We heard from Cui that even the bitch-made creatures on Dark Star are at least 40,000. Stay in the ship when we land, got it?"

Bardock stared into the hangar from the window. Cui gave a thumbs up and the shutter doors lifted. The little ship floated up and blasted out blue flames from the rear. The ship took off and Bardock watched as the scenery quickly changed from metallic roofing to starry constellations.

Ginyu

"So uhh… How do we plant this thing, Turles?" Ginyu asked plainly as he rubbed his bald veiny head.

"I never saw it in action, just the aftermath." The Saiyan replied, patting the soil over the seed.

"Water." He requested.

Jeice threw a bottle over to Turles. Burter caught it mid way and laughed before handing it off. Turles snatched the metal container and cracked it open.

"Feissssty. Huh Jeice?"

"You got that roite. Sheesh."

"Look alive."

"YES SIR!" The whole crew boomed out quickly scanning the environment.

The area was completely pitch black other than the flashlights from their scouters. The crew huddled together and surrounded the Saiyan in a tight formation.

"What is it?" Turles questioned loudly.

"Cui never mentioned how dark the planet was, Captain. Do you think he explored much of it?"

"Well Recoome, he said he barely made it out with his life. Now Cui's pretty damn strong so we'd best keep our guard up."

"Of course."

At Recoome's response the lights from their scouters dimmed and seemed to drag off in beams.

"Whaaaaaaaahhhhht?"

"GULDO! TELEPATHIC SCAN, NOW!"

The crew grew deathly silent after their Captain's command. They bundled together closely.

"Recoome, Green Sentinel!"

"Yes sir." Recoome responded with confidence.

The crew was blessed to have someone like Guldo who could scan enemies without the need for a scouter. The Telepathic Sensory Link Field or TSLF was Guldo's ultimate maneuver. He shared x-ray vision with those around him at the cost of not allowing him to move as long as he maintained focus.

Ginyu looked out into the black abyss and saw over 10 massive shapes surrounding them.

"Thesssse hoessss are big Cap'."

"Nor kidding!"

Recoome stood guard over Guldo. His massive stature allowed Guldo to fit in between his stance. The ground cracked lightly underneath them as a little leaf of might sprouted.

"Alright. I'm on Recoome's back. Purple Comet in sequence!"

"Roight!"

Jeice closed his eyes and took a dramatic pose with his right hand hoisted proudly above his head and his left hand in between his legs. Pink energy gathered in his hands before it was pulled away.

The energy lit up the area very slightly and the crew could see the massive green abominations with bulging yellow eyes and white horns.

"Whaht tha fahk?"

"They eat light sources! Don't use your ki in beams!"

"YES SIR!"

"On me! Purple Galaxy!"

"Yes(sir)ssir!" Burter and Jeice yelled out.

Jeice grabbed onto The Captain's back and the trio dashed at two of the beasts nearest the ship. Jeice focused his energy and watched it pour into Ginyu via the TSFL. Ginyu broke free from the grasp and launched at one of the creatures with Burter. Burter zoomed around the room with blinding speed and shoulder tackled the gut of one of the monsters.

ZYuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuw! THOM!

"SCREEEYAAAAAHHH!" It wailed in pain.

Ginyu put the beast out of its misery with a devastating combination of punches that tore it to pieces.

Datatatatatatatatatata-DAH!

Three monstrosities pulled up on Recoome but he took a low stance as one of them swiped its meaty claw. Recoome backstepped and caught the claw mid-way, snapping it off and causing a horrible screech to ring out through the darkness. He launched an epic knee strike at the now one armed beast, folding it over. Following through, Recoome grappled onto the beast's head and used its body like a baseball bat. He slammed the large creature into the other beasts with great force.

DONGG!

A clang clanged out through the darkness as one of the creatures was thrown into the ship by Recoome's 'weapon'. The tall man then ripped off the head of his 'weapon' for good measure.

The ground cracked again and the sprout sprouted up more.

"Dah-dah-dah!" Ginyu shouted in a war cry, demolishing one of the creatures in a three piece of straights.

Burter lit up one of the beasts with an unfollowable amount of kicks.

Tututututututututututututututututututtutut!

The creature was stuck in the loop of punishment until Jeice spoke up.

"Recoome! Red Comet!"

Recoome got in his low stance again, catching the small red comrade and spinning him around in a dramatic display. The burly goliath launched Jeice like a rocket at Burter's location. The blue blur blurred out of the way just in time for Jeice to cave the beast's head in with a flying left roundhouse.

"Strong Jersey!" The Captain shouted as he tackled one of the large unknowns into Recoome.

Recoome met the big body with a lunging and springing right uppercut.

WHOKK!

The insane force generated by the attack tore the beast's head off easily.

Bardock looked on from inside the ship.

"200,000? How did these guys even get this strong? The King isn't even a tenth of Recoome's power, forget Ginyu's. And these guys pale in comparison to Lord Frieza, it doesn't make any sense. Those guys would kill me in a second, I have a long way to go."

The ground crackled again, large tears forming in the ground.

"Holy shit…" Guldo's mind panged out to the rest of the squad.

"Wot issit Guldo?"

"The tree roots already go down for like a mile, and we've only been here for 2 minutes tops."

"That's insaoine! Bahtah!"

Burter linked up with Jeice on his call and they hit a lightning quick combination. The blue blur tron lined over to the beast, lit it up with kicks before sending it over to Jeice who hit a right knee lift that sent it skyward. Burter positioned for the set up and pummeled the beast all the way down to the ground with thousands of punches.

"I'm the fasstesst in the universsse!"

Ratatatatatattatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata! DOMM!

"Recoome!" Jeice lifted the beat up behemoth and lobbed it over to his large comrade.

He responded in kind and ran right through it with his right knee, splattering fluids all over the darkness.

"DAH!" The Captain cried out as a squelching noise echoed through the dark.

Bardock's voice projected out into the environment through the comms:

"The ship detects more lifeforms coming our way. There's a big one, we're looking at over 130,000."

"Alroight! I was wonderin' when we would finally get a challenge!"

"We're in business, boys!" Turles shouted with infectious ferocity.

More cracks penetrated the ground as a stampede of footsteps thundered from far away, causing minor vibrations to roll over to the group.

"I don't know how long we're gonna have to hold out! Keep your guard up!"

Turles

"Masks."

"YES SIR!" The crew responded in kind as they put on gas masks.

The deep breaths of the force fogged up the glassy screen's of their sophisticated mask devices. They had the same design philosophy as the scouters and had buttons on the side.

"I'm going to be honest, I really didn't expect them to be this big."

"This one's smaller than the one on Acrose by a fair bit."

"Real Ssssshit?"

"Mhmm." Turles responded plainly. "Though it's probably because this planet was a shit hole. Acrose was supposed to be a lush forested biome, Frieza was gonna sell that hoe.."

"So the planet's ecosystem determines the power of the fruits?"

"I hope not, Recoome, I'd like for these fruits to get me to your level quickly."

"You got a long wayssss to go."

"Don't remind me."

The group of 6 rose high into the air and above the skyline of Dark Star. The black foggy mist lifted and they saw two large yellow moons in the sky.

"Shit!" Turles exclaimed, shielding his eyes from the sight. "Now's a bad time."

Recoome got in front of Turles and stood proudly.

"Turles and I will wait here."

"Tch! It's my fucking fruit numbskull, I deserve first picks!"

"Then call out your picks from here."

"No thanks." He replied in a biting manner, brushing harshly against the big man's large pauldrons.

"That wasn't a suggestion." Recoome stated as he grappled Turles ankle with a firm grip. "We work as a team, form breakdown is no good. You don't keep your place without cooperation."

"Tch." He scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"There'ss like only 6 of them!"

"What?" Turles responded in distress.

"We got a lot of sseedss, but not many fruitss!"

"It looks loike Recoome's hypothesis was correct." He shouted, throwing a fruit at Turles.

The young Saiyan palmed it with ease and tucked it in his armour pocket.

"Three for us and three for Turles." Captain Ginyu stated loudly as he rounded up the rest of the fruits.

Turles was taken aback.

Turles simply did not come to expect any fairness while under the reign of Frieza and the rigorous cutthroat environment the Cold Estate had offered his 30 years of life. In one moment his opinion of Ginyu shifted dramatically.

"What's that look for Turlie?" He asked with a grin as he threw the two other fruits at the Saiyan.

"Heh. Nothing you'd need to be concerned about, Captain."

"WHOA EYYY!" Burter and Jeice shouted at the top of their lungs.

"You said that like it matta'd!" Jeice rang out with a laugh.

"Ssay it with your chesst again Turless." Burter prodded, poking Turles' armour.

"Shut the fuck up, you guys are so annoying." The bite it would have had was taken away completely by the laughs he let out as he said it.

"How do we split it up, Captain?" Recoome asked plainly as they floated back to the ship.

"I'm thinking halfsies for everyone is fair. And then there's a half leftover cause of the five of us. Turles can give his father whatever he desires from the three he has and we all play a game for the last half."

"Alroight! We playin' Uno again?"

"You boutta get ssmacked by my pluss fourss again Cap'."

"That's a negative Burter, I'm going to skip your turn every time."

"Tch-heh-heh." Turles scoffed out more laughs as the group stole them.

"Can't sskip my turn if I make sure to ssit opposite you."

"Uhm… Uh… ligmy balls."

Burter fell over like a log, dramatically after the statement. Jeice caught him in the freefall.

"Oi can't believe you'd just do em' loike that, Cap'n!"

The crew burst out in a fit of laughter, meandering back to the ship like a couple of goons. Turles looked on with some intrigue.

"Hmph." He huffed out with angst. "This isn't as awful as I thought it was gonna be at least."

The door of the ship folded open and the 6 of them piled on with heavy steps, the metal clanging in response. As Turles stepped onto the ship he felt the earth beneath him crumble away.

"It's starting." He stated loudly.

Bardock tapped onto the controls with precision and the small ship lifted with ease. The door started reeling in slowly and Turles watched as the planet started falling in on itself more and more. The ship hatch closed and the crew looked out onto the planet from the windows.

"Bardock! Park us up top! I wanna see the aftermath!"

"Whatever floats your boat, Captain." There was a little bit of sass and bite.

The tree's grasp on Dark Star tightened as the vehicle parked in the air. The crew all watched as the planet folded in and was crushed in a vice grip by The Tree of Might.

"Croikey! It's loike The Tree of Moight is jahst a big hand! Snatched that planet's weave loike it was nuthin'."

The debris floated by the ship and the gigantic tree floated off into the aether of stars and galatical colours.

Krillin

Fwu-fwu-FUU!

Krillin and Yamcha flew around the pool at great speeds. Wind rolled off of their bodies and caused ripples in the water as they went.

"Nice! Now you're getting it!"

Krillin rose in the air sharply and Yamcha's wide roundhouse missed. He splashed into the water and crouched. The Wolf launched high into the air and threw a haymaker of a left hand at Krillin. The turtle hermit student careened through the waterfall in the back, making a large thud.

"AIIIIIIEEEE!"

WHOK! Zoooooooooooo~ FLUOSH! Da-DMM!

Yamcha flew off in pursuit of his target but was waylaid by Krillin as he backflipped through the waterfall kicking at the top of his head. The Wolf plummeted down into the water and a gigantic spout lashed up to the surface and spilled onto the grass. Yamcha struggled to stand before Krillin landed next to him and offered his right hand. Yamcha pushed back his wetted hair and grabbed hold.

"You're doing much better."

"Heh. Yeah I am." He replied pompously while standing.

"Impressive, Wolf. You finally got the hang of it."

"Yeah, I can finally beat the breaks off of you without you having to run away into the air."

"Now we both know I don't need to do that." Tien lashed back with a smirk and crossed arms.

"Come and eat, guys! Food's waiting for you!" Launch yelled daintily from across the courtyard.

"Thank god, I'm starving." Tien proclaimed, stealing a kiss from Launch in a drive-by motion.

Krillin meandered over to a group of white cloths and tossed one over to his friend. Yamcha rolled his shoulders, caught the towel, and then wiped off his chest and face with it.

"I made sure to make a lot, I know you guys always get so hungry."

"Goku would devour all of this in seconds." Krillin reminisced as he sat at the table, he looked to the sky longingly.

Chiaotzu laid the table and floated over napkins to his guests.

"Thank you." Tien shot out loudly as he snatched one.

Krillin bowed both to Launch and Chiaotzu with his hands clasped.

"This shit look good." Is all Yamcha could say before the napkin sat down in front of him.

"Well we've pretty much finished Yamcha's flight training…" Tien chewed his food and swallowed. "So do you think you can leave the castle unattended for a while?"

Tien looked with some seriousness at Chiaotzu who shot back with some mysticism.

"Well you're not making it easy on me, there's no time frame I have to hold on to so it would just be training for training's sake. No disrespect of course but this empire is much more my responsibility than my martial arts training."

Yamcha just dug in and scarfed down some food while Krillin looked to be deep in thought.

"Yeah I understand that but…"

"But what?"

"It's just that-"

Krillin interjected with some presence.

"What if we made a schedule? You come train with us on some days of the week and then you have a majority of your time dedicated to watching over the empire."

"I think I can do that."

Krillin scooted out his chair and ran across the grass to proposition for a handshake agreement. Chiaotzu accepted.

Tien

"Wow so youa' leavin' me again so soon, Sweetheart!? I should be beatin' the breaks offa' ya!" The bushy blonde woman gave Tien a flick on the cheek.

"Ha-ha. Like you could." Tien laughed back loudly.

"Youa' so stupid I oughta kiss ya."

"Nah, me first."

The two embraced as Yamcha looked back. Krillin started his rise up the tower with Chiaotzu following in pursuit. Yamcha leaped from hold to hold quickly.

"So we spent all that time teaching you and you're not gonna fly."

"I'll only use it if I need it." He shot back. "I need to practice my lunges." The Wolf pounced around up the tower before breaking off one of the pieces and falling down harshly.

"WHoooooooooooooa~"

Fwuuuu~

He caught the wind gracefully and touched down on the grass. Yamcha got up and dusted himself off.

"That could have been worse I guess."

"I gotta go."

Launch pecked him on the cheek and Tien pulled away with a smile on his face. The Crane rose into the air with great speed, catching up to Krillin and Chiaotzu easily.

"What the hell is Yamcha doing?"

Chiaotzu just shrugged and floated around in teardrop movements.

After a while the trio flew in through the pillars and touched down. The fountain in the middle trickling water quietly.

"So, are you boys here for more training or what?"

Tien nodded and Krillin walked forward.

"What else do you have to teach us, Korin?"

Korin thought to himself for a moment. Placing his finger on his face and strutting around the room.

"Neither you, Chaiotzu, or that fool climbing the tower know how to sense for ki. I can tell that much. We'll start from there and see how it goes."

Krillin fist pumped and looked to Chiaotzu and Tien with reassurance. Yamcha leaped over the railing and landed in a dominating display.

"What did I miss?"

"Nothing." Korin responded calmly as he paced over to some brown jugs.

"Well, I've only really got one way to teach you all, and that's-"

Hundreds of white cats spawned in the wake of Korin's speed.

"-to see if you can sniff me out using your energy. Do you have what it takes?"

"Easy!" Yamcha scoffed, his nose perked up and he began sniffing around the room like a dog.

One of the cats jumped up and bonked Yamcha on the head.

"If you don't use your ki to sense for me the trainings useless!"

"Alright, chill! My bad!" Yamcha yelled back as he rubbed the injury.

Korin smiled a bit before jumping back into the white crowd of cats.

"I know it's hard to hear coming from me but…" Tien stated. "Try to think of it as your third eye. Like a whole new field of vision you haven't considered before. I came to my conclusion through hard meditation."

Tien closed his bottom two and scanned the room with his third. The real Korin locked eyes with the crane student and they both smiled.

Yamcha

"Damn, I can't believe we spent a whole day goofin' around up there."

"I wouldn't necessarily call it goofing." Krillin shot back as he fluffed a pillow.

"Keep it down willya? I'm tryin' to sleep over here!"

"Sorry Yajirobe." Krillin spoke plainly.

Tien practiced crane strike kata in the dull yellow moonlight, the sharp winds playing out over his hands. Krillin threw down the pillow and plopped down into the makeshift sleeping arrangement on the floor. Yamcha grabbed some water from a jug with a brown cup and walked over to Tien.

"What's up?" He asked as he kept jabbing the air.

"Nothin', I just like lookin' at the moon."

"Ha-ha. Be careful, don't want you transforming into some giant wolf or something."

"IT'S TRUE!" Yamcha shot back as he laughed.

"Suuuure."

"Goku really does turn into a giant fuckin' ape under the full moon."

"Whatever you say."

"Bulma, Puar, Oolong, Master Roshi, aaand Krillin can back me up on this."

"I'll believe it when I see it, Yamcha."

"You think that's any more absurd than some white cat zooming around and beating our asses?"

"He beat you and Krillin's, not mine."

"Ahh." Yamcha just scoffed as Tien let out taunting laughs.

There was a long silence as The Wolf took slow sips from his water and The Crane practiced his form in the night. Tien broke the silence.

"You've got a long way to go, but you're catching up fast."

"You guys also improve as I do, so you're gonna maintain that lead the whole time."

"I intend to best Goku, Yamcha, I'm not slowing down for you even if you might be feeling sorry for yourself."

Yamcha averted his gaze and stared back at the moon.

"Heeehhhhhh…" He breathed out in a sigh. "I didn't mean any disrespect by it."

"I know."