The power of these fighters was enormous, for she could feel them even on the other side of the planet as they were. The power of Shenron, the eternal dragon and her father, was palpable as well from this distance, as was the secondary mark of another unknown wish dragon. These fighters had been resurrected by magical means, her own males bore the same stigma, though only a magical being could sense it. Her face went pale with fury as the thought of her own father helping her hunters crossed her mind, and a low and intense growl began in her throat.
She had a creeping suspicion that 'divine' intervention had set these men on her trail, why else would she conveniently run into these new pursuers? She supposed the Kai's had not taken kindly to her 'robbing the grave' so to speak, and bringing these males back into the universe straight from their own basement. She eyed the men in question, and they were in quite a questionable position to be sure. All but cell were pale and surly, hardly recovered from their ordeal with the 'berries' they had consumed.
All this ran through Ices' mind in an instant as she assessed the situation. The fighters were already honed in on their location and moving quickly towards them and quite suddenly the dragoness found herself becoming protective of the weakened men.
As the energies came closer Cell straightened from his position against a nearby tree. He smirked to himself as he felt the familiar presences of Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo closing in on them. Formidable as they were, he had improved a bit himself. Ices looked to cell and then the others, though they were immortal that did not mean that they were unbeatable, it was a very real possibility that they would be taken and imprisoned once again. That rankled inside of the dragoness. She felt a fierce sort of possessiveness over the lives of these creatures that had forced themselves upon her, and wanted nothing of that fate for them.
She closed her eyes and reached within herself. In this form she was not powerful. This form was meant as camouflage, and while she was loath to discard it for fear of being detected by more pursuers... she could not distract these fighters long enough without the power boost. Within minutes three figures landed before them. Ices latched onto the power within herself and paused. She unfurled her wings and regarded her newest adversaries coldly.
The man who stood out the most had messy, black spiked hair, and a serious set to his features. His glare was not directed at her, but rather at Cell. The other man's hair seemed to defy gravity by standing straight up. His fearsome expression was trained solely on her with a bit of calculating behind those black orbs. Her eyes found the last fighter and her heart caught a bit as she recognized Piccolo. Her cold features morphed into an intimidating scowl and a growl left her throat.
There seemed to be a stalemate for a few moments, where Cell seemed to be sizing the trio up, while the trio seemed to be doing the same to their own troop. Suddenly the two black-haired men exploded with power, their hair turned yellow and both now sported piercing blue eyes. Frieza and his father moaned something imperceptible as they finally took note of the damnable saians.
As soon as the men went super saiain Cell was upon all three of them. He held his own fairly well, though Piccolo seemed to be staying out of it. He, instead, was watching her with a bit of a knowing smirk. She growled loudly at him, he was as much of an ass as ever.
"Leave." She snarled, the feeling of betrayal creeping into her soul and clouding her energies. Piccolo had been her friend and confidant once upon a time, when he was a different person, before his lighter half, Kami, had formed a bond with her father and created the dragon balls.
"Good to see you, too, Ices." He smirked, "The way Goku kept going on about it you'd think we were facing an all powerful being." It was a taunt, but not a very good one. His face seemed to sober up, "it seems you haven't changed much." He was referring to her frolicking in the nude, she knew, but did not dignify him with a response. Nudity was natural, it was he who was being unnatural by hiding it.
Cell hit the ground not too far from her and did not get to his feet immediately. She hadn't though he'd be able to hold them off too long, but his stubborn pride would not have allowed for an immediate retreat. She did not know whether or not he would agree to her plan at all.
"One called Cell." She said loudly, drawing the attention of the two men. Goku's cheeks heated up a little as he realized there was a naked woman standing down below them and he turned to ask Vegeta if she had been there the whole time. "I am counting on you to get our allies transported. Once it is safe I shall follow you, but in their current condition there is no chance of victory." She thought over her next words carefully and could hardly believe she was going to utter them. "Should you choose to transport them, I would be in your debt."
The android had seemed as if he would refuse, as that sounded too much like a retreat, then paused as he thought of all the dark things that had crossed his mind lately regarding the dragoness, and all the things he could do to something that healed as soon as it was injured. The more he thought about it the more the action appealed to him as a tactical retreat, and not cowardice.
Beside the dragoness the rift opened. Flames went on as far as the eye could see.
"The first opening on the left is standing ajar for you. I shall be with you shortly." Ices closed her eyes once more and grasped within herself the tendrils that held her power in check. Quickly she envisioned herself snapping the constraints on her power and opened glowing violet eyes as her form began to shift.
"As if we'd let them leave." Vegeta tsked as he charged towards the men, having disregarded the girl as a threat. Besides, he wasn't allowed to kill her, Goku had already made it perfectly clear that she was to remain alive...and he was ok with that, as he was hoping to get a wish out of her himself. Suddenly a large blue wall of scales plummeted into him, the surprise more than the force knocked him off his course and he cursed as he saw that the girl was no longer a girl.
The dragoness snarled at the fighters as she looped her long snakelike body around and landed easily on the ground once more. She imposed herself between the portal and these powerful men and dared them to challenge her claim. Goku looked conflicted while Vegeta, ever impatient, swooped in to sweep her aside. The dragoness inhaled deeply and spouted flames to deter him. He tried to block them at first, not concerned, but once he felt the bite of them veered off track and landed on the other side of the small river the villains had been bathing in before.
"You don't have to protect them." Goku said forcefully as his eyes pleaded with her to reconsider. She bristled and mantled her wings and tail, giving him a defiant roar as answer before spouting more flames directly onto the river. An instant cloud of thick steam rose up. Vegeta backed away from the hot vapor, his already sensitive blistered skin reacting strongly to the intangible force.
Goku and Piccolo braved the steam only to find the dragoness and her portal had already disappeared.