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A Father's Fate
The Story of Bardock
A gold blur and a pink blur happened across the horizon. The two dots closed distance on each other. The pink one was knocked back away before returning and slamming into the gold. Bardock watched in awe, realizing that it was beyond atmospheric events. The Saiyan took to the air and rushed towards the lights.
As he neared, he saw silhouettes inside the colors. The auras, as they turned out to be, grew in size, the force of which tore apart nearby islands and sent the green water backwards. Bardock came as close as he dared, finally able to see the faces of the fighters. The one manifesting the pink aura appeared to be someone like Frieza, except was mostly all white and wore no armor.
The second warrior was a man, his face so familiar to Bardock, but nothing he could place. The man's hair stood up on end, and was twisted slightly and golden in color. His eyebrows were also golden and his pupils were turquoise. The man's orange pants whipped in his own wind, creating a loud flapping sound.
"So, Mr. Super Saiyan, you think you can stand up to the might of Frieza? I am destroyer of planets, taker of lives! What are you?"
The man smirked, looking at Frieza without blinking or seemingly breathing. After a tense second he finally spoke up. "You can destroy planets, but you can never destroy what I am. I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent, I am the light in the darkness. I am truth," the golden man said. "Ally to good, nightmare to you!" he finished dramatically, sending wind slashing outward.
Even though Bardock couldn't sense power, he knew that the power of Frieza was over five hundred thousand, and now he was changed. But the other man was what intrigued Bardock far more. He was strong enough to put fear into Frieza, to fight with him and not perish within seconds. A Super Saiyan? No way!
As Bardock gaped at the Saiyan, it slowly came to him. Is...is this my son? Kakarrotto. This is a lot to understand. After a few seconds of putting it all together in his head, Kakarrotto raised his hand and fired an unseen blast at Frieza. Watching Frieza hurtle away, Bardock smiled.
Kakarrotto turned towards Bardock, as if he actually saw him. Bardock had chills rack his spine as he stared into the eyes of his son. Kakarrotto's aura whipped around, buffeting Bardock with wind he swore he felt.
"It's time for you to leave, Father," Kakarrotto said, raising his hand towards the older Saiyan. Before Bardock could argue, he felt a force push him backwards. As he opened his eyes, he realized he was in the ships kitchen at a table. He looked around and saw huge gashes in the floor.
"That blast was real? It actually hit me?" the Saiyan asked himself.
"Did you say something Bardock?" Borgos asked as he passed the room.
"No," Bardock said, standing up. He nodded towards Borgos and left the room. As he entered his room, ideas of what he just witnessed flashed through his mind. Meditation would be nice.
"Lord, your brother has sent you a transmission. He has labeled it private," a green man said. His head seemed to stop far before it should, making the scouter on his face seem more than it was.
"Ha, that buffoon. Play it on the main screen," the voice responded from a small hovering throne. After a small delay, an image appeared on the large screen at one end of the room.
"Brother, I know we hate each other, but do me this favor. If you come across any Saiyans, take them out. These monkeys have been working on some sort of rebellion. I want to show them that we aren't to be taken lightly," Frieza's image on the screen said.
"In my quadrant, I am unopposed. I won't go out of my way to stop a rebellion that a fool like Frieza can't stop. More for Father and I!"
"Milord, your brother responds!" a henchman in battle armor said.
"Put it on then!" Frieza snapped. The expected delay came and passed, revealing a tall man who looked like he had built in armor on his body.
"Cooler, what is it?" Frieza asked anxiously.
"Take care of your own business. Unopposed is the way we rule. Take care of your own rebellion, or I will take care of it for you, and your quadrant altogether," the man known as Cooler said.
"Oh, brother. I thought you would have given up on your child like grudge. Well, maybe next time we fight you won't cry!" Frieza shouted, turning off the screen. "He's right. Head to the suspected rebellious planets. I think its time to show what these fools are dealing with."
"Well, we did it. Our 'training room' is now about five time stronger than before. And the added bonus of thickness also means our power will be a lot harder to detect," Toma said, walking into the bride.
"We actually found a solution to that. The static field we generate to jam communications seems to also stop detectors," Chloe said.
"So, we can go all out?"
"No, probably not. The bouncing of energy and high powered hits to the hull will probably shake loose something important,"
"Toma, come here. Go into the training room. I have a way we all can spar all out," Toi said, walking onto the bridge.
"That may satiate our urge to fight, but will it increase our strength? The bigger picture is to be able to fight Frieza,"
"Hm, I suppose you're right. Well, we can at least test our development. Toma, I would like the opportunity to fight you some time,"
"Any time, any time,"
"I just got transmission from Jorbei. She is on Kanassa now. We're about fifteen minutes out," Chloe said.
"Good! I can't wait to have everyone here. It just feels safer," Chuu said.
As the time ticked away, the craft landed on the broken planet. Jorbei and Jubei waited at the ramp of the ship as the doors opened.
After a quick recap on everything that went on, the Saiyans walked back into the ship, talking about planets that the inmates went to and their importance.
"Bardock! I have something for you," Matra's voice came from the hallway. Bardock stood up from his bunk and opened the door.
"What is it?"
"Come to the training room." Matra said, walking towards the end of the ship. Bardock nodded and followed her. As they arrived, Matra ran up to a box and pulled on a few things until they came out of the box. She walked up to Bardock and pulled his arm out. Holding the thing onto his arm, she tied it off.
Immediately Bardock's arm drooped towards the ground. Matra repeated the procedure on his other arm, and one on each leg. Bardock looked on questioningly as Matra equipped these things on herself.
"I took you're advice. With these weights on our bodies, we will be slowed down of course. But once we get used to this and reclaim our normal speed, we will have actually increased in strength and speed greatly. It's a really good idea," Matra said, looking quite proud.
"Where did you get all this stuff?"
"While you were out having fun, we all went and got supplies and these were all that were on my mind. I needed a little help from Michuu, but it seemed to work out nicely,"
"It seems so. Want a little spar to break it in?"
"You read my mind!" As soon as she spoke, she attempted to jump backwards, managing to get a few inches off the ground. Growling, she slid into a fighter's stance. Bardock stepped into his own stance, arms slightly lower than normal.
After only a few second's delay, the two warriors rushed forward. Bardock led with an arm forward. Matra ran in and threw a punch at Bardock's face. Bardock shoved her arm to the outside with his leading arm and slammed a fist into Matra's gut, sending her backwards a few feet.
Matra powered up to her maximum, severely diminished by the dense metal on her limbs. Bardock followed suit, an aura appearing about him. Matra smiled slightly as sweat dripped down the side of her face.
Bardock jumped up, over Matra's upside down. He hung over her head for a second before punching downwards. Matra blocked the attack with both arms, sending pain in waves down them. Bardock held his fist near Matra's arms for a second before grabbing her closest arm and spinning her and letting go.
As the female Saiyan slammed into the dense wall, she made a dent in it. As her form fell from the wall, Bardock landed nearby with his hand extended. Matra took it and pulled herself up. After a quick breather, the two warriors began again.
"Sir, we are in orbit," a henchman in a white helmet said. Around the bridge of a saucer shaped ship, several men were escorted into the bridge.
"So, you know of a rebellion?" Frieza asked from his floating throne.
"Yes sir, we thought to inform you as soon as we had their locations. Do you wish to hear them, lord?" one of the escorted men said.
"No," Frieza said, leaving the ship through a hatch on the top. Everyone in the room watched as Frieza hovered in front of the ship. After a few seconds, a giant orange energy ball appeared above Frieza.
"What's he doing!" one of the men screamed, running forward, only to be caught immediately.
"No rebellions, ever," one of the escorts said. The giant orb of energy raced forward, colliding with the planet's atmosphere, sending visible ripples around the planet. As the sphere moved closer, the atmosphere began to dissipate and boil away. The oceans and lakes also began boiling and evaporating into quickly disappearing clouds. As the ball touched the surface of the planet, cracks were sent around the planet, visible from space.
The energy blast worked deeper, making the cracks into huge canyons, finally splintering the planet into thousands of molten pieces. Buildings and other debris began melting into floating brown pools that loomed where the planet used to be.
Frieza reentered the ship and floated near the men that had sentenced their own planet to a fiery fate. "So, how does it feel? Working for me has given you more honor than you ever could have attained on that planet," Frieza said, stepping out of his small craft.
"You slime!" a man said, rushing Frieza. The tyrant smiled, letting the man hit him directly in the face. As the attacker felt his hand hit, he watched as Frieza didn't flinch. Looking on, Frieza wrapped his tail around the taller man's throat. As he watched him drift away slowly, Frieza reached over and pulled the man's arm completely off.
Waking from near death, the hapless fighter screamed, tears streaming his face. "Lock him up. I like his spirit," Frieza ordered. The rest of the escorted men stood up, ready to fight. Frieza smirked, pointing his finger at each one of the guys, firing a beam through each of their hearts.
"Toss them into space. Find the next planet that seems rebellious,"
"Bardock!" Chuu shouted, looking around frantically.
"What?" the Saiyan said, walking into the bridge.
"Frieza! He is destroying everything!"
"What are you talking?"
"He is destroying every planet that even has thoughts of rebellions it seems. So far he has destroyed three planets. The death toll has got to be in the billions!" Chichumi said.
"What? No way!" the Saiyan blurted out.
"It gets worse, he is interrogating people first, so he can learn exact locations of our group. He's doing this because we are hiding," Chloe said grimly.
"He wants to lure us out, he knows we want justice! So paranoid, he would kill trillions upon trillions to kill us,"
"We have to stop him, but how?" Chuu asked.
"We could get him to chase us, perhaps?"
"Sounds very risky," Toma said, walking in.
"It would be worth it. To save the lives of billions more. To me it's not even a choice," Chloe stated.
"It wouldn't do people any good if we die before we can kill Frieza," Bardock said. "There's more options than suicide."
"Like what? While we sit here and think, millions and billions of people die!" Chloe said.
"Frieza will probably provoke a huge rebellion with this brashness," Toma said.
"And what about those that can't defend themselves? We have to fight for them," Bardock retorted.
"What if we fake our own deaths?" Michuu said.
"What do you mean?" Chuu said.
"We find a ship that is identical to this one and do something like crash it into Frieza's ship,"
"That could work, but there's a lot of unknowns. How could we get him to believe it was us, and how could we pilot it from a huge distance?" Bardock inquired.
"Well, we could set up an autopilot sequence to track Frieza's ship and program it to ram Frieza," Chloe said, looking around.
"And we could record us on the bridge, saying defying things. And we could loop the parts where we are just sitting, so he thinks he is watching us as we commit suicide," Chichumi added, looking pleased with his idea.
"You know, I think it could work. But where could we find a ship like this one? A cruiser that is about this old should be hard to come by," Roerce reckoned.
"Well, I think I saw one in the shipyard of the last planet we were on. If anything it was close to this one," Chuu said.
"All we need is close, then we can reprogram it to send the same signals this ship sends," Chloe announced.
"What about the owners of the ship? I don't think they'll just hand it over," Roerce said.
"Well, we will just have to take it," Bardock said simply.
"My god, this could actually work. As long as that ship didn't leave,"
The Harbinger turned about in space, heading back in the direction it came from. The difference was that this time the ship was going at full power. Within a few hours the ship closed in on the planet, entering the atmosphere.
After a few details, the ship docked to the shipyard. Immediately Bardock and Fasha disembarked, both of them floating into the air, looking around. After a few seconds of searching, Fasha found the ship they were looking for.
"Chloe, we'll let you know when we secure the ship," Bardock said into his scouter. Fasha started to float towards the new ship, wary for anything that would detect them. Bardock followed, but descended as well. Both Saiyans arrived at the ship around the same time, but Fasha landed on the ship, whilst Bardock walked under it.
Almost as if on cue, their scouters crackled to life. "Bardock we have company, it looks like five men with matching suits," Borgos' voice came through.
"Sounds like the TET, be careful Borgos. Their Captain is the most dangerous, locate him first and take him out. The others will give up,"
"Alright, but their powers are all in the mid twenty thousands,"
"I wouldn't worry about it. We have to have improved at least a little bit," Bardock said, looking around for anyone.
"Bardock, it looks like we have company too!" Fasha said from atop the ship. In the distance, the Saiyan saw five men approaching. All appeared to be the same height. Bardock hurried up and opened the ship's bay doors. As he was about to hop through the door, he heard the voice shout.
"Hey! Saiyan dog, come here so I can kill you," The middle one in the group said.
"Fasha, it's another TET squad. Get ready, they are elites," Bardock ordered. Fasha nodded and jumped down next to Bardock.
"Two Saiyan have come back to this planet to die, good. Good. Master will be pleased," the middle man spoke up again.
"I don't see why you care what he thinks. Frieza is just a snake and you are a fool for working for him," Bardock growled.
"No, you see, you are the fool for disobeying him. Only a fool would go against Frieza," as the men approached, Bardock gaped. All five men seemed to be the same man, no differences detectable.
"Now, puny Saiyans, die!" the TET said in unison.
"So this is the famous TET, huh?" Toma sneered at the closest warrior.
"You apes don't know what you're in for. You need to be taught a lesson in humility," the leader said, stepping forward. Toma burst into an aura and rushed forward. Immediately the five other Saiyans ran forward as well, each selecting a target. Toi stopped short when he realized they were one opponent short.
Toma and the Captain exchanged blows at a rapid rate for a few minutes, neither finding an opening. Without warning, Toma increased the ferocity of his attack, knocking away the Captain but keeping pace with his soaring body.
Toma axe handled the Captain downward, but shot his knee upward, eliminating the man's momentum and sending him skyward. After a few seconds of recovery, the warrior righted himself. Toma floated up in front of him, a grin on his face.
Matra and her opponent were seemingly evenly matched. Matra kept pace easily, but the bite of her attackers attacks were wearing on her arms and legs. Matra leapt backwards, out of the fray, and began gathering power. As she peaked, she took off, back into the battle. All of her lightning fast attacks rocked the warriors body in random directions.
As Matra prepared to kick the TET crewman in the back of the head from above, she felt a strong grip on her ankle. As she attempted to maneuver, she felt the air change in a direction she didn't know existed. In an instant, she was imbedded in the ground. Her rival stood over her, hand pointed at her face, energy gleaming.
Without a period of charging up, Matra fired a blast into the soldiers hand, instantly getting locked into a struggle. As time dragged on, Matra's beam drooped so close to her hand, her body could feel the heat radiating off the beams. Hurriedly, Matra brought up her other hand, combining beams. After a second of nothing happening, the beams began to shift backwards.
The crewman grinned and forced all of his latent energy into the blast. Instantly the beams moved the few inches backwards. After a few seconds, Matra looked like she was about to give up just before she shot her leg outward, catching her opponent in the side of the knee. As he buckled, Matra jumped behind him.
Without hesitation, Matra chopped the man in the back of the neck, killing him instantly. After a small breather she looked over at Toi who seemed to just stand there, watching everything. As they locked eyes, he grinned, giving her a thumbs up.
Borgos was handily beating his opponent. As the warrior attempted to get close, he would be hit several times by Borgos' long arms. After the first few minutes of being hit a few times, the warrior drew forth all of his power. Immediately after, the fight shifted, Borgos' arms being slapped to the side and powerful fists slamming into his large midsection.
Borgos jumped backwards, firing a bolt at his opponent's face, knocking him away. Borgos instantly powered a large bolt into his hand while with his other hand it appeared he repeated the process. As the crewman rushed forward, Borgos threw several small bolts, each one leaving a small mark on his attackers skin. As he stopped to block the next few bolts, Borgos ran forward.
The crewman moved his arms down just in time to see Borgos' giant fist slam into his face. As he drifted backwards, Borgos threw his large bolt, disintegrating the warriors body in the air. Borgos looked towards Jubei and Jorbei who seemed to be fighting a two on two battle.
Jubei and Jorbei kept close to each other, not capitalizing on every opening their opponents made. After several dodges in a row, the two would switch positions. As their opponents appeared to have an opening, the two would merely switch back. After a while, their enemies seemed to get tired, the two nodded to each other.
Without thought, the twins jumped forward, each one directly in front of their enemies. Each held their right hand in their left. Energy appeared on their right hands, each one holding the energy and letting it extend about a foot off their hands. The twins bursted forward in blinding light, appearing behind their rivals.
After a flash of dark light, both of the TET members fell in half. The twins nodded towards each other and joined Toi under the ship. Everyone turned their attention towards the Captain and Toma.
Toma rushed forwards, slamming his palm into his enemy's chin, causing him to tumble backwards. Toma jumped up, driving his foot downwards. After a cursory look, he realized his attack hadn't hit. As he looked on, the Captain had his foot in his hand. Toma strained harder to push his foot downwards.
In an explosion, the Captain's energy doubled, causing the ground around him to break away, leaving him floating, holding Toma's foot. Spinning, he slammed Toma into the ground and spun again, this time, slamming the Saiyan into a nearby ship, knocking it off the shipyard. Borgos ran at the Captain, fist above him ready to strike.
As Borgos neared, the Captain slammed Toma into him, sending both Saiyans flying. Borgos planted his hand and flipped to his feet. Toma on the other hand hit the ground and slid a ways away.
Borgos jumped backwards, bringing both hands together. As he did, a ball of energy appeared in his hands. Energy crackled to life about Borgos, creating a small white aura. Toma limped next to Borgos, and prepared a blast with one hand, the other arm hanging limply at his side.
The Captain looked on, grinning widely. Toma fired his beam first, watching the Captain jump out of the way. As he did so, Toma jumped above him and backhanded him towards the ground. As the TET Captain hit, Borgos fired his large beam, hitting the man in the back, ripping away his suit in the flash. As it died down, the Captain fell to his knees.
Toma came down from the sky and fell to his knees as well. Borgos stood to his full height, feeling weary. Toi walked up to the beaten Captain and grabbed him by the head, picking him up. As he was eye level to Toi, he felt himself lose gravity. Toi tossed the Captain off the side of the Shipyard, several miles in the air.
"What's taking Bardock so long?" Matra asked, looking around.
Bardock and Fasha stood back to back, occasionally reaching out and punching one of the copies. As each copy fell, two more appeared. Bardock, losing his patience ran forward and began assaulting the copies without mercy. Ducking a punch Bardock uppercut one in front of him and jumped backwards, firing several bolts into the crowd of copies.
"Don't you get it, Saiyan?" one of the copies in the back said.
"Get what?" Bardock huffed.
"Everyone of these copies you kill, the life force comes back to me, three fold. So, in essence you fed the fire and now its out of control," the man said smugly.
"How does it come back three times as much as it left?"
"I have regenerative abilities, and so do my copies, so I create them at one third their normal vitality and they regenerate," the TET continued.
"You're in over your head," said several copies from behind the original. "We now total over one hundred men. It's hopeless."
"You don't get it, do you?" Fasha said. "Bardock could easily take on any number of you! You aren't skilled in any way!"
"We'll see," every copy said, each preparing a large attack. Bardock backed up and pushed Fasha off the side of the walkway. Every copy fired their blast at Bardock, who jumped upwards, weaving in between every orb that came by.
As he landed, Bardock fired a huge beam down the center of the walkway, annihilating every single copy. As Bardock walked back towards Fasha, both Saiyans radioed Chloe.
Under the walkway, the original Captain sat, holding onto the shipyard with all his might. Instantly all the power of his copies flooded back into him, fully healing him.
"You apes will pay!"