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Bardock Reborn

Background: Ryanna is a human that has lived at Capsule Corps since the reincarnation of Buu. Since she has been an assistant of Bulma Briefs she has figured out the secret of the Saiyans and the mysteries of the Cell games and the Z fighters past. What she doesn't know is that she would become more involved than she originally planned.

Chapter 18: Legendary Saiyan Power

"Long live the King," the words slipped off Frieza's tongue with as much pleasure as there was sarcasm. The blast released, a brilliant hot power that skidded off just as a fist connected to his cheek sending him hurdling across the ground. His armor bent, and his cheek throbbed from the hit of solid fist. He stood up clutching his cheek as he looked up at his assailant. Bardock stood his body glowing with a searing white power, his fist shocking with power from the connection.

"You insolent man, how dare you?" Frieza sneered, and his fists clenched. "I'll have your head on a platter."

"Well done I hope," Bardock sneered back with sarcasm and backed up to kneel by Ryanna. She had pushed King Vegeta out of the way in time, but the beat had caught her side. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, it's little more than a scratch. I'll be fine. Are you alright, your majesty?" Ryanna asked helping the King to his feet.

"Yes, but for a moment there I could feel my arm hairs burning." Vegeta flexed his muscles laughing. Ryanna wasn't smiling.

"You and your men can handle Zarbon; leave Frieza to Bardock and myself."

"Unthinkable! I've been scum at the bottom of Frieza's feet for too long to just hand over this fight! My pride won't allow it!" He snarled his face grim with the life and death choice. Over his shoulder Bardock nodded to his mate and slammed his hand at the back of Vegeta's neck. The king toppled unconscious and Ryanna pushed his body aside before her and Bardock turned face to face with the tyrant. He had picked himself up and was dusting off his armor.

"You've both got a lot of balls thinking about taking me on. You have no idea who you're dealing with." Frieza suddenly smirked. "If you're in such a hurry to die, then allow me to send you to your graves."

"Say that after you transform. You can't beat us in the state you're in." Ryanna said confidently. "Not that it will help much; I already know the extent of your power."

"What? How do you know about my transformations?" Frieza said his eyes widen. The transformations of the Ice-jins were secret information known only to them and the feeble enemies who didn't live long enough to tell the tale."

"I have my ways. Do you really expect me to put up any sort of guard on you without knowing everything? I'm much too smart for that Frieza."

"You're just too smart for your own good! The only powers you have are your brains, but since you covet to see this work of miracles so much, and then allow me to show you the ultimate power in the universe!" Laughing Frieza's skin began to break and peel layer by layer, his body shifting and morphing sizes and shapes until finally his skin was smooth as marble, and a muscular marvel. Ryanna's lips twitched and she bowed her head raising her power little by little. "There now girl, are you satisfied? Aren't you just trembling with fear?"

"Frankly, no, I'm not." She looks to Bardock who was expressionless and silent. He had such a poker face when it came to battle. Her tail skimmed along his linking them together. His eyes flinched and twitched in her direction, he had obviously been studying his opponent's power.

"We'll take him together, you ready?"

"Whenever you are," in synchronized movements both warriors fell into defensive stance and waited for Frieza to make the first move. The tyrant stared them down, two against one, he liked the odds. They were nothing but a couple of monkeys looking to prove their worth. Ha, they would be dead in five minutes tops. Still… there was something about the way they stared; it was as if they could look right through him.

Bardock wasn't sure what was happening to him. Standing before him was the most powerful opponent he had ever faced in his lifetime of fighting, and yet he wasn't scared. He wondered if it was Ryanna, her calm soul and confident stance had him at ease, making him believe they really could defeat him, that Frieza was nothing but a lot of hot air.

"Don't get sloppy," Bardock whispered to her. "Keep your thoughts and actions on him."

"I know, I'm not the rookie you found unconscious in the desert." She smirked. She couldn't explain it, but something was different about herself and she couldn't put her finger on it. She just knew that they could win, and would win.

At least, that's what she felt before they actually started to fight. Frieza may be hot air, but that hot air boiled and steamed at a tempature far higher than she'd anticipated. Frieza's cool confidence and punishing attack left her sprawled on the ground gasping. The wind had been knocked out of her and the world spun. When she got her thoughts back she realized she was laying on her back, staring up as Bardock and Frieza exchanged hard hand to hand combat.

The sight had her energy pushing up, and raring to join him. Pushing back any sign of her original get down, she launched herself up and took Frieza's back. The Tyrant's tail whirled up to hit her. So that's what had caught her off-guard. Not wanting to be taken for another ride she took the tail firm in her grip squeezing hard making Frieza cry out in pain. His tail whirled and lashed in reaction and allowed Bardock's fists to plow into him.

Frieza grunted and strangled out a vicious cry before shaking her off and whacking her across the face. The smack made her ears ring but also her blood run hot. She pushed sending her own fists flying, they hit and bounced from his guard but never let up. She kept up her guard blocking what hits Frieza sent her way. A few caught her in the gut or face and bruises began forming.

Bardock pushed him back further, wanting to protect his mate he shielded Ryanna from attacking again and took the brunt of his full force. His sacrificial movement only angered her. "What are you doing?" She demanded but was thoroughly ignored. Frieza and Bardock locked in a heated combat between men. She suddenly felt like a little girl wanting to go to an all boy's game, and was discarded because of her gender. How ludicrous!

She stayed close in, not getting in the way, but not flying off. When Bardock earned a breather by sending Frieza to the rocks below she flew to him snarling. "What the hell was that? We're supposed to be working together!"

"I can handle him alone, just stand on the sides for a while ok?" His voice was gruff and firm.

"Where the hell did this come from?" She narrows her eyes. "You're thinking of that vision aren't you?"

"I've been predicting the future. I saw everything, my son and the Prince, this battle, even my son Kakarott on Earth. I saw it all! I will stop this from coming true, if it's the last thing I'll do."

"You're just being stubborn is what you're being! You think if you take these burdens on alone I won't get hurt? You're wrong. You can't protect me that way Bardock." She took his shoulders turning him to face her. "You know you can't."

"I won't lose you. I made up my mind."

"If we fight together, you won't lose me. If we fight together, we can win. Frieza will be defeated, and we'll have the rest of our lives to protect each other, and love each other." She takes his face in her hands. "You just have to trust me to do my part."

Bardock looked into the eyes of his mate, the soft sincerity of her words easing the twist in his heart. He did trust her, irrevocably. He found it hard to push her away, to take this fight alone. "Angel," his own hand lifted to her cheek stroking the bruise from Frieza's right hook. "Ryanna, I-" His hand stilled, and his skin went hot then cold as his eye glazed over.

~Vision~

Frieza pulled himself from the rubble, his mind solely focused on one thing, and that was to kill. Raising his hand to the sky he pointed his finishing death beam move and launched it at the couple above him. "DIE!"

~Reality~

"DIE!"

"Lookout!" Bardock whirled pushing Ryanna away as the death beam hit him square in the chest. The hit burned and bubbled until it pierced through skin, muscle, and bone. He felt his ribs crack and dissolve under the burn and boil of the attack. To the outside it was only a few seconds in time, but to him it was hours of pain and blind agony.

"BARDOCK!" Ryanna composed herself in mid air and zoomed after his fallen body. She managed to catch him just before he hit the ground and she cradled him in her arm holding the wound to try and stop the bleeding. "No, no Bardock you idiot why did you…"

She looked into the pale eyes of her lover and mate and felt the gut wrenching pain she could only describe as grief and anguish. "Bardock…" Her voice weakened and she turned his head up to face her. "Stay with me, don't leave me, stay alive!"

"I can see it now." Bardock whispered his lips curving. "It's so beautiful, the golden form."

"Golden… what are you talking about?"

"It's you angel, you're gonna be our savior." He reached up his hand covered in blood from clutching his own chest as he fell. The blood smeared on her cheek and made her tremble. "You're gonna defeat Frieza."

"I can't do it alone, "she whispered. "I can't do it without you Bardock."

"You can, I know you c-" he trailed off choking on his blood.

"Save your strength, don't talk anymore." On the verge of utter panic she looked around screaming. "I need help! Get medical!" The only sound that welcomed her was Frieza's laughter, and the distant cries of battle.

"Stupid monkey, to think you actually thought he or any of you could possibly defeat me. Me! I, Frieza. am the greatest power in the universe!" He cackled and cheered to the heavens congratulating himself on a job well done. He had not only killed the strongest of the Saiyan race, but had the pleasure of seeing the pure anguish on his pitiful mate's face.

The laughter was a sick echo in the back of her head. It rang as her life as a Saiyan flashed over her. For a moment she thought she was going mad, maybe even mental with grief. Bardock's face, Plenthor's, Radditz, Little Vegeta, and all the friends she had made rushed in her head like a bad dream. Images and voices molded together, and sent her in a rolling daze.

"Nice butt, Angel!"

"Bardock, you stupid idiot!"

"Sorry but I have this thing about taking orders"

"You raised you power practically from zero to 3000."

"It's not my home planet, Bardock. I wasn't born here, or raised here, I just have Saiyan DNA. It doesn't make it my home."

"I can't be your mate!"

"You ARE my mate!"

"You could become a Super Saiyan"

"What do you know about Super Saiyans?"

The flash of images turned into a single scene. It was one of the few chances she sparred with Bardock, and told him about her time, and how she knew about the Super Saiyan transformations. She remembered her face being grim, weighing the pros and cons of changing Bardock's future.

"In my time your son was the first to become a Super Saiyan. He was feared and envied, but never underestimated. His ties to the Earth, his friends, and family, all of it made him closer to his emotions, and in the end it was easier for them to bend and snap his mentality, and sent him loose."

"He became a Super Saiyan because lost all control of his emotions?"

"Yes, and no. It wasn't just the pain of loss, but the pain of knowing he failed to protect something he cared for."

"Sounds like he grew up to become a great warrior." She remembered the look of pride on his face.

"Oh, yes, and it was all because he had found his reason, his something worth fighting for."

"Well I have that," Bardock whispered bringing her close with his tail and kissing her. "I have you."

"Bardock…"

"Bardock," the image blurred to reality and she looked down at the lifeless face of her lover, her mate, her reason. "Bardock…" she said his name with such grief she wondered why her world just didn't go gray all around. Blood soaked her hands and she kissed him, his blood a foul taste on her tongue. She pulled back biting her lip so hard that blood dribbled down her chin. Her body wouldn't stop shaking and the sounds around her muted as she screamed out releasing all her grief, anger, and swelling emotions ntil she could be emptied. She didn't want to care anymore, she didn't want to hurt anymore, she just didn't want to feel at all!

The battle froze as scouters went off all around and exploded. Those who could sense energies trembled with disbelief at the growing power. The sky darkened and lightning crackled with thunderous power. As is struck by the lightning Ryanna's body exploded with a flash of golden light and her eyes went cold white and empty before turning a solid turquoise. Her hands flexed as she felt her power fill her and expand crumbling the rocks around her to debris.

Frieza couldn't find words. Fear, disbelief, and panic rippled through him as he felt the wave of unrelenting energy. "It can't be…"

Ryanna turned to him, her aura gold and flowing like it's own whirlwind. Bardock's last words whispered in her ears. "You are our savior." She was a super Saiyan, she didn't know how or why, nor did she care. She was no savior, but if she could do one thing with this power it would be to crush the man who had killed her lover, her mate, her reason.

"Frieza," venom dripped from her words. "you're dead."

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Next Chapter: Frieza's Tyranny Ends.