Chapter 12
The two saiyans continued to laugh as the dumbstruck warriors of Earth looked at them with new found horror. Krillin's last attack was the most powerful blast that he had ever produced before now and it hadn't even scratched the saiyans' armor, much less the saiyans themselves.
"It looks like they've seen a ghost," taunted Nappa as he and Vegeta continued to chuckle as they began to slowly walk towards the human fighters. "What do you say we get the real fight started? Any volunteers?"
"I put everything I had into that shot," exclaimed an exasperated Krillin. The two saiyan merely chuckled.
"Your best obviously wasn't good enough then was it baldy," said the short one. "In fact it wasn't even close to being enough to take even Nappa out, much less me."
The giant saiyan laughed and nodded his agreement. He then turned to Vegeta and said, "Hey Vegeta, why don't I handle these weaklings. There's no reason why we both have to get our hands dirty."
The flame haired saiyan merely nodded. "As you wish, but Nappa, remember to not finish Kakarot off, he's going to tell us where the Dragonballs are after we finish off all of his friends one by one."
The bald looked down at his partner and asked, "But Vegeta, what if he tries to get involved in the fighting? I don't want him to ruin my fun Vegeta."
The shorter saiyan crossed his arms and frowned as he pondered what the best course of action was to handle the troublesome third-class saiyan. Suddenly an idea popped into the flame haired saiyans head and he smiled evilly as he uncrossed his arms and stared directly at Goku. "I think I have solution that will guarantee he stays out of it." As the short saiyan finished his sentence he phased out of sight to the shock of all of the warriors on the battlefield. Suddenly, Goku felt a severe blow hit him in his back and he went flying towards were Nappa was standing. As soon as he got next to Nappa, he felt another powerful attack hit him and he was forced, face first, into the ground. The saiyan from Earth tried to lift himself off the ground but he was roughly pushed back down by an armored boot that was firmly planted in the small of his back.
It had all happened in a spilt second. One moment Goku was standing right beside Krillin and then in an instant he was lying face down on the ground with Vegeta standing over him. None of the warriors of Earth had even seen the short saiyan move and then suddenly he had Goku underneath his boot. The Z fighters all cried out and began to move to help their fallen friend but Vegeta merely lifted up one of his hands and a purple orb of energy began to form in the palm of his hand and it was pointed directly at the defenders of Earth.
"Kakarot will be watching your battle with Nappa beside me," said the flame haired saiyan who had not even taken his eyes off of the third class saiyan he had underneath his boot. "He should be honored, it's not everyday third class scum like him gets to watch a fight with the Prince of all Saiyans."
Piccolo growled his displeasure but then signaled for the rest of the fighters from Earth to back down which they did begrudgingly. The green warrior figured the short saiyan wouldn't actually hurt Goku; he seemed to have a special interest in him. While the others had been fighting the saibamen, Piccolo had seen the flame haired saiyan stealing glances to watch Goku's reactions to the fights. It also seemed that Vegeta also wanted to torment Goku as much as possible before he actually dealt with the saiyan from Earth and Piccolo figured that the short saiyan thought that making Goku watch his friends die one by one was the worst torture he could implement on the pure hearted fighter.
The giant saiyan laughed as Goku continued to struggle to stand but was unable to because of Vegeta's superior strength. The bald saiyan then turned towards the angry human fighters and began to size them all up. The giant menace began to pace in front of the Z fighters hoping to intimidate them as he tried to decide which one to fight first.
While Nappa played mind games with his prey, Vegeta finally decided to allow the low class saiyan to stand back up. As the saiyan from Earth stood up, the flame haired saiyan put his arm across the younger saiyan's chest and said, "You are to stand right here beside me for the entire fight, no matter what Nappa does you are not to interfere. If you even began to move towards the battle, I will put you down again. If you do somehow manage to interfere with the fight, I will kill all of your friends in a heartbeat starting with your mate and brat. Is that clear?" Goku grudgingly nodded his consent and Vegeta smirked as he turned his head to watch Nappa.
"Hum who should I annihilate first?" wondered Nappa aloud as he paced in front of the defenders of Earth who were all in their fighting stances waiting for the giant saiyan to make the first move. The bald saiyans eyes locked onto the female that he knew was Kakarot's mate. He looked over to where the low class saiyan was standing next to Vegeta and grinned at him. "How about we start with your mate first Kakarot? I've been dying to play with her." With surprising celerity for a man of his size, Nappa dashed towards the female warrior who was barely able to see the mammoth sized saiyan who was charging at her.
The colossal sized saiyan yelled as he drew back his fist to deliver a devastating punch to Kakarot's mate who was not even fast enough to raise a defense to block his attack. As he brought his giant fist forward he was suddenly deviated off course when he received a kick to the head from none other than the Namekian. Nappa did a somersault and was back on his feet in an instant but his head was throbbing from the kick the green alien had just dealt to the bald saiyan.
"Thank you," whispered Chi-Chi as she realized that it was the demon that had stepped in and saved her from the uncouth brute. She was shocked though by the green warrior's speed, he had been able to follow and intercept Nappa when she had barely been able to see the brute's movements. The green fighter just grunted and crossed his arms as he stared down the saiyan.
"I don't think so big boy," said Piccolo as he calmly watched the saiyan recover from his attack. "I'm tired of you all picking on the weakest fighters, why don't you actually fight a real warrior. Be quick about it to, I want to get this over with before Christmas."
The bald saiyan just chuckled. "Oh it will be over quickly, it will be over so fast you won't even know what hit you. You may be a Namekian, which means you're stronger than all these weakling humans but you're still just a fly when compared to me."
The Namekian shrugged. "I must be a pretty big fly then, because flies aren't usually able to put big brutes like you on the ground as easily as I just did."
A bark laughter interrupted the banter between the two aliens and they both looked over at Vegeta he was wearing an amused expression on his face. "I like the Namek," he said to Goku as Piccolo and Nappa turned away from the flame haired saiyan. "Where did you find him at Kakarot? He's got some wit in that green head of his."
Nappa, now slightly embarrassed, yelled, "It doesn't matter of he's got some wit, it will get crushed when I smash his head in!" The enraged saiyan flew at his green opponent with super-sonic speed and threw several lighting fast punches which were mere blurs to the other fighters. The green warrior calmly evaded all of Nappa's punches which infuriated the giant saiyan even more. With a loud battle cry, Nappa threw a punch that was slower but had more force behind it. The colossal saiyan was shocked when he saw his fist enclosed inside of a large green hand. The bald saiyan looked into the stoic face of the Namek and then tried to hit the annoying green alien with another blow with his free arm but he found that attack was also blocked by Piccolo's forearm.
Nappa snarled as his animosity towards the Namekian grew with every passing nanosecond as they stood facing each other. It did nothing to help their relationship when Piccolo's eyes began to grow red and a pair of red eye beams raced out of their respective eyeballs. The giant saiyan recognized the technique though and he bent his body back and the two small beams passing over his face harmlessly. Nappa then brought both his legs up, hovering slightly over the ground, and tried to plant both of his feet into the green warrior's exposed stomach. Piccolo anticipated the strike though and released his grip on the saiyan as he flipped over his opponent.
Regaining his footing after his failed attack, Nappa turned to glare at the elusive green fighter. "You're a slippery little slug aren't you," commented the bulky saiyan as he scanned the Namek's stance for any openings. The stance was almost perfect with almost every angle of attack covered; however there was one small opening on the Namek's right side if Nappa could get the green warrior to shift slightly to the left. The giant saiyan licked his lips and then darted towards Piccolo.
The green warrior was ready for him and Piccolo began blocking and evading all of the lightning fast blows that the saiyan brute threw at him. The experienced green fighter continued to defend himself, gladly letting the saiyan use all of his energy attacking him. Piccolo's strategy was simple, let his opponent use all of his energy attacking his almost flawless defense and then when they presented an opening, Piccolo would hit them hard and fast. So far it seemed that the bald saiyan was playing right into his hand, it seemed like the brute was giving everything he had to get one good hit on the Namekian.
The two fighters continued their battle, with Nappa unleashing a barrage of attacks on Piccolo who evaded or blocked all of them, for several seconds. After a particularly furious wave of punches, Nappa brought his right hand back and tried to karate chop the Namek's neck, but Piccolo stepped back and slightly to the left and the chop passed in front of his body. Seeing his opening, Nappa let the momentum from his last attack spin his body around and he lifted up his right leg and let his momentum driven spun drive the leg into Piccolo's exposed right flank. The kick knocked the green fighter off balance and as Piccolo staggered backwards, Nappa pressed his advantages landing several punches on the green warrior before pushing the Namek out of reach.
Piccolo's knee hit the ground, but it didn't stay there very long as he pushed off the ground and away from the incoming saiyan whose muscular leg landed where Piccolo had been seconds before. The two fighters then flew at each other and began a furious exchange of blows. The two fighters seemed dead even in the exchange; each fighter being able to dodge the others attacks will still barraging the other with their own attacks. As the saiyan and Namek continued their exchange, they began to fly up into the air completely parallel with each other as they took their battle into the air. After almost 20 seconds of the exchange of barrages of blows with each other in the air, both fighters were able to land a punch on the others face causing both Nappa's and Piccolo's heads to whip back violently from the force of the punches. Both of the fighters were sent reeling backwards as they tried to shrug off the blow.
After regaining their composure, the two fighters once again rushed towards each other each drawing back one of their fist to try and strike the other. Both warriors brought their arms forward at the same time and the two fists collided making a loud booming sound as they connected. The two fighters stood still for a moment with the green fist and the huge white fist seemingly glued together. Then the two fighters vanished from sight.
To Krillin who was watching the battle in the sky from the ground, the collision of the two fists had left him in a state of awe. The collision had created a huge shockwave that was visible in the form of a white ring expanding outward from the epicenter of the wave which was the locked fists. Then both Piccolo and Nappa had both phased out of sight and they were moving so fast that Krillin could not keep up with them, only catching sight of one of them for a brief moment. Then their was another boom and Krillin saw another white shockwave only this time off to the left of where the original collision had occurred. Then there was another shockwave, this one higher and to the right. This pattern continued with a boom and a shockwave being located in a different spot each time. As Krillin struggled to keep track of the two fighters, he noticed that the only two that seemed to be able to keep up with Piccolo and the bald saiyan's movements were Goku and the flame haired saiyan.
After phasing at of sight once again, Piccolo and Nappa collided again, with both of their knees striking each other and creating yet another shockwave. The two fighters snarled at each other and then phased out of sight again. As they reappeared, they both had their arms drawn back like they were going to punch at each other but as Nappa brought his arm forward his fist went straight through the afterimage of Piccolo. Realizing his mistake, Nappa turned around just in time to receive Piccolo's two-handed overhead blow in the face, which sent the giant saiyan spiraling towards one of rock spires. The brute smashed into the mountain and brought the whole rock formation tumbling down on top of him. Piccolo remained in the air, panting slightly, with his arms still hanging where they had bashed into Nappa's bald head.
A cheer rose up from the earthlings as they saw the saiyan plough into the side of the mountain and then his subsequent rocky burial beneath the rumble. Even Goku cheered on, jumping into the air to celebrate Piccolo's success. Vegeta just gave the third-class clown a dangerous glare and then turned his gaze towards the pile of rumble he knew Nappa was buried underneath.
"Not bad for a weakling Earthling huh," said Goku snidely to Vegeta.
The shorter saiyan laughed. "You really think this fight is over? There's no way in hell that a love tap like that would take Nappa out." To prove his point, the sound of a large explosion brought all attention back to where the pile of rumble was. Or where the pile of rubble use to be since it had been completely obliterated and all that remained was a very irritated looking Nappa. The giant saiyan's muscles were bulging and veins were beginning to pop out from his muscles as he began to draw even more energy into his body.
"Just for that," he said slowly as he brought as arms to his side with the forearms facing downward and in a power-up position. "I'm not going to go easy on you anymore," The mammoth saiyan began to yell as his power began to skyrocket as a yellow, electrical aura began to surround his entire body. As Nappa powered up the ground began to shake violently and loose pieces of debris and dirt began to float up into the air as the sheer energy Nappa was giving off was enough to offset the force of gravity on these small objects. As Nappa's power began to reach it's peak, hurricane force winds began to come off of the giant saiyan's energy and they pushed the human fighters farther away from the giant saiyan and with one final yell, the power-up reached its climax and the ground beneath the Z fighters feet began to crack creating crevices in the surface of the Earth itself. When Nappa finally reached his max by using his Lightning Aura technique his body was surrounded by a golden glow which had electrical sparks dancing around the edges of the glow.
"Ah that's more like it," said a satisfied Nappa. "Now let me show you all what I can do now!" The giant saiyan turned his head to face Chiaotzu, who was floating in the air with a blue aura surrounding his small body, the aura helped prevent him from being blown away by Nappa's massive power-up. The colossal saiyan then opened his mouth and a golden energy wave was sent racing towards the small, pale fighter. Chiaotzu was caught totally unaware and the beam hit him dead on and sent him into the side of a mountain. His small body then cascaded down the side of the mountain and he landed on the ground unconscious.
"Well it didn't take much to knock him out," commented Nappa as he watched with glee as Chi-Chi rushed over to check on the pale fighter. The giant saiyan then turned his attention to Piccolo who was still floating in the air where he had last engaged the titian. "Now I think it's time I taught you a lesson Namek."
The giant saiyan flew at the Namekian at a much faster speed than he had before using his Lightning Aura technique and caught Piccolo slightly off-guard. Instead being able to evade the attack that was coming down on him, Piccolo had to block the blow because of the surprising speed the giant saiyan had attacked with. As soon as Nappa's golden arm touched Piccolo's arm the green fighter's limb began to throb and burn. He leaped away from the frenzied saiyan and looked down at his arm and saw that it had been scorched red from the heat that Nappa's body was now surrounded by.
Piccolo touched down on the ground hoping to try and put some distance between himself and the glowing saiyan but Nappa was just too fast now and quickly covered the gap between the two fighters. As Nappa came down from the sky, he pulled his fist back too strike the Namek who was at his mercy now. Knowing he couldn't dodge the now faster saiyan, Piccolo raised his already damaged arm to defend himself. Nappa yelled in triumph as he saw the golden opportunity and he punched right at where the red burn ended and completely severed Piccolo's forearm from the rest of his body. The green fighter roared in pain as he backed away from the smirking saiyan and grasped his bleeding appendage.
"Ha, now you're unarmed Namek," shouted Nappa triumphantly as he watched as Piccolo stood still and his entire body shook from the pain of losing part of a limb. The green warrior just grunted and snarled as the wave of pain rolled over his entire body from the end of his left arm which was the point of origin of the intense pain.
"Mr. Piccolo!" yelled Gohan as he began to run towards his mentor to assist him but he was stopped dead when Piccolo turned his head and glared at him causing the young half-saiyan to stop dead in his tracks. The rest of the defenders of Earth looked on horrified by the sight of their strongest warrior struggling to keep his composure after his arm being broken in half by one punch from the invigorated saiyan.
"Nappa you really need to work on your quips," moaned Vegeta after hearing his comrade's bad attempt at a pun.
"No it's really okay," grunted Piccolo, "because it won't apply anymore in about 5 seconds."
"What are you talking about…"began Nappa but he was interrupted by a yell from the green warrior as the missing part of his arm shot out of the open hole in his forearm.
Piccolo flexed the new part of his arm and then turned back to Nappa. "Thanks for that, I needed a new one anyway, you sort of discolored my old one." Nappa's rage began to boil as the Namek mocked him. He was sure he had gotten him good with that last attack!
"Well that's useful," commented Vegeta as he observed Piccolo's regeneration curiously. "I didn't know Namekians regenerated, that could be useful information later on."
What Piccolo didn't want the saiyan to know though was that the process of regenerating body parts actually drained energy and that by regenerating his arm his power had dipped. It was even worse now because during his fight with Nappa he had used a lot of energy so he was no were near full strength, unlike Nappa who seemed to be even stronger than when they had first clashed while Piccolo was now weaker.
"Well if I can't break you into pieces Namekian, than I guess I'll just have to find a new playmate." The bald saiyan's eyes began to scan the grouping of human fighters that were to the left of the green warrior. His eyes finally came to rest on the tan human with the long, black braid. The teenager dropped down into his fighting stance when their eyes met, his purple sash billowing in the wind over his black fighting gi.
"I pick you ponytail, I like your outfit," said Nappa surprisingly calm. The young Indian fighter was caught off guard by the tone and stood up slightly. The bald saiyan took the opening he had created and with a battle cry he pounced on the unsuspecting teenager. The young warrior raised his arms in defense and blocked the first punch that the saiyan threw. He noticed that unlike Piccolo's arm, his limb had not turned red and he noticed that the saiyan's aura was no longer supercharged. It was obvious however that the saiyan was now at his max power level without using the Lightning Aura technique, and was even stronger now then when he battled Piccolo.
As the large saiyan continued to keep up his assault, he slowly battered away the younger warrior's defense. Unable to dodge the saiyan's attacks because of the gap in speed, Upa was forced to continue taking the attacks on full force. After a few punches to soften up the Indian fighter's defenses, Nappa lifted up one of his colossal legs and kicked the middle of Upa's crossed arms. The power behind the kick was enough to completely break Upa's guard and left his entire body exposed and Nappa followed up the kick with a swift uppercut to the younger fighter's jaw which sent him skyrocketing upward.
Goku grimaced as he watched the giant saiyan lift off the ground and pursue his opponent. The shorter saiyan noticed the other's reaction and smirked. "So how does it feel to watch your allies be completely outclassed by Nappa?" Goku just frowned at the flame haired saiyan and then turned to look up at where Upa was futilely trying to evade the giant saiyan but every time the young fighter got some distance between the two of them Nappa just reappeared in front of him.
"You know Kakarot," said Vegeta as the two saiyans watched Nappa viciously pound on the young warrior. Every time Nappa's fist would smash into Upa, the dark haired fighter's body was jarred violently from the overwhelming force of the saiyan's attacks. "None of this would be happening if you had just agreed to return with Raditz when he came here a year ago. Just remember that as Nappa kills the members of your adoptive race one by one."
Upa was sent spiraling down by the giant saiyan when Nappa flipped and brought both of his legs crushing down on top of the human warrior. The teenager was able to regain control of his body and was able to bring himself upright before he crashed into the ground. The energy he used to stop himself billowed underneath him, causing the grass underneath him to ripple from the energy that he was giving off.
"Okay that's it!" he yelled angrily as he glared at the saiyan who was hovering above him. The young warrior lifted up his hand and an orb of light blue energy began to form in the outstretched palm of his hand. "Take this!" he screamed as the orb separated into 10 separate streaks of energy and all began to race towards the grinning saiyan.
"Oh so the little punk has some fight in him after all huh," taunted Nappa as he waited for the streaks of ki to reach him. The light blue ki blasts had all spread out and were all racing towards him at different angles but each streak was evenly spaced, with five ki streaks coming from his left and five coming from his right. As the streaks of light got closer, they all began to converge on their target and they all collided with the giant saiyan at the same time and on impact exploded creating a giant cloud of smoke in the sky where the saiyan had been.
Panting heavily, Upa slowly lowered his arm after the sound from the explosion died out. The raven haired fighter hoped that his Lightning Arrow technique had at least done some damage so that the saiyan would be at least weakened enough so that maybe the fight would be more even now. His hopes were dashed however when the smoke cleared and Nappa remained standing completely unharmed by the attack.
"Wow that actually stung a bit kid," mocked the giant saiyan as he rolled his shoulders and stretched his arms in preparation for his next assault. "It's obvious that you've never had a good teacher, so let me show you a real attack." The bald saiyan began to raise his right hand with his index and middle fingers up. The giant saiyan then brought his right arm to his left side, and then he moved his arm rapidly back to his right side in a swiping motion unleashing a huge orange Exploding Wave on the ground underneath Upa.
The young Indian fighter dove forward to avoid the huge explosion that was behind him while the other Z fighters leapt backwards to avoid being caught by the wave. The explosion was so huge that the smoke from it completely blocked out the sun for a few seconds and the defenders of Earth could not even see each other as they all struggled to stand in the hurricane force winds that came with the attack. When the dust finally settled, Piccolo walked over to the huge crevice that was now separating the rest of them from where Upa was lying on the ground, panting heavily from the effort of escaping the destructive attack.
"Wow, it's so deep I can't even see the bottom," said Piccolo in awe as both Krillin and Gohan walked up beside the green mentor. The crevice was over 500 feet long and, as Piccolo said, seemed to drop all the way to the center of the earth.
"Hey Nappa your aim was a little off, you missed ponytail," teased Vegeta as he looked from the astonished earthlings to the ecstatic saiyan.
"Hey give me a break, I've been cooped up in that damn space pod for a year," defended Nappa he looked like he was having the time of his life. "Besides, now I can play with ponytail some more."
"Hey where is Chiaotzu?" asked Chi-Chi as she searched for the small pale warrior. She had bonded with the child-like fighter during their time on the Lookout and she couldn't stand it if he got hurt.
"You don't think he got caught in the blast do you?" asked Krillin concerned. His head swiveled around desperately searching for any sign of his missing friend.
"See Vegeta, I managed to get one of them," said Nappa as he began to slowly descend down to where Upa was laying on the ground.
The flame haired saiyan merely shook his head. "Nappa, you're being careless."
The giant saiyan turned his head to look at the smaller saiyan. "What are you talking abo…" The giant saiyan never finished his question because at that moment the pale fighter leaped onto the giant's back and got a good hold on the saiyan's armor.
"Why you little runt!" yelled Nappa angrily as he tried to pry the small fighter of his back. No matter how hard he tried though he could not grab hold of the pale warrior.
"Chiaotzu, what are you doing!" screamed Chi-Chi as she began to run closer to where the giant saiyan was struggling to grab hold of Chiaotzu. She was stopped however when a green arm was put in front of her and she looked over to see Piccolo shaking his head no.
"There's nothing you can do now," said Piccolo calmly.
"How can you say that!" yelled Chi-Chi at the demon. "He needs our help and you just want to stand here and watch him get himself killed."
The green warrior looked at the female and a hint of sympathy passed through his eyes. "You don't know what he's doing do you?" Chi-Chi just shook her head and the green warrior just pointed over to where the pale warrior was grasping onto the saiyan's armor. Chiaotzu's body was now surrounded by a light blue energy that was obviously hurting the giant saiyan. Snarling, Nappa flew backwards and slammed the man on his back into the side of the mountain trying to dislodge the small human, but is was to no avail as Chiaotzu maintained his grip.
"He's bringing all of his energy out of his body, hoping to take out the brute with one huge, final attack." It took a moment for Chi-Chi to realize what the green warrior was cryptically talking about.
"He's going to blow himself up," she whispered as she turned her head to look up at where the saiyan was continually ramming the small warrior into the side of the mountain, on the last time, he hit the mountain so hard the whole thing collapsed. The black haired women then looked over at her son and said, "Gohan, you are to look away. I don't want you to see this."
Glaring at the sentimental female, Piccolo quickly responded, "No, watch Gohan. Don't turn away, honor his bravery. Don't make his sacrifice something that you are to ashamed off to watch. Give him the respect he has earned." The young boy was incredibly confused as he tried to decide who he should listen to. His mother glared at him while Piccolo just gave him an encouraging nod. The kid nodded to his mentor and then forced his head to turn and watch Chiaotzu's courageous last stand.
Chi-Chi snarled in disgust and then said, "If you won't look away then I'll just have to prevent you from being scarred for life." The housewife ran past the mentor and his pupil and over to where Krillin was standing.
"Chiaotzu, that's enough get out of there!" she screamed hoping to talk the small human out of his kamikaze attack. She was surprised when she heard the pale fighter's voice in her head.
"Hey Chi, I'm going to take this big bully into the next dimension. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."
"What about Tien? You have to wait until he gets here; I know you've missed him. Don't you want to be here when he gets back?"
"I don't think he's coming back." Chi-Chi was slightly taken aback by the statement from the pale fighter. "Something must have gone wrong with the wish, because Tien has never been late to anything in his life. I know he wouldn't be late to help protect the Earth from these horrible saiyans. If he was coming he would already be here, helping us. Now this way, I'll get to see him again and we'll spend eternity together."
"Chiaotzu, no! This isn't what he would want!" screamed the female fighter as the blue energy began to surround the giant saiyan as well. He cried out in alarm as the energy began to surround his entire body and he began to fly towards a mountain top with rocky spikes on the top, hoping to impale the bastard that was clinging to his back.
"Goodbye Chi-Chi, you were a good friend. Stay alive for me, okay." A tear swam down Chi-Chi's cheek as her friend spoke his final words. The pale fighter's eyes began to glow blue as well as Nappa neared the spikes.
"These well get you off," yelled Nappa as he began to turn his body so he could impale the small human. Before he could even get half-way around though, the pale warrior exploded. The sky was filled with a huge pink cloud of smoke from the explosion and it was impossible to see inside of the pink cloud to where Nappa and Chiaotzu had been moments before.
"Dang it Chiaotzu. Why did you go and blow yourself up?" Vegeta looked over to see the saiyan from Earth clenching his fist together. "You've already been wished back which means now you're gone forever now."
"That's two people that could have been saved if you had just made the right decision a year ago." Goku looked over at the smirking saiyan and glared at him angrily. "It hurts to see your friends die doesn't it Kakarot? Just remember that the doll and the scarred faced weakling were only the beginning, the rest of them will all die one by one because you decided to betray your race for theirs. Now because of your betrayal, every single human will pay for your choice, starting with your friends."
The saiyan from Earth growled. "It will be much harder for you to do that by yourself now, since your big friend just got blown up because he wasn't paying attention. I don't care how strong you think you are, me and my friends will find a way to defeat you, and once Tien gets here your history because of what just happened to Chiaotzu."
The older saiyan laughed as they rest of the defenders of Earth bowed their heads, mourning the death of their friend. "You really think you all could beat me? You haven't managed to deal with Nappa yet and I am far superior to him."
Goku looked over at the flame haired saiyan in surprise. "What do you mean? Chiaotzu just 'dealt' with that brute. You saw it same as I!"
The shorter saiyan just shook his head and then looked up to where the pink smoke was clearing away. "Nappa, he almost had you there. You barely managed a defense," announced Vegeta as the defenders of Earth all looked up in horror to see a completely unharmed Nappa floating in the sky.
"What! It can't be, not even a scratch!" said Krillin in horror. "Something's not right here; Chiaotzu did all that for nothing!" The giant saiyan just grinned at the bald human and Nappa was about to speak when he was distracted by a rising power level. He looked down to see that the teenager with that purple sash was up standing again. The kid had his fists clenched and he was looking down at the ground.
"Oh your back up ponytail, good I was ready to play with you some more anyway." The teenager looked up at the saiyan with a look of pure hatred and Nappa was slightly taken aback by it. He had thought all of these humans were goody goodies. This one however looked like he was about to kill someone and Nappa had a pretty good idea who that someone was. "Hum, this kid might actually be some real fun now," muttered the giant saiyan as he began to descend to the ground.
"First Yamcha and now Chiaotzu," said Upa angrily as the saiyan landed on the ground. "They've both died now and it was all in vain. Well no more, I'm going to beat you right here, right now and I'm going to make you pay for the deaths of my friends."
The bald saiyan just yawned. "Big talk, but do you have what it takes to beat me. As you humans say, you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk."
The teenager's body began to tremble as he brought his power to its maximum and his white aura exploded around him as his anger made him stronger than he had ever been before. "Why don't you tell me after I've beaten you to a pulp," yelled the young warrior as he flew towards the saiyan. The kid was faster than Nappa expected and Upa was able to land an uppercut that made the giant saiyan stagger backwards.
The teenage fighter continued his onslaught by throwing a volley of supersonic punches and kicks at the huge saiyan. Quickly recovering from the uppercut, Nappa was able to dodge all of these blows but he was kept on the defensive by the unrelenting assault from the Indian warrior. His white aura blazed around him as he sent volley after volley of blows at the saiyan forcing the giant to keep giving up ground. As the young fighter threw a powerful punch at the saiyan's gut, Nappa quickly sidestepped out of the way and let the punch hit a mountain. The mountain instantly crumbled because of the power behind the punch and Nappa saw an opening and took it. The giant saiyan tried to knee the human in the stomach but Upa saw the attack coming and leaped into the air, above Nappa's strike. The teenager twisted his body around and delivered a devastating roundhouse kick to the side of the saiyan's bald head.
The kick sent the saiyan tumbling backward a few feet and even forced him to one knee. "You'll pay for that kid," threatened the giant saiyan. Upa did not listen to the saiyan and with a yell his white aura grew even larger and as he flew towards his enemy, the loose debris surrounding them rising upward into the air because of the power he was displaying. The young warrior tried to deliver a two-handed overhead blow to the saiyan but the saiyan jumped off the ground and began to block the barrage of punches that Upa threw at him.
"Man how is he keeping this up," said Krillin in awe of Upa's seemingly relentless assault. He knew however that his young friend could not continue his barrage for long as the inexperienced warrior was going through his energy rapidly. "I'm going to go help him; maybe if we work together we'll be able to beat that brute." The former monk began to move to help the younger fighter but he was stopped when he heard Piccolo's voice.
"Krillin wait," the bald human turned around to look at the green warrior, who was standing stoically watching the fight. "He's going to start attacking Upa soon and when he does we will have a moment where he will be unguarded. That's when we will strike, when he is most vulnerable." The short human nodded, he knew that Piccolo was an excellent strategist and he trusted the green fighter's judgment.
"Good." Piccolo looked around to see who else he could use to finish the giant saiyan off once and for all. He knew that he could not use Goku or the smaller saiyan would get involved and stop their plan of attack so he was out. He then saw Goku's women, whose head was down and she seemed to not even be paying attention to Upa's battle with Nappa. The green strategist figured she was in shock from the pale warrior's death, so she would be of any use to his plan. His eyes then settled on Gohan, who while inexperienced, actually had more power than his mother and Piccolo figured the kid was due for some battle experience. His choice made, Piccolo addressed his pupil. "Did you catch all of that Gohan?" His student nodded but he looked terrified and Piccolo started to doubt if the boy was ready to fight against the saiyans yet. Before he could give his pupil any encouraging words to calm him, his attention was drawn by the sound of a now familiar laugh.
"Hey that's a good plan there Namekian," said Vegeta. "Nappa is to strong for any of you to fight him head on." The three fighters all looked over at the saiyan confused by the fact that he was actually supporting their attack on his comrade. "Don't take your eyes off them now or you'll miss your opportunity."
The green warrior just smirked at the cocky saiyan. "Big shot huh, well you just keep talking that way until Tien gets here."
Vegeta raised his eyebrows in surprise, this was the second time he had heard that name in association with his defeat. "Tien, who's he? Is he very strong?"
Piccolo just chuckled. "Why don't you just wait and see, in the meantime we have to deal with your big friend over there." The three defenders of Earth turned their attention back to the fight were Upa was finally beginning to wear down. He had been giving it everything he had and more but he had not been able to get another solid hit on the giant saiyan. As he threw a punch aimed at the saiyan's gut, Nappa sidestepped the punch and then grabbed the dark-skinned arm that was in front of him. The white aura that had surrounded the human warrior now disappeared in a second from the touch of the saiyan. The saiyan then swung the human warrior around full circle and then released his grip on Upa's arm and sent the young human into the side of a mountain. The mountain cracked and dented where the teenager had smashed into the side of it.
"That's it I'm going in," said Krillin as he prepared to help his friend but he was once again held back by Piccolo.
"Not yet Krillin just a few more seconds," said the mastermind of their plan as he waited for the perfect moment to strike. He watched as Upa struggled to stand back up, but was unable to because of his lack in energy. It would take a minute or two for him to recover from his extraordinary effort, a minute or two he did not have as the saiyan bore down on him.
"Well it's been fun ponytail," said Nappa as he began to fly into the air. "But now it's time I gave you your prize for entertaining me for so long, a one way trip to the next dimension!" The giant saiyan then flew back down towards where the teenager was laying; using the speed from his flight he planned to finish the kid off with one, brutal blow.
Seeing his opportunity Piccolo yelled, "Gohan you stay here, Krillin let's go!" The bald monk nodded and the two fighters both vanished as they made their way towards their target at supersonic speeds. Nappa let out a battle cry as he descended towards his target but he was shocked when he heard the sound of someone phasing nearby. He looked over to see the Namek right next to him and the green warrior smirked at the saiyan before punching the defenseless saiyan to the left. As Nappa flew away from the green alien the short, bald human appeared right above him and delivered a crushing two-handed overhead blow that sent the giant saiyan racing towards the ground. When he opened his eyes he saw that he was heading straight for Kakarot's brat and he was completely defenseless.
"Gohan, fire now!" instructed Piccolo as he watched the giant saiyan fall towards his pupil. He was shocked though when the kid just stood still, completely frozen in fear as the saiyan got closer and closer to him. Both he and Krillin called out to his pupil, trying to snap him out of his petrified state but it was no use and the kid just stood there allowing the saiyan more and more time to recover from the surprise attack. Piccolo was about to fire his own attack at the saiyan and he saw that Krillin was about to do the same when suddenly another figure stepped right in front of Gohan. It was the boy's mother, Chi-Chi, and he watched as she raised both of her hands up and pointed them at the spiraling saiyan.
"NAMIZA-HAUUWAIFU!" screamed the fierce female warrior as a green energy wave poured out of her outstretched hands and raced towards the helpless saiyan. The saiyan roared in pain as the green energy wave collided with him and then carried his body higher into the sky and then out of sight completely as the energy wave went right through the clouds in the sky and in to the upper parts of Earth's atmosphere. When Chi-Chi finally released the flow of energy to her attack, the giant saiyan was no where in sight.
"That was for Chiaotzu you bastard," said Chi-Chi as she lowered her arms, panting heavily from the huge amount of ki she had just put into her attack.
"Wow, way to go honey," complemented Goku who was shocked by the amount of power his wife had just unleashed on Nappa. Piccolo and Krillin were equally surprised by the female warrior; they didn't realize she had overheard their plan to attack Nappa. They were happy that she had stepped in though because it looked like the saiyan was going to escape from the sneak attack unharmed because of Gohan's fear. The boy's mentor planned on having words with his student immediately and Piccolo and Krillin began to descend down towards where Chi-Chi and Gohan were standing.
As they made their way to the ground, they froze when they felt an all too familiar power heading back their way. Piccolo and Krillin quickly spun back around and dropped down into their fighting stances and they did not have to wait long to see a golden object flying straight towards them, halting directly in front of the two fighters.
"Oh you are so dead you little bitch!" yelled the enraged saiyan, pointing his finger directly at Chi-Chi.
Vegeta laughed at his comrade. "Kakarot's mate got you pretty good there, huh Nappa." Nappa's enraged face turned towards the shorter saiyan and he sneered at the other saiyan's taunt. The giant saiyan's armor had been mostly blown off; both of his golden spikes were gone along with his thigh and groin guards. The saiyan also had several burn marks on his arms and legs were he had raised them at the last second to keep himself from being severely damaged by the attack. He then looked at the two warriors who stood in his way from reaching the women that had so boldly attacked him.
"If you two are going to be in the way I guess I'll just have to kill you two first before I finish that bitch off."
Piccolo looked over at Krillin briefly and then asked, "You're familiar with the Tri-form technique right?" The bald monk nodded, satisfied with his answer Piccolo continued. "Well let's do it, the both of us and attack him before he has a chance to power up again. I know that energy attack took something out of him and hopefully, with a greater advantage in numbers, we'll gain the upper hand."
"Right, I'm ready when you are." Both fighters concentrated and their faces became ones of pain as their bodies began too spilt apart. Nappa's face transformed from one of rage to one of shock as he watched the strange technique being preformed in front of him. With one last grunt of discomfort, two more Piccolo's spilt off of the original and took their places to the right and left of him. The same thing occurred with Krillin, so that now there were three Piccolos and three Krillins ready to face off against Nappa.
"Wow, that's a cool technique," commented Vegeta as he watched the two fighters from Earth finish the Tri-Form technique. In all of his travels across the universe, the saiyan had never seen anyone actually be able to make carbon copies of themselves. He wanted to see how this strategy worked out against Nappa, so he could study the technique's strengths and weaknesses. Who knew, maybe one day it could come in handy.
"Ready!" yelled the middle Piccolo.
"Yeah!" roared the other five fighters and with a battle cry, all six of the fighters rushed into battle. Nappa responded with his own yell and rushed forward to meet the clones head on. The seven warriors collided and they instantly became a whirlwind of limbs as more punches and kicks were thrown than could be kept track off. Vegeta and Goku watched from the ground as Nappa struggled to block or evade all the blows that were coming from the clones of the Earthling warriors, much less throw any of his own attacks. At last one of the Krillins was able land a punch on his shoulder and while it didn't hurt at all, it did distract him. This distraction was all two of the Piccolos needed as they brought their knees into the giant saiyan's gut causing him to double over from the force of the blow. Then the other Piccolo and one of the Krillins both delivered two-handed blows that sent the saiyan straight to the ground.
Snarling, Nappa forced himself off the ground and he began flying backwards as two Namekians and two bald humans followed him in hot pursuit. The giant saiyan managed to block all of their attacks and with a yell he began his counterattack. He punched both of the green fighters in the head, knocking them away as he counted to fly a few inches of the ground moving backwards the entire time. The two Krillins were able to see Nappa's counterattack though and they moved out of the way before he could get to them. Seeing his opportunity, Nappa flew back into the sky so that he would have more room to maneuver while he fought against the 6 clones.
The clones regrouped and then once again flew at the huge saiyan. The whirlwind of limbs picked up speed this time as the brawl reached a new level, because this time Nappa was counterattacking as well instead of just defending himself. He quickly concentrated on the bald ones since they were significantly weaker than the Namekians. He did not take long for him to connect punches with all three Krillins, and when they stopped moving he hit them to the ground where there bodies collided with each other. The Krillin on the bottom of the pile cried out in pain as the other two clones were forcibly reentered into his body. The brawl continued however as the three Piccolos tried to continue the high tempo attack but it was to no avail. Nappa, now knowing how to get rid of the clones, quickly knocked the weaker Piccolos to the ground where they all were smashed together back into one single Namekian.
After defeating the six clones, Nappa turned his attention to the female that had the audacity to hurt him. She was still panting heavily, exhausted from the tremendous effort she had given to try and destroy him. The giant saiyan prepared to charge the worn out women when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back as he was blasted by a weak energy blast. The saiyan turned around to see that Upa was back up and had his hand risen from where he had just blasted the bald saiyan in the back.
"How about you stop picking on women and fight a real warrior," said the teenager weakly. He was still exhausted from when he had gone all out against Nappa earlier and knew he had no chance of defeating the saiyan now. He was just hoping to buy the others some time so that they could regroup and put up a better fight later.
"Well when a real warrior shows up I'll gladly fight him," retorted Nappa as he turned his full attention on the dark skinned fighter. "But for now I'm fighting you weaklings and if you have a death wish I'll gladly kill you before the woman. I was about to kill you anyway before she and those other two interfered in our fight, so I think it's about time I finished you off."
The young fighter dropped into his fighting stance as the saiyan flew towards him. The giant wasted no time immediately going on the attack, with the teenager offering little resistance as the saiyan began to batter him around. The dark haired warrior was completely out of energy and was so weak that he was barely able to block even Nappa's slowest attacks. Deciding to finish the human off once and for all, Nappa kneed Upa in his stomach, causing him to double over in pain and for him to cough up blood on the ground underneath him. The large saiyan then phased behind the teenager and delivered a powerful punch to the small of the human's back, shattering his backbone into pieces. Upa cried out in pain as he was paralyzed by the blow and he crumpled to the ground instantly.
"Upa no!" yelled Goku as he watched the young warrior fall onto the ground before the invincible giant. He quickly looked over to see if any of the other defenders of Earth could step in and help Upa, but he saw that were all out of commission at the moment. Both Piccolo and Krillin were struggling to stand after having their clones forcibly reinserted into their bodies, Chi-Chi was still exhausted from her energy attack, and Gohan was paralyzed with fear as he watched Nappa cruelly torture his father's friend. Knowing he was Upa's only hope, Goku began to fly towards his fallen friend but he was quickly stopped when Vegeta inserted his elbow into the saiyan from earth's gut. Goku fell to his knees his mouth slightly agape from the pain of Vegeta's blow.
"Now now Kakarot, I told you no interfering, you wouldn't want to break our deal now would you." Goku yelped in pain as he felt the shorter saiyan grab his hair and force him to look up from the ground and towards where Nappa was holding Upa by his collar, preparing to finish off the teenage human. "Now watch as yet another one of your friends dies because of you."
As soon as Nappa heard Vegeta finish his sentence, he turned the human around so they were looking at each other face to face. "Well it's been fun ponytail, any last words before I kill you?" The young warrior just stared at the saiyan and then opened his mouth…and spat into the giant's face. The seemingly invincible saiyan just calmly wiped the spit off of his face and then draw back his fist and punched the human straight in the face. The blow was so powerful that Upa's head was almost decapitated as it was bent so far backwards, the young fighter's neck being perpendicular with his torso.
The bald saiyan dropped the now limb body and then looked over to where the woman and her son were staring at him horrified. "Now I think it's time to repay you for what you did earlier," he said pointing at Chi-Chi. The female fighter dropped into her stance and shoved her son behind her, trying to shield him from the sight of the huge saiyan.
Meanwhile, Vegeta let go of his grip on Goku's hair and the peaceful saiyan fell into the ground. He pounded the ground in frustration, feeling useless because he was unable to save his friend who had just been mercilessly executed by Nappa.
"You'll be sorry once Tien gets here."
Vegeta looked down at the low class saiyan annoyed. He kept hearing about this mysterious Tien, who was supposed to have the power to defeat him and Nappa. "Who is this Tien and why do you think he is strong enough to defeat us?"
Goku looked up into the cold eyes of the saiyan prince and responded, "He's the human that helped me and Piccolo defeat Raditz. He selflessly gave his own life so that we could defeat him."
"Oh that human, the one the Namek said you all were going to wish back with the Dragonballs." The flame haired saiyan pondered this new information for a second and then asked the third class saiyan another question. "How is HE suppose to defeat us? He couldn't even defeat Raditz by himself and he was weaker than you and the Namek at the time."
The saiyan from earth laughed. "Because he's been training in another dimension. While he's been dead, he has been receiving special training so that when you two arrived he would have the power to defeat you."
"Why isn't he here then?"
"I don't know, but I do know that he is on his way and that when he gets here, he'll defeat you both."
While Vegeta questioned Goku about the absent human warrior, Nappa prepared to launch himself at the female warrior. "Here I come! Prepare to die!" he yelled as he began to fly towards the worn out fighter. Chi-Chi knew she didn't stand a chance against the mammoth sized saiyan alone and hoped that Krillin and Piccolo would recover soon.
"And you really believe that this Tien will be able to save you and the rest of your pathetic planet?"
"I don't believe it; I know that's what's going to happen."
"DIE!"
Vegeta smirked as an idea to completely crush Goku's spirit popped into his head. "Well who am I to not prove you wrong in your misguided belief in this Tien."
Chi-Chi couldn't even follow the giant's movements, she had used almost all of her energy on her assault on the saiyan earlier and now she was at his mercy as the saiyan closed in for the kill. Gohan closed his eyes, not wanting to see the vicious beating his mother was about to receive. All he could see in his mind though was his mother meeting the same end as Upa, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha.
Nappa pulled back his fist for his first strike and it was traveling forward when he suddenly heard Vegeta's voice ring out across the wasteland. Chi-Chi was astounded when she heard the shorter saiyan's voice and saw Nappa's fist frozen in place, centimeters away from her face.
"Nappa! Hold on a second!"
Well there it is the beginning of the battle with Nappa. Bonus points for whoever can correctly translate Chi-Chi's energy attacks name, hint, it's in Japanese. Also thanks for the reviews! To answer some questions, the reason why I didn't use the Ox King or Roshi for trainees on the Lookout oxfan is because they are both past their primes and therefore can not increase their strength as much as the younger fighters. Also I noticed that many of you noticed that I used many of the same moves as the characters used in the anime. I admit Upa's fight was almost to the T the exact same as Tien's fight because they were almost equal in power. Anyway I tried to not use as many of the same things as they did in the anime in this chapter so let me know if I did better and if not things I can do to get better. Now on to Power Levels!
Piccolo: 5000
Piccolo after regeneration: 3900
Piccolo Tri-Form: 1300 each
Upa: 2400
Upa Lightning Arrow: 2800
Chiaotzu: 1600
Chiaotzu Self Destruction: 3200
Upa (enraged): 3000
Krillin: 2100
Krillin Tri-Form: 700 each
Chi-Chi (anger boost) Namiza-Hauuwaifu: 4800
Nappa: 5500
Nappa Lightning Aura: 6500
Nappa (Full power): 6000
Now for explanations, what I mean by Chi-Chi having an anger boost is that Chi-Chi has the same time of thing Gohan had in the original manga/anime where when she is extremely angry her power level skyrockets for a short period of time. In the original manga/anime Gohan's comes from being a half saiyan or something bogus like that, in my story I'm saying he inherits this from his mother. Also Nappa's power level did decline after being hit by Chi-Chi's attack, I'm just not telling you how much it declined by right now because it is his power level in the next chapter and I don't want to tell you how strong he is now after getting beaten up a little by the humans.
Like all ways, let me know what you think about the chapter and story over all. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have and listen to any suggestions/criticism you have. Compliments are always appreciated too =).