Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z, or the characters of Akira Toriyama's creation. I do however, own the story, and the characters of my own creation.
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The two Saiyans stare the Ice-Jinn down, waiting for an opportunity to present itself. Frieza has moved himself so that the two Saiyans are in front of him, preventing any such surprise attack. Frieza raises up both arms, each pointing at Duke and Bardock, and fires bolts of blood red energy from his fingertips, moving at near lightning speeds. Duke barely manages to dodge, feeling the heat of the bolt just miss his back, but Bardock isn't as lucky. The bolt hits him in his right side, spinning him around. After a brief second, Bardock stops his spin. Once he clears his vision, and the pain has subsided enough for him to focus, he sees Frieza barreling towards him, horn first.
Bardock juts upwards, barely missed by Frieza. Turning around, Bardock lets loose a bolt of his own energy, hitting Frieza squarely in his back. Blackened by the blast, Frieza turns around, facing Bardock. As he moves to attack Bardock, Duke's katana scrapes along Frieza's freshly attacked back. Duke then reverses his momentum, as Frieza swings his tail at his previous position. Duke squints his eyes as he unleashes a mental bomb within Frieza's head.
Head jerking back as the explosion erupts within his mind, Frieza forces out another explosion, sending Duke and Bardock apart. Duke stops himself 30 meters away, while Bardock slams into the ship, denting the hull. 'Wasn't expecting him to react like that, but seems like I hurt him,' Duke mentally communicates to Bardock. 'We might want to hit him with what we have while we have the chance, we might not get another one like this again.'
'Agreed,' Bardock doesn't allow his thought to finish as he forms an orange ball of energy in both hands, and slams them together. As they meet, an intense beam of focused energy shoots from the clash, and strikes Frieza directly. Duke charges at Frieza as he splits his katana in two, and gathers energy into both of them. Forcing the energy from each katana out at Frieza, the energy seems to have hybridized with his psychic energies, and as it strikes Frieza, the combined energy from both Duke and Bardock detonate.
Smoke and debris clear, revealing a living, yet bruised and beaten Frieza. Lifting his head up, he looks at the two Saiyans, and a smirk forms across his face. "Well, I didn't think I would get a challenge out of you two, but here we are." Frieza snaps his tail, what's left of it, as a gesture of making a point. "You seem to have a couple of tricks up your sleeves, but they won't work twice." Frieza looks at his tail, and his smirk fades from his face, replaces with a scowl. "I didn't expect a Saiyan to have the ability to attack my mind, so I didn't defend against it. But now that I know that a Saiyan's mind has reached the capacity to think on a higher level, it only confirms my earlier conclusion that you are getting too powerful for your own good."
"We gonna finish this, or are you going to monologue til we die from boredom?" Bardock takes a stance, preparing for Frieza to attack.
"Oh, I'm not going to talk all day, just was trying to make a point clear. You monkeys are going to die today, and then I am going to rip your planet apart, piece by piece." Frieza folds his arms in his classic pose, and gestures his head in a backward jerking motion, urging the Saiyans to take the offensive.
'Don't let your guard down Bardock, he may have us at another disadvantage, but we can still take him.' Duke assures Bardock.
'You're preaching to the choir buddy, I'm not stopping for no man.' Bardock
Bardock rushes at Frieza, and barrages him with a series of quick jabs, hooks, and kicks. All connect, with Frieza hardly attempting to block. When Bardock realizes Frieza's plan of action, he tries to pull away. As he moves back, Frieza unfolds his arms, and grabs him by the leg, and smashes his knee into his stomach. Coughing, Bardock spits red, covering Frieza pink scaly thigh, as his internal organs shift around the knee. Frieza removes his knee, only to return it once more, shattering his armor plating. Bardock screams out in agony, and more blood coats Frieza's leg. Frieza's other arm grabs Bardock's head, and rips his neck back. Head butting Bardock, his horn gashes across his forehead. The blood flows out, blinding the Saiyan, and Frieza tosses him aside.
Turning his attention to Duke, he moves faster than light, gut punching him, and the Saiyan keels over. As Duke flexes his abdominal muscles to raise himself from Frieza's punch, Frieza spins around and kicks him, and Duke goes flying. Before Duke can stop himself, Frieza is behind him, and knees him in the back. Duke snaps backwards, and gets a bright glimpse of Planet Vegeta's red surface, before coming full circle, and face to face with Frieza.
"What's the matter monkey?" Frieza chortles, "I thought you were going to kill me, had all these tricks up your sleeve, and had me outnumbered." He brings an elbow down on Duke's stomach, forcing blood from his mouth, splattering Frieza's face. He ejects his tongue, and it slithers across his face, absorbing the blood upon his taste buds. "Mmm, Saiyan blood. Didn't think it tasted this good. Want to try some?"
"No thanks, I'm not the cannibalistic type, how about you try some of your own?" Duke coughs as he hoarsely speaks. As he finishes his sentence, a blade juts from Frieza's stomach, gloss in purple sticky fluid. Frieza opens his mouth to speak, only gurgling sounds escaping. Confused, Frieza tries to speak again, met with the gurgling again. He realizes that the purple blood is his own, not having seen it before, and kicks Duke away.
Duke rights himself quickly, and starts to gather energy in his hands and swords. Frieza covers his new wound with his hands, and brings them up to see the blood again. Realizing the extent of his damage, he takes aim at Duke. "That enough to taste, Frieza? How is it?" Duke calls out to the Ice-jinn monster. Frieza fires a blast of energy at Duke, which Duke easily strafes. As Frieza prepares another blast, he is thrown forward by a blast of energy. Bardock fires another blast, creating a barrage of energy smashing into the tyrant.
Duke rushes forward at Frieza, and throws both of his swords to the side of Frieza. The katanas suspend themselves at 180 degrees to the side of Frieza, and Duke in front of him. Firing the energy he had gathered at Frieza, Duke causes the energy built up in his swords to release as well. The energy slams into Frieza, and explodes into a great fireball. Duke and Bardock regroup in front of the ship, and wait for the debris to clear.
The dust clears, revealing Frieza missing his left arm, and right leg. Blood drips off, and floats about in the zero G environment. The blood then begins to bubble and boil as Frieza's energy field raises the temperature around him. "I can't believe you did that to ME!!!! I AM THE RULER OF THIS GALAXY!!! I WILL MAKE EVERY ONE OF YOU MONKEYS PAY!!!"
"This can't be good can it?" Bardock asks Duke, taking another defensive stance.
"Not sure, he's probably just lashing, out of options," Duke responds, relaxing. "I doubt he's much of a challenge now that we've done this much damage to him."
"Yeah, well the last thing we need is a cornered mouse with nothing else to resort to," Bardock takes a big gulp of thinned atmosphere, "he might pull out some super weapon we don't have any defense against, and take us out with his dying breath."
"No worries, he doesn't have anything like that in his arsenal." Duke assures his partner.
Bardock begins to say, "Alright, but don't say..." but he is unable to finish his sentence as Frieza disappears.
"Say what?" Is all Duke is able to say as an intense beam of bright red light erupts from Duke's chest, exactly where his heart is. Duke's eyes go white as he blanks out, drifting off. Bardock can only watch in horror as Duke's heart is pierced by Frieza's death beam. The tyrant's laughter can be heard as if in slow motion.
All sound ceases for Bardock as he watches his partner, and new friend take his last forced breath. Clenching his fists so hard that he draws blood, he starts to shake uncontrollably, and sound starts to slowly return to his ears. He hears what he believes is an earthquake building up strength, along with laughter, jeering, and insults. A flash of light. Everyone is telling him that he will never amount to anything as a Saiyan, forever stuck as a low class, due to the way he was born, and his power rating was read. Another flash of light. Everyone is laughing at him for thinking he can be as strong as the King, or even stronger. Yet another flash of light. Laughing at him as he returns from suicide missions as beat as a insubordinate child. White flashes again. His team is found laying in crumpled piles, taking their last breaths, only Toru with enough strength to explain to him that Frieza feared them, and had them exterminated.
A flash of light, brighter than the rest. He see's himself, wearing odd orange and blue training gear, laying in a pile of blood. 'No,' Bardock thinks, 'that's not me, my scars aren't there, and I'm not that young.' Then he sees something that resembles Frieza, no wait, it is Frieza, stand over the look alike. He places his three toed foot on to his chest, and begins to slam it down repeatedly, causing the man to cry out in pain, only to cough up blood. He realizes who the man is supposed to be, his son, Kakarot, dying at Frieza's hands. All because he failed here, and didn't kill Frieza himself.
A last flash of light. He sees Frieza's broken body laughing as Duke lays floating in the atmosphere, dying, yet another victim Bardock was unable to protect. He closes his eyes, and Bardock hears a sudden snap, and he can't hear Frieza laughing anymore. All he can hear is an ear-shattering scream, and a loud boom. When he opens his eyes again, Frieza is no longer laughing, instead, he is struck with massive fear. 'What is he afraid of?' Bardock wonders. 'He's got us down to our last legs, down to just me, and there's no way I can beat him, not as powerful as he is.'
Bardock notices something tremendously odd, everything has a weird yellow tint to it. Is his vision going, Bardock wonders. Nonetheless, Frieza isn't moving, so either he is hitting Bardock so hard and fast that he can't feel it or see it, or Bardock is already dead, and seeing hallucinations. So he figures he might as well see if he can move, to see if he can single out one of the options. He tries to fly at the motionless Frieza, and oddly he can see Frieza getting closer. Once Bardock is face to face with him, he notices an odd reflection in his domed cranium. It's of Bardock, but it's different. His eyes aren't black anymore, instead they're green. And his eyebrows, they aren't black anymore either, they're a bright blonde. The most odd appearance is his hair. Not only is the color wrong, but the style is wrong as well. It looks as if he stuck his finger into an electrical generator, and causes his hair to stand on end. His hair is also the same blonde as his eyebrows. A bright yellow glow is emanating off of him, and he concludes that is what I causing the yellow tint to everything.
Then it hits him like a ton of bricks. He's not feeling any more pain, and he's oddly calm. Frieza is cowering in fear of him, the only reason he would do such a thing is if he were faced with an unimaginable force. The only thing that Bardock knows that Frieza fears, is the legend of the Super Saiyan. So he must have triggered a transformation, he must have become the legend, he must be a Super Saiyan. That is the only explanation.
Then, Bardock smiles, and looks Frieza right in the eyes. "What, monkey got your tongue?" He laughs, so hard he can't control himself.
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Bardock has confirmed Frieza's worst fears, and transformed into a Super Saiyan. But at what cost? His team, his friends, and Duke have all died at Frieza's hands. Frieza is already injured severely, but does he stand a chance against a Super Saiyan? We'll see when I update! More reviews and views urge me to continue, so please let me know what you think! Tell others about my stories as well!