Chapter 5: The Fight For Namek
Trunks was surprised to hear Dende say no so quick, but Dende went on to explain.
Dende: "You see our planet is also going through a hard time and I can't leave my people like this."
Trunks: "What do you mean? What's going on?"
Dende: "A couple weeks ago a monster landed on Namek and started terrorizing the planet. He has killed many of our worriers."
Trunks: "That's horrible, why didn't you tell me?" (turning to the elder.)
Grand Elder: "I didn't want you to become involved in our troubles. After all we already have a debt to your people we can never repay."
Trunks: "Look I don't mind to help at all and it's not about debts it's about doing what's right. Does anyone know where this monster is? I'm not sensing anything like you described."
Dende: "Yeah, he covers his power a lot, but he's easy to track. I can lead you to him."
Trunks nodded his head.
Grand Elder: "I thank you Trunks, but please be careful. He is very powerful."
Trunks: "Thanks, and don't worry I wont let this continue to happen to your planet any longer."
Trunks, Dende and 18 started to walk out.
Grand Elder: "Wait a second young lady, you might want to wait here. Where they are going is no place for a girl."
18 crossed her arms: "I may look harmless, but I can actually cause a lot of damage. Don't worry about me."
Trunks: "She's right, she will be fine out there."
Grand Elder: "Okay. Good look to you all. I pray for your safe return."
They took off flying with Dende at the lead. The flew for awhile before the sensed a massive power level. The three of them hovered in the air. Beneath them was a large cave that seemed to be where the source of energy was.
18: "It's in the cave? So what did it sense us coming and hide?"
Dende: "I doubt it. Based upon how it was suppressing its energy before and now its not, I would say it's sleeping."
Trunks: "It's producing this much power while it's sleeping? It must be really strong."
The three of them landed outside the cave near the entrance. From deep within the darkness the sound of the creature snoring was echoing.
Trunks: "Hey 18, let's blast this guys awake." (he said as he powered up to super saiyan.)
18 nodded and the two of them started to fire blasts of energy into the cave. A loud roar was heard from within, indicating that they had hit their target. The ground shook as the creature's massive feet came crashing down from out of the cave. When the whole thing came out it towered over about fifty feet high, but it looked like an infant devil. It was pudgy with yellow-green skin.
Trunks: "So that's him?"
18: "He's big, but he doesn't look that tough."
Dende: "Don't underestimate him. He has an immense of power at his disposal."
The beast looked down at them with his beady yellow eyes. His hand clenched together and a low growl emitted from him. Suddenly he roared loudly and his cry caused the ground to shack. Then he lunged at them, his large fist flying towards them.
Dende: "Move!"
They took to the air. His fist slammed into the ground, nearly missing them. Then his head turned around and his mouth opened wide. A blast of energy erupted from his mouth, flying towards them. They barley got out of the way in time.
18: "That was unexpected; his head turned completely around."
Dende: "Yeah, he's surprisingly mobile."
His head turned forward again and he looked up at them. His arms began spinning in a very machine-like fashion and he charged at them. They moved away from his spinning fists, but he kept at them. Suddenly he began launching blasts of energy at them from his rotating arms. They were able to get out of the way, but each blast caused a massive explosion.
Dende: "He's going to destroy the planet if he keeps this up."
Trunks glared at the monster: "Right, enough of this."
Trunks suddenly appeared in front of the monster's face and his fist collided with the center of his face. The monster went crashing down on the ground. Doing some fancy hand movements, Trunks shot off a burning attack. The beast didn't even bother to dodge and when the attacked hit him he was unaffected. The beast jumped up and his arms came flying up. His hands were smacking together as if Trunks was a fly he was trying to swat. Trunks then flew up and out of range. 18 appeared behind the monster and delivered a kick to the back of his head. The monster just grunted, then turned his head around and fired a blast of energy from its mouth. 18 fired her own blast of energy, but the monster's attack easily knocked hers aside, forcing 18 to dodge the blast. He the charged at her. As 18 moved away from his flying fists, Trunks flew over his head and brought his elbow crashing down on top of the beast's head. It grunted and was taken back a bit, but when it regained its balance it shot a beam of energy from its eyes towards 18. Sensing that the attack wasn't that powerful, 18 got ready to knock it aside.
Dende: "No, that wont work!"
Dende pulled 18 down and the beam went over them. 18 pulled away from him.
18: "Why did you do that?!"
Dende: "You'll thank me later. Believe me you don't want to make contact with one of those beams."
The beast roared loudly and began rotating his arms again. 18 and Dende were cornered and they braced themselves. Trunks then flew in front of them.
Trunks: "Don't worry, I'll handle this." (Trunks increased is power level.)
Dende gasped at his sudden increase of power. The monster charged at them, his arms spinning like helicopter blades. Trunks didn't bother to move, he merely caught on of the monster's spinning arms. No matter how hard the beast pushed, Trunks wouldn't budge. Vanishing from holding the monster's fist, Trunks appeared directly in front of him. Trunks delivered several rapid punches to his chest, following up with a powerful blast. The monster went down, crashing into one of the many large rock formations that covered the land. The beast got to his feet. He stared at Trunks for a few moments, seeming to come to a decision. Then he roared loudly, pounding his fists against his chest.
18: "What's he doing?"
Dende: "I don't know, but it doesn't look good."
A powerful energy aura surrounded the beast as he powered up. All three gasped as his energy skyrocketed. His body turned blood red as his power soured past levels that not even Trunks could fathom. He vanished, moving too fast for them to see. He appeared in the air behind them, firing beams of energy from his eyes. Trunks and 18 were fast enough to avoid the rays, but Dende wasn't so lucky. One of the beams struck him and he vanished in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, in place of Dende there was a miniature doll that looked like him.
Trunks: "He turned him into a doll!"
18: "That's the attack he saved me from earlier."
The beast opened his mouth and sucked inward. The doll flew into his mouth.
Trunks: "You feel that? It just absorbed Dende's power."
18 nodded
Trunks: "Don't worry Dende, we'll find a way to bring you back!"
Trunks flew pass the beast head getting the monster's attention: "18 let's give this guy some target practice."
18: "Got it."
They began flying in different directions around his head. The monster didn't seem to know which one to attack and when. As it proceeded to swat at them, Trunks and 18 began to fire blasts at it as they continued to fly around him. Though the attacks didn't damage the beasts they did make it angry. The monster tensed up and began to gather energy. With a mighty roar, it unleashed a massive amount of energy. Trunks and 18 were thrown back. Trunks had crashed into a large rock and 18 had been thrown back even further.
Trunks: "He has so much power." (His whole body was aching.)
The beast zeroed in on Trunks and fired beams of energy from his eyes towards Trunks
18: "Watch out!" (She said as she flew towards him.)
There was a flash of light and a cloud of smoke appeared. When the smoke cleared there was a miniature doll in the place of 18.
Trunks: "18!"
The small doll fell from the sky. Reaching his arm out Trunks tried to get her before she was sucked into the monster. A sudden suction moved 18 beyond his reach as he sucked her up and swallowed her. His power increased highly.
Trunks: "Oh no! This is not good."