Princess of Saiyans
Chapter 12: The Ginyu Force
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Hey guys! I hope that you enjoying the story so far, sorry it's taken so long. As I have mentioned before, I am hopeless when it comes to fight scenes and there are quite a few of them in this chapter. I apologize if the pacing in this chapter is too fast, but I had a lot of stuff to get in. Please enjoy the newest edition and remember to review it when you're done. Thanks!
Everything happened so quickly. One minute Gohan, Krillin, and Nonica were standing at the place where Vegeta had hidden his dragon balls, arguing about whether or not they trusted him enough to give him his wish. The next they were staring at all five members of the Ginyu Force. They are five of Frieza's most elite warrior. Summoned only for special occasions. Lucky them.
They had lost one dragon ball to Guldo, who can apparently freeze time. The other dragon ball was claimed when Vegeta tried throwing it as hard as he could. The plan was that he would throw the dragon ball and Nonica would chase after it and grab it, then fly away as fast as she could to hide it before the Ginyus even knew she was gone. Unfortunately, a Ginyu Force member named Burter was just that much faster than the Saiyan Princess and retrieved the dragon ball. All the other dragon balls that Vegeta had stolen from Frieza were taken upon the Ginyu Force's arrival. In that moment, all hope of wishing back the others were dashed. Before leaving to take the dragon balls to Frieza, and quite possibly sealing the fate of every living thing in the entire universe, Captain Ginyu told the other that they were free to eliminate the new found team of Gohan, Krillin, Nonica, and Vegeta. The time freezing Guldo and another Ginyu Force member named Recoome won the honor of doing this in a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors". That's it? My fate is to be determined by a simple children's game? Nonica thought as she and the others watched on. Guldo and Recoome stepped up and out from the others. It had been decided that Guldo was going to fight Gohan, Krillin, and Nonica. The Ginyu Force had not yet realized that Nonica was, in fact, the long lost sister of Vegeta. Therefore no one realized that she was a Saiyan and, of course, figure her to be an easy target. Nonica had never met the Ginyu Force before this day, but she had heard about them when she stilled lived with Frieza. The three warriors would have easily defeated the little four eyed freak if it had not been for his ability to freeze time. This made things quite difficult. Guldo had frozen them too many times and he was beginning to run out of energy, so he used a different technique that he was going to use to finish the threesome off. Gohan, Krillin, and Nonica were horrified to find that they couldn't move and were frozen in midair. Guldo was going to use a very large stake that he mind from a tree with his mind to kill Krillin. But, just before Krillin was turned into shish kabob, Vegeta decapitated the time freezer and the trapped warriors were released. Nonica let out a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Vegeta." she said.
"I told you to be careful. You've heard the stories. You should have been able to pulverize that little freak." Vegeta scalded.
"Are you angry because you had to save me?" she said.
Vegeta just scowled at her. "You're not what you use to be. You are not where you should be power wise. You have to start acting like a Saiyan and not an Earthling or you'll die."
Nonica knew that he was right, but she didn't have the time to ponder her brother's words, Recoome was ready to take his turn and fight the Prince of Saiyans.
Recoome was more than Vegeta had bargained for and before he knew it, he was down. Just as Recoome was about to blast Vegeta with a beam from his mouth, Krillin kicked him in the back of the head losing his mouth on his own attack. Nonica then swooped in and kicked him the stomach while Gohan got Vegeta out of the way. They thought the worst was over, but Recoome was still standing. It didn't take much for Recoome to take out Krillin and Nonica. Even Gohan became a victim of the giant warrior's power.
It seemed like all was lost. But then something wonderful came out of the sky. It was a space ship, not just any space ship. It was a Capsule Corp. space ship. It was Goku.
In no time at all, Goku was on the battle field. He gave Gohan, Krillin, and Nonica each a senzu bean. Goku even gave Vegeta a senzu bean, much to everyone's surprise. He simply told them that he did it because Vegeta had teamed up with them to fight those other warriors, so he deserved one. Once everyone was healed, Goku took on Recoome and beat him with one blow to the stomach. Jeice and Burter soon came for Goku, but that quickly proved to be a bad move. Goku had Burter on the ground and Jeice running away in search of the Captain. The others couldn't believe what they had just witnessed. Goku took out these monsters so easily and they had almost died trying to fight them. It was incredible.
"Goku, that was amazing!" Nonica cheered.
"Yeah, you took those guys out like it was nothing." chimed in Krillin.
Vegeta wasn't as thrilled about the events as the others were, convinced that Goku had reached Super Saiyan status. Goku had told the others that he wasn't going to kill Recoome or Burter, saying they were defenseless and wouldn't be able to bother anyone anymore. Vegeta jumped at the chance to kill them and told Goku that they wouldn't have extended him the same courtesy.
Jeice soon returned to the battlefield with Captain Ginyu. "Like a little kid running to his mommy." Nonica scoffed.
"Gohan, Krillin, I want you to go get the radar from Bulma and find the dragon balls." Goku said, "Nonica, I'm gonna need your help with these guys. You up for it?"
Nonica smirked, "Oh, yeah. I'm game."
Goku turned to Vegeta, "I need your help too, Vegeta."
Vegeta shrugged, "Fine."
Gohan and Krillin took off to do as Goku had said. Nonica stood next to her long time friend. Vegeta stood behind Nonica and, just as soon as Goku and Nonica took fighting stance, he knocked out his sister and flew off with her over his shoulder, leaving Goku to face Ginyu and Jeice alone. "Have fun, Kakarot!" he shouted as he carried Nonica away.
Nonica was wakened by the feeling of cold water splashing her face. Some of it went up her nose and it burned like crazy. She sat up with a jolt and looked around. "Where am I?" she asked and put her hand on her forehead. Her head was killing her.
"You're on Frieza's ship. I brought you here." Nonica looked up to see her brother standing over her with a cup in his hand.
"Ok, but why did you bring me here?" she asked, she then started looking frantically around the room, "Where's Goku? What happened?"
"He's fighting Ginyu." Vegeta answered.
"You left him? What is wrong with you? He saved your life. How could you? And then force me to participate in your treachery." Nonica was furious. Her brother had crossed a line. If he wanted to tuck his tail between his legs and run away from a fight that was fine, but he had no right to drag her along with him. Vegeta didn't see his little sister as a "real Saiyan" anymore, but she was more than willing to stand and fight by Goku's.
"I saved your life. Ginyu would have torn you to shreds, but if you are that determined to die, I would be more than happy to oblige you."
Nonica wanted to smack that stupid smirk off his face. He was her brother. They shared the same royal blood, yet they couldn't be more different. Time had changed her for the good. However, the life spent with Frieza had made Vegeta cold and evil. "I believe that you honestly would kill me. You have become a monster, just like Frieza." she said.
"And you have become a sniveling little weakling, just like that dead Namek you came all the way out here to bring back. Honestly, that would such a waste of a wish." Vegeta smirked. The princess didn't know what had come over her. She tripped. Before she knew it, she was flying off the floor and punching Vegeta's face. She got in a few good punches before punched her in the face and sent her flying into the wall. He grabbed her by the neck and slammed her back up against the wall. "Now that's more like it! You still have some Saiyan left in you after all. I must say I'm impressed." Vegeta chuckled, "But, if ever try that again, I will not hesitate to send you meet your Namek in the afterlife. Never forget that I am your superior."
"You are nothing to me, Vegeta. I will never be anything like you, never."
"Then you will always be weak." Vegeta let Nonica go. He walked over to a closet and threw his sister a uniform and boots and gloves. "Go get cleaned up and changed." he said. Nonica took the clothes and went to do as he had ordered. She decided that as soon as she got dressed, she go back to help Goku. She didn't care what Vegeta cared about her. She knew what she was and was glad that she no longer acted like a Saiyan. She wasn't a heartless murderer and she liked it that way.
Nonica washed up and put on the clothes Vegeta had given her. She went down the corridor and quietly peeked in the room that Vegeta was getting cleaned up in. Once she was sure he wasn't going to catch her, she took off down the corridor and out of the hole in the roof. Vegeta was so lost in thought that he didn't even sense Nonica fly away.
Nonica searched for Goku, but what she found was a very injured Captain Ginyu. He was holding his hand over a very large, very deep wound and he could barely walk much less fly. She landed in front. "Aww. Was Goku a bit much than you could handle?" she asked, "Serves you right."
"I would agree with you…if I were Ginyu." he replied.
"What?"
"It's me…Goku…Ginyu somehow stole my body."
"A very convincing story, but how do I know that Goku didn't just beat the crap out of you and you're trying to trick me into helping you?" Nonica then asked.
He looked up at Nonica and answered, "My Saiyan name is Kakarot."
"Oh, please. You could have heard that name from Vegeta." she scoffed.
She turned to walk away when she heard him say, "The first day I met you was Kami's Lookout. I challenged you to spare with me. We fought so long that Kami had to stop us so we could have dinner. You went with me to the World's Martial Arts Tournament. You were there when I married Chi-chi and even when Gohan was born."
Nonica turned with a surprised expression. "Goku? Is that really you in there?" she asked.
"Yeah, pretty weird, huh? I can barely believe it myself." Goku said with a weak smile on his face.
Nonica ran over to him and put his arm around her shoulder to help him stand. "Goku, I'm so sorry. I thought it was a trick." she said.
"It's alright, but we have to hurry and find Gohan and Krillin before Ginyu does."
"Right." Nonica gently hovered into the air and flew off in the direction she had come from. She figured that Ginyu would be heading back to Frieza's ship and that perhaps the dragon balls would somewhere around there and thus so would her other two friends.
Nonica and the Ginyu look alike, Goku, arrived at Frieza's ship in time to see Ginyu in Goku's clothing fighting Gohan and Krillin. They had been too worried about hurting Goku to do anything to him. Goku told them that it was alright and that they had to stop him no matter the cost. Nonica jumped to help, as Jeice and Goku watched on. The threesome was giving the body snatching Captain Ginyu a run for his money and he soon asked for Jeice to step in to assist him. He was all too eager to lend his captain a helping hand, but was totally unaware that the Prince of Saiyans was lurking in the shadows. Vegeta challenged Jeice and the two began to fight. Jeice was easily defeated. After beating Ginyu into a pulp, he made two attempts to steal Vegeta's unharmed, powerful body. This only led to Goku getting his body back and Ginyu getting trapped inside of the body of a simple little Namekian toad. Needless to say that he wouldn't be able to bother anybody else for a while.
Goku was taken inside Frieza's and put in a healing tank. Vegeta gave Krillin and Gohan some uniforms to change into sense their clothes had been torn up in the fight with the Ginyu Force. After a while Krillin decided to go talk to Guru about the password that was needed to summon the Namekian dragon and left Nonica and Gohan with Vegeta. Nonica figured it was a way of making sure Vegeta didn't do anything to Goku while he was gone. She had already decided beforehand to keep a watchful eye on her brother for the very same reason. Vegeta still held a grudge and if he was willing to just abandon Goku during a battle then there was no telling what else he was willing to do.
Gohan had gone outside. Nonica was left standing in the infirmary with the new bane of her existence, Vegeta. He was propped up against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. Nonica stood there, arms crossed, looking at her injured friend. Vegeta looked at the dagger that Nonica now had tied to her thigh. "Tell me something," he said, "Why do you insist on carrying around that little butter knife? What do you thinking you'll accomplish with it?"
Nonica, never looking in Vegeta's direction, replied, "If you continue to flap your gums, I will accomplish slitting your throat."
This made Vegeta laugh loudly. "I guess I had better be careful then. Tell me this, though, where did you get such a dangerous weapon?"
"My adoptive father gave it to me when I was younger as a means of defending myself."
"Adoptive father? Who was he?"
"A Namekian."
"Well, that explains a lot." Vegeta chuckled at this new revelation.
"What does that mean?" Nonica said, turning to face him.
"The reason you are so 'peace loving'. Perhaps even the reason you are so sweet on that Namek Nappa killed."
"I was taught that using violence isn't always the answer. And 'that Namek's' name was Piccolo." Nonica turned and walked out the room not wanting to hear anymore of his crap anymore.
Vegeta soon came outside and announced that he was going to take a nap and that Nonica and Gohan were to keep an eye out for Frieza. He then went back inside the ship. "You know, it still amazes me that you two are related." Said Gohan.
Nonica smiled, "Yeah. The sad thing is that if I hadn't been sent to Earth, I probably would've turned out just like him."
The two sat in silence until Krillin returned with Dende by his side. He told the others that Dende knew the password and that he was going to summon the dragon. Gohan offered to go wake Vegeta, but Krillin said not to. They were going to take them over to the small island next to the ship and call the dragon with Vegeta knowing it. A daring idea indeed.
Nonica knew deep down that it was a very bad idea to leave Vegeta out, but they had to get their friends back and that was more important than making him immortal. Besides, no one in their little group was very keen on making Vegeta immortal anyway. So, they quickly and quietly in getting the dragon balls away from the ship. Dende called the dragon. Just like on Earth, the sky turned black and the dragon balls began to glow. In a bright flash of light the dragon appeared. He was huge and very muscular. He was Purunga and he could ony understand wishes spoken in the Nameks native language. So Dende did the honors, though Nonica understood every word. King Kai had begun to speak to four people standing in front of the dragon. Krillin let them know that they would be back soon. But when they tried to wish everyone back at once, the dragon, in Namekain no less, informed them that they could only wish back one at a time and they only had three wishes. With four fallen friends waiting to come back from the dead, they were stumped about which three should be allowed to come back. That was when Piccolo began to speak. As his voice filled her head, Nonica's heart began to pound. How long had it been since she had last heard that voice? She couldn't help but smile. Piccolo told them that they needed to wish him back, which didn't really sit well with Chiaotzu, Tien, and Yamcha. He then explained that if he were brought back then so would Kami and thus the Earth dragon balls would come back. That settled it and Dende was asked to tell the dragon that they wanted Piccolo brought back first. Once his halo disappeared Piccolo said that he wanted to be wished to Namek because he wanted to defeat Frieza for the things he had done to his people. This didn't sit well with King Kai, who had made them promise not to fight Frieza. They wished for Piccolo to be sent to Namek anyway. Nonica looked around, "Where is he?" she asked.
"Yeah I don't see him anywhere. What happened?" Krillin replied.
"We missed up, guys. We should have told Purunga to send him to this spot." Dende answered.
"Well, do that with the last wish." Nonica said.
"Yeah, okay." Dende turned back to the dragon and was about to make the wish when Vegeta crashed the party. And man was he mad.
"You thought you were gonna get away with calling the dragon without me? You thought you were going to steal my chance to become immortal?" he said. Nonica stepped in front of her friends, her hand on her dagger. "And just what do you think you're going to do? You think you can protect them?"
"I'll damn well sure try." She said.
"Vegeta, you can still get your wish. We haven't used the last one yet." Gohan chimed.
"Gohan, why did you have to tell him that?" Krillin said. Vegeta immediately demanded his wish from young Dende, but Dende refused. He wasn't going to give an evil man immortality. When Vegeta stormed past Nonica, Gohan, and Krillin and grabbed the young Namekian up off the ground by his collar, the others told him to just do it. Dende finally agreed and Vegeta tossed him to the ground.
"Was that really necessary?" Nonica asked.
"Quite." Vegeta replied. Nonica rolled her eyes. Dende got up and started talking to the dragon when something happened that no one expected. The dragon started to smoke and then disappeared. The dragon balls turned to stone and, instead of shooting out in every direction, fell to the ground. Vegeta said that he didn't feel any different and questioned whether or not he was immortal. Dende explained that Guru, the creator of the dragon balls, had passed on and in doing so took the dragon balls with him. Vegeta began to rant about how he was going to make them pay for costing him his opportunity and that Frieza was going to kill all of them.
"You have no idea what he is capable off. He is going to ki…" Vegeta had stopped in mid sentence. He stood opened mouthed and a little pale side. He was looking up toward a cliff and when Nonica turned to see what was causing him to stand there stunned, she let out a terrified gasp.
Frieza was standing there. He had a little bit of an evil smirk on his face. "Well, it seems I've caught you all red handed." He said. They were all utterly terrified.
All the memories of Nonica's past came flooding back to her. All she could feel was fear and helplessness. "We're going die." She whispered.
Frieza has arrived to find that the fighters from Earth have already summoned the dragon. He is not in a forgiving mood. The only hope for our heroes lays in Goku, but he is still recuperating from the battle with the Ginyu Force. Even Piccolo can offer no help because he is on the other side of the planet. What will happen when the battle between Frieza and the remaining members of the Z Warriors begins? Will Goku be able to heal and get to his friends in time? Find out next time in the next chapter of….Princess of Saiyans.
There you have it. Chapter 12. So sorry that it was taken me so long to write this. Things have been so crazy lately. Hopefully I will be able to update this story regularly from now on. Thanks to everyone that kept coming back waiting to find what was to come next and I hope that it was worth your wait. Be sure to check out the new update on my other story, "Zarbon's New Playmate" and be sure to back next time for chapter 13…coming soon. Remember to leave me a review and let me know how I'm doing. Thanks again and I'll see you next time.