Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
The Z-Fighters, both those who had seen Frieza and those who grew up hearing about him, stood in complete awe at him standing atop the remains of his ship, the remaining Frieza Forces floating right behind him. All except one, who fell onto knees.
"I put everything I had into that..." muttered Yamcha. "And it didn't even phase him."
Chi-Chi pulled him back up.
"It's not over yet. We have to be ready."
With her words, Yamcha began to change his attitude.
Pan, Bulla, and Kani had only heard about Frieza in stories, primarily how Goku had gone Super Saiyan for the first time while facing him. How he was thought to be dead after Goku left him to his own devices, only for the tyrant to try blasting him from behind, forcing Goku to fire back on him. And yet here he was, brought to life before them.
None of the three could hide the fear on their faces, especially since none of the grown-ups around them could either. If even Vegeta and Piccolo, both of whom they considered to be absolutely fearless, were struggling not to cower in front of them, then they knew the worst had yet to come.
But even then, Goten approached Vegeta and, while not immune to the shock of seeing one of his father's worst enemies alive and well before them, composed himself just enough to calmly place both hands over Vegeta's shoulders.
"Vegeta... we still have the strongest warrior on the planet, right?"
The former Saiyan prince knew that Goten wasn't trying to appeal to his pride, but rather acknowledging that Vegeta had become far stronger than he was in the past. He turned to Trunks and Gohan.
"You two! On me!"
The four Saiyans met in the middle as Vegeta began laying out a plan.
"Frieza's faced a Super Saiyan before... but he has never faced four at once."
"FOUR Super Saiyans? Not just Uncle Goten and my dad?"
Pan kept it to herself, but she knew her parents would have a lot of explaining to do when this was all over.
The Frieza Forces were growing impatient as they watched the Z-Fighters huddled together.
"Lord Frieza, shouldn't we strike while they're talking among themselves?"
The tyrant simply watched the humans, Saiyans, and the rest without any care or concern on his face.
"Oh, let them talk. Nothing they could plan can stop me now."
From what Pan could see, Vegeta was looking like a leader with his posture and tone.
"Listen well: we need to go all out from the very start. Don't hold back anything and go for the kill! We can't afford to let him power up!"
She could tell from Vegeta's choice of words that he had internalized lessons learned from what had happened in the past: his own advice was a rebuke of his own actions against Cell.
"As for the rest of you..."
He turned to everyone else.
"It will be up to you to stop the remainder of his forces. You can't count on us to help you this time: Frieza will need our full attention. So fight like your lives depend on it."
Pan and Bulla nodded back to him as the other Z-Fighters simply readied themselves.
"Gohan, come up with a plan of attack."
He then turned to Trunks.
"Trunks, you've never faced someone like Frieza before, so pay attention."
His son took in every word his father had said thus far.
"You must not refrain. You cannot underestimate him. And you need to protect yourself at all times. We're counting on you, son."
He nodded back, then got himself ready. Vegeta finally turned his attention to Bulla, walking over to her.
"Bulla..."
He hugged her.
"You already know the risks. Should anything happen to me..."
Even then, Bulla didn't care for that last choice of words.
"Don't talk like that, Dad."
Vegeta paused for just a moment afterward, realizing he was giving his daughter his last will.
"Just promise me you'll take care of your mother."
Finally, she took in what he had said.
"I will, Dad. I promise."
Pan was silent throughout the whole thing, not wanting to butt in, but then decided to intrude after his last words.
"Mr. Vegeta..."
He turned to Pan, who once again struggled to find the right words to say to him.
"I... I just wanted to say..."
Not wanting to keep him from what he had to do, she blurted out the first thing she could think of.
"Good luck."
He smirked, then turned in the direction of Frieza's ship. Finally, Gohan approached Vegeta with Goten and Trunks behind him.
"It's time, Vegeta."
"Have you said your good-byes, Gohan?"
He looked over at Pan, who couldn't help but shake the feeling that Bulla's father and her own were acting like this was going to be their last battle.
"Dad... I..."
"It's alright, Pan. Look after your mother and grandmother while we're up there."
She could only nod back to him, still unable to find what to say at this moment. Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, and Goten all turned to the remaining Z-Fighters.
"All of you... fight for our homes so we can go back to them when this is all over."
The four then charged with ki and shouted as golden auras overtook all of them. Goten went Super Saiyan first, followed by her father. Vegeta transformed third, his mustache also taking on a golden hue, and Trunks shortly afterward, a partial glow across his stubble as well. Pan was in awe.
"All four of them... at once..."
Bulla pat Pan on the back.
"You see, Pan? If all of them can do it... so can you."
Pan was starting to feel some of her Super Saiyan anxiety drop. She then pat Bulla on the back as well.
"You too, you know."
The two looked over at a puddle below them, seeing their reflections, as well as part of the four Super Saiyans' glow.
"I always have wondered how I'd look with blonde hair..."
This comment by Bulla brought out a chuckle by Pan.
Finally, Frieza saw the four Super Saiyans flying in his direction.
"What are our orders, Lord Frieza?"
"Leave those golden-haired monkeys to me."
He then pointed to the rest of the Z-Fighters.
"But do take care of the rest."
"Yes, Lord Frieza!"
The soldiers flew off around the Super Saiyans' direction, whom simply continued their course to the tyrant. He looked closely at all of them as they made their way to him, starting with a familiar face.
"Prince Vegeta is a Super Saiyan? Now that is a surprise."
He looked to the one next to him.
"The brat on Namek. Goku's son, wasn't it?"
Next to Gohan was another familiar face... one that enraged him to no end.
"I know that one. I've memorized that face since my death."
Lastly was a new one... though his hair and face were very reminiscent of someone.
"That one... trying to look like Goku..."
But even then, he took in the calm before the storm even as Goten threw the first punch. He caught it with one hand, then one by Trunks with his other hand.
"Alright, we're running low on senzu beans, so we'd better watch ourselves out there," stated Yajirobe, who placed his sash back over onto his belt.
The Z-Fighters, whom were reaching their limits earlier, were rejuvenated and ready even as the remains of Frieza's soldiers approached them.
Chi-Chi, Videl, Pan, and Bulla all ran into one batch, feet swinging as pieces of helmets, scouters, and armor were sent flying around them.
Tien, Chiaotzu, Kani, and Launch all blasted at their opposition with dodon rays, or a barrage of bullets in Launch's case.
Androids 17 and 18, Piccolo, and Yajirobe decimated anyone that crossed them, whether with ki, fists, feet, or Yajirobe's blade.
"So your whole deal is beans and a sword?" inquired 17 as he blasted away one goon.
"Oh I'm sorry," replied Yajirobe, stabbing his sword through another, then pushing forward to also pin another soldier behind that one. "And what exactly have you done since the Cell Games?"
"Focus on the fight, you two!" shouted Piccolo, firing a burst from his hands right into the face of a soldier.
"Thank you," said 18, casually punching a soldier with her back turned.
Master Roshi, Yamcha, Krillin, and Hercule punched their way through the waves before them.
"You know..." Hercule began, putting a Frieza soldier in a choke hold. "I always wondered whatever happened to that Jackie Chun guy."
"Actually, now that I think about it..." Yamcha added, chopping a soldier so hard his helmet and armor were split in two. "Roshi, you almost have the same beard as him."
"I mean, kind of..." went Krillin after kicking one into a group, knocking them away like bowling pins. "But Roshi doesn't have his head of hair."
"The truth is..." started Roshi, throwing his cane in a circle around him, knocking down all the soldiers surrounding him before catching it without looking. "I was Jackie Chun."
Both of Roshi's students' jaws dropped.
"Wait... you mean that... I was right all this time?!"
"You beat me and Yamcha in the 21st tournament... and we didn't even have a clue."
Hercule, however, was satisfied with having his inquiry answered, as well as the fact that he had choked the Frieza soldier in his arms unconscious.
"Huh. Well how about that..."
Meanwhile, all four Super Saiyans were attacking Frieza with their full power, making sure not to allow the tyrant any room to slip through. Sure enough, the tyrant realized he could overpower them individually, but as a unit, they were closely matched.
"Don't think just because you've survived this long that this makes you four equal to me."
Frieza went for a death beam aimed at Gohan, one which Vegeta knocked away with his hand.
"Now, Gohan! Do it!"
With a thunderous shout, an even greater golden aura shined across Gohan's body.
"What?!"
Frieza's shock at another level of Super Saiyan was interrupted by a punch from Gohan, followed by a barrage of strikes.
Pan and everyone else around her looked out for just a moment, seeing her dad glowing with an even more golden hue as he and the others began landing blows on the alien tyrant.
With a colossal two-handed swing, Frieza was knocked down onto the top of his ship, bleeding from his lip as he saw the four Super Saiyans floating at his level, readying their trademark beams.
"Ka...me...ha... me..." went Gohan and Goten.
"Galick Gun..." followed Vegeta and Trunks.
Frieza didn't even look over at the impending attacks and closed his eyes.
"Haaaa!"
"Fire!"
The four beams moved rapidly towards Frieza, then collided with each other. Soon afterward, a massive explosion of ki was unleashed, pushing back the four Super Saiyans.
The Frieza Force stopped for just a moment as they heard this behind them, then saw their ship practically scrap metal at this point... and no sign of...
"Lord Frieza!" cried out one of the soldiers.
Just then, Hercule kicked him in the shin, causing that soldier to fall onto the ground, grabbing onto it while writhing in pain.
"Ha, ha! Don't mess with Earth!"
The Four Super Saiyans looked over at the wreckage from their combination attack. The ship was completely destroyed... but did it really vaporize Frieza?
"We did it, Dad! We've...!"
"This isn't over, Trunks." started Vegeta. "Not by a long shot! Don't you dare lower your guard now!"
After Vegeta's warning, they turned their heads quickly, trying to find out where Frieza had gone.
"I can't read him," started Goten. "Is he on top of us or below us?"
"Alright, let's split up and find him. Goten, you and I will..."
But just as Gohan was starting to formulate a plan, he saw something golden floating right behind his younger brother. Before he could even form words of any kind, Goten felt two hands grabbing onto the top of his head and his chin.
"G...!"
Even in his Super Saiyan form, the grip couldn't be broken: like the hands were glued to him... no, piercing into his very skull.
"O...!"
**CRACK!**
Goten's neck was broken. The life left his eyes and his hair reverted back to its original form. Frieza, his entire body in a golden hue, grinned at the other three Super Saiyans as he held this fallen Saiyan.
"TEEEEEN!"
Frieza noted that Goten's hairstyle looked like that of Goku's.
"So... he had another son, did he?"
Gohan charged with ki, his teeth grinding.
"You... you killed my brother!"
Trunks too was infuriated.
"He was my best friend... you monster!"
Frieza then looked over at Vegeta.
"Nothing to say, Prince Vegeta?"
Vegeta could see that Gohan and Trunks were losing it and as infuriated as Vegeta was, he knew they had to control their emotions.
"Control yourselves! Now!"
He then fired a barrage of ki blasts at Frieza, whom didn't even move. Instead, Frieza used Goten's body as a shield.
"Father, stop!"
"He's already dead, Trunks! Whatever it takes to stop him!"
Frieza finally threw Goten's body toward Trunks, who couldn't help but try to catch him.
"Trunks, no!"
But even as Vegeta cried out for his son not to try it, Trunks felt a massive hole in his chest: Frieza had pierced through him and Goten's body with a much larger beam.
"TRUNKS!"
From below, the Z-Fighters watched as Goten and Trunks fell to the ground below with their hair reverted back to normal. Chi-Chi, Pan, and Bulla ran over to them immediately. When they finally reached them, Chi-Chi shook Goten's body for any signs of life.
"My boy... my baby boy...no..."
Her youngest son was dead in her arms. The boy who lived his life trying to become like his father... like Goku.
"Uncle... Goten..."
Pan was trying to keep it together in the face of everything around her, though tears were still slipping past her face. But then she saw her best friend kneeling over Trunks' body, seeing the gaping hole in him firsthand, yet still trying to bring him back.
"Trunks! No! You can't be gone! Come on! Stay with us, Trunks!"
Pan put her hand over Bulla's shoulder and shook her head, telling Bulla that there was nothing more they could do.
"Vegeta..." Gohan started, seeing Vegeta starting to charge violently with ki. "We have to focus! We'll work together and we'll..."
He couldn't listen to Gohan even if he tried: he had to suffer the fate of watching his son die twice in the same way, and both with him being helpless to do anything to stop it. He screamed in a blind rage, flying right at Frieza, who didn't look the least bit concerned.
"Oh ho... you had a child?"
He effortlessly dodged Vegeta's onslaught while further taunting him.
"And with an Earthling no less?"
Pan and Bulla could hear Frieza's voice even from down there.
"And to think had your succeeded in killing Goku, you would have conquered the Earthlings, if not destroyed the planet."
Pan and Bulla were stunned at the accusations Frieza was making. Kani heard it as well and turned to her father.
"Dad, what is he talking about?"
"Tell me, Prince Vegeta: after all the people you've killed, all the innocents you slaughtered... do you really think starting a family resolves you of your past?"
Bulla was shaken by Frieza's words about her father. While part of her figured Frieza was lying and trying to get to everyone, she also couldn't shake the feeling that she really didn't hear much about her father's past aside from his rivalry with Goku.
Pan as well. All her life, Vegeta was reserved and kept to himself. He had told her that his pride had led him down a destructive path and now Pan had to wonder if that path really led him to do what Frieza was stating he had done.
"Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUP!"
Vegeta kept trying to move faster or hit harder to get Frieza, yet nothing had worked.
Gohan flew in from the other side to strike Frieza from behind.
"Oh, one moment..."
Gohan saw his two-handed strike stopped by only Frieza's hand, a finger of which then pointed right at him. Another death beam fired, one Gohan desperately tried to fly over, but which still struck him in the stomach.
"Now then..."
With a swing of his tail, Gohan's stomach was struck, sending him rocketing to the ground below and leaving a crater.
"Where were we?"
Pan saw her father crashing to the ground.
"Bulla! Get back to the group! Now!"
She ran to Gohan, then signalled her grandmother to come to her.
"Gohan?"
He coughed up some blood and a tear in his top revealed that the swing from Frieza left him with severe bruising.
"Can't feel... legs."
"Dad!"
Pan turned back to the group from afar, seeing Yajirobe kneeling with his sword flat on the ground from all the fighting.
"Senzu bean, quick!"
He reached into his bag and threw it as hard as he could even as he saw another Frieza soldier coming near him. Chi-Chi caught it, then handed it to Pan, who fed it to Gohan.
After eating it, Gohan got back onto his feet.
"Dad, what do we do now?"
Gohan looked over at Frieza, then at the fighting going on from the ground.
"We have to survive, Pan. That's all we can do right now."
"Maybe it's my golden form and not you, but I am disappointed, Vegeta. You've gotten soft."
Even with his rage, Vegeta was starting to tire.
"You were better off as you were: prideful, merciless, and cruel. What are you now?"
Vegeta got his hands together to fire off something, but Frieza grabbed them and pulled them to the side, dissipating the attack. The Saiyan prince felt helpless in his grip, like he was being held by a god.
"Now then... where is Goku?"
"Kakarot's dead, Frieza."
At first, Frieza looked disappointed.
"I came all this way just so he could see his home and people suffer with his very eyes... and now..."
But then he grinned.
"Oh, of course. He can still see it all in the afterlife, completely powerless to do anything about it."
He released Vegeta's arms, then placed his hand over his chest.
"And you can experience it first-hand."
A purple explosion of ki went off as Vegeta hit the ground, most of his armor destroyed and his chest almost completely bare with bruising.
Bulla ran over to her father.
"My Bulla..."
"Dad... everything he said... is it...?"
"It's true."
He slowly got off his back.
"Everything he said... is true."
Bulla didn't know what to think: she loved her father, but it was still so much to take in.
"But you can be a better person than I was."
Yajirobe walked over to Vegeta, offering him a sensu bean.
"No... save it for someone who desperately needs it."
"But you survived a hit from him."
"Because he WANTED me to! He's toying with me! With us! Which is why I suspect he hasn't attacked you all yet."
Frieza floated off the ground, watching the remaining Earthlings, Saiyans and the rest trying to recuperate from their two losses and from Gohan and Vegeta's injuries.
"It's all so easy... I really overtrained for this."
Just then, he saw someone running on the ground in his direction.
Tien turned and saw Launch running towards Frieza with a rocket launcher in hand, one with a massive payload on the tip of it. She ran so frantically that she tripped on a large piece of debris and fell.
"Launch!"
Kani saw this as well.
"Mom!"
Launch began getting back to her feet, but she also took in some dust from the nearby debris. She tried to hold it in, but sneezed.
**POOF!**
Her hair had turned blue and her eyes green again as her husband and daughter came to her aid.
"What are you doing? We're outmatched here! We have to come up with a plan!"
Launch lifted the rocket launcher back into her arms.
"This is the only plan we have."
She saw Tien and Kani trying to hold her back, to pull her back to safety.
"Mom, you can't..."
"They need your help. Now go... please."
They loosened their grip just enough that Launch could continue where she left off. The two turned around and saw that, sure enough as Launch had said, the group needed their help.
"If it isn't Prince Vegeta?"
A group of Frieza soldiers pointed their hands at him, as he was still no position to fight right this moment.
"We'll send you to..."
This soldier was struck by Bulla, several of his teeth flying.
"Get away from my father!"
The others aimed at her.
"Power Pole Extend!"
Bulla ducked as a swing from the Power Pole knocked the others onto the ground, where Videl and Chi-Chi could get hits in on them. Pan realized there were more approaching her from behind.
"Pan, look ou...!"
As she saw the men about to fire, Tien and Kani flew into them, knocking them away from her.
Launch was in her more kind-hearted personality and she couldn't count on finding anything she could use to get her to sneeze again. Even then, she didn't want to waste time as Frieza remained still in midair.
"Only have one shot at this..."
In the past, she had been clumsy with a rocket launcher when up against Demon King Piccolo. But now, she had a family at stake. She looked through the scope, ensuring the aim was true: this rocket wasn't heat-seaking like the other.
As she pulled the trigger, the sheer force of it pushed her back, but the rocket headed right for Frieza as she had hoped.
"What's this?"
Frieza turned his attention away from the Z-Fighters and saw the rocket heading right for him. It was going at a very high speed...
...for a human. For Frieza, he could gracefully move to the side of it, then grab hold of it in his hands. He held the rocket in his hands, looking over it while it still launched fire from behind it. He chuckled, seeing it as nothing to him.
"Primitive creatures..."
He looked down at the woman who had fired it at her, who was in shock that he was holding it like a toy.
The other Z-Fighters saw this as well. Tien and Kani both looked over at Launch in utter terror. Frieza had just turned the rocket in the other direction towards her. By the time he'd let it go, they didn't know if they could reach Launch in time at that distance.
"No..."
Frieza released the rocket, which zoomed towards Launch, who didn't even look at it. Instead, she turned towards her husband and daughter, her hand signalling them not to come closer to her. She said something, but neither could hear it in the moment.
"I love you both."
**BOOM!**
The blast was huge. Even larger than the one from before. Tien and Kani were both pushed off their feet and even some of the Z-Fighters could feel a harsh wind pushing them back.
When the dust settled... there was nothing left of Launch. Not even anything to bury.
Kani fell to her knees, sobbing at what became of her mother. Tien, however, squeezed his fingers in a fist so tight they were cutting into his palms, which bled.
"You..."
He zoomed out into the sky on his own over Frieza.
"You killed her!"
Frieza scoffed at this.
"Oh please. She killed herself."
Grinding his teeth, nearly to the point of cracking, he put his hands in a diamond shape.
"Oh, and what is that supposed to be?"
"KI...KO...HO!"
A yellow beam fired from his palms, knocking Frieza downward. Tien flew after him unrelentingly, firing it once more.
"KIKO...HO!"
This sent Frieza to the ground, where he stood on his feet as Tien flew in for the next one.
"KI...KOHO!"
Now Frieza had been pushed underground, unable to be seen by the others as Tien's skin showed his veins pulsing.
Kani could see all this happening and tried flying over to her father.
"Dad, no!"
She saw her path blocked by Frieza soldiers.
"KI...KO...HO! KI...KO...HO! KI...KO...HO!"
Countless more times, Tien fired the Tri-Beam, not even caring about his own life energy at this point. He was truly in a rage that could nearly challenge that of a Super Saiyan's.
"Kiko... Kiko..."
But his arms finally fell to his sides and he couldn't bring himself to float any further. He fell towards the massive hole he had left in the ground. As his vision began to blur, all he could see was the darkness of that hole... and a golden flash heading right for him.
Kani and the other Z-Fighters could hear a scream of pain coming from Tien, then saw Frieza holding him by the head... with his pinky and thumb. They couldn't even see Frieza's other three fingers, but they could guess what Frieza had plunged them into.
"Well, at least he dug up his own grave first."
He tossed Tien down, his three fingers slick with his blood, as Kani could only see her father's pierced eyes and lifeless face.
Yamcha grabbed onto her, trying to keep her in place.
"Kani, listen, please! We have to regroup! We can't...!"
During this, Kani had created another clone of herself, one of which punched Yamcha in the gut, forcing him to let her go. She then flew after Frieza.
"Kani!"
Frieza could see this woman, having split herself into four and each sporting four arms with her lefts and rights preparing the same technique her father had used.
"This again?"
"Kikoho!"
He was definitely pushed forward and backward by this close-range quadruple Tri-Beam, but it still wasn't appearing to damage him.
"Please... try again."
Kani had already transitioned to a sixteen-armed assault, all of the strikes which Frieza blocked with ease. As she continued on, something painful struck her: Frieza had broken one of her clone's arms with a casual chop.
With that clone preoccupied with its injury, he immediately struck the other three to his sides and behind him with his hands and tail. All three were pierced in the chest, left to fall to the ground until they reemerged back into Kani.
"Oh dear."
Kani still floated, but felt an immense pain in her chest: she wasn't cut like her clones had been, but the pain was still there. In that moment of taking in her injury, Frieza pointed a finger right at her forehead.
Yamcha watched in horror and agony as Kani, the daughter of one of his best friends, who was the closest thing he had to a child of his own, fell lifelessly into the same hole as Tien.
"That is it! I'm...!"
Gohan grabbed him by the hand, his grip clearly stronger than anything Yamcha could muster in his anger.
"No! We're not fighting him one-on-one anymore!"
The other Z-Fighters stood behind them, each terrified at what they had seen and the loss they had experienced thus far, but also hardened from the ongoing battle.
"We fight together! As one!"
Even with five of them having fallen and even with Frieza's new unimaginable power, they wouldn't stop fighting.
"This is our home," said Vegeta.
Yamcha finally gained control over himself, to which Gohan let him go. From there, they flew upward, with Yajirobe hitching a ride with Gohan and Chi-Chi with Videl.
"All you've done is accelerate the inevitable."
Yajirobe lunged at Frieza, his sword drawn, when he saw it clang against Frieza's head, almost like he was made of metal. As his sword left his hands, Frieza grabbed onto him, caught his sword, then threw him high into the air with the sword in pursuit.
As Yajirobe fell, his sword's handle piercing through his chest, Krillin threw a destructo-disk, which Frieza practically caught in his hand. He tossed it downward at a far higher speed, tearing through Piccolo before he could react.
"PICCOLO!"
Krillin could barely move after seeing one of his allies cut in half by his own move.
"Krillin, move!"
He did as Androids 17 and 18 flew right at Frieza for a combination attack. As the two went for their blow, Frieza simply pierced through both with his hands, then both could only see a faint glow of ki within their bodies.
"NOOO!"
Krillin saw both his wife and her twin brother explode before him, then saw himself being lifted up further into the air against his will.
"I don't think I've ever killed someone twice."
Krillin didn't even have to guess what his fate would be, closing his eyes before he was detonated.
Chiaotzu grabbed onto Frieza, charging with a white aura.
"This is for you, Tien..."
Yamcha threw a massive Spirit Ball at Frieza to get his attention, but it was knocked away with one hand as Frieza then stabbed through Chiaotzu with his tail.
"Chiaotzu!"
Frieza turned his head towards Chiaotzu, who was still intend on self-destructing to bring him down.
"You really shouldn't throw your life away without a friend."
He looked downward at the assembling warriors and saw Pan and Bulla flying in close proximity of each other.
"Or why not two?!"
Chiaotzu was launched at the two, unable to control his self-destruct at this point: he had become a time bomb.
Pan and Bulla were shaken by everything they had seen thus far, and now the deaths were rapidly increasing.
Yamcha saw Chiaotzu flying in their direction and, knowing the risk, flew into them.
"Look out!"
He shoved Pan and Bulla far to the side, then was struck by the flying Chiaotzu, the impact of which left a large explosion.
"YAMCHA!"
Master Roshi fired off beams of lightning from his hands at Frieza, creating an electrical field. Frieza appeared panicked, as if unable to move.
"Gohan! Vegeta! NOW!"
Both Super Saiyans began charging their trademark beams. Even still, Frieza couldn't do anything about it.
"Hah!"
Roshi saw Frieza break through the field with ease and just as a quick Kamehameha left Roshi's hands towards him, Frieza flew through it, then stabbed through his neck.
He tossed the body at Vegeta, whose Galick Gun was interrupted, as Gohan's Kamehameha fired all the same. Frieza only pointed a single hand at him.
"YOU FOOL!"
A massive purple beam fired from his hands, easily enveloping the Kamehameha as Gohan saw that he was too late to escape. The beam had trapped him as he saw the fabric of his outfit tearing away before his eyes. He then flew backward helplessly, feeling himself being torn apart by the beam.
"Before I kill you, Vegeta, which one down there is your child?"
He pointed at Pan from below.
"This one?"
He then turned to Bulla.
"Or this one?"
Frieza could tell by Vegeta's expression that he had found her.
"Don't you dare... YOU WON'T HURT MY BULLA!"
Frieza saw Vegeta charging with even more ki, something going on behind him.
"Now what could this be?"
He watched in intrigue as Vegeta's hair grew massive, flowing behind his back.
"Ah, another Super Saiyan form, is it?"
Vegeta punched Frieza in the face, which, this time, actually caused him to flinch with some discomfort. By the time Vegeta threw another punch, Frieza caught it while his other hand wiped a drop of blood from his lip.
As he tried to free himself of Frieza's grip, he soon realized Frieza had wrapped his tail around his neck, choking him. He turned Vegeta around, then punched him in the back.
"Don't worry: your Bulla will join you soon."
Just then, Vegeta felt Frieza's fist piercing through his back and into his chest, as if Frieza had his hand on Vegeta's heart.
Then a squeeze.
In the span of just a few moments, Pan and Bulla saw ten of their loved ones, including their own fathers, slain.
"Pan! Bulla!"
Chi-Chi, Videl, and Hercule all ran to the two of them, elated that Pan and Bulla were still with them, but still processing the grief of losing the others. Pan and Bulla couldn't even look at them.
"What can we even do now?"
The three adults didn't know how to answer. They all knew that if the four Super Saiyans, the strongest warriors on the planet, couldn't defeat Frieza, that they didn't have a chance either.
Just then, they heard something.
"H...hello?"
A cough.
"Is anyone there?"
Much more coughing now.
The five of them approached a crumbling building, then saw a body sitting up with his back against it in an orange turtle gi.
"Yamcha!"
But as much as they were relieved he was still alive, it was broken by the fact that his orange gi was stained with his blood and drips of blood fell from his mouth.
"You're all... still here. I'm... glad."
From nearby, they saw Yajirobe's body, still impaled by his own sword... and with the bag of sensu beans still attached to it.
"Yamcha, you're going to be okay!"
Pan rushed over and grabbed the bag, then hurried to open it as Yamcha coughed up more blood.
"Just hold on a little longer..."
As Pan finally opened it, about to reach her hand into the bag.
**ZAP!**
The bag erupted into flames before her very eyes: a blast had struck it. The sensu beans were reduced to little more than ashes, even as Pan desperately tried to pull one out.
"Earthlings..."
She felt herself being lifted off the ground by Frieza's tail.
"PAN!" screamed Bulla.
"Your champions have fallen. This planet belongs to me and your race will serve me now."
He could see Videl and Chi-Chi poised to strike, so he pointed one finger at Pan's head.
"Ah, ah, ah. Try anything and I'll kill this brat. Now get on your knees. All of you."
The four of them did as Frieza asked.
"Good. Men?"
They couldn't believe their eyes: dozens, maybe fifty soldiers remained.
"Round up these humans. Walk them over there and wait for my next set of instructions."
Frieza threw Pan to the ground, gasping for air, as the four tried helping her up.
"What about this one, sir?"
One of the soldiers pointed to Yamcha, who could barely lift up his right arm with his left.
"He's done for. Leave him."
Pan and the other four got onto their feet and walked forward, a row of Frieza soldiers aiming their hands at them the entire time. During this, Frieza walked over to Yamcha.
"I'm rather surprised you are still breathing... but how does it feel to be the last of your friends?"
Yamcha was looking away from him.
"Look at me!"
He then realized Yamcha was looking at the five being escorted by Frieza's men.
Pan fell onto her stomach.
"You! Runt! Get back up!"
Bulla stood in front of Pan.
"Have a heart! She's in bad shape!"
The goons pushed her to the side, then lifted Pan upward.
"I mean just look at her!"
They did, seeing her with her eyes closed. But then she placed her hands to her face and opened her eyes wide open.
"Solar FLARE!"
The soldiers around them were blinded, allowing Pan to break free from the one holding her.
"NOW!"
The five of them ran, even as the soldiers unaffected fired at them.
Frieza then looked back at Yamcha's arms: he grasped his right with his left while pointing his two fingers downward. Frieza realized what technique he was using.
"Y'know... I forgot all about that Spirit Ball."
The Frieza soldiers saw a massive shadow coming their way, then saw the massive Spirit Ball from before rocketing towards them and exploding.
Before Frieza could kill this insufferable human, he saw Yamcha drawing his last breath, his head lying against the crumbling building. He then zoomed past the few of his men that survived.
The five of them hurried on foot, panting heavily and trying to come up with a plan.
"Yamcha... he gave his life for us..." Pan mused.
"There's time to mourn later, young lady", said Chi-Chi. "We have to find Fortuneteller Baba."
Both Pan and Bulla have never heard of this person before.
"Who is Fortuneteller Baba?" asked Bulla.
"She's Roshi's older sister. And she's the only hope we have now."
"What can she do?"
"She can summon someone who can help us..."
"Who?"
"..."
Frieza stood in front of them, catching Chi-Chi with his hand, which stabbed into her stomach.
"You Earthlings do know how to toy with my men... but my patience with you has run dry."
Chi-Chi punched at Frieza's face as Hercule grabbed onto Frieza's tail. Videl ran to sweep at his leg.
"Both of you..." shouted Chi-Chi to Pan and Bulla, who were frozen in place. "Get out of here!"
Could Pan do it? Could Pan really abandon the rest of her family here and now?
Frieza swung his tail, throwing Hercule a far distance, then grabbed hold of Videl by her hair. He slammed her and Chi-Chi into each other head-to-head. The two lied on the ground, trails of blood running from their foreheads while barely able to breath.
"Oh please, do run along. I won't even take a minute to catch up with you two."
Pan and Bulla's fists dug into their palms as the two flew at him.
"Good."
He swerved in midair, slamming both of them into the ground with just his tail.
"You've saved us all time."
As Frieza approached the two, who were slow to get up, he felt something pulling on his leg: Chi-Chi.
"Leave them alone, you... you..."
He looked Chi-Chi in the eyes, then realized something.
"Your eyes... like Goku's child..."
He then turned back to Pan.
"And hers... oh, ho, ho. Goku has a granddaughter."
He then turned his attention to both of them.
"And here I am with both Goku and Vegeta's offspring."
Videl kicked Frieza from behind, then ran in to punch him in the jaw.
"Amusing..."
He booted Chi-Chi back, then lifted Videl into the air with both arms.
"...but fragile."
He slammed Videl onto his knee.
**CRACK!**
Pan couldn't even tell if her mother was barely alive or lifelessly dead.
"Mom..."
"I'm sorry... was that your mommy?"
He let her roll onto the ground, then continued walking towards them.
"Oh come now. Don't cry..."
"PAN, BEHI...!"
A ki blast struck Bulla's side, then, as Pan turned around, struck her chest. The two lied on the ground, seeing ten Frieza soldiers behind them.
"Made it as soon as we could, Lord Frieza."
"Well done, but lose sight of them again and I'll kill you all myself."
Both Pan and Bulla were lifted up by two soldiers, struggling to escape.
"Hey!"
This soldier punched Pan in the stomach, followed by Bulla.
"Any more trouble out of you two and..."
A bullet shot right through the soldier's head. Frieza turned around to see who it was, then felt someone wrapping one wrist around his neck, hanging off of him. Hercule then pointed a handgun right at Frieza's head.
"You killed my friends...!"
He fired a point-blank shot at Frieza.
"And my daughter...!"
Another shot.
"But I won't... let you... hurt my granddaughter!"
He fired it as rapidly as he could
During this confusion, Bulla was summoning all her ki.
"Pan, brace yourself!"
With an explosion of white ki, the Frieza soldiers holding her and Pan were knocked back, though Pan herself was as well.
"Just hold on!"
Bulla then saw two others already aiming their hands at her. At this point, she didn't have much ki left.
Pan tried getting back up, but then three soldiers jumped onto her, pinning her to the ground.
"We've got her!"
Bulla turned for a moment to see, then was blasted several times in the back.
"NO!"
Bulla fell onto the ground, still alive, but severely wounded.
**CLICK, CLICK, CLICK**
Hercule's handgun was out of ammo.
"I've humored you long enough..."
He grabbed Hercule by the throat with one hand, then walked over towards Bulla.
"We got them, Lord Frieza! They tried getting away, but we got them!"
"Hmm, and it only cut your forces in half. No matter."
He pointed at Pan.
"Keep that one pinned down."
Hercule was struggling to grasp for air, his hands unable to break Frieza's grip on him.
"As for you, Bulla, daughter of the Saiyan Prince..."
He tipped her onto her back with his foot, looking her in the eyes. Bulla had various spots of blood on her chest as a result of the blasts.
"What say you to joining me?"
More angry than terrified, Bulla spat blood at Frieza's face. He simply wiped it off of him.
"As I expected."
He pointed his finger at Bulla, then fired a death beam right at her heart.
"BULLA!"
She fell down to the ground flat.
"All you had to do was not resist me. The blood is on your hands as well as mine."
Pan then looked over at Hercule, his face turning a pale pinkish hue.
"P... Pa...an..."
His arms finally fell to his side, his eyes lifeless and his mouth open from what he was trying to say last. Frieza let Hercule's body fall in front of her, his eyes almost still looking at hers.
"And now there's only you... the granddaughter of Goku."
Pan looked over at Hercule's face, then at Bulla's.
"Serve me now and I shall let you live. As you've seen already, resisting me will gain you nothing."
She kept alternating between the two faces, seeing flashes of their deaths as tears ran down her face.
"Don't weep for them. They're in a better place now. Except for Vegeta, of course. He's in Hell."
Her teeth gritted. Her fists dug into the ground. Small pieces of debris floated above her.
"Uh... Lord Frieza..."
"And now I... what is it?"
From a far distance, a giant golden glow flew across the remains of Satan City followed by a deafening scream of rage.
Pan floated off the ground, knocking the three soldiers holding her down backward.
"Quick, stop her!"
The other two fired blasts at her, only to see her ki was stopping them from even touching her.
"Do something, Lord Frieza!"
"No... I want to see this."
Debris rained down as Pan finally landed to the ground on her feet, her hair now a golden hue and her eyes pure white. She looked over at the soldiers standing before her.
"Lord Frieza..."
"Okay, fine. You may attack."
The five aimed their hands at her, but as soon as they fired, Pan was out of their sight.
"Where did she...?!"
One soldier saw Pan punching right through his torso.
"No, no, no...!"
Another tried to fire, but his arm was struck by Pan's, tearing it off.
"There's strength in numb...!"
This soldier was struck by a swinging kick of such force that the soldier's upper body was torn from his lower.
"Lord Frieza, help us! Please!"
The tyrant instead chuckled, loving the rampage he was seeing before him.
"Fire, fire, fire!"
Two stood close by firing blasts at Pan, who moved side-by-side to avoid them with little effort until she grabbed both by their armor. She then flew up into the air, then back to the ground, crashing both into it head-first. As one managed to try crawling away, she punched it in the back of the head repeatedly, her hand slick with that alien's blood.
After seeing their battered remains, she saw one Frieza soldier, who was missing an arm, trying to back away from her.
"No... no, no, please... have mercy... I was only following..."
She grabbed him by the throat, then squeezed so hard his neck was practically jelly.
"Bravo."
She then turned to Frieza, who gave off a single clap for her. Pan, however, was too enraged to even speak.
"As a reward..."
He put both his hands behind his back.
"I'll let you attempt to have your revenge. Go on. Give it a try."
She flew right at him for a punch, but he side-stepped it.
"So close."
She turned around with a flurry of punches. When that failed, a ki projectile launched at Frieza, who hopped over it as it went on to hit and collapse a building. Afterward, he floated in midair, waiting for her.
"Oh, don't give up now."
She zoomed to him, but her punch missed once more. He kept moving and Pan always punched where Frieza had been.
"All you have to do is hit me."
A rapid flurry of ki projectiles, all of which Frieza weaved through.
"Are you even trying?"
Finally, he stopped moving.
"How about this: I won't even move from this spot or try to avoid you."
He pointed his finger to her, then toward himself.
"Well?"
Pan struck him in the face head-on, but to no effect on him.
"Oh no, please. Keep going."
She struck his face again, then his chest, his stomach.
"I almost felt it."
She struck at the three spots rapidly and in spite of all the power she had unleashed on the soldiers earlier, they could hardly even affect Frieza at all. He knew at this point that a Super Saiyan wasn't a match for him anymore.
"Alright, I've had my fun."
He fired a death beam at her elbows, then her shoulders, then her knees, then her stomach. Pan could only cry out as she crashed to the ground. By that point, she was just an immobile Super Saiyan.
"After all this time... I don't think I want this planet anymore. If it was this easy for me to take, then there'd frankly be no value to selling it."
He walked over to Pan, who lied on her side.
"Oh, but don't worry."
He began forming a ball with his finger.
"I'll let you see the fireworks."
He floated upward into the air, the ball growing more massive in size in little time.
Even in her rage, Pan knew she was in grave danger and that the death ball could only mean her demise. She couldn't move...
...but she could still use her ki. She formed a field of ki around her body, almost like a second skin covering her. But as a Super Saiyan, the field was larger and with far more ki around her.
"I hope you're watching this, Goku. You've just lost your entire family... and your planet."
He tossed the death ball towards the ground, tearing through like a hot orb through butter.
Bulma could see the Capsule Corp headquarters coming up right in front of them.
"Don't worry, everyone. We're almost there."
Just then, she saw massive cracks in the ground... and fire. They began to spread and grow larger. So large a hole swallowed up the whole building.
"Oh no..."
Puar and Oolong were at the Kame House, watching television for the latest on the battle in Satan City.
"I hope Yamcha's okay."
"This just in: forming right as well speak, rivers of lava are spreading all across the globe."
Oolong looked out the window, seeing the ocean overcome by it.
"Hold your families close, everyone! Mr. Satan, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
Pan's ki was working. Nothing was getting through. She saw Satan City, where she had grown up, tearing itself apart and melting away.
Chi-Chi, high enough that the lava couldn't reach her, was still conscious, seeing everything around her. She had no idea if Pan was even alive. But she knew that her time was short.
"Goku... I'm sorry..."
As she closed her eyes...
Earth was being consumed by orange, as well as cracking at the seems. And finally...
**BOOM!**
It was no more. All that remained were small specks. Frieza reveled in his victory, laughing maniacally as he flew through the cosmos. His revenge was complete.
Pan opened her eyes after the large flash and saw... space.
"I'm..."
Her hair reverted back to black, her pupils returned, and her ki was completely drained. She had no means with which to defend herself from the coldness and vacuum of space.
"Can't... breathe..."
She would've tried to warm herself with her arms, but she still couldn't move.
"Can't... move... cold... so cold..."
Pan wasn't long for this world now: be it from suffocation or freezing to death, she knew she'd be with her loved ones soon. She couldn't bring herself to close her eyes and instead watched as her vision became more and more blurry.
"I'll... see you... everyone..."
Her vision became pure white. What she saw was indescribable. Like she was traveling to another dimension. And a voice...
"Someone... from... far away... Warrior! Now...!"
Was this what happens when one dies?
But as she kept watching, her vision began to return to her. She could see that she was floating downward, but the area around her was pitch-black... all except for walls and grass. Was this... Otherworld?
"You're surprised, I'm..."
Another voice.
"Oh no..."
Pan felt the ground beneath her and fell to her knees and nearly on her stomach. But something caught her.
"Quick, someone get help! Now!"
She saw someone looking right at her.
"Just hang in there, okay?"
Pan could finally make out his face: a familiar face with purple hair.
"Tr...Trunks?"
After this, she lost consciousness. Trunks kept holding onto her, knowing she was freezing.
"Trunks, what is going on?!"
"Supreme Kai of Time, I... I..."
He couldn't shake something about her.
"What is it? Why are you looking at her like that?"
"She knew... she knew my name."