Yamcha barely ducked under the rotund Saiyan's strikes. Utilizing the power of his divine wolf fang fist he was able to turn his offensive strikes into an evasive maneuver, but despite in theory producing more power than the Saiyan known as Pumbukin, he was more like a glass cannon.
"Dammit! Stay still you wiry little sprout!" Pumbukin roared, unleashing his ki in a spherical aura that exploded out. Unfortunately for the Saiyan, the Earthling seemed able to predict his movements and had already flown far out of his range. In irritation, the Saiyan rushed forward after Yamcha, who was barely able to keep out of his grasp.
"Viper strike!"
Pumbukin winced as Yamcha slipped past his guard and struck his neck with two-finger jabs. The attacks hurt a lot more than someone with a power level of 48,000 should have been striking with. He thought back to Toma's warning that the Earthlings seemed capable of hiding their power levels. "Why don't you fight like a man!" He screamed out.
"Do you mean, fight like a man, or fight like 3 men?" Yamcha pounded his belly and flashed Pumbukin a teasing expression.
Parallel to their fight, Krillin was fighting the Saiyan, Totopa almost evenly. Using his pump-up technique to its full form, he was just barely stronger, but the technique, no matter how trained, strained his body in ways that didn't affect the girls, every once in a while he had to let off the technique, and Totopa, silent as he was, seemed to read Krillin at those moments. Tien was unfortunately in a losing battle against Toma, and to their fear, Selypa seemed to rise from the dead, her wounds healing around the bullets Launch riddled her with. Leek had gone to interfere between the fight, only for Hercule to launch himself forward and get double-teamed by the Saiyans Taro and Leek, whilst their leader, Bardock, stood vigil.
Krillin felt his fighting spirit waiver whenever he saw the man who claimed to be Goku's father. Goku himself was even more shaken it seemed, he was fighting against Raditz but his heart seemed to not be in it. Was it true? He thought to himself, was Goku really sent here to kill us? He tried to shake the negative thoughts away, allowing Totopa a free hit. Krillin was sent careening through the air and noticed that while Totopa kept chasing, he didn't take advantage of Krillin's seemingly vulnerable state.
"Smart bastard." Krillin caused the ki that was forming in his hand to dissipate, watching in irritation as the scarred brute of a Saiyan smirked.
"Hey!" Both their attentions were caught as they watched Yamcha charging towards them. Krillin looked his friend in the eye and smiled.
Turning towards Totopa, Krilin charged a destructo disk and formed it around his body the same way he did against the fake Mei Lin. He charged Totopa, who launched a powerful ki blast his way. Krillin grinned at the Saiyan's dumfounded expression as his blast bounced off the bald man's technique as he charged forward. Totopa dodged out of the way just in time, only to shout as Yamcha, pouring all his power into a single point, kicked the Saiyan into the air. Krillin split his technique in half into two equal Destructo disks and launched one Totopa's way and the other towards Pumbukin who had rushed towards Yamcha. Pumbukin screamed in pain as the blade cut through his arm to the bone, mutilating it and driving the limb useless. Totopa was not as lucky as the blade cut through his stomach, bisecting him.
"Hahaha!" Krillin shouted in triumph, high-fiving Yamcha, only for both to feel a surge of ki as Totopa, bisected, unleashed a mouth beam their way.
"What the! Why is he alive?!" Krillin shouted in anger. The technique had taken everything he had, that he and Yamcha had.
"Idiot!" Pumbukin, to their horror, charged forward, his body slowly knitting itself back together. At the same time, Totopa rushed to his lower half and did the same thing, blood continuously leaking from all his orifices. "Didn't you see Selypa? Thanks to that green little freak, Babbidi's magical doohicky, if you can't kill us, you're fucked!" He grabbed Krillin's arm, nearly breaking it. "But that still h-" He was interrupted by a spirit ball to the gut, knocking him back. Yamcha, who had consumed his last senzu bean wore a frown on his face.
"We need to give Tien enough time." He turned to Krillin, "Take your bean and help Hercule, then the two of you join Tien, you need to give him enough time to use that technique."
"But what about-" Krillin was cut off by the rush of silver wind that wrapped around Yamcha, his ki skyrocketed once more, causing Krillin to gape in awe at his friend. Yamcha appeared normal, but the aura of a wolf surrounded him.
"Jazz showing off the power of the noble werewolf showed me something interesting." Yamcha smiled, "An outsider surpassed all their transformative ability, so… why can't I, who's not even a member? Do the same thing?" He rushed towards Totapo, kicking the Saiyan so hard his torso began to separate from his legs once more. Pumbukin was hot on Yamcha's trail, but the former bandit swung his palm, which had a trail of aura in the shape of a wolf's claw, into the larger Saiyan, knocking him back. Yamcha grinned almost feral as he allowed his instincts to take over. Emulating what he had just seen, he opened his mouth, unleashing not only a powerful howl but a devastating-looking mouth beam that engulfed Pumbukin's body. Yamcha let off a tired smile, only to sigh in defeat as he saw, standing between himself and Pumbukin, Bardock.
"Are you the strongest?" He asked.
Yamcha's response was to raise his fists, his silvery aura, weaker than before, flared in defiance as the Earthling faced the Saiyan before him.
…
Hercule roared in annoyance, he had activated the pump up, taking him well above either Saiyan he fought, but they had fantastic synergy, when one attacked, the other hung back, ready to hit him in a blind spot.
"Fucking stay still!" He had tried to focus on only one Saiyan, but the other, with an almost suicidal devotion, would get in his way and throw off his rhythm. He didn't even have the time to grab his senzu, with the Saiyans barely giving him even half a second of reprieve, nor the time to think up a new strategy.
"You put up a good fight, earthling." The Saiyan known as Leek smirked, "But you're fucked if you think you can hold up against two full-blooded Saiyans."
"Then why don't you fight me one on one?!" Hercule retorted angrily.
The saiyans's reply was to launch twin blasts of energy his way. Hercule raised his power to its utmost and batted the blasts away, further into the air as he charged forward. He knew what would happen, they would split in two directions. If he chased one, the other was behind him, if he didn't chase and kept going forward, they'd blast him from behind, if he didn't chase them, they'd keep blasting him from a distance. His frustration was rising, only tempered by the fact that as long as these Saiyans were on him, they wouldn't be on his friends. He chased after Taro this time, expecting Leek to come to his partner's aide, only to laugh in surprise when Krillin leaped in, kicking Leek in the jaw.
"Need an assist? Tough guy?"
"Am I ever so happy to see you!" Hercule responded, the two's auras flaring. "Now you'll actually see what I'm made of!"
Taro smirked, "Yeah, after seeing you struggle against us? There's n-" Herucle seemed to teleport before the Saiyan, fist in his jaw.
"Before I became a real fighter, I was a professional showman, don't you know?! I know exactly how to take and throw punches to please a crowd." He danced through the air, throwing a combo of punches and kicks as he circled around Taro. His smile widened as he heard Leek's cries of anguish. "Dynamic Knockout!"
…
"Come on, ladies?! Where was all that bravado from before?!" Selypa laughed, her face had morphed into a cruel visage, despite the bruising and bleeding she had suffered all over, she seemed almost at full strength as she charged towards Chi Chi and PaoPao, the latter of whom had not been given the leeway to utilize her talisman magic. "Don't think I don't recognize magic bullshit at work, there's only one magic-using bastard I'll ever have the misfortune of getting the jump on me!"
Launch did her best to run back up, but her attacks, while devastating, would be healed in time, so Selypa ignored all blows except for the bullets that would be fatal. Despite Launch's feeling of inadequacy, it was her well-timed shots that kept her friends alive at the moment. If not for her attacks on Selypa's vitals, the Saiyan would have already decapitated Chi-Chi.
"How do we get past her!" Launch, in her blond state, heard the inner voice she often attributed to as the Blue-haired Launch.
"I don't friggin know, why would you ask me?" She muttered out loud. She trained, but not nearly as hard as the others, and now she was paying for it. "Damn…"
"It's not because you didn't try as hard!" Chi-Chi shouted as if reading Launch's mind. "It's harder to get really strong if you start when you're already an adult. You had so many fewer years to build up a foundation, but you're really strong! Don't ever think you aren't!"
Chi-Chi's eyes were slightly glazed over, the ki-projected axe she had formed was the size of her body and seemed to have a mind of its own, moving Chi-Chi's body instead of her moving it. Launch could see Chi-Chi's muscles straining and tendons popping from the power she forced out. Selypa, for all her bravado, had at least some respect for the power within Chi-Chi's technique. PaoPao would swing her blade whenever gaps appeared in Chi-Chi's wild strikes, blocking and protecting her friend from Selypa's devastating retaliation. Every time she tried to move to activate a talisman or use her magic, Selypa would rush forward, risking injury or even limb loss to try and deal a killing blow to PaoPao.
Launch looked down at her weapons, irritation clear on her face. "Fuck it." She cupped her hands in a triangle formation and winced as she saw PaoPao, distracted by her rising powerlevel, take a ki blast to the back which would have incinerated her if not for Chi-Chi rushing in to intercept. She flew forward, closer than she'd be comfortable with normally.
"HEY! BITCH!" She shouted towards Selypa.
Selypa's face morphed into an even wider grin as energy began to wrap around the Saiyan woman's body. She charged forward like a meteor towards Launch, who she believed had finally decided to give up the fight.
"KIKOHO!" A square of energy that seemed to reject the air around it launched forward, shattering through Selypa's blast and sending her careening into the earth.
"Beat the shit out of them. Now!" Launch shouted, clutching her chest in pain.
PaoPao bit her lip, cursing her weakness as she began to quickly draw talismans in the air, if she really tried, she could increase her power by a devastating level, but right now, her friends were more important.
Selypa got up, her limbs, contorted from the technique, began to creak as it popped back into place, and her cracked scouter began to read out a new power. "Bullshit, who the hell has a power level of 200,000…" She looked up to see Chi-Chi, tears in her eyes and a mix of markings on her forehead, smashing her fist into the Saiyan's face, breaking her jaw and nearly popping her head clean off if not for a hand that blocked the attack.
Chi-Chi flinched, thinking it was Goku for a second, only to leap back as she noticed the scar on his cheek.
"You kept looking at me then my son." Bardock began.
"You aren't his dad, no dad would be as cruel and evil as you!" Chi-Chi barked back.
Bardock let a smile slip past his stern visage as he regarded the woman who appeared to be his youngest son's mate. He took a long look at each fight, his stern expression returning. Totapo and Pumbukin were sat, recovering as best they could after the damage the bald short earthling and the scarred earthling gave them. Toma continued to play with the earthling with three eyes, but due to Babidi's orders, this wasn't necessarily the wrong action. Leek and Taro were struggling to hold their own against the earthling with an afro and the bald short earthling, the latter of which had joined the former after the scarred human utilized a special technique. He looked down towards the human he blasted a hole through. The man proved more resilient than he expected, his power level was down from its pathetic 4000 to an even more miserable 1000, but it remained steady at that level, with his vitals seemingly not slipping any lower.
"Selypa." Bardock began.
"Bardock… I can explain, I was just playing with…" The female Saiyan lowered her gaze from Bardock's stern glare.
Bardock pressed his scouter. "We've received permission from Lord Babidi, you can go all out, unleash the Oozaru…"
"Oh… oh?!" The woman's gaze sharpened into a gleeful smirk.
"I don't know why, but the saibamen are apparently dying in droves, we need to take care of these fighters here and fix the issue." Bardock raised a hand to his scouter. "You all heard me. Transform."
Selypa began to laugh maniacally as her eyes turned red. A clicking sound was heard in the background. Selypa's laugh continued as her heartbeat began to reverberate in the air.
Chi-Chi, PaoPao, and Launch all looked at each other with dread. They recognized the sounds being made and flew towards the rest of their allies, who also backed away from the other Saiyans.
…
Goku continued to fight sluggishly against Raditz, his movements barely keeping up with his supposed older brother.
"What's wrong Kakarot? Aren't you supposed to be stronger than me? Why are you so despondent?"
Goku's mind was somewhere else as the revelations began to weigh on his mind. He had realized after a while that he was different, that others didn't have tails, but it didn't bother him. It didn't bother him until he learned that he was the true moon monster. Even after all of Jazz and his other friends' help in taking control, even when he got that new golden-eyed power that let him use the strength of the moon monster without having to worry about his size growing, he still felt the guilt over his grandpa's death. If what that man, what his supposed, "father", was telling him was true, he was sent to Earth to be saved, but… at the same time, he was sent to be Earth's doom. If he hadn't been sent here, would his grandpa still be alive?
"I'd love to keep beating on you like this," Raditz smirked, but now, Father has given me permission to kill you it seems. Goku heard a clicking noise, narrowing his eyes as he saw Raditz's eyes go red and his size begin to increase. "The funny thing." Raditz began, "I had the intelligence to realize that relying on the moon, or a Powerball, was a big weakness, so I had special implants installed, allowing saiyans to absorb blutz waves without relying on a planet's moon. Not that you'll live long enough to appreciate my genius."
Perhaps due to his lack of power, perhaps due to his nasty tendencies, perhaps due to his cruel nature. Raditz transformed faster than the others, and raised his fist, full of his power level of a little over 200,000, and prepared to swat Goku down like an insect. Goku stared at his brother's monstrous form, memories of the moon monster, of the monster he was, killing his grandpa, clear in his mind.
"GOKU!" The young Saiyan was snapped out of his daze when Chi-Chi, brimming with the power of PaoPao's talisman, crashed into Raditz, sending the Oozaru flying.
"Chi-Chi… you feel so… strong." Goku smiled sadly. "This is all my fault, they wouldn't have come here if-" Before Goku could finish, Chi-Chi smacked him, then cupped his face in her hands.
"This isn't the Goku I know, the Goku I know doesn't care about nuance, or subtlety, or the complications of a situation, the Goku I know loves fighting and he loves his friends!"
Goku blinked in surprise, watching the tears that streamed down Chi-Chi's face. "I'm making you cry." He held Chi-Chi's hand. "I'm sorry for worrying you, Chi-Chi." His eyes took on a more determined look as he looked around. His friends had split senzus between them and were gathered around PaoPao, who was rapidly recasting her talisman magic. Goku knew PaoPao's technique was special, he knew it had the ability to multiply someone's power three times over, but he also knew it wouldn't be able to work on someone too powerful, like him, or Tien when he used that strange fusion technique. Yet for the ones she used the ability on, he knew they wouldn't be able to stand up against these Oozaru, yet they still prepared themselves, they still got ready to fight.
"If you don't want to worry me, then fight, for real!" Chi-Chi shouted, turning just in time to barely block a flying fist from Raditz.
Goku lowered his gaze.
"I don't know what that woman was yapping on about, but it matters little." Raditz began. "DIE!"
Goku's hair stood up. "No." He caught the ozaru's massive fist, and in a blindingly fast kick, launched Raditz nearly 1,000 feet in the air. "I won't."
Chi-Chi smiled widely. "I would tell you to keep fighting him, but he's not your opponent."
Goku nodded, his eyes turned to face his supposed father, who was now a fully formed Oozaru, who if Jazz was around, would state boasted a power around a whopping 1.7 million.
Goku's eyes gleamed as his aura skyrocketed.
Bardock grinned, his scouter, specially designed to enlarge alongside his body, read out his son's powerlevel. "2.2 million…" He growled in satisfaction. "This is my son."
…
"It looks like Goku got over whatever the hell was going on." Hercule sighed, "That's great and all, so… what now?" He felt stronger, stronger than ever before, it was all thanks to the glowing marks emblazoned on his forehead. He turned to PaoPao, who had a strained smile on her face as she maintained concentration.
"Now, we use every single thing we have to cut off these creatures' tails, then we stop them." She had heard from her people, from the radios, of the white-robed demon king touching the Earth and destroying these monsters, the confusion and paranoia it brought. She knew what Kami risked by coming down to the Earth, but she also knew that if the Earth's God was coming to defend it tooth and nail, she certainly had no excuse. "Launch, I'll need your help, we're the weakest, so we need to pool our ki together just to even distract a single one of them."
"I mean, don't knock yourself." Krillin smiled sardonically. "Except for Tien if he does that fusion thing one more time, we're all weaker."
"Even if we're weaker, we are faster, their speed doesn't change, only their power and durability." PaoPao said, "like an incomplete form of the pump-up technique. Do not falter, for even a second."
The group nodded as they watched the 5 giant apes with glowing red eyes bare down towards them.
…
Jazz looked up, irritation in his eyes as his body slowly healed itself. Bardock had truly almost killed him, his heart was completely vaporized and his lungs almost completely gone as well. If not for using psychic energy to control his blood flow, his brain would have shut down before his body could begin regenerating. Even now, it was slow going, he had to start with the lungs to get oxygen again, and the heart was the most difficult. The phoenix's power originates from his heart, he had truly faced death's door, and even now, as he was halfway through regeneration, he couldn't move. He could only watch helplessly as the fighting continued. His friends put on a valiant effort, they were like flies before the Oozaru, yet they moved with dexterity and finess. Chi-Chi for her part, due to being given the space to act as she could, brought Raditz to heal, she had managed to chop off his tail, and even after, due to the strange magic of Babidi, it began to grow back, she had knocked him out, rendering him unable to continue. The other Saiyans paid Raditz no mind, not even Bardock spared him a glance.
As for Goku's father, the Saiyan in Oozaru form seemed to be having the time of his life as he fought against Goku. Unlike the other Saiyans, Bardock seemed to not be lacking in the speed department even as a great ape, and despite Goku's advantage, the Saiyan had intelligence and combat prowess in spades.
The way things were going, Goku was going to win, but even if his friends won, there was the state of the rest of the world.
"Get… the fuck… up…" Jazz slowly forced himself up, his body was yet to fully heal, but he needed to get up, he needed to protect his friends, he needed to stop the Saiyans. He needed to… he looked up, dread catching in his throat as he saw, pouring from the sky, several dozen power levels of at least 5,000. Several dozen beings capable of destroying his planet, all of them, beginning to charge their energy.
"Things are looking bleak." Jazz turned, eyes widening as he looked into the eyes of Mr. Popo, who handed him a senzu bean. "But there is hope, we are fighting."
"And we will win." Jazz grabbed the bean, stuffing it into his mouth. Jazz felt good, very good, so good he allowed his power, his real power to leak out, the weights he had kept on for a year in that time chamber broke off, shattering on the ground. Silver-colored energy began to wrap around his body, mixing in with his ki, with his magic. He got up from the ground almost too slowly, but rapidly picked up pace.
…
Bardock, still embroiled in his fight against his son, roared angrily. "You were told to stand by!" The beings who came to join them were not Saiyans, they were a contingent of "Majinized" minions of the Freiza force, some with power ranging from as little as 5,000 to as great as over 100,000. While at full power, most of the Saiyans in Bardock's squad, as well as the Saiyans who received Babidi's blessing were more powerful than most Freeza Force members, the Saiyans still had to defer to them, lest they capture the tyrant's ire.
"Unfortunately for you, Bardock." An alien with blue skin and a bristling black mustache cacked. "Top brass told us otherwise. Your son's power level is impressive, too impressive. If he were to receive Lord Babidi's grace, he might become a problem for Freeza. We've been told to wipe out this planet. And any one of us can." The alien giggled, "Oh, oops, Saiyans can't breathe in space, can you? I guess King Vegeta will have to accept the loss of his most powerful team."
Bardock grits his teeth in irritation. The other Oozaru were too feral to understand what was happening, and Raditz, the only other Oozaru in their squad lucid enough to reason, had shamefully had his ass handed to him by Kakarot's woman.
"Kakarot." He began, "It shames be to say, but we…" He was cut off by his scouter reading off a number he thought should have been impossible for any other being in the universe. So distracted was he, that Goku was able to catch him in the chest with a beam, crippling the veteran saiyan and launching him to the ground. Despite the shock and pain, Bardock's eye was on the scouter reading as he watched the silver comet, seemingly growing in size and changing in shape, read out a power level of 200 million.
…
Jazz's form was different from normal, his hair was silky smooth and silver, sweeping to below his knees, his eyes were a dull gold, deep and sharp like a wolf's, his clothing was his normal green gi, long and flowing, though now equipped with a golden mesh-like undershirt. Despite all appearances, his body was not normal. He used a special technique he developed after all of his experimentation with his transformation school limits and magic creation. He saw the Freeza force members panic as their Scouters registered his power, and witnessed as some prematurely released their blasts, causing all the others to do so as well.
"Hydra's Ancilia."
Jazz waved his hand as a massive shield, produced by his formidable magic, appeared in the air. It was an Ancilia, based off the ancient Greek shield of a the same name. The only difference being the visage of a dreadful hydra on the face. The shield absorbed the first ki blast, only to shatter, but instead of disappeared, two shields appeared in its place. Soon two became 4, then 16, then over a hundred, then soon, thousands of this shield blanketed the sky, covering the Earth and protecting it from the punishment from above. The Freeza Force members, never having encountered something like this, paused in their onslaught, only to watch as Jazz floated above the shields he summoned.
"Sovereign Rain."
Jazz gathered ki into the palms of his hand as above him, the winds began to pick up and clouds formed above the aliens. Lightning and flames began to rain from above as an overwhelming blanket of ki that took form of a rain of needles fell upon the soldiers, who screamed in horror and fear as they faced the elements. The shields, which were partially see-through, revealed the mayhem brought about by Jazz's actions as Freeza force soldiers began to drop from the sky, dead or debilitatingly injured…
"That asshole," Yamcha said, gasping for air as he once again dodged being squished by one of the Oozaru. "He was holding back, this entire time." Everyone else was in a mix of shock and awe at Jazz's power, except for Hercule, who grinned like a maniac as he grabbed hold of Toma's tail.
"I told you all, my teacher had this in the bag!"
…
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Afterword:
Jasper(Jazz) Duncan
Age: 21 and 11 months
Hair color: Red
Skin color: white
Race: "Human"
Height: 6 feet 0.5 inches | 184.15 centimeters
Weight: 195 lbs | 88.4505 kilograms, WEIGHTS HAVE BEEN SHED, Gravity wrist band destroyed
Skills: Advanced Staff Technique, Advanced Kinjutsu (sword technique), Advanced Hand-to-Hand technique, Advanced Ki techniques, Mastered Magic Materialization
Capable of creating: Conventional Weapons, Food, and various tools (limited by his knowledge of the materials, craftsmanship, and scientific knowledge)
Weapons that can be created: Long Ruyi Jingu Bang, Long Bansho Fan, Ryu Kusanagi, Wyvern's Wind-And-Fire Wheels, Dragon's Flame-Tipped Spear, Fafnir's Gungnir, Leviathan's Trident, Jorgumandur's Svalinn, Hydra's Ancilla
Powers: Elemental Magic Materialization, Capable of summoning and freely manipulating fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, ice, smoke, and steam, capable of manipulating and stirring the growth of plant and animal life. Mastered Telekinesis.
Mastery of General Magic Concepts and abilities. mastered understanding of intermediate-level magical techniques, and an advanced understanding of advanced magical techniques.
Shapeshifting: Mastered Skill level (indefinite)
Transformation Power Techniques
Noble Werewolf: True Awakening: 6.25x power
Ultimate Full Power: 6.4x
Talisman Magic: Body Enhancement: 5x Power, drains magical energy over time, lasts 30 minutes at full, before then draining ki,
1.5x level: can be used for 12 hours straight
2x level: can be used for 4 hours straight
3x: can be used for 2 hours
4x: Can be used for 1 hour
Emissive Techniques: Kamehameha, Don Don Pa, Solar Flare, Tri-Beam, Thunder Shock Surprise, Barrage Ki attack, Magic Fire Kamehameha, Thunderfire Kamehameha. Ki-Flame Sword, Marshmallow Meteor, Sovereign Rain
Body Techniques: Four Witches Technique, 12 Eyes Technique, Fusion Dance, Wolf Fang Fist, Mafuba
Blessing from a "Friend": Enhanced strength, speed, stamina, durability, and senses, capable of surviving a 2 fold fusion without extreme backlash.
Powerlevel: 10650
Power of Noble Werewolf: 66,562.5
Power of Ultimate Full Power: 68,160
Power of Talisman: 53,250
Noble + Full Power: 426,000
Noble +Full Power + Talisman: 2,130,000
Fusion Dance (21,300,000)
Double Fusion Dance (210,300,000)
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After Afterword
Poor Jazz, he was saving his real power for that fight with Goku, where, without relying on fusion, he was going to throw everything he had Goku's way. At the moment however, he cannot afford to hold back any longer, as he messed up, allowing Bardock to get the drop on him. To those wondering, this may be the moment where Jazz has surpassed everyone for realsies. And if anyone is wondering where Piccolo is, I've not forgotten. Hehehe.