"What? What is this!?" Lord Slug kept shaking in his boots, observing the raging, emerald aura leaking out from Chayote and sending rippling shock waves that peeled the ravaged ground and sent wild debris flying. "Damn it, just when I thought they were all beaten, where did all of this power come from?"
"SLUG!" Chayote's voice resonated throughout the South City, mixed in with the primal roar of a Great Ape. It instilled fear into the heart of even the unbeatable space conqueror and psyched him out. The floating Super Namekian raised his right hand while his left still clenched it at its center and fired off a Big Masher Ki wave, aiming it at Chayote.
The destructive wave enveloped the transformed, wrathful Saiyan warrior but washed off of her like a wave of water bashing against an adamant stone. With this momentary blink of violence having grounded Chayote back into the moment, she took a step forward, cracking the city street under the pressure of her foot. Red twinkles lit up in Lord Slug's eyes as he fired a combined eye beam at Chayote.
With a deep-seated roar, Chayote took off with a wild dash, extending her left hand out and cushioning the eye beam in her palm until she swatted it aside like a bothersome fly once Lord Slug had spent too much of his energy. Roaring to release all the swelling, pent up force inside her, Chayote drove her elbow with a butt that carried the strength of her entire body into Lord Slug's face, nearly turning his head all the way around. Churning sounds spread from the Namekian's neck as his normally beady eyes turned blank.
A barrage of stiff slaps continued to pelt at Lord Slug's persistence to keep at his venture to conquer the Earth as each one seemed to almost pull the Namekian's head off, extending his neck to an unnatural degree as more and more tendons in Slug's neck failed to stay whole and connected. Chayote vanished, diving from behind into the back of Slug's knee and flipping the giant over before another snap carried her over the giant and with a diving stomp from up above, the Saiyan warrior smashed Lord Slug's face into the ruined city floor.
As the hysterical Saiyan warrior pulled her foot out of the purple mush that she's left of Lord Slug's already busted face, the Namekian's wrists and fingers continued to twitch, triggering more and more of the Saiyan's wild combat instincts as she stomped and hammered the fallen behemoth with her feet and her fists alike, breaking more and more of Slug's body and leaving the Kaiser of the Cosmos an utterly broken and bleeding mess by her feet by the time that the wrathful Saiyan straightened her back and bellowed out a blank roar into the gloomy evening skies.
"T-That Ki…" Goku muttered with a weak voice, digging through wreckage and rubble where Gohan and Chi-Chi had brought him and the other survivors after Piccolo and Chayote replaced them in battle. "What's going on?"
"It's Chayote…" Bardock grunted through the pain and strain. "I've never seen anything like that. She tried to transform into a Great Ape but seemed to stop herself, it's as if she's taken all the Great Ape form's power and toughness but kept the speed, agility and skill of a Saiyan's base form. Not to mention, it still looks like she's kept at least partial control of her senses."
Gohan's head snapped to the east. He realized that the blood-curdling cries of pain and suffering that Piccolo was spreading had gone silent. The kid lifted his body off the ground and slowly levitated off to the side to help the Namekian that saved him and his family before.
"Gohan-chan, where are you going? Haven't you heard? Chayote might be dangerous right now!" Chi-Chi reached out to her son, but little Gohan shook his head.
"I need to check on Piccolo-san. He saved us back then, and he's Namekian too. If Chayote-san truly is rampaging around and looking for people to hurt, she might get Piccolo-san confused for Slug. Piccolo-san used to try to kill father, what if Chayote still remembers that right now and will try to kill him too?" Gohan explained himself and took off.
"Did he just disobey me?" Chi-Chi gasped. "It's far too early for him to becoming self-reliant, Goku-sa, we must do something about that or else he'll grow up to be a delinquent!"
"What am I supposed to do about it?" Goku hissed out, still hurting and numb everywhere below the neck.
"What do you mean? Clearly this is something Gohan-chan took from you!" Chi-Chi waggled her finger over Goku's limp body sitting by a large piece of rubble.
"What about you?" Bardock wondered.
"Me!? I don't have a disobedient bone in my body!" Chi-Chi turned her ire toward her father-in-law.
"Didn't you run off from your father on to the God's Temple?" Krillin grunted out through, feeling up his injuries.
"And you used the King Kai's Fist way stronger than King Kai told us to…" Goku pointed out. "It had never even occurred to me to crank it up that high until I saw you do it first."
"I see that arguing with a bunch of ruffians is pointless anyway!" Chi-Chi turned away with her arms crossed, red flushing at her cheeks, and her nose turned way up.
Step by step, Chayote began walking away from the fallen, gargantuan stiffer but something rough clenched at her heels, stopping the wrathful Saiyan in her path. The rest of Slug's arms caught up to the one obstructing finger, enveloping all of Chayote's body as the rest of Slug's gigantic lump picked off the ground, withdrawing back to the extended arms as opposed to the other way around. Past all point of reason, Lord Slug still attempted to squeeze the life out of Chayote, thinking that restraining her body this way would shut off her power and seal her ability to put more hurt on him.
With another resonant, half-animalistic roar, the emerald aura around Chayote body expanded into a destructive bubble, obliterating Lord Slug's massive arms up to the elbows and leaving the confused and wheezing Super Namekian staggering back as Chayote had done such a large number of on his face that Slug couldn't quite see why he couldn't feel most of his arms anymore. The pissed off Saiyan continued her beat down, charging past Slug with her boot raised high in a sick game of joust. With a thud that people on the other side of the planet could hear, Chayote sent the gargantuan Namekian flying back down, about to slam on his back.
Before Lord Slug could even land on his back, Chayote U-turned and dashed from behind him, grabbing hold of the back of the giant's head and forcing him to flip over while she drove his face into the city ruins instead. Still feeling strength incarnate pumping through her very veins and swelling her muscles up further, the wrathful Saiyan roared and grabbed hold of Slug's mangled neck, taking it to the skies with the limp and twitching body of the ruler of the stars in her arms before slamming Slug's face back down repeatedly.
"Piccolo-san…" Gohan cried out, touching the face of the Namekian who seemed to be in peaceful slumber after the torment that he had just suffered at the hands of Slug. One that appeared to have ceased once Chayote had started her ruthless dismantling of Slug's awesome might in her new Wrathful State.
"Gohan… What's going on?" Piccolo wondered as he opened his eyes and his vision returned to him in a blurry state. The young Saiyan halfling helped his savior sit up and get a better look at the battle. Piccolo's eyes seemed to shoot wide open when he saw Chayote's new form. It was, however, when he felt her Ki up that Piccolo truly pushed all the haze of his torture at Slug's hands away.
"What's going on? Her power has sky-rocketed past any point of reason, rivaling that of my own at my limit, and it's rising even further!" Piccolo exclaimed in shock. It didn't take long for a sage fighter such as Piccolo to glare at the glittering Power Ball in the sky and connect a few of the dots. "She tried transforming into a Great Ape, huh?"
"Huh? What are you talking abou…" Gohan was about to turn to the gleaming nova of light before Piccolo grabbed hold of his head and covered his eyes with the remnants of strength that had returned to him after Slug's torture.
"Don't look at that!" Piccolo hissed before making sure that Gohan's face was looking elsewhere and let go of the boy. "That'll make even more trouble for us than it's worth. Then again, who knows if Chayote's even gonna stop at ripping Slug apart. We might just be lucky that bastard's got the toughness of an Evil Tribe Super Namekian demon…"
Power. Raw power kept on flowing through her body and with each circulation that it completed, there was more and more of it. Each strike felt that much more satisfying, as if every feat of violence continued to build up on her power even further, and yet… It also stiffened her movements. Muscles flushed with corroding pain making the Saiyan stretch her muscles out, roar, stomp and move around erratically even when there was no need to do so.
The energy, she needed to get rid of it. After taking off and cutting loose on Lord Slug's battered body, the strain eased up a lot. Chayote needed to flex, she needed to move around and constantly be wasting the energy that she was building up. It took her fair deal of time to realize this, but her mind wasn't her own. Memories of the darkness and smell of her own blood, the torture she suffered at the hands of the demons kept halting the Saiyan's rational thought process as she had to stop and smack her own head into working straight again.
Her own battle cry filled the Saiyan's ears and drowned all the other bustling noise out as she took it to the skies and flexed her muscles. Was that how the rest of the world saw and heard her, or was this yet another lie that her own warping mind displayed in front of her? Whenever Chayote looked at something with these bright, yellow eyes of hers it looked twisted, rotten, bleeding, begging for Chayote to apply some smashing. Continuously if the nightmarish visions did not fade. Sounds of screaming, bubbling blood and ripping flesh resonated through her mind so the cacophony of her own roars of pain and wrath were a welcome change.
A green, explosive Ki wave expanded over Chayote's body, the resonance of this destructive bubble swallowed up the measly twinkle of the Power Ball and snuffed it out yet, unlike what Piccolo might have secretly hoped, and unlike the Great Ape transformation, the form did not fade away once its root disappeared. The massive Ki bubble burst into a downpour of ravaging Ki blasts, continuing to rain obliteration upon the city that had suffered more punishment that day than it had in its entire history.
Now that this expulsion of energy was complete, Chayote felt like her mind had been the clearest that it had been until that point. Clarity returned to her vision as the nightmarish versions of reality around her became just a translucent filter instead of a new reality to substitute the truth, and the volume of petrifying screams, gouging and acts of untold violence in her mind had dipped significantly. Without knowing or caring if Lord Slug was alive or not, Chayote landed beside him and grabbed hold of Slug's foot, flinging the limp body up into the air.
There was never a question in her mind, even when she could still trust it if she would end up ending Slug. She'd have caved his face in before she had even met and got to know him in the torture chamber of his planet cruiser. Chayote didn't feel an ounce of shame admitting it to herself that she enjoyed reducing the conqueror of planets to such a miserable state before taking him out.
The emerald nova around her lit up once more, taking a giant chunk out of the ground underneath her feet before it all reduced to a blink and disappeared inside of Chayote's body. The Ki had gone nowhere, it only thickened and withdrew to its source inside of Chayote. She needed to expel more power, attack stronger, and stop reserving her strength. The distance between the wrathful Saiyan and Lord Slug disappeared in a blink, as if Chayote would have skipped through time-space itself as the hysterical warrior delivered a rising uppercut which expelled all the pent up energy she had drawn back inside her all at once and reduced Lord Slug's entire body to ashes while shoving Chayote back down with savage force.
Chi-Chi cried out as the shine of Chayote's ultimate attack to end Lord Slug's menace was too intense for the woman to look at it directly. Anyone with the ability to sense Ki could tell that Lord Slug was no more, as not even a trace of him remained anywhere on Earth, or anywhere else.
"It's finally over…" Chi-Chi muttered to herself.
"I don't know 'bout that…" Bardock sharpened his glare, looking at Chayote who still panted heavily, sprawled out on the ground but began to rise slowly, her hand cradling her face as if trying to rip off a mask off of herself. Here, however, her face was the mask.
"Dammit," Goku cursed, trying to stand in pain. "Chayote must have been getting the hang of this new form of hers. She expelled a whole bunch of energy trying to power down in that last attack, but she's still in it."
"It's only a matter of time until she sees red again, until she can't control herself and needs to unload Ki!" Krillin freaked out, realizing what that meant.
"Is it over?" little Gohan turned to Piccolo, who looked just as grim after Slug's demise as he was before it. As if nothing had changed. As if a new, more grievous problem took the place of the first one.
"Slug's invasion–sure. His spaceship, his entire army, his clones–all reduced to rubble. We have nothing to worry about or fear from the Evil Tribe ever again. However…" Piccolo looked up to Chayote, looking at his own trembling body and letting out an unintelligible hiss. His strength was nowhere near even a level that Piccolo could have worked with. The only way to keep Chayote in control was to keep her engaged in battle continuously and wasting Ki. The more Ki she build up–the worse her control over herself got.
A metallic howl emanated over the heads of the Dragon Team as Bulma's airship hovered above the destroyed South City. It descended somewhere in between the separated parties of Gohan and Piccolo and the rest, connecting everyone into one group while Chayote continued to power up alone in the middle of the South City, growling and sending shock waves across the ruined city as the ticking time bomb came dangerously close to exploding and giving birth to a new threat to Earth.
"Bulma, what are you doing here?" Krillin yelled out. "It's dangerous for you!"
"That's why we waited until Lord Slug kicked the bucket!" Bulma pointed out. Dr. Puri sitting on the passenger's seat took out a control panel from her lab coat and went to town on its buttons. A handful of tiny drones split off of the airship and flew off toward Chayote's location.
"You saw the whole fight?" Goku wondered.
"No, we arrived recently, just after I finished working on this project of mine," Dr. Puri smiled as she pointed to the drones that flew off to Chayote's location. Just as the resonating air pressure made it difficult for them to come any closer, the little insectoids turned their bellies up, revealing gem-like dots on them that began absorbing Ki bit by bit.
"Chayote! If you can hear this, help us out, use your Ki attacks on those drones!" Bulma yelled out into the megaphone. While the voice of a friend and an ally lingered somewhere in Chayote's head, the Saiyan wasn't sure if she began blasting at the drones because of Bulma's advice or because the little buzzing bots pissed her off enough to become the new target for her wrath.
"It's quite convenient that you made a machine like that…" Piccolo turned to Dr. Puri with a grumpy look.
"Well, I didn't intend to use it to absorb the Ki of a rampaging Saiyan. I had intended to use it in covering up for you and maybe siphoning off Slug's blast or two. The energy that you can get from just one Ki blast of someone that powerful could keep a city powered for years you know…" Dr. Puri explained herself, fixing her glasses before allowing herself to become enthralled by the readings on her gadget accompanying the drones. "Astounding!"
"Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves, this is a human being, not a generator of eternal energy, you know," Bulma reminded her assistant as she grabbed the panel off of Dr. Puri's hands and cranked the power of the drones' Ki draining up to the max.
"You might end up killing her," Dr. Puri observed. It didn't look like she was too worried about such a prospect, however.
"You might have killed us all, there's no use in sapping Chayote's energy with restraint. Her power's growing out of control even under all of our drones draining her. She'd have spun out of control again eventually…" Bulma wiped the sweat off of her face as she observed the Saiyan woman shrinking in body build while her hair began settling down one spiky strand at a time and the emerald outline over Chayote's body thinning out until it disappeared completely. The blue-haired science prodigy sighed in relief before flipping the widget in mid-air and catching it.
"Son Goku…" Dr. Puri stopped over injured Goku, covering up the sight of a streetlight as she loomed over his seated and injured body.
"Huh…" Goku looked up at the scientist with a curious face, wondering what she had to do with him or why she was reaching inside of her lab coat.
"Oh, my!" Dr. Puri covered up her mouth, looking astounded by her absent-mindedness. "I apologize. This gun is actually a prototype of the Jaco blaster we're working on. I meant to inject you with some adrenaline to help you walk, like this…"
Goku roared out like a wild beast, swimming on his back across pavement, gravel and rubble alike to get away from Dr. Puri. The scientist covered her mouth as her cheeks to a pinkish hue as she put the adrenaline shot back under her lab coat.
"Goku-sa is afraid of needles," Chi-Chi explained with a grumpy look on her face that this woman found herself in close vicinity to her husband again. "Just mind your own business and let me take care of my family, missy."
"Oh… I see…" Dr. Puri smiled as her cheeks blew out a tad to squint her eyes some as she made a cheeky expression and returned to her duties assisting Bulma in getting everyone back to safety and heal everybody.
Lord Slug's invasion was finally over and now the Dragon Team had to leave the Earth alone from all this science fiction, martial arts craziness to recover.