The Three Legendary Saiyans
Chapter 99: Battle On Two Fronts
Command Base.
"This is madness! We not only have an invading army of aliens! A bombing fleet and circles back every few minutes, and a dozen Elites that can wipe us all out with a snap of their damn fingers! FUCK!" The General screamed at the top of his lungs, slamming a fist down on top of a table and knocking over several full cups of coffee.
"Shut the hell up!" The Commander screamed back at his compatriot; grimacing as his own mug struck the floor and shattered into a pool of spilled coffee and broken ceramic pieces.
"Sir! Incoming message from Battleship Lucifer!" The Young Man sitting at the communication consoles shouted; sweat beading on his brow in a frantic expression of urgency.
"Battleship Lucifer?" Gohan remarked with a chuckle; sensing a similar name to that of his father-in-law, turning to meet the grinning Hercule Satan of whom remained sat in a chair.
"They wanted to name it after me but I refused" Hercule remarked with a grin; expressing a sense of humility in denying the honour of having a battleship named after him.
"You refused? Good man" Piccolo wheeled around to face Hercule; shooting him with an approving smile.
"What's the message?" Future-Trunks raised the question; bringing the attention of the communication officers to him.
"Sir; the message reads as Cascade and Slicer are both attacking the ship, the soldiers onboard are struggling to defend the craft against two foes, one is ripping apart the cannons and turrets while the other is literally parting the ocean to sink the ship" Another officer sitting at the communication consoles; this one a young woman who kept stealing glances at Future-Trunks with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Can any of your people help them?" The Commander took charge from The General; turning to the group of Piccolo, Gohan, and Future-Trunks for a ray of hope that they may survive the battles to come.
"Piccolo?" Gohan spoke with confidence; Hercule matching that level of confidence as all eyes turned to The Namekian as the man seemingly stared into space for a few seconds before grinning.
"Three of ours are heading there now" Piccolo answered; having telepathically informed their comrades of the battleship and three voices had answered the call to arms.
Battleship Lucifer.
Out in the oceans to the far south of the battlefield; The Battleship Lucifer sat in a great crevasse between two walls of water as the ocean itself was being split by The Ocean Empress: Cascade, her grinning face and leering sapphire eyes gazing down and watching as the human soldiers firing their rifles at Slicer while he tore through the metal guns and cannons that lined the warship.
The screams of the soldiers being swept off the deck of the battleship only to get pulled under the surface and drowned by Cascade's powers over water came as a terrifying sight to through who endured while Slicer tore through guns, turrets and cannons with his scales and blades, the two Elite's taking a quiet joy in the destruction and death.
"Aren't you done destroying those armaments? Stop wasting time with the dirty blood of the humans!" Cascade remarked with boredom; attacking the battleship seemed too easy as she made waving motions with her arms and attacked the hull of the battleship with strong waves intending to break the ship in two so to sink the craft.
"I'll only be done when my scales drip with their dirty blood!" Slicer spoke in his raspy reptilian voice; taking great pleasure in hacking a soldier down from head to foot with a single swipe of his claws, enjoying the sight of the human blood staining his hands before a buzzing sound caught his ears.
Without warning or declaration; a buzzing circular saw of yellow energy came hurtling towards Slicer, though Cascade did nothing to assist in the defence; Slicer pulled his scales from his body to defend against the attack, the disc cutting through the scales entirely before fading away rendering Slicer's defence defeatable.
"Who dares attack an Elite?!" Slicer yelled after deflecting the energy disc though it cost him several sword scales to do so; looking around for the attacker as his own eyes became bloodthirsty and predatory slits.
"I dare! Or should I say… we dare!" Krillin's voice rang out as a second spinning disc of energy came flying towards Cascade only to splinter off Slicer's blade-like scales and spines as he stepped in-between the attack and his ally, a pair of sudden ki blasts following the disc as Cascade drew on her own powers to throw up a wall of ocean water to defend against the blasts; the sources of all three assaults revealed in being Krillin, Tien and Yamcha.
"I thought you retired from fighting?!" Krillin snapped as Yamcha made his presence known; the retired fighter dressed in his baseball jersey and a pair of jogging pants but armed with a baseball bat.
"You really think I'm going to pass on facing our old foe after missing out the last two times he invaded?" Yamcha remarked with a tone of excitement; having never gotten the chance to face Frieza directly at any occasion, his fists practically glowing with his energy.
"Fair point; I want t shot at him too" Tien nodded in agreement; also desiring a shot at fighting Frieza, his own energy shimmering around him in preparation for a battle.
"It's a pity you'll never face Master Frieza" Spoke the cool and sultry voice of Cascade, the trio looking around her The Empress of Water when her form emerged out from the ocean waves as if she'd merged with the ocean itself.
Krillin didn't want to wait for Cascade to fully reform herself; opening both hands and generating a second pair of Double Destructo Disks and fired them off with a forceful blast of willpower, the two discs buzzing through the air and clashing once again with Slicer's defensive scales, the clash sending sparks and severed scale fragments into the air
While Krillin kept Slicer busy; Cascade kept throwing waves of water against The Battleship Lucifer, grinning to herself as the hull of the ship split open and allowing the flooding to begin, raising her arm to attack again when a sudden blast blazed past her and taking off her right arm before striking the hull of the ship and welded the metal back together thus halting the flooding.
Cascade grimaced in the face of her work being stopped with a single blast; turning and finding a ball of spirit energy being propelled into her face, the impact reducing her entire body into water and falling into the ocean.
"And you're out!" Yamcha screamed cheerfully; pleased that his Spirit Ball Fastpitch Style had worked against an Elite, Tien halting his own Tri-Beam once the tear in the hull was fully closed and sealed.
"Seems all that baseball had taught you a few new tricks" Tien remarked with humour; ensuring to remark on Yamcha's former baseball career and the pitching style of his new Spirit Ball Technique, something he'd not seen in a long time after Yamcha retired from fighting following the defeat of Cell.
"Don't knock a sport until you've tried it" Yamcha grinned to himself; throwing his hands behind his head cheerfully before the oceans surface exploded into a tall pillar of water, Cascade emerging with her aquatic body fully reformed and recovered but with an aurora glowing around her body in place of the auras The Z Fighter's used.
Before Cascade or the duo of Tien and Yamcha could speak; the guns on the battleship lowered their aim onto Cascade and fired, the barrage of shells blasting out from the cannons only to explode into the ocean while Cascade threw back her reformed right arm and throwing up a large wave that tore through the cannon barrels causing the weapons to become useless.
"Such paltry firepower; the humans truly believe that artillery shells will have an effect against me!" Cascade remarked with her oblivious smugness as the shells dropped into the ocean around her, exploding under the surface of the waves and forced water upwards into walls for Cascade to cast her powers on to form defences.
From directly underneath; Krillin burst out from the ocean to drive an uppercut directly into Cascade's jaw, The Empress flying upwards and past her walls of water with her attention firmly on Krillin.
"You hid in my element? You're a brave one!" Cascade grinned widely as she straightened herself in the sky; folding her arms and coupling her fingers, before Krillin or his friends could respond; the walls of water crashed into them but Krillin kept out from the crashing water but with several bleeding wounds along his arms and legs while Tien and Yamcha escaped unscathed.
With a pained grimace; Krillin raised his hands as to generate his signature attack, The Destructo Disc from both hands thus creating a pair of discs, though he knew the technique would have little or no effect against the water-woman here in the ocean but her ally was another story, Cascade kept grinning while summoning the ocean's waters to her arms transforming her arms into long whips of water to counter Krillin's next move.
With his numerous blades slicing through the air; Slicer hissed through his reptilian lips, ignoring Cascade whilst she was being beaten to a pulp by Krillin for his focus was solely on the tag team of Tien and Yamcha and his desire to skin them both alive.
With Slicer's intent of skinning the tag team coupled with Cascade desiring to boil them both from the inside, Tien and Yamcha brought their hands together at once, with Krillin folding his hands for a Kamehameha, the trio all firing beams at once into the ocean throwing up a wall of water of their own, with Cascade cutting through the water and Slicer charging through only to meet Casecade in the middle and no target in sight.
With both Elite's crashing through the water walls together; face-to-face, Cascade cursed as one of Sliver's blade-spines cut through her body and severed an arm as the brute crashed into her; raising her remaining arm and slapping the monster hard enough to slap off a scale.
"What the hell?!" Slicer hissed; turning and glaring down at Cascade and noticing he'd severed arm only for it to regrow from her aquatic body.
"You just stabbed me!" Cascade snapped with anger; her water-like body surprisingly bleeding crimson tears of blood from what happened to be a real body inside of the water.
"You are made of water! What difference does it make?" Slicer snapped with a violent hissing voice; uncaring that he just exposed Cascade's weak point to the enemy.
Cascade pouted her lips and puffed out her cheeks as she wound back to slap Slicer a second time but instead generated a wave of water to form a wall against a duo of energy blasts from Tien and Yamcha; a third blast following up from Krillin intended to blow both Elite's back after the first two made contact.
"We'll deal with this later… we still have victims to finish off" Cascade remarked slowly; her vocal tone shifting to one more sinister upon focussing her attention on the enemies.
"Agreed!" Slicer remarked; his claws and teeth growing larger alongside his entire body; the flesh under his shed scales glowering a deep crimson as blades floated from his back and into the air before spinning away towards the trio of Z Fighters who just kicked the blades away with little harm.
"You call that an attack? We train with more deadly projectiles than that!" Yamcha gloated; his ruse about training with deadly projectiles making Slicer more angry when in truth he only trained with projectiles with his own Spirit Balls, Tien and Krillin both using their immense martial arts experiences to deflect the assault with simple heel kicks to the flats of the blade scales and sending the projectiles back at their source.
With wide eyed shock; Slicer couldn't believe his projectile blades were sent back at him, failing to realise how many scales he'd used to defend against the beams at the beginning, the blades pierced his own exposed flesh and howled from pain while Cascade stared at her ally in disgust for his foolhardiness before raising the oceans waves to defend against the blades aimed at her and pulled the blades into the depths.
From the battleships' armaments; an undamaged hatch opened as a missile was launched, the powerful weapon soaring up from the silo only to turn and shoot through the air on a direct path towards Cascade and Slicer.
With the launch of the missile; Tien, Yamcha and Krillin all spotted the weapon first, taking a dive down and dropped into the ocean waters for safety and out of the path of the missile rocketed towards the pair of Elites, both only spotting the weapon as it rocketed towards them without a second to evade, the missile finding its mark and exploding on contact with The Elites.
With an eruption of fire; not a trace of the two Elites remained behind except for a half-burnt silk dress floating in the ocean, a loud cheer being heard from the remaining battleship while the trio emerged from the oceans waves.
"Hey, Cascade left your wife a present!" Yamcha and Tien yelled together; the duo lifting the silk dress with one hand each from the waves and showing it to an unamused Krillin.
"Not her style" Krillin responded with an amused chuckle, Tien dropping the silk back into the ocean and let it float away with the tide.
Onboard the battleship, dozens of soldiers cheered and applauded the victory of two Elites, all the soldiers dashing out onto the deck and gave a resounding cheer as Tien, Yamcha and Krillin all pulled themselves out from the ocean.
In the crashing waves of the ocean; the silk left behind by Cascade floated under the robe was pulled under the surface and vanished into the depths alongside with that little remained of the defeated foes.