Chapter 8: The Battle Begins.
It was a calm morning in East city as people rushed to-and-fro, some late for work, others heading to important meetings; that is, it was calm until two meteor like objects came storming through the atmosphere and embedded themselves in the middle of a street.
Two being's shot out of the pod and floated in the air, one was short with flame shaped hair, the other was a bald giant.
Some of the citizen's stayed to oh-and-awe at the strange floating men, while the rest remembered the King's report from almost a year before and fled in terror.
Vegeta pressed his scouter looking for any above average power levels, he would keep his word to his newest recruit and give his mother a painless death if he could, the rest of the world not have such a luxury.
When he determined not a single being in the city had a power level over 50, he simply nodded to his larger companion.
A large grin spread over Nappa's face as he lifted to fingers upwards creating a massive explosion, vaporizing the entire city in one go. Much like he had done just a few months prior on Arlia.
Vegeta though didn't stop to watch the fireworks, he had risen several hundred feet into the air to avoid interference from the explosion so his scouter could scan a larger area looking for a power level higher than the planetary average, hopefully that could be the boys mother.
What he found completely surprised him though, "What is this... a cluster of high power levels? six of them over 800 all gathered together." he could hardly believe the reading this was a class 1 planet, meaning their shouldn't be a single fighter over 200.
Nappa had a predatory smile on his face, after pulling himself away from watching the still spreading shock wave, "Come on Vegeta we might get to have some fun here after all." The giant began to fly the direction the scouter indicated, before Vegeta could respond.
"Damn it Nappa we don't have time to play around, we're short on time as it is." Vegeta shouted as he followed, though he had to admit he was curious where all the higher power levels had come from.
The duo had only made it a short distance when their scouter picked up more, well above average power levels. "a group of 10 power levels all around the strength Raditz had recorded Kakarot at, moving towards the others. What the hell is going on?" Vegeta growled he didn't like surprises.
"Hey at least they're all gathering up in one place, right Vegeta?" Nappa said hoping this lucky break would mean he'd get to have at least a little fun.
"Yes it seems the Earthlings heeded Raditz's warning and have made efforts to prepare for us." It was the only explanation Vegeta could come up with as to why so many high power levels suddenly appeared on a world this primitive, From the basic information on this world he had looked up on the way here, they were determined to lack the technology necessary to contact and hire mercenary defenders like some worlds did when they learned they had been targeted by the planet trade.
The only thing he couldn't understand is how the warriors were able to increase their strength so much in such a short amount of time. "We may get to have alittle fun after all, at least until we figure out how they increased their strength so fast." Vegeta finally said, causing Nappa's smile to return.
"Hopefully they're stubborn, that last planet really sucked." Nappa responded as they picked up their speed.
Piccolo looked up from his mediation, the other's floating near by had all felt it too, a massive explosion of energy somewhere in the distance.
"Looks like they've arrived." Piccolo stated the obvious as he stared off in the distance, "Hmm I guess they're heading straight for us, I only sense two of them though."
"Their power… it's unreal each of them is at least as strong as you are Piccolo." Tien said in shock, all the fighters present were supposed to be much stronger than the Saiyan that had killed Goku, so they couldn't figure out why they felt so insignificant after feeling the power radiating from the two beings heading towards them.
"Yes it looks like Goku and I fought the runt of the group before." Piccolo's outward expression was calm, inwardly he was irritated at the hitch in his plan, he would definitely need either his 'team' to step up to the challenge or he would need Goku to have made at least as much progress as he had, to overcome this new issue.
"So do you guys think Goku will get here in time?" Krillin asked concerned about fighting such powerful opponent's without the man who had already saved the Earth several times by himself.
A voice rang out behind them, "I'm not sure who this Goku figure is but I doubt he will arrive in time to help you." a confident voice rang out from behind them.
Everyone turned around shocked to see two figures floating above them. One was a small man with flamed hair, the other a bald Giant, both had their arms crossed, their body language displaying obvious contempt for the beings below them.
Both floated lazily to the ground, setting down right in front of the still shocked group. "You see the only reason we haven't already killed you is because we're curious how so many warriors with average strength appeared on such a weak world so quickly." the shorter man continued.
Piccolo immediately tried to take control of the situation, "I'm only going to say this once, leave this planet this is your first and last chance to get out of this alive."
Vegeta's eyes narrowed slightly, "That voice, I see you're the weakling Raditz's spared when he visited this backwater world."
"My voice?" Piccolo asked confused as to how they would know what his voice sounded like.
"Yes, maybe Raditz failed to tell you while he was mopping the floor with you and the third class traitor, but our scouters act as communication devices also." Vegeta said indicating the device that was over his eye.
"Hey the green one's from Namek isn't he Vegeta?" Nappa suddenly blurted out as he recognized the species of the being before him.
Vegeta gave Piccolo a closer look for a moment more, "Yes I believe he is, Nappa. Aren't you pretty far from home, Namek?" Vegeta asked in a condescending voice, curious as to why a species of reclusive beings of above average strength was living on a backwards world like this.
"I'm from Namek?" Piccolo whispered quietly to himself, everything suddenly felt like it made sense to him, although he had never heard of the world before, he knew the words of the Saiyans were true.
"You didn't know?, what a surprise, surely you must have suspected something before now. The green skin and pointy ears are a dead give away, don't you think?" Vegeta taunted as he waited for Piccolo's response.
After waiting for Piccolo's response for a moment and receiving none, as he was still lost in thought, Vegeta continued, "If my memory of the events of that day are correct, your power level was only a measly 400 when Raditz defeated you, I can't help but noticed that you're quite a bit stronger than that now, care to tell us how you managed that improvement?" His question was blunt and right to the point, he did have a schedule to keep after all.
Piccolo finally seemed to focus back on the world around him, "I want to thank you, because of you I finally know that I come from the planet Namek, but this is my planet now, and I don't feel like sharing it. So enough talk, we're here to fight." Piccolo said completely ignoring Vegeta's question.
Nappa and Vegeta just stared at Piccolo who had now assumed a defensive stance, the others around him followed his lead. After a moment Nappa spoke up, "Fine if you don't want to tell us I suppose we can beat it out of you." The giant said as he cracked his knuckles and started to walk towards them.
"Wait a moment Nappa." Vegeta suddenly ordered, "The other weaker power levels we picked up are almost here, maybe one of them will be more willing to tell us what we want to know."
A standoff ensued for the next ten minute or so, Nappa, fidgeting with his armour, while Vegeta crossed his arms and waited patiently, eye's closed.
Finally he heard the sound of additional boots hitting the ground, 10 new warriors had now lined up beside the others presents, the anxious looks on their faces giving away the fact they knew they were outmatched.
Vegeta quickly noticed there was only one woman warrior present, the look on her face was not one of fear, or apprehension, but one of resolve, and barely contained fury.
She was the first of the new comers to speak, "Which one of you took my son! Where is he! I want my SON!" She shrieked like a banshee, causing both Vegeta and Nappa to cover their now ringing ears.
When the ringing decreased enough that Vegeta could hear himself think, he responded "I take it you're the brat's mother, as you can see we didn't bring your son. No poi-" Vegeta's explanation was cut short by his scouter registering a massive rise in chi chi's power. It It had already spiked from a few hundred when she first landed to around 1000 when she had started to yelling. Now though her power had increased again to nearly 2500. Before she launched herself at him.
Although her strength had more than doubled in an instant, not unlike her son's unique ability, her movements were still in painfully slow motion for the Saiyan prince, he dodged every punch and kick she unleashed, effortlessly, before simply backhanding her. The force of the blow sent her fly back over a dozen meters nearly to her starting point.
She lay still on the ground, before begrudgedly getting back up, her head ringing from the powerful blow.
"Now then as... I... WAS… SAYING." Vegeta continued, irritated that he was interrupted, "We didn't bring your son because he didn't need to see his own planet's extermination. I promised your son that your death would be painless, so I'll take care of that issue once one of you answer my earlier question."
A collective chill ran down most of the fighters presents back at the statement although everyone knew that's what the Saiyan's were here for, it was a different to hear them say it.
Chi Chi finally got the composed herself enough to send a glare Vegeta's way once more. "You won't be 'exterminating' anyone today! Once my husband gets back, he'll teach you all some manners, and force you to give us our son back." Chi Chi's voice had an almost triumphant tone to it.
Just the mere reminder of Goku coming back, calmed all of the fighters present who had ever met him, all except for one. 'Even if Goku has kept pace with me, we're in serious trouble, I'd be able to take on the big one on on one, but by how he's acting, it only confirms what I felt before, the smaller one is a whole league above us all.' sweat was beading along the edge of his turban, 'All of this effort, even training my enemies and I still am faced with an enemy that is a whole class above me, this shouldn't be possible.'
"Husband? What the hell are you talking about? Raditz killed the boys father did he not?" Vegeta growled out, although he was curious about the planet's sudden strength gain, he didn't have all day to spend finding the world's secret.
Chi Chi's face beamed, "Yes he did, but we wished him back and he'll be here any minute to-" Krillin and Roshi reacted too late as they hurriedly covered her mouth, the last thing they needed to do was let the Saiyans know about the Dragon Balls.
But the damage was done, one of Vegeta's eyebrows rose slightly, betraying his interest. "Wished back, you say?"
The color drained from the Earth's defenders faces, it was all the confirmation Vegeta needed, this world had some means to grant seemingly impossible wishes, at the very least it could seemingly revive the dead, he would have to inquire more about this magic.
"That is none of your concern, you came here to fight, so let's get started." Piccolo replied feigning calm, as he tried to take back control of the situation.
Vegeta's focus was now singular though, he would have the means to grant his wish. "It is very much my concern Namek…" A smile suddenly crept across his face, "Ah so you're the means to this wish aren't you? I have heard stories of you race, myths if you will, supposedly your world is home to magical wish granting orbs." The shock on the Earthlings faces confirmed his suspicions. "Interesting, Alright I'll make you a deal, whoever tells us how to find these magical orbs, will be spared." Vegeta, the Planet Trade Organization had very strict rules about leaving survivors, but if it meant immortality he might be willing to bend the rules just this once.
No one replied, "Fine maybe you'll be persuaded later when you're begging for mercy, or maybe Kakarot will try and regain some of his lost honor and lead us to these spheres, either way you have been warned." The tension was so thick it could be cut with a knife, as both sides starred one another down.
"Nappa, I think we'll have a little fun here after all. Get those Saibamen out, there should be 6 left." Vegeta said, a evil smirk on his face.
"Huh... oh yeah, you're right there are six." Nappa's grin quickly matched Vegeta's, "Yeah they'll do the job nicely."
Everyone watched anxiously as Nappa poked six small holes in the dirt before pitting a seed in each and putting a liquid on each spot. With seconds each began to sprout a small cabbage looking creature who proceeded to scream pure insanity.
"Dodoria! Dodoria answer me this instant!" Frieza screamed into the scouter rousing the plump elite from his drug induced slumber.
"Huh?.. what?..Lord Frieza?" he asked still dazed as he pulled himself awake.
"Yes its me you imbecile, please tell me you are nearing the planet." A mixture of irritation and desperation in the tyrant's voice.
Dodoria quickly looked at the navigation system, "We will be arriving in three hours sire." Dodoria quickly answered curious as to what could have Frieza so worked up, it's not like the Saiyan's could rebreed their entire species in a couple of months, at least he didn't think they could.
"That is not anywhere near fast enough, Vegeta will have his wish by then." Frieza's voice was icy, the level of deceit the Saiyans had pulled on him had completely quashed his expectations, it was the sort of moves he would expect from his own family, not his flea bitten monkey servants. "You will get there immediately, I don't care how past the safety indicators you have to push those pods, get there NOW!" He shouted before cutting the connection.
The Emperor rose from his seat and begun to pace, he couldn't believe he had been deceived so thoroughly. Leaving the weaker Saiyans behind to lead him off of their true mission on the planet, it was obvious he had underestimated his pet, a mistake he would not make again.
He needed to blow someone up, killing the low level grunt who had been assigned to monitor all of Vegeta's scouter activity and report it directly to Frieza had not nearly been enough. After he found something suitable he needed to get to this world, Namek to have his own wish for immortality granted, he would not have an immortal Vegeta stopping him.
Bulma rushed into her makeshift office at the royal mansion, she had already alerted King Furry the Saiyans had arrived and they had destroyed East City.
The King hadn't taken the news well, already he had been anxious ever since seeing the Eternal Dragon in person the day before.
While the King made the final preparations for the emergency announcement, Bulma had to finish getting the satellite camera system online, so the world could see the fight for the fate of the Earth, without any civilians getting in the fighters way.
Quickly she typed a series of complex codes, codes that should wake the satellites up, and begin their scanning for the location of the fighters, she had given Master Roshi a small tracking device which should do the job well enough. And it did, the satellites had located the gathering of fighters within a matter of seconds, not only that but they had zoomed in well enough that the fighters could be seen as well as they could from a low hovering helicopter.
On one side of a small, crater filled valley stood nearly 20 fighters, the Earth's only line of defense, opposing them was not the three fighters she expected to see, but two apparent Saiyans and 6 green monstrosities phasing in and out of view at random, destroying the landscape around them.
Before she really had a chance to ponder what kind of threat these new creatures could pose, or where they had even come from, she received the signal that it was time to patch the footage through to the world. 'Good luck guys' she thought to herself as she turned to begin explaining to the world, as best she could what would be happening on the screen.
Piccolo watched the clearly insane creatures around him with casual disinterest he was leagues stronger than any of them, if anything he would leave the weaker humans to deal with the pests while he tried to set up a one on one battle with the larger Saiyan, leaving his top students to buy him to to deal with the smaller one.
He quickly passed his plan around to his students, and had Kami transmit it to the other fighters he was less familiar with. Everyone nodded in unison as they prepared to fill their roles.
Before the battle could begin though, Vegeta spoke up once more, "Lets make this a game, a tournament if you will. A series of one on one battles between you Earthlings and our Saibamen." Keeping the fact he knew they were hiding at least part of their true powers to themselves, if the boy and his mother were any indication, the Saibamen shouldn't inflict many casualties, but it would provide him a way to get a better estimate at how capable they each truly was.
Yajirobe had been in the back so far, looking for a way to escape, that is until he saw the cabbage looking creatures running around, 'Hey they don't seem that tough, I can follow all of their movements easily. Plus they kinda look tasty... Piccolo hasn't really let me eat much lately either, I wonder… yeah that's what I'll do, I'll take them out and then nobody can ask me to fight anymore cause I would've done all the work so far.' A smile crept across the Samurai's face, he was going to get dinner, be a hero, and avoid being killed all at once.
"I'll go first!" He shouted confidently and strode forward, much to everyone who knew him, 'surprise.
"Come on which one of you wants a piece of me first." He said a slight cockiness to his voice as one of the Saibamen stepped forwards, a devilish grin on its face.
The two stared at one another for just an instant, before Yajirobe charged in wanting to take the offensive early, his sword was out in a flash as he crossed the small space between himself and his prey, the Saibamen hardly had time to move before a sword was already separated his legs from his torso. He was still in the process of a death scream when a second slash cut him vertically, ending the screech.
A second Saibamen had rushed into position eager to kill the surprisingly fast creature that had killed it's pod mate, while several others moved quickly to surround their adversary, cutting off all retreat.
Before the rushing creature could even lash out, Yajirobe phased from it's view, just an instant later it's whole world began to spin in a particular way, it wasn't until it saw it's own collapsing body several feet away that it realized what had happened, everything faded quickly to black immediately after the, now decapitated, Sabiabemen's head came to a stop.
Vegeta watched, an irritated scowl on his face, although he now had a decent idea of where the fat fighters strength was at now, he had expected the Saibamen to put up some sort of resistance, but after the third one was cut into eight small pieces, he couldn't stand back anymore, if the fat one was one of the elites of this world, he wouldn't let him eliminate such useful tools without him being able to gather more information.
Vegeta vanished, faster than anyone present was able to see, and appeared in front of Yajirobe, just as he was swinging his blade at the fourth, too slow Saibamen, Vegeta's hand lashed out and caught the blade, using just his thumb and index finger.
Yajirobe's eye's bulged in surprised not only at the fact one of the Saiyan's had suddenly intervened, but also that he was able to completely stop his blade as if Yajirobe's recently added strength meant nothing at all.
"That's enough." Vegeta said as he tightened his grip on the metal, causing the blade to shatter into hundreds of small pieces. "You've already taken more than your fair share of turns." With that Vegeta gave Yajirobe a 'light' kick which sent the obese fighter shooting backwards as if he was launched from a rocket, before being embedded in a nearby cliff wall.
All across the world with each Saibamen he fell, the world cheered. It appeared that the Earth's special forces had the situation well in hand, that is until one of the seemingly human-like beings, who were apparently commanding the green creatures intervened, snapped the sword of the Earth's newest star, and promptly kicked him into a mountain as if he had been launched from a cannon.
A sense of dread began to spread across the people of Earth as they waited and hoped someone else would step up.
After watching Yajirobe struggle to free himself from his new rocky home for a moment, everyone turned back to face Vegeta, their looks a lot more dire than they had been a few seconds before.
"Now then, back to the game, who's next?" The tone of Vegeta's voice didn't match the stern expression on his face.
There was a brief pause before another one of the fighters stepped forward, an old man. "If no one else wants to go I suppose I will." Master Roshi said as he began to unbutton his shirt.
Vegeta was almost insulted, but at the same time had hadn't thought the obese fighter to be a match for the Saibamen either, so he would allow the old man his chance for now.
The three surviving Saibamen were much more hesitant to rush forward this time after watching half their pod be cut down in a matter of seconds.
"Hey, one of you get moving." Nappa shouted as he kicked the runt of the trio forward.
The creature face-planted, but quickly jumped back up, looking at the now shirtless scrawny, bearded, old-man before him.
Master Roshi had sensed the creatures strength when they were running rampant destroying the landscape around them. They were strong, each one easily as strong as Goku's brother, it would take everything he had to get the victory.
"Hrrrr!" He started to yell, channeling his inner reserve of energy. His muscles growing to their full massive form.
Nappa and Vegeta's scouters tracking the increase, '1150 so the old man is nearly as strong as Raditz was when he arrived here a year ago, how is this possible… I guess I'll have to figure that out after all, after I get my wish that is.' Vegeta thought to himself, as he watched the fight begin.
Master Roshi was calm, he had watched the creatures chaotic attacks earlier against Yajirobe, and was confident he could make up for the fact the creature was slightly stronger than himself, as long as he could sustain his buffed up state.
The aged martial artist wasted no time taking the offensive as he rushed forward, the Saibamen was caught slightly off guard but quickly followed suite and also launched forward intending to meet his adversary, both fighters delivering powerful blows to the others face. knocking each back a few feet.
They quickly recovered and reengaged, trading a flurry of punches and kicks, Master Roshi landing more hits than he took. finally they separated both breathing slightly harder than normal.
They each only took a second to catch their breath before jumping in once more, their bodies vanishing from the view of the cameras above, causing the millions watching to panic unsure what had happened. All of the fighters though could follow the movements with ease as they two fighters shot across the sky at speeds that would put fighter jets to shame.
The battle was intense, Master Roshi's skill completely cancelling out the Saibaman's advantages in strength and speed. Finally Master Roshi was able to get a clean hit on the small green creature sending it rocketing into the air. And began to charge a Kamehameha wave. "Kame!"
The creature wasn't done though as it used it's Ki to stop its accent after a few dozen feet. and immediately let loose a flurry of small Ki blasts peppering the area that Master Roshi had been standing.
The Turtle hermit barely had time to roll to the left before the blasts hit, he didn't make it far though before the creature sped next to him crashing into his back with a vicious, flying, double legged kick sending him tumbling.
The creature used the opposing momentum from his kick to flip up and over in a backwards flip, letting loose a massive splash of acid, from his head, at Master Roshi, whose was in the process of eating dirt as he skidded face first on the ground.
Master Roshi heard the shouts of horror though and was able to push off the ground hard enough to launch himself into the air, barely avoiding a painful death. He rotated fast enough to block a follow up strike from his now split head attacker, and lash out with a powerful kick sending his attacker into the air again.
Master Roshi didn't waste time charging up a powerful blast this time, knowing his attacker would recover very quickly, "Kamehameha!" He shouted sending a medium sized blast into the creatures body rocketing it upwards.
Master Roshi finally floated down to the ground, panting with the exertion of the fight, and watched as the body of the Saibaman crashed back to the ground, as it broke through the planets surface.
All of the turtle students began to cheer with their master's victory, "Great job, you had me worried there for a minute you old coot!" Krillin shouted above the other cheers, excited to see how far his old master had progressed this last year after being static for so long.
Ever the crowd-pleaser Master Roshi whipped around and raised his his right hand in a peace sign, while his other hand rubbed the back of his neck, "It was nothing." he said chuckling.
Piccolo's eye's widened slightly as he noticed the threat before he could warn the annoying old man though, the Saibaman was already flying through the air at him, arms spread wide.
Master Roshi sensed the creature at the last second though, and whipped around, instantly forcing all the Ki he could gather into his ultimate finishing attack, "Lighting Blast, Surprise Attack!" A massive wave of electrical energy shot forth enveloping the still mid-air Saibamen completely frying it to the bone.
It continued along its path up and over the Turtle hermit before landing in front of the other shocked Z-fighters, clearly dead.
Yajirobe wasted no time grabbing it up, running a short distance away to begin to devour it, as Master Roshi fell to his knees completely drained.
The smell of the flash cooked meat was quickly carried by the wind back to the two Saiyan warriors causing their stomachs to growl loudly, reminded of the fact they had only had the bare minimum need to survive injected into their veins in the last few months.
Vegeta decided to make a decision right then and there, there was no way he was going to meet Frieza's deadline anyway, so he might as well enjoy himself he'd have months before Frieza could do anything to him anyway. Besides somewhere on this backwater world there was supposedly a means to grant wishes, such as immortality, with that he would finally be able to assume his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy.
Vegeta turned to his last two Saibamen, and decided they had done their job adequately enough, he now knew approximately how much strength each of the fighters were hiding based on the three that had fought so far. So he quickly flashed cooked the creatures, giving in to his usual Saiyan hunger.
The Z-fighters, many of whom who had gathered around Master Roshi making sure he was alright, looked with horror, what sort of monster would kill his own fighters.
"I'm going to extend an offer for your lives to be spared, you must simply tell me where the mystic balls are, you have one hour to decide. In the meantime we will be eating, if any of you disturb us we will take it as a rejection of our offer and begin the fun early." With that Vegeta picked up the fried Saibamen, Nappa following the prince's lead and floated a short distance away to begin to eat.
The entire group just watched them in shock the entire time it them to lazily float to the other side of the small canyon.
Finally they shook it off and moved back over to where they had stood before, to discuss what to do next. "This is great guys, We should just finish them now we have them completely outnumbered." Yamcha said feeling confident with their numerical advantage restored.
"No this is still bad Yamcha." Master Roshi said after he finished taking a drink of water from a small jug that Piccolo had made for his students over the last 6 months. "The smaller creatures were just the icing on the cake so to speak, we were only preparing for the Saiyans to begin with, so we're back to where we started. Basically we've come out slightly worse than we would've been without those creatures because although I wouldn't be much help to begin with now I won't be any I'm completely drained. The only good that came from that fight is we bought Goku more time to get here." the wizarded warrior surmised.
The world watched with disgust as the Saiyan prince killed his own allies and then began to eat them, the disgust turned to confusion as the two sides seemed to take a holding pattern waiting for something to happen.
Over the next fifty minutes, the pattern continued to hold, and many people began to get bored and changed the channel, or at least they tried to until they realized all channels were showing the same thing, and ultimately turned off the television sets.
Finally there was movement in the hills surrounding the valley the battle had been taking place so far.
Nappa had finished his fried Saibamen quicker than Vegeta, and had spent of the time with his scheming out loud, to Vegeta, about what he would do if he was immortal, or complaining about having to wait a whole hour to start the actual fighting.
Vegeta's patience was beginning to run thin with his second in command and was currently contemplating breaking his jaw so he could have some silence, that is until both scouters registered an approaching power level, it was actually fairly high.
"So Kakarot has finally arrived I see, good I was hoping have a talk with him.." Vegeta announced as he turned to face
"Yeah It'll be fun forcing him to watch us kill his friends." Nappa concurred.
As they waited and watched in the direction the power level had come from, Vegeta couldn't help but think it was taking a long time for someone supposedly as strong as the scouter indicated to cross the distance the scouter was indicating. Finally things began to make sense as the scouter began reading what it originally thought was one high power level as many smaller ones, as the individuals began to spread out. To say the Saiyans were disappointed at the mix up was an understatement.
"Damn it I thought I was going to get to have some fun beating the shit of the kid's dad for being a piss poor Saiyan." Nappa grumbled, "I mean none of the fighter heading this way are even going to be fun to kill." he continued.
"Yes I know Nappa I'm disappointed too, but lets see what these new arrivals will do, maybe one of them is bringing us our wish." Vegeta sarcastically suggested.
Finally the readings all lined up in a nearly circular pattern around the edge of the valley, clearly thinking they had the element of surprise on their side, and intending to try an ambush.
Vegeta almost chuckled to himself at the foolish beings that were about to attack, not a single one was above 300.
All around the rim a series of voices rang out, "Dodon Ray!" again and again they shouted as blast after blast rained down on Nappa and Vegeta completely obscuring the region surrounding the duo in dust.
"Those fools! They are going to get themselves killed." Tien shouted over the yells. sensing who it was that was attacking.
Finally all 12 fighters rushed into a tight circular formation directly above the Saiyans, who were still surrounded in smoke, "Tri-Beam!" A massive blast rained down on the spot the Saiyans had stood, creating a massive explosion, and subsequent crater.
Every maneuver was accomplished with machine like precision, the entire group even landed in unison. The Crane Hermit and Mercenary Tao in the front, both with confident smirks on their faces. "Ah Roshi, I see you are continuing to fail, leaving the true number one martial arts school on the planet to clean up the mess. With the very fighters you decided weren't good enough for your second rate school." Master Roshi's arch rival taunted, motioning to his ten surviving students behind him.
"Get back all of you!" Captain Meditrain shouted too late, a single blast shot out of the smoke, hitting right into the center of the group, the explosion was massive sending all of the z fighters except Piccolo, Tien, Yamcha, and Krillin, flying into the cliff wall.
The celebrations that had started all over the world, slowly began to die out as people began to notice the smoke billowing from the second explosion. A feeling of dread beginning to build in many of the people still watching's guts as they tried to figure out what had happened.
"Shen!" Master Roshi forced himself onto his feet and rushed over to one of the two bodies of the crane school not obliterated by the blast.
Master Shen's body was clearly broken, it was a miracle he was even still alive."Roshi…" Master Shen's voice weakly croaked out. "I'm...I'm sorry… For the trouble...I've caused you over the years….… please avenge me" The light quickly faded from the ancient martial arts master's eyes.
"Look Nappa you missed, one of them survived." Vegeta's amused voice rang out.
"Huh, damnit, I thought I got them all." Nappa shouted irritated at his own bad aim.
Anger began to build up in Roshi's gut, although Shen had been completely corrupted for centuries they had been the last surviving students of their mutual master Mutaito, and now he and his students were the last surviving fighters on the planet with knowledge of the ancient ways.
Finally he took a deep breath, as much as he wanted to personally avenge his colleague, he knew he would've been overmatched, even if he hadn't already burnt all of his strength in the first fight, no if anyone was to avenge Master Shen, it would be one of the younger fighters, unless all other options fail, Master Roshi's fight was done.
He picked his fallen rival up and took him away from the battlefield, and had choose a small crater, placing him inside and burying him.
The whole time Vegeta watched with amusement, the old man was much stronger than any of the weaklings that had just tried to attack them, but he supposed since the apparent leader of the attack seemed to be nearly as old as the bearded old man they must've been old allies, so he gave them a moment. "Well now that you have that taken care of, what do you say we get started killing you, unless you've decided to do the smart thing and give me my wish." Vegeta said a taunting smirk on his face.
Piccolo stepped forward, "Everyone here is here to fight, so let's begin." He said tossing his weighted clothing to the side.
"Vegeta, can I take this one?" Nappa said his voice almost a plea.
"Sure have fun." Vegeta responded his smirk never wavering, as the hulking giant stepped forward eager to have some real fun. "Lets see how tough you Namekians really are."
Piccolo smiled inwardly this was the exact situation he was hoping for. Piccolo just smiled at the shocked look on Nappa's face as he stopped actively suppressing his power, the scouter reading quickly jumped from 2000 to just over 4000.
"Hey Vegeta you were right, his power did double, this is going to be fun after all." Nappa replied the shocked look becoming a look of anticipation.
'Just like Goku…' Piccolo thought to himself as he slid into his stance, a confident smirk on his face as the two stared one another down.
And then they were gone, the first sonic boom from a blow was several hundred feet in the air, as Nappa caught a powerful right hook aimed at his head, and promptly pulled Piccolo in for a knee to the gut, before the blow could connect though, Piccolo fired a pair of eye beams into the hulking Saiyan's should causing him to yelp in pain, releasing his iron like grip.
Piccolo wasted no time delivering a vicious round house kick to the still reeling giant's head, launching him towards the ground.
Piccolo didn't want to drag the fight out though, he needed to finish the fight fast so he could focus on the bigger threat.
"Masenko HAA!" He quickly charged and fired his newest favorite attack, unleashing a massive wave of destructive energy.
His attack was just a moment too slow though as Nappa fired a blast from his mouth at an angle to the ground, shooting him back in a safer direction, only to be caught in the resulting shock wave which sent him tumbling.
He quickly righted himself just in time to raise his fore arm to block a vicious blow from Piccolo, the fight only intensified from their as the fights launched back and forth around the landscape at speeds fast enough, that the only other being capable of following them was Vegeta.
Finally the two fights broke apart their bodies covered in welts and cuts, but only one of them seemed to be tiring from the exertions.
Piccolo's mind was racing as he stared at his opponent who seemed to have a limitless endurance, the fight had been intense he knew he done some damage, just as much if not more than the brute himself had dished out, but still he stood there smiling, not the least bit out of breath, as if this was all one big game for him.
"Getting tired green man?" Nappa taunted trying to get every bit of enjoyment out of the fight that he could, it was rare that he could go one on one against an opponent like this, so he was determined to drag it out as long as possible.
When Piccolo didn't respond Nappa decided to try another tactic to get under his skin, "You kno-" Piccolo's arm suddenly extended across the battlefield and wrapped itself around Nappa's throat, his eye's widened in surprise as he was hoisted into the air and slammed back down, back first, his head crashing through a decent sized rock.
As Piccolo began to make a second downward swing, Nappa managed to get his feet under him again, and used his leverage to pick Piccolo into the air by his still extended arm, swinging him around in a circular motion around them.
It was only a matter of seconds before the bones in Piccolo's now extended arm snapped under the force of his rotating body as Nappa sped up to ridiculous speeds.
Piccolo's yells of pain could barely be heard as Nappa continued to accelerate up to tornado like speeds before finally hurling his injured opponent high into the air, and following it up with a massive mouth blast.
Piccolo was barely able to raise his arms in time to block the blast, when it passed he floated there his clothing fried, his arms hanging limp at his sides, panting with the exertion it had taken to keep the blast from enveloping him.
"Hey Vegeta I think I cooked him like a vegetable" Nappa said as he broke into laughter at the haggard looking fighter above him.
Piccolo grimaced as he forced his non-broken arm up and wrapped his burnt, stiff fingers around the other one. With all the willpower he could muster, he pulled, and let out a yell, calling Nappa and Vegeta's attention back to him, his arm ripped away.
"What the fuck?" Nappa shouted as Piccolo's burnt arm fell to the ground, as he began to yell once more, a fully healed arm shooting from his stump.
Vegeta stared up at Piccolo slightly surprised at the strange abilities Piccolo had, as he ripped his other off and re-growing it in a similar fashion, before slowly floating down towards Nappa still panting.
He set both feet on the ground and continued to stare at the giant who who although he seemed to be about as strong as Piccolo was, was proving to possess other-worldly endurance.
"So you still have some fight in ya huh?" Nappa said glad he would get to continue the fight a little longer.
Piccolo growled as he charged Nappa and let loose another flurry of attacks, Nappa blocking all of them easily. He began to get over-confident as Piccolo's attacks continued to get more desperate, finally one slipped through, a powerful left hook to the giants face, nearly knocking him off balance.
The instant he began to stagger back Piccolo lunged into a half backwards flip, both his feet shooting upwards, launching Nappa into the air.
Piccolo began to fire a barrage of small concentrated blasts peppering Nappa's still reeling form. he continued to let loose for nearly a minute before his attack began to die out, Piccolo stood there, panting, beginning to get discouraged that Nappa's body didn't drop from the sky.
Finally the smoke cleared to reveal the scratched and burnt form of Nappa, "Wow that wasn't half bad, sure did a number on my armour." Nappa congratulated, pointing out the numerous holes that now scattered his armour, as he floated back down in front of a still heavily panting Piccolo.
Across the battlefield
"Guys I think we may need to step in" Krillin said barely above a whisper, Yamcha and Tien were already thinking along similar paths, they couldn't figure out a way to take this guy out though, he seemed to slough off everything Piccolo threw at him.
"If we all hit him at the same time, I bet he wouldn't bounce back so easily." Yamcha said, as everyone began to ready themselves to join the fight.
"We have to be quick about this, Go!" Tien said still barely above a whisper as they all began to rush forward.
Before they had even made it three steps a massive explosion erupted in front of them, Vegeta floated their arms crossed an amused look at the now sprawling humans below him.
"Now where are you going, you weren't going to interrupt the fight were you?" Vegeta taunted. before taking a more serious tone, "If you want to help the green man, tell me about the wish or sit back and watch, you choose."
When no one answered, he simply shrugged his shoulders, "Your choice." and floated back to where he been standing before.
"This… fight… isn't over… yet." Piccolo managed to say between breaths as the stared down Nappa, who was in the process of removing his armour.
"That's the spirit! You should be proud you gave me a good warm up, but I'm about to show you my full power." Nappa responded a large smile on his face, as he began to power up, the veins on his head popping out as a shine of energy wrapped around him.
Piccolo's eyes widened his mouth went slack as the full extent of Nappa's strength was revealed.
"Haha, It feels great to have a one on one fight like this, I haven't had this much fun in ages." Nappa shouted.
Vegeta was eager for Nappa to finish his fun so they could get down to business, but he couldn't pass up an opportunity to taunt the apparent leader of this world's defense force. "If you have anymore tricks, I suggest you try them now before Nappa finishes you.
Piccolo's mind was racing he had a few more tricks up his sleeve, but he wasn't sure any of them could make up the now massive gap in strength. Finally he decided he had to act while he was being given the chance.
"You think this is over… ha." Piccolo's voice taking on a calm, confident tone, he was going to try an old trick and one that would hopefully give him an edge at least until backup arrived. Piccolo began to scream as his body began to expand.
Nappa and Vegeta both watched with mild interest as Piccolo continued to swell, looking for any strength increase the transformation could afford the Namekian, similar to their own hairier growth spurts.
Detecting none Nappa just confidently crossed his arms and waited for his now giant opponents move. He didn't have to wait long as Piccolo unleashed a powerful eyebeam almost immediately after finishing his transformation.
Nappa though dodged not only the initial attack but also each of Piccolo's wild swings as he tried to swat his smaller opponent. Finally Nappa got done playing and quickly delivered a bone crushing doubled legged kick to Piccolo's chest, dropping the giant to his knees with a single blow.
Piccolo gasped for air as he slowly reverted back to his original size, as his regenerative abilities rushed to mend his broken ribs, and punctured lung.
After watching Piccolo stay motionless in the fetal position for a moment longer, Nappa got bored, "Well its been fun, but I think I'll just finish this now." Nappa said as he started to charge a large Ki blast.
"Nappa stop." Vegeta commanded, as Nappa's blast began to fizzle out.
"Huh why Vegeta, he's no fun anymore." Nappa whined confused at his superior's command.
"Damn it, have you already forgotten the reason I let you have your fun with him to begin with?" Vegeta's voice was harsh, his fellow Saiyans tended to not pay attention to the reasons to his orders, and tended to focus on the orders themselves, which caused wasted time with Vegeta having to re-explain things later.
Nappa thought about it for a moment, as Piccolo made the most of the valuable seconds he was gaining, gathering every ounce of strength he had left for his ultimate attack.
Finally he spoke back you, "Oh yeah something about getting a wish out of it, ri-" Nappa was suddenly cut off as his world faded to blackness, the giant's body rocketing across the landscape.
Vegeta only had a fraction of a second to register this sudden attack before he himself felt a powerful blow to the side of his head, causing him to follow a similar trajectory.
Piccolo had jumped up prepared to fire his special beam cannon at the giant at point blank range, but was surprised to find that he and Vegeta had been sent flying by a new mysterious duo.
The two men were both large and muscular like most fighters, their hair was cut close in a longer version of a army buzz cut, their eye's were both covered with sunglasses. To top it all off both were dressed identically, in leather jackets and jeans, a bizarre outfit to wear to a battle field.
They let loose a nearly constant barrage in the direction of their two victims, the blasts hitting their targets just as the Saiyan invaders each crashed into two of the random hills that dotted the area.
The energy from the blast continued to merge and grow larger, and larger, somehow the two beings seemed to be in complete control of the blasts, not letting conglomerate of energy explode yet.
Piccolo was shocked as the two continued to let loose volley after volley of energy, never slowing in a display of endurance, that put even the giant Saiyan to shame. Finally after each hill of energy reached a critical mass, they finally exploded, the blast sent all of the earth's defenders flying, the shock wave was unlike anything any of them had ever seen before, it flatted the ground for miles around.
Finally after the shock induced wind subsided Piccolo's incredible hearing could pick up the strongly accented words that each spoke, "Primary threat one terminated." one said, the other one offered the exact same prognosis for the being he dubbed "Primary threat two." in an identical voice.
The two men then turned in unison and faced the mostly gather Z fighters, neither face displayed any sort of emotion. The glow from the two new lava filled craters behind them giving a reddish glow to the entire region.
After a moment one of them spoke, his voice thick with a German accent, with as much emotion to match his face. "Where is."
The second man finished the sentence with such timing it was as if he was the one speaking to begin with. "Son Goku?"
Hey everyone, hope the fight has lived up to any expectations you might have had for it.
I have received some requests for a power level comparison for everyone, before I list it I want to begin by noting all of the z fighters who have appeared so far are stronger than their cannon counter parts. Also Nappa and Vegeta have the same power levels they had in the show. Now without further adieu
Start of training
Piccolo 408
Tien 260
Krillin 206
Mecha Mercenary Tao 200
Yamcha 177
Yajirobe 170
Chiaotzu 150
Master Roshi 139 Buff 180
King Chappa 150
Chi Chi 110
Nam 110
Bora 100
Captain Meditrain 75
The rest of the blue force between 50-60
Day of the fight
Piccolo 2000 full power 4250
Tien 1200 full power 2800
Krillin 1000 full power 2400
Yamcha 1000 full power 2250
Yajirobe 825 full power 1900
Chiaotzu 800 full power 1850
Master Roshi 500 full power 900 Buff 1150
King Chappa 500 full power 875
Chi Chi 500 full power 890 enraged 2450
Nam 450 full power 850
Bora 450 full power 825
Meditrain full power 600
the rest of the blue force between 400-500.
Mercenary Tao 300
Master Shen 275
Crane students between 150-200
Nappa 4000 full power 7000
Saibamen 1200
Vegeta 12000 full power 18000
And for the last chapter, before any Zenkai's Gohan and Raditz might have received.
Raditz 1900
Gohan 95
Dodoria 22,000
Zarbon 23,000
Frieza 530,000
If you have any questions or concerns please review.
Reviews:
super mystic gohan- glad you liked the chapter, it was a fun one to write just because of the relationship between Frieza and the Saiyans, but I also enjoyed Piccolo's 'fun' with his students lol. Piccolo won't follow quite the same transformation that he did in the show, mainly because his experiences are so different. Dodoria is going to Earth also, he's just running a little late.
Kid Goku Forever- I'm not sure if you have caught up to this chapter yet or not, but glad your still reading.