Chapter Seventy-two
The Depths of Despair! Last Hope of the Cosmos!
"That's pretty good," Goku admitted and even let out a little chuckle at Freeza's quip, "But how're you gonna do it?" She smirked and flicked a finger across her nose. "You haven't been able to kill me yet, after all, and you've been trying pretty hard." Freeza chuckled and rolled his head from side to side, cracking his neck.
"Well, you're half-right," Freeza told her. "I haven't killed you yet but I haven't really been trying. Fifty percent of my power should be enough to kill you." Goku gave a slight sputtering laugh and shrugged.
"Uh huh," she shot back with a smirk, "Sure thing." Then she charged Freeza with one fist drawn back. He had to be bluffing and trying to psych her out. But that wasn't going to– where did he go? Goku came to a sudden halt as Freeza flickered out of existence right in front of her. She heard a whistle at her left and turned her head to see Freeza beside her. Before she could even react, she saw a flicker of movement and felt Freeza drive the point of his elbow into her chest. Goku was sent hurtling back, end over end, and managed to land on her feet just in time to see Freeza already on top of her as he headbutt her in the face to send her flying again and then he was in front of her again, one hand raised high overhead to deliver a debilitating axe kick that sent her through the island and down into the sea.
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"Great," Kaiou muttered as he threw up his hands in frustration. "Just GREAT!"
"What's the matter?" Chaozu asked. "Is something happening with Goku?"
"Freeza's going to kill her," he grumbled flatly as he kicked the grass. "Which is what I told her would happen!"
"Wait," Yamcha interrupted, "What if she got an opening to take off her weighted clothing? She'd be faster, right?" Kaiou shook his head.
"Goku hasn't had weighted clothing since before she got wished back. When I repaired her destroyed clothes, I didn't weigh them down. Didn't see the point." The dead humans looked glumly down at their feet before Tenshinhan suddenly got an idea.
"Wait," he said hopefully, "With all of Goku's training, she must have mastered the higher levels of Kaiouken, right?" The others nodded but Kaiou shook his head again.
"Goku's been using Kaiouken times ten the entire fight." The words hit the others like a blow to the chest and they looked down, crestfallen. "I told her," Kaiou reiterated with building anger, "I told Goku a month ago that she couldn't fight Freeza! Did she listen? Nooo, of course not! I've only been around for seventy five million years, WHAT COULD I POSSIBLY KNOW?!" The humans shuffled away from Kaiou as he continued to rant and, reluctantly, went back to their poker game.
"Guess we'll be seeing Goku again one way or another," Launch muttered sardonically as she irritably flicked Ten's halo.
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Goku burst out of the ocean and shook herself like a dog as she landed and got into her fighting stance again while Freeza smirked at her and crossed his arms.
'Okay,' Goku thought, 'This looks bad.' Freeza was really strong. And really fast. But it wasn't impossible. She could make up the difference if she pushed herself to Kaiouken times twenty. Which would hurt a lot, just like when she went Kaiouken times four against Vegeta. 'Maybe I could come up with something else…'
"I'll give you one chance to surrender," Freeza told her idly. "I'll even let you work for me. You and your friends killed all of my strongest minions so I'm going to need some new toadies. You must realize it's the only way you'll get out of this alive." He chuckled, tail swishing from side to side as he spelled it out. "You. Cannot. Beat me."
Goku saw red.
"Don't you tell me," she growled, "What I can't do!" She slammed her feet down and ground her teeth as she steeled herself for the oncoming pain. "Kaiouken times twenty!" The red aura flared around her like a tower of fire and she charged at Freeza, whose reaction was one of shock and surprised as she rushed at him and dropkicked him in the chest as hard as she could. Goku was behind Freeza in a flash and punched him in the back of the head before grabbing the back of his head and slamming him into the ground, dragging him across the island and hurtling him into the air by his neck. She cried out in a mixture of fury and pain as she slammed her hands together, power coursing through her body as the blue-white ball was bigger than both her hands. "Kaaaameee… haaaameeee… HAAAAAA!" she roared as the massive beam of light rushed toward Freeza. He threw out a telekinetic shield as the light charged toward him, crying out in shock as the shield shattered and he was enveloped in a tremendous explosion.
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"Holy cow," Krillin muttered as they watched from afar. The light of Goku's Kamehameha had nearly blinded them in its intensity.
"That had to have done something," Gohan added. Piccolo watched silently and didn't get his hopes up. Freeza seemed to have tremendous reserves of energy and there was no telling how much Goku might have damaged herself with that shot.
Suno, for her part, was silent because she was biting her knuckle when she watched Goku do all of that because holy shit.
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Goku panted and gasped for breath, sweat running down her body as her arms trembled from the pain that was burning through her body. She definitely wasn't going to push herself to that level anytime soon. Every muscle and every fiber of her being screamed with pain as she slowly let her arms drop to her side and waited for the smoke to clear. That had to have done something!
The smoke finally cleared…
And Freeza was still floating there. He was covered in nicks and scratches and small burns and his palm was severely burned. He was panting, even sweating, and a thin trickle of purple blood ran down from the corner of his mouth but otherwise… he was fine.
"Well," Freeza said as he flexed his fingers, "I must admit, that was quite a little something. If you'd done that before I'd raised my power to fifty percent, that might have killed me. Or at least taken my arm off." He flexed his fingers again and rotated his shoulder. "Thankfully, it seems to be in working order. Let me show you." Then he was in front of Goku and slapped her down into the sea below, streaking like a gold-blue missile.
'I…' Goku thought, 'I can't do it.'
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"Oh crap," Krillin muttered. "Ohhh crap oh crap oh craaaaap."
"It's just what I was afraid of," Piccolo elaborated. "Goku just doesn't have the energy reserves that Freeza has. It's clear to me that Freeza's far more powerful than we could have ever imagined." Gohan was a little ball of emotions. On the one hand, he was absolutely terrified. If his mom couldn't defeat Freeza then what chance did they have? On top of that, he also felt furious, anger filling up his body, wanting to attack Freeza, wanting to beat him to death for hurting his mom! Yet, over all of that, he felt... helpless. Seeing his mom get beaten around like this was so awful, it was like he was four years old again. He was trapped in place, fists balled tight but his whole body shaking.
Suno was white as a sheet. Every part of her screamed out to attack Freeza, to save Goku, to do something, to rush to her aid. That was her wife down there and she was all alone! Yet she knew that Freeza was far too powerful for her to even attempt to face. Not knowing what to do, it seemed she could only watch her love get beaten to death as helpless self-loathing washed over her.
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Goku opened her eyes to darkness and was pretty sure she was drowning. It sucked that she was going to die. Mostly because that meant Kaiou was right and she was going to have to listen to him say that for the rest of forever. She also felt bad that she'd let down the Namekian people and, as weird as it was, Vegeta. Freeza was going to kill everyone else, too. Normally, she'd be angry at the idea and it would make her so mad that she'd want to fight but… what could she do? Freeza was so much more powerful than her. She couldn't beat him. She didn't have a chance. It wouldn't be so bad, she tried to tell herself. Suno and Gohan were fighters, they'd get to keep their bodies. She'd spend the rest of eternity with them. Gohan would finally get to meet his great grandpa! Yeah, yeah. It'd be okay…
Then she saw the strangest thing. It was Bulma driving down the road in a car but everything was all wrong. Everything seemed a lot bigger and yet, at the same time, Bulma seemed a lot smaller. She could also feel something big on her back, something cold and wet. It was a fish! Then Goku was leading Bulma back to her and grandpa's house.
"My name's Bulma," Bulma said. That was funny to Goku but she couldn't remember why anymore. It just made her giggle. "Oh, yeah? Well what's yours?"
"My name's Goku," she said cheerily. Then they were looking at their three Dragon Balls on Goku's table and watching them all glow.
"When you gather all seven Dragon Balls together," Bulma explained, "A giant dragon will come out and grant you any wish!" Goku thought about how she wanted to bring her Grandpa back. But she'd seen her Grandpa again. Hadn't she?
Then everything blurred like one of those movies Suno had her watch on fast forward and she fought Yamcha for the first time. Another blur and then they were at Fry-Pan Mountain and Master Roshi used the Kamehameha, which was the coolest thing Goku had ever seen! Then it was another blur and Goku remembered seeing Shenron and getting really strong and losing all her clothes and her tail for some reason. Then she went to train with Master Roshi, which was where she met Krillin.
"Are you okay?" she asked as she pulled Krillin out of the sand by his foot.
"I'm fine," Krillin had told her, "Now let me go!" So she did.
Then they met Launch and brought her back to Kame Island. She was always fun, no matter what color her hair was. Goku and Krillin trained together for a little over a year for the Tenkaichi Budoukai and Krillin became her best friend in the whole world. They wound up fighting each other in the Budoukai and, even though Goku won, they were still best friends.
Then Goku fought Master Roshi in the finals. Although… he had hair for some reason. It was a great fight, although she couldn't remember the part in the middle for some reason.
"You can't beat this!"
"Watch me!"
Goku had lost but that was okay. She'd just train that much harder for the next time! Then she'd started to look for her Dragon Ball and ran into some jerks called the Red Ribbon Army.
Then Goku met Suno. Thinking of that made a warm feeling spread through Goku's whole body. They saved the mayor of Suno's village at Muscle Tower and they'd met Eighter. She and Krillin fought a robot made of blades in a volcano. She'd fought Taopaipai and lost… but she'd also met Korin and got a lot stronger! The next time she fought Taopaipai, she won. They attacked the Red Ribbon Army base and everyone helped. Suno did a Kamehameha and it was awesome!
They went to meet Master Roshi's big sister to find where the last Dragon Ball was. She was nice. Goku remembered fighting a mummy and a weird man with horns before fighting… Grandpa! She'd gotten to see him and hug him one last time. Then they used Shenron to bring everyone back that had been killed by the Red Ribbon Army that she could.
She went all over the world and met all kinds of people, training and learning for the next Budoukai. There was that guy in the white gi she alway wound up sparring with… When the Budoukai came, she got to meet Tenshinhan and Chaozu. Although they'd been kinda jerks. Ten had broken Krillin's leg so Goku punched Chaozu off the island. Sometimes she felt a little bad for that. She fought Yamcha and he'd done awesome! Then she and Ten fought and it was the best fight ever!
"It'll be a shame to kill you, Son Goku."
"You're going to have to try harder to kill me, especially since I'll be getting serious to stop you!"
Goku lost the Budoukai again but this time she'd been so close! That hadn't really mattered, though, because Krillin had died. She'd tried to fight the demon who killed her but she'd been too weak and he'd killed Nimbus. Suno had taken her to a village to get fixed up and fought another demon when it showed up to take their Dragon Ball.
Goku still got tingly thinking about that.
The demon who killed Krillin, Tambourine, showed up again and this time Goku killed him. It hadn't made her feel any better, though. Then Piccolo's dad had shown up for the first time: Piccolo Daimaou. Goku tried to fight him but he was way too strong. Suno carried Goku all the way up Korin Tower and Korin gave them the Water of God.
That had sucked. A lot.
But it made Goku a lot stronger and she'd been able to defeat Piccolo Daimaou! That had been a really tough battle.
"I'm Son Goku and I'm not gonna die here!"
"Very good, Son Goku! That's the kind of spirit I expect from my adversary!"
She went back to Korin Tower and then went up even higher than that to Kami's lookout. She met Mr. Popo and Kami and lived and trained with them for three years to get strong enough to fight Piccolo one last time. She fought Chi-Chi and then she'd fought Suno and asked her to marry her. Remembering that gave Goku that warm feeling again. She fought Piccolo in what had been the toughest fight of her life at that point.
"Take my rage, Son Goku! Take my hatred!"
"I'll take that but you can take my Chou Kamehameha!"
She'd finally won the Tenkaichi Budoukai and had also saved the world again. Which she guessed was pretty cool. She'd spared Piccolo which had turned out to be a great idea, hadn't it? Then the next few years were easy. She moved in with Suno and Gohan was born. Remembering the first time she'd held him in her arms, when he'd been so small, made her feel even warmer and happier than thinking of Suno did.
Then Raditz showed up. She learned that she was an alien which was pretty weird. She'd fought alongside Piccolo and that was how she'd died the first time. She met King Enma and Bubbles and Kaiou and trained with him for months and months, learning the Kaiouken and the Genki Dama. Hey, wait a second…
She came back to life and raced home to fight Vegeta and avenge her friends. The same friends who were, except for Piccolo, still dead and were counting on her… It had been the toughest and most grueling fight of her life and it was also how she discovered that she'd killed her Grandpa. She'd since made peace with that.
"Allow me to show you a power that no amount of 'hard work' will ever be able to overcome. You cannot win."
"People usually regret telling me when I can't do something."
Then she was in the hospital and then she was flying through space and training to fight Vegeta again and fight Freeza, pushing herself past the breaking point over and over, always breaking through her limits. She fought those Ginyu guys and she was a guy for a minute, which had been kinda weird, and then she was in that tank for a while. Then she finally came out and fought Freeza and now… and now…
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Goku's eyes fluttered open and she realized that, yes, she was drowning. As she flew up and broke the water's surface, she reflected on her life. All of that fighting, all of that training and struggling, just to end up here? A jillion miles from home on some alien planet, failing her family and friends? Letting someone tell her she couldn't do something and be right? Especially a jerk like Freeza?!
No way. Not a chance.
"Huh," Freeza remarked as he watched Goku land in front of him. "I'm surprised you're still alive. If that blow hadn't killed you, I was sure you would have drowned by now. Got anything to say for yourself?"
Goku spat in his face.
The glob hit Freeza hard enough to whip his head to one side. Freeza slowly turned back to face Goku and even more slowly reached up and touched the spit on his face. He rubbed it between his fingertips and his eyes narrowed murderously. He lunged at Goku and kicked her hard in the chest. Goku went flying back end over and but landed on her feet and… raised her hands high overhead. Freeza blinked and stared at her, his face screwed up in perplexment.
"What are you doing?" Freeza asked curiously. Goku didn't respond. "What are you doing?" he asked, even more curious. No response. "What are you doing?!" he snapped at her as confusion turned to anger. Nothing. He puzzled and puzzled til his puzzler was sore. Then he charged forward and drove his palm into Goku's stomach. Goku was sent flying but landed firmly on her feet with her arms still overhead. "Stop it!" he demanded. She smirked at him. Freeza let out a shriek of anger between clenched teeth and tried to sweep Goku's legs out from under her. She jumped over them! "STOP IT!" Goku stuck her tongue out at him.
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"What's she doing?" Gohan asked in confusion. Why wasn't his mom doing anything? Why wasn't she fighting back?
"I'm not sure," Piccolo muttered as he rubbed a hand on his chin. "She's just… holding her hands over her head."
"Oh," Krillin realized, "She's doing the Genki Dama! But… where is it?"
"Besides," Suno added, "That thing couldn't kill Vegeta, so what…" They all began to look up as they realized that everything just got even brighter, as if a fourth sun had popped up in the sky. "Is it… gonna…" Suno's eyes widened and her mouth hung open. "Hooooooly crap."
Hanging high in the sky overhead was an absolutely monstrous ball of dazzlingly bright blue ki. It really was the size of a small sun!
"What… is… that?" Piccolo asked, practically salivating at the idea of being able to create an attack so powerful.
"That's the Genki Dama," Gohan explained. "Mom learned it from the Kaiou!" Piccolo suddenly found himself wishing he'd been dead longer.
"But Goku needs time to charge it up," Krillin pointed out, "And she's not going to get that time if Freeza beats her to death!" Suno was starting to come up with a plan when Piccolo clapped Gohan on the shoulder.
"M-Mr. Piccolo?" Gohan asked as he looked up t his mentor. Piccolo's aura flared up and, strangely, seemed to funnel into Gohan.
"If Goku needs time, you'll have to be the one to give it to her." Before Gohan could protest, Piccolo shook his head. "You're stronger than me," he admitted. "You're the strongest one here. I'll lend you some of my power." Suno and Krillin nodded and put their hands on Gohan and began to do the same. Gohan felt power flooding his body and his expression steeled with determination.
'I'm coming, mom!' he thought to himself. This time, he'd be the one to save her!
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"Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Freeza demanded as he lashed Goku across the chest and face over and over again with his tail. She flinched and winced, she cried in pain and she bled, but she didn't. Drop. Her arms! "Fine!" Freeza spat as he raised one hand and pressed his fingertip between Goku's eyes, "I know what to do when a monkey annoys me." Goku felt the heat between her eyebrows but never broke eye contact, glaring at Freeza.
Out of nowhere, screaming like a blue-and-white rocket, Gohan smashed into Freeza's side and sent him sailing away.
"G-Gohan?!" Goku stammered out, her eyes wide and her jaw hanging open. "What are you doing?! I told you to get away from here!" And why the heck was he so strong?!
"Notime!" Gohan blurted out hurriedly. "Howmuchtimedoyouneed?"
"Coupleminutes!" Goku responded. Gohan nodded and flew off to fight Freeza again.
Freeza picked himself up and ran a fingertip across the bruise on his cheek. That had almost hurt. WHY?! He saw Gohan flying toward him and rage surged through his body as he charged forward to meet him. He would kill the little brat. Slowly. As they met in an explosion of punches and kicks, Freeza contemplated just how he would do it. First, he would peel off all of his skin…
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As Suno watched the two people she loved most in the world fight the most evil and terrifyingly powerful monster she'd ever seen, she realized that this was somehow worse. After giving all her energy to Gohan, she was completely helpless! She didn't even know if she could fly now. All she had left was praying. She didn't know how useful that would be right now since Freeza could kick Kami's ass.
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Goku turned her face skyward toward the ever-growing Genki Dama and tried to focus on gathering energy as Gohan fought Freeza.
'There's not much life left on Namek,' she thought. 'I've drawn all the energy from the sea and the sea life and the planet itself that I can.' She turned to Namek's three suns and the stars beyond, all of them nearly overflowing with energy. She stretched her fingertips as far as she could as if she were trying to reach up and grab the suns to pull them into the Genki Dama. 'Just a little longer…'
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Freeza snarled as he threw a swipe at Gohan's head and Gohan, to his frustration, barely managed to evade it. Then the boy kicked him in the stomach to send him into the air, leaving a bruise on his biogem that would take days to buff out. Freeza snarled as Gohan fired a barrage of ki beams up at him and contemptuously swung down at him, sending out a scythe of pink ki. Once again, the boy barely managed to escape death and the attack cut down into the ground deep enough for Freeza to see the mantle beneath the crust and see purple lava bubbling toward the surface.
"You must know you can't win," Freeza told Gohan as he flew up to meet him. "Not even if there were a thousand of you. And there's only one. You're all alone. You might as well give up now." Gohan narrowed his eyes at Freeza and balled his fists. He could feel his mother's energy inside him along with Krillin's and Mr. Piccolo's. He could sense his mom's energy and feel the energy of the Genki Dama high overhead. It gave him comfort, made him feel strong and brave.
"I'm not alone," Gohan told him calmly, "And I will never give up! Not to someone like you!" Freeza chuckled.
"There is no one like me," Freeza corrected him.
"There are always people like you," Gohan shot back, "And there will always be people like me to stop you!" Freeza rolled his eyes and lunged forward. "Taiyoken!" Freeza howled in pain and clutched at his eyes as Gohan grabbed him by the middle and flew into the ground, slamming him down and burying Freeza in the dirt before flying back up and unloading every last bit of the energy everyone had given him, plus a lot of his own, down at Freeza. He dropped to the ground and just barely stopped himself from falling to his knees. Moments later, Freeza burst from the black glass he'd been buried under. His face was red with indignant rage and his eyes were bug-eyed and bloodshot.
"Enough!" he shrieked. "Enough! You are all of you beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature! And I will not be subject to the japes of–"
Gohan threw a rock at his head.
Freeza slowly closed his eyes and took several deep breaths. Then he stretched out one arm overhead and held up a fingertip.
"Die," he whispered calmly. A ball of black ki formed over his fingertip, about the size of a melon, and crackled with red lightning. He didn't point it at Gohan. Instead, he looked at the ground at the boy's feet.
"Oh crap…" Gohan muttered as the color drained from his face. He was just glad his moms wouldn't hear that swear.
'Now!' Goku thought. Then she swung her arms down and the Genki Dama raced down toward Freeza. Gohan flew away as fast as he could and Freeza threw back his head in manic laughter.
"Fool," he mocked. "Where are you going?! Where will you run to when I destroy the–" He was suddenly very aware of the ever-growing light from behind him, making his shadow grow ever longer. "What the deuce?" He looked up to see a… a…. He had no idea what it was. It was as if the stupid monkey woman had thrown a star at him! He flung the Death Ball at it and, in a moment which had never, ever happened before, it dissolved as if consumed by the ball. He flung his hands up and put up a shield but that, too, was destroyed. Freeza pushed back against it with his hands and cried out in pain as it burned his flesh and pushed him down into the ground. 'This… this isn't happening!' he thought in terrified denial as it began to push his hands back and the ball came closer and closer. 'I-I am the mighty Freeza! I-I cannot be laid low by some monkey! No! No! Noooo–!'
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Suno, Krillin, and Piccolo watched as the Genki Dama touched down and erupted into the most stupendous mushroom cloud of an explosion that any of them had ever seen. A massive plume of blue-white smoke, miles high and wide, that kicked up a blowback of salt spray and bits of stone that had once been islands into their faces.
"Come on," Suno told them in an odd mixture of exhaustion and worry. "W-we gotta get them!" The three pushed through the air as quickly as they could manage, wavering every few hundred feet and barely managing to stay airborne.
The blast zone was a mind-numbingly large circle of emptiness in the middle of the ocean that reached down to the blackened glass of the ocean floor. It was unlike anything they'd ever seen. The sheer power of the Genki Dama… there was no way Freeza could have survived that.
"Do you see them?!" Krillin called over the roar as water rushed in to fill the hole. Piccolo's eyes flitted across the water's surface and his heightened Namekian hearing strained to hear Gohan or Goku over the waves. They had to be down there somewhere.
"There!" Suno cried out, pointing down to the ocean. Sure enough, Gohan had just surfaced, one arm weakly holding onto Goku and the other desperately trying to paddle. Suno was now extremely grateful she'd taught Gohan how to swim when he was three. The three of them dove down to Gohan and Goku, grabbing them and pulling them out of the water to the nearest island before they all collapsed into an exhausted pile. For a few moments, they just lay there, gasping for breath and thankful to be alive. Then it hit them. They'd done it. They'd won! They all laughed, even Piccolo, who was too weary to stop himself from being pulled into a group hug. Gohan hugged Piccolo and Krillin hugged Goku. Goku pulled her family into her arms and Suno covered her wife and son's faces in exhausted yet nevertheless affectionate kisses.
Finally, their merriment subsided and Piccolo got to his feet and helped Goku to hers.
"Well," Goku sighed happily, "I guess we'd better go find Bulma and get back to the ship."
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"Was wondering when someone would mention me again," Bulma grumbled exasperatedly even though she was elated as everyone else.
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"I think I'm gonna go home and sleep for like… five years," Krillin muttered as he suddenly felt all the bruises of the last few days hit him square in the face. Even the ones Dende'd healed. "But hey, at least we never have to see F… F…" He realized that Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and Suno were all looking over his head. Their expressions were, uniformly, indescribable terror and disbelief.
"Oh, please," Freeza said with a polite air that belied the rage and sadistic joy bubbling just below the surface. "Don't mind me. You were saying?" Krillin turned slowly toward the rock spire at his back and slowly looked up to see Freeza looming over them. He was covered in burns and a piece of his tail was missing again. One eye was screwed shut in pain. But he was still there. Still alive. They still… hadn't… won. "I'll admit," Freeza added casually, "That was some attack of yours, whatever you call it. You all have such funny little names for laser beams, don't you? Well, whatever Super Mega Explosion Blast that was, it might have killed me if I hadn't raised my power at the last moment." They all stared at him, trembling with terror. Then Freeza was pointing at Goku suddenly and all they saw was a pink flash.
Piccolo shoved Goku out of the way and opened his mouth as if to cry out in pain as the beam pierced his chest. As he went face down into the dirt, all Piccolo could think was this: 'Bad enough to die for the boy but for Son Goku herself? I have gone soft…' Then he collapsed.
Gohan fell to his knees beside Piccolo, his arms lead and his eyes brimming with tears. Not again. Not again! All of this just to fail Piccolo again.
Goku's mind was racing. There had to be something… anything! But what? WHAT?! What could she do?!
"Now I believe you said something about not wanting to see me again?" Freeza remarked casually as he gestured to Krillin. Krillin felt something grab him and his legs dangled as he was suddenly lifted into the air.
"Krillin, no!" Suno screamed in anguish. Krillin was suddenly rocketed into the air while he screamed in terror.
"Freeza," Goku begged, "Stop this, please!" She'd been the one who'd defied Freeza the most, she was the one who'd actually hurt him, she'd bitten him and spit at him. Freeza could kill her as long as he let the others go! But when she saw the hate in Freeza's eyes, she knew there was no point. She looked back to Krillin and reached up futilely as if she could reach up and save him. Freeza laughed madly as he clenched his fist.
"Gokuuuu!" Krillin screamed in agony as his chest suddenly expanded. Then he exploded into a ball of fire as Goku stared up in horror.
'No…' she thought, 'No… not again…' She'd failed. Again.