Chapter 8

Freeza charges down to 50% of his maximum, then he wipes some blood away from his face. His power is still amazing.

Freeza advances on Gohan, slowly, taking one-step at a time. He gives a gruff grin, and starts to hold his wounded arm. Gohan is positively shaking now. He backs off slightly, merely making Freeza laugh more. Gohan shuts his eyes, then holds his arms up into the air. Freeze continues to advance. A ball of energy forms in Gohan's arms, as he concentrates everything he can. Freeza is baring down upon him now, and swings his arm back, ready to punch Gohan across the face. Goku looks up, too weak to do anything to help Gohan out....or is he.

"Freeza you weak sod!" Goku shouted. “Picking on a little kid! Come fight me you gutless coward!”

Freeze turns to look at Goku, then forgets about Gohan, and strides towards him. A smile appears on Goku’s face, as his enemy gets closer. Freeza doesn’t understand what is so funny. He continues on though, without letting Goku’s laughing distract him.

“Don’t you get it Freeza?” Goku asked. “Every time you hit one of us, we gain in power. Every time you sneer at us, we are planning on what to do. You are too stupid to realize what we are doing Freeza you fool!”

“What are you talking about monkey?” Freeze asked. Goku responds with laughing. “No matter, you’ll soon be dead anyway.” Freeza chuckled. Freeze points his finger at Goku, with an evil grin on his face. He charges up a small attack, then blasts it out at Goku. The blast penetrates the ground, causing a huge hole to be formed, along with a small explosion. Freeza can’t believe what just happened. Goku disappeared before the blast could kill him. Laughter is heard from behind Freeza.

“You old senile fool. When will you learn Freeza?” The voice sneered in a familiar way. “First you tried to kill one super saiyan, but you won’t beat the other one – me!”

Freeze turns round to see the figure of Vegeta standing behind him. The super saiyans blonde hair sways in the wind, and his muscles bulge at an incredible size. He has sweat pouring down his face from the journey.

“Freeza, Freeza, Freeza. Why is it that you have this idea that you can become ruler of the galaxy? Don’t you even know that you’re not even one of the top three strongest anymore?” Vegeta stated.

“I…I am stronger than anyone alive!” Freeze answer, seemingly trying to convince himself as well as Vegeta.

“We’ll see,” said Vegeta as he formed a blue aura around himself. Trees sway, and are uprooted. The little landscape left around the battle zone is starting to blow away. The place where Vegeta stands is decapitating under his feet. A crater is getting formed. It intensifies in size. Soon, it is so big, that only the very tip of Vegeta’s hair is visible. Freeza is gob smacked by the increase in his former servants power since he killed him on Namek.

Meanwhile, Gohan is forming the energy above his head, ready to shoot it at Freeze. It is of an epic size now, but it is still not ready. From the look of pure concentration and agony on Gohan’s face, he is having a lot of trouble maintaining it. The energy continues to increase in size, but Freeza is yet to notice it.

Vegeta bursts out of the crater, and meets Freeza’s face with his fist. Blood flies off the face of the evil one, but he quickly recovers, and lands on his feet. Vegeta doesn’t stop, and is relentless in his attack, with a combination of kicks and punches, although very few of them actually connect. Freeza is bleeding far worse than before now. He can’t keep one of his eyes open due to the pain he is receiving. Vegeta hits him in the gut, then kicks him in the face. Freeza falls to the floor, breathing heavily. He is struggling to get up, and is panting very heavily, looking worried. Vegeta has that cocky look on his face, and that half smile which he is so famous for. Freeza’s frown turns to a smile.

“You think that this is all that I have got left?!” Freeza questioned. “Far from it! I am only at 50% power! You know what that means Vegeta? I can be twice as strong, now observe.”

Freeze starts to power up, with blue waves of energy being let lose occasionally, and blasting the Z soldiers away. Gohan is finding it harder than ever to keep hold of the energy he is gathering, as it is now the size of King Kai’s planet. Freeza still hasn’t noticed Gohan behind him though. Vegeta is looking positively scared, as the energy waves continue coming. Freeza’s muscles suddenly swell, and increase in size, then veins appear in his forehead. He finally stops charging up, then looks at Vegeta with a menacing stare.

“Now lets see if you can beat me in my most powerful state. Goku is the only one who managed this before, but since then, I have become stronger, and as you can see, he presented no challenge towards me.” Freeza taunted. He points to Goku, causing Vegeta to step back with fear a bit.

“No….no way! How can his power be so high? It can’t be!” Vegeta tried to convince himself. “Let’s do this then! Come on, I haven’t got all day!” His voice was shaky, signalling that he was obviously scared.

“Poor poor Vegeta, you still haven’t worked out that you can’t win have you? How sad.” Freeza mocked. Vegeta is trembling, with his fists clenched hard, and sweat pouring down his face. Freeza continues to advance on Vegeta, trampling on everything anywhere near him. Vegeta goes down to one knee, with his head bowed. He looks ready to take his death like a man. Freeza laughs hard, but he doesn’t see what Vegeta is doing. The saiyan prince is charging up a final flash attack. Freeza stands over Vegeta with his finger pointing. He signals that it is now the end.

“End of the road Vegeta. Shame, you had such potential” Freeza said, before he charged up his blast. A gigantic death ball starts to form on the tip of his finger.

“End of the road, yes, for me? No! Take this Freeza!” Vegeta shouted before blasting Freeza with his final flash attack. When he smoke finally clears, Freeze is standing, barely, with one of his hands singed badly, because of him blocking the blast. Freeza laughs at Vegeta, then falls to his knees because of the pain. He struggles, but eventually manages to get up, onto his feet.

“You’re no where near as tough as I thought you were Freeza! This fight is over!” Vegeta said, before, running at Freeza, and taking a swing at him. The punch is blocked though, and Vegeta’s arm is caught, and grasped tightly by Freeza. Then Vegeta punches again, but for the second time Freeza catches his arm. The evil tyrant then headbutts Vegeta, and kicks him in the face, sending him soaring through the air. Freeza uses his incredible speed to get in front of Vegeta’s path, and slam him into the ground with his fists. Vegeta can’t move at all, and is shaking a little bit. Freeza laughs hard at the fallen warrior, but is caught in an enormous shadow. He turns round to see what the source of the shadow is, and is shocked at it. The ball of energy is bigger than the moon. Gohan is putting his all into throwing it, but Freeza is ready to block it.     

Vegeta looks up, and sees what is happening. With a sly grin on his face, he flies in at Freeza, and kicks him into the slow moving energy. Freeza is taken by shock, so falls forward, into the ball of energy. He is immersed by it, before it explodes.

Smoke is everywhere, and it is impossible to see anything. As the smoke clears, we see Freeza on the floor, lying next to Vegeta, who must have been caught in the blast too. Gohan collapses onto the floor due to all the energy he used up. All four warriors are on the floor, trying to get up. It looks as though Freeza is dead, and Vegeta may well be too.

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Piccolo and Krillen are stuck in a pond which has seemingly no escape. They are both frantically waving their arms trying to escape, but they are just pulled down further.

“Help Piccolo” Krillen wailed as his chin sunk into the water. He is holding his head up so as to keep his face above the water.

“I’m doing all I can Krillen!” Piccolo shouted. There is a short pause where they both start to sink deeper. Krillen has gone fully under now and the Namek isn’t too far from getting pulled all the way under either. He holds up both of his arms, and shoots a blast into the pond which has the force to push him out. Piccolo quickly stops the blast and begins to float. He goes over to where Krillen was, and looks down. He spots bubbles coming from deep below water level, and swoops down towards them. He dangles his arm into the water, and pulls it out a little later with Krillens head on the end.

“Listen Krillen, now don’t panic. I want you to shoot a blast at the base of this pool, then you should be pushed out.” Piccolo instructed.

“Ok, here goes nothing!” Krillen yelled as he held energy in his hands, then released it all towards the floor of the pool. He slowly starts to rise, eventually getting all the way out. His clothes are soaking wet, and he is struggling to catch a breath.

Krillen and Piccolo sit next to the pool, regaining their breath, and trying to work out why it pulled them down. From out of the pool emerges a demon, this particular demon was very different to what the normal ones would look like. It had large, pointed horns, a muscular body, and a small, swishing tail. It’s body was a dark green, and it was covered in what looked like battle scars.

The demon jumped out right in front of Piccolo and Krillen, and stopped to examine them. After looking them up and down, the demon nods his approval.

“I am Sushi, the master of the demons. I can teach you to fight better if you make it worth my while.”

“What’s it worth?” Piccolo asked.

“Only a few chores. Wont take you 10 minutes.” Assured Sushi. “So, you interested?”    

“We need to know that you can do what you say you can before you try and teach us anything. “Piccolo said arrogantly. “We need to know that we are actually going to get more powerful than we would if we trained with King Kai.”

“Ok” said Sushi as he charged up an energy ball, made it disappear, then reappear right in the face of Krillen. The little bald guy fell back with fear, but Sushi merely laughed, then closed his fist, making the energy ball disappear. “How’s that?”

“Ok, you can train us” said Piccolo reluctantly.

“You make it sound like it’s an honour for me pointy ears! It’s a major honour for you really though!” Sushi shouted in Piccolo’s face. Piccolo was enraged by this comment, and got a ball of energy in his hand, intending on using it on the demon. Krillen manages to stop him just before it is too late.

“So, how did you come to be in these parts? That pool swallows most people up easily,” Sushi said.

“We were killed on Earth, taking us into this dimension. Dende helped us gain our physical bodies, and told us to take this path. The problem is that…..well…..it’s kinda hard to explian..” Krillen mumbled.

“Well let me explain then” Piccolo said angrily. “This idiot tripped up on the road, and fell into me, knocking us both into that damned pool!”

“How unfortunate” Sushi replied. “Well, follow me, don’t be scared. If you do exactly what I do, you’ll be fine.” Sushi then dived back into the pool, and started swimming towards the bottom. Piccolo and Krillen obediently followed. Everything is turned upside down when they get to the bottom, and they fall through a ceiling, with Sushi being the only one to land on his feet.

The place they are in is gloomy, and has a huge machine in the center. This is set to 100. Piccolo and Krillen know that this is a graviton machine. They quickly get used to walking, then they properly take in their surroundings. The walls are damp, and have ivy hanging from them. The floor has all mannors of dirt on it, and it looks as though it hasn’t been cleaned for months.

“What is this place” Krillen thought out loud.

“This is where you will be trained” replied Sushi in a smug voice…..

Can Sushi train Piccolo and Krillen enough to make them strong enough to combat the evil heading for Earth? What happened to Tien, Yamcha, and Choa-zu? Are Goku, Vegeta and Gohan ok? All will be revealed…….