Dragonball Z: Frieza Saga [8]

THE WISHES

Meanwhile, Freiza and Nail continue to battle, in a very one sided fight. Nail hits the ground again, as the evil tyrant stands over him with his right arm behind his back. Freiza demands that he tells him the password, but Nail just laughs as him. He stands up, and catches his breath, then takes Freiza by surprise with a mammoth blast from his hand, which destroys much of the surrounding land. When the smoke clears, Freiza is stood there, laughing at Nails efforts. He then disappears, by using his blinding speed, then reappears with his back to the Namek. He hits backwards, and catches Nail in the nose, sending him to the floor, screaming in agony. Freiza gives him one last chance to tell him the password, but Nail laughs, and tells Freiza that this fight was merely a clever diversion, while Dende goes to the humans to tell them the password. This makes Freiza irate, and he explodes with anger, powering up, then flying his fastest he went back to his ship, where he thinks the dragonballs are.

Dende sees the Ginyu Force, all lying motionless on the floor, and is worried about what happened to his friends. Krillen then sees him, and the two meet up, and quickly fly back to the dragonballs. Dende tells Krillen that he knows the password, and Krillen is overjoyed. Dende also tells them that Guru is extremely close to death, so the dragonballs will fail to work if they wait much longer.

Gohan is sitting on a dragonball, wondering where Krillen has gone. He senses two powers coming towards him, and prepares to fight. He is delighted when he sees Krillen coming through the cloud, along with Dende. He greets them, and tells them that Vegeta has taken a nap, so they must be careful not to wake him. Krillen couldn’t be happier by this, as he grabs the dragonballs, and they all fly off to an island, slightly away from Freiza’s ship. This means it will take Vegeta longer to reach them, should he wake up. Dende calls for the dragon, whose name we find out is ‘Porunga’. A beam of light comes from the dragonballs, then out shoot s a huge, muscular dragon. The sky goes pitch black, and he asks for their wishes three. They say they want everyone killed by Vegeta revived, but they are answered with Porunga telling them that he can only revive one person at a time. They think for a while over this, as Dende finishes muttering his Namekian to the dragon (Wishes only count if they are said in Namekian). Suddenly, Gohan is contacted by Piccolo, who is using King Kai’s psychic link. He tells Gohan to ask for him to be revived for their first wish. Everyone else on Kai’s planet is angry by this, but Piccolo explains that when he returns, so will Kami and the Earths dragonballs. They are happy by this, and all nod their appretiation. On Namek, Gohan tells Dende the wish, and the little guy tells Porunga (In Namek). The wish is granted, and Piccolo’s halo disappears. He then tells Gohan to wish him onto Namek so that he can fight Freiza. King Kai is outraged by this, as he doesn’t want anyone fighting Freiza. Yamcha and Tien hold him back, whilst Piccolo laughs. Gohan tells Dende the second wish, and he makes it, with Piccolo disappearing to Namek. He looks around, but he is miles away from where Freiza is, so he quickly takes off, and charges towards the battleground.

Vegeta wakes up, and sees the dragon outside. Absolutely irate by this, he flies over to it, and grabs Dende, ordering him to wish for immortality for him. Krillen and Gohan cower in fear as they see how mad Vegeta is. Krillen eventually tells Dende that they have no choice. Dende is about to make the wish, but Porunga disappears, and the dragonballs turn to stone. Vegeta asks what happened, and Dende starts to cry. He says that Guru must have died. Vegeta is enraged by this, and is about to kill them all, when Freiza arrives. Vegeta is obviously scared, and isn’t hiding his fear too well. Freiza says that he will kill them all, starting with Vegeta.

FREIZA FIGHT

Freiza jumps down, and Vegeta steps forward. the evil tyrant tells them all that they have no hope of winning, but Vegeta states that there is just a high a chance of them winning as there is for Freiza. This annoys the worlds strongest fighter, so he starts chucking energy balls at everyone, trying to kill them nice and quickly. They all manage to dodge the shots though, impressing Freiza a little. Vegeta tells the evil one that with every shot, the whole lot of them become stronger, and Gohan has an incredible power level, even higher than Freiza’s in fact, as does he, and he tells Freiza that he is a super saiyan. Freiza is a bit taken back by this comment, but doesn’t believe him as he charges, and goes for a punch. Vegeta catches his hand, then catches his other hand as Freiza tries for another punch. The saiyan wont let go, and the two give off great deals of energy. A crater is formed, and it keeps getting bigger, and bigger, until the two of them jump backwards, away from the crater. Vegeta is out of breath, but Freiza laughs at him. Vegeta tells Freiza that he is too weak to beat him in that form, and to transform. Freiza is surprised that Vegeta knows about this, and the saiyan tells him that Zarbon blurted it out before he died. Freiza tells them that the miniscule chance that they had of winning is about to go out of the window, as he begins the transformation. He is surrounded in an aura of energy, and after a fair bit of groaning, his armor breaks off, slicing Vegeta in the cheek, and making him bleed a little. The blood is quickly wiped away, and Freiza stops his transformation. Vegeta laughs, and tells Freiza that he knows that that wasn’t his transformation, all he did was lost a bit of armor. Laughing, Freiza finished it off, and grows to a giant side, with his horns and tail becoming twice the size. Freiza laughs, and tells everyone that his fighting power can become as high as a million in this form. Vegeta thinks he is bluffing, but when Freiza charges up, and they sense his energy, they know he’s not. He looks around, and tries to decide who to kill first. After a bit of thinking, he charges at Krillen with incredible speed, and before the bald-headed short guy could move, Freiza had his horn shoved through his chest. Krillen struggles to breathe, and Freiza drops him to the floor, laughing. Krillen starts to fall, and Gohan swoops down to help him, but is blocked by Freiza, making his friend plunge into the depths of the ocean. Freiza rubs it in, and makes a big mistake by angering Gohan. He charges at Freiza, and hits him in the face, then gives him multiple gut punches, putting a great deal of punishment on him. Gohan then slams Freiza down to the ground (They are all flying at a high altitude), and makes a huge cloud of dust upon the landing. Gohan then pulls his hands back, and throws an unbelievable amount of energy balls of Freiza, making an absolutely epic cloud of smoke. He then takes time to charge up the last ball, and shouts out ‘Masenko!’ before finishing off the attack, by throwing it down, creating a massive mushroom cloud. The smoke takes a long time to clear, but when it does, Freiza’s body is seen, motionless. Thinking that he has won, Gohan dances around. His celebrations are stopped short though, as Freiza climbs to his feet. Gohan hasn’t got enough energy left to carry on fighting, as the evil tyrant floats to their level.

Piccolo soars towards the fight scene, but senses a weaker power on his way. He sets himself down, and checks out the low power. He sees a Namek on the ground, covered in blood. He greets him, and gives him his consolations, before getting up, about to go. The Namek on the ground stops him though, and tells him that he knows how strong Freiza is, he has fought him (The Namek is Nail). Piccolo nods, but doesn’t see how that;s going to help him. Nail then asks if he can fuse into him, as it would make Piccolo stronger. Piccolo is reluctant to agree, but in the end does so. Nail tells Piccolo to put his arm round his, then starts to do something. After a short time, Nail disappears, and Piccolo stands up, shouting about how good he feels. Nail is now inside of him, and his power level has been significantly increased. He started ranting on about how good he feels for a while, then powers up and flies off to the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Freiza is beating Gohan to a pulp. He grabs him by the neck, and starts to choke him out. Vegeta is too afraid to interfere, so he has to watch Freiza take everyone apart. Gohan slowly become weaker, and weaker, almost losing consciousness. A destructo disc flies at Freiza though, and he manages to see it just in time to dodge it, losing half of his tail in the process. He is incredibly angry, and he turns to see Krillen, who he thought was dead. Freiza throws Gohan to the floor, and looks at Krillen disbelievingly. Krillen tells Freiza to aim for his ass next time, and starts to taunt him. On the ground, Dende has gone over to Gohan, and is rubbing his hands up and down him, with a magic glow. Gohan jerks up, and looks to be good as new. Vegeta notices Dende’s healing powers, and is going to ask Gohan what just happened, but he soars past him, back to the fight.

Krillen sees Freiza running at him, and starts to run away, hoping to buy some time for Goku to recover. Freiza easily catches up, and is about to attack Krillen, when he uses the solar flare. Freiza is blinded, and Krillen makes a run for it. Gohan and Vegeta look on, as Freiza tries to get his vision back. Krillen flies off to a catacomb of rocks. Freiza gets his sight back just in time to see him entering it, and follows him in. Freiza arrives, and keeps on appearing in front of Krillen, whichever way he goes. Krillen flies out, and Freiza plays with him some more. He is about to kill him, when a massive power appears on the scene. Piccolo tells Freiza to stop, and intrigued, Freiza turns round, leaving Krillen alone.

In the regenerator, Goku can sense Piccolo’s immense power, and at first, he finds it hard to believe that it is him.

Back at the fight, Piccolo is boasting his speed to Freiza. He seems to be able to back this up, outrunning Freiza every time. Freiza starts trying to attack Piccolo, and can’t understand how he can interpret all of his moves. Nail then talks from inside Piccolo, and Freize recognizes the voice. Piccolo laughs at him, then nails him across the face. After a small beating, Freiza gets a few attacks back, and charges up to his full power. The tables have turn, and Freiza is really giving Piccolo a beating now. He knocks him down to the ground, then taunts him as he lands. Piccolo climbs to his feet, and takes off his weighted clothes, saying that he is just getting started. Krillen can’t believe that he has been fighting in such heavy materials. Piccolo charges up, and Freiza lets him, very confident abut his chances of winning. He then lets out a spectacular ball of energy, blowing Freiza away with it. Freiza lands hard, and is in a great deal of pain. He is surprised that he has had to do this, but he comes over to Piccolo, and tells him that he is about to see form three of four. Piccolo can’t believe that he can get any stronger, and looks on in awe as Freiza surrounds himself in a powerful aura. He then begins his third transformation, and his head becomes larger, and narrower, and his shoulders become wider, like natural armor would look. His head seems to look a bit like a ducks (A very deformed, huge duck that is, with horns on it to boot). The transformation is complete, and no one can believe the huge power increase, as they all step back in horror. Piccolo can’t believe it, but still thinks that he is faster than Freiza.

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