Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ How it all Began ❯ Part 14 ( Chapter 14 )

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How it all began-Part 14.

Frieza laughed evilly as he powered up, the ground shaking around them. Cracks began to form as the rocks and the stone dragonballs began to rise off the ground. Dende fell in to Bulma’s arms and she held him tight. The water began to rise as well, and it flowed on to the land, pooling around Frieza’s ship where Goku lay recuperating.

The bottles in the infirmary fell to the ground and shattered, and Goku was getting increasingly agitated. “What a horrible power. Gotta get better!” He thought frantically.

Frieza’s energy forced the water further away from their battle field, the looks of fear on the earthlings faces giving him great pleasure. “No look at me you 2, have you both forgotten what I really am? You fools! How dare you both challenge me!” He yelled.

Vegeta and Tanya didn’t look the least bit afraid. In fact, they looked excited. “You better get that smirk of your face Vegeta!” Frieza ordered, forcing a huge wall of rock to rise in front of him.

Vegeta concentrated and spilt the wall in 2, then the 2 of them fazed out of the way of an incoming blast. Krillin and Gohan ran around a small mountain where Bulma and Dende were already hiding. Tanya and Vegeta kept fazing to different locations, forcing Frieza to try and attack them both. The force of his attacks threw a giant boulder on top of their hiding place. Bulma covered Dende’s head, while Krillin and Gohan coughed and spluttered as dust and debris fell around them. “Gohan, we’ve got to attack Frieza while he’s distracted…It might be our only chance.” Said Krillin.
“Right!” Said Gohan.

“Are you 2 crazy?!” Cried Bulma.

“We have to. Tanya’s risking her life out there to protect us, so we have to try and help protect her. Alright! Let’s do it!” Yelled Krillin.

As Frieza fired another blast at Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan fazed behind Frieza and shot a blast at his back…but Frieza felt it coming and used his power to blow them several feet away. They landed against a crevice feet first, but then Frieza turned his attention to them, firing blast after blast at them. They landed next to Bulma and Dende who ran out to them…and Frieza, seeing 4 targets instead to 2, fired a blast at them.

But luckily for them, Vegeta appeared in front of them and punched the blast away, sending it to another island a few miles away. The gang were shocked that Vegeta had done that. Vegeta’s arm was shaking from deflecting the blast, as Frieza topped glowing. The wind blew though the battlefield, as Vegeta and Frieza stared each other down. Tanya appeared beside Vegeta, her daggers drawn. Gohan and Krillin were shaking. “He’s too strong…I…I don’t think we can win.” He garbled.

“What do you mean we? We’re not even fighting, it’s Vegeta and Tanya out there with their lives on the line!” Shouted Bulma.

“What are we gonna do?” Said Gohan, his voice shaking.

“I don’t know.” Gasped Krillin, not even hearing Bulma’s rant at him.

“Well I do. You are all going to perish and it won’t be pretty.” Said Frieza, bring Krillin close to fainting.

“Nonsense!” Said Vegeta.

Frieza raised an eyebrow. “That’s right, our chances of winning are just as good as yours are Frieza.” Vegeta continued.

Krillin and Gohan looked at him as if he was nuts. “Baloney, you’re goners.” Said Frieza.

“You wish Frieza. Vegeta and I combined are more than enough to defeat you. It is you who will be defeated. As long as Vegeta and I work together, there’s no way you can beat us!” Said Tanya.

“Oh my, I can’t take this.” Frieza laughed.

“You’re so blind, haven’t you noticed yet? Our fighting power is increasing with every attack!” Said Vegeta.

Frieza’s eye twitched. “Yes, especially that little mop-top. His power is enormous and he doesn’t even know it yet!” Vegeta went on.

“Huh?!” Gasped Gohan.

“And that’s not all. I’ve become a super saiyan, your worst nightmare.”

“And I have been shown the full potential of my Beast power Frieza. I’m stronger than when we fought before, and this time, you don’t have my father and the Ginyu Force to protect you.” Said Tanya, a smirk creeping on to her face.

Frieza giggled again. “A super saiyan and a fully charged beast warrior? Well, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it…That is if we ever come to it, fools!” He yelled.

Frieza powered up again and yelled as he flew at Vegeta and Tanya, who jumped out of the way and fired a joint attack at Frieza. Frieza fired it back at them, but Tanya fazed out of the way Vegeta blasted it into space. Frieza was about to attack Vegeta when Tanya got behind him and slashed him across his back. Frieza turned to punch her but Vegeta got in front of him and grabbed his wrist, stopping the attack.

Vegeta pushed Tanya back with one arm as Frieza tried to punch her again and grabbed the fist. Frieza was livid as their powers began rising. “You low life Saiyan! How dare you!” He yelled as the power reading showed up on his scouter.

The force of their power began to cause a crater in the ground, causing huge splits that sent the gang scattering for safer ground. Tanya flew back to join them as the crater got bigger and deeper. The power reading on Frieza’s scouter kept on rising. “What!?” He shouted as the reading showed that he and Vegeta were almost identical in power.

The scouter exploded, and Vegeta and Frieza broke apart. Vegeta breathed deeply, and Frieza regained his composure. “Not bad. You’ve defiantly improved Vegeta, I commend you. Perhaps you are close to becoming a super saiyan.” He said calmly.

Tanya connected her telepathic link with Vegeta. “Why did you push me away just now. You know I could’ve stopped him myself.” She asked.

“The last time you fought Frieza, you were badly hurt. I won’t let him do that to anyone else again.” He thought to her.

Tanya felt the spike of emotion in him, and it was directed at a certain blue haired woman. “Bulma? It’s not just me you’re protecting, is it? You’re trying to stop Frieza from doing to Bulma what the Ginyu Force did to me.” She said to him.

“I don’t know why I feel the need to protect that wench. But I do know that if Frieza gets hold of her, I’ll never find out.” Said Vegeta.

“Alright then, that’s just one more reason we have to win. Let’s do it partner.”

Tanya broke the link, the 2 of them focusing on Frieza again. “Why don’t you transform Frieza?” Said Vegeta.

“Say what?!” Shouted Krillin.

“Transform? Oh man, that doesn’t sound to good!” Said Gohan.

“Well, how about it Frieza? Why don’t you stop playing around and show us the real you?” Goaded Vegeta.

“So…you found out my little secret.” Said Frieza.

“That’s right. Your loving minion Zarbon blurted it out.”

“What’s going on?” Asked Bulma.

“The form of Frieza that you see standing before you, is not what he really is. It’s just a clever camouflage. He can transform into his real self at any time, he just uses this form to conserve energy.” Said Vegeta.

“Oh you rude little ruffian. I don’t choose to be in my real form because my power is too radical to control.” Said Freiza.

“Well that’s just great!” Said Krillin.

“Don’t listen to him, he’s just saying that to intimidate you.” Said Vegeta.

“Yeah, well it’s working!”

“Shut up you moron! His power won’t increase that much.”

“Ha, is that so?” Asked Freiza.

“Why don’t you show us then?!” Vegeta said, continuing to goad him.
Tanya was a little worried about Vegeta’s ability to fight this great power. She was one of the few that had seen Frieza’s power and lived to tell about it. “Get ready Vegeta. Powerful or not, this little show is about to rock this world to it’s core.” Thought Tanya.

Frieza got a sick smile on his face. “Oh alright. What the heck, I’ll bare it all. Well, strap yourselves in, you’re in for one heck of a ride. Oh and Vegeta, I want you to know that any remote chance you just had of winning is about to go flying out the window!” Shouted Frieza.

Vegeta clenched his fists, ready for whatever Frieza threw at him. “Oh, I almost forgot, I think it would be nice for somebody to give me a count down.” Said Frieza, causing the spectators to fall over in shock.

“Aw c’mon. there’s no way, that ridiculous!” Snarled Vegeta.

“I’m waiting.”

“*Growl*, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. You happy?”

“I love it, you’re too kind. Here goes!”

Frieza began glowing until the light was so blinding that the gang had to shield their eyes. Goku felt the surge of energy from the ship. “Gohan…Krillin.” He thought weakly.

Frieza kept glowing and raising his power until his armour shattered and the shards flew at everyone. One whizzed past Vegeta’s cheek, and landed in Tanya’s left shoulder. The others had moved back before the shards had gotten near them. Frieza revealed his white and purple outer skeleton, a sick smile spread over his face as the back of his armour fell to the ground.

Tanya pulled out the shard and looked at how deep it had gone. The only thing that had stop it going right through was the armour’s white rim. The blood was already oozing from the wound. Dende saw this and quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her aside.

Vegeta had thin slash across his face that was also trickling blood, but he quickly wiped it away. “Hey, who do you think you’re fooling? You grew 2 inches and got rid of your armour, you call that a transformation?” Said Vegeta, not in the least bit impressed.

Frieza laughed and put his hands behind his back. “Vegeta, it pains me to see you going through this, what a waste. I favoured you so much, why couldn’t you just continue to obey me?” Asked Frieza.

“Obey? I just pretended to obey you, you fool. I’ve been waiting patiently for any chance I could get to destroy you once and for all.” Said Vegeta.

“Yes, you’re just like your father, aren’t you. The good king. You probably don’t remember your father very well, do you Vegeta?”

“I remember enough to know that you kept him and all my people under your rule. You used us for our power and strength, doing the work that even your elites wouldn’t touch.”

“How do you know all this? You were too young to remember.”

“Because there was someone who would always remember. The horrors you inflicted upon us all were forever engrained into her memory. And she would always tell me what was going on.”

“What? Tanya told you everything?”

“I was there you idiot. When you were watching Vegetasei with Dodoria and my father, you’d forgotten that Zarbon never let me out of his site when I was young. I was there when King Vegeta made his final assault, and I watched you kill him and make your way to destroy Vegetasei. You really think I wasn’t going to tell Vegeta what happened to his own father?” Said Tanya, coming out from behind the crevice and standing beside Vegeta.

“So all these years, you’ve known? And you’ve both been plotting against me since you were both 5 years old?” Gasped Frieza.

“What did you think was going to happen? We knew we weren’t strong enough to take you on a separate warriors. But as our strength grew, we realised that we had a chance to defeat you if we fought together.” Said Vegeta.

“Vegeta, I know you told me to keep out of it. But he’s too strong for you to fight alone now, so I’m back in the game.” Said Tanya, re-drawing her daggers.

“YOU FOOLS ACTUALLY THINK THAT YOU’RE COMBINED STRENGTH IS ENOUGH TO DEFEAT ME! IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH! NEVER!” Yelled Frieza, powering up again.

His body began to glow a deep red, energy shot out from him. His muscles began to bulge and his horns got bigger and sharper. The wind picked up around them as Frieza’s power continued to surge. “THIS STINKS!” Yelled Krillin.

“Oh no! We’re done for!” Cried Bulma.

Frieza began growing taller, as Vegeta and Tanya gaped at him in shock, as the others just stared in fear. Frieza continued to grow, both in size and in power as he kneeled on the ground to rest from the force of the transformation. “Unbelievable! Absolute madness!” Said Vegeta.

“It was nice knowing you Krillin.” Whimpered Gohan.

“Gah! Nightmare city.” Gasped Krillin.

Dende and Bulma hid behind the dragonballs. Frieza stood up, smirking. “Well this is it, I hope you’re not disappointed.” He said.

“Uh…Vegeta, you do have a plan…right?” Asked Tanya.

Vegeta was still in a state of shock. Whatever he’d pictured as Frieza’s transformation, he must not have seen this. Tanya had never told him what Frieza’s transformation looked like, because she’d blocked the memory from her mind. “Well, it’s time to see how far we’ve come.” She thought.

In the ship, Goku was still trying to figure out what was going on. “Uh oh, something’s not right.” He thought.

Frieza began advancing on the guys. “My my, what’s the matter with you little insects. Vegeta, you’re speechless. Don’t tell me you’ve run out of bold threats already hmm. Such poultry playthings aren’t worth transforming for but I guess some amusement is better than none.” He said.

He started laughing. Tanya felt the ground shaking beneath her feet. “Oh no! Guys, move!” She cried.

Frieza’s tail broke through the ground and speared towards them. Vegeta fazed out of the way, Tanya and the others flew out of the way, and the tail barely missed Dende and Bulma before it destroyed a cluster of rocks a few feet away. They landed as Frieza pulled back his tail. “Wow.” Gasped Gohan.

“Why thank you. Most opponents don’t see it coming, I’m somewhat impressed. By the way Vegeta, did I happen to mention that my fighting power in this form is over a million..” Gloated Frieza.

“What!? No way!” Cried Vegeta.

“That can’t be true! There’s no way!” Cried Tanya.

“One million.” Gasped Gohan, as Krillin almost keeled over.

“Don’t believe it, that impossible…even for him!” Shouted Vegeta.

“Well, some non-believers. Well allow me to demonstrate.” Said Frieza, raising his arm.

He flattened his palm as his power engulfed him, blowing the others into the air. They flew around each other as they were thrown higher into the air as Frieza powered up. It was so enormous that the sea surrounding their battlefield was forced away onto the other islands, and covering half of Frieza’ ship where Goku was resting. A stray blast flew through the air, and s it connected with something, it burst into a great flash of light, blinding all those who were there.

Frieza stood on what was now just a tiny platform for himself, while the gang tried to regroup. In the confusion, Vegeta had grabbed on to Bulma and she held him as tight as she could. Vegeta grabbed a falling rock and crushed it in annoyance. Gohan tried to regain his balance. “Krillin! Hey Krillin! Where are you!?” He cried.

“Gohan!”

Gohan spun around to see Krillin with Dende in his arms, and a nasty wound on his head. “You’re hurt!” Gohan cried.

“Nah, I’m fine. It’s just a little scratch, no prob.” Said Krillin.

“Ha ha ha, now what’s wrong. Please, I can’t take the long faces. Cheer up, it’s a beautiful day to die…don’t you agree Vegeta. I mean really, what else could you ask for…The sun is shining, the sea is a sparkling blue, the mountains can be seen in the background, it’s positively perfect.” Said Freiza.

“Now all we have to do is decide which one of you gets to die next.”

“Next? But no one’s dead yet.” Said Bulma.

“That’s where you’re wrong my dear. Look around, notice anyone missing?” Laughed Frieza.

“Ah, he’s right! Where’s Tanya!?” Cried Gohan.

“Oh no! Tanya!” Yelled Vegeta.

Vegeta and the others started looking around, looking for where she might’ve fallen. But it was no good, they couldn’t see her. She was gone. “Tanya, I can’t feel her energy.” Said Gohan.

“No, not her? Please let her be down there.” Whispered Krillin.

“No…Tanya…she can’t be gone…she can’t…” Gasped Vegeta.

“Like I said, who’s next in line to die.” Said Frieza.

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Next time: Frieza’s onslaught continues. Who’s next on his hit list?

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