Damn Traditions

Sorry to be gone for a while. RL came and kicked the shit out of me, or so it seemed. Then last week as I was working on this, the power went out! But all during the week I’ve been trying to get to it doing a little here and there, the weather is up and down, it’s summer here and I hate storms. Anyway, there is a lot more to come that is already done, but I am editing the fight scenes for the next part and that will take a little time, as I hand wrote them all, so editing and typing to come. So I hope you enjoy revisiting the series but with a different pint of view and a few different characters in the main roles. Sorry we won’t be having any of the humans in this story. I have two weeks to go until I have five weeks leave from work, I can’t wait. More writing time if it’s not too hot, my house is not air conditioned. Oh and them story still has a way to go yet, who knows where it will end… I hope you enjoy! I plan on having the next bit up next weekend!

Damn Traditions continued….
By Fyrbyrd

Freiza stood on the flight deck of his ship with his arms crossed looking at the instruments that would not respond to him. He was not happy. He wanted to know who had done this to his ship, he wanted to know what had happened to the Ginyu force. This was all supposed to be easy. The people of Vegetasei thought their new Prince was dead. He had the Princess under his influence via Zarbon, and she had given him the child. He would raise it against its own planet. Raise it to do his bidding, then kill the King and Prince Vegeta, place his puppet on the throne and rule Vegetasei his way. The Saiyans enslaved to him without their even knowing it.

But apart from a faint life force, there was no one else on his ship but himself. And that life force was not worth going to check out because it was so weak. So he stood there waiting to see where the ship was headed and perhaps find out what the hell was going on.

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“I wish Dende was here,” said Piccolo as he sat beside his mate surveying the damage he had taken in his fight with Freiza. “You are worse than you were on Namek.”

“I’ll be fine with some rest, Piccolo. Having you here is all the healing I need. Have the Saiyans leave yet?”

“Yes, their ship is not far behind ours.”

“Good. Freiza will not be easy to destroy.”

“You think we will be able to destroy him?”

“If a weakness could be found, yes.”

“He can destroy planets, Nail. Who has the power to destroy someone who can do that?”

“If he fears this Super Saiyan so much, perhaps we will find that being amongst those that will fight him.”

Piccolo laughed, “Yeah right.”

“Don’t discount them Piccolo, they are very strong.”

Piccolo grunted, “Whatever happens you are not to fight.” He saw his mate open his mouth as if to argue. “I will do any fighting if I deem it necessary.” Nail smiled up at him. “I will not see you hurt any more than you are now. You are my mate; there is no other for me. When this is over we will find a peaceful place to settle and I will get you with that child you want so much.”

Nail put his hand on his mate’s arm, “I love you Piccolo. I am glad that you found me.”

He grunted again, “Rest.” He was about to leave, but instead he leaned down and took the mouth of his mate with his own. He sent all of his fierce passion into him, then pulled back. He would rather lie next to his injured mate and hold him, but there were other things to do.

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“Has the ship landed yet?” asked Vegeta as he stood with his hands on his hips watching the main screen as they flew after the Icejin ship.

Nappa turned from his place and answered him, “Yes, not long ago.”

“How long until we get there?”

“At least two hours.”

Vegeta shifted his arms up and crossed them over his chest.

“What are you plans, Sire?” asked Raditz.

“I plan to get my mate back and kill that blasted Icejin lizard once and for all.”

“Kill Freiza, that is insane Vegeta,” said Nappa.

“He tried to take my child; he wants to enslave the Saiyan race. The only thing he fears is the Super Saiyan, and the blood of that being is in my blood.”

Nappa and Raditz looked at each other. So Vegeta believed he could be a Super Saiyan? Both went back to what they were doing in silence.

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“Land as close to his ship as possible, he’s bound to know we are coming. He hasn’t been near Kakarott and I intend to make sure he never knows that my mate was on his ship. He’d know my son is not there though,” said Vegeta as they made preparations to land.

“So basically he’s going to be beyond pissed?” asked Raditz.

Vegeta sneered, the closest he could get to being pleased with that prospect.

“Vegeta I detect that Namek ship is here as well,” said Nappa.

Vegeta just nodded.

“What are our plans then?” he continued.

“I want you and Raditz to distract the lizard while I check on Kakarott. I’m not sure when the tank will be through with him, and if he’s not ready I will leave him there and come and join you two.”

“What if the Namek’s interfere?”

“As long as they fight against Freiza, let them.”

The pair nodded as the ship touched the earth safely and they prepared to leave.

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The ship landed on what could be laughingly called a planet, it was more a planetoid. It was only then that he realized that the controls had shut down and if he started them up he would have full control. However, someone had sent him there for a purpose and he wanted to find out what that purpose was, and who sent him there.

He moved towards the doors and down the corridor leading to those that would lead him outside. It was a dull little world, reminded him far too much of Namek. Perhaps he would destroy it as well. There was very little power there, life forces of small creatures, but nothing powerful enough to challenge him.

Then he looked to the skies. There were definitely some powers heading for him. All he had to do was wait for them to come to him, as they had planned. He first discerned one ship, two beings in it; one had a weak signature that he recognized as the Namek he had fought. The other was much more powerful.

Further back there was another ship, probably Saiyan. Three powers were on it, strong, but he did not think they were as strong as he.

He knew when the Namek ship had landed, but the occupants did not seem to make a move towards him. But later when the other ship landed its occupants wasted no time in heading for him. The trio approached carefully, hiding behind a hill to see what was going on around Freiza’s ship. They saw him floating outside its doors looking straight at where they were, he had a scouter on, so he knew they were there and he knew their strength.

“Damn, he blocking my way in,” said Vegeta.

“Sire, we will attack him and try to draw him away for you,” said Nappa.

Vegeta nodded and they headed down to where he waited, they landed on the ground before him so he came to land as well.

“Well if it isn’t Prince Vegeta. Were you the one to send me here?”

“Of course. I took back my child from your thieving hands, and took care of those fools you had for security.”

“You destroyed the Ginyu Force?”

Vegeta sneered, “They were nothing.”

“You think now you can defeat me?” Freiza laughed. Then he changed straight away, “You want to stand up to be, you shall die.”

“Bring it on Freiza.”

Nappa and Raditz looked at their Prince as if he had gone mad. This was not their plan. Freiza powered up.

On the Namek ship, the pair felt his power rise. Piccolo turned.

“It’s all right, go. I will keep my promise and stay here. I expect you to keep your side and return to me,” said Nail.

“I will.” Then he was gone, flying towards the others at his top speed.

Freiza laughed as the little planet began to shake and split with the power he was emitting. Then he started hurling bolts of power at Vegeta who moved to avoid them, the other two diving for cover.

“Raditz, we have to attack Freiza while he’s distracted. It might be our only chance,” said Nappa. Raditz agreed and they left their hiding place.

Both of them sent Ki bolts at the lizard, he merely turned and sent the same back at them which they dodged, but at one point they landed together and were in the way of a large ball they only saw coming at the last moment. Vegeta jumped in between and deflected it.

“Fly away little boys, there’s no way you can defeat me,” sneered Freiza.

“You’re wrong, my powers are increasing with every attack, and I’ve become a Super Saiyan, your worst nightmare,” answered Vegeta.

“A Super Saiyan huh, we’ll see.” He launched at Vegeta. They stood together hand to hand exerting their power at each other. The area around them shaking, they sank into a crater of their making. Freiza was shocked by the amount that the scouter was telling of Vegeta’s power. Not being able to handle it the scouter disintegrated. Freiza let go and they jumped out of the crater.

“Impressive Vegeta, maybe you are close to becoming a Super Saiyan.”

“Why don’t you transform Freiza? Stop playing around and show us the real you.”

“So you know my secret’”

“What?” asked Nappa.

“The form of Freiza you see standing before you is not really what he is. He can transform to his real self at anytime. He just uses this form to conserve energy.”

Vegeta continued to taunt him until Freiza agreed to transform. And so it began, starting slowly, his armor falling off his body. Vegeta couldn’t resist more taunts.

“Talk, all you are is a bunch of talk. I’m going to show you something that your race has never seen,” said Freiza. He powered up again. The small world being completely disrupted by it. Freiza grew taller, broader, pinker, his horns curved upward and his tail lengthened.

The three before him were a little intimidated. Then using his tail he attacked, they all dodged it. Freiza then explained that his fighting power was over a million and set about proving it with a shock wave of power that sent the three of them flying and stopped Piccolo in his tracks.

They stopped themselves and Freiza appeared in front of them. A wave swept over the earth hitting the ship where it shook Kakarott in the tank even though they were miles away from it.

Freiza looked at his three opponents, deciding who to go for. He chose the unsuspecting Nappa and gored him with a horn. The big Saiyan was like a fish on a spear and to Freiza about as weightless as one as he decided to play with his catch, flopping him up and down on the horn until he passed out with the pain. Freiza had had enough fun; he tossed the big Saiyan into the water below.

Raditz went to rescue him, but Freiza got in the way. He took the chance while Freiza was distracted by checking on Vegeta to attack Freiza. From somewhere he was able to attack with a strong power.

Vegeta was surprised, but then this was his mate’s brother. Without waiting he went after Nappa. Pulling him out to see he was still alive though badly hurt.

Freiza was laid flat on the ground by the attack; he got to his feet, pissed.

Raditz flew up to join Vegeta and again Freiza raised his power, launching at Raditz he didn’t have a chance and smashed into the ground with a bounce face first.

Vegeta attacked from behind, but after the smoke of his attacks cleared, Freiza turned unaffected, “I’ll deal with you in a moment,” he warned. Then he floated down to where Raditz was trying to get to his feet. Freiza grabbed him by his ample hair and shook him before tossing him away, continuing to play with him until he stood on his head, grinding him into the ground and pressing hard with his foot. Vegeta didn’t know what to do. If he attacked he might hit Raditz, he was still surprised that his attack had not worked as he thought it would. Raditz lay there screaming, unable to move with the pain.

On the Icejin ship Kakarott was awakening. He could feel his brother’s loss of power, but he could do nothing yet.

Then suddenly in a blaze if white light Piccolo was there. Freiza turned to look at the Namek and lifted his foot off of Raditz.

“Another Namek?” said Freiza.

“I have come to repay you for the harm you have caused my mate.”

“Go away Namek. I have no business with you. There can’t be too many of your race left, enjoy your freedom while you can.”

“No way. Twice you have hurt my mate. I will avenge him.”

“If you must.”

Piccolo let the weakened Raditz float up towards Vegeta, as he faced off with Freiza.

Piccolo went at Freiza and they began fighting hand to hand again the world shook with their combined forces. This went on for awhile until Freiza forced Piccolo into a hill and tried to bury him in it. Piccolo fought back with Ki attacks, pushing Frieza away until the hill itself blew up. Freiza jumped free thinking he had won, but Piccolo emerged unscathed.

Vegeta thought he’d have his chance to get to his mate, but Freiza stopped him blocking his way. He punched the Saiyan Prince in the stomach, then crashed him into the ground, before returning to his fight with Piccolo.

Again they threw punches and kicks, the sky thundering around them, the earth trembling. Together they crashed into a lake where Freiza used his tail to off balance Piccolo who fell but flew back up to grab Freiza’s tail while they sank into the water, Freiza’s hand squeezing Piccolo’s neck. Freiza emerged slowly but launched a Ki ball as Piccolo zoomed out behind him, missed the attack which flew past him to strike the earth. Freiza then sent another blast at where Piccolo had landed demolishing the hill of rock. But Piccolo reemerged rocks spinning around him in twin circles, he was having fun.

Freiza attacked, the rocks destroyed, but Piccolo jumped away and continued to jump just out of Freiza’s reach, taunting him all the way. He reminded Frieza of his fights with Nail and that he had both their strengths within him. They wanted to defeat him.

Again Piccolo powered up and white light appeared to surround him. He went at Freiza who had jumped away sending him flying to attack again and again repeating the attack over and over. Until Freiza got in one good kick and Piccolo went earthbound, still he landed on his feet. Freiza powered up a Ki ball, made it bigger and bigger, fired it at Piccolo who somehow caught it and sent it back. Freiza dodged, Piccolo sent his own Ki ball attack and kept at it. When the smoke cleared however, Freiza was still there, untouched.

Piccolo was on the ground when Freiza landed before him standing a foot taller than him. They stared at each other before Freiza launched at Piccolo a punch to his face, then back again until Piccolo plunged into the ground. While there Freiza flew down intending to attack with his foot, Piccolo pulled up and out of the way. Freiza took off after him, hitting him with both hands together hard into the earth.

Piccolo fought his way out of the crater Freiza had made him make. Then Freiza landed to taunt the Namek. Piccolo tossed off his heavy cloak and turban and told Freiza he was waiting.

“It’s time you felt the wrath of all the Namek’s you’ve destroyed,” said Piccolo as he powered up. He caught Freiza hitting him before he knew it, surprising him. He went after Piccolo who almost hit him, but he vanished only to reappear behind him striking hard. Freiza fell from the sky; Piccolo matched his fall grabbing him as they continued to plummet headfirst into the earth at rocket speed. Piccolo jumped away at the last moment and for good measure attacked the crater with Ki ball after Ki ball. The area exploded magnificently.

Freiza emerged above the blast line looking none the worse. He went down relaxed. Piccolo matched him again as Freiza explained that he had yet another transformation one of two more he had. Freiza roared out as the transformation took him, a horrifying elongation of his head and spikes on his back.

Deciding to get started he took off at Piccolo who took off avoiding him. He thought his speed enough to escape, he was wrong. Frieza stopped him in his tracks. They floated staring at each other before Piccolo attacked, the new form of Freiza was stronger and he was on the receiving end.

Freiza started attacking with Ki balls hitting Piccolo all over his body, he bounced like a puppet on a string, and had no chance to fight back. The Icejin began laughing all the way.

Raditz having had time to recover, took off thinking to help the Namek, attacked Freiza from behind with the same stronger power he had called on before. A t first it looked like he had gotten Freiza, but he pushed the huge Ki ball back at Raditz. Piccolo saw where it was headed and once again pushed it out of the way.

Freiza then decided it was time to become his Ultimate form, the huge ugly beast then transformed into a sleek small white humanoid with red eyes.

Both Raditz and Piccolo had no power left and Nappa was even worse. That left Vegeta and his belief that he could become Super Saiyan. So he powered up when he faced the new creature Freiza had become. But while his power rise was spectacular it was not quite Super Saiyan. Still he believed and taunted Freiza until Freiza called him a sub Super Saiyan and the fight was on. However, Freiza avoided everything and vanished. Vegeta finally found him standing looking up at him with arms crossed, taunting him again about being Super Saiyan, he didn’t believe Vegeta was one.

But Vegeta wanted to believe and continued his attack firing off a powerful Ki ball. But he saw Freiza escape and kept shooting off more at the white lizard. Freiza avoided them all as if they were nothing appearing right in Vegeta’s face to tease him with his tail. Vegeta took off skyward powered up and sent another very powerful Ki ball at Freiza who merely stood there, before kicking the ball back at Vegeta. He dodged it and watched it blow up above the planet shaking the world.

Freiza knew Vegeta was helpless, but he wanted to punish him. He took off at Vegeta, hitting him hard enough to draw blood from his mouth. He attacked again, Vegeta falling into the water below.

On the Icejin ship Kakarott could feel his mate’s pain. He wanted to be there, he wanted to help him.

Freiza stood on a small island and drove all the water away until he revealed Vegeta on the bottom. He flew down to pick him up by his hair and began punching him on his spine, then kicking him. Taunting him he continued to kick him around as if he were a rag doll. Punch, kick, punch, crashing him into the ground, Vegeta was in agony when he landed on earth again. Freiza grabbed him around his neck with his tail and squeezed. Then he used his back as a punching bag over and over.

Kakarott felt it all. Luckily the tank timed out and he broke it open. Crashing though the roof of the Icejin ship he could feel his strength, but now it was time to help his mate. Sensing where he was he took off.

Vegeta had been beaten badly, but Freiza had had enough and tossed him at a cliff where he fell, broken. Freiza stood on him, grinding a rock on his chest into him. He was about to finish him when he felt Kakarott’s arrival, only that stayed his hand.

Kakarott landed near the other three saw their injuries though Raditz and Piccolo had recovered somewhat.

Vegeta came to to see his mate and call to him. Right now it didn’t seem to matter that he was a third class, nor his mate. Vegeta could feel his mate’s power and he knew then that his mate was a Super Saiyan. He would fight for him and brother.

Freiza went at him but Kakarott disappeared surprising Freiza as he got a kick at Freiza’s head. Freiza pointed a finger and sent a beam at Kakarott, he hit it away harmlessly. So Freiza continued, all were battered away causing damage wherever they hit. Freiza thought he’d won but as the smoke cleared Kakarott stood there.

Vegeta was pleased with his mate and told Freiza that he fought a Super Saiyan. Freiza sent a beam hitting Vegeta in his shoulder, angering Kakarott. Holding on to the last of his consciousness, Vegeta warned his mate not to be soft and to kill Freiza, then he passed out, barely alive.

Now he would avenge his mate and he knew the creature had taken his child to use as a puppet. He would stop him. “How dare you harm my mate!” he shouted.

This surprised Freiza. Until that moment he had not known that Vegeta had another mate apart from Aspaga. He started, “You! You are the one that birthed Vegeta’s child, didn’t you! I saw you on Vegetasei that day in the mountains.”

Kakarott smiled, “Yes that was me. We knew you may have learned the secret of our race, you have just confirmed that.”

“And I will put an end to it, like I did with the Namek’s who also have male birth, but then they are all male. Your race is headed that way too.”

“You will do nothing. I will stop you.”

They stared off, then Kakarott went at him and the fight began hand to hand, so fast they couldn’t be seen, neither actually hitting the other.

Freiza sent a Ki blast at Kakarott who avoided it. As the smoke cleared Freiza attacked with laser eyes before they went back to hand to hand. Again Freiza tried to blast and had to wait till the smoke cleared again. But Kakarott appeared right behind him; they stood back to back on a spire of rock, the remains of the mountain they had destroyed. It collapsed beneath them and they took flight. When Kakarott sensed Freiza he Ki attacked, but Freiza escaped. He had to sense for him again.

Freiza emerged from water behind him firing a Ki ball at Kakarott who caught and pushed back, but it pushed him into a wall of rock before it dispersed, burning his hands. Freiza sent two beams at the ground missing Kakarott but the earth shook before lava emerged and fountained into the sky.

Kakarott had to move but Frieza sent more Ki balls at him breaking the earth revealing more lava. The planet was coming apart. Kakarott was surrounded by lava; he blew it away in a burst of power and flew skyward when Freiza finally got a hit in with his tail hitting him into a lava pit after bouncing off a cliff wall. He saved himself not far from a river of lava that began to rise.

Piccolo thinking Kakarott had been destroyed challenged Freiza, only to see the Saiyan emerge trailing fire from his burning clothes. But it was enough for Freiza to forget the Namek’s challenge; instead he took off after him appearing behind him, if not for a warning from Piccolo, Freiza would have gotten him. They faced off again. Kakarott on land Freiza in the air, he sent a blast at the cliff below Kakarott, but the Saiyan appeared above him and actually got a mind power blast off. Freiza was falling, stopping just above a lake and disappearing leaving a fountain of water which he used to jump from and surprise Kakarott kicking him in the jaw and he fell into the lake.

While under the water he tried to figure out how to beat Freiza realizing Freiza could not sense him and had to see him to attack. So he formed two Ki balls and had them sit where they were created while he swam away from them. Once a distance away he sent one at Freiza who only just dodged it and its fast following twin. Then Kakarott emerged from where he had gone attacking Freiza from behind again shooting him into the ground which shook violently. Still Freiza blasted his way out. Now he was on the ground and Kakarott in the air and Freiza admitted to being in pain and he was pissed too.

He shifted position and raised some rocks which he started throwing at Kakarott who avoided them all. Freiza was using only the power of him mind to move the rocks. Kakarott sent out his own power blast destroying all the rocks, further pissing off Freiza. The earth shook as Frieza pulled up on an island of land which he threw at Kakarott. Incredibly Kakarott stood in its way until it ran into another cliff. Slicing his way out, Kakarott was free only to have Freiza appear above him and trap him in a bubble of power. It was then used like a ball for Freiza to kick around, only if anything other than Freiza touched it, it would explode. Kakarott could not escape it. After kicking it around for a bit, Freiza decided to destroy it with a Ki ball sending Kakarott soaring like a missile into the earth, exploding on impact making a huge crater in its wake.

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