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"This guy's absolutely insane," Goku entered a fighting stance alongside his friends. "As much as I hate to say it, fighting him all together is the only chance of pulling it through here."
"It's just like us to pick a fight with a crazy monster like that," Yamcha lamented.
"We can't help it. Unless we deal with this guy, we can't take off for Earth," Krillin replied with a wayward glance.
"Careful, Krillin!" Chiaotzu squeaked out.
"Oh, there's absolutely no use in trying to hide your miserable, insignificant planet from me. I can assure you that I already know the planet you've strung this plan together from, and I intend on making sure it dies a hellish and miserable death. I know of ways to cook a planet's population for what feels like a lifetime before the planet explodes," Frieza's face twisted in a psychopathic smile.
"I guess there's no other way then," Chayote gulped it down and floated out in front of Krillin and Yamcha with a neutral fighting stance. "We have to fight."
Chayote rushed onward alongside Goku. The two mingled and switched sides to throw Frieza off-guard and to confuse him about the side they'd be attacking him from. Goku shuffled out in front of Chayote. Frieza didn't appear bothered by this combined offensive at all as he maintained a neutral and bemused stance. With a goofy chuckle, Goku's image blurred and disappeared before approaching Frieza with Chayote driving her arm into Frieza's throat with a charging clothesline, but it felt like a stick hitting an iron pole as pain reverberated throughout Chayote's arm making it go numb. Frieza didn't move.
With Chayote leaning down, Goku charged in from over her head with a diving kick. As surly as always, the psycho space emperor raised his arm up and put it in front of him to block Goku's diving kick. The two collided with a thunderous shock wave that quickly dissipated. The goofy Saiyan threw a flurry of strikes, all of which Frieza carefully weaved out of and avoided. Chayote blinked in from behind the tyrant and began striking at the same time from behind Frieza, but the cruel sovereign began dodging Goku while deflecting Chayote's strikes at the same time, offering both of the Saiyans half of his body to deal with them.
Seeing Goku transitioning into slower power strikes, Chayote took it as a signal that her partner was ready for a more powerful combination attack to finish their warm-up. Where Goku attacked with an overhead slamming cross, Chayote rushed onward with a knee strike, when Goku threw a crushing uppercut, Chayote tried slamming her arms down with a hammering double ax handle slam but Frieza's arms and legs found their way to absorb the shock with no damage or discomfort to the emperor himself.
Frieza shrieked, extending his arms to the sides. Chayote gasped as the air she had been preserving in her lungs froze there and couldn't move anywhere nor could it sate her need for oxygen anymore. It had been as if someone had robbed her body of any semblance of control completely. An overwhelming telekinetic force yanked the two Saiyans aside while Frieza extended his fingers at both of them and fired off two stray pink Death Beams at each of them.
Both Chayote and Goku clenched their teeth and grunted, realizing that in Frieza's stranglehold they had no chance of dodging this attack. They were sitting ducks and if that beam hit them–they may have outright died. Time slowed down as their inevitable deaths closed in and a pink gleam filled their vision, but then… Nothing. The air frozen in Chayote's lungs rushed right out as the Saiyan grabbed her throat and coughed up while her breathing resumed. Goku looked similarly rattled. The two Death Beams flew stray across and pierced a couple of mountains on the horizon and detonated in a pair of pink, flashing domes of rumbling energy.
"The beams… Missed us?" Chayote muttered. It seemed to her as if their deaths were a done deal just now. It made little sense for Frieza to miss both of such simple shots.
"Thank you, Chiaotzu," Goku cackled, turning his glance to the floating little ghoul who appeared out of place from where Chayote last remembered his Ki being. "That new ace technique of yours is actually gonna be useful."
Not being the ones to waste an opening, the Dragon Team attacked again. This time Yamcha and Krillin took off while Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu slowed their pace down to stay behind the two so that they could complement each other without getting in each other's way. This way Chiaotzu could once again stop time and correct any sticky situations that they'd find each other in. Krillin froze midway to Frieza and positioned his arms over his head.
"Solar Fist!" he yelled out but then canceled his technique prematurely before the flash of light could fire as Frieza was no longer standing in front of him.
"This is where I'll have to intervene, Earthling," Frieza muttered from behind Krillin. As the bald warrior turned around, a sphere of golden energy enclosed around him that Frieza held in his hand as a ball. While the tyrant's glare almost challenged Krillin to go ahead and try to break out of this energy prison, Krillin's Ki sensory suggested that the walls were overflowing with Ki and therefore bound to detonate at the first sign of a crude touch of its surface.
Yamcha changed his directory, making a U-turn as he charged toward Frieza to knock the space emperor flying and free his imprisoned friend, but Frieza's tail ended up wrapped around Yamcha's neck. Tenshinhan found his friend's body used as a mace against him as the two flew off astray when Frieza batted the rushing warrior away with Yamcha's body before flinging it after Tenshinhan as a parting gift. Chiaotzu extended his arms and concentrated.
The little guy had never encountered telekinesis as powerful as Frieza's. In fact, if one was to take Guldo's ramblings seriously, Frieza may have been the most powerful psychic in the universe. Because of that reason, Chiaotzu needed the most of his concentration to break the energy prison enveloping Krillin as it was both psychic energy and Ki at the same time. Stopping time again just to have more time to concentrate, Chiaotzu spun his arms around in front of him before expelling all of his pent-up air and energy as he widened them apart, shattering the hold around Krillin before Frieza could do away with his friend.
The two martial artists fled with petrified expressions while Frieza's sullen expression followed them dashing back and putting some space between them.
"Dammit, nothing's gonna work against this guy," Goku cursed, looking just as disappointed in his lack of success as Frieza was with the worth of his challengers. "We need to go all-out and gamble everything to even put the tiniest chance of getting anywhere. His power is insane!"
"That's not even the worst part, Goku. Sense his Ki right now. It hadn't dropped a beat below what it was when we started. He's not tiring out at all while taking all of us on," Tenshinhan's expression became direr, and cold sweat poured down his face.
"You're right!" Goku's eyes widened. "Frieza! You're still holding back, aren't you?"
"Oh… You can tell? Prince Vegeta was too high on his dreams of ascending to his ridiculous state of a Super Saiyan to understand. He thought that fighting that Namekian gastropod has worn me out and just couldn't drop that childish illusion of his no matter how hard I tried to teach him that cruel lesson," the tips of Frieza's lips curved upward. "That's right, monkey. Right now I am merely using 1% of my full power. That is all that it takes for me to exterminate the lot of you. It would take me even less still to blink away that loathsome little planet of yours."
"N-No way!" Goku freaked out. "That means… Even if I crank my King Kai's Fist way up, I'd need to go all the way to a X100 to even leave a dent on this guy…"
"No," Tenshinhan shook his head, "If all of us use King Kai's Fist up to around x20, all of us together could even up the scales somewhat without the need of overdoing it."
"We won't be able to fight this way for long so we better give him all we got or else we'll crash and burn out," Krillin nodded with a grim look of someone who realized exactly the type of trouble that they all were in.
"There's not really any other choice…" Goku admitted, clenching his fist in dismay. "Sorry, body, also… Sorry King Kai, we'll just have to ignore your warnings this once and really cut loose."
"We wouldn't need to all use King Kai Fist X20 if Vegeta was still here," Chiaotzu noted. "I can't sense his Ki anywhere, though."
"Damn it, Frieza," Goku grit his teeth and stiffened his body up, raising a wrathful fist up and clenching it hard enough for it to emanate with a gleam of ethereal energy and distort the light as it passed around its intense focus. "What did you do?"
"What do you think I did to that insolent whelp who defied his master? I put him out of his misery, just like that Namekian before. I took my time with Vegeta-san though, he was, after all, the queen bee of this conspiracy," Frieza chuckled to himself, finally getting the rush of having snuffed that annoying gnat out just by seeing the reaction on the faces of these Earthlings and Saiyans.
"Damn it…" Goku hissed out, shaking in fury. "I promised him… I promised him we'd punish you for abusing the Saiyan people. That we'd beat you together!" the enraged Saiyan exploded in a boom of crystalline aura that drove his hair to stand straight up in an intense upward wash of unrestrained energy, forming a towering pillar of force itself.
"That'll teach you a lesson about making ridiculous promises, savage. Though it's not like you'll be able to make any excellent decisions from this point on, as your life will end not too far after that of your annoying prince," Frieza snickered while taking his shots at mocking Goku further.
"I'll make you pay, Frieza!" Goku roared out "King Kai's Fist X20!"
"King Kai's Fist x20!" everyone except for Chayote burst with an energy boom that powered them up twenty whole times at the cost of their bodily integrity as the technique would have slowly chipped away at their bodies and torn their muscles bit by bit.
Exploding with rage and newly drawn-out power that twice surpassed that of Frieza's own, Goku charged onward blindly alongside his friends as the two seized the opportunity and used their King Kai Fist power to the fullest before it eats away at their own bodies. In a blink, Frieza dived under Goku's rush and spun his extended legs and his tail in a series of sweeps that threw the entire Dragon Team except for Chayote spinning in mid-air and off-balance. As Goku stopped in mid-air and performed a U-turn to rush right back at Frieza, the tyrant merely waved his forearm up to expel a pillar of a psychic blast from the underground that threw Goku straight up and away from Frieza.
With a blink, Frieza appeared in front of Goku and forced him to flinch and take the defensive position in this clash as the tyrant whipped with his tail a few times and softened the Saiyan up with a pair of brutal elbow strikes before rising above and stomping ruthlessly right at Goku's face and upper body with his feet. Once the rest of the Dragon Team recovered from their discombobulation and charged in pursuit of the battle that had moved upward, Frieza flipped over his front and smacked Goku down with his tail before preparing to engage the oncoming group of Earthlings.
With a shrill shriek, the space emperor spun into the fray of combat like a sprinkler spraying wrath and violence around him. He threw strikes, sweeps and tail smacks in all directions, powering up further than his 1% strength to utterly dominate the powered-up Earthlings before vanishing up above them and raining down pink pulses of energy that was equal part psychokinetic blasts that paralyzed one's nervous system and Ki that dealt physical damage as well. Grunting in pain and with their King Kai's Fist aura completely snuffed out, the Dragon Team littered the landscape, smashing into round craters around the area littered in volcanic ash and plunging into its black lakes.
Frieza vanished again, appearing in front of Chayote, back turned against her and turning his head to acknowledge the female Saiyan's hesitation to attack him all-out like her peers.
"What's wrong? My terrifying power has frightened you so much that you can't move? Trust me, ape, this is just a mere speck of my real might and you may be luckier if you end up getting yourself killed quicker before I can reveal what I'm truly capable of," Frieza mocked Chayote with a squint accompanied by a polite grin of his black lips.
"No, I've been preparing to do this!" Chayote quickly spread her legs and arms, positioning her index and middle fingers by her forehead as they lit up with malevolent, pink crackles. The Saiyan then extended her fingers out, pointing them toward Frieza, "Devil Mite Beam!" she yelled out.
"Hm?" Frieza raised the ridge over his eye, finding the slowly moving spiral rather ridiculous as he turned and smacked at its moving tip, but found that the beam enveloped him whole. Frieza's moves stiffened almost immediately as he hissed and wheezed in pain, realizing that he may have bit onto something he did not understand.
"We may not have much chance of measuring up against you in terms of raw power but one thing you learn when visiting Earth is that skill often triumphs raw power and despite all your power, you've underestimated our skill," Chayote stated while her hands fixed on searching for evil to draw out from Frieza's heart. She didn't have to search that much, she'd have blown this monster to smithereens even when she was still a novice in using this technique.
"Wh-What's happening to me?" Frieza shrieked out, grabbing hold of his head as veins began popping out over his muscles and his Ki began skyrocketing as the emperor attempted to break out of this magical technique by merely overpowering it. One thing Chayote knew for certain was that once the Devil Mite Beam connects, it could not have been broken out of, no matter the power of one's opponent. As Frieza's muscles swelled up and his Ki reached unimaginable heights, it did nothing to prevent Chayote from clenching her left arm into a fist and drawing it back.
Frieza's chest bulged out as the tyrant bent his spine backward in a manner that was painful to even look at. One by one, the Dragon Team warriors recovered and got back to their feet, only to see Frieza screaming in pain and enveloped by a sparkling gleam of pink energy.
"That's the Devil Mite Beam!" Chiaotzu yelled out, pointing at the gut-wrenching scene developing in front of them.
"That's right. It looks different from Chayote's version that she's used before. Could it be that she finally completed this technique?" Tenshinhan wondered. "If that's the case, then not even Frieza has a chance of living through this."
"That's right, I don't remember seeing Chayote working on the King Kai's Fist at all!" Krillin snapped his fingers. "So this is what she's been working on this whole time!"
"Figures. Chayote must have known we'd end up butting heads with Frieza eventually, no matter how hard she opposed it, so she knew that the only way to survive this clash was the Devil Mite Beam, a completed Devil Mite Beam…" Yamcha wiped the blood and snot off of his nose while standing back up on wobbly legs.
"What you find yourself at the mercy of now, Lord Frieza, is the Devil Mite Beam. A deadly technique hailing from the denizens of Hell itself, a technique that attacks a warrior's mind, focuses on even the tiniest speck of evil within their hearts and makes it grow, fester and expand until it gains destructive, even explosive power. A technique that amplifies aggression, dark thoughts, and malice and causes all of that rot to expand within their owner's heart until it literally explodes," Chayote explained while drawing her right hand back as well and causing Frieza's chest to expand in size twice more and bloat like a balloon.
In many ways, Frieza was unfortunate, because of his alien physiology his body seemed more malleable. A human would have long seen so much evil blast out of them in a shower of blood and innards but Frieza's body could take this much evil, this much expansion and thus it sentenced the malevolent emperor to unimaginable torment as his chest bloated out and inflated and twisted the tyrant's face in unimaginable torment as his ribs burst one by one and his chest grew more and more and more.
"You should have never threatened Earth, Lord Frieza. Where you dismissed me and threw me away, Earth has taken me in as their soldier and gave me a purpose to fight to protect it. It made my life mean something, and that's all that I ever wanted from you. I didn't want to kill you, but I won't allow you to threaten Earth either. If you somehow survive this, which is unlikely, know this unfathomable pain, remember it, and know that it awaits you again if you ever show yourself or send your soldiers down to Earth," Chayote sent her final farewells to a being she once craved recognition from. "Now, may your evil grow, let it grow and… Explode!"
A deafening burst resonated through the ash-covered area as cherry-colored blood drowned and washed the layers of bone dust and ash away and further tainted the black lakes around the place. As a meek and ravaged, lifeless body of Frieza with an open chest cavity and a face mangled by agony flopped on the floor, Chayote breathed out and lifted her feet off the ground, turning to her friends who couldn't believe that the nightmare was over.
Frieza was dead.