Goku and Golen were both awoken by the roars of their two children. It took them a few minutes to get a grip on the situation, and even then it was hard to believe what the saw. Their sons were now ten times as big as their fathers and had increased their power dramatically.
"How did they do that?" Goku asked. He still had not figured out how Nappa, and now his kids, had transformed. /Idiot/, Golen thought, but he responded nonetheless.
"It’s their tail Goku. That’s why ours was cut off, so we couldn’t go to that form any more," Golen explained to his extremely dumbfounded brother. Goku began to raise his ki slightly, and was even going back to battle when he felt Golen’s hand on his shoulder. "No, don’t go. They can’t control themselves in that form. It would be best if we just stayed out of their way, and began to plan a defense if they fail," Golen said, as if his only son wasn’t out on the battlefield fighting for his life. Goku thought about this for a while, but slowly dissipated his ki.
"Okay, I guess you’re right. But to go on record, I would prefer to go and help," Goku said. Golen nodded. "Well, lets go over to the others," Goku then said, already flying into the sky towards the other fallen heroes.
Krillin and Tien were now standing, but Yamcha and Chou-zu were still down. Tien was huddled over his long time friend while Krillin attempted to help Yamcha. Both stopped and looked up at the two Saiya-jins as they arrived.
"I see you two decided it was best to wait out the fight also," Tien said. it came out a little harsher than he meant it, but one of his best friends lay unconscious below him. Golen and Goku nodded.
"How is he?" Goku asked Tien. Tien shook his head. Goku turned to Krillin, who had a better prognosis.
"He’ll live, if we can get him another senzu bean soon," Krillin said, even though he knew that the beans had been lost when Chou-zu had attacked with them.
"Okay. I see only one way out of this. We can either destroy the moon or his tail, and being that the moon is transparent, I say we go for the tail," Golen said. Everyone nodded except Goku.
"No. Lets say we do go for the tail. Lets just say that me and you die. Cutting off his tail will get him out of the beast form, but then he would just go back to normal right? So then it would be Tien and Krillin against him, and I’m sorry to say they don’t have a chance," Goku said. Golen looked at his brother and smiled. He was having one of those rare moments of brilliancy that he tended to have every once in a while.
"Your right. And not only would they have to deal with Nappa, they’d also have to deal with our sons since they have no ability to control themselves," Golen said, adding to Goku’s theory.
"That means we only have one option left. When Gohan and Trunks wear him down enough, we attack with full force. Me, Goku, and Tien only," Golen informed. Krillin interrupted immediately.
"Me too," Krillin said, volutneering himself. Golen shook his head.
"When I mean put everything into it, I mean everything. I have every intention of using ALL of my ki in the Kamehameha wave. Hopefully so will Goku and Tien. When Nappa dies, surely the other Saiya-jin out there will get curious and come here. If you do not have the dragon balls in time, you will have to defend Earth," Golen said simply, even though he was talking about his own death. Goku and Tien nodded, signaling that they were ready to die for the Earth.
"Okay, that’s very noble of you three. But as you said earlier, what will be left after you three die. It will be me and Piccolo. Those offer worse odds than the first plan," Krillin said, playing devils advocate.
"You’re mistaken. You will also have Gohan and Trunks."
"But they will still be those monkeys over there. We couldn’t even get close to stopping them," Krillin stated again.
"But you see, that’s why we aren’t attacking now. We wait until Nappa has had his fun. They will be beaten badly, but not to take any chances of them attacking him by surprise when he deals with us, he probably rip their tails off," Golen said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"How do you know that they just won’t kill them both? It would be easier that way," Krillin said once again.
"I am Prince Vegita to him right? Well that means that Trunks is a prince also. He will want take back Trunks and Gohan, who will become part of their army probably," Vegita explained. Krillin nodded, seeing the logic behind it all. "Okay, it’s settled," Golen said. The others nodded.
While the others prepared themselves for a kamikaze attack, Gohan and Trunks were left to do the dirty work. Nappa was having a very hard time with the two half Saiya-jins. They were out of control, not really knowing what they were doing, but they still had one thing in their minds. Kill, Destroy, and above all, Kill.
Gohan fired a ki beam out his mouth at Nappa, who dodged it skillfully, only to be met with one of Trunks’ now huge fists. Nappa recovered in time to dodge another blast from Gohan’s mouth, and was prepared this time to block Trunks’ attack. He caught his fist with his right hand, and knocked him into the air with his left.
Gohan charged Nappa, swinging wildly. Nappa dodged his punch, but was nailed by Gohan’s knee when he ducked to dodge his second punch. He recovered just in time to see Trunks ki blast, but could only watch it impact with himself in the side. He looked down at his scorched side to see that he was bleeding.
Nappa leapt at Trunks, nailing him in the stomach hard. Trunks doubled over, roaring in pain. Nappa quickly zanokened behind the young Oozaru and quickly pulled off his tail. At first, nothing happened, but soon Trunks began to shrink back to the young boy he once was. Soon he was lying on the ground naked and unconscious.
The odds quickly turned to Nappa’s favor. He had cut his problem in half, and in his mind he had just guaranteed his victory. He turned to Gohan and smiled, or he would of smiled if his Oozaru form allowed it.
"No, we don’t have enough time," Golen said, watching from the sidelines. They had anticipated that it would take longer for Nappa to defeat the two boys. Now there was only Gohan, and they had not begun to even power up their attacks.
"Gohan will hold out," Goku said confidently. He had doubts inside his mind, but thought it was best to show faith in his only son. "Let’s go," Goku said. Tien and Golen nodded. Goku and Golen fell into their Kamehameha stance, while Tien put his hands in an "O" like shape and began to prepare his Kikoho attack.
Gohan charged Nappa, swinging at him with his fist. Nappa easily dodged, and grabbed Gohan’s tail while he was at it. Nappa watched as the boy shrunk down to size.
No, we don’t have enough time. That was probably the only thing that was on Goku’s mind, except for the Kamehameha that is. "KA," he began, and heard his brother do the same. Tien was still gathering his energy as well.
Nappa laughed at the two boys. It was amazing that the two boys whose combined power level was only one hundred, were able to put up more of a fight than both of their dads. He turned around, and saw that everyone was up. Kakarotto and Vegita were powering up that attack of theirs, while the guy with three eyes was powering up as well.
He laughed silently to himself. They thought that three merely ki blasts were enough to kill him in Oozaru form. They were foolish. It would take all of their light force to-. He cut into his thoughts, realizing that that was what they were doing. His laugh went away.
He began to walk over their to them, then began to run.
Oh, no, he’s coming this way, Golen thought. His blast wasn’t near ready, and neither was anybody else’s. "ME," he yelled along with his brother.
Nappa knew he had victory close at hand. He was almost to where the three kamikaze warriors stood, and they were no where near ready with their puny little attacks. It’s a shame that they wouldn’t join the Saiya-jin army.
"Makankosappo!" Nappa turned around just in time to see the Namek hurl the blast at him. It hit him in the left shoulder, and it kept going. Nappa roared in pain as blood began to come out. When the pain finally subsided enough for Nappa to think clearly, the Namek was gone. /Coward./
Goku knew otherwise, though. Piccolo had done what he should’ve done. He bought Goku and the others a little more time, and still kept alive so that the Dragon Balls would still be around. "HA," Goku shouted.
Krillin had also seen what Piccolo had done. Krillin immediately began to power up his Kakusandan attack. Nappa was still searching for Piccolo, which in return was giving Krillin enough time to power up the attack to it’s fullest.
Goku could sense what Krillin was doing. He knew that his Kakusandan attack was his most powerful, but it would not even slow Nappa down. He only could hope that he was wrong.
Nappa got tired of looking for the Namek. He turned back around towards Prince Vegita and Kakarotto, who were still trying to power up with that three eyed Earthling. He then noticed that the one with no nose was now powering up as well, but much quicker than the others.
Nappa shrugged him off. He wasn’t powerful enough to do any damage. He began to walk towards the four warriors again, this time without interference.
"Kakusandan," Krillin yelled, releasing all his energy out of both of his hands. Nappa didn’t even seem to notice it at all.
Nappa did notice it, though. He hadn’t thought that the bald guy had so much power, even though the blast was extremely slow. It was just another nuisance. He would just knock it back at him.
Krillin had never put so much into the blast before. The power overwhelmed him. He would still do his job, though. When the blast was half way between him and the ape, he merged them together to form one humongous attack.
Nappa couldn’t believe his eyes. The blasts were now one, and twice as powerful. Now this little nuisance was out of control. He could still handle it, but it would take more time to do it. He began to think he wouldn’t have time to stop Kakarotto.
Krillin directed the blast over Nappa’s head. He then made it stop, and let it just hover until Nappa made his move. He did. Nappa swung his fist at the blast, attempting to knock it back at Krillin. Krillin mentally cut the blast into ten smaller ones, and sent them flying at Nappa. He had no time to react, for the balls were ten times as fast as the original one. Each one collided into the big ape, creating a huge pile of dust.
Goku smiled. He had known Krillin for almost all of his life, but he had never known that the little man had so much power. He knew that Nappa was still alive and well, but the distraction worked. "ME," Goku yelled once again. He was almost done, but still needed more time than he had. So did the others.
Nappa emerged from the dust cloud, and appeared to be uninjured. But looks could be deceiving. The blast had roughed him up quite a bit, but he didn’t let it show. He thought about killing the bald-headed man first, but decided against it. He had more important matters to deal with.
Nappa was walking towards Goku and the others again. Piccolo knew he had to do something, but what could he do. If he powered up again, Nappa would sense it and kill him. Then the Dragon Balls would be gone, and then so would Earth’s final hope.
"Sokidan!" As soon as Nappa heard the cry, he turned around to see that the scar-faced one had woken up and had sent the ki blast at him He easily dodged it and kept going towards Kakarotto. He saw that the scar-faced one was still concentrating, and was smiling. Nappa turned around just in time to see the energy blast hit him right above his tail, which was one of his weak spots. He fell to his knees in pain. /If that idiot would have aimed it one foot down, I would have lost my Oozaru form/, Nappa thought to himself.
Gohan and Trunks both woke up at about the same time. Everything was blurry for about a minute or two, but soon everything came back to them. They remembered everything, even the transformation. It was then that they realized that Nappa was still on the loose.
"Trunks, we have to stop him. Our dad’s need just a little bit more time," Gohan stated. It was then that he realized that they were both naked. He tried to hide behind a rock. Trunks didn’t even seem to care.
"Gohan, who cares. Your right, but what can we do," Trunks asked. Gohan sheepishly came out from behind the rock. He began to focus on more important things.
"Well we could do that Kamehameha thing that our dad’s do," Gohan suggested.
"How?" Trunks asked. Gohan shrugged.
"I don’t know. It shouldn’t be that hard though. Let’s give it a try," Gohan said. Trunks and Gohan fell into the stance that they had saw their dad’s do so many times.
"Ka...Me...Ha...Me...Ha!" They both yelled. Huge blasts of energy came out of their hands. They watched it hit Nappa in the side. They then passed out again from the stress.
Piccolo had been behind a group of rocks that were nearby Gohan and Trunks. He had seen their powers, and was awe struck. Never had he seen such powers in such little kids. He then went on to see that they had actually damaged Nappa. His left arm, which was the side they were facing, was heavily singed and bleeding slightly. Nappa was now searching for the people who had done it, but all he saw was the two kids who were unconscious. He didn’t believe it could be them, so he searched somewhere else.
Goku had seen the power of his kid as well. He knew all along that Gohan would be stronger than himself if he was allowed to train. But Chi-Chi had insisted that he stayed at home and studied. /Well I got bad news Chi-Chi. When I go, Gohan and Trunks are the only hope for this planet. They will have to train./
Nappa decided to give up his search for the mysterious man who had brutalized his arm. /It was probably the Namek/ he thought. He then turned back to Kakarotto, only to realize he was too late. All three attacks were ready.
"HAAAAAA!!!" Goku yelled. A second later Golen released his blast as well.
"Kikoho," Tien yelled from beside Goku. His energy flared, and soon his attack was on it’s way as well. Goku passed out, followed by the other two. Each one slowly faded out of this realm.\
At first Nappa thought he could defend himself against the deadly blast. He probably could have if two others, just as strong, didn’t come right after the first one. He then tried to out run them, but the first attack nailed him in the stomach before he could move. The second Kamehameha wave nailed him in the uninjured shoulder, while the Kikoho attack hit him dead smack in the forehead. He was dead before he could take a step.
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