章 32: Chapter Thirty Two
But before any of that happened...
A few minutes ago a figure flew over most of the country before arriving at Washington.
He felt Frosts power before, like a sun amidst matchsticks. But knowing where he was exactly helped a great deal. Saved some time.
With a frown he immediately realized where the bastard Frost was holed up: "The White House."
You spoke in anger and made your way to the place, gently touching down before it without anyone seeing you. It was strange... seeing D.C. utterly deserted like that but when you factor in the guy with more power in his fingertips than all the planets nuclear armaments and you suddenly get why it is like that. Even before arriving at the gates you saw the massive hole busted into the structure.
Perhaps it was a show of power, perhaps he just wanted to bask in the sunlight and remodeled the place. It did not matter.
What matters is that you'll walk in and drag his ass through the dirt for it...
Walking up slowly to the gate you saw the security personnel taking aim at you.
They were clearly surprised by the fact that anyone was here and they were more than a little confused about your attire. But they didn't let that distract them.
"Freeze!" They shouted at you.
When they realized you won't stop another spoke in a much calmer, nicer tone.
"Look man, we get it! But don't do anything stupid! You'll just make things bad for everyone!"
You look at them, their guns and just give them a disappointed headshake. "You should run. As far as possible. Find a bunker..."
"Wha? What are you talking about?!"
You extend your hand and with a flick of your wrist conjure a ball of Ki which glows brightly.
The guards watch and it takes them a minute to realize what you're doing. They seem to get nervous.
"I know what I'm doing. But you don't."
You motion behind you. "Now go."
Luckily they are smart individuals and they quickly realize that what they saw was real then shit is about to go down. Radioing their friends they start evacuating the area and run away in a frenzy. With the front gate now exposed you walk in uninterrupted.
Along the way you started thinking about what they were even doing here. It's unlikely that they are here to protect Frost. Possibly they were stationed here to stop any fool who'd take it upon themselves to take out their new overlord. But a suicide attack like that would only anger the alien. Of that you're sure.
And they probably knew that.
Reaching the building itself you slowly started levitating up to the big opening and even before reaching it you could make out words coming from in there.
"So Mr President... Have your planets scientists been assembled?"
"Y-Yes..." The president responds meekly.
"Excellent! Then... once my delivery arrives you can get to studying it! Until then it's business as usual!"
"A-And afterwards?"
"Hmmmm? You don't need to worry about that. I suspect for the next couple generations things won't change much. And after that... well it won't be your problem anymore, will it?"
*sip*
It is at this point that you clench your hand into a fist and finally spot the subject of your hatred. A small, impish and blue little creature sitting in a chair he must've had hauled in there, eating from a plate full of various clams, oysters, cockles and shrimps while also gently stirring a glass of wine around. Before him you see the President standing on his knees... You get a feel for his power and find it... strange.
As he is right now you could've taken him out even before entering the Makai... So unless there is a trick to it Vados wouldn't have stopped you. ⁰You must be vigilant.
However as you're already planning your approach the alien finally lays his eyes upon you. "Hmmmmm? Ah... I was wondering when one of you would finally try and step up.
To be honest I was pleasantly surprised... Buuut if I must make an example then so be it."
Ignoring him you look at the man standing beside him. "Mister President. Please... Leave..."
Before the man could respond Frost extends a hand and stops him. "That won't be necessary." He then points at you. "This will only take a moment."
You look at Frost and begin mocking him.
"You don't seem to get it."
Extending your hand you pull the president back and once you've made physical contact with him use time-skip to get the hell out of there. Dropping the man on the lush grass outside you look him in the eye and without flinching give him a stern order. "I need you to run! Now!"
Nodding dumbly as he has trouble of comprehending what just happened he turned tail and legged it as fast as he could.
With him out of the way you jumped back into the building and charged the alien at full speed. Pulling your fist back you prepared to ram it into Frost face.
However as you got within touching distance he raised his open palm and caught your fist.
He gave you a curious little look as you're mortified by how much power is in such a little body. "Hmmmm... interesting. I was under the impression this planet couldn't produce such capable warriors!"
You grunt as you try to respond while throwing another punch which is caught in a similar manner." And I was under the impression this is going to be a borefest!
Looks like I'll have to put actual effort into this!"
"Cute..." Frost responds coldly as both of you begin to slowly increase your power output and the ground around you begins to quake.
As the entire White House is shaking and the people still stationed inside flee your auras start becoming visible with frosts being a cold blue while yours has a purple color.
Sparks begin to fly out from where you are connected as Frost laughs.
"I'm impressed! If your species is capable of THIS then I might just use your race as fighters in my armies and not just workers!"
"SHUT! UP!"
"Why? It's a compliment! Imagine this... Your planet being the seat of my new empire as I take back what's rightfully mine! And you could be one of my elite warriors! A very privileged position! I suggest you take it!"
His tone then gets much, MUCH colder.
"I'd hate to waste talent like yours..."
This guy is seriously getting on your nerves.
Not to mention how outlandishly strong he is.
You look into the crimson eyes of the alien and take a deep breath through your nostrils.
Gradually your ki disappears as it retracts into your body and your grimace goes away with it.
Now only scowling slightly you muster all your strength which you managed to rein in and start moving your hands forward.
Frost watches in horror as he can no longer move his arms and you fling him into the stratosphere. After crashing through the roof he does manage to stop himself roughly once he reaches the clouds. Looking down he strains his eyes to lock onto you but it's a futile effort as by the time he located your position, you already reached him and punched him in the gut.
Gasping as the air escapes his lungs he finds your fist repeatedly smashing into him at high velocity. With a quick sequence of attacks you strike him from every angle, altering each one just as he raises his guard before kicking him in the side and sending him flying. Sending several ki blasts after him you turn him into a nice big firework show.
As the smoke fades however he stands... surprisingly well. He's singed a bit but that's about it. Even though your power actually increased immensely after focusing your energy. What a fucking hardy creature.
He dusts himself off and gives you a serious look. "How surprising..."
"What? That I'm mopping the floor with you?
Get used to it."
"No... That you managed to increase your power this much." He then smirks. "I'm quite impressed. So much so that I'm willing to look past this transgression of yours and extend my invitation again. So? How about it? Wouldn't you rather work for me than die a meaningless death?"
Your answer is short and on point. "Can it!"
"Well... worth a shot." He starts squatting and with a quick shout his energy exponentially increases. With a quick explosion he grows several feet taller and his voice also gets more deeper. "Now... Do you understand?!"
You look at his new form and let out a smirk.
"What I understand is that either you can't sense energy or you don't know math! Either way... lucky me!"
"Heh." He laughs. "We'll see about that!"
He charges you with renewed vigor and starts attacking you with a mixture of punches, kicks, tail whips and he even utilizes his horns to impale you. None of them work of course.
Given that he had a roughly five times increase in power you are still somewhat stronger than him. But you are straight up a better fighter.
But as you dodge and block his violent assault you try and analyze his technique and realize that... he's not a bad fighter. Just an untrained one. He's not a martial artist but a brawler, one that was trained how to win a fight, not how to do it properly. Kinda like... you... in the Makai, having to fight tooth and nail to survive.
This might be tougher than you thought.
But for now you still have the upper hand.
With a quick shout you break Frosts assault and go on the offensive. Countering him you begin punching him repeatedly in the face to such an extent that he has to utilize some... less than dignified methods.
He moves his tail forward and wraps it around your waist. Looking down you attempt to break free of your bindings but find something interrupting you. Frost raised his hand and from his open palm he unleashed a full powered energy wave point blank.
He winces as the power of his own blast incinerates his own tail but he manages to find the strength to smile through it. "Well that takes care of thaaaaaaaa-"
His eyes almost fall out of their sockets as you emerge from the smoke cloud singed but not seriously hurt. You look at your shirt which has been singed and rip it off, leaving only a tanktop underneath. As you do that however you see your mask snapping in half, leaving only the jaw part attached to your face with the Demon Kings skull falling down.
"I really liked that mask..." You speak up in annoyance and start cracking your knuckles.
You extend your hand and wave him over.
"Come on!"
The tyrant grows agitated by your taunt and gives voice to his frustration. "You... you dare!"
Not responding you give him another invite.
"HIYAAAAAAAAAA!"
He charges you with a deep scream and throws quite a few attacks your way.
But in a shocking turn of events he has to realize that you've already seen through his attacks. And when he eventually makes a mistake you capitalize on it. Through a quick little time-skip you go in and strike him repeatedly.
At first he seems to be surprised by your speed but when he realizes that there is something more going on he starts getting... tense. After a few more perfect counters through stopped time Frost finally has enough and with a quick burst of Ki from his hand he pushes you back. Holding his side which you struck a few times he glares at you.
There is something in his eyes, a deep, bottomless pit of hatred slowly filling up, its contents pouring over. "You... You know him. Don't you?" He asks. "You're just like that bastard Hit!"
Smiling you respond with pride. "I am! I hope you know what that means!"
"You have his techniques... don't you?
DON'T YOU?!"
The only respons you give to him is a smile and he falls silent. You see him tightening his fist slowly but surely until his hands are shaking with mad rage. Through looking at his eyes you can practically see what he's thinking about. He wants to slowly and brutally murder you. "Fine..." He speaks up.
"No more mister nice Frost!"
He starts gritting his teeth as his anger swells up and he lets out a scream of pure agony.
His pained screech is accompanied by a frankly terrifying explosion of power. Suffice to say this new increase in strength makes his last transformation look like a fucking joke, not to mention his base form. Now you start to understand WHY exactly Vados wanted you to steer clear of this guy.
While up until now you were either equally matched or superior to him, it is no longer a question who's on top.
"Ahhh... That look on your face. That feeling of dread. This feels... right. This is how it should be! How it's SUPPOSED to be!" He then cracks his neck and that alone is enough to make you shit your pants. "I'm going to enjoy tearing you apart... Hit Jr."
He extends one finger and points it at you.
From it comes a beam attack so small and thin you almost made the mistake of ignoring it. When you sensed just how concentrated that energy is you compulsively swatted it away and immediately regretted it. As that death beam of his flew off it exploded, clearing the skies around you and causing your hand to hurt like you just had molten lead spill over it.
You scream in pain and reach for your hand to the delight of Frost. "What's wrong? I thought you could time-skip around that."
You grit your teeth as you respond. "You think I'm going to let you hit the ground with that?!"
He smirks. "You think I'd do such a thing to my assets? Why would I ruin my own property?"
"BASTARD!"
"Oh... what's wrong? Does the idea of having your planet conquered offend you?
Heh... It's a shame I already decided to tear you limb from limb. I have so many ideas for how to punish you..." He cracks his knuckles.
"First it'll be you... Your example will inspire the rest. Then I take back what's rightfully mine... as the Emperor of the Universe!
And after all that... I'll finally be able to make EVERYONE pay! First those filthy, monkey Saiyans! Then that bastard Hit... Then the gods! And finally... FINALLY-"
Frost thoughts become centered around one, singular thing. A word, no an emotion so powerful that it becomes clearly audible for you even though you're not a full telepath.
It says: "Amateur"
And Frosts red eyes seem to overflow with rage as the rest of his eye becomes bloodshot. "Him!"
"Him, huh?" You smirk. "Sounds like a swell guy. Would love to meet him someday!"
You throw out the bait... "What... did you just say?! Do you have ANY idea what you're SAYING?!" Hook, line and sinker. "LISTEN HERE YOU STUPID APE-"
While he's busy monologueing you get to work. Similarly to him you clench your fists and start screaming.
"HnnnnnnnnnngnnnnnnngnhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
You push your ki as far as you possibly can while it's still contained within your body. It gets to the point where it's honestly starting to hurt. Then on top of that you throw in all the psionic energy you can muster, all bottled up just the same. Your mind functioning at peak capacity is making you a little woozy but you persevere and work through the pain.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Finally you reach your limit, having mustered every bit of power you could bring out.
Though you don't have ki enveloping your body, you still let out a certain... glow though it's very minor. Frost meanwhile stops in his speech and watches you closely, clearly befuddled by something. "Where... where is your power?"
You look up at him with your eyes glimmering.
"Prepare yourself Frost!"
Assuming the stance you charge him head first and start actually pushing him back.
He's surprised that he needs to be on the defensive at all so his blocking is sloppy. Using the openings in his guard combined with your time-skip you actually get in several good hits which seem to annoy him to no end.
"HIYYYYYYAAA!"
He pushes back against you and turns things around. Locking hands with you he begins spinning you around and tossing you with full force. As you soar past a set of black clouds they either part ways or start following you as the powerful currents of wind drag them behind you. Still flying you manage to block some of the aliens punches but still eat a few.
Trying your best to ignore the injuries you fight back and hit him whenever possible.
Exchanging blows mid flight you fly over the ocean at incredible speeds. The fight eventually leads the two of you to a massive tornado running over the large body of water.
Finding your attention drawn to it you unfortunately get punched right in the face by Frost which causes you to fly through the column of air it breaks apart right before your eyes.
Seeing your foe charging you even now you prepare a Flash Fist Crush and once he's directly above you with his hands clapped together in preparation for smashing you into the ocean floor, you unleash your counter attack and hit him right in the center of mass.
He flies up into the clouds where you follow him and enter into a fist clash with him where every one of your strikes is accompanied by an arc of lightning shooting past you.
The sound of your barrages travels for kilometers, causing many people on the shores to hear explosions going off.
Finally the two of you pull your fists back and punch the other in the cheek at full force, causing the storm around you to disappear in a flash as the shockwave clears it. Both of you start falling backwards from the shock and both of you recover just about at the same time. Panting and hurting you stare at the other as you wipe some sweat off your forehead.
Frost seemingly has trouble processing... well all of this. But it doesn't stop him for long as he quickly raises his finger and points it at you. "DEATH BEAM!"
With your incredible reaction speed you manage to retaliate just in time. "NULL LANCE!"
The two attacks collide but do not explode, causing you to enter a beam struggle with your foe. Frost grunts and groans as he tries his best to push you back with more and MORE energy. "HIIIIYAAAAAAH!"
You try to resist with everything you have...
But still the collision point is getting closer and closer to you. Screw it! If that thing hits you, you're dead anyway! Reaching deep inside you do an incredibly stupid thing and try to push your body even further beyond!
You feel muscles tearing, bones cracking and your joints aching as they have trouble containing all that sealed up energy.
And as your skin begins to tear and blood leaks from your arms you make one, final push.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The collision point rapidly makes its way to the middle and way beyond it, causing Frost to scream in surprise as the loose energy reaches him. Though your right arm got wrecked in the process you managed to make Frost explode!... Or so you hoped.
For when the dust settles the bastard is still standing there. If there is one positive thing you can say about him, it's that he's tenacious. Like a cockroach. But it seems that his left arm also got busted up and went limp.
"FffffffffffFFUUUUUUUUCK! FUCKFUCKFUCK!" He screams through the blood in his mouth. "MY ARM!"
"Heh..."
"Y-You think this is funny?! I'll show you... I'LL SHOW YOU FUNNY!"
To your utter horror his body seems to be unleashing even more power... but something seems to be wrong. His body seems to expand in muscle mass in one second but in the next he shrinks down. Is his transformation or... whatever he's trying to do failing? ... No. That's not it. It's like he's trying to KEEP himself from transforming.
"D-Damn it! NO! I... can't! I... WON'T!"
While he's trying to do... whatever that is, you get to work. Sneakily you open up a portal behind your back. Small enough to not be noticeable but big enough to fit your little "present". Once it's ready and the other end is open behind Frosts head you charge up whatever power you still have and pour it into your still functioning arm.
In secret the attack goes through the portal and strikes your opponent right in the back of the head. To your utter shock it still wasn't enough to outright kill him but it was enough to knock him out of the air. As he's falling towards you he gets a swift kick in the stomach which sends him flying inland and makes him crash into the ground hard.
You fly over to his cratered body and see that some purple looking ooze, possibly his blood, is leaking from that strange jewel like thing on his head. Walking over to him you raise your hand over his head and charge up another Null Lance. Double tap, triple tap, whatever it takes!
But as you're focused entirely on his head you fail to notice his tail moving around and trying to whip you. The last desperate tries of a dying man. Swatting it away without much difficulty you take aim once more... Locked in on his head your Null Lance grows big enough and you prepare to unleash it but find yourself unable to do so. Your vision gets blurry and distorted, your limbs become weak and your focus seems to be failing.
Unable to support yourself you fall on one knee as your vision goes blurry and Frost stands up, pained, near death but still alive.
"I can't believe... I had to resort to that..."
He points his finger at you and cracks a smile.
"But... Victory... above... all else!"
He charges a death beam at the tip of his fingers and takes aim at you.
You reach up and get a grip on his hand with force unseen before. His bones crackle and crunch in your hold as he starts yowling.
With new, alien strength filling your body you stand up and look down at Frost who can't do anything but watch in horror as you... change.
Your hair stands up and begins flowing freely as if it's submerged in water, its color changes to an almost transparent white with a purple aura surrounding it.
As Frost stares into your eyes he sees that they burn with almost ethereal flames.
"W-What are-"
You twist his hand a little as you observe your body in its current state. Looking at your broken mess of a hand you surround it with psyonic energy and encase it in a powerful shell to both protect it and forcibly move it as needed. The movement feels... painful and forced but somehow you know that it's just a signal from your body meant to signify something's wrong. So you ignore it and return your attention to Frost who's loosing his mind at the moment.
"Y-You were holding back all this time?"
"No..."
"W-Wha-"
"It's over Frost..."
"HIYAAAA!" He quickly tries to attack you with his free hand and from a tiny hole a needle pops out. But before it could do anything the entire appendage is stopped dead in its tracks by the power of your mind alone. "H-huh?"
You get it now. Perhaps it's your mind racing like crazy but you understand what's going on.
All that tension, your body and mind pushed to their limits... and the mind numbing poison.
This... is power! True power!
Frost realizes that he's out of options now.
He's out of energy and out of tricks. He can't pose a threat now... So there is only one thing he could do.
"P-Please! Spare me! I... I didn't harm anyone! You know that! I... I swear! I'll leave your planet alone! I swear on my name! Just please! Let me go!"
You raise your hand at his head and speak up.
"I believe you... I believe you'd keep your word..." His eyes begin to glimmer as he thinks he's about to make it. "But what of the others? And the countless planets you already ruined? What about them? No Frost... It's time you pay for what you've done!"
His expression changes into one of pure horror as you unleash a wave of raw mental energy and atomize him. As the last, charred particles fly off in the wind you finally exhale and feel your newfound power slipping away.
And so does your consciousness.
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Space... The final frontier. Nearly limitless and yet word travels around it so fast. Especially when it's news regarding one of the most wanted beings in it.
A trooper walks down one of the spaceships halls, in his hand a datapad containing very important information. The door to the bridge slides open and he walks up to the massive chair looking out the viewport. "Yahaaaarrr Cap'n!"
"Report."
"Tharr be news of that scallywag Frost."
"Hmmmm? Really? What now?"
"Yarr... he be... sleepin' with tha fishes cap'n."
The figure in the chair leans forward and turns around 180 degrees so he can look at his crewmember with his sole good eye.
"Really now? And... who was it that did him in?
The Saiyans?"
"Narr."
"Hmmmm... Then the perhaps Lord Champa."
"Narr. It was some landlubber from a planet called E-yarr-th, Cap'n!"
"Earth huh?" He motioned towards the datapad. "Strange. What was my boy doing in some... backwater planet? I never would've imagined him being in the space booneys like that..."
"Should we go full sails tharr Cap'n?"
"Ugh no... it's so out of the way... Tell you what. Change of plans! We'll go to that sector once we're done here and notify me once we are close to the planet. We'll hop over, get us some space eggs, some space milks and... pay them a visit."
"Yohoho! Hear that lads? SET SAILS AND MAIN THE CANNONS! WE GOIN' PLUNDERIN'!"
The ship erupts in hearty "YARR"s as their leader sits back in his chair and his armada of space pirates takes off. He lets out a coy little smile as he imagines meeting the person that killed his own son.
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