The healing substance washed along the floor as I stood back awaiting Goku's form.
"Let's go." He placed a hand on my shoulder. I smiled and nodded.
Let's go." I repeated him. But as soon as we were about to leave I felt a pain strike through my head and chest causing me to let out a small cry and falling to my knees.
"Y/N! What's wrong? He helped me up, knees dripping from the leftover liquid on the floor from what aided Goku's healing. "It's Vegeta- His power- Goku-! He's dying!" I latched onto him.
"I see, I can feel it." He put an arm around my back. "As you've said. We've got no time to waste. We need to go." Goku gave me a serious tone which was rare. I knew at this point he was really taking this seriously. "Grab on." I grabbed onto his shoulder.
The ground began to rumble as we were getting ready to set off, Goku offered me a boost of his speed as we few together to Frieza's and our allies location.
"I feel so strong." Goku spoke.
"It's crazy what our bodies can do." I laugh.
"Yeah, seriously. Who would've known. I know I'm not the biggest fan of Vegeta but I guess the two of you can help me with understanding who and what I am." He continued.
"Sure, why not." I gave a soft smile, not strong enough to overcome my current emotions of the current situation. "It feels horrible- I feel his life slowly fading away." My voice trembles.
"I know. We'll make it don't worry. There!"
By the time he finishes his sentence here we are, standing in front of everyone. Everyone but- Dende... I try to put it at the back of my mind to focus on the current conflict. I notice Frieza in his final form, holding Vegeta's limp but alive body. I stare wide eyed at Vegeta as he tries to hold an arm up in my direction but it goes dead almost immediately, falling back down. I mouthed his name with a sympathetic look on my face, I was burning on the inside but I felt like I was drowning on the outside.
Everyone else on the other hand store in awe at Goku's arrival.
"Don't worry guys! It's me!" He says, reminding people of the Ginyu situation. "I'm glad to see you're all in good health. This is the first time I've arrived at the battlefield where you haven't all gotten beat up."
"Yeah, well, we had a little help in that department." Piccolo replies.
"It's great to see you again. I can tell you're a lot stronger now, and not just physically."
"Hey dad! Welcome back, we missed you." Gohan's cute little face approaches Goku.
"I'm proud of you guys, Especially you Gohan." Goku ruffles Gohan's hair. "Leave the rest to me, it's my turn."
"Say what?" Krillin adds.
"Goku, did you get hit in the head or something? It's gonna take everything we've got to beat him." Piccolo clenches his jaw.
"I think we need to work together-" I added.
"I'm fine." Goku grins and walks up to Frieza with an icy fiery aura.
"I believe in you." Gohan reassures. That slightly warms my heart in the situation. What it would be like to have a child and having a son-father relationship dynamic in the household really heightened the standards.
"Yeah, you're the man Goku!" Krillin finished. "Do it! Take care of that big bully! Be careful, watch out for that tail!" Krillin went on to give advice.
"Thanks!" Goku shrugged off. Piccolo looked tense, he didn't like how the situation was playing out.
Frieza drops Vegeta's body and I run to him as he's free.
"You foolish, foolish man!" I clean up his face of the blood and dirt. He just grunted in reply. "Never do something like that again you hear me?!" I look at him dead seriously and he gives a concerned look at me.
"What's up with you?" He coughs but gives a small laugh that sounded painful for it to escape his lungs.
"You're about to die you idiot!" I feel a tear build up and I think that's when he took the hint that his situation really isn't ideal. There's a large possibility that he's going to die. Goku and Frieza are babbling on about something I relatively don't care enough about allowing me to focus on Vegeta's condition.
"This scenario feel's familiar." He lets out a 'heheh' that grates through his throat.
"Don't talk, you're killing yourself." I drag his head onto my lap to check for head injuries. "What the fuck has he done to you?"
"You don't want to know." He just said emotionless this time.
"You need urgent care immediately."
"No time for that now." He coughs.
"Don't be ridiculous-"
"We don't have time." He says in a more serious demeanour, my eye's become crystal like in reflections as I fully grasp the situation. "Hey Kakarot." Vegeta get's Goku's attention.
"Kakarot? But that's a Saiyan's name isn't it?" Frieza exchanges looks between the two. His eyes widen at some sort of realisation. "Yes! You are a Saiyan... I was on a skirmish with one that looked just like you. You must be his offspring, the resemblance between you two is unmistakeable.
"I don't care." Goku just blatantly stated. This confused Frieza and made me crack a smile.
"Shall we proceed?" Frieza smirked asking no more question nor information.
"Your call." And with that the battle began. I just sighed and looked down at Vegeta who was just simply doe eyed.
"He needs to know-" Vegeta struggled.
"About-?"
"Planet Vegeta- Super Saiyan-" He squints his eyes. "He need's some fuel of rage. This is Frieza we are up against. Fight rage with rage." He coughed up blood.
After some flashing of the battle in front of us there was a moment of silence and stillness.
"Huh? Not only did he block them, he was able to aim them away from his friends!" Frieza stared wide eyed, something that was insanely uncommon. Vegeta just painfully laughed in response.
"Who would have thought a low league soldier like you Kakarot." Vegeta still holds his royalist ideologies and laughs. "I commend you." He rests his head once again. "Frieza, you just don't get it do you? Kakarot's not an ordinary Saiyan..." Vegeta shuffles up on his elbows to try and push himself up. "Kakarot is a Super Saiyan!" Frieza's eyes widen at the words. "That's right! You heard me! This is a dream come true to see you beaten by a Saiyan!" Vegeta hysterically laughs and I begin to worry as Frieza is becoming increasingly annoyed, any moment no he could just-
A flash of light came in our direction and I flinch but I felt no pain. I opened an eye to see Vegeta limp on by thighs with the back of his head resting on my chest. My eyes widen and they somewhat begin to vibrate. He lets out a cough of blood down my arm as his head rests to the right. My hands shake at the scene, I just froze. There was a small hole in his chest that smoked from the blast.
"Enough, loud mouth. On and on like a broken record." Frieza discards of him. Vegeta doesn't even seem to be paying attention as he's currently in the process of dying. He lets out another cough of blood down my arm and this time I felt tears for up in my eyes and leave my face. I hesitantly place a hand on the side of his head with the tips of my fingers touching his hair.
"Hey, Frieza! What's your problem! He was no threat to you anymore, he couldn't even defend himself! There's no honour in that." Goku criticised.
I look around to see Gohan, Krillin and Piccolo who just looked at us not knowing what to do. There was truly nothing I could do. My mouth begins to tremble and I resist on rocking back and fourth to keep Vegeta still. I take my other hand on the other side of his face so I'm caressing his head. I turn him to face me from beneath my head. His eyes where white and losing consciousness.
"I'm sorry I didn't stay..." A tear from my eye dropped onto his cheek. He tried to respond but nothing came out.
"I'm sorry I didn't stay for you back then either. I know sometimes I'm harsh to you because of the way you behave, but I understand, I'm not perfect either. I shouldn't have left without you. I keep leaving you behind. I'm so sorry." I rest my head on his. "I love you. And I let you go. We could have had it all." I plant a final kiss on forehead as tears became more prominent. "I've been a real dick to you Vegeta... I'm sorry. I just thought- if I'd just power through and forget about my emotions we'd get through this in no time... what an honourable path we took." I grunted in sarcasm at the end.
Goku and Frieza seem to be arguing over morals and didn't pay any care to our conversation.
"Kakarot- you listen to me..." Vegeta coughed, I jolted up trying to move his position comfortably so his airways are in the best position to speak. "Don't be so soft- there's no honour in any of this. It's just a game, play to win. No rules." He twitched almost every letter. "You're going to have to get over yourself. Do it, forget your feelings- they'll get you killed Kakarot."
"I can't change who I am. Not on the battlefield, my feelings are my guide. Besides, everyone gets to have a chance to change their ways. Just like you had." Goku stared at Frieza while responding to Vegeta.
"You- don't know what you're dealing with- AGH!" Vegeta coughed out even more blood. It wasn't going to stop.
"Please- Vegeta stop! It's just going to be more painful! I cried and he shook his head.
"Save your strength Vegeta." Goku agreed with me.
"No. There's more- He killed our home planet- It was him." Vegeta twitched.
"He's just a corpse and he's still blabbing. You'll have to gag him to shut him up." Frieza crossed his arms.
"Your father and mine- The whole planet!- He blew it up. It's true. No one survives- But us. Ask him if you want... He'll tell you... He's proud of it." Vegeta explained.
"Please stop talking Vegeta, you're zapping all of your strength!" Goku insisted.
"No! Listen! You have to hear this-" He clenched onto the dirt. "We worked so hard by him- We did everything he asked of us and more... He took me from my father when I was just a little boy... He to do what he wanted, or he'll kill my father and her if I didn't. She went through it too- I did everything that he asked and he killed him anyway along with everyone else!" Vegeta began to cry. "It's because he was scared- Scared of the 'Super Saiyan' that would rise up and overthrow him." I looked in the other direction to wipe my tears though they weren't stopping due to the memories of being a child under Frieza's rule.
"Hmm, a touching story." Frieza grinned.
"Please Vegeta, no more... Save your strength-"
"Kakarot please... Destroy Frieza- he may be what I am, but don't let him do it- to anyone else-" His right hand went to reach up to him as his left hand gave a strong grip on mine. "Whatever it takes- stop him... Please-" His arm dropped.
"I love you-" He went to reach my face but his arm couldn't hack it.
I felt his hand lose it's grip and his energy die.
His body was heavy on my thighs as he was no longer able to support himself at all.
His face was becoming cold and his twitching stopped.
The hitches in his breathing stopped.
There was no breathing at all.
I lift my hand and then slowly reach down to his face again wide eyed and shaking, the lack of pulse, life, warmth and colour caused my mind to go foggy.
"No no no no..." I place my hands on my face. "No... no no no."
"Vegeta-" Goku sighed as a breeze took over the area.
"V-Vegeta-" I wasn't finished. "No no no no..." I hug his body for a few seconds before dead panning to Frieza. "You..." I grunt but whisper under my breath.
"I have no interest in you my dear." Frieza laughed. "I always knew you two would end up doing what Saiyan's do." He gives a snide remark. "It's why I wanted to you go do another job and stay away for a good while. As I was initially requested to." He waves his tail.
"Why you little-!" I blast over to Frieza and began to land punches, kicks and overall hits on him, some he avoided but a decent few he struggled.
"Not bad for a rut like you." He laughs.
"Y/N! You're going to get yourself killed!" Goku yelled. Frieza used his tail to throw me across the ground.
"You can't beat me. Why try?" Frieza egged on.
"I. Don't. Care!" I screamed as sent a repetitive overflow of ki-blasts Frieza's way. Frieza was obviously left unaffected and so I sent a wave of varies attack in which he didn't retaliate.
Goku didn't know what to do other than watch in sympathy as I tried, Frieza was left with a few scrapes but nothing damaging to him. He just stood there with crossed arms. It had been a good 5 minutes at this point of just charging attacks his way. I tried everything I had. I just saw red.
I touched the ground with my feet from sending blasts in the air. I regain my breath and I go from a slow jog to sprinting his way to give him one last punch. "You ruined my life!" He hit me with his tail once again. This infuriated me so I attempted another, "All you do is take!"
With another slap of his tail I skidded across the blue grass, causing my suit to get damaged and dirty.
"Y/N!" The group shouted over, I gave them no attention.
I get on my knees and slowly push myself up but with a limp and some hair in my face. "I never wanted it to be this way- I never asked to survive! Why should I have to live with the guilt of surviving an extinction. Why should I have to walk around with your chains on? I have nothing to offer you. What do I have that you need?" I cried.
He just raised a brow and rolled his eyes. There was a few moments of silence. I made one last charge in my hand as I ran to his direction in which he retaliated with a punch to the head.
Everything went black and all I could hear was shouting which faded to mumbling. I couldn't move. I could feel my forehead, my brain felt crushed. But my neck felt- broken? I'm in agony- but below my neck I couldn't feel anything.
Am I dying...?