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>>Koji's Tale - Chapter 5

"Awakening Of A Warrior"

          Planet Ferella.

          Koji's space pod crashed to the surface of the planet Ferella.  Minutes later, the young powerhouse was standing upon a cliff looking out over miles of barren landscape.  In the distance he could see a glint of light as if it was being reflected off of something metal.  He lifted off the ground slowly, levitating from the ground through a controlled push from his energy.  Carefully he made his way, taking flight towards the strange speck in the distance.  He pondered what he would find.

          "Strange," he thought to himself as he flew along.  "The scouter's picking up on some powerful energy signals from up ahead.  There's only four of them though.  I thought there'd be more of them for me to deal with on this planet.  Oh, well.  Maybe they're off somewhere and they'll be back later."

          Within moments, he closed with the speck in the distance until he recognized it to be the ruins of a deserted city.  He noted the signs of devastation and that they were fairly recent, just not today.  This troubled him slightly, and he wondered about it.

          "What's this?" he thought to himself once more as he slowed his approach upon seeing the devastation from afar.  "This place has already been destroyed!  But by whom?  It appears to have been a recent attack, just not today.  There's no smoke wafting from the ruins for it to have occurred within the last little while.  What happened here?  Could the energy signals my scouter is registering be survivors of whatever caused this?"

          He landed cautiously at the edge of the city, scanning all around for any visible sign of anything that could give him an idea of what was going on.  His eyes studied every sight closely and slowly, and he remained immobile as he so scrutinized the ruins.  After several moments of this, Koji began walking into the ruins ever so carefully and on full alert.

          "Something's definitely not right here," Koji thought to himself as he continued to eye his surroundings and move cautiously.  "Why would Frieza send me to a planet that's already been devastated?  It doesn't make any sense.  Did one of his lackies do this, or did someone else?"

          Suddenly, his scouter registered several large power readings very close by, prompting him to stop in his tracks and stand perfectly still.  Realizing the direction of the signals, Koji looked straight ahead.  Koji took a defensive stance as he prepared for the worst.

          Up ahead was a group of four aliens wearing Saiyan-styled battle armor and scouters, and they were standing their ground watching him.  He waited to see what they would do.  They seemed to be in no hurry to do anything.

          One of them was a huge, hulking male, even larger than Haruki.  This individual had grey skin and absolutely no hair, and his eyes were bloodshot.  His muscles were massive, and he looked very vicious indeed.

          Another of them was a short male with red skin and a tuft of blue hair on top of his head.  He was stubby in build, and he seemed thrilled.

          A third was an orange-skinned male of average height with long white hair.  He was a "pretty boy" type, and he seemed amused.

          The fourth was a Changeling like Frieza.  He looked exactly like Frieza in his first form, short with horns and a long reptilianesque tail.  He seemed almost happy to see the boy.

          "Frieza?" Koji called out to the Changeling in confusion, thinking it might be the dread tyrant of the universe.  "Is that you?"

          "Frieza?" the Changeling answered inquisitively, crossing his arms in front of his chest and grinning.  "I'm flattered, but, no, I'm not Frieza.  My name is Tarboz, and these are my most capable men.  Mind your manners, boys.  Be polite and introduce yourselves."

          "I'm Gnosh," the short, stubby alien with the red skin said as he put his fists on his hips and smiled evilly.

          "I'm Kurce!" the huge, hairless, grey-skinned brute snarled as he clenched both fists as if in preparation for a fight.

          "And I'm Trabok," the orange-skinned alien said as he crossed his arms in front of his chest and smiled sinisterly.

          "Well, I'm Koji, son of the great royal elite Saiyan warrior Shuji," the powerful kid replied as he assumed a bold, proud stance, standing as tall as he could so that he could appear impressive.

          "We know who you are, whelp," Tarboz snidely retorted with a chuckle.  "You see, when you roughed up one of Frieza's boys, you managed to tick off Lord Frieza himself.  He contacted me and my team to take care of you, and there's a rather large reward for your head on a silver platter.  It's nothing personal, just business, kid."

          Koji once more assumed a defensive combat ready stance as he prepared for the imminent clash.

          "Boys,"  Tarboz addressed his gang.  "I think we'll take this in turns.  Gnosh, why don't you take first crack at the little rugrat?"

          "With pleasure!" Gnosh answered cockily as he assumed a battle stance in preparation for the fight.  "Get ready, twerp!  I'm gonna be cleaning you off the bottom of my boots shortly!"

          Gnosh began a drawn-out yell as he gathered energy for the fight.  Immediately, he began glowing with an aura around him!  Seconds later, the ground began to shake slightly, the sky began to darken slightly, and the wind began to howl!  Several seconds later, small stones began rising off the ground as the ground began to shake a bit more strongly!

          "You should be getting scared, runt!" Gnosh shouted as he paused his power-up yell momentarily.  "Fortunately, it'll all be over real soon!"

          Koji repositioned his feet, sliding one across the loose dirt under him and planting both feet shoulder-width apart as Gnosh began his power-up yell a-new.  Koji didn't seem to concerned about Gnosh's power-up, but his scouter continued to monitor Gnosh's rising power level.  Koji seemed confident still.

          As Gnosh's power-up continued, the ground began to shake violently, small rocks split, and whirlwinds of flying debris formed around the battle site!  This continued for several seconds, and Gnosh continued to yell!  Finally, Gnosh stopped his power-up and looked at Koji arrogantly, and all the power-up side effects except for the glowing aura gradually subsided!

          "Are you ready to run, monkey boy?" Gnosh asked the young Saiyan out of pure cockiness, and then he laughed a bit.

          "How dare you!" Koji growled as he tensed every muscle in his body until the veins began to bulge in his forehead and arms.  He began a drawn-out power-up yell of his own, and he immediately began to glow.  Seconds later, the wind picked up as the sky darkened a bit, and the ground began to tremble ever so slightly.  A few seconds after that, small stones began to rise off the ground, and the ground began shaking with greater intensity!  Just a few seconds after that, the ground began shaking violently, small rocks began to split, and whirlwinds of flying debris formed in the vicinity!

          Koji's enemies took note as their scouters registered his building energy.  Gnosh was growing concerned.  Kurce just seemed impatient.  Trabok appeared incredulous to see the boy's power.  Tarboz looked impressed but not the least bit worried.

          Just a few moments later, the sky went dark, huge rocks erupted out of the ground, the whirlwinds intensified and strengthened, and lightning began flashing across the sky and the battlefield radically!  Koji renewed his power-up yell as Gnosh appeared extremely concerned now!  Kurce now seemed impressed but nonetheless still impatient!  Tarboz chuckled!

          Suddenly, Koji streaked from the place where he was standing and flew right at Gnosh!  Gnosh was taken completely by surprise, and Koji hammered him in the jaw with a punch!  The powerful blow knocked the stubby little alien across the battlefield for a fair distance before depositing him in the dirt for him to tumble head-over-heels across the ground for quite a distance!  Meanwhile, the special effects of Koji's power-up gradually subsided with the exception of the glowing aura!

          Gnosh lept to his feet and wiped the blood from his lip with his hand!  Koji closed the distance quickly and slammed a flying side kick to Gnosh's midsection, knocking the breath, and a fair bit of spit, out of the cocky alien, knocking him backwards until he slammed into a pile of rubble and dispersed it in the impact!  Koji then released a quick flurry of rapid-fire multi-shot energy blasts into Gnosh's position, throwing a cloud of smoke and dust into the air that obscures vision in the area!

          "That's it!" Kurse roared like a lion as he lunged at Koji to attack.  "I'm gonna finish that runt!"

          As Kurse was closing with Koji, a figure streaked past Koji and slammed into Kurse, knocking him down and back to the place where he started his lunge from!  All eyes turned to see Shuji standing there between his son and Tarboz's gang, and Shuji was breathing heavilly and looking very angry!  Even Koji was surprised to see him!

          "Why don't you wait your turn until your friend is finished?" Shuji growled at Kurce and the others, his scouter registering their power.

          "Father!" Koji called out in a bit of confusion over this situation.  "What are you doing here?"

          "After I put your mother to bed, I went to one of our taverns," Shuji explained.  "That lackey of Frieza you roughed up, he had a loose tongue.  He told me what they'd planned for you, so I came right here!  I didn't have time to tell your mother or the rest of the team, so it's just the two of us!"

          "How touching," Tarboz stated with a gleeful grin on his face to indicate his amusement.  "Two Saiyans for the price of one, eh?  This ought to be worth a bonus at least."

          "Hard and fast, son!" Shuji muttered so that only Koji could hear and understand him, and then he flew at Kurce while he got up.

          "Right, Father!" Koji replied as he flew towards Trabok, prompting the evil orange-skinned alien to fly backwards while mounting a defense against Koji's hand-to-hand flurry of attacks.

          Kurce got to his feet and turned to face Shuji!  Kurce threw a punch a Shuji, but the mighty Saiyan ducked under the punch and hammered Kurce with a powerful punch of his own, but the thunderous blow only barely managed to turn the brutes head!  Kurce turned his head back to face Shuji, smiling as if he wasn't even phased!  He then clobbered the startled Saiyan with a looping roundhouse punch to the face that knocked him across the landscape and to the ground, where he slid in the dirt for a great distance!  Shuji sat up and wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand and grimaced in pain!

          "Hold on, kid!  Give me a minute!" Trabok muttered as he struggled to defend himself against the young Saiyan Koji.

          Koji was relentless!  When Trabok finally got the chance to attack him, Koji sidestepped the attack and rocked the "pretty boy" fighter with a powerful uppercut that busted his nose!  Before he could recover from that attack, Koji fired a point-blank energy attack into Trabok's chest!  The energy blast pierced the chestpiece of Trabok's armor, shattering a large portion of it away, and ripped completely through his body and out the back of his armor!  As the blood splattered out of his chest and back, Trabok spit up blood out of his mouth as he gasped in shock, horror, and pain!  Trabok finally crumpled to the ground a senseless heap!

          "This guy's like a tank!" Shuji thought to himself as he dodged Kurce's frenzied hand-to-hand attack techniques while thinking of what to do next.  "He seems capable of absorbing a good punch, so I'll have to be a little trickier to defeat him!"

          While he was dodging several punch attempts, Shuji began placing little spheres of energy on the brute's back, half a dozen in all!  The brute never even noticed!  Shuji then punched the brute in the face, smashing his scouter!  As the hulking behemoth roared in rage and prepared to attack again, Shuji manipulated the spheres he placed on his back to explode from a distance, blowing the brute's armor to pieces in the process!  The explosion covered a fair area with a vision-obscuring smoke cloud!

          Meanwhile, Gnosh returned to the battle and began throwing energy blasts at Koji, but Koji just dodged and deflected some of them away with swatting blocks!  Gnosh was getting more and more frustrated by the moment, but Koji seemed enraptured by the thrill of combat!

          "Why, you little pint-sized punk!" Gnosh complained in his frustration as he charged up a powerful energy attack to use against Koji.

          Koji responded by powering up an energy attack to counter Gnosh's attack, and the two fighters fired their blasts into each other!  The result was that the two blasts collided and pushed against each other with neither able to push the other back!  The two fighters continued to struggle against each other in the battle of energy blasts, each trying to gain the advantage in their power struggle of energy waves!

          As the smoke cleared over Kurce, the mammoth brute staggered forward a few steps as if stumbling, and then he collapsed facefirst on the ground at Shuji's feet!  The brute didn't move, and he looked very badly injured from that attack!  Shuji recognized his success with a grin, then he turned to face off against Tarboz!

          "Very good, Saiyan," Tarboz said mockingly.  "So you've beaten a big, stupid dolt.  Go ahead and pat yourself on the back, my friend.  You should enjoy your last victory.  Now you face me!"

          Tarboz began powering up quickly, gathering a lot of energy very quickly and moving through all of the special effects that Koji did earlier within a very short amount of time!  Shuji looked on in amazement!  When he completed his power-up, Tarboz smiled devilishly!

          "Shall we begin?" Tarboz inquired mockingly as he held his hands out to his sides in gloating fashion, prompting Shuji to charge at him quickly!

          The two fighters collided in a fierce display of hand-to-hand martial prowess, and the air echoed with the sounds of their thunderous attacks!  Shuji fought valliently, but Tarboz seemed to be too fast for him!  Tarboz ducked under a punch attempt, slammed an elbow thrust into Shuji's ribs that doubled him over, wrapped his tail around the Saiyan's neck, and flung him to the ground, making a crater where the mighty Saiyan hit!

          Shuji pulled himself up, but Tarboz met him with a pair of eyebeams that pierced the chestpiece of his armor and drew blood and screams!  While Shuji was reeling from that, Tarboz punched him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground on his back!  Tarboz then stood over him gloatingly while Gnosh and Koji continued in their energy blast power struggle!

          Shuji sprung from his backside to his feet and rallied against Tarboz with a flurry of hand-to-hand attacks, driving the Changeling backwards from the fierce fury of the assault!  Shuji then sent Tarboz reeling with a powerful kick to the head, apparently stunning him!  Shuji then powered up a powerful energy attack in his hands and launched in at Tarboz, and Tarboz stuck his hand into the path of the blast to intercept it!  The explosion obscured the area with a smoke cloud, and Koji and Gnosh continued their power struggle while the battle between Shuji and Tarboz was going on!

          When the smoke cleared, Tarboz seemed unphased as the smoke was wafting off of his extended hand!  He smiled at Shuji's disbelief, and the Saiyan could not believe his eyes!  Tarboz chuckled malevolently!

          "Very good," Tarboz gloated.  "Just not good enough!  Your power is remarkable for a monkey, but I think I'll show you true power!  Feast your eyes on this!"

          Tarboz began powering up even more, and the sky went black!  All around them, mountains crumbled, the wind blew with hurricane-force strength, and the ground opened up around them with pits of boiling lava!  Small stones rose from the ground, and some of them split in the air!  Huge rocks erupted out of the ground and exploded!  Howling whirlwinds of flying debris swept across the battlefield, radical lightning flashed in the sky, and the ground shook extremely violently!  Tarboz began glowing, and electricity crackled all around and along his body!  All the scouters present blew up from the power he was generating at that time!

          "Oh, no!" Shuji cried as he struggled to resist the power Tarboz was generating.  "We're doomed!"

          Tarboz began screaming as his body began changing!  His form began increasing in height until he was at least twice as tall as Shuji, and his muscles began to swell in size!  He became massive, and his voice became deeper in the process!  His armor literally exploded from his body as his frame swelled in size during the transformation!  Shuji backed away from the power of Tarboz's transformation while the power struggle between Koji and Gnosh continued within sight of this!  Within moments, all of Tarboz's power-up special effects gradually subsided, and the then-giant Changeling laughed!

          "What will you do now, monkey?" the giant fiend inquired in gloating, mocking fashion as he smiled at Shuji.

          Shuji fired a blast of energy at Tarboz, but Tarboz just stood his ground unflinchingly and ignored the power of Shuji's blast as it exploded over him harmlessly!  As Shuji is stunned by this sight, Tarboz fired a finger bolt into Shuji's chest!  The bolt pierced through the front of his armor and out the back of his armor, splattering blood from his chest and his back and causing the wounded Saiyan to cough up blood!  Shuji crumpled to his knees!

          Witnessing this, Koji's rage swelled within him!  He screamed in rage, his energy aura swelling, and his power blast increased in strength suddenly, overwhelming Gnosh's energy blast and flooding over him like a wave!  Gnosh's screams ended mercifully swiftly, and there was no sign of the stubby alien left after Koji's power blast washed over him!  Koji then turned his attention towards Tarboz and Shuji, seething in rage as his power grew!

          "Only one chance left!" Shuji muttered in his thoughts against the pain of his wounds.  "I have to use the moon image technique to trigger our transformations to our Oozaru forms!  I don't know how much help I'll be in my condition, but we won't win without our hereditary Oozaru forms!"