GOLDEN SHOWDOWN! COOLER VS FREEZA

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest Patron Epilogue XVI-

-AGE 756, KING COLD'S WORLD-

“Little brother, surely you know better than to try me now?” Cooler asks you, looking down on you as the two of you sit across from the table at each other. “You do know you cannot win, right?”

“Say that after I've beaten you bloody.” you reply, clenching your fists as you stare your brother down, showing no fear or hesitation. “

“Now now boys, save it for the spar.” your father, King Cold tells you both. Now, shall we start this off in the forms you're using now? Or shall we take it straight to the top?”

“I'll leave that choice up to you.” Cooler answers a moment before you can. “Challengers get that right, at least.”
“Hmph. You're acting far too smug for your own good.” you reply, relaxing your hands as you lean back, letting your body transform at its own speed. You don't press yourself to transform faster, letting your body do so of its own accord. Your might rises by the second, growing higher and higher as you take on your Golden form.

You are Freeza, Emperor of the Universe, son of King Cold, master of the Saiyans and not too long ago the strongest of your kind. But with your brother having seemingly found some new power, he wanted you to fight him after 'getting strong enough'. Which you took offense to, challenging him that very day after the family meal with him and your father. Unlike the fights of your youth, you both remained civil indoors, waiting until you'd all come to the arena to throw down with him once more. And as your body becomes clad in brilliant gold, you feel a small smirk in the corner of your mouth grow. Even if he's gotten to the power of the Golden form as well, there's no way he can beat you now.

“Hmph. Is this still your best?” Cooler asks, a level of smugness you've not seen from your brother directed at you in quite some time. What is he planning? “Very well. I'll show you the difference between our powers! Hrrrrrrrrrrraaaa!!”

Your brother's body begins growing out from his usual fourth form to the one with the four horns, his frame towering over you like your second form as he grows the bone blades, larger shoulder armors and mouth guard over his face. But even with this power increasing his own a few times over, he's still nowhere close to you.

“Now, watch close, little brother.” he says, you able to just envision the smug look on his lips through the plate as he speaks. “Now I shall show you the REAL difference in our powers! SHYAAAAAAAA!!!!”

Suddenly his aura blazes from pale blue to brilliant gold, his power exploding up exponentially. The sheer FORCE of his power knocks you back a half step, forcing you to raise your arms and actually brace yourself against the onslaught of energy. Cooler's power keeps rising higher and higher, quickly surpassing your own and continuing to climb before he's even fully transformed. Cooler's strength continues to rise, doubling, tripling, quadrupling and continuing even higher with no signs of slowing down. Then, with a final shout, he ascends. His body changes to brilliant gold as well, your brother sighing out as he stares down at you, both literally and metaphorically.

“Still sure you want to do this, little brother?” he asks, his power in this form more than twelve times your own strength. “I'm feeling generous, so I'll give you a chance to back down now and try again, after you've gotten strong enough to at least make this fun.”

“If you really think that this is a large enough gap that I cannot overcome, then you're sadly mistaken.” you say, abandoning your more arrogant fighting pose and taking the one Karn'd drilled into your head all those years ago. Left arm up vertical before you, fist by your head with your right held back, fist by your waist and ready to strike. Knees bent, weight distributed evenly while your tail flicks once, keeping it relaxed and not too tensed up to move swiftly. “At the end of this battle, you shall kneel before me!”

“I'll make you eat those words.” Golden Cooler says, simply standing there and not taking on any sort of fighting stance whatsoever. Seems he's quite confident in his newfound power.

“Boys, ready? Begin!” King Cold declares, dropping his arm and signaling the start of the match. And without hesitation you blitz forward, knowing that you need to put Cooler on the back foot immediately and keep him occupied with that for as long as possible. Or this power difference could really hurt you before you win the fight.

“SHYAAAAA!” you roar, driving towards him with a heavy right, but at the last moment borrow a trick you'd picked up from Karn. Flipping forward, and instead of an axe kick whip your tail around, trying to catch your brother by surprise. However, your tail doesn't make contact, whipping through the air and flipping you back to see Cooler still standing there. However, his powerlevel is gone, your eyes widening as you realize you've been had. That's not him, that's a simple afterimage! And you fell for it! “SH-!!”

Suddenly a freight train slams into your right side, sending you flying off towards your left. Smashing into the outer wall of the arena and sent tumbling across the barren surface of this dead world outside the atmosphere generator in your father's palace. Rolling over and over you slide back up to your feet, standing up and sliding to a stop. Only for that stop to come from your back hitting something, you sense your brother's energy directly behind you. He's fast!

“Haaaaaa!!” you shout, throwing a left elbow back towards your brother. But he's simply gone, once more your attack hitting nothing. However, you anticipate him going for your back again, swinging your tail out in a wide arc to strike him. And your attack lands, you hit him with your tail about a foot from the tip. A solid strike! But then you feel his hand suddenly clamp down on your tail a bit closer than the part that hit you, Cooler pulling you straight up off your feet and spinning you in a circle overhead. You're spun in several circles before being launched away from him, flipping through the air and reorienting on him, leveling your right hand at him and firing a barrage of Death Beams. “Shyaaaaaaa!”

But Cooler doesn't even attempt to dodge, tanking the attacks directly. You feel your eyes widen, Cooler blitzing forward and slamming his right square into your guts. You gasp in shock, then grit your teeth as you try and fire another attack with your left hand, ki gathered into your fingertips. You fire your Death Slash, Cooler raising his left forearm to block the strike. Your blade strikes, shattering against him before Cooler drives that same fist into your face, again knocking you back. Once more you're sent tumbling across the ground, rolling over and over dozens of times before planting your feet and hands, sliding to a stop. But don't immediately get up, taking a moment to catch your breath.

“Tch. D-Dammit.” you mutter, sweat dripping off your brow to the ground, landing as a drop of something red drops from your lips, blood splashing the barren ground next to it. He's too strong, his might far beyond your current power. This gap between you two is widening with each exchange, you can't compete. But what do you do? No. What would KARN do? You think back, remembering on how he's fought, then realize you know what you need. A technique of his you've never actually used, but you understand how it works. You just need to use his power now, to fight as he would to claim the win. You push yourself upright, clenching your fists and unleashing one hundred percent of your power. “HRRRYAAAAAAA!!”

“Hmph. Is that all you've got?” Cooler taunts you with a smirk, but you pay him no mind. You blaze your aura up as high as it goes, then crossing your arms start to draw it in, condensing it. Your blazing golden aura condenses down into a roughly three-inch thick suit of armor around you, hardening it into your own Energy Body. “Then I'll put you down for good! SHYAAA!”

Your brother closes the distance, slamming his right fist into your jaw. But this time you don't even so much as flinch, the Energy Body absorbing the blow. You see your brother's eyes widen in shock, you taking this opportunity to drive your right straight up into his jaw with a leaping uppercut. The hit shocks your brother, staggering him back a couple steps. You then, seizing the initiative spin, slapping him upside the head with your tail while spinning into a left elbow to the face. But he catches your elbow with his right hand, stopping your third hit short.

“Hmph. That's more like it.” Cooler replies, drawing his left fist back. You draw your right back, both of you swinging towards each other. meeting his punch with one of your own. The shock wave crashes into your armor, but the energy deflects it from your form. Cooler takes the hit as well, neither of you moving backwards an inch. “Not bad. Even with your pitiful power, you found something to let you hold on. Now, let's see how long you can hold out!”

The two of you shove off each other, Cooler's shove sending you flipping backwards to land on your feet. Then, as both of you touch down he explodes forward, giant right foot slamming into your cross-arm guard and sending you sliding backwards.

“Tch!” you exclaim through gritted teeth, your brother smirking before planting his foot and charging back in at you once more. He's too fast to attack first, to counter punch before he can strike you. Instead, you plant your feet, waiting for your opening. Cooler rains blows down on your chest and head, fists and elbows, shins and knees crashing against you. But you remain steadfast, holding your place despite his heavy blows reverberating through your Energy Body, dull thuds slamming into you directly. Even with Karn's technique, the power gap is simply too big, you still taking damage from the hits. Cooler is relentless, his attacks getting faster and faster, his strikes heavier and heavier. But still, you don't fall, even after taking over a thousand heavy strikes still stand solidly.

“Grrrr! You think you can block forever?!” Cooler snarls, drawing his right arm way back. And that's when you explode into motion, using the full power of your legs to spring forward. Catching your brother by surprise, eyes widening as you swing your left up into a compact uppercut straight to his chin. “WHA-GYUUH!!”

“Shyaaaaaa!!” you shout, twisting your entire body and firing a heavy right hook straight into his jaw as his head snaps back. Your fist connects, Cooler's head rocking left to right on his neck. As his head turns back, you see that his eyes aren't focused at all. You got him, he's stunned! Now's your chance! You immediately end the Energy Body, drawing your ki into your left hand and swing it towards his head. Planning on taking him out with a single strike. However, as you swing, you see his eyes focus once more, zeroing in on your energy. They then widen, your ki clad fist slamming square into his face.  “HAAAAAAA!!”

Your energy explodes, blasting Cooler back away from you and sending him tumbling backwards, flipping once before landing on his back and rolling back up to his feet. He then slides to a stop, while you haven't moved. Instead of chasing him, since he's stronger you instead planted your feet, crossing your arms and again activating your copied Energy Body. He sees you not attacking and hesitates a moment, looking confused. Having been raised to relentlessly push your advantages, to crush your enemies, he's confused as to why you didn't.

“You...” he mutters, left eye twitching. He then blazes forward as a golden blur, slamming a heavy right into your forehead with the full power of his charge. This impact is enough to force you backwards, sliding a foot or two before coming to a stop, still unharmed. Which only further infuriates your brother. “HRRRRR! I'LL CRUSH YOU!”

Cooler then launches into another intense barrage of blows, not only directly in front but circling around you with the Su Ma style, striking you from every side and all up and down your body with heavy strikes. Blow after bow rains down on your guard, heavy shots by the score landing on your Energy Body every second. Yet you don't move, don't make any move to attack.

“Tch! Did you think that THAT attack would stop me?!” he snarls as he circles, flipping and spinning around you while raining blows down on you. “Did you REALLY think that a single attack would be enough to defeat me?”

You don't reply to his taunting, letting your brother swing for the fences against your armor. Each blow feels heavier than the last, yet the Energy Body technique absorbs so much force from his every blow that you can withstand his onslaught. Your entire body begins aching, reminding you of your time training with the Saiyan back on New Salda. And as Cooler's blows rain down on you from all sides, for a moment you're lost in the memories. At the time you'd hated it, hated how tired and sore your body would feel after each unique torture the Saiyan would devise. But now you're thankful for the experience, you able to withstand what you're going through now because of what you'd been through. The crucible of training the Saiyan'd put you through forged you a hardened warrior, one able to fight even against such impossible odds.

“Dammit, why won't you fall?!” your brother snarls after more than a minute of continued beatings, then with a flip and spin turns right in front of you, firing a powerful right hand with everything he's got. You can't move fast enough to stop him, clenching your teeth tight and taking the hit. With your brother seemingly putting everything he's got into the blow, his fist strikes square into your face and sends you flying backwards. Even through the Energy Body your head is snapped back by the force of the blow, everything going fuzzy for a second. But then you recover, flipping back and landing on all fours. However, as you look up, you see that your brother's not moved, staring at you in seeming shock as you raise your head and stand up, retaking your Saiyan's fighting stance. “What the hell is going on?!”

“Oh, what's the matter brother? Your weak attacks not having the desired effect?” you tease him, malicious grin stretching across your face as you taunt him. “Come now, don't tell me that all of that power is just for show? Can't you even hit me as hard as a Saiyan?”

“YOU........!!” he snarls, you can hear his teeth grinding from as far away as he is. His golden aura blazes wildly, arms trembling as his rage boils over. “That's it! I'm going to destroy you!”

With that roar Cooler explodes up off the ground, raising his right-hand overhead and creating a Supernova overhead at the end of a single finger.

“Dammit!” you think to yourself, dropping the Energy Body and throwing your arms wide. “Barrier!”

“SHYAAAA!” he roars, throwing the giant orb down. Your energy hardens into a solid dome right as his attack slams down onto you, your Barrier stopping the massive orb from crushing you. However, to your surprise it doesn't explode, the giant orb simply smashing down onto your dome.

“Tch!” you exclaim, feeling the full weight of the massive attack pressing down on you. But then he suddenly vanishes, his ki disappearing from where it was above you. Instead, his ki is right in front of you, Cooler appearing INSIDE your Barrier. “Wh-What?!”

“Nice try, brother.” he says, slamming a fist square into your face. This time, without the Energy Body to protect you, the full force of his power crashes into you, sending you flying backwards. Your Barrier falls, shattering as you're no longer able to support it once you're launched outside of it. But instead of taking the attack, Cooler CATCHES his massive attack in his left hand easily. You roll across the ground, sliding to a stop on all fours before looking back up towards your brother, only to see the massive energy blast headed directly at you! “PERISH!”

“Th-This is NOTHING!!” you shout, throwing both hands out and trying to catch the blast. The giant orb slams into your hands, but you're not strong enough to stop it. Cooler's sun he threw at you starts pushing you backwards, despite everything you've got. “This! Is!  NOTHING!!”

But then the attack takes you off your feet, the giant orb lifting you up and off the ground. His massive orb carrying you up into the sky. Then, before you can push off of it, to get away, the gigantic orb detonates. Everything goes white as the Supernova explodes, everything consumed by the blast. For an unknown amount of time everything is dark, you then coming too only to find yourself falling.

“Huh? What's going on?” you think to yourself, wondering how you got here. But then everything comes back, you remember what you were doing then flipping around, landing feet-first back on your father's planet's surface. Immediately you focus, crossing your arms to recreate your Energy Body when Cooler just appears in front of you with Instant Transmission.”HAAAA!”

“Hmph. Is this really the extent of your plan?” he asks derisively, you almost able to feel his sneer beneath his golden mask. “To stall out my transformation, hoping that your energy can outlast how long I can hold onto this form? It won't work.”

His aura then cuts itself down to size, Cooler's power reducing nearly by half. But he's still more than five times stronger than you, your brother smirking at you with his eyes.

“I mastered this form after acquiring it, spending months mastering it while under Elder Pybara's watchful eye to ensure proper energy regulation.” he says proudly to your despair. “You can't outlast me, brother.”

“Tch. You really think that I can't overcome you?” you shout, clenching your fists and powering up to one hundred percent. Yet, even at your form's strongest, drawing every ounce of power out of this Golden form, your brother is still several times stronger than you. You can't stop him, not without something else to get you an edge. But then it comes to you: he's bluffing! He has to KNOW that you can keep your Energy Body up longer than he can stay transformed, so he's trying to bait you into overexerting yourself in a desperate attempt that will wear you out, letting him defeat you easily. “I won't fall easily! SHYAA!”

With that shout you reactivate your Energy Body, once again sheathing your body within that defensive golden shell. But your brother isn't amused, once again going on the attack.

“This will only prolong your suffering, brother!” he shouts, again launching a vicious assault. Over and over his heavy blows land on you, forcing you wholly onto the defensive to weather the storm. However, this time something's wrong. With every hit you feel your Energy Body weaken, its energy becoming slightly less tightly bound. It weakens over and over, forcing you to expend more and more energy to keep it going, to keep the defense up. You're burning through ki just to keep this defense alive, leaving you wondering what's going wrong, when as he spins, Cooler is clearly smirking at you. And that's when you get it! He's using Forced Spirit Fission on your Energy Body to break it apart! “Hahaha, finally figured it out have you? I told you that you cannot win.”

“Tch! D-Dammit!” you snarl through clenched teeth, realizing that you've got no choice but to do something. So, focusing your power let your Energy Body explode, ki detonating out from you in all directions. Your blast knocks him back, golden aura blazing as you then charge in at him. “Shyaaaaaa!”

“Foolish!” he replies, blocking your left elbow with his forearm, smashing his arm into yours and stopping you in place. Then, with a split-second's focus fire eye beams from your eyes directly at his own. Catching him by surprise, but right before your beam can hit him he retaliates with Eye Beams of his own. His energy starts pushing your own beams back, pushing your energies back towards your face. “This is over. Submit, brother.”

“Dammit!” you snarl, ending your beams and flipping backwards, narrowly avoiding the beams. You flip backwards onto your hands, then back to your feet, Cooler standing there simply staring at you. You're left panting, chest heaving as your brother simply stands over you, waiting to see what you'll do next. You consider your options, every technique, every sneaky trick, every single option you can conceive. Even with Ballroom Blitz, your Stand, you realize something: you cannot win. No matter what you do, or what you try, you have no way to overcome your older brother. As you are, you cannot win. This realization burns, you clench your fists so hard you feel your joints pop, then with a sigh power down, falling down to your knees. “I submit. You win, Cooler.”

“Wh-What?!” he says, sounding incredulous. “You-You what?! You... Surrender?”

“It's over, you win.” you tell him, not looking up. “I give up.”

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest Patron Epilogue XVI End-