What IF the Androids Came First?- Part 9

Hey everyone, this is your Minion of the East! To end the month of February, I think it would be nice to try and finish up the Frieza Saga come March and introduce a new character I hinted a bit ago. But now it is time to head into Part 9 of, What IF the Androids Came First? In the last part, our heroes had a bit of a run in with Zarbon and some of Frieza’s goons as they managed to steal their Dragon Balls, and kidnap Dende and Nappa. Thanks to your votes, Android 16 decided to rescue Dende, and kill Zarbon in the process. Around the same time, Goku’s team arrives on the planet to help out on retrieving the Dragon Balls and prepare for the battle with Frieza. Nappa did manage to escape thanks to a Zenkai Boost and being healed, but his relations with the Earthlings has been shattered completely. With additional help from Nail joining up, our heroes train to prepare for the big battle as The Ginyu Force has arrived on Namek.

The Ginyu Force lands near Frieza’s ship and reports for duty for their Lord Frieza. They provide the new scouters to Frieza and are given their orders to find the Earthlings, eliminate them, and grab the Namekian residing with them to find the final Dragon Ball. With the Ginyu Force heading off into the location of the Earth Forces thanks to their scouters, the Z-Warriors prepare as they sense their energies heading towards the base's direction. Bulma and Dende are told to hide inside the cave to avoid getting hurt in the battle. Our heroes stand ready as the Ginyu Force lands on the scene, in a glamorous fashion. While dumbfounded by their entrance, Ginyu gives the simple orders to surrender and hand over Nail, whom they assume is the Namekian they are after (since Dende was never brought to Frieza so his forces don’t know what he looks like) and for the final Dragon Ball. Goku shouts they refuse to any of those demands, then the Ginyu Force argue on who fights whom. Like in the original canon, Vegeta is the center of attention to attack and settle it with Rock, Paper, Scissors. Recoome wins the same way and goes to fight Vegeta. Guldo also stays the same getting Gohan and Krillin to fight off. Since we have additional fighters, here’s the lineup for the battle:

Recoome vs Vegeta

Burter vs Yamcha and Android 16

Jeice vs Raditz and Nappa

Guldo vs Gohan and Krillin

Ginyu vs Goku and Nail

While all of these fights are happening at once, I’ll go over each individual fight briefly. I will say right away, all of our fighters are stronger at this point than their original canon counterparts thanks to their training, some getting their potential unlocked by Guru, utilizing the Kaio-Ken, and making use of the gravity chamber in Goku’s ship. Vegeta completely annihilates Recoome without any hesitation and takes great pleasure in blowing him away with a well placed Galick Gun to show off his power. With Yamcha and 16 they are able to catch up with Burter’s speed thanks to a combination of the Kaio-Ken, and 16 using his radar to keep up with the reaction, ending with a Wolf Fang Fist combo into a Kamehameha. Raditz and Nappa do a tag team maneuver to overtake Jeice, who is better in a tag team with Burter, but is no match for the Saiyan duo with the combination of cunning and shear strength. Raditz fires his Double Sunday, with Nappa firing off a Breaker Cannon to destroy Jeice. Guldo’s fight with Gohan and Krillin is about the same throwing them off guard with his time stop ability, but with the Kaio-Ken increasing their speed, he can’t react fast enough to stop time and is quickly dealt with. Poor Ginyu sees all of his men dead as he is overpowered by Goku and having trouble with Nail and his stretchy arms. While Ginyu prepares to switch bodies, Vegeta relayed the info to Goku about this tidbit earlier and Ginyu is then blown away without giving him the chance to do so.

So yeah, this pretty much became a one sided fight with our heroes coming up victorious with barely any scratches. However, Frieza was listening in on the Ginyu Force through the scouters for communications, hoping to hear some screams of terror to help lift his mood. Yet he got the cries of his men dying, which only makes him so livid. With all of his options now spent, it’s time for him to take matters into his own hands. Having barely a chance to catch their breaths, even after Dende healed them back to full strength, our heroes can feel Frieza’s energy coming in their direction. They can’t think about facing him this quickly, let alone at their strength. Nail gets the idea to lure Frieza away to give everyone else some time to take their Dragon Ball and go to Frieza’s ship to retrieve the other balls to hopefully get their wish granted. Thanks to the info by the Ginyu Force, Nail got the idea to use himself as bait to lure Frieza away as he wants a Namekian to know the password to activate the Dragon Balls. Dende and Gohan aren’t agreeing with this idea, but they don’t have the time to argue or think of another idea. Saying his farewells, he flies off to Frieza’s direction. As the two cross paths, he tells Frieza he will give him the password only if he faces him in battle. “As much as I don’t want to waste my time with trash like you, I admit I need to blow off some steam lately. Very well, lead the way.” The two fly off to a far off piece of land, allowing our heroes to fly off to Frieza’s ship with Bulma staying behind to pack up camp quickly in hopes of after getting their wish granted and they can leave the planet before Frieza realized what was going on.

Once at Frieza’s ship, they quickly eliminate the few soldiers left around the area and grab the six Dragon Balls in the main quarters. After getting some new duds from the armor room, sans Goku sticking to his traditional gi, all seven Dragon Balls are gathered outside as Dende prepares to summon Porunga. Nail and Frieza have their ‘fight’ like in the original, only with Nail being stronger and Frieza needing to use both arms this time. Back at the ship, Porunga is summoned and tells them they have three wishes to ask for. Before they could get their first wish, Raditz goes up to the Dragon quickly and asks for him and his Saiyan comrades for immortality...and yet nothing happens. Way to go Raditz as the cat is now out of the bag. Vegeta berates Raditz as now their plan to get immortality is out there. While the Z-Warriors had their suspicions from the start, this pretty much solidified they were only looking out for themselves. Without feigning ignorance, Vegeta demands Dende to use the wishes to make them immortal, but the child states only the wishes can be made in Namekian. King Kai then gives everyone there a call to tell them Piccolo wants to be revived as this would bring back Kami and the Earth Dragon Balls. Vegeta allows this as the first two wishes are then made to revive Piccolo and bring him to Namek. Back over to Frieza after leaving Nail in a crater, sees the sky has gone dark and Porunga hovering over the distance. Realizing he’s been tricked with the Earthlings getting their wish, he flies over at full speed back to his ship.

Feeling Frieza’s energy heading to their location, Vegeta demands himself to be immortal to even stand a chance against Frieza. Before the wish could be made, Porunga disappears and the Dragon Balls turn to stone with Guru sadly passing on. Frieza arrived to see his ambition to get his wish for immortality now gone forever, is furious with waves of evil energy emanating from his body. Seeing so many Saiyans before him, including Gohan with his tail, decides to kill him with his trademark Death Beam to eliminate what he thinks is the most vulnerable fighter there. Goku pushes his son out of the way and takes the attack head on from the back as it exits through his chest. With Goku now fatally wounded, as Krillin and Dende try to get him to safety, Vegeta charges at Frieza to take the emperor of the galaxy head on.



Things are finally heating up as we are now coming up on the conclusion with our journey on Namek! How will things end? Will our heroes manage to defeat Frieza and escape the planet unscathed? What will become of the Saiyan trio and their alliance with the Earth Z-Warriors? Tune in next time as we reach this conclusion in part 10, and with the introduction of a new character. Stay tuned and until next time, take care everyone!

