Ch. 123: Gohan's All-Out Assault! Frieza on the Ropes!?

My lungs desperately cried out for air as I dodged Frieza's tail, but I ignored them. I was moving entirely on instinct by this point, surpassing my body's natural limits with its current seal. I was literally moving so fast that I was actually creating a sort of vacuum around me, as I displaced the air around me with my very motions. 

Even so, it was only barely enough to keep me afloat. Even as Frieza screamed "Why. Won't. You. Die!?" I was losing stamina at a terrifying rate with every single motion. 

Knowing where Frieza's tail was going to land the moment before it did was my only advantage in this situation. Frieza's body was still moving four or five times faster than my own. In other words, for every single motion I was capable of making, Frieza'd already thrust his stupid tail at me five times or more. 

It was physically impossible for me to dodge every single thrust, so I'd almost instantly given up on protecting everything but my vitals. There were scratches and holes all over my body. I'd managed to send my energy to deflect some of the power from Frieza's hits away from my body, but the damage was piling up fast and I was barely scraping by. 

Finally, the gatling-tail barrage suddenly stopped. "Get away from my sister." A low voice seethed.

"B-br-at?!" Vegeta exclaimed in a grunt behind me, his voice laced with pain. I'd completely forgotten that he was behind me this entire time. Just from his voice, I could tell that he was in far worse shape than me, but he was just as surprised at the power of Gohan, who was standing right between me and Frieza, holding the Frost Demon's tail under his arm.

"Go-han!?" I exclaimed in disbelief, sensing his power level. 1.5 million, give or take. 

I'd known ever since he'd gotten that Senzu bean from Raditz that Gohan's power had far surpassed his canon counterpart's power level during this battle. Since I'd blocked off their growth beforehand, Piccolo and Gohan had both been silently unlocking incredible reserves of their latent potential with every second since the battle with Ginyu. Despite not getting that Saiyan boost from healing, Piccolo's own power level had managed to jump to around 200,000 since the Ginyu fight, after all.

But Gohan's latent reserves could take Piccolo's and absolutely demolish it. He'd grown from a power level of 45,000 maximum to a resting power of 700,000 or so. Due to his low confidence in himself, he hadn't entered the battle yet, out of fear of getting in Vegeta's way, but now that I was in danger, his rage had finally manifested, more than doubling his already massive reserves of power, and I could tell that this was just the tip of the iceberg.

Frieza attempted to yank his tail away from my brother's grip, but Gohan held fast no matter how hard he yanked, causing a bit of panic to show on the tyrant's face. "How are you so strong!?" Frieza shouted, putting out so much power that the land beneath both him and Gohan cratered against his energy.

But it wasn't enough. Gohan didn't even sweat as he held Frieza's tail fast. "Are you okay, Hanna?" He asked me. 

"I'll live." I answered. Shay's coat was in tatters, and I was mad, but I'd managed to protect my vitals so far, so the biggest problem was blood loss, which didn't tend to matter that much to a Saiyan.

"And you, Vegeta?"

"Shut up... brat! These... are just... scratches... to a Saiyan Elite!" Vegeta breathed. Nobody who heard him actually believed that, but it didn't really matter. It was clear that Vegeta was too stubborn to die from one barrage of attacks from some snake's tail, after all.

"Okay, then." With the safety of the people behind him taken into consideration, Gohan didn't need to hold himself back anymore. He was free to unleash all of his rage against Frieza.

"Let go of my tail, brat!" Frieza shouted at Gohan. Gohan obliged Frieza's request in a way, spinning the tyrant around him like a pendulum before tossing him in a random direction with the force of a cannonball. But to Frieza's credit, the tyrant was able to get his bearings fairly quickly after being thrown. 

Unfortunately for Frieza, that didn't really matter. The moment that he'd thrown Frieza, Gohan sped through the air after him. By the time the tyrant had managed to stop himself, Gohan was right beside him, ready to pound the tyrant into a crater so deep that nobody could see the bottom of it.

But Gohan wasn't done yet. With a shout, he unleashed a devastating barrage of energy blasts down on the ground below, hammering Frieza into the ground harder with each and every one. The higher Frieza's energy rose to shrug the energy off, the faster Gohan's energy blasts came hurling towards him. 

"Come on, Gohan! You can do it! Harness that anger, turn it into strength!" Piccolo shouted encouragement from the sidelines as Gohan beat Frieza down with energy blasts. As if in response, Gohan finally stopped firing his blasts, condensing his energy into a ball form above his head instead. 

"MASENKO HAAA!!!" He shouted, firing the strongest energy wave he could muster into the hole where Frieza's energy was, in a devastating finishing move that not even Frieza's 1 million power level would be able to endure.

Gohan's Masenko collided with Frieza's energy in a flash of blinding light that caused the entire planet to tremble against the pressure. Even I found myself overwhelmed by the powers that the collision was creating, as the planet's tectonic plates shifted, causing terrible disasters to sprout up all over the globe.

"Prince Vegeta!" I heard Nappa shout as the ground beneath us crumbled and quaked, and the oceans began to rage in protest. Lava spewed through a few cracks in the ground immediately around Gohan and Frieza's forms, blocking them from view as the planet went to hell around us.