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No one is safe, King Piccolo's ambition does not allow for bystanders. Should he gain dominion over our world again, all will be lost. What his nightmarish flames don't scorch, his legions will devour." Roshi said if reciting a threnody.
Gine couldn't believe it. How could this day have turned so irrevocably dark? Just earlier they were celebrating a tournament of amazing battles and drama that had tested her limits of dealing with people. And now, with her son's best friend murdered on top of the rollercoaster ride of emotions the tournament put her through, they were now facing a long dormant evil threatening to destroy their world. It would almost seem like some cosmic joke was being played on them, but it wasn't funny.
Roshi, and almost everyone was already accepting the end of the world. She was instantly reminded of the day Bardock told her that Frieza was going to destroy their planet. She remembered that fear she felt on that day, for her life, and for her children. To die by the hands of the being who's biding they did. What everyone was feeling now. Somehow, she also thought of the fear of all the planets she helped conquer.
All this time she thought she would be away from that. All the pain, suffering, and destruction that sounded all too familiar to her. Everything that was done in the name of Frieza, the countless planets purged of all life. Nothing but death and destruction while the inhabitants could do nothing but die a hopeless defense of their worlds.
She then thought of the planet she stood upon now. The most beautiful orb she had ever known, filled with untold wonders of life, that led them to the miracle of Gohan who adopted her and her son when they had nowhere else to go. The one place in the universe that she called her true home. The place that saved her in every way a person could be saved.
"There will be no quarter, no haven." Roshi continued, crestfallen. His words blending in with the images playing in Gine's head.
Earth. Her home, fallen in the way countless others before it fell to Frieza, and like Planet Vegeta. Cities reduced to rubble, forests blackened and burnt, continents cratered, oceans evaporated and running red with blood. So many bodies, inhabitants slaughtered without mercy. Men, women, children, elderly, animals. Lucky enough to not be kept for slavery or torture.
Then her friends, her son, Gohan, Paozu, and everything she had come to love so dearly...
"Complete genocide..."
Even without Frieza following her across the galaxy, this curse of destruction will fall on Earth too...
"No." Said Gine softly, clenching her fists.
"Hm?" Roshi turned to her.
Gine looked at Roshi dead in the eye.
"It will not come to that. Not if I have anything to say about it."
Everyone looked at her like she was crazy.
"I wish I shared your determination, Gine. But the situation is far more dire than you could imagine. There is no way we can defeat King Piccolo-"
"I'll face him myself."
"WHAT?!" They all exclaimed in shock.
"Do you and Kakarot both have a death wish?!" Roshi yelled at her. "I told you there is no way you can defeat Piccolo! My Master, Mutaito, was the greatest warrior Earth has ever known, a hundred times stronger than me and even he died trying to defeat him!"
Gine rushed Roshi and shoved him against the wall of the temple grounds, the bricks crumbling from the impact while she held him against the wall by his suit. Everyone backed away in horror, and even Roshi was amazed by how fast and strong she was. Gine gave him a deadly glare, and she caught a hint of fear in his eyes, hoping that he now knew that if she felt so inclined, she could pulverize him where he stood.
The moment lasted only a moment when Roshi realized she won't do it, then glowered at her. "Let go of me!"
Gine dropped him and Gohan rushed to his side. Gine immediately felt ashamed for what she did, but she hoped it got the message across.
"I'm so sorry, Master." Gohan dusted off Roshi, and he stared at Gine in confused anger.
She softened her expression but spoke seriously. "I mean no disrespect to you or your old master, but I am a Saiyan. I am not like any warrior on this planet, and I am by far the strongest on it as well. I will deal with this threat myself. I will not let this world that has given me and my son a second chance at life fall to ruin at the hands of some monster."
Roshi straightened out his suit and put his hat on, then sneered to Gine. "Even if you are strong enough to defeat me or even Master Mutaito, there's still no guarantee Piccolo could be beaten. You may be able to grind me to dust, but you are far too brash and let your emotions dictate your actions. And if that's all you got, then we don't have much to go with."
Gine gritted her teeth. Was this human really going to put her down too?! At least Gohan tried to help her control those even in her worst training moments.
Before Gine could entertain the urge to punch Roshi's face in to demonstrate how she could grind him to literal bloody dust, Gohan stepped in. "Eh, Master, please listen and hear her out on this. I know I've told you how strong she is, and how we've been training for all these years. If she has been holding back on me as much as she says she has, then she is the one Piccolo should be afraid of, not the other way around."
Gine blushed at that praise and chuckled uncomfortably. Tien walked up to Roshi, looking at Gine as if he had a lot of new realizations and questions about her.
"Er, I have to agree with Gohan. If our little altercation a few days ago and how she dealt with Crane was anything to go by, then I was foolish to think I was equal to her son. If he says he wishes she can be as strong as her, I can only imagine how powerful she herself must be."
"I like her idea! She's the strongest person anyone ever knew!" Said Chi-Chi.
"Hey, yeah. She's awesome!" Oolong added. Then Launch, "Awesome? She's kickass!" Then everyone else gave some cheer for her one way or another. Gine got more uncomfortable from all the praise, but she thanked them for all their support and was glad she was able to lift them out of the impending doom they felt.
But Roshi still wasn't convinced. "Even so, I still don't know who you are or can entirely trust you with the fate of our world. So, we'll have to find another way."
Fine, if he was stubborn about that, Gine decided to entertain that idea.
"So, this Evil Containment Wave your old master used to trap King Piccolo the first time around seemed
to work pretty well. Why don't we use it instead?" She asked Roshi
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