c74: "The Upcoming Frieza"
Boom!
At that moment, Metal Cooler was sent flying backward by a powerful kick Li Xu was the one who landed the strike.
"Li Xu, he's my opponent!" Son Goku protested as he caught his breath.
"I recall you nearly getting killed just now." Li Xu replied flatly, clearly unimpressed.
"Hehe, I'll admit that, but leave him to me! I can take him down this time." Goku grinned sheepishly, scratching his head. He knew full well that without Li Xu's intervention, he'd be toast.
"You're still smiling?" Bulma huffed from beside Li Xu.
"Bulma? Why are you so tiny now?" Goku blinked in confusion, just noticing that Bulma had been miniaturized a result of an earlier mishap involving the Gete Star's tech.
"You damn monkey!" roared Cooler, charging at them in rage. Seeing Li Xu's composure and scorn infuriated him.
"Pathetic." Li Xu sneered coldly.
Boom!
Just as Cooler lunged forward, Li Xu drove his knee directly into Cooler's abdomen, halting his momentum completely.
Without hesitation, Li Xu seized Cooler's neck with one hand, crushed the synthetic vertebrae, and ripped out the main cable spine, disrupting Cooler's control system.
But as expected, the bio-mechanical body began regenerating wires reconnecting, metal reshaping.
Li Xu extended his palm and released a flurry of energy blasts that struck Cooler's head and torso, blasting him into glowing fragments.
"Didn't we agree you'd leave him to me?" Goku pouted. "That was the best fight I've had in a while!"
"That was just a copy. If you're eager to fight, don't worry there's more where that came from." Li Xu gestured ahead.
Goku turned to see it a swarm of identical Metal Coolers, all walking forward in sync, stretching to the horizon. The sight made his skin crawl.
"That's... way too many!" Goku exclaimed. One Metal Cooler was hard enough fighting hundreds at once?
"Trash in numbers is still trash." Li Xu scoffed. "This is Dragon Ball not some army-based world. Quality beats quantity."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Li Xu erupted into his Super Saiyan form, charging into the crowd like a golden storm. With each blow, Metal Coolers were shattered and scattered like scrap metal.
"Let's see how much energy the Big Gete Star can spare to keep rebuilding you!" Li Xu muttered. He knew well.the Star had limits, even if it pretended otherwise.
"Guess I'll have to charge in, too!" Goku cracked his knuckles. Watching Li Xu clean house ignited his fighting spirit. He launched himself into the mob, fighting side by side with him.
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Outer spaceabove New Namek.
A massive starship approached rapidly, its engines burning a trail through the black void.
Inside, Frieza reclined in his hover pod, smirking as he observed the green planet coming into view.
"Sobel, how long until we touch down?" Frieza asked.
"Lord Frieza, we'll reach New Namek in one hour. But... your father, King Cold, arrived ahead of us. He's already begun searching." Sobel reported, bowing slightly.
Sobel a commander from the Frieza Force introduced in Dragon Ball Super had risen in rank after Ginyu and his squad perished, becoming one of Frieza's most trusted new officers.
"Let him chase the Dragon Balls first," Frieza chuckled. "Let him deal with any resistance it'll save me the trouble."
"King Frieza, according to the latest readings from the scouter, there are multiple extremely high-power signatures on Namek. It appears a battle is currently underway," Sobel reported with growing concern.
"And how high are these power levels?" Frieza asked casually, reclining in his hover pod.
"They exceed the maximum limit of our newest model of scouter, sire... It can't register anything beyond 100 million," Sobel said with cold sweat trailing down his face.
That model the most advanced scouter developed post-Frieza's revival was designed to detect up to 100 million in power. The fact that Namek's fighters were now surpassing even that sent chills down Sobel's spine.
"No matter. Proceed with the landing." Frieza said indifferently, completely unfazed.
"Yes, King Frieza!" Sobel acknowledged with a salute.
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On New Namek, the battlefield was nearly cleared. Metal Cooler units, mass-produced by the Big Gete Star, lay scattered in smoking heaps.
In truth, Li Xu had taken down nearly all of them; Goku barely managed to keep up with just one copy.
"Goku, to stop Cooler, we must destroy the central CPU of the Big Gete Star," Li Xu explained, referring to the sentient machine core responsible for producing the Coolers.
"Where's this central CPU located?" asked Goku, bruised and battered, his gi torn. He had taken a serious beating. Without Li Xu's assistance during the fight, he may have been fatally overwhelmed.
"Inside the Big Gete Star's core," Li Xu replied. "I've left one Metal Cooler alive for you to finish think of it as training. I'm heading to destroy the source."
"Got it!" Goku replied, his fighting spirit reigniting now that the numbers were manageable.
Li Xu placed a glowing palm on Goku's shoulder. A healing wave of divine ki surged through Goku's body, restoring him to full strength.
"Thanks!" Goku beamed, fists clenched in renewed confidence.
Just as Li Xu was about to take off toward the artificial planet, he felt a potent and familiar ki signature approaching at high speed.
He looked toward the sky.
"He's finally arrived..." Li Xu muttered, recognizing Frieza's distinctive energy. Still, he didn't delay he vanished with Instant Transmission.
---
Inside the mechanized interior of the Big Gete Star, the walls looked like a fortress of cold steel. Tubes, vents, and circuits pulsed with artificial energy.
Li Xu materialized inside via Instant Transmission, landing directly in a control hall. A group of Metal Coolers attacked without hesitation, each one extending energy blades from their arms.
"It even replicates Instant Transmission now..." he muttered. The copies vanished and reappeared around him, trying to flank.
But Li Xu's speed far surpassed theirs. Even if they teleported, his reaction time and combat awareness dwarfed theirs.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A flurry of precise kicks crushed the machines cracking chests, severing limbs, and tossing scraps across the chamber.
"Now, let's finish this." He turned toward the central neural core: a grotesque fusion of cybernetics and organic brain matter suspended in wiring, with Cooler's disfigured metal head mounted in the center.
"I won't fall so easily!" Cooler's voice rang out. From the mass of cables, a metal form took shape another self-generated avatar formed from the mainframe's nanotech.
"Resurrect all you like it won't change your fate," Li Xu said coldly.
He ripped the grasping wires from his arm, charged a dense orb of concentrated ki, and hurled it straight at the CPU core.
"NOOOO!!" Cooler shrieked in desperation, but his plea fell on deaf ears.
BOOM!
A fiery explosion consumed the entire chamber. The core detonated with massive force, sending fragments of Cooler's cybernetic remains flying.
"That should finish you for good." Li Xu dusted himself off. His mission was far from over Frieza and his father were next. If he eliminated the entire Cold family, he'd finally unlock the high-tier comprehension plug-in he'd been aiming for.
And this time, he couldn't afford to leave any of them alive.
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