Jump Man | Rocket Girl
Jump Man vs Frieza: The Namek Arc Finale
Jump Man vs Frieza: The Namek Arc Finale
Rip Valentine didn't even register his injuries in the immediate aftermath of his fight with Ginyu, there was so much clouding his thoughts that he simply did not have time to dwell on his existing pain. Not only that, but they were self-inflicted through another body, so it seemed to even out in the end. Regardless, Jump was approached by a weary and worn out Rocket Girl, who had seemed to dispatch Guldo with some difficulty. "That green bastard could manipulate time..." She said slowly, touching down in front of Jump, "You don't look too good, but neither does - Oh shit..." She said, looking over the battered landscape but focusing on the bloody pile of red goop that spread out from whatever remained of Ginyu's body. "How did-"
"I thought about it and I just, I just pushed him. And his insides exploded." Jump answered honestly, staring at his hands, flexing them and closing them into fists.
Rocket Girl was shocked, but quickly tried to move on from it. "Rip, you have some injuries, let's patch you up." As soon as Sarah said that, Jump Man collapsed onto the ground, sitting with his legs crossed and his eyes staring straight ahead. "Christ, you scared me." She said, opening up a small compartment on her gauntlet and fetching a small, reddish pill. "Here, it'll fix you right up, combination of healthy vitamins, minerals, and self-repairing nanomachines." Jump looked at the pea-sized capsule and tossed it into his mouth, swallowing, and staring intently at Rocket Girl, waiting for his result. "It isn't instant, jackass, it takes a few minutes to set in fully." With that said, a series of explosions went off over the plateau from the duo, a fight raging just over the hill.
"More of the Ginyu Force?" Jump asked, stretching out his body on the ground and leaping onto his feet in a fluid motion.
"No, I think Ginyu and Guldo were the last ones. I'm pretty sure it's Frieza and our fellow convicts." Sarah replied.
"Do we even know the names of our fellow convicts?"
"Vaguely." Rocket said, motioning for Jump to follow, "Let's see what we need to do now. I had Lugs take off to go gather the other Dragon Balls so we can all get off this planet, with the assurance that Frieza will be dealt with... And the assurance that Lugs can have his corpse as a personal prize." Jump looked rather appalled at the suggestion, which Rocket picked up on as the two flew over to meet with their allies. "Yeah, don't ask me, I don't ask many questions when it comes to alien culture. Greetings." She said, nodding over to the small group. With that, the two watched the fights with Ryou, Asumar, Alex, and finally Nick all taking the stand against Lord Frieza. It was a calculated move, waiting for the tyrant to fully power up and to display his fighting style right in front of Jump, as well as allowing Rip to fully heal, whereas Rocket Girl was able to plan out her strategy for victory in-depth.
As the enraged tyrant made his way back from the sure-death Nick had delivered him to, Jump found himself with only Rocket Girl remaining, their entire cast of friends dominated and swept aside by the merciless Lord Frieza. "I feel better than ever," Jump commented, rolling his shoulders and flexing his muscles a bit to loosen them up after being healed so rapidly. Rocket Girl followed close behind and at his side, watching as Nick disappeared in a flash, Mezca having grabbed him. "So much for a rescue operation, but that was never the plan."
"And what exactly," Lord Frieza thundered from afar, oceans rising and clouds brewing as his energy filled the air like a toxic vapor, "Is your plan? Another pair of brain-dead idiots on this doomed world, set to challenge my might and fall as all others have before? This goes beyond arrogance, you low life scum, and goes right into idiocy. I will destroy you and this entire world." Frieza's body was battered and bruised, but it looked as if he was still in his prime fighting, regardless of his missing right arm. Not only that, but it was less slender now, and more bound with muscle, as if Frieza went through another power-up following his excursion with Nick. Jump Man shivered for a moment, just feeling the intensity Frieza was giving off. "Allow me to escort you to death, one by one."
Taking that taunt as an invitation, Rip Valentine threw himself forward, appearing in front of Frieza entirely too quickly, landing a straight punch to his jaw line. Rather than fly anywhere from the immense hit, one that cracked the ground all around the two, Frieza simply stood and bore the strike with his durability. "You did not display such speed against Captain Ginyu. What is with your kind and hiding techniques and power? It's simple the work of animals who are scared of their own strength, while I relish my ability." Responding to the hit, Frieza brought his tail hard against Jump Man's stomach, hitting him at an angle to drive him into the ground. "Just who do you think you are?"
The hit simply staggered Jump, causing no real damage, but the man came up with a smirk. "I'm Jump Man."
Blasting full speed ahead of Jump was his partner, her power gauntlets at the ready, "And I'm Rocket Girl." It was too telegraphed, and Frieza quite easily side-stepped the attack, allowing Rocket Girl to slam her fists into the ground where he once stood. The sheer force annihilated the ground in a wide arc in front of Rocket, sending huge chunks of rock and boulders to the surface. Using her boots to increase speed and her helmet to track his movements, Rocket Girl whirled around to face Frieza once more, clenching her armored fist, which cackled with energy.
Frieza held a look of contempt and disgust, thoroughly through with the battle at hand and the loss of his arm, he had no more patience for games or for juggling around two opponents. Judging the girl to be the weaker of the two, and therefore the easiest to eliminate, Frieza made a beeline for Rocket Girl. Anticipating his immediate arrival, Rocket Girl threw a harsh overhead punch, putting all of her weight and rocket power into the hit, landing hard against Freiza's face. The air shattered all around the tyrant, who fell back for a moment, clutching his chin, and cutting his eyes hard at Rocket Girl. "Who knew your toys could provide such enjoyment. Still, there are little things that avoidable in life, and death is one of them."
Jump was preparing to ambush Frieza from the side, but with hardly a moment to spare, Frieza lifted his hand pointed his finger as Rocket Girl, who immediately went to autopilot and threw her entire rocket thruster apparatus into reverse, intent on dodging the fatal attack. She was simply not fast enough on the draw, and Frieza's beam of ki closed the distance all too quickly, piercing Rocket Girl straight through the chest. Alarms went off and panic set in, her heart stopping as it was pierced, her boot rockets carrying her far away from the battlefield and settling down miles away in a Namekian pasture. Her vision was blurry and quickly fading, the last images her eyes would see being a huge, fiery red explosion right where she had escaped from.
It took a moment to register, Jump Man having stopped his planned attack entirely and collapsing to the ground, disbelief setting in. With his abilities realized during the fight with Ginyu, Jump Man was acutely aware of everything he touched, and by placing his hand on the ground, he desperately felt for the beating heart of Rocket Girl, ever so slightly thumping on the ground. Just a sign that she was alive, injured, but still hopeful. All he felt was miserable silence, and a crushing tinge of loneliness. Appearing behind him, finger at the ready, Frieza was ready to gloat. "So falls a warrior, felled by a foolish concept of love, either for mate or for ally. You will join her soon enough."
Those feelings Jump was stormed with gave way to a single, all-encompassing emotion, and that would prove to be far more raw in it's expression than any other four-letter word: Rage. An aura of green light bathed him, his eyes bearing an outline of dull, grass-like green, it spread all across his body and flowed through his blood like bolts of lightning. It was pure telekinetic power, unleashed subconsciously, and it's affects on the environment were immediate. The ground began to swell and fall, as if it were a sea, cracking apart and grinding away as the planet itself shook. The air carried lightning powerful enough to melt the very rock Rip Valentine was causing to rise. At some point, he began screaming, a primal yell to vent, just for a moment, all the energy that was unlocked within him.
Frieza lifted his left arm to shield himself from the chaos for a moment, before rising high in the sky away from Jump Man, but almost directly above him. "Your power does not frighten me, you inbred. Not only will you join the girl in death, but this planet shall as well. Dragon Balls be damned, if you are the best this universe has to offer, then my immortality will hardly ever be in jeopardy. Die!" Frieza screamed, forming a massive ball of ki on the tip of his finger, swelling the energy to immense size and luminosity in moments. He threw it directly onto Jump Man, intending for him to be the first victim of the inevitable planetary destruction.
The mass of energy collided with the planet's surface right on the green-lit energy given off by Jump Man. Flashes of bluish yellow electricity flowed around the Death Ball, slowing down it's tunneling into the surface for a moment. Frieza watched in both awe and shock as his attack ground to a halt, and even worse, began to reverse it's trajectory. At it's helm was none other than Jump Man, seething with rage and encased in a green aura of telekinetic energy, further extending his abilities to interact with not only matter but energy as well. Jump grabbed the ball of energy harshly, and by closing his hands abruptly, caused the entire mass to violently and prematurely explode.
The entire scenery was painted red and white for several moments, the size of the blast completely dwarfing anything ever experienced on Namek, easily cracking apart the continental crust beneath wherever the battlefield once was. In the remains of the explosion, a green spark clicked alive, followed by a torrent of green-tinted lightning, revealing the survival and triumphant of Jump Man against the Death Ball. He turned his enraged eyes to the sky, however, and saw Freiza ready with another planet-destroying attack. Rather than catch it, Jump appeared in front of Frieza as he threw the Supernova, allowing it to burrow itself into Namek's surface. "What... Are you?" Frieza spat.
"I am..." Jump began, "Mad." With that lone word, Rip Valentine tore into the galactic tyrant with kicks and punches so powerful, it blew away parts of the atmosphere into the space, Frieza's immensely durable body barely holding itself together under the sheer amount of force Rip was giving out. Frieza retaliated in kind, but in vain as well, throwing kicks, punches, and even tail slaps against Jump that simply had no effect on the bastard. "If I don't want you to damage me, then I won't let it. You've hurt me far more than anything else could be physically. I was ready to die when I saw what happened."
"Stop blabbering on you disgusting excuse for a -" Frieza's voice was cut off as Jump latched onto his neck with one hand, applying steady and uniform pressure.
"I'm awfully sick of your mouth." He said calmly, a faint snapping sound coming from Frieza's neck followed by a wheeze, Jump having crushed his windpipe and vocal cords, but leaving his spine in tact. "I was ready to accept death, but then I realized, the one thing Rocket Girl wanted was for me to get serious and actually do something. She would beat me eternally in the after-life if I just gave up, so I need to survive. I don't want to die, and I don't have to. Look at me," He said, grabbing Frieza's neck once more and snapping him to attention, "Every warrior before me had it in them to beat you. To absolutely slaughter you, without mercy and without remorse, but those four warriors have those two traits in troves."
He grabbed Frieza's left hand with his other, crushing it immediately, but roughly slipping the Green Lantern Ring from his finger. "Ryou, he had heart and took you on when no one else stood ready. Asumar and his brother combined their power to take you on. Alex overcame her fear of you and unleashed her willpower to still stand and face you against all odds. And Nick, most importantly, showed us something we could never have imagined: That you could be injured, and that you could be beat." Rip slipped the lantern ring onto his own finger in a fluid motion, his telekinetic ability causing it power on ever so slightly, just enough to glow a dim green color, but bright enough to be seen across the back drop of a starry sky.
"You..." Frieza wheezed through his broken throat, "Knew their names?"
"Of course I did." Jump responded, "I may have just met some of them, but I'll always remember them. And what's more, I will always remember the ones who you crushed under your heel, everyone will. But no one will remember you. Not when I'm done here or hundreds of years from now. You're a blight on the galaxy and I'm the cure, but let me share a secret with you." Frieza, whose very life was being squeezed away by Jump's grasp, listened close. "I'm not a good guy, and I don't believe in second chances." With that, Rip Valentine tightened his grip and flared his energy, fully crushing Frieza's neck and causing the galactic tyrant to go limp, but that wasn't enough, Rip was overcome with bloodlust, and gave a hard kick to the alien's chest while pulling hard on the fluid-like neck of Frieza, tearing out the upper columns of his spine and removing them completely from his body, letting blood splatter out. Finally, he relinquished his grip, and Rip was at ease.
Taking in his surroundings, though, his outlook seemed bleak. Freiza's last Death Ball Supernova was ready to fully destroy Namek, whether the tyrant was dead or alive, and Rip seemed out of options for an escape, and opted to simply sit down comfortably, and patiently wait for the inevitable. His aura calmed and slowly fell back into his body, as his emotions gave way completely, his anger gone and sadness all he was left with. There, the charred remains of a continent on a doomed world, Rip Valentine sobbed and wept, tucking his knees close to his chest as raw emotion came forth, stuttering it's way out of his lips as he was faced once more with death, but he was not mourning Frieza, he was mourning Sarah.
After all, this was victory.
