c32: Time Freeze!
A deep blue sky stretched endlessly overhead, dotted with fluffy white clouds. The scorching sun blazed down on the barren plains of Frieza Base No. 2, casting long shadows across the ground.
Suddenly
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Five spherical space pods plummeted from the sky like fiery meteors, slamming into the ground with violent force. The resulting impact sent tremors across the landscape, forming five massive craters in the terrain.
Then, as if on cue
A synchronized chorus rang out from within the craters.
"Recoome!"
"Burter!"
"Jeice!"
"Guldo!"
"Captain Ginyu!"
The dust settled, revealing five flamboyantly posed warriors, each striking a different dramatic stance.
"WE ARE... THE GINYU FORCE!"
They remained frozen in place, expecting an awestruck reaction.
Instead
"...These are the guys you said were powerful?" Bulma whispered to Li Xu, watching the five warriors with an unimpressed expression. "They look like a bunch of weirdos."
Li Xu felt a bead of sweat roll down his forehead. He had seen the Ginyu Force's ridiculous antics in the original story, but witnessing it in person was far more embarrassing.
Still, despite their absurdity, he knew better than to underestimate them.
Meanwhile, the Ginyu Force held their poses, clearly expecting a response.
Silence.
A gust of wind whistled across the battlefield, rustling their armor.
Burter coughed awkwardly.
"Captain… I don't think he saw us. Should we do it again?" Jeice suggested, his voice uncertain.
Ginyu nodded seriously. "Yes! Let's perform it again, with even more style!"
BOOM!
Before they could begin, a sudden energy blast streaked toward them.
"Tch!" Recoome clicked his tongue and casually sidestepped the attack. The others swiftly followed suit, avoiding the explosion with ease.
A massive dust cloud rose from the blast, obscuring the view.
Burter growled. "Oi! Don't you know it's rude to interrupt a performance?"
Li Xu dusted off his hands, looking completely unbothered. "I don't have time for this nonsense. If you want to fight, hurry up. I'd like to finish you off before dinner."
"Hmph! You've got no appreciation for fine choreography!" Jeice muttered, crossing his arms in frustration.
Recoome grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Captain, let me handle this. I'll play with him before I kill him!"
Ginyu shook his head. "No. Let Guldo have some fun first."
Guldo's four eyes gleamed with anticipation. "Heh… I'll make sure he suffers."
He reached up and tapped his Scouter, analyzing Li Xu's power level.
"Beep… Beep… DiDi! Combat power detected: 8,000!"
"Hah!" Guldo laughed. "This guy's weaker than Vegeta! This will be over in seconds!"
But Guldo failed to consider one thing
If Li Xu really had only 8,000 combat power, how had he killed Cui and Zarbon?
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The Battle Begins!
"Too much talking."
Li Xu smirked before vanishing in an instant.
"W-Where did he go?!" Burter gasped, his sharp eyes struggling to keep up.
Guldo barely had time to react
WHOOSH!
Li Xu reappeared directly in front of him, fist cocked back for a devastating punch.
"Crap!"
"TIME FREEZE!"
At the last possible second, Guldo activated his signature ability.
A strange silence fell over the battlefield.
The color drained from the world, leaving everything frozen in a motionless gray hue.
Even Li Xu, who had been mid-strike, was completely still.
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Inside the Frozen Time
Sweat trickled down Guldo's green forehead as he stumbled back, gasping for air.
"Damn… That was too close!"
He had barely managed to react in time. Li Xu's speed was unreal—far greater than he expected.
"What kind of monster is this guy?! He's even faster than Vegeta!"
Even with time paused, Guldo felt an overwhelming sense of unease. He turned toward the frozen figure of Li Xu, examining him closely.
"He almost got me… If I don't end this quickly, I might not get another chance."
Guldo clenched his fists, his breathing ragged.
Maintaining Time Freeze drained a massive amount of stamina. He could hold it for a few more seconds, at best.
"I'll chop his head off while he's frozen!"
Just as Guldo reached for his blade
Something terrifying happened.
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An Impossible Reality
A faint red glow flickered across Li Xu's body.
At first, Guldo thought it was his imagination.
Then
Li Xu's fingers twitched.
"W-What?! Impossible! He's moving!"
Guldo's four eyes widened in absolute horror.
"How can he move inside my Time Freeze?!"
Li Xu's lips curled into a slow, predatory grin.
"Did you really think you were the only one who could manipulate time?"
"BOOM!"
With a deafening crack, Li Xu's aura erupted, shattering the frozen reality around them.
Time resumed.
Guldo barely had a moment to react before
BANG!
Li Xu's fist slammed into Guldo's gut, bending him like a folding chair.
The force sent shockwaves rippling through the air.
Guldo's eyes bulged as he coughed up green blood, his body lifting off the ground from the sheer impact.
Li Xu didn't stop there.
He grabbed Guldo's head and smashed it into the dirt, forming a crater beneath them.
"AAAAAARGH!" Guldo screamed, writhing in agony.
"Y-You…!! What did you DO?! No one can move inside my Time Freeze!"
Li Xu's crimson eyes glowed ominously.
"You're wrong. Anyone with a deep understanding of time manipulation can resist your little trick. Compared to true time abilities, your technique is just a cheap parlor trick."
Guldo's face twisted in terror.
"N-No… NOOOO!"
With a flick of his wrist, Li Xu snapped Guldo's neck, ending the battle instantly.
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The First Ginyu Falls!
The rest of the Ginyu Force watched in disbelief.
"What… just happened?" Jeice stuttered.
Recoome gulped. "Guldo… lost…?"
Burter clenched his fists. "That bastard... He countered Time Freeze?! This guy isn't normal!"
Captain Ginyu narrowed his eyes.
"This just got interesting."
Li Xu wiped Guldo's blood off his hand and turned toward the remaining four warriors.
"Who's next?"
"Is this Guldo's Time Freeze?" Although Li Xu's body was immobilized, his consciousness remained active. He could still process thoughts, unaffected by the frozen surroundings.
He quickly realized that Guldo's technique wasn't a true halt of time itself, but rather a field of suspended temporal energy, freezing the motion of all things caught within it.
However, the energy anchoring the freeze was unstable and not absolute—at least not against someone of Li Xu's level. His thoughts continued flowing freely despite the stasis.
Li Xu theorized that had his battle power been significantly lower than Guldo's, even his mind would have succumbed to the paralysis. In such a state, he would've been utterly defenseless like prey on a butcher's slab.
"It's a bizarre technique," Li Xu thought. "Against weaker opponents, it's practically invincible. They wouldn't even know how they died."
The issue wasn't with the technique itself but rather Guldo's limitations. His inability to strengthen the power behind his Time Freeze meant it could not restrain superior fighters. The technique had potential but not in such weak hands.
"Hah!"
A sudden surge of white-hot energy erupted from Li Xu's body, his aura blazing like a bonfire in a snowstorm.
CRACK!
The dull gray hue of the paused world fractured like glass under a hammer. Temporal stillness shattered, and the normal flow of time surged back as Li Xu moved again.
"Impossible!" Guldo gasped, his voice shaking. Never once had his Time Freeze been broken. Against opponents like Krillin or Gohan, it had worked flawlessly. This was unthinkable.
But that was because he'd only ever used it on fighters far beneath his level. He had never faced a true elite warrior.
"What a waste of potential," Li Xu scoffed. Despite his grotesque appearance, Guldo had been gifted with an extraordinary ability one with the rare potential to manipulate temporal mechanics. Yet he had squandered it, relying on cheap tricks instead of mastering the deeper laws of time.
WHOOSH!
Before Guldo could react, a piercing ray of energy flashed through the air.
SCHLICK!
His head dropped to the ground, his eyes wide with shock, all four of them staring into nothingness.
"He killed Guldo!"
The rest of the Ginyu Force finally processed what had happened. Their expressions hardened, filled with rage.
"Damn it!" Jeice barked. "We spent weeks choreographing our new entrance pose, and now it's ruined 'cause Guldo's dead! We'll have to start from scratch!"
"Captain, let me handle him," Recoome growled. "I'll crush every bone in his body and make him beg for death."
Ginyu nodded. "Go ahead. Make it entertaining."
"Heh… you're dead meat, pal," Recoome said with a savage grin.
"Recoome Kick!"
Recoome lunged with a knee strike, a technique that, despite his bulky appearance, came at blinding speed.
WHOOSH!
His strike passed clean through the air, colliding with a massive boulder, which shattered into rubble. The figure of Li Xu standing before him dissolved like smoke.
It had only been an afterimage.
"W-What?!" Recoome's face twisted with confusion. "He dodged that?"
"Recoome Eraser Gun no, screw that! Recoome Mach Attack!"
Fueled by rage, Recoome launched himself again, aiming to ram Li Xu into oblivion with brute strength and sheer speed.
But as he closed in, his body suddenly stiffened. His eyes bulged, his jaw dropped, and his arms instinctively wrapped around his midsection. His face twisted in agony.
THUMP!
Recoome's towering frame crashed to the ground like a felled tree. The light faded from his eyes.
Li Xu had gotten to him first. In a flash, he had slammed an elbow into Recoome's chest with pinpoint precision. The focused burst of energy didn't just knock the wind out of him it had obliterated his internal organs.
Unlike Son Goku, who held back during their fight on Namek, Li Xu fought to kill. There were no mercy blows just lethal strikes with surgical efficiency.
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