>>5541824As Freeza hangs limply in the wall, your body, your wrath is trying to burst from your body and attack him while he's weak, to give him the pain he tried to deal you. Clenching your fists, every muscle tensed, you're a hair trigger away from exploding forward and continuing to unload on him. But as you were thinking to yourself your body'd walked forward without your notice, drawing your right fist back to swing it directly into your stunned ally.
“DAMMIT!!” you snarl, switching your swing's arc. Instead of slamming your fist into your defenseless leader, instead you swing straight down, shattering the room's entire floor with the attack. The ground shatters, stone raining down into the room below as you hang suspended in the air with your flight. You force yourself to take a deep, measured breath, then slowly exhale. Focusing on your strength, you begin powering back down, it taking several slow breaths before you're back in control enough to power back down into your base form. Your rage tries to break free, to run rampant, but you're an old hand at controlling your anger. A single, momentary lapse in control doesn't undo those years of hard work.
“Karn, was that...?” he starts, unable to finish the sentence as you look back up towards him. Your eyes meet his, you seeing hurt there that has nothing to do with his physical pain. He actually flinches as your eyes meet his own, Freeza looking away as he's unable to look you in the eye. “...”
“What?” you ask him, a note of irritation in your voice. “You want to say something, so just fucking say it already.”
“I...I'm sorry, Karn.” Freeza says, your anger blazing back to life around you.
“Sorry? You're SORRY?!” you explode, anger surging back to full force. “Sorry doesn't fucking cut it! Not this time, not for this! You tried to MURDER MY SON!”
“What do you want me to do about it?!” he demands, but he doesn't sound angry at you. He sounds desperate, begging, almost pleading with you for some sort of salvation as tears streak down his face. “What CAN I do? Every night I can't sleep, my dreams filled with nightmares of what I did! Not a single day goes by where I don't regret what I've done, where I don't regret the mistakes I made. I can't keep going on like this! Please, Karn. Please...”
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