>>5446619“Freeza....” you say, raising your left hand and placing it on his head. He looks back up into your eyes, you taking full advantage of the opening and driving your right fist as hard as you can right into his guts.
“Gyuuuh!” Freeza wheezes as you wind him, but don't let him collapse to the ground. Instead you're holding him upright by the head as he struggles to breathe, focusing intensely on not crushing him. With that blow you feel all your aggression towards him surge to the surface, your rage threatening to consume you. But you stamp it out, suppressing the murderous urge.
“You could have come by anytime, you know.” you snarl, Freeza wincing in pain. “Hell, you could have called me and I could have grabbed you away and brought you to my world. So why in the hell didn't you just ASK? Why the fuck would you attack me, attack my family?”
“Gah-! Guh-!” he tries to talk, unable to take a breath in as your grip pressure keeps increasing. You then drop him at your feet and stare down at him as he falls flat. Yet despite being unable to breathe he still forces himself up onto a knee, looking up to you again.
“You were like a brother to me.” you say, the shock freezing him in place. “So why? Why, Freeza....?”
“I-*cough* You....” he says, too shocked to continue speaking. But you don't say anything, instead just glaring down at him as he struggles. Before, you'd have tried to help him, to offer a hand, but now you just watch him struggle in pain. It doesn't quell the fires of rage burning in you, but it does feel good. You watch in silence as he struggles back up to his feet, fighting against the pain to stand tall once more. “I didn't want to be a bother. You have your family, your students, and your people who all need you. I couldn't take your attention away from them.”
“So, you try and MURDER my son instead?!” you shout furiously, your rage bleeding through and shattering your Energy Body, emerald aura blazing wildly. “You released a monster that had the potential to erase us all, and for what? One last fight? What good would that do if we all died!?!”
“Precisely.” King Cold speaks up, voice hard and angry as he addresses his son. “Your foolishness and arrogance nearly cost us everything. Centuries of work, nearly undone by a single impulsive decision.”
But as you look over to him King Cold seemingly deflates a bit on his throne, sighing out in that way your own father used to in his last few years. Which suddenly alarms you, for multiple reasons.
“But the blame ultimately lies with me.”
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