The TARDIS crew as well as their new friends were led to cells while Whis was still in the lab. Rassilon and Ginyu struggled for dominance and control of the body they now shared. The Doctor, meanwhile, thought hard about how Frieza’s plan would require the Dragon Balls. William and Amy stood by while Goku tried to punch his way out and Bulma had a few choice words for Frieza’s men. “YOU THINK I’M GONNA ROT HERE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE?!” she shouted. “WHEN VEGETA GETS BACK, YOU’RE ALL GONNA HAVE TWO SAIYANS RAMPAGING THROUGH THIS FLYING PIECE OF TIN FOIL!” “How long has she been shouting?” muttered William. “An hour, I think,” replied Amy. “I HAD hoped I’d get something about Frieza’s plans from Ginyu, but he’s too busy wrestling with Rassilon.” “…Goku,” called William. “Yeah?” asked Goku as he punched the wall to no avail. “There are multiple sets of Dragon Balls, yeah?” “That’s right.” “With their own set of rules?” “Uh huh.” “And Ginyu said that Frieza used the Namekian Dragon Balls to resurrect him and his men,” continued William. “Yep. Though Frieza would have had to have used the Namekian Dragon Balls twice after a year passed for New Namek,” explained Goku. “How’s that?” asked William. “Well, while our Dragon Balls take a year to recharge after they’re used, the Namekian Dragon Balls take only 130 days,” replied Goku. “And though the person that gathered them gets three wishes, including bringing back someone from the dead, they can only return one person at a time, regardless of how long it is. For us, we can bring back anyone as long as they’ve only been dead for a year. Any longer, we can’t bring them back. Even then, that limits our three wishes to two.” “…And there’s only five in the Ginyu Force, right?” asked Amy, catching onto William’s logic. Bulma stopped shouting when she heard Amy’s question. “…Yeah, there are,” said Bulma. “So what did Frieza use his sixth wish for? …Unless…” “Information concerning the experiment he’s conducting,” finished the Doctor. “But limited information… …Of course! He needs more data! He would need the creator deity as well as a destroyer and a sort of neutral party such as Whis. But to go about combining their energies as he said…how very worrying.” The Doctor got up and started tinkering with the controls to her cell door. After a bit of rewiring, the forcefield vanished. “There.” She then went to a console and keyed in a command. All the doors unlocked. “Come on, everyone. We need to settle Rassilon’s dilemma first. Goku, be a dear and get her.” “Right!” replied Goku. He then went to Rassilon’s cell and grabbed her. “UNHAND ME, YOU UNSTYLISH OAF!” shouted Ginyu. “I have to agree with the ham-actor in my head! PUT ME DOWN!” protested Rassilon. “Will you quit squirming?!” snapped Goku. “I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like having two minds in your head!” “That’s why Time Lords only do the telepathic thing with one another,” remarked the Doctor. They managed to get the squirming Time Lord with two minds to a lab and set her down on a table. The Doctor activated restraints. “…Doctor, how much pain will Rassilon be experiencing?” asked William. “Unfortunately, quite a lot,” replied the Doctor. “But we can’t exactly do anything without Ginyu’s original body.” “Hold up, I think I see it here!” called Bulma. The body was in a stasis tube. “Perfect! Lay him down on the opposite table!” directed the Doctor. Goku did so and the Doctor wired headsets to both bodies. “No time for sedatives,” sighed the Doctor. “Sorry, Rassilon.” She activated the machine and electricity surged through the heads. Rassilon and Ginyu screamed as the Doctor worked. After two agonizing minutes, the machine switched off and Rassilon opened her eyes slowly, groaning in pain. “Oooogh…my head!” she complained. “M-Mine too!” groaned Ginyu’s voice from his old body. The Doctor went to check on Rassilon. “I’m all right now, Doctor!” insisted Rassilon. “Gotta make absolutely sure,” replied the Doctor. She checked over Rassilon’s body. “…No signs of the regeneration process starting,” she said. “That’s always a good sign.” “You…you put me back in my old body!” snarled Ginyu. “I can’t use my body swap ability on her again, thanks to your infernal meddling!” “Well, if you WILL try and swap bodies with the founder of Time Lord Society-,” chided the Doctor. “Doctor, we have other issues right now,” said Rassilon. “We have to save Whis. …And Beerus, I suppose.” “You’re going nowhere!” shouted Ginyu as he blocked the door. “Captain Ginyu, we don’t have time to fight you, so move!” insisted the Doctor. “I don’t think so!” replied Ginyu. “Lord Frieza has demanded no interruptions as he gathers the Dragon Balls and-!” Amy got him to shut up…with her hammer, of course. “…Wh-Where’d you get that?!” asked Goku. “Fascinating,” remarked Rassilon. “The Time Lords couldn’t do that, despite our advances.” “We’ll gawk at her ability to rearrange matter without dangerous nuclear effects later,” replied the Doctor. “Come on!” The group ran out of the lab. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frieza stood on the bridge of his ship. “Status report of locating that Dragon Radar of Madam Bulma,” he ordered. “Not good, my Lord,” sighed an alien. “Though we DID locate the Doctor’s TARDIS.” “I suppose that’s as good a consolation prize as any,” sighed Frieza. “Have it brought aboard.” “Yes, my Lord,” said the alien. Another alien then came onto the bridge. “…You look like the proverbial Saurian Liger that ate the equally proverbial Brenchian Mouse,” observed Frieza. “What do you have to report?” “Remember the last time we swiped the Dragon Radar?” asked the new alien. “Yes, I recall. That led to Broly, remember?” scoffed Frieza. “Well, our scientists had picked it apart last time after we gathered the Dragon Balls and we managed to make our own radar.” “So you’re telling me this after no testing?” “Forgive me for contradicting you…” the alien then produced two perfectly spherical orange crystals, one with four five-pointed stars inside it, the other with two. “Two Dragon Balls already?!” cheered Frieza. “I underestimated your skill! How many teams went out?” “Seven, my Lord. One for each Dragon Ball.” “Excellent! Have them brought to my quarters! Pass it along to all the team leaders!” “At once, my Lord.” The alien bowed and left. “Now, as for you…” Frieza pointed a finger at the first alien. “W-WAIT! LORD FRIEZA! I CAN-!” The hapless alien didn’t get very far as Frieza fired an energy shot from his finger and pierced the alien’s heart for failing him. “Someone tidy up the bridge, please,” said Frieza, as if he were talking to a servant to get rid of some trash. The alarms then sounded. “Oh, what is it?!” complained Frieza. “Lord Frieza!” called an alien. “The Saiyan and his friends have escaped! Ginyu’s back in his previous body, according to reports!” “STOP THEM, YOU FOOLS!” shouted Frieza. “THE TIME LORDS WILL BE MAKING THEIR WAY TO FREE BEERUS AND WHIS!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frieza was frighteningly accurate at what the Doctor and her team were doing. They arrived at the same laboratory that held Beerus and noticed that Whis was in the same predicament as Beerus. “We’ll have to unwire them,” said the Doctor. “Rassilon, help me with Whis. He’s the higher priority in more ways than one.” “Right,” agreed Rassilon. The two Time Lords checked out what the wires led to. “Looks like we have to be careful, Doctor,” warned Rassilon. “One wrong move would kill them.” “Alternatively,” said Frieza’s voice as he arrived, “you could step away!” “Frieza, what possible reason could there be to combine a Supreme Kai’s creation energy and a God of Destruction’s hakai energy?” asked the Doctor. “To destroy Grand Zeno and his pathetic angels!” replied Frieza. “One NEEDS to be on Grand Zeno’s level to kill him!” “Grand Zeno?” asked William. “The Omni-king himself?!” asked Rassilon. “You fool! You’d destroy EVERY universe in the process!” “And create new ones in my image!” laughed Frieza. “You’ve lost your mind, Frieza!” snarled Goku. “I happen to like how Zenny and his twin are running things!” “Well, you can’t exactly force your tastes onto a Supreme Being such as myself!” retorted Frieza. His natural and artificial armor then cracked and he exploded with energy. In the place of Frieza’s old form was someone with his face, a pale-gray body, purple gems on his scalp, shoulders, shins, and forearms. That body then grew spikes, a longer tail, and white horns around the scalp. He then turned golden as a mouth guard appeared over his face. “…A new form of Golden Frieza, huh?” asked Goku as his hair and eyes turned silver. “…Ultra Instinct?!” asked Rassilon. “Something I had to learn from my dearly departed brother, Cooler!” Frieza explained in response to Goku’s question. He then rushed at the Saiyan and the battle began! “NOT HERE, YOU FOOLS!” shouted Rassilon, but the combatants weren’t listening!