At the same time Lizette's group was increasing combat power—
Frieza had already grasped that several troublesome elements had infiltrated this planet.
Though unable to sense energy physically, there was an unidentified group (Gohan's team) that suddenly appeared at Namekian villages, plus Vegeta (though apparently Zarbon already eliminated Vegeta).
And currently, someone was changing this planet's temperature.
Naturally he didn't doubt everything would be resolved if he moved, nor did he feel threatened.
But he considered it troublesome.
Therefore, Frieza decided to summon his most trusted subordinates—namely, the Ginyu Force—to clean them up.
"Emergency, Lord Frieza!"
There, Zarbon—who'd been ordered to contact the Force—returned.
Though suffering the slight loss of Dodoria, having splendidly defeated the annoying Vegeta, he ran before Frieza with a face full of anxiety.
"An informant infiltrated in our forces contacted Lord Cooler saying 'Lord Frieza harbors treasonous intent'!"
"What!? Who exactly did that!?"
"Appule! I already eliminated him, but the message reached Lord Cooler first."
"Tch, Cooler... planning to obtain immortality instead of me?! I won't allow it! Zarbon, where's the Force!? I need combat power to battle Cooler!"
"Yes! They'll arrive in a few hours!"
...Naturally, needless to say, that informant was Zarbon himself.
He judged that with his power, standing on his head wouldn't beat Frieza, so thought of fighting poison with poison.
Only the strongest could oppose the strongest. Summoning Cooler—the only one Frieza feared, his older brother—making Frieza and Cooler crush each other.
Worst case, if the scheme was exposed, both Frieza brothers might gang up on him, but Zarbon deliberately chose this method.
To obtain eternal beauty required crossing dangerous bridges. He had that resolve.
(Hehehe, sorry Appule... you became a stepping stone for me. Watch from the afterlife. The universe's two strongest dancing in my palm.)
Beautiful ambition wouldn't stop.
Carrying nuclear bombs on his back, tap-dancing through minefields while sprinting full speed down roads leading to death.
If eternal beauty lay ahead, no hesitation existed.
Zarbon had already transcended even fear of death.
"Zarbon, I'm leaving here briefly. I'll leave things to you."
"Understood. But where to?"
"Well, I'm thinking of eliminating those eyesore rabble on this planet... Originally planned to have the Ginyu Force do it, but circumstances changed. Can't have extra interference when battling Cooler. I'll massacre them all now. Fortunately, thanks to the Scouter you took from Vegeta, I know their location."
Zarbon's rampage had invited one irregularity.
The Scouter that should have been crushed by Vegeta himself was recovered intact and passed to Frieza's hands.
Meaning Frieza could grasp Lizette's group's location.
Furthermore, Vegeta's Scouter was the latest model, an excellent device detecting even hundreds of thousands of combat power.
Still, if Lizette's group went full power, the Scouter would exceed tolerance and explode—but suppressing energy normally backfired.
Therefore the Scouter hadn't yet broken, and Frieza pinpointed Lizette's group's location.
The universe's emperor, due to Zarbon's rampage, began acting earlier than originally.
His destination—where the Earthlings were.
★
"Deity, what now?"
Tien asked Lizette, who'd sent the Grand Elder's group to Earth and returned.
Combat power increased. Living Namekians saved.
Then nothing remained but fighting, but recklessly charging might worst-case invite gang-ups from other camps.
Lizette considered cautious strategies first based on those factors, but probably predicted Goku would eventually explode from impatience.
"By the way, what about the Dragon Balls?"
"Stored in a subspace I created. Unless opponents possess abilities interfering with space, even if I'm killed, they can't be stolen."
Dead Zone—Heaven's Gate's origin—was originally not spatial movement but a technique 'trapping enemies in self-created space.'
Meaning not just spatial movement, but also space creation power.
Having refined the technique, Lizette created a space only she could access, tossing Dragon Balls there plus some inconvenient-to-carry personal items.
Like a pseudo four-dimensional pocket.
This space wouldn't vanish even if Lizette died, and no one could touch it unless she intentionally produced the balls.
Incidentally, seeing this ability's completion, Lizette moved the four Ultimate Dragon Balls stored in the temple to this subspace upon returning to Earth.
Three in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Four in Lizette's subspace. Now gathering them became even harder.
"That's amazing. Meaning at least now, they absolutely can't grant wishes."
Yamcha laughed optimistically, understanding one objective was achieved.
The moment one ball reached Lizette's hands, the Dragon Ball scramble on Planet Namek lost meaning.
Since they couldn't steal it regardless, no hope remained for Frieza's group to grant wishes.
"From here, we have two paths. One: remain stationary, having them crush each other for a while—cautious strategy. The other: move ourselves, actively reducing enemies—muscle-head strategy... or rather, not even a strategy."
With current combat power, either was fine, Lizette thought.
The danger of gang-ups from other camps naturally existed, but even that—assigning Turles and Slug to Goku and Piccolo, other small fries to Tien's group—would work sufficiently. The point: just don't directly clash with Frieza.
Even that Frieza was now an opponent she could beat, so no need to fear anymore.
But still, win rate should be as high as possible.
Ideally, Frieza, Turles, and Slug would crush each other leaving only Frieza.
The final victor being Frieza was immovable, but Turles's group should at least scatter the Ginyu Force.
Though such passive fisherman's profit-aiming strategy Goku would hate.
"I'm definitely for option two. Waiting for opponents to decrease—I don't like that much."
"Agreed. With power to defeat them, why hesitate? Go out and crush them."
Goku and Piccolo naturally chose the muscle-head strategy.
Though having enough sense to be cautious when opponents were superior, otherwise they possessed the troublesome trait of wanting to fight actively.
Following them, Tien clenched his fist.
"Let's do it, Deity. We're strong now. Can scatter them sufficiently."
"If Tien's doing it, so am I."
"I'll take them all down together with my Wolf Fang Fist."
"I'm in too. Want to settle grudges from being worked hard."
Chiaotzu agreed following Tien, Yamcha and Nappa continued with confident voices.
After all, they were martial artists. Probably couldn't wait to test newly increased power.
Krillin, Gohan, and Monster Carrot looked unenthusiastic, but raised no objections.
Apparently this was charging decided—Lizette felt slightly exhausted, but actually not bad strategically.
Sometimes boldly moving was better than being overly cautious and stingy.
"Understood. Then first strike camps besides Frieza, then Frieza... No, wait. This is..."
But perhaps Lizette was being slightly too cautious after all.
Well, in this case maybe this was fine.
Could be interpreted as delayed, but also as preventing gang-ups from various camps.
Lizette's face turned slightly stern as she told Goku's group what she sensed from energy movements.
"Apparently we're delayed... Turles started moving. Plus this energy... Vegeta's there too."
"R-Really...! Why Turles and Vegeta?"
"They're fellow Saiyans. Nothing strange about it."
Krillin, sensing energy seconds after Lizette, raised a confused voice; Piccolo voiced speculation looking bored.
Actually, Lizette had long since noticed Vegeta and Turles meeting, but hadn't cared much.
As Piccolo said, for defeating Frieza's purpose, teaming up wasn't particularly strange.
"Plus Frieza too... destination appears to be here."
Lizette's ideal was Turles, Slug, and Frieza crushing each other independently.
Considering that, this development of Turles-Vegeta and Frieza approaching wasn't very desirable.
Moreover, bad things apparently overlapped.
From far away, the distant universe's beyond, Lizette sensed massive energy moving toward this Planet Namek.
Moreover, sensing deeper—clairvoyance revealed facts chilling even current Lizette's spine.
Silhouette closely resembling Frieza's final form, purple and white coloring... no mistake, Cooler.
Not knowing what caused this situation, but Cooler was approaching this planet.
Moreover... befitting Frieza's brother. The spaceship's performance differed from mass-produced pods.
Movement speed was astonishingly fast. At this rate, would arrive in barely an hour.
(Why exactly Cooler...? No, rather Frieza's moving himself because Cooler's coming? Don't understand... but some situation I didn't predict is occurring...)
Though outwardly remaining calm, Lizette's mind was in great panic.
Why exactly was Frieza moving himself? Considering personality, shouldn't he wait until Ginyu Force arrived?
No, moving himself aside, he shouldn't have Scouters. Namekians should have destroyed them all, yet why could he grasp their location?
Not instructing energy suppression, assuming no Scouters—that was a mistake. Should have moved with energy completely suppressed—regret came too late.
Naturally she'd anticipated maybe Vegeta would come sensing their energy, but that was fine.
Just defeat him when he came—rather, even deliberately dangled bait.
But hadn't predicted Frieza acting together.
Still, even up to here, could manage somehow. Worst case, herself going all-out to scatter everyone would resolve it.
But Cooler. Why exactly was he moving at this timing?
Made no sense.
(Can only think some design is working... those demon clan perhaps? Or different factors? Either way, must make decisions quickly.)
Cooler and Ginyu Force's arrival, judging from energy movement speed: probably within one hour.
Need to somehow neutralize other camps by then.
Arrival order, judging from distance and speed: first Turles and Vegeta.
With luck, could even cooperate with them?
Frieza... no choice. Then she'd finish him herself.
Initially he'd come leisurely in first or second form, so eliminate him before letting him get serious.
Must already consider how to handle Cooler arriving after Frieza—no capacity to struggle with Frieza.
After all, Cooler was already in what was Frieza's final form from the start. A strong enemy undefeatable with same methods.
No, need fighting even exist? Activate Heaven's Gate when Cooler's spaceship arrived, send it to distant space—how about that?
Considering Cooler's speed and space survival, high possibility of evasion, but worth trying.
"D-Deity! Wh-What do we do!? They're coming already!"
"Intercept here. First deal with Turles arriving first. Probably share defeating Frieza objective... with luck, might cooperate in battling Frieza."
First persuade Turles. If failed, herself defeat him quickly.
Then eliminate Frieza before letting him go full power.
Afterward send Cooler's spaceship far away. Quite tight timing, but only option.
Slug could be defeated last—that was fine.
Concluding thus, Lizette looked up at arrived Turles and Vegeta.