The Death Beam fizzled out between Vegeta's fingers like a cheap sparkler.
He flicked the last wisp of pink light away, expression unchanged.
"That it?"
Frieza's finger was still extended, trembling almost imperceptibly.
Vegeta took one lazy step forward.
The stone under his boot turned to powder.
"Super Vegeta," he repeated, voice low, savoring every syllable. "Say it."
Frieza's tail curled tight against his leg.
His perfect, elegant face cracked, just a hairline fracture of rage and something that looked disturbingly like panic.
Vegeta's grin widened, sharp enough to cut diamonds.
"Fine. I'll make you say it."
He vanished.
No flash. No warning.
Just gone.
Frieza's eyes had time to widen.
Then Vegeta's fist was already buried in his gut.
The impact didn't make a sound.
Because the air itself fled in terror.
Frieza folded around the punch like wet paper, mouth open in a silent scream, eyes bulging from their sockets.
Vegeta didn't stop there.
He twisted, elbow screaming upward into Frieza's jaw.
The tyrant's head snapped back so hard his neck made a sound like breaking porcelain.
Frieza shot skyward, a white comet trailing purple blood.
Vegeta was already above him.
Waiting.
He caught Frieza by the face with one hand, fingers digging into the smooth white skin like it was clay.
And squeezed.
Just enough to feel bone creak.
Frieza thrashed, tail whipping, both hands clawing at Vegeta's wrist.
Useless.
Vegeta leaned in until their foreheads almost touched.
Golden eyes stared into red.
"Listen carefully, Frieza."
His voice was soft.
Almost kind.
"I'm going to break you. Piece by piece. Bone by bone. Until the only thing left that can move is your mouth."
He released Frieza's face.
The tyrant dropped like a stone.
Vegeta followed, slow, hands behind his back.
Frieza hit the ocean.
The impact carved a crater a kilometer wide.
Water exploded upward in a perfect ring.
Frieza surfaced, coughing blood, aura flaring wildly.
Vegeta landed on the water's surface in front of him.
Didn't sink an inch.
He tilted his head.
"Still think one hundred twenty million is high?"
Frieza screamed.
Not words.
Just raw, animal terror.
Then he charged.
Final form speed: faster than light.
To Vegeta, it looked like slow motion.
He sighed.
Raised one finger.
And flicked Frieza in the forehead.
The tyrant flew backward again, carving a trench through three islands before embedding himself in a mountain.
Vegeta floated after him, unhurried.
"Super Vegeta," he called, voice carrying perfectly across the ruined sea.
"Say it."
From inside the mountain came a sound no one in the universe had ever heard before.
Frieza, Emperor of everything, whimpering.
Vegeta's smile finally reached his eyes.
"Good. We're getting somewhere."
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