"Good! Good!"
"After this battle, you've all mastered Great Ape Power."
"At least now you have a trump card!"
Mu Chuan looked at the Saiyans, who had all been completely transformed, and couldn't help praising them.
Carl, who had fought so ferociously just moments ago, now seemed rather embarrassed.
"It's all thanks to you, boss!"
"If it weren't for you, we'd still be a bunch of Low-Class Warriors with such low battle powers. We'd never have gotten where we are today. To put it bluntly, we might even have been destroyed along with Planet Vegeta!"
"Our lives belong to you!"
The other Saiyans all chimed in.
Mu Chuan didn't care whether they meant what they said. He accepted their gratitude graciously, then changed the subject and said, "Since everyone's strength has improved, and you've mastered Great Ape Power, too..."
"It's time for us to leave this desolate planet."
"Cooler knows our coordinates now, and the Armored Squadron has gone silent. He'll definitely figure out that we're involved."
"That monster is even more terrifying than Frieza. With our current battle powers, we can't face him head-on!"
"We'd better hide for now..."
At his words, the Saiyans' joy instantly cooled, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over them.
Even though they had mastered Great Ape Power,
they were still no match for the Frieza Race. There was simply no comparison.
Mu Chuan didn't want to put himself in danger. Now that the Armored Squadron had been dealt with, Cooler would definitely be furious!
He might head for this desolate planet at any moment. To avoid running into him, it was better to get out of the way as soon as possible!
And Mu Chuan had already decided where they would go...
Earth!!
The Dragon Ball story hadn't officially begun yet, but he believed Earthlings were at the center of the coming turmoil. Besides, he still hadn't fully mastered how to use ki.
If he learned how to use ki, becoming a Super Saiyan would be much easier.
What was more, his basic battle power was already astonishing, yet he still hadn't shown the slightest sign of transforming. It was as if he'd hit a bottleneck.
Even if his battle power kept increasing from here on, it would all be for nothing if he couldn't become a Super Saiyan!
So he had to go to Earth.
Once he'd made up his mind, he didn't discuss it with the other Saiyans. He simply gave everyone present the exact coordinates.
Then they all boarded the spaceships.
He had the coordinates because he'd specifically looked them up while he was still on Planet Vegeta.
They could find Earth if they searched for it, but in the vast universe, those coordinates were no more than a tiny speck.
But only Mu Chuan knew...
Earth would become the center of the universe, and the Child of Destiny was there!
As they set off for Earth,
Cooler, on the other side of the universe, received a report from one of his subordinates.
"King Cooler, the Scouter just showed that the Armored Squadron has lost contact!"
"And a few minutes ago, it detected a large number of unknown fighters. Almost all of them had battle powers over a hundred thousand."
"There were as many as twelve of them!"
"We got a fragmentary message from the Scouter. It sounded like they were Saiyans!"
After delivering the report, the alien knelt on the ground, trembling with fear, afraid that Cooler would wipe him out with a Destruction Beam.
But destruction wasn't what awaited him.
Only King Cooler's aura grew heavier by the moment!
Cooler's face twisted with rage. His temper was already fraying. From the information he'd received, it seemed the Armored Squadron had been defeated.
By Saiyans, no less!
The Saiyans were under Frieza's rule, and now they'd appeared at the coordinates Frieza had given him.
That could only mean one thing: his dear little brother Frieza had done this!
He'd dealt Cooler a heavy blow in one stroke!
His trump-card squad had been completely wiped out.
"Good! Very good!"
"Excellent, Frieza!"
"If I don't teach you a lesson, do you really think I'm just a useless big brother?"
"You're called a genius of the Frieza Race only because I never bothered to take you seriously. Since that's how it is, I'll make you taste what it's like to suffer a crushing loss!"
Cooler was furious!
He was angrier than he'd ever been.
At first, he'd only felt that his authority had been challenged. It hadn't been enough to make him this furious.
But now things were different...
Someone had wiped out his trump-card squad, the Armored Squadron. They were his most important troops in his campaigns across the universe, and now they were gone!
Who knew how long it would take to find subordinates like them again? And they'd been so easy to recruit, too!
He'd treasured them beyond measure...
And now they were gone for good!
How could he not be furious?
"Full speed ahead! I want to reach Frieza as fast as possible!"
At Cooler's command, the entire spaceship surged forward at dozens of times its previous speed, to the point where it seemed ready to break apart.
Even so, not one of them dared defy Cooler's orders!
It was clear... his rage could not be extinguished.
Frieza had no idea that his actions, though unintentional, had earned him Cooler's genuine hatred.
And what awaited him would be a clash between brothers!
Mu Chuan and the others had no idea they'd narrowly escaped disaster, since all the blame had landed on Frieza.
They hadn't attracted anyone's attention at all!
But...
Mu Chuan had lived two lives. He wasn't willing to entrust his life to someone else's mercy.
He always planned for the worst.
But perhaps their luck wasn't very good. As they sped toward Earth, a gigantic meteor suddenly surrounded them along the way.
It looked like a meteor, but also like a planet!
And it came hurtling straight toward them!
The spaceship's alarms blared.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep..."
"Unknown flying object detected on a collision course with the ship. Initiating emergency protocol!"
Red lights flashed throughout the spaceship, and the alarm kept sounding.
Mu Chuan hurried to look outside. It was an enormous meteor, almost like a planet, but by all rights, they shouldn't have been on a collision course.
So why had they ended up in the same orbit?
And since his spaceship had gone ahead first, with the other Saiyans still behind him, he was now... right in the line of fire!
He tried several times to steer off course.
But he soon realized that he couldn't simply change course whenever he wanted. The unknown planet seemed to be coming straight for him!!
The discovery shocked him!
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