"Wait, no need!" Karnel raised his hand to stop the clone. "I suddenly want to play with Frieza myself."
Number 1 could only stop reaching for the communicator in his hand and stepped aside without saying a word.
"Frieza... Let's say hello formally first," Karnel murmured, dismissing the nine clones to return to their duties as he locked onto Frieza's energy signature.
In an instant, Karnel materialized directly aboard Frieza's massive spaceship.
"Who is this intruder? He can appear on Lord Frieza's ship instantaneously!" Dodoria, the pink-skinned captain, immediately noticed Karnel's sudden appearance and barked orders to his subordinates. "Everyone, kill him now!"
Karnel chuckled softly. These small fry weren't even worth his attention anymore. With casual efficiency, he knocked them all unconscious with just a few swift strikes.
"Don't send these weaklings after me," Karnel said, his bones cracking ominously as he stretched. "Frieza is probably in the control center. I advise you to get out of my way. Otherwise..." He walked casually toward the room where Frieza typically observed his planetary conquests, not taking Dodoria's bulbous form seriously at all.
"Bastard! How dare you ignore me, Dodoria!" the pink alien snarled, but then his expression changed to surprise. "Wait... are you a Saiyan?"
"Get out of here now. I don't have time for small talk," Karnel said coldly, his voice dripping with disdain.
"Hmph! So you're one of those monkeys who escaped Planet Vegeta's destruction," Dodoria sneered proudly. "You Saiyans are only so strong, don't be so arrogant in front of me..."
Dodoria's boastful words were cut short as a tremendous force slammed into his face, sending him crashing into the cold metal bulkhead of the spacecraft.
Before Dodoria could even hit the ground, Karnel appeared in front of him and delivered a devastating kick to his midsection.
CRACK!
The sickening sound of breaking bones echoed through the corridor as Dodoria's spine snapped from the impact.
"Idiot," Karnel said with disgust, driving his foot into Dodoria's ugly head and embedding it into the steel wall. "You jumped out before the real owner even showed himself."
"I... damn it, you bastard! Ahhh!" Dodoria wailed in agony, his broken spine leaving him completely paralyzed.
In moments, the remaining soldiers with duties to complete came rushing over to investigate the commotion.
"What? The Ginyu Force members are hiding somewhere? You little insects still want to fight me?" Karnel continued to press his foot down on Dodoria below him, speaking with calm sarcasm.
"Zarbon... go find Lord Frieza!" Dodoria screamed through a mouthful of blood. "This... this Saiyan is not ordinary!"
Zarbon was the only captain with significant strength remaining on the ship, the rest of the Ginyu Force were all out on conquest missions.
"Are Saiyans really that strong? Dodoria, you're exaggerating," Zarbon said, though he was clearly surprised that Dodoria, whose strength was similar to his base form, had been defeated so easily. "I think you're just too weak. I'll take this Saiyan's head myself!"
Zarbon still had confidence in his ability to transform, which could boost his power from 23,000 to 33,000.
"Are you that Zarbono fellow who can transform into an ugly monster?" Karnel asked mockingly, pressing his foot down harder on Dodoria. "You look about the same, and you're not much stronger than the one under my foot."
Zarbon's face darkened immediately, he hated it most when others mocked his transformed appearance.
"Very good, Saiyan!" he roared. "The most powerful King Vegeta on Planet Vegeta only had a combat power of 10,000. Even if you're strong enough to defeat Dodoria, I don't believe you can be stronger than me after my transformation!"
Zarbon's body began to swell grotesquely, his originally somewhat handsome face becoming hideously ugly, resembling a crocodile.
"Tsk! That's really hard to look at," Karnel said with genuine disgust as he observed the fat, ugly monster.
"Saiyan, I want you to know the terrible consequences of daring to mock me," the transformed Zarbon snarled with his ferocious bloody maw. "I will torture you severely, break your limbs one by one, and crush them to pieces so that you die in endless pain!"
"Villains always die because they talk too much," Karnel said wearily. "You can go now."
Too lazy to dirty his fists on such disgusting skin, Karnel instantly appeared behind Zarbon and delivered a devastating kick to his most vulnerable spot.
"Zarbon, behind you!" the dying Dodoria saw Karnel appear behind his comrade and tried to warn him in panic.
"What?!" Zarbon had rich combat experience and reacted quickly, rolling forward without looking back.
But it was too late! Just as his body was about to leap up, he felt excruciating pain in his crotch, accompanied by a slight crunching sound.
Karnel followed through with his kick, sending Zarbon several meters into the air before he crashed into the top of the spaceship's doorway.
Zarbon lay on the ground, curled up in a tight ball, his mouth gaping open with gurgling sounds emerging from his throat, but he couldn't manage to say a single word.
Useless. Two of Frieza's right-hand men had been reduced to writhing heaps in mere moments.
"It seems you were just all talk," Karnel said with cold amusement. "You didn't even have the ability to fight back before I knocked you down with one kick. What a waste."
With that, he walked toward the chamber where Frieza typically held court and kicked the reinforced door several meters away, the metal crumpling like paper.
Time to meet the emperor himself.