Prince of Destruction

Chapter 1: Ascension

The two Super Saiyans clashed with deafening blows. Each had achieved the legendary power of a Super, pushed it to new limits by forcing themselves to use more power, and now both had ascended beyond even that. Each had power so great that lightning sparked around them as they shown gold like the sun.

Goku was the first to stop, landing on the ground as he looked into the distance. Sensing a powerful ki, he said "Vegeta! We have to stop this! We can fight later, but right now, we have to stop Buu! You can sense him too. His powers enormous! We can't just spend our time fighting right now, we have to deal with him before he does any damage."

Gritting his teeth, the Prince of Destruction, Majin Vegeta realized what his petty rivalry had done. Everything that he cared for was on Earth, and now he had released an ancient monster upon it all because he wanted to fight Goku without any compassion or mercy.

"Fine Kakarot. We'll go defeat this 'Majin Buu' first. But then we finish our fight!"

"Alright." Goku said, stepping forwards, past Vegeta. "I bet your excited to fight someone so strong too, aren't you Vege- ta..." Goku collapsed on the ground, with Vegeta standing behind him, his hand raised from hitting Goku's neck with a chop.

"Hmph. Even you can be defeated in one hit if caught off guard." Vegeta looked out were Goku had before. "Sorry Kakarot, but this is my mess to clean up. I'll destroy this Majin Buu even if it kills me." With that, Vegeta ripped himself from the ground, arcing upwards and towards the ki of Majin Buu.

At Babidi's ship...

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegeta unleashed a massive burst of energy, annihilating Babidi's spaceship, and leveling the landscape.

"Wuh- What!? What have you done! Why did you destroy my ship!? What are you doing Vegeta!?" The short wizard Babidi screamed with frustration, angered that he was stuck on Earth until he could have a new ship created.

"I'm fixing my mistakes. This is the end for you, Buu."

And thus, their fight began. You know how it went. Vegeta beat Buu, pummeled Buu, blasted Buu, yet nothing could do more than dent him, or take a way a chunk of him that he could simply regenerate.

You know how Piccolo went to Babidi and cleaved the wizard in two, leaving him as a dying torso, left to wait and watch, and hope he could survive in the end.

But then...

'Damn it... What the hell is this thing made off? I could blast him into nothingness, yet he'd still come back... No, I can't blast him into nothingness. He always has some tiny fragment of himself to cling on in this world, that's what he won't move on to the next one. If I can't completely destroy him now, I'll just have to keep fighting until he's weak enough that I can obliterate him, or he's too weak to regenerate. But how? HOW!? It's too strong!'

"Why'd your dad stop fighting, Trunks?"

"I don't know Goten. DAD! Why AREN'T YOU FIGHTING?" Trunks yelled, becoming concerned.

"Because he can't win," Piccolo solemnly replied for Vegeta.

"What? No! My dad can beat anyone!" Trunks's aura flared at Piccolo claim at Vegeta's assured defeat.

"Even if you, Goten, Vegeta, Goku and I all attacked this... thing... we'd still lose. Even if Gohan were here, back from wherever he went off to, along with 18, and all the other warriors Goku knows came, it still wouldn't be enough. Unless Goku or someone else has some trump card they can pull out of their sleeve, we can't stop this pink monster," Piccolo's voice raising throughout, becoming frustrated just hearing that from himself.

"But, but..." Trunks stammered trying to think of something he could say.

"Take the kids, Piccolo. Take them far away from here. I don't want them getting hurt. Not because I foolishly decided to fight Kakarot without mercy." Vegeta spoke in a tone so low, that even Piccolo's Namekian hearing could barely make it out.

Grabbing Goten and Trunks and tucking the half-Saiyans under his arms, he said to Krillin, "Come on. I just heard Vegeta whisper for me to take the kids. You should probably come, too."

"Yeah, heheh. I won't be of much use against Buu. But..." Krillin said, becoming concerned for Vegeta. Never had Vegeta been so caring- even with the Trunks from the future- nor had he ever recognized when he couldn't win. He had always forced his opponent to power up, putting everyone else in danger. But this time, he realized that this was a losing fight, and he wanted to protect someone.

"Hey! Let me go! I wanna help my dad!" Trunks yelled, beat his arms against Piccolo.

"I already told you, this is fight we can't win. Our only hope is Goku has something up his sleeve that will save us," Piccolo said, blasting off, with Krillin in tow.

'This is it. This is where I die. But even if I do die, I'm not going to go down alone. I will take as much of this pudding monster's energy as I can. I will this world the same way I came in and went through it- Kicking, screaming, and covered in the fluids of another being.' Vegeta looked on, resigned to his fate- or so he thought at first.

'No! I will kill this monster! I have to have more power,' Vegeta grit his teeth. 'I became a Super Saiyan out of frustration, an Ascended Super Saiyan through training, and ascended to a become a Super Saiyan wit strength beyond a Super Saiyan out of envy! Now, I shall go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND! I shall ascend higher, not out of petty reason or force, but out of necessity. I will not die until I have fixed my mistake!' Vegeta golden spins began to lower in angle, growing out slightly. "I have made many mistakes and left them, but not this one. I chose to become Majin Vegeta, Prince of Destruction, to fight as a Saiyan once more, and it brought about this abomination.' Vegeta's aura widened, becoming almost like a bubble. 'And so I shall end this abomination like a Saiyan- destroying it with raw power!'

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegeta's voice rose up, and flooded the world with his yell. His voice had nothing to amplify it, like a megaphone, nor nothing to echo off of, nor anything to modify it, yet it seemed to shake the world, sounding as if it transcended space and time.

Vegeta bent forwards, feeling power well up inside him. As thunder arced around him, thunder struck around the world. As the dust and debris was pushed from around him, tornadoes appeared around the world. And as sweat dripped from him, rain poured from the heavens.

He stood up, throwing his chest forwards and his head backwards. And as he did so, his voice grew louder, and his hair grew out, massively long. His muscles bulged. Even the M on his forehead to grow darker, as if it too had taken in this new power.

"W-What? What is this? What is he!?" said Babidi, unable to see Vegeta, but certainly able to see his aura and feel what he was doing to the world.

"Ooooh! The spiky hair man got more hair!" Buu clapped his hands. "That's a good magic trick. Do another."

Slowly bringing his head to look forward, the Prince of Destruction said to Buu:
"Okay. I think my next trick will be making you disappear."