This story is set a year after 'Return Of The Queen'.
In case anyone hasn't noticed, this and the previous
story are Metroid/DBZ/variety crossovers. I don't
know how many I'll make, but the series will be called
Metroid Saga.
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Prelude: The Next Tournament Approaches
Goku and Radditz were inside the training room that
Hardy had orginally set up for Ridley with the level
of gravity set to 50 times normal. Since the day
that Goku found out about his race and remaining
family, he had decided to begin training even harder
to become stronger.
Goku had a slight edge, as Samus had told Goku about
the gravity room two months before the others even
noticed, so he was stronger than Nappa when all was
said and done. He wanted to be strong enough to beat
Samus in the tournament, because when he and Radditz
first met, he was told he had a long way to go.
The council meeting that occured three weeks after
they arrived had approved of the addition of Green to
the Federation. No one was really shocked at this,
but at the survival of Prince Vegeta, heads had turned.
The Saiya-jins were represented by Duke Vyndair of
Bigetta. Vyndair had wanted to turn the position of
representation and the ruling name of the Saiya-jin back
to Vegeta as quickly as possible, and Vegeta was
coronated as King only days after the discovery of his
survival.
None of this really concerned Goku, but somehow he was
seeing it all again. And in vivid detail, as though he
had been enraptured by everything...when he was more like
Hardy, and was enraptured by the food. He and Radditz
had been sparring, and even if distracted by a trip down
a memory lane that he hadn't cared about, he was still
beating Radditz as thought Radditz hadn't improved at all.
"Stop for a moment, brother. I can tell that you're not
giving me your all." Goku walked over to the gravity
machine and set it to the normal level.
"You're right. It just recently started to bother me,
but I just remembered the whole year as though I'd
paid attention to every last detail. Akyasuma's escape,
Vegeta becoming King, even Capsule Corp. making a branch
here. It's disturbing, I even remember the incessant
squabbles between Samus and Ridley while playing that
one game...but what it's called...I don't remember!"
Radditz chuckles and opens the door.
"Maybe you're getting old!" Goku walks out after Radditz.
"Nah, it's a bit early for either of us to be past our
prime." Watching silently from a vent in the ceiling
is a humanoid thin enough to fit inside the duct. He
wags his black tail slightly and skitters away into a
storage room, where he crawls out of the duct and
brushes small dust bunnies out of his magenta parachute
pants. He runs across the hall so fast that he's unseen
by anyone who was in the hallway, and up a stairwell,
where he slows down to a visible blur of the color of his
pants. He stops at the edge of a roof and leaps from
building to building until he slips and nosedives for the
ground. Halfway down, he prepares for a handspring when-
POOF...His only article of attire aside of long gold wrist
and ankle bracers lives up to its name and acts like a
parachute. A few people along the streets look up and
think that a balloon got loose until he lands on the ground,
flips to his feet and sprints off after the two Saiya-jin
brothers. He stops a little ways away from the registration
desk at the entrance to a large forum-like building, behind
a tree.
Goku feels a brush of wind from the boy's stop and looks
around. Knowing that someone else was around but not where.
"Hey, Radditz. Did you feel that?" Radditz looks up from
the desk after signing in a partially illegible handwriting.
"What? Scared of the boogey man, little brother?" Just then
Royce and Kefka appear. Kefka walks up between the two to
sign on as a judge.
"How about the boogey women? Hee-hee-hee-hee!" Goku grins
and walks inside the forum.
"Very funny, Kefka...very funny."
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Metroid Saga, Part 2
Toying With Fate
Chapter 1: The Gennom Child, Catocs
"Samus, Ridley, Hardy, Houston, Goku, Radditz, Vegeta, Nappa,
Recoome, Jeice, Burter, Capt. Ginyu, Royce...oh, Kefka's a
judge. She must know how much more powerful she is than the
others...anyway...uh...lesse...oh yeah! Catocs, uhm...Gohan?!
Hey! I thought that Chi-Chi didn't want Gohan to...never mind.
Chi-Chi, Piccolo, Guldo...uh...who's this guy? Okay! Yamcha,
Krillin, ub...geez, gimme the list!" The announcer looks at
the smaller, yet still humoungous crew of elite fighters that
stand inside the area ready for the elimination round.
"Hey, Krillin? Why didn't Tien and Chiaotzu show up?" Krillin
looks at Yamcha funny.
"I suppose that you forgot that Bulma didn't think about taking
them along with us! Besides, they didn't even know that we
were leaving!"
"Oh." The annoucer looks at the list of checked names.
"Lesse, who haven't we numbered for the elimination round yet?
Ah, here we are. Hmm...Tien and Ch-Chitzaou?" A small voice
pipes up from behind.
"Chiaotzu!" Yamcha looks behind him and sees a tall, muscular
man with three eyes and a small clown-faced being stand in the
back.
"Tien! How did you two get here? (Right. Chiaotzu, Codru...)"
Tien chuckles.
"The old man Breifs told us that Goku and everyone left for
space, he knew exactly where and sent us on his prototype
spaceship. Yeah, he proved to the Federation that it works.
Although he said the only flaw was that it didn't have a
cappuchino maker." Everyone facefalls except for Tien.
"But that wasn't an issue. They all come with a gravity
training machine, though. I guess for those who want to be
prepared for combat, or want to have a good workout on long
trips. Either way, me and Chiaotzu are much stronger than
before, now." The announcer looks around and calls loudly.
"I know I already called for him, but where's Catocs? He's
Number 14 and his first match is against Piccolo!" He looks
over at the arena to see both contenders in the ring already.
"Oh. Looks like he's hard to...THAT TWIG IS CATOCS?!"
The boy looks at the announcer.
"Twig, huh? This green bean's no match for me. I could name
seven others that don't stand a ghost of a chance also."
Piccolo, hearing every word, puts on a scowl.
"Green bean?! Just name the other seven!!" Catocs folds his
arms.
"I don't wanna. It'd spoil the fun, but I will give you a hint.
It's whoever gets in the ring with me." Piccolo is sent sailing
from the ring immediately after he finishes his sentence, no one
seeing a single thing but Catocs standing there.
"D...did you see anything?!" Goku looks at Vegeta and the other
Saiya-jins. Nappa blinks in amazement.
"Uh...no." Radditz shook his head and looked at Goku.
"Brother, I would have, but he's too fast!" Vegeta just stands
between the other two Saiya-jin Stooges in his usual cross-armed
pose.
"Hmph...he was a blur, Kakkarotto." Catocs looks at Vegeta.
"I'm impressed. You actually saw me, but unfortunately your
matches aren't with me." Vegeta got set up to the second
arena of the four. Goku and Radditz to the third, and Nappa
to the fourth, which he dreaded because Samus and Houston
were there.
"Next up! Chi-Chi versus Domon Kashu, The King of Hearts!"
The announcer calls out. Chi-Chi and Domon both step up to
the ring and bow. They get into stance and the match begins
with Chi-Chi and Domon in a flurry of blocking and punching.
"The School of the Undefeated of the East!"
"Tempo Kyare!" Both shout simultaneously after one last
punch.
"LOOK, THE EAST IS BURNING RED!!" Flames engluf the ring
and Chi-Chi flies out into a wall. The announcer calls
the next pair.
"Jeice versus Burter!" Both step in and do their intro
poses. They then produce one of the most intense battles
between each other that Recoome had ever watched. They
only sparred for fun, but this was a match for money, fame
and a title.
Jeice swung left, straight right, high right kick to the
head, dodged Burter's double palm punch aimed at his face,
fired a small energy blast, and kicked Burter into the
second arena while he was distracted. Vegeta punted Burter
back into his arena and Jeice slammed him into the ground
with an axe handle swing.
"Jeice wins by knockout! Tien versus Recoome!" This
match went quick. In the middle of Recoome's pose, he
fell out of the arena by a hit in the stomach from Tien.
"Hardy was right about you guys...well, maybe not about
the pansy part, but over-posing? Definitely."
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The last match of the third arena was Master Asia and
Chiaotzu. Asia had been in stance, looking at the
little 'clown-boy', wondering why he didn't make a
move. Domon piped up from the crowds.
"Master! Don't let his silence shake you!" Just then,
Chiaotzu pointed at Asia, making him drop his guard
slightly.
"...Geezer!" Asia facefalls at Chiaotzu's one word
attack and is shoved out of the ring. Yet Chiaotzu
stayed in the same place.
"Huh? Impossible!"
"The Undefeated of the East?! Beaten by that runt?!"
Domon walks up to Asia.
"Looks like you shouldn't let what he says shake you,
either." Domon helps Asia off the ground.
"Right, Domon Kashu versus Catocs!" Domon's face had
drained of color. He was the seventh one against
Catocs.
They both got into the ring, but Catocs was assuming
the same pose that Vegeta had. Domon kept telling
himself not to be afraid of someone like this kid.
He could see the boy's movements the whole time.
Although it was like he was progressively gettting
faster every time. He wouldn't...couldn't blink
for a moment after the match began. If he did, he
would be out faster than his eyes could open and
close.
"Begin!" It happened so fast that Domon thought that
he did the one thing that he had no intention of doing.
He was elbowed so hard that he only barely saw Catocs
in front of him before the boy moved back to his starting
position and pose, and Domon was backing to the edge,
about to fall out of the ring himself. He hits his knees
and gets kicked in the face, sending him to the ground
and out of the ring, also.
"Like I said. Seven others don't stand a chance against
me." Domon was humiliated, infuriated, and on top of
that, in total disbelief. This boy was holding back the
whole nine yards. How was it even possible for someone
to be so fast and powerful that even the elites that had
came by stood no chance? How was it possible for him to
be so strong and yet be scrawnier than Tsai-Tsai Shi?
He got up, confused, angry, and feeling the pain in his
face more than anything. The announcer walked to the
back of the room and said to the crowd.
"Well now. Eight fighters have made it past the elimination
round. Samus, Houston, Ridley, Hardy, Catocs, Royce, Goku,
and Chiatzou (Chiaotzu!). You will all be paired in that
order." Catocs looked at Royce, who just stared at the
lineup of the final matches.
'This one's gonna be trouble...I know it, cause she's a
Metroid. I hope that she's not invincible...I heard that
Metroids become invincible after they take enough energy.'
Royce continues to stare at the board with the match-ups.
'Unbelieveable...that boy has more energy than any of them
assume...let's just see what the exact level is...ah-ha! More
than enough for me to win without question...I can't kill him,
but if I do take what I need, he'll live, he just won't be
winning this one.' Royce walks into the waiting area and just
sits on one of the benches. It was gonna be a bit of a wait
considering just how long the first two matches were going to
be.
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The first semi-final match ended up to be Samus vs. Ridley.
Royce got up from the bench and walked to the entrance, past
a nearly pork-roasted Hardy (only what was left of his hair
got singed.), and up to Catocs. They both begin walking to
the ring, and when they stop, Royce was the first to speak.
"Come at me. You're fast enough to beat anyone here."
Catocs folds his arms.
"I'm not stupid. I know what you are, Royce. And I catch
that you plot me as a tool, right?" Royce steps back and
hunches over slightly.
"How?! You caught onto me that fast, before I even-" She
gets interrupted by an elbow to the face, which knocks her
back two steps. She grabbed Catocs by the right arm and was
about to tighten her grip to begin siphoning energy from him
when she gets kneed in the face. Her hand slips down to his
and she grabs it tightly, bowling Catocs over with her lack
of balance. He tries to loosen her grip on him, but can't,
the pain of the siphon worse than having his tail caught on
an oven burner. He knew what that felt like because he had
burned his tail twice in a row on accident with a waffle
iron a couple years ago.
"Ag...let...me...GO!!!" He kicks Royce as hard as he can
in her stomach, causing her to buckle and let go of him.
She clutches herself where she was just recently struck and
falls over. She can barely mutter out various, colorful,
words, and just rolled around once, trying to stand but
falling to the ground again. The announcer's count reached
8 when she finally managed to stand up, still in pain.
"H...hurk...that hurt, you little-" She gets kicked in the
face before Catocs does a rampant combo and a dropkick that
sent her to the edge of the ring.
"You're not getting up after that, are you?" As if on cue
to prove him wrong, she halfway stands up, hunched over,
and gets another kick in the face that sent her only two
feet from the ring.
Royce most certainly didn't think about him even hitting her
in the stomach, not even out of desparation. That turned
the match over for them both. She was about to become
invincible as Catocs feared, and she loses because of chance.
Sheer dumb luck that he hit her in a Metroid's weakest spot.
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Two days later..
Goku was rattled at what Catocs was saying in their match.
What made Frieza so important to him? What did a Super
Saiya-jin look like? Why couldn't he still become one?
Maybe he'd probably just squandered a chance on the weird
occurances that were caused by the X. No Frieza, no hunt
for Namek's Dragonballs, no race to stop Frieza from
becoming immortal, no titanic battle that ultimately forced
Goku to ascend to becoming the Super Saiya-jin. What didn't
make sense was why did he say that history was malinged?
What was so dangerous on Goku's planet that required him being
many, many times stronger than what he was? He was training
alone with the gravity level set to 120.
Goku was furious at the mocking and taunting that Catocs still
had left in him even after a rather painful encounter with Royce
Felder, the Queen Metroid. What was so dangerous that was on his
home planet? Why was he still not strong enough to face it?
He couldn't help but feel the deepest rage, losing to Catocs, and
whenever he saw that 'runt', he couldn't help but that rage being
like a pen through a really well-shaken soda can. He hated Catocs
more than Vegeta hated Goku. His attitude to the others was quite
different. Bulma had felt that he was depressed after the match.
Domon, before leaving, couldn't help but see a connection. He was
outclassed by the same person, but he drew a different similarity.
Schwartz Brueder to himself, and Catocs to Goku. This 'Super
Saiya-jin', was probably like the serene state of mind that Schwartz
was trying to teach him. Serene nothing. 'The Super Saiya-jin only
feels the pain of anger, hatred, and loss. Other than that...there
probably is no difference to the similarity.'
Goku didn't hear the secret to becoming one, but he probably never
knew what to do with that exponential power that he kept trying to
hold back whenever Catocs was in sight. Since he was alone, he
could probably let it out then and there. But he didn't see Catocs
anywhere, and was only blowing off steam to try and be a bit more
cheerful for his wife and child's sake. They didn't think that
Goku's loss hit him so hard. Gohan kept trying to tell him that
Catocs wasn't bad, he just knew things that didn't happen because
of a different occurance.
How did Catocs know, and what other secrets was he holding back...?
Goku set the gravity back to normal and left for the apartment that
was across the way, to go back to Chi-Chi and Gohan...maybe he'd
go help Gohan with his homework, training just didn't cut it for him
right now...
In case anyone hasn't noticed, this and the previous
story are Metroid/DBZ/variety crossovers. I don't
know how many I'll make, but the series will be called
Metroid Saga.
------------------
Prelude: The Next Tournament Approaches
Goku and Radditz were inside the training room that
Hardy had orginally set up for Ridley with the level
of gravity set to 50 times normal. Since the day
that Goku found out about his race and remaining
family, he had decided to begin training even harder
to become stronger.
Goku had a slight edge, as Samus had told Goku about
the gravity room two months before the others even
noticed, so he was stronger than Nappa when all was
said and done. He wanted to be strong enough to beat
Samus in the tournament, because when he and Radditz
first met, he was told he had a long way to go.
The council meeting that occured three weeks after
they arrived had approved of the addition of Green to
the Federation. No one was really shocked at this,
but at the survival of Prince Vegeta, heads had turned.
The Saiya-jins were represented by Duke Vyndair of
Bigetta. Vyndair had wanted to turn the position of
representation and the ruling name of the Saiya-jin back
to Vegeta as quickly as possible, and Vegeta was
coronated as King only days after the discovery of his
survival.
None of this really concerned Goku, but somehow he was
seeing it all again. And in vivid detail, as though he
had been enraptured by everything...when he was more like
Hardy, and was enraptured by the food. He and Radditz
had been sparring, and even if distracted by a trip down
a memory lane that he hadn't cared about, he was still
beating Radditz as thought Radditz hadn't improved at all.
"Stop for a moment, brother. I can tell that you're not
giving me your all." Goku walked over to the gravity
machine and set it to the normal level.
"You're right. It just recently started to bother me,
but I just remembered the whole year as though I'd
paid attention to every last detail. Akyasuma's escape,
Vegeta becoming King, even Capsule Corp. making a branch
here. It's disturbing, I even remember the incessant
squabbles between Samus and Ridley while playing that
one game...but what it's called...I don't remember!"
Radditz chuckles and opens the door.
"Maybe you're getting old!" Goku walks out after Radditz.
"Nah, it's a bit early for either of us to be past our
prime." Watching silently from a vent in the ceiling
is a humanoid thin enough to fit inside the duct. He
wags his black tail slightly and skitters away into a
storage room, where he crawls out of the duct and
brushes small dust bunnies out of his magenta parachute
pants. He runs across the hall so fast that he's unseen
by anyone who was in the hallway, and up a stairwell,
where he slows down to a visible blur of the color of his
pants. He stops at the edge of a roof and leaps from
building to building until he slips and nosedives for the
ground. Halfway down, he prepares for a handspring when-
POOF...His only article of attire aside of long gold wrist
and ankle bracers lives up to its name and acts like a
parachute. A few people along the streets look up and
think that a balloon got loose until he lands on the ground,
flips to his feet and sprints off after the two Saiya-jin
brothers. He stops a little ways away from the registration
desk at the entrance to a large forum-like building, behind
a tree.
Goku feels a brush of wind from the boy's stop and looks
around. Knowing that someone else was around but not where.
"Hey, Radditz. Did you feel that?" Radditz looks up from
the desk after signing in a partially illegible handwriting.
"What? Scared of the boogey man, little brother?" Just then
Royce and Kefka appear. Kefka walks up between the two to
sign on as a judge.
"How about the boogey women? Hee-hee-hee-hee!" Goku grins
and walks inside the forum.
"Very funny, Kefka...very funny."
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Metroid Saga, Part 2
Toying With Fate
Chapter 1: The Gennom Child, Catocs
"Samus, Ridley, Hardy, Houston, Goku, Radditz, Vegeta, Nappa,
Recoome, Jeice, Burter, Capt. Ginyu, Royce...oh, Kefka's a
judge. She must know how much more powerful she is than the
others...anyway...uh...lesse...oh yeah! Catocs, uhm...Gohan?!
Hey! I thought that Chi-Chi didn't want Gohan to...never mind.
Chi-Chi, Piccolo, Guldo...uh...who's this guy? Okay! Yamcha,
Krillin, ub...geez, gimme the list!" The announcer looks at
the smaller, yet still humoungous crew of elite fighters that
stand inside the area ready for the elimination round.
"Hey, Krillin? Why didn't Tien and Chiaotzu show up?" Krillin
looks at Yamcha funny.
"I suppose that you forgot that Bulma didn't think about taking
them along with us! Besides, they didn't even know that we
were leaving!"
"Oh." The annoucer looks at the list of checked names.
"Lesse, who haven't we numbered for the elimination round yet?
Ah, here we are. Hmm...Tien and Ch-Chitzaou?" A small voice
pipes up from behind.
"Chiaotzu!" Yamcha looks behind him and sees a tall, muscular
man with three eyes and a small clown-faced being stand in the
back.
"Tien! How did you two get here? (Right. Chiaotzu, Codru...)"
Tien chuckles.
"The old man Breifs told us that Goku and everyone left for
space, he knew exactly where and sent us on his prototype
spaceship. Yeah, he proved to the Federation that it works.
Although he said the only flaw was that it didn't have a
cappuchino maker." Everyone facefalls except for Tien.
"But that wasn't an issue. They all come with a gravity
training machine, though. I guess for those who want to be
prepared for combat, or want to have a good workout on long
trips. Either way, me and Chiaotzu are much stronger than
before, now." The announcer looks around and calls loudly.
"I know I already called for him, but where's Catocs? He's
Number 14 and his first match is against Piccolo!" He looks
over at the arena to see both contenders in the ring already.
"Oh. Looks like he's hard to...THAT TWIG IS CATOCS?!"
The boy looks at the announcer.
"Twig, huh? This green bean's no match for me. I could name
seven others that don't stand a ghost of a chance also."
Piccolo, hearing every word, puts on a scowl.
"Green bean?! Just name the other seven!!" Catocs folds his
arms.
"I don't wanna. It'd spoil the fun, but I will give you a hint.
It's whoever gets in the ring with me." Piccolo is sent sailing
from the ring immediately after he finishes his sentence, no one
seeing a single thing but Catocs standing there.
"D...did you see anything?!" Goku looks at Vegeta and the other
Saiya-jins. Nappa blinks in amazement.
"Uh...no." Radditz shook his head and looked at Goku.
"Brother, I would have, but he's too fast!" Vegeta just stands
between the other two Saiya-jin Stooges in his usual cross-armed
pose.
"Hmph...he was a blur, Kakkarotto." Catocs looks at Vegeta.
"I'm impressed. You actually saw me, but unfortunately your
matches aren't with me." Vegeta got set up to the second
arena of the four. Goku and Radditz to the third, and Nappa
to the fourth, which he dreaded because Samus and Houston
were there.
"Next up! Chi-Chi versus Domon Kashu, The King of Hearts!"
The announcer calls out. Chi-Chi and Domon both step up to
the ring and bow. They get into stance and the match begins
with Chi-Chi and Domon in a flurry of blocking and punching.
"The School of the Undefeated of the East!"
"Tempo Kyare!" Both shout simultaneously after one last
punch.
"LOOK, THE EAST IS BURNING RED!!" Flames engluf the ring
and Chi-Chi flies out into a wall. The announcer calls
the next pair.
"Jeice versus Burter!" Both step in and do their intro
poses. They then produce one of the most intense battles
between each other that Recoome had ever watched. They
only sparred for fun, but this was a match for money, fame
and a title.
Jeice swung left, straight right, high right kick to the
head, dodged Burter's double palm punch aimed at his face,
fired a small energy blast, and kicked Burter into the
second arena while he was distracted. Vegeta punted Burter
back into his arena and Jeice slammed him into the ground
with an axe handle swing.
"Jeice wins by knockout! Tien versus Recoome!" This
match went quick. In the middle of Recoome's pose, he
fell out of the arena by a hit in the stomach from Tien.
"Hardy was right about you guys...well, maybe not about
the pansy part, but over-posing? Definitely."
-----------------
The last match of the third arena was Master Asia and
Chiaotzu. Asia had been in stance, looking at the
little 'clown-boy', wondering why he didn't make a
move. Domon piped up from the crowds.
"Master! Don't let his silence shake you!" Just then,
Chiaotzu pointed at Asia, making him drop his guard
slightly.
"...Geezer!" Asia facefalls at Chiaotzu's one word
attack and is shoved out of the ring. Yet Chiaotzu
stayed in the same place.
"Huh? Impossible!"
"The Undefeated of the East?! Beaten by that runt?!"
Domon walks up to Asia.
"Looks like you shouldn't let what he says shake you,
either." Domon helps Asia off the ground.
"Right, Domon Kashu versus Catocs!" Domon's face had
drained of color. He was the seventh one against
Catocs.
They both got into the ring, but Catocs was assuming
the same pose that Vegeta had. Domon kept telling
himself not to be afraid of someone like this kid.
He could see the boy's movements the whole time.
Although it was like he was progressively gettting
faster every time. He wouldn't...couldn't blink
for a moment after the match began. If he did, he
would be out faster than his eyes could open and
close.
"Begin!" It happened so fast that Domon thought that
he did the one thing that he had no intention of doing.
He was elbowed so hard that he only barely saw Catocs
in front of him before the boy moved back to his starting
position and pose, and Domon was backing to the edge,
about to fall out of the ring himself. He hits his knees
and gets kicked in the face, sending him to the ground
and out of the ring, also.
"Like I said. Seven others don't stand a chance against
me." Domon was humiliated, infuriated, and on top of
that, in total disbelief. This boy was holding back the
whole nine yards. How was it even possible for someone
to be so fast and powerful that even the elites that had
came by stood no chance? How was it possible for him to
be so strong and yet be scrawnier than Tsai-Tsai Shi?
He got up, confused, angry, and feeling the pain in his
face more than anything. The announcer walked to the
back of the room and said to the crowd.
"Well now. Eight fighters have made it past the elimination
round. Samus, Houston, Ridley, Hardy, Catocs, Royce, Goku,
and Chiatzou (Chiaotzu!). You will all be paired in that
order." Catocs looked at Royce, who just stared at the
lineup of the final matches.
'This one's gonna be trouble...I know it, cause she's a
Metroid. I hope that she's not invincible...I heard that
Metroids become invincible after they take enough energy.'
Royce continues to stare at the board with the match-ups.
'Unbelieveable...that boy has more energy than any of them
assume...let's just see what the exact level is...ah-ha! More
than enough for me to win without question...I can't kill him,
but if I do take what I need, he'll live, he just won't be
winning this one.' Royce walks into the waiting area and just
sits on one of the benches. It was gonna be a bit of a wait
considering just how long the first two matches were going to
be.
-------------------
The first semi-final match ended up to be Samus vs. Ridley.
Royce got up from the bench and walked to the entrance, past
a nearly pork-roasted Hardy (only what was left of his hair
got singed.), and up to Catocs. They both begin walking to
the ring, and when they stop, Royce was the first to speak.
"Come at me. You're fast enough to beat anyone here."
Catocs folds his arms.
"I'm not stupid. I know what you are, Royce. And I catch
that you plot me as a tool, right?" Royce steps back and
hunches over slightly.
"How?! You caught onto me that fast, before I even-" She
gets interrupted by an elbow to the face, which knocks her
back two steps. She grabbed Catocs by the right arm and was
about to tighten her grip to begin siphoning energy from him
when she gets kneed in the face. Her hand slips down to his
and she grabs it tightly, bowling Catocs over with her lack
of balance. He tries to loosen her grip on him, but can't,
the pain of the siphon worse than having his tail caught on
an oven burner. He knew what that felt like because he had
burned his tail twice in a row on accident with a waffle
iron a couple years ago.
"Ag...let...me...GO!!!" He kicks Royce as hard as he can
in her stomach, causing her to buckle and let go of him.
She clutches herself where she was just recently struck and
falls over. She can barely mutter out various, colorful,
words, and just rolled around once, trying to stand but
falling to the ground again. The announcer's count reached
8 when she finally managed to stand up, still in pain.
"H...hurk...that hurt, you little-" She gets kicked in the
face before Catocs does a rampant combo and a dropkick that
sent her to the edge of the ring.
"You're not getting up after that, are you?" As if on cue
to prove him wrong, she halfway stands up, hunched over,
and gets another kick in the face that sent her only two
feet from the ring.
Royce most certainly didn't think about him even hitting her
in the stomach, not even out of desparation. That turned
the match over for them both. She was about to become
invincible as Catocs feared, and she loses because of chance.
Sheer dumb luck that he hit her in a Metroid's weakest spot.
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Two days later..
Goku was rattled at what Catocs was saying in their match.
What made Frieza so important to him? What did a Super
Saiya-jin look like? Why couldn't he still become one?
Maybe he'd probably just squandered a chance on the weird
occurances that were caused by the X. No Frieza, no hunt
for Namek's Dragonballs, no race to stop Frieza from
becoming immortal, no titanic battle that ultimately forced
Goku to ascend to becoming the Super Saiya-jin. What didn't
make sense was why did he say that history was malinged?
What was so dangerous on Goku's planet that required him being
many, many times stronger than what he was? He was training
alone with the gravity level set to 120.
Goku was furious at the mocking and taunting that Catocs still
had left in him even after a rather painful encounter with Royce
Felder, the Queen Metroid. What was so dangerous that was on his
home planet? Why was he still not strong enough to face it?
He couldn't help but feel the deepest rage, losing to Catocs, and
whenever he saw that 'runt', he couldn't help but that rage being
like a pen through a really well-shaken soda can. He hated Catocs
more than Vegeta hated Goku. His attitude to the others was quite
different. Bulma had felt that he was depressed after the match.
Domon, before leaving, couldn't help but see a connection. He was
outclassed by the same person, but he drew a different similarity.
Schwartz Brueder to himself, and Catocs to Goku. This 'Super
Saiya-jin', was probably like the serene state of mind that Schwartz
was trying to teach him. Serene nothing. 'The Super Saiya-jin only
feels the pain of anger, hatred, and loss. Other than that...there
probably is no difference to the similarity.'
Goku didn't hear the secret to becoming one, but he probably never
knew what to do with that exponential power that he kept trying to
hold back whenever Catocs was in sight. Since he was alone, he
could probably let it out then and there. But he didn't see Catocs
anywhere, and was only blowing off steam to try and be a bit more
cheerful for his wife and child's sake. They didn't think that
Goku's loss hit him so hard. Gohan kept trying to tell him that
Catocs wasn't bad, he just knew things that didn't happen because
of a different occurance.
How did Catocs know, and what other secrets was he holding back...?
Goku set the gravity back to normal and left for the apartment that
was across the way, to go back to Chi-Chi and Gohan...maybe he'd
go help Gohan with his homework, training just didn't cut it for him
right now...