The First Attempt to Kill Kakarott Day
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z or any of its characters.
Ten Days Earlier
"Why do you need Senzu beans?" the cat asked.
"Why does it matter?" Vegeta retorted. "Now give me four of them before I blast your scrawny backside off this ridiculous tower of yours!"
"All right, I suppose." Korin went to get a few beans, trying not to show how intimidated he was of the Saiyan. After all, his ego was large enough as it is…
The prince sighed. He didn't need anyone poking their nose into his business, not now.
Present Day
The blazing sun scorched the rocky landscape, hardly deterred by the intermittent cloud cover. Near a particularly strange stone formation that resembled a lopsided column, three beings stood, arms crossed, seeming expectant.
"He's late."
"I can see that, Namek."
"Perhaps he is nervous. After all, he is probably going to come close to death."
"Hn. He shouldn't be afraid. It'll only benefit him in the end."
Five Minutes Later
"I'm here!" yelled Goku. He landed on the ground a few feet away from the small gathering, his boots stirring up a bit of dust.
"Kakarott. You are fifteen minutes late", Vegeta told him, irritated.
"Oh. Heh." Goku scratched the back of his head, annoying Vegeta even more. That was something a Saiyan should under no condition do. "Well, you see, I had to avoid Goten, 'cause he'd ask me where I was going, and I don't wanna lie to him."
"And it took you fifteen minutes." The prince rolled his eyes to the clouds.
"Well, Goku's here now", Piccolo cut in. "We should start."
"Hold on one second." Vegeta stepped off to the side, and stowed away a small brown bag in a hole below one of the rocks.
"So. You actually got those", Eighteen observed.
"Shut up. We're supposed to be fighting him", and at this point Vegeta gestured towards Goku", not each other."
"Uh, do we just start?" asked said Saiyan.
"We might want to, I don't know; get away from the Senzu beans first?"
"Oh! Yeah, good idea, Vegeta!" With that, he blasted off to find a safe spot. The other three followed close behind.
When they arrived at what was deemed a safe location, all four landed softly. There weren't too many rock formations around, but there were more a short distance away. The place resembled a bowl with a few things in it. Suddenly, Piccolo realized something.
"Won't the others sense our raised kis and wonder what's going on?" he asked. "I suppose Goku and Vegeta sparring is normal enough, and they won't check if they don't transform, but I'm here, too."
"We'll just deal with that when the time comes", Vegeta said impatiently. "Can we start?"
"Fine", Piccolo conceded. "But there should be a few more rules, otherwise this will just end up as a free- for- all. Vegeta, Eighteen. You will not attack each other or I, and I will not attack either of you." The former growled. Ignoring him, the Namekian continued. "Only one of us fights him at a time, since Goku won't transform. Neither will Vegeta." The Saiyan growled again. "We'll take a break after fifteen minutes, then be can think on the rules again."
"Yes, yes, next you'll be telling us not to use ki blasts!" The comment came from Vegeta, who threw up his hands, exasperated. "Let's just start!"
"Alright!" Goku exclaimed. "I'm ready! So who's attacking me fir- oof!" He was cut off mid- sentence as Vegeta plowed into him, throwing him against a rock tower, causing it to come crashing down. Vegeta flew through the dust in pursuit.
"He's attacking first then", Eighteen remarked. She brushed a strand of hair off her face.
After a moment, Vegeta rocketed out of the dust, thrown into the sky by a quick Kamehameha. The android flicked her left earring, then jumped off the ground and flew into the sky. The moment Goku appeared, she flew towards him, startling the Saiyan.
Goku blocked a blast that came his way, then threw a punch Eighteen ducked under. She took the moment to try and catch him in the stomach, but he twisted out of the way and fired a ki blast into her back. She recovered quickly, but it was too late as Piccolo phased into the spot she'd been in a moment before.
"Oh, blast it!" yelled Vegeta. He's been ready to jump back in, but had momentarily forgotten about the Namek.
"It's the rule", Eighteen said unhelpfully, brushing off dust.
"Yes, that he made!" Groaning, Vegeta crossed his arms and leaned against a large boulder that used to be part of the formation that he threw Goku into. He tilted his head up to watch the fight.
Caught by surprise, Goku had been slow to respond to the barrage of ki balls that came his way. One caught him in the side, he blocked the next, barely dodged the third, and was knocked onto his back by the fourth. Luckily, he was in the air, so no harm done. At that point, he just plowed through them and tried to catch Piccolo with a double- fisted punch. However, his opponent saw it coming, and was only caught by one of his fists.
That was enough, though, for him to smash a hand into Piccolo's side. Even as the green- skinned man regained his bearings, he was passed by two streaks.
Vegeta and Eighteen cast a dirty glance at each other. Both wanted to get to Goku first, so they sped up. The woman changed direction, hoping to instill a moment of confusion so she could get to their opponent first. Vegeta ignored it, and came up in front of his rival.
He dodged a kick, then pushed a hand into Goku's face. It had the desired effect, causing the other Saiyan to start, so he stopped pretending to throw a ki blast and used both feet to kick Goku towards the ground.
Wasting no time, he sped towards the falling figure, but someone else had gotten there already.
Piccolo intercepted Goku's course and grabed him by the shirt. As he recovered his wits, Goku found two hands in his face.
"Masenko- HA!" he heard. And felt. He was sent sailing through another stone structure, but his flight was cut short as he heard another voice yell out an attack.
"Photon Flash!" Android Eighteen fired a yellow blast of energy at her airborne adversary. She didn't stop to see if it hit, but immediately took off after him lest on of the others get to him first. As she flew, she took a quick glance around to see if either Piccolo or Vegeta was around. The latter was heading towards the same target, who was now sailing into a large pile of rock. They had entered the area where there were more obstacles. Wait, where was-
"Makankouseppou!" Oh. There.
"What the- gah!" came Goku's voice. There was a loud bang, and rock flew everywhere.
"Where is he?" Piccolo muttered, mostly to himself. "I know that didn't hit, now where is he..."
"Meha!" A huge beam of blue- white energy shot at him, and he quickly realized Goku must have been charging it while the noise from the explosion covered it up. Knocked back into the ground, he watched as Vegeta outpace Eighteen to Goku and threw a barrage of ki blasts.
Tired from the energy he put in, Goku couldn't block a lot of them and was smacked to the ground himself. He stood up, and looked just in time to see Vegeta's Final Flash heading towards him quickly.
While she was irritated at Vegeta beating her to Goku again, Eighteen couldn't help but think the crater was quite impressive. It had to hurt, that was for sure. She could still sense his ki, though. It was getting higher, too.
He sensed Kakarott's ki rising. Charging one of those- what were they called? The idiot really should get a new one, since everyone knew about this one. Wait, that was a lot of power. Oh no. He quickly phased a distance away.
"HA!" While the beam was impressive, Goku hadn't noticed his target's ki move. The energy wave was on its way towards someone else.
"Android Barrier!"
Piccolo watched as the Kamehameha collided with Eighteen's technique. Since Goku had put practically all his remaining energy into it, his attack was slowly overpowering the android's. Then, as a last- ditch effort, he saw her let go of her attack, and phase away as quickly as possible. Goku's attack still hit her, but not with as much force. That was still a lot.
When the dust cleared, he squinted and tried to make out where Eighteen was. Quite a distance away, she was sitting on the ground, trying to recover. He could also see Vegeta in the opposite direction.
While Vegeta avoided the attack itself, he hadn't been spared the shockwave that accompanied it. He mentally cursed Kakarott, though not with much energy. He didn't have much to spare.
Three Minutes Later
"Ah, that was a good fight!" Goku exclaimed after swallowing his Senzu bean.
"I have a question. Why didn't you use Instant Transmission?" Eighteen asked, tucking her hair behind her ear.
Goku scratched the back of his head, then answered. "Well, that wouldn't really have been fair. You guys can't do that, so I didn't use it. We can all use ki blasts and stuff like that, though, so they're fine."
"Not to mention the stupid technique of yours would have been extremely annoying", added Vegeta. He adjusted one of his gloves. "By the way, your clothes are torn."
"Eh, it's fine. Piccolo can make clothes."
The subject of the statement sighed. "Yes, I'm the tailor. Excellent."
AN: Well, that's it for that chapter! I'd like it if you reviewed. I'm pretty sure I spelled something wrong in there somewhere.
Goku: I'm thirsty.
Piccolo: Well, so am I. And I think I need water more than you do.