*hands out... um... chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate to the readers!*
~ The Battle of son vs Brief final showdown! ~
Two muscle bound warriors - the peak of their race, unsurpassed in galaxies - stood facing each other in the heat of the afternoon sun.
So alike they could have been brothers, yet so different in character and beliefs. A light wind rippled their clothing: their feet were firmly rooted, their fighting stances deep.
A silence of expectation hung over the group as each pondered the situation in front of them.
*thoughts*
Goten: Go Daddy! I know you can do it. Cause you're the best right? And you always beat Mr Vegeta. *grin*
Trunks: …I've seen that look before…Goku's in big trouble! heh heh! ...C'mon Dad… do it for the Briefs!
ChiChi: Goku… my love… this is your chance to prove our family's strength. I've not always supported your fighting, but I know in my heart that you are the best warrior who ever lived. I'm right behind you Goku.
Bulma: *clenches fists tensely* Please, Dende, Kami whoever's up there, let this one be for Vegeta!! I mean he has to win one fight against Goku… please let it be this one!! I'll be good… I'll stop smoking… I'll give up coffee… pleeeeeeeaaaseeee!!!!
*end thoughts*
'So Kakarot, we meet again,' Vegeta said teasingly.
'Yep,' Goku grinned, enjoying the fighting banter between them.
'This time, I'm going to show you why I am the Prince, and you, baka, are not.'
'Oh really?' Goku wiggled an eyebrow.
Vegeta bit back a grin at Goku's ridiculous eyebrow wiggling, and focused on the fight in front of them.
With a roar, the two fighters flared up their kis and took to the sky. From the ground below, the spectators could make out the two figures exchanging punches and blocks, though they were so fast it was difficult to tell who, if anyone, was winning.
Up in the sky, Goku used his instant transmission to disappear and reappear right behind Vegeta. Wrapping his arm around the Saiyan Prince's head, he put him in a tight headlock. Then with his other hand balled into a fist, Goku used his knuckles to grate across Vegeta's head in a painful cheesie!
With the pain of Goku's knuckles grating into his head, and the humiliation of the position, Vegeta began to rage. A glance behind him caught the mischievous look in Kakarot's eye, and the cheeky, mocking smirk on his lips.
With a feral howl, Vegeta burst out of the headlock, wrapping his hands around Goku's throat. Squeezing tightly, an evil grin edged its way across Vegeta's lips as Goku's face began to change from rosy to red to purple.
From the ground below, ChiChi gasped. 'He's … going to strangle my Goku! Aaaah! Get him Goku! Come on!!' ChiChi jumped from foot to foot, waving her arms and shouting her encouragement.
In a cunning manoeuvre, Goku swung his arms out at each side and brought them forcefully down on Vegeta's ears with a painful clap!
'Aah! Damn you Kakarot!' Vegeta yelled, immediately letting go of his hold on his opponents neck. The Prince's hands flew up to his ringing ears and he did his best to soothe them better.
Goku then landed a heavy blow to the back of Vegeta's neck with both hands. The smaller Saiyan hurtled towards the ground, scattering the family groups below. He landed with a crunch, ripping up a good section of the neat yard.
'Goku!' Bulma screeched. 'Please! Enough messing up my garden, ok?' She looked up to her friend in the sky, a large frown on her face.
'Oh yeah, sorry Bulma,' Goku grinned apologetically.
Vegeta tore back into the sky and landed a fist to Goku's gut that nearly ripped him in two. Vegeta followed up with a roundhouse kick to the head, leaving Goku seeing stars.
'YAAAAY DAD!' Trunks shouted from below, grinning like a monkey.
Bulma grabbed his hands and they danced around in little circles.
'The Briefs are gonna wi-in! The Brief's are gonna wi-in!' they sang together, as ChiChi and Goten folded their arms and scowled.
But in the air, Goku had taken control of things once again. He was using his I.T. skill to disappear and then appear just in time to land a punch to an increasingly angered Vegeta. One hit and he'd disappear once more, only to reappear again, strike, and disappear again!
'KA-KA-ROOOOOTTT!!!' Vegeta bellowed, causing all on the ground below to shrink in size somewhat.
Goku appeared in front of him, grinning in amusement. 'Yes?' he asked, before punching Vegeta and disappearing again!
'AAAARGH!! Will you … STOP THAT!' Vegeta roared, going Super Saiyan. This time when Goku appeared in front of him, Vegeta's reactions were quicker and he caught the cheeky saiyan by both wrists.
'HA! Whatcha gonna do now, Goku? Huh? Whatcha gonna dooo?' Vegeta mocked his long time nemesis.
'How 'bout this?' Goku smirked, turning super too. The two saiyans went into another speedy exchange of kicks and punches, the intensity of which would have killed a mere human.
'COME ON GOKU!!!!' ChiChi cupped her hands to her mouth and yelled like a megaphone.
'VEGETA! YOU CAN DO IT!' Bulma got out a megaphone, determined not to be outdone, and shouted alongside.
Trunks and Goten nipped into the air to get a better look at what was going on.
'Oooh! Nice kick, Dad!' Trunks smirked.
'Great punch, Dad!' cheered Goten.
'Goten!!' ChiChi shouted from below. 'Pick me up!! I wanna see whats going on!'
'OK Mom,' Goten shrugged his shoulders at Trunks and flew down to lift up his mother. They hovered in the air, watching the action.
'Trunks! Me too!!' Bulma didn't want to miss it. Trunks flew down and obliged, also lifting his mother to the height of the action.
The two chibis looked at each other, biting back laughter.
'Ha ha! You look so funny with your Mom dangling there like a sack of potatoes!!' Trunks giggled.
'HEY!' ChiChi was unimpressed with his comparison.
'Oops, sorry Mrs Son!' Trunks giggled. 'Bet I look pretty funny too, carrying mom - right, Goten?'
Goten laughed like a monkey. 'Hehehehe, I wasn't laughing at that Trunks… I was laughing at your haircut!!!'
Both Bulma and ChiChi started laughing at Trunks unfortunate do, as the chibi Brief boy's face turned from joy and laughter to scorn and outrage.
Dropping his mum, he flew towards Goten.
'WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!' Bulma screamed as she fell through the sky.
'Oh no!' Trunks little hand flew up to his open mouth, as Bulma headed for the earth.
In the nick of time, a golden haired warrior zipped in and caught her, breaking her soon to be splatty fall.
'Vegeta!' she breathed as her arms clasped round his neck. Saved!
He set her on the ground and looked up at the three sheepish looking spectators in the sky.
'Heh,' ChiChi rubbed the back of her head, Goku-style.
'Tee hee,' Goten managed meekly.
'Um… oops?' Trunks tried.
'Get down here!' Vegeta barked at them, and they were on the ground in next to no time.
'This is no place for you!' he snarled. 'The sky is a battlefield! Stay out of our way, unless you want to be fried! Got that?'
Bulma, ChiChi, Trunks and Goten nodded dumbly.
'Vegeta's right!' Goku said, folding his arms as he landed in front of the group. 'We don't want you guys to get hurt, so stay out of the way.'
'Right,' ChiChi said quietly. '… LOOK OUT!'
Vegeta had snuck up behind Goku and reaching down the back of his pants, gave the poor Saiyan an almighty wedgie.
'Eeeeeeeeeeee!' Goku went up on his tiptoes.
'Mwahahahahhaaha!' Vegeta laughed easily, before shooting off into the sky once more.
Goku pulled the offending boxers out of the tight crevice (^.^) and tore after the culprit.
'KAME!!!'
He began to power up to the max, face stern and uncompromising.
'HAME!!!'
Fun was fun, but when Vegeta had wedgied him, that had hurt his pride (and a lot more besides).
'HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!'
Vegeta was engulfed in the huge wave of ki.
'Daddyyyyyy!' Trunks wrung his hands together anxiously.
Barely having managed to get his shields up in time, Vegeta emerged from the smoke, battered and bloody. His face was covered in cuts and scratches, his clothing torn, and a little trickle of blood ran down his mouth.
Goku looked at the panting saiyan.
So, he survived my Kamehameha? The Z fighter was impressed. Now, this fight's over. He flew towards Vegeta to finish things.
Vegeta's eyes widened as he saw Kakarot approach. What could he do? Last minute escape? He looked around for something.
'Dad! Senzu!' Trunks chucked the bean into the air, distracting both Saiyans.
Vegeta destroyed it with a quick ki blast.
'Why'd he do that?' Trunks asked Bulma.
'Hmm… I think he wants to fight Goku without a senzu, honey,' Bulma put her arm around the little guy. 'Nice thought though!'
'Oh… but Goku's gonna kick his… um, I mean…' Trunks looked up at Bulma's frowning gaze, '…um, it looks like Mr Son's gonna win.'
Goku landed another blow to Vegeta, followed by a few more. The shorter saiyan was well worn out, more so than his opponent. He wouldn't go down though, and Goku knew that it would take one more special attack before the battle would be over.
The Kamehameha would do the job just fine. It had worked well before. All he had to do was get Vegeta weak enough so he couldn't dodge the attack.
With that in mind, Goku hurtled towards his opponent once again, battering him from all sides. Vegeta landed some blows of his own, though Goku was now stronger, fresher and quicker. Mostly, Vegeta was bounced about like a tennis ball!
'That oughta do it,' Goku grinned, eyeing up the worn out warrior.
…'KAME…'
…'HAME…'
'KAKAROT! TURKEY POTATOES AND CARROTS!!' Vegeta yelled pointing wildly over Goku's shoulder.
'Huh?' Goku turned round to find the delicious feast.
'FINAL FLAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHH!!!!' Vegeta's attack ripped through Goku like a freight train, covering him in a blinding flash of light.
Out of the smoke, a limp black figure dropped through the sky and hit the ground with a heavy thud.
'Kakarot!'
'Goku!'
'Daddy!'
The five remaining contestants raced over to the body.
Trunks poked him with a stick. 'Goku?'
Goku was covered in black soot from head to foot, a remainder of the final flash attack. He stayed still and did not move a muscle.
'VEGETA!' Bulma squealed, leaping into his arms. 'You… you…'
'I know, Onna,' he grinned the most satisfied grin of his life. 'I bet Kakarot!'
'WAHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!' Bulma was delighted for her mate, who threw her up in the air like a child and caught her again.
'Daddy! You are the BEST!' Trunks grabbed his Dad's leg and hugged tightly.
'I know,' Vegeta said with a smirk, patting Trunks head.
The three shared a rare hug, just as Goku started to come round.
'What happened?' he sat up in a bit of a daze. But in moments his usual grin was spreading over his face. 'Good fight, Vegeta,' he nodded, rubbing his bruised arm.
'Oh Goku, you're ok!' ChiChi planted a kiss on her husband's black soot covered face, leaving a white lips shaped mark on his cheek.
Goten pointed at the mark and laughed, along with his buddy Trunks, who made little kissy kissy noises.
Then a hitching of breath was heard and all eyes turned to look at ChiChi. Her breath was catching in her chest, her eyes brimming with tears.
'Yeah, Chi, you know what this means!' Bulma grinned.
ChiChi shook her head slowly.
'BRIEFS ARE THE BEST!' Bulma yelled. 'Go Briefs! We rule and we can't help it!'
'We're better than you!' Trunks laughed, giving Goten a little push.
'No way Trunks, get over yourself!' Goten pushed back.
'Couldn't have put it better myself, Goten!' ChiChi agreed.
'No, no,' Bulma shook her head. She wasn't having this. 'You said it yourself, Chi. Whoever won this contest was the best… and we won!'
'Whatever,' ChiChi said quietly.
'Ya know,' Goku said to the group, 'This whole better than you thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth… Come on guys… we're all as good as each other… hey! … ow!'
Goku ducked and put his arms up as his freshly bruised body was catapulted with fallen apples, rocks and shoes from Bulma, Vegeta, ChiChi, Goten and Trunks.
'OK, OK, have it your way!' Goku put his hands up in surrender.
'And remind me Kakarot… who won?' smirked Vegeta.
'You did I guess,' Goku shrugged.
'Yay!' Bulma grabbed her mate and her son and they celebrated some more.
'Well, we're gonna go play some more Tekken,' Trunks grabbed Goten's arm, and led him off to his room.
'Tekken?' Vegeta raises an eyebrow.
'The cool fighting game?' Goku's interest was also captured. 'Think you could win against me this time, Vegeta?'
'Yes, Kakarot, I do! Let's kick the brats off the playstation and have us a little tourney.'
'Right!'
Vegeta and Goku limped off to the house, leaving Bulma and ChiChi alone in the back yard.
There was a long silence as the two women stared at each other.
'So…' ChiChi started.
'Yeah…' Bulma said, a small grin passing her lips.
'…Vegeta put up a fantastic fight,' ChiChi conceded. 'He really is a true warrior.'
'Yep,' Bulma beamed. 'And you beat my ass pretty bad!'
'Yep!'
'So…'
'So…'
'Why don't you come inside Chi, and show me those photos of Gohan again?' Bulma offered.
'Really?' ChiChi gave a small smile. 'That would be lovely, Bulma. Tell you what… why don't you show me your Trunks photo album too… I'd love to see it.'
'Alright!' grinned Bulma. 'You know, there's some sweet photos of Goten in there too! Come on, I'll make us some coffee… um,' Bulma stopped, remembering her earlier promise to God to give up various substances. 'Make that, I'll make you some coffee, and I'll have an OJ!'
And with that, and all things settled, the onnas went into the house, fairly peacefully it has to be said.
How long the peace would last is not for us to guess.
But it was there… isn't that a start? ^_~
*from behind a tree, a dark haired saiyan head pops out*
Gohan: *to readers* They forgot about me though right? And we all know that I'm the strongest out of the lot of us, … right? *winks* … So truthfully, I guess the Sons are the best, dontcha think?
DD: *pushes Gohan down* No, no no! The Briefs win this one!!
Gohan: *whispers to readers* well, you make up your own minds *winks*
^_^ Well, that's it… I guess you all knew that the Briefs were gonna win, didn't you? Yep, seems I'm pretty easy to read!! Well, the Briefs are my all time fave DBZ family… that's why I wrote this story in the first place!… so I could make them the best! Mwahahahahahaha! Vegeta beat Goku!
Thanks for all the support with this story! Most of you are my fave writers, so what you said meant a lot to me! ^_^ Thanks everyone!
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