Chapter Five: Gohan Vs. Vegeta
Back in West City, Vegeta had returned with Trunks from his training in the mountains. As Bulma walked out of their huge home, she could already tell that Vegeta wasn't in a good mood.
"What happened?" Bulma asked, looking at Vegeta and Trunks as they walked slowly towards her.
"I failed thats what. I knew it wasn't going to be so easy to reach the fifth level, but still, it makes me mad." Vegeta said angrily.
"Well, don't forget we aren't even sure there is a fifth level." Bulma added
"Oh there is mother. As father powered to his limits I could sense him almost scratch the surface of something much greater than Super Saiyan Four. He even started to transform briefly before he passed out." Trunks said
"You are right. I sensed an entire mountain above and I barely touched the lowest rock on it. But I know its there. In the battles that are sure to come we will need that sort of power." Vegeta said thoughtfully.
"Well you almost got there at least, I'm sure Goku didnt reach Super Saiyan Three the first time back in the day either." Trunks said
"You are right son, as much as it pains me to admit it. But why does he always have to be one step ahead in terms of power, its so irritating." Vegeta said
"Goku is gone now Vegeta, you don't have to keep competing with him. I don't know much about power levels and fighting, but maybe, power isn't everything." Bulma said, smiling at Vegeta.
"It is if you want to protect the planet." Vegeta said, dismissing Bulma's comment.
"Hey Vegeta, you look tired and hungry, why don't I get dinner ready." Bulma suggested.
Vegeta looked up at the sky. The sun was starting to set, it was getting late.
"Agreed. Trunks why don't you join us?" Vegeta asked
"I have some paperwork I need to catch up on..being a CEO sucks." Trunks said.
"Then how about you quit? You are my son, I think that sort of stuff is beneath you anyway." Vegeta suggested as he walked into the house with Bulma.
Trunks started upwards at the sky. It was along time ago that he changed from wanting to be like his father, to being the Capsule Corp CEO that he was now. He followed Gohan's path, stopped training, and lead a normal life.
It was sometime after Buu was defeated, and his family, and Goku's parted ways. He didn't see his friend Goten again until he was a teenager. But in between that time, he lost his will to fight. Maybe it was that he had nobody to hang out with, no friends other than Goten. Being one of the richest people on the planet tended to separate you from the average teen.
But his father was right. A CEO was not the life he wanted. Something would have to be done, he would have to resign, but for now, he would enjoy the company of his parents.
Trunk's thoughts were interupted when Gohan flew down, his very presence like being amid power itself.
Gohan turned an eyebrow-less azure eye towards him.
"Get me Vegeta" Gohan commanded.
"Hi Gohan nice to see you too." Trunks said, shocked at both Gohan's new appearence and his attitude.
"I said get him now." Gohan said without a trace of warmth in his voice.
"Fine I will." Trunks said, just abit confused as he was about to go into his home
But Trunks didn't need to go inside at all as Vegeta immediately stepped out of the home and looked at Gohan. Vegeta was wearing a variation of his Saiyan armor, with blue pants, a white vest and no sleeves.
"Gohan, something is different about you, why are you here?" Vegeta had an idea of why he was, but he felt he should at least ask.
"I want to fight you now. To push myself to my limits, to realize my true potencial. I'm done pretending I'm normal." Gohan said with a slightly angry tone.
"Sounds like you finally discovered your saiyan blood. Very well, I will fight you, but not here." Vegeta said before flying into the sky and out of the city, where he was quickly persued by Gohan.
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Gohan and Vegeta had flown to an isolated location. It was mostly devoid of life, a barren desert where they could train and fight freely without worrying about holding back.
Both warriors landed some distance from each other, briefly took in the scenery, and then faced each other.
"Well here we are Gohan. I hope your ready, because I don't intend on holding back." Vegeta said with his trademark smirk.
Gohan just stared at Vegeta and narrowed his eyes.
"Well Gohan I hope you know what your getting into." Vegeta said, quickly powering up to Super Saiyan, his hair changing from black to gold in an instant.
"Thats all?" Gohan asked.
"We will see how you do against this form, then maybe I'll take it up a notch." Vegeta said flatly.
"Fine." Gohan said, then began to power up. Gohan's muscles bulged and he was surrounded by an aura of blue bio electricity more intense than before as he called upon even more of the powers sleeping within him, in addition to all the Super Saiyan Three power he had already manufested. The ground began to shake as Gohan's voice escalated, but Vegeta didn't seem impressed.
"Done yet?" Vegeta asked
"Yes" Gohan said in a deep menacing voice after he was done powering up.
Vegeta immediately pointed his right arm at Gohan and fired a series of blue energy blasts which he dodged by taking to the air.
Gohan then got ready to launch a counter offensive of his own, but Vegeta teleported in front of Gohan, grabbed him, flew upside down, and dived towards the ground. After the two crashed into the hard desert floor, Vegeta took to the air, and began charging a familiar attack..
"Galic..GUN!" Vegeta yelled as he poared energy into his hands, then fired his blast at Gohan who was still on the desert floor.
Gohan however, rolled out of the way of the blast, which shook the ground nearby, kicked himself onto his feet, and launched a roundhouse kick at Vegeta, intending out hitting him in the face. However the prince of saiyans saw that coming, and easily blocked it with his left arm.
"I'm impressed you finally mastered the third level of super saiyan Gohan, however, you haven't trained in years, where I have trained nearly every day for the past few decades. So even as a normal Super Saiyan, I'm more than a match for you." Vegeta said, angering Gohan further
Vegeta then flew into the air and began to power up a massive green energy blast.
"Final Shine!" Vegeta yelled.
Gohan put his hands toghether and fired a beam of yellow energy at Vegeta, just as he launched his own Final Shine at Gohan. The two began a beam struggle, fighting against each other. Gohan put more power into his attack, catching Vegeta off guard, which allowed his beam to overpower Vegeta's and overtake him.
After the dust cleared from the resulting explosion, Gohan could see Vegeta inside the clearing cloud of dust, not even phased by his attack.
"What? How is that possible?" Gohan said with doubt and confusion in his voice.
"You thought it would be that easy?" Vegeta taunted.
"How about this!" Gohan said, pointing his hands into the air, then lowering them towards his opponent.
"Super Masenko!" Gohan yelled, sending an enormious yellow cometlike blast at Vegeta, who teleported out of the attack's path of destruction.
"Your aim is terrible." Vegeta said, smirking.
"Is that so?" Gohan said, smiling as the blast came like a boomerang rocketing back towards Vegeta only to Gohan's amazement to be caught with Vegeta's gloved hands.
"What that was my strongest attack!" Gohan said, frustrated.
"I'm only using a very small amount of power, and you can't even hit me with one attack? Pathetic. This is what happens when you let times of peace make you soft. What a joke." Vegeta said
"Well, I have been holding back abit myself too Vegeta." Gohan said with a hint of a smile.
"Really? Then show me." Vegeta said.
Gohan got into a fighting stance, then began to power up further, as he yelled the earth began to shake, and cracks formed under his feet, then a crater. Gohan's yell got so loud Vegeta had to cover his ears.
A red tail emerged from Gohan's back as a crimson tornado surrounded him, Gohan's shirt ripped off and then the tornado obsured all visability, causing only a shadowy figure inside to be visable to Vegeta. Red lightning erupted from the tornado, and Vegeta looked inside it to see the faintly visable outline of Gohan's body changing. It grew taller, more manacing in stature. After afew more seconds the tornado disapated and Gohan's new form could be seen. He resembled a Super Saiyan Three, with a calm redish aura surrounded his body. Gohan's hair had lenghened further than before, and now had red tips to highlight the gold. A black tattoo almost like that of an animal shaped in a V pattern lay on Gohan's exposed chest.
"What is this form? That isn't a Super Saiyan Four. Regardless of what you have become, this may actually be a fight worthy of someone of my skill after all." Vegeta said
"I don't aim to dissapoint." Gohan said, with a calm confident sounding voice.
"I'll take it up a notch as well then, its only fair after all." Vegeta said as he began his own power up. Within moments Vegeta had ascended to a full power Super Saiyan Four, a slight red aura surrounding him.
Gohan flew forward with a flying punch with his right arm. Vegeta blocked with his left arm, but Gohan had ancipated this move and sent a flying uppercut with his left arm at Vegeta clear in the face, sending the saiyan flying backwards. During this, Gohan plummeled Vegeta with punch after punch, until he flew upwards as Vegeta collided with a small mountain.
"Come on Vegeta, I know you haven't even gotten started, lets see your real power." Gohan said with confidence and a smile on his face.
The mountain Vegeta fell into began to crack open, and Vegeta emerged, breathing heavily.
"How did Gohan master Super Saiyan Three and whatever this new form is in only afew days? How is this possible?" Vegeta thought to himself.
Gohan flew foward with a punch at Vegeta, who managed to block with his right arm.
"Tell me Gohan how did you manage to acquire such power so quickly?" Vegeta said as he blocked Gohan's constant punches.
"You could say it is destiny. I always had this power sleeping within me, I only just had to let it out." Gohan said
Vegeta flew away from Gohan and quickly charged up a stronger attack.
"Power is nothing without the experience to use it. Final Flash!" Vegeta said, launching a massive wave of energy at Gohan, who merely let the energy pass threw him.
"You may have the experience Vegeta, but you don't exactly understand who your fighting." Gohan said as he calmly walked towards Vegeta.
Suddenly Gohan could sense a rising power coming from within Vegeta. It felt like a much deeper, much stronger power was fighting its way to the surface. Vegeta began to glow with a silver light, and then Vegeta was engulfed in a pillar of white energy which then exploded in a huge display of energy. Gohan saw the dust clear to see what looked like a massive, muscular Super Saiyan with a brilliant aura of white light hovering eeriely over the ground.
The form resembled greatly a Super Saiyan Four, but the black hair had changed to reveal a streak of grey down the middle. While the red fur had changed to a dull grey in hue, including the tail.
"Vegeta? Is that you?" Gohan asked, shocked that Vegeta had just ascended to a new level of Super Saiyan, or what appeared to be one.
"Yes? Why do you ask? Afraid? You should be. It seems you also don't understand who you are dealing with Gohan." Vegeta said, looking at Gohan with confidence in his eyes.
"Two new forms of Super Saiyan against each other in battle. This should be good." Gohan said confidently.
"My sentiments exactly" Vegeta said then held out his left hand at Gohan, firing a massive ball of brillaint white energy, which Gohan flew into the air to avoid.
Vegeta then teleported to Gohan's location and slammed his left shoulder into Gohan's chest, and as Gohan struggled against the pain, Vegeta grabbed Gohan and slammed his body backfirst into the hard ground below, then flew into the air and was about to gather a vast amount of energy to finish Gohan off, when part of him fought against the idea.
"I will kill you..no." Vegeta said, then began to scream, as he held onto his head. Gohan saw Vegeta's eyes change from that horrifying white to normal and back again. Something weird was going on.
"Vegeta what is happening to you?" Gohan asked, standing again, powering down as he returned to normal.
Trunks landed nearby, unknownst to the other two fighters.
"Father..hang in there" Trunks whispered.
Vegeta held his head in agony, screaming. Gohan almost tripped and fell over as the ground began to shake.
"A Saiyan I was born...and a Saiyan I SHALL STAY!" Vegeta yelled.
"Father!" Trunks yelled, flying over to Vegeta.
Vegeta yelled as a huge white explosion engulfed the area. When the light cleared Vegeta could be seen standing in his normal form.
"Father are you alright?" Trunks said, walking over to his father.
"I don't understand." Vegeta said with a hint of frustration
"Understand what father?" Trunks asked, slightly confused.
"How to acceive and control the power of Super Saiyan Five." Vegeta said, clutching his fist.
"Whatever you have acceived you don't yet have complete mastery of." Gohan said
"I keep getting closer and closer to Super Saiyan Five..I can scratch the surface of the mountain, but if I cannot maintain even a transition form, then I will never master Super Saiyan Five." Vegeta said in frustration.
"And we are going to most likely need the power of Super Saiyan Five Vegeta. I also wanted to tell both of you something important. But I had to test my power against a worthy opponent first" Gohan said, a smile on his face.
"Whatever it is I'm ready to fight if its another crisis" Vegeta said, assuming the worse.
"Tommorow a company called Gentech is going to unveal something that could change everything Vegeta, we are diffinitely going to end up with a fight on our hands, that much is certain." Gohan said
"Then let us prepare and be ready. Between the two of us Gohan theres not much that could stand against us." Vegeta said
"I'm surprised you believed me." Gohan said
"I've made it a habit to pay attention to affairs in the corporate world, since it involves my family. I've heard of Gentech and their' new leaders controversal views. Needless to say Gohan, nobody will be playing eugenics as long as I'm around." Vegeta said with conviction in his voice.
Gohan was amazed how much Vegeta had changed since he first arrived on Earth decades ago. He was just glad Vegeta was on the side of good this time around.
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Viron stared at the dark night sky, holding a strange golden cube with the alien writing engraved on its surface.