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Just Got Wicked
"Cool it," Goku ordered, forcibly jerking Vegeta`s hand up. "Calm down Vegeta, that`s far enough," he added. "Get off of me you bastard," Vegeta growled. "I don`t like this anymore than you do but we don`t have a choice in it."
"Unhand me, if you value your afterlife."
Kaioshin stared blankly at Vegeta as if he was looking Death in it`s face all over again. "He`s the one. He`s the one Dabura was talking about," he thought to himself with a nervous twitch. "Something wrong?" Gohan asked. "Too late..." Shin answered.
"PAPARA PA PA!!!"
"Far... Too late..."
I can taste your innocence
So young and sweet like mother made ya
Everything froze into ice
"Yes, you`ll do so very nicely..."
These mother fuckers just got WICKED!
"AGH!!!" Vegeta screamed, lurching forward and holding onto the sides of his head with a pained expression. "Vegeta?" Gohan asked, quickly glancing over to him. "What`s wrong?" Goku demanded, rushing towards the former prince. "Something`s attacking me..." Vegeta replied, stumbling around in pain. It felt like his brain was going to shatter and explode in his skull. "Inside... My head..." He added, losing his balance for a moment and going down to one knee.
"Fight it Vegeta, fight it!" Shin yelled.
"Yes, fight it for the people who will betray you, just as they always have and always will," Babidee ordered. "No..." Vegeta muttered.
Well, I can't explain this little man
Taken over, can't explain the way
That I feel
"NO!!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!" Vegeta screamed, fighting his way back up onto his feet as the room shook about, like it was struggling to hold him in place. "What do you want Vegeta? Weakness? Or do you want to be strong? The pride of the Saiyan race once again!" Babidee`s magics promised.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY MIND!!!" Vegeta screamed again, even louder this time, causing the abused door to literally tear off of it`s hinges and stab into the back of the elevator shaft behind it. "What`s going on?!" Goku demanded. "It`s Babidee, Dabura spoke of a fighter who could defeat us all! Vegeta is that fighter!" Shin exclaimed over the roar of rising ki in the room. It was almost a struggle to stay on his feet.
Well, I can't explain this little man
Taken over, can't explain the way
That I feel
"GET OUT!!!" Vegeta howled, powering up into the first level of Super Saiyan on reflex to an emotion he so rarely felt. It was an emotion he usually flat out refused to feel, but now? Now it was overtaking him in a way that it had never done before, possessing every fiber of his being, the herald to the numbness growing across his body and the start of the growing blackness staining his heart.
The emotion was fear. Vegeta blew the other three from where they were standing with another yell of pain, golden fire spreading off of his body in a whirlwind and flattening Shin out to a wall. He wasn`t the weakest at the moment, if anything with all three of them either normal or beneath the second level, he was the strongest in the room. It had taken him off gaurd entirely though, knocking him back and plastering him into the wall, while Goku and Gohan struggled to stay on their feet without being forcibly torn off of the floor themselves.
"Do you feel that Vegeta? Do you feel the power lying beneath? I can bring that out you know, as much as you want, all of it if that`s what you feel like..."
"I DON`T WANT THAT!!! GET THE HELL OUT!!!" Vegeta screamed in reply to the voice of Babidee`s magics, causing the wizard himself to lick his lips at the challenge, pouring more effort into things. Vegeta fell to his knees again, still in Super Saiyan, still screaming his lungs out and still battling the demon threatening to take control.
"Fight it Vegeta, let go of your anger and hate! You`re different now, you don`t need to listen to him," Shin stated, prying himself off of the wall and finding the resolve to force him to stand beside Vegeta, even as the force of the former prince`s aura sheered around the room. "Be good, be innocent!"
"I`m not innocent!" Vegeta screamed. "I JUST WANT THIS FUCKING SORCERER OUT OF MY HEAD!!!"
Vegeta`s scream again tore Shin off of his feet, throwing him back into the wall twice as hard. It was then that the former prince rose from the ground, screaming still, even as a second aura ignited around him, the first dying down after a few seconds. Gohan, freed from the effects of the earlier tornado, rushed towards Vegeta and attempted to jump towards him, only to be struck three times by crimson lightning, each a bit more intense than the last. His body bounced off of the floor and skidded to a halt against the nearest wall.
"Gohan!"
"I`m alright," Gohan replied, hauling himself up with speed, just in time to watch Vegeta finish screaming and pause up in the air. The lightning had stopped, the shaking had stopped. His aura burned out and the former prince tumbled to the floor, landing on his knees and collapsing forward to rest himself on his elbows, face pressed to the floor, hidden from view.
Everyone got twisted up
All your friends got behind
My back and broke it cuz
It's my world
"Vegeta?" Gohan asked, stepping towards the fallen warrior and reaching towards him. "Don`t touch him, it may be too late..." Shin advised, kneeling next to Vegeta himself. Unlike the others, he`d seen Majin power in action. He didn`t like it but he`d seen one person break it and if that could be done...
"Don`t worry Vegeta, we`ll get you all the help you need," Shin said in as soothing a voice as he could manage. The sounds of sobbing could be heard from the former prince, but those were quick to change. Slowly, the sound of a sob turned to the sound of a laugh as psychotic and vile as any that had ever been heard. Vegeta raised his head, laughing all the while. He`d changed. The area around his eyes had faded to black, veins bulged out across his exposed skin and on his forehead rested the single sign that proved what Shin had already feared. It was the symbol of the Majin, that strangely styled, black 'M' on the forehead.
The last of the line of Vegeta had fallen from grace once again.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" Babidee cheered for himself, dancing from side to side with a laugh as infectious as it was ear grating. "Indeed, he will get us all the damage energy needed to revive Buu, easily."
"Oh yes... Dabura, this is the best present I`ve ever had! We may yet revive Buu by the end of the day," Babidee exclaimed. "Now, let`s get them somewhere good to fight, hm?" Babidee asked. Dabura grinned. "The Tenkaichi Budoukai arena," he suggested, knowing it had likely yet to finish emptying with the way humans were about leaving places in groups. "Wonderful idea Dabura, you`re on a role today!"
"Thank you, Master."
"PAPARA PA PA!!!" Babidee screamed.
Again, the scenery changed. It wasn`t the spectacular kinds of changes as they`d had the last time, there wasn`t a pitch black background streaked with star colored lines, instead though, the background was a darkened blue, interwoven with streaks of every color the eye could percieve. There was a strong wind as well, and the only ground really visible was the door to the lower level. Vegeta smiled demonically, focusing his eyes, and all of his attention, on one person. Goku. Kakarot. The man who had stood against him so many years earlier.
And then the scenery froze back to normal. The lines ceased blurring and the foor were standing plainly in the middle of an all-too-familiar concrete 50x50 concrete square in the middle of an even more familiar stadium. "We`re back in the arena," Gohan stated while glancing around, spotting Videl, Bulma, Yamcha and a few others far up in the walkway behind and above the stands.
"Good, now kill them Vegeta. Kill them all, take their energy for Majin Buu!" Babidee commanded. "Shut up!" Vegeta growled in reply. "My only concern is Kakarot! I don`t care about the rest," he added with obvious anger. Babidee was stunned. "Kill them vegeta... Kill them all right this very instant!"
"If you want death so badly... I`ll give it to you."
"What the heck is going on down there," Videl asked, leaning against the railing with a curious look. "It`s them," Yamcha replied. "Looks like they`re back," he added. "Something`s different about Vegeta though," Roshi interrupted. "Looks like he`s just powering up but yeah, something`s different," Yamcha replied. "How so?" Videl asked.
"Darker. Far darker than anything I`ve ever felt," Roshi muttered. Bulma spared a glance at the rest of the group and cursed herself for never having learned how to detect ki. It would have definately come in handy but she didn`t truly need it to know that something had changed.
1 - 2 - 3...
Here I come with the wicked...
"It`s time Kakarot," Vegeta stated, slowly raising his hand at the other Saiyan with a grin. "For what?" Goku asked, lowering himself down a bit. Vegeta just smirked, flattening his hand out perfectly and firing off a beam of energy at Goku, who yelped in shock and threw his arms up to defend. Harder and harder the attack forced him back, more and more Goku tried to defend but it was all in vain. After a mere several seconds, Goku was on the edge of the ring, struggling to stand against the power of the attack being forced at him.
"Vegeta, no!" Gohan shouted, rushing towards Vegeta. By then it was too late though. Goku let out a shocked yell and flipped up over the attack, screaming out moments later. "GET OUT OF THERE!!!" He begged, watching the hundreds of people still in the stands in Vegeta`s path begin to stampede in an attempt to escape.
And then the blast hit. Gohan halted in his charge, Goku hovered briefly and Shin glared at Vegeta with a look to be described only as murder in his eyes. "Vegeta..."
The blast didn`t stop there either. After plowing through hundreds of people, and causing an explosive ball of fire that consumed a hundred more, easily, it continued on, punching straight through the areana and hitting somewhere in the heart of the city, taking the lives of another thousand in nothing but a heartbeat. People screamed, most were frozen to their seats in shocked horror as the blast detonated, sending off a mushroom cloud big enough to put many small scale atomic bombs to shame, knocking over some buildings, sheering out massive sections of others and disintegrating any debris before it could even get halfway out of the explosion.
Goku finally landed with a pair of taps on the floor, straightening up and turning to face the explosion in shock. It had caught him off gaurd as much as it had caught everyone else, he was so surprised all he could really do was stare.
Stare and be angry.
"Shame on you," he growled. "The Vegeta I know would`ve never done that," he added. "Yes, he would," Vegeta replied. "I`m worse."
Vegeta slowly lowered one hand and then raised the other, smirking the entire time. "Don`t do it Vegeta!" Gohan yelled, only to watch the Prince again fire off another blast. It wasn`t as powerful this time but it was certainly powerful enough for the task he`d made it for. In an instant, two hundred more lives were snuffed out, and Gohan looked up in time to note that Bulma had passed out and Yamcha was using himself to try and shield the rest of them, and doing a fairly good job of it at that.
Debris poured through the air, followed by smoke, but Vegeta stood silently, ominously in the ring, never moving his body an inch, though he did move his head, raising it up and tilting it towards the explosion with a grin to be described only as psychotic. The world had indeed become a very dark place, as Vegeta lowered his head back down, the smoke briefly obscuring his look of satisfaction.
Goku had seen all he could stand. There was a bright flash and his hair shocked upright, back into the errant crown it had been when he`d been fighting with Yakon, turning gold an instant lighter while his eyes faded to teal, a golden aura igniting up from his feet seconds later. "Goku, don`t do it!" Shin ordered. "I should have known this would happen, maybe if I`d just gotten Goku alone to come, or Gohan, this would`ve all turned out differently..." He thought sourly.
"You let yourself become possessed, didn`t you?" Goku asked. "You wanted to fight me so badly that it made you go this far?"
Vegeta nodded.
"You`re more pathetic than I thought," Goku stated. "What`s Dad talking about?" Gohan asked, glancing from the group in the stands to his father and Vegeta.
"If I hadn`t done this, I`d never get the chance to fight you! You`d be back in Otherworld by the end of the day and you`d never return! This is the only chance I have to fight you and if you were me, you`d do exactly the same," Vegeta accused. "That`s it?! Y... That`s the reason for this whole stupid thing?!" Shin demanded, almost irate about it all. Vegeta only glanced at him with a sneer.
"Stupid?" He asked. "STUPID?! YOU THINK THIS IS A STUPID REASON?!" Vegeta demanded. "THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME, I DON`T CARE ABOUT BUU!!!" He stated. "Watch your race fall and dwindle, to only a handful, and then tell me what matters more than your own strength?! He surpassed me, we`re both Saiyans, we`re both Super Saiyans, and he still left me in the dust like a Sub-Class ugul rosin!" Vegeta accused, slipping back to his native tongue for all of a second. "ME, the Prince of the Saiyans, who`s only pride is in my strength!" He continued, accusingly pointing his finger at Goku before lurching forward and glaring into the ground.
"He even spared my life when we fought, and later saved it when he teleported Cell away," he added. "I can`t forgive that. ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!" Vegeta finished, glaring blankly over to Goku.
"Every breath that clown takes is an insult on my honor, and his debts must be paid," Vegeta affirmed angrily, balling his hands into fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white from the strain. Goku paused for a moment though, looking at Vegeta with a glare that would cause any normal being to consider suicide a pleasant way to end things.
Well, I can't explain this little man
Taken over, can't explain the way
That I feel
"BABIDEE!!!" Goku called out, glaring up into the skies. "Move us some place where there aren`t any people! Do that... And then I`ll fight Vegeta!" He yelled. "Wait!" Shin stated, jumping in front of Goku and throwing his arms out, blatantly standing between the two Saiyans. "You will fight Vegeta, over my dead body," he stated intensely. Goku only glanced down at him before blinking a few times. "No, mine," Gohan stated, roughly yanking the Kaioshin out of the way and putting himself in his place.
"What`s more important Dad? Revenge for a few hundred, a boost in your pride? Teaching Vegeta a lesson or the lives of every single living being in the universe?" He asked. "Do you want to protect the Earth or do you want to unleash something so evil it`ll threaten the universe?"
"It`s not my job anymore Gohan. Move," Goku replied sternly, raising his hand and powering up a blast. Light blinked at his palm and his expression faded to one that Gohan had only seen him wear once: The time he`d first gone Super Saiyan. Gohan didn`t move though, he refused to.
"What the hell is going on down there?" Yamcha shouted. "It looks like Goku`s about to blast Gohan," Roshi stated in obvious surprise. "What?" Videl asked from where she was standing, holding the unconcious Bulma upright with an arm looped around her own neck. "He`s right," Juuhachigou stated, holding Marron still. In the end, it was Yamcha who gave voice to the collective feeling of the moment, almost glad that ChiChi and Goten weren`t in the area to see what was happening.
"Holy crap..."
"Move or else I`ll blast you," Goku stated. Even Vegeta was somewhat surprised. "No."
"Fine."
Well, I can't explain this little man
Taken over, can't explain the way
That I feel
There was an explosion and then the sight of a charred form slamming down through the roof of the lounge area, and everyone, Vegeta included, gaped in surprise as Goku literally put down his own son. One thing people had learned over the years was simple: Son Goku never bluffed. "I`m sorry Gohan," Goku stated with a shake of the head, turning back to Vegeta with glare. "Are we ready or did you just go through all that to try and get me to do what I just did?" He asked.
Vegeta was about to respond. He probably would have taunted and he probably would have mocked Goku for what he`d just done. Instead however, his reply was interrupted most violently by the sounds of metal and concrete snapping like twigs, rumbling and then outright bursting up off of the ground in a flash as Gohan got out of the pile of debris that Goku had put him in, a little singed around the edges and extremely angry looking, but utterly unscathed besides that.
Slowly, with a murderous calm, he walked towards the ring, climbing up the steps and walking past Vegeta as if he wasn`t even there. Goku almost shook in his boots as he lowered his hand, though he kept the outward facade of being unphased going as best as anyone could under the glare that Gohan was giving him. "I guess I was wrong. My father didn`t die when he fought Frieza, he didn`t die when he teleported Cell away. He died today. You`re not him, do what you want," Gohan stated coldly before glancing over to the Kaioshin.
"Look`s like it`s up to us then."
"Indeed," Shin replied gravely.
You are the love I never had
You are the love I never had
"Vegeta..." Bulma groaned, slowly coming to a few moments later.
"Now this is interesting, isn`t it?" Babidee asked. Dabura grimly nodded but said nothing. "It`s like watching a house of cards fall down, so delicately, effectively put together, annihilated by one swift swipe of the hand!" The short sorcerer chuckled before breaking into a dance from side to side. "This is the best day I`ve ever lived to see!" He broke into a cackle before finally stopping several seconds later. "You wanted to fight somewhere else? Well so be it!"
"PAPARA PA PA!!!"
In a flash, Goku, Gohan, Shin and Vegeta were all standing around the door back into the ship. "Good. Fight as much as you want, Gohan and I are going to go deal with Babidee and Dabura," Shin stated. "If the shock awakens Buu then oh well, there`s nothing we could do to prevent it at this point. It`s better this way than having him reach full power," he added. "With any luck we`ll be able to stop the resurrection from taking place..."
"I don`t think so, Kaioshin," Babidee growled. "Vegeta! Stop and kill them both right now!" Babidee ordered sternly.
Vegeta grunted loudly, bending forward and holding his head in his hands. "Gnngh... Nuh... No!" Vegeta shouted. "Do it Vegeta, KILL THEM!!!" Babidee ordered. "I refuse!" Vegeta exclaimed, breaking loose of Babidee`s control that very instant. "I don`t care what they do, so long as it doesn`t interfere with my battle with Kakarot!" He shouted. "What?!" Babidee demanded. "I`ll tell you this one more time Vegeta... Kill them. Now."
"I... I told you... I... Only wanted to fight Kakarot..." Vegeta said between strained breaths. "I am a Saiyan Prince, the last of my kind, the best to ever live!" He began, shaking the ground in his tirade. "AND I WON`T BE YOUR SLAVE! EVEN THOUGH YOU`VE TAKEN OVER MY BODY AND SOUL, YOU`LL NEVER HAVE..." He paused, taking a deep breath and then screaming the words with a defiance only the royal could possess. "MY PRIDE!!!" He screamed, shattering the ground beneath him as his aura flared up brightly, the landscape behind him crumbling to dust under the sheer weight of his words.
Well, I can't explain this little man
Taken over, can't explain the way
That I feel
"This has never happened before," Babidee growled. "He has a lot of pride," he added. "Don`t worry about it, Lord Babidee, his purpose is to steal energy, and he may as well have some fun while he`s at it. I can easily hold off the boy and the Kaioshin until they finish gathering power for Majin Buu," Dabura replied. "After all, isn`t this what you wanted?" He asked. "To see the Kaioshin die before your very eyes?"
"I can`t believe it... I never imagined someone possessed by Babidee would go so far against his wishes without breaking free entirely," Shin thought. "You really are pathetic Vegeta," Goku stated.
"They`re opening the door for us," Shin mused to himself, stepping towards it. "Have a nice fight, Kakarot," Gohan stated, refusing to call Goku by any name that suggested real familiarity. It was another way of alienating him from the older Son. In a swish, without another word, Goku and Shin vanished down the open hatch, leaving Goku and Vegeta standing alone in the field.
"The door below is open," Gohan stated, landing next to the hatch. "He`s either too cocky or he`s got a trap, probably both," Shin replied. "Probably."
"Or not," Dabura stated from behind the two. "Welcome to the end of your world," he greeted, cocking his head to the side as Babidee walked into view from behind the sphere containing Majin Buu. "Is that Buu`s sphere?" Gohan asked. "Yes," Shin replied. "Killer of my father, I`m glad you could make it," Babidee greeted, glaring over at Shin with a smile. "I`m here to put a stop to you, Babidee. Once and for all, Buu will never be resurrected," Shin replied.
"Too bad for you, I have the Demon Lord Dabura on my side," Babidee stated. "We`ll have to hurry Gohan, you fight Dabura and I`ll try to take down Babidee," Shin said with a grimace. "I can more than hold my own with Pinko here," Gohan replied, not exactly in the best mood as it was.
"Let`s do it then," Shin replied, lowering himself into a fighting stance.
Well I can't explain the way that I
Well I can't explain the way that I feel
And above, on a battlefield by chance, the last survivors of a race of fallen warriors stood, face to face, ready to slug it out one last time. Both were silent, for a short while. "Nothing left to lose," Vegeta stated. "Nothing left to gain," Goku replied. "That`s exactly how I wanted it," Vegeta smirked. Goku looked as though he was trying to fight back a smirk mirroring Vegeta`s own, even as the two readied to raise all manner of hell against one another.
Goku let out a yell, throwing up a waist high cloud of dust billowing around himself, though none of it penetrated his aura, which suddenly brightened a bit, his eyes glimmering jade and his hair darkening just slightly to a more metallic shade of gold, elongating further, and straightening out, each strand becoming more defined, three locks dangling over his face with one to either side and the third right over the middle. Electric blue energy flared around him.
"Ironic isn`t it?" Vegeta asked. "Eh?" Goku replied. "Even after all of this, we`re only a little stronger than your son," Vegeta stated. "He disowned me, he`s not my son anymore," Goku shrugged. Vegeta just blinked and shook his head. With a loud yell, he flared his aura up, pushing the dust cloud back and shaking the ground as electric red bolts of energy flared around him, his hair straightening into a trident pattern and getting a bit longer, each strand also becoming more and more visible. Veins bulged and his eyes shifted to the same jade in the eyes of his rival, bringing a grim expression to Goku`s face.
"This may take a little longer than I thought."
"Now you see? This is our fate, our battle! LET`S SETTLE IT KAKAROT!!!"
It was the showdown of destiny once again: Son Goku against Prince Vegeta, and this time only one of them would be walking away...
On a sidenote: Thanks to Eric Ford(Enzeru of Death, Aporo Jinryoku, Suupah Oreo-Jin, etc) for helping me come up with the scene of Goku blasting Gohan about a half a year ago.
Sh33p out, see ya!