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Chapter 7.
Gohan came over one day to ask Bulma to design him a costume so that he could fight crime and keep his identity a secret. Gohan was now eighteen and in Orange Star High school.
"Hay Trunks you're really getting big. Wow Zion, you're looking great. We should really get together more often." Gohan said brightly.
Zion stood leaning against the wall with one knee bent and his foot pressed against the wall. His arms were crossed over his armour and he was frowning. Gohan couldn't help but see Vegeta in the young boy more than anything. He wasn't sure what Zion's mother had been like, but he was sure that she must have been exceptional to have caught Vegeta's attention while still under Frieza's command.
"Your costume is redundant. Your identity will not remain a secret." Thirteen year old Zion said tonelessly.
"Well let's hope not." Gohan said with a laugh.
"I would listen to him." Trunks said innocently.
Gohan looked at Zion who seemed unaffected by anything. He then looked at Trunks who looked as if he had been training.
"Hay Trunks have you been training?" Gohan asked in surprise.
"Jip. Zion has been training me." Trunks said proudly.
"Gee I didn't know he could fight." Gohan said in astonishment.
"Better than you ever could." Vegeta said walking into the room wearing only his training shorts and shoes.
"Ohkay Gohan, I'm finished." Bulma announced walking into the room.
She held up a watch. Gohan put it on and Bulma explained to him how it worked. Everyone felt that the design was ridiculous but Gohan thought it was great. He was about to leave, giving many thanks to Bulma, when he remembered the tournament.
"Oh by the way, there's going to be a tournament and I'm going to enter. I thought that Vegeta might want to as well." Gohan said.
"Why would I want to waste my time with those weaklings?" Vegeta asked.
"Hay, I want to enter." A familiar voice said.
"Dad is that you?" Gohan asked.
"Jip. I want to enter the tournament. I have enough credit to visit Earth for one whole day." Goku replied.
"Well if the clown is entering then so will I." Vegeta said.
"Great, I'm looking forward to it Vegeta." Goku said excitedly.
"Wow that's great dad, I can't believe it." Gohan said happily.
Trunks didn't understand what all the excitement was about. He chanced a glance at Zion. Zion's face had changed from the frown to one of shocked pain. He kept shaking his head.
"What's wrong Zion?" he asked walking towards his older brother.
Zion hissed when he got closer. Trunks thought it was weird but he knew that his brother did a lot of weird thing so he ignored it. He touched his brother's arm. Zion immediately reacted. He clamped a hand around Trunks' throat and slammed him against the wall.
Trunks' found himself staring into his brother's cold and animalistic eyes. His eyes which were usually black with a silver ring around them were changing to more silver than black. He squirmed and struggled but it was no use.
Zion seemed oblivious to the fact that everyone was yelling at him. Vegeta tried to pull him off but he wasn't strong enough. He even tried going super Sayian but he still wasn't effective. He tried blasting Zion with Ki but that didn't work either.
"The end is near." Zion whispered before his eyes rolled back and he collapsed on the floor in a heap.
Trunks fell on top of him gasping. He quickly scrambled away and towards his father. Vegeta picked up the boy without a word and started to carry him to the infirmary, with Trunks trailing along behind him. He had seen that reaction only once before and that had been when Bojack had come to the Earth. Again it had been Gohan that had saved them but it had been Zion who had warned Vegeta of his arrival.
"Gohan, I think it's time for you to leave." he barked angrily.
He knew that something bad was about to happen but he didn't know what and only Zion could tell them and that was even if Zion would tell them anything at all.
Zion did not wake but nor did he sleep peacefully. He tossed and turned. He muttered things in his sleep. Vegeta tried to listen but it was in another language entirely. He tried to sooth Zion but the minute he retreated from Zion's mind it turned chaotic.
He was at a loss of what to do and could only watch. That night Bulma had spent hours with Trunks, trying to sooth and comfort him. Trunks cried and cried but he eventually exhausted himself and fell asleep.
"Vegeta?" Bulma asked walking towards him.
Vegeta didn't respond as he watched Zion.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" Bulma asked walking up next to him.
"He has to be." Vegeta said with certainty.
"What do you think happened?" Bulma asked.
"I don't know." Vegeta replied with frustration.
Bulma was silent. She approached him and kissed him. He was surprised by the action, taken off guard enough to kiss her back.
"Come with me?" she whispered.
Vegeta pulled back. He glanced at Zion and then in the direction of Trunks.
"They'll be fine." Bulma whispered.
She tugged at his hand and this time he allowed her.
Vegeta spent a lot more time in the gravity room. He did not want to see his son lying in the bed knowing that there was nothing he could do and not knowing what was wrong.
Trunks trained with him in the gravity room. When he asked him why, Trunks had replied that Goten was going to enter the tournament as well and that he wanted to win.
Vegeta had been surprised to learn that Trunks was a super Sayian as was Goten. He watched his son jump around the room in happiness and wondered when the Legendary ascension to that of the Super Sayian had become mere child's play.
Vegeta watched Trunks' fighting style carefully. It was almost like Zion's but not quite. Zion, it appeared had mixed in some of Vegeta's techniques into the training.
Not for the first time and nor for the last, Vegeta found himself wondering just how powerful Zion really was. He also wondered what had happened to Gaya. He had long ago figured out from Zion's slips and just observing him, that Gaya had been powerful enough to kill Frieza. It hurt him slightly that she never had. He had a lot of questions and only Zion could answer them.
Even though Trunks was a super Sayian Vegeta's power far exceeded him. Vegeta also noted with satisfaction that Gohan's power was slipping.
Vegeta shook off all thoughts of Zion, Trunks, Gaya and Gohan and just concentrated on his training.
The day of the tournament arrived and Zion was still not awake. Vegeta shook his head and walked out of the room. Everyone was going to meet at the tournament and he didn't want to be late. Bulma Trunks and Vegeta got into the hover craft and blasted to the tournament.
Vegeta sat impatiently tapping his fingers on the armrest. He was anxious and that wasn't a way to start a fight. He was anxious about Kakarot and Zion but it was two events that he had no control over so it made him anxious.
Zion was a connection to his past that he didn't ever want to be reminded of and Kakarot was a reminder of the constant failure his life had become. Oh if the other Sayians could see him now. They'd strip him of his title as Prince for sure.
"Stop worrying so much Vegeta." Bulma said suddenly startling Vegeta out of his thoughts.
"I'm not worrying woman." Vegeta automatically snapped.
"Of course you're not." Bulma replied sarcastically but not unkindly.
Gohan was wearing that ridiculous outfit that was an insult to his Sayian nature and was with some weak human girl. Vegeta ignored them and concentrated on the second son, Goten. That name was another insult to the Sayians, Vegeta thought with frustration. He watched the boy and to his horror he saw Kakarot in every fibre of his personality. He instantly disliked the boy. He had seen the boy on fleeting occasions when Chi Chi visited Bulma but he had trained too much to really take notice.
Everyone talked to each other and caught up. It surprised Vegeta that they never kept in better communication. On this planet he had learned that communication was easy as well as popular. None of the weaklings seemed to like isolation. He had also learned from the torturous films that Bulma made him watch that dire events usually brought humans closer together. So again, it surprised him that they never kept in better communication and every time they were all together like this, it was noisy and way too emotional for the Prince's liking. Suddenly the mood changed and everyone got really excited. He knew it meant only one thing: Kakarot.
Vegeta stood away from the crowd as the introductions and emotions flowed overtime. Trunks was with him as he didn't really understand what the fuss was all about.
Before the junior division started they all had to go and 'qualify' for the tournament. Vegeta scoffed when he considered being surpassed by any one of the Earth scum. He watched with annoyance as each of the weaklings and the other Sayians carefully touched the punching machine in a calculated effort to not draw suspicion and make it fair. Vegeta rolled his eyes before punching the machine, not tapping it as the other clowns had been doing. It wasn't even a strong punch, heck he couldn't even pick up the couch with the strength he had put into that punch but the thing flew across the arena and into the wall.
Vegeta pulled up his nose in disgust and walked away. All the weaklings were as they should be, speechless. Gohan and his female mate had yet to qualify but they needed a new machine. Kakarot suggested that they go watch the junior tournament. Finally something that actually sounded a little like smartness.
Vegeta zoned out as the tournament went on. He already knew who was going to win. It would be Trunks and if by some miracle it wasn't it would be Kakarot's second brat.
His thoughts went automatically to Zion. He had almost strangled Trunks. Trunks still wouldn't go near Zion. He kept muttering something about Zion's eyes. Zion had said the end is near, the end of what was the question.
When Zion woke up he was going to make him talk and no amount of evasion and yelling would stop him from finding out the truth once and for all. Zion after all was keeping secrets, of this Vegeta was sure. Perhaps the boy knew what had happened to Gaya. What Vegeta didn't want to admit even to himself was that he was scared. He hadn't been able to pull Zion off of Trunks. He hadn't even budged him. What would happen if Zion went mad and started a killing spree, who was going to stop him? His biggest question however was, what was Zion's true power? What had been Gaya's?
He knew they were beyond powerful enough to defeat Frieza but wasn't everybody these days. What of Cell? Was Vegeta himself powerful enough to defeat Cell? Vegeta quickly shook off the thought. How absurd to question the fact that he knew he was strong enough.
His thoughts were interrupted as Gohan and his female came up the stairs. Goten and Trunks had been messing around for a few minutes. Vegeta scoffed when the girl went on and on about the idiot Satan being the strongest in the world. Gohan, acted like a complete moron trying to cover up his victory against Cell and let the girl believe that Satan was the winner.
Trunks won as expected and they all made their way to the partner selection. Vegeta didn't say anything when the two strangers introduced themselves. He watched them cautiously however. They put on a show of friendliness but there was something in the small purple one's smile that Vegeta recognised all too well, hidden agendas and false friendliness. He had that look of triumph on his face that Vegeta had worn in his days of serving Frieza. However all of this was only in his smile. He lacked the one thing that marked him worthy of concern. His eyes did not have the coldness nor hardness of a killer.
Vegeta didn't pay attention to the number selections except for Kakarot's. He watched the clown smile like a half brained child and turned his face away in disgust. Every time he was remind of that fool's brainlessness it was a blow to the stomach. How had that clown ever surpassed him?
Vegeta drew his number and suppressed the urge to laugh manically. He held his number out to Kakarot and smiled smugly. His long awaited battle, now he finally had it.
He watched the other's whisper wearily but not Kakarot, he laughed in his usual brainless manner.
Baldie was first and Vegeta swore that if he had lost that match he would never stop teasing his toaster of a wife as punishment. The Namiekien gave everyone a surprise when he forfeited in his match against the purple one. Vegeta then watched Gohan's female get pulverised by the human. What was most interesting about that match was the fact that everyone seemed utterly surprised by the human's increase in strength.
The fight involving Gohan was delayed so that he could tend to his human. Vegeta felt his impatience grow as it delayed his fight with Kakarot.
When Gohan was attacked, his energy drained and Kakarot decided to follow the purple one the only thing that Vegeta could think about was that his fight with Kakarot was being further delayed.
Vegeta listened intently as the purple one, the supreme Kai, told the story of the one he called Majin Buu and his master Bibidi. Bibidi was now dead but his son, Babidi was trying to revive the dormant monster.
They crouched on the mountain side and hide from a perfectly good fight. Vegeta grit his teeth and said nothing. He was interested to see this Majin Buu. What did he have to offer? Then there was the King of the Demons, Debora. What kind of a challenge would he present? Vegeta quickly found out when he watched the Demon King fight. He knew exactly how to beat him in the short period that he had seen him fight.
Why was the purple one worried? The way Vegeta saw it, there was no threat. Then Zion's words rang through his head. The end is near . . . Could he have meant this? Vegeta refused to think of the ramifications. Instead he concentrated on the here and now.
He fought the first of the universe's supposed greatest warriors. He almost felt insulted by the lack of a challenge the fighter presented. He laughed when they thought that ten times the Earth's gravity made a difference. Heck he had been born on a planet that was ten times the Earth's gravity.
When Kakarot fought the energy eating monster Vegeta wanted to howl out in frustration and pain. Just by watching that simple and short battle hi knew that Kakarot was once again miles ahead of him. Kakarot's name pounded against the side of his head. Kakarot . . . Kakarot . . . Kakarot . . .
With a shock Vegeta realised that Earth had not been the first time he had met Kakarot. The memory snapped into his head. How had he forgotten?
His ears picked up the sound of a newborn Sayian baby in distress. She stopped by a window and stood on tiptoes to see through it. The Prince hovered into the air to see what she was showing him. It was the nursery. A doctor walked in carrying a naked male Sayian who was squirming and crying for all he was worth. The baby was placed in a cot and the doctor walked away. Prince Vegeta saw the name tag and checked the power level on the baby. Kakarot and a low-class.
"Why are we here?" he demanded.
Gaya pointed to the squalling baby. The Prince snorted in disgust before stomping away. Gaya however stayed.
She had known. She had tried to tell him, but how could one tell another that the baby in front of them would be a cause of constant shame and humiliation?
These thoughts whirled through his mind. He knew that he would not be able to defeat Kakarot. He remembered the humans that had been under Babidi's control. Their strength had been drastically increased. It was for that reason alone that he sold his soul to the Wizard, that he allowed the wrinkled abomination into his mind at all.
His co-operation went only as far as getting a power increase. He would never obey the abomination. No one would ever rule him again.
He ignored the supreme Kai, Kakarot and Gohan's pleas for him to fight against the invasion. It was a pain the likes of which he had never experienced before. It was an attack on his mind, not his body. An attack on his body was easy to ignore but his mind was another matter entirely. It would all be worth, it however if he got what he wanted.
To handle the pain he instinctively increased his power. The fools thought that he was fighting, when in fact he was embracing. The last straw was the supreme Kai's instruction to be innocent.
"How can you say that? I'm not innocent!" he demanded angrily.
The power that surged through him was both an ecstasy and an excruciating torture. The others backed away from him in shock as his power grew. He barely heard Gohan's futile attempt to save him but it was too late.
He laughed insanely and it surprised even himself. His last thoughts before the invasion was complete were of his family, but with the power came the lack of empathy.
Darkness surrounded them as Babidi transported them out of the ship and too the tournament. The crowd gazed in wonder at the sudden appearance of the missing participants.
The announcer did not see the danger approaching. Vegeta's annoyance at the announcer acknowledging Kakarot's presence boiled over and Vegeta let loose a wave of power that knocked the man from the ring entirely. Vegeta laughed, no caring about the damage he was causing.
His smile however disappeared as Babidi tried to command him. He quite promptly told the abomination that his only concern was Kakarot, nothing more and certainly nothing less. Vegeta stepped forward and pointed a finger at the clown's stunned face.
"It's time Kakarot." he said with an arrogant smile.
Then he changed the pointed finger to a raised palm and fired a Ki blast that he knew Kakarot would not be able to stop nor deflect at this close range. The blast would then hit and kill the people in the stands making Kakarot more susceptible to fighting him. He knew the fool would try and he did only to fail as planned.
There was the expected yelling and performing about killing innocent people but Vegeta barely cared much less listened. Vegeta did not see the defeat that made a usually proud Bulma slump. In fact he did not even see Bulma at all. Not even when he fired the second Ki blast that very nearly killed her too.
Kakarot eventually agreed to fight him if Babidi took them somewhere without people. Naturally the Kai tried to prevent the inevitable but it was in vain. They were transported to an open landscape much like the very first battle ground that they had fought on. How ironic. It was also his first defeat. Well no longer. Today he reclaimed his honour.
There had been a brief moment when he had almost killed the Kai, when the Kai had called his fight with Kakarot meaningless.
"Meaningless ha! What do you know of meaningless?" he demanded of the stunned Kai.
"Spend most of your life ruled by another, watch your race dwindle to a handful, and then tell me what has more meaning than your own strength. I have in me the blood of a Sayian Prince. He is nothing but a joke, yet I've had to watch him surpass me in strength. My destiny, thrown to the wayside. He's – he's even saved my life as if I was a helpless child. He has stolen my honour and his debts must be paid!" Vegeta proclaimed angrily.
Throughout the entire speech, Kakarot had remained quiet.
Now however he told the Kai and Gohan to leave. They obeyed and finally left, leaving just Vegeta and Kakarot to fight the long awaited battle. Before they left Babidi tried to make Vegeta kill the Kai. Vegeta fought the pain as it knifed through his mind.
"I refuse. Your business with the Kai means nothing to me. Kakarot is my only objective." Vegeta managed to choke out.
Babidi tried to force him again.
"No, get out of my head! I already told you. I will not be distracted from this anymore, I won't! It will take more than head games to stop me. You may have invaded my mind and my body but there's one thing a Sayian always keeps! HIS PRIDE!" Vegeta yelled powering up on the last two words.
"I'm ready now." Kakarot said.
"That's good to hear. So Kakarot the table has been set. Now let us begin!" Vegeta yelled.
Vegeta was delighted to learn that Kakarot was stronger than Gohan had been during his fight with Cell. He powered up to match Kakarot Ki blast for Ki blast.
"Wow Vegeta, this might take longer than I thought." Kakarot said tonelessly.
"You see this is our fate! Our battle!" Vegeta laughed getting into a fighting stance.
Vegeta dealt the first blow. He fought with a rage long bottled up. He fought with an intensity he had not needed in years. Kakarot matched him blow for blow. It seemed smarts was going to win this battle and not brute strength.
They both fired a Ki blast and they both went spiralling in the opposite direction as the blasts combusted. Vegeta was quicker to recover. He took the time to pulverise Kakarot but wasn't really all that surprised when he recovered.
"What's the matter? Not winning as easily as you thought?" Vegeta asked mockingly.
"I never said it would be easy." Kakarot responded in a strangled tone due to the Ki around his neck, restricting his airways.
"You won't be winning at all. What clown? Are you feeling angry, humiliated? Is that it? Fool! You don't know what humiliation is. Don't worry, I will teach you a taste of it just as you have taught me. Me! A warrior Elite. Right at my finger tips I had the power to destroy entire worlds. I am a Sayian of royal blood, the last of my kind and on my shoulders rest the glory of an extinct race. Whole civilisations once trembled at the sound of my name, but you didn't, did you Kakarot? And at your hands, your common hands, my honour and my pride, the foundations upon which I have always stood crumbled at my feet. It was at your hands that I suffered my first great humiliation. Toppled by a piece of low level trash. Imagine my added shame when it was you and not me who avenged our people by defeating Frieza. You who were the first to achieve the pinnacle of our race, the first in a thousand years to take a place among the super Sayians of legend. A place I had been raised to believe was my royal birth right. Imagine the disgrace I suffered when the strength I had worked my whole life to acquire was surpassed by a mere child. Your half breed son succeeded where I, the Prince of all Sayians, had failed. It is time to take back what is mine. I will not live my life as your second, that time is over. Every breath you take is an assault to my honour, but no more Kakarot. By my hands you will be cut down inch by inch the way you cut down my pride." Vegeta said angrily.
It was then that Kakarot had recovered. Vegeta had been so stunned at first that Kakarot had dealt him two blows. The fight continued as evenly matched as before. It was the most intense and damaging fight that either had been in in such a short amount of time.
They both enjoyed it. A fight where there was nothing to worry about except destroying the planet, almost. A sparring partner that could keep up and who was incidentally trying to kill an already dead person. Mountains were levelled, craters were easily dented into earth and the landscape was scared with every blow they dealt each other. Neither could gain the advantage however.
"So, you've still got plenty of fight left." Vegeta said from the ground towards Kakarot who was hovering in the air.
"Yeah."
"Hn, impressive. I didn't think you'd last this long." Vegeta replied arrogantly.
"Really? I could say the same about you Vegeta. You've learned a few new tricks while I've been away." Kakarot replied.
"Hn." Was all Vegeta said before resuming the fight.
Explosions rocked the Earth as they resulted to Ki blasts instead of physical blows. Smoke and dust hung heavy in the air yet it seemed that the fight was far from over. Vegeta managed to gain a short upper hand. He wrapped his arms around Kakarot and went into a straight dive.
"What's the matter clown?" he asked mockingly before letting go at the last second and pulling up.
Kakarot did not have enough time to recover before Vegeta slammed into him and blasted a Ki blast that left Kakarot seemingly helpless. Vegeta was all too surprised to see that he had disappeared.
"As I was saying Vegeta, you've learned a few new tricks while I've been away, but then so have I." Kakarot said from behind him.
They both flew back into the fight, increasing the intensity, trying to gain the upper hand. Smoke and dust rose anew as more mountains were levelled and more explosions rocked through the Earth. There was even a blast that dried up an entire lake.
"You've become quite the escape artist." Vegeta commented after Kakarot managed to dodge a particularly difficult blast.
"Maybe you just need some better finishing moves." Kakarot responded hotly.
"I doubt that!" Vegeta yelled getting back into the fight.
They landed on the floor, both out of breath and panting.
"I'm amazed Vegeta. These last seven years I've been in other world I've been through some of the most intense training sessions but we're still completely even. I guess this whole time you've been pushing yourself even harder than I have." Kakarot said.
"That may be true. I've pushed myself to the edge of my limits and beyond but you've been born with a natural talent far beyond my own. No amount of training could have closed the gap between us. I realise that now. It was made painfully obvious to me today when I watched your fight with Babidi's monster. Imagine my shock to see the undeniable proof, to discover that no matter how hard I tried I would never be able to catch you, a warrior Prince, forever living in the shadow of a low level clown. So that's when I secretly made up my mind." Vegeta said with a triumphant smile.
"You mean you – You fool! You deliberately let yourself fall under Babidi's spell." Kakarot said accusingly.
"Yes. I saw the power of Babidi's magic at the world's martial arts tournament, those two hench men he sent. The people who had seen those fighters from the previous tournament couldn't understand how they had become so powerful, but you and I know, don't we. It was Babidi's magic and I knew that what his magic had done for those fighters it could also do for me. I knew that if I allowed myself to fall under his control the difference in our power would disappear. I'm quite pleased with the results even if they do come at a price. I'd say the end more than justifies the means." Vegeta explained.
"Vegeta, I don't understand you've never allowed any one to help you before in your life, why start now! Why Babidi?" Kakarot asked in outrage.
"Because I wanted him to reawaken the evil in my heart. I wanted him to return me to the way I was before!" Vegeta yelled powering up in anger.
"I was the perfect warrior, cold and ruthless, I lived by my strength alone. Uninhibited by foolish emotions! But slowly over the years I became one of you, my quest for greatness gradually giving way to this life of mediocrity. I awoke one day to find that I had settled down, formed a family. I had even grown quite fond of them. Would you believe I almost started to think that the earth was a nice place to live? Do you understand now Kakarot? That's why I needed Babidi, to set me free, by releasing the evil in my heart. He has freed me of my petty attachments and I have to say that it feels pretty good." Vegeta explained again.
"Do you really believe what you're saying?" Kakarot asked seriously.
In response Vegeta powered up in anger. They stood facing each other, power snapping in the air between them. Kakarot was the one to jump into the fight this time. They were once again in a stalemate. Neither of them could actually land a good blow. Vegeta threw Ki blast after Ki blast.
He was surprised at Kakarot's speed. He leaped into the air and threw a Ki blast at Kakarot. The smoke cleared from the crater and in the centre stood Kakarot barely fazed by the blast. They were about to jump back into the fight when Kakarot yelled at Vegeta to wait and surprisingly he did.
"I just felt a tremendous surge of energy. While we've been fighting that Buu creature must have hatched." Kakarot explained.
Vegeta was breathing hard, contemplating his next move. He didn't care what Kakarot felt. He went straight back into the fight. Both of them were getting really tired now.
"Vegeta wait! There, I felt that power surge again." Kakarot said.
Vegeta sighed in frustration.
"We know that it's Majin Buu. What we don't know is how the others are fairing against him." Kakarot said.
Vegeta surprised Kakarot by laughing.
"It's as I thought. There's nothing to worry about Kakarot. This Majin Buu has been revealed as a weakling, at least by the measuring bar you and I have set. Is it too hard to understand clown? The Sayian race has evolved since that creature was entrapped. Think of what the supreme Kai has said. He's been constantly surprised by our strength. On Babidi's ship we concurred what was supposed to be the most powerful fighters in the universe and we barely broke a sweat. Think about it Kakarot, we Sayians have taken a ruling place in the universe that even its greatest overseer couldn't predict. Majin Buu may have ruled in his time but now he's sorely outclassed." Vegeta said arrogantly.
"You're wrong. I can feel something deeper inside him." Kakarot said.
"Enough of your feelings! You're just stalling because you know I'm going to beat you!" Vegeta yelled in anger.
"No Vegeta, I know you can sense the same thing. You're just too proud to admit it." Kakarot replied adamantly.
In the distance Majin Buu dealt a blow to the Demon King that had the Supreme Kai and Gohan reeling.
"You had to have felt that one Vegeta. I don't think we can take this guy for granted, not anymore." Kakarot said to a stunned Vegeta.
Vegeta in anger rounded upon Kakarot once again. Locked in a stalemate, Kakarot tried to talk some sense into Vegeta.
"We don't have any time for this Vegeta. We're the ones that let Buu out of his shell. It's because of us!"
"Buu is just a side show. You are my only concern." Vegeta replied.
"Everyone on Earth will be killed! You hear me! Bulma, Trunks, Zion! Everyone!" Kakarot said.
"Shut up!" Vegeta yelled kneeing Kakarot in the stomach and elbowing him in the back with another yelled command to shut up.
"Remember I've sold my soul to Babidi. I keep no loyalty. I have a Sayian heart that depends on strength alone. THEY'RE NOTHING TO ME!" Vegeta said while dealing blows that never landed.
"LIAR." Kakarot accused.
"I don't BUY it." Kakarot yelled elbowing a stunned Vegeta in the face.
"Talk all you want Vegeta but you'd better convince yourself of it first." Kakarot said looking down at Vegeta who was sitting on the floor.
Vegeta got up and wiped him mouth. He watched Kakarot with a calculating gaze.
"Fine. You win. Our battle is postponed. I want you at your fullest when we fight and you're obviously too distracted by that ridiculous Buu." Vegeta said.
"Vegeta." Kakarot exclaimed happily and stupidly.
"Well don't just stand there, get out your senzu beans. We should be at full power when we face him." Vegeta said with a predatory smile that Kakarot missed.
He was walking towards Kakarot as he spoke. Kakarot was busy getting the senzu beans so he didn't see the change of expression on Vegeta's face.
"With all of us working together I'm sure we could beat this guy." Kakarot said completely oblivious to the raised fist behind him.
Vegeta struck, hard. Kakarot fell to the floor, losing the golden hair and aura before he even hit the ground. The senzu bean bag fell from his grasp and the bean bounced out.
"So Kakarot even you can prove helpless when you drop your guard." Vegeta said.
He picked up the bean and ate it. His power was immediately restored. He thanked his stars that the bean didn't only work for the pure of heart or some crap like that.
"I'll take care of this Buu myself. The last thing I need is for this clown to play hero again and dangle it over my head." he thought to himself.
"We'll finish this fight when I return Kakarot. Enjoy your sleep." Vegeta promised the unconscious Sayian.
"And should your time run out before I'm done, then we'll have to continue this another day, when I see you in hell."
