SSSS: Hm...this needs some epic music...

Ice: Three Day-

SSSS: No, something better. Something older. Calm yet powerful.

*Everyone draws a blank*

SSSS: *Sighs* Guitar Vs Piano 1.2. Seriously, goes along with this perfectly.

Bardock: You mean goes along with me perfectly?

SSSS: Yeah...I guess. Awkward...so, first story to have a song change in the middle of the story, cool!


Chapter 7: Final Revenger

Bardock padded quietly into the navy night. No matter what, he had to find Niara and Kale. No matter what happened, even if he were to perish under the Elite's nasty-ass claws, he would still rescue his girlfriend.

Bardock took off around the corner and headed outside, skidding to a halt at the cliff. He looked into the starry nighttime. He closed his eyes and put a hand to his heart.

I hope my ancestors are looking down on me tonight. They better protect me...Hirox...Bardock opened his eyes again. "Might I need a Super Saiyan's power?" He let his hand droop his side. He looked beyond the great waterfall cascading in the nighttime. He couldn't see it, but he could hear it. "Maybe..." He asked himself. And with that, he looked into the wastelands of the Planet. Without another word, he ascended into the sky, leaving behind a trail of worries.

He focused his senses, closing his eyes so that his hearing and feeling would advance. If only he could see her, if he could feel her.

Delving into his senses, he focused. He scanned the area entirely for anything, a heartbeat, a scream, anything.

Then he heard it, a wail, distant but clear. Rage built up in Bardock's gut, and he raced off for the sound.

In the outskirts of the city, about a mile from the school, the teenager found a small, abandoned warehouse. He landed softly as not to disturb anything or anyone. He peered around the corner, looking left and right. He began to walk towards a door in the back. But not before he heard very silent shifting.

So much for being quiet...he thought to himself. He dashed over to the sound quickly and grabbed someone's collar, tossing him across the ground, and, in a mad dash, he made his way towards this figure and grabbed the area closest to the person's neck. He readied his fist in the air, clenching it hard.

"Where's KALE!?" He shouted at his foe. "If you don't tell me, I will kill you!"

"Agh!" The shadow choked. "G...go to Hell, bastard. We'll NEVER say where he is!"

Bardock perked up a snarl. Without another word, he brought his elbow down on the man's neck, snapping it with amazing force so it echoed off the walls.

The man's comrade was sent shivering in the corner.

"K-K-Kale's in the back with the girl... Don't kill me!"

Bardock snarled and charged through a flimsy wooden door. Blue ki engulfed his figure, swirling around in a furious cosmos of rage, hatred, and affection. He hit a solid wall at the end however.

No problem! He shouted to himself, and, engulfing his hands in ki, he was able to blast his way through the wall. Once again, he charged towards his girlfriend.

She was tied to a chair, or chained, moreover. Her frame was covered with slashes and cuts, burns and bruises. She had a gag in her mouth.

"Naira..." Bardock gasped as he ran over to untie her. He pulled the gag off her face and she spluttered and screamed. "Bardock... You need to get out of here! Kale, he's too powerful. You'll get killed! Please don't die for me! Bardock...!?"

Bardock's ki was illuminating the dark room. He was seething, hatred ripping at his soul until his form yearned for vengeance.

He would teach Kale to hurt Naira!

"I won't quit!" Bardock yelled back. "That bastard needs a good hole through his heart. Maybe then he'll learn his lesson!"

"But...his eyes..."

Bardock turned back to his girlfriend but, hearing a clanging sound, turned around, looking about.

"His eyes are blue...like yours!" She shouted.

"What!?" Bardock hissed, swiveling around to go untie Naira.

She coughed up a bit of blood. "His eyes... He's just like you... Bardock... He's like you."

There then came a voice. "Well well well, look who we have here." Standing, with half his face under shadow, was the figure that every atom in Bardock's organism wanted to annihilate; Kale.

The boy was different now, his eyes were tinged blueish-green. It was the teal of a Super Saiyan.

Something odd, though, was the fact that no aura came off of him, and his eyes, however oceany, were not lit up.

Bardock growled, slight foam dripping from the corner of his lips. "What the hell are you?" He seethed.

Kale put both hands up in a nonchalant manner. "Fool. I am the true Super Saiyan, don't you see?" He pointed to his colored eyes. "'Color of a Super Saiyan. And all you were doing was wearing contacts or getting that bitchy little cat girl to help you."

"NO!" Bardock shouted. "You can't be one!" The teenager snarled, letting his fury connect to his ki center. His aura burst to life around himself. "It's just a trick!"

Kale began to chuckle. "Oh, but I am. hn hn hn. I am."

"Why don't you come over and say that to me like a man!?" Bardock taunted.

Kale burst forward without warning. His fist was ready to connect with his opponent's face, when...

When Bardock caught Kale's wrist, much to his surprise.

Kale flipped around his opponent, digging his knees into his back,which caused Bardock to gasp with pain and let go of Kale's wrist. As Kale prepared to ram his fist into his opponent's face, Bardock blocked the punch and aimed a shot towards Kale's stomach, but Kale deflected it. The two began throwing punch after punch at one another, and even though neither managed to land too many hits, some made their mark.

With a battle cry, Bardock at last pile-drived his fist into Kale's gut. Heaving a great gasp, the boy crumpled to the ground. Bardock knelt beside him, and lifted his head up by the jaw.

"You sicken me.." He growled. With a smirk, he was sure he had won, until Kale slapped a bloody hand against Bardocks face, and red ki erupted from his palm. One could see the smoke steaming off between the teenager's face, and his enemy's hand. Bardock was able to throw his opponent off, but when he did, third degree burns stained his visage. The worst of which; a deep, deep long burn that had been where Kale's index finger was. It went down the teenager's cheek.

"ENOUGH!" Bardock screamed at the top of his shaky lungs. He charged ki up in his hand, his feet left the ground, and he launched it. When it hit the place Kale had been, there was no blood, though. Suddenly Bardock felt fingers wrap around his tail in a tight grip and his energy suddenly and rapidly depleted and he collapsed, hitting the ground hard with a metallic clang. Kale had deceived him...! And now he was pinned down!

Bardock growled and squirmed in futileness with what energy he had left, which wasn't a lot.

He heard Kale stifle a small laugh followed by a fizzled ki shock. With great pain, Bardock turned his head extremely slowly to notice a red flame sitting in Kale's right hand and a demonic, twisted warped look on Kale's face. Obviously he thought he had won this one.

But what was the rush of killing the boy so easily was what Kale had in mind. He would toy with the idiot first and then deliver his finishing blow, for he still had a technique up his sleeve.

But then again, so did Bardock.

And Kale was too focused on charging his ki bolt to a massive, sure-to-be life destroying blast to see that he had taken his crushing foothold off of Bardock's tail.

All at once, Bardock felt his energy return to him, filling his spirit with renewed power. Emitting both a furious shout and a furious blue, jagged aura, he quickly jabbed Kale in the chest with the point of his foot and hopped back strategically one or two yards. The look on Kale's face was priceless to Bardock. His twisted, insaiyan face was now mixed with a feeling of shock and horror. Bardock couldn't tell why. He probably made the boy shit his pants, but his was too contort with shock.

And that's when it hit Bardock. Kale's eyes flicked to the blue aura swirling around Bardock. However, instead of a blue aura, it appeared to flash every ten seconds with a hint of a golden sort-of color.

With a half smirk, Bardock looked back to his opponent and began to slowly walk up to him. But, for some reason, Kale did not seem fazed. His face returned to it's normal smirk, and with one swift punch, he rammed his fist and foot into Bardock, which sent the boy flying back into a pile of rubble. He stayed motionless for a few moments.

Wh...what's going on...? The boy desperately thought.

"Don't you see?' He heard Kale's muffled voice call out. "I figured you would try and go Super Saiyan, but, of course, I did my research." Kale caught his breath. "Weak points."

Bardock's eyes shot wide open, and with one heroic battle cry, he blasted away the rubble, and, with another quick motion, he aimed a punch straight towards Kale. He made his mark, and hard, but the boy was only pushed back a few feet.

Bardock growled hard and flew a fury of combos straight towards Kale, but, when Kale kicked him back a few yards, Bardock felt something sharp cut through his shoulder, and he didn't have to look at the wound to know what had happened, but when he did, it only weakened his contorted stomach even more.

The top of his left shoulder was cut down about two millimeters, but it wasn't just any basic wound. This wound cut through his shoulder, through tissue and bone, and out the other side.

And then his nervous system kicked in. With a howling shout of a mix of pure pain and rage, Bardock fell to the ground, clutching his shoulder hard. He could feel his hand becoming warm with fresh Saiyan blood. And when he looked to his hand, it was redder than the fires of Hell. He began to lose consciousness, every square pixel of his vision disappearing, one after another.

"How...did you...?" The weary Saiyan asked, lifting his head to look at his opponent. Kale slowly walked up to the third class warrior.

"You see, my family has this ability to manifest our ki into shapes, and each one is gifted with a different shape." Red aura enveloped Kale's right arm, forming a triangular shape. He raised his arm into Bardock's face.

"I got a crossbow. And it's arrows will pierce through anything, even bone, as demonstrated by your wound." He beckoned to Bardock's left shoulder, which was now bleeding profusely. Kale grabbed the boy by the neck, forcing Bardock to use his right hand to hold on to Kale's arm. Kale brought Bardock close to his face.

"Long live the baka." He smirked.

Bardock shut his eyes tight, trying to calm himself down, trying to bring fresh oxygen to his body, but his organ systems, one by one, were shutting down. Finally, Bardock slumped into Kale's hand. Unbeknownst to Kale, he was still breathing. With a smirk, Kale tossed Bardock aside to let the boy die slowly.

But not until a blur caught Bardock in midair. Kale looked on to this shadow, and then back to the metallic chair he left the girl in.

It was empty.

Kale's face became contorted with twisted rage. "NO! YOU'LL FUCKING HEAL HIM!" He shrieked, charging towards the shadow. With a great laugh, he brought his fist down onto a shape, but he hit it hard, and solid. When he drew his hand back, all he saw was scrap metal.

Meanwhile...

Naira carefully laid Bardock on the softest place she could find. She shook him a few times to awaken him, and his eyes slowly opened and drifted upwards. He saw Naira's desperate face, and, in the distance, Kale looking around for any signs of movement.

Naira laid a gentle hand on Bardock's shoulder, and, at once, Bardock could feel a bit of his ki wandering around and finally travelling his way up his arm and into his shoulder. Naira removed her hand, letting his ki heal the wound.

"Bardock," She whispered, "I'm sorry."

"Wha..." Bardock asked, but not before he felt Naira tap her head to his chest in a comforting way. And then she removed the already damaged strap from his left shoulder and kissed it for a short second.

"I'm sorry." She repeated again before standing up and walking into plain sight of Kale, who now had a look on his face that said "I FOUND YOU!" [If anyone's ever heard of before, it's like that type of smile.]

"Naira, what are you doing!?" Bardock shouted with sudden energy. "You'll be killed! Run away and let me die! This is my fight!"

She didn't turn her head, for her eyes were locked on to Kale. Her long, raven-like hair flowed gently behind her. "I know. I'm just being selfish."

"Get out of here!" Bardock shouted again, getting on his knees. "He'll kill you."

"You don't understand." Naira answered. "You were always protecting me, letting me stay behind your back. But this time, I'm defending you. And I'm not afraid to die fighting for you!" She let blue energy flow to her hands, lifting her fists to her face. "Because I...love you."

At this point, Bardock would have given a look that said "Obviously," but, for some reason, he never thought he would hear it coming from a girl who rejected him so many times before. It caught him speechless until another wave of pain shot up his arm, forcing him to bang his head against the ground and clench his shoulder hard.

With a mighty roar, Naira charged towards Kale, and, with the Elite unprepared, she made her mark on his face, but the rest of the slue of punches she rocketed towards his way were ones that he was able to catch with ease. Noticing this, Naira hopped back a bit and engulfed her hands in ki and charged her opponent with a melee attack.

But not when she was tripped by Kale and flown towards the nearest pile of rubble. Her eyes were then partially closed and a short dribble of blood leaked out of her mouth. Kale raised a hand, pooling pointed ki at his fingertips. He aimed it, but not before looking back to Bardock, shifting only his eyes in a gruesome way. "Look what you've done, fool." He murmured to the teenager across the room. "You tried to help the little girl.. You thought you could fight for her." He chuckled. "And now she'll die for you."

Bardock tried to squirm forward, but his muscles had given in.

Kale reached down and held up the girl by her throat. "For love!" He sneered.

And he crushed her airway in his hands.

"N-NO!" Bardock let out a wail of anguish.

Kale began to laugh as the desperate boy managed to thrash forward and cling his arms around the one he loved.

Niara struggled to breathe as he held her.

"B-Bardock..." she rasped.

The boy held her tightly to his chest. "Y-you're gonna be alright, Niara." He sniffed, his eyes beginning to water. "You...You have to be alright. We'll be so happy, I promise, but you need to be okay first." He let out a sob. "P-Please be okay." He quickly wiped his eyes. "I need you to be okay."

At the dusk of her short life, the girl cupped his face in her hand. She wiped a tear with her thumb.

A faint smile creased her wounded face. "Don't fret, my love, I don't feel any pain." He face was slowly turning blue with lack of oxygen. "Please don't be sad now." Faint, starry tears fell from her eyes. "I really think you were the best thing to ever happen to me, Bardock. I'll love you forever." Bardock held her hand to his face. "N-Niara don't!" He choked, as a downfall of tears poured down his burnt face. He leaned down, and locked lips with the dying one who he loved. Their first kiss, in such dreadful a situation. When he pulled her away, her eyes were closed, a smile lightened her visage, and her hand felt cold in his. He rested her against the ground, his face torn with tears. She looked so peaceful, a sleeping child.

[This is the part that needs the song Futatsu no Mirai instead of Guitar vs. Piano 1.2]

"KALE!" He roared with all of the vengeance and hatred ever felt by a Saiyan teeneger. "YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!"

Kale smirked and put his hands up. "My attack is too fast. You can turn into whatever you want, but as long as you're not fast, you can't win. Asshole." But before Kale could even move, he was knocked back and slammed into the metallic wall hard enough to push him through the entire building. After flying a few yards, he got his foothold, skidding across the ground until he came to a halt at the cliff.

And not a second passed before he was forced back yet another inch. Then another. And another. The relentless blows that erupted from the boy, so rapid that no one could pick it up, was fueled by not only his spirit. It was fueled by something else.

As Bardock jumped back, skidding to a halt, Kale roared and fired an arrow from his blood-shaded crossbow. He was sure he made his mark, taking the life away from the baka.

Well, it didn't work out. Not a second before it left his hand, and with one finger, Bardock tapped the arrow by the point, lifting it upwards in a spinning motion, then roundhouse kicking it back towards Kale, who just got out of the way in time before he was hit with it. It pierced a plateau behind him, drilling into it halfway before stopping.

"Don't know how to sense energy huh?" Bardock asked. And when Kale looked back, the boy had his eyes closed. And a large half smirk on his face. "Try again, you'll get it eventually." He mocked.

Kale then locked onto Bardock at an instant, this time launching three bolts of energy. With one swift stroke, the arrows left their capsule.

Bardock stood completely still. And then he made his move. with three fingers, he flicked each arrow, one by one, up into the air, sending them spinning. And then he launched one at Kale, then the two more with the point of his toe.

Now it was his turn!

He appeared in front of a shocked Kale, knocking him up in the air with a reverse side kick. He squatted a bit and then shot up into the air with a shout, following his opponent. Since he was flying fast, too fast, rather, Bardock seeked him out using ki. After finally finding him, he brought his fist into Kale's stomach, knocking him farther into the air. But before Kale could fly farther with the impact, Bardock grabbed his head with both hands and slid under his legs, and, with the momentum gathered, he brought his knee into Kale's spine. Kale was sent plummeting back to Vegeta, and, with one final push, Bardock clenched his hands together and hit Kale directly on the head, causing him to fall farther and faster, finally landing inside the wall of the valley.

"Hm..." Bardock thought to himself. "I'll call that technique something later..." He descended to Kale's position. "Or now. Final-something..."

Kale consistently cursed to himself, stepping out of the rock formation. He was rubbing his face from that last impact. But not when he heard a gentle step, and, noting Bardock land right in front of him, Kale staggered backwards a bit.

"Say, what should I call that last technique?" Bardock asked, placing a finger on his chin. "Final Attack...Final Ram...it's gotta be Final-something..."

"A...are you making fun of me!?" Kale shouted. "This is a battlefield, not a peaceful get-together!"

"You do realize I'm letting you catch your breath, right?' Bardock asked. "If you're too focused on not keeping your head on, then you won't be able to be me, right? Or rather, give me a good match. Catch your breath and help me think. I don't want a tired opponent."

Kale took a step back. What's he playing at...? He thought.

"Seriously, I need a name for it..." Bardock started up again.

Kale stood up to his full height and rolled his eyes. He couldn't wait to kill the fool. Why in the Holy Hell of Fuck did he have to help him? Kale crossed his arms. "Final-something?"

"Yeah."

"Final Revenger? You know, revenge since I killed Naira?" He smirked. That would rile the boy up!

"Hm, Final Revenger! That sticks well!" Bardock added, turning his back to Kale. "Final Revenger...haha..."

At this point, Kale brought his fist to Bardock's back, but Bardock caught his fist, sensing the attack coming. Bardock turned his head to look over his shoulder. "I don't think I said start again, did I?" he asked, clenching Kale's hand hard and then letting it go.

Kale hopped back a few feet, shaking his hand.

"I said 'take a break'. Weren't you listening?" Bardock reminded Kale. "Three minute break."

"You're crazy, but if that's the way you want it..." Kale added, sitting down. "Fine."

Bardock smirked. Glad to hear it... He internally laughed.


Kokoro Tsunagara Bokura no Yume

Akashi ni naru...!

I hoped you listen to Futatsu no Mirai or you wouldn't get it.

If you've ever watch Super Mario Bros Z, then it would make A LOT more sense, since it is the actual intro song to it!