AN: two updates within a week. How cool is that? The next chapter's already done and just waiting to be proof read too, so shouldn't be too long and the one after is about halfway done so yeah, I'm on a role. well later.


A Saiyan's Rage Part 2: The Ferocious Prince

"How nice of you to show up. I could use a good punching bag." Vegeta sneered, his purple, malicious eyes staring eagerly down at his pray. "Another Saiyan should make for a slightly interesting fight, even if it is just the little pacifist."

"Don't take me on Vegeta. My pacifism is long gone." Gohan snarled, his anger returning to its peak as his shock died down. "If we fight, you'll die. "

"What? You, a lowly son of a third class Saiyan dare talk to your prince like that?" Vegeta shouted, his smug look turning vicious. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Prince Gohan, heir of the Ox King, a half Saiyan Z Fighter and leader of the Valour Guardians." Gohan shouted back, standing tall. "I'm of royal blood too. And if you want to fight so bad, bring it on."

"GRRRAAAAA!" Pulling both fists back, Vegeta shot at Gohan like a bullet, His aura only intensifying as he flew. Mimicking the action, Gohan aimed right for Vegeta. A deafening boom of thunder echoed throughout the room as the two alien powerhouses met, the aftershock blowing the floor around them and nearby statues to rubble.

Vegeta, despite the mist's affects, couldn't hide the shock he felt as he matched strength with the pubescent warrior. Normally, Gohan's strength was a fair bit below his, the boy being easily pushed back and repelled. This time however, Vegeta couldn't gain an inch. And what really ticked him off was that Gohan was clearly holding back. He could see the lingering, forced restraint in Gohan's eyes and could sense even greater strength swirling within him.

Gohan, focusing solely on removing the obstacle that was his ally from his way, saw the drop in Vegeta's concentration immediately and took full advantage of it. Spinning, he pushed off of Vegeta's fist and flew below him before dishing out a brutal roundhouse kick right into Vegeta's hip. Bug eyed and gasping painfully, Vegeta was blown away and crashed into where the ceiling met the far wall.

"What the…where is this power…coming from?" Vegeta gasped angrily, smashing through the debris holding him in place. "He's never been nearly that strong! How can he…actually be so much stronger than me?"

"Do yourself a favor and stay down!" Gohan shouted, thrusting his palm out and releasing a gold beam. Vegeta's eyes widened as the beam came for him, too fast to dodge it or gather the necessary energy to counter it, and crossed his arms over his head just before he was struck. The beam took down the whole wall behind along with him, knocking him into what looked like an old ballroom under rather large pile of debris.

Watching the pile with narrowed eyes, Gohan took a few seconds to catch his breath. When Vegeta didn't rise, Gohan declared him dealt with and smashed through the ceiling and onto the next level just as fast moving footsteps smacked the ground nearby. However, after checking just enough to deem that none of them had the aura of pure evil, he ignored them completely and moved on.

"Garlic Jr., you can put as many people between us as you want. I'll still find you and when I do, I'm ripping you apart, starting with your head."

"Whoa!" Ryo cried, stumbling as the thunderous boom rocked the hallway. "What was that? It felt like an earthquake."

"Judging from the experience and the essences I'm sensing, Gohan is holding that immense power boost and just locked horns with a being similar to himself and almost as strong." Gwen answered just before another wall breaking smash struck their ears. "And if we don't hurry, Gohan will probably kill him."

"Then catch up when you can." Danny responded, taking to the air and flying ahead. He almost hit the ground when the third boom struck his ears, but managed to turn intangible just before hitting anything solid and continued on into the room, arriving just in time to see Gohan crash through the ceiling.

"Gohan, wait for me." He called after him, flying towards the hole. However, his calls fell on deaf ears and before he could even reach the new opening, an infuriated, animalistic roar heralded and explosive column of white and dark blue power, eradicating a large pile of rubble and a good chunk of the next room and revealing a very pissed off Saiyan.

"THAT BRAT WILL PAY FOR THAT!" Vegeta roared, stomping his foot right through the floor, like a child in the middle of a temper tantrum, as he searched wildly for Gohan, only getting madder when he found him nowhere in sight. "HE DARES TO THINK I'M FINISHED AFTER THREE LOUSY HITS? THAT IMPOTENT, LITTLE-"

"I think it's safe to say that he's powerful." Danny interrupted, regretting it a moment later as Vegeta's malicious, blood thirsty glare focused on him. "L-little, yeah, kinda I guess, but impotent, I think not."

"What would you know about power you ghost freak?" Vegeta spat, energy pouring off of him in waves and shaking the room again as Gwen and Ryo entered. "Your freakish powers are completely unnatural and absolutely pathetic compared to mine. Let me show you what true power is." With that, he fire an enormous ki beam. Danny panicked, and threw up an ecto shield and forced himself intangible. Using both powers at once wash very difficult and taxing, but Danny was desperate. He didn't need the ability to sense energy to know that even with his defenses at maximum, he wasn't likely to be conscious once this unavoidable blast hit.

"Reverso Kal!" Danny and Vegeta watched on, the former in amazement and relief, the latter in shock and outrage, as the beam appeared to melt. It wasn't completely gone before it could crash into Danny's shield, and still broke through it, however, it never reached the ghost boy. As the last of the energy melted and disappeared on its way to the ground, Danny spared a moment to send a very thankful look to the doorway. Following his gaze, Vegeta turned a very dark scowl towards Gwen as she lowered her spell book.

"You! I don't know how you did that, but YOU WILL REGRET INTERFERING WITH MY POWERS GIRL!" Vegeta roared, his face promising murder.

"We'll see." Gwen retorted evenly, hiding her nervousness as she raised her hands. "Seeing as you are in a league beyond any of us, let's even the odds a bit. Dakeliar Vortium!" Blue mist emerged from her finger tips and spread throughout the entirety of both the room she, Ryo and Danny were occupying and the ballroom Vegeta stood in, before gathering around every stone statue and entering them. Simultaneously, their eyes glowed blue and they came alive. Vegeta, Ryo and Danny watched for a moment with astoundment as ten Gargoyles, varying from Ryo's height to ten feet tall, charged at Vegeta like bulls, even growling like living creatures.

"You think a few piles of rock will stop me?" Vegeta growled as he snapped out of it, smashing his fist through the one right up in his face. He effortlessly dodge the next two attacks, coming from either side of him, and kicked the upper torso of one of them right off of its body before the fourth smashed its clasped fists into Vegeta's back, making him stumble forward and right into the fifth and sixth Gargoyles' fists, one in the cheek and one in the gut.

"You PESTS!" Vegeta screamed, his aura flaring as he released a burst of explosive energy all around him, destroying all four Gargoyles.

However, in doing so, he let his guard down, something that Ryo picked up easily. Smirking he leapt into the air, right through the dust cloud created from the disintegrating stone.

"Justice Kick!" Gasping, Vegeta had just enough time to see a foot encased in bluish purple energy through the corner of his eye before it smashed right into the small of his back.

"AARRGGHH!" Screaming in pain, Vegeta was thrown forward from the assault only to be clotheslined by the seventh Gargoyle and fall onto his injured back like a sack of potatoes. He didn't have any time to rest though as the eighth gargoyle, this one bearing wings, was diving bombing right at him, its spiky head aiming Vegeta's chest. Rolling out the way, he lashed out with his leg and shattered the flying gargoyle while simultaneously throwing an energy ball at the other, turning it into dust.

"I grow tired of these pathetic excuses for combat." Vegeta growled as he leapt to his feet, shattering the ninth gargoyle before it could even make contact.

"Ok, let's play." Danny called, releasing an ectoplasmic energy blast. Vegeta almost casually brushed it away, before launching a spin kick behind him, landing it right on Ryo's metal arm and cancelling the attack before he grabbed it tightly, smirking at the struggling teen.

"Your friends said that that helmet a number of vision functions. It's so good that you can see your opponent through smoke with enough detail to predict their movements as they shift their weight." Vegeta smirked, giving Ryo a blood curdling grin. "The arm amplifies your powers and focuses them into new forms, like a blade, making you a very dangerous adversary to some. However…" He added, licking his lips. "You'll find them useless on me!" With that, he tossed Ryo head first at the nearest pillar.

"AAAHHH- huh?" Ryo's screams came to a sudden halt as he realised that his body had, leaving him floating. Noticing the familiar, blue glow around him, he smiled appreciatively at Gwen.

"Damn brats! Just take your beating." Vegeta snarled, leaping into the air after Ryo. But before he could reached him, Danny shot up from out of nowhere, releasing a large ecto ball at point blank range right into Vegeta's chest.

"Augh!" Vegeta cried, more stunned than anything else, as the force of the blow knocked him back and higher in the air. Using the opening given, Danny pressed his attack by releasing a beam of icy energy, blowing Vegeta right to the ceiling and sealing him in a cocoon of ice. It didn't last long however, for energy sparks and ice shards exploded from him a moment later as he released another mist infected roar.

"I won't suffer the embarrassment of looking like a fool to your pathetic powers any longer!" He yelled before disappearing from sight. Not a second later, Danny's chest almost completely caved in as a blur past by him, and before he even managed to make it halfway to crashing in the fireplace, another blur appeared in front of Gwen as what felt like a pile driver struck her gut, sending her flying back with a scream and leaving a human shaped hole in the wall out to the hallway. Gwen's magic ceased working as her concentration was broken, but Ryo never made it to the ground as the blur reappeared in front on him. It stopped long enough to take on the form of a furious Vegeta just as a fist crashed into Ryo's helmet. Ryo screamed as he flew like a cannon ball, both from the pain of the blow and the metal scraping through his head as his helmet shattered under the pressure.

Not wasting any time, Vegeta disappeared again and reappeared in the air a second later, at equal distance from each of the teens.

"Now you see just how powerless the three of you really are." He sneered, staring down and admiring his work. Danny, having yet to fully recover from his previous fight, looked about ready to drop dead as he struggled to get himself on all fours and hold back the white rings trying to revert him to human form. Gwen was having a better time staying up on her knees and conscious, but her whole body was covered in deep cuts and bruises and screamed with pain. She couldn't stop coughing either, spitting up blood more than once.

Ryo was bearing better than the others, thanking whoever was listening for his enhanced tolerance as he pulled himself back to his feet.

"You are so going to pay for that." He growled, wiping some blood out of his eyes. "Do you have any idea how hard it's going to be to get that helmet replaced?"

"Is that seriously the biggest issue on your mind?" Danny groaned, giving up on rising the old fashioned way and just floated instead as he moved to help Gwen up.

"No, it's just one more reason to beat the crap out of this guy." Was Ryo's answer as he glared heatedly at the red faced Saiyan.

"How is it that you three are still even alive?" Vegeta snapped, turning his glare from one hero to the next. "That should have been more than enough force to kill the lot of you."

"If that's what you think, then you've either underestimated us or you just aren't as powerful as you think you are!" Ryo shouted, thrusting his metal fist forward. "Justice Burst!"

"BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Ryo visibly flinched as the screamed hit his ears, but never stopped firing his barrage of purplish blue lightning orbs. Not that it did more than irritate Vegeta even more as he shot at Ryo, batting them away like tennis balls.

"Is Justiman nuts?" Danny exclaimed hoarsely, watching wide eyed as Ryo leapt out of the way of Vegeta's assault and elbowed him in the back of the head, eliciting another wild scream as Vegeta spun around and lashed out with a kick. "He's just making Vegeta madder. He's going to get killed."

"Actually…he's trying to keep Vegeta from…coming after us." Gwen said between coughs. "We're in bad shape and even you can't withstand Vegeta's punches as well as he can." Though despite her words, Gwen was still clearly worried for their new friend, watching with bated breath as she pulled herself together.

"Missed me! Missed again, haha!" Ryo teased, jumping onto Vegeta's leg as he tried to kick him and over Vegeta's head as the Saiyan responded with a punch. "Now it's my turn. Voltage Blade!" Holding his palm out flat, the lower half of Ryo's arm was encased within an energy blade as Ryo spun and lashed out at Vegeta's back.

Vegeta jerked forward violently as the blade struck home, releasing a choked gasp as blood poured from the long gash. However, rather than fall to the ground and black out from the pain, Vegeta just snapped. All tactics, orders and any remnants of common sense were completely wiped from his mind as he released a scream that would have even scared his Oozaru form.

Not expecting the change and feeling understandably scared, Ryo took a step back, but before he could do anything Vegeta was snarling right in his face. Ryo's eyes went huge as a blow strong enough launch an elephant across the room struck him hard in the gut, but before his body could fly back, Vegeta grabbed his arm, holding him firmly in place with one hand as the other disappeared in a whirlwind of motion, striking everywhere from Ryo's head down to his thighs so fast, it felt like he was getting hit in twenty places at once. Forever taking blows to the gut and chest, Ryo could barely get enough air into his system to sustain life and wasn't completely unable to scream as his entire body screamed in agony.

"RYO!" Danny yelled, ignoring all his injuries and his assured death as he took off for the fray. Fortunately, the last of Gargoyle got there before him and body slammed the uncontrollable Saiyan, giving Danny just enough time to catch Ryo's crumpling form and gain a little altitude before Vegeta flew fist first right through the statue and at the boys, Ryo and Danny only surviving due to Danny's intangibility reflex.

"You won't leave ALIVE!" Vegeta roared, whipping around with a large beam. Knowing his intangibility wouldn't save him, Danny, squeezed his eyes shut and prepared for death. However, much to Vegeta's chagrin, a blue sphere appeared around him before the beam could hit and held on stubbornly until the blast ended before disappearing without a trace.

"Yeah…I'm still here." Gwen puffed, holding the shield against such an intense attack having taken its toll on her.

"GRAAAH! YOU'VE INTERRUPTED MY MOVES FOR THE LAST TIME. DIE!" Raising both hands above his head, Vegeta gathered an enormous amount of yellow energy, its size and strength quickly growing big enough to destroy all three teens, leaving Gwen paling. She could never hope to hold back anything half as strong as what he was charging in her present state.

"We ha…have to s-s-s-stop that attack now." Ryo stuttered, groaning in pain as he forced his shaking hand to aim for Vegeta.

"But you can't do it." Danny shook his head. But if someone doesn't, it won't just be Gwen biting the big one. That thing will destroy this room and everything in it. Making his decision, he gulped and turned to Gwen.

"Gwen, Take Ryo and put up a shield fast." He called, tossing Ryo towards her. Flicking her hands, she created a blue glow around Ryo and gently lowered him to her side before turning a scared look back to Danny.

"What are you planning to do?" She asked, her voice trembling. She didn't like where this was heading.

"All I can." Was Danny's only soft answered, giving her one last warm look before turning a determined one right at Vegeta. Flying right at him, he took a deep breath and released a ghostly wail.

"ARGHHH!" Vegeta screamed, clasping his hands over his ears as the ecto charged sound waves crashed into him one after the other. Despite the significant gap in their strength levels, Danny's wail made quick work of pushing Vegeta into the crumbling remains of the ceiling, leaving his own energy blast unattended and descending. However, Danny wasn't about to let that happen and it was the look of strained resolve on his face that clued Gwen and Ryo into what he planned to do.

"Danny, no, DON'T!" Gwen screamed, hyperventilating.

"You'll die!" Ryo shouted, looking just as distressed.

But Danny refused to stop. If he did, they'd all be killed in the blast. I'm already technically half dead anyway. He thought wryly, creating an ecto ball within his palms. What's the other half? Who knows, I may never leave the battle. With no regrets, he tossed the ball right into the concentrated yellow energy before it could get halfway to the floor.

Gwen Threw her hands up as fast as she could as the green ball collided with the yellow blob and watched in despair through her shield as the resulting explosion covered the whole room, Danny and Vegeta included.

Gwen's shield could never hold back the amount of power the explosion held, shattering and dissipating within moments, leaving Gwen and Ryo victims to the resulting shockwave, however, it served its purpose. No extra energy of the explosion touched them and the wall behind them had already been completely blown away, leaving them to only gain a few more bruises and scrapes as they hit the rubble that was once the floor as the explosion faded away.

"Aauugghh, that was one rough landing." Ryo groaned, forcing himself to sit up with his right arm, letting the left one lay tenderly on his lap as he stared at the carnage of the last attack. To be honest, he was surprised that he and Gwen were safe where they sat. The two rooms they'd been fighting in were completely gone and every room above them had crumbled along with them. It was a miracle that the room they were in was still standing, though he would be surprised if the foundation gave away at any second. It was best if they moved a good distance from their location as soon as possible. Gwen however, had a different thought in mind.

"Danny? DANNY! Where are you?" Gwen cried, tears pouring down her cheeks as she looked from left to right. When her eyes failed her, she made them glow, searching for Danny's essence.

"Gwen, I'm so sorry." Ryo said softly, bowing his head. "I know how you feel, I really do, but if we stay here, we're likely to get crushed. The foundation here's hanging on by a thread. We need to move."

"But Danny." Gwen sobbed, starting to break down. She still couldn't find him and if she moved and he was still alive, they'd never find him before he died. But she knew Ryo was right, if she stayed, she'd probably die too and then his sacrifice would be for nothing.

"Come on, we have to go." Ryo muttered, though he still didn't move, staring at the rubble below. He wanted to kick himself for not diving into the rubble to find the ghost boy, but he'd never find him before more of the building fell on top of him and that would mean his end too. And the chances were that he was completely eradicated by the explosion.

Succumbing to her grief, Gwen's body was wracked with sobs. Deciding it was useless and that Danny, and Vegeta, were gone, she was about to let go of her concentration when at the last possible second, a flicker crossed her mind. Gasping loud enough to make Ryo panic, she focused on it and found two essences around where a pillar from the ballroom used to be. They were both dangerously weak, but they were both alive.

"I found him, I found him." She cried excitedly standing up and raising her hands before Ryo could register what she was saying. "Sinnyu Invisibus!"

Ryo watched with amazement and relief as the glowing, stone rubble flew up and flung itself away, revealing two severely battered heroes with more than one obviously broken bone, unconscious, but still alive. Laughing joyfully as he noticed Danny's breathing, Ryo got to his feet and moved to Gwen's side as she levitated Danny and Vegeta to her, the two of them checking over the unconscious pair for all identifiable injures.

"Three broken bones, severe bruising, a number of open wounds, though the blood is clotting, and a lot of charred skin. If he starts getting medical attention within ten minutes, he should live." Ryo stated, looking over Vegeta, not sure whether he was gladder that the Saiyan was unconscious or that his skull wasn't damaged and that none of his ribs had moved enough to pierce anything.

"Danny is more or less the same way." Gwen sighed, though Ryo wasn't quite sure if it was from worry or relief. Both were quite probable with their current situation.

It became impossible to figure out however, for at that moment a resounding CRACK came from the far side of the hall, a soft hiss echoing after it a second later. Both Ryo and Gwen tensed and whipped around to face the oncoming nemesis, glaring down the passageway with their hands glowing with their respective coloured energy.

As the newcomer rounded the corner, the two prepared to throw an assault only to stop at the last possible second.

"I come in peace! Take me to your leader, whatever, just don't shoot." Ben cried, throwing his free hand up in surrender. Seeing his fellow brunette, Ryo sighed in relief and let his power turn dormant before sitting back down.

"Ben! Thank goodness it's…you." Gwen said softly before her before falling to her knees. With the last of her adrenaline gone, the pain of her wounds and her exhaustion were finally catching up to her. From fighting a star stealing maniac while trying to stop Kevin from killing him, to panicking about Gohan, Rai and Roxas' physical wellbeing while fighting Piccolo and finally fighting Vegeta while stressing over Gohan's emotional state, not to mention all the teleporting in between, without any food or sleep, Gwen had reached her limit.

"Gwen!" Ben cried, moving to run to her side as she fell, only to stop when the intensity of his foot hitting the ground created a hole. "Gwen, are you alright? Talk to me Gwen." He cried, his panic evident as he forced himself to stay put.

"Looks like you guys will have to save Gohan from himself on your own." Gwen muttered tiredly, forcing her eyes to stay open. "I'd say I have just enough energy left to teleport myself to safety before…crashing." She said as she started coughing again, spitting up a little blood.

Forcing his panic down, Ben treaded slowly and lightly over the damaged floor, moving around the hole he made and edging to her side. Finally registering Danny and Vegeta along the way, he didn't need to ask about their conditions. They needed help fast and Gwen was the only one that could get it to them. The problem was so did the others and it was clearly going to be impossible for her to teleport twice to pick them up.

"Only one chance then." He muttered as he checked the Omnitrix, smiling widely as the red light turned green. "Ryo, take this and pour some of it into Vegeta's mouth. It'll free him from the Mist's control."

"Seriously?" Ryo asked, amazed and hopeful as he took the bottle and opened it up. "Where'd you get it?"

"Apparently from the current Guardian of the Earth." Ben answered as he activated the Omnitrix and turned it to Big Chill's hologram before slapping it back down and transforming. "I'll take Gwen and Danny down to the others and come back for Vegeta so Gwen can teleport all of the injured at once. Then you and I can go help Gohan and stop Garlic Jr. Unless your injuries are to serious as well?" Ben asked more than said, staring with concern. Ryo's suit had more and bigger blood stains than before and he favoring his left arm. His right leg didn't look too good either.

"Don't worry about me." Ryo shook his head as he carefully lowered the bottle to Vegeta's lips. "Enhance tolerance and enhanced healing make me pretty hard to keep down. And hurt or not, you're still going to need my help. If Garlic Jr. isn't defeated before Gohan calms down, I doubt even he'll be able to stop him with all those new powers he's collected."

"Right. I'll be back in a moment." Though he didn't like Ryo coming along in his condition, Ben couldn't argue with his logic. If they were going to stop Gohan from killing, they had to calm him down before the lethal shot was made and with it, Gohan's strength would no doubt return to normal. If they were going to stop Gohan from killing in cold blood and survive long enough to see the sun rise, as Paradox stated they must, he'd need all the help that he could get.

Life sucks. Was all Ben could think as he gently lifted Danny and Gwen before turning intangible and flew through the wall, back to where Kami watched over the other victims of this onslaught.