Vegeta stood a good distance from Cooler, debating his battle strategy. He would save his Super Saiyan form until later in the fight, so he had to not be careless while he was in his base form. Cooler would have no idea about his true power, so it would be relatively fine to keep suppressed.
Cooler stood comfortably, anticipating a rather easy match, although his soldiers were taken out effortlessly. Arms crossed, he had no idea what was about to hit him. Cooler suddenly realized, out of the blue, that this was no ordinary Saiyan. This was prince Vegeta, strongest among Saiyans, the one told to be the legendary Super Saiyan, one who had not been killed by Freeza during the end of the Saiyan race. As he stared, a drop of fear entered his supposedly fearless mind. A large roar interrupted him.
Vegeta yelled out as his ki was released in massive ways, going from zero to one-hundred in mere seconds. The shockwave of Vegeta's massive power up shook Cooler, making him drop his guard and allowing Vegeta to rush in and strike. Zooming at light speed, Vegeta let his fist sink into the underside of Cooler's chin, sending him upwards and backwards with unrelenting force.
Vegeta quickly flew himself upward to meet the stunned terror, and quickly kicked Cooler in his stomach, sending him down to the rocky ground below. Before Cooler could react, Vegeta raised his arms to throw a volley of ki missiles. One by one the attacks hit home, rendering any natural sounds inaudible. Light shone throughout the area, sending beams of pure energy into deep space. A catastrophe is one thing. This was entirely different. After a few seconds Vegeta halted, stopping his hands from moving as the dust kicked up from the fearsome attack faded away.
Although having survived the attack, Vegeta could not spot nor sense Cooler within the rubble. Thinking that he might have sneakily sprinted out of the volley, Vegeta darted his eyes around in all directions before Cooler rose out of the rocks and stones. Despite the many powerful strikes Vegeta had delivered to the alien, Cooler appeared to only be covered in a thin coat of brown dust. Ever so slightly surprised by this realization, Vegeta hovered down slowly onto the cracked and warped ground. His feet tapped onto the stones as Cooler stared him down, waiting until Vegeta had his senses together once more.
Vegeta was annoyed. A full power barrage in his base form had done nothing to stir Cooler. His face showed it all, a noticeable frown and greatly creased eyes.
"Heh… Prince Vegeta. That indeed was quite surprising," Cooler said, complimenting the Saiyan. Vegeta only stood quite still, black hair blowing in the strong wind that had been stirred due to his attack. He was pondering his chances. He had no clue what the real power of Cooler could be, and he did not know if even a Super Saiyan could dent this powerhouse.
Suddenly, in the middle of vegeta's pondering, Cooler zipped in front of his face unleashing a devastating punch to the Saiyan. Vegeta was catapulted backwards and collided with the ground hard, cracking the back of his Saiyan armor and covering him with scrapes, bruises, and dust. Coughing slightly, Vegeta stood himself up, watching as Cooler slowly waltzed towards him.
"It was fun while it lasted, Vegeta, but now I'll strike you down where you stand," Cooler uttered to the possibly beaten Vegeta. Vegeta believed he could last longer in base form against this monster, but it appeared he did not know the full power of the brothers. Had he seen Freeza's full power, this could have been a preventable tragedy. Vegeta weighed his options. Suddenly, the ground began to shake. Slow at first, then it began to pick up into what seemed to be a large earthquake. Cooler noticed this, and spotted at the ground around him before catching the Saiyan in his gaze.
Vegeta's hair began to glow yellow as a golden aura surrounded him. He was standing in a powering-up stance, pupils gone from his eyes and veins pulsing in his head and arms. With a quick snap, the shaking of the planet ceased. Cooler stared at the spectacle. Vegeta stood proudly on cracked ground, sporting golden hair… and a golden aura. Vegeta was a Super Saiyan. Cooler took on a shocked look, now realizing there was truth to the legend.
"I did not expect to be pushed this far by a delicate emperor like you," Vegeta said in a cocky voice. His power was raging, sending powerful winds gusting across the entire desolate planet.
"Shall we get going, eh, Cooler?" Vegeta asked the emperor with a smirk growing across his face. Cooler merely put on the most serious face he could muster.
"I'll take that as a yes…" Vegeta muttered. He then twisted himself into a launching position facing the tyrant. In seconds, he kicked off of the ground at the speed of light, zooming towards Cooler. Before Cooler could react, a foot met his head, launching him hundreds of meters back. Vegeta regained his balance on the ground where Cooler was standing.
Dust filled the air at the impact site. A stunned Cooler rose from the rubble, stumbling onto his feet. His face was bleeding and a bright red spot began to swell at the area of the kick.
"What… is this…?" Cooler mumbled to himself, gripping his head as the throbbing pain caused him to wince. Vegeta's ferociousness and cockyness caused him to take on a toothy smile as he stared at Cooler.
"You damned filthy ape… What did you do?!" Cooler screamed towards Vegeta. Vegeta pointed towards the emperor before saying, with a smile,
"Can't you see, bastard? I've won. It's quite funny your defeat has come from the hands of a Saiyan… Ironic, isn't it?" Cooler was absolutely livid. He slowly stood up from the rubble and stared at the golden Super Saiyan in front of him. Clenching his fists, Cooler, now at his full power, launched himself at the Super Saiyan. Vegeta maintained his smile. With his incredible power, he saw every move the tyrant pulled, but stood to let Cooler attack him.
With a force that would've atomized base Vegeta, Cooler threw a punch at the chest of the Super Saiyan. A loud booming sound could be heard as dust rocketed into the sky above them. Vegeta was still standing. Cooler's incredible punch did absolutely no damage to Vegeta, it didn't even budge him. Instead of pain being dealt to the Super Saiyan, it seemed to be dealt to Cooler as he fell to his knees in agony. His hands were in intense pain.
Vegeta looked at the fallen Cooler with an angry face.
"I expected more from the so called 'Emperor of the Universe'. You are disappointing." Vegeta put his hands to his side as he lifted up Cooler's head with his foot. Cooler's eyes opened and looked at the blue clad fighter. Vegeta put on a quick smile as he tilted his head. Moments later, Vegeta forced his leg upwards, sending Cooler flying into broken rocks and rubble a ways away.
Cooler lied on his back, eyes open, dust and wounds covering him. He was completely startled. He has not predicted anything like this. The fact that a low Saiyan had beaten him into the ground was impossible for him to take. Around twenty meters away, Vegeta pointed his arm towards the fallen Cooler before spreading his fingers as if he was going to fire a ki blast. This, however, was different. His thumb was tucked in and his fingers were together apart from being spread out. Suddenly, Vegeta yelled.
"Big Bang Attack!"
A bright yellow light shone from Vegeta's palm as a massive blast of ki erupted at the speed of light itself. Rocks and dirt were shoved aside in place of the influx of power now speeding towards Cooler. In moments, the blast hit home, sending an explosion of sound and light around the planet. The dust would not clear for many minutes after the attack. Vegeta waited with the utmost patience, knowing that Cooler was alive in there. He was simply too durable to be felled by one attack like that. After many moments of time, the dust faded.
Cooler appeared, standing upright, staring down the Saiyan. However, he looked quite different than before. His frame had grown massively, and his muscled had swelled. Aside from this, his color pattern had taken on only white and purple. The most notable physical trait of them all, however, was that Cooler now wore a mask surrounding his face. He had shown his true final form.
On the inside, Vegeta was stoked. He was thrilled to test his powers on a worthy opponent. At first, he thought Cooler not to be this opponent, hoping to finish him off quickly to fight Kakarrot. Now, however, Cooler now seems to be worthy of seeing Vegeta's full power.
"Is this everything you have, finally?" Vegeta asked Cooler with a smile.
"Hah… You'll have to see…" Cooler replied nonchalantly.
"Is that so?" Vegeta, somewhere inside, was scared. Despite his confident stature, a small part of him warned him that this power was intense, much more intense than he could sense on the outside. He somewhat believed his Super Saiyan power wouldn't be enough to rid of this tyrant. However, Vegeta being himself, pushed that side into the darkness of his mind. He only let show the brave warrior he truly is.
Vegeta slipped into a fighting stance, awaiting the upcoming attacks from his opponent. A single sweat drop would run down his forehead as he waited. Suddenly, the ground beneath Cooler exploded as the alien zoomed towards Vegeta. Sensing an upcoming right punch, Vegeta swiftly and intelligently dodged. His senses did not fail him, as the attack he believed to happen did, in fact, take place.
Vegeta quickly used his right arm to elbow Cooler's head. The attack struck the emperor with force equivalent to the massive ki attack earlier, and sent him flying into the ground. Catching himself mid fall, Cooler zipped behind Vegeta, sending a right kick flying into the Saiyan's head. Vegeta was launched, spinning, towards a cliff face hundreds of meters away. Having plenty of time to regroup himself, Vegeta landed delicately on the side of the mountain before jetting off again towards Cooler.
A meteoric kick struck Cooler's head at many times the speed of light, sending him flying across the air. Vegeta flew past the stunned tyrant before striking him again with both of his hands, sending Cooler now into the ground. Cooler landed on all fours before launching back off of the ground and locking himself into a share of blows from himself and Vegeta.
Although, from the naked eye, the fight might seem somewhat even, Vegeta did have the obvious advantage. In their fast and intense hand to hand combat, Vegeta seemed to be wearing out. He had not been in such a fight before as a Super Saiyan. His stamina began to slowly run dry as the barrage of attacks between the two continued. In Vegeta's mind, solution upon solutions were being subconsciously created in effort that he win the fight quickly.
He was winning, he knew this. He also knew he was matching his power to Cooler's as to not end the fight at that given moment. But what he did not know was the extent of his own stamina. The Super Saiyan transformation had his limits, and he was slowly finding out as the fight drew on.
Drawing out all of his power into one blow, Vegeta punched Cooler in the stomach with the force of two planets colliding. This blow caused Cooler's mask to break, sending shards of hard tissue into Vegeta's face. Vegeta ignored this handicap and spun to kick Cooler in the head using his momentum as the force behind the impact. As the attack struck the emperor, Vegeta felt a small amount of pain. His body was being stressed by his Super Saiyan form. Vegeta had simply not had the required amount of experience in the state to be completely painless.
Cooler's body collided with the ground painfully. Rocks and dust rocketed into the air, before landing back into the planet with loud booms. Vegeta was in pain. Not only from the attacks he had sustained from Cooler, but from his own stamina loss. He was breathing heavily thanks to his overuse of his transformation at that moment. Glossing over possible solutions in his mind, Vegeta decided to end the fight at that moment.
Knowing Cooler's damages, he came to the conclusion that it would take a few seconds for Cooler to rise back up again. He would take those few seconds to charge a full powered Galick Gun, certainly strong enough to obliterate Cooler utterly. Releasing all of his ki with a powerful gust, Vegeta began to charge the most powerful Galick Gun ever fired. If he was to miss, Cooler, him, and the entire planet would be gone.
He performed the Galick Gun stance as the ki around his hands began to glow a dark purple. His energy had amassed a stormcloud, now feeding off of Vegeta's excess ki to create massive bolts of lightning, shredding through the sky. Vegeta was done charging. Cooler's end was now signed in fate. All it took was one action and two words.
"Galick Gun…" Vegeta uttered as he thrusted his hands forward. A beam of bright purple light erupted from his hands and shone down towards Cooler, who was now struggling to stand. Cooler, noticing the bright purple light behind him, turned slowly to see Vegeta encompassed by the great aura of the Galick Gun. This would be the last thing Cooler would ever see. With a blinding flash and an enormous explosion, Cooler was killed.
