DRAGONBALLZ
THE TWISTED MIND

The Battle Begins

Thunder rumbled seemingly without end as lightning flashed constantly giving light to the night, and the dark ominous clouds above. Vegeta hovered in that same sky amidst the lightning and winds that continued to grow stronger, his golden

aura burning around him like a flame, blood ran from his wounds and his dark blue outfit was torn and shredded in many places. His teal eyes glinted like clod hard steel, and his gold hair stood stiff in the wind. If Gohan had not been the most powerful being in the galaxy at the time he would have been terrified by the sight.

"Vegeta," Bulma said in awe.

"The fool actually thinks to fight me, how pitiful," Gohan said in disgust.

Up above the mighty prince slowly lowered his gaze until he was looking down at Gohan, and despite being several times stronger than Vegeta Gohan found himself unnerved by the look he recieved. It was not the hate filled gaze he had

expected, nor was it a look of anticipation for the fight to come. It was an emotionless mask, yet it still held strength.

Lying amidst some rubble Krillen lifted his head and weakly muttered "So Vegeta is alive, but the others..."

Nobody noticed what Krillen said. Bulma was staring at the two warriors as they looked into each others eyes, Gohan kept his attention on Vegeta, who looked down on the younger warrior. The tension that filled the air was so thick you could

cut it with a knife. Suddenly Vegeta's eyes widened as he seemed to crouch in the air, and lightning flashed as he ascended to Super Saiyan 2 before charging from the sky so fast that to Bulma and Krillen's eyes he seemed to vanish. Gohan ducked as a fist sailed over his head then leaned back avoiding a second blow from the prince, who despite his wounds was moving even faster than the last time they fought. Before Gohan could throw an attack of his own Vegeta' leg

came around and collided with his chest knocking him away from the ruins that at one point been a dome, then shot after him with another punch but the mystic warrior whirled out of the way, regaining control of his flight as he sent out and elbow that knocked Vegeta throught he air tumbling head over heels.

"Damn!" Vegeta cussed as he flipped upright just in time to see Gohan coming at him like a rocket. With a roar he hurled a beam of ki directly at Gohan who swat it away before hurling a punch at Vegeta who phased behind Gohan with a

kick but the younger warrior phased to the right and came in with a punch that only hit an after-image before he phazed forward a few feet while turning around just in time to see Vegeta's knife hand miss, then came in hard with an upper-cut that knocked Vegeta skyward where Gohan was already shooting out of the clouds as he rocketed at Vegeta building momentum as he went until both his fists slammed into the saiyan princes spine launching the proud warrior into the ground hard

enough to create a large crater.

"Now to end this," Gohan said.

Suddenly from behind him he heard a cry of "KAMEHAMEHA!!" He whirled just in time to see the blue beam of power reach him, and it exploded brightly.

Hovering in the air was Krillen who said "Don't count me out yet!" Suddenly Gohan appeared right in front of him fist raised to strike when suddenly a telekenetic surge of energy drove him backwards.

"I'm helping too!" Chiaoutzu declared as he appeared next to Krillen, hands still out stretched from his attack. Vegeta surged out of the crater engulfed in golden light and flew into the air behind Gohan who suddenly found himself surrounded.

He smirked.

--

Bulma quickly rushed over to the couch where Chi-chi had been left and quickly began trying to shake the other woman awake. "Come on get up!" Bulma shouted in frustration. Relief flooded her face as Chi-chi's eyes slowly opened.

"Where am I?" She asked in confusion.

"Chi-chi you have to listen to me! We need to get Goten and Trunks and get to the spaceship now!" Bulma cried franticly.

"Why!? Whats wrong!?" The younger woman demanded as she snapped to her feet, then noticing the destruction all around them and the corpses of Yamcha and Tien she said "Whats happened?"

"Don't you know!? Gohan's gone insane and is trying to kill us!!" Bulma cried.

Anger instantly filled the other womans face as she slapped Bulma and fiercely declared "You liar!! My Gohan is a good boy and he would never do that!!"

"Please you have to believe me!!" Bulma said desperately.

"No! Your supposed to be my friend so stop lying!!" Chi-chi shouted and angrily stomped off to get Goten.

"But I'm not," Bulma muttered.

--

The fight had turned into a high-speed duel now, people were phasing from place to place throwing punches and kicks so fast it was impossible to make out individual attacks, and much to Gohan's frustrations his three opponents were

fighting him evenly. Whenever he tried to attack Krillen Chiaoutzu would either pull Krillen out of the way with his telkenesis, or knock Gohan back, whenever he was after the little clown Vegeta would phase in front of him and attack savagely, and when he attacked Vegeta Krillen would take the chance to hit him from behind. He was surounded in a hurricane of punches and kicks, his limbs moving faster and faster, but he could feel the first signs of fatigue coming on.

Krillen honestly no longer cared what happened to him. He came in hard with another kick that Gohan dodged with ease before throwing a punch of his own but Chiaoutzu pulled the monk out of the way and Vegeta fired a blast that sent

Gohan tumbling head over heels through the air. Krillen didn't care that one solid blow from Gohan could kill him. Gohan had killed so many of his friends that now the only thing the monk cared about was stopping him. Easier said than done.

"ENOUGH!!" Gohan roared in rage as he crossed his arms over his chest, then threw them out firing millions of ki waves in all directions lighting up the whole city with golden ki. Krillen raised the strongest ki shield he could muster and leapt

in front of Chiaoutzu just in time to save him from death as they were consumed, and Vegeta was caught by hundreds of the blasts. The three warriors fell to the ground unconcious or dead.

Gohan started to laugh over his sudden victory when a voilet blast of ki struck him in the back explodng in a cloud of smoke and flame. Gohan wasn't hurt by it, but he was suprised enough that it sent him crashing into the rubble of what had

once been a fashion store.

--

Chi-chi was in the process of collecting Goten, while trying to get Gohan on her cell phone, but there was no reply. "Damn it why won't he pick up! Unless, somethings happened to my poor little Gohan!!" She cried. In the next room Bulma

was searching for Trunks.

"Hey, is Trunks in there!?" Bulma called.

Chi-chi said back "NO!!" She was furious at the older woman right now for what she said about Gohan. She knew Gohan would never do that. But then worry struck her sharply, Gohan had been acting wierd the last few weeks, his temper

had been horribly short and he seemed to snap at Goten for every little thing. Plus he wasn't anwsering his cell phone, not to mention Tien and Yamcha laying dead in the living room. Both of them were veteran fighters, so it would have taken someone with incredible power to kill them, someone like Gohan.

'No! He would never do that, he couldn't!' Chi-chi thought fiercely.

"Chi-chi I can't find Trunks anywhere!" Bulma said franticly running into the room.

"I can't find Goten either," Chi-chi noted in frustration.

Suddenly a horrifying thought struck the two women and they looked into the sky to see two golden points of light moving towards the latest explosion.