Saiyan Saga Part Six
Chapter Eleven: Oozaru
It was beginning and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The most powerful transformation known to the Saiyan race, beside an old legend was occurring before his eyes. Raditz had experienced it before but now it was frightening. The effort it took to make a lone Power Ball was massive but once the Saiyan's body reacted to its effect he or she was an near invincible force.
Vegeta was stressing his muscles slowly gaining more power. His revealed skin started to sprout fur or a blackish brown hue. The chest plating and armor started to stretch allowing it to adapt to the new mass of the Saiyan in question. The gloves on Vegeta's hands extended out as his body spontaneously grew larger.
Feral howls boomed from his maw as it twisted and morphed to a muzzle. His teeth grew sharper turning from a human-like array to sets of sharp incisors. His eyes pale out before turning a sickly red. In one last roar it was done the prince's Oozaru formed compressing the sand beneath his feet.
"WHAT IS IT RADITZ SEEN A GHOST?" Vegeta taunted in a booming howl.
"No, it's just been a while since I was looking in on a Great Ape," he feigned confidence.'Damn it, we're all going to die no matter what but I'll go out swinging even when I can't give a rat's ass about this planet,' he barked at himself drawing back his hand to form an attack.
A huge wave was launched out of the prince's maw darting just past his head. The long-haired Saiyan feared for his own well-being but now it came down to common sense. Disregarding that voice saying turn away Raditz blasted forward a fiery aura blazing around him.
His fist square well with the huge jaw of the prince even managing to knock his head a bit to the side. The follow up rolling kick hit well knocking down the maw that was charging an energy blast. However time wasn't on his side the only thing he could do is see if he could out speed the durable frame known as the Oozaru form.
A ki sphere swirled in his palm as he approached his opponent once more. To the world it seemed like a suicide mission but to a Saiyan it was a great honour to go out fighting. Narrowly avoiding a massive swat the tailless Saiyan pushed forward with his hand the point-blank Saturday Crush exploding upon impact. He was flung back by the concussive force watching a a black cloud engulfed the hulking frame before him.
"HAHAHA!" a loud laugh broke the silence of the moment."DID YOU THINK THAT WOULD EVEN SCRATCH ME?" Vegeta slammed him down hard with a palm swat. Raditz crashed into the ground hard sending sand flying into the sky.
The massive white glove scooped him up along with a portion of the island. The flame-haired ape was chuckling darkly as he brought his other hand toward his opposition. Clamping down like a vice he closed his hands the semi-conscious low-class struggling. Pressure mounted compressing the armor Raditz held near to himself as a memento of his past life of strife.
"Leave him alone Vegeta," a righteous demand came from behind. Floating nearly unscathed behind him was Kakarot or Goku as he preferred to be called. The orange donning fighter was serious a glimmer of determination in his eye."My brother fought you well and I'm here to do the same let him go or else," Goku cracked his neck no longer a facade naivete.
"YOU? YOU WANT ME TO STOP CRUSHING YOU BROTHER? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH CLOWN HE WAS STRONGER THAN YOU," the prince howled in laughter."BUT IF YOU INSIST!" he threw the unconscious and broken body of his brother into the air slamming it down with his huge hand leaving an indent in the island below that was slowly taking on water.
"That wasn't necessary Vegeta he was helpless!" the younger son of Bardock hissed back.
"KAKAROT TRY TO STOP ME!" a huge energy ball shot forth from his gaping mouth. To his dislike it was simply phased around as Goku returned to where he was prior to the ball being fired. Once more he did it only to see the same effect.
'BOOM!' like an explosion Vegeta's head was sent to the left side a massive right connecting. Snapping it back he roared only to see the sky by an uppercut. Goku aura radiated around him as he brought his hands to his forehead fingers spread.
'Hope Tien doesn't mind me using his technique,' he laughed internally."Solar Flare!" much like the name implied a massive flash of light came off of the warrior's hand blinding the prince for a few seconds.
The giant ape tried his hardest to wipe the spots out but all he could make out of his blurred vision was an orange human-like shape. Right before his face a blue energy sphere was forming between two clasped hands an odd incantation running in the back.
"HA!" the chant seemed to be coming to a close."ME!" light crackled off of the orb of energy."Huh?!" the Saiyan raised on Earth exclaimed as a huge fist made its way toward him. Slipping by he lost the ki he had gather but probably saved his life for the time being.
The massive creature blindly swung away. The orange-clad fighter wasn't even able to get a breath in as the furious blows kept coming at a higher speed. Even with the power boost he received from healing Goku was only about as strong as Vegeta when he showed up on Earth. The ape was many leagues above that.
Tien had his hands extended to the heavens gathering energy for a new attack. Below him Yamcha looked on at the battle stunned Tien floated there not reacting to the trials of their friend and ally.
"Tien what are you doing!" Yamcha yelled up shifting focus.
"I'm asking the Earth to give me some energy so I can help," the three-eyed human explained.
"But we should be helping Goku," the scarred bandit interjected.
"I am trying too but he isn't holding up very well over there," Tien said while hearing his former rival scream in agony.
"Gotcha, you want me to go over there and stop that ape myself," the human took off not awaiting the response.
'Why is he rushing off like this a plan is needed,' the triclops contemplated seeing the orange wearing human phase forward.
Goku had blood running from his mouth as he looked back at his gargantuan foe. The warrior didn't realize how far he was out-matched in raw strength. Wiping away the trickle from his lip he darted back at the behemoth before him. Avoiding a swipe of the massive hand he flew right at his opponent's chin.
His fist slammed hard against the ape's lower mandible a slight crack being heard upon impact. A roar of massive pain came out from the prince's mouth as he was once more punches in the lower jaw. The bruised bone proved a perfect weak spot and he barely could defend it.
Leaping back Goku started to charge ki into his hands once more. Two sphere of yellow formed in either palm as he reared back ready to unleash a hail of ki bolts. Just as the Earth-raised Saiyan began to fire he was swatted down the angry Saiyan Prince roaring afterward. Much like his brother a few moments earlier Goku was punted upward the blow being delivered right to his rib cage.
"DIE YOU WORTHLESS WORM!" the Oozaru boomed slamming his orange-donning foe into the ground again.
'G-Gohan,' Goku said through telepathy.
'Yes, dad,' the healthy young boy shot back quickly realizing the scenario.
'Look at that moon thing in the sky, okay?' the father talked once more.
'All right,' he looked at the fake moon.
Gohan started to convulse his muscles expanding. The transformation seemed to pain the boy as his tail unfurled from around his waist. His arms grew hair at a rapid pace as his clothing was grown out of. The boy was growing stronger and more bestial. His face contorted into a maul as his skin turned into a thick furry coat. Like the other two tailed Saiyans he had become the mighty Oozaru.
Gohan rummaged around before focusing on the combat before him. Though slow he took to the sky flying over the now short expanse of water that separated himself from his father. Once on the same island as the other Oozaru, Gohan squared up his foe or the only one he could see in Prince Vegeta.
"RAWR!" the boy howled charging. Vegeta let out a chuckled holding his own arms out ready for a full-fledged grapple. Gohan lifted up a huge boulder using his now massive strength he threw it at the Saiyan royal's head only to see it smashed before impact.
"BOY YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME? YOU WILL PAY DEARLY!" Vegeta dashed forward shaking the island beneath him as he did so. In only a few moments they locked up in an old grapple arm to arm. Vegeta obviously had the higher power level but Gohan's inexperience with the form was working well in his favor. Wildly thrashing about with his head he managed to knock the Saiyan's back a few feet.
Angered by the disrespect Vegeta punched the younger Oozaru's chest winding the beast. Delivering a follow up punch he doubled over the four year half-breed before slamming him to the ground with a fist smash. Poor Gohan wasn't out of the water yet though he was was brought back to his feet to get hit with a backhand.
Shaking violently the boy lashed forward clamping down on Vegeta's shoulder crushing bone. Blood seeped from the wound as the prince blocked the overhead ax fist planned for arm. His armored body offered some protection but the boy was throwing caution to the wind and thrashing about dealing a substantial amount of damage to the environment as well as Vegeta.
"DAMNED BOY!" Vegeta struck Gohan down with a punch the ape falling limp. He wrapped both of his hands around the beast neck lifting him up above his head. The child was pile driven into the ground where he returned to his base form from the sheer pain. He cradled himself, naked and tired."YOUR BOY ISN'T ALL HE'S CRACKED UP TO BE IS HE CLOWN!" Vegeta laughed at his wounded enemy.
"He was just a distraction," the hero coughed bloody spit onto his chest.
"HOW SO?" Vegeta picked him up in his massive hands.
"Spirit Ball!" a yellow sphere whizzed in front of Vegeta's face striking his chin snapping his head to the side. The sphere jabbed his ribs before spinning around to the right side striking the ribs there. After regaining his bearings the Saiyan prince dropped Goku and backhanded the rob at its owner.
Yamcha dashed to his right side avoiding the sphere before forming three more. The triad of Spirit Balls was launched forth striking in dizzying arrays striking the back of the ape's head repeatedly exploding. After the cloud of smoke formed he fired off a duo of normal ki balls to hit the prince enough for Goku to be dropped.
"FOOL THAT WON'T SCRATCH ME!" the Oozaru roared turning toward the human with a fire burning in his eyes.
"Solar Flare!" Yamcha copied his ally's technique once more sending the ape into a dazed and blurred state of vision.'Come on Yamcha go for something,' the dessert bandit complained to himself.
"BLAST IT ALL DIE!" the enraged Great Ape fired off a massive energy blast from his mouth. The sphere detonated against an island in the distance reducing it to nothing.
'Yamcha go over to my brother,' the hero of Earth pleaded telepathically.
'Why he only cares about himself,' Yamcha complained his views different from the lighthearted Goku.
'Please he needs the energy he's in better shape than I am and he'll distract Vegeta a fair bit better,' the Saiyan told.
'I hope it is worth it that ape isn't getting any blinder,' the scarred human flew around Vegeta's head as quiet as possible landing in the crater near Raditz.
"What are..you doing?" Raditz winced trying to prop himself up."Attack..him..while you still can...forget about me," he continued in his painful seething.
"Listen to me forget your ride for a minute and take my energy it'll get you back in fighting shape," Yamcha placed his hand on the warrior's chest his aura flowing into the long-haired warrior's body.
Raditz's face cleared up and some of his wounds vanished but he wasn't at one hundred percent. He looked at the now drained body of Yamcha with a grateful smirk. He tipped his head before flying off in a wounded dash.
"Vegeta!" Raditz dashed with a punch that sent the semi-blind Oozaru's head to the right side. Spinning the warrior defending Earth dropped the tip of his boot down on the top half of the prince's maw knocking the massive head down while re-injuring himself.'Damn it I should have realized that his ki didn't heal me,' the Saiyan tried to numb out the pain in his fracture right shin.
"RAH!" a ki ball flew out of the prince's mouth grazing Raditz's shoulder with explosive force. He flew in a tail wind spinning like a bottle. The burn wound on his right arm caused him to grit in pain. Another flaming energy ball spun around inside the fanged mouth of the Oozaru growing more powerful than the last.
"Dodon Ray!" a squeak came from behind the prince. The yellow beam striking the back of his head with effective force.
The attack was short and stocky. His face was a ghastly white hue with a tiny red spot on either one of his cheeks. A white tank top covered his small torso tucked neatly into his black martial arts pants. Around either wrist was black tape that starkly contrasted his snow white skin. He had martial arts training boots that had a yellow tape wrapped up to the ankle.
The ape angrily turned to his far smaller opponent the spots in his vision blocking the figures true form. The prince let out a menacing roar that shook the area from its sheer force. Wildly he beat on his chest strong gust of wind trailing through the air. A large fireball once more formed in his mouth as he believed his target to be in front of him and stationary.
'Vroom!' is trailed through the air at a high speed its power nearly inconceivable. The small figure pirouetted away from it a smile forming on his child-like face. A yellow dot formed on the tip of his right index finger as he extended his arm.
"Dodon Ray!" the thin beam struck the prince just above the ye cutting it open and sending blood flowing into his left eye effectively blinding him.
"AH MY FACE! YOU INJURED MY FACE!" he growled trying to wipe away the steady stream of blood.
"What are you?" the long-haired Saiyan said in awe flying next to the new fighter.
"My name's Chiatzu and I'm friends with Tien I couldn't bare sensing this so I came to help," the fighter revealed still bracing for an attack from the Oozaru below.
"Listen kid thanks but you'll get slaughtered up here your still weaker than I am and I've fought most of this morning," Raditz arrogantly snicker underestimating the boy's skills.
'Crunch!' the boy was slapped to the ground but he disintegrated. Vegeta hit another one of the small human but three more sprouted up it perplexed Raditz, who had no knowledge of such a technique. A fiery energy blast tore through a whole collection of the white skinned Jiang She but he kept popping back up.
With his good eye Vegeta could see this and was upset instead he turned his assault toward a more tangible foe. Raditz was suddenly rained upon with mouth blast bare avoiding the Meteor Stream attack the prince was using. He himself was getting tired but couldn't allow that to slow his dodging abilities.
"Ergh, Yah!" a huge rock flung from beneath the waves struck the prince's head. The tiny mime-like human managed to land a solid shot to the beast using his telekinetic prowess."Hey you hit him!" the doll-looking human yelled over to Raditz.
Pulling back his hand crackling ki formed swirling into a ball. Tiny bio-electric pulses came off of it as it concentrated into a larger sphere. His muscles were fatigued and his skin was bruised but the Saiyan known as Raditz forced his body into the blast filling it with some of his reserved ki.
"Here's a Present!" he spun hurling the rather large sphere of purple energy at the prince's head. It collided a large explosion following it in a wave of detonations. Purple streaks of lightning ran around the Saiyan's fur as one last burst of energy followed sending the ape falling back from sheer force."Damn it stay down!" he hurled another sphere of less complex ki watching as it exploded against the smoking torso of the behemoth.
"Dodon Wave!" the small human fired off a flurry of yellow energy bolts watching as they added to the smoke and debris cloud that Raditz had created. He froze however when the ki inside the cloud barely dwindled
'RAH!' a larger energy beam flew out of the transformed Saiyans mouth darting toward his flying opposition. Narrowly sidestepping it Raditz flew up higher trying to get a vantage point of the whole area. Another beam came sweeping over a huge distance the beam decimated the island chain reducing the small pieces of the archipelago to rubble sinking into the sea.
"RADITZ FIGHT ME LIKE A TRUE SAIYAN. YOU DON'T BELIEVE YOU'VE WON, HAVE YOU?" the black-furred monkey roared pounding his chest and scaring Chiatzu, who stood before him still.
The tiny human tried to fly away but he couldn't fear stuck him in place. The hulking giant before him huffed and he slid back through the air he was out of his league.
"All right I will," he descended from the clouds. His black hair blew in the breeze as he stared down his massive and half-blind adversary."However I don't think you'd want to fight me when I'm hurting like this do you?" Raditz tried to play the prince's pride even though it diminished his own.
"I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOU WORMS LIKE YOU DON'T DESERVE TO GET A REAL FIGHT!" he threw forward his fist hitting the tired Saiyan squarely. Raditz used all his power to block it but still was skidding through the air as if he was a piece of grass. Vegeta pushed a slight bit harder though it was enough to send Raditz reeling back in recoil.
The next blow hit truly knocking the smaller base form Saiyan across the skyline. Running beneath his flying foe Vegeta delivered an uppercut punch that broke through Raditz's remaining armor sending him straight up like a pop-fly baseball. Waiting he pulled back his hand ready to slap his low-class foe away and possible kill him.
"Spirit Ball!" once again the scar-faced bandit interfered with his patented technique. The sphere died however before impact.
"IGNORANT!" Vegeta howled looking at the tired human fighter who's energy was near its last drops. Before he could even make a move the human fell down unconscious.
"You might say that but you forgot about someone!" Raditz panted grasping the beast mighty tail.
"LET GO!" the prince tried to wiggle his tail free from the hands of the third-class Saiyan but he couldn't the determined grip prevailing. His tail stiffed as if it was being held by a dozen Raditzs he struggled but the muscles were limp in it. Vegeta looked up to see Chiatzu's hands extended and the white-skinned warrior's eyes glowing blue."YOU DID THIS TO ME, PERISH!" he went to fire a mouth blast but it never fired the sphere died in his mouth.
He was slowly losing his massive size. The great Saiyan Prince had been out maneuvered by the defenders of the plant Earth. The rapid process of losing the Oozaru state drained as much energy as it usually took to create a Power Ball unless it happened naturally like when the moon or source vanished. In the blue jumpsuit wearing Saiyan's case it was a loss of a tail and therefore his ki once more was nearly split in half lowering him to a mere ninth of his power.
"Damn it..my tail," he moaned fatigued from his battles of the day.
"It is over for you," Raditz fell down the dropping the tail he was holding. On one knee he smiled the arrogant smile of an accomplished fighter. He lone wouldn't defeat the Saiyan Prince but the triclop's new move would after all it had time to charge.
"Spirit BOMB!" Tien threw the ten foot diameter sphere watching as it expanded towards its main target.
Another chapter in the books.
Can Tien Spirit Bomb defeat the seemingly invincible Vegeta?
PLs:
Vegeta(after Power Ball) 1500
Injured: 3000
Oozaru: 15000
After Tail Removal: 750
Raditz: 14500
Beat Up by Vegeta: 1200
Given Yamcha's energy: 3000
Goku (Restored): 13500
Injured: 1000
Yamcha: 1750
After Fighting Vegeta: 1000
Gohan: 1300
Oozaru: 13000
~Herodan3