The beams war against each other as equals, vomiting electricity across the landscape.
"No! His beam is as strong as my gallick gun!" Vegeta clenches all muscles and puts out so much energy, his skin becomes violet. "I won't lose to a rat!" The wave thickens.
Pressure pramells Shadow. His shoes dig into and shatter the ground as he's buried beneath an aura of raw power.
His power.
"Chaos…"
In that moment, Sonic's eyes flare.
"No! He can't!"
"He wouldn't!" Rouge adds.
"Control!" He disappears. His wave disappears. The gallick gun and Vegeta disappear.
The dust settles.
"W-what happened? Is it over?" That's Yajirobe, peeking from behind a karst, blinking half stunned at the sudden calm and rain of debris.
"Oh wow." Sonic takes his arms away from his face. "Really scared me for a sec." He realizes the Z warriors are curious and turns to them. "He can use a technique called Chaos Control that slows time, and he can move nearly at light speed. If he made the wrong move, Vegeta's attack woulda blown us all to smithereens. But it looks like he took Vegeta with 'im."
Krillin says, "So… where did they go?"
Sonic shrugs and grunts, "I dunno." He looks around, casually at first but then in shock. "What the…"
"Daddy?"
Goku floats above the two extreme warriors, already over his abrupt change in location. The beam struggle continues, but Vegeta's disoriented.
"Goku! Hit him with a Kamehameha at your highest Kaioken!" A nod is the reply. Goku draws himself in and unleashes a crimson ki aura.
"Kaioken times two!"
"No, four! You have to use a kaioken times four!" To Shadow's expectation, Goku didn't respond. King Kai was in the saiyan's head, telling him to ignore the hedgehog and not disobey his own orders. Yet Goku seemed more and more convinced to act.
Then it happened. Shadow felt the surge of energy.
"Kaioken times four!"
Vegeta didn't even see it coming.
"HAAAAA!" The heat, the force, the power of the turtle destruction wave broke his back. Crushed between two beams, Vegeta disappears in a heavy explosion that rattles the planet from pole to pole.
Vegeta dies.
Both crimson warriors clasp hands in victory.
"You do know you've doomed them all, right?"
"Shut up, Sonic."
Author's Note: Hello, dear readers! Sorry for such an abrupt ending, but the story was three times as long as I originally planned for it to be and was beginning to get repetitive. Looking back, I have no clue why I had Shadow reset time. Maybe that's because I had him do it rather than just letting him do what he would do? And then it was just 6 or so chapters of Shadow and Vegeta punching, kicking, and screaming.
Just like Dragon Ball Z.
The sheer amount of WTFery that was beginning to go on was seriously getting on my nerves.
This goddamn fanfic is my most successful ever. Why and how, I think I know- there are only a handful of Sonic/DBZ fics. Despite this, they all get absurdly high numbers of readers. While there is a generally sizeable market for this sort of thing, it's doubled up by the fact that so few new x-overs pop up, which means that a particular story will remain on the first page- perhaps even the top of the first page- for weeks at a time.
So there you go. You want free readers and reviews? Write a Sonic/DBZ crossover. And I say 'free' because you obviously don't need any semblance of talent to do it. Look at my own story- "before the king that was gravity commanded him down?" WTF! Just have Super Sonic and Super Shadow and Super Silver fight Super Saiyan Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks and you're done. Throw in Broly for a few more favorites.
That's actually a good idea, hold on… Yes, I'm a morally bankrupt arseknob who's insulting you and putting down himself. We live in a post-grunge age where the only thing that matters anymore is cynicism, explosions, and raw ass jokes. What did you think?
Anyway, as for the weird ending, I already tried to end the story several times. Truth be told, they all didn't come out right. One even had Goku kick away Shadow for no reason so he and Vegeta could fight. Another went that Shadow lied that Frieza was coming to scare Vegeta into escaping. A third had them wind up going to Namek to fight Frieza, and that was about 500 chapters long, 500 chapters of a story I'm obviously uninterested in writing.
They were all wrong; from the start, I wanted it so that Shadow would be overwhelmed by Vegeta but win in the end. This was never meant to be a curb stomp.
Lastly, thank you to all who've read. No really, thanks. All 11,000 of you.
W00t! Second ever fully completed fan fiction!
Don't think too much about which was my first.
