The Dragon's Quest
Yes, another chapter with more action that before. Or at least I hope it does. Kind of obvious what will happen now but you've all came so far so why not staying longer to read a bit more? You are the fans who want to know how this will end.
Also to regard my guest reviewers: people, if you don't like GT then it's your opinion and don't try to change mine. Because I'm not going to suddenly forget one of the Animes I truly enjoyed, which has been here since the nineties just because Toriyama 'oh-so-greatly' started writing again. I can actually work with the design of Super Saiyan God, red and blue. I can stand it and make a powerful fusion of Super forms with incredible multipliers. Overpowering it's what I do best.
But Golden Frieza?...Yeah I erased him from my DBZ dictionary when I heard 'Frieza' and 'gold' in the same sentence. Even if Frieza is really a 'prodigy' with his powers, no ammount of training in four months can equal him to a God. He would need even more time, minimally a year to come close to Kid Buu in power. And that Majin is puny at this point.
Now without further ado, here we start!
Chapter 26: Ascending
Every hero from both Justices stared in disbelief towards the towering Golden Ape. The giant monkey roared, his power shaking the entire planet with animalistic fury. His howl reached the heroe's ears, nearly breaking their eardrums with its high pitch. The creature's fists rose up to the star-covered sky, like trying to reach the full Moon, which shone bright from the space above.
Atom-Baby looked flabbergasted to the suddenly-appeared monkey. Flashbacks came to the Tuffle's artificial mind, very old memories from the ten-year Saiyan/Tuffle war happening in the former planet Bebit. The giant brown primates were running havoc all over the populated cities, murdering each and every Tuffle without any kind of mercy whatsoever.
His black-glowing hands balled in uncomfortably tight fists. No, he wouldn't tolerate that again!
Flying towards his new towering opponent, Atom-Baby fired a mighty uppercut to the monster's snout. The Ape staggered backwards, his massive furry head jerking up a bit from the ballistic rocket of a punch. But it only did for one second before regaining the lost balance. The transformed Saiyan roared towards the black silver-skinned enemy, wind moving everything from his potent roaring. A super fast swept motion with his giant hand and the golden monkey slapped Baby against a mountain formation at murderous speeds, taking the enemy completely by surprise. The high peaks of the world crumbled down to ground zero, earthquakes rippling through Earth by the sudden demolition of a million tons of sheer rock. Chunks of boulders flew for miles into another countries landing and exploding like shrapnel bathing cities and towns in a deadly rain of solid granite. The parasite bursted out of the debris at re-entry velocity exhaling a sigh of surprise. The Tuffle regained his bearings, startled that now the monkey had actually caused him pain and was also fast enough to elude his fast senses. But to the slimy parasite from another dimension, that wouldn't last very long with his powers increasing at his every demand.
Baby fired a purple energy barrage right towards the gargantuan monster from his hands, his ki blasts hitting many times at light speed into the ape's chest. The Golden simian back-stepped three times with his golden fur slightly scorched, the rageful blasts packing quite the wallop. The simian ignored the painful sensations, only setting his red eyes into his enemy and firing his own stronger red blast from his gigantic mouth beyond notch million. Atom-Baby thrusted his two hands forward, catching the huge twenty-meters-wide attack head on incoming at speed that made light look slow. Surprisingly, the parasite was starting to slowly but certainly be pushed back by the focused power inside the beam of spirit life. Even for Baby, the concentrated ki was enormous. It was capable of laying waste to celestial bodies bigger than a galaxy. With a little exertion, the Tuffle managed to deflect it to the outer-space, where it was reduced to a thousand harmless sparkles into the vacuum of nothingness.
The time it took was just of a few splits of seconds, enough time for the giant monkey to move behind his black-glistering enemy, allowing the Ozaru to hit with a forward murdering punch. The silver Tuffle flew uncontrollably to nearly the other side of the continent by the staggering blow that sent rippling shock waves through the surface of the damaged planet. Tsunamis formed in the distant oceans, the ice in the poles cracking and falling into the frozen seas. Forests and deserts were washed away by the massive wind that could uproot a mountain range.
Baby cushioned his careening with his life force, the aura of blackness increasing around his black frame. The energies of his host body increased making him faster and stronger. But his fury was also raising in tandem. If Vegito hadn't been annoying enough before now he was stronger but also faster despite its hefty new bulk. And that was pestering the Tuffle more than he would like to admit.
"Die you scoundrel!" Baby yelled in uncontrolled anger, his irritation getting the better of him. The Tuffle's acceleration almost sped up the Earth's rotation as the parasite headed towards its humongous enemy. The transformed Saiyan tried to trap the enemy with his massive hand. But the parasite rapidly swerved around the stretched limb, his smirk as thunderous as his following punch into the cheek. His empowered punches were overwhelming, the force behind them capable of reducing massive stars into dust. Each fist landed on the simian's cheeks forcefully making the transformed Vegito to recoil by the incapacitating moves. Baby suddenly dashed three times the speed of light right above the simian's head. An overhead strike straight into the scalp made the Saiyan howl out in pain, the cracked soil swallowing his yellow frame into the depths of Hell. Metaphorically speaking. But Baby didn't relent there. He kept throwing punches from left to right at speeds no one could measure. Each strike plowed the new Ozaru deeper into the beaten soil of the planet with the parasite following his assault ever onward. At one point, the battle passed the magma layer, the parasite striking the golden monkey while the two mighty beings were drowning in blazing lava. But in their forms, nothing affected them anymore. Finally after reaching a hundred miles of depth, the new Ozaru reacted to the shocking blows using his lengthy tail to swat Baby from behind him, when the Tuffle came at the wrong angle for another planet-leveling blow. The tail whipping sent Atom-Baby high through the hole giving the transformed Saiyan enough time to shot his massive hand forward and catch his little prey. The Golden Simian flew upwards back into the surface, his body now with chunks of solidified magma on his yellow hide. The pesky villain trapped in his hand was trying to escape yet unable to do so by the mightier strength of his monkey rival.
But the Ozaru, who could look like a mad beast, was actually fighting Baby with all of his new strength. Blue light started shinning inside the giant balled hand, where his parasitic enemy was and the Ozaru growled in ungovernable fury. The soil around the deep battle-made hole rumbled with rocks falling into the abyss right inside the vent of lava. With his opponent trapped inside his hand the golden Saiyan shot his furred hand up into the sky, sending his Tuffle enemy careening out of the planet inside a concentrated blast capable of erasing twenty solar systems.
The free-willed Justice Heroes looked in utter surprise and confusion to the sudden titanic-size monkey, who was now beating the shit out of Baby with what looked like little trouble. they would be thankful by such a thing but the fact remained that those two were now causing even more destruction that the planet couldn't afford to take.
"Great Rao, what's happening now?" Superman asked to no one in particular. Not that anyone seemed to have an answer for him anymore. Things so far had just been happening out of mere randomness.
"Why don't you ask King Kong?" Flash tried to joke although it was useless at the dire time. The golden simian turned his sharp ears towards the noise with his parasite enemy disposed off. And his red eyes were now solely focused on the group of assembled heroes.
"Um, guys. He's looking at us" Green Lantern Hal said worried. Indeed, the furious red sight of the simian were murderously staring at the hero group. The gargantuan beast's maw shone with dark red power again, gathering more of its amplified ki energy. The blast fired off towards the League, blasting everything out of sight. Had the beam not be concentrated, Earth would have disappeared along with the Solar System.
But surprisingly the heroes were a few miles away, thanks to a fast teleporting spell from Zatanna. The sorceress sighed after having to use a lot of her powers to move all the heroes at the same time.
"Nice work Zatanna" Power Girl complemented to her sorceress friend. The sorceress sighed. After the transformation she had felt that the ki between the two die-hard enemies was dead even. If the last battle hadn't been bad enough, things had now gotten worse. For them and the devastated planet. The raven-haired magic lady doubted her powers or even Fate's could fix such devastation.
"There's no time to lose, we have to do something about the giant ape" Batman said determined in his dark tone. After been possessed for so long for Baby he felt ashamed with himself for been so easily swayed. He remembered everything but even then he felt he wasn't fully in control. And that was something that Batman never liked to experience. The Dark Knight always had contingency plans for the members of the two Leagues if they ever went rogue or were mind-controlled.
Problem was, Bruce himself had been under Baby's possession. And by that Batman hadn't been able to develop a plan to contain Baby or giant simians for that matter.
"Don't worry, Vegito can help us" The scarlet speedster said cheerfully, though for a moment he looked around missing the very obvious person of that sentence "Um, where's Vegito in all this?"
"That ape is Vegito" Zatanna answered to her friend speedster. Everyone looked at her like if she had materialized another head.
"You are kidding, right?" Wally asked towards the sorceress. She looked at him with dark-serious eyes "Oh you aren't. That makes me feel so much better"
"So our best option against that Baby guy is now another enemy?" Nightwing asked. From one enemy to an ally/enemy. This day couldn't get any better, could it?
"Wait hold on a second, how the Hell did he transform?" Captain Marvel chimed in now.
"He transforms when he stares at the Full Moon" The Mistress of Magic responded. Nearly everyone looked up to found that indeed, the Full Moon was out over the Eastern continent. Or at least what remained of it.
"Oh great, we have an evil Captain Atom and a were-ape super alien" Wally again joked, though this time receiving a slap on the head by Artemis.
"Enough Wally, this is no time to joke!" The female archer said annoyed.
"How can he suddenly transform?" The Dark Knight asked Zatanna wanting some information. "This obviously isn't the first Full Moon he looks at" From his memories, Vegito had only transformed into Super Saiyan forms, counted from one to three.
If this giant monkeys forms also had numbers then he could say they were overly-screwed. To put it lightly.
"After fighting Baby the first time, he had his tail regrown" The Mistress of Magic explained "The tail it's what triggers the transformation" The others would like to say that was very far-fetched, but after beating Prime and Doomsday, it would be very foolish of them not to believe that Vegito could do something like that.
"Well, let's cut it off, I think that's easier than fighting him head on" The fastest speedster on Earth suggested. Everyone kind of agreed there.
"No fools!" The Old Kai said outraged to the screen, his high-pitch voice causing Fate to cover his ears for a moment. Weird because he already had a helmet to shield his eardrums "If they cut the tail everything is lost for the universes!"
"But what should they do Ancestor? It's obvious Vegito has no control over his actions" The fussed Supreme Kai said worried. This had gone beyond the boundaries of the Kais. And even Hakaishins were of no use here.
"Not yet. All his consciousness is locked by the transformation. His friends must find the way to make him remember who he is" The Ancestor replied, his tone dead serious with his hands resting behind his back.
"I think I can help there" Fate said now. As the Lord of Order, he made the oath to never interfere with mortal affairs unless the balance of the universe was at stake. And with both Vegito and Baby causing chaos like if it was nothing, then the balance was long gone.
A golden cross shone behind Nabuu and he teleported away.
Back with the heroes, they were trying to find a way to stop the giant golden simian. Each of his powerful stomps rampaged through the wounded planet with unbridled strength and wrath.
"So how do we cut it?" Superman asked arms folded. A golden light made the justice warriors jump back almost expecting a blast explosion.
"Wait!" The golden covered sorcerer said out-loud, his voice ominous as always.
"Doctor Fate?" Zatanna asked knowing that the lord of Order wasn't one to leave his dimension unless necessary. So that had to mean that the situation got completely out of control "What are you doing here?"
"Well, any help is appreciated so welcome aboard" Robin said, getting his birdarangs ready. Their explosions would be like mere dust for the titans battling but anything he could do, Tim would do it.
"I can't help. But I must tell you to not cut Vegito's tail off" Nabuu stated in his ominous tone. A stomp on the ground indicated that again the monkey was engaging in combat.
"Then what do we do? He will destroy everything!" Superman said out-loud to Fate, who remained undisturbed by the verbal lashing.
"He must return to who he is and gain control of his power" The wielder of the Helmet advised "Good luck" As soon as he vanished everyone sweat dropped.
"That's all?!" Nightwing asked in anger " 'Good luck', seriously?" A sudden cry of anger surprised everyone. A black meteor was coming down through the atmosphere.
Baby flew back in scene with scalding fury plastered over his dented face. The fact his body had been cracked so easily had sent his anger overboard. The grey parasite attacked again, firing a black energy beam to the monkey's furred back. The beam's concentrated power could have blasted galaxies to dust and violently forced the gigantic simian to stagger forward unbalanced like tripping drunkard. Reappearing in front of the golden snout, Baby delivered an uppercut strike to Vegito's chin, small shards of fangs flying into the wind. The Ozaru flew up from the ground a few feet before hard landing on his back, his one hundred tons of weight madly shaking miles of earth around his unbelievable height. Dust swirled around the evil god and the monstrous titan. Yet the golden ape was far from over. In fact, he had not even begun. The simian flipped back to his feet, with nimbleness his gigantic body wouldn't seem to have. The simian's growling started again even more deadly by the darkness of the night. The possessed Atom flew at the monster again, swiftly disappearing with a ten times light-speed dash and moving right behind his transformed enemy. Yet by that time the humongous monster had already spun around, firing his own mammoth-sized fist with a downward motion. It was almost like if the Ozaru had felt his rival's energy signature. Baby felt the crushing power of trillions of planets over his entire body, sending the black Tuffle sprawling downwards to the soft soil that cracked open for entire miles. Spiderwebs of cracks spread over the entire continent like a fragile glass. The Ozaru lifted his size two hundred foot, stomping Baby like one would do to a simple ant. Chunks of rocks bigger than twenty mile-long island were instantly flung aside with a devastating shock wave that made the planet shudder in hot pain. The soil a few kilometers away suddenly lifted with lava erupting at the top of the just-spawned peaks. The sheer power of the blows were recreating the very landscape of the planet.
Before the giant ape had realised, however, his mammoth foot started to be lifted and this was not Vegito's doing. From beneath the giant paw, Baby's black figure could be seen, using his own increasing super strength to get free of his prison the strain very visible on his silver veins. By increasing his powers with more energy, the Tuffle managed to push his arms up, causing the Ozaru to step backwards with a lot of effort. The golden Titan growled in anger while his red sight met the dark purple one. The black-glistering parasite shot like a hyper-fast rocket straight towards the monkey, his speed augmenting the more energy he gathered inside his Dilustel body. The Ozaru was taken completely by surprise, when Baby had crushed against his furry guts, bending the simian over in sudden pain spite and blood flying out of his elongated maw. Less than a second later, the extradimensional parasitic creature was delivering a near-instantaneous double-hand strike to the Ape's temple. The monkey roared out in annoying pain, his enormous body slanting to his right side uncoordinated. The giant Golden being was overwhelmed by the agonizing sensations, allowing Baby to take the advantage over his long-time rival. With a grin plastered over his black/silver face, the parasite gathered dark ki energy on his two hands, ready to finish the job once and for all.
But recovering faster than anyone would have estimated, the ape returned his sight of hatred to his black enemy, his giant hands a swift swept of blurring motion that Baby couldn't start thinking of following, let alone stop. The ape sent his hands from the sides, clapping just a foot away from the Tuffle. The super strength used in the 'simple' act of clapping was enough to destabilize the entire continent and more, the landscape blown aside by the very unnatural hellish tornado force of nature. Clouds circled the whole planet over and over, some cities uprooted from their very bases. Because the Tuffle was so close to the epicenter of the maelstrom, the giant shocking power had caused him to stop gathering energy and had flung Baby head over heels, all his senses going crazy inside his possessed brain. With his enemy abated, the Ozaru swept his fur-covered left hand and hit Baby straight on with an unholy fist of Saiyan might, sending the Tuffle invader through the air beyond notch million. The Golden simian rapidly opened his fanged jaws and fired his golden energy beam twice the size of a twenty-store building, that impacted Baby in less than a second of flight, clouding the entire continent with a storm of thick smoke worthy of a massive extinction event. Baby was out of sight for the time being his ki not felt in the least.
The golden ape roared into the night sky, beating his furry chest like a gorilla would. His rage seemed satisfied or simply unfocused because there was nothing but barren wasteland around the transformed Saiyan. Aside from the golden monkey, the Justice heroes were still trying to came to terms in what to do about their new threat/ally. Now that cutting his tail was not an option they were pretty much back on square one.
"Guys, let's act now before that Baby guy shows up again" Captain Marvel suggested and many agreed. Maybe holding him down could help Vegito remember himself. If any of their tactics could harm him. While the new Vegito seemed invulnerable, every being had strategic weak spots that couldn't be protected.
Or that's what the heroes and heroines hoped. Actually, they were HOPING Vegito had a weak spot, no matter how small it could be.
The Green Lanterns acted first, creating giant shackles that attached themselves to the monkey's arm and dug themselves into the ground. That would at least keep the golden monster at bay. But with a simple shrug of shoulders, Vegito Ozaru destroyed the creations without trying. John sweated, as he had to exert more power into the ring. Unlike Hal, he had a main disadvantage like every other Lantern.
"John, you have to concentrate the energy" The Lantern said to his fellow Green, who was sweating by the strain. The constructs reappeared, but again the monkey swatted them aside like little flies. To the giant simian, whatever the things were, weren't worth enough of his time.
"I know it's easy for you after beating Parallax, Hal. But it's hard for other Lanterns" The other Lantern of Earth explained to his fellow "This golden ape is just making me shiver in terror"
"John, we don't have time for this" Hal said, trying not to loose the giant monkey out of his eyes. The ape hadn't reacted against the constructs because they were mostly easily destroyed with no effort "Fear can be overcame" John looked seriously to his fellow.
"Hal, Don't you remember that Vegito on his normal self was able to destroy our constructs without even trying?" John stated after a sigh of of defeat "And right now, not only his powers have increased tremendously, but the golden glow makes him completely invulnerable to our powers. Maybe Parallax was an entity to fear, but Vegito is just terrifying!" Hal pondered that. It was true. Vegito had destroyed their constructs with no effort when he wasn't even Super Saiyan. Right now, he was even stronger than his Super Saiyan Three, so there was a very obvious guessing in what their constructs could do: nothing.
"Even so, we can't just stay here and do nothing" Hal said determined, his ring shinning "We have always protected this planet, no matter how big the threat was" The constructs reappeared but now the monkey reacted back, more annoyed this time. Hal and John concentrated the hundred percent of will energy into one last mighty blast. The two combined attacks could have killed a blue-solar powered Kryptonian, and even Prime would have been stun for seconds by the ultimate force of Green Will. Yet to the golden monster, whose power already outclassed the pure raw power of a Super Saiyan Three after a Zenkai, the blasts did not even push him back a feet. The Lanterns were completely aghast now, their shock allowing the Saiyan to swept them aside with a roar that pushed the green-and-black duet back with powerful wind gusts.
A new intruder appeared in the monkey's sight. The bio-ship was flying around the towering ape, not enough close to get hit but sure close enough for the simian to not lose it out of his sight. For the Ozaru, however, whatever the flying thing was, it was certainly amusing and not something dangerous.
The Ape's distraction was gone, when four Super humans impacted the towering ape in the back of the head. He was barely moved or injured but mostly irritated by the interference. The four powerhouses Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Captain Marvel and Superman flew back, amazed that their combined efforts had done nothing. Opening his giant mouth, the Ozaru let loose a sudden stream of hot fire. The heroes flew away but the living flamethrower seemed to be especially homing into them.
On the ground, Flash could see something was different. He had seen the former fight with Baby going at super speed he could barely follow. But the blasts now fired by the ape were slower than before. For some unknown reason.
While distracted, J'onn and M'gann floated intangible behind the monster, using their telepathic powers on him. The monster did not have mental barriers like Vegito normally had so the two Martians could easily read him. If there was anything there to read. Both green aliens could only find the animal's basic instincts, rage and destruction. Yet there was something. Locked beneath the raw emotions was the knowledge. A consciousness trapped within itself. Not only that, but that same supressed conscious was halting the humongous monkey's true power.
Superman was flying in fast dashes around the giant Ozaru, attempting to catch his attention. With continous short bursts of heat vision, the Man of Steel allowed himself to be targeted by the titanic simian. Yet, the Kryptonian was always easily catched by the Ozaru's speed that had increased far more than anything possible. If anything, the Last Son of Krypton was the one being toyed with. A cat playing with the rat before going for the eating. For Superman's even more bad luck, his flight came at the wrong angle, allowing the monkey to grab him in an unbreakable double hand grip, shattering some bones and expelling the air out of the Last Son of Krypton's lungs. Power Girl's own heat vision attack aimed at the furry eye socket allowed the giant beast to drop the near-death Kryptonian. Only a little more squash was needed and there would be nothing left but a stain of blood in Vegito's furry giant hand.
"Guys, there's something different about the ape" Flash said on the mental link J'onn and M'gann had established with everyone, running around in his normal scarlet blur.
"Like what? That he hasn't stomped on us yet?" Nightwing asked rhetorically to his speedster friend. He was flying the Bio Ship with some heroes inside.
"Flash is right" The Manhunter mentally said to everyone. The green alien didn't need to read minds to know he was receiving many shocked faces "Vegito's self mind is repressed, halting the ape's true power"
"Wait, so this golden Kong is only toying with us?" Marvel asked. He didn't like this situation. not at all. Even going to school sounded better for Billy. If his school was still standing after such an atrocious battle.
"Actually, Vegito is specifically halting the power against us to not kill anyone" The Martian niece confirmed.
"Tell that to Superman" Power Girl retorted through the mind, checking on her another-dimension cousin, who was lying completely out cold on the ground. Some of his broken bones could be seen through his lacerated skin. Not even Doomsday had caused so much damage to the Kryptonian during his first battle years ago. Zatanna quickly appeared feeding Superman a Senzu Bean.
"Well, if he is holding back then we should take advantage" Superboy said now, he and Wonder Girl jumping from the Bio Ship' surface and landing right on the Saiyan's snout. The two young heroes jumped forward and punched the giant red eyes before the alien could register anything. That did had some effect, causing the simian to lost momentary his eye sight. Yet now the ape was angrier and was no longer stable on his feet, now continuously stomping the ground furiously. The heroes were losing their balance on the monster's nose but the Bio Ship moved close enough for them to jump to it and escape. With the first team away, Artemis and Green Arrow fired their special rocket-propelled explosive arrows, hitting right inside the monkey's nostrils. Though the concentrated power was of at least ten hand grenades, the particular soft spot inside the more fleshy interior of the nose caused the Saiyan to bend forward in pain. With the simian fighting his own body, the Bio ship got close to the left furry ear, while Blue Beatle flew to the right one. Black Canary run outside the Bio-Ship, nodding to the flying metal scarab wielder. Determined, both unleashed their sonic attacks, Dinah using her Canary Cry and Jaime his sonic cannon, both right at point blank. The simian unleashed a yell of agony, when his super hearing got nearly destroyed by the sudden meta-humans screams. Both attackers moved away to wait for the results.
The gargantuan ape was now eye-closed, stomping the ground with barely-contained wrath, each step running cracks around the continent, flinging giants chunks of granite soil. The fissures rippled the eastern hemisphere, causing devastation everywhere and altering the very tectonic plates of the planet. The entire Earth was getting a full reshape by the raw power of the last-living raging Saiyan warrior. From the giant maw, the transformed Saiyan was firing continuously red energy blasts to no place in particular, trying to attack the enemies he couldn't detect. Or actually was avoiding to detect by his subconscious. Every place touched by the hot blasts of plasma was instantly disintegrated into less than atoms for hundreds of square miles around. However, all the blasts had their power concentrated inwards to not blow up the planet into kingdom come.
"Good news, we distracted him" Cassie said a bit cheered up. But the quivering ground beneath her shoes was no indication that the plan was going as they wanted.
"Bad news, he's no longer going to hold back for sure" Conner said now from the Sphere turned into flying cycle, looking to the destruction caused by the golden ape. He always had a bad thing with monkeys, but knowing that Vegito was now the monkey, the kryptonian clone didn't know whether to hurt him or try to reason with him. Next to him, Cassie started flying on her own, handling one side of her Lasso to Superboy. Both flew to opposites sides around the Simian's legs. The unbreakable rope tangled the golden legs together, bringing the Ape down forward with a noisy thud, falling flat on his furry belly. The tons of Saiyan fury rose dust around his hulking frame.
"Alright he is down!" Wonder Girl said out loud almost cheering by their apparent success. But before they could actually celebrate, the Lasso broke into nothing but useless tendrils, when the Ape spread his legs and flipped up howling in anger, his senses back to normal. One would have been amazed that a construct of the Greek Gods was suddenly broken, had it not been for the fact the terrifying-looking Ape was going straight into the short-sized blonde Amazon.
"Cassie, look out!" Conner yelled, tackling his teammate out of the way of the incoming attack. The former Cadmus Project braced himself for the incoming death. Well, he would die like a hero. That was a good way to go.
But nothing crashed or impacted the half Kryptonian. The simian was looking at him, the red eyes just one meter away from Conner. But there were no murderous intentions in them. Just curiosity and confusion. For the giant monkey, the kid standing in front of him looked familiar from somewhere. Conner widen his eyes. For some reason he was still alive.
Before the ape could gather his thoughts, another mystical rope entangled around his neck, forcing Vegito's long head up.
"Superboy, move aside!" Wonder Woman yelled, trying to take control of the creature. But it was useless. With blinding rage, the Golden Ozaru grabbed the rope and started moving his arms in wide arcs at high speed around him. On her own, Diana was being swatted aside from one place to the other by the stronger raw Saiyan strength. She sometimes hit the ground with force that cracked a few of her bones. Only a miracle was keeping her airborne and conscious. Or alive for that matter.
"Diana, stop!" Manhunter yelled mentally "I felt his consciousness returning, some flashback memories flooding in" Before the Amazon could actually register what was being said her Lasso was suddenly pulled, a humongous fist heading straight for her. The devastating force of thousands of planets would have killed her instantly had it not been for Zatanna's fast-thinking, who was barely able to teleport the Amazonian princess away from the danger. The humongous simian grunted in anger. His animalistic side didn't like to be joked around.
"I think I have an idea" Flash whispered to himself. Speeding off, the super-fast speedster run up over Vegito's furry skin arriving in his snout. The red eyes focused on the sudden comer "Hey Ve, it's me Flash. Come on, let's have a food contest. I bet I can beat you this time" The ape looked at the red-dressed man, like if something was familiar with him. The speedster ran away beyond the monkey could do anything. Flash's plan had worked to some extent. Now for the final nail in the coffin.
"Zatanna your turn" Flash nearly yelled, after accelerating to find the sorceress.
"I already told you Flash, my magic can't do anything to him. He is far too powerful" The Mistress of Magic explained, giving the beaten Diana and Karen a few Senzu Beans. Since the fight had started she had been in charge of moving her friends away from any dangerous move her boyfriend did.
"I know you said that. But you are Ve's girlfriend, so you should try to reason with him" The speedster planned. The other beaten heroes looked at her half dubiously and half pleadingly.
"Worth the shot, don't you think?" Power Girl said next to Zatanna. The busty heroine rubbed her sore shoulder, her cousin Kal still trying to stand up after the beating. The sorceress sighed. As much as she wanted her boyfriend back, how much would it take her?
Zatanna silently enchanted a spell around, her own powers increasing. The non-verbal spell was like her own-made Kaioken technique. With the power achieved with it mixed with the ones obtained by training with Vegito, allowed her to multiply her strength and resistance many times over. It might not be enough but she was certain she might be able to at least survive long enough to have a Senzu bean.
Key word, might.
"Vegito, listen to me!" The Mistress of Magic yelled out-loud, gaining the monkey's attention. The golden creature instantly balled his hands to pound whatever had dared to disturb him this time. But he stopped. To the ape, something was off. Something was telling him to not hurt the woman. The ape got his face closer to the sorceress, trying to locate her face from somewhere in the depth of his supressed mind. Her presence irked his brutish brain to work. Zatanna placed a hand on his nose, sending some of her magic smiling. It wasn't to attack him though. Simply a reassuring message that might get to calm Vegito even more.
The atmosphere above them suddenly exploded, the night sky brightening up in a flash of dark indigo colors. The black-shinning Tuffle yelled like a hell hound from above the dark sky, dropping down like a living mad meteor. The ape and the sorceress had no time to react, Baby impacting right in the middle of them with unfathomable concussive force. The hurricane gales swept the Justice gang away, the epicenter cracked open for miles after unleashing the reality-bending strength of God itself. Plumes of brimstone emanated from the new abysmal rend in the continent. It was like San Andreas fault, though visible from space running through the west of Russia all the way down to the center of Antarctica. The oceans sipped into the bleeding wound of the planet, thousands of tons of salt water evaporated into hot clouds.
"Die, you mindless monkey!" The Tuffle yelled top-lung, aiming his deadly blast into his enemy. One accurate attack was all that Baby needed to finally claim victory once and for all. The yellow-furred monster roared in pure anger, his mammoth hand shooting forward at dazzling speeds unloading a volcanic blue beam of blazing ki. Baby had no time to react against it, the massive wave of spiritual energy sending him skidding away in a swirling vortex stronger than a supernova. For a brief moment, one could have witnessed an open hole on the Tuffle enemy before he disappeared further in the skyline.
With that taken care off, the last Ozaru turned his sight into the down figure of the magical woman, not beaten and bloodied. He carefully lifted her in between his giant hands like a fragile crystal. A voice inside his head was telling him to save her abated life. To do what was necessary. That she was important.
The golden beast encompassed the sorceress with both hands and a glowing light shone inside the hand palms. For a moment, the Justice heroes thought Zatanna had been crushed or blasted into oblivion. But before anyone could do something, the Ozaru opened his hands, revealing a healed witch. She looked at her hands, feeling that the injuries had banished without a trace. The beast slowly descended his arms into the ground leaving Zatanna intact. The sorceress smiled, knowing things had worked. She back-stepped, knowing that maybe been close to Vegito right now might not be good.
He could remember her name. He could remember.
The mighty beast roared one last time, before a golden glow appeared around his humongous ape-shaped body. Electric arcs of lightning bolts ran out of him, losing themselves in the night sky. The ground shook beneath the ape's feet-paws as his monstrous alien power increased with the seconds passing by.
"Teekl, we are leaving!" The voice of Klarion ordered towards his feral cat, grabbing his anchor to the mortal realm and materializing a dark red portal back to their dimension. They could easily return back to Earth but not for some time. The power Vegito already had eclipsed the power of the Lord of Chaos. And right now, it was overpowering the fragile balance of Chaos and Order the universe had.
"Wait you can't abandon us here!" Vandal Savage screamed at the wizard of the group, chunks of concrete falling. After the violent shakes the planet had suffered hours ago the group called the Light had retreated to a safe bunker located in Alaska. But the Luthor-made building was made out of human materials, nothing that a good Saiyan power-up couldn't demolish instantly. The others members of the secret society were trying to avoid the falling rubble. Specially Brain, who had no means to protect itself because he had no hands.
Klarion flipped his middle finger towards his partners before leaving them to their own destiny. All the chaos caused on Earth wasn't worth putting his existence in jeopardy.
In Fate's dimension, the two Supreme Kais from another dimension looked at the transformation. Behind them, Fate was clutching his Golden head in hot pain. Reality was coming appart like a knife rending through a sensible weaving of clothing. And his powers as Lord of Order couldn't stop it even if he wanted. Balance no longer existed.
"Yes, he is doing it!" The Old Kai pumped his arm in delight watching the final transformation.
"His power...it's incredible!" The Supreme Kai stammered, feeling a headache just by sensing the ki power from so far away.
Earth wasn't the only one detecting the indescribable Saiyan power. All around the universe, many powerful beings felt the new increasing sour of energy that didn't belong to a Godly entity. The Guardians of the Universe in Oa were no longer just looking seriously, they were actually talking to each other in their minds, not believing the unstoppable power that had appeared on just one sector of the universe that had Two Lanterns to protect it.
Over the cosmos and even beyond, any intelligent life form could not just feel the immeasurable power formed in the distant part of the universe but almost see it. The energy surge was just too vast to even fathom by the mortal or immortal minds.
"Warning: Massive power detected in sector 2804. Fabric of reality, in danger. Extreme measures must be taken immediately" This was the message that all the Green Lanterns, one in each sector of the universe received from their Green rings. Non of them could guess what was going on.
Far away from the cosmos, in the Vega system, a group of orange-dressed beings similar to the Green Lanterns looked on towards the Milky Way. All of these aliens hailing from any different galaxies had drool coming out of their mouths, like smelling a feast. Their Lantern Power was their immeasurable Greed. But this incredible energy was stronger than all of them put together. Even stronger than the cosmic embodiment of their powers, the Ophidian entity. They wanted this new power!
A mysterious being trapped within a distant ethereal dimension floated in the vast of nothingness. His silver-glowing body was forever trapped in this prison thanks to the Guardians of the Universe. His eyes widen feeling a humongous energy to feast on coming from the material universe he could not reach. His power over the full Light Spectrum dwarfed in comparison to this new delicacy of strength.
The volatile and derailed First Lantern scratched the walls that simply weren't there to be finally free again.
The distant planets of New Genesis and Apokolips were trapped in a never-ending war with each other, that had intensified after Darkseid's banishment to the Phantom Zone. However, the fighting troops on New Genesis looked up in pure awe too enthralled by the incoming waves of energy to be concerned about the war. Even soldiers and Parademons inside spacecrafts had the radars of their ships exploding by the unparalleled source of strength, followed soon after by the silent explosion of their own ships in space. The power from the other side of the galaxy seemed to be like touching the two planets.
Both Darkseid and High Father would have agreed in something there. This incredible power wasn't from a New God. It went beyond any of them.
But the two would definitely have different ideas of what to do with it.
On a different plane of existence, a hellish world of nightmares, a tall muscular blonde man dressed in a white and green outfit felt the new cosmical power surge on planet Earth. The hell fire burning around his domain of torment was cool in comparison to his anger. The new power beacon outclassed his own energies by a great margin. Whoever was holding it, it just couldn't be from a simple mortal. No mortal was stronger than Neron.
He had to investigate further.
Another demonic figure observed things transpiring on Earth. His last plan for that wretched backwater of a planet had been thwarted by his spawn he barely acknowledged as daughter. But this current situation had everything he desired. Specially one mighty vessel for him to use all of his powers amplified to such levels that no God would ever be able to comprehend.
Then no one would be able to stop Trigon.
Far away from the Milky Way, a planet full of little green aliens felt the tremendous power coming from out of nowhere. Their interest picked up, knowing they could use something so powerful for their kind. And reaching it wouldn't be a problem. Kroloteans knew a lot about teleporting technology.
Just as the Kroloteans were pondering in going to the discovered planet, their enemies, groups of tall green-skinned aliens thought about doing the same thing. Their empire was mighty, then why not make it mightier? Their Reach over the galaxy was simply unstoppable.
The more power the Saiyan was gaining, the shorter his body was becoming. The ground started to rise in gigantic chunks bigger than countries, creating unnatural earth platforms all around the deserted country. The entire continents masses were starting to rose up, defying logic or physics. Though with a Saiyan, defying nature itself was just a common Friday.
The golden light around the ape started to increase as the golden fur shifted its original coloration. The snout started to shrink and the widow peak of untamed spikes of hair returned. The paws changed back into normal hands and feet with five fingers and toes, and the long tail shorten out, though it still remained longer than normal. The roars of a beast were changing in tone, becoming the yells of the most powerful man ever known to the multiverses of two different realities.
With a mighty explosion of flashing light that caused temblors to break and shatter the furthest parts of the planet, the Golden Ape disappeared in an explosion of brightness that equaled the first Big Bang. The Sun disappeared by an even greater and closer source of starlight.
The gang of heroes recovered from the mighty unleashed power from both Baby and their friend, the thick fog of dust and sand clouding their tired sight. After what looked like an eery eternity, everything finally settled down for them to see. The sheer lightning of that odd explosion had almost permanently blinded the heroes.
The Justice group looked in awe to who was in front of them inside a massive meteorite-like crater stretching for a thousand miles of churned and melted rocks. Long was gone the five feet, eleven inches tall Saiyan. This one stood a foot taller, naked as the day one is born. The ape's golden fur was now light brown, covering most of his body, not counting hands, feet, the middle chest, neck, face and private parts. The black widow peak for a hair was now dark crimson red, with the back of it forming long spikes that were falling down to the middle back. His muscles were bulkier, showing the new found power of the Saiyan race. Yet, the Saiyan had his eyes closed, with his face slightly hunched forward.
"Vegito?" Zatanna asked, the only one brave enough to get closer to her mate. But the new look put her on the edge. Quite comprehensively considering how unnerving it looked. His Saiyan face straightened, his eyes showing. For a moment the heroes jumped back by the sudden movement but Zatanna didn't flinch back.
The normal black orbs were no longer emerald-green, sapphire blue or a mixture. Now they were pure gold, shining like they deserved to do. The eyelids were rimmed black, increasing the golden gaze ten times more. The black pupils were at display too. Batman would have paid handsomely for a similar glare. It would make his job so much easier in Gotham.
"Yes, Zee, it's me" Vegito stated, his voice rougher, a tone down normal. His arms folded as he stared at his hands opening and closing them. He felt marveled. The strength was churning all of his veins like pure fire. The new power, it almost felt intoxicating "The new me, though" The Ascended Saiyan couldn't stop a grin by the new power he had gained.
The Saiyan looked up to the crater to see his friends looking away. They were all blushing including Zatanna. The Saiyan smirked. Maybe he was revealing a bit more than one would usually want. It wasn't his problem the Super transformations also added inches to him in more than height. Not that he had ever needed any extra help to start with.
"Really guys, the fact I'm naked it's what surprises you?" The new fighter asked a bit rhetorically. He almost laughed but the games wouldn't start now. Baby was still somewhere around here.
The new Ascended Super Saiyan made his hands to glow yellow as he pointed towards his furry legs. A second later, his traditional blue pants with blue sash covered his legs and white Saiyan boots and gloves covered the end of his limbs. The widow peak haired Saiyan just didn't know how he just did that. Materialization was something he had never learnt from Piccolo but yet he had only concentrated his new raw powers to do so. Guess it wasn't that hard to learn in the first place. Or simply he was so strong that reality now obeyed him.
"Hey guys" The new monkey-human said with a small smile. The other heroes had to look up to even see his eyes. On normal self, Vegito was just as tall as Superman, but now nearly everyone was just plain tinny next to him.
The Saiyan looked around, his golden eyes gazing emotionless. The crevices in the ground and the holes were smoking. The stability of Earth's environment had been thrown out of the window by everything that had transpired so far. Only the miracle of a superior deity kept the planet intact.
"Did I do all this?" The fur-covered Saiyan asked. Even when the surrounding place was not inhabited, the power unleashed must have reached each and every of the cities, surely killing lots of people in the process. If his battle hadn't devastated enough already.
"You mean you don't remember?" Superman asked, still rubbing the most injured parts of his body. No ammount of Senzu beans would erase the beating he took on this day.
"Not a lot, but some flashbacks" The ascended Saiyan replied a bit grimly. His eyes narrowed a bit. His new ultra senses were detecting something coming his way at high speed. He would help fix the world after no threat from his universe lingered on it.
"Well but it's a good think you are back" Batman chimed in. The Saiyan was the only one capable of putting an end to so much calamity. His eyes behind his mask looked over the new furry alien "So this is a Super Saiyan three point five?" The Saiyan almost rose an eyebrow. Since when Batman joked? Or was this the real sarcastic Batman, who Baby had controlled? Whatever the case, Vegito would find out later.
"I think Super Saiyan Four might be better" Vegito stated smiling. Indeed this new transformation differed quite a lot from his previous forms but still felt like a Super Saiyan form did. So it was fair it was a number higher than his previous transformations.
The Saiyan's golden eyes frowned, turning his head into the horizon. His ki senses had expanded so much that nothing in the universe could hide from it. And his long-time rival was not been subtle at all in the first place.
"Baby is coming back" The Super Saiyan stated, his rougher voice still surprising everybody. Those with super senses could confirm it.
"Oh really? Then good luck, pal!" Flash said at fast pace, disappearing in a blur into a nearby area to not get involved. But also not away enough to miss the badass action. The gang followed his example knowing that they would only get in Vegito's way.
"Ve, just be careful" Zatanna pleaded, grabbing her boyfriend's hand. Her cerulean eyes widen in shock, retracting the hand almost like holding onto a living lightning. That simple touch let her knew how deep Vegito's new strength went. Just a bottomless well of power capable of shaping or destroying reality into things that couldn't be mentioned by mortal languages.
"Tell that to Baby, he will need it" The Ascended Saiyan-Ozaru hybrid remarked with glee clutching Zee's hand in reassurance, suppresing his inhuman strength to not hurt his lover by accident. The sorceress stepped away with a smile knowing what would came.
The Saiyan pronounced his frown, calling upon his very spirit force. Vegito's golden aura vibrated around him like if it had life on its own. The normal golden color of his manifested ki power was trimmed with red lightnings and floating glitter. The wind was already massively flowing like on world-wide scale like a fifty-class hurricane and the Saiyan wasn't even trying to power up all out yet. If he were to, a black hole might be created and devour the whole universe.
The possessed Atom suddenly arrived in the sky, looking for the giant golden pest that had crossed him once to much. The wounds Baby had taken by that last blast could have bursted the whole planet and erase the galaxy from existence. Though also taking Baby's life with it as his own dead while inside Atom would produce that nuclear cataclysm.
For now, however, with his body completely restored the Tuffle was only looking for the overgrown and soppy simian. His senses had picked a raising energy. And what was worse, it felt that it outclassed him by a lot. And it was very familiar as well.
The air shimmered in front of Baby, a figure materializing into the universe like teleporting. But this was only his sheer flight speed. No teleporting could move faster than the new Super Saiyan Four.
The new furry Vegito was floating in front of his long-time rival, with power much stronger than before. His Saiyan aura was shinning with glitter and lightnings, a smirk framing his furless face.
The black-rimmed golden eyes surveyed the black-shinning prey, ready to attack and settle the score once and for all.
Notes from Chapter 26:
Vegito was only 'half' in control of the transformation. That's why nobody died against him. The back of his mind avoided that. It doesn't mean, however, that he wouldn't have killed (after all, Superman nearly died)
The way Vegito healed Zatanna is same way Goku did with a bird in Cooler's movie (Many say that Goku brought the bird back to life but I don't believe that)
Okay, maybe the Justice heroes shouldn't have been able to harm Vegito. But if I didn't give the Ozaru weak spots then how was I supposed to make the battle last without killing every heroe?
I'm sorry for overdoing my destruction sequences again. But as you must know by now, Earth cannot disappear. Yet.
Before you kill me, I just want to tell you that Vegito didn't kill the Light. They will live. After all I need them for my Young Justice arc later on.
Vegito in my story, is the responsible for bringing the attention of the Kroloteans and the Reach, instead of the Justice League attacking Rimbor. And also some other threats.
Vegito's coloration is the opposite to Gogeta SS4.
For those that did read my blogs in my profile about my Saiyans and transformations (but they aren't there anymore, Fanfic brought them down) you will find out that my SS4 is fully golden (like many fanarts of SSGod). This story, however, will have the original GT SS4. There will also be other stories that will have GT's Super Saiyan 4.
Vegito used Magic Materialization to recreate his clothes. To explain how Materialization technique works on my stories, a brief explanation: You either need to learn how to shape your ki into the desired object, or have a lot of raw power (In Vegito's and any Saiyan's case, Super Saiyan 4)
Also you might wonder why not more beings detected Vegito. Let me just say that nearly EVERY deity or powerful entity of this single universe felt the Saiyan. I just couldn't write them all. How many would you imagine would detect a Super Saiyan God?
The end of the fights draws near. Can Baby still prove to be a match against the newly-improved Vegito? Certainly... no spoilers, see you later!