Chapter 50: Exhaustion

Piccolo and Hercule continued to watch Goku and Vegeta fight. The two warriors continued their lightning fast battle, with neither side landing any blows. From the sides, Piccolo smiled.

"Good." He said. Hercule looked over at Piccolo.

"What's good?" he asked him.

"Vegeta is holding this match to a draw. He might be able to win if this keeps up."

"You just confused the heck out of me. How can he win if he's fighting to a draw?"

"It's their energy consumption. Goku's Super Saiyan 3 form is draining massive amounts of energy. Vegeta's Full Power Mega Super Saiyan 2 form though is draining a lot less. Goku will wear himself out and then Vegeta can make his move to beat Goku."

"Wow, nice plan. I never thought of Vegeta as a defensive fighter."

"He's not really. With just one arm, he had to learn a whole new way of fighting. He had a tough time learning not to attack unless he was completely sure he could avoid getting hit. He really stuck to his training though and I can definitely see the results." Hercule began to feel a little dazed and put his hands across his stomach.

"Oh, I don't feel so good. My stomach." Piccolo sighed.

"Mr. Satan, the cameras are all far away, you don't need to put on an act this time."

"I'm not. I just feel, really, really tired all of a sudden." Hercule fell onto his butt and rested his arms on his knees. "Whew, I feel worn out for some strange reason."

"Actually, now that you mention it…" Piccolo rubbed one of his eyes. "…I feel like I just finished working out a bit." Goku and Vegeta both stopped their fight and hopped back from each other. Both were panting and sweating heavily.

"Vegeta." Goku said while still panting. "I'm… disappointed… you haven't… hit me… once… yet." Vegeta cracked a smile in return and responded between pants of his own.

"You… haven't… done… much… better… Kakarot." 'My energy is draining faster than it was just a moment ago. Is my form losing its effect?'

'Crap, I'm losing energy fast. My Super Saiyan 3 form must finally be taking its toll on me.' Goku eyes widened as he suddenly realized what was going on. 'I'm on to you Vegeta.' "Vegeta, this has been fun, but it's time to up the stakes. Remember how you told me to invent my own move; well I did with my Kamehameha x10!"

"No you didn't. You just combined two of your moves again. It still isn't completely your own." Goku gritted his teeth.

"Let's see you talk trash after you've been hit by it." Goku put his hands behind him and started to charge a blue ball of energy. "Kaaaaaammmeeeeeee…" Vegeta got worried.

'No! How can I counter it?'

"…hhhhhaaaaaaaaa…"

'I need both of my hands for Galick Gun or Final Flash. That leaves me with just Big Bang Attack.'

"…mmmmeeeeeee…"

'But there's no way it'll be strong enough for that!'

"…hhhhhhaaaaaaaa…"

'I've got no choice! I'll have to try my new move now.' Vegeta's hand began to glow green and even green lightning flashed around it.

'So, he's got a new move too. Let's see whose is better.' Goku's energy changed from blue to red. "…Times 10!" Goku fired off his blast at Vegeta.

"Final Shine!" Vegeta stuck out his right hand as if it were a claw and fired the blast at Goku. The two attacks quickly made their way towards each other.

'Final Shine!' Piccolo thought to himself when he heard Vegeta. 'During training he said he hadn't mastered it!' The two blasts hit, but didn't push against each other. Instead, Vegeta's Final Shine cut right through Goku's Kamehameha x10. Goku's eyes widened in shock as his Kamehameha x10 didn't even slow down the Final Shine. Vegeta smiled as his blast cut quickly cut through Goku's and made its way closer to him. With less than a foot to go before it hit Goku, the Final Shine vanished. Goku quickly smiled and put more energy into his Kamehameha x10.

"Ah!" Vegeta quickly dove out of the way and the Kamehameha x10 went past him and slammed into a mountain in the distance. Vegeta turned around and watched as the mountain was instantly destroyed, though none of them heard any noise until several seconds later in which a shockwave came carrying rocks, dust, and whatever other debris there might have been from the mountain. "Damn it! I should have practiced more." Vegeta cursed to himself as he got back onto his feet.

"Not bad Vegeta." Goku said to him. "But it looks like your new move still has some flaws."

"My move is flawless!"

"Sure it is." The two of them then flew into the air and continued with another stalemate melee.

Meanwhile, Krillin's group of himself, 17, and 18 were still fighting the enhanced Saibamen army, and Gero's three new androids.

17 flew low to the ground through the forest. Flying only a few feet off to his side was android 13.

"Eat this you little punk!" 13 yelled as he rapidly fired off blasts through the trees at 17.

"At least I don't screw my sister you hillbilly piece of trash!" 17 yelled back as he weaved in and out of the blasts and trees.

"As if an insult comin' from a wannabe ghetto gangster is gonna get to me!" Whether the two of them were more concerned with fighting or insulting each other is something that no one was able to tell. 18 and Krillin were fighting androids 14 and 15 respectively. They were both making sure to keep constantly on the move, lest a Saibaman get close enough to self-destruct on them.

"Yaah!" Krillin yelled as he landed a right hook on the short android 15's jaw. A Saibaman was quickly approaching him from his right. Krillin spun with the momentum of his punch and formed a Destructo Disk in his right hand. Krillin tossed the attack and severed the Saibaman's head horizontally in half. This left Krillin open though and 15 quickly kicked Krillin in the gut.

'This sucks!' 18 thought to herself. 'This guy is at least an even match for me.' 18 saw a Saibaman coming at her from the corner of her eye. She quickly turned and fired a blast at it large enough to vaporize it, which it then did. 14 took advantage of this though and kicked 18 in the back of her head and sent her towards the ground. She hit the ground and quickly got to her feet. "Damn." Unfortunately for her, she landed near a Saibaman who was quickly charging her. The Saibaman leapt into the air.

"Spirit Ball!" A voice yelled and shortly after a ball of energy hit the Saibaman's chin and knocked it high into the air.

"Tri-Beam!" A different voice yelled as a blast the engulfed and vaporized the Saibaman. 18 quickly looked over in the direction of the voices and, as she expected, saw Tien and Yamcha there. "Sorry we're late." 17 and 13 came barreling out the woods into the sky and then backed off from each other when they noticed Tien and Yamcha. Krillin and 15 stopped fighting as well. Tien and Yamcha both floated into the air.

"Where have you guys been!" Krillin yelled angrily at them.

"Sorry we didn't jump in sooner Krillin. It's just; we were too ashamed to show our faces to you guys after what we did to Goku. "

"Yeah." Yamcha simply added.

"None of us ever blamed you guys!" Krillin yelled, still annoyed that they had only just now arrived. His expression began to calm though.

"We watched the fight from afar, just like 17 did. We were going to stay at the arena, but then when we saw 17 leave, we decided to follow him. At the time, we didn't know whose side he was on." Tien explained to them.

"Well, I'm just glad you're both here now."

"Don't worry Krillin; we'll handle the rest of these guys on our own now." Yamcha said in his arrogant voice.

"Yeah." Tien said with a head nod as he hopped a short distance away from Yamcha. They both put their arms out to the side and began to speak in unison as they started the fusion dance.

"Fuuuuuuu-sion!" Before they could completely finish it though, 13 fired off a blast. "Ha!" The blast hit Yamcha's knee and caused his leg to flinch right as their fingers connected with each other. There was a bright white light and when it vanished, only Tiencha remained, though he was now incredibly skinny and looked like he could barely stand, let alone fight. This was made even more obvious when he began to immediately fall to the ground.

"Oh great." Krillin said in frustration.

"This…" 17 began. "…is supposed to be fusion? What a joke!"

"It got messed up!" 18 yelled at her brother. The androids all floated in the air, smiling with their arms crossed.

'Great.' Krillin thought to himself. 'Now we're worse off than we were before since we'll have to protect him too! And why am I suddenly feeling so tired!'