Chapter 8. Death Impendent
Vegeta reached out with his senses and found the idiot was still alive. He hadn't expected anything else. He looked up at the little Captain hovering in mid-air, very impressed with the way she got the better of Kakarot.
"Dad!" Goten cried out anxiously as he sped over to Goku.
"Kid!" Turles called.
Goten whirled around to catch the deftly thrown sensu bean and hasted over to his father.
"Is he going to be okay?" Trunks asked breathlessly.
"Definitely." Vegeta answered. "The Captain doesn't possess enough power to actually put an end to Kakarot."
Trunks stared in awe at Akane up there hovering above the crater. Then a huge smile nearly split his face in half. "Woah! That was so cool! She totally owned him!"
Goku was already jumping to his feet again and came walking over with Goten seated comfortably on his broad shoulder. The boy was rather watery eyed, his cheeks blotchy. He clearly wasn't used to seeing his father getting his arse handed out to him like that.
Akane landed in front of the other Saiyajins, her disfigured face alive with satisfaction.
"Wicked fight, Captain." Ringo complimented.
"Nice finish." Turles added.
Trunks was jumping up and down in front of her hysterically. "That was so cool! You defeated Goku-sama! Nobody ever defeats Goku-sama! Oh my Kami! Ma'am, ano… Captain, are you some kind of witch or something? Did you put a spell on Goku-sama to make him sit on his knees?"
"Calm down, boy." Vegeta berated him. It was quite clear that the Captain had his son wrapped around her finger as well. And why shouldn't the boy be awed, she was that formidable.
Akane put a hand to Trunks' shoulder and crouched in front of him. "You liked that move, Princeling? It is called Docile Dance. I invented it myself. It's a form of hypnosis."
"I loved it!" Trunks yelled exultantly. "Can you teach me?"
Akane gave a rough laugh. "I could, but it wouldn't do you any good. It's for girls only." She straightened back up, hands on her hips and spun to face Goku.
"That was great!" Goku exclaimed gleefully. "You're a force to be reckoned with, Akane."
"Cheers Kakarot. And Captain will do just fine." Akane wiped a trail of blood from her chin. "You weren't half bad yourself. That transformation nearly did me in."
Goku beamed at her and Vegeta felt the urge to smack the smile off of his gormless face. He didn't fancy their exchange at all.
"You want a sensu?" Goku offered cosily, but Akane waved it away with a rough sound of the throat.
"So who's next?" Turles asked.
"Can I fight Ringo-san again?" Trunks asked eagerly.
"No." Vegeta snapped ill tempered. "You only fight him because you know you have a chance of beating him. Today you fight me, boy."
"Let's take on Vegeta-sama together!" Goten suggested.
"Yeah! Do the fusion dance!" Trunks cheered. He looked up at Vegeta hopefully. "Can we, father?"
It was exactly what Vegeta had been hoping for. If the little Captain was impressed by Kakarot, she was going to be blown away by what he had in store.
"Get dancing." Vegeta ordered.
"Wicked!" both boys cried. They readied themselves for the fusion dance immediately.
"Watch closely, you two." Akane ordered her men, her gloved hand falling away from her busted jaw she had been examining with her fingers. She was sitting on her haunches again and looked quite comfortable doing so. "I want you to master that ability."
Goten and Trunks were already performing the fusion dance. "Fu-sion-ha!" Gotenks appeared with a haughty grin. "Let's do this." he spoke in a mixture of Trunks and Goten's voices.
Vegeta phased directly into his super-two form to match Gotenks' battle power, his dark eyes flashing to green. "Bring it."
They took to the air clashing above the crater and immediately got tangled up in a fierce grapple that had the surroundings thundering by the sheer force.
"You can't win this, old man." Gotenks taunted.
Vegeta just smirked. He had to work pretty hard to ward off the boys' attacks. "You have quite a mouth on you now, brat."
"So sue us. You can never prove who said it." Gotenks retorted.
Vegeta let out a bark of laughter. "Then I'll just have to beat you both bloody when this is over."
Vegeta was glad to have his balls back. Dealing with the little Captain left him with a maddening sense of inadequacy. But this, this was what he was made for. He wasn't half as strong as the two boys combined into Gotenks, but they were brisk and careless. Besides that they lacked creativity. It would just be the same lame attacks as always. Vegeta was prepared for those.
As if on cue Gotenks yelled: "Continuous die die missile!" while shooting numerous ki-blasts at him.
Vegeta dodged them easily and answered with his own version of an energy barrage. He threw just enough blasts to distract Gotenks and too little to tire himself. Next up was the Wild Boar attack. Vegeta folded his arms and calmly moved aside as Gotenks charged at him with his head forward. After that came the Dynamite Kick, the Galactic Donut, the Mouth Blast and last, but not least, the Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack.
Vegeta managed to make it through all those assaults virtually unharmed. This was good. They had used up half their energy by performing those useless attacks.
"Now that all the crap is out of your system, how about giving me a real fight?"
"Whatever, old man." Gotenks phased into super-one form and attacked again.
Vegeta growled when Gotenks' knee was shoved in his gut. He backed up and countered with a Galic Gun. Throwing simple hits and kicks was not going to suffice now that they had transformed to super. His powerful purple beam hit Gotenks right in the grinning face, startling him for a moment. The fused boys' answer was another Dynamite Kick.
It was time to make use of other qualities. Strength alone wasn't going to cut it any longer. "If you brats had spent less time flipping through the magazines you stole from that perverted coffin dodger and more on your training, you might have been able to give me a challenge."
Gotenks froze. "He knows about that?" he asked himself. "But we hid them away!"
"You're so screwed." Goten's voice piped up.
"Shut up, Goten." Trunks yelled through Gotenks mouth.
It was quite a schizophrenic sight to behold.
"I know everything that goes on in the house, brat." Vegeta smirked as he grabbed his baffled opponent's head and rammed his knee into the fused boys' face.
"Why is he so strong?" Gotenks complained to himself as he jerked away furiously. He phased into super-two form with a frustrated scream.
Vegeta entwined his fingers to form a fist with both hands and slammed Gotenks on the head with it. The fused boys gave a yelp as they sailed to the ground in their shared body. With a grin Gotenks sped back up. The short distraction was all Vegeta needed and as the fused boys hurled back up at him, he had his Big Bang attack ready. The powerful blue beam shot from his hands a direct hit and Gotenks was sent sailing to the ground once again.
Swiftly Vegeta summoned all the energy he could muster without actually killing himself. He pushed his body to the ultimate limit, a low-pitched roar leaving him when he brought his hands to his sides with his palms facing forward. His head fell back on his shoulders as he lingered on the verge of exploding, allowing the full potential of his power to surge through him unrestrained for a second and threatening to end him right there and then. It was pleasure beyond anything. With his last strength he forced his power through his arms and into his opened hands, drawing his palms together with a deep cleansing breath.
"Death Impendent!" he thundered.
The massive shaft of black energy that shot from his hands rushed straight at Gotenks. The fused boys were now in super-three form as Vegeta had known they would be. His Death Impendent hit the target spot on and enveloped Gotenks relentlessly. The impact was colossal and the explosion that followed set the world aflame.
Vegeta felt the remnant of his power slip. He was yanked out of his super form and his hair returned to its usual black colour as he started to fall to the ground. Nevertheless, a victorious smile was plastered to his face.