A burst of golden light enveloped Vegeta, sending a visible pulse of blue and golden sparks sizzling up the Saiyan's body. As they rose up his hair, the sparkles colored it gold and spike it up even more intensely than the king of Saiyans already had them. Vegeta's body also bulked up a decent amount, granting the normally rather short Saiyan royalty a few inches in height.
The two combatants flew at each other, sending wary jabs each other's way but each of the pair was so careful not to devote too much power and effort into each of their testing jabs that they could also easily devote the attention and agility needed to evade the other's strikes. Rolling underneath Android 21 Ki blade slash and then backflipping over her sweep, Vegeta found an opening and shot a more focused jab into Dr. Puri's mid-section.
The artificial woman grunted, catching the punch with an open hand while Vegeta jumped and swiped the air with his foot. Dr. Puri had enough experience in her to release Vegeta's fist and dodge the hi-jumping kick. Though the Saiyan king wasn't done just yet, driving his entire body with a diving backhand fist, he forced Android 21 to collide with him with equal force to match his own advance and changed the name of their exchange game to one more favorable to him.
With a rich smirk, Vegeta spread his legs and shot a thundering power blow to Android 21's abdomen, forcing a painful gasp out of the Android as it dug into her gut. A beam of golden, focused shock wave energy, booming in a singular pillar straight through Android 21's body launched her into the air while Vegeta soared in pursuit of his opponent, switching the scenery to the tops of the West City, punching and punting the flinched Android 21 around or through skyscrapers and around different stations of the monorail system. Shards of devastated glass glittered, reflecting the sunlight of the setting sun while Vegeta went to work, finishing his beatdown on the cocky Android with an overhead elbow crash that sent her through the monorail track and smashing into the gut of the city below.
Android 21 sneered at Super Saiyan Vegeta as he descended from the upper skies and into the lower city level, her bruised face could still be made out through the dust and the smoke while the Saiyan king held himself with composure. Arms crossed, a strict expression, but no blind wrath or rush to finish the fight. By now, judging by how hard the opponent's body was when he hit it, Vegeta knew that this would not be a simple battle to win.
"Give me a break," Dr. Puri stood up and dusted her lab coat that displayed a hole in her shoulder, exposing the woman's skin underneath. "You don't care about humans and you especially don't care about Chayote, either. You've given up on having her join your forces and settled on letting her live on Earth, or else you would have come to Earth by now to reclaim her. You just want a brawl, like the crude simpletons your lot are."
"Is that so? You think you've got us Saiyans all figured out then?" Vegeta reared his teeth and clenched his fist. "Chayote is an extremely rare breed of Saiyan. With our forces wiped out to a point closest to extinction we've ever been to, we're in dire need of both new Saiyans and her legendary bloodline to inspire my troops. Seeing someone like her fighting alongside them, a descendant of the Legendary Super Saiyan himself…!"
"Of course, your men would also appreciate you as a king more. A man who brought this rare breed of Saiyan back home, huh? What's the matter, Vegeta? Are the Saiyans questioning your leadership? Can't say I blame them. Between Frieza and Cooler, you've brought them through far too many calamities that nearly wiped them all out. You've made them train alongside deserters here on Earth and then you've brought them here to mingle with us common rabble, Earthling trash, as they see it. I'm sure if you Saiyans didn't operate on cavemen rules, your position at the top would be shaky," Android 21 ran her hand over her hair and took a fighting pose.
A vertical golden halo burst out of Vegeta's body as the Super Saiyan king vanished. A shock wave accompanying the swift sonic boom. The Saiyan royalty blinked in, accompanied by a golden booming shock wave telegraphing his sudden stoppage, just before Android 21, but this time the Android was ready for him. Dr. Puri lashed her kick in a mocking low kick, thudding her foot into Vegeta's shin and flinching the Saiyan king up.
The next foot slam went high up, smashing into Vegeta's face and staggering him. Dr. Puri lunged at him and grabbed hold of Vegeta, pulling him in as she directed her Ki blade-wielding hand in a thrust at his chest. The Super Saiyan swatted her thrust aside, leaving the Ki blade to just graze his arm instead of piercing clean through his heart. 21 swatted her blade-wielding hand back, smacking her backhand in a blunt slap across Vegeta's face, and sent the Saiyan king flying through a nearby building while the Android pursued him.
Vegeta grunted upon hitting the wall and leaving a deep dent in it. Dr. Puri advanced in pursuit, enveloped by a scarlet aura, as she smashed into the king of Saiyans with a soaring punch and sent Vegeta crashing through the building's walls. This caused more than enough damage to the structure for it to begin collapsing. Android 21 blinked up to the stunned Super Saiyan, shooting a knee strike that Vegeta blocked inside of an office cubicle room, Android 21 swiped her Ki blade about, sending crimson crescent projectiles as an aftereffect that sliced the collapsing building up to pieces before vaulting overhead and kicking the Super Saiyan diagonally down through the building and into the yard of that office block.
"The Earth has not forgotten the transgressions of your kind against it, King Vegeta the Fourth," Android 21 sliced through the wall before her, leaving to the front yard through the hole she had cut up and descending before the Super Saiyan who was wiping the slobber off of his face and noting the bruises he had accumulated in the preceding exchange of blows. "In fact, we're just now making two of your stragglers pay for their crimes at the moment. If you insist on it, we will punish your entire race for crimes caused by Bardock's squad, as well as you and your accomplice Nappa around five years ago too."
"You Earthlings…" Vegeta spat a trickle of blood aside with a bitter expression. "Always looking for half-assed reasons to fight. Makes you look so snobby and holier than thou! Makes me sick!"
Vegeta attempted a sucker punch attack, diving forward with a sweep of his arm that would have pulled Android 21's legs from under her and sent her rolling out of balance. Instead, he received a knee shot to his face for his troubles. Android 21 ignited her Ki blade again and slashed it in a wide, diagonal arc up before bringing it back down and thrusting it in between Vegeta's knees. The Super Saiyan's eyes whited out as two crossing gashes opened up in his Saiyan armor and the blue bodysuit over his knees split open while his knees splashed with blood.
The cruel Android dashed past her opponent, lighting him up with an electrified scarlet line before turning around and brandishing her Ki blade for a second. "Violence necessitates a reason. Moreover, a warrior that fights with purpose and for something or someone is more focused and powerful."
Android 21 formed electrified scarlet Ki blades in both hands and spun toward her flinched and airborne opponent at high speed. Vegeta's teal eyes blanked out and their color twinged to greyish in the moment of collision as blood splattered in excessive quantities while he flew aside and busted through a wall separating the office block yard from the once-bustling West City street. The Saiyan king slammed into an abandoned smoking car, writhing in pain from Puri's attack.
"Just look at what I've accomplished with enough focus. I, a mere human woman, realized the legacy of my beloved late husband and became the pinnacle of Earth's scientific endeavors, and built myself a perfect body with which I can challenge any threat in the universe. I've crushed barbaric alien invaders that devastated entire Earthling armies in the past. This only proves that I am the only protection my home planet needs," Android 21's voice came as the woman confidently strut up to the wall and sliced it to ribbons before toppling it down with a push kick and walking over its rubble.
"A cocky bitch, aren't you?" Vegeta picked himself up, clutching his bleeding wounds as he rose from his disgraced position and kicked the futuristic car aside to blast into a residential building and explode alongside someone's abandoned home. "I once thought that the Super Saiyan was a perfect, ultimate warrior. Cold and ruthless, peerless throughout the universe, and that I was the only protection my people ever needed too. You're up for a cold shower of reality just like I was…"
"My, my… Never thought I'd see the day… The mighty and proud king Vegeta admitting he's not all that…" Android 21 chuckled to herself.
"Purpose…" Vegeta clenched his fist out in front of him as his sliced-up Saiyan armor shattered to pieces off of his body from the accumulating bulk of his muscles stressing it too much from underneath. "I know about that far more than you give me credit for!"
Vegeta burst with a golden aura, charging across the street toward Android 21 with a push kick, but Dr. Puri stopped it with an open palm hand. Flipping over, Vegeta swept at Dr. Puri's feet, tripping her up, but Android 21 maintained her composure and put up her dukes even while she held herself upside down. She exchanged blows with the advancing Saiyan king before his aura became one with his body, absorbed entirely by it. Dr. Puri spread her arms out wide, forming a scarlet energy barrier field while Vegeta charged forward with a combination spinning kick. All of his absorbed aura exploded from his body at once in a fiery blaze around his legs. Nothing less than Android 21's energy barrier would have stood a chance at stopping it without taking too much damage.
"I'm fighting for a purpose right now. I'm going to make you beat it so that my people can settle down on this planet and enjoy some peaceful times, rebuild their ranks before we can resume our traditional ways of conquest and war!" Vegeta proclaimed, charging with a flying kick, enveloped by pure Ki-based flames. Dr. Puri dived out of the way from the charging Saiyan king, but he corrected his trajectory right after missing his kick and raised his open palm in front of Android 21.
"It's that purpose as a Saiyan king, responsibility to my people that makes me more powerful than ever! We're going to settle down here and restore our ranks and former strength whether or not the Earthlings like it, because that's just the Saiyan way, Big Bang Att…" Vegeta proudly proclaimed, before gasping in pain. His teal eyes widened and his head shook as he turned his attention down at the elongated energy blade punching through his chest.
Dr. Puri had pointed her hand and focused her Ki blade from both hands into a single hand and lengthened it to a full sword's length. Vegeta coughed up blood, despite his lack of desire to pull the energy sword out, the artificial woman allowed her energy blade to dissipate as Vegeta's Big Bang Attack lost focus and dispersed into glowing, azure dust. As his stab wound spat blood, Vegeta collapsed on the ground.
"Purpose? Responsibility? Supposed I give you the benefit of the doubt and buy that you ever cared for anyone other than your own inflated ego, your pathetic purpose pales compared to mine. The focus with which you work toward your goal can't even begin to compare with mine!" Android 21 scolded her fallen opponent, having lost her composure as he placed her open hand on the ground.
Destructive energy rays began bursting out from underground. A powerful, sky-scraping pillar of red energy erupted from underground, submerging Vegeta whole and blasting him into the sky. Still posing, Android 21 vanished without a trace, appearing above her weightless, airborne opponent. Igniting her Ki blades around both her hands, Android 21 dived at her opponent, flashing left to right as she slashed at the semi-conscious king Vegeta before driving him into the ground and positioning her open hand over him. A radiant, scarlet energy blast formed in her open hand while Android 21 smirked with ecstatic joy. The energy blast resonated with black shock waves, expanding outward without limit and flashing with black lightning jolts.
"You've been a vexing garnish, king Vegeta, but I'm afraid it's time I return to the Excellent Full Course!" Android 21 yelled out before detonating the energy sphere point-blank at Vegeta's face. A pink energy tower with a mixed, bloody outline flashing at its outer edges, accompanied by destructive rays of energy all over West City, blasted from underground in reaction to the violent attack. Everything turned to white, encompassed by a blinding flash.
Once the tragic devastation cleared out, the remains of West City revealed themselves to be just a handful of surviving platforms still hosting shaky building remains on them with the rest of the city having split into plate-shaped platforms of stone at various degrees of elevation and a schism separating all of them that led only to a boundless abyss and a fiery bath of Earth's pulsing heart down below.
"Hmm…" Android 21 turned around with a heavy sigh. It was at this point that she enjoyed her long-time investment of becoming an Infinite Energy Model since she couldn't imagine the bother of dealing with chaff like this while having to manage her Ki resources all the time at the same time. She much preferred the infinite stamina necessary to do what needed to be done.
"Don't you… Dare walk away from me, broad!" Vegeta's exhausted and pain-ridden voice halted Android 21 from taking off and forced an expression of surprise to color her face as she turned around with a widened gaze to witness the bare-chested and clutching at his wounds, battered and cut-up Saiyan king rising from the glowing fissure that Dr. Puri was sure she cast him to die in to.
"Well, well… I'm shocked to see you survived. I truly put my full power into that attack, you know…" Android 21 crossed her arms, looking a tad peeved that she still hadn't rid herself of this annoying pest. "I'm even more surprised that you didn't flee with your tail tucked in between your legs. Figuratively, of course. I see that Cooler has already rid you of that bothersome appendage permanently."
"If I hadn't used an Explosive Energy Wave at just the right time to counteract some of your blast, I'd have died for sure…" Vegeta panted. "But we Saiyans only get fiercer and more deadly as we're pressed into a corner!"
"Please… You're all spent on energy and stamina and you're at a critical point too. You'd be awfully lucky to sustain Super Saiyan in this state," Android 21 waved her hand in dismissal.
"Underestimate the king of Saiyans, will you!?" Vegeta clenched his fists by his side, unleashing a golden aura that once more changed the color of his hair, turning them gold and leaving his eyes teal-colored while bulking up his overtaxed, bruised, and lacerated body.
"Very well, I much prefer training my dogs through positive reinforcement rather than whipping them, but you've proven yourself to be rabid so I suppose I have no other choice but to put you down before you hurt someone else," Android 21 sighed and elegantly vaulted forward. The woman halted with a shocked expression and let an intercepting Ki blast pass by her. Both she and Vegeta turned their eyes toward a pair of interlopers floating just above the battlefield.
"Puri, you sneaky bitch!" Bardock lowered his open hand. "You didn't tell me that your modifications made me unable to enjoy food anymore! Turn me back at once!"
"Yo, Vegeta!" Goku snickered, descending by Vegeta's side. "Wow, Puri sure did a number on you! You mean she's that amazing!?"
"Shut up, Kakarot, and don't get in my way!" Vegeta objected to the intrusion of the two Saiyans.
"Just… What on Earth is this?" the right eye of Android 21 twitched with a nervous tick as the elevation of her artificial blood pressure left her unable to execute the two appearing intruders in her business at once.
"You've gone completely out of control, Puri," Goku declared, taking a fighting stance. "We're here to stop you. You were our friend for the longest time, so I don't like the thought of destroying you like some robot, but everyone will be better off that way."
"Ditto, Son Goku…" Dr. Puri shook her head in disappointment before turning her attention to Bardock. "You know, your son has spent the majority of his life on Earth. He's grown up here, made a family, and found happiness on our planet. I was willing to overlook his origins and his transgressions against the Rainbow Brigade and see him as an Earthling because of that. I truly intended every part of our original deal, Bardock."
"Shut up!" Bardock clenched his fist, exploding with a brilliant, crystal-clear aura around him. "You've exploited my grief and drove me into making some stupid bargain, manipulated me into hurting my family and their friends! My fists are itching to pound you to a pulp for that, Puri!"
"Hmm… Sad. Perhaps the Saiyans truly cannot be helped. No matter what, they'll always rebel and resort to their violent ways. It seems like what's best for the future is truly to annihilate every single one of you. It's a pity that you've all made children, I cannot promise you I'll let them all live, but I will study them to see if the inherent violence of the Saiyan gene in their blood can be suppressed in some way. If not, it is as Son Goku said, they will be better off being put to sleep. Peacefully, of course…" Android 21 sighed, shaking her head and hiding her eyes as if she herself regretted that decision.
"Children…? Put to sleep…?" Goku's quiet voice interrupted Android 21. "You mean… Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Chayote's kid? Don't you dare threaten them!" Goku's voice exploded with high-pitched wrath as a single skyward beam of golden aura drowned the ruined city in a golden flash of light. With Son Goku and Bardock both becoming Super Saiyans, it seemed like the fight for the Earth's future was ready to go.