The pure power of the two saiyans ebbed through the world. Goku rushed on Kintoun as he sensed the increased powers as they got ready for combat. "Come on guys, please don't be dead." Goku said to himself, unaware of Tarble's plan to hold of the saiyans for his arrival. Smaller senses of Ki were moving away, a few clustered together and moved further away still. Goku ate one of the sensu beans to get to full strength before he would arrive, still all he could hope was that he would arrive in time to save everyone.
Yurin sat focused in the circle, an aura surrounded her body as streams of ethereal energy flowed from two of the four magic artifacts of the Penta Poison witches, The ring and doll. A small bead of sweat dripped from her forehead as her mind stayed focus on Tarble. ~Goku is on his way, but Tarble is still out matched.~ She thought to herself. Her will reached out toward the Knife artifact now, her aura branched from her small form and enwrapped around the knife. The aura soon pulled from the knife an ethereal thread, struggling to resist her command. More sweat dripped from her face as she forced the thread to attach to her central aura. A burst of energy in final defiance from the artifact, before a steady stream of energy flowed like a river into her body. ~Just a little more power should be enough… just a little more…~ She continued to focus, her magic pours into the mark to keep increase Tarble's strength. Unaware of the blood that dripped from her nose.
Raditz had felt a sudden strange sense, peered down to his left arm and saw the seal placed on him was breaking apart. Confused on why, but knew what it meant. Yurin's focus was no longer on sealing his strength. He positioned the scouter before him and had it read his power level, but it kept directing to greater power levels nearby. ~Fine, show me what is happening in front of me.~ He thought angrily as he placed the device to his ear. Agasp by the power levels he was saw on the screen. Vegeta eighteen thousand as he remembered, but Tarble climbed higher and higher still. Already showing fifteen thousand and still the device climbed.
Vegeta smirked as he was ready for a little play time with his younger brother, figured he would play easy at first before he would knock the confidence out of him. Tarble's face instead shown a stern fierce gaze. The two vanished for a moment, and appeared suddenly in a mixture of combat. Vegeta felt himself being pushed back far more than he expected. Tarble landed a few good blows before Vegeta adjusted himself. Retribution given as Vegeta side stepped Tarble's assault and began to lay down heavy blow after heavy blow, and ended his assault with a kick toward the ground.
Tarble instead landed to the ground on his feet, the impact made a small crater as the earth gave way. His hands outstretched as an aura of flame appeared in both hands, he whipped his arms forward and tossed both balls of energy toward Vegeta. The balls of energy connected before him and exploded like a firework, small bits of energy rained in all directions. Vegeta surprised by the attack as he expected it to just hit and explode, not have a secondary effect. Each small burst of energy that hit felt like a steady punch to his form. It gave enough time for Tarble to rush in behind his brother and make a heavy impact between his shoulder blades, Vegeta propelled forward only for a blast of energy to make contact as Tarble tossed a steady stream of blasts down into him.
Vegeta roared out in pain, his body turned and curled to defend against the attacks. He summoned up his power and with a mighty yell, repelled the remaining attacks by expelling energy from every pore of his body. The ground shook as rock formations broke apart nearby. "You are showing much more progress than the scouter read before. How are you doing this?"
"Maybe you rely on your scouter too much. Maybe you think yourself to powerful and not realizing that a determined Saiyan is greater than a powerful one." Tarble said, still unaware of his own power boost.
Vegeta sneered at the thought of his brother being more powerful then him. "No more holding back then." He said as he summoned all his ki, a burst of energy as he rushed forward to Tarble to overwhelm him. Tarble instead grabbed his fist before it made contact as Vegeta punched for him. Vegeta surprised he kept up, Tarble surprised himself as well, but didn't let him distract him as he attempted to make a heavy kick into Vegeta. Vegeta blocked and could feel his body strain with difficulty. Raditz below was astounded, as the scouter read seventeen thousand seven hundred. Tarble was only three hundred below Vegeta, an almost equal match.
The two brothers continued to whip quick powerful blows and barely made a defense to blow each attack. The battle long enough for Goku to spot Krillin and Gohan. He landed down and saw they were mostly alright, glad his son was not injured. Krillin and Gohan explained what was happening, and that Tarble was using them as pawns to some war game. Goku astonished that Tarble would do such a thing.
"I will have to talk to him about this after we are done with this. But first we need to get to the others. I sense they are still alive, but badly hurt. It will be better for you all to be able to move and get away. I am not sure how dangerous things will get." Goku lead his son and friend to Chiaotzu. The last sensu bean had to be split among Chichi, Yamcha, and Tien as they were worse than Gohan and Krillin.
"What… Happened?" Chichi said in a daze, her body ached fiercely from the backlash of her own technique. She could almost feel her muscles all spasm from overwork.
"Raditz beat you, but barely. Yamcha took the fight next but Raditz was knocked out of the fight by their own team mate, Nappa then went on a battle fury against Yamcha, Tien, Krillin, and Gohan." Chiaotzu informed Chichi.
"And why didn't you try helping?" Chichi said with a bit of frustration.
"I told him to… we needed someone to pull bodies away if the battle got dangerous." Tien said. "Goku, I can still feel Tarble but his power is greater than I remember. Have you two not resolved this yet?"
"What does it matter, Tarble was using us to become some king of the Saiyans." Krillin still angry about the betrayal.
"Tarble didn't think any of us had the strength to handle the Saiyans. The fight is a ploy, to give Goku time to show up." Tien rebuked. "That is why I went to fight alone. I felt I was strong enough to put on a good fight and give Goku more time to show up. I am hoping your strong enough to put an end to this."
"Won't know tell I try. The two of them seem to be equally matched, so it may be that I was not needed." Goku amazed at the progress everyone made, almost wishing he did arrive earlier to get into the fight first.
"That only goes toward my theory even more. He held back his power so we did not know about it, used us to take on the minions, and now will try taking down Vegeta himself." Krillin continued to argue.
"But… He said he wouldn't allow anyone to die due to their game. Why would he not allow us to continue fighting… if he planned on stopping Nappa beforehand?" Gohan remarked as he pushed his lavender hair back more. "That wouldn't make sense to do. It would have been better to risk us winning and trying to do something to Vegeta."
"Tarble may not be a human… but I have known him a long time. If he has a plan, he will do whatever it takes to keep everyone else protected. It may not seem like it with this plan, but I am sure he thought it was the best method. He most likely is hoping Vegeta will keep us alive, even if he is defeated." Tien nursed a wound and could not feel his full strength return yet. He could tell most of them were not in shape to battle either.
The two brothers proved to be more of a match then they thought, both beaten and bloodied from the constant assault on each other. They now stood on opposite standing rocks, high above the ground and breathing heavily. Vegeta wiped the blood from his lip as his mocking smile had broken completely and was now serious in his fight. "I am done with this little game, Tarble. Just surrender and rejoin me. You strength has proven more than enough to accept. I will now allow you to usurp my right to the throne anymore."
Tarble felt his arms were heavy, his body wanted to falter and fall. His right arm shook, his grip tightened to steady it. "This is not a fight to get your admiration, I am not that petty. You are not fit to rule. You are to self-serving, I can already tell just by this one fight. A king must be willing to fight for his people, not be willing to let people fight for him."
"You dare claim you would be better!?" Vegeta grew more vexed as he heard his own brother's voice. "The strong lead, and the weak follow or die trying. And it is time to prove that!" Vegeta shifted position, his body twisted as both arms held to his left. He summoned his Ki to prepare for a blast. "Galick!"
Tarble felt Vegeta's ki raise and focus to his palms. Tarble mimicked his stance and began to summon up his energy as well. "Galick!"
"GUN!" The two wrapped in a violent violet aura, the energy raged and shook the ground as they both prepared their attack. Rock and dust blown away, dust devils swirled between them and became a small twister from their power.
"FIRE!" The two thrust their palms out to each other. The violet energy beam launched from them, the twister broken apart as the beams clashed. Mixed and matched in power, the two fighters soon forced to expel more and more energy to try and win this struggle. Sweat and blood blown away from their faces.
Yurin pulled an ethereal thread from the mirror, the final artifact. ~Just a little more, and he will…~ Her mind was growing tired, her body in pain from the amount of magical energy that flowed through her to propel her magic to greater heights. Each tug on the thread made her aura weaver, her strength wanned. ~Tarble… won't give up… and neither will I!~ Her eyes opened, a glow behind them as the thread was pulled to her. The simple glow soon overwhelmed her eyes with a bright flash of energy.
Tarble pushed hard against the energy beam, locked in a stalemate. Soon the energy began to push in his favor though. Vegeta tried to push harder and found himself falter still to the hidden strength of his brother. Raditz below watched as the scouter registered Tarble's power increase once more. Over twenty thousand and still it climbed, higher and higher. The greater it became the more Vegeta was pushed to a corner. The beam now held just at his hand. He could barely hold it and he could feel the power about to envelope him.
Suddenly, without any warning. Tarble's power plummeted back down to just over five thousand, Raditz watched in horror as he saw Tarble's power vanish without reason. Tarble's ki shrunk and Vegeta's devoured it as it rushed at his brother. Tarble's strength gone, and could not even resist the blast's movement.
"Kaio-Ken!" Goku's voice echoed in the loud thunderous waves of the beam's clash. The fellow saiyan appeared without warning. His foot connected to Vegeta's side and sent the prince off and broke his hold on his own attack. The red aura over Goku stayed consistent and more controlled then the original manga and show, as he worked to master the technique. Softly breathing and aura dissipated as Vegeta stood, a new fury in his eyes as he looked at the interloper.
Tarble was overtaken by the remains of Vegeta's attack, carried by the unrelenting blast. Armor shattered, body badly injured as he was taken to a high hill. Crushed between the rock and stone and the energy blast. The younger prince lost consciousness and finally was defeated. His body laid peacefully on the now bare rock, blood lightly left his body, body still.
On the lookout, the same stillness was found. Smoke hovered over the grounds. Yurin's form sat in the center of a circle, eyes vacant, and blood dripped from her lips, nose, and eyes. Skin pale, and motionless. Mr. Popo stood alone on the lookout, having now watched the passing of two friends before his eyes. Yurin's body slowly faded, her sins forgiven and allowed to the heavens.
And that is the end of Vegeta and Tarble's battle. Next we will see if Vegeta has the strength to keep fighting a new opponent. One he was not prepared to face, as he believe Goku dead. Let us find out what happens in the next chapter: Battle Royal! Oozaru mayhem take 2!
PL
Goku- 10,200
Kaio-ken- 15,300
Tarble- 5,900
Magic booster x2 (safe): 11,800
Magic booster x3(strained) - x3 = 17,700
Magic booster x4(deadly) – x4 = 23,600
Vegeta – 18,000
Raditz- One armed- 5400