Ch 3: Lost Pride: Monsters in Wait

The following day, Vegeta sits down at the table and turns to Bulma asking, "Bulma, is it true that the wife of Kakarot has had another child?"

Bulma looks at Vegeta confused and says, "Vegeta, Chi Chi had Goten almost 5 years ago. His birthday is a year and 2 months after Trunks's birthday."

Astonished Vegeta says, "So you mean to tell me that Kakarot's son was born only months after the Cell Games. Speaking of the Cell Games, Is Gohan keeping up with his training?"

Bulma smiles, "No Gohan isn't training he's been studying to get into the best high school in East city."

"Humph, school…the only schooling you need is in the school of strength."

"Vegeta, I will not have my son grow up to be some COMBATIVE OAF!"

"Oaf? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO WOMAN?"

"I'M TALKING TO YOU, VEGETA! YOU OVERLY AGGRESSIVE OAF!"

"HOW DARE YOU, WOMAN?"

"You know what Vegeta? If this is how you're going to talk to me then I guess Trunks and I will go get him some schooling that will actually give him a future."

"WOMAN YOU…" However, Bulma is already walking from the dining room.

Vegeta simply shakes his head and says, "That woman will be the death of me. At least I'll be able to surpass Gohan at this rate, and I will once again be the strongest of all Saiyans."

Later that night as Trunks is preparing for bed, Vegeta walks into his room. He sits in a chair on the other side of Trunks's room bleeding all over the chair saying, "You learn anything important today, boy? Your mother thought that she would train your mind instead of your body. Foolishness, if you ask me, but she is your mother, and you always respect her, boy."

Trunks turns to his father and says, "You look hurt. Are you alright, father?"

"I'll be fine, boy! Concern yourself with other things."

Trunks drops his head in respect, but quickly lifts it back up saying, "Yes, sir. Maybe other matters like the battle between Cinnatos and Vegeta, or maybe Shineta versus Borokla."

Vegeta laughs as he says, "Perhaps you do understand what's important. Now where did I leave off?"

The announcer bursts over the intercom. "Now my brothers and sisters facing our Lord Vegeta is the guardian, the strongest of the rest, second in strength only to Lord Vegeta. I present to you Cinnatos!" As his name echoes throughout the arena, Cinnatos walks in with the crowd shouting, "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSS!"

Finally reaching the center of the ring Cinnatos stands face to face with Vegeta. Their builds are identical. Both bear scars covering most of their bodies, broad high shoulders, overly defined arms, a wide chest that tapers down to a thin waist, massive thighs and calf muscles that could be mistaken for oak trees.

He looks his lord in the eyes and says, "My Lord, I know that you have been training to battle the alien, but I have been training to prevent you from fighting him. I will not have our leadership be handed over to some alien scum."

Vegeta smiles at Cinnatos and says, "My young guardian, I understand your concern, but have faith in your lord. I will never allow some tailless freak to rule our people. I am the strongest and today I prove it for the final time."

"Lord Vegeta, what do you mean the final time?"

"I am stepping down from my leadership role before the next tournament. I will rule until then, but I expect you to take leadership during the next tournament. Protect this world, but as for now. That is my responsibility. Prepare to be defeated again my guardian."

The announcer's voice suddenly bursts above all the noise of the crowd saying, "The two warriors stand in the arena ready to brawl. This is sure to be the most exciting match up in the entire tournament. Why this match was not the final? How these two warriors ended up on the same side of the bracket? I will never know. But we shall see a battle like no other in the first semi-final bout. CINNATOS VERSUS VEGETA BEGIN!"

Vegeta stands allowing the cool mountain air to blow through his spiked mane of hair, focusing the entirety of his energy onto Cinnatos. Every moment of his pre-battle ritual is tailored to maximize his battle prowess by focusing speed, agility and strength into a concerted attack.

Cinnatos falls to one knee as he turns his back to Vegeta. His energy begins pouring out of his body, enhancing his senses, strengthening his muscles, and focusing his mind on the daunting task of defeating the Lord of the Saiyans. As he kneels he feels Vegeta's energy radiating behind him. To most Saiyans the amount of energy he feels would be petrifying, but for him, it is the most exhilarating feeling of all, the potential for death, the test of the full measure of his strength. Pushing all his feelings aside, Cinnatos's power explodes from his body radiating as a raging blue aura.

Cinnatos stands to his feet turns toward Vegeta and leaps toward his master. Vegeta closes his eyes and feels Cinnatos's energy race towards him. Faster and faster the guardian's power hurtles toward him until at last, Vegeta feels Cinnatos's power vanish. Vegeta quickly opens his eyes only to see Cinnatos's feet ascend above his head. Vegeta looks up and leaps into the air following behind Cinnatos.

However, when Vegeta lifts himself off the ground, Cinnatos stops his upward momentum and instantly comes crashing down into Vegeta's head. The two warriors crash into the ground with tremendous force causing a plume of smoke to rise into the air.

The thickness of the smoke is blinding to everyone in the arena, but far above the smoke, Cinnatos is giving chase to Vegeta at nearly the speed of sound. Cinnatos finally catches Vegeta and throws an overhand right hook, but Vegeta sees the punch coming and quickly counters by blocking the punch with his forearm. The strength of the punch is so great that when it hits Vegeta's forearm, the blow sends him spinning. However, spinning is actually Vegeta's desire because he extends his left leg and connects with a spinning round house kick.

Vegeta quickly combines his initial kick into a combination of spinning kicks. First a roundhouse secondly and downward swinging chopping kick then an ascending roundhouse kick. Vegeta's legs move with an astounding swiftness connecting on multiple blows. The final kick is a downward slamming kick that sends Cinnatos tumbling toward the ground.

Cinnatos hits the ground and looks up to have Vegeta's feet slam into this back. Cinnatos lays flat on the ground unable to move. The announcer says, "OH MY VEGETA HAS ENDED THE FIGHT WITH A VISCIOUS COMBO OF…" Suddenly Cinnatos's body fades away from beneath Vegeta's boots, and Vegeta looks down in astonishment. From nowhere Cinnatos appears next to Vegeta's head and kicks him with such force that Vegeta flies through the air, and slams into the furthest wall of the arena.

The crowd stands in awe at the feat that Cinnatos actually survived such an onslaught by Vegeta. Cinnatos quickly shifts his weight and in a flash he appears next to Vegeta. He pulls Vegeta out of the wall and lifts him by one arm. He pulls back his fist and slams his fist into Vegeta's face, once, twice, three times. On the fourth punch Cinnatos releases Vegeta's arm and allows him to slump down onto one knee on the ground.

Vegeta turns his head to the side and spits blood and saliva from him mouth. He turns to look toward Cinnatos and says, "Very nice, my guardian. I'm glad that you've reached this level of strength. It actually surpasses my strength last tournament, but as you said, I have been training to fight the alien. My strength is greater than that by more than five times. Now let me show you."

Vegeta then steps away from Cinnatos and squats down. He flexes his both his biceps and begins to scream. Suddenly the sand beneath his feet begins to glow with a bright orange hue, and Vegeta's power explodes. Like a miniature hurricane, the wind surrounding Vegeta blows so strongly that the sand begins twisting into a vortex.

Cinnatos stands in awe as he sees Vegeta's power swell into a tornado of sand. As he feels Vegeta's power rise, he smiles stepping forward and entering into the swirling vortex. Trying to prevent flying sand from getting into his mouth, Cinnatos covers his mouth as he says, "Impressive my lord, but if you thought I was showing you my full power then you are sadly mistaken." Cinnatos again squats down and begins powering up as well. Cinnatos's power begins to swell causing his energy to twist the air in the opposite direction of the vortex.

As Cinnatos's power climbs toward Vegeta's each of their powers cancels the others, and the swirling vortex falls. Cinnatos says, "Why would I show you my true power, if you weren't willing to show me yours, my lord?"

Vegeta smiles and says, "Who said anything about showing you my full power," and Vegeta lunges at Cinnatos. As Vegeta swiftly moves through the air, he forms a yellow sphere of energy on his right hand. He pulls back his right hand to throw a punch. However, just before the energy charged punch can land, Cinnatos lifts his left arm to block the punch. Vegeta's wrist strikes Cinnatos's forearm and the energy on Vegeta's hand goes flying toward the arena wall.

Cinnatos laughs as he says, "Probably shouldn't have telegraphed your attack so much, Lord Vegeta."

Vegeta smiles as he torques his body around Cinnatos's forearm and kicks the flying energy blast right back into Cinnatos's face. With an explosion the blast staggers Cinnatos, and Vegeta uses this opportunity to attack.

With lightning fast precision, Vegeta connects with a right hook. He uses the momentum and rotation of his punch to continue into a roundhouse heel kick. Once his foot hits the ground, he uses his low position to rotate around and do a leaping uppercut. As the uppercut connects, the force of the impact sends Cinnatos soaring through the air. Vegeta lands and in an instant is in the sky rocketing past Cinnatos.

As Cinnatos's ascent slows, Vegeta appears above Cinnatos and clenches both his fists together. He then uses his hands like a hammer and slams them into Cinnatos's chest. The force of the blow, is so great that it instantly stops Cinnatos's upward momentum and causes him to accelerate into the ground. However, just before Cinnatos hits the ground, he vanishes.

Almost instantly, Cinnatos appears behind Vegeta, nearly 300 meters in the sky, and launches a knee toward Vegeta's ribs. Just before Cinnatos's attack connects Vegeta turns to see Cinnatos's knee approaching. Before he can brace for the attack, Cinnatos's knee connects, sending Vegeta tumbling backwards.

Cinnatos vanishes from the sky and appears behind Vegeta slamming his knee into Vegeta's spine. Vegeta shrieks in pain as his momentum instantly stops and he tumbles forward. Cinnatos again vanishes and reappears, this time in front of Vegeta. He again connects with a right knee, but this time to Vegeta's stomach. The attack drapes Vegeta over Cinnatos's knee. As Vegeta hangs over Cinnatos's knee, Cinnatos slams his left elbow into the back Vegeta's neck, and as Vegeta's head falls, Cinnatos punches Vegeta in the face with a right uppercut. He finishes his onslaught with by grasping his fists together, and with all of his force, Cinnatos slams his fists into the top of Vegeta's back. The force from the blow sends Vegeta crashing into the ground and throwing up enough dirt to create a sandstorm.

As the sand falls to the ground, thunder strikes the ground, and rain begins to pour from the clouds. Each rain drop mixes with the dust cloud and creates what appears to be a brown rain. The rain begins to clear the skies and the crowd gasps as they see Vegeta plainly on his hands and knees trying to catch his breath. Blood is dripping from the Saiyan lord's swollen lip, and a mixture of sweat and rain pour from his brow. Cinnatos stand above his Lord saying, "Thank you my lord for such a marvelous battle, but your rule ends today." Cinnatos brings his hand down slamming it into Vegeta's back.

Just before Cinnatos's hand crashes into Vegeta's back, Vegeta bends his arms and raises his hips as he thrusts his feet into Cinnatos's chest in a powerful donkey kick. The kick sends Cinnatos flipping into the sky. Vegeta stands to his feet and wipes the blood from his mouth. He then spits into the sand.

Cinnatos stops his upward momentum and accelerates hard toward the ground. However, as Cinnatos approaches, Vegeta looks up to Cinnatos with a glare so sinister that it stops Cinnatos in his tracks. Cinnatos knows this look. This is the face of displeasure. Rarely does this glare ever appear on Vegeta's face, but whenever it did, whoever had offended Vegeta was no more.

Cinnatos shakes his head and says, "I will not fear you, Vegeta. I will be the next lord of the Saiyans. AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!" Cinnatos explodes in energy and rockets toward the ground. Vegeta's energy explodes from his body and he leaps into the air, with rain drops splashing against his face.

The two meet mid-air and their fists crash together with such force that it causes a shockwave to travel through the air. Rain drops form into a perfect sphere surrounding the shockwave with Cinnatos and Vegeta as the center. Moments later, the shockwave dissipates and gravity takes over causing the rain water to fall all at one time dumping water over the entire arena as if a humongous pool had been flipped.

Inside the sphere of water, Vegeta's punch hits Cinnatos's right fist with enough force to cause the bones in Cinnatos's hand shatter. However, even with the shattered bones in his hand, Cinnatos continues to fight.

With his none broken hand, Cinnatos throws a left hook. Vegeta easily dodges the blow and counters with a knee to Cinnatos's ribs. Cinnatos curls over in pain as Vegeta repeatedly throws uppercut after uppercut, each connecting to Cinnatos's face. Vegeta ends his combo with a viscious elbow to the back of Cinnatos's neck that sends him slamming into the ground.

Breathing heavily, Vegeta lands next to Cinnatos and begins building energy in his left palm. Suddenly a bright blue orb begins forming. The crowd gasps as the energy builds. Each one knows what discharging that much energy into a downed opponent will kill him. However, just before he discharges the energy, Vegeta snaps back into his senses. He looks to the ground, and sees Cinnatos laying there. Vegeta quickly closes his fist dissipating the energy within his palm, and takes a knee next to Cinnatos. He places his hand on Cinnatos's back and says, "Get up young man. This match is over. I will not ask for forgiveness for beating you like this, but you have proven yourself worthy. You shall be Lord Vegeta at the next tournament."

Cinnatos rolls over exhausted and bruised. He smiles up at Vegeta and says, "I pushed your limits didn't I Lord Vegeta. I didn't think that I'd have to push so hard, but I finally got to show you my full power and full potential."

Vegeta lifts Cinnatos from the ground and wraps Cinnatos's arm around his shoulder as he says, "I thought that by raising my fighting power to more than five times greater than my original power, I'd be strong enough to just brush you aside. However, you've pushed yourself and multiplied your power by almost ten times. I am so impressed. You will make a fine Lord of the Saiyans."

Just at that moment, the voice of the announcer comes over the arena, "Ladies and gentlemen. Just as we'd thought, the battle to determine the Lord of the Saiyans has pushed our Lord and his guardian to a level so much higher than any of us could ever imagine, and look at our lord. After being pushed to his limits, our lord helps his opponent from the ring as a fighter with true class. Let's hear it for our lord Vegeta, as powerful as the planet itself, but also more gracious and merciful than any other."

Hearing the announcer say this through the arena wall, Borokla turns to Shineta saying, "I can't believe this Vegeta walks from the ring hand in hand with his opponent and is praised for being merciful and gracious. We literally carry our opponent from the ring after thoroughly defeating them, yet we are seen as the help."

Shineta considers Borokla's statement and says, "I see the hypocrisy in this, Borokla. However, how does one consider the works of someone whom they consider beneath them? They do it by criticizing and ridiculing. Until one of us proves that we are better than their torment or their criticism, we will be considered their underling. All of our actions will be mocked, except for our prowess in battle. Once the tournament is over, we won't have to worry about that anymore."

Borokla smiles and says, "That's right because I will be the Lord of the Saiyans."

Shineta smiles and begins to walk toward the arena wall.

The announcer's voice again bursts from the arena saying, "After seeing this type of battle in the Semi-finals, I have no idea if the finals will ever be able to compare, but we shall see. Before that however, we begin our next semi-final match. Coming to the arena, the warrior who dominated our great general Tunipe, ladies and gentlemen I present to you, SHINETA! His opponent, the warrior who not only defeated, but also cleaned up Paprik's mess, from the lower ring, BOROKLA!"

Shineta smiles as he walks from the arena wall. However, as he walks, his demeanor shifts from his crowd pleasing charming self, to his battle hardened menacing self. With each step Shineta's power rises in hopes of intimidating Borokla into submission before the battle begins.

From the other end of the arena Borokla steps from the arena wall. His farming clothes strikes a firm contrast to the barbarian style clothes adorning Shineta. Borokla's demeanor never wavers; always stoic and menacing in appearance. Approaching Shineta, opposite of him, Borokla takes a quick glance at the announcer's booth, and lifts his hand toward it, firing a small charged sphere of energy.

As the sphere approaches his booth, the announcer notices it, and leaps from his perch. The sphere hits the booth it explodes in a radiant display of energy. The announcer moves just fast enough not to be caught in the explosion. With his voice still amplified he screams as he hits the ground, "Stupid farmer, when his battle is over I'm going to kill him."

After hearing the announcer, Borokla's demeanor finally changes. A sinister smile dawns over his face and he finally stops walking. Shineta arrives at the center of the arena, and smirks at Borokla, as he notices the destruction of the announcer's booth. Borokla finally arrives in the center of the arena and Shineta politely bows to his opponent saying, "I hope you're ready. I want to show you what I've been doing in the time you were resting and recovering."

Borokla says, "In the time that I was resting, I was actually training my mind. Pain is nothing but an imagining in your mind. I allowed you to think that I was injured so that when we fought, which I knew was inevitable you'd be exactly where you are now, overconfident."

After his statement, Shineta bows and placing his left fist into the opened palm of his right hand. Then he steps back and begins squats into a battle posture. Borokla takes a similar posture, and begins to increase his power.

As both their powers begin to skyrocket, the very sands of the arena floor begin rising. The higher the two warriors power rise the higher the sand rises, and almost as if responding to both warrior's will to defeat the other, the very bedrock holding together the arena floor begins to crack and rumble like a 9.4 magnitude earthquake.

The intensity of the glares between both warriors is so great that the people in the stands begin standing to their feet in anticipation of the next moment. When that moment arrives, both warriors power explodes in such a brilliant light that all the people in the entire arena have to shade their eyes, missing the opening salvo of attacks.

However, as the bright light fades and crowd begins to regain their sight, they see an uncanny spectacle. Shineta attacks Borokla with such precision that it seems as if the match will be over in an instant. He begins with a straight right jab, which Borokla easily parries moving his head slightly to the right. Shineta immediately follows his jab with an overhand left hook that Borokla ducks. Using his low posture to his advantage, Borokla launches an uppercut with his right hand. However, as Borokla's fist approaches Shineta leans back and twists his body so that he is pivoting on his left foot. As Shineta completely rotates around he extends his left arm and connects with a back hand punch to Borokla's ribs sending him stumbling back.

As Shineta's body completes its revolution, he lands in a perfect battle stance, and sees Borokla charge forward. Borokla launches a leaping roundhouse kick Shineta catches Borokla's leg and twists at the hip throwing Borokla downward into the ground. As Borokla hits the ground Shineta stomps his foot down onto Borokla's chest. However, just as Shineta's foot connects, Borokla vanishes. A moment later he reappears next to Shineta with his waist even with Shineta's face. Borokla then knees Shineta directly in the nose, drawing first blood in the battle.

Shineta slams into the ground, back first, from the force of Borokla's knee. Shineta takes a deep breath and slowly opens his eyes. He notices Borokla not advancing his attack. Shineta laughs as he says, "Ah, so you've noticed?"

Borokla smiles as he stands only two feet away from Shineta saying, "The beginning of this battle is almost exactly the same as our last training session. What happened there was as soon as you hit the ground I attacked. You parried and finished me with a tremendous blow to the back of the neck. I learn too."

The announcer's voice suddenly erupts over the arena. "Can we please speed this up? Yes you have shown impressive technical ability, but your battle is slower than a snail's pace." The crowd bursts into laughter.

Shineta turns to where he sees the announcer and turns back to Borokla saying, "Well let's just entertain them. Remember the continuous burn training we completed?"

Borokla smiles and takes a battle stance. He smiles at Shineta, and in an instant, both warriors disappear. They both reappear allowing the arena mob to see their bodies as they radiate energy.

Raging blue flames erupt from Borokla's body as a torrent of red flames erupts from Shineta. Shineta lashes out with a whirling roundhouse kick, which Borokla ducks beneath and launches a full body-extending uppercut. Shineta completes the rotation of the roundhouse, and instantly leaps into a backward somersault although his feet never touch the ground. As Shineta completes three full rotations of his somersault, and floats upright, Borokla leaps forward pushing off the air with incredible speed.

Borokla throws an overhead right hook that seems to connect with Shineta, but as Borokla's punch glances across Shineta's face, Shineta twists with Borokla's punch and extends his arm, striking Borokla across the back with the back of his fist.

Shineta's blow sends Borokla hurtling toward the arena wall, but just before he makes contact with the wall, Borokla vanishes and instantly appears above Shineta's head where he thrusts his body downward, slamming both his feet down into Shineta. However, just before Borokla's attack connects, Shineta crosses his arms above his head, allowing the brunt of Borokla's attack to land on his crossed forearms. Even though the attack is ineffective, the force of the blow is great enough to kick up a dust cloud large enough to cover the arena floor.

In the dust cloud Shineta and Borokla let their powers explode causing their auras to burn even brighter. Through the thick dust, Shineta and Borokla's auras burn brightly enough to be visible through the dust. A red flaming aura bounces continually off the blue flaming aura, and vice-versa. For nearly two minutes, the speed of the flaming auras is blinding. They ricochet off each other first red then blue. Then spectacle of the two powerful warriors battling in the dust cloud has the arena in utter disarray. Never before had two warriors fought in the complete darkness of a dust cloud for such an extended period. Their raging auras tell their locations and the speed with which they move is not only impressive, but also mesmerizing. Their speed is so mesmerizing that once the dust cloud forms not a single Saiyan seated in the arena says a word.

Noticing the silence, Borokla says in the dust, "I've had enough." Then with an extreme burst of power, his blue aura nearly doubles in size, and he charges at Shineta.

Shineta notices Borokla's increase in power output and increases his to an equal level. However, just before the two meet, Borokla's aura grows even more and the two warrior's auras collide in the dust. Borokla's fist connects with Shineta's chin as their auras merge into a raging purple flame. The sheer force of Borokla's blow, generates enough energy to form shockwave that instantaneously expels the dust cloud from the arena.

Without the dust cloud, the arena crowd clearly sees Borokla's combo. After connecting with the overhand right hook, he continues his swing causing him to spin. He uses the rotation from the spin to throw an elbow toward Shineta. The elbow connects with Shineta's jaw sending him staggering back. Borokla then vanishes and reappears to Shineta's left, where he executes a spinning jump kick that connects with Shineta's chest sending him flying.

Borokla again vanishes and appears in Shineta's trajectory. He then launches a flying knee that connects with Shineta's lower back. As Shineta crashes into Borokla's knee, he shrieks in pain, and Borokla leaps into the sky and slams his feet into Shineta's chest until they crash into the ground. Shineta coughs blood as he lays motionless on the ground.

With Shineta out of commission, Borokla leaps off of Shineta's chest and begins walking toward Shineta's still body. Borokla says, "You should have understood master, that I didn't even use a third of my true power as we trained. What you just saw was ninety percent of my true power, and I've already put you down." He arrives at Shineta's side and puts his foot on Shineta's chest. Lifting his hands into the air, he shouts in victory to the arena, "Ask yourself now. Who had the greatest battle? Our Lord" he said sarcastically, "Or your future lord?"

The crowd erupts in boos and jeers, as Borokla takes his foot off Shineta's chest. However, as he lifts his foot, Shineta opens his eyes and grabs Borokla's ankle. Startled by Shineta's actions, Borokla loses his balance and falls to the ground. As Borokla hits the ground, Shineta shifts his weight and rises into the sky, holding Borokla by the ankle.

Borokla feels himself rising higher and higher and begins building energy in his right palm. As more and more energy builds, the blast forming in Borokla's hand begins to pulsate. With an incredible release, a decimating torrent of energy rages from his hand completely engulfing Shineta.

Borokla feels himself be released by Shineta, but notices that he isn't falling, instead he is rising with incredible velocity. Shineta hadn't dropped him, Shineta threw him to an incredible height. As Borokla's torrent of energy dissipated, the crowd can plainly see Shineta smile. In a red blaze, Shineta bursts vertically into the sky until he reaches Borokla's body. Shineta quickly extends his leg and brings it down onto Borokla's shoulder. The force of the blow dislocates Borokla's shoulder and sends him tumbling toward the ground.

As Borokla descends, he feels Shineta's arms reach around his waist. In a sudden boost, Shineta causes Borokla to further accelerate toward the ground. Around five meters from the ground, Shineta releases him and Borokla. Borokla's speed causes him to bounce off of the ground with earthshaking intensity.

As his body rises, from his bounce, Shineta appears next to Borokla. He then punches Borokla with a force powerful enough to generate a shockwave that cracks the very stone of arena seats. From Shineta's punch Borokla's body rockets into the arena wall. The shockwave from Shineta's punch cracked the arena seats, but Borokla's body slams into the arena walls causing the walls and the stands to implode into itself.

However, before the rubble crumbles on top of Borokla's body, Shineta quickly pulls him back into the middle of the arena. He throws Borokla back to the center of the arena floor and commences a pummeling of epic proportions. With each punch the earth shakes, Left hook, right hook, left hook, right hook, left hook, right hook, left hook, right hook, left, right, and with one final blow, a left straight directly into Borokla's chest, the fight ends. Blood pours from the corner of Borokla's mouth, and Shineta stands to his feet panting, yet victorious.

Shineta looks to the ground and sees Borokla's cheeks and face purple and black. With Borokla's chest cavity a deep red, Shineta kneels next to Borokla's body and says, "HEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPP! HEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPP! I NEED HELP! PLEASE SOMEONE BRING HELP!."

As the battle ends, the announcer's voice comes over the entire arena saying, "BY MUSHARU! WHAT A WONDERFUL MATCH! Though the ending didn't come out as clean as we are used to, these two warriors have shown a truly beautiful fight. Looks like the farmer couldn't keep up." The arena bursts into laughter as the announcer concludes.

Holding Borokla near his chest, Shineta hears the announcers crude and insensitive remark, and stands to his feet holding Borokla with his arms beneath Borokla's knees and neck. Panic mutates into fury, while Shineta, still holding Borokla, turns his hands toward each other. Between his hands a glowing elliptical mass of energy begins to swell. He turns in the announcer's direction and shouts, "HOW DARE YOU!"

Shineta begins to release the mass of energy, but just before his energy rages, Vegeta appears next to him places his hand on Shineta's shoulder. Distracted, Shineta's energy blast dissipates, and he turns his head toward Vegeta. "What do you want?" Shineta says as rage pours from his very being.

Vegeta looks to Shineta with disgust saying, "Place the warrior on the ground. You shame him by holding him as a babe."

Shineta places Borokla on the ground and says, "There is no shame in showing compassion to a comrade."

"No there is not, but there is shame in making an opponent believe that he is stronger than he truly is. Just by witnessing the end of your match, I could tell that you were holding back significantly throughout the entirety of your match. There is no honor in defeating a weaker opponent without using the fullness of your strength."

Shineta says, "You must gauge your opponent to ensure that you do not destroy him."

Vegeta laughs and says, "I see, and how did that work out for you. You gauged his strength to be greater than it was, and now here we stand; your comrade dying, and you shrieking in distress in front of the entire race. How could they follow you, when they see that in your compassion will see you lower yourself beyond their level? This is a warrior race. Death is expected, and when it comes celebrated. Remove yourself from the arena. My people shall attend to him."

Shineta nods his head, turns, and walks away. Vegeta lifts Borokla's limp body and Cinnatos, Tunipe, and Paprik quickly rush into his path. Cinnatos falls to one knee and says, "My lord Vegeta, allow me to carry this fallen warrior. He fought boldly though his opponent did not do so."

Vegeta nods and hands Borokla over to Cinnatos. He turns back to Shineta as he walks from the arena, saying, "Warrior, if you try that with me… gauging my power. You will find yourself dead and broken on the arena floor, by my hand." He turns and walks next to Cinnatos as he carries Borokla from the arena.