As Kasabaru returned to the ringside, the Budokai Announcer began to speak.

"OK! Let the next match begin!" he said. "Vegeta Briefs vs. Son Goten! Vegeta entered the last Budokai, but due to the odd circumstances was never able to fight in it! Goten, as you'll recall, put up a spectacular final round bout in the Junior Division last year. Not only was Trunks, the one who beat him, his best friend, he is also the son of Vegeta! This should be a very interesting match!"

The two of them walked into the ring. Vegeta displayed a slight hint of smugness, while Goten looked very nervous.

"BEGIN!"

Vegeta charged forward and threw a punch at Goten's head. The boy instantly recovered from his nervousness and blocked it with his arm, then aimed a kick at the older man's shin, which he was able to avoid by taking a small hop backwards.

***

"OK Goten, keep your head and make him mad and you might be able to win this," said Gohan as he and Videl watched the fight from their suite.

"Really?"

Gohan sighed. "Probably not, but you never know."

***

Vegeta, meanwhile, was starting to re-discover the difficulties in fighting a shorter opponent. A stranglehold was nearly impossible to pull off, and he was constantly having to bend over to reach him. This wasn't helped by the fact that he could hear Kakarot cheering his brat on.

Neither of them were using much strategy, choosing instead to merely exchange a flurry of punches and kicks. Each of them was bleeding slightly from several places.

Finally, Vegeta got in a blow strong enough to force Goten back several steps. The boy stood there for several seconds. He was obviously planning something...

The king of the Saiyans was still trying to figure out the plan was when suddenly Goten took off. He flew straight at Vegeta, slamming him in the head before he could get out of the way.

"Oh! A devastating head-butt on the part of Goten!" shouted out the Budokai Announcer.

He didn't even have time to wipe the blood from his nose before Goten attacked again. He unleashed a hail of punches onto Vegeta's midsection, then concluded with an uppercut to his chin that sent him flying half the distance of the ring.

Vegeta got to his feet, slowly. What the hell was going on here?

The old rage began to surface. He would NOT be beaten by a ten-year old!

He ran towards the young half-Saiyan. He drew back his right fist. Right as he got there, Goten moved out of the way of the punch.

Which was exactly what Vegeta had planned. The punch was just a feint. He snaked out his left arm and grabbed Goten by the hair. He smirked at the look of surprise on his face.

He raised him up, then slammed him down into the stone squares that made up the ring. He then proceeded to punch him in the stomach three times, hard.

"Well, brat? Any last words for the crowd before I knock you out?"

He began to speak.

"Ka...me...ha...me..."

Vegeta backflipped out of the way just as Goten unleashed the powerful beam. He stood up and began to try and track the older man with it.

The king of the Saiyans began to run around the outside of the ring at super-speeds. Goten's Kamehameha was just a foot behind him as the kid turned, following him. Gradually, he began to narrow down the spiral of his run, slowly and almost unnoticeably getting closer to Goten with each revolution, until finally he was able to loop straight to his back, grab him, and point downwards.

Before Goten could cut off the beam, the sheer force of it pushed them both up thirty feet into the air. The two warriors hovered there.

"Well well well. Looks like I have you in my element, boy."