There was silence for a moment. Then Mirai spoke through teeth clenched with rage. "No, you bastard. You won't get this universe. We'll stop you now."

The Hasha no Ankoku chuckled. "Stop me? Do you think you can stop this?"

He let out an almighty scream, and transformed into a Super Saiyan. Still screaming, he went to the second level. Then to the third. His golden hair reached the floor.

"Yes," said Goku. "Both Vegeta and myself are that powerful. Gohan and Gotenks are even stronger than that. We can stop you."

"Oh?"

And he screamed again.

***

Piccolo had just collected the senzu from Karin. Since things had been peaceful the last several years, there had been twenty of the magical healing beans. Now he was continuing to Capsule Corporation.

He was slightly worried. He'd felt that other Vegeta take himself to a level equal to that of Goku and the Vegeta he knew. But, then, Goku and Vegeta were that level. And of course there were Gohan and Gotenks. They should be able to stop him.

Then Piccolo suddenly stopped short in mid-air. His eyes grew wide.

He couldn't be sensing that...he couldn't! That was even greater than Gohan! Far, far greater! And there was something strange about it.

Steeling his resolve, Piccolo continued onwards.

***

Despite his misgivings, Tenshinhan flew on. The enormous power of that other Vegeta felt like an odd composite of many people, as if he was drawing it from several others. But how?

***

Juuhachigou streamed through the air, when she noticed that Kuririn was no longer following her.

Turning around, she noticed that her husband was simply hanging there, wearing an expression of horror and disbelief. She called out his name. He didn't respond.

"Listen," she said after a second, "I'm going ahead on. You follow whenever you get over whatever is giving you problems."

***

Everyone at Capsule Corporation who could sense ki did nothing but stare. All the Saiyans and half-Saiyans got headaches.

Except for Vegeta. He followed the lead of his counterpart and powered to the third level of Super Saiyan. Then he, too, used the special ability of the king and drew on the powers of all the other Saiyans. As he did so, his power grew and that of his counterpart fell until they were exactly equal.

"I see that you have become the King as well," said the Hasha no Ankoku, raising an eyebrow.

In response, Vegeta punched him in the face. The Hasha retaliated by doing the same. Then they rose out of the building, into the sky, and began exchanging a flurry of blows at speeds that the others could barely keep track of.

Using the natural resiliance of children to strange situations, Goten and Trunks were the first to recover. They watched for a few moments as the Vegeta they knew fought the other one, who was wearing full Saiyan battle armor with the royal crest on it.

"Trunks, are we gonna help your dad?"

"You bet!"

***

The two Kings were still fighting. Suddenly, they both felt their power drop quite a bit. Vegeta also felt a very familiar ki rise.

A moment later, a small blur slammed into the Hasha's chin. As the Supreme Ruler of Darkness fell back slightly, the small figure with long golden hair started landing blow after blow.

"Gotenks!"

"Don't worry! I've got him under control!" Gotenks confidently said in that strange dual voice of his.

"No you don't! Get the hell out of the way! You aren't powerful enough!"

Indeed, now that the Hasha had recovered from the initial surprise, he was blocking or dodging all of Gotenks's attacks quite easily.

*Damn those boys! They aren't strong enough to hurt him, and they're in my way! Well...at least I see that he--and I--can't draw power from fusions for some reason.*

"I have had enough of you, little brat!" yelled the Hasha no Ankoku. He punched him so strongly in the gut that the fusion was forced out of the Super Saiyan modes and into his normal black-and-purple haired self.

"Oh, damn!"

"Exactly!"