Chapter Two: Another Hero's goodbye



Goten landed next to Goku who was standing on a cliff overlooking a deep canyon. He stood next to him, still munching on a few marshmallows he had cooked with Trunks in the morning. He looked up to Goku, his head tilted to the side. "Dad.its true isn't it?" he asked, his eyes clouded, holding back tears.

"Yes son, he's gone," Goku said, still staring into the distance.

Goten floated into the air, his aura surrounded him and he flew off, leaving Goku alone.except for a vanishing vapor trail.

Trunks glanced up, something had triggered his senses. He stood, overlooking the area. "Maybe its Goten, he said he'd be right back in a moment." he said to himself.

"Oh Trunks." a low voice called. "You should have known better than to stay behind while your little pal flew off. Now you're a sitting duck," It said in a snarling confident voice. Trunks turned quickly and saw the figure, its orange and blue hair glimmering in the sun. He had bluish eyes and a large scar from his left ear to his chin.

"His power...its enormous!" Trunks thought to himself, and as he took a step back, a yellow aura surrounded him and his hair stuck straight up and turned golden. "Alright, if you're the one who killed Gohan, its time for you to get what's coming to you, you coward." Trunks snarled and he raised his arms to a fighting stance.

"I admire your determination boy, but its bed time for you." Schorpel said with a slight grin. He brought his hands together in front of him, and raised them over his head. "Red, Rebellion." he said, concentrating and a red energy surrounded his two hands. He brought his hands in front of him. "FIIREEEE!" The red ki blast flew towards Trunks, and a huge explosion commenced. Schorpel grinned, and turned around about to fly off, and to his surprise stood Goku, with Trunks in his arms, his hair waving back and forth in the wind. "So Goku, you decided to show after all" Schorpel hissed.

"You fiend, your going to pay for what you did to my son" Goku yelled, as he charged to super Saiyan.

"Oh Goku, you don't understand. I can take you out with ease my friend." The mysterious monster said, but just as he finished this all the fighters looked up, feeling someone's energy.

"There you are you damn back stabbing fucker!" Vegeta yelled, clearly all out of patience. "How dare you attack me while I'm training? You're going to pay dearly for that!" He landed hard on the ground, veins throbbing and fists clenched, already charged to Super Saiyan. He flew at the intruder at full speed and threw him a volley of power punches, each one dodged bye Schorpel, who kneed Vegeta in the stomach, and threw him aside. Vegeta wiped his chin and stood, but he couldn't see his opponent.

"Here I am veggie!" Vegeta heard the demon yell, and he turned to have his face grabbed and smashed into the ground. Schorpel turned his head just in time to see Goku charging toward him. He swung his leg and smashed Goku in the face, sending him crashing through a nearby cliff.

Meanwhile Trunks sat up, and noticed that Goten had arrived. They stood together watching Vegeta and Goku get rocked around by the stranger. They looked each other in the eye and nodded.

Back in the battle, Goku finally had Schorpel on the run. He smashed him into the ground, and rapidly fired Ki blasts at him. Vegeta flew over after recovering from his last beating and hovered in the air above Schorpel. An aura surrounded him and he screamed as his power surfaced. "FINAL FLASH!" he yelled, and a powerful blast smashed into the sinister Schorpel. "That got him" Vegeta said through his heavy breathing.

"What got who, Vegeta?" A voice said, from the clearing dust.

"What?!" Vegeta's jaw dropped, and when the ground was clear he could make out the outline of orange and blue, the hair of the enemy. "BLAST IT" He screamed, obviously low on power from his last assault.

"Now I'm mad Vegeta, you tore my shirt" Schorpel stated. He held up one hand towards Goku. "This is a private party, I'm sorry, but maybe you can watch from the ground" A flash of light escaped Schorpel's hand, and surrounded Goku, who was now trapped in a square of energy, which was firing its own blasts at the battle weary warrior. The ball fell to the ground, and resembled a cage.

"AAAAAGGHHH" Goku wailed, and Vegeta watched, shocked.

"That's it Schorpel, the only person to hurt Kakarot like that, IS ME!!" With that, Vegeta charged Schorpel at full speed. Schorpel though, didn't budge. When the vulgar Vegeta was in range to attack, Schorpel grabbed Vegeta's face, and threw him to the earth. As Vegeta wailed in pain, Schorpel smashed his foot against his back, cracking it. Goku watched from the 'cage' in horror, and pain, as the horrid Schorpel knelt by Vegeta, and rested his hand against Vegeta's face, firing an immense blast which blowed away the upper half of Vegeta. Then, with a second blast, the rest of Vegeta's body was incinerated. An echo from Vegeta's scream was the last thing left of him.