7
No Holding Back – The Rescue
The rain began to lighten on the mountain range, and the only sound was the wind and the insane laughter of Vegita.
Piccolo glanced over what had remained of his cliff after the battle between father and son. He had regained some of his energy but he wasn't going to try anything now. His face was smashed in and he could barely make out what was going on. They were both at the bottom of the crater, Vegita was standing and Trunks wasn't. This is looking bad for everyone, Vegita has gone a lot further then I suspected his power would go. Even Trunks couldn't stand against his new power; this is insane the more the Evil in him grows the stronger he becomes, thought Piccolo.
Piccolo, then felt something at the back of his mind. Several large powers were approaching the battle. Good the cavalry is here, thought Piccolo.
Trunks lay there at the bottom of the crater, his gi shredded, his body racked with searing hot pain. He had been beaten down, very badly and now he was at the mercy of the man that he had once called father.
Vegita stood over his victim with a wicked smile on his face. "I'll admit that I had trained you better then I had originally thought. You are one tough fighter," said Vegita. "Unfortunately the time has come for me too finish the job."
Vegita picked up Trunks by the hair, the blood dripping off of Trunks' hair and running down his face. His eyes were barely open, and Vegita could see that the boy was hurting. Vegita pulled his other hand back and formed a ki blast. The blue energy was glowed brightly as Vegita put it to Trunks' forehead.
"Now my deviant son, I will end your existence," said Vegita. He pulled the hand back again and prepared to throw it in Trunks' face.
"Da…..addy," said Trunks.
Vegita stopped right in that stance. He was frozen in thought of what to do. Suddenly the energy in his hand disappeared and he stood there, his eyes focused on his son; Trunks' blood was running down his face, his tears were welling, as he was frightened to death.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME," said Vegita? "I have killed hundreds of people in the past, why can't I kill him as easily." He then threw trunks across the crater. Trunks smashed into the crater wall, causing rocks and dust to fly in all directions.
"God Damn, this humanity, I thought I had gotten rid of it already," said Vegita. "Damn these emotions, they are getting in my way. They're making me weak." Vegita put his hands to the side of his head, and clenched his eyes. "YOU ARE A SAIYAN PRINCE VEGITA, YOU HAVE NO TIME FOR LOVE, AND PITY," he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Hey, Vegita," said a voice from behind Vegita. Vegita turned around to see who was there.
"What the," gasped Vegita, as an orange blur appeared in front of him. The blur moved with lightening quick reflexes and sent a spinning sidekick to Vegita's head.
"Fucking, cheap shot," screamed Vegita, as he went sailing towards the crater wall. He quickly put his arms out and pushed off the rock, he then back flipped up the wall and pushed off and shot back at the blur. "Now its your turn to hurt, Gohan" he screamed.
Gohan landed for a second and then took off at Vegita. They collide with explosive impact, with both exchanging a barrage of punches and kicks. The battle was fierce, with not one person landing a single blow. The energy of the punches was crumbling the surrounding mountains.
Piccolo tried to get up, but his body still did not have the energy to stand. He just sat against the rocks and looked out towards the battle. Gohan is amazing, he is matching Vegita move for move. They are like equals, and at the rate they are going they will not be landing any blows any time soon.
Piccolo heard the sound of someone landing behind him, then another person. He turned around to see the approaching figures.
"You look like hell, Piccolo," said the friendly voice of Goku and behind him was his youngest son Goten.
"Hehehehe, I've had a bad night," said Piccolo.
"Here take this," said Goku who reached into his belt and pulled out a senzu bean. "You look like you need a boost."
Piccolo took the bean and quickly chewed it up and swallowed it. He felt the overwhelming warmth pass through his body, as his injuries were instantly healed and his energy was restored. "Much better," said Piccolo. He then gritted his teeth and his body started to shake.
"Dad, what is Mr. Piccolo doing," said Goten.
"Watch," replied Goku. With that said a new leg shot where his old one had been cut off. Piccolo quickly got to his feet and turned to Goku. He was looking out over the battle that was going on down there.
Through the haziness of the rain Goku could make out see that fighters were bouncing off the walls and bouncing back at each other. Vegita was in his golden Super Saiyan aura and Gohan was in his blue aura of his Mystic form.
"Wow, they are really going at it," said Goten, who came up beside him. "Why are they fighting dad, I thought Vegita was on our side."
Before Goku could answer him, Gohan landed a punch on Vegita's face; this sent him spiraling back into the crater wall. Vegita quickly blew away all the rubble and fired a huge ki blast at Gohan. Gohan crossed his arms in front of his face and blocked the beam. The beam pushed Gohan back against the wall, Gohan could not deflect the beam no matter how hard he tried, and Vegita just kept pushing up the intensity.
Goku looked at Goten, and pulled a senzu bean out of his belt. "Goten," said Goku, Goten turned his face towards his father.
"Yes dad," he replied.
"Take my last senzu bean down to Trunks," said Goku, he pointed at the collapsed part of the crater. "He's under that pile of rocks, go around the fight to avoid losing the bean, but hurry he is dying under there."
Goten nodded to his dad, grabbed the bean, and took off on foot around the edge of the mile long grater towards Trunks.
"What are you going to do," asked Piccolo? As he said that Gohan deflected the beam into space but Vegita had taken the second of hesitation and zanzoukened right in front of Gohan and punched him in the mid section, Gohan was stunned for the moment and Vegita began to pound him with a fury of fists.
"I am going to end this once and for all," said a really pissed off Goku. "If Vegita has gone back to his evil ways, then it is up to me to stop him right here right now."
"Goku, you don't know what Vegita is like, he's different," said Piccolo. "He has gotten a lot stronger then he was when you battled him at the tournament. His evil side has awakened in him, it has given him a power increase and it has also made him a lot more aggressive and vicious. If you go out there to fight him right now then you will have to go all out, there is no half way in this fight it's do or die."
Gohan had managed to make a comeback from Vegita's relentless assault. He caught him with a quick right hand and then followed him with a spinning front kick to his mid section. This sent Vegita back across the crater, holding his chest.
"You are right Piccolo," said Goku, as he turned Super Saiyan. "There is no holding back in this fight. I am going to settle this with Vegita once and for all, even if I have to kill him. You might want to stand back for what I am about to do."
In the pit, both warriors stood facing each other. Gohan had really taken a pounding.
"Damn it," said Gohan. "I really have to maintain my fighting skill. Vegita is a lot tougher then the last time I fought him."
Vegita let out a loud laugh at Gohan. "Your throwing in the towel all ready, you little brat," said Vegita. "I thought you were all tough with that Mystic power of yours. You are pathetic. If Kakarotto was here right now he would be ashamed of what he would see."
"Vegita, I am not here to fight you to the death, I just came to save Trunks from you," said Gohan. " I am only fighting you at an equal level I can go much higher then this."
"I know," said Vegita. "I have not been fighting you all out either. If I had you would be fucking lying over there next to my son and that Namek. I am far superior to you, I only gave you a chance so I could show you that your measley Mystic powers were nothing compared to the awesomeness of a Pure Super Saiyan." With that said Vegita fired a huge ki beam at Gohan.
Gohan countered with his own beam, "KA-MEH-HA-MEH----HA," screamed Gohan as he unleashed his monster of a beam. The two ki blasts collided in a test of strength, pushing against each other to see who had the strongest beam.
The earth beneath them cracked under the stress of the energies firing. The crater had avalanches all around it. The two aura's of the fighters shot into the air as they increased their energy levels in order to overcome the other.
"Hahahaha," screamed Vegita, over the roar of the beams. "If that's all you got, then take this. FINAL FLASH." Vegita quickly adjusted his hands and his beam's intensity doubled in size and strength.
It pushed against Gohan's beam with ease and no matter what he did he couldn't slow it down. His energy level was plummeting. How the Hell can Vegita keep this up, my energy is draining, he must really have a larger energy store then I do, thought Gohan.
The Final Flash pushed Gohan's beam almost back to Gohan. Gohan pushed hard, he screamed, he unleashed all his hidden energy, and ultimately it was futile. Then another beam shot out of the sky and connected with the two beams at the point of the struggle.
The explosion that erupted sent Gohan flying into the wall of the crater, he was stunned and down for the moment. Vegita had been blown back a few feet, but he was still standing strong. He looked towards where the beam had come from.
There stood Goku, with a fierce look in his face, his aura was flaring up. Vegita had been so caught up in the battle with Gohan he had not realized the arrival of Goku and his other son Goten.
Goku peered down at Vegita with a cold stare; beside his was the fully healed Piccolo. They both leapt into the air and landed in front of where Gohan landed in the crater wall. Goku nodded to Piccolo, who began to dig for Gohan under the rock pile. It took him only a few seconds to pull a badly battered Gohan out of the rubble.
"Take him to Dende, get him healed up," said Goku. "I will deal with Vegita myself."
"Right, got it," said Piccolo. He picked up Gohan, threw him over his shoulder and shot skyward. They were out of sight in a second leaving the two remaining fighters.
"So you have come to stop me," said Vegita. "You gonna tell me why I should come home, and why I love my family."
"No," said Goku, his face was very cold.
"So you came here to fight me, and fight as equals just like at the tournament," said Vegita.
"No," said Goku, without looking away from Vegita.
The two Super Saiyan auras were flaring against the still falling rain. The two warriors stood only feet apart staring each other down.
"So, then what are you going to do," snickered Vegita?
Goku just gave a small smile. "This."
Goku brought his arms over his head and crossed them. He quickly spread them wide and brought them below his shoulders, and with this movement he let out an ear-piercing scream. The shockwave hit Vegita like a wall; it sent him flying back about ten feet, before he could stand his ground.
A brilliant flash of white light emitted from Goku's aura, and Vegita had to look away from the light so to not be blinded by it. The ground beneath began to shake violently, and crack apart spewing lava from the earth.
Vegita took to the air to avoid the lava. As he floated there all he could hear was the screaming from with in the light. The clouds began to funnel above Goku's aura, and never ending bolts of lightening shot down through this funnel into the aura. Vegita felt the power level of Goku go shooting up, way above his own.
The light began to retract into the aura, and Vegita looked towards the light. The light expanded like a shock wave in all directions. Vegita covered his face again, as the wave of energy hit him. After the light wave passed Vegita pulled his hands from his eyes and looked at Goku.
His jaw dropped at the sight before him.
There was Goku, standing there like a statue, in his Super Saiyan Level 3 form
No Holding Back – The Rescue
The rain began to lighten on the mountain range, and the only sound was the wind and the insane laughter of Vegita.
Piccolo glanced over what had remained of his cliff after the battle between father and son. He had regained some of his energy but he wasn't going to try anything now. His face was smashed in and he could barely make out what was going on. They were both at the bottom of the crater, Vegita was standing and Trunks wasn't. This is looking bad for everyone, Vegita has gone a lot further then I suspected his power would go. Even Trunks couldn't stand against his new power; this is insane the more the Evil in him grows the stronger he becomes, thought Piccolo.
Piccolo, then felt something at the back of his mind. Several large powers were approaching the battle. Good the cavalry is here, thought Piccolo.
Trunks lay there at the bottom of the crater, his gi shredded, his body racked with searing hot pain. He had been beaten down, very badly and now he was at the mercy of the man that he had once called father.
Vegita stood over his victim with a wicked smile on his face. "I'll admit that I had trained you better then I had originally thought. You are one tough fighter," said Vegita. "Unfortunately the time has come for me too finish the job."
Vegita picked up Trunks by the hair, the blood dripping off of Trunks' hair and running down his face. His eyes were barely open, and Vegita could see that the boy was hurting. Vegita pulled his other hand back and formed a ki blast. The blue energy was glowed brightly as Vegita put it to Trunks' forehead.
"Now my deviant son, I will end your existence," said Vegita. He pulled the hand back again and prepared to throw it in Trunks' face.
"Da…..addy," said Trunks.
Vegita stopped right in that stance. He was frozen in thought of what to do. Suddenly the energy in his hand disappeared and he stood there, his eyes focused on his son; Trunks' blood was running down his face, his tears were welling, as he was frightened to death.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME," said Vegita? "I have killed hundreds of people in the past, why can't I kill him as easily." He then threw trunks across the crater. Trunks smashed into the crater wall, causing rocks and dust to fly in all directions.
"God Damn, this humanity, I thought I had gotten rid of it already," said Vegita. "Damn these emotions, they are getting in my way. They're making me weak." Vegita put his hands to the side of his head, and clenched his eyes. "YOU ARE A SAIYAN PRINCE VEGITA, YOU HAVE NO TIME FOR LOVE, AND PITY," he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Hey, Vegita," said a voice from behind Vegita. Vegita turned around to see who was there.
"What the," gasped Vegita, as an orange blur appeared in front of him. The blur moved with lightening quick reflexes and sent a spinning sidekick to Vegita's head.
"Fucking, cheap shot," screamed Vegita, as he went sailing towards the crater wall. He quickly put his arms out and pushed off the rock, he then back flipped up the wall and pushed off and shot back at the blur. "Now its your turn to hurt, Gohan" he screamed.
Gohan landed for a second and then took off at Vegita. They collide with explosive impact, with both exchanging a barrage of punches and kicks. The battle was fierce, with not one person landing a single blow. The energy of the punches was crumbling the surrounding mountains.
Piccolo tried to get up, but his body still did not have the energy to stand. He just sat against the rocks and looked out towards the battle. Gohan is amazing, he is matching Vegita move for move. They are like equals, and at the rate they are going they will not be landing any blows any time soon.
Piccolo heard the sound of someone landing behind him, then another person. He turned around to see the approaching figures.
"You look like hell, Piccolo," said the friendly voice of Goku and behind him was his youngest son Goten.
"Hehehehe, I've had a bad night," said Piccolo.
"Here take this," said Goku who reached into his belt and pulled out a senzu bean. "You look like you need a boost."
Piccolo took the bean and quickly chewed it up and swallowed it. He felt the overwhelming warmth pass through his body, as his injuries were instantly healed and his energy was restored. "Much better," said Piccolo. He then gritted his teeth and his body started to shake.
"Dad, what is Mr. Piccolo doing," said Goten.
"Watch," replied Goku. With that said a new leg shot where his old one had been cut off. Piccolo quickly got to his feet and turned to Goku. He was looking out over the battle that was going on down there.
Through the haziness of the rain Goku could make out see that fighters were bouncing off the walls and bouncing back at each other. Vegita was in his golden Super Saiyan aura and Gohan was in his blue aura of his Mystic form.
"Wow, they are really going at it," said Goten, who came up beside him. "Why are they fighting dad, I thought Vegita was on our side."
Before Goku could answer him, Gohan landed a punch on Vegita's face; this sent him spiraling back into the crater wall. Vegita quickly blew away all the rubble and fired a huge ki blast at Gohan. Gohan crossed his arms in front of his face and blocked the beam. The beam pushed Gohan back against the wall, Gohan could not deflect the beam no matter how hard he tried, and Vegita just kept pushing up the intensity.
Goku looked at Goten, and pulled a senzu bean out of his belt. "Goten," said Goku, Goten turned his face towards his father.
"Yes dad," he replied.
"Take my last senzu bean down to Trunks," said Goku, he pointed at the collapsed part of the crater. "He's under that pile of rocks, go around the fight to avoid losing the bean, but hurry he is dying under there."
Goten nodded to his dad, grabbed the bean, and took off on foot around the edge of the mile long grater towards Trunks.
"What are you going to do," asked Piccolo? As he said that Gohan deflected the beam into space but Vegita had taken the second of hesitation and zanzoukened right in front of Gohan and punched him in the mid section, Gohan was stunned for the moment and Vegita began to pound him with a fury of fists.
"I am going to end this once and for all," said a really pissed off Goku. "If Vegita has gone back to his evil ways, then it is up to me to stop him right here right now."
"Goku, you don't know what Vegita is like, he's different," said Piccolo. "He has gotten a lot stronger then he was when you battled him at the tournament. His evil side has awakened in him, it has given him a power increase and it has also made him a lot more aggressive and vicious. If you go out there to fight him right now then you will have to go all out, there is no half way in this fight it's do or die."
Gohan had managed to make a comeback from Vegita's relentless assault. He caught him with a quick right hand and then followed him with a spinning front kick to his mid section. This sent Vegita back across the crater, holding his chest.
"You are right Piccolo," said Goku, as he turned Super Saiyan. "There is no holding back in this fight. I am going to settle this with Vegita once and for all, even if I have to kill him. You might want to stand back for what I am about to do."
In the pit, both warriors stood facing each other. Gohan had really taken a pounding.
"Damn it," said Gohan. "I really have to maintain my fighting skill. Vegita is a lot tougher then the last time I fought him."
Vegita let out a loud laugh at Gohan. "Your throwing in the towel all ready, you little brat," said Vegita. "I thought you were all tough with that Mystic power of yours. You are pathetic. If Kakarotto was here right now he would be ashamed of what he would see."
"Vegita, I am not here to fight you to the death, I just came to save Trunks from you," said Gohan. " I am only fighting you at an equal level I can go much higher then this."
"I know," said Vegita. "I have not been fighting you all out either. If I had you would be fucking lying over there next to my son and that Namek. I am far superior to you, I only gave you a chance so I could show you that your measley Mystic powers were nothing compared to the awesomeness of a Pure Super Saiyan." With that said Vegita fired a huge ki beam at Gohan.
Gohan countered with his own beam, "KA-MEH-HA-MEH----HA," screamed Gohan as he unleashed his monster of a beam. The two ki blasts collided in a test of strength, pushing against each other to see who had the strongest beam.
The earth beneath them cracked under the stress of the energies firing. The crater had avalanches all around it. The two aura's of the fighters shot into the air as they increased their energy levels in order to overcome the other.
"Hahahaha," screamed Vegita, over the roar of the beams. "If that's all you got, then take this. FINAL FLASH." Vegita quickly adjusted his hands and his beam's intensity doubled in size and strength.
It pushed against Gohan's beam with ease and no matter what he did he couldn't slow it down. His energy level was plummeting. How the Hell can Vegita keep this up, my energy is draining, he must really have a larger energy store then I do, thought Gohan.
The Final Flash pushed Gohan's beam almost back to Gohan. Gohan pushed hard, he screamed, he unleashed all his hidden energy, and ultimately it was futile. Then another beam shot out of the sky and connected with the two beams at the point of the struggle.
The explosion that erupted sent Gohan flying into the wall of the crater, he was stunned and down for the moment. Vegita had been blown back a few feet, but he was still standing strong. He looked towards where the beam had come from.
There stood Goku, with a fierce look in his face, his aura was flaring up. Vegita had been so caught up in the battle with Gohan he had not realized the arrival of Goku and his other son Goten.
Goku peered down at Vegita with a cold stare; beside his was the fully healed Piccolo. They both leapt into the air and landed in front of where Gohan landed in the crater wall. Goku nodded to Piccolo, who began to dig for Gohan under the rock pile. It took him only a few seconds to pull a badly battered Gohan out of the rubble.
"Take him to Dende, get him healed up," said Goku. "I will deal with Vegita myself."
"Right, got it," said Piccolo. He picked up Gohan, threw him over his shoulder and shot skyward. They were out of sight in a second leaving the two remaining fighters.
"So you have come to stop me," said Vegita. "You gonna tell me why I should come home, and why I love my family."
"No," said Goku, his face was very cold.
"So you came here to fight me, and fight as equals just like at the tournament," said Vegita.
"No," said Goku, without looking away from Vegita.
The two Super Saiyan auras were flaring against the still falling rain. The two warriors stood only feet apart staring each other down.
"So, then what are you going to do," snickered Vegita?
Goku just gave a small smile. "This."
Goku brought his arms over his head and crossed them. He quickly spread them wide and brought them below his shoulders, and with this movement he let out an ear-piercing scream. The shockwave hit Vegita like a wall; it sent him flying back about ten feet, before he could stand his ground.
A brilliant flash of white light emitted from Goku's aura, and Vegita had to look away from the light so to not be blinded by it. The ground beneath began to shake violently, and crack apart spewing lava from the earth.
Vegita took to the air to avoid the lava. As he floated there all he could hear was the screaming from with in the light. The clouds began to funnel above Goku's aura, and never ending bolts of lightening shot down through this funnel into the aura. Vegita felt the power level of Goku go shooting up, way above his own.
The light began to retract into the aura, and Vegita looked towards the light. The light expanded like a shock wave in all directions. Vegita covered his face again, as the wave of energy hit him. After the light wave passed Vegita pulled his hands from his eyes and looked at Goku.
His jaw dropped at the sight before him.
There was Goku, standing there like a statue, in his Super Saiyan Level 3 form