9
A New King is Born
The drops of rain continued to pound the ground surrounding the crater, but these drops could not penetrate the golden light that was enclosed inside of it. The ground began to shake as the dome of light began to grow bigger and brighter.
At the center of this light, stood two of the strongest warriors on the face of the earth. Their constant stare unbroken by the howling wind, or the shaking ground; they just stood there enveloped in their golden auras.
Vegita finally broke the silence.
"Well, well, I have finally found an opponent that is really worth fighting," said Vegita.
"Let's just get this over with," said Goku.
"Fine, but you know that this is a continuation of our fight from the tournament. I am going to kill you this time," said Vegita.
"We'll see," said Goku, and as he said that he shot off at Vegita, like a blazing light. He almost reached Vegita when he zanzoukened beside him and punched him right in the side of the head.
This punch sent Vegita sailing into the wall of the crater and pushed him a mile across the underground before he stopped. Goku stood where he was waiting for his opponent.
The ground then began to shake, and pillars of light began to shoot up into the sky, as Vegita let out an ear-piercing scream. He shot out of the rocks and into the air. He shot forward at Goku with blinding fast speed.
"I will not go down that easily Kakarotto," screamed Vegita, as he plummeted towards his opponent.
As Vegita was about to slam into Goku; Goku sidestepped him and gave a rising knee strike to Vegita's chest plate, causing him to stop in mid air and his armor to crack under the blow. Goku then shot up above Vegita and delivered a roundhouse kick to Vegita's back, sending him crashing into the ground below him.
The crater caved in deeper into the earth and Vegita was lying at the bottom.
Goku quickly zanzoukened to Vegita, grabbed him by the leg and sent him flying through the air. Vegita sailed through the top edge of the crater and into the open sky.
Goku then appeared above Vegita, and nailed him with a double axe handle blow that sent Vegita sailing towards the earth like a meteor. He crashed into a mountain, and caved it in half way.
Meanwhile at the edge of the crater stood the sons of the two warriors. They were watching intently as the battle waged on.
Goten turned to his friend. "Trunks," he said. "My dad is pounding your dad."
Trunks looked at Goten. "I know," he said. "That level 3 form is way to strong for anyone to handle."
"Isn't that good," asked Goten?
A tear began to run down Trunks' cheek. "No," he said. "It's not good, because my dad will not give up until he beats your dad and that means this battle will not end until one of our daddy's dies."
"Oh no," said Goten. "What should we do?"
"I have to try and get between them, and stop them," said Trunks. He powered up to Super Saiyan, and following suit Goten did as well.
"Wait, if you go in there like that they will clobber us," said Goten.
Trunks looked at his friend and realized that he was right. "I know but I am at my strongest," he said. "Unless you have a better idea."
"For once, I do," said Goten, he pointed both his hands to the right, and nodded to his Trunks.
"Oh yeah," said Trunks. "Good idea."
With simultaneous movement the duo, stretched their arms out, tiptoed away from each other and yelled
"FUSHION," they yelled, and then brought their arms over their heads and leaned sideways until their fingertips touched. "HA."
With a burst of light the two boys pulled together and a new form appeared and there stood Gotenks in his Super Saiyan form.
"Now we will deal with this," said Gotenks and he shot off towards the fight.
Vegita had gotten to his feet and lunged at Goku, unleashing a fury of punches and kicks. Goku dodged each attack with ease.
Vegita flipped back 5 feet and fired a ki blast. Goku just sidestepped the beam and it flew into the nearby mountain range, destroying three more of the mountains. Goku then flew at Vegita unleashing his own fury of punches.
Try as he might Vegita could not dodge or block any of the blows. Each blow went right through his armor and punctured his body. Vegita felt the blood flow to his mouth and he coughed and choked it out. Each blow jarred each and every one of his bones; he felt his body was on the verge of breaking and only his thought of losing kept him from succumbing to the blackness.
Goku then jumped back, and Vegita collapsed against the ground.
"Da-m-n yo-u," uttered Vegita, while lying face down in the mud. He would not give in to the one man that he swore to defeat.
"My name is Vegita," whispered Vegita, as he lifted his head. "The prince of all Saiyans and rightful heir to the throne. I will not be beaten by a commoner."
Goku just stood there, watching the man struggle after the pounding he just received.
"Amazing," sighed Goku. "He took all that and is still awake. The stubborn fool I guess I'm going to have to put his lights out and drag him home." Goku put his hand forward and powered up a ki blast, just enough to knock Vegita out.
"I am Prince Vegita," was all that Vegita muttered. He kept saying it over and over again to himself.
"Sorry, buddy but you have caused us enough trouble for one night," said Goku.
"I am Prince Vegita," said Vegita, as he slowly staggered to his feet.
"Ok," said Goku. "You're going home right now." He shot the ball directly at Vegita, and it moved like a bullet.
"I am Prince Vegita," said Vegita.
"This should put you down for go-, huh," cried Goku. As a golden beam of energy shot out from behind him and landed in front of the Goku's beam. An arm shot out of the haze and deflected the beam into space.
"What the hell," said Goku?
The image of Gotenks appeared in the haze of energy and he stood there staring at Goku.
"Trunks, Goten, why the hell did you do that," screamed Goku?
"We can't let you end it like this," said Gotenks, who was now in his level 3 Super Saiyan form.
"Why not," cried Goku? Gotenks walked up to the other level 3 Super Saiyan and looked him in the eye.
"Don't you see," said Gotenks. "He will never give up this destructiveness of himself until he defeats you. If you drag him home in defeat he will never regain his true self, because his pride is still gone."
"So then what do we do," asked Goku?
"We have to talk to him," said Gotenks. "To make him see reason, and to show the error in his ways; and we can't do that if he is unconscious."
"Look," said Goku. "I promised Bulma that I would get her husband home and that's what I am going to do now get out of the way."
"I can't let you do that," said Gotenks. He put both his arms up to the sides to block Goku.
"So now you are going to defend Vegita," said Goku.
"Yes," said Gotenks. "We want to help him and that includes keeping you away from him."
"Great," said Goku. "This is all I need."
Vegita looked over his shoulder to see the arrival of Gotenks. Gotenks had saved him from defeat, and now was defending him from Goku.
"Vegita," said a ghostly whisper.
"Wha-," said Vegita, as he turned around to see the image of King Vegita. "Father."
"Look at the mess your in now," said the king. "My son, defeated, AGAIN, by the commoner. Now your tainted heir to the throne saves you AGAIN. My you really know how to disgrace us. You loser"
Vegita looked at his father with pure hatred. "I AM NOT A LOSER," yelled Vegita. The king was stunned by his son's retort.
Goku and Gotenks both looked at Vegita who was screaming at air.
"Now he's lost it," said Goku.
King Vegita straightened himself up. "Good," he said. "You have finally realized that for yourself. Now reach down inside yourself and pull out the true power that lies in the Vegita bloodline."
Vegita felt a wave of determination pass through him at the thought of his father praising him. Vegita pushed the pain inside and dug deep down to the bottom of his soul, and at first he felt nothing, but then he caught the feeling of something like a barrier blocking something he had never felt before. It was an energy that he had never felt before and it was almost overwhelming to him to feel it there, and he new that it was meant for him.
"I FEEL IT," yelled Vegita. "FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. I HAVE REACHED IT."
"Now prove to me that you are the true King of the Saiyans, my son, rip that barrier apart and unleash your true power," said King Vegita, then he vanished into thin air.
Vegita turned to the two warriors standing in front of him. His head was bent down looking at the ground
"Dad are you okay," said Gotenks?
"I am now, my dear boy," whispered Vegita. The rain suddenly stopped all around them. "I have finally achieved what I have wanted all my life. The true power that has been buried in my bloodline for centuries."
"What does that mean," asked Goku?
"It means," said Vegita, he looked up at the two warriors and narrowed his eyes. "You don't stand a chance against me."
"Wha-," cried the two warriors.
Vegita raised his fists to his chest. He grabbed a hold of his cracked armor. He opened his mouth and let out an ungodly yell, unleashing a wave of fire and energy in all directions.
Vegita gripped his armor hard and then tore it off his body, shredding his last piece of his former weak self off him. With his armor gone his super saiyan aura turned from golden light to a dark, blood, red light.
Goku and Gotenks struggled to stay as close as possible to Vegita. They raised their aura's to protect them from the energy.
"Goku, what's going on," screamed Gotenks?
"I don't know," yelled Goku.
They both struggled to see through the onslaught of energy and fire, to what was going on below.
They saw that Vegita's golden hair had grown longer, and fell down behind his back, and it had changed from a golden white, to a pure white. Vegita had also grown in size by about a foot.
The energy of Vegita's aura began to close in on him, and began to morph his body. The lava from the earth rose up through the crater, in a controlled pillar and engulfed his entire body.
"DAD, NOOOOOOOO," screamed Gotenks. He tried to move forward to help his father, but found Goku holding him back. "Let us go, we have to help him."
"No, Gotenks," said Goku. "We can't do anything now."
With that the pillar of lava collapsed into the hole in the crater and disappeared.
All that remained was smoke and silence.
"Dad," whispered Gotenks. He then split back into Trunks and Goten, their time was up for the moment.
Trunks collapsed on the ground and tears began to form around his eyes. "My dad, he is dead."
He slammed the ground really hard causing more cracks to form.
Trunks, I-," said Goku.
"What, you're sorry that you didn't help my dad," said Trunks.
"No, I'm saying that your dad is not dead," said Goku.
"Then, why can't I feel him," screamed Trunks?
"Because, the man known as Prince Vegita is gone," echoed an unknown voice throughout the whole mountain range.
All three warriors jumped away from the hole, as they felt an enormous force approach the surface of the crater.
"Dad," said Goten. "What is that coming up the hole?"
"We are about to find out," said Goten.
As they looked at the hole, the sky above the saiyans went pitch black, and bolts of ki energy could be seen throughout the black clouds.
Out of the whole, slowly rose a man. His body was covered in red armor of a saiyan warrior, all the way down to his boots. The man wore black cape all the way down his back; it blew in the wind to show the muscles that the warrior possessed were beyond anything that Goku had seen before.
This warrior's face looked like Vegita, but it was not quite he. His hair was longer, that went down his back, and was the color white. His eyes were glowing a golden aura, and the cornea was a blood red. His skin was a dark beige.
The man just hovered above the hole starring at the warriors.
"Who are you," said Goten?
"And what did you do to my dad," said Trunks.
:"The one you knew as Prince Vegita is gone," said the warrior, his voice was like a whisper but it echoed across the whole range. The warrior's blood red aura floated up and surrounded him. "I have been cleansed of all impurities, all disgraces. The purity of our bloodline has allowed this power to grow inside of all Vegita's, to be passed on through all generations of Vegita's until they could be strong enough to handle this power, and this body at this very moment was the one that it was finally able to emerge in. My name is King Vegita I am the fully evolved form of a saiyan and I possess the strength of a thousand super saiyans."
All the warriors stood there stunned by what King Vegita had said.
"I am now the strongest warrior in the universe, and with that I pronounce myself ruler of this universe," said King Vegita. "All those who stand against me, will die at my hands."
A New King is Born
The drops of rain continued to pound the ground surrounding the crater, but these drops could not penetrate the golden light that was enclosed inside of it. The ground began to shake as the dome of light began to grow bigger and brighter.
At the center of this light, stood two of the strongest warriors on the face of the earth. Their constant stare unbroken by the howling wind, or the shaking ground; they just stood there enveloped in their golden auras.
Vegita finally broke the silence.
"Well, well, I have finally found an opponent that is really worth fighting," said Vegita.
"Let's just get this over with," said Goku.
"Fine, but you know that this is a continuation of our fight from the tournament. I am going to kill you this time," said Vegita.
"We'll see," said Goku, and as he said that he shot off at Vegita, like a blazing light. He almost reached Vegita when he zanzoukened beside him and punched him right in the side of the head.
This punch sent Vegita sailing into the wall of the crater and pushed him a mile across the underground before he stopped. Goku stood where he was waiting for his opponent.
The ground then began to shake, and pillars of light began to shoot up into the sky, as Vegita let out an ear-piercing scream. He shot out of the rocks and into the air. He shot forward at Goku with blinding fast speed.
"I will not go down that easily Kakarotto," screamed Vegita, as he plummeted towards his opponent.
As Vegita was about to slam into Goku; Goku sidestepped him and gave a rising knee strike to Vegita's chest plate, causing him to stop in mid air and his armor to crack under the blow. Goku then shot up above Vegita and delivered a roundhouse kick to Vegita's back, sending him crashing into the ground below him.
The crater caved in deeper into the earth and Vegita was lying at the bottom.
Goku quickly zanzoukened to Vegita, grabbed him by the leg and sent him flying through the air. Vegita sailed through the top edge of the crater and into the open sky.
Goku then appeared above Vegita, and nailed him with a double axe handle blow that sent Vegita sailing towards the earth like a meteor. He crashed into a mountain, and caved it in half way.
Meanwhile at the edge of the crater stood the sons of the two warriors. They were watching intently as the battle waged on.
Goten turned to his friend. "Trunks," he said. "My dad is pounding your dad."
Trunks looked at Goten. "I know," he said. "That level 3 form is way to strong for anyone to handle."
"Isn't that good," asked Goten?
A tear began to run down Trunks' cheek. "No," he said. "It's not good, because my dad will not give up until he beats your dad and that means this battle will not end until one of our daddy's dies."
"Oh no," said Goten. "What should we do?"
"I have to try and get between them, and stop them," said Trunks. He powered up to Super Saiyan, and following suit Goten did as well.
"Wait, if you go in there like that they will clobber us," said Goten.
Trunks looked at his friend and realized that he was right. "I know but I am at my strongest," he said. "Unless you have a better idea."
"For once, I do," said Goten, he pointed both his hands to the right, and nodded to his Trunks.
"Oh yeah," said Trunks. "Good idea."
With simultaneous movement the duo, stretched their arms out, tiptoed away from each other and yelled
"FUSHION," they yelled, and then brought their arms over their heads and leaned sideways until their fingertips touched. "HA."
With a burst of light the two boys pulled together and a new form appeared and there stood Gotenks in his Super Saiyan form.
"Now we will deal with this," said Gotenks and he shot off towards the fight.
Vegita had gotten to his feet and lunged at Goku, unleashing a fury of punches and kicks. Goku dodged each attack with ease.
Vegita flipped back 5 feet and fired a ki blast. Goku just sidestepped the beam and it flew into the nearby mountain range, destroying three more of the mountains. Goku then flew at Vegita unleashing his own fury of punches.
Try as he might Vegita could not dodge or block any of the blows. Each blow went right through his armor and punctured his body. Vegita felt the blood flow to his mouth and he coughed and choked it out. Each blow jarred each and every one of his bones; he felt his body was on the verge of breaking and only his thought of losing kept him from succumbing to the blackness.
Goku then jumped back, and Vegita collapsed against the ground.
"Da-m-n yo-u," uttered Vegita, while lying face down in the mud. He would not give in to the one man that he swore to defeat.
"My name is Vegita," whispered Vegita, as he lifted his head. "The prince of all Saiyans and rightful heir to the throne. I will not be beaten by a commoner."
Goku just stood there, watching the man struggle after the pounding he just received.
"Amazing," sighed Goku. "He took all that and is still awake. The stubborn fool I guess I'm going to have to put his lights out and drag him home." Goku put his hand forward and powered up a ki blast, just enough to knock Vegita out.
"I am Prince Vegita," was all that Vegita muttered. He kept saying it over and over again to himself.
"Sorry, buddy but you have caused us enough trouble for one night," said Goku.
"I am Prince Vegita," said Vegita, as he slowly staggered to his feet.
"Ok," said Goku. "You're going home right now." He shot the ball directly at Vegita, and it moved like a bullet.
"I am Prince Vegita," said Vegita.
"This should put you down for go-, huh," cried Goku. As a golden beam of energy shot out from behind him and landed in front of the Goku's beam. An arm shot out of the haze and deflected the beam into space.
"What the hell," said Goku?
The image of Gotenks appeared in the haze of energy and he stood there staring at Goku.
"Trunks, Goten, why the hell did you do that," screamed Goku?
"We can't let you end it like this," said Gotenks, who was now in his level 3 Super Saiyan form.
"Why not," cried Goku? Gotenks walked up to the other level 3 Super Saiyan and looked him in the eye.
"Don't you see," said Gotenks. "He will never give up this destructiveness of himself until he defeats you. If you drag him home in defeat he will never regain his true self, because his pride is still gone."
"So then what do we do," asked Goku?
"We have to talk to him," said Gotenks. "To make him see reason, and to show the error in his ways; and we can't do that if he is unconscious."
"Look," said Goku. "I promised Bulma that I would get her husband home and that's what I am going to do now get out of the way."
"I can't let you do that," said Gotenks. He put both his arms up to the sides to block Goku.
"So now you are going to defend Vegita," said Goku.
"Yes," said Gotenks. "We want to help him and that includes keeping you away from him."
"Great," said Goku. "This is all I need."
Vegita looked over his shoulder to see the arrival of Gotenks. Gotenks had saved him from defeat, and now was defending him from Goku.
"Vegita," said a ghostly whisper.
"Wha-," said Vegita, as he turned around to see the image of King Vegita. "Father."
"Look at the mess your in now," said the king. "My son, defeated, AGAIN, by the commoner. Now your tainted heir to the throne saves you AGAIN. My you really know how to disgrace us. You loser"
Vegita looked at his father with pure hatred. "I AM NOT A LOSER," yelled Vegita. The king was stunned by his son's retort.
Goku and Gotenks both looked at Vegita who was screaming at air.
"Now he's lost it," said Goku.
King Vegita straightened himself up. "Good," he said. "You have finally realized that for yourself. Now reach down inside yourself and pull out the true power that lies in the Vegita bloodline."
Vegita felt a wave of determination pass through him at the thought of his father praising him. Vegita pushed the pain inside and dug deep down to the bottom of his soul, and at first he felt nothing, but then he caught the feeling of something like a barrier blocking something he had never felt before. It was an energy that he had never felt before and it was almost overwhelming to him to feel it there, and he new that it was meant for him.
"I FEEL IT," yelled Vegita. "FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. I HAVE REACHED IT."
"Now prove to me that you are the true King of the Saiyans, my son, rip that barrier apart and unleash your true power," said King Vegita, then he vanished into thin air.
Vegita turned to the two warriors standing in front of him. His head was bent down looking at the ground
"Dad are you okay," said Gotenks?
"I am now, my dear boy," whispered Vegita. The rain suddenly stopped all around them. "I have finally achieved what I have wanted all my life. The true power that has been buried in my bloodline for centuries."
"What does that mean," asked Goku?
"It means," said Vegita, he looked up at the two warriors and narrowed his eyes. "You don't stand a chance against me."
"Wha-," cried the two warriors.
Vegita raised his fists to his chest. He grabbed a hold of his cracked armor. He opened his mouth and let out an ungodly yell, unleashing a wave of fire and energy in all directions.
Vegita gripped his armor hard and then tore it off his body, shredding his last piece of his former weak self off him. With his armor gone his super saiyan aura turned from golden light to a dark, blood, red light.
Goku and Gotenks struggled to stay as close as possible to Vegita. They raised their aura's to protect them from the energy.
"Goku, what's going on," screamed Gotenks?
"I don't know," yelled Goku.
They both struggled to see through the onslaught of energy and fire, to what was going on below.
They saw that Vegita's golden hair had grown longer, and fell down behind his back, and it had changed from a golden white, to a pure white. Vegita had also grown in size by about a foot.
The energy of Vegita's aura began to close in on him, and began to morph his body. The lava from the earth rose up through the crater, in a controlled pillar and engulfed his entire body.
"DAD, NOOOOOOOO," screamed Gotenks. He tried to move forward to help his father, but found Goku holding him back. "Let us go, we have to help him."
"No, Gotenks," said Goku. "We can't do anything now."
With that the pillar of lava collapsed into the hole in the crater and disappeared.
All that remained was smoke and silence.
"Dad," whispered Gotenks. He then split back into Trunks and Goten, their time was up for the moment.
Trunks collapsed on the ground and tears began to form around his eyes. "My dad, he is dead."
He slammed the ground really hard causing more cracks to form.
Trunks, I-," said Goku.
"What, you're sorry that you didn't help my dad," said Trunks.
"No, I'm saying that your dad is not dead," said Goku.
"Then, why can't I feel him," screamed Trunks?
"Because, the man known as Prince Vegita is gone," echoed an unknown voice throughout the whole mountain range.
All three warriors jumped away from the hole, as they felt an enormous force approach the surface of the crater.
"Dad," said Goten. "What is that coming up the hole?"
"We are about to find out," said Goten.
As they looked at the hole, the sky above the saiyans went pitch black, and bolts of ki energy could be seen throughout the black clouds.
Out of the whole, slowly rose a man. His body was covered in red armor of a saiyan warrior, all the way down to his boots. The man wore black cape all the way down his back; it blew in the wind to show the muscles that the warrior possessed were beyond anything that Goku had seen before.
This warrior's face looked like Vegita, but it was not quite he. His hair was longer, that went down his back, and was the color white. His eyes were glowing a golden aura, and the cornea was a blood red. His skin was a dark beige.
The man just hovered above the hole starring at the warriors.
"Who are you," said Goten?
"And what did you do to my dad," said Trunks.
:"The one you knew as Prince Vegita is gone," said the warrior, his voice was like a whisper but it echoed across the whole range. The warrior's blood red aura floated up and surrounded him. "I have been cleansed of all impurities, all disgraces. The purity of our bloodline has allowed this power to grow inside of all Vegita's, to be passed on through all generations of Vegita's until they could be strong enough to handle this power, and this body at this very moment was the one that it was finally able to emerge in. My name is King Vegita I am the fully evolved form of a saiyan and I possess the strength of a thousand super saiyans."
All the warriors stood there stunned by what King Vegita had said.
"I am now the strongest warrior in the universe, and with that I pronounce myself ruler of this universe," said King Vegita. "All those who stand against me, will die at my hands."