Flameraven: In Vegeta's case, his earlier inability to go SS was due to the inner conflict of his core goodness, and his forced evil. The more he was able to let go of his evil, the more powerful he was able to become. (At least that's the way it is in MY DBZ universe.) :c)
Vegeta left Kame's lookout and was almost back to Capsule Corporation when a huge roar accompanied by a shock wave hit Vegeta damned near knocking him from the sky. Vegeta adopted a defensive posture, powering up a Final Flash when he realized that it was just the ES-19PX returning home.
Vegeta powered down. "Damned baka ship scared the hell out of me!" Below Vegeta could see that the hangar doors were automatically opening to accommodate the ship.
As the great ship passed, Vegeta sensed something. He stretched out his senses and he knew something was wrong, but he couldn't quite get a handle on what it was.
Lumbistru had just woken up when the ship entered Earth's atmosphere. "Finally! The demon thought to him self. "I could have gotten here twice as fast without this ship!"
"Yes, you could have, but at twice the risk of being detected!" Cordell yelled in his mind. Lumbistru winced at the sudden, loud intrusion into his thoughts.
"Lower your ki, you asshole, or you will be detected!" Cordell continued.
"Yes master!" Lumbistru complied.
Whatever it was that Vegeta felt, it had completely disappeared.
"I didn't just imagine that." Vegeta thought as he went ahead of the ship and into the hangar.
"Listen, I've sent one of the Orkran to Earth to destroy all life. The warriors there will naturally try to stop her." Cordell explained.
"Her?" Lumbistru queried.
"Yes, I've sent Tharsasher" Cordell explained.
"T-Tharsasher!! Tharsasher the Terrible! But milord, she's one of the high demons! She will destroy this entire sector!" Lumbistru shivered in fear knowing that the demoness held no love for the non-Orkran lower demons, such as him. Chances were pretty good that she would eat him on sight.
"I have given her orders and she will obey them to the letter or face my wrath." Cordell explained. All I need you to do is to act as my eyes and ears so that I may see the battle."
"I hear and obey Master Cordell." Lumbistru said even though inwardly, he was more frightened than he could ever remember being.
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"Did you feel that Piccolo?" The Supreme Kai asked.
"Yes, something very powerful, and very evil has entered the mortal plane, and seems to be headed towards Earth. We need to warn Vegeta and Goku if they haven't already sensed it for themselves." Piccolo said.
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Vegeta landed on the hangar bay floor to wait for the ship to land so he could search it. The second his feet touched the floor Goku appeared next to him, with Chi-Chi holding one arm.
Vegeta gave Goku a slight nod of the head as a greeting. Goku was too excited to remember his manners.
"Vegeta! Did you feel that huge, evil ki enter this dimensional plane about 15 minutes ago? It's headed straight for Earth!" Goku exclaimed.
Vegeta immediately stretched out his senses to take in as much of the known galaxy as he could. There it was, huge, powerful, and hideous. Vegeta shivered involuntarily.
"I sense it now Kakkarot, what the hell is that?" Vegeta asked.
"Not sure, but Kaioshin suspects it's one of the higher demons from the Demon Realm that Cordell has sent here to attack us, possibly test our strength." Goku said. "It will arrive here in about 16 hours. Who do you have to fight?"
"Well, myself, Trunks Jr. and Bardock are training in Gravity Chamber 1, Nappa and Gohan are training in Gravity Room 2, and Raditz and Uub are training in the Room of Spirit and Time." Vegeta said.
"Neither Nappa nor Bardock is strong enough to handle this thing yet." Goku mused. "I don't want to show Cordell our full power yet either. Trunks Jr. and Gohan should be able to handle it without you or I going to Super Saiyan 5."
"Yes." Vegeta agreed. "Trunks Jr. doesn't have any real battle experience yet, although he has trained extremely hard for a long time. I think he should tackle this thing first."
"Agreed." Goku smiled. "By the way Vegeta, Chi-Chi has agreed to stay here as Capsule Corporation's guest for the duration of our training. If that is okay with you."
Vegeta looked at Chi-Chi with a bit of a smirk. "Well, as long as she agrees to go easy on my sensitive hearing, she is more than welcome as an honored guest."
"No promises, but I'll try." Chi-Chi grinned.
Vegeta walked over to an intercom and push the "speak" button.
"Chavez?" Vegeta questioned. Chavez was Roger's replacement while Roger is on "Special Assignment".
"Yes sir?" Chavez came back.
"Chavez, we have a VIP Guest with some luggage down by the training grounds. She is to be treated with utmost respect. Please report here and show her to her quarters." Vegeta demanded.
"Yes sir." Chavez acknowledged.
"I want you to understand Chavez that I will not be happy if she complains about any part of her treatment while she is staying here, am I perfectly clear?"
"I understand sir. I will do everything in my power to see to her happiness." Chavez assured.
"Good. Vegeta out."
Vegeta and Goku waited until Chavez came and led Chi-Chi and the men that came to carry her two pieces of luggage away.
"You ready for that Super Saiyan Five training now Vegeta?" Goku asked.
"Thought you'd never ask!" Vegeta was eager.
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Gohan didn't particularly like Nappa. He had been taken aback by Vegeta's insistence that Gohan train his former enemy. Somehow Gohan was having a bit of trouble absorbing the fact that this baka, that had taken so many innocent lives, was now acting as one of the Universe's saviors. As a result, Gohan was being pretty rough on Nappa.
Gohan was, however, rapidly developing a grudging respect for the big Saiyan. No matter how much Gohan dished out, Nappa was back for more.
That's when Gohan started with the verbal slurs. Gohan decided that he could push the ex-General of the Saiyan Army to the next level.
"Don't you feel like shit letting the half-breed son of a third class warrior beat you like a dog?" Gohan started out.
While the Saiyan class system meant little to Gohan, Nappa still set great store by it, and was proud of being a Saiyan Elite. Nappa still hadn't completely gotten over getting beat so badly by Goku when he first arrived on Earth and his temper began to rise, and with it, his ki.
"Look you third class punk, I'm going to show you what a Saiyan Elite can do!" Nappa powered up to his fullest and attacked Gohan full tilt.
Naturally, Nappa's fullest wasn't even in the same ballpark as Gohan on even his worst day."
"What do you call that Nappa? I used to know school children with higher fighting powers than that!" Gohan teased. "Perhaps you're not really from the family you think you are, maybe you were adopted, or your mother had an affair with a second class warrior."
"W-What??" Nappa stammered in disbelief. "What are you saying??"
"You're a bastard child. You couldn't possibly be from the bloodline of a Saiyan Elite." Gohan pushed all the right buttons.
From there, it was just a matter of letting Nappa's famously volatile temper do the job.
"W-why you little SON OF A BIIIITCH!!!!" Nappa screamed as his eyes went aquamarine and a golden aura surrounded him. "I'll get you for that!"
And with that, Super Saiyan Nappa attacked.
Gohan had hit the one nerve no Saiyan could ignore. Their parentage and class lines. The only problem with that was that Gohan was now faced with a thoroughly enraged Super Saiyan the size of some third world nations.
Nappa caught Gohan with an uppercut that actually phased him a bit. Gohan immediately powered up to Super Saiyan 2 and went on the defensive.
"Geez Nappa! No need to get sore about it!" Gohan said, as he blocked the flurry of punches and kicks Nappa threw his way. Gohan smiled a bit. "You would think that you were unhappy about becoming a Super Saiyan or something."
"Calling a Saiyan a bastard is one of the worst insults you can give! If you were a true Saiyan……" Suddenly the full meaning of what Gohan had said sunk into Nappa's somewhat thick skull. "A Super Saiyan?? Me??" Nappa stammered as he looked down at himself, the golden tail fur, and the golden aura.
"Yep. Sorry about the insults, but I sensed that you were very close to going super, so I got you pissed off which pushed you over the edge. No hard feelings okay?" Gohan held out his hand.
Nappa, still a bit dazed about his transformation, reached out and took Gohan's hand. "Yeah, no problem. I wish I had a scouter so I could tell how strong I am."
Gohan laughed a bit. "A scouter like the one you came to Earth with originally would blow up trying to read your power level right now. You're actually a bit stronger than I was when I first went super. I'd say, if a scouter could read that high, it would be giving a reading of about 12,000,000 right now."
Nappa's jaw dropped to the floor anime style. "T-twelve million?!??! Is that possible??"
"Sure is." Gohan smiled. "Ok, power down, I think we've done enough physical training for today, next we will do some ki training. How to sense ki, suppress our own ki, and some other neat tricks that every warrior should know."
Nappa was more than willing to learn anything Gohan had to teach from that point on.
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Vegeta and Goku appeared in the Nexus. It hadn't changed.
"This is almost as bad as the Room of Spirit and Time." Vegeta remarked. "Say, shouldn't we go and get Trunks for this? He has also become a Super Saiyan Five."
"No, he is currently training Goten and I suspect that we'll be seeing another Super Saiyan Five before too many more days." Goku said. "Besides, well… I think that I would rather enjoy training with you alone for a little while. I know that you've had trouble admitting it in the past, but until recently, you and I have shared a special place in the universe. The last two full blooded Saiyan warriors."
"Why Kakkarot.." Vegeta started a bit surprised. "I had no idea that you took that much pride in your Saiyan heritage.
"I didn't at first. Over the years, the more I got to know and respect you, the more I found to be proud about Saiyans, and being Saiyan." Goku confessed.
"I'm… proud… to hear that Kakkarot…. Goku…" Vegeta said with some strain. "Now we'd better get to training before you start blubbering or something." Vegeta smirked.
"Right. Ok, remember what I said when you first went SS5 about how we were now mostly ki? Well, as far as I have been told by Kaioshin, all matter is made up of smaller bits and pieces of stuff. Kaioshin called them atoms, and mol-ec-ules. I think that's the way it's pronounced. Any ways, those smaller bits are made up of even smaller bits, and the very smallest bit is actually just energy." Goku did the patented smile combination head scratch. "Do you understand so far?"
"Yes Kakkarot, please continue." It was all Vegeta could do to keep from laughing as his friend struggled to explain what most Saiyan children, and probably most Earth children, were/are taught in their science classes. Vegeta decided to let Kakkarot continue.
"Ok. So when we go SS5, we can use our ki to control those bits of energy, which are also just ki in a slightly different form. Kaioshin says that we can control our bodies at the sub-mo-lec-u-lar level. Ok, time for a bit of a demonstration. Attack me!" Goku demanded as he powered up to Super Saiyan Five.
Never being the type to turn down such a gracious invitation, Vegeta also powered up to Super Saiyan Five and flew straight at his rival/friend. Faster than the eyes of even a Super Saiyan Four could follow, Vegeta reached Goku and punched…. Nothing! Vegeta had flown straight through him!
Vegeta had no sensed that he had moved from that spot. Vegeta turned and looked at Goku. He was still there, but he was almost transparent.
"How did you do that?" Vegeta wondered.
"I adjusted my molecular structure to a less solid form. What did Kaioshin call it again? An Ethereal form. It works quite well." Goku smiled. "I can also be liquid."
Suddenly Goku turned into a column of water, which formed a fist and struck the surprised Vegeta in the face. Vegeta quickly recovered, and struck at the column of water only to have his fist pass harmlessly through it. But when he tried to withdraw his arm, the water turned into a metal of some sort trapping Vegeta's arm within. The metal flowed around Vegeta's arm and part of it took the shape of Goku's face.
"See Vegeta? Total control!" The face said. Goku released Vegeta's arm and jumped back several feet becoming flesh and blood Goku once more.
"We can also control the molecules close to our bodies." Goku powered up a bit and generated a ki shield around his body. I can turn the air that I breathe out back into usable oxygen by doing this and survive in space for an indefinite period of time. It has always been or main weakness that if an enemy destroyed the planet, then we were toast."
Vegeta remembered Frieza, Cell, and Buu and nodded in agreement. Vegeta was quite amazed at his fellow Saiyan. He may have had a difficult time explaining what he meant, but he was an absolute genius at applying the concepts.
Vegeta smiled a bit. "Tell me Kakkarot, I noticed that your mate was quite happy when you came back to Capsule Corporation. Quite frankly I expected her to cause you serious bodily harm after being away all these years. What happened?"
Goku smiled the patented Son smile. "Well, she was pissed at first, did a lot of yelling and screaming. I did a bunch of apologizing. She eventually cooled down a bit. So we…. Well… we made up!" Goku finished with a blush.
"I see." Vegeta decided that he really didn't want to know any more than that.
Goku concentrated a bit. "I want to see the evil being that is headed towards Earth."
The clouds around them began to ripple and swirl eventually revealing the large demoness Tharsasher.
"Whoa! That's one ugly bitch!" Vegeta exclaimed. "I wonder who she is and what she wants? She's obviously up to no good, but I wonder if she has a specific mission?"
"Well, there's only one way to find out I guess." Goku smirked.
"How's that?" Vegeta demanded.
"I go and ask her." Goku answered. With that, Goku's form began to change. Where SS5 Goku stood just seconds ago stood a huge and powerful demon. Goku had transformed himself into a demon roughly 25 foot tall, and looking much like the demon being displayed.
"Hehehe.. Be right back." Goku growled as he put to large hooked fingers to his forehead and disappeared.
Goku appeared before the travelling demon. "Hi" he said simply.
Tharsasher skidded to a halt on her way through space, totally taken by surprise by the demon that appeared before her. "Who are you? I've never seen you before? Are you from the lower realms?"
"My name is Goku." Goku answered simply.
"Goku? What in the Seven Hells kind of name is Goku for a demon? Tharsasher demanded trying to keep the fright out of her voice. She could feel the overwhelming power of the creature before her.
"What is your name?" Goku asked with the innocence of a child.
Vegeta watching through the portal The Nexus provided was cracking up. "Leave it to Kakkarot to go and ask a monster her name!
"Tharsasher the Terrible!" The great demon tried to bluff. "Now get out of my way I have a mission to keep!"
Tharsasher turned to go around Goku only to find that Goku was in front of her again in the blink of an eye.
"What's your mission, huh?" Goku pressed. "You're going to Earth right? What are you going to do there?
"If it is any of your business, I've been dispatched to destroy all life on that planet." Tharsasher said with no small amount of impatience. "Exactly what are you doing outside of the Demon Realm?
"I've never been in the Demon Realm, is it a nice place?" Goku teased the demon.
"No… I mean yes… I mean, if you're a Demon you probably think so.. What the hell kind of question is that?!?!?!" Tharsasher was visibly confused.
"Who sent you?" Goku asked.
"Lord Cordell sent me, didn't he send you here?" Tharsasher asked.
"Nope, I just came to talk to you." Goku smiled a demonically. "Well, I've got to be going now, bye!"
"Wait a minute!! Who are you?" Tharsasher started, but it was too late. Goku had disappeared as quickly as he came. The great demon frantically looked around for him.
Goku appeared back in the Nexus in front of Vegeta in his natural form. "What's she doing?"
Vegeta was rolling on the ground, or what passed for ground in the Nexus, laughing. "She's trying to find you and she looks like someone shoved a corn cob up her ass!" Vegeta managed to say between gales of laughter.
"Has she continued on yet?" Goku asked.
Vegeta looked through laugh tearing eyes. "No, she's just trying to figure out what the hell just happened."
"She's pretty serious about her mission though." Goku observed. "She's as powerful as a Super Saiyan Four and she's heavily armored. She has razor sharp talons on her feet, all four of them, and on each of her fingers. She is also carrying six swords, one for each hand I guess. There are some spines along her backbone that are dripping some sort of fluid. My guess is that they are poisoned." Goku said.
Leave it to Kakkarot, even though he was essentially playing with the demon, his mind has analyzed every aspect he could from a warrior's standpoint.
"Do you think that Trunk Jr. can handle her?" Vegeta worried.
"Yes, I'm quite sure of it. We'll just need to warn him about the poisonous spines. The rest he can see for himself. But I think speed and strength wise, he can beat her." Goku said.
"Good, it's about time my Grandson had some actual battle experience." Vegeta said.
"Yep, we've got to let the kids do stuff once in awhile, or they'll get lazy." Goku smiled.
"Ok, let's train for a few hours, then get back before the bitch gets to Earth." Vegeta said.
"You got it." Goku smiled.
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Roger and Yambia were busy training in the big gravity chamber. They were both in their Mystic Super Saiyan forms, and the gravity was set at 550 times Earth normal. Their training clothes were drenched in a mixture of sweat, and their own blood.
"This is almost as good as sex, isn't it lover?" Yambia teased.
"Yes.. Perhaps this is the Saiyan version of 'Safe Sex'" Roger answered
"What do you mean?" Yambia asked.
"Well, this way, you don't get pregnant." Roger joked.
"Hehehe.. True." Yambia said and pressed another attack.
She flew straight at Roger deciding to use an attack her father taught her, and that she didn't think Roger ever saw before. She was almost upon him when she opened her mouth wide…
"What the hell is that?" Roger wondered.
The mouth beam caught Roger full in the chest, throwing him against the wall of the gravity chamber with enough force to short out the power systems. The gravity chamber shut down. Roger dropped out of MSS to his normal form. Yambia was so close that Roger hadn't even had time to use his ki shield.
"Damned! Damned! DAMNED!" Roger spat out the words along with flecks of blood from his cut lips. "That's the second time today I've gotten my butt whooped! First Piccolo, now you!"
Yambia quietly observed that Roger was becoming more Saiyan like every day. "Don't be mad lover, you know I'll make this up to you later." She cooed.
Suddenly the door to the gravity chamber popped open. "WHAT IN THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY GRAVITY CHAMBER!" Bulma screamed causing both Saiyans to cover their ears to protect their sensitive hearing.
"Bulma! Please turn down the volume a notch or two!" Kirillin pleaded from behind her.
"Shut up Kirillin! You know I don't have any tools here, I can't fix this!" Bulma exclaimed.
"Wait a minute Bulma." Yambia noticed. "Where's your halo?"
"Hehehe… I 'convinced' Kaioshin to restore my life. It's a surprise for Vegeta." Bulma said.
(Scene momentarily cuts to Kaioshin, slumped in a corner of his castle with his hands over his ears, a vacant stare, and a line of drool coming from his mouth.")
"I see." Said Yambia.
"Ok, so where are your tools?" Roger asked.
"In my lab on Earth." Bulma said.
"Well, just ask Kaioshin to take you there to get your tools." Roger suggested.
"Err… Well, I don't think that he's up to it right now." Bulma said.
"And Trunks is training with Goten on the other side of the planet right now." Yambia supplied.
Piccolo entered the room. "And Vegeta and Goku are training in the Nexus at the moment."
"We'll just have to wait for someone with teleportation abilities to become available, or recover." Roger concluded. "Until then we can train outside."
"Wait a minute." Piccolo dug under his cloak and pulled out a senzu bean. "Pan!" Pan poked her head in from outside the door. "Run in and give this to Kaioshin and see if it helps him recover from Bulma's 'sonic attack'" Piccolo smirked at Bulma.
"That's not funny Piccolo!" Bulma stubbornly said.
Several minutes later Pan returned with the recovered Kai in tow.
"I'm sorry everyone, I must have dozed off or something." The Kai said rubbing his head.
"Umm… Ok Kaioshin. We need a favor." Piccolo said.
"Sure, what is it?" Kaioshin asked.
"Well, this gravity chamber is broke, so Bulma needs her tools to fix it. They are back on Earth in her lab. Can you take her there and bring her back?" Piccolo finished.
"Certainly. Come on Bulma let's…" Kaioshin stopped for a second. "Bulma, your halo is gone, you're alive again, how did that happen?"
"Ummm… I don't know.. I woke up this morning and I was alive, it was a miracle!" Bulma lied, apparently Kaioshin didn't remember a thing.
"How utterly extraordinary!" Kaioshin exclaimed as he and Bulma disappeared from sight.