Rogeta smiled and formed a shield on his left arm using the blue ki that Roger used for his bubble. With a small amount of thought, the shield bore the royal crest of Vegeta on one half, and the Celtic crest of Clawson on the other. Rogeta willed the Sword of the Saiyans into his hand. Rogeta glowed with the more power than he had ever felt before. At that moment, he knew that Cordell didn't stand a chance. He was the ultimate power in The Mortal Realm, and beyond.
Another thought found Rogeta dressed in a combination of Saiyan battle armor, and a chain-mail lattice.
The dragon's maw opened wide and he belched ki fire almost a half mile in diameter straight at Rogeta whose only movement was to lift his shield.
The flame totally engulfed Rogeta and flowed around his shield. Rogeta smiled, as he knew that the shield was just for show. Cordell could not hurt him.
As the flames finally dissipated, Rogeta stood unharmed. Then suddenly phased out of sight.
"Eh? Where did he go?" Cordell started launching laser attacks from his eyes in the vain hope of hitting Rogeta.
Suddenly the great monster roared in pain as its ear became severed from its head.
Rogeta phased back in front of the giant lizard.
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"Why is he playing with him? Just destroy him already!" Rou Kaioshin was hopping from foot to foot. "Doesn't he know that the second Cordell knows he is defeated that he'll do something drastic?"
"These Saiyans are sometimes too cocky." The Supreme Kai said. "But on the other hand they always seem to get the job done."
Rou Kaioshin looked at the crystal ball. "Well, I suppose I can't argue with results."
"They will win." Jessica said.
King Vegeta sat across from the Kai's with Gerald sitting on his shoulder. The King had become almost instantly fond of the child. He looked over at Jessica and smiled. Somehow the girl with the scary eyes gave him a great deal of confidence.
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Gohan, Yambia, Kirillin, Trunks Jr. and Bura sat on the doorsteps of Bura's capsule lab waiting for news. Across from them, seated on the ground, Bardock, Raditz, Nappa, and perhaps a hundred other Saiyans Bura was only familiar with in passing all sat in the same restless manner.
Everyone was aware of the problem. In about an hour, the Saiyans would open the last of their capsule food that Tao Kaioshin had given them. After that, they would have to tear down the last two capsule houses that haven't already been packed, and leave the planet with as many Saiyans as would fit into the ship. This would effectively strand millions of the warriors here. And if they couldn't find any help, or Vegeta, Roger, and Goku didn't come back, they would probably all die. Bura thought about Lumbistru once more. She missed the little demon.
Bardock, Nappa, and Bura plotted a course that took them in the direction of Earth, but had several promising planets to stop and ask for help. Although both Bardock and Nappa rolled their eyes at the possibility of actually getting help once the people found out they were Saiyans.
"Well be lucky if they don't fire on us." Bardock grumbled.
Yambia was sad at the thought of dying, but she was sure she could more easily face her own death knowing that Gerald was in good hands.
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Rogeta once again disappeared and reappeared sitting on Cordell's snout, right between his eyes.
Cordell's eyes that now, without a doubt, held the cold light of fear.
Rogeta was certain that had there been an atmosphere, he would be able to smell the fear pouring off Cordell.
Cordell shook his head violently from side-to-side trying to shake the little intruder off his nose.
To no avail.
Rogeta flew down the length of Cordell's snout using the sword to open up a wide gash from just between Cordell's eyes, to the very end of his nose.
Cordell bellowed in pain and rage. Cordell swung around at an amazing speed and tried to swat Rogeta with his massive tail.
Rogeta seen it coming and simply allowed his body mass to become ethereal. The tail passed right through him without harm.
Cordell reversed the direction of his tail and took another swing. Rogeta caught Cordell's tail and swung the dragon around once, twice, three times before releasing him. Rogeta hurled the great beast directly towards a star.
Cordell caught himself before reaching the star and started to slow his speed when Rogeta hit Cordell with both feet sending him into the star's gravitational field. Cordell struck the surface of the star and almost continued into the massive core. Cordell's thin leather wings burned off. He regained enough control to cover himself in a ki shield to prevent him self from burning further, and to keep himself from sinking into the star's surface.
When he recovered, he saw Rogeta calmly standing on the star's surface, without so much as a ki shield to protect him. Rogeta's aura was ablaze with the heat of the star.
Cordell looked at Rogeta. Rogeta was death.
Rogeta slowly started walking towards the Dragon.
"So, you wanted to rule everything. Turn everyone into demons." Rogeta said as he punched Cordell square in the snout sending him skittering off the surface of the sun and back out into space. Rogeta followed him.
"You wanted to kill us, destroy our people, our families, our homes!" Rogeta kicked the dragon in the ribs crushing more than a couple of them and sending the dragon further out into space.
"Know you this. As long as a single Saiyan warrior lives, you will not have this!" Rogeta rammed the big dragon in the lower spine snapping it and causing the creature to bellow in pain yet again.
Cordell's form began to soften. He started to shrink. A few seconds later he was back in his human form. He was a mass of bruises, burns, and lacerations, and his right ear was missing.
Cordell glared at Rogeta for long moments. Hatred seething from his eyes. "If I cannot have what I want, then nobody will have anything!"
Cordell began to glow bright blue. Black tendrils of light began to course around him. His aura became very bright. Cordell's body grew brighter, and brighter.
Rogeta floated in space, silently watching.
"I am charging up to self-destruct. When I explode, it will be with the energy to take out this entire quadrant of the universe. And that means Earth goes too!" Cordell laughed through broken teeth.
"How do people get to be such assholes?" Rogeta thought to himself.
Rogeta watched Cordell for a few minutes as he continued to gather his energy for his suicide attack.
"What is going on Goku?" Trunks said.
"Remember what we told you Cell did at the end of the Cell Games?" Goku said.
"He tried to blow up the world by blowing himself up?" Goten answered.
"Yes. Cordell's going the same thing, only on a much larger scale!" Goku said.
"What can we do?" Trunks exclaimed.
"Not a damned thing." Goku said. "It's all up to Rogeta now."
"In truth" Goku thought, "it always has been."
Rogeta floated calmly, watching Cordell's body glow ever brighter.
"Muahhahahaha! You cannot stop me now! Not even I can reverse the process! Everyone in this part of space will die!" Cordell screamed.
Rogeta smirked. "I think not you mad man." And with that Rogeta and Cordell disappeared.
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"Uggnnn!!" Bulma fell down. In all her years of being mated to Vegeta, their bond had never been stretched this far before. She was barely conscious when Abigail found her.
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"Arrgghh!!" Yambia experience the same thing at the same time. Nappa came to her aid.
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"Where did they go?" Goku said looking around trying to sense them.
"I don't know." Trunks and Goten said at the same time.
"I don't feel them anywhere at all." Goten continued wide eyed.
"I don't guess we need to be here anymore." Goku said as he took a hold of the other two and used instant transmission to go back to Namek 5.
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"Where are we? Where have you brought us?" Cordell was practically in tears.
Rogeta looked around. Black space, as far as the eye could see in any direction except for the ever-brightening glow of Cordell and Rogeta's own aura.
"I have brought you to a forgotten area of space. I have brought you to the cradle of all creation. I have brought you to the primal singularity." Rogeta smirked.
"Don't you see it below us? The womb of the universe. The singularity where all matter once exploded out into empty space. It has all since ran out of sight of this place, but one day the unrelenting pull of the singularity will bring it all back, and thus the process starts anew over an unimaginable amount of time." Rogeta explained as he reached out and grabbed Cordell by the throat.
"Here Cordell, you will not only fail to destroy Earth, you won't even disturb one grain of sand upon it, or cause even the slightest delay in the every day lives of any human. Here you will die as you lived. Cold, and alone.
With that Rogeta flung the villain at an incredible rate through space. Cordell tried to stop himself but couldn't. Something else had taken hold of him, some incredible gravitational force.
Then Cordell exploded and Rogeta watched as the singularity was lit up for just an instant, and then Cordell and all of his power was sucked into the black hole.
Cordell was gone for good.
With a sigh, Rogeta teleported back to Namek 5.
Five minutes after reaching Namek Five, Rogeta's fusion wore off. Roger and Vegeta looked at each other for a long while. Both Vegeta and Roger had not liked the idea of fusion, to give up sovereignty of ones own body and mind is not an easy thing to do. But this fusion had brought about an awareness of just how every thing worked, and everyone's place and destiny within the universe. Such knowledge, unfortunately, could not be retained by mere mortal men, and was slowly being forgotten by Vegeta and Roger. Vegeta and Roger also knew that the need for Rogeta within their lifetimes was extremely remote. Both Vegeta and Roger reflected on the fact that they had started out as employer/employee and had ended up closer than most brothers would ever be.
Yambia ran to her husband's arms and embraced him.
"Good to have you back lover." Yambia smiled.
"It's not just me in here Yambia." Roger said, and spent the next fifteen minutes explaining the Namekian fusion, and just who in all was sharing his body.
Bura and Trunks Jr. ran to greet Vegeta. Vegeta had a genuine smile and embraced them both. "Brats!" He finally said.
Kirillin sat on a rock and pondered his existence. 18 walked up behind him and began to massage his neck. He had missed her terribly but he just couldn't see himself back on Earth, in Master Roshi's house for another lifetime. His destiny now laid in whatever direction the Saiyan race would take him, and he would ask 18 to come with him.
Goten and Trunks were both exhausted, and had fallen asleep leaned up against a small boulder. Trunks would go back to what it was he did best. Running the large mega-corporation named Capsule Corp. But not before an extended vacation he told himself. Goten would go back to teaching martial arts in the studios he and his wife opened up a few years back.
Gohan was thinking about having to go back to his professorship. For some reason the thought seemed intolerable to him.
Goku smiled. Goku would take his existence one step at a time, as it came to him. He always had and seen no real reason to change it.
Everyone looked up from their musings and looked at each other.
"We won!" Goku finally said.
Vegeta smirked. "Yes Kakkarot, we won."
"Well, shouldn't we cheer or something?" Goku smiled and scratched the back of his head.
Roger smiled Goku was so child-like sometimes. "I think that would be an excellent idea Goku. Lead us off."
Goku threw his head back and began to cheer, and whoop, and pump his arms in the air. The Z-Warriors around him laughed and followed his lead. Kirillin was jumping up and down. The surrounding families looked dumbfounded at first, but soon joined in. The effect was contagious and rapidly spread to every Saiyan on the planet. The noise was deafening. Even Vegeta joined in with some reluctance.
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On the Supreme Kai's planet, everyone was similarly cheering. Gerald suddenly jumped off of King Vegeta's shoulder, grabbed Jessica, put two fingers to his head and they both disappeared.
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Roger suddenly found himself in possession of a small girl, and an infant, both smiling and cheering up at him.
"Meet your son." Yambia said. "He seems to be able to chew what he bites off." Yambia smiled widely.
Roger was momentarily struck speechless, then smiled and started cheering again. He placed the kids up on his shoulders.
The cheering went on for minutes, and then it finally died down. Vegeta finally broke the ensuing silence.
"Now what?" Vegeta said. "What are we going to do with our people? There's too many to simply put them up at Capsule Corp. until they find a new home.
Goku thought. "This planet already has inhabitants. We have to leave here soon so the little lizard people can get on with their lives."
"I suppose that is where I come in." A familiar voice spoke.
Tao Kaioshin appeared before Vegeta and company.
"The Ultimate Kai!" Goku exclaimed.
"Hello everyone!" Tao Kaioshin answered.