Sushi smiled, "Tired already, you two? I'm not even finished warming up!"
"Man," Goku huffed to himself, "these guys work really good as a team. There's no way I'll be able to beat them if they keep fighting together like this."
Sushi was getting impatient, and started to taunt Goku, "C'mon! I can't stand it! Are we going to fight or what!?"
"Sushi, chill!" Tyler told his comrade. "You might not need to catch your breath, but I do, so just give me a break, and we can continue."
"How 'bout we take turns?" Sushi raised an eyebrow. "I'll take him on 'till I get tired, then you take over. This guy's pretty good; he'll last long enough for you to get a turn"
"Yes, say yes!" Goku encouraged silently.
Still huffing slightly, Tyler wiped the side of his mouth with his arm, "I know I'm probably making a big mistake, but, okay, we can take turns. You first."
"ALL RIGHT!" Goku cheered mentally.
Sushi gave a devilish grin to Goku, then charged him.
"Uh-oh! I'm not ready!" Goku blocked as Sushi practically flew into him with two fists.
"Well you'd better get ready," Sushi swung his other two fists, bringing one in high and the other in low, "because I'm not waiting any longer!"
Goku attempted to block the fists, but he had only one arm free. Upon contact, Goku was thrown shoulder-first into the front of a building. Sushi pursued, and started pummeling Goku further into the wall, until a hole was borne through it.
"I'm gonna grind you into dust with my bare hands; then I'll take care of your friends on by one," Sushi mocked as he stalked into the shadows after Goku.
The silence that followed lasted only a second, but it seemed like an eternity had passed before a booming sound, like a drawn-out gunshot, erupted from the darkness. Sushi was catapulted out of the gaping black maw of the mangled storefront, and skidded along the ground, creating a rut similar to the one he forced Vegeta into making. When he finally stopped, Goku stepped deliberately through the mess of the building into the light of the street lamp. His hair gleamed a brilliant golden color.
"I'm sick of your twisted little game," Goku began. "all you can think about is fighting and hurting people; bringing pain to others."
Sushi didn't seem shaken as he stood, "So?"
"I'm sick of it! I can't stand people like you! People who's only purpose is to make other's lives a hell shouldn't be allowed to live at all; they should be irradiated like the pests they are. People like you are the true bane of society, who don't deserve the life they've been given. Because of that," Goku paused mid-sentence to clench his fists tighter, "I'm going to give you a taste of your own medicine!"
Sushi grinned wickedly, "Bring it on."
Goku practically teleported to Sushi, and elbowed him in the face. He seemed to be in two places at once when he ran behind the blue beast and clobbered him good a few times. Sushi attempted to fly away from the assault, a feat which extracted gasps of amazement from the gathered crowd, but Goku followed him to the night sky.
Serena freaked out, "Whoa! He can fly? Nobody told me Goku could fly!"
There was a pause as the two combatants rose out of sight, but soon Sushi came crashing down to Earth again. He leapt out of the crater he formed and stared, wide eyed, at Goku, who descended like some supernatural angel from above, landing gently on his feet.
"Who - What are you?!" Sushi stammered.
"Apparently your worst nightmare," Goku answered flatly.
Rae noticed that Sushi was bleeding at the corners of his mouth, and was about to see if Serena had noticed it, too, when Tyler nabbed her. She managed a strangled scream before his hand covered her mouth and rose to hover in the air, about even with the rooftops. Everyone turned, and when Goku saw what was going on, he took a step closer to her.
"Rae!"
Tyler chuckled, "Rae," he tested the name on his tongue, "is that her name? Yes? It's a beautiful name for such a beautiful young lady." Tyler used the thumb on the hand holding Rae's mouth shut to stroke her cheek, "It would be such a pity if I had to kill her because of a mistake on your part. You wouldn't want her to die at such a precious young age, now would you?" He laughed softly at the glare of hatred Goku leveled at him. "You well let Sushi and myself leave here, unescorted, to return to Garlic Junior. Understood?"
In defeat, Goku could only boil in his anger, "Understood."
"Oh, and Goku," Tyler added in a teasingly sweet voice, "the hair? I'm afraid I don't much like the color; the glare from it hurts my eyes."
At this remark, Sushi grinned in that eerie fashion of his. Goku balked silently, but in the end, he returned his hair to normal form without any verbal complaint. Tyler laughed demonically at the way he had Goku wrapped around his little finger, then he flew off, followed closely by Sushi. When they winked out of sight, Goku cursed and punched into the ground, cracking the pavement beneath his fist.
"Dammit! I should have known they wouldn't fight fair!" He stood up and looked out after them, "I should have never taken my eyes off that one!"
"Rae! Rae, come back!" Serena called dramatically after Rae before turning on Goku, "Why did you let them get away?! Couldn't you have just done some of your kung-fu stuff to stop them?"
Goku looked down at his fists, "No, it wouldn't have done any good."
"What do you mean? I saw you fly after that big blue guy, for goodness sake!"
"Serena, listen to me!" Goku was clenching his fists so hard the veins on his arms stood out. "Tyler already had her right where he needed her to have the most effect. If he saw me move, he could have snapped her neck right then and there. Even if I was able to get to him, he could have dropped her and grabbed anther hostage while I went to save her."
"But you could have done something to save her from those evil monsters, why didn't you?"
"Because I'm not fast enough, Sarina!" Goku glared at Serena. "I did the best thing possible!"
Just then, Kosha's voice could be heard talking to the speaker of the only squad car that remained untouched, "Chief? Chief, this is Detective Kosha; the scene here has gone chaotic! Two unidentified suspects have taken the witness hostage and Goku has returned. Sir, I need. . . Hey!"
Kosha shrieked in surprise when Goku's hand covered the radio and pulled it from her.
"The more people you pull into this mess, the more funerals you'll need to attend," Goku scoweled at Kosha before yanking the speaker cord right out of the radio. "Get everyone out of here, now!"
Kosha grabbed Goku's wrist after he tossed the speaker onto the seat of the police vehicle, "And just where do you think you're going? You have a lot of explaining to do, Mister!"
Without warning, Goku slyly powered up, forming his energy to mimic the blue flames Tyler had made. Kosha released his wrist in terror and stumbled backward, as if trying to escape the horrible memory Tyler had etched into her mind forever.
"You remember what he said, right?" Goku reffered to Tyler. "Let me refresh your memory: 'If you piss me off in a good mood, I might let you die quickly. Catch me in a bad one, and you'll be begging me to let you die.' That was a warning, and the consequence. You don't even come close to having the power to defeat these guys. I suggest you heed his words, or I personally will see that you suffer for all the innocent lived you destroyed by bringing them into this mess. Up until now, I've been very patient; but, it seems I have no more patience left to waste on fool like you."
Goku halted the inexplicable blue fire and just walked away, back to the street he came from, and out of sight.
