Unexpected Fate
Chapter 34
CMG: I got some inspiration today! Well, okay. I know if any of you fans have read the last chapter ignoring my protests, you know Gohan lost, correct? Don't worry. I'm going to make up for it.
Scrix: You really have been busy thinking of this plot, haven't you?
CMG: At first, it was going to be Bardock who was... hey! You were trying to make me give away the plot, weren't you!
Scrix: Oops!
*five minutes later...*
CMG: =^_^=
Scrix: *tied up on puppet strings on a makeshift stage* Chibi Mirai Gogeta! Let me off of these things!
CMG: No way!
Karis: This is a whole new low for you.
CMG: I know. I'm tired of saying the disclaimer. Since this is a fanfic, I don't own anyone but Scrix, Karis, or Infr. Let the story begin!
Scrix: *get off strings and trashes stage as CMG uses Instant Transmission to disappear for the whole episode* Get back here!
Karis: Oy! The people I get stuck with...
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The final round. Goku faced 18 and won hands down. Now, it was down to the last fight: The former champion of the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament against his own father.
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"Are you okay?" said Kibito as Shin regains consciousness.
"Yeah, that wasn't a normal punch," said Shin. "I doubt he's even human."
"Of course not, you fool," said Vegeta as Shin looks at him. "We are Saiya-jin. Bardock; his son, Kakarot, whom you call Goku; and myself are the last full-blooded Saiya-jin. Then, his two brats and my brat are hybrids."
Shin was shocked. Kibito stared beyond disbelief at Vegeta's words.
"There's no way you can be the last of the Saiya-jins!" said Kibito. "I thought a meteor destroyed your planet!"
"Liar!" said Vegeta. "Freeza destroyed it! He killed my people, he killed my father, and he killed me at one point."
"How do you live then?" said Shin.
"The Dragon Balls brought me back," said Vegeta. "Now shut-up. The match is about to begin and I want to see which person wins."
"Fine," said Shin as everyone settled down.
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"...and now, let the final match, BEGIN!" said the announcer as both of them transformed into Super Saiya-jins.
Disappearing, they reappear in the sky trading a barrier of punches and kicks against each other as the crowd gasps. Shockwaves fill the sky as they moved quickly. Soon, no one could keep up with them. Suddenly, Goku appears out of thin air as he hits the ground outside of the ring and creates a huge creator. The announcer and everyone were speechless.
"What happened?" said the announcer.
*Let's show them,* said Goku as they took their place up in the sky to re-enact the entire fight.
"First, we started trading punches and kicks," said Bardock as they demonstrated. "Then, we fired blasts at each other."
"After that, he hit me from behind with a double-fist blow to my back and managed to knock me into the ground below where I made that creator," said Goku as he falls the same way back into the creator he made in the ground on impact.
"Then the new champion is Bardock!" said the announcer as the crowd cheers wildly and Goku hugs his dad. Bardock hesitated before returning the hug as Spopovich and Yamu chose that moment to strike. Goku sensed the danger and threw his father aside as the needle pierced Goku's stomach and his energy was drained from his body.
"No! Kakarot!" cried Bardock as he tried to move. "I can't move! What's going on?!"
*Please, don't try to interfere,* said Shin's voice inside his head.
*I need to save my son!* said Bardock. *He's only got a day on this planet and...*
*I'm sorry,* said Shin's voice. *It's him or the planet.*
Goku soon fell to the ground back to normal and unconscious as Bardock ran to his son's side. Goku's face was pale as he began to vanish. Lifting his weakened body in his arms, Bardock yelled in rage as he transformed into a Super Saiya-jin 2 and powered up to Super Saiya-jin 3 instantly. The stadium shaked as the people panicked.
"No!" said Scrix as he ran into the ring and knocked out Bardock.
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What Bardock saw next, he found his son was gone as he curses silently. He noticed that he wasn't at the tournament anymore, but was in the desert as he heard Vegeta's voice. Looking for the source of the voice, he saw him on the ground below talking to Trunks.
"Come here, my son," said Vegeta as his arms encircled Trunks' shoulders.
"Why are you doing this dad?" said Trunks. "Come on. Cut it out."
Goten innocently sucks his thumb as Bardock realized that Vegeta was saying goodbye to his son before he died. He noticed the pink blob creature was starting to recover as Vegeta was finally doing the right thing.
"No, he couldn't be..." said Goku's voice as Bardock noticed his son behind him.
"Kakarot, how?" said Bardock.
"I don't know," said Goku. "I think it's another vision."
"Trunks, I want to tell you that," said Vegeta as he paused for a moment, "you make me proud, my son."
Trunks looked up to Vegeta in shock and in one fluid motion, he knocked Trunks out with a chop to the side of his neck as he reverts to normal.
"Why did you do that to Trunks?" said Goten. "Why did you hurt your son?! He could be dead! Why, why, why? Your his father! Fathers aren't supposed to do bad things to their sons! Why did you do it?!"
Vegeta then punched Goten in the gut as Goku growled in anger. Bardock was surprised as Goten fell to the ground, fainting out of Super Saiya-jin and losing consciousness. Piccolo came down as Vegeta commended the Namek to take the kids to safety. Piccolo picked up both Trunks and Goten's bodies as Vegeta stopped him from leaving for the moment.
"Tell me something," said Vegeta. "Do you think that I'll see that clown, Kakarot in the Other World?"
"I doubt it," said Piccolo. "Goku has done good things while you have killed millions of innocent lives. You will be sent to hell for what you've done."
"Oh well," said Vegeta as Piccolo flew away.
"He was looking forward to the battle," said Goku. "I should have given him a better one earlier..."
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Bardock slowly regained consciousness as he noticed that his son was still in his arms. Of course, he noticed something wasn't right. The halo that was over his head was gone somehow as he looked over his head.
"No," said Bardock as he got off of his son's body. "He's alive!"
"You used up your life energy," said Scrix as Bardock turned around to see him standing there. "When you charged up to your max, all of your energy went into him before I managed to knock you out. However, it still killed you and now, he's alive again."
"I see," said Bardock as he noticed the halo over his head. "Why isn't he waking up though?"
"Since your life energy was all you gave him, he still hasn't recovered consciousness," said Scrix. "The others are after Baba-di."
"Baba-di?" said Bardock. "Who's he?"
"He's the one who's resurrecting Buu..." said Goku as he moaned in his sleep.
"Huh?" said Bardock as he tries to wake up his son. "Kakarot! Wake up!"
"Leave him alone," said Scrix. "He's going to need his rest if he's going to stall Buu soon."
"What do you mean?" said Bardock.
"I think you know," said Scrix as he transforms into a Super Saiya-jin 3 and waves his staff in a circle.
"What's going..." said Bardock as a white light blinds him.
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"...On?" finished Bardock as he noticed he was in a palace. He instantly knew everyone's name strangely enough.
"What?!" said Grand Kai. "You want to train him?"
"If that's all right with you," said Scrix. "He seems to have so much untapped potential and I am the God over his kind after all."
"His kind?" said Bardock as he continues to watch.
"I suppose that be a good plan," said Grand Kai. "Yo, Goku!"
"Huh?" said Goku as he lands.
"What's up Grand Kai?" said King Kai as he bows politely as Goku stands there looking blank as a sheet of paper.
"The God of your people says he's willin' to train you," said Grand Kai. "Maybe you should since you need to be ready for my trainin' in 200 years."
"Correction, 199 years and... ," said King Kai.
"Same difference," said Grand Kai. "Begone."
"Now what?" said Bardock as the scene changes.
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Bardock found himself in the other realm as he noticed that Goku and Scrix were talking alone near the training grounds where he once fought Piccolo before losing consciousness.
"So, why am I here?" said Goku.
"Kakarot," said Scrix as he transformed into a Super Saiya-jin 3. "I want to make you ascend again, but only if you're willing to train hard."
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Time passed as Bardock saw Goku getting stronger and stronger. Karis would often times have to help with healing and creating new clothes to keep training him. Each time he came close to ascending to the third level, he would lose consciousness or come close to destroying himself.
"Come on," said Scrix as he blocked another punch from Goku, who was struggling to keep up with Scrix in his Super Saiya-jin 2 form. "You can do this!"
"Easy for you to say," said Goku in a sour voice that made Scrix look up at Goku in shock. "I know that despite what you tell me, I won't be able to ascend unless I work for it, am I right?"
"You know that's true," said Scrix. "However, you don't do it because you believe that if you do ascend again, you are afraid of what the power will bring. Am I right?"
"No!" said Goku as he grew angrier and the electricity bounced on his body. "I am not going to be weak either!"
"Then what are you going to do?" said Scrix.
"This," said Goku and he screamed loud to the heavens above as he began to feel the raw power in his body.
Goku screamed as his hair grew down his back and the lighting danced around his body. Bardock was surprised. The golden light blinded Scrix and Bardock as they barely stood their ground. When the light faded, Scrix and Bardock were both shocked to see Goku standing there, a Super Saiya-jin 3. Before Scrix could block, Goku struck out at Scrix and managed to punch him in the face very hard as he went flying into a wall and looked up. Instead of blue eyes, Goku's eyes were completely blood red. Bardock remembered how his son told him what happened in the RoSaT and gasped.
"Kakarot!" said Scrix. "Control it! Don't let the power corrupt you!"
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Scrix was battered and bloody as Goku stood over him about to deliver the final blow. (A/N: Okay. That was a bit lame, but this is MY fanfic!) Bardock tried to reach Goku to snap him out of it, but he went right through Goku. Before Goku could hurt Scrix though, Karis enters and screams as Kakarot turned his attention to her. Before he could strike Karis down, Scrix found the last remaining strength to summon an energy attack.
"ENERGY DRAIN!" cried Scrix as a blue aura wrapped Goku's body up and drained Goku's body of his power and he reverted to normal. Karis was scared as Scrix comforted her.
"Scrix, you should have been more careful!" said Karis.
"I'm sorry," said Scrix as Karis smiles. She gives Scrix the potion and Infr enters.
"The boy will need more training if he's to use the form properly," said Infr. "You had some slight trouble with it at first, but you adjusted since you didn't deny what you were. The boy denies what he is still and if he's to fully control it; he must accept every bit of what he is."
"Is that why he has trouble adjusting to the power?" said Bardock as the scene changes again.
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Suddenly, Bardock sees Goku was training in his Super Saiya-jin 2 form with his wings on his back. Goku suddenly sees something that Scrix or Bardock himself couldn't and panicked. Yelling, Goku ascends and teleports out.
"No Goku! You can't!" cried Scrix's voice.
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"What?" said Bardock as he realizes that he was near the volcano where he tried to commit suicide when Goten was born.
Goku sees his father falling deeper in the volcano as he forces himself to plummet into the volcano as fast as he could and catch Bardock's unconscious body. Then, he flaps his wings as he flies gracefully out of the volcano and sets his father down on the ground as he regains consciousness. However, it doesn't last long as Goku senses Gohan coming and disappears.
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When the vision ended, Scrix lowered his staff as he fell to his knees in exhaustion. Bardock now knew everything. The angel who saved his life was his own son!
"Kakarot, why?" said Bardock as he looked at Goku's unconscious form. "Why did you save me?"
Bardock suddenly remembered the Zoi Stone as he opened the pouch and turned it upside down. All that came out was ashes as he freaked out. Karis entered the room at that moment and noticed what was going on.
"I told you that once you die, the Zoi Stone would be broken," said Karis. "It seems that when you channeled your energy into Kakarot, you burned the stone to dust."
"So, that's why you brought me here," said Bardock as he addressed Scrix. "You knew that I was going to die."
"Yes," said Scrix. "The others were afraid that you went crazy, so I brought you here to learn everything that happened and to find out whom the angel was that saved you."
Scrix weakly got up as Karis helped him to a nearby chair to sit down. The staff disappeared as he reverted to normal. Bardock was shocked by the news.
"Of course, Kakarot has learned about the past as well," said Karis. "During his last 7 years here, we began to tell him the history of our people and restored some of his memories of his mission. At first, Infr was against the idea, but Scrix and I insisted after what happened when Kakarot went nearly insane with the transformation a few times to revive his memories."
"Did he..." said Bardock becoming fearful that his son had became a monster.
"No," said Scrix. "He took what he learned rather well. At first, he was afraid, but after we told him of the history of our people, he began to slowly, yet surely embrace what he was. He still didn't have the strength though to ascend though since he wore himself out doing it out of rage and almost kill my mate."
"So, he knows, huh?" said Bardock.
"Yes," said Karis. "Bardock, please do me a favor."
"What is it?" said Bardock.
"Go back to Earth," said Karis.
"But I'm..." said Bardock.
"Don't you remember the vial?" said Scrix. "Once Vegeta dies, you must take the vial and drink it if you are to be resurrected."
"Huh?" said Bardock. "Why?"
"So that the Dragon Balls resurrect you," said Scrix.
Behind Bardock, Goku starts to slowly come to as he slowly regains consciousness. Karis slowly helps up Goku as he saw his father was dead.
"Huh?" said Goku as he freaks out. "How did you die? Did Buu destroy Earth? Wait a second, am I alive?"
Bardock and Karis facevault as Scrix sighs.
"Kakarot, you are alive, you idiot," said Scrix as Goku notice that his halo was gone.
"What?!" said Goku.
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CMG: Yeah, it was evil, but I had to do something!
Karis: Um, aren't you supposed to be in Germany?
CMG: Oh shi...
Scrix: I found you!
CMG: Guess again! *Instant Transmissions away*
Scrix: Damn!
*In Australia...*
CMG: Dang it! I had to teleport to Australia! Oh well. At least Scrix won't kill me for awhile! Later!
