Bound
Chapter 10
Straight to the point, this time: I don't own them. Now read on!
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Gohan was asleep and unaware of the battle that was about to take place. As he slept, he felt a familiar, yet foreign power as he came to with sweat coming down his brow. Though he was far from the control room, he still felt something wrong as he got out of bed.
'What's going on?' thought Gohan as he walked quietly there.
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The flaxen aura surrounded the naturally calm Earth-raised Saiya-jin as instincts to kill Sin spoke heavily through his mind. For once, he didn't mind answering them as he took a step forward as the one who corrupted him took a step back.
"Are you afraid?" said Goku in a mocking voice as he took another step forward towards his former captor. "You should be..."
"I'm not afraid of you!" hissed Sin as he growled and took another step back and bumped into the control panel. "I can easily destroy you at any given time."
"Prove it then, or are you a coward?" said Goku icily. He wasn't acting like himself on the battlefield and his cockiness was similar to Vegeta's.
If anything, that would be his downfall as Sin felt the control panel with his right hand as it landed on a familiar button. Sin smirked as his hand hit a button and wires came snaking around Goku's body as he felt electricity pour into his body and knock him out. As his body hit the ground with a deafening thud, Sin smirked as he picked up the unconscious warrior's body. Gohan, who saw his father fall to the ground before his eyes, stared in shock as Sin took him away. He felt a part of himself screaming to save his father, but another to let the bastard do as he may. The latter though felt wrong as Gohan felt a talon on his shoulder and looked to see...
"Piccolo..." whispered Gohan as he saw his mentor standing behind him as he lead Gohan away from the room where his father was at.
"Gohan, I know what you're thinking and I don't want you to lose your father again," said Piccolo in a stern voice.
"But Piccolo, he... he abandoned me..." said Gohan.
"He did it to save Earth though," said Piccolo as it turned out that he wasn't brainwashed by the corrupted and insane villain. "Vegeta and I were only acting just so we can stop Sin. We need you as well, Gohan..."
Piccolo's hand ran through Gohan's hair as he pushed his first friend away from him. He ran back to his room where he was alone and punched the wall.
"Why should I?" said Gohan before his mind was assaulted with flashbacks. "I... I... daddy..." His body shook. "DADDY!"
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Goku floated in the void of his mind as he felt his son's pain. For a fleeting moment, he thought that he had seen Kakarotto standing there. Yet, he still felt alone as he felt despair and abandonment.
"You're not alone..."
"Yet it feels like it..."
"Are you just going to let Sin win this battle or are you going to break out of this?"
"I... I feel like I've let everyone down though..."
"You were only doing what you thought was right at the time. Don't let what Sin do to you harm anyone else! If you care, you would wake up and fight back!"
"I can't though. I feel something keeping me in this state."
"Damn that bastard... trying to keep us sedated like this... We need to contact someone to help us..."
"But how?"
"Call out to Gohan. Tell him..."
Goku felt the voice fade from his mind. With as much effort as he could, he focused through the weakened and strained bond that wasn't used for years to call out to the son; the son he used to know with his heart, mind, body, and soul.
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Gohan, Gohan, speak to me!
The hybrid sat up from his bed as he heard his father's voice. He was still upset and didn't want to get involved with saving his own father's life. Bitterly, he responded to his father's desperate call, despite how it phased the warrior's emotions.
Why should I talk to you after what you did? snapped Gohan angrily. You abandoned me and I thought that you were dead! I hate you!
Gohan, whatever Sin did to you has made you angry and hate me. You need to break the spell that he put upon you, mind, body, and soul. I know you can do this!
Just leave me alone! roared Gohan as he hissed in pain. I already told you that I don't care about you anymore!
That's not true. You care about your mom and brother, so you care about me too. Now stop sulking and help Vegeta and Piccolo...
The words struck some cords in Gohan as he winced. He did care. No matter how many times he denied or said that he didn't love his father, he did love him and nothing could change it. Tears brimmed his eyes as he wiped them away as his father's presence left him.
"Fine," said Gohan out loud and he left his room. He walked down the empty and gloomy hallways in order to find Piccolo and Vegeta. Once he found his allies, he would save the only person that he thought was slain by Cell's hands, but turned out to be used in a plot to end all humanity.
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"What made you change your mind, brat?" said Vegeta as he tears off the vest.
"I had some convincing from my father," snorted Gohan.
"Whatever, I'm just interested in saving Kakarot and killing him myself at my own leisure," said Vegeta.
The three warriors walked into Sin's lab as they saw Goku floating in a tank completely nude. The three warriors saw that he had wires running all over his skin again and his tail completely bound by a metallic claw. The Saiya-jin paralyzed physically by the grip as Gohan and Vegeta winced. Gohan snorted in anger at the state his father was in; but before the trio could attempt to rescue the fallen warrior, the doors hiss open as Sin walked into the room.
"I see you three have arrived just in time to watch the execution," said Sin.
"Let my father go, you bastard!" yelled Gohan.
"I'm afraid I can't do that," said Sin. "Soon, my pet, Apocalypse will feed upon his nutrients and be fully activated."
"You sick bastard!" hissed Vegeta as he aimed a blast at Sin.
"Go ahead," said Sin as he tossed his hands in the air. "Kill me, but that won't save your ally."
"Let Son go," said Piccolo.
"Kakarotto's too weak to survive the minute he's freed from the tank, so I'm saving you the trouble of him dying," said Sin as a rumble is heard. "Apocalypse shall now feast on his body and absorb him..."
The walls came to life as a completely void silver creature emerged from the wall and stepped into the tank that Goku was in. It opened its mouth as tentacles wrapped around Goku's body.
"Son!" yelled Piccolo.
"Kakarot!" yelled Vegeta.
"Father!" yelled Gohan as the three warriors answered as one.
"BREAK FREE!"
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Goku felt something wrong as his body started to lose the battle. His heartbeat slowed as he felt himself slipping...
THUMP... THUMP... thump...thump... silence reigned for a moment as nothingness almost seemed to swallow him... but then, he heard a cry:
"BREAK FREE!"
thump...
"Goku, you can do it..."
thump... ...thump...
"Come on..."
thump... ...thump... ...thump...
"You can't let Sin win!"
The darkness receded as Goku saw Kakarotto holding him in his arms completely transparent. As his heartbeat started again, Kakarotto was giving him the strength to defy death itself.
"If you die, then Sin will hurt everyone! Including your own son!"
Goku began to respond as his body began to glow in a transparent light. Anger filled his body as the thoughts of Sin tormenting others, including his allies and his own son. As the blood circulated through his almost completely dead body, he felt himself starting to awaken...
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Eyes snapped open underwater as Goku felt his body bound by wires as well as something slimy as he saw the mouth about devour his head. Hissing underwater, his power instantly rose as his muscles bulged. The creature's body was hit by Goku's aura as the glass shattered; sending the shards of fragments and water raining down on the warriors as well as Sin. Wires were torn off the Earth-raise Saiya-jin's body as he stared down at them with his tail lashing and free from the binds. He stood nude in his ascended past the ascended Super Saiya-jin form in all of his glory as he sneered down at the dictator below. The creature, known as Apocalypse, laid there by Goku's feet, barely alive and had glass shards and wire cords embedded in its skin.
"I-impossible!" hissed Sin as Goku floated up and charged out of the broken remains of the tank and punched Sin into the tank where Dende was imprisoned.
Goku hissed angrily as his eyes were again completely red. The fight against Sin was taking its toll on Goku's body as he was breathing heavily after almost dying and getting devoured by the creature Sin called Apocalypse. As Sin fell to the floor, the tank that Dende was in exploded.
"No! Dende!" cried Gohan as he watched in horror as the young Guardian of Earth was destroyed before their very eyes. Goku hissed as he looked away in vain.
'I'm sorry, Dende...' thought Goku as Sin got up angry at the one who he tried to use to destroy Earth.
"You fools! You ruined everything!" hissed Sin as he floats up to where Apocalypse's body was at. "I shall destroy you with the combined power of Apocalypse!"
Sin touched the creature as its body began to wrap itself around Sin's arm. Goku wanted to attack him; yet, he was curious to know what would happen next as the creature engulfed Sin's body. Apocalypse took on Sin's body structure as it stood there. His body was now completely silver as his clothes were gray instead of black. His hair dissolved as he looked really freaky after the transformation as he stood there looking more aggressive and evil.
"You freak!" yelled Goku.
"Look in a mirror," said the creature. "I have evolved and become ultimate! I am Sin, Destroyer of Worlds!"
Goku slid into a battle stance, but before he could fight, Piccolo stopped the warrior.
"Son, I want you to know that you won't last a minute fighting looking like that," said Piccolo as he looked at the still nude Goku's battle stance.
"What do you mean?" said Goku sliding out of his battle stance. Piccolo blushed a deep scarlet color before zapping Goku's body in a white light. "Huh?"
Before Goku's very eyes, clothes manifested themselves onto his body. In moments, he was adorned in the old orange and blue fighting gear he wore before his abduction by Sin. The familiar light-weighted boots were on his feet as he felt more comfortable fighting. It was a very needed improvement of having his feet touch the cold metallic ground as he noticed how numb his feet were. Though he was wearing his old fighting gear, it felt a bit odd for him to be wearing the colors he had not worn in a long time. Yet, he didn't show that concern as he flashed the old Son grin as a thank to his former nemesis. Piccolo smirked as Goku slid into his battle stance again as Sin lunged at Goku.
Goku blocked the blow in the nick of time as the two traded blows against one another as they threw a melee of attacks to try to break each other's guard. Though Goku was originally winded, his fighting strength increased gradually. Sin, on the other hand, was pushed further into the corner. It seemed like the Earth-raised Saiya-jin had the upper hand during the first round after his near-death experience pushed him beyond his normal limits.
As the fight wore on, Sin was flabbergasted when Goku came out of nowhere with the unbridled power he possessed as he struggled to keep up. Soon, he found that despite Goku's strength and speed, his stamina was lower than normal due to the drugs that were put in his system. Soon, Sin managed to regain the upper hand as he grabbed Goku ruthlessly by the long locks of his hair.
"Gah!" cried Goku as he's thrown into a wall as the metal walls melted and wires began to spill out of the walls.
"Dad!" cried Gohan as his hair returned to the midnight locks he was born with.
"So, where's your fighting spirit now?" said Sin as the wires began to wrap around Goku's wrists as Sin approached the Earth-raised Saiya-jin was at. No one could move as Sin grabbed Goku by the torn fighting shirt, but Goku's tail grabbed one of the flailing wires from the wall as Sin pulled the warrior closer to him. "It's time for your death!"
"No!" hissed Goku as his tail stabbed Sin with the wire as he was shocked by the electricity from it as the Earth-raised Saiya-jin fell out of his grasp onto the floor as Sin cried out in pain. Goku felt the wires release him as he blasted Sin with the power he had left within his body as the monster was sent back to Hell where he came from.
"You did it, Son!" said Piccolo. Goku smiled as he winced in pain a little bit, but still gave his allies a thumbs up as they laughed.
"Question is though, how are we going to revive Earth and all her people?" said Gohan as he looked at where the heavenly body once orbited the star. All that was left was the debris of a dead planet that had once floated within the system known as Sol.
"We could go to Namek and bring them back," said Goku.
Suddenly, the alarms on the spaceship went off as the four warriors nearly fell over.
"WARNING! THE SPACESHIP WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN 30 SECONDS!" said a computer voice as Goku willed himself to remain standing.
"Do you still know where it is?" said Piccolo in a panic as the red lights flared.
"Of course I do!" said Goku as the survivors of a dead world grabbed Goku by his shoulders. Goku concentrated as he focused on the Planet Namek. "Hang on."
With a flicker, the four warriors disappeared. Seconds later, the spaceship that the warriors fought on exploded in a blinding light. The debris of metal and other inanimate objects went flying into the empty void of space.
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The grass swayed as Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, and Gohan appear out of thin air. As Goku took a single step, they were surrounded by warrior Namekians as they held sword-like weapons towards the four surviving warriors. Moori approached the quartet of warriors with a scowl on his face. Goku felt bitterness from the Namek he saved long ago on a planet that was endangered by the wrath of Freeza as he seemed to hold a grudge against the Earth-raised Saiya-jin.
"What's going on?" said Goku.
"You are no longer welcome here," said Moori. "It's because of you that Dende's dead."
"How do you..." started Goku before he was knocked out.
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CMG: I'd hate to say it, but there will be more to this story than I thought. Including with an evil twist I came up with coming up in the next chapter! So on to reviews:
DBZ Chick1: I could kill Gohan off, but that would just be plain cruel, now wouldn't? Of course, someone is bound to die. I won't say who because that would make someone rather upset... *gets hit in the head by a book*
Psy: *cringes as she hides behind Goku* Don't blast me! I reviewed your stuff! *starts worshipping her writing as Goku rolls his eyes*
Gokugirl9: Well Goku's not dead and Sin's been defeated. Happy now?
Luna's Meow: Hopefully, the fight was well worth the wait. However, there is another battle on the horizon.
As promised, here's a sneak peek of the next chapter that will leave all of you hungry for more:
"Let Son go, Moori," said Piccolo. "He means no harm to any of you."
"Are you sure?" questioned Moori as Goku grew tense.
"Can't I prove that I won't hurt anyone or are you the one who's tainted?" sneered Goku angrily as his eyes flashed teal.
On Kami's Lookout, Dende appears as Mr. Popo cries out in relief for the Guardian of Earth re-appearing out of thin air. Dende, on the other hand, seemed different and more quiet as he did not share in Mr. Popo's bliss. If Goku were there, he would have stopped Dende for what happened next: he killed Mr. Popo without any mercy.
"What?" cried Vegeta. "Then does that mean we'll have to fight against whatever the hell Dende's creating?"
"Is this true, dad?" said Gohan as Goku clenched his fists.
"I believe so, but I'm too weakened from the last round of fighting," said Goku. "I need to rest until we can go after Dende or else we'll fall."
"He's our daddy?" said Goten as Goku noticed the sad look on the young hybrid's face before he got angry. "Gohan! I thought you said our father abandoned us! Why is he here now? Why?"
"Goten... I...." started Gohan before he found himself on the ground in pain as Goten was about to strike his own brother down. Before the final bow could be delivered, Goku intercepted the blow, much to Gohan's surprise.
"Listen, I didn't abandon you, Goten," hissed Goku as he tried to hold his ascended state as he held back Goten's fist from hitting the elder warrior. "I was kidnapped and brainwashed to destroy Earth..." Before anyone could act, Goku suddenly passed out from the strain of ascending; his flaxen hair reverted back to the atramentous locks that the warrior had naturally.
Well, hopefully you'll come back next time to find out what will happen next. Please leave your reviews on your way out. See ya! ^^