Chapter 11
Pandemonium had broken out in Bulma's executive suite. At first, it had just been Bulma and Chi-chi holding a sobbing Launch and whispering to her that they were sure Tien was going to be just fine, while other member's of their party voiced similar optimism. However, as Launch was being comforted, she caught a whiff of Bulma's perfume and sneezed. Suddenly everyone was holding a now blond-headed Launch down, tying desperately to get the two guns that she had pulled out of Lord-only-knows-where away from her.
"Get off me!" She screamed, thrashing about as she tried to escape. "That son-of-a-bitch is dead! No one does that to Tien and lives!"
It took Yamcha, Bulma, Chi-chi, and Videl just to hold the blonde girl down. Master Roshi quickly brought some pepper and sprinkled it on her nose until she finally sneezed again. Everyone relaxed as she went back to sobbing.
"There, there, it's going to be alright Launch," Chi-chi soothed as she helped the purple haired woman to a chair and then handed her a tissue. "Just you watch, he's going to be just fine."
"Yeah," Bulma agreed. "In fact, I bet they already have him in a rejuvenation tank, he'll be as good as new in a few hours." She turned to a very worried looking Chiautzu and said, "Why don't you and Yamcha take Launch down to see Tien? I'll call down and make sure they let you in." Everyone brightened at this idea (especially Master Roshi, who was now going to be the only guy left in a room full of beautiful women) and the three friends were soon out the door.
"Wow," Videl said with a sigh, "that fight was really intense, and neither of them were even Saiyans!"
"Oh! That reminds me..." Bulma quickly picked up the phone and started dialing. "Mr. Naoko? Yes, this is Dr. Briefs. I want you to activate the L.A.D.P.S. for this next fight... Excellent, thank you." She put the receiver down.
"L.A.D.P.S?" Videl asked, everyone else in the room looked equally as confused.
"Local Area Dimensional Phase Shift." Bulma explained. "I got the idea from Future Trunks' time machine and have been tinkering with it ever since. It basically will shift the ring and a good portion of the area around, under, and above it slightly out of our dimension." Noticing the looks of horror on Chi-chi, Valese, and Videl's faces, she quickly added, "It's perfectly safe, Trunks and Vegeta have been using it for over a month. It'll allow everyone to fight at full power without endangering the fans, plus we can still see them... um..." They still looked uncertain, so Bulma quickly changed subjects. "Oh, hey, they're about to introduce Vegeta and Goten, let's go watch!"
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The remaining fighters greeted Yurak with angry glares as he walked past them to join Sike in the back corner; he didn't even seem to notice them.
Pan was so furious she nearly threw a punch at him as he passed by, but Gohan put his hand on her shoulder and whispered, "Don't worry; he has to face Vegeta or Goten in the next round. He'll get what's coming to him then." Then turning to Goten he said, "Good luck in your match!"
Goten looked a little pale. "Piece of cake!" he said with a half-hearted smile as he followed Vegeta out to the ring.
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"And our last match of the First round will be between Vegeta and Goten. It says here that Vegeta spent most of his life as an evil alien mercenary killing and enslaving thousands of people throughout the galaxy and that he refuses to take out the trash because he's an egotistical pi... um... Uh, well, it looks like someone is playing a little practical joke... I, uh, hope that Mr. Vegeta will accept our apologies..." the announcer said, as he looked up in fear, swallowed several times, and then tried to continue. "Uh, well, his opponent Goten is the brother of Gohan and son of the legendary Goku. It, um, looks like it will be a very exciting match!"
Vegeta glared up at the balcony of Bulma's suite as the foolish announcer tried in vain to find the correct information on him. Bulma was leaning over the railing and waving at him with a smirk on her face. Vegeta allowed a slight smile to cross his lips as he watched her.
"Good luck Vegeta," Goten said as he stepped to his mark.
Vegeta smiled viciously and said, "Luck will not be necessary."
~Well,~ Goten thought, swallowing hard, ~I'm dead.~
The bell rang and Goten and Vegeta immediately flew at each other at nearly the speed of light, seeming to disappear to the untrained eye. As one, the crowd turned their eyes to the Jumbo-screen and watched as Goten and Vegeta fought.
It was taking everything Goten had to keep up with Vegeta, but he was managing to dish out almost as much damage as he was taking. However, slowly but surely Vegeta was beginning to overwhelm him, until finally he was forced to give into the inevitable.
Goten threw a powerful punch that knocked Vegeta back a few feet and then with a yell and an explosion of golden light, he transformed. Vegeta smiled and transformed also. Goten began firing rapid ki blasts at Vegeta, who easily dodged them as he advanced on the younger man. When he reached Goten, the two Super Saiyans began to brutally punch and kick each other, neither gaining any real advantage. They both threw hard punches at the same time, knocking each other back.
The two Saiyans stared at each other for a while, and then Goten said, "Shall we just go straight to full power and stop fooling around like this?"
Vegeta cocked one eyebrow, he had not been expecting the youngest son of Kakarrot to present such a challenge to him, and then he smirked and called out, "If you are in such a hurry to lose, who am I to argue with you?"
Blue lightening crackled around the two warriors as the powered up, their hair becoming a little longer, spikier, and more golden. Had the L.A.D.P.S. not been activated, everyone in the arena would have been pushed through the backs of their seats by the power radiating from the two ascended Super Saiyans.
Goten felt for Vegeta's ki and compared it to his own. He frowned; Vegeta's power was enormous, he would not be able to hold out for long.
"Ready to give up boy?" Vegeta mocked.
Goten didn't bother to respond, he charged and punched Vegeta with everything he had. The cocky warrior smashed into the ring, creating a large crater, but he did not stay down. In a heart beat Vegeta and Goten were once again locked in hand to hand combat with Goten clearly taking the worst of it.
~Shit, I didn't want to do this, but it might be my only hope,~ Goten thought, then he took a deep breath and yelled, "Super Keo Ken!" Red light exploded around and then mixed with his golden aura.
Vegeta looked on in amazement, he hadn't realized that any of Kakarrot's brats had been taught this attack, and then he saw something that made his eyes widen in fear: Goten's muscles began to bubble.
~The fool! He wasn't ever taught this attack, he's trying to mimic a move that he's never even seen preformed and his body can't control this much power!~ Vegeta knew that he had to end the fight quickly, before one—or most likely both—of them ended up dead. Goten was struggling to hold himself together and was not giving his complete attention to the fight, Vegeta knew it was now or never. He brought his arms back, focused for a second, and then brought them forward, "Final Flash!"
Blue ki shot from his hands and slammed into the distracted Goten. The young fighter fell like a stone, slipping out of his Super Saiyan form a split second before he crashed into the ring. Vegeta landed next to him and checked his pulse (pleased to find it still strong), while the annoying announcer finished the ten-count. Several seconds later, Goten groaned and sat up, waving off the medics who were bringing a stretcher out to him.
Vegeta looked down at him, scowling. "You were foolish to attempt the Keo Ken without actually knowing how to do it, you could have been killed." He paused for a second, looked around, and then added in a quiet voice, "However, that aside, Kakarrot would have been proud of how hard you fought today, you have nothing to be ashamed of." Then he walked away.
Goten stared after him for a moment and wiped a small tear from his eye, ~I'll never understand that guy,~ he thought. Then he climbed to his feet and walked to where Gohan and the others were waiting for him.
A/N: The idea of Goten using the Keo Ken technique and having to be saved came from Dragon Ball Next, as did the idea (but not the name) for the L.A.D.P.S.
Pandemonium had broken out in Bulma's executive suite. At first, it had just been Bulma and Chi-chi holding a sobbing Launch and whispering to her that they were sure Tien was going to be just fine, while other member's of their party voiced similar optimism. However, as Launch was being comforted, she caught a whiff of Bulma's perfume and sneezed. Suddenly everyone was holding a now blond-headed Launch down, tying desperately to get the two guns that she had pulled out of Lord-only-knows-where away from her.
"Get off me!" She screamed, thrashing about as she tried to escape. "That son-of-a-bitch is dead! No one does that to Tien and lives!"
It took Yamcha, Bulma, Chi-chi, and Videl just to hold the blonde girl down. Master Roshi quickly brought some pepper and sprinkled it on her nose until she finally sneezed again. Everyone relaxed as she went back to sobbing.
"There, there, it's going to be alright Launch," Chi-chi soothed as she helped the purple haired woman to a chair and then handed her a tissue. "Just you watch, he's going to be just fine."
"Yeah," Bulma agreed. "In fact, I bet they already have him in a rejuvenation tank, he'll be as good as new in a few hours." She turned to a very worried looking Chiautzu and said, "Why don't you and Yamcha take Launch down to see Tien? I'll call down and make sure they let you in." Everyone brightened at this idea (especially Master Roshi, who was now going to be the only guy left in a room full of beautiful women) and the three friends were soon out the door.
"Wow," Videl said with a sigh, "that fight was really intense, and neither of them were even Saiyans!"
"Oh! That reminds me..." Bulma quickly picked up the phone and started dialing. "Mr. Naoko? Yes, this is Dr. Briefs. I want you to activate the L.A.D.P.S. for this next fight... Excellent, thank you." She put the receiver down.
"L.A.D.P.S?" Videl asked, everyone else in the room looked equally as confused.
"Local Area Dimensional Phase Shift." Bulma explained. "I got the idea from Future Trunks' time machine and have been tinkering with it ever since. It basically will shift the ring and a good portion of the area around, under, and above it slightly out of our dimension." Noticing the looks of horror on Chi-chi, Valese, and Videl's faces, she quickly added, "It's perfectly safe, Trunks and Vegeta have been using it for over a month. It'll allow everyone to fight at full power without endangering the fans, plus we can still see them... um..." They still looked uncertain, so Bulma quickly changed subjects. "Oh, hey, they're about to introduce Vegeta and Goten, let's go watch!"
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The remaining fighters greeted Yurak with angry glares as he walked past them to join Sike in the back corner; he didn't even seem to notice them.
Pan was so furious she nearly threw a punch at him as he passed by, but Gohan put his hand on her shoulder and whispered, "Don't worry; he has to face Vegeta or Goten in the next round. He'll get what's coming to him then." Then turning to Goten he said, "Good luck in your match!"
Goten looked a little pale. "Piece of cake!" he said with a half-hearted smile as he followed Vegeta out to the ring.
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"And our last match of the First round will be between Vegeta and Goten. It says here that Vegeta spent most of his life as an evil alien mercenary killing and enslaving thousands of people throughout the galaxy and that he refuses to take out the trash because he's an egotistical pi... um... Uh, well, it looks like someone is playing a little practical joke... I, uh, hope that Mr. Vegeta will accept our apologies..." the announcer said, as he looked up in fear, swallowed several times, and then tried to continue. "Uh, well, his opponent Goten is the brother of Gohan and son of the legendary Goku. It, um, looks like it will be a very exciting match!"
Vegeta glared up at the balcony of Bulma's suite as the foolish announcer tried in vain to find the correct information on him. Bulma was leaning over the railing and waving at him with a smirk on her face. Vegeta allowed a slight smile to cross his lips as he watched her.
"Good luck Vegeta," Goten said as he stepped to his mark.
Vegeta smiled viciously and said, "Luck will not be necessary."
~Well,~ Goten thought, swallowing hard, ~I'm dead.~
The bell rang and Goten and Vegeta immediately flew at each other at nearly the speed of light, seeming to disappear to the untrained eye. As one, the crowd turned their eyes to the Jumbo-screen and watched as Goten and Vegeta fought.
It was taking everything Goten had to keep up with Vegeta, but he was managing to dish out almost as much damage as he was taking. However, slowly but surely Vegeta was beginning to overwhelm him, until finally he was forced to give into the inevitable.
Goten threw a powerful punch that knocked Vegeta back a few feet and then with a yell and an explosion of golden light, he transformed. Vegeta smiled and transformed also. Goten began firing rapid ki blasts at Vegeta, who easily dodged them as he advanced on the younger man. When he reached Goten, the two Super Saiyans began to brutally punch and kick each other, neither gaining any real advantage. They both threw hard punches at the same time, knocking each other back.
The two Saiyans stared at each other for a while, and then Goten said, "Shall we just go straight to full power and stop fooling around like this?"
Vegeta cocked one eyebrow, he had not been expecting the youngest son of Kakarrot to present such a challenge to him, and then he smirked and called out, "If you are in such a hurry to lose, who am I to argue with you?"
Blue lightening crackled around the two warriors as the powered up, their hair becoming a little longer, spikier, and more golden. Had the L.A.D.P.S. not been activated, everyone in the arena would have been pushed through the backs of their seats by the power radiating from the two ascended Super Saiyans.
Goten felt for Vegeta's ki and compared it to his own. He frowned; Vegeta's power was enormous, he would not be able to hold out for long.
"Ready to give up boy?" Vegeta mocked.
Goten didn't bother to respond, he charged and punched Vegeta with everything he had. The cocky warrior smashed into the ring, creating a large crater, but he did not stay down. In a heart beat Vegeta and Goten were once again locked in hand to hand combat with Goten clearly taking the worst of it.
~Shit, I didn't want to do this, but it might be my only hope,~ Goten thought, then he took a deep breath and yelled, "Super Keo Ken!" Red light exploded around and then mixed with his golden aura.
Vegeta looked on in amazement, he hadn't realized that any of Kakarrot's brats had been taught this attack, and then he saw something that made his eyes widen in fear: Goten's muscles began to bubble.
~The fool! He wasn't ever taught this attack, he's trying to mimic a move that he's never even seen preformed and his body can't control this much power!~ Vegeta knew that he had to end the fight quickly, before one—or most likely both—of them ended up dead. Goten was struggling to hold himself together and was not giving his complete attention to the fight, Vegeta knew it was now or never. He brought his arms back, focused for a second, and then brought them forward, "Final Flash!"
Blue ki shot from his hands and slammed into the distracted Goten. The young fighter fell like a stone, slipping out of his Super Saiyan form a split second before he crashed into the ring. Vegeta landed next to him and checked his pulse (pleased to find it still strong), while the annoying announcer finished the ten-count. Several seconds later, Goten groaned and sat up, waving off the medics who were bringing a stretcher out to him.
Vegeta looked down at him, scowling. "You were foolish to attempt the Keo Ken without actually knowing how to do it, you could have been killed." He paused for a second, looked around, and then added in a quiet voice, "However, that aside, Kakarrot would have been proud of how hard you fought today, you have nothing to be ashamed of." Then he walked away.
Goten stared after him for a moment and wiped a small tear from his eye, ~I'll never understand that guy,~ he thought. Then he climbed to his feet and walked to where Gohan and the others were waiting for him.
A/N: The idea of Goten using the Keo Ken technique and having to be saved came from Dragon Ball Next, as did the idea (but not the name) for the L.A.D.P.S.