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Super Saiyan Aftermath

Chapter 4 Dangerous Path

A few days after being recruited into the Colonial Defense Army, Cable realized it would not be an easy path. Not as though he expected it to be. He was presumably the strongest being in existence. At least his allies hoped. No one, not even Cable, knew of the evil festering in him. Unfiltered hatred for everything he was fighting for. A lie. He knew he couldn't stay with these people anymore. They were mocking him, in some form or another. He could feel their leering stares. He couldn't stand it for much longer.

"I want a mission to some far off place. I need to get out for a while." Cable spoke to the headmaster, Cid. Cid was beginning to grow on him. A person he could really trust. No, he couldn't trust anyone now. 'I must become self-reliant. I need no one now. I have what it takes to be a cold and ruthless warrior.' He had schemed to escape this 'institution' after Zed's death.

"All right, but you have to be careful. Where I want to send you is quite dangerous. There are quite a few A class beings, all of them ruthless. They would kill you without looking back on it. You should mask your power, lest you attract something unknown. Your mission is this: Exterminate the gathered enemies. That should eliminate all outside influence and tax the pressure put on the colonies." Cid said without missing a beat. He knew Cable would probably die from this, but he couldn't have a risk like him around.

"Good, when do I leave?" Cable asked, assuming he would be trained on how to operate a space craft and take it there. He was sorely wrong. He was outfitted with a space suit and wrist locater. He was to fly to the enemies central axis in space and attack it with full force. Full up to the point of not becoming a level 2. That could be dangerous as Cid said. For now, he would eat and rest, for he would need all the strength he could get.

Hours later, a guard in heavy black armor awoke Cable from his happy dreams with his family. 'Just add to the list, big guy.' The guard escorted him down a hallway to the armory. He then showed him to a black space suit. It had two crossing bandoleers filled with viles on its chest, connecting to the oxygen supply. The helmet was also black, with a menacing black visor. It was definitely an intimidating thing to look at.

'I bet when I transform the top of the helmet breaks off.' He thought jokingly.

"Put this on and meet me in the hall when your done." With that, the guard had left Cable alone. The suit was an easy enough article of clothing to put on alone. Take off the straps and step into it, zip it up, put the straps back on. All that being done, Cable tested the resistance and elasticity of the suit. It passed his test. He left the room and entered the hallway. The guard stood at attention.

"This way, please." The guard said as he moved up to a lock to the outside of the building. "Good luck, Sir!" The guard said as he opened the lock. Instantly the room depressurized, allowing Cable to step outside freely.

Once outside, Cable realized that the campus was built on something resembling a meteor, a slow moving one, about the size of a small planet. After noting this, he took a look at his wrist locater and flew in the direction he was told. It was a twenty minute flight at a safe, undetectable speed. Once he arrived at the axis of the enemies location, he felt completely alone. He didn't detect anything that posed a threat. Probably a malfunction he kept telling himself. For some reason though, the space around him became darker and darker. Without warning, Cable was struck with an unusually strong blunt appendage.

"What the hell was that?" he thought out loud. As if in response, he was struck again, this time much harder, sending him flying into a nearby passing comet. Just as he landed, or rather struck, he saw what he was up against. A dragon! It flew with blinding speed, using its massive feet to crush Cable into the comet even more. He got a better look at the thing. It had a long, canoe shaped head, with two yellow eyes with navy blue slits that represented pupils. Its body was massive, bones showing, in fact no skin at all. The arms it had weren't short, but rather too long. The legs reminded him of that of a kangaroo. No flesh at all, except on the wings. The wings were long, spanning a total of over thirty feet. The creature stood at a massive twenty feet.

As these mental notes went through Cable's head, he summoned the strength to throw the creature off. It took a lot more than he bargained for. And he was vulnerable during that time, and the beast took no time in bringing its head down and biting down with extreme power on Cable's left arm. All of Cable's world went into a deep fire red as the bones shattered and crunched under the force of the dragon. There was a second problem, the teeth, or jagged skull parts, pierced the suit. He was losing air fast and he knew it. Without thinking, he took off a strap holding the oxygen and used it too wrap around the holes in the suit.

With that problem taken care of, he had one more obstacle in front of him. The dragon. He adjusted the remaining strap to hold the oxygen tank better. The dragon hadn't attacked yet, but now it was painfully obvious why. The flesh-less creature created a giant energy ball in its mouth and was preparing to fire.

"NO!" Cable screamed, the sound not escaping his helmet. All he could do was brace for the impact. One more thought he had probably helped him. Transform. Second level. That's all he could tell himself. And he did, truly amazing, the black aura surrounding the black suit.

The dragon released the blast. It hit Cable within a second. He had no time to react, so he was hit with his arms parallel to the ground at his sides. He screamed in agony as his very being was being assaulted by this massive blast. It exploded all around him with no mercy. Nothing but the white of purgatory. All his nerves screamed, and then were suddenly silenced. Cable felt no more as his tattered suited body floated off the comet.

--At the University, command room--

"Sir, we are getting reports that Javlar completed his attack. There is no sign of Cable's body anywhere." said a soldier.

"Very good. Threat destroyed. Mission complete." said a man in a familiar tattered robe. Darle's posture on his chair gradually changed from nervous to excited. 'I could have just used Javlar on him all along. Foolish Cid, the council controls all those creatures. Now time to have the army destroyed.'

As if something heard his thoughts and didn't like them, the computer's alarms started to go off. A power was detected. A very high power. 'No. He can't be it.' Darle dismissed the thought just as quickly as he had it. The computer said the power was coming from a humanoid. All probes around it were destroyed. The power was off the chart. The alarms were changing from yellow colored to red. The colony he was on was in danger.

"Find out who is doing this." Darle shouted, although he knew in his head who it was.

--Above the comet--

Cable regained conscience within ten seconds of the blast. He had been awake for five more now. Enough to know he was in trouble. Happy thoughts forced their way out of him. He was left with his recent sessions of lies he had been fed. His power spiked again and again. He was becoming very angry. Nothing he could think of could calm him down. All of it was tied to a bad time somehow or another. He was in a level two state when he opened his eyes. Pain lanced through him as he tried to breathe. He had no more oxygen. He was going to die, he had to accept that. He lost to a simple dragon.

"No! I won't be beaten by a simple creature such as that!" he couldn't remember when he held so much for his pride. A Saiyan's blood flowed through him. He was a descendant of Goku and Vegeta, by means of Pan and Trunks. He had the Prince's pride and the warrior's will. All of his relations were unbeknownst to him. He couldn't care less at the moment anyhow.

All of his anger boiled up one more time, and this time it was too much for him to handle. The lack of oxygen made him feel disoriented, but his aura kept him warm. He created a barrier around him and the oxygen tank. With the quick thinking, he had his barrier oxygenated. But for how long? He had to end this dragon thing now.

'I'll finish him with the turtle hermit's move.' Cable put his hands together below and behind him in a deadly manner. "Kamehame," he was now shaking with energy that poured into his hands and turned them white. "Ha!" He slammed his arms forward. The deadly beam of white with a blue outline raced out from his hands and collided with the dragon's hands. The beam was tossed aside. It was apparent the beast had armor plated hands or something of the likes.

"Fine then, try this one." With that Cable created an energy ball and let it float in front of him. In a jauntily manner he once again prepared the Kamehameha wave. "Kamehame," Cable slammed his arms outward, but at the end changing from left over right to right over left. "Ha!" he bellowed. The effect of his had movements became obvious. It flew towards the dragon then veered off course. 'Perfect' "Yah!" he said lightly as the ball he created before flew forward at the dragon.

The dragon blocked the ball that arced straight for it's face. At that very instant, the Kamehameha wave crashed into the dragon's head, smashing it into the ground. With a blinding explosion and a horrible scream the dragon, Javlar was dead.

The problem still remained. Cable was stuck in deep space, attracting monsters with little oxygen left. There was nothing he could do. The headmaster obviously set him up. There was a comet around here that was supposed to have a base in it. He decided the army controlled everything he was against.

"Then I will destroy it all."