No! Stop! Vegeta heard the voice inside his head even as the fist connected with his ribs and sent him flying. The air burst from his lungs and he looked down, realizing that he was in his physical body once more and the fist that had hit him had belonged to Goku! But the voice, the voice was definintly not Kakkarot's! "I'll kill you before you can think twice, stupid fool!"

Spinning in a round-house kick that caught Vegeta in the jaw, Goku yelled and used his own momentuem to carry him onward, landing with a series of punches to the saiyan prince's face so swift that the human eye would have had trouble following. Bulma chewed her lip, also back

inside her body. The girl, Tayven, clutching her real hand within her own as they both watched in horror.

Tayven and Bulma heard laughter behind them and turned to see Chi Chi standing there, hands on her hips, looking up at her husband, her dark eyes manical and not her own. She clapped her hands in childlike glee and began to cheer for them to continue. Bulma shot her a glance and Tayven grabbed her arm, restraining her. "She's not herself!"

"But..."

Vegeta took another hit to the face which knocked him back, but not flying and he returned the favor with a round of punches and kicks to Goku's mid-section. Grunting and screaming in rage, the two saiyans fought, one being controlled by another force, the other fighting that force. "You cannot win, weaklings!" Her voice mocked, but they could hear the doubt, "Your pathetic postering is merely amusing for me..."

"Shut up you stupid cow!" Tayven yelled, unable to stand anymore and her anger getting the best of her. Vegeta glanced over at the sound of her voice and recieved another swift kick to the chest, sending him flying backwards into Piccolo. Growling, he got up and faced Goku once more, wiping the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Kakkarot! Listen to me, you fool! You are being controlled! You must fight it! Fight her!"

"You are so worthless!" Goku's mouth opened, the words came out, but they were not his own, nor his own voice. It sent shivers down Tayven's spine as she watched, her fists curled and it took Piccolo's strong arm about her waist to keep her from launching herself into the fray as well. "All of you! Nothing but weak cowards who will bend and yeild to me like the playthings you are!"

No, Tayven! Piccolo's voice in her head made her wince as she felt herself jerked backwards when she would have gone to help Vegeta, You'll get yourself killed, girl!

Within his own mind...another battle was taking place;

"Darn it!" Goku cried, his hands clenched into fists, his eyes narrowed in anger, in horror at what he is seeing, what he, even though it was not really him, doing. He stood in the center of his own dark room. Held in place there. He could move about, but could not leave. He saw everything happening outside as though through a glass window, unable to break through and stop the terror that he was a witness to; "No! There has to be a way! There just has to be! I won't give up! I refuse to give up!"

He felt something stirring near the edges of his conscienceness and paused, head cocked to the side, listening....feeling. Finally he felt it...slight, but there. A way! He nealy jumped with joy. There was a way to beat this! "Yes! I just have to let them know....somehow...."

"And just what are you planning on telling them, my dear?"

Goku spun around, instantly in fight mode, crouched down, looking towards the voice he'd heard clear as day. A soft laughter met his ears and an unbidden trickle of cold sweat moved down his spine. He glared for a moment; "You. Your the evil that's doing this. Stop it. Stop it now!"

She came out of the shadows and he cringed, seeing her for the first time since she'd taken over his body, she was like all his nightmares combined, just by looking into her eyes he saw all of his worst fears....her eyes seemed made up on nothing but anger, hurt, fear, betrayal, darkness, failure and blood...so much blood....he had to look away before he got sucked into them and lost his soul in the horror.

Instead he waved his hand towards the glass window showing the choas outside his body, which had stopped fighting Vegeta since she who was controlling that part of him was now occupied here, within, toying with him. "Those are innocent people you're playing with! You've made them destroy and kill others! I won't let this go on! Do you hear me! Your through!"

He had straightened up as she laughed, cold and mocking, pointing a long, narrow blood-tipped finger at him; "Oh, don't make me laugh! What are you going to do to stop me?" And as if to prove her point, she flashed her eyes towards the glass window and

Goku gasped in shock as she forced him to power up and draw his hands back in the stance he takes to launch a kamehameha (A/N: Sp?) wave. Only...where he was aiming...

"No!" He cried, running to the glass and pounding on it, "Stop! Don't!"

She laughed behind him, head thrown back so that had he glanced over he would have been able to see her tonsils. Outside, he heard her voice instead of his own, calling out the name of the attack, gathering energry. He beat on the glass with his fists, trying to stop himself....

"What are you doing?" Vegeta cried, seeing that Goku was powering up, but that he wasn't looking at him anymore. He was looking...towards a group of children standing off to the side, clinging to each other and crying, the rubble all around them and in their hair, their clothing ripped and torn, faces scratched and bloodied. Somehow they had survived the destruction around them. There were four. Two girls who looked around eight and a two boys of about fourteen or so. The boys were trying to comfort the girls. They looked up and screamed, crying louder.

"Kaa....maaaaa.....haaaaa....."

"Goku!" Bulma cried, realizing what he was about to do, "No!! Let him go, you monster! Let him go!" She was yelling, of course, at the evil which was controlling her friend. Tears blinded her as she cried, sobbed and ran over to grab Goku's leg; "Please, Goku! Listen to me! Listen!" She cried, trying to make him see her, hear her...trying to see just a flicker of her old friend in his eyes.

He looked down at her, narrowed his eyes and back to the children, his lip curling in a sneer.

"...maaaaaaa.....haaaaa!!!" He finished, sending the blast flying from his palms towards the terrified children.

He watched in horror, eyes wide, mouth parted, breathing in and out...he watched the blast....the explotion, heard the echoing cries of those children boucing off his own mind. He heard her laughter behind him as well and growled, a menencing sound, anger flaring upwards around himself. He couldn't believe what he just saw....what had just happpened.

"So, do you see now, you stupid creature?" She laughed, looking at him and waving hand towards the glass; "I control you, I control you all! That was just an example of my power over you!"

Goku turned away, seemingly subdued by her words, she laughed. Then, a gowl, a sudden cat-like crouch and he was on her faster than she could blink, holding her to the floor, his hands about her throat, glaring fire with his eyes;

"You..made...me...kill....them!" He breathed the words, panting, holding her down, even though she did not struggle, "I'll finish you for what you've done!"