Shadow Dance
Clashes of struggling fists blurred beyond the rocky mountain sides. Two fighters, locked in combat savagely attacked one another in flashes of speed and fury. Vegeta, the prince of Sayians, and Goku, the mysterious Judge, were now locked in a heated battle. The same battle they began 10 years ago. Only this time, neither one intends on letting the other survive.
The Judge growled "You're going to wish you stayed brain dead".
Goku growled as he slammed Vegeta into the ground, while he took to the skies. The Sayian prince stopped his decent and landed on the rocks softly. The judge unleashed a volley of super sized energy blasts towards Vegeta. A gigantic blast of smoke of burnt rock suffocated the sky. It was here that Vegeta took his opportunity, and grappled Goku's neck from behind.
"Ugh, rotten bastard" the Judge said.
The wicked Sayian crushed his arms across Goku's throat, almost popping his IV veins and fluid tubes.
Vegeta smirked "My body may be rotting, but I assure you, I have more then enough strength to finish you off".
Using his strength to amplify his energy, Goku forced himself to fly backwards with Vegeta on top of him. The Sayians smashed into a rocky pillar, Vegeta's back took the brunt of the impact. The crippled Sayian growled in pain as he was forced to let go. The Judge then forced Vegeta's face into the pillar, while he pressed Vegeta's right arm against his back.
The Judge snapped back "There is no strength in killing Vegeta, there never was and there never will be. I will not let anymore people die just to satisfy your repulsive ego".
Vegeta laughed "You're a fine one to talk. Dressing up like the boogeyman and scaring bad guys with a big black hammer, tell me where the strength is in that Kakkarott?".
The Judge replied "After all these years you never learned, you just don't understand. It's NEVER been about strength or power, at least not for me. I'm not in this to see my name in lights. My mission, my goal, my life is purge this planet of every last one of you monsters once and for all. You don't deserve fairness or containment, no, you ALL deserve annihilation".
Vegeta frowned "And who slapped the god hood sticker on your back? Who gave you such a noble cause to follow? You're no better then me or any other criminal you've punished on this planet, and as much as it eats you up inside, you dam well know it too".
Goku had heard enough. The dark suited Sayian smashed Vegeta to the ground with tremendous force, he then rushed after him and side swiped him with his black hammer. The huge weapon crunched several more broken bones into Vegeta's crackling spine. Skidding across the ground painfully, the Sayian prince desperately tried to stand on his own 2 feet.
Vegeta wheezed in pain "This isn't over, no; it's not over by a long shot".
The Judge replied "Stall all you want demon. Justice waits for no one, and neither do I. Now surrender or else".
"NEVER, fire Big Bang Attack" Vegeta said.
A colossal yellow ball of energy was fired directly towards The Judge. Quickly reeling the black hammer back, Goku prepared to slam the energy ball with the hammer. The Judge crushed the hammer forward, smashing it into the blast attack; tremendous energies continued to burn and explode all around it. The massive blast was too powerful to deflect. The Judge groaned as he lifted his hammer and hurled the ball away from him, into the sky.
Vegeta proudly grinned "I am Prince Vegeta, ruler of all Sayians".
The weathered warrior flew into the air and slammed a devastating jump kick right into the Judge's face. The powerful kick sent Goku flying back.
The Sayian prince continued "And all those who oppose me shall tremble before the might of the all mighty Sayian race".
Vegeta unloaded series of savage punches on Goku's body, kicking and punching, and slamming every ounce and inch of his body into his hated enemy. The Judge groaned as he painfully absorbed each and every blow. Goku used his hammer to block Vegeta's elbow, and he used his own to bash Vegeta skyward. Both the Judge and Vegeta charged up a powerful energy blast in each of their hands, and then fired them at each other.
The colliding beams exploded tremendously in the air. The blast sent both of them sky rocketing away, one to the ground and the other to the air. The Judge stood his ground on the surface of the Rocky Mountains. Meanwhile, Vegeta cackled as he surveyed over the Judge from the skies above.
"Feels just like old times doesn't it Kakkarott?" Vegeta asked.
The Judge groaned "Yeah, nauseating isn't it?".
Vegeta said "If you're not going to play the game, then I'm going to have to change the rules" (pulls hands back).
The Judge blinked "Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing?".
Vegeta shouted "Taking the captain down with the ship of course. I may not be able to beat you in a fair fight, but I'll be damned if I let you defeat me again. So I've decided to take you and everyone else on this miserable planet with me".
The Judge frantically screamed "NO, DON'T".
But it was too late, massive purple energies sparkled around Vegeta's hands. The Sayian warrior was powering up his Gallic Gun. Seeing that there was no other choice, Goku pulled back his hands and started to charge up an attack as well. The Judge however was charging up his Kame-Hame-Ha wave. Little did either of them know, that they were replaying the exact same events that transpired in Trunks and Pan's reality so many years ago.
"Ka……me……ha……me" Goku said as he charged his hands.
Massive purple energies sparkled in Goku's black gloved hands, swirling clouds of atomic particles formed into large clumps. The energy particles grew bigger and bigger, both in Vegeta's hands and in Goku's. Both combatants had gathered enough energy in their hands to destroy a planet if they wanted to. Vegeta cackled as he prepared to fire his ultimate weapon.
Vegeta grinned "All right Kakkarott, let's see if you can stop this one".
The Judge howled out a mighty "HA".
Goku turned around and fired his energy beam into the ground, a colossal thrust of a super speed propelled Goku directly into the air. Vegeta's eyes widened in horror. The Sayian prince wasn't expecting this, his trembling limbs frozen in fear.
Vegeta gasped "I don't believe it. He was never going to shoot me with that energy, he's using it as a booster to propel himself towards me. At his current rate of speed, he's going to hit me before I even have time to……ugh".
WHAM!
The incredible speed of Goku's energy propulsion trick had leaded him right towards Vegeta's airspace. Before Vegeta could even finish his sentence, the Judge slammed a bone shattering jump kick to Vegeta's jaw.
The Judge hissed "That was for Trunks".
BAM!
Vegeta's gut was plowed by a powerful punch from Goku's right arm.
The Judge added "That was for Pan".
Goku then raised his forearms above Vegeta's back, charging a dark colored energy blast, sparking wildly with live electricity. The crippled Sayian's body was racked with too much pain, he could do nothing but gag and watch.
"And this is for my son" The Judge shrieked.
KABOOM!
The staggering energy blast sent a sky rocketing explosion across the fire lit sky. People for miles could see the cloud of burnt dust emanating from the energy attack, even Bulma at Capsule corp. Speaking of Bulma, she was currently running towards the spot where Vegeta and Goku had been fighting. She gasped to see Trunks bloody hand sticking out from a huge pile of rubble. The weak teenager groaned as his hand slowly started to twitch.
Bulma gulped "Don't worry guys (starts digging) I'm going to get you out of there".
Meanwhile back at the battlefield……
Vegeta weakly stuttered "Ack, my l-l-l-l-lungs ugh, c-c-c-can't breathe".
The fallen Sayian prince was lying upon his broken, old body, covered with dirt and blood. His breathing mask had fallen off during the fight, and now Vegeta's hand was desperately reaching out to it. Suddenly a black boot appeared, resting its firm heel over Vegeta's mask. The Sayian gasped as he spotted the Judge looming over the weak and helpless prince.
The Judge smirked "You know Vegeta, before I let you DIE here, choking away your last measly little gasps of air, I want you to know something. Thank you".
Vegeta could only gurgle and choke in pain, almost deaf to his rival's taunts.
Goku continued "No really, I finally understand everything. You see today before you kidnapped Pan and dragged me out there, I had an epiphany. That boy you slugged, Trunks, talked some sense into me a little while ago. He revealed to me what a horrible monster I've been all these years.
How I've taken so many lives away, treated criminals like animals, and vented my own bitterness and hatred against everyone around me. That was wrong. I know now that violence only leads to more violence, and that hatred only leads to more hatred. It's because of my dark quest that so many people's lives have been ruined, and so many people have lived in fear.
That extraordinary young man has really opened my eyes. He's shown me that there are 3 kinds of people, those on the side of good, those on the side of evil, and those in between. I am one of the in between guys, one of the people who've become lost in a confusing battle between light and darkness. Someone who's waiting to be saved, begging to find a place to belong.
And while I do appreciate Trunks advice and all of his help, sadly, there is just one little problem with that analogy".
CRACK!
Vegeta's eyes widened in horror as Goku crushed his breathing mask into spare parts. The Sayian's burning throat continued to choke, Vegeta was suffocating.
The Judge snarled "I do NOT want to be saved. Everything and everyone that I have ever loved has been taken away from me, and it's all thanks to your kind. You Sayian abominations have destroyed my life, my friends, and my family.
There is no life for me now except to extinguish the lives of the sinners. Face it Vegeta. There will always be evil doers, always be criminals, always be monsters, and it's because of them there will always be a Judge. I am dead to the world, Goku no longer exists (raises his hammer) let justice reign supreme".
Vegeta screamed "AHHHHHHHH".
CRUNCH!
To be continued……