"No… What is this transformation? Saiyans are only meant to be able to become Great Apes, on rare occasions - Super Saiyans. What is this?" Super Cooler clenched his fists, drawing back and adding some distance between the bashful titan of fur and muscle and himself.
The Golden Great Ape roared out, sending a resonant shock wave of a deafened roar as it beat its own chest. Cooler vanished, appearing directly above his colossal opponent as he dived with his right foot forward, driving his kick in an attempt to stomp the monster down beneath him where the tyrant thought the Saiyan king belonged. A forceful boom erupted from the point of contact, a silent shock wave, but the monster didn't move.
"This is nothing special, nothing special. You won't prove anything by just smashing your two transformations together, you hear me, Vegeta? Can you still hear me?" Super Cooler erupted in a forceful expulsion of fuchsia-colored aura as he took a heaven-slicing charge upward, ascending to cosmic heights before taking another hammering dive back down. Just like before, Cooler's foot dug into the Golden Great Ape's forehead and inched the head back, but it barely got more out of it than a growl.
"A Golden Great Ape… This is ridiculous! I'll have you choking on space before long!" Super Cooler seethed in wrath as he kicked himself off of his super-sized opponent and charged forward with his knee held out in front, digging into the Golden Great Ape's chest to push him back but once again the monstrous beast with golden fur did not budge an inch.
In an instant, a crushing pressure locked around Super Cooler, squeezing the life out of him, and the sheer shock of the overwhelming force and the precision of the hold made Cooler's red eyes become fully round and expand in luminosity and size. The grip of the golden behemoth only drew more and more force, letting out churning sounds from Cooler's muscles while the ape slowly crushed them to mulch and minced them with bone dust.
"This is neither the power of a Super Saiyan nor the Great Ape!" a bestial voice carrying some of Vegeta's mannerisms left the terrifying mouth of the monstrous ape while it enacted its royal, brutish judgment and flung Super Cooler aside like a ball of rags after inflicting as much damage as he could with the squeezing hold. "It is both those powers combined!" the Golden Great Ape exclaimed as Vegeta charged onward with a devastating punch of massive proportions.
The sock enveloped Cooler's entire body, even in his bulked-up form. Never had an opponent made Cooler feel like a handful of dirty underwear being manhandled in such a way. The self-made emperor's body took off beyond the ability to be picked up or seen and the Golden Great Ape blitzed in a snap to pursue its opponent.
"Y-You… You can still understand what's going on?" Super Cooler hissed in pain, leaking cherry-shade blood from underneath his armor because of his tremendous internal injuries. Golden Great Ape Vegeta snapped right in front of his opponent with his fist wound up and loaded for impact. The delivery took only a few moments as the beast drove a hammering fist that sent Cooler flying once more.
"That's right, Cooler, it is a power that only I, as the king of Saiyans, a descendant of the royal Vegeta bloodline possess! Not only can I command other Saiyans while they are in their Great Ape forms, but I also keep full intelligence while I am in mine. This transformation, it seems, is no different!" Vegeta couldn't contain chuckling as he felt the overwhelming force pumping through his reinvigorated with power muscles. Even though his body kept all of his drastic injuries from before, the sudden boom of power gave him a second wind like none other, and this would either be enough to smash his enemy or everything could have gone to hell.
The rumbling titan threw another stiff fist which sent Super Cooler hurling across what felt like infinity before the welcoming, blackout-inducing thud against dirt and gravel encircled the tyrant as he slammed onto yet another planet far away from the asteroid belt that he had decimated earlier. He did not have the luxury to enjoy this collapse for long, however, as the golden goliath was right behind, throwing a wicked right that blasted a shower of magma and still-melting rock on the other side of the planet and reduced the purple wasteland with a turquoise sky into a blazing inferno of smoldering space dust while Vegeta released a sonic boom from his mouth by roaring at his soaring opponent. The booming airwave enraptured bound Super Cooler and enveloped him, blasting him further away from the collapsing world that the duo stumbled into.
Vegeta's monstrous jaw, lined up with stalactite-sized fangs, snapped open. The black abyss of the monster's throat lit up with violet light before the golden beast unleashed a full-powered mouth blast that threw Vegeta smashing through the collapsing remains of the decimated planet in backlash. He fired the blast, purely aiming with his Ki sensing abilities, as Cooler had been too far away to see. And yet, the resulting blast consumed all in a violent blitzer, leaving the surrounding sector of space as just a dead zone of shattered rocks and blobs of magma that were cooling off in the merciless vastness of space like drying blood of the dead worlds left in the wake of this gigantic battle.
"The power of a Super Saiyan multiplies my battle power fifty times, combined with the savage nature and peerless power of the giant ape, the power of a Super Saiyan is multiplied tenfold, Cooler!" Golden Great Ape Vegeta thrashed, keeping the fact that all this straining physical activity was leaving him short of a breath or two. "This is the true might of the king of all Saiyans! While lowlife trash like Kakarot might become Super Saiyans by some cosmic accident, only I can use this all-powerful transformation! This is the power that will establish the Saiyans as the new rulers of this universe!"
"Silence!" Cooler forced out a shout from his lungs that had being perforated by his own smashed ribs to deal with at the same time. The violent alien tyrant swiped his hand with a shimmering, green energy blast in hand, creating hundreds of stray, sharp Ki blasts that scattered across the ruined space region, decimating all in his sight. The Golden Great Ape put up its forearm and growled in discomfort as a few of them hit it straight in the upper body region. It didn't appear that Vegeta suffered any lasting damage.
Vegeta next sensed his opponent's Ki right behind him. Because of the massive size of the Golden Great Ape, he failed to react in time as Cooler grabbed hold of Vegeta's regrown tail and raised his hand over his head. Vegeta spun his tail about before Super Cooler could form a Salza Blade and cut his tail. His effort and the sum of damage that Cooler had suffered so far proved to be sufficient to fling the alien emperor away and release Vegeta's tail.
"That was a sneaky diversion with that Arc Blast, Cooler." the Golden Great Ape reared its fangs with a smirk while it squinted its eyes. "Getting desperate that you have to resort to such lowly moves? What happened to that ridiculous honor act you were putting up just a moment ago?"
"I will not allow the universe, this sublime empire that our clan has built, to fall into the hands of primitive apes! Warrior's honor be damned, there is too much at stake here!" Cooler clenched his fist. "My brother was right to fear you, it seemed. In his terror, he has devised many ways of dealing with this troublesome transformation. I hope you realize, Vegeta, that once you run out of breath, once you lose that tail or that Power Ball is gone, you'll transform back and there is no way that your body will keep you together after that. Not even with all that impressive willpower and toughness you've shown!"
"I suppose it's a good thing then that you won't pull any of those things off, Cooler!" Vegeta bashed his hairy chest with a thunderous sound and placed his hands up to his side, channeling energy between his hands and surrounding himself in a fuchsia shine that expanded drastically with each flicker of the intense light surrounding the Golden Great Ape. Feeling like had gathered enough energy to reduce his opponent to nothing, the golden titan thrust both of his arms forward, firing the entirety of his stored Ki as a Super Galick Gun of cosmic proportions. Its luster and size so massive that it left little to no chance for his opponent to dodge it.
Almost the instant that his Super Galick Gun collided with Cooler, Vegeta felt strong resistance from his opponent. There seemed to be no doubt that Super Cooler wouldn't give in and die to this attack. This impression only solidified when the epic, all-destroying attack died out, only to reveal Super Cooler surrounded by a transparent bubble of ethereal psychic energy. The twitching arms of Super Cooler weighed down. Smoke trailed from where the tyrant failed to keep up his psychic barrier because of the massive physical and mental strain required to block Vegeta's attack.
"You cocky bastard, talk all you want about me being a hard mug to smash, but you're struggling as much as a parasite yourself." Golden Great Ape Vegeta smirked with a bestial snarl.
"Believe it or not, king Vegeta, it's honor that won't let me give up." Super Cooler clenched his fist before him, regaining limited control in his right arm and flexing his singed and bruised limb to work away the numbness in it.
"Honor? I thought you ditched that in order to win?" Vegeta mocked his opponent.
"Our understanding of honor seems to be very different, king of Saiyans. The honor I speak of is the absolute desire to annihilate you and restore the universe's respect for my clan once again! Their terror and adoration alike to our beauty, unrelenting power, and sophistication! No matter how many times you measure it, ours is will always be a superior alternative to your rule!" Super Cooler moved his arms behind him and bent his legs by the knees, taking off and attacking the Golden Great Ape head-on.
Dashing upward, Super Cooler drove his knee into the lower chest area of the golden titan before enveloping himself in erupting violet energy and backhanding at the Golden Great Ape's jaw with enough oomph to his blow to turn Vegeta's jaw aside. Cooler vaulted over himself in mid-air and drove his elbow to the back of the Golden Great Ape's head, sending the behemoth in an uneasy stumble before dive-kicking Vegeta in the back and sending him flying.
With a flurry of snapping vanishes, Super Cooler pursued his colossal opponent through a decimated sector of space. Vegeta's shortness of breath that was becoming a larger and larger problem with each second began hitting at his enormous battle power and an experienced combatant such as Cooler sensed it. With that on-point perception, alongside the madness of wishing to see his clan's honor and his empire restored, Cooler gained newfound courage to charge at the tremendous, golden opponent of his head-on.
In an impressive turn, Vegeta kicked Super Cooler aside halfway to him. The Golden Great Ape had recovered in time to intercept his opponent's attack and thus he leaped overhead with a hip slam from overhead and then a double ax handle slam to send Super Cooler away. The Golden Great Ape opened its mouth, forming a purple energy sphere inside of it that split into a barrage of smaller, energy waves resembling Vegeta's Galick Gun.
"Galick Blaster!" Vegeta roared as the barrage Galick Gun waves hurled in an arcing trajectory toward his dazed opponent and formed a blob of blazing destruction domes that connected to one, mass of flames and rampant sonic vibrations that shattered nearby planets and moons with its resonance alone.
"Allow me to let you in on a little secret, Cooler!" Vegeta taunted his opponent, cracking his knuckles as he observed the impressive fireworks he had just caused, and waited for his injured enemy to emerge. "The elite Saiyans have all trained their tails so that they are no longer our weak spot. You will have difficulty removing my tail even if you throw away your dignity further!"
"Then I won't humor you any further!" Cooler's husky voice boomed from the mass of explosions and flares. The alien tyrant erupted, distorting the fiery nebulae in a mad, shoulder-first dash toward Vegeta. "I'll just crush you how you are now and prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the entire universe that I deserve it more than you!"
With a forearm slam, Vegeta met Super Cooler's charge. Instead of allowing this collision to become a competition of sheer power, Cooler threw overhead kicks, rolling in mid-air as he ascended higher and higher to get to stomp and kick Vegeta in his jaw. Once Super Cooler had reached Vegeta's face with his wild offensive, the tyrant blasted a Death Beam right into Vegeta's eye, forcing the Golden Great Ape to bellow in pain and stumble back as blood poured through its fingers no matter how hard Vegeta tried to cover his wound up.
"I have been born in a family of freakish mutants, surpassing the wild power of even the most elegant and powerful clan in the universe many times over! I was destined to be shunned, to achieve nothing and tell stories of my father's and brother's greatness to corpses they left behind, destined to be treated as the shame of the Cold Clan. A shame because I wasn't born an indomitable freak like they were! Because I wasn't a cosmic accident like Frieza was! But I defied my destiny and built myself up from the ground up, and so I will now defy you, Vegeta, I will defy everything in my way to claim that which should have never been mine!" Cooler flexed his body, pushing his bulky build to the very limit of its power as he lunged toward the stumbling and dazed Great Ape.
Super Cooler drove his knee onward, surrounding himself in robust, fuchsia energy as he burst onward with a Nova Chariot charge, slamming into the lower section of the Golden Great Ape's chin and sending Vegeta rolling backward in mid-air while Cooler snapped over his choking opponent with a backhanded slam that forced Vegeta's eye-covering hand away. Cooler made the entire surrounding system tremble and crackle with pink electricity jolts as he became entangled in a bubble of energy and dove toward the mushy wound in Vegeta's right eye.
With a Nova Charge Dive, Super Cooler sought to punch right through Vegeta's skull using the previously mangled eye as an access point. The Golden Great Ape growled and slapped its colossal hands, crushing Cooler like a fly in between them and forcing squirts of cherry-colored goop to spray through the crevices. Vegeta's malicious expression turned to shock when his own two hands hammered right into his face and sent him reeling back. Even when nearly crushed like a vexing insect between the titan's hands, Cooler carried on his Nova Charge to slam Vegeta's own hands into his own face, leaving a swollen and bloody mess of it.
"Tough or not, I've sliced through entire planets with this blade, Death Wave!" Cooler focused shimmering, violet energy between his index and middle fingers before swiping them and forming an arcing blade construct of his Ki that lunged straight toward the king's tail. A fleshy cutting noise combined with the sight of a splitting, golden tail made out for something that made Super Cooler grimace with sadistic glee–at last, he would best the peerless power of the Super Saiyan combined with the Great Ape. King Vegeta would die by his hand!
"Planets?" Vegeta grumbled with a tone that was half stuck between that of his own and that of the monstrous form that he had been shedding out of. "Your brother forced me to blow them up for him when I was just a child as a chore!"
The devolving form of the Golden Great Ape raised its hand and pressed it near point-blank to Cooler's face. There was little time for terror to take over Super Cooler as the devolving Golden Great Ape unleashed a violent, point-blank eruption of Ki that reduced Super Cooler to mangled, fleshy stump, unraveling Cooler's flesh and muscle and shattering off his bio-armor to crumbs.
"You think you know something about mockery and shame? Just wait until you tell your witless brother that I sent you there when you meet him in hell!" Vegeta parted ways with his rival as he snapped his lessening and retracting jaw open and exhaled a concentrated jet of flames at the alien tyrant, searing flesh off of his bones and reducing Cooler to pathetic cinders as the washing force of the devastating flames sent Cooler flying off to the lifeless darkness of the void that the two most powerful forces in the universe had left of their battling ground.
Vegeta didn't snap his jaw shut until he had completely reverted to his base self and couldn't breathe any more fire. When the cold of absolute zero enveloped him whole and the king of Saiyans curled in a fetal position to live off of the few sprinkles of oxygen that he still had.
"Live free, rampage, and fight on to your heart's content, Saiyans…" Vegeta whispered to himself, noiseless in the cold vacuum, with the true meaning of his words spreading only in his own mind. "I release you!" he muttered, undoing his Power Ball far away in a whole different system as his consciousness faded away and the king of Saiyans drifted in an inhospitable sector of space full of dead planets and cosmic cinders.
He didn't wake when a bright tractor beam enveloped him and recalled him back to a ship belonging to the Saiyan armada either. It was only when Vegeta heard the fuzzy bubbles of the healing pod and became semi-aware of his drifting mind and half-present consciousness while in recovery that he realized he would outlive Cooler and be there to carry his people to the free and prosperous destiny he promised them.
"Long live King Vegeta!" encouraging chants accompanied by pumping fists echoed outside of the healing pod as the Saiyan survivors cheered on their king who proved himself a savior and a conqueror alike. In one act, King Vegeta the Fourth proved to his people the absolute freedom they now had as they built up their empire from the meek sticks and stones of newly won freedom.