It's been one week. Today's the day that Cellio shows up and we decide wether this planet survives or dies. I put on my armor, my scouter and flew off to meet Stryker at his place. When i arrived, he had his gray gi on with dark blue wristbands, belt and boots, a senzu pouch at his side and ready to fight.
"You ready for this?"
"Not in the slightest. Let's go Cherik." I simply smiled at him and nodded. We flew around and i scouted along the way for a high power level, so we could find where he would land.
After about 20 minutes of flying, my scouter began picking something up, we went in the direction of it. As we got closer, the power kept growing until it finally peaked at 25,000.
"Stryker, we're gonna need to give it our all in this fight and more."
"Let me guess, he's stronger than both of us combined?"
"Yeah. 25,000 is his power level. We gotta make sure he doesn't go great ape. Your giant form will be of use in this fight, we just gotta make sure he doesn't get the power ball off."
"I got you there." We flew to the site, which was actually the wasteland we trained in, and we waited.
We didn't have to wait long, the pod landed a few miles away about 10 minutes later. We went to check it out. When we got there, the pod opened and from within it came a saiyan who had some of my features, but was about 2 inches taller, had hair down to his shoulders and messy and he was wearing the same type of armor i was, except he had the flaps around his legs, when i had my own leg armor. He flew out of the crater and when he scouted our power level, he turned towards us; he gave an evil grin and began talking.
"Well now little brother, i'm impressed this planet hasn't made you weak and worthless. The armor suits you, and so do your little modifications. Ah, i see you've made a friend here; i must say, i'm impressed with your power level, human."
"My name is Stryker."
"Whatever it is, you'll soon have a new name. Corpse." He flared his ki, we did the same and we sprang into battle.
To normal human spectators, the fight would have just been occasional shockwaves and no visuals whatsoever. But for us, we were punching, kicking, dodging and blasting, all at speeds faster than normal comprehension. Cellio was tough, he was barely getting hit by us, but there were a few occasions where we scratched him and even got punches off. He began retaliating and was beating us both down at once, with barely any effort to it, all we could do was block hopelessly. He threw us to the ground where he then raised his hand to the air with his palm outstretched to the sky and began to form a red energy sphere.
"You know, Cherik. I'm kind of disappointed, i expected more from a member of the saiyan race." Even though he said this with malice, he had a small expression of sadness on his face, almost as if he was bracing himself for something. I took this time to charge up a Nova Blast while Stryker charged his Planetary Burst.
"Solar Crusher!" He launched the sphere towards us and we both fired our blasts in a spiral formation and collided with his solar crusher. The combined blasts slowed it down a significant amount, but it wasn't enough to push it back, not even stop it.
"Stryker, this isn't enough. You need to go giant in order to give us a chance."
"I can't do it right now, i need to concentrate my energy for a few seconds in order to do it."
"Go then, i'll hold it off as long as you need to." He nodded at me and disengaged. The moment the blast dissipated i felt and saw it come towards the ground almost twice as fast as before. I held on for about 10 seconds, when suddenly, a blue energy blast shot towards the sphere and blasted it back towards Cellio, who just barely dodged it and my Nova Blast. Our scouters both went off and i saw the power level read 37,500; we looked to the side and saw Stryker in his giant form. I smiled and got ready to fight again.
"Hmph, impressive, but too bad that i can transform as well." He charged up a power ball and got ready to throw it, but i quickly reacted and fired a small beam at it which detonated the ball in his hand.
"Sorry, no apes allowed at this party." He growled and charged towards Stryker first, but every punch or kick he threw was just easily matched with Stryker's. The fight was going our way for a bit, until Cellio managed to distract Stryker enough to go behind him and was about to blast him through the back, but i flew in front of him and countered with my own blast. I decided to charge and face him hand to hand, which was actually a stupid move, he simply dodged my attacks and threw me into a mountain where he then shot a blast at me, i managed to block it, but the detonation of the blast caused me to take a good amount of damage and just lay there. I watched, my strength drained, at the battle raging in front of me. It was going well, until Cellio rammed into the back of Stryker's knee and he fell to the ground. He then rammed into his arm and sent him sprawling to the ground. Cellio then began firing a volley of energy blasts and ending it with a solar crusher. All of that beatdown caused Stryker to revert back to normal size, unconscious and his power crippled.
Somehow i found the strength to pull myself from the mountain and stand in front of Cellio.
"So, you've managed to live. I'm impressed."
"You're not going to take this planet, not so long as i'm around."
"Really? you think that you have the strength to combat me? You're power at the moment is half of what it originally was. I took out your friend here who was stronger than me, for a time. Come on Cherik, join me, join your race and you can live, we can be the highest regarded soldiers in Zoltris's army. Come on, this planet and its life forms have nothing to offer, why protect it?"
"You're wrong."
"How so?"
"This planet's inhabitants do have worth, they've taught me a lot during my stay here. I live the best of both races, i may be a saiyan at blood, but i'm a human at heart. Saiyans are natural born warriors, and humans never give up for their causes." I began to power up, for some reason i was gaining much more power than before. "I stand here, ready to defend my planet, its people and my friends. I won't let you or some space tyrant take it from me. I will fight!" With one last war cry and a shocked expression from Cellio, i charged and punched him so hard, he actually circled the earth once and was slammed into a mountain. I then flew over there and began laying a beatdown with continuous energy gauntlets, only stopping when he was on the verge of death. I was about to lay the finishing blow, when he began to laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing really, i'm just glad."
"About what?"
"You."
"Why are you glad about me?" He took a gasping breath and continued to talk, albeit a little more painfully.
"Look at you little bro, you've become what Saiyans have called a simple legend for millennia. The golden hair and aura prove it." I was confused, but then i looked at my aura and say that indeed was a yellow color, i even looked in a nearby pool of water to see that my hair had spiked up, was golden and i now had light blue eyes.
"What, what happened to me?"
"You've become a super saiyan. Now, let me tell you something, the real reason i came to search you out." I calmed and powered down, my immense strength leaving my body, ready to listen to what he had to say. "You see, ugh pain. The saiyans weren't always planetary conquerors and henchmen. In fact, we were the exact opposite, peace keepers to the universe. We were held in high regard, people loved us, but then, Zolrtis came along. H-H-He, agh." He fell forward and i caught him. He was barely breathing, but i knew he had something important to say, so i flew over to Stryker, who was just regaining consciousness, grabbed his senzu pouch, pulled out three beans. I ate a bean first, then gave one to Stryker who sat up almost immediately; i was about to give the third one to Cellio, but Stryker grabbed my hand.
"What are you thinking? Why are you healing the one who just tried to kill us?"
"He's not truly evil. He has a story to tell me and i feel that it's important to us. Please, let me."
"Fine, but if we get our asses kicked again, i won't forgive you."
"Fair enough. Wait, i don't think he even has the energy to chew." I found a smallish rock nearby, crushed the bean in my hand and put the crushed bean in his mouth. "Cellio, brother, if you can hear me, swallow. You'll get back to full strength." He weakly swallowed, but after a few seconds, his eyes opened up, his wounds were healed and he sat up with no difficulty at all.
"How- how did?-"
"It's a special bean we have here, it can restore anyone's stamina, energy and strength to its fullest while also healing any damage recently caused."
"Thanks."
"No problem. Anyway, about the story, you left off on when Zoltris came along."
"Right, anyway. When Zoltris came to our planet, he realized our power and offered a deal to our king. Serve under his rule, kill and enslave planets for him and we get to live."
"So i'm guessing he took that offer huh?"
"Yeah, he did. He did it for the good of his people, knowing that someday, we can fight back. There were a few of us, including our king, who set up meetings in secret, to find other warriors to help us defeat Zoltris. I offered to find you, seeing as our family was always in the elite royal guard, we knew you would be of help."
"But why attack me? Why try to kill me and Stryker?"
"I'm sorry about that, i never had the intention to kill you guys."
"Coulda fooled me." Stryker said in a snide remark.
"Trust me on it though. I wanted to test you for your fighting spirit, and i've got to say. You show a lot of it Cherik, especially going up to fight me even when the odds were way out of your favor."
"I had to do what i could to protect the earth."
"Now i have one request for you. Will you join me and the other saiyans to reclaim our planet? Please, we need you. Fight for Cauliferon, just as you fought for earth. Besides, having a super saiyan on our side will increase our chances of victory drastically." I thought it over for a moment and then i nodded.
"Alright, i'll go with you. But i don't know if i can go super saiyan again."
"Well, how did it feel when you transformed? You seemed pretty pissed off when you did it."
"Well, i had anger coursing through me, anger of not being strong enough to defend Earth. Anger of you threatening to destroy it and my friends. Somehow, that anger and determination to win had exploded out of me and i guess transformed me."
"Can you tap into that power again?"
"Maybe, let's try it." I concentrated on the emotions i felt before and the power that coursed through me. After only 3 seconds, i felt my energy explode and my power shoot up.
"Oh yeah, that's a super saiyan alright."
"Cherik, you look badass man."
"Alright, i guess i know how to do it now. Cellio, scout me. i wanna see my power."
"Ok." He pressed the button on his scouter and waited until it read. "Holy balls. It's at 750,000. That's like, 50% stronger than our king. In his great ape form!" I chuckled and powered down.
"Scout me again, i want to see how much it increased my power by." He pressed the button again.
"It's at 15,000. if we do the math, that means that when you go super saiyan, your power gets a 50 times increase."
"Hold on, how am i at 15,000? Last i checked, my power level was only 10,000"
"It could be because of our biology."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when saiyans are beaten down in battle, their power increases when they're fully healed. Sometimes by a lot, other times, not so much. You got a fairly decent power up, about a 50% increase. Wait, you almost killed me and then healed me, i wonder what my boost is at?"
"I'll check it for you." I pressed the button on my scouter, which was surprisingly intact still and waited. "You got a pretty decent increase as well, yours is at 30,000 now."
"Really? I almost die and get a 20% increase. You only get beaten to half your power and gain a 50% increase?"
"At least your still stronger than me."
"Fine. Anyway, we should go soon. Does your pod still work?"
"I hope so, haven't used it since i landed here."
"It probably should. Anyway, now here's another matter. Stryker, was it?"
"Yeah."
"Want to join us? We could use your help. I could call and ask to send an empty pod here so you can fly with us."
"Nah, it's fine. someone's got to keep watch here on earth. You guys go on ahead, i'll stay here." I smiled and gave him a fist bump.
The three of us went to my place and fetched my pod, which was actually in very good working order. Cellio gave Stryker his own scouter, a little bit of an older model, but it could read power levels up to one million. After saying goodbye to my place and to Stryker, we went off into space to fight a tyrant and free our race.
A/N: So, this concludes chapter 6 of this story. Funny story i have to tell you guys. I was typing this once day and i managed to get to the part of Cherik turning super saiyan. I started it all the way from the beginning of the fight. Suddenly, i had to go, so i hit the exit button and forgot to save. Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter and, very soon (possibly right now) i'm publishing a little spinoff story with the focus on Stryker after the two saiyans depart. Let's just say, i hope he has a lot of DETERMINATION in this world. Till next time, catch you later and be sure to review and fav.
