Chapter 44: The Resilience of The Saiyans
Gohan's eyes shifted over to the two unconscious hybrids, and he knew that they wouldn't survive being so close to the impending fight. So in a flash, the oldest hybrid scooped up the two younger hybrids, warped them back to the Infinity on the other side of the planet, and returned in the matter of five seconds.
"Well then," Baby said through Goku's mouth, spreading his arms wide with a crazed smirk on his face. "Show me the power of your extinct race, Saiyans."
"Oh, I intend to." Vegeta kept his aura burning bright, sliding one foot back as he shifted to a half-crouch, like a sprinter on the starting line. "Brat! You ready for one more opponent to defeat?"
"Yes, I am," Gohan steeled himself. 'I'm so tired from all this, and we're almost done! This is what it comes down to. Me and Vegeta can't afford to fail, we just can't!'
In unison, the two Saiyans charged into battle against the possessed Saiyan.
Then, without warning, the two forces collided in a ferocious clash of power. The enormous shockwave rolled out from inside the colossal metallic city, shattering the very foundations and collapsing the entire structures surrounding them for miles with alarming ease. And even as the buildings crumbled around the trio of combatants, they continued their battle unheeding of the massive destruction surrounding them, attacking with all of their might. They flew through dust clouds, punched straight through falling chunks of rock to reach their enemy, and flared up their auras to melt any broken machinery or twisted metal columns that came too close.
Gohan moved in powerfully, challenging his possessed-fathers guard with an elbow. Another shockwave erupted from the force of the inertia combined with the equal force of the blockade acting against it. Then came another when Goku's knee collided with his sons guard, effectively making the hybrids arm lurch backwards in response to the power behind that maneuver. The infected Goku immediately capitalized on the following attack with a well placed Ki sphere to the chest, promptly catapulting his son into the metallic ground far below with a mighty blast.
Just when Baby prepared to attempt to finish his hosts son off, Vegeta flew up from behind, grabbing Baby-Goku's head in both hands and pulling him backwards, dragging the Saiyan from Earth off-balance and obscuring his view of the recovering hybrid, whom lied on the ground that looked like liquefied metal. Vegeta soared in from in front, kicking into Goku's stomach with both feet and winding him. As he staggered away, Gohan recovered and warped his body above his infected father, landing a solid hay-maker to his cranium and launching him vertically to the ground. Not finished yet, the hybrid came around as a golden streak and kicked his father in the chest, redirecting his trajectory.
"Hmph, is that all you can do?" Vegeta shook his head. "That just proves that even with a Saiyans power, the Tuffles will always be the inferior race."
Rapidly powering up again, the prince of all Saiyans vanished, reappearing behind Goku. The Tuffle spun, crossing his arms and blocking Vegeta's kick, but Gohan sprung into the action behind him via the warp technique once again. The hybrid engaged once more, forcing Goku to turn around and fend off the demi-Saiyan as well, which proved to be very annoying. And whilst he managed to get the upper hand on one of them, the other one would simply divert his attention and then he'd get pummeled.
"I WON'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" The parasite roared to the sky, throwing out all of his static golden ki in one massive explosive wave, flattening the wreckage of once heavily guarded metallic city, and blasting both of the Saiyans away from him. Surprised at his own raw power, he looked down at the hands that belong to Goku, crackling with electric energy. 'I'm strong enough to do that with this Saiyan? Those Saiyans individually destroyed Lude, Rilldo, The Sigma Force, and their combined might even overcame Hatchiyack...and I just tossed two of them such practical ease! This fighting body, equipped with my own power and abilities... this is simply incredible! The Saiyans will finally meet their match, and I'll have finally extracted my revenge with their extinction!'
About a few hundred miles away, Gohan rolled over onto his back, his body aching with pain. "Damnit, he's learning how to adapt to dads power!"
"What the hell was that?" Vegeta grumbled, picking himself up and wiping a streak of blood that ran down his face. "And where did that come from? He hasn't displayed power anything like that until now."
"I think..." Gohan started, rising to his feet like his fellow Saiyan did a few seconds prior. "...He's just getting used to dads body. And that simply wasn't my fathers Ki alone, Baby's probably augmented his own strength to dads to increase his power a lot more than we thought. This only makes this fight that much harder..." He broke off at the sinister tone of the echoing laughter, looking around and raising his guard.
"This battle is hereby over," Goku said with a sinister smirk plastered on his face. "I've adapted to this Saiyan, and I've combined our powers. Now, today is the day that karma comes back around and you face the retribution you deserve, Saiyans!"
"What're you tal-" And just like that, in an instant, Gohan received a sharp knee to the face, yet managing to keep his footing and barely sidestep the following blow which happened to be a swift downwards jab.
"You heard me primate," Goku shrugged off a quick punch from Vegeta, kicking him down to the ground and several meters into it, forming a dense crater. "All you simians know how to do is destroy! The Tuffles were once a thriving, super advanced society of people...and you bastards obliterated it, blasting our society to smithereens!
Baby disappeared as soon as Gohan reappeared, using the Instant Transmission to counteract the Warp Technique and then clobber his hosts son with a two-handed hay-maker. Reappearing in front of the hybrid's trajectory, Goku grabbed his leg and rotated twice before flinging him through six collapsed structures with practical ease.
"Now look what you've brought us too!" He stepped left, avoiding a large energy blast Vegeta flung, then reappeared in front of the prince, sending the prince soaring away into the air with a well placed uppercut to the jaw. "The three of us still fighting the same war that's gone on for close to a century down to extinction!" He paused as the Ascended Super Saiyans dragged themselves up, slowly surrounding him. "It won't end until either side of this larger than life war has been concluded."
"Why us though?" Gohan raised his hands, attempting to reason with the latest parasitic creation of the Tuffles. "I didn't even exist when this happened, and Vegeta said my dad was at the most a baby! Neither me or him were involved in this charade, it's plain stupid! We were raised on the Earth, as one of them and not Saiyans. We've never fought for our own gains, the eradication of others, or simply selfish destruction. I understand your hate and I would do the same thing if it happened to me, but we're not the ones who made your race go extinct. Please...hand my dad back and we'll leave here in peace."
Vegeta almost burst with anger. "What the hell is this nonsense? He's been engineered to kill everyone that has Saiyan blood within them, he can't be changed!" He puased, pointing at the smirking Baby-possessed Goku. "He's our adversary, the enemy of our deceased relatives. I can't believe you would even consider a truce! This isn't a game, he crossed the line when they kidnapped my own son damnit!"
"Vegeta..." Gohan started, his aura erupting even more as the tension in the room grew thicker, his eyes narrowed in angry confusion. "For once, I think you're right. If they've waited this long to attempt to extract their revenge, then they clearly won't stop until one side is dead. Even if we spared his life, who knows what he'd go on and do out in the universe. He's dead-set on restoring the Tuffles, and that'll come at the expense of other races that're out there. It's simply too much of a risk, and I hate to say this but we can't let him endanger someone else!"
"Exactly!" Vegeta said, his own aura erupting into a maelstrom of static electricity. "This feud needs to cease forever right here and right now, otherwise more Tuffles will rise up and threaten the universe once again just to kill us." He pointed at Baby, a sneer on his face. "There will be no peace between us, the Tuffles WILL go extinct today!"
"Of course, peace is a ludicrously naive thought by this point," Goku said menacingly, a chilling grin visible on his face. "The last goal of the Tuffles were the extinction of the race that annihilated them, and that rests on me to accomplish. I don't give a damn if all of you Saiyans are innocent of the genocide, you're all going to hell, right where you simian abominations belong! It's far too easy for me to fulfill that everlasting goal, the plan of the eradicate the Saiyans is too close to success. There's no other way to go about, I will eviscerate EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SIMIANS IN EXISTENCE!"
"I wouldn't have it any other way," Vegeta fired up his ki, raising his fists, veins popping all around his body as he pushed his power beyond his limits for one final bout. "Tuffle, understand this if you can; I don't give a damn what you've become, taking Kakarrot's body and all...us true Saiyans were born to fight. You're completely inferior to us Tuffle, and your race shall remain that way for the rest of eternity! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"What are you babbling on about no—" Baby was abruptly sent flying as Gohan catapulted himself forwards, landing a lightning-fast haymaker. He then chased after his possessed-father, flying up next to him and spinning around for an elbow strike. Baby dropped to the floor, pushing against it and kicking up into the hybrids back, knocking him out of his flight path and to the floor next to the parasite. Goku clobbered his balled up hand down on top of Gohan, smashing him against the ground into a crater.
"That...that actually caused pain. I felt agony from that! Where are you drawing such strength from? I should be miles ahead of you both in everything!" In answer, the teenage demi-Saiyan flung out a wave of ki directly towards Baby, using the momentary distraction he created to vanish via warping away, disappearing from the Tuffles line of sight. "Where'd he go?" Baby-Goku wondered, looking around.
Two golden energy beams lanced towards Goku as the prince of all Saiyans rejoined the fight. Myuu dodged the first lance of Ki, but the maneuver put him right in front of the second one. He brought one hand up, catching it and used the other hand to make the attack fade out of existence. "Nice try, Saiyans. But, if you were trying to distract me from the brat, then your plan is a bust."
"Take this!" Gohan burst from nowhere in particular, scattering rocks in all directions from his energy burst, charging his signature attack. "Masenko-HA!" With that war cry, the golden plume of Ki launched like a bullet moving at the speed of light towards it's opposition. However, light-speed didn't happen to mean anything as it wasn't anything too fast for Goku, whom simply sidestepped the attack.
Vegeta grinned at that, crackling energy being seen from his fingertips. "Bang." A small energy bullet shot out from his fingertip, hitting the energy blast that was still in the vicinity of his parasitic enemy and detonating it, the explosion engulfing his orange-colored form.
The flame-haired Saiyan wasted no time afterwards, rushing towards the expanding smoke cloud. "Tell me Tuffle...have you ever fought anyone that happened to be truly relentless? Someone who will fight to their very last breath for the sake of their cause...and even beyond that! If you want to hope to survive against our Saiyan might..." He swung a fist right at the center of Goku's ki signature, where his heart happened to be. "...Then you'd better be willing to throw away everything! Don't you dare even think for a second that we won't fight to the very end!"
"That's simply hysterical, you filthy trash..." as he became visible through the smoke and lucrative golden haze, it became apparent that Baby was simply standing there with a smirk full of mirth and malice, Vegeta's fist leaving hardly any effect on his chest. "...I can't tell if I'm simply finally accessing the full potential of our powers combined, or your attacks really are getting weaker by the second. It doesn't hold any granite to me though, it's all to my benefit."
He swung his arm down with such speed, easily backhanding the worn and torn Vegeta away. "Now, tell me simians..." His outline faded from visibility, and he reappeared in front of the flying Vegeta, thrusting his left foot down onto the warriors chest and smashing him into the ground. "...How far can willpower take you?"
Gohan charged him, drawing back his arm, and Baby simply launched himself backwards, slamming into the hybrid with his body and crushing him against a pile of rubble with a monster Kiai Wave. "How far can you two Saiyans go, when your mind is willing to go to any extremes but your bodies can't cope with the extremity of the sheer duress it's being put through? The constant stubbornness...the motivation... the sheer determination...it will all only get you so far, your bodies just can't support it."
The teenage Super Saiyan Warped into view directly in front of Baby, fists and feet already flying. Baby squinted, blocking all of the blows to the best of his ability, and then reaching up, swiftly and precisely punching Gohan squarely in the torso, the sheer speed giving him no time to dodge. Gasping for air, Gohan collapsed to the ground on his knees, his eyes shut from the sheer pain of the blow and the harsh torture of enduring the Super Saiyan 2 form for so long. "See, this is exactly what I mean simians. Your mind is resolved to defeat me, but your bodies simply won't comply no matter what you do, hehehehehehahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Shut...up!" Gohan blurted out from being on his knees in front of his possessed-father, as Vegeta landed next to him, opposite of his father. "You...you don't get it do you?"
"Tch, what're you gonna babble on about now huh?! Kami, I really hate your kind...not only for squatting in your caves and despoiling everything we created, but also talking 'on and on' about doing 'this and that' like a broken record."
"Just as I've always hated your race, cowering behind your pathetic machines and technology," Vegeta said wearily. "Now...let me finish what my father started!"
"Our sheer motivation and determination is what'll keep us from dying here!" Gohan shouted, standing up on his own two feet, golden energy seeping out from every pore in his body, the whole area rigorously quaking from the ridiculous power coming out of the lone hybrid. "The lives of not only our nearly extinct race, or the race that makes up the other half of me on Earth, but the entire universe as well! I can't, no...I won't let you take over the universe, and we'll stop you by any means necessary!"
"Save it Saiyan, I'm through listening to you make dumb oaths that'll go unfulfilled!" Baby shouted back, leaping once more at his foes, intent on the extinction of the obvious adversaries, the Saiyans.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The two combatants roared to the sky, the whole planet shaking from all of the powers in play. Unreleased power seeped out of the two Saiyans as they bulked up even more from the Super Saiyan 2 form, veins protruding from various locations on their bodies. The hair on both Saiyans heads became even more unruly, and actually expanded in width, looking even sharper than before. It wasn't a genuine transformation, just a form that allowed the user to transcend their current limits for an unknown period of time.
With that, the two Saiyans slammed smack dab into Baby-Goku's guard, making the area around them erupt with another typical colossal supersonic boom, a resounding shock-wave completely blowing everything else surrounding the trio into oblivion.
The teen skidded to a stop, watching his possessed-fathers movement, find him not in the same location, obviously with the usage of Instant Transmission. Sensing out his Ki and glancing at his location, he warped directly to Baby. Darting straight for his father, he engaged in direct combat, striking as many blows as he could with all of his might and even more than that.
However, it was mostly for naught as Goku parried all of the attacks with that annoying sinister smirk plastered on his face, cackling with laughter at the futility of his opponent. "When will you learn Saiyan?!" Along with those words, Gohan received a harsh kick to the face that went through his guard, firing him off into the abyss known as the air.
Just when Goku moved to capitalize on Gohan, Vegeta swooped in and placed his arm around his neck like a hook. Shooting straight for the ground, the prince released just a fourth of a mile from impact, shooting the Tuffle-Saiyan into the ravaged metallic landscape headfirst without remorse. Reversing a somersault, Vegeta raised both of his hands and charged indigo colored Ki into his palms.
"Take this Tuffle, HRAAAH!" The pure Saiyan shouted, launching a hundred consecutive Ki lances at Baby in the span of just three seconds, forming a beyond colossal explosion, destroying hundreds of kilometers of land in the process.
That also turned for the bad, as Goku shot right through the smoke, not looking too roughed up from the onslaught by the prince. The Tuffle flew straight into the widows-peaked haired Saiyan guard, breaking it before shooting him down to the ground with a two-fist hay-maker.
The Tuffle turned around only to meet a harsh kick to the stomach courtesy of the hybrid, whom appeared out of thin air it seemed. Gohan wasted no time to finish the combo, and connected successfully with a sharp roundhouse kick to the right side of his body, racking the Tuffle with a surprising surge of pain. Warping behind his father, the demi-Saiyan gave out a mean uppercut to his jaw, launching him up to the stratosphere of the planet with the strike.
Vegeta shot up from his own deep hole in the ground, covering the distance from a kilometer deep into the planet to the stratosphere in less than a second. Joining his rivals son in the assault, the combined might of the two Saiyans clashed with Baby-Goku once more. This time however, the duo won over, Gohan's fist colliding with the startled Tuffle-Saiyans face, forcing him to be sent away at a rapid pace. Following up behind Gohan, the prince swung on Baby's cranium in quick succession, cracking his neck twice, yet not completely snapping it. He finished with a quick blast to the chest, the force of the energy wave slamming into Goku's body at pointblank range.
"Damnit! What's wrong, I had complete control just a few moments ago!" Baby shouted, red simmering electricity buzzing around his host's body in anger. "Your bodies are supposed to be breaking down by now, so why aren't they?"
"Because, we're Saiyans. Unlike any other race in this universe, no mere calculations will ever understand our might," Vegeta replied, panting from the exertion of power.
"Heh, it changes little. You will all still become extinct by the end of this ordeal!" Baby proclaimed, launching a crimson energy blast for his two oppositions. "Don't make this harder on yourself, just roll over and die for me already!"
Leaping back through the air, watching the attack curve towards them, Gohan swung his right hand around before throwing it forward, left hand gripping his right wrist. In that quick action, a stream of golden energy shot out of his palm and shot straight for the incoming attack, which had only traveled three quarters of the way to him. His attack struck his opponent's, both of them impacting and infusing with each other. It created a massive explosion that shook the barren wasteland for hundreds of miles on end, even from the stratosphere.
As flames erupted formed from the massive crater formed in the ground, black smoke rose into the air, creating a thick border between the three fighters. Shooting straight through the pitch black smoke, a series of collisions took place from within the dark midst.
Suddenly, bursting out of the wall of fire, which parted from his fast entrance, the possessed Super Saiyan charged down at the golden streak known Gohan, whom just got launched through the smoke via a harsh Kiai Wave. Bringing his right fist back, he threw a powerful punch, yelling at the top of his lungs. The young Saiyan defender was ready though. He brought his left hand up and caught the incoming fist, being pushed back from how strong the blow was. Gohan back flipped away from the Tuffle-Saiyan whilst shooting off multiple ki blasts in efforts to slow him down. He then quickly whirled around Baby in a flash of golden energy with cobalt streaks of lightning.
Vegeta then darted in at full throttle, managing to slam a large hay-maker that packed a moon-busting wallop to the top of Baby's head. The tremendous strike forced Goku to smash dead into the ground and even further through it, lodging him to a layer right above dormant magma. Bring both of his hands forwards, he launched a rocketing plume of golden energy, destroying a humongous chunk of metal in the process, blowing it all to hell.
The magma turned lava exploded like a geyser, melting everything including the metal in it's wake, bursting to the surface with ease. And it proved to be a great manifestation of Baby's mindset, the enraged lava clearly indicating the feeling of being infuriated, anguished, and invigorated all at the same time. The liquefied solid surrounded the aura full of malice that surrounded Goku's body and lit up like a beacon from within the planet's surface. The tension turned up another notch, and the intensity increased just as much, meaning the feeling of the climatic end coming closer.
"Can't you feel that? The impending end to your race at hand? Because I certainly feel it!" Baby exclaimed, staring at his Saiyan opponents with pure hatred laced in Goku's blue irises. "Extinction is only minutes away, I can just taste it!"
"Your right about one thing, Baby," Gohan replied, his voice sounding a feigned exhaustion. "This fights gonna end soon, one way or another!"
And no sooner than a single strike of lightning, Gohan appeared in front of Baby, sliding underneath and around the possessed Saiyan, whom had kicked straight out with his left foot in a side, flying kick. After slipping around, Gohan leaped to send a right roundhouse kick aimed at his father. The Tuffle Super Saiyan, though it seemed nearly impossible, zapped into super speed before his kick could land, outmaneuvering the hybrid. Gohan ended up hitting nothing and growled in frustration, wheeling around only to be slammed across the face by a fist literally appearing out of nowhere. "Gah!"
His very quick opponent aka his possessed-father was sporting a sinister grin as he reappeared in front of him; his left fist sent hooking across the young Saiyan's face. Gohan, though knocked senseless a left spitting up blood, recovered quickly and retaliated ferociously, spinning around in the direction he was falling. Using his own momentum from the Tuffle Super Saiyan's blow across his face, he brought his left leg around and slammed it across his opponent's face. It actually connected, knocking his attacker into a similar state of pain.
After that, Vegeta decided to jump back into the fray so took off like a golden comet towards his possessed rival, bringing both his hands up and firing a blast at the Tuffle-Saiyan at close range. His attack struck Goku directly in the stomach, catapulting him through the smoke with easily sextillions of megatons of force before exploding upon his body, smoke and intense heat wafting up into his face. Even then though, the best Vegeta could manage to do with that blast was only give him a few burns and even more hatred. With the smoke clouding the damage, Baby glared up at the flame-haired Saiyan, growling in pure unadulterated hatred. Vegeta growled with animosity as well, shooting straight for Baby in hopes to deal more brutal punishment.
Gohan charged in from the opposite side as well, hoping to beat the parasite known as Baby out of his father once and for all. With a grin tugging at his lips, Baby vanished from sight and reappeared right under Vegeta in an instant via Instant Transmission, kneeing him in the gut by flying up and then clobbering his head with a harsh punch. Grabbing his leg, he dived towards the ground and landed roughly, slamming Vegeta face first into the ground and causing faults to form.
"Vegeta!" The hybrid called out whilst flying in to get Baby off of him. That was until he found himself being forced to jump high into the air when his opponent swooped down at him, sending a right hook aimed for his midsection. The young Saiyan easily evaded and powered up, shooting up into the skies like a rocket moving at faster than light speeds. His opponent glanced behind him skywards, gritting his teeth with rage before giving chase.
The two of them weaved through the air, one chasing the other. Swooping close to the ground, Gohan, whom had dropped his electrifying aura, spun around so he was flying backwards. Up high in the sky, surrounded by his golden aura with red electricity, was his final opponent of this charade. The Tuffle-controlled Super Saiyan closed in fast, his speed exceeding both his own and Vegeta's by quite the margin. Throwing his right hand forward, the warrior unleashed a barrage of crimson energy orbs. These attacks soared for Gohan, whom was flying low across the ground. The young Saiyan took many evasive maneuvers, moving from left to right and any other direction to avoid the onslaught of energy attacks from Baby. After batting a couple of them away, he threw his left hand back and then flung it forward, firing off another energy blast. The plume of Ki flew at his opponent, whom reacted in kind by bringing his right hand back and throwing his left hand out. Instantly, a black energy ball formed, and it was launched directly into the plume of Ki. The blast struck the ever increasing orb, and it promptly exploded without any effect on either of the combatants.
After the blast exploded, the Tuffle Super Saiyan pulled his left hand back. The same charging up effect occurred, the area around him being obliterated by the monstrously golden with red sparks of intense voltage. He retracted the energy back into his palm and the charge was very quick, and when the black ball of energy appeared in his hand, he pitched it forward.
The ball of energy hooked through the air and then curved downwards, striking the ground ahead of the hybrid. The young demi-Saiyan was forced to slow down his flight path, still managing to fly backwards as the massive explosion behind him erupted. A mushroom cloud appeared in the sky the very next second, the ebony fire ball still growing. Gohan flew straight through it, only getting graved by the flames before he landed, skidding along the ground. While still sliding along the ridged ground, he cupped his right hand behind him, a navy blue vociferous sphere of Ki forming in his palms. Gritting his teeth, he roared, throwing his right hand forward. "DAISENKO-HAAAAAA!"
The blast shot out of his grip with tremendous force, which continued to push him backwards too. All the while, the energy continued to poor out of his hand and into the attack, his very wild hair practically glowing with energy output. It shot through the fiery smoke from the explosion he had just passed. It also ripped through the dingy air, punching an immense hole into the dark smoke cloud. His opponent didn't see the attack coming, and when he did, he barely had enough time to teleport away from the plume of energy and watch it fly into space.
And then came the stupendous explosion that completely shook the world, tremendously shifting the tectonic plates right under the metallic ground. Natural formations that normally take millions of years to form simply happened in a few seconds, the effects of the blast easily destroying the largest planet in the star system impacted M2 very harshly.
That moment's distraction was too long for his case. Flashing into focus via a golden flash, Vegeta appeared at the Tuffles left side and flew at him, left hand pulled back. Just as Baby was turning his hosts head, Vegeta slammed his fist across the fake warrior's face. The blow, increased in strength by momentum, staggered the Tuffle-controlled Saiyan, allowing Vegeta to flip back before the false warrior could recover, and pounce on him once more. Pouring all of his might and willpower into each strike regardless of the fact that he got weaker with each blow, he pummeled Baby into the ground and didn't stop until Baby angrily released a full-powered explosive wave, the extreme hatred-fueled maneuver blowing everything away from him for a thousand miles apart. "I won't stand for this any longer, Saiyans! How am I not easily besting the both of you, it makes no sense! You should be completely spent by now, and I'm still prime to continue!"
"Two reasons," Gohan calmly started, having arrived back at the scene, veins vibrating vigorously at the rigorous conditions of which he was putting his body through. "One, you've never been a martial artist. You've been relying on brute strength and speed, and you lack any technique or skill at fighting. Two, you're fighting to kill us and rule; I'm fighting for the future for everyone's sake!"
"WHY CAN'T THE LOT OF YOU SIMIANS JUST GO EXTINCT ALREADY?!" Baby cried out in Goku's body, intense energy rolling off of him in tsunami sized tidal waves. "I'm tired of these repeated games! What will it take to simply exterminate you vermin?!"
"It'll take more than what you've got left to kill us," Vegeta responded, clenching his fists in anticipation. "No more talking, it's time for you to perish."
"You took the words right out of my mouth, simian trash," Goku responded with a menacing tone, a sinister yet dead serious look plastered on his facial expression.
With that being said, Goku disappeared and reappeared right into a punch to the head from Vegeta, and then a kick to the gut from Gohan. Warping behind his possessed father, the hybrid elbowed him in the small of his back, halting him right in his tracks. The prince dived in and clocked him dead in the face with his left hand and backed up for a split second. He then hooked him with a right fist and then kneed him in the jaw, making Baby spit up more blood. Turning around sharply, Vegeta rose his left leg and gave a thrust, kicking his opponent in the chest and promptly punting him away with right-legged forward kick. Cocking back his right hand, he crouched before bringing it right into Goku's gut so hard that a bulge could be seen from his back. Then with the left fist, he placed all of his power into a overhead hook directly to the forehead of Goku, shooting him thousands of miles horizontally into the air in the matter of a few seconds, completing the combo.
Just when Vegeta and Gohan felt they could recover for a few seconds, a pissed off Baby reappeared before they could even blink, and hit them both with full-powered strikes to the gut with the Instant Transmission. The force of said kicks were so unimaginably powerful that it launched both Saiyans thousands of miles through the rugged terrain of the metallic ground, creating man-sized ravines of sorts.
The two Saiyans crashed to the ground next to each other about a thousand miles away, taking numerous heaving breaths and coughing up plenty of blood. "Erhh...my body feels...it feels like hell...I don't know...if I can...take this any longer..." Gohan hissed in intense agony, his body blazing vehemently with cries of the sheer magnitude of pain he was experiencing.
"Hold on...a second...do you feel...any difference...in our power?" Vegeta rubbed his head, struggling to even move from the pure agony he was in. "Something...that we...don't have anymore?"
"Wait, I feel much weaker," Gohan blinked, groaning from exhaustion as well. "Tch, crap. Our Super Saiyan 2 aura's have vanished!"
Vegeta groaned too. "Exactly. We've lost way too much power; to the point that we can only sustain the regular level of Super Saiyan at this point, and with the condition of our bodies I doubt that it'll even last three minutes."
"Just great. Now what's to stop Baby from controlling us just like he did dad?" The hybrid inquired, managing to sit up despite the immense agony.
"Tch, luckily for you Saiyans, that's one thing you won't have to concern your feeble minds with." They looked up to see a smirking Goku floating down towards them, staring at them with decades of hatred. "Because I rationalized that he was the strongest, so I made this Saiyan my 'main' host. And due to the fact that I'm not complete, I can't simultaneously possess anyone else. I think I'm gonna keep him as my host, our combined power shall be unmatched, the strongest power in the universe!"
"It's becoming increasingly easier to understand now," Vegeta forced his legs to straighten, standing up to the Tuffle creation with an above-average amount of effort. "That us Saiyans are probably going to die here and become extinct thereafter. But one thing I'll never do...is give up in the face of adversity. I'm not going down without a fight, you understand? I'm either going down swinging or I'm going down in history...resistant till the end..."
"Oh, I understand you clearly, simian trash," Baby said with his usual racist comment, and almost going into hysterics. "You're a straight-forward, concise person when you get down to it. You have a one-track, primitive mindset that's very easy to comprehend."
"Well...that's fine, I don't care. I have a question for you though," Vegeta pushed his ki as high as he could, forcing it all down into his hands, which started to shine with golden energy. "Can you comprehend this?!" He brought his hands up and together in front of him, palms held out towards Baby.
The Tuffle laughed. "Pathetic. Just what are you going to do to me with such little energy remaining?"
"I have enough," Vegeta growled, as the gathered energy grew more and more intense. "Enough for one final attack with all of my might...one...grrr...rrr..." He released it, launching the massive two-handed energy wave that he poured everything he had left into.
"The war ends right here, right now! FINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL...FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!"
The golden light almost enveloped Baby-Goku completely, but he managed to cup his hands to the side and unleash a quick black Kamehameha Wave, impacting head-on with the attack, forcing it back with supreme ease. "Hrrg...impressive Vegeta...but it's nowhere near enough! Even if you were at full throttle, your strongest attack wouldn't have been enough to kill me!"
"Gohan! Get up, don't just stand there..." Vegeta said, pumping as much energy as possible and even beyond into his blast. "...Help me, end this feud!"
The hybrid stood up as quickly as possible, firing his aura back up contrary to his bodies desire. "I'll give it more than everything I've got!" He stepped up next to Vegeta, placing his hands on his forehead, charging a Masenko. However, the orange-tinted golden attack wasn't launched thereafter, no it was cupped to his right side! "MASEN..." His energy flared orange-tinted golden, and then cerulean energy, as he fired the powered-up beam, the plume of Ki colored azure on the inside and golden-orange on the outside. "...KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAA!"
"HAAAAAAH!" Baby had to pump more energy into his own ebony wave, still pushing back both beams at once. "Is this all that you two Saiyans have left in the tank? All of this resisting is futile, vermin! What happened to all of that foolish 'willpower' you were reiterating over and over again, huh?! Burnt out aren't we Simians?"
Suddenly, he noticed that his pitch-black Kamehameha Wave was being repelled back towards him at an alarming pace. Attempting to summon his hosts latent power, he pumped it into his beam, but noticed that it didn't affect anything. Then he noted that his host felt much weaker than before, and realized that the 'Super Saiyan 2' wore off on his body, and he was left in the measly Super Saiyan form. He then realized the truth of the matter, he never understood his own Saiyans power and as a result overused the form just like his enemies, and now they were all severely weakened. The good thing however, is that he still had enough power to barely overwhelm his combatants, which meant his purpose would be half fulfilled and he would cause the extinction of the Saiyans.
"Damn it all! Gohan, is this all you've got left to give?!" Vegeta yelled over the roar of flowing power. "Even with your power combined with mine, we still can't overwhelm him even if his power's been cut by more than 50%?"
"I'm sorry, I'm trying harder than my hardest..." Gohan grunted in pain. "...But without Super Saiyan 2, our power's cut in half...not to mention all this constant fighting's left me drained and exhausted on top of that..." He closed his eyes, pushing his every last drop of energy out with all of his might, but to no avail. "But no excuses this time! It's almost enough, yet not quite. If we only had a little more power..."
Vegeta took a deep breath. 'There's nothing else to it, we need a bit more power. And if it means giving up my life just to get my son and the Saiyan race off of this giant rock of metal, then I'll take another trip right back to hell!'
"Tch, this where it ends...for good this time," Vegeta gritted his teeth. "It's down to us...and I won't let us lose. Just let me...do what needs to be done...for our survival."
"What the hell Vegeta, no! Don't do it!"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Vegeta's Final Flash attack, already beginning to dim, suddenly flared up, burning with the light of a supernova as he began to pump his very life-force into the blast, expanding it greatly.
"Vegeta, you're gonna die if you don't stop!" Gohan shouted, and he didn't want to have to use the Dragonballs again. "Screw it, if you're gonna do it then I will too! You won't do this alone, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
And just when it seemed that the Saiyans ran out of power to pull out of their asses, here comes a new reservoir of energy for them to use.
"What the?" Baby gasped in shock, the feeling of fear starting to creep up into the Tuffle creations mind as the blast pushed the opposite direction now. "What the hell is this power they've gained all of a sudden?!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Feeling their enemy's blast being pushed rapidly back into Baby himself, Vegeta took the final leap and poured everything he had into it, desperately pushing himself past the limits of his endurance.
"No, I...damnit! DAMNIT!" Baby screamed as Goku's body began to warp and burn under the immense heat and pressure. "NO! I cannot be denied...my races revenge!"
"It's over, the war has been won, now go to hell with me!" Vegeta cried out, finally breaking through the black Kamehameha Wave and proceeding onto Baby-Goku himself. Seeing that occur, Baby was left with two options: Either die with his host or abandon his host and attempt escape. Only one of them had a chance of survival, so he managed to abandon his host right before the blast could consume him, barely sidestepping it.
'He's done it! He's broken through Baby's wave!' Gohan thought, knowing what he had to do. 'And Baby's abandoned dad, so I have one shot at saving his life.'
Time seemed to slow as the hybrid moved with a vigor and speed he never knew he had. In an instant, he warped to his unconscious, battered father and warped away out of harms way in literally a few nanoseconds.
"Now Vegeta, explode your attack!" The hybrid cried out, and the prince nodded his head, clapping his hands together. And then came the very predictable explosion of power that would have easily obliterated the planet had it not been for Vegeta's Ki control. Still, the explosion clamored like a thunderclap on super steroids, the noise and sounds of complete annihilation of the area behind the Final Flash surprisingly paled in comparison to the bloody murder Baby screamed before he too was eradicated by the gargantuan explosion.
In the aftermath, Gohan knew he one more job to do before he could collapse like he so badly wanted to do. He grabbed the collapsed Prince of all Saiyans by the torn up navy blue bodysuit and traveled to the other side of the planet, specifically where Goten, Trunks, and the Infinity were with the two adult Saiyans in just a few seconds. He could sense that Vegeta was still desperately clinging to life despite the usage of his life-force, and it wouldn't be long before he succumbed to imminent death. Luckily for him, his recklessness payed off because he wasn't simply going to allow Vegeta to simply die like this if he could stop it.
Making it back to the ship, the hybrid forcefully opened the hatch and ran to the two healing chambers. Unluckily for them, they didn't have Senzu beans at their disposal, so they had to rely on the new modeled healing tanks. Hooking the two full-blooded Saiyans up to the machine that ignites the healing process, Gohan made it so that it was maximum power and everything was set the way it was supposed to be.
And then he hauled in Goten and Trunks, tossing them onto two beds. Walking out of the room, that was the last thing Gohan even remembered before blacking out, collapsing onto the cold, metallic floor.
A/N: For the first time in months, I haven't left you all for a few months to wait for the next genuine update. And I hope that remains a trend for Kami knows how long this story goes on. Anyways, I've decided to finish off the Saiyan part of this arc in this last epic fight, and I'll finish the Earth part of this arc next chapter. And then we'll finally be done with all of the in-between for the seven year time-skip, and head into the next major Saga featuring the Majins we all know and all the crazy stuff that comes with it. Next chapter will reveal the power scaling for this arc for anyone wondering who's stronger between blah blah blah. Please leave your thoughts in the review box and I'll respond to them next chapter.
C: I love your story but I can't help but feel you left a detail out or more like a child that was supposed to have been born but is never mentioned past Bulma being pregnant like in this passage here...
'Yes I am your daughter, but how'd you know?'' Bra was pretty curious with what her mother from the past had to say about that. ''Well, since me and Vegeta had already had Trunks, I took a pregnancy test to see if I was going to have another baby soon and from what I have gathered, the DNA within the babies blood is the exact same as yours. We soon connected the dots and realized that you were also our daughter. Vegeta immediately left at the prospect of another baby yesterday and won't return until the androids arrive! Darn that bastard-''
I don't know if you forgot because this is quite a detailed story which is amazing I am a bit surprised that no one else has noticed, I think it's understandable with everything that has happened till now that some details would be missed with how small they were. I would really like to know its been bugging me for the last couple of chapters when you mention trunks but not bra who was supposed to have been born before the androids came.
R: You have my thanks for notifying me of this. I completely forgot about that paragraph and created a huge plot-hole similarly to Akira Toriyama. Luckily for all of the readers whom didn't catch the mistake and newcomers, I fixed the careless mistake with some editing. I appreciate the fact that you told me about it, otherwise I probably would have never even caught the plot-hole, so you have my gratitude.
C: Pew. Pew.
R: Thank. You.
C: Well that was cool seeing Krillin beat Paragus.
R: That's good to hear, thanks for the comment.
C: Incredible buildup chapter, I'm pumped for the finale fight for the Saiyans. And I'm also hyped to see more of Defectron, he just has that Ultron-like vibe to him that I can't shake off, which is pretty cool if I do say so myself. You've made the fights and their outcomes all epic, yet they were predictable. I hope that the final fight has a bit more trauma and desperation to it, that's all. Nice chapter, and I look forward to the next one, other than that I'm pretty much done.
R: Well, I hope this did it for you. Defectron will the main focus of the next chapter, as the attention goes completely back to the Earth. And I made Defectron for diversity among the villains in this arc, and to have an Age of Ultron type vibe come to the story. And I hope this fight brought all of that trauma and desperation that you were seeking, as I wanted to make it as epic as possible. Nice rhyme at the end, and I hope to see you next chapter.
Stay tuned for Chapter 45: The Extinction of The Tuffles. Until then, Deuces.
