The Saiyan of Namek vs The Legendary Super Saiyan
Part 2 of 4: The Truth Revealed!
The sun rose at dawn; golden rays of sunlight filtered throughout the narrow window slits carved through the walls of the tower where Raijin, Goku, Gohan, Krillin and Future-Trunks lay in their beds, only the sound of Krillin's snoring aroused the others from their slumber; Gohan and Goku both merely smiled having gotten used to the sound of Krillin's snoring, while Raijin and Future-Trunks resisted a shared urge to slap the monk upside the head.
"Don't let Krillin bother you too much; you get used to it after a while" Gohan spoke softly so not to wake Krillin; a warm innocent smile lit up his small face.
Raijin nodded his head and turning and looking out through the window slit; catching the sight of the ever-present blue star, the star seemingly getting closer to the planet.
Future-Trunks rose from his bed; looking out at the star as well; rubbing his chin with one hand while making a guess as to the nature of such a star, "Must be some kind of comet; it'll pass by the planet no doubt".
"I hope you're right" Gohan spoke up again; having checked on that blue star before anyone else had awoken from their nights rest.
Krillin's snoring finally stopped once he rose up from his bed; the white sheets falling upon he rose to a sitting position, "good morning all; when's breakfast?".
"Good question; I'm starving" Goku complained; rubbing his stomach as it grumbled in a desire for food.
Raijin rose from his bed; redressing himself into the same black trousers and white shirt that he'd worn to the party, regretting that he'd chosen to not wear his White Namekian Gi under his clothes like Krillin and Gohan had done, "I almost forgot; how'd that school meeting go?".
Goku stared blankly while he pulled his orange gi over his blue weighted shirt; blinking briefly as he finally recalled the meeting Chichi had forced him to attend, "Ahh; yeah I don't think Gohan's getting into that school… I kinda left in the middle of the meeting to go to King Kai's Planet and then come here".
Gohan frowned in a very downtrodden expression; an obvious look of sadness filled Gohan's teary eyes, Gohan looked up as he felt a warm hand press into his back; looking up to witness Raijin standing by his side.
"It'll be ok Gohan; there will always be another school" Raijin spoke gently patting the child on the back in an act of encouragement, Gohan nodding and giving a brave smile in gratitude for Raijin's kindness.
Before anyone else could speak; the door to their shared bad chamber opened to reveal one of the hivemind Soldiers, "You are awake; please come… King Vegeta, Lord Paragus and Lord Broly have already left in search The Legendary Super Saiyan; but we have prepared a breakfast for you all".
Krillin, Gohan and Future-Trunks all bowed their heads in thanks for the Soldier for coming and notifying them; all following down the corridors of statues, red drapes and paintings until arriving in a enormous dining hall; five seats had been laid out with breakfasts tailored to each member of the group.
Goku and Krillin both had a stack of syrupy pancakes, while Raijin, Gohan and Future-Trunks had a palate of various fruits alongside their pancakes.
Goku attacked his pancakes as if he was a man starved of food for weeks on end; practically inhaling the pancakes at his typical eating pace, Raijin, Future-Trunks, Krillin and Gohan however ate using their knives and forks; politely eating normally while the Soldiers watched and stared at Goku.
"Ahh… that hit the spot; so when do we meet this Legendary Super Saiyan?" Goku blurted out; patting his stomach with a happy post-meal expression.
"Goku… you are an idiot; we have to search the Planet first" Raijin responded; staring at Goku with a stunned expression caused by both Goku's ravenous tearing into the stack of pancakes and his assumed state of mind in that this mysterious Saiyan would just appear from out of nowhere.
"What do you suggest we do Raijin? You were the first one to chase Vegeta here" Krillin suggested; finally speaking with some semblance of sense.
"Wait! You want me to lead the Z Fighters in this situation?" Raijin asked; a stunned expression spreading over his face and widening his eyes.
"Yeah; what do you think we should do?" Gohan chimed in; a confident and respectful look in his wide eyes whenever he looked at Raijin.
Future-Trunks gave a curt smile and a nod of the head; siding with Krillin and Gohan in the idea of making Raijin their leader while on this Planet.
"Ok… fine; Gohan and Krillin: you two search the ruined city and the outskirts for any signs of life or clues as to what happened here, Me and Future-Trunks will go after Vegeta and try to talk some sense into the prideful blowhard"
Goku wore a broad overconfident grin; pointing to himself in an expression that made Raijin both want to punch him square in the face as well as leave him here so not to cause any trouble.
"Goku… you come with me and Future-Trunks; but you need to stay behind us" Raijin sighed; giving in and letting Goku join him and Future-Trunks.
"But why?" Goku complained; whining like a child who'd been denied a sparkling new toy.
"That last thing we want is Broly snapping and attacking again like last night; I got a weird feeling off that guy" Raijin lamented; the cold feeling he'd gotten when he locked eyes with Broly had frozen the blood inside his veins and sent chills down his spine to his very core.
"Or Vegeta trying to kill us for just standing on his new kingdom" Krillin added; nudging Gohan and Future-Trunks for a laugh to his falling-flat joke.
"Shut up Krillin" Raijin spoke; dismissing the terrible joke, "Everybody; move out".
As soon as Raijin spoke the words for moving out; Krillin and Gohan both rushed out from the dining hall and out onto a balcony overlooking the lush forests covering the outskirts of the city remains, Gohan and Krillin immediately broke into flight and flew out into the outskirts in search of anything they could learn about this planet.
"They're fast… we don't have any time to waste" Raijin muttered under his breath; a smile cracking in the corners of his lips while he watched Gohan and Krillin fly off with such speed.
"Now all we gotta do if find Vegeta" Goku said with his hands behind his head, relaxing and being nonchalant in the moment.
"That won't be too hard… listen closely" Future-Trunks spoke in a distant tone of voice; his line of sight directed down into the city ruins.
Out in the ruins of the city; Raijin and Future-Trunks could barely hear the sound of Vegeta's voice shouting and screaming his complaints about whatever he found reason to complain about.
"Yeah… that's Vegeta" Goku spoke; wearing his typical cheery expression upon hearing Vegeta's ranting voice in the distance.
Without speaking another word; Raijin, Goku and Future-Trunks rose up into the air and flew down into the ruins of what once had been a bustling city; gliding in-between towers and skyscrapers that looks as if they'd tumble down to the ground at any moment.
"So; Future-Trunks… do the cities in your Timeline look like this?" Goku questioned; not realising the insensitiveness of his question at the moment.
Future-Trunks closed his eyes; seeing a mental image of the destruction The Androids had wrought on his world over the course of nearly twenty years, "Yeah; but I don't really want to talk about it".
"Oh; sorry" Goku blurted out upon spotting the shooting-daggers look Raijin was giving him.
"Goku; stay back while we confront Vegeta" Raijin thrust a hand out towards Goku and inadvertently slapping him in the chest; floating down out of the air and down to the ground.
Goku pouted at being told to stay back; but realised that there was good reason, down on the ground and standing just behind Vegeta and Paragus; stood Broly and he was still a calm and cold as always.
"What do you mean The Legendary Super Saiyan is hiding? He should stop being a pansy-ass and face me!" Vegeta screamed; protesting at the lack of a challenge from the so-called legend.
"What's wrong Vegeta? Castle not up to your high standards?" Raijin walked out from behind the remains of what appeared to have been coffee shop, Future-Trunks walking alongside him with a stern look in his eyes.
"Damn right; what kind if King sleeps in a queen-size bed? And the castle has only three towers… LIKE A PEASENT!" Vegeta resumed his rant while turning around from facing the ruins towards Paragus and Broly; turning again to face Raijin and Future-Trunks upon hearing Raijin's condescending voice.
"I deeply apologise My King; I beg your forgiveness" Paragus dropped to his knees in reverence; though Broly remained a calm and vacant-eyed as he always did.
"Wait… what the fuck are you doing here? I told you to go back to Earth" Vegeta snapped out of his rant; leering an even more dangerous look towards Raijin that Raijin did towards Goku.
"No; you didn't" Raijin corrected; a smug grin lighting up his face in the rare opportunity to show-up Vegeta.
Vegeta; in a fit of anger threw a fist into Raijin's face and slugged him down to the ground, "Typical that words are your only real weapon against me! The Saiyan King!".
As soon as Vegeta declared himself The Saiyan King; Raijin sprang up to his feet and driving an uppercut directly into Vegeta's jaw and knocking the pompous prince to his ass, "Clearly not; I've never kicked your ass before… have I?".
Paragus' brow furrowed at the fight about to break out between; his one good eye looking back at Broly; witnessing that Broly remained as calm as ever.
Future-Trunks opened his mouth to protest; though he knew Vegeta would have to be defeated in combat if he was ever going to listen to reason.
Vegeta rubbed his chin with the back of his gloved left hand as he rose back to his feet; an all-too-familiar golden glow radiating across his entire body.
"Transforming? Not man enough to fight me without Super Saiyan?" Raijin shouted; raising his fists and bending his knees into his combat position, a sly smile lighting up his face.
Vegeta had already gained his turquoise eyes when Raijin baited him; a grin cracked in the corners of his lips just as the golden glow faded away, "Very well… we fight as we are!".
Raijin smiled even wider when Vegeta attacked with a vicious punch into Raijin's ribs that Raijin barely blocked with a right elbow; Raijin span on the spot for his own spinning backhand strike but Vegeta headbutted Raijin before he could land the backhand.
Raijin spat a mixture of saliva and blood into the dirt; his black hair falling over his eyes as his energy rose into a white burning aura, Vegeta flexed his every muscle as a dark blue aura ignited around his body.
Paragus felt the heat of their energies radiating in waves in all directions "My King… this fight is not important; let us return to the castle to review what information we have regarding…"
"SHUT UP!" roared Raijin and Vegeta at once; both had secretly desired this fight for years.
Raijin and Vegeta both threw a slobber-knocker punch at each other at the same right; their fists clashing and creating a shockwave through the sheer force of their fists, both gritting their teeth and engaging in repeated collisions of their fists and resulting in multiple shockwaves tearing through concrete, metal and broken glass in the broken-down city street.
Goku watched out from around the corner of the ruined coffee shop; his Saiyan Instincts almost urging him into joining the battle though the fight was between Raijin and Vegeta.
Future-Trunks crossed his arms; the shockwaves passing by without feeling anything but the combined heat of their powers, Future-Trunks gazed over at Broly; noticing that his brow furrowed ever so slightly amidst the clashing powers of Raijin and Vegeta.
Raijin and Vegeta continued exchanging punches and kicks; each landing blows against the others ribs and stomachs before Raijin drove an elbow drop down into Vegeta's head, Vegeta countering with an Energy Punch into Raijin's left shoulder.
The impact of both blows forced Raijin and Vegeta apart; Raijin glanced down at his left shoulder and noticed that the entire sleeve of his shirt had been burnt away by his own aura, Vegeta brushed his hand against his armour; tracing the cracks caused by Raijin's blows.
Angered by Raijin's attacks actually dealing damage to his armour; Vegeta rushed Raijin with a shoulder charge, Raijin grabbing a hold of Vegeta by his underarms as the two flew off through a tower and crashing into the pathway leading up towards the palace.
"You're not as worthless as I thought… but not by much" Vegeta spoke in an insulting tone of voice; spitting on the ground right by Raijin's feet.
"And you're actually a challenge in a fight" Raijin retorted; knowing full well how insulting Vegeta's pride often forced him into fighting harder and fiercer, Raijin's tail swept from side to side in excitement for the fight.
Vegeta charged at Raijin again; both his fists radiating with his dark blue energy just as Raijin ducked under Vegeta and drove a straight jab directly into the cracks of Vegeta's armour, Raijin punch crashed through the golden plate of armour and landed his punch directly into Vegeta's abdomen; opening his hand into an open palm and firing a ki blast at point-blank range.
Vegeta groaned at Raijin's attack; the ki blast burning at his now-exposed abdomen, gritting his teeth so tightly that his gums began to draw a tiny bead of blood; Vegeta gripped at Raijin's shirt and drove a knee directly into Raijin's unguarded ribs and kicked Raijin's ribs repeatedly while having Raijin in his grip.
While Raijin felt every knee driving itself into his ribs; his tail wrapping around Vegeta's wrist and halting his attempt to punch Raijin's exposed neck, Raijin kept punching his fist into Vegeta's abdomen; that great pleasure in ensuring his knuckles hit the burns inflicted by his ki blast.
"My King! Please stop this battle" Paragus flew out after the pair; noting that they were still fighting with increasing hostility.
Future-Trunks as well as Goku flew out after Paragus though they kept an eye of the figure of Broly; calmly walking towards the site of the battle with his black hair beginning to spike upwards in a very slight green glow around his body.
Raijin and Vegeta finally let each other go; both suffering damage, gasping for breath and burst lips from the cross-countered punch they'd exchanged just before separated, though beating each other with vicious blows and gruelling attacks; both Raijin and Vegeta remained smiling at each other with battle-crazed smiles.
"At last; please cease this battle before you tire yourselves out too much for when The Legendary Super Saiyan rises from the ashes of this city" Paragus begged for the battle to end; holding out his hands in his plea.
"Paragus; you keep talking about this Legendary Super Saiyan but I've seen so trace of proof that he even exists!" Vegeta shouted; casting out his arm in his proclamation of his belief that The Legendary Super Saiyan did not exist.
"He does exist!" cried the unmistakable voice of Gohan, Gohan and Krillin came marched out from the forest with a horde of creatures in tow; all dressed in dirty brown and grey rags with green heads and pink hair.
Raijin rose out his combat stance and turned towards Krillin, Gohan and the horde of creatures; every single one also wearing cuffs and chains on their wrists and ankles suggesting that they were slaves, "What have you learnt? Who are these people?".
"Well; these people are the natives to this planet; they are called The Shamoians" Gohan explained; helping a very young girl to her feet bearing deep wounds likely caused by a whip.
"Yes… we lived here until that man came here and enslaved us all" The Shamoian Girl spoke though long fits of coughing; pointing directly at Paragus while she managed to speak.
Raijin felt his eyes widen; turning his cold stare direct at Paragus and Broly, Krillin and Gohan both standing by Raijin's side; Future-Trunks and Goku both joining him.
"Oh great… He's still here" Paragus muttered under his breath; his good eye leering solely at Goku despite his slavery being exposed.
"Paragus… explain" Vegeta commanded; having his back turned to Paragus while his eyes leered at the young girl.
"Well My King; every empire needs a good foundation and these Shamoians offered their services to me when I, my son and my Soldiers arrived here" Paragus held out his hands; dropping down to his knees as he used any excuse he could think of to maintain his conveyed persona.
"That is a lie! He wanted us to build a grand castle for him on our doomed world" The Girl shouted at the top of her strained voice; breaking into a fit of coughing in Gohan's arms.
"What?" Raijin and Vegeta spoke at once; both suddenly turning their glare at Paragus.
Paragus' brow furrowed even more; a pained expression fell over his face as his deceit would no longer be of any use to him now, "Yes; this planet is indeed doomed to fall victim to the Comet Camori… the very same blue star all of you had been admiring since you arrived!".
"You're a monster; you bought us all here to die! What would my mother and father think of this? They were your friends!" Raijin took a step forward; questioning and pleading with Paragus to surrender to them and avoid fighting; as he'd learnt from The Namekians and their pacifist ideals.
"Oh; Raijin my boy… you are such a gullible fool! I made those names up! Your parents were the lowest of the low ranked Saiyans on Plant Vegeta! It baffles me how those two wretches spawned somebody like you" Paragus shouted and laughed; taking pleasure in the lies he'd woven to earn their trust and then shattering that trust before their very eyes.
Raijin felt a sense of betrayal he'd never known before now; a deep rage welling up inside his very core as if someone had just thrust a dagger of white-hot metal into his bloodstream.
Vegeta finally turned to face Paragus; a sly smile lighting up his face, "Paragus… you're not the shit-stain of a Saiyan I thought you were! I'm promoting you to Grand Vizier".
"Oh; I thank you My King" Paragus dropped down into a reverent bow at Vegeta's feet.
"Vegeta! Listen to what he said!" Goku shouted; leaping out from his hiding place inside the nearest crumbling tower, standing directly between Raijin and Vegeta and squarely inside the line of sight of Broly.
"Kakarot… how dare you stand on my planet… sleep in my palace… eat my food!" Vegeta glared directly at Goku; using his Saiyan Name instead of the name everybody knew him by.
Broly's normally-calm expression contorted into a look of rage upon hearing the name Kakarot.
Raijin, Future-Trunks, Krillin and Gohan all noticed Broly's rageful expression and the strange green glow resonating off his body, Future-Trunks stepped past Raijin and Goku and pleading with Vegeta to stop using that word.
"Why? It is his Saiyan Name and I shall call him by his true name as many times as I please! Kakarot! Kakarot! Kakarot!" Vegeta shouted while pointing in Goku's face; chanting Goku's Saiyan Name in a tone of voice akin to that of a royal ruler.
"KAKAROT!" Broly screamed at the top of his lungs; his deep voice bellowing the name for all to hear so that his voice alone created a shockwave, his green aura igniting into a ferocious inferno of green flames that warped the skies around him; changing the blue sky to red, green, purple and finally drawing in thick black thunder clouds with just his energy alone until the green energy wrapped around Broly's transforming body into a cocoon of green light.
"What is happening?" Raijin muttered; feeling the tremors under his feet at the very planet felt like it was going to torn asunder by the nature of Broly's powers.
Paragus broke into a wide evil smile; raising his right hand that held the subjugation device but not using it, "This is what you all have been seeking… I no longer need Comet Camori to destroy you all as my Son shall do that deed for me!".
"What are you babbling about this time?" Vegeta demanded; turning to face Paragus directly with his fists curled tightly and glowing with a dark blue energy.
"And thus the son shall pay for the father's crimes… your father tried to have my son and I executed but my son's hidden powers awoke and saved us moments before Frieza destroyed our world".
"So… Broly is…" Krillin stuttered; watched as the green cocoon cracked and burst open revealing Broly in his transformed state, a hulking form radiating green flames with thick and spiky green hair with vacant all-white eyes.
"That's right! Broly is The Legendary Super Saiyan" Paragus proclaimed just as Broly charged for The Z Fighters; Broly's two massive arms struck into the heads of Raijin, Goku, Vegeta and Future-Trunks all at once; following up with two swift knee strikes that took down Gohan and Krillin, Broly struck with such speed that seemed impossible with his large hulking body.
Raijin felt his back and head strike the ground after being struck by Broly's left arm; his vision fading to black immediately after hitting the ground.