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One minute, I was enveloped in light and I saw nothing but white. I had no idea what was going on. Then the light began to die down and eventually I regained my senses. I looked around. I was in an open field with high mountains in the distance and with a couple of trees and boulders here and there. It looked like a pretty beautiful place. If only I had time to admire the scenery.
"OK... where am I this time?" I wondered aloud as I looked around. "It looks like I'm in some kind of field."
Then suddenly I heard a familiar cry of battle and then I heard another followed by a couple of booming sounds that sounded like sonic booms. All of which were coming behind a boulder. I had a feeling what it was, but I was afraid to find out. I hid behind the boulder and I peeked out. Then my eyes went wide. There a few feet away from me was Goku and Piccolo who were locked in a fierce battle with the saiyan Raditz.
"No way... it's really them..." I said to myself. "Goku... Piccolo... and Raditz... so it really happened. I was teleported to the past! This is where Goku and Piccolo fought Raditz! It's one thing to see it on TV, but... seeing it for real... it's almost like a dream!"
I didn't know if I should be happy or freaked out in this situation. Either way, it was real.
Back in the battle, Goku and Piccolo were fighting Raditz with everything they had, but Raditz was blocking and parrying each one of their blows with out even breaking a sweat.
"Come now. Join your family Kakarot!" said Raditz.
"Never!" shouted Goku as he continued to fight.
Then Raditz disappeared and then he reappeared behind them giving them both a blow right on their backs sending them flying. After that Raditz flung a ball of energy aimed directly for Goku. Not being able to block, Goku was hit with the ki blast head on making his gi tattered and ripped. Goku skidded on ground until he came to a stop. He tried to get up, but Raditz immediately was on him and pinned him to the ground by giving him a hard stomp on his abdomen.
"Gugya!"
As Goku screamed in pain, I couldn't help but wince from the sound of the blow and from Goku's scream. This was definitely unlike anything I had ever seen before. It made me feel even more scared about fighting Raditz.
"Damn it all..." I thought. "This is brutal... How am I supposed to fare against Raditz if Goku and Piccolo can't even beat him? What am I supposed to do here?!"
Then I remembered something.
"Wait a minute... maybe I don't have to do anything. If I recall correctly, this is supposed to happen," I thought. Goku and Piccolo get beaten to a pulp and then Gohan seeing and hearing Goku flies into a rage and hits Raditz and then Goku grabs Raditz and holds him until Piccolo fires that Special Beam Cannon at him and kills Goku and Raditz. Maybe I don't have to do anything. Maybe all I have to do is wait this out."
Suddenly, a sharp and screeching scream of pain reached your ears. Raditz was pressing his foot onto Goku's ribs and he was screaming in agony while Raditz was chuckling enjoying torturing Goku. The scream made you cover your ears not liking the way Goku sounded. It also made my body feel like I had to go help him, but I stayed put.
"Just a little bit longer..." I thought. "Just a little longer... all you need to do is wait until Gohan comes out and hits Raditz... just wait it out..."
I repeated those words in your head just like a mantra, but your hands were squeezed tightly in anger.
"All right Kakarot, I'll give you one last chance," said Raditz. "Join your brother and I'll spare your son and your lives."
"Never!" said Goku in a strained but defiant yell. "I would never join the likes of you!"
"Fine then. Then playtime is over!" snarled Raditz as he pressed even harder on Goku.
Goku screamed even louder in pain. It was so loud that I felt like the sound alone would break glass. I wanted it to stop, but I endured for a little longer. Goku continued to scream as Raditz pressed harder and harder on him. At this point, my mind was in complete turmoil. Part of me was screaming to go help Goku, but another part of me was telling me to wait. I didn't know what to do.
"Damn it... Damn it... damn it... damn it... damn it...!" I cursed at myself squeezing my hands so hard that they almost drew blood.
Just when I thought I couldn't take it anymore, I suddenly heard an explosion. Raditz's space pod in the crater had exploded and out leaped Gohan who's face was worn with an angry snarl.
"Yes! I knew it!" I thought. "Gohan's here to turn the fight around!"
Raditz stared at Gohan in shock as he looked at his scouter checking his power level.
"What the hell?! A power level of over one thousand and it's still climbing?! That's impossible for a kid like him!"
Everyone stared at Gohan in shock as his power grew along with his rage.
"Leave... my daddy... ALOOOOOOOOONE!" Gohan screamed as he flew straight at Raditz.
This was the moment I was waiting for! Gohan would headbutt Raditz in the chest greatly wounding him and then Goku would be strong enough to hold him down and then Piccolo would fire his Special Beam Cannon and then all would be right with the world. Or so I thought. As Gohan was about to slam into Raditz, his eyes glowed red and an evil ki came out from his body for an instant and then he dodged Gohan's attack while smacking him on the head from behind.
"What the hell?!" I screamed in mind. "He dodged it!"
Gohan fell to the ground his power completely gone. Raditz took aim at Gohan and prepared to kill him with a ki blast attack.
"You little brat!"
"Son of bitch!" I thought. "He's gonna kill Gohan! I have to do something!"
I couldn't sit by and wait any more! Who cared if I wasn't strong enough? Who cares if I was weak?! I had to help! I stayed by the sidelines long enough.
"Stop!" cried Goku trying to stop Raditz from hurting his son, but he was far too hurt to try and stop him and far too late.
Raditz fired a ki blast at Gohan and the blast hit making the land rumble with the mighty blast. Goku could only stare at the black smoke his eyes were wide with horror. However as the smoke cleared, Gohan's body was no where to be seen.
"What the... where's the body?" wondered Raditz as he looked around. Then his scouter picked up another power level coming from behind him. He turned around and he saw person who saved his target.
I had Gohan in my arms and placed him down gently on the ground. I turned towards Raditz and I stared at him. There was a strong feeling going through my mind right now. I wasn't sure what it was, but I knew one thing. It definitely wasn't fear.
"That's enough!" I said bravely taking a fighting stance. "I won't let you hurt them anymore! Your evil ways must be brought to an end!"
"What?!"
Piccolo who was now back on his feet looked at me in surprise.
"Who is that Goku?" he asked. "Someone you know?"
"No... no idea," said Goku who got back on his feet as well. "But... I'm pretty sure it's someone we can trust." He turned to me. "Hey. Are...you here to help us?"
"Oh my god... Goku's actually talking me!" I screamed in my head going in full on geek mode. "Play it cool... play it cool..."
"Yes. I am," I said. "Don't worry. We'll take down this monkey together!"
There was a long awkward silence. Even Raditz was a little urked by what I just said.
"Damn it that was lame..." I thought.
"Look kid," said Piccolo. "I don't mind you helping us, but don't be a drag. Wouldn't want dying and not just because of that lame pun you used."
"Um... yeah. Sure," I said.
"Gah! How could I have said something so dumb?!" I thought feeling like a total dumbass. Then I shook my head getting focused. "Forget about that! I gotta help defeat Raditz! All I have to do is help Goku and Piccolo defeat Raditzn so they can finish him. I don't know how I'll fare against a guy like him, but I'll give this everything I've got!"
Goku, and Piccolo took their fighting stances as well and prepared to fight Raditz. Raditz was now outnumbered three to one.
"Do you honestly think that another person showing up will make a bit of difference?" mocked Raditz. "I'll crush every last one of you!"
He charged ki blasts on each of his hands and fired them at me and Goku. Goku jumped into the air while I jumped to the side and rolled dodging the attack. Raditz knocked Goku to the side and went straight for me punching me right in my gut. I coughed feeling the blow and felt the full force and pain from the punch, but I immediately reacted by grabbing Raditz's fist and using what I was trained for threw him in a judo throw slamming him to the ground just like I did with Trunks. Raditz immediately jumped up and rubbed his back in pain.
"What the... hell was that?!" he grunted. "Some kind of weird earth move?"
"It's called a judo throw," I said. "You should learn about it sometime. Not that you'll have a chance to learn what that is because you're gonna go down! Hard! Taaah!"
Letting out a yell, I shot toward Raditz and attacked with a flurry of punches. Raditz parried and blocked each blow. Raditz dodged and blocked every blow I threw. Then one of my punches was aimed right for his face as hard and as fast as I could. Raditz dodged again, but just barely. My punch had bafrely scratched his cheek.
"Impossible!" thought Raditz. "This one is different from the others! He's even stronger than Kakaort is if not very slightly!" He then looked at his scouter again and he look of surprise was then replaced by a smug grin upon seeing my power level. "But still, this boy is no match for me!"
"Yaaaaah!"
I threw one more punch at Raditz, but then he disappeared. Raditz moved behind me and hit me directly on my back. The force of the attack sent me flying towards a rock smashing directly into it reducing it into rubble. A normal person would have died from a blow like that, but lucky for me I didn't, but it still hurt like hell.
"Owowowow!" I said as I got up. "I'm really glad that I'm in this universe because I wasn't, I'd be dead."
You quickly recovered and shot towards Raditz again who had directed his attack back towards Piccolo. Goku who was next to you quickly gave you a heads up.
"You take him from the front! I'll get him from the back! I need you to attack him with everything you got! Got it?"
"Got it!" I said.
Both of us shot forward heading towards Raditz once more. I clenched my fist and launched a combo of punches at Raditz. First a straight punch to his face, then a right cross on his cheek, another punch on his chest, and finally a hard punch right in his abdomen. Raditz gasped from the impact and his mouth dribbled with blood a little as he stepped back recoiling. Then Goku took advantage by kicking him from behind his head and after that, Piccolo jumped in by firing a ki blast at Raditz continuing the assualt. Raditz staggered and stepped back from the force of the attacks, but he was starting to get overwhelmed. He was losing. Suddenly, Goku appeared behind Raditz and grabbed him by his tail squeezing it hard. The tail being a weak spot for saiyans, made Raditz weakened. So weakened that he fell down to the ground helpless. He turned to his former saiyan brother.
"Ka... kakarot! Are... -cough- you gonna kill your only brother? Your own... flesh and blood?" he coughed.
"Shut up!" retorted Goku glaring. "A heartless guy like you doesn't deserve to be my brother! Especially someone who would just hurt and threatened my son!"
I couldn't help but smile. We got him on the ropes now! All we have to do now is finish the job. Then Raditz looked at Goku with pleading eyes.
"I'm... I'm sorry! I give up! I'll leave this planet quietly... Just please let me go!"
Goku then hesitated. Piccolo then cut in.
"Don't listen to him Goku! There is no way he would just give up and promise to leave!" he shouted.
"That's right!" I chimed in. "He's playing you! The moment you let go of his tail, he's gonna attack you without a second thought!"
Goku was frozen not sure what he should do. Knowing how Goku is with his personality and how much I watched him on TV, I knew what I had to do. I didn't know if it would work again, but I had to help Goku before it was too late.
"Piccolo! Get your Special Beam Cannon ready! I'll take care of this!" I said urgently as I shot forward heading towards the two.
As Piccolo watched me, he was staring at my back in surprise.
"How the hell did he know about..." he said but then he put his index and middle fingers to his head and began to charge his attack. "No time to think about it now. I gotta focus."
Back with Goku and Raditz, Goku was still hesitating on what he should do. I had to hurry before it was too late! And there was only one thing I can do to catch Raditz off guard. I had to use that ki blast attack I did when I was fighting Trunks. I knew that it was just a fluke and I didn't know if I could use it again, but I had to try. Goku's life was at stake! As I grew closer and closer to Raditz and Goku, I concentrated on remembering what I did before to use that attack back when I was fighting Trunks.
"Come on... Come on..." I said in my head. "Remember what you did last time... Remember how desperate you were... Remember how you didn't want to die! Remember! Remember!"
Goku who was still holding on Raditz's tail had finally let go of it. Raditz immediately got up and just like I or anyone else expected, turned around and attacked Goku.
"You are fool Kakarot! Now you die!" Raditz as he prepared to fire a ki blast directly at Goku.
"GOKU DUCK!"
Goku hearing me scream and sensing me coming immediately did as he was told. As soon as he did, using my hands and jumping up above Goku, I fired a full powered ki blast right at Raditz. The attack slammed straight into Raditz right into the sternum in the center of his chest. The force of it made Raditz go flying smashing through a couple of trees, but he quickly regained his composure and landed on his feet. He stood up and held his sternum in pain. His armor where I hit him was also singed slightly. Raditz seeing this looked at me his eyes slightly bloodshot in anger. If he wasn't pissed off before, he certainly was now.
"You bastard! How dare you get in my way?! I'll kill you for that!" he yelled as he shot forward coming straight at me.
I took a defense stance ready to dodge or evade. Raditz completely blinded by his anger threw a flurry of punches at me, but I crossed my arms blocking every blow. Raditz wouldn't let up nor did he calm down as he kept punching me. Then I side stepped one of his punches and jumped out of the way.
"You little bastard! Stay still so I can kill you!" yelled Raditz as he was about to go after me again.
I stood ready taking a defensive stance to block Raditz's blows again, but suddenly Goku appeared from behind Raditz catching him by surprise and locking him in a full nelson from behind.
"What the...! Kakarot! What are you doing?!" he shouted.
He tried to break free from his former brother's grip, but like a bulldog with a chew toy, Goku refused to let go.
"Now Piccolo! Your attack! Hurry!" shouted Goku as he tightened his grip on Raditz.
"I'm almost done!" shouted Piccolo as his fingertips began to spark and glow in a light as he was continuing to charge his attack. He looked at me.
"Hey kid! Get out of the way unless you wanna die too!"
"You don't gotta tell me twice!" I said as I quickly got out of the way.
Goku continued to hold Raditz as he struggled frantically trying to break free while Piccolo continued to charge his attack his fingertips glowing as brighter and brighter. Then Piccolo was ready. Goku sensing this and sensing that he couldn't last much longer yelled out.
"PICCOLO! DO IT NOW! HURRY!"
"Alright Goku, I'm ready! shouted Piccolo. He looked at Raditz with a victorious yet somewhat evil smirk on his face. "You ready to die?!"
Raditz struggled even harder trying to break free, but it was too late. Piccolo took aim and fired his ultimate attack.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"
The sight before me at this point was in slow motion. Piccolo's attack was fired and then pierced right in the center of Raditz's chest where I had originally shot in his armor. It tore right through Raditz and right through Goku killing them both at the same time.
"Ugh... DAMN IT!" yelled Raditz in a bloody gargle.
As he and Goku fell to the ground, I saw that Goku had a grin on his face. It was just like what I saw from the show. The battle was finally over.
"We...won..." I said. "We won! We really..."
Suddenly I began to glow in a white light. Then my vision started to become white as I was shrouded in a white light.
"Hey! What's going on?!" I said as I started to disappear. Soon enough, I vanished from the battle without anyone noticing.
Piccolo smiled with victory chuckling weakly. "Serves you right... I can't believe we managed to beat him."
As he walked over to Goku, he remembered the young boy who had helped them.
"I guess I owe you a debt of gratitude kid," said Piccolo. "Look I don't normally say this, but..."
As he turned to my direction, he found that I was no longer there. He looked around to try and find me, but there was no one to be seen other than himselfm Gohan who was unconscious, and the corpses of Goku and Raditz.
"What the... Where... did he go?" he wondered completely baffled. "And... who the hell was he?"
Then he heard someone cough coming from the corpses. He looked and he saw that both Goku and Raditz bloody and both had holes in them, but somehow someway they were still alive.
"D-damn it..." gasped Raditz coughing up some more blood. "Kakarot... you're a fool... because... of you...now... we're both gonna die..."
"Sorry to break it to you," said Piccolo walking up to him. "but you're gonna be dying by yourself."
"And... why is that?"
"Goku won't be dead. Well... at least not for long anyway. His friends will probably have him brought back in a week," said Piccolo. "You see, we have these things called dragon balls. When you gather all seven of them, they have the power to grant any wish including wishing someone back from the dead. So no matter how much you splice it, it looks like Goku is the last man standing."
Raditz glared at Piccolo, but that glare soon changed into a defiant smirk.
"I hate... to break it to you... green man... but that's where... you're wrong," chuckled Raditz weakly.
"Oh? And why is that?" asked Piccolo.
"You... see this device on my face?" asked Raditz. "This device... is also a transmitter. My... saiyan comrades have heard everything you said just now... and... the two of them... will be coming for you... just you wait... They... will wipe out... everything on this planet..."
Piccolo's eyes widened in shock and Goku had even enough strength to raise his head and look at Raditz.
"How... much time...?" he choked out. "When will they be here...?
"In... one year..." continued Raditz with a big smirk on his face. "And here's... the best part... the saiyans that are coming... are even stronger than me... So enjoy your victory... while you still can... because... in the end...it would be all... for nothing! You're all... as good dead!"
Raditz then laughed. It was weak, but it was enough make Piccolo mad. With a scream of anger delivered a blow to Raditz making the ground crack and crumble and Raditz laughter had silenced.
OK. I did a little bit of a mix of Xenoverse and the anime itself and the ending was a little dark, but I liked how this turned out!
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