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Vegeta in his giant Great Ape form then went on the attack swinging his enormous hill-sized fist straight down at us. Goku and I leaped up and dodged the blow just in time, only for Vegeta to completely destroy the cliff were both standing on. Vegeta then pounced raising his foot in an attempt to crush Goku. He then jumped out of the way just before he was crushed. Vegeta turning his attention towards me swung a hard punch. I jumped out of the way and Vegeta once more reduced the cliff to a pile of rubble.
Goku and I seeing that Vegeta had gained the advantage over us had no choice but to retreat to try and come up with a plan. Vegeta chuckled as he watched us and then with giant thundering steps followed in pursuit.
"You can run, but you can't hide," he said as he looked around trying to find us.
Goku and I each hid behind a different cliff as Vegeta grew closer and closer. Vegeta then attacked finding Goku first and then swung is tail forcing me out of hiding as well. The two of us kept dodging and dodging all of Vegeta's attacks, but we couldn't keep this up forever. Especially in Goku's case due to him still reeling from using the Kaio-ken. If we didn't do something about this soon, Goku and I would surely die.
"Man! This guy's fast for a guy his size!" said Goku. "But... for some reason his form seems familiar to me."
As me and him both landed on the ground, Vegeta turned around and laughed at us. "I wouldn't have been surprised if it seemed familiar to you Kakarot. If you had known about the power you had possessed, you would have never let them cut off your tail! Saiyans in this form can have powers up to ten times their strength! But now let me show you a true saiyan's power!"
He then swung another fist attack at us again forcing me and Goku to dodge again. Then as we landed back on the ground, Goku's eyes went wide in shock as if he had some sort of revelation.
"Goku! What's the matter?" I called.
"Now I get it..." murumured Goku. "I finally understand what Grandpa Gohan was meant."
"What do you mean?"
"The giant monster that he warned me about when I was little... It was me!" said Goku looking at his hands and balling them into fists. "The one who destroyed the stadium in the World Tournament and... and I'm the one... who crushed my Grandpa!"
I then remembered. Back in the Dragonball Arc when Goku was a little boy, he did transform into his Great Ape form a couple of times. Not only that, but because of his lack of control of himself in that form Grandpa Gohan was crushed to death because of it. Up till now, Goku had no clue about it and right now he was probably as shocked as can be.
Meanwhile Vegeta was slowly walking up to us taking his sweet time like a cat with it's prey. I had to get Goku to snap out of it before Vegeta crushed him.
"Why didn't anyone tell me?!" he continued. "I'm so sorry Grandpa. I'm so sorry! It's all my fault!"
"Goku snap out of it!" I yelled. "Look! I know this comes as a shock to you and I appreciate that you're shocked, but now's not the time for this! If you really want to apologize to Grandpa Gohan, then focus on beating this guy first! Focus on beating him so that we can save Earth!"
Goku looked at me, then he came back to his senses giving me a determined look. "You're right! Thanks! I needed that!"
Then a roar from Vegeta made us turn towards him to see that he had jumped above us and was bringing his foot down to stomp on us.
"Oh crap! Move it!" I yelled.
We both split up into two different directions. Then suddenly before I had a chance to react, Vegeta was immediately upon me and slammed me with his enormous fist. I screamed as I was sent flying to a cliff. The impact was so strong, that I felt my bones creak and indent of the hole.
"OK. That one hurt," I groaned as I spit out some blood on my lip.
"Oh no! Are you OK?!" Goku yelled as he rushed to try and help me.
Vegeta then turned his attack towards Goku by throwing a punch, Goku managed to get out of the way but Vegeta using his superior speed kicked him sending him flying and tumbling to the ground. Goku winced in pain and lied there in agony still not fully recovered from using the Kaio-Ken. Vegeta seeing an opportunity went on the attack once again by lunging straight at Goku.
"Crap! KAIO_KEN!"
Goku having no other choice activated his Kaio-ken to dodge Vegeta's lunge, only to be smacked away like a fly by Vegeta's tail. Goku was sent flying back-flipping until he regained his composure while floating in the air. He rubbed his eyes trying to get the dust out of them while Vegeta laughed mocking him.
"Did you really think that you could out-maneuver me?! Please! You can do better than that!"
"Oh yeah!? Then how about this you stinkin ape!" I yelled as I flew straight at Vegeta. I didn't know how effective this would be, but I had to at least try. I flared my ki and I unleashed a barrage of ki blasts right at Vegeta causing them explode upon impact. This was somewhat effective causing Vegeta to stagger a little. I didn't let up by firing another barrage. This time Vegeta defend by crossing his giant arms blocking the assault. A giant cloud of smoke covered the area. I couldn't even see where Vegeta was.
Suddenly Vegeta leaped out from the smoke and came straight at me.
"You brat! I'm gonna make you pay for that!"
Meanwhile Gohan and Krillin who were flying away from the battlefield were now heading back towards the battle. They were at first were going to Master Roshi's, but after sensing Vegeta's Ki when he transformed into a giant ape Gohan didn't want to abandon his father. So he along with Krillin were flying back as fast as they could.
"Hang on Dad! We're coming as fast as we can!" thought Gohan.
Krillin took a look at the determined look on Gohan's face and he couldn't help, but smile.
"He really is Goku's son," he thought. "He's becoming more and like him by the minute."
As they arrived back at the battlefield, both of their eyes widened in shock. Goku and the boy were flying around Vegeta who was now a giant ape trying to hit him. Vegeta swatted around throwing his fists trying to knock them down. It was like watching someone trying to smack a pair of flies.
Then Vegeta succeeded in hitting the boy by smacking him with the back of his hand. The boy plummeted to the ground skidding on it and the crumpled into a heap. Goku tried to fight back in retaliation, but Vegeta smack him away too sending him straight into canyon making yell in pain. Vegeta laughed enjoying the two of us in pain.
"What's the matter Kakarot?! Can't you and your friend manage any attack?" he scoffed. "Don't you think it's about time the two of you gave up? You're both
finished!"
Krillin could see the two of them needed help as did Gohan. They glanced at each other.
"Let's go Gohan! Are you ready?"
"Yes!" said Gohan as he gave a nod.
Then the two of them flew into the battle joining the fray.
I had to admit out of all the times I felt hurt, this was the worst. My entire body felt battered and bruised and slightly bloody. Goku had it even worse than me. His body was still wracked with pain from the recent Kaio-ken not to mention from Vegeta's recent hit on him.
"D-damn it..." he grunted as he struggled to his feet. "What can we do?! He's fast for someone as big as he is! Even if we do hit him, he shrugs it off like it's nothing! Even if I tried a five times Kaio-ken it still wouldn't be enough! There has to be something!"
"Are you not gonna try and attack me? Fine then!" said Vegeta who was growing tired of waiting. "If neither you or the boy will attack, then I will!"
With a roar he lunged straight for Goku with the intent to kill. I struggled to my feet seeing Vegeta attack Goku, then dashed toward Goku hoping to get him out of there in time before Vegeta had a chance. Goku looked up in time to see that Vegeta was right on top of him.
Then suddenly someone flew right in between Goku and in front of Vegeta's face. Upon seeing who it was, my eyes widened in surprise as did Goku. The person turned to the last person we expected. Krillin.
"Goku! Stranger! Look away now!" he screamed.
Goku and I did as we were told. Krillin then placed his hands close to the center of their face with the fingers spread toward his eyes and then used one of the techniques he learned from Tien.
"SOLAR FLARE!"
Krillin then fired a bright light emanating from his body. Vegeta happened to look straight at the bright resulting in him becoming blinded. He roared in agony as he clutched his eyes.
"Dammit all! My eyes! My eyes!"
"Now everyone! Let's go!" called Krillin. "I'll get Goku!"
Krillin looped Goku's arm around his shoulders and he along with me and Gohan moved away from Vegeta who was still having a fit from being blinded. We hid behind a bunch of rocks several feet away from where Vegeta was standing.
"Krillin! Gohan! I don't what the heck you guys are doing here, but thanks for the save anyway!" said Goku. "You guys saved my butt!"
"Anytime Goku," said Krillin.
"Are you OK Daddy?" asked Gohan worriedly. "You look hurt."
"To be honest son, I've been better," said Goku. "I feel like I've been hit with a truck repeatedly."
"So what the heck is going on here? Is that giant ape Vegeta?" asked Krillin.
"It is," I said. "And unless we come up with a way to do something about that, Vegeta's gonna stomp us flat into pancakes."
"But what can we do? There's no way we can beat him now," said Gohan.
"I was hoping to take him down with the Spirit Bomb," said Goku. "However I'm not even sure that'll be enough. He's powerful as he is fast. But maybe if I gather just enough energy..."
I wracked my brains out trying to come up with an idea. I thought back to when Goku and Vegeta fought in the first timeline. Vegeta became a great ape and even with Goku using the Spirit Bomb it wasn't enough. Then Yajirobe cut off Vegeta's tail returning him to normal and then Gohan became a giant ape by looking up at the moon Vegeta made and then Vegeta was crushed to death and he still survived.
Since we couldn't defeat him in the original way due to the timeline being all screwy, I had to come up with a plan. Then I remembered something I had forgetten. There was one major weakness that Vegeta had.
"I think I have an idea," I said. "First and more most, Goku even if you used the Spirit Bomb now it still wouldn't be enough to take down Vegeta. Well at least not with him being a giant ape. First and foremost, we have to take down Vegeta's weakness and I think Krillin knows what I'm talking about."
"That's right! If we cut Vegeta's tail, then he'll return to normal!" said Krillin.
"Exactly!" I said. "Here's what we'll do. First, we'll focus on the tail. Gohan and I will distract Vegeta wearing him down and then at the right moment, Krillin will use his Destructo Disk to cut off his tail. Then after he returns to normal, Goku will focus on getting the Spirit Bomb ready and then will use that to finish Vegeta off."
"Sounds like a plan," said Krillin. "But Gohan are you gonna be up for this?"
"Yeah," said Gohan. "I wanna help and I'll do whatever I can to protect my Dad and save the world."
Goku smiled with pride as he patted his son on the head. "That's good son. You've really gotten braver since I've seen you. You've made me proud."
Gohan smiled back at his father feeling proud of himself too.
"All right then," I said. "Let's do this. Vegeta's probably regained his vision by now and his probably looking for us. Let's go through the plan before he starts blowing up the place."
Vegeta had finally regained his vision and searched everywhere, but he couldn't find his two opponents.
"Damn it! Where the hell did they go?!" he roared growing angrier by the second. "You two can run all you want, but I will find you! Do you hear me?!"
Me, Gohan, Krillin came flying at Vegeta while Goku stayed out of sight hiding. When Vegeta saw us he growled with venom in his voice.
"So there you are! And you brought the brat with you as well! Where's Kakarot?"
"What's the matter? Are the three of us not good enough for you?" I said in a mocking tone. "Or are you too scared to take us on you dirty ape?"
"Real cute, but I don't have time for these games," said Vegeta. "Tell me where Kakarot is or else I'll crush all three of you in an instant!"
"Why don't you come over here and make us?!" called Gohan bravely. "We're not scared of you!"
"Fine then! Guess crushing is it then!" roared Vegeta as he lunged straight at us.
"Everyone scatter!" yelled Krillin as we took off flying in different directions.
We flew around Vegeta each of us either landing a blow or firing a ki blast at him while Vegeta tried to swat us all down. Goku stayed in hiding trying to get as much rest as he could. Every time Vegeta tried to hit one of us, he would either miss or be on the receiving end of a small attack. This made him more and more angry.
"Damn it! I had enough of this!"
He then took a deep breath and unleashed a massive mouth blast straight at us. The three of us narrowly dodged the attack just in time, but the force of it blew me and the others completely away. The blast also caused a giant explosion that rocked the area. To make things even more worse, it was dangerously close towards the direction of where Goku was.
"Oh crap! Goku!"
I instinctively looked to try and see if Goku was OK, but that would be a big mistake. For right when I happened to look, Vegeta reached up and swatted me out of the sky making me fall to the ground in pain. Vegeta immediately leaped up attempting to stomp on me, but I managed to roll out of the way just in time before he crushed me. Gohan and Krillin fired some ki blasts. They connected, but all it did was make Vegeta even more angry and annoyed.
"I'm growing tired of this!" he growled. "Why can't you puny insects just die?!"
"Then how about we end this right now!?" I yelled as I bounced of a rock and then with all my power fired a barrage of attacks right at Vegeta's face hitting him smack in one of his eyes causing the beast yell loudly in pain.
"Krillin! DO IT NOW!" I yelled. "HURRY!"
Krillin then raised his hand and took aim, flared up his ki and a disc appeared above his hand.
"DESTRUCTO DISC!"
Then he threw it with all of his strength and might. The disc whizzed through the air and struck quick and true slicing off Vegeta's tail completely.
"All right!" cheered Krillin.
"Nice shot Krillin!" I cried happily.
Vegeta was frozen upon having his tail cut off either from shock or from pain. "You... you fools! What have you done!? M-my tail...!"
Then Vegeta began undergoing another change. His body slowly began shrinking. His brown fur slowly disappeared and turned back into his normal pale skin. His muzzle slowly shrank back into a human mouth and his red eyes returned to white with pupils in addition. Soon enough Vegeta had returned to his normal that didn't mean that he wasn't finished with us just yet.
"You damned bastards!" he said his voice now normal as well. "You're done! You all have disgraced me for the last time!"
Vegeta then crossed his arms while crouching and flared up his ki. Gohan and Krillin shrunk back a bit in fear, but I didn't back down. Vegeta still have a lot of fight left in him, but he was pretty weak at this point. However I was feeling a little short of steam myself. It could go at either way at this point. Whatever happened at this point had to be done. This fight had to be finished.
"Come on Vegeta! Let's put an end to this right now!" I yelled as I dashed straight towards him.
I then gave Veegta a powerful kick to his face forcing him back. Vegeta then dashed at me back and the two of us got into a back to back punching fest. Both of us traded blows back and forth neither one of us giving in an inch.
Krillin and Gohan watched as the stranger fought Vegeta with everything they had. They wanted to help him, but they both knew that they didn't have the power nor the strength to fight Vegeta even with his weakened state. Then Gohan noticed something. He saw something a few feet away from him. At first he didn't know what it was, but then he saw what it was. He immediately ran towards it.
"Gohan?! Where are you going?!" cried Krillin as he followed him.
Then he saw what Gohan saw too. It was Goku. However he looked more battered than ever before.
"Daddy! It's you!" cried Gohan.
"Goku?! Are you OK?" asked Krillin.
"I'm fine," said Goku weakly. "But... I let my guard down and when he fired that mouth attack. I barely managed to get away, but... I ended up getting hurt in the process. But we'll get to that later... Listen you guys... I need the both of you to listen closely... while I was lying here... I was able to gather some energy...for the Spirit Bomb... Krillin... I need you to take this energy... you should have enough to hit him if it hits... take my hand Krillin..."
Goku weakly raised his hand and Krillin took it. Goku then transferred all of the energy his gathered to Krillin making Krillin's hand glow in a white aura.
"H-holy cow..." said Krillin. "This is a lot of power... but what am I supposed to do with this Goku?"
"Turn your palm up... and concentrate," said Goku. "Use your will power to turn the energy into a ball."
Krillin nodded and did as he was told. A few seconds passed and then a ball of light formed shining brightly on Krillins hand. Goku then smiled.
"Good job. Now... you both have to make sure that it hits," he said. "You only get one shot so make it count. I'm leaving the rest to you guys OK?"
Both Krillin and Gohan nodded.
"Let's go Gohan! Go back up that guy OK? I'll go and get a good shot."
"Right!"
Me and Vegeta were still going at each other in the punch fest, but I was starting to run out of steam. I threw a punch trying to punch Vegeta in the face, but then Vegeta ducked leaving me wide open for attack. Vegeta then punched me right on my stomach causing me to get the wind knocked out of me. Then Vegeta gave me and upwards kick straight to my jaw sending me sprawling straight to the ground.
"How did that taste?!" snarled Vegeta.
"Leave him alone!" yelled a voice. "MASENKO-HA!"
Vegeta turned to the source to see Gohan fire his signature move, the Masenko right at him. He immediately dodged it by disappearing into thin air. The attack narrowly whizzed right past me hitting a nearby rock causing it to explode in pebbles.
Gohan then looked around trying to see where Vegeta disappeared to. He then saw Vegeta hovering from above chuckling.
"Come on! Did you really think you could hit me with that old trick?" he sneered.
Gohan answered him by firing another Masenko and once again Vegeta dodged hit. He tried again and again Vegeta dodged. This was just like watching Yosemite Sam trying to kill Bugs Bunny with his guns. Why was Gohan trying to fight Vegeta? Surely he knows that none of us practically have the strength to fight Vegeta right now. That's when I happened to see Krillin. He was standing above us on a rock with a ball of energy in his hands. That's when I knew what was going on and I could only smile.
"Looks like we're not licked yet!" I thought as I struggled to my feet. "If Vegeta gets hit by this it's over. At least I hope it will be..."
Then Vegeta who was now on the ground walked towards a frightened Gohan with an evil grin on his face. "I'll give some credit, you and your father surprised me as well as your friends, but sadly for you it wasn't enough. Prepare to die."
He then fired a volley of ki blasts straight at Gohan. Gohan retreated hastily backing away from them trying to avoid being hit, but then stumbled and then some of the ki blasts hit him causing him to be sent flying hitting a rock and then crumpling to the ground. Vegeta then started sprinting straight at Gohan in a blinding speed like was getting ready to punt kick him like a football.
"This is the end boy! Hope you're watching Kakarot because this is the end of your son!" he yelled.
Seeing Gohan about to meet his end by Vegeta made me turn to Krillin above us on the rock.
"KRILLIN! NOW!" I screamed.
Krillin hearing me then flung the Spirit Bomb with all of his strength. The Spirit Bomb shot straight towards Vegeta like homing missile as he stared at the ball in shock.
"Come on! Come on! Hit him!" yelled Krillin praying that the bomb would hit it's mark.
Unfortunately Vegeta leaped out of the way just before the bomb hit him. The bomb kept on going heading it's way toward someone that was in it's line of fire. Gohan.
"Crap! Gohan!"
I didn't have time to think or to act. I just got up and ran straight for Gohan. I ran in between the two and ran straight towards the Spirit Bomb. The Spirit Bomb grew closer and closer. Normally anyone would be insane to try and run towards a Spirit Bomb, but I remember from watching that show that as long as your didn't possess evil in your heart, the Bomb won't be able to hurt you. Therefore my idea was to bounce it back at Vegeta and I knew just the way to do it.
I brought my leg back and then it was close enough and with a mighty yell, I kicked the Spirit Bomb with all my might and strength like a soccer ball aiming right for Vegeta. The bomb shot straight at Vegeta and before he had a chance to react, the Spirit Bomb collided with him with a mighty boosh! It erupted with overwhelming power and energy with Vegeta in the middle of it all. The lights were bright and loud like a fireworks show. Vegeta howled and screamed in pain as the energy seared his body. The blast then sent Vegeta shooting high into the sky until he disappeared from sight. There was silence. Then Krillin let out a whoop of victory.
"We did it!" cheered Krillin. "We finally won! It's over!"
Gohan cheered along with him and Goku smiled victoriously. Gohan and Krillin then went over to Goku to make sure that he was OK. It seemed that the Prince of Saiyans Vegeta had been defeated, but then after a few more seconds, Vegeta came falling right back to the ground. His armor was now torn, cracked, and slightly singed and he looked even more bloody than before, but he was still alive. Just barely.
"No way... that's impossible!" cried Krillin his face filled with horror. "How was he able to survive that?!"
Everyone was shocked, except for me. I knew that Vegeta would survive it. I had to say though, he was one tough cookie. Vegeta then pulled out a remote and pushed a couple of buttons. A few seconds later there was a strange humming sound. Then a space pod appeared and landed right next to Vegeta which happened to be the one that he came to Earth in. Right then and there Vegeta slowly crawled his way to his pod.
"TH-this is humiliating..." he groaned. "T-to think that I... the might Saiyan Prince Vegeta...am being forced... to retreat..."
"No... he's trying to escape," said Krillin. "I won't let him... "
He attempted to try and stop Vegeta from escaping, but I stood in front barring his way.
"No Krillin. Let him go," I said shaking my head.
"What?! Why are you stopping me?!" demanded Krillin.
"Krillin... he's right... It's OK," said Goku weakly. "Let him go."
"What?!"
Krillin and Gohan looked at Goku dumbfounded at what he had just said, but then Goku explained.
"Listen... I know it's crazy, but... we have to show him... what it means to be merciful..."
"But Dad! He's the one who killed all our friends!" protested Gohan. "What if he comes back?!"
"Yeah! He's not exactly the kind of person who will have a change of heart!" added Krillin.
"He might...but then again he might not son..." said Goku. "Besides... I believe by doing this... we're showing him that there's a better way..."
"He's right guys," I said. "I get it. It sounds crazy I know, but believe when I say that Goku knows what he's saying. Besides, Piccolo was once evil and now here he is on our side. If he can have a change of heart then anyone can. Including Vegeta. And also if you killed him now, then you'd only regret it. You'd be no different than he is. Just let him go OK?"
"But-"
"And don't worry... if he shows up here again..." continued Goku. "Then we'll stop him... I'll beat him... on my own... I promise..."
Krillin and Gohan still didn't like it, but they decided to listen to me and Goku. Vegeta during all of this managed to climb into his pod fully sitting in it.
"R-remember this day you fools... and enjoy your lives to the fullest... You're not... going to have any more miracles... The next time we meet... you're all dead! You'll all be begging... for mercy as I crush the life into you..."
Those were the final words Vegeta spoke as the pod closed. The pod then ascended into the air and then blasted off into the wild blue yonder. It was now finally over. Goku then glanced over at me and smiled warmly.
"Th-thank you..." he said. "I appreciate everything you've done for us..."
"It's no problem," I said. "Glad to help."
Then I began start glowing in a bright light meaning I was about to be brought back to the Time Nest. I then turned around and walked away.
"Wait... where are you going?" asked Goku.
"It's time for me to go," I said. "Don't ask me why, but I have to go."
"I understand," said Goku. "But... just tell me one thing before you go... Please tell me your name... I would... like to know the person who saved me... and helped my friends..."
This made me stop. After a brief pause, I turned around towards my Anime hero and said...
"It's Cayden."
As the light grew brighter and brighter enveloping my body, I eventually disappeared from sight.
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