Another Path
Yes, something many were expecting, a new chapter. Sorry for taking so long but chapters will take longer for all my stories. Specially now that I'm back to studying and working.
As always, any constructive critic is well received. If not then go and do something useful.
Enjoy, my fans!
Chapter 27: Madness of Power
A few weeks passed from the Earth-shaking struggle with Cell. The Saiyans Goku and Gohan had taken a few days of rest from the planet-bursting battle with their Android enemy before going back to their training. They now sparred with a new gravity ship that could go up beyond the thousand times Earth's Gravity. They had trained at similar pressures on the Time Chamber so it was rather easy at one thousand. Of course, they weren't training to push themselves. They were just training to keep their shape before going into the serious exercises. Even on times of peace one should still be careful about what could suddenly arrive into their home planet.
The Prince Vegeta had also been training at one thousand times gravity. He struggled at first but knowing Kakarot and Gohan were obviously training effortlessly in the same conditions only pushed the Royal Saiyan to train even harder. He had to beat the two of them just like they did to him so many times before.
Without any kind of warning, however, a giant oval grey ship landed just outside Capsule Corp after tracking the closest high power in the planet. The Royal Saiyan felt the incoming powers and went to investigate after turning off the gravity machine. Vegeta walked outside his house dressed in his normal white armor with blue clothes, his common training attire. He saw many soldiers walking out of the ship dressed in weird dark purple clothes. But instead of attacking, all of them were kneeling in front of him.
"King Vegeta, we are your humble servants" One of the leader squad said in obedience. All of them were treating the Saiyan like Royalty. Vegeta wasn't new to the treatment but it had been quite sometime since someone bowed in front of him in allegiance.
"What's the meaning of this?" The Prince blurted out. A white-caped figure with an eye missing stepped forward among the soldiers. His presence wasn't hard to notice.
"My king" The eye-scar Saiyan said, kneeling in front of the Prince.
"You are a Saiyan" Vegeta folded his arms over his armored chest suspicious. How many Saiyans had survived the destruction of Planet Vegeta was something he had never thought in a lot of detail.
"Yes, my lord. My name is Paragus" The mustached man replied after a brief nod "And now that we've found you, the universe can once again know the full power of the Saiyan race" Vegeta only corked an eyebrow by that.
"The arrangements are already in place, my liege" Paragus stood up, his tone of a proud speech "A New Planet Vegeta has been settled for you to expand your dominance over the galaxy" He waved his right hand over the massive party of soldiers, briefly showing a golden bracelet framing his hand. But the flame-haired Saiyan didn't pay much heed towards those little details "These soldiers have been gathered from all over the galaxies, each quadrant providing more dutiful servants worthy of a Saiyan king" The Prince snickered to that remark. As good as it sounded, his tittle of Prince of Saiyans meant little when there were no Saiyans to rule over.
After his snicker, the white-armored fighter spun around decided to simply ignore the space fools. But Paragus wasn't going to be simply denied, least of all by someone of Vegeta's breed.
"Of course, you will have to first beat the Legendary Super Saiyan" The white-caped alien mentioned, almost like waving the problem away. Something that did caught Vegeta's full attention when he stopped in his tracks.
"What?!" The Saiyan Prince blurted out hands balled in fists "There's no stronger fighter in the universe than me!" Of course, the Prince had 'casually' neglected to mention Goku and above all, Gohan. The new Saiyan again bowed in front of his fake king.
"I know, sire. With your amazing powers, the fight between the two of you shall be of colossal proportions!" The new Saiyan mentioned, his voice sounding with swelling pride "Worthy of the Saiyan Legacy that will forever echo all over the cosmos, when everyone cheer for their savior, King Vegeta" If Paragus had lived on Earth, his career as an actor would have been worthy of movies. Because Vegeta was now eating from the palm of his hand. Now all that matter was to take him to the soon-to-blow dead planet and leave him there with Broly. Of course, if they decided to kill each other than Paragus wasn't going to shed a tear for any of them. Both deserved to die the most painful way. What he was doing was rather merciful.
The Legendary Super Saiyan. The legend had always impacted Vegeta ever since a child. His blood boiled by the challenge, if it was true. The prospect of fighting someone powerful enough that might put Cell to shame was almost to sweat to ignore and turn the back on. And best of all, defeating it right in front of Kakarot's spoiled noses so to finally prove his rightful superiority over the low-class.
Yes, Vegeta liked that idea. Scratch that, he loved it.
"Alright Paragus, lead the way" The prince turned around and walked straight into the white ship leaving no ground for retorts. And that's what the eye-less fighter wanted. Paragus lead the way, a small smile hiding perfectly in the edge of his lips.
Just a little bit longer and his revenge would be rightfully served by the Heavens themselves.
"Dad, did you feel that?" Gohan asked to his father.
"Yes, two Saiyan kis" The Saiyan father replied, looking away. He could feel Vegeta next to the new presence. Not that the energy was dangerous at all. It wouldn't be a warm up for either himself or Gohan.
"I can feel two energies there" The demi Saiyan chimed in, arms folded. The full Saiyan briefly screw his eyes shut, his ki sensing letting him detect another thing that he had ignored.
"One very faint, right?" Goku said to Gohan, who nodded affirmatively.
"Yeah. Do you think someone's is dying out there?" The half Earthling asked. The Martial Arts Champion rubbed his chin before answering the question.
"No. I think it's all the opposite. An energy that wants to get free" Goku could feel that the little presence was holded inside, concentrated like a bomb. Almost ready to go off. And a sudden feeling in his guts was telling Goku that the power didn't bode well.
"Let's just wait. If Vegeta is with this new guy then we can teleport to wherever they take him" The full-blooded fighter advised. Gohan shrugged deciding to go by his father's course of action now. Not that he had a better idea.
While Vegeta handled those Legendary troubles, an attack pod traveled through the blackness of space heading into a particular distant planet. The being inside it didn't know what planet he was heading towards but there was a powerful presence there. It was better than going nowhere at all after just a few days of having woken up.
Now that Vegeta had already traveled millions of miles through space and reached the distant planet called New Vegeta, there was another being that was suddenly interested. The chubby galaxy overlooker called King Kai had woken up from his nap, ready to check on his quadrant's activities.
"Alright, let's see what we have today on sector X23" King Kai exclaimed eager for once to check over his home and find no trouble blooming from right to left. His antenna switched back and forth detecting something in the distant sector of his quadrant. The plump overlooker frowned behind his sunglasses.
"That's Vegeta's energy. What's he doing so far away from Earth?" The Shinjin asked to no one in particular. His detecting appendages started vibrating almost like a golden-detector machine. The Kai turned his head slightly left, which in cosmic measures meant he was looking at thousands of miles away from Vegeta's first point.
"What is that?" The portly deity checked the moving object through space. His eyes widened in apprehension. The object was humongous, easily twice the size of planet Earth. And it was heading straight into Vegeta at full speed "Oh no, Vegeta's in trouble!" He yelled, his antenna moving frantically above his head without any established location. The Kai sighed and regain coherence easing his breath. The situation needed to be fixed quickly.
"I hope Goku can stop this madness" The stout being stated while his mind reached away into the blue planet of his quadrant.
The same mentioned Saiyan was moving his fists at notch speed, Gohan brushing the attacks aside with no effort. Just when the half alien had dodged left by side-stepping and had his elbow shooting up into his father's cheekbone was the moment when King Kai's noisy voice reached the duet.
"Goku, Gohan listen to me!" King Kai said out-loud towards his student and his son. The two Saiyans recoiled by the verbal lashing, their sensitive hearing almost bleeding by the high-pitched noise that the Kai called 'voice'.
"King Kai? Is it you?" Goku asked after rubbing his briefly injured eardrums. There was a lingering ring noise there though at it would take a few seconds before if finally faded.
"No time for questions Goku. Vegeta is in danger!" The Kai said without mincing introductions and hopefully bad jokes.
"What do you mean?" The half Saiyan asked now. As much as he didn't appreciate Vegeta, the later didn't deserve to die now that he had a family.
"The planet he's on will be struck by a meteor in a few hours" The North overlooker replied, his tone leaving no shadow of a doubt that it was not an impractical joke of his "That Saiyan called Paragus only wants Vegeta there so he can kill him!" The two fighters on Earth looked at each other concerned. They thought they could keep track of the arrogant Saiyan. But it had backfired now because they had lost him.
"Alright King Kai, we'll go to your planet because we can't feel Vegeta's presence from so far away" Goku said now fully serious. Gohan meanwhile shut off the gravity in the ship.
The Saiyan duet used their Instant Transmission to teleport into the gravity-increased planet of the Galaxy overlooker. The pressure didn't affect them so they walked straight towards the plumb Kai.
"Alright King Kai, point the way" Gohan said now. The deity pointed towards the planet Vegeta was at the time. With two fingers placed on the forehead, the air shimmered around them instantly.
The father and son reappeared after bending space around them right inside Paragus' space ship. Through a wide window one could easy the night that had recently fallen over the distant planet. But even in the dead of the night Goku could recognize the scars of countless battles. The white spacecraft was standing near the edge of a cliff, a nearby castle littered with crumbled buildings. There were some lakes and forests in the distance but most of the planet just looked barren wasteland with nothing worth noticing.
On the cliff's artificially made pathway towards the egg-shaped ship Goku could feel Vegeta's ki. And there was someone right next to him. Even from afar, the palm-haired warrior could recognize his old rival ranting with someone two or three miles away from Goku's current position. Typical Vegeta.
"I'll go fetch Vegeta, son" Goku told his son, who nodded. The Saiyan flew away leaving his teenage son alone. With Goku gone, Gohan flew inside the ship's aisles, blasting any foot soldiers who tried to stand up against him. Quite pitiful, if being honest. But other than that there was nothing else worth noting. Of course the fact that a comet might strike the planet anytime soon sounded like a distressful idea. And at the same time like an exciting one. Cursed his Saiyan blood.
The half alien suddenly stopped in his tracks mid-flight. He was standing in front of a black-shinning door, an energy on the other side of it. The Saiyan checked around. There was no one so meddlers that could turn into casualties were out off the way. The alien walked inside.
The room was pit dark, even Gohan' sensitive eyes not detecting movements. But his ki sensing was another story all together. Someone was there with him. Without a shift of muscle Gohan's white aura came alive allowing light into the darkness. Gohan almost jumped backwards but he didn't. On principle because the thing to be scared off was apparently dead.
It was a man, a tad scrawny in the body if Gohan had to compare him with his dad's or his own physique. His black hair was long but greasy, like never washed before. And the normal middle tan skin color was on full white pale. Whoever the man was he surely must have had a rough life if he had to be shackled to a wall.
The half Saiyan touched Broly briefly in the shoulder. Gohan was ready if he tried anything against him. But the man wasn't moving at all by the contact. He looked unconscious or in a very deep coma state. But he had energy. Plenty of it.
The black-haired fighter touched the golden tiara. Only to receive an electric shook in response. He recoiled his hand, a bit stun by the voltaic. Normal electricity couldn't stop him so easily if any at all, so the fact he had felt that little stung meant something wrong was really going on.
Not to mince energy, the hybrid powered up five times normal with the Kaioken. The demi Saiyan grabbed hold of the golden tiara and pulled, the electricity not affecting him now that he was red pumped up. With no effort the suppressing object was easily detached from the prisoner.
The nightmare had started.
The sleeping man opened his black eyes.
"Hey, are you..." Gohan was asking, cut short in the end when a sudden upper cut blow went for his chin. The expert young fighter, however, jumped backwards dodging nimbly. He powered up back to five times with the red Kaioken. The man's black eyes stared at the young fighter with sickening rage.
"Hey what are you doing?!" Gohan yelled but received only crazy laughter in response. The long-haired man attacked with rapid-fire blows, each off them getting closer and closer to hit the mark. And the mark was the youngster's neck so to snap it.
"Kakarot!" The man yelled madly, attacking the child with no intention of stopping anytime soon. Now that he had started nothing would ever stop him again. The half alien frowned because he knew who that name belonged to.
"How do you know my father?!" The red-covered Saiyan asked, but he got no sane response. Only a sudden golden burst of power erupting from Broly's body. The golden aura shone bright over the close room, sending lashing air gusts everywhere. The metal walls were dented or imprinted by the amazing waves of energy alone. Gohan saw that the man's hair was spiking golden and his eyes now dark emerald-green. Just like his...
A Super Saiyan.
"He's a Super Saiyan too?" Gohan thought in astonishment "I never thought others could transform"
The half Saiyan was sent spiraling head over heels when Broly had suddenly closed the distance between them at light speed, his fist aimed with a sharp painful hook to the cheekbone capable of moving the Moon out of Earth's pull. The purple-dressed fighter was sent through the indestructible wall and through the spacecraft's hull, pieces of machinery falling around with wires loosen and sending sparks.
The black-haired fighter was now floating outside in the middle of the night sky. His arms were folded to his side.
"If that's how you want to play" Gohan remarked with a smile. As dire as the situation was, he couldn't stop feeling a happy sensation by the prospect of a fight. The next second Gohan' shorter body bulked up, the Kaioken amplified now ten times. Equaling Broly's.
A flash of light followed and then an explosion.
"Where the Hell is he?!" Vegeta ranted with Paragus, a vein poking in his forehead like every time he got angry and had to shout the frustration.
"Sir, we are almost ready to pin-point his location. It just requires a few more hours" The eye-less fighter replied almost sounding like a beggar. And he was begging for the comet to come quickly. He had drawn Vegeta to stay at the top of his speech abilities and he was really running low on that. Using force to restrain him would be only suicide.
Before any could keep the verbal fight, an explosion echoed inside the towering spacecraft. The Royal Saiyan widened his eyes for a moment.
"That's the brat's power!" Vegeta commented, looking into the ship's direction where the explosion happened "What is he doing here?"
"Vegeta wait!" The arrived palm-haired warrior yelled getting the two other Saiyan's attention. But not only Vegeta recognized the newly comer.
"Uh, Kakarot, the son of Bardock" Paragus commented now with a small grin.
"How do you know my name?" Goku asked, his eyes widening by the tail around the man's waist "You are a Saiyan too!"
"Quite right" Paragus replied quizzically "Is there any good reason for you and your whelp to bother the new King of Saiyans?"
"Actually there is" Goku replied stoic, now looking at his old Saiyan rival "This planet is going to explode. A giant comet is heading straight to us" The sudden blunt honest made the eye-less Saiyan to widen his only useful eye.
"What?! Who told you?!" Paragus asked frantically. Only a second later did he realize the mess he had just said out loud.
"You tricked me!" The Prince grabbed Paragus from his armor's collarbone. The strength was impressive but Paragus wasn't afraid of it.
"Of course, you fool!" The eye-scar warrior bellowed "You actually believed you were going to be a king? Your father must be laughing his ass out by how stupid one of his sons turned out to be. Both of them nothing but disappointment" That comment angried the prince even more, his fist folding back. It would be so simple to bash the landscape with Paragus' grey matter.
"Come on Vegeta, kill me. I dare to wager you no longer have the guts to take a life" The scar-eyed man taunted with evil glee "Not that my death will change your already sealed fate. Because if the Asteroid doesn't kill you, then the Legendary Super Saiyan will" The last comment got not only Vegeta's but also Goku's heed.
"Where is he?" The pseudo-king asked. And if Paragus refused to talk then a few punches through his body might loosen his tongue enough.
"Right here on this planet" The white-caped Saiyan started explaining "You traveled right next to him and never saw him. He's my son, Broly. And just to not confuse you in how powerful he really is, he was born with a level of ten thousand units" For a moment the prince felt a rush of coldness over his body. Ten thousand units. That was already an Elite level. And Vegeta was only born with five hundred units. The widow-peak Saiyan was feeling something aching to fear in his guts "I can see the fear in your eyes, Vegeta. The fear you rightfully deserve for dumping my son and myself like common garbage. We pledged to your father, I was one of the elites. And he ragged me aside like a tail-less third-class"
The scar fighter rose his right hand, which had a bracelet of a sort "This bracelet has allowed me to control my son's power, to keep him in check and never turn against me. And now I shall use it one last time" With a pull, he shattered the bracelet "Enjoy your new Hell on Earth!"
An explosion echoed a few miles away.
"He's mine, Kakarot, stay out of this!" The Prince let go of Paragus and yelled at Goku, suddenly going straight into Super Saiyan. Before the Saiyan Prince had moved though, two figures rocketed in scene like flying comets. One was Gohan, who skidded on the ground after receiving a point-blank blast to the chest.
"Gohan!" Goku yelled in concern but a rain of little green energy spheres descended over the place, washing the landscape with a downpour of ki. Rocks crumbled and the dust storm kicked up like a thick fog. Vegeta as a Super Saiyan shot through the air faster than escape velocity, swatting any incoming blast away with casual backhand into the distance. Each place where they impacted left smoking craters twenty feet deep and wide.
Vegeta's strong fist delivered a blow with an uppercut motion into Broly's chin. The sudden attack had been unexpected, specially since Broly had never received an attack that had caused him ache. The mad Saiyan backtracked with an open cut in his face. Broly clutched his teeth in anger his hand forward and again raining his Trap Shooter volley blasts over his widow-peak enemy. But nothing Vegeta couldn't handle.
The half Saiyan had been sent skidding backwards covered in smoke but nothing really serious. After years of fighting he had received stronger and more hurtful attacks. Gohan let go of his red aura of power. The situation required some extra notches of strength.
"Fool, You removed the crown!" The eye-scared Saiyan yelled towards Gohan, who pretty much had no idea who the missing-eye man was or whatever was he talking about.
He received a sudden blast through his chest, courtesy of the newly arrived Piccolo that finally shut him for good and sent him straight into the Afterlife.
"Hey Piccolo, nice timing!" Gohan commented. Goku walked outside the dust storm into the two fighters of Earth.
"Wasn't hard not to hear you and King Kai" The green Namekian replied with a smirk "He doesn't have proper indoors voice" That lightened the mood a bit but not enough.
"Alright son, what's going on?" Goku asked now towards his child. The three seasoned warriors set their eyes towards the clashing Super Saiyans, going over the sky faster than meteors or asteroids. There were only clashing thunderous waves covering the darkness of the planet's atmosphere sometimes joined by the sudden glow of a new ki beam of sphere.
"I don't know. That guy is completely nuts. And what's worse, he's a Super Saiyan" The half alien explained. Mad and Super Saiyan, the perfect combination for havoc "And for some reason he only screams your name" The half Saiyan kept on towards his father, surprising Goku.
The mad Super Saiyan was sent careening backwards by a kick to the sternum, courtesy of the Super Saiyan prince. The blow had left a purple bruise in the place of impact and had taken the wind out of Broly's lunges. The deranged fighter was scratched a bit but nothing that could disable him from continuing. Vegeta was smirking without a blemish in his armor. So far so good.
"You are the so-called 'Legendary Super Saiyan'?" The prince mocked arms folded over his armor. The legendary fighter was turning to be a legendary weakling "Pathetic at the most"
The mad Saiyan whipped the blood from his lip with his hand. In doing so he hunched his head down briefly. Briefly enough to look at Goku's face. His eyebrows frowned, veins of anger poking his forehead. That face, he knew that miserable face.
"Kakarot!" The new Super Saiyan yelled at top lung, fury contained in that single word. Then there was only crying. A lot of irritating crying. And with each passing second it got even more aggravating. The Saiyan felt his body pulsating, energy contained for so long and now wanting to be released. Like a caged creature that only fed of bloodshed.
The deranged Super Saiyan howled like a murderous beast to the heavens themselves, the very light spectrum shifting around his increasing bulkiness. The golden rings on his biceps strained, ready to burst into millions of pieces by the throbbing increment. Suddenly the entire sky got darker. Green light started to pour out of the mad Saiyan's skin, ki exuding from all of his pores. The fighters on the ground had to keep themselves stable by the cracking earthquakes. The simple power up was shaking the entire planet, mountain peaks nearby falling by the energy storm and debris flying defying gravity. And the surging ki was bestial, almost hellish.
"What is that power?" The chubby King Kai asked now rubbing his head after the presence had hit him like a brick to the temple. That amazing energy reached all the way up to his planet, which, to start, was in the Other World. His antenna sight landed on the fighting group from Earth. The being only sighed in frustration.
"One of these days, those Saiyans will cause me a stroke" King Kai mentioned, only partially joking.
The three fighters of Earth were on guard though the unsteadiness of the ground rattled them back and forth like rag dolls. Vegeta had to cover his face with his arms by the sudden wind lashing with knife-like phylum.
The thick flash of green light was finally gone and now the nightmare could be seen at full Devil-equal splendor. Long gone was the tad scrawny fighter man. This new Broly towered nine to ten feet tall, each of his muscles hulking almost ridiculously. There was no longer visible pupils in his eyes. Only blank wrath. His golden aura glittered with green flashes of energy over his invulnerable pale skin. His teeth were clutched while he grunted his chest going up and down. At last he had released the dormant power of his unique mutant Legendary status.
Vegeta's mouth dropped down to Hell and beyond. His body was trembling. In a normal person, that would be called fear. But on this situation, the worlds 'fucking terror' were even more accurate.
Everything changed when Broly's lips formed a very evil grin. It was obvious he had gone madder than before. If that was even a possibility. A crazy beast out for blood. His index finger pointed towards the orange-dressed Goku.
"Kakarot, you shall be my first victim!" The bulky Saiyan bellowed, shooting forward with murderous velocity. For someone so extremely bulky he was fast. Faster than the Earth fighters could react against. The three of them were engulfed by Broly's gigantic shoulder frame, the massive tackle cracking the soil and sending boulders flying away when the four disappeared inside the granite stone.
The four had ended up beneath the rocky ground. The next second, the three Earth's fighters were kicked away at neck-breaking speeds, more holes appearing in the soil by the sheer strength used on the strikes. Goku, Gohan and Piccolo caved each one a trench for almost two miles before gaining sufficient leverage and backflipping, landing softly on their feet. Their feet skidded to a halt.
"Man, that guy is not messing around!" Goku exclaimed while catching his lost breath. Whatever had just happened had been too fast for him to fully grasp "We slip up even just one and that will be all, goners"
"Not different from any fight we had before, dad" Gohan tried to easy the tension. But this fight was going to be much more different from any other. Cell looked quite tamed compared to this delusional man-like creature.
The ground exploded in giant boulders, the elephant of a person appearing with green-glistening body.
"Is that all you've got?!" The gargantuan beast taunted, his grin causing shivers on his enemies "Nothing but an utter waste of Saiyan power!" It was obvious he didn't know Piccolo was a Namek. But with Broly's current degree of lunacy he may be just hallucinating more Saiyans than they truly were on scene.
"Don't get so cocky, Broly. You only won the first round" The palm-haired fighter from Earth stated, his eyes suddenly emerald green "Now comes the round two!" Goku and Gohan then yelled with power, their golden auras bursting and turning them into their full-powered Super Saiyans. The Namekian dropped his white weights that cracked the soil beneath the thousands of tons, ready to go all out. The auras shone over the new battlefield, illuminating the battle to shake the Heavens.
Without any of the fighters realizing, a small attack pod had landed on the planet.
Notes from Chapter 27:
I don't know Comet Camori's real size so I just invented one.
As soon as Broly got rid of his crown, his Saiyan transformation color went back to his natural golden one. The Legendary, however, still keeps some green tone because I really liked that color.
There were no Shamoans because Paragus didn't need them. All the buildings and constructs were already in the planet.
I don't know how Paragus knows about Bardock and Kakarot. I just put what was in the movie so don't ask me.
There was a brief Tarble comment if one reads in detail.
Did anybody catch the Marvel Comic cameo?
Power Levels:
Goku:
Base form: 2.5 billion
Super Saiyan: 125 billion
Gohan:
Base form: 3 billion
Kaioken x5: 15 billion
Kaioken x10: 30 billion
Super Saiyan: 150 billion
Vegeta:
Base form: 1 billion
Super Saiyan: 50 billion
Piccolo:
Weights on: 35 billion
Without weights: 50 billion
Paragus: 3 million
Broly:
Base form (not supressed by the crown): 500 million
Super Saiyan (not repressed): 25 billion
Legendary Super Saiyan: 125 billion
And the cliffhanger begins with an amazing fight but also a new intruder! See you in the next chapter.