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Thirty Minutes to Eternity
Part 4: Dimensional Interaction
Vegeta rushed forward first, followed by Goku, who didn't want to miss out on the action. Trunks nudged Goten as soon as he arrived. "Hey, Goten!" Trunks exclaimed. "Do you want to have some fun? We could totally fuse and help our dads out! It's gonna be awesome!"
Goten's face scrunched up into a look of slight discomfort. A sweat drop ran down his right cheek. "I'm hungry," he whined.
"BUT YOU JUST ATE A WHILE AGO!" Trunks exclaimed, unamused by Goten's appetite. Meanwhile the mysterious man engaged Goku and Vegeta in combat. Vegeta groaned as he missed every single punch he was throwing at his opponent's stomach. His rage and frustration was building up, seeing how easily the man dodged his rapid flurry of punches. Goku didn't seem to have much luck either, but his face expression was the complete opposite of Vegeta's. He was enjoying the 'fight', even though he was just punching air.
"Hey… Think any of you can land a punch already? My chest needs some scratching," the mysterious cloaked man goaded.
"That's it!" Vegeta yelled, his temper on the verge of exploding. He transformed into a Super Saiyan with a burst of his yellow aura, his hair shifting from black to yellow and his eyes shifting from black to teal. He burst to the sky, his aura sparking around him like lightning. He extended both arms and brought them together in front of him. "FINAL FLASH!" he announced as he fired his signature move. Goku immediately panicked with a nervous sweat drop running down his face.
"Wait wait wait, Vegeta!" he managed to protest before he jumped out of the way. A huge explosion coursed through the area. Nearby trees were bending away from the blast due to the air pressure released by the explosion. The gust of wind blew most of the loose sand away, creating a mini-sandstorm. As soon as the debris and smoke cleared up, Goku was back on his feet, dusting off his hair and clothing. "You could have told me you were going to do that! You didn't even give me time to dodge!"
"You could have used Instant Transmission, you fool!" Vegeta retorted. "Stop acting like the victim here! We BOTH know what blast was almost meaningless to someone like you!"
Trunks and Goten had their arms crossed in front of them to block Vegeta's incredible blast. Goku was standing on a small earth platform, the rest of the dirt seemingly disintegrated by the Final Flash. A dust cloud was still hanging in the middle of the blast circle. Slowly a tall spire appeared in sight from the bottom of the crater, where the dust cloud started clearing up first. The spire continued becoming visible for those there to see it as finally on top of it, or as to say, on level ground before Vegeta blew it up, a cloaked figure came into sight, much to Vegeta's chagrin. He was standing on a similar platform Goku was standing on, of course, as the blast didn't affect him.
"What the hell are you made of, you monster!" Vegeta raged on. "You are incredibly annoying if you think that you can goad me like that! I shall not stand being made fun of!"
Vegeta rushed back down at the figure, holding his right fist back, charging up his punch. A grin became visible under the hood of the figure as Vegeta neared him. He extended his left hand outwards and slightly upwards, the direction Vegeta was attacking him from. Five small little orbs of energy formed at the tip of his fingers.
"Vegeta!" Goku yelled alarmed. "Watch out! He's going to fire some kind of attack!" Vegeta threw Goku's warning in the wind as he was determined to land a punch on the man. The grin grew wider on the figure's face as the orbs of energy at the tip of his fingers grew in size.
"Scatter Finger Beam…" he calmly stated as each of the orbs fired off a thin yellow beam of energy, each diverging from the original position they were fired from, like the name stated. Vegeta's eyes widened in surprise, even though he has been previously warned of the impending danger. He managed to move out of the way of the attack's path by a hair, while still getting closer to his opponent.
"Stop mocking me!" Vegeta shouted, finally managing to land a punch in the face of the mysterious figure. A shockwave emerged at the point the fist connected to the face and expanded until it dissipated. The figure didn't budge. The punch hasn't affected him at all.
"My turn…" the figure said as he performed a right hook to Vegeta's lower jaw, launching him into the sky. He halted in mid-air by flaring his ki and he passed his left fist at his jaw. He saw some blood on his finger.
"W-what… WHAT ARE YOU?!" he yelled out in pure anger. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I AM THE PRINCE OF SAIYANS! How DARE you humiliate me like that?"
"Fu…sion... HA!"
Trunks and Goten performed the fusion dance not too far from the area on level ground. They executed the moves perfectly and proceeded to touch the tip of their fingers together, a flash of light following that scenario. After the light faded, the Hero of Justice appeared, Gotenks.
"Hahahahaha!" the fused warrior exclaimed. "Here comes, the Hero of Justice! Prepare yourself, strange man! I'll teach you to be creepy and strong!" Gotenks rushed in, passing Goku on his left, and burst into the sky. "Have a taste of my… Die Die Missile Barrage!" Gotenks transformed into a Super Saiyan 3 and wasted no time shooting his flurry of yellow ki blasts. Goku jumped out of the way again, not having been given a chance to attack the man since Vegeta and Gotenks took the spotlight.
"Hey!" he protested again. "I wanna fight too! Gimme a chance, guys. Pleeeaaaasssseeee!" He was moving around impatiently as Gotenks continued his assault. The more 'missiles' landed on his opponent, the larger the dust cloud became.
As if a perfect copy of the previous scenario, the mysterious figure emerged from the barrage unharmed. The gleam of the light reflecting off of his pearl white teeth indicated a grin. The pillar he was standing on had crumbled apart so he transitioned into a floating position. Suddenly, without any warning, a shockwave coursed through the area, indicating the sound barrier being broken. The figure has disappeared from his place, the only indication left was a slowly fading afterimage.
"W-wait!" Gotenks uttered nervously. "Where did he go?" He scoured the area at full alert, trying to locate the enemy. Before Goku could utter a sound, the figure already knocked Gotenks out with a karate chop to the back of his neck, his Super Saiyan 3 form immediately reverting as he passed out. The man caught him by the back of his vest and slowly descended onto the ground, dumping the body aside effortlessly.
"T-that was so fast my eyes couldn't even follow!" Goku thought with a shocked expression on his face. Vegeta slowly landed as his mood was nowhere near calm and composed.
"Those brats had it coming, interfering with my fight like that," he cursed as he spat on the ground next to him. "That's what they get for interrupting my fight."
"Oi…" the mysterious figure spoke. "This is not per se your fight. I welcomed all of you. I merely said I was bored and was looking for a challenge. I saw the two of you as the ones most likely to give me that challenge, so don't come claiming it was your fight… Besides, I never said I was against all of you double-teaming me."
Goku's eyes lit up after hearing the word 'double-teaming'. "Vegeta, can we?" he pleaded. "Can I join and we could take this guy on together?"
"What part of my fight did you not understand, Kakarot?!" Vegeta retorted. "I engaged him first and I'm going to end it."
"Allow me to suggest something he-" the man began but was interrupted by Goku.
"Come on, Vegeta! He JUST SAID more than one guy can attack him! Why are you still insisting that you're the only one who has to fight?"
"If I may… Actually, both of y-" the man continued but was again interrupted by Vegeta.
"Because it's MY FIGHT! A Saiyan fight is a fight to the death. No other Saiyans are allowed to interfere! That has always been the code of battle and I won't allow you to interfere with this one!"
"Shut UP already!" the man said, clearly pissed. "Both of you… Come at me NOW" His aura flared wildly as it expanded a full metre in radius from his body. Vegeta scoffed and that was all the permission Goku needed to charge in. Both Saiyans flared up their aura and rushed at their opponents at a moderate speed, targeting specific areas of their target's body. Vegeta prepared to kick his foe with his right foot at the left side of his neck, to try and end the fight then and there, while Goku planned to punch him in the face. As Vegeta approached, it was as if the opponent knew what he was planning. The man immediately kicked his right hip with bone-crunching power, which caused Vegeta to crash onto the ground, bouncing a few times before coming to a halt, as he delivered a moderate punch to Goku's right shoulder, in anticipation to his attack.
Vegeta groaned as he stood up, wincing at the pain of his right hip. He couldn't shift his weight onto his right leg or it would hurt. Goku stood up after crashing in a similar way as Vegeta did, holding his shoulder cringing a bit of the pain. Unlike Vegeta, he had a smile on his face.
"That went...worse than expected…" Goku remarked. He couldn't shake the feeling that the man somehow predicted what move he was going to make.
"How...HOW did he know I was going to kick him?" Vegeta thought angrily. "Who IS this guy?"
As if he was reading their thoughts, the figure spoke. "You are both probably wondering who I am. I shall show you...on one condition. I want the two of you to fuse and fight me at your full power."
"WHAT?!" Vegeta exclaimed. "I am NEVER fusing with that goofball again!" Vegeta thought back at the last time he fused with Goku and the mere thought of it disgusted him to the core, like it did both other times.
"Aw. come on! Why not, Vegeta?" Goku asked, clearly not sharing Vegeta's priorities. "It'll be fun! Plus, we get to see who he is underneath Bulma's curtains!"
"It's a cloak," the man said unamused.
"Over my dead body!" Vegeta refused.
"But we did do it over your dead body last time, remember, Vegeta?" Goku remarked, smiling at Vegeta's stupidity. That only made Vegeta even angrier.
The man was getting impatient, so as to remind them the danger he was in, he broke an arm of each fighter, prompting excruciating screams of pain. "Where was I?" he resumed. "As long as you don't fuse, I will continue to break a limb until the only bone left to break is your skulls, that is… If you don't fuse."
Vegeta felt completely helpless as he was forced to once more swallow his pride in order to defeat an opponent he knew was stronger than him. His eyes were filled with tears of pain but he knew he had to ask the question, even though it would make him sound weak. "It's all good and all...but how will we be able to fuse with these broken arms and my hip?"
"I thought you'd never ask…" the man said with a grin. "Here… Catch." The figure pulled a pouch from underneath his robe and fished out two Senzu Beans, throwing one of them to each fighter.
"A Senzu Bean?" Goku asked confused. "How did you get this? WHAT have you done to Korin and Yajirobe?!" Goku's power spiked as he thought of his oldest friends perishing by the hand of this man.
"Relax… I've done nothing to them," the man reassured them. "They gave me those… I am a friend. Besides, haven't I told you I'm not from here? From this version of Earth, I mean…" The figure put the pouch away as he gestured for them to eat the beans, which they did. They soon felt all of their energy returning and their broken limbs get fixed.
"I see," Goku said, scratching his head. "I also see that you don't wish to kill us. If you wanted to, you wouldn't have given us those Senzu Beans. I think I know who you are… You said you were friends with Korin and Yajirobe… So… You must be Upa!"
An anime style sweatdrop could be seen on both Vegeta and the figure, though the latter's sweat drop wasn't that apparent, since the cloak was hiding his appearance. "Upa, you say? You think of me as Upa? I'm sorry, but I don't see the resemblance between me and him."
"Well, you are wearing gloves...probably to hide your skin color," Goku simply remarked. "And you said you'd train to be able to protect your tribe, so…"
"Kakarot, listen…" Vegeta said, slowly losing his temper. "How can a human… POSSIBLY KNOCK OUT OUR SONS? Not even with millions of years of training could they EVER become this strong."
"Well...how else can you explain it, Vegeta?" he asked, laughing nervously. He passed his hand over the back of his head as his face turned into a silly expression.
"How about you guys stop arguing about who I am and agree to fusing so I can take this hideous curta-... I mean cloak off?" the man asked impatiently.
"Sure! I'm in! But Vegeta I'm not sure about…" Goku remarked, his curiosity clearly rising.
"Well, I guess I have no choice then," he said, nearly gagging over those words, as he hated to have had to admit it. He walked over to Goku's position and stood there facing the figure. "I agree to fuse with Kakarot… Happy?"
"Oh, how very so…" he said, removing the cloak. There he stood… In his full glory… The brown-haired warrior, wearing two potara earrings, one on each ear, and Saiyan boots and gloves with a blue gi above an orange undershirt. Vegito, the Potara Fusion made his debut with a grin plastered over his face.
End of Part 4
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