Chapter 8

Bardock closed his eyes briefly. Kasai... He thought, fury gripping his soul and burning his veins.

Kasai... Killed... My sons...

He smacked both hands to the sides of his head. He shouted rage and hatred to the sky, and blue aura radiated around his body, slowly, slowly turning gold.

June buried her face in her hands. She was unable to go Super Saiyan, at least not completely.

Rage built up in her chest, powerful, undying rage. Everything that angered her most was coming straight back to her, now. All the hatred, her brother and mother's deaths, her father's abuse, the fire from when she was a child, and now...

This.

She flung back her head, and screamed bloody-murder. She no longer could control herself. She stood up. Her hair was no longer black, but it wasn't classic SSJ blonde either. It had spiked up, and blonde highlights shot through the roots, while the rest turned brown.

Her tail had turned golden, and the once-purple aura surrounding her was flickering from it's usual lavender to gold. She turned around.

She saw Bardock, but instead of seeing him as the man who she somewhat knew, she saw him differently. Now, his hair was blonde, tail gold, and he was looking at her with such contempt.

Because no matter how hard she tried fighting the feeling, both Saiyan's believed it was their own faults. The only way to counter that feeling, is to take it out on somebody else. And Kasai wasn't around...

Or was he?

Kasai hid in the underbrush, a grin spreading ear to ear on his face. He was hiding his power level, not even Bardock's adept senses or June's highly advanced scouter (her brother had rigged for her) could pick it up.

Kasai chuckled softly. His plan was finally complete. All he ever wanted, was to see two of the most powerful Saiyans on Vegeta fight.

An epic battle...To the death!

Bardock fumed as he stared at the girl across the clearing from himself. She was the only one here he could hurt.

She would have to do.

Before he could rush her however, she charged at him.

It's all his fault! He never cared about Raditz, and now Kakarot is dead, and Raditz'll be joining him soon!

The girl jumped up, and tried to bring down her fists into Bardock's skull. The man dodged before she could hit him, however. He phased behind her and rammed his elbow into her shoulder blade.

June shouted in pain, swivelled around, and blasted at him. It ripped through his arm, and he gasped with pain for a moment. Enraged, he threw relentless ki blasts at her face, and she was thrown back against a tree.

In an angry haze, Bardock flew forward and yanked her up by the hair. She struggled vainly, but being a girl, in her SSJ form, her power level was only doubled, while his was multiplied by 50.

He kneed her in the face, and she felt her nose break.

Blood dripped down her chin and from her nose and eyes. She looked up defiantly at him.

June raised her hand up right next to his face, and blasted a storm of purple and gold fiery ki right at him.

He flew back, and charged his own energy, flinging it right at her. She swiftly dodged to the side and flew up toward him. She aimed a punch, he blocked it. Then vice versa.

The continued like that, throwing strike after strike at one another.

At last, one of Bardock's hits made it's mark in June's gut.

Her eyes widened, for the millisecond before she was blasted to the ground.

Grinding through the dirt, sliding twenty feet, sending up clouds of dust.

In the bushes, Kasai, laughed hysterically. This was incredible!

Laughing then and there was the worst mistake he ever made.

The bloodied, brutally battered girl shot to her feet and rushed toward the sound.

She blasted him out into the clearing.

Bardock looked down, and his eyes widened in hatred. He flew down to bash Kasai's head in.

The Man dodged fearfully to the side. He stood up and smirked, holding the antidote out in front of himself.

"Kill me, and break Raditz's only hope of survival." He hissed

Both Saiyans froze.

June was shaking, but Bardock wasn't injured enough yet.

With a vaillant battle cry, he lunged at the psychopath.

Just before he made it to him, Kasai flung the antidote across the clearing at a tree.

Bardock grabbed him, and saw the grin on his face.

His last grin, before Bardock broke his neck.

June, however, had her eyes on the antidote.

"NO!" she screamed, her hair, tail, and aura already beginning to fade.

She flung herself in it's direction, snatching it in her hands, not a moment before it reached the tree and shattered.

She flew over to Raditz, and Bardock dashed to Kakarot.

June ripped Raditz's chestplate off.

She took a deep breath.

Please, Kami, don't let it be too late..!

With a desperate cry, she jammed the needle into his chest, and forced it down past his breastbone.

He didn't move.

June wailed and shook him. She had known him her whole life! How could he be dying!? She loved him!

The girl picked up his head in her hand, and sobbed into his neck.

Then he opened his eyes, but not to her notice.

Raditz smiled, and sat up.

The movement, June DID notice.

She looked up, tears welling in her eyes. She couldn't even say anything, but she shot forward and wrapped her arms around his neck, crying against his shoulder.

This was just... too much for her..

He patted her on the back. "I told you not to worry." He joked, and hugged her back.

Meanwhile, in a less happy situation.

Bardock lifted Kakarot's tiny, frail. broken body off the ground. He placed both his arms around his back and carried him over to the twosome.

"Da..dad..." Raditz stammered. "Aren't you gonna revive him?" He asked, pointing to Kakarot.

"He's alive." His father commented. "Just internal organ damage. Won't take long to heal, his heart maybe needs to restart, but because he's young, the organ is stronger and more able to fight back. But the Med center should be able to fix him up. All the other minor things I've healed myself."

Raditz nodded, and got to his feet, as did June.

The girl gave a weak hearted laugh. "I think we all need a Med center-ow..." She rubbed her smashed-in face, and snorted. "I think it hurts when I laugh." She chuckled. "Ow..."

The four Saiyans made their way out of the woods to the medical center.

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Well, it was short and fun while it lasted, but, tada! It's done! Abrupt, we know. Had Bardock as a SSJ, WE KNOW! It's kinda a pattern obviously. The ONLY story that hasn't had a hint of it was Snow? Here? By ProjectSSSS123 herself. That and also Firestorm my me, IceKat9494.

I guess SSSS can study for her finals now...so, uh, bye bye!

~SSSS and Ice~