A/N: Okay, you guys, I did my best, I put on my loudest heavy metal, I watched Gohan fight Broly, I read all of the ideas you guys gave me, and this is what I came up with. Please let me know if it needs more action, but I did my best. I'm kind of proud of it, since I really suck at fight scenes. Hope you enjoy!
BATTLE!
Kress was lost. He could feel energy coursing through him, it was like he was on fire, and he wanted to burn. It had been held back for so long, so very long, he couldn't stop it, he wouldn't, it was time, he had to let it all out, he had to make the screaming stop.
The screaming, it had plagued his dreams, but not even avoiding sleep could help anymore, it followed him, he was still hearing their screams, even when he was awake. No matter how many people, planets, stars, he destroyed, they just wouldn't stop, they wouldn't-
It was him. He was here, Kress knew it, even with those goofy clothes and hair, Kress would know the Kamehameha anywhere, sitting in his mother's lap as they watched his father fire one after another into the sky…
"YOU MADE ME WEAK!" he was screaming, his hand on his father's face, bashing his head into the rocks beneath him… rocks? Hadn't he just been in spa-
His hand hit the ground, grinding deep into the rocks, but his enemy was nowhere to be seen. He could hear the familiar chant behind him, and spun around, glaring at the giant ball of blue energy coming straight towards him. "YOU WEAKLING! YOU COULDN'T STAND UP TO MY UNCLE, YET YOU THINK YOU HAVE A CHANCE AGAINST ME?!" he screamed, and catching the blast with his hands, flew with incredible speed back to Kai Goten, forcing the Kai to redirect it towards the sky or risk being destroyed by his own blast.
Kai Goten scowled, trying to think. This whole thing was too…
No.
No, the Supreme Kai wouldn't do that.
Suddenly, two clenched fists were swinging down towards his head, and he disappeared, reappearing twenty feet behind his attacker. He had to know. He used his precious few seconds of safety to break through the Saiyan's mind, he had to know who he-
The Saiyan was behind him, and pain flowered throughout Kai Goten's back, breaking his concentration, but it had been enough to learn his worst fears were true.
"G-gohan," Kai Goten gasped, as the Saiyan grabbed both of his arms, placed his knee in Kai Goten's back, and began to pull him apart. "AAAAAHHH! GOHAN… STOP THIS!" he screamed, causing the Saiyan to wrench harder, and bend forward, hissing in Kai Goten's ear.
"Gohan is the weak name you gave me, father. I stopped using it when I stopped being weak. When I stopped being like YOU!" he screamed, bending Kai Goten's arms back farther, eliciting another scream from him.
"I…I'm not…. our… father!" Kai Goten cried out, and suddenly, disappeared only to reappear behind the Saiyan, and leaning his head back, bashed his forehead into the back of the stronger fighter's head, as hard as he could.
Screaming as his uncle held him above his injured father…
Crying as Bulma's body was slowly covered in dirt, holding a little girl's hand…
Grinning as his uncle handed him his first set of armor…
Laughing in exhilaration as he took flight, determined to catch the Namekian in front of him…
Standing on the hillside, hand outstretched towards a village, 'Sorry, Father,' as tears streamed down his face…
Letting go of Pel's hand as he bravely stepped towards the Supreme Kai, ready to save the universe…
'NAPPA!', the power surged from him, becoming Super Saiyan…
'I won't give up!', the power surged from him, becoming Super Saiyan…
Pain in his chest as Vegeta destroyed the device, unleashing all of his imprisoned energy…
Pain as every atom was ripped apart and put back together, made into something new…
It had only been a second, before Kai Goten was flung away, but when the two men looked at each other this time, there was understanding.
"B-brother?" Kress said after a long moment, it took him a while to even remember the word. He scowled, then. "Leave, or die," he said, and began to reconstruct his energy sphere.
"I can't let you do this, Gohan. I was created for the sole purpose of stopping you. There's been enough death," Kai Goten said, but his brother snarled at him.
"THEN STOP ME!" Kress screamed, his power level growing, and suddenly the planet was crumbling around them.
Kai Goten looked on in panic. "NO! GOHAN, NO, STOP THIS, IT'S NOT TOO LATE!" he screamed, feeling the tremors cover the planet, the people, the people who lived here, they had seconds, he could feel their terror…
How could he stop him? He wasn't even a Saiyan anymore, he couldn't transform, he couldn't achieve the strength he had before he was transformed, so what was the point in turning him into a Kai?
Truth.
"I can't fight you like a Saiyan," he said, levitating as the rocks beneath him crumbled. "I have to fight you like a Kai…"
But the Kai didn't fight. They weren't warriors. Fighting was a hobby for the Kai, a form of entertainment, nothing more. The power of the Kai was meant for something else. To create. To maintain what had been created.
"What was created…" Kai Goten said, his eyes boring into his brother's chest. There. There it was, pieces of it lodged near his heart, all he had to do was… "I'm sorry, brother," Kai Goten said softly, then stretched out his hand towards his brother, focusing on the device, its ingenuity, the pride its maker had put into its construction, it wanted to be put back together, to accomplish its designed purpose…
He closed his fist, bringing each piece back together, the way it was always meant to go.