Chapter 24- Out of control

Silence was the only thing anyone had to say in the next few moments.

Vegeta stood absolutely still for a minute, as if any movement would awake Gohan and cause him to transform.

Gohan was as still as the rest of us though, and it was safe to assume he was unconscious. Which didn't exactly leave him in a good place if Vegeta's beady eyes had any say in it.

'Hey, you remember that whole mind-reading thing you can do? Yeah, now would be a really good time to use it'

'You have got to be kidding me' Of all the fucking details to miss.

I better kill this little brat before he gets up or we're all doomed.

Well…that isn't very promising. Vegeta's muscles shook as he once again tried to gather enough energy to kill Gohan. Except, I'd forgotten there was still one person in the running.

"Leave him alone!" came the muffled-through-cheetos war cry as Yachrobi threw himself like a torpedo into the air, dragging his clunky sword with him. I would have laughed at the sight of the fat man warrior but it just wouldn't be right. Things were too serious to be laughing at them.

Vegeta didn't even seem to have the energy to turn so Yachrobi's sword cut through the armor on his back instead.

Gravity finally decided to take its hold back and Yachrobi dropped to the ground. Vegeta was still and Yachrobi slipped the sword back in it's sling before laughing. It quickly bordered on hysterical as Vegeta brought his hands back to feel the cut.

As metal rubbed on skin, the fingers shook.

This wasn't going to be good.

"W-wait, it was a joke, I didn't mean to do that. H-how about you and me join up? We'd make a good team!" He hastily backtracked, edging two steps backwards at a time.

Traitor.

"You think that's funny fatman?" Vegeta twisted his torso to face Yachrobi in all his glory.

"You think I'd just forget what you did to me earlier?"

One step forward for each one Yachrobi took back.

"Well, it isn't- and I haven't. Your going to wish you were never born"

Well, he's out of the running now.

"Please! No! It was an accident!" Yachrobi crossed one foot behind the other and fell back on his butt, a bag of chips slipping out of the tunic and popping in the heat just inches away.

The yellow triangles baked in the sun that had returned; or maybe it was the fake moon. Who knows.

Vegeta sure didn't care. His gaze was calculating as step by step he cast a shadow on Yachrobi. I didn't have to read his mind to know he was going through the thousand ways he could relish killing him.

Instead he settled for a punch in the gut. A punch that knocked stars into the eyes and sent the guy half a mile across the wasteland despite all his fat.

He landed belly-down, face in the engrained dirt of a rock. His white panties on show to the whole universe if anyone cared to look. Vegeta was clearly going for making him look undignified- but the female panties weren't helping the situation.

A few more steps in the now raging hit. Vegeta slumped his shoulders, taking his time with his hands, landing a punch laboriously on Yachrobi's backside every minute or so. It was pathetic to think this was what it had come to.

The heat as well as the view was getting to me more than I thought. It took all the energy I had just to stay upright. The heat was strangely draining, and intensified with each second that ticked past.

Next, the worst thing possible happened.

Gohan flipped over, and so did the world.

His vacant eyes were fixated on the moon- and slowly but surely he began to change. Thick black hair spiked out of each pore, his nose became a snout, and his body started to swell.

Vegeta turned to the boy in horror.

"Oh no you don't!" He tripped over his own feet in his haste to get to Gohan.

When he did reach him, he missed the point.

His fists pummeled the expanding chest as the orange jumpsuit tore itself of. If he was trying to prevent the transformation, it wasn't working.

His fists soon gave up but his mind didn't. Gohan was almost as full size and his tail now came around his waist, forming a thick coil of fur that couldn't be missed even by the retarded.

Vegeta's eyes brightened with enlightment, and his mind whispered that he had to rid the tail.

Except he was left with no strength.

The broken saiyan tugged weakly at the coil for a moment before the ape brushed him away and stood.

Fully transformed, he was not something you wanted to fuck with.

And I was talking from experience. My bones ached in agreement.

Vegeta took one look at his ape brother, and scrabbled at the sand trying to crawl his way out.

Ape Gohan wasn't paying attention, and instead started smashing mountains as his new course of fun.

The sun only burned brighter in response.

'Or the fake moon'

'I don't care anymore' I groaned before dropping to lie on my stomach. It was effortless and good thing too because the sun/moon had stole all my energy.

Soon I would die at the hands of a giant ape. I had no idea what I expected.

It just hadn't been this.

"Gohan! Stop!" The crashing sounds below stopped for a moment. I lifted my chin over the peak and took in the events below.

Goku had called out and the ape had stopped, cocking his ear.

"It's not us your mad at, it's Vegeta" A sliver of recognition seemed to jolt through the ape.

"Get Vegeta!" Krillin reinforced. The ape turned away to find said Vegeta.

Said Vegeta was currently crawling on the ground like a badly disguised chameleon.

Gohan gave a massive earth-shaking roar before trampling of in Vegeta's direction.

"Shit, shit, shit!" He yelled, flapping his arms and taking to the air on a sudden burst of energy. I then noticed my own energy filtering back.

Looking up, a cloud had swept over the fake moon, seemingly blotting out its harmful drainage.

Good for me, bad for Gohan.

Vegeta tried to slip through the air, but ape eyes followed him like a homing missile.

He flew out straight in front for a while, allowing Gohan to gain on him before u-turning evasively to the right, coming up behind ape Gohan and resting on his tail.

Gohan was having none of it, and let out another ripping roar before smacking him away.

Vegeta shot out a white blast of energy, blowing up dust in the face of the ape before it carried on trampling through unscathed.

It was pure foolishness, because if he had learnt anything from when Goku was sparring with him in that form. It's that energy doesn't do shit to something fifty times your size.

Yet he wasn't stupid. I blinked, and red fire slipped between Gohan's furry legs and burned right through his tail.

Vegeta cheered as the ape fell from the sky in which he had leaped into, slowly changing back to a boy.

There was just one flaw.

Vegeta was hovering under the rapidly approaching body, which was still heavily ape.

"Oh fuck!" He had time to yell before the half ape- half boy crushed him like a pancake.

Gohan- One

Vegeta- Zero