"The comfort of one Earthling woman?" Baby Vegeta looked up, slowly blinking as if he was struggling to comprehend the full scope of how irrelevant he perceived Bardock's wish to be. "You would sabotage the revival of the Tsufurian race just for that!?"
A turbulent torrent of wind made Bardock cover his front up with one hand. In an instant, Baby Vegeta had moved right behind him and now stood back-to-back with the transformed Saiyan. Turning around, Baby slammed his hand in a driving thrust at Bardock's abdomen, but the Hyper Super Saiyan caught it with his own hand, entering the pair into a ground-shaking power struggle. Before long, the second hands of each fighter joined in and the two engaged each other in a heated pushing competition, even ramming their heads against each other for an additional electric discharge to heat the surrounding air.
"While I am not oblivious to the plight of this Earthling, I will require both wishes to realize my dream and undo all the damage that you Saiyans have brought to our planet. I will require a wish to bring back my dead people and another to repair the planet to the way it was before Saiyans put it through so much violence, war, and bloodshed. I'll make Planet Plant into the natural paradise it once was. Your poor Earthling woman only has you and your insolence to blame for why her torment extends further…" Baby Vegeta snarled into Bardock's face before stretching his arms to the side and breaking the power struggle.
A devastating golden explosive wave burst from around Baby Vegeta's entire body, throwing Bardock skidding and rolling backward while Baby dashed forward with a vicious offensive combination. First, he thrust his arm into Bardock's gut, then slammed him again with an uppercut to the chin. A flurry of afterimages flooded the damaged city district as the false images of Baby Vegeta blitzed around in a sadistic dance before the real deal swung in from above and behind with a double ax handle that flattened Bardock to the ground.
"Reverse Shot!" Baby shouted out, taking off into the air with his right arm pointed down at Bardock's flattened body and firing a stream of magenta blasts at his target. Even though the technique had a moderate amount of spread, the streaming energy blasts corrected their trajectory halfway down and all converged on Bardock's flattened body, causing a fusillade of chained blasts that merged into a terrifying detonation streaming with a cloud of dust reaching the sky and looming over even the tallest skyscrapers around.
Bardock stood up, bloodied and grazed. The left side of his modified Saiyan battle armor had chipped off, leaving the chest plate just barely hanging over his body by a thread. With a scored expression, he looked back at Baby, having taken every little ounce of his rage yet only suffered hindering scrapes and bruises from it.
"You'll become Super Saiyan, you say…?" Bardock muttered to himself before soaring through the sky with a flying kick that dug straight into Baby Vegeta's gut and made him belch a mouthful of slobber while wheezing all the air in his lungs out at once. A devastating step-in right uppercut to the chin flinched Baby while nearly pulling his head off the shoulders. A dragon tail sweep followed up by a vicious roundhouse kick to Baby Vegeta's chest sent the Tsufurian body snatcher flying and crashing through skyscrapers, making the job of evacuating the city harder for the assembly of Saiyans.
Spinning around with his left leg sticking out, Bardock delivered a spinning top method of a kicking beatdown in mid-air after catching up to his enemy in a blink. Putting his arms together into a cross-arm dive position, Hyper Bardock plunged down while carrying and dragging his opponent along with him and slamming Baby into the ground. The explosive combination caused a golden bubble of energy that decimated the whole city district and burrowed the two crashing combatants into a crater. At the same time, they left the surrounding city district flattened and smoldering.
"You wimp. To become a Super Saiyan, you need to experience maturity. You need to overcome your flaws, admit your wrongs, and then control the resulting outburst of emotions. You're far too stubborn and infantile to ever manage such a thing," Bardock spat out pure vitriol over his opponent by stomping on his head and shoving it deeper into the dirt beneath his feet.
With his shirt torn off and his chiseled musculature revealed and his whole body covered in grazes and dirt, Baby Vegeta grunted against the insurmountable pressure of his ascended opponent. Both fighters had powered up to a state where each of them delivered only decisive blows that reduced each other's lifespans and wouldn't allow any of them to leave the battlefield the same way they came in, though Baby Vegeta found himself in a bit of a rough spot by having his back pressed against a wall while being slowly crushed by a boulder he just couldn't fight back against.
"D-Don't you dare!" Baby Vegeta screamed out, causing an explosive energy wave to detonate around his body and throw Hyper Bardock sliding back in the round crater of their making where the two decided to settle their bout without letting it spill out into more of the western city territory. "You have no right to lecture me about maturity! You… A Saiyan, an advocate for genocide who fights so bravely to defend it! I hate you… I hate all of you, SAIYANS!"
Baby Vegeta screamed out in desperation, calling forth to the most latent scrapes down at the bottom of the barrel that was Vegeta's body. Instead of ascending, King Vegeta's energy escaped Baby's body with a pink explosive wave that expanded ad infinitum while causing severe damage to his surroundings, swallowing up the crater in which both warriors stood in whole and then claiming a few more city blocks by widening it with devastating explosive power.
With bloodshot red eyes that lacked any pupils, Bardock rammed his hands against the expanding wall of the destructive energy wave but found himself unable to contend with the full might of millennia of preserved existential wrath put into the rotation of energy contained within Baby Vegeta's body and then converted into raw power. With his battle armor crumbling away and disintegrating into ash, Bardock became encased by Baby's Revenge Blast and ended up expelled from its destructive field with a violent fling, bare-chested, grazed, and smoldering, only to slam against the asphalt of the West City street on his side.
Even the Hyper Super Saiyan winced in pain and struggled to stand up immediately after the mauling of this wrathful attack.
"You're… Like a broken record, you know that? It's all genocide this, genocide that with you…" Bardock snickered after standing up and dragging his knuckle across his scraped face to wipe some grime, blood, and slobber off of it.
"Saiyans…" Baby Vegeta muttered to himself, repeating it to himself with a possessed mumble as he levitated above the crater and positioned himself over the surrounding buildings. "Saiyans… Saiyans… Saiyans… Saiyans! My wrath, my plight for retribution, my grief, my loneliness… They're bottomless! You Saiyans have a habit of converting your unstable emotional states into power. I guess that makes my power infinite."
"Infinite? Sometimes I wonder if Vegeta doesn't have more control over that prepubescent noggin' of yours than we thought," Bardock gritted his teeth while putting his dukes up and preparing to square off against his opponent who, true to his word, was experiencing a state of unparalleled emotional high and, in true Saiyan fashion, could convert this unstable emotional state into a power that let him stand up against even a Hyper Super Saiyan.
"I will show it to you, Saiyan…" Baby Vegeta raised his hands above his head, tucking his chin down in despair. "The combined might of all the pure negativity, all the pain, and suffering, grief and despair that your kind put the Tsufurians through. All of that pain exists inside me, it's a part of my soul thanks to Dr. Lychee. I used to think that it's all just so that I never forget the mistakes of my predecessors, but now I can see that it's raw, limitless supply of power! Revenge Death Ball!"
Pure negative emotions surged through Baby Vegeta's body with dark blue bolts while bright electricity sparkled around the outlines of Baby Vegeta's malicious aura. With all of it converging into a single energy sphere just barely larger than a boulder, with a handful of additional pumps of power, Baby Vegeta amplified the hate and suffering stored therein with some of his own power.
"Hey, hey… If you fling that at me, there won't be much of an Earth left to save or Dragon Balls to collect!" Bardock barked out, sensing the peerless power present inside this perilous projectile.
"Don't worry, I mean all of this hatred and despair solely for you. I'll make sure to utilize King Vegeta's skill in channeling his bottomless power and only use this volatile Ki to obliterate you while leaving this city and this planet mostly intact," Baby Vegeta smirked before waving his arms down and sending the jumbo-sized electrified black hole of despair and grief hurling toward Bardock.
"Damn it, damn it…!" Bardock clenched his fists and burst with an explosion of vivid golden Ki overflowing around him. This would undoubtedly push his body through its limits, but, undaunted by the task before him, the Saiyan berserker rammed his hands into the path of the destructive negative energy bomb. Even if he was just a lone, bright golden pixel shimmering in the eclipse of the Revenge Death Ball, Bardock employed the full might of his power, regardless.
The Saiyan's muscles swelled up beyond their natural limits, the cybernetic patterns decorating his bare-chested body lit up with green colors, switching to pink and then turning blood-red as both the man and the machine inside him kicked it up into overdrive. Then he felt it. Bardock was standing still. The advance of the Revenge Death Ball was stopped. With a smirk, Bardock sent an uppercut down at the bottom of the ball, then another one with his other hand. Digging into the energy bomb with his shoulder and using his widely spread legs for balance, Bardock began letting his fists cut loose onto the energy ball.
"Wh… What!?" Baby Vegeta's eyes widened beyond compare and his face stretched down in shock. The entirety of the Tsufurian hatred, despair, and grief rested upon the shoulders of one smiling Saiyan who wouldn't stop punching it. Even though Baby Vegeta should've seen it coming, given how this was the method with which Saiyans dealt with all their troubles, Bardock was literally swinging his fists at raw, unadulterated negativity and was pushing it back where it came from with a cocky grin.
"Haven't you gotten the hint yet, punk!?" Bardock yelled out, overpowering the howling of the Revenge Death Ball with his voice. "Your hatred, your grief, and despair, they're not for me to deal with! They're YOURS, SO TAKE THEM BACK AND HANDLE THEM LIKE A MAN!"
With one decisive pound, Hyper Bardock's fist exploded into an energy beam that began pushing the Revenge Death Ball back to Baby Vegeta. Being too invested and strained by channeling and controlling this much power, Baby was drawn right into the singularity of the negativity of his own making. The Tsufurian whited out, extending his hands to struggle against the infinite and bottomless pit of the Tsufurian sadness.
With a confident and proud look, Bardock stared against the whited-out and shrieking Tsufurian body snatcher struggling to withstand his own attack. Then his look became more serious as he saw the Revenge Death Ball freeze up and stop moving. It neither detonated nor kept on pushing, becoming just like another moon in the Earth's atmosphere. Then it began shrinking down, one pump at a time, losing half of its size and sting each time.
When the Revenge Death Ball vanished into nothingness, standing in the field of static electricity and malevolent miasma was Baby Vegeta. The Tsufurian was hunched up and twitching, powered up beyond his wildest limits. The static energy field around him didn't disappear but surged into Baby Vegeta and became one with his Ki instead. An emerald and black outline of rampant energy surrounded the Tsufurian while his eyes began glowing red. A spherical aura defined with circuitry lines surrounded Baby Vegeta while the Saiyan flexed his body and burst into a golden aura, erupting into a loud and desperate battle cry.
"You madman, you aren't handling all that vile stuff, you're absorbing it back to make you stronger… You're going all-in on this dark path, aren't you?" Bardock said to himself while observing the wicked power-up scene of his opponent.
The circuitry of electricity began surging back into Baby Vegeta as its nexus point. Crimson clouds shrouded the Earth's atmosphere, like a sanguine torrential tsunami of vengeance that Baby brought about. Baby Vegeta's hair began ruffling and spiking up, though it remained white while Baby cackled, thinking that this was the fateful moment when, by uniting as one with all the Tsufurian hate and grief, he would ascend to the level of a Super Saiyan.
Lightning bolts ripped through the city landscape, terrifying the media representatives that still lingered on the outer edges of the city on the eastern side and tried to record as many of the calamitous events as they could. Meanwhile, believing this to be the ascension of their king, the Saiyans abandoned their task of tending to the evacuation of the Earthlings or salvaging as much of West City as they could and rushed to witness their king take his exalted and fabled form.
A golden ray burst through the center where Baby was powering up and hollering in the excitement of his inevitable ascension. A lone ray of sunshine in a flood of red clouds. The lightning bolts became uncontrollable with their voltage, drowning everything in flashes of white light whenever they lashed down at the ground down below. Baby Vegeta hunched over, overcome by the strain of his transformation as pink steam began leaking out from all of his orifices and his voice became more like a hiss than an augmented simulation of Vegeta's voice. The red cybernetic patterns decorating his forehead widened several times over.
Baby Vegeta's muscle mass increased several times. Blue-colored visors shut down over Baby's eyes with further red lines sprouting and sprawling across Baby Vegeta's chest and forehead. Large golden shoulder pads sprouted from Baby Vegeta's shoulders. With one robust golden nova encompassing the entire planet, Baby Vegeta's ascension was complete.
"Hmph… You've sealed your fate now, runt. Or that of all the Saiyan kind…" Bardock snickered to himself while staring at the unbelievable power-up of his opponent.
"This… Power… I thought I was the strongest in the universe before, but… Now there can be no more doubt! This is it! A power that nothing compares to! The bottomless hatred and despair of the Tsufurian people helped draw out this unbelievable transformation…" Baby Vegeta was marveling at his own body before an angry grunt distracted him.
"Y-You're no King Vegeta!" a bald and muscular Saiyan from the sidelines yelled out, pointing an accusatory finger at him.
"Those features, they're undoubtedly Tsufurian!" a female Saiyan with wild spiky hair barked out while hundreds of Saiyans began voicing their disappointment and anger at being fooled.
Baffled, Baby Vegeta descended to a cracked but not yet shattered panel of glass on a nearby leaning skyscraper to gaze at his image. It was true that this looked nothing like Vegeta's memories of Super Saiyan looked like. This wasn't Super Saiyan or Super Saiyan 2! This was some sort of fusion between Baby's Tsufurian form and Vegeta's Saiyan body with more of Baby's features breaking through as opposed to Baby just wearing Vegeta's body like a change of skin.
"What is this!? Why have I not become a Super Saiyan!?" Baby Vegeta turned around and yelled out at Bardock, demanding an answer, as if Bardock was somehow to blame.
"Sure… Blame the Saiyans for all your blunders. How original…" Bardock snorted in mockery of his opponent, with his arms crossed over his chest. "I told you already, to become a Super Saiyan you need to accept and overcome your flaws and experience unbelievable maturity that brings about overwhelming emotion. Then you ride that endorphin high toward your ascension. What you did was the exact opposite–you doubled down on your hatred and your deception. You've accepted this hate you're throwing around at everyone as part of you and absorbed it into your body. That unbelievable energy must have become a catalyst for this transformation, an even more perfect fusion between you and Vegeta. Too bad that you can no longer fool anyone with that disguise, though. You let all that hatred and despair mess up that already ugly mug of Vegeta's…"
"What did you do to our king, Tsufurian!?" a spiky-haired, chubby Saiyan shook his fist over his head.
"How are you even alive? Saiyans have exterminated the Tsufurians long ago!" another, balding Saiyan looked to be more confused than angry.
Baby gritted his teeth, clenching his fists until their pressure bent the space around them like a mirage and made the whole city down below shake in violent quakes that swallowed up entire skyscrapers in tremendous fissures opening up. Swinging his arm to the side, Baby Vegeta created an explosive energy field that swallowed up heaps of Saiyans and disintegrated them whole in a blink. Bardock gasped in shock while a few survivors covered their faces in shock and terror and fled for their lives.
"No matter…" Baby Vegeta hissed with a tearful voice. "I don't need you, anyway! You Saiyans, violence is all you're good for. Whenever you have a chance to redeem yourself for your mistakes, you blow it all away! I should have known it would end this way. No, I did. Planet Earth will be safer with all you Saiyans dead and buried! Heed my words, Earthlings, I'll become your prophetic savior by making sure that Saiyans inflict no more genocide on this universe. Tremble, Saiyans, for your days of atrocity are over!"
"Shit, the bastard's completely lost it!" Bardock clenched his fists with a rotten and furious look on his face. Even if he wasn't too sure if he could compete against this new form of Baby's anymore, he wanted his pound of flesh for the lives of all those Saiyans that Baby Vegeta blasted away without a care in the world, just because his deception was exposed to the world.