Videl weathered through the pressure and the howling of the transportation, yet she stayed curled up and tense for a little while after the process was complete. It was almost as if she delayed her return to reality until it was inevitable. Beeping Machine Mutants surrounded the two passengers, examining the unexpected results of the transportation and the stowaway.
"Hm? Is this the Machine Mutant you spoke of, this DB4649T2006RS?" Baby Vegeta pointed at Giru, who looked similarly taken aback and defensive about this sudden transportation as Videl was and kept on stuffing in between curious Machine Mutants and Videl.
"It is, Baby-sama. Our scans indicate that he indeed possesses loads of mysterious Earthling technology assimilated into his system," a Machine Mutant replied.
"And who is this woman with him? I thought I asked you to transport DB4649T2006RS. I have no use for her," Baby Vegeta crossed his arms.
"Forgive us, Baby-sama!" several Machine Mutant drones began apologizing at once. "We have no idea how this happened. The amount of data being transported just increased out of the blue. This woman must have jumped into the course of the transportation beam and the beam expanded to include her too, as a safety feature. The beam shuts down unless it can scan full bodies and never transports that which it cannot fully scan to prevent cases of teleportation accidents."
"Giru-Giru… This is Videl, Videl is Giru's friend!" Giru pointed to Videl while the teen shook her head and recovered after the unexpected and rowdy transportation.
"What's going on here? Why did you abduct us and take us here?" Videl objected as her first instinct after recovery.
"Is this brat a Saiyan, Earthling, or a hybrid?" Baby Vegeta turned to the nearest Machine Mutant drone to him.
"The transportation beam gets all the data on the specimens it transforms. It appears to indicate that this young woman is an Earthling," the Machine Mutant replied.
"I see, it would then appear that DB4649T2006RS has made some Earthling friends during its infiltration. Friends loyal enough to assist him when they think DB4649T2006RS is being kidnapped," Baby Vegeta surmised from the information available to him. "I apologize, Earthling," he addressed Videl. "We did not intend to kidnap you. We simply recalled DB4649T2006RS because he is a Machine Mutant and he has assimilated Dragon Radar technology. I need to collect the Dragon Balls."
"The Dragon Balls? What do you need the Dragon Balls for?" Videl asked with caution.
"To restore my planet and my people. None of this concerns you. I shall have the Machine Mutants send you back home at once," Baby Vegeta turned his glare to the nearby Machine Mutant drones before hearing Videl interject.
"Is what this man said true, Giru?" Videl turned to the round, white robot, freaking him out. "Did you really fake everything and act as a double agent? Did you really infiltrate our group and pretend to be our friend just to scan the Dragon Radar and other Earthling technology to assist the Machine Mutants?"
"Giru-Giru! No way!" Giru began frantically shaking its little metallic arms and crossing them in front of his round, white body. "Giru assimilated the Dragon Radar to protect Giru. If Giru hadn't assimilated the Dragon Radar and forced the Earthlings to keep Giru, they'd have destroyed Giru immediately because the Earthlings were at war with the Machine Mutants and Giru was a Machine Mutant scout! Giru is Videl's friend and Giru would rather go crime-fighting with Videl and do homework with Videl and learn about Earth than collect Dragon Balls for Baby!"
"So, you're that Baby everyone's talking about, huh?" Videl turned her angry look at Baby. "You heard Giru. He wants nothing to do with you or your cause. Let him go and transport us back or you're in for a beating!"
"I'm afraid that is not an option," Baby Vegeta shook his head with a blank expression. "Since the Earthlings and the Saiyans know about my intentions to collect the Dragon Balls, I wouldn't put it behind them to collect them and use them first. I don't have the time to collect another Dragon Radar and it is the only thing standing between me and the return of my exterminated people. I won't waste this chance, not when a Dragon Radar stands right in front of me."
"It's not a Dragon Radar, it's a sentient being!" Videl objected passionately. "Giru is my friend and I won't let you hold him captive and use him like some object!"
"Oh? And what can you possibly do to stop me?" Baby turned his head to the side, giving Videl a threatening look that made chills run down her spine. Despite the momentary case of hen skin, Videl stood her ground and sneered at the Tsufurian from her position, ready to fend off anyone who would try anything.
"Shall we just transport this Earthling home?" a Machine Mutant wondered.
"It won't work. Not until we capture DB4649T2006RS. If we use the transportation beam on her, DB4649T2006RS will enter its range and ride it back to Earth as well, just like the Earthling brat did earlier," Baby crossed his arms. "I don't want to bring harm to any Earthling. But I won't let you and your delusion and misguided beliefs that Saiyans are your friends stand in front of the return of the Tsufurian race and the restoration of our home. While I would rather not do it, I would sleep just fine having killed an Earthling as a cost of restoring my dead race. I intend to exterminate another one, after all."
"What do you mean?" Videl gasped.
"The Earthlings believe the Saiyans are their friends and that they can co-exist on Planet Earth together. Despite Saiyans being parasites and an invasive species on Planet Earth, a planet that rightfully belongs to Earthlings. Somehow, King Vegeta has convinced you they are anything but that which they truly are–violent, primitive, murderous savages. Just like the Earthlings, Saiyans once co-existed with the Tsufurians on Planet Plant. However, the Saiyans turned on the Tsufurians and exterminated them, taking over Planet Plant, the technology, and the cities that the Tsufurians left behind. It's only a matter of time before they do the same to Earthlings. To prevent the deaths of billions of Earthlings, I would gladly kill one to make her get out of my way," Baby Vegeta made a proud declaration, clenching his fist in front of him as an oath.
"So you would kill all Saiyans? That makes you no better than them!" Videl objected in outrage.
"So I keep hearing from clueless buffoons," Baby Vegeta rolled his eyes. "I've wasted enough time. The resurrection of my people is at stake. Stand aside or die!"
"I won't stand idly by as you kidnap and use my friend as an object or as you exterminate all Saiyans! They may have their flaws, but some Saiyans are good people and my friends!" Videl spread her legs out and adopted a fighting stance. Despite visible fear and cold sweat running down her back and making her nerves light up with sensations and her body quiver, Videl decided to stand her ground.
"I really tried to avoid this," Baby Vegeta sighed before extending his hand to kill Videl just halfway. Before he could complete his motion, a terrible quake threw everyone aboard the Big Gete Star flying.
Overcome by a feeling of weightlessness, Videl found a chance to grab Giru and pull out from what would have been certain death and failure. Given what she knew about Baby Vegeta, how it paraded around in King Vegeta's body and kept on beating up martial artists that Videl had a great deal of respect for and couldn't imagine measuring up to, running and trying to last for as long as possible in this vessel sounded like their best option. With everyone scrambling and frantically trying to determine what turned off the Big Gete Star's gravity, Videl found the distraction she needed.
"What's going on here!?" Baby Vegeta exclaimed with an apt amount of wrath of everything around him going wrong all the time in his tone. "Why is the gravity gone and why is the power flickering!?"
"S-Something's attacking us, Baby-sama!" a Machine Mutant turned on a jet pack and hovered to a control panel, interacting with it and bringing up a monitor that flashed with an image of a lone golden comet slamming into the bottom half of the Big Gete Star and causing quite the light show, complete with the sizzle and golden sparks and the undulation of the barrier protecting the Big Gete Star.
"So what? The Big Gete Star is protected by a barrier that drains energy! There's no chance of them breaking through!" Baby Vegeta objected. "How can the station be suffering THIS much damage?"
"Baby-sama… The assailant… They're overloading the energy capacitors! If they don't stop, the entire station is going to explode and take the entire star system along with it!" a Machine Mutant gasped. Something unnatural distorted the tone of the mechanical drone. Given that the Machine Mutants were a sentient species, the most likely explanation was the fact that it was experiencing an outlandish amount of fear for its future.
"Wh-What!? But that shouldn't be possible! This station and its energy capacity are meant to maintain the entire Cyber-Verse! How can its energy capacitors be overloading!?" Baby Vegeta swatted the Machine Mutant that was operating the control panel aside to take a better look himself. Despite his objections, he was shocked to find out that the Machine Mutant's assessment was entirely correct. "H-How… Is this possible…!?" he muttered, quickly shifting through various windows to pull up the view of the golden nova that was obliterating them right out of the sky despite a protective barrier system that was second to none in the entire universe.
"VIDEL-SAN! LEAVE VIDEL-SAN ALONE!" a rowdy bellow that echoed like a collision between two black holes, causing sparkling and electric shortages and static all across the station. Enveloped with a bright energy wave and soaring all the way from Central City Middle School yard, shimmering with the golden Super Saiyan shine and with a look twisted by fury and whited-out eyes corrupted by the call to justice, Gohan had crashed right into the Big Gete Star and threatened to win this collision.
"Transport him here at once!" Baby Vegeta instructed.
"B-But… Baby-sama…!" the Machine Mutants objected. "This… Saiyan… He's… Too strong!"
"He won't dare unleash all that power inside. Not when it threatens to destroy the station that he and his Earthling friend are in. I know Saiyans, their opportunism and ambition won't let him cause the downfall of the only station keeping him away from the cold and breathless embrace of space!" Baby Vegeta clenched his fist as a warning that the next time his direct order was disobeyed, he'd crush that drone with a mean look.
"Gohan-kun…" Videl gasped at first, refusing to believe that this outlandish Ki, the likes of which she had never sensed before, belonged to Gohan. "Giru, we'll be fine, Gohan-kun came for us!" she snapped out of her stupor and let everlasting joy take her over. A bright cerulean flash signaled that the transportation beam had successfully brought the violent and destructive assailant onboard. Gohan was about to continue his senseless onslaught before a whiff of Videl's Ki snapped him out of it.
"Videl-san… You're okay!" Gohan broke out into cheer. The joy was short-lasted, however, as righteous fury took Gohan over again and he turned his solemn glare back to Baby Vegeta. "You're Baby, aren't you? Why did you kidnap Videl-san?"
"I couldn't care less about the Earthling brat!" Baby Vegeta exclaimed, raising his voice due to all the unbelievable shenanigans that kept meddling with his plans. "I transported DB4649T2006RS to Big Gete Star to put the Dragon Radar technology he possesses to good use, and this Earthling tagged along like a stowaway!"
"Gohan-kun, Baby wants to use Giru to collect the Dragon Balls! Giru is a living being with feelings, wants, and needs! I know that Bulma-san wants us to leave Baby alone until she can find a way to save Vegeta-san's body, but I can't just stand idly by as Baby does whatever he wants with Giru! Giru is my friend!" Videl pleaded with Gohan to help her fend Baby off. "I can't… I can't protect him alone, so… Please!"
"Gohan… That's not a Saiyan name. What data do we have on him?" Baby Vegeta turned to the control panel that he was closest to and brought up the genetic information that the transportation beam had collected while transporting Gohan's particles a short distance across. "An Earthling-Saiyan hybrid? Damn it, I knew I would encounter this problem eventually… What do I do with you then? I don't want to kill any Earthlings, not if I can help it, but all Saiyans have got to die for sure. That power, that rage earlier. That was the exact same power as that Saiyan Bardock from earlier… An emotion-driven power-up beyond a level one would imagine being possible. You wouldn't happen to be his spawn, would you?"
"Bardock? He's my grandpa," Gohan declared with a stone-hard look that Videl hadn't seen him with since she was nearly killed at the hands of Ultimate Artificial Human No. 20. In that kind and compassionate heart of his, an unseen before silent fury was boiling and just waiting to tip over and spill out. "You hurt him pretty bad."
"I see, so the old runt survived after all. Nothing could have been done… I couldn't use too much power or I would have killed a lot of Earthlings with those Saiyans. That was a mistake. I should have killed them all. The more I ponder, the more I realize that without accepting Earthling casualties, I won't weed you Saiyans out like the pests you are!" Baby Vegeta stepped away from the console and clenched his fists in preparation to deal with Gohan and Videl. "Now that you two helped me work this out, I can pay you back by sending you two to Hell in a snap!"
"Giru-Giru! Baby-sama is dangerous! Videl, please use the transportation beam and bring us back home!" Giru instructed Videl.
"But… Gohan-kun can win, I know he can. He was incredible just a moment ago!" Videl turned to Giru. "You heard Baby, if we don't stop him here, he'll keep on killing and he'll be far less selective about who gets the short end of the stick in the future. He's done showing mercy to Earthlings too. Everyone is in danger if we don't hold him off here!"
"Yeah…" Gohan muttered with murderous intent leaking from his teal Super Saiyan eyes. "It's strange… I have never enjoyed fighting or looked forward to a fight in my entire life. But it just doesn't sit right with me to leave him alone after he kidnapped you two and threatened your lives in front of me. Right now… Despite my peace-loving nature, I WANT TO MAKE HIM PAY!" Gohan cried out, erupting with a golden Super Saiyan aura and charging off at Baby.
With a deafening crack, Gohan's fist slammed against Baby Vegeta's cheek, but it only pushed it back a few licks. With a bloodthirsty and excited sneer, Baby Vegeta turned his head back and forced his cheek to push Gohan's fist back despite the conviction and force flowing through the youth's whole body. Against such overwhelming force, even Gohan's silent wrath wavered for a second.
Baby Vegeta's rising straight dug into Gohan's chest, nearly pushing all the way through the teen's body and leaving a gruesome indentation in his abdomen while Gohan's wrathful eyes blanked out and his mouth expelled a mouthful of slobber. With his shooting hand, Baby grabbed a handful of Gohan's hair and pulled the boy in for a knee shot to the face that left a nasty bruise while Gohan collapsed in his grip.
"It's true that your battle power before was incredible, however, you're even more susceptible to fluctuating battle power than your old man, mutt!" Baby Vegeta sneered with leaking sadism as he enjoyed the boy's torment at his hands. "It's true that if you gained control over that power, you could stand up to even me and compete for the title of the strongest in the universe. However, when your heart is so full of uncertainty and struggling emotions, when you're in love, afraid, and angry all at the same time, your battle power plunges beneath even its ordinary level. As long as I kill you first and leave the Earthling girl for later, you shouldn't experience any more shocking power-ups…"
Baby Vegeta proceeded to beat Gohan down with the teenager Super Saiyan offering little to no resistance and just taking the blows. Videl gasped at the sight of Gohan being so mercilessly wailed on as just a moment ago he seemed and felt invincible. After giving both her and Giru a look, Videl clenched her fists and straightened her back, letting a white aura wash up her body and raise her hair before she took off in a headfirst rush toward the gruesome duel between the two.
"If you won't attack me, I'll make you!" Videl declared, freezing Baby up for a second and making him hesitate to defend himself. If he attacked this Earthling now, he threatened to hurt her and unite the whole complexity of Gohan's emotions to unite under the banner of rage. If that were ever to happen, Gohan's full potential would explode again and render him an unexpected threat, even to Baby's limitless power.
With a haphazard and sloppy manner, Baby Vegeta retreated and weaved around Videl's explosive combination of strikes and kicks, putting his arms and legs up to deflect the shots he hesitated too long to evade. Outraged because a mere Earthling weakling woman was bullying him around and holding his choices of how to proceed hostage, Baby Vegeta decided to not respond in kind.
"Out of my way, Earthling!" Baby shrieked, thrusting a blow to her gut that stunned Videl and nearly punched all the way through, knocking her out cold temporarily. With a forward somersault, the Tsufurian knocked Videl flying away before cloaking himself in a purple aura and soaring through with an empowered flying kick that sent Videl flying aside. "Away with you forever! Big Bang Attack!" Baby Vegeta exclaimed, extending his arm with an open palm and turning his hand at a static angle, then condensing his Ki into a bright white Ki blast with expansive, black, concussive shockwaves and a vivid black outline around it.
"Videl-san!" Gohan cried out with a panicking look in his eyes. He didn't have anywhere near enough time to think his reaction through or to prepare an attack that could clash with Baby Vegeta's Big Bang Attack and give him time to pull Videl away from certain obliteration. All that Gohan could think of was to throw himself into harm's way. Charging forward without thinking of the consequences, Gohan tackled, scooped Videl up, and flung her away while taking the full brunt of the Big Bang Attack for himself and getting swallowed up in the blast.
White oblivion swallowed up the hallway, smashing it away and peeling the adamantine walls of the space station away. A jarring hole in the middle of the round planetoid station smoldered with molten ruins and fire while Baby smirked, hovering above the destroyed engine rooms and hallways and observing the massive fire and destruction he had caused.
Death. Death would come for all who stood in his way! Baby was long past reason, long past negotiation and tending to this oblivious, numb-skulled species as if they were his own. If they were so eager to fall for the same mistakes as the Tsufurians did in trusting the Saiyans, they could have all shared the Saiyans' fate. It was so remarkably simple to blow up the Earth and exterminate the Saiyans and their sympathizers alike and return to ruling his people as soon as the Dragon Balls fulfill his wish, as opposed to trying to navigate, carefully pick and choose his victims and leave the job unfinished.
"Tsk, I better not have blown up DB4649T2006RS!" Baby Vegeta hissed to himself as he scanned the ruins for any signs of survivors of his calamitous attack.