The Three Legendary Saiyans
Chapter 54: Clash of The Super Saiyan 3's.
Author's Note: I'm very proud to say that over the course of Raijin's story through Z, Super and the Vs Classic Broly spin-off; this is the total 100th Chapter! A very big Thank You to every reader and follower that has followed this story thus far.
Team Universe 6.
"I'm glad you both are still in this thing…" Cabba sighed with relief as he, Caulifla who'd been chasing after him when he was a mere golden blur, and Kale sat idly after managing to get away from a very bored Jiren and the rest of Team Universe 11.
"Don't forget about me" Botamo spoke with his bear smile; his yellow body barely having so much as a scratch thanks to his immunity to physical attacks.
"So what are we going to do? We've lost so many friends" Kale spoke quietly; her hands shakily held together as the fear that she too might be eliminated if they didn't do something and soon as the teams were quickly being eliminated one after another.
"Team 7 is responsible for us losing Hit, Saonel and Pilina! They need to pay!" Caulifla shouted while letting her frustration be vented; she'd hated how their team had been the one to take the losses while Team Universe 7 kept their strongest members.
"Cabba? What happened to you? You look hurt" Kale tried to switch the topic; spotting how injured Cabba was with his damaged armour, cuts and burns, ignoring the irate Caulifla and rushing to Cabba side; Botamo opting to go to Cabba's side too while Caulifla only stared with wide-eyed irritation.
"I got into a kinda one-sided fight with that guy on Team 7 that looks like Frost… I don't understand why Mr Vegeta allowed such a cruel fighter on his team" Cabba spoke with melancholy; the wounds and burns stinging when he mentioned Frieza like the mere memory of facing that monster hurt him.
"THAT'S IT! I'm wrecking their shit eight ways to Sunday!" Caulifla screamed; her every muscle tensing as her body automatically transformed directly into her full power Super Saiyan 2, pink lightning sparking and raking the ground.
"Everyone huddle up; I have a plan to defeat Team 7" Cabba spoke with a sudden steely resolve; Kale and Botamo nodding in agreement to hearing Cabba's plan though only Caulifla ignored the notion and vanished into the debris on a direct path for Raijin's location.
Before she even bothered to listen to Cabba's plan; Caulifla rushed off with a wide smile, she was finally going to ascend to the levels she desired even if she had to beat the transformation out of the money-tailed bastard; she would become a Super Saiyan 3 and defeat Team 7 out of revenge for her fallen comrades.
Team Universe 7.
Furious with the loss of The Androids from their team; the anger fuelling his power and triggering a transformation directly to Super Saiyan 2, white lightning sparking and raking off his body while Goku and Vegeta watched him.
"Raijin… calm down" Goku spoke; the energy he'd recovered had almost completely gone after facing Pretty Black Hole and Agnilasa and felt exhausted by the efforts.
Before Raijin could answer; a golden flash followed by streaks of pink lightning rushed past and striking Raijin hard sending him crashing backwards into a wall of Kachi Kachin, Raijin opened his unflinching eye to see what hit him only to see Caulifla and her fully mastered Super Saiyan 2; feeling a pang of irritation in how effortlessly she handled the form.
"I thought we were allies! What happened?" Gohan yelled; shocked by the sudden betrayal on the side of Team Universe 6 when they'd fought as allies against Jiren and against Team Universe 2.
"Matters change and all of you are weakened!" shouted a high voice, Botamo leaping down on top of Gohan; successfully pinning the Half-Saiyan down.
A flash of gold barely fazed Frieza; as Cabba rushed him with a shoulder-charge that Frieza didn't bother blocking against, Frieza merely chuckled as Cabba returned for a rematch as Frieza knew he'd win against a weak Saiyan; batting his hand and smacking Cabba's face with enough force to send the little Saiyan flying backwards into a pile of rubble.
The flash of green took Goku and Vegeta off their feet while a flash of golden flames surged towards Frieza of whom easily dodged the attack; the green flames parting as Goku and Vegeta raised their arms to block the attack only for a pair of fists to strike them both in their guts, Kale grinning as her eyes went completely white as she roared with ferocious rage; her voice alone creating a shockwave that put Goku and Vegeta both on their guard.
Kale wasted no time; green flames burnt off her huge and muscular body as she'd undergone her Berserk Mode and challenged Team Universe 7, his two fists striking Goku's and Vegeta's cross-arm blocks dead-on; both Saiyans feeling shudders run through their very bones when taking Kale's fists head-on but both persevered.
Raijin.
Shockwaves echoes across the ruins of the arena as Raijin's every punch was blocked and countered by Caulifla; anger fuelling his every move making him predictable and each to beat, Caulifla both loved having an easy opponent but also resented fighting someone she considered weaker than her.
"Will you hurry up and show me the transformation asshole!" Caulifla barked and cursed Raijin; clearly fed up of waiting for their promise to be fulfilled.
Raijin glanced up from kneeling down on the floor; blood dripping from a cut to his right cheek as he rose back to his feet, "Alright fine… I know I promised and you'll get what you want, now go Super Saiyan 2 and max it out".
"I can already max out my Super Saiyan 2… now show me how go into 3! You prick" Caulifla shouted and cursed again; her patience having long since passed its limit thus her flames and lightning becoming more ferocious.
"Fine, this… is how you go further!" Raijin clenched his fists as he spoke; his energy welling up within his body before letting out a mighty scream and bursting out with a golden flash of flames and light burning into the form of a golden pillar masking his transformation.
"Like this?!" Caulifla matched Raijin's body movements and his scream perfectly; her energy streaming out of her as her golden flames burst with new life forming a pillar around her body and also masking her transformation, Caulifla felt her body burning up from the inside as her hair not only started growing longer but her powers grew higher and higher; a wide grin on her face as she grew even stronger.
Observation Stands.
"Oh ho; it appears Raijin is turning up the heat as Humans say…" Whis chimed; his voice giving away how entertained he was by Raijin's sudden turn in teaching his opponent and allowing Caulifla to grow stronger.
"That fool… Super Saiyan 3 at this point will only drain what little energy he has left" Beerus scoffed; a vein in his temple flaring with irritation in Raijin's actions.
"Even though Raijin mastered the Form… something even Goku couldn't do; he'll still feel the side-effects long before time runs out" Piccolo spoke up; having been a training partner for Raijin, Goku and Gohan for many years, he knew too well how draining the higher forms of Super Saiyan were.
Champa and Vados only watched with concern; nearly all their team members had been eliminated and their last hope were the trio of Saiyans of Universe Six, and thankfully their secret trump card still had yet to be played.
Belmod and his Supreme Kai from Universe 11 merely sat in silence; gladly watching the other Universe fight each other while their team stood on the far side of the crumbling arena recovering their energy so they could sweep what was left of any team that opposed them, though Belmod himself desperately desired to witness the mighty Jiren utterly destroy the Saiyans of Universe 7.
Team Universe 7.
"Is he?" Goku glanced towards the two golden pillars just as Kale seemed to do the same; ceasing the relentless assault upon sensing the two clashing energies within the golden pillars.
"That fool…" Vegeta scoffed with annoyance; believing that using the draining powers of Super Saiyan 3 to be nothing less than an unnecessary risk that would only end in elimination.
"I hope he knows what he's doing…" Gohan struggled to speak once he sensed Raijin's and Caulifla's climbing energies though Caulifla's was clearly stronger at the moment; all while still pinned down under the crushing weight of Botamo.
Raijin.
Raijin's column of golden flames vanished on the spot leaving Raijin with his hands against his bare knees; the force of his transformation having torn his outfit even more and left both his knees exposed and his gi almost completely torn from his upper body save for a strip of white sweaty cloth hanging across his chest.
"I really didn't want to use this… but you've forced my hand Caulifla!" Raijin called out in a shouting voice; sweat dripping from his brow though he'd fully mastered the form but he still felt the draining of his energy given all the difficult fights he'd had thus far.
Caulifla's golden pillar of flames died out revealing her own Super Saiyan 3 Form; her purple baggy pants shining with a brilliant violet while her pink tube-top shone hot pink in the harsh, dazzling light of Super Saiyan 3.
Caulifla let out a breath that steamed the very air around her; the longer golden hair stretching down her back until it almost touched the damaged floor, the powers coursing through her body was nothing like anything she'd felt before with either of her previous Super Saiyan Forms; this felt stronger, like her every muscle was being invigorated with immeasurable strength.
"How does it feel Caulifla? Do you feel your power flowing through you like a sense of invincibility?" Raijin stated; taking a deep breath with a wide smile, taking a second to feel the strength of Super Saiyan 3 coursing through his body.
"Hell yeah I do! I'm gonna kick your fucking ass and then I'm going after the rest of Team 11!" Caulifla bellowed; the golden sheen on her skin growing brighter as she dug deeper into her energies, her flames burning bright and harsher with her increasing excitement.
Raijin spat out a blob of excess saliva sticking to the back of his throat; seeing how much Caulifla easily overestimating her new power amused him and steeled himself for a hard fight, Caulifla kicking off the ground with so much force that the floor cracked under her feet; soaring towards Raijin with her right fist raised.
Raijin raised his left arm; his hand open when meeting Caulifla's fist and triggering a blasting wave of air when the two Super Saiyan 3's made contact, the blast wave carrying on as their immense powers were sensed by all remaining fighters within and outside of the arena's floor.
"Not bad… I give you a minute before…" Raijin began to speak; observing her fiercely her energy flames were burning but was cut off before explaining the downside to Super Saiyan 3.
"Shut it! I got this fight won already!" Caulifla exclaimed proudly; her flames burning even more ferociously as she kicked off the ground and surged directly for Raijin, Raijin finally calming let a smile slip past his lips when engaging Caulifla in battle.
That smile was quickly wiped away as Caulifla struck Raijin in the jaw with a fake right hook only to then strike with a left uppercut, skidding backwards and reaching out; Raijin grabbed a hold of Caulifla's extended golden hair and dragged her down into the floor with him.
"Hey!" Caulifla half shouted and half screamed; only being hurled backwards into a wall of Kachi Kachin before Raijin struck again with a knee to her abdomen causing Caulifla to spit up saliva.
Veins popping with anger; Caulifla burst out from the wall amidst a shower of rocks and pebbles before beginning an flurry of punches aimed for Raijin's vitals, Raijin taking a backstep saw the attack coming only to counter with his own volley of punches; each punch connecting with each other sending shockwaves and air and pressure that echoes through the atmosphere of The Null Realm.
Kicking off a wall of Kachi Kachin only to spin through the air with the help of his tail; Raijin dodged Caulifla's more straight-forward attacks and side-kicked Caulifla into a pile of stones and pebbles, Caulifla bursting out from the pile with burning ferocity; her body glowing brighter and bright with each second as she dug deeper into the power of Super Saiyan 3, launching herself at Raijin with a pair of hot pink energy orbs in each hand; grinning widely as she wanted to finish Raijin with a close range attack but Raijin saw the attack coming, easily sidestepping the charge and allowing Caulifla to charge directly into the same wall he'd kicked off of.
"You're going to have to try harder than that" Raijin stated with an air of smugness; enjoying himself while Caulifla pulled herself out from the crumbling wall.
"Fuck you!" Caulifla screamed; her energy levels peaking as a mix of gold and pink lightning sparked into life around her body before charging into Raijin with a flurry of punches only to be matched by a flurry of punches from Raijin, each punch creating sonic-booms and crushing the rubble around them with the immense energy being spent in their battle.
Raijin only smiled; the golden sheen on his body remaining as brilliant as always when he noticed Caulifla's was beginning to fade and he'd only counted forty-seven seconds in the minute he'd predicted the fight to last, he just had to keep dodging and countering.
Team Universe 11.
"The other teams haven't come near us for some time" Dyspo spoke cheerfully; staring out at the raging battles in the distance, the clashing energies of Raijin and Caulifla and their resulting shockwaves being felt even as far as Team Universe 11's location.
"It matters not Dyspo; Justice shall win this day in the end" Toppo spoke proudly; his wide pure-white moustache shaking as he spoke, his team having been staying in one spot since Jiren's battle with the unexpected team of Hit and Raijin; their patience in allowing the other teams to battle to the point of exhaustion working like a charm.
"Jiren? You've been very quiet" Kahseral spoke suddenly; having been watching Jiren for some time though Jiren had not spoken so much as a single word since his unexpected battles.
Jiren stared out in the distance; having watched the rise and disappearance of the two golden pillars and now sensed the clashing of wills nearby, he'd be lying if he didn't wish to bear witness to the battle but his duty was to his Universe and ensuring their victory.
"Jiren?" Dyspo cautiously stepped towards Jiren as he was being too quiet while staring out at the battles, the flashes of many colours and pillars of energy.
Jiren slowly turned to Dyspo; his imposing figure looming over Dyspo causing Dyspo to break out in a sweat due to being exposed to Jiren's intense heat, Jiren merely walking past without so much as a single word.
"What is with him? I've never seen him act this way" Kahseral spoke with a tone of confusion; taking off his beret and fanning himself with it due to the heat caused by Jiren's sheer energy.
"It might have something to do with those Saiyans… he's never been so recklessly challenged in all the years I've known him… this is something entirely new to Jiren and it must be interesting for him" Toppo spoke quietly so not to be overheard; his words chosen after observing the very battles Jiren had fought thus far in his life as a member of The Pride Troopers and none have ever forced Jiren to fight harder than he had against Goku, Hit or Raijin, and that also made Toppo curious.
"He might also be bored of waiting…" Dyspo chimed in; for he too was tired of waiting while other teams were fighting and battling each other while they stuck to their strategy of using Jiren's absolute strength to defeat any who stood between them and victory.
Gohan.
Gohan gritted his teeth when mustering up whatever energy he could scrounge up after pouring so much into countering Botamo; his fist igniting with the white flames that accompanied his Ultimate Form, Botamo chuckling as he merely observed Gohan; both with the knowledge that physical attacks had absolutely no effect on him though that wasn't doing to deter Gohan.
Thrusting his elbow backwards into Botamo's vast body; though Botamo only chuckled as the strike barely registered until an unseen force pushing him backwards like that harmless elbow strike had truly done damage to his physically-immune body.
"What… what did you do?" Botamo spoke in his high voice; his eyes narrowing with interest and wary of the strange technique Gohan employed.
"I merely channelled my energy into you; I may have been a little rough but that's because it's a new skill" Gohan spoke up; climbing back to his feet, the whiter flames burning solely around his hands and feet instead of his entire body.
Botamo grumbled as a dull bruise remained on his large yellow body; he's actually found an adversary who could wound him and that fact made Botamo excited but also cautious, all the white Champa screamed at him to take Gohan out.
With his hands and feet ablaze with her new technique to channel his energy into enemies finally getting its real battle test; Gohan waited as Botamo began bouncing on the spot only to begin rebounding off every wall and surface he had available and thanks to the multitude of raging battles as well as Goku's Spirit Bomb had destroyed the once flat floors and transformed the floors into a literal playground for Botamo providing limitless surfaces for his large body to bounce off.
Botamo's huge body moved with impossible speeds as he bounced off a boulder and struck Gohan down; tearing Gohan's green Saiyaman tunic and black bodysuit in the process, chuckling to himself as Gohan would never make another hit against him while he
Gohan watched as Botamo bounced off every available surface; trying to see any kind of pattern in the attacks, Gohan's thought process disrupted by Botamo barrelling through him for a second time only for Gohan to then realise a fact: Botamo was striking from behind Gohan's back.
Glancing behind him and spotting an obscenely large floor tile that provided the perfect shape to bounce off and strike at an opponent, "How did I not notice that before! Gohan… you are an idiot".
Waiting patiently as Botamo bounced across every surface and gained speed; moving towards the massive tile but Gohan was waiting for him, with both his hands blazing with energy Gohan turned on his heels and struck Botamo square in the belly with both hands; his energy pouring into Botamo's body and dealing such massive amounts of damage that Botamo bounced off of Gohan' fists and soared down through the crevice's between the arena's platforms.
Raijin.
Raijin glanced behind him; spotting that Botamo had been eliminated, Caulifla having witnessed Botamo falling only invoked her rage further at the loss of her seventh teammate.
"You… bastards! Our team trusted you and all you've done is eliminate us!"
Raijin's smile faded from his face; it was true that their battles had cost Universe Six several of their team members, Hit had fallen to protect his own teammates as well as Raijin himself from Jiren, while Saonel and Pilina: the Universe 6 Namekians had been eliminated alongside Piccolo and that bothered him given his youth.
"Stop daydreaming and fight!" Caulifla screamed taking Raijin out of his thoughts just as Caulifla's fist connected with his jaw and sent him flying backwards into a wall of tiles, the wall crumbling around him as he felt his feet touch an increasingly less stable floor; glancing behind himself and seeing nothing but the murky clouds.
Caulifla couldn't help herself in pushing Raijin to the edge of the arena; charging forward in a cloak of golden flames with gold and pink lightning, her smiling face catching Raijin's attention immediately; muttering a silent apology to Caulifla before driving his hand fists down hard into the roof of Caulifla's head and sending the female Saiyan crashing down into the already barely stable floor.
Caulifla grimaced with rage in her failure to stop such an obvious counterattack; bursting out from the floor as it began to crumble beneath her very feet, kicking off the floor moments before the floor crumbled and fell into the murky void and dropping into a safer floorspace only for Raijin to suddenly kick her in her back.
"Asshole!" Caulifla screamed; reacting with a kick of her own only for Raijin to easily block the kick, Caulifla noticing that her kick was a dramatic loss of power behind it in fact her whole body was feeling weaker for some reason totally unknown to her.
Raijin chuckled to himself; the minute had passed and Caulifla's stamina and energies were at their limits.
Goku and Vegeta.
Goku and Vegeta glanced behind them as their backs pressed against a solid wall; waves upon waves of green flames burning the very air as Berserk Kale charged the pair only to go crashing through the wall itself, Goku flinched from the pains that Ultra Instinct had caused him while Vegeta barely kept his eyes open while going through a solid wall but caught a glimpse of somebody in a pink dress running away from their clash.
Digging his heels into the rubble; Vegeta trust out both his hands and wordlessly fired his Galick Gun directly into Kale's body, the purple beam barely fazing Kale as she batted the beam away without any effort though her eyes showed signs of awareness as she could sense Caulifla's immense power dropping rapidly; turning her back on Goku and Vegeta only to run away out of worry for her sister.
"The hell? What kind of Saiyan runs from a fight?" Vegeta scoffed; feeing a sense of disgust in Kale fleeing the battle.
"I don't know… but that girl that Raijin's fighting has fallen for his trap" Goku smirked; sensing how Caulifla was weakening at an incredibly fast rate while Raijin's energy signature was only being reduced at a much slower pace during the last minute.
Cabba.
Groaning with pain as Frieza had effortlessly batted him away and defeated him; Cabba rubbed at the back of his head only to find beads of his own blood staining his hand, having a head wound would put him out of action though he still desired to defeat Vegeta or Frieza.
His train of thought coming to a stop as Kale blazed past in a flash of green flames; kicking off the ground and following after Kale with his own Super Saiyan 2, feeling a small leather pouch within his armour and remembering how Champa and given him their team's trump card.
Raijin.
"What is happening? Where did my power go!?" Caulifla shouted; barking at the top of her lungs upon noticing her strength and energy was draining away at an absurd speed, the golden sheen to her skin and the shine of her extended hair fading fast.
Raijin couldn't help himself but chuckle since he'd tried to tell her but she'd been all too keen to fight even though Caulifla had been a difficult opponent but his prediction had been spot-on, her energy had only lasted a minute, "I tried to tell you… Super Saiyan 3 puts a huge drain on your stamina and energy".
"What the fuck?! Then why aren't you tired?" Caulifla barked; her body suddenly feeling overcome with exhaustion and drained of any energy, her golden hair vanishing to its normal length and shade of black while the golden sheen on her body vanished leaving only a thick layer of sweat on her skin.
"Because I've been using this form for years! I fully mastered this power and reduced the massive toll it takes on my body" Raijin spoke proudly and making sure to flex the muscles in his hands; in truth he was feeling tired but he still had at least another ten to fifteen seconds to go before he'd be forced to revert to his base-form and that was more than enough to eliminate Caulifla for her betrayal of his trust.
Caulifla went to take a step backwards but tripped on a stone and falling onto her butt; sweat pouring off his body after the excursion caused by Super Saiyan 3 while Raijin steadily walked towards her with eliminating her on his mind, wishing for somebody to help her moments before a flash of green took Raijin by surprise and knocked him down to his knees while momentarily blinded by the blast.
Kale.
Having been watching the battle of Raijin and Caulifla for the last few seconds and borne witness to the threat looming over Caulifla that could only end with her elimination, determined to rescue her sister; Kale thrust out her hands and fired a neon green blast that took Raijin off his feet in surprise and gave Caulifla the very moment she needed to make an escape; turning heel and running towards the source of the beam only to find Kale and Cabba.
"Kale! Where the fuck were you?" Caulifla barked; her body barely having the energy to even be angry with her comrade, her exhaustion present in the rate of her perspiration and how beat up her body was.
"Caulifla; we needed to save you in order to win" Kale spoke so calmly that she surprised Caulifla; Kale's hair still glowing green but her mind remained intact.
"The fuck you say?! I could have won if I didn't feel so drained" Caulifla barked having shaken off the stunned surprise; trying to rise to her feet but her legs buckled from under her, she'd never felt as tired as she did right now.
"Sister… please listen" Kale spoke softly; the green flames burning around her body vanishing with the green spikes in her hair changed to black, he body reverting to its normal state and revealing the many bruises and slight burns her skin and clothes had taken over the battles she'd fought.
Caulifla stared in shock when she'd thought Kale to be invincible in her Berserk Form, choosing t quiet down while Cabba motioned to the inside of his damaged armour.
"Caulifla, Kale… take these" Cabba spoke taking a small cloth pouch out from his armour and presenting two small bead earrings a lot like the earrings their Supreme Kai wore.
"Why? What are they?" Caulifla and Kale spoke in turn; Caulifla wrinkling her nose at the earrings while Kale stared at the jewellery with fascination.
"It doesn't matter; if you both put one on then you'll be able to save our Universe" Cabba spoke; forcibly handing the earrings to Caulifla and Kale, though Raijin had risen back to his feet and seen the earrings for himself.
Raijin.
Raijin spotted the strange earrings passed from Cabba to Caulifla and Kale; his eyes widening with shocked surprise upon realising what was coming, kicking off the ground with all the energy and stamina he had left in his body and blasting off the broken floor amidst a blazing golden flame; feeling that same sensation once again like a new energy flowing into him from somewhere deep inside as when he closed his eyes to blink he saw flashes of a tall stone wall inside of a black void.
"No you don't! I won't let you use those earrings!" Raijin bellowed as loudly as he could; kicking off the ground just as the blaze of Super Saiyan 3 faded from his body causing Raijin to fall face-first into the broken floor tiles and cutting his face, that momentary lapse giving Caulifla and Kale enough time to clip on the earrings; gritting his teeth and leaping off the floor with his right fist wound back.
A pillar of pure white light burst out from the pair of female Saiyans as they'd latched the glowing Potara Earrings onto their ears and an invisible force pushed the pair triggering their divine fusion, Raijin could only stare in shock, horror and excitement in facing the fused opponent.
"Caulifla… Kale?" Raijin stuttered their names; his body tensing up as a lone figure appeared in his line of sight; his drive to stop them from fusing vanishing with his abject failure.
"Not quite dipshit! I'm Kefla" spoke a voice moments before the white pillar vanished; leaving a solitary young woman dressed in a red skin-tight pair of leggings and a matching vest, her black hair spiky like Caulifla's but also long like Kale's but her eyes sent shivers down Raijin's spine.
Next Chapter: Ribrianne's Last Arrow.
