Nexus HWR 12.1 Father vs Son:
Mount Vegeta
One month ago…
"'Son?'" Goku repeated. He tilted his head to the right and said in a confused voice, "I don't have a dad."
"Of course you do," Raditz snapped at Goku's back. "Just look at his hair, idiot," the older brother who was still more than a little bitter about Goku's part in his previous life's death growled at the young kid's back. He recognized him from the second the kid looked in his eyes, but once Goku said his name he truly believed who this was in front of him.
Goku frowned with his bottom lip stuck out and he closely examined the man in front of him's hair. "I don't know," Goku said. "I've seen other people with hair like mine. Like my son Goten, or that space pirate!"
The two Saiyan men in front of Goku shared surprised looks at Goku's mention of a space pirate. "Are you talking about Turles?" Apragus questioned.
Goku shrugged without turning away from the man who shared his unique hairstyle. "Are you really, my dad?" Goku asked. He thought about how Raditz was standing behind him, and how he already believed that man was his older brother. So if Raditz thinks this is my dad, that means he's his dad too. Raditz would know our dad, right?
"Yes Kakarott," the man replied. He uncrossed his arms down to his sides and looked at the boy closely. He frowned again as he was confused and had to ask, "Why do you appear to be a child? You should be a grown man from what your brother, and legends of your deeds, have told me."
"I am a grown man," Goku replied. "But I'm also a kid," he said and started smiling. "A Marine girl with a weird Devil Fruit power made me age backwards," he said, sounding pretty confused himself as he did.
"Why didn't you kill her then?" Raditz asked. Goku turned and frowned at his older brother who only glared harder at Goku after receiving the kid's look. "If you had killed her, you could have returned to your normal age."
"Who says I wanted to go back?" Goku asked, giving his older brother a pout as he did. "And she wasn't a bad person, so I didn't want to kill her."
"No, it's because you're weak," Raditz growled at the kid. His fists clenched, and Goku's did too, and then right next to Raditz appeared their father. Goku's eyes widened as the man appeared faster than he could follow with his naked eyes, making him smile ear to ear as he thought about it.
"Quiet Raditz, is that any way to speak to your brother?" The man snapped.
"He got me killed!" Raditz yelled.
"Hmm," the older man hummed. "That is in the past. You will make amends with your younger brother, and you with Raditz," the man turned to Goku and said, while the kid just smiled back at him in an odd way that had the older man leaning back. "Well," the guy began, scratching the back of his head and looking at Goku with a bead of sweat coming down the left side of his face. "I guess I should introduce myself, Kakarott-"
"It's Goku," the child said.
"Not on this mountain it isn't," the man countered, narrowing his eyes at the kid and making Goku close his mouth. Goku wondered why he brought it up in the first place as he no longer felt the need to do so when he was with Vegeta. He questioned whether it was because he knew Vegeta better now, but thought different of it and figured it was rather because he wanted to keep a semi-hostile atmosphere around the room. The urge to fight the person in front of him calling himself his father made him excited beyond his own comprehension.
The older man sighed and he rubbed his forehead while Raditz walked around Goku's other side towards Apragus who also stepped aside into the living room. As those two started talking in hushed voices, the oldest figure there stepped towards Goku and looked into the boy's eyes closely. "My name is Bardock, and I am your father. I am also, the King of the Saiyans on Nexus..."
"You're the King?" Goku asked, not having pieced that together from what he had learned so far. He scratched the back of his small head, "I thought Vegeta's dad was going to be the King..."
"King Vegeta is long dead," Bardock said. He had a troubled look on his face now though after Goku spoke. "Yet you mention Prince Vegeta?"
"Yeah, he's back home training with Gohan," Goku said. He saw an unrecognizing look on his father's face and his eyes opened wide. "Oh! Gohan's my son, my other son," he specified as he already mentioned Goten a minute ago.
Bardock got some sweat on the sides of his face. Didn't think I was that old. I've got grandkids? This kid, has children? He tried to remember that Goku mentioned getting turned younger, but it still felt really weird to him. "So," Bardock started, having forgotten what he was originally asking about. "You have sons, that's, interesting."
"Is it?" Goku asked.
The bead of sweat on the left side of Bardock's face rolled down it completely. I need a drink, he thought and rubbed the side of his head, feeling a headache coming on.
"Hey Bardock," Goku began, and the man rubbing his head looked back down with lifted eyebrows, wondering what this kid was going to say next. The two longer-haired men near them in the living room looked back over as they saw something shimmer in Goku's eyes when he spoke. Goku grinned at his father and said confidently, "Let's fight!"
Bardock's eyebrows rose higher, while Raditz looked surprised for less time than his father. He smirked and stepped towards his younger brother, "You couldn't defeat father if you tried. On Earth you weren't even strong enough to stop me on your own-"
"Raditz," Apragus cut in, making Raditz frown deeply and spin to the man right at his side. The other long haired Saiyan whose hair was just down to his waist saw that not just Raditz, but the Saiyan King was looking his way too, and he breathed deeply before saying, "Kakarott is a Super Saiyan, but when I watched him fight the Terminators-" Apragus turned towards Goku who was grinning still at Bardock. The only Saiyan not part of this family finished, "I could tell he was holding back, a lot."
"Those robots were pretty strong though," Goku said to the other Saiyan. "You guys must be strong too to have beaten so many of them."
Apragus looked at the child weirdly as he said those encouraging words to him. "A Saiyan who compliments the weak," the man muttered, baffled at the sentiment. "Did you get dropped on your head as a baby or something?"
"Apragus," Bardock growled, looking at Goku and not the man he spoke to who instantly tensed up. "Watch how you refer to my son. If he is truly stronger than you, then he is better than you, that is our way."
Apragus bowed his head and responded quickly, "I understand, King Bardock."
Raditz looked over at his father's eyes and his own widened, "Father, you can't be considering-"
"Don't you want to know?" Bardock questioned, casting a quick glance towards his first born. The Saiyan King frowned a lot more than the smirking child in front of him, but Goku liked the look of him more than he did his own older brother or most other Saiyans he got first impressions of other than that Dobaka guy earlier. Bardock continued as he looked back at the kid, "Whether all those stories about the great Son Goku, the Super Saiyan, were truth, or just exaggerations?"
"I don't know what you've heard," Goku began. He continued to grin and the look on his face looked a lot less childish in the following moment. He had the expression of a true warrior on him, and he finished, "But I'm strong."
Bardock's frown lifted slightly and he humphed. "We'll see about that," he remarked. Bardock turned to his older son, "Raditz, you and your mate will let the rest of our people know. Tonight at the set of the Red Sun, I will fight my son for the title of King of the Saiyans."
Goku's eyes grew into saucers and his competitive look vanished. "King?" He asked in surprise. "I don't want to be King!"
Bardock turned back to the boy and began frowning again. "You don't?" He examined the boy closely but Kakarott did not look to be lying. Bardock scratched his chin, "Then why did you come here?"
"I don't know," Goku said, then regained his smile. "But I just want to fight to see who's stronger!" He clenched his right fist hard in front of his body and had the look of a pure-blooded Saiyan warrior in his eyes.
Bardock grinned more than he did before and actually let out a grunt that almost sounded like a laugh. "I like that look in your eyes. Very well, if not for the title of King, then we still fight for the title of the strongest Saiyan."
"Father!" Raditz exclaimed.
"Silence!" Bardock yelled back, and his eldest's mouth snapped shut. He did not turn to the younger man, but said, "If your brother defeats me, he claims the title. If he does not, that does not make him the second strongest Saiyan. You can challenge him tomorrow if you so wish."
Raditz calmed himself down as he realized he overreacted there. Apragus put a hand on Raditz's left shoulder and Raditz turned to the man who was a few inches shorter than his seven feet tall. "Let's go let everyone know," Apragus said, keeping his voice serious, but giving Raditz a small reassuring nod as he did.
"Hmph," Raditz muttered. He spun away from his family and Apragus patted him on the shoulder once before walking with him to the door. "That brat is not stronger than me," Raditz said in a hushed voice to the man next to him as they exited the house.
"I know, I never said he was," Apragus replied. "I only stopped you before because you didn't see what Kakarott could do. Not that I'm surprised," Apragus continued and he put an arm over Raditz shoulders, pulling the taller man closer to him as they walked, "He is your brother after all."
"Heh," Raditz scoffed, though his mouth did curve up into a grin. "You could have taken those robots without his help though."
"'Course I could have," Apragus replied. "Now, let's split up," the shorter man with slightly shorter hair suggested. "We've got a lot of Saiyans to round up for tonight's fight."
"Agreed," Raditz responded. Apragus dropped his arm from around Raditz and he lifted off the ground to fly to a different mountaintop. Raditz stopped walking as Apragus flew away, and the eldest son of the King sighed at the other man's back, Glad you're still alive.
Goku stretched to his right, then his left, his arms held above his head. He bent down and touched his toes as he continued stretching, but he shot the occasional quick dart of his eyes in his father's direction. He was standing on top of a mountain's summit that was only fifty feet in diameter. It was a small arena that they chose for their battle, and Goku wondered at first where all the people coming to watch were going to do so. When the spectators arrived though, they either flew right up to the edge of the mountaintop or came over on floating platforms that had blue lights illuminating from the bottoms.
Most people there, all of the adults except for Goku actually, were wearing mostly brown and black Saiyan armor similar to the type Goku remembered the Saiyans who first invaded his planet wore. Some of the men and women had armor spikes sticking out near their shoulders, though most just looked like tank tops that dropped down to their sides, in front of their crotches, and back below their butts. The majority of the Saiyans had their tails wrapped around their waists, but Goku noticed that his father, the three around him, and his older brother Raditz were less intent on keeping their tails tightly wrapped around them. Raditz's waved behind him aimlessly as he floated next to the same man who Goku followed inside his family's house earlier.
Goku wondered why those five alone did not keep their tails wrapped like the other few hundred Saiyans who had gathered. Goku could see other kids who looked his age, some younger, some in their teens. The younger Saiyans wore brown rags instead of the armor that their parents had on. Most people there were looking at him closely and boisterously talking to each other without hiding their voices at all.
"That can't be Son Goku."
"I heard the Saiyan who went by that name got killed in the Third War of the Gods!"
"Bardock seems to think it's really his son though."
"How long do you think he lasts against the King?"
Goku stopped stretching and he looked off the edge of the mountain to the west. They were on one of the giant mountains in the range almost as tall as Mount Vegeta and the other five closest to it, but this one's peak was about a mile lower down. It was on the west side of the main mountains, so Goku had a clear look at the suns dropping over the horizon. He could not see below the clouds all the way to the west, and the sky above him and to the east was already very dark considering how high above the planet they were. He intently watched as the red sun dropped halfway below the clouds, then the kid turned his head back straight ahead towards his father.
The man he looked at wore almost all black armor except for the patch of green in the stomach area and on the thin straps that went above his muscular shoulders. Bardock looked so much like Goku did when he was an adult that it felt like he was looking in a mirror, only a much cockier mirror. Bardock was facing away from him while floating in a group of four, and all of them had looks of confidence and arrogance on their faces. Goku could tell they thought they were better than everyone else around them, and considering the rest of the Saiyans gave them a wide berth, he knew they were the strongest Saiyans around. Their tails waving behind them were proof of their strength, almost like they were showing off their race's weakness as a taunt to others that even if it was still a weakness for them, they would still be able to crush any challenger.
Those who feel stronger speak louder, Goku realized. Almost like they're threatening others to speak louder than them. Do these Saiyans all want to fight each other? He looked left and saw a platform larger than most of the others set up where many of the children were sitting on the edge and looking his way interestedly. There was a long table set up on that platform covered in delicious food and although he ate right before jumping on the soon-to-be fighting stage, he licked his lips at the sight of the food.
Those Saiyans wondering if this kid was faking his Saiyan heritage lost their doubts at the sight of the kid's face when he looked towards the food. Over with Bardock, one of the members of his old elite squad back when they all worked for Frieza spotted his King's son's look as well and started laughing. He was the fattest of the four, had a bowl cut of black hair, the same color as the rest of the Saiyans, and although he was a chubby guy, his muscles were just as defined as the rest of the warrior race. Shugesh laughed loudly and then turned his head back straight at the man between him and Goku, "Kid's got your appetite as well as your ugly face."
"I still can't believe it," Fasha said, putting her hands behind her head and frowning. The most powerful Saiyan woman darted her eyes right from where she floated on Bardock's left and looked towards the kid whose eyes kept wandering all over the place. Her armor was more colorful than most Saiyan women's, with pink on the straps as well as underneath her armor where her undershirt and shorts showed through the cracks. "Why didn't you ever tell us that the one they called Son Goku and Kakarott were one and the same? I always thought the one masquerading around as the Super Saiyan was a fake."
"Raditz may have mentioned that Kakarott went by that name when he met him on Earth," Bardock said. He lifted up a drumstick and ripped a chunk out of it with his teeth, then washed it down with a chug of beer. "Ahh," he said after the beer and meat went down. "But the boy never searched me out before, so I decided to forget about it."
He made it sound unimportant to him, but his best friend on his right side could see right through the guise. Tora crossed his arms over his chest and scoffed. Bardock glared at his good friend with shorter spiky hair going straight up over his head only a few inches. As he glared at Tora though, he noticed Fasha frowning at him and Shugesh looking at him just as skeptically. "Meh, what do you know?" He grumbled at them, then turned around and faced his small son standing in the center of the arena mountain that's stone surface was entirely black unlike the gray color of the rest of the mountaintops.
Bardock floated towards the arena and he lowered to the edge of the perfectly circular ring. Why didn't I search for my son? When I knew he was here? When I had visions of him defeating Frieza, something I myself failed to do? Bardock walked towards his son, Goku, Kakarott. He walked towards the boy who was not directly in the center of the ring, but slightly to his own side as if hoping Bardock would walk straight up to him with only that small gap in the center between them, and despite his Saiyan urge to stop where he was and show his dominance, show that he would not do things the way his opponent wanted them done, he kept walking. If it were any other opponent, even his eldest son, he would have stopped there and crossed his arms before taunting Raditz to get the younger man to attack him angrily, yet Bardock kept walking towards Goku slowly, closing the gap from thirty feet to twenty, ten, and then five as he finally stopped.
Neither Goku nor Bardock noticed since they were too busy staring into each other's eyes and drowning everything else out, but silence had fallen over the Saiyan Mountains. The Red Sun dipped beneath the clouds and only the third sun cast its light over the clouds, giving both men on the arena whose hair defied all logic and physics a golden glow that seemed to foreshadow their battle. None of the Saiyans spoke. Raditz could not help but clench his fists tightly at the look his father was giving his younger brother. What did Kakarott do to deserve that look?! How can father look at him- the same way he looks at his crew?!
Apragus glanced to his side and could see Raditz shaking in rage and hatred for his brother. Across the arena from the two of them, Bora had sweat covering his face and the other Saiyans he just told about Kakarott's feats earlier that day made them all quake with anticipation. Dobaka sat on a wooden platform with bandages wrapped around most of his body. He was missing an arm and he never had time for a shower so he was covered in his own dried blood, but his eyes shone with excitement and he only felt gratitude that he was still alive to witness this battle.
Bardock looked down into his son's eyes. The boy was a little over half his father's height, but his hair's tallest spike almost reached Bardock's chin. "This boy is my son," Bardock announced. Those who had already heard this from the rumors or even the message directly from Raditz or Apragus' mouths were still somewhat shocked to hear their King say this. "His name is Kakarott, my second son with Gine." Goku gained a confused look but before he could question about that name, Bardock continued, "On this world, he is known by the name Son Goku."
The majority of Saiyans there were not informed of this fact until right now. Only the three Goku met thousands of miles away, his own family, and Bardock's crew were already privy to that knowledge. Bardock continued while his people grew louder, and he called out in a proud tone, "And before we fight, I want everyone here to know one thing. Hundreds of Saiyans who live in these mountains lived and died under that bastard Frieza's rule."
Raditz looked over at his father confusedly, wondering why he was bringing that up now. Even Bardock's own crew looked at him oddly, but Bardock had questioned Goku about it when they were alone earlier and the truth that he had already seen was confirmed straight from the boy's mouth. "When Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta, only a handful of Saiyans escaped the planet. Kakarott was one of those Saiyans. And he avenged the Saiyan race!"
"RAAA!"
"He defeated Frieza!" Bardock yelled.
The amount of Saiyans who roared doubled, "RAAAAA! RAAAHHH!" Bardock's crew lost their awed or confused looks and they threw fists in the air, cheering war cries with their fellow Saiyans.
Goku looked around in surprise at all the screaming Saiyans. He could see Raditz staring his way in utter shock, and many still in disbelief, but the vast majority screamed out cheers for him at the top of their lungs. They did not understand why he looked like a child, and had no idea that Frieza came back after Goku failed to finish him off, but those facts were irrelevant. He was a Saiyan, and he defeated the monster who killed them all. He restored the damaged pride of the Saiyan race, pride that even after being reborn on Nexus, most of them had never truly recovered until now.
Bardock looked back into his son's eyes and his mouth flattened, his face turning deadly serious. "The rest of our race may be happy with just that, but I will not be pleased until you prove yourself to me. Right here! Right now!" Bardock yelled.
Goku watched his father get into a fighting stance and felt emotions he had never felt before in his life. He shot into his stance in record time and his breathing sped up. Normally he was so composed before a fight, but his heart was beating a thousand times a minute and felt like it was going to jump out of his chest. The Saiyan boy had never in his entire life anticipated a fight more than this one right now. Several times in his life he spent three years or more training for specific battles, but at this very moment, it was like the world disappeared from around him. Everything got blurry except for the arena he was standing on and the air above it. All he could hear was his own breathing, the slower breathing of his father, and his heart beat echoing in his ears.
Goku himself did not know why, but proving himself mattered more than it ever had before. The other Saiyans were already cheering, but the man in front of him was asking him to give him a challenge. He could not let him down. The looks the other Saiyans had on their faces all around him made so much sense now. There, on the top of a mountain, the air around him thin, surrounded by his own people for the first time in his life, Son Goku was a hundred percent Saiyan.
"What are you waiting for?" Bardock questioned.
And just like that, Goku's arms shifted in his impenetrable stance that his fellow warriors could not help but admire. At least, they admired it for as long as they could before losing sight of the boy who even in his base form started off so fast that close to a third of his race lost sight of him. The children sitting on the wide platform leaned back as the wind hit them, then they heard the smack, and only when their eyes opened back up because of the wind that hit them and forced them to blink did they see where Goku went.
The boy was midway up his father's torso with a fist punched forward, straight into Bardock's open palm. Bardock closed his hand around Goku's fist and he lifted up, yanking the boy who tried to continue with a leg but couldn't finish the kick with his new position above his father's head. Bardock made like he was going to swing Goku all the way over him and down on the other side, but as Goku got ready to lower his free hand and catch himself, Bardock tugged the other way instead and slammed Goku right back down on the floor in front of him.
Goku hit the ground on his face and stomach and frowned deeper than he had all day. His teeth bared and he slammed his hands down into the ground hard. What Goku did not know prior to the fight that all other Saiyans there knew already, was that just like how the farther into the planet one traveled, the stone that made up Nexus became stronger, it worked the same in the opposite direction. The reality of Nexus's ground was not that it was harder farther into the planet at all, but that the farther away from sea level one went, the stronger the material Nexus was made out of.
Being so high towards the atmospheric boundary, the mountain Goku tried to stick his fingers into did not budge and his hands just smacked against stone harder than diamonds. Goku did not understand why the mountain was so hard, but he adapted his strategy fast and instead of trying to do a front flip, he flattened his palms against the ground and then pushed back hard.
Bardock sidestepped left as Goku tried double-kicking him in the green part of his armor right in the stomach. He rose up his left arm and grabbed his bicep with his right hand before bringing the left elbow down at Goku's stomach. So far he was not impressed by the boy's moves, at least until his elbow was about to connect only to hit Goku's left hand that was waiting for the elbow he predicted. His father's eyes widened, and then did so more as Goku's right hand pushed up from behind his horizontal body and had a ball of white light on it.
Bardock leaned away from the ball that shot off Goku's palm and flew inches from his face. He lifted his left leg, but Goku's right foot pushed it aside before he could start up momentum for a kick, and then Goku's face was right in front of his own. Goku punched but Bardock leapt back first and the front spike of hair going partially over his forehead was the only part of him to get touched. He saw a strand of hair falling out of the air, until Goku flew straight through it and started a flurry of punches and kicks so fast that to almost half of the Saiyans watching, he was but a blur.
"He just keeps, speeding up," Bora muttered, mainly to himself as his friends around him were watching too carefully, or at least trying to, to come up with a response. The chubby man with short black hair shook his head as he watched Bardock continue to block all of the boy's attacks, though the King was taking steps back from the floating boy pushing against him.
Bardock was not panting, but he could see his son was not either. "I've had enough of the warm up," he said while Goku was mid-punch. Bardock's spiky black hair shot straight up and golden and an aura of the same color surrounded him. The transformation happened effortlessly, instantly, and as it did, Bardock caught Goku's fist again. Goku punched his other fist forward to try and get his right out of his father's hold, but Bardock caught this one too and then crossed Goku's arms over each other so he was in a very awkward position while being held off the ground.
Crapbas- Goku thought, before being smashed down on Bardock's left side by both arms, then smashed on his right side again into the hard ground of the mountain's top. Bardock lifted Goku up after the second smash and did not expect to be able to get the boy a third time, so instead he let go, while flying up and raising his right knee. Goku was still lifting and he had been preparing to stop the third slam, then switched to trying to return to the attack, and now all in the same millisecond he had to come up with a counter for the knee coming up to his stomach. There was no time to block, but there was enough time to realize he had no time to block, and that was all the time Goku needed.
Bardock's Super Saiyan powered knee to the stomach made Goku's entire body bend over his leg. A few people winced, others cheered, and Goku's mouth opened as spit splashed out. His mouth closed as fast as it opened though, and being ready for the pain was enough to make him able to counter right after the hit. He pointed his right palm at his father's chest and though his arm did not have enough reach for him to punch from that position bent over Bardock's knee, he did not need to be touching his father to hit him.
A huge kiai, the most powerful one Goku could muster in his base state while in sudden pain, slammed into Bardock so hard that the Super Saiyan did a backflip away from his son. Bardock's eyes opened wide while he was halfway through his flip, Not even a Super Saiyan and so strong... His thoughts cut off as they were no longer applicable to the glowing golden child floating before him.
"I was hoping you would be a Super Saiyan," Goku said, his teal eyes sparkling with the shine of battle. "Can you step it up to the next level too?" Goku asked, and Bardock's eyes opened huge as did most of his people.
"You know about that?" Bardock asked in shock.
"Super Saiyan 2? Sure," Goku said, even more excited as it sounded like they knew about this as well. Bardock looked less shocked now though, and a quick glance around showed Goku he was not the only one, though most others besides his father seemed confused more than anything.
"Super Saiyan 2 huh?" Bardock muttered. "Seems like a childish name for the next level of our race's legend."
"Vegeta calls it an Ascended Super Saiyan," Goku remarked, a statement which made most people watching start asking each other if they heard him right. Bardock grimaced as he was dreading Kakarott mentioning Vegeta, but he shook his head and decided to leave that for later.
Bardock shot towards Goku, and the boy stopped talking and flew towards his father as well. The two of them met right fists in the air, creating a shockwave of air with the two of them in the middle. The sight of the two of them pushing their fists into each other was the last part of the battle all but a dozen or so Saiyans witnessed for the next few minutes.
"You're still following this, right?" Apragus questioned the third member of the insanely powerful family who floated next to him.
Raditz did not reply, but his coal black eyes darted back and forth all around the sky. Shockwaves rippled out all over the place, and others who were not as strong as the dozen top level Saiyans occasionally caught glimpses of arms and legs colliding with each other before vanishing again.
Bardock appeared a hundred meters above the arena with Goku's fist slammed under his chin. They reappeared a quarter mile to the west with Bardock bringing both fists down as one towards Goku's head. Goku flew between his father's legs, then Bardock kicked his left leg back and hit Goku before the kid could even turn around to try his planned attack. Goku shot away like a missile, and when he righted himself he did not see Bardock in front of him. He slammed his right fist up and back over his shoulder and nailed Bardock straight in the face, but Bardock pushed through the punch anyway and he dropped his left elbow down on Goku's skull.
Goku flew out of the air and hit the side of the arena's mountain. He bounced off it doing cartwheels in midair. When he righted himself, he pointed both hands up and formed medium-sized balls of white ki. He shot the first one at Bardock who was flying down towards him fast. Bardock dodged and the second one was right behind it, making the father smirk as he had used an attack similar to this once before. And I would have fallen for it if I didn't know the move, he started thinking while forming a yellow ball of ki on his own hand. He slammed the yellow ball into his son's white one and smashed through the attack to slam it into Goku who was hiding on the other side trying to make Bardock dodge him so that he could get the drop from behind.
Goku was half expecting his father to be able to sense his energy though. So when Bardock smashed his energy into Goku's and flew through it, the taller Saiyan was shocked to see a third ball of white energy in the same hand that Goku threw his first one. Goku slammed this ball of energy, bigger than the other two, directly into the front of his father's armor and he yelled out as he made contact. "HAAAA!"
The white ball shot off Goku's hand and a beam followed behind it as he flooded his energy into the attack. Bardock got pushed all the way back above the arena, before sliding himself off the end of the attack. He paused for a moment and looked up as the beam of energy flew all the way that last small stretch to the atmospheric barrier where it collapsed in on itself, then erupted in a dome with a mile radius.
Goku was flying back up in the air, but his father was not paying attention and considering how well the man was fighting, he knew Bardock was not letting down his guard, he was telling Goku to wait a second. Goku flew twenty feet in front of his father and he was panting lightly, but after a few moments rest he calmed his breathing completely. He steadied his golden aura that flared when he shot excitedly after his father so it fell back to a solid veil that gave off no unnecessary energy at all.
"Your aura Kakarott," Bardock began. He lowered his gaze from the fading explosion on the barrier that illuminated purple to his youngest son. "You are not wasting any energy."
Goku smiled. He had been grinning through most of the fight, but this smile was for a different reason than the thrill of the fight. That year me and Gohan spent in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber I may have focused more on Gohan's training than my own, but I did master controlling my Super Saiyan state. The boy nodded at his father who did not really ask him a question at all.
Incredible! Bardock thought while his face stayed stoic as he nodded back at the boy. I want to see his full power! Bardock thought. He brought his elbows in to his sides and the clouds in every direction below him started pushing away from Bardock. "AaaaAAAAHHHHH!" He screamed. Ripples shot off of his body like circular waves that pushed the clouds away even faster. The mountains shook and villages and towns dozens of miles below trembled from the Saiyan King's might.
Goku watched as his father who he never knew existed powered into a Super Saiyan 2 before his very eyes. Bardock's hair waved around instead of staying in its single spike, and bolts of lightning sparked off of him as his muscles bulked up. "My turn," Goku said before Bardock had even stopped yelling.
The kid clenched his teeth hard, and then without making a sound, his hair shot up even spikier and waved around inside his aura. Bolts of lightning shot away from Goku and his aura grew in size but had none of the flashy effects that Bardock's did.
This time Bardock could not keep the shock from his face. So effortlessly he moves into the next state. He has the highest potential for it than anyone I have seen before, more so than myself when I was presented the opportunity. The thoughtful look on Bardock's face was not what Goku wanted to see, and he wiped that expression off the Saiyan King's mug a second later. The Saiyans gasped as Goku suddenly appeared before his father with his right fist imbedded in Bardock's cheek. The kid was grinning that he caught his father off guard, but Bardock did not get sent flying into the distance like he had attempted.
Bardock slammed his left fist up into Goku's solar plexus. "Don't get cocky," Bardock growled, opening up that fist and shooting a beam of yellow light point blank into his son. The beam widened larger than Goku's body and shot miles into the distance.
The four Saiyans who were still managing to follow the fight gasped as it looked like Bardock just disintegrated Kakarott. Even Raditz had a bead of sweat rolling down the right side of his face as he believed his brother to be dead. Tora scratched the back of his head, but Bardock's second-in-command was the first to check for ki's and notice the second massive energy in front of them. "Going a little overboard," the spiky haired Saiyan elite said, before chuckling as he spotted the look of exhilaration on Bardock's face as he flew towards his fading beam where a boy was flying the other way towards him.
The display of attacks that followed left the Saiyan race speechless. They tried following the exploding yellow shockwaves in the sky, but they seemed to be going off in far away places at the same time. Their minds could not process the difference between the moment Goku slammed the top of his head into his father's chin, or the move three after that where Bardock caught Goku's left leg mid-roundhouse-kick and tugged the boy towards him while slamming his other fist into Goku's stomach.
The third sun dropped below the clouds that only started appearing tens of miles away from the Saiyan Mountains now because of the battle happening there. Although the fight was hard to see, the constant explosions and occasional movements that were slow enough to witness kept hundreds on their toes. Then, a ripple of purple shot across the sky from a point directly above Mount Vegeta to their east. Everyone looked up there, then snapped their gazes back down as the white blur they saw up there flew their way and smashed down on the arena.
Dust faded and so did the golden aura around the small child on his hands and knees there. His hair stayed golden, but he was panting heavily and had a lot of blood on his aching left arm. His orange gi no longer had a left sleeve to it and his blue undershirt was pretty ripped up as well towards the middle of his chest on his left side. Goku panted in and out and he lifted up his head to look in the sky where he saw a figure descending towards him.
"Never doubted him for a second," Fasha said, though she had to wipe some sweat from her forehead as she did. Shugesh noticed and would have mentioned something about it to her, if his jaw was not hanging open like an idiot. He wanted to remark about how cool and strong Bardock was, but the kid on the arena balled his hands into fists and punched them down on the ground below him.
"Well," Tora began. He chuckled once darkly, "We can say for sure now, this is definitely Bardock's kid." The other two nodded their heads in agreement.
Goku staggered up to his feet, stumbled a step or two back, and planted himself hard on the ground while shaking his head to regain his composure. His vision got less blurry and his legs less wobbly. I have to do it, Goku thought, staring straight up at his father who stopped descending and was now crossing his arms in wait for Goku to fly up to him again. I can't feel his energy rising, but every so often he has this power! It was a burst of power unlike anything he knew of. It came without a spike of ki and made Bardock's blows so powerful that Goku could barely comprehend them. The one that just knocked him from the edge of the planet's atmosphere to this mountaintop was one of those blows.
"Hey dad," Goku began loudly towards the man floating above him. "You ever see a Super Saiyan 3?"
Although Goku did not really think about how he started his sentence, Bardock was still thinking about the word 'dad.' Only a few hours since we've met and he's already called me 'dad?' Yet, I feel like I've known him for so much longer... Wait- Super Saiyan Thr- Bardock's eyes turned into saucers as did the rest of the Saiyans as everything around them jolted. It felt like the planet itself came to a sudden stop, but it was not Nexus that caused all of them to shake in place.
"Ahhhhh! AHHHHHH! RRRAAAHHHH!" Goku screamed so loud it sounded like he was going to rip out his high-pitched vocal cords. The mountain he was on shook harder and harder while those in villages and towns for miles from the base of the mountains ran outside to avoid getting caught in collapsing houses. The edge of the clouds in every direction started a dozen miles away from the arena the boy stood on, yet those clouds started circling him and moving in. "AHHHH! AHHHHHHH!" Goku screamed, the pain so intense he could not think. His small body's muscles rippled and shook, and his hair shone bright gold over and over again.
"Kakarott, enough," Bardock said, his voice somehow reaching the boy despite his screams. Goku opened his clenched eyes and looked up to see Bardock had lowered so he was only twenty feet above and in front of him now.
"I can transform again!" Goku shouted, his body still shaking as he did not want to stop powering up now. "I can, AHH! Do THIS!"
"Have you done it since you were turned back into a child?" Bardock questioned.
Goku clenched his teeth and groaned out of this throat. "It, doesn't, matter," his voice was guttural and agonized.
"Even if you reached this new transformation," Bardock said to the child. "You still would not reach the level I am on. You can not beat me."
This challenge was too much for Goku. He opened his mouth wide and roared, "RAAAA-" Bardock flew forward, grabbed the top of Goku's head and the bottom of his jaw and snapped his mouth shut. He held the boy's teeth together and then rose up a knee into Goku's face, and again, and again.
"Cooool!" A Saiyan twelve year old exclaimed and leaned forward off the platform he was kneeling on. Blood splattered from Goku's face and Saiyan men and women cheered. Little kids laughed and when Bardock brought back his right fist the cheers got louder than ever. He smashed his fist down into the bruised and battered kid's face so hard that Goku slammed into the rock surface, bounced off, then smashed down so much harder that the edge of the arena got a small crack in it and some pebbles rolled down the mountainside.
Goku lay on the ground on his stomach, his face pointed to the right while blood poured down his nostrils and out of his mouth. How, do I beat him? He's so strong. I, I might not... Goku stopped those thoughts dead and his face hardened. Bardock was looking down at his son but he turned to Tora and gave his best friend a shrug that showed he could not think of any other way to end it. Tora's stunned expression was not what Bardock was expecting though, and he turned around slowly to see the boy behind him, standing there with a spike of golden hair above his head, a swollen left eye almost shut like his right that just looked droopy.
Goku's left arm still ached and was cut in several places, but the boy looking at Bardock thought, Right punch, left kick, feign right roundhouse, uppercut... Goku was on autopilot now, and his arms rose up into his stance as his legs spread apart. "So Super Saiyan 3 won't work," he said. "I'll find another way, to beat you," he completed, and his droopy, swollen eyes opened wider so that his father could see just how serious he was.
I never told him that he proved himself to me. Is that it? Or is he just crazy? Raditz did say he was, over, and over again, the Super Saiyan man's golden hair turned black and he lost his aura.
"It's not over!" Goku shouted. He could accept defeat, he had against Cell, he knew there were times he could not win. This time though, the thought of giving up never crossed his mind. Anything other than being taken out of commission did not seem like a feasible end to this battle.
"It is over," Bardock said, and then he showed Goku something that made the boy lose his train of thought, lose his anger over not being able to continue against this man.
Goku watched as the normal black spikes to Bardock's hair changed color. Bardock's aura reappeared but looked less like a glow now and more a raging orange and yellow fire that engulfed his entire body. "What, is," Goku began, but he could not even understand what he was seeing. Bardock's hair was styled the same way as before, but he had definitely transformed, as it was now a bright red color like the edge of his flaming aura. Neither of them were wearing Power Blockers for the fight, but for some reason Goku could no longer gauge what his father's strength was. Bardock floated down to the arena where he landed and frowned at his youngest. Goku blinked a few times and he looked his father's body up and down.
None of the other Saiyans were looking at their King as shocked as Goku was, but they were all still in awe. "This form, is known as a Super Saiyan God." Bardock said to the kid whose expression showed he had never heard of it before. He stepped towards his son and lowered an arm out of his burning aura that faded while he did. His hair turned back to black and Goku's did too as Bardock put a hand on his shoulder. "You fought well, son," he said.
Goku looked into Bardock's black irises with ones of his own and he did not recognize the look the man was giving him. What is that? He thought, not thinking about that crazy new transformation for a second as he tried to pinpoint what Bardock was feeling. Oh, he realized, and his disappointed, angry expression over losing their sparring match started to fade. It faded because Goku realized it may not have been a look he had ever received himself, but it was one he must have had on his face when he watched Gohan do so many amazing things over the years. The look of pride, for someone other than one's self.
"Super Saiyan, God?" Goku questioned slowly.
Bardock patted his son on the shoulder he had squeezed and then turned his back to the boy. "There will be time to tell you all about it, but for now," he looked up and shouted loud enough for the hundreds of Saiyans to hear, "My son has returned! Start the celebration!"
It was as if someone had put a top on a boiling pot of water and suddenly Bardock pulled it off. Twenty children jumped off a platform and flew towards Goku as fast as they could and started yelling questions at the Super Saiyan. The kids called him Kakarott and Goku opened his mouth to correct them, then closed his mouth and forgot about it for now. He decided that maybe if he had won the fight he would have said something. All of the adults watching the fight also started shouting, yelling, and getting in fights because of the rush they felt after watching that fight. Those who did not fight broke out drinks and a whole lot of food.
Bardock flew towards his old team from his days as one of Frieza's soldiers. "Kid's tough," Fasha said as the King came to a stop in front of them.
"Little bastard's got more power than any Saiyan his age," Shugesh muttered.
"Like I said," Bardock muttered. "He's a grown man. He just looks like a kid, for now."
"He's got a lot of his father in him," Tora mentioned, to which Bardock just grunted.
"Whatever," Bardock muttered. He cracked his neck both ways and glanced back towards the arena where his son was looking his way in awe. Goku's vision was blocked by a fat teenager who got in between him and his father, but Bardock kept looking that way while Goku had to answer the children's questions.
Tora could see how carefully Bardock was examining that area and the muscular man who had light blue platings on his spiked-out shoulder armor looked towards Goku as well. "If he really is a grown man, then it should-"
"We'll see," Bardock said. He said it so plainly that it seemed the conversation was over before it began. There will be loads of time to think on that. I would rather spend this night eating and drinking. The rest comes later. He smirked and listened in to an argument between Shugesh and Fasha that made him laugh obnoxiously along with Tora. He stopped laughing short though as something occurred to him, Where the Hell is Kakarott going to sleep?
A/N Super Saiyan God! Epic showdown between father and son this chapter, and I hope you all enjoyed! We see some more Saiyans show up, three of Bardock's old crew from the first of his movie specials. Everything I'm considering as canon from Bardock, is from those two movies. Someone PMed me about Xenoverse and I know he shows up in it, but I've never played the game so if you have sorry, but that stuff won't come into play here. Unless it does, in which case I'm def not copying it from Xenoverse but I'll say I don't own it anyway XD. I'd put a list of where all the characters are from below, but that list would only consist of DBZ so I'm just gonna list them out here: Bardock, Raditz, Fasha, Shugesh, Taro, Frieza, Cell, Goku, Vegeta, King Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, and the others are just Saiyans I made up. Got bored and didn't want to do my work, so I decided to post this chapter even though it's the second one today. After this there will only be one or two more for a while since next week I have finals and then it's a long trip home, but I've got a couple more almost finished ones I can probably get out by this weekend!
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This was a very enteresting chapter and congrats on over a million words man this story just keeps getting better and better. Especially with a war coming soon, also lol on having people behave so funny when the they felt the shaking of the planet. Also still curious as to how you make so many chapters so quickly. Im still shocked that the fight between goku and the ant king is on hold but i am interested in seeing more of how goku meets his father and the other saiyans. Also will gohan see his grandpa, will vegeta become the king of saiyans, will timmy turner be saved from being crazy, will goku ever beat jiren... Probably, Find Out Next Time On Nexus Heroes Will
Thanks! Glad the content's been improving and that you're liking it. As to how I make so many chapters: I don't always write a chapter after I've written the last one. Like these last two, I had them written months ago, long before I finished Pyraxas, or even the Ra's al Ghul fight. Sometimes chapters come easier to me than others, and instead of waiting for the ideas and details that are fresh in my mind to fade and then try to remember them later and put them down, I write them right when I have those ideas (sometimes prolonging the breaks I take from posting the chapter y'all are waiting for). As long as I know what is going to happen before it, generally speaking, I can write a chapter far into the future. So even though I am posting this chapter right now, I have the next two mostly written with only a little to add before I edit and post. Well, hope that long-winded response explains it XD ! So many questions at the end, so few answers you'll receive from me, but Goku's totally gonna kick Jiren's butt by the end of the Universe Survival Arc ;). Anyway, thanks for the review! And thanks everyone for reading another chapter of Nexus: Heroes Will Rise! 'Till next time!