Nexus HWR 12.2 Super Saiyan God:
Mount Vegeta
One month ago…
Bardock slid into his combat boots on the inside of the front door to his house. He turned around and walked into his living room where he looked down at his couch and the form lying peacefully on it. Bardock rose up his right hand and a ball of white light formed on it. "Wake up," he said, and he fired the blast in his hand at the boy lying there.
Goku's eyes snapped open and his right arm rose fast, catching the ball of light right before it hit him in his bruised face. Only one of his eyes managed to open as the swelling from his fight last night completely covered his left eye now with a bump. He looked surprised by the energy ball he had to catch with one hand, and he crushed it as he curled his hand into a fist, dissipating the energy without causing any damage to Bardock's house which was a better result than the Saiyan King was expecting.
"Hey! Why'd you do that?" Goku shouted.
"Get up," Bardock told the boy who was standing on the couch cushions now. The taller man with spikes of black hair going above and to the sides of his head motioned towards the door by nodding. "It's time to train," Bardock said, then walked towards the door without another word.
"Train?" Goku wondered. The kid said it confusedly, but as he processed what Bardock was offering his eyes lit up and he hopped off the couch. He looked down at his gi that was torn and ripped up from the day before and frowned thinking about how much work Nami put into making his new clothes, most of which he left with his friends when he left them outside of Dressrosa. I wonder how they're doing right now, he thought, before noticing something on the coffee table near the couch that made his eyes turn huge.
Goku walked towards the table and he reached down to it. The kid grabbed the strong yet elastic armor that he had worn before only on one occasion. It looked just his size and the kid's mouth curled up as he put it back down then began to strip and put his new armor on. It did not have the shoulder spikes that Goku saw on some Saiyans' armor, but there were straps going up the shoulders similar to the green ones on Bardock's. After Goku got dressed in attire more befitting of a Saiyan, he left the house and turned right to look towards the market. As he looked over, the kid opened his eyes in surprise again as he saw a couple of small planes lowering down behind some large buildings. Saiyans hopped out of the vehicles carrying crates full of food and supplies, and others walking by jogged over to see what they got.
One man Goku did not recognize but was twice the size of everyone else around him and had a tail three times as thick reached down into a box and pulled out a rifle that looked futuristic and glowed bright purple every few seconds. He tossed it to a teenager who looked around sixteen but was bigger than most of the adults around him and looked like he may be related to the huge man. The teen caught the rifle and turned it back and forth in his hands, examining it in awe while his father pulled out something else from the box. The huge man pressed a button on the side of the shaft of the thin silver weapon he picked up, and both sides of the small shaft shot out, extending four feet in both directions and morphing as it did to create a Gravity Hammer that he slapped the long shaft into his other open hand a few times to test out its weight. The big man rested his new weapon over his shoulders with a smug look on his face and then tossed the box to the heavyset woman who got out of the plane with him and walked towards their shop with it.
Goku wanted to go check that stuff out, but he suddenly remembered what his father told him when he woke up and searched out Bardock's power instead. The boy spun left and floated off the ground to fly towards the location of his father's ki. He dropped off the side of Mount Vegeta and flew around the western side. There were six mountains in total in the range that had heights that surpassed all other mountains in the world. Goku flew over one of these mountains, the third tallest where many other Saiyan homes were built. Although this was the mountain he was flying past, his head was turned around and looking back towards the north side of Mount Vegeta.
The tallest mountain had one long wooden bridge coming off of it that led to another mountain that had a peak not much shorter. The second tallest peak did not have a lot of area on the top of it as the sides were so steep, so Mount Gine did not have any buildings on its snowy sides. Goku heard the name of the mountain and it reminded him of something Bardock said the night before, and that he wanted to bring up with his father later. He gazed back forward as he flew completely past the third tallest peak. His eyes focused on the sixth tallest of these mountains, but also the one with the widest area on top of it. Apparently the mountain was already rounded and wide at the top, but Bardock managed to destroy rocks even this high in altitude to flatten the entire mountaintop.
Goku felt many powers on this mountain he was approaching, all of them higher than the Saiyans on the other mountains. He understood why when he got closer and saw white blurs zipping around the sky, or fighting down on the ground but still with auras around them to show they were powered-up. There were currently close to three dozen of them on and around the Training Mountain. Goku watched them all, sparring with each other while wearing armor similar to the set he had on, only the colors of the stomach area and the straps were all different colors. Goku examined his blue plating, and he wondered if he could request to switch it to orange.
The Saiyan boy flew over the side of the mountain and over to his father who stood all the way on the western edge of it. "Alright," Goku said excitedly. "I'm ready for some-"
"I've been waiting," Bardock said in annoyance. He glared at the boy, "Next time I tell you to get up, be here within ten seconds." Goku opened his eyes in surprise as this was more intense than he was expecting. "Now," Bardock continued, and he stood with his arms crossed. His hair shot up golden, and he said, "Come at me with everything you've got, without leaving your base form." Goku's initial smile at the start of that sentence vanished and he looked into Bardock's eyes confusedly.
"You're so much stronger than me though," Goku said, wondering why he was not allowed to even out the playing field by going Super Saiyan like his father did.
"I want to test your martial arts," Bardock said. He was pleasantly surprised during their fight the day before, as when he turned Super Saiyan, Goku took several seconds to match him when he thought it would be instantaneous. I want to see how long you can last, he admitted in his mind. "Now you are up against a stronger opponent, so you will need to rely on your skills instead of your strength."
"I rely on both equally," Goku said, but he got into a fighting stance as he did. He wants me to show him my tactics? See how I fight? This will last longer than yesterday's spar, since that was more of a challenge on my part.
"I told you to come!" Bardock shouted, and Goku kicked off the ground immediately. Bardock leaned left, and Goku frowned as he continued with that punch. He had tried putting over a dozen feints into his first move to get the drop on his father, but the increase in speed and power that came with Super Saiyan form also increased the speed of mental processing. Bardock could see Goku's eleventh fake uppercut would be a feint before the boy even started his tenth.
Goku's arm was caught by Bardock's hand, but his leg started coming around fast on the older man's left side. Bardock pulled Goku's arm inward to his own chest, making Goku's body continue to turn so his leg passed Bardock's body. Bardock wrapped an arm around Goku's side and he squeezed the boy trapped between his arms. "You have not been in this child form for long, I can tell," Bardock said, right before forming a ball of blue light in the hand he had squeezing around Goku's chest.
"Ahh!" Goku yelled out in pain. Bardock dropped the smoking boy, then kicked out and nailed him in the side. Goku had just opened back up his eyes only for them to almost pop out of their sockets as the leg imbedded itself in his gut.
Bardock frowned as he followed through and kicked Goku off the west side of the mountain. Goku hit the snowy slope hard and bounced, bounced again, and then started rolling down the mountain. A ball of snow surrounded him and kept getting larger as it rolled, then the giant snowball exploded out in every direction as a white aura flared around Goku. He shot back to the ledge of the mountain and glared towards Bardock who hit him too hard and in too dangerous an area for sparring. He opened his mouth to say something, but Bardock just stared back into his eyes with a frowning, disappointed look on his face. "HAA!" A red aura shot around Goku and he flew forwards like a missile, his speed ten times what it was a minute ago.
"What the Hell is that?!" Bardock asked with wide eyes as both of his hands were outstretched holding Goku by the feet.
Goku did a sit-up in midair where he was being held horizontally, and the two hands he had above his head he slammed down in front of him. "HAA!" He yelled out. A yellow beam of light flew forwards and Bardock's reaction to dodge put him right in the path of a punch Goku was already making through the beam he fired. The yellow beam exploded while Goku's right fist curved through it and blasted energy shards into Bardock's face, right before the fist covered in a red aura itself slammed into his cheek. Bardock's face snapped to the side with the punch, then he snapped it right back and rose a hand to Goku's neck faster than the boy whose momentum was still pushing him forward could dodge.
Bardock lifted off the floor the slightest amount with that punch in his face, so as he grabbed Goku's neck, he threw his own lifting legs up behind him and brought his hand down hard, slamming Goku into the floor and cracking the ground all around his back. The boy yelled out in pain at the ridiculously hard slam that had everyone on the mountain looking their way. "Mind your own business!" Bardock yelled, and they all looked back at each other and continued their own training like they were doing before, and continued pretending not to watch the King and his son fight. He brought Goku back off the ground and kneed him in the chest, then threw the kid at the floor again hard enough to crack it and make Goku yell out. "I'm disappointed in your pain tolerance Kakarott," Bardock said to the boy groaning on the ground.
Goku lifted up his head and had trails of blood coming down from both corners of his lips. "Never let out a scream of pain during a fight. You show your enemy weakness! Hold it in, grunt, growl, and yell in fury, but not in pain," Bardock scolded.
Goku staggered back up to his feet, his left leg aching in pain as he put weight down on it. He took all the weight off without making it noticeable that he was favoring one leg. Then, the boy staring into his father's eyes said without hesitation in his voice, "Pain is good. It tells me I can still improve. It tells me when I have made a mistake."
"Good!" Bardock yelled back at him. "But don't let your opponent hear it! You don't want them knowing you've made a mistake. In a fight, you never make a mistake. Every hit you receive you must lean back into, yell as you counter like you accepted the hit just to get them close." Goku's eyes widened as Bardock stomped towards him and yelled, "Break their confidence as fighters. Even when you feel pain, even when they can inflict it, do not let them know they can hurt you." At first Goku thought the older man was saying it as a matter of Saiyan pride, but that actually made sense in a fight, and Goku's mouth spread into a huge smirk as he lifted his arms back into a fighting stance.
Bardock watched the boy smirk and continued to frown. In his head though, he thought, The boy's catching on. His brother tells me he acts like a human, but he will fight like a Saiyan. "Now come at me! Use that move that increased your strength, use beam attacks and punches and kicks! Try to break through my defenses while dodging my attacks!" Goku flew at him, roaring 'Kaioken times fifty' and multiplying his speed by that amount. Bardock flew forward though using Goku's increase in speed to his advantage by giving Goku less time to dodge his open right hand that he clenched around Goku's face. "HAAA!" A beam of blue flew out of Bardock's palm straight into Goku's face, but he did not let go of the kid's head while he fired it.
Goku screamed, but only for a split second, before clenching his teeth hard inside his Super Saiyan father's beam. He clenched his hands into fists and punched them up into the bottom of Bardock's arm, knocking it up off of his face. Bardock started to smirk that his son was catching on, when his eyes darted down and his eyes opened wide in shock that Goku did not just punch his arm away but had also planned a follow-up move even while in the pain he stopped screaming about. Goku's feet had lifted up as Goku fell back from his rising arm, and the soles of his feet were glowing bright blue. "KAME-HAMEE-" The blue glowing on the soles of Goku's feet erupted into a brilliant light that had everyone on the mountain looking their way again. "HAAAA!" Goku screamed, and the beam of light flew out of his feet so fast that he was shot the other direction at a hundred miles per hour. The beam was also flying fast though, and though Bardock had enough time to dodge, he reached out instead and grabbed the front of the blue beam with his hands.
Bardock's feet skid back a few feet, then he planted them down twice as hard with a smirk on his face. He steadied his shaking arms and yelled through his glowing golden aura at the boy who stopped flying away from him and was struggling to stay in place in midair with his feet pointed Bardock's direction, "Is this all you have?!" Bardock smirked more as he saw the look of determination and grit harden on his son's face, along with some anger at the taunt.
"KAIOKEN!" Goku started to scream, while his muscles twitched and tightened. He could feel them start ripping as his red aura flared around him, but Goku ignored all the pain he felt and screamed anyway, "TIMES TWO HUNDRED!" The red aura widened so wide that for a second the entire sky flashed red, and then the blue beam flying out of Goku's legs quadrupled in size, shocking Bardock whose arms were pushed to the sides so that the beam slammed straight into his chest.
OH SHIT! Bardock got engulfed by the beam and only just brought up a guard of aura around himself, though he still grit his teeth in pain as his skin burned. When the beam faded, many of the people on the mountain who were staring towards their King in shock lost their astonished looks at the sight of him standing there with his arms crossed in front of his chest. They calmed down as it turned out their King was not destroyed by that explosion that made all of them fly a safe distance away from the Training Mountain. Bardock kept frowning after he could finally see in front of him again, but as he was about to call something to Kakarott about how he was not expecting that from him in his base state, his bottom lip lowered and his eyes widened. "Kakarott!" He called out, and everyone looking at their King turned to the son who was just as impressive for making that beam as they thought their King was for surviving it. Their eyes all widened as well at the sight of Kakarott's bloody body.
"Guess, two hundred, was a little, much," Goku mumbled to himself, while looking down at his own arms, and then at his legs that looked even worse. He thought he could handle it, but his childlike muscles were ripped all over his body. The technique went as far as ripping straight through his skin, and now he was covered in his own blood, and covering with more every second. "This, isn't good," he mumbled, while reaching up an arm to rub his eyes with. His entire body coursed with pain, but he did not make a sound as he rubbed the blood out of his eyes and then looked back towards his father. "I can keep-" Goku's eyes rolled back and he fell out of the air.
Goku slowly opened his eyes, and then he tried to sit up. As soon as he tried to move though, his body screamed in agony and he had to bite down to prevent his mouth from doing the same. His eyes opened, both of them this time which he felt was strange considering that morning his left eye was too swollen to open right when he woke up. He looked to his right and saw his father standing on the side of the couch he lay on with a disapproving look on his face.
"Do you always destroy your body so much when you fight?" Bardock questioned.
Goku frowned as he had opened his mouth to ask how he got there, but Bardock's question seemed to explain it. "Only sometimes," Goku said, while forcing himself to at least sit up so he was not in such a strange position to talk to his father in. He sat on the couch with his small legs hanging off the side of it but not touching the floor, and then he continued, "Like when I fought Piccolo, or Vegeta."
Bardock was about to lecture his son, but he paused for a second after hearing that. "You fought, Prince Vegeta?"
"Ha, ow, ha, yeah," Goku replied. "Vegeta tried to destroy the Earth, the planet I'm from, so my friends, and my son, and I, we stopped him." Bardock frowned at his son for a few seconds after Goku responded, and thinking that his father disapproved of the actions, Goku continued for some reason, "We're friends now though. Vegeta's changed, and even helped us save the Earth."
"This Earth," Bardock said, and Goku stopped talking as he felt like he misunderstood Bardock's frown a minute ago. "Is not where you are from," Bardock continued. "You may have grown up there, but your homeworld was Planet Vegeta."
Goku got an excited look on his face and opened his mouth to ask about Planet Vegeta, but Bardock glared at him and Goku stopped with his mouth open. Bardock continued and Goku closed his mouth instead of interrupting his father. "Your training this morning was too reckless. Many in my inner circle have deemed you ready, but I disagree." Bardock frowned deeper, while Goku just looked confused at what he was saying. Bardock sighed, then continued sternly, "Until you can reach that Super Saiyan 3 state you spoke of, without destroying your body like you did today, I will not allow you to reach God form." Bardock emphasized the part about not ripping apart his body, and Goku frowned as he was ready to try turning SSJ3 again and believed he could do it if he really put his mind to it, but even if he put his mind to it he did not know if his body would agree. After what happened earlier with his body denying him and ripping apart from his techniques... Goku glanced down at his arms and got confused at what happened to the external injuries that he could no longer see, but he decided to ignore that for now and focus on what Bardock told him.
Goku could understand his father's issues with what he did, but the boy was defiant and said, "I'll just do it on my own then. You don't need to let me-"
"I do," Bardock said brusquely. "It is a rule that I choose who may become a God, after what happened with the Rogue…" Goku's eyebrows lifted up as that was another mystery he now wanted to hear about, but before he could ask, Bardock continued quickly, "However I also say it because the transformation can rip your body apart." Goku's eyes widened, and the frown of disgust and regret that flashed over Bardock's face a second later showed he was not kidding or over-exaggerating. "Many more Saiyans have tried and failed to transform than have succeeded. Those who failed, were torn to shreds by the process. I had no idea that the transformation would have that effect on some people, when I first introduced our race to it."
"You did?" Goku questioned, surprised, but not that much
"I did," Bardock confirmed. "Would you like to learn how I obtained this transformation?" Goku nodded and forced himself not to wince in pain even though the nod really, really hurt. "Fine," Bardock said. He reached behind him and grabbed a chair that was sitting near to the couch Goku had been unconscious on for some reason. He pulled it closer to the couch and sat on it, "Then I will tell you, about the day of my death."
FD - 500,000,000 Years
Planet Plant
On the homeworld of the Saiyans, what would one day be renamed as Planet Vegeta, a single Saiyan stood. His race had not evolved yet, so there was not a single other Saiyan like him in the entire universe. He stood there on a planet that would one day be colonized by his people after they fled Planet Salad. He knew about this future history because the lone Saiyan living on the future Planet Vegeta was not of this time. Bardock stood still atop a tall rock pillar close to a village full of purple creatures who named him their savior. He deserved the title too, for he had killed Chilled, the tyrant who came to the planet and ravaged it only two years before.
Bardock lifted his arms and looked down at his palms. His skin was rough, and he clenched his hands into fists as he contemplated again his purpose for being brought so far into the past from his own time. Frieza should have killed him, but instead of the release of death, the Death Ball that Frieza used to destroy Planet Vegeta sent him hundreds of millions of years into the past. He had had a lot of time to think about the events that occurred after he came back, and after he clenched his fists, his hair shot up into a golden spike above his head, his eyes flashing from black to blue. Was it only my destiny to create the legend of the Super Saiyan? Then why am I still here? If I could get back to the future, to the day before Frieza destroyed Vegeta, I can stop him this time.
Bardock closed his eyes, and he hummed to himself while the golden glow flared around him. Not far away, a few villagers stopped what they were doing and turned to look into the distance where their usually dark pink sky gained a yellow tint. Bardock hummed louder and he clenched his fists tighter. There! The darkness in his mind faded, but he bit down hard in anger as the future had not changed. The "gift" of future sight that the last remaining warrior of Planet Kanassa, thanks to his own team's devastation of their world, gave him was still present in his mind, but the future had not changed. He could see Frieza laughing as Vegeta exploded beneath him, along with all of the Saiyans on it. He watched as King Vegeta was murdered by the tyrant, he watched as he himself was there screaming at Frieza exactly as he had in his past, or the world's future. Nothing had changed, for his son as well.
The Super Saiyan watched as his son Kakarott stood before Frieza. The vision replayed in his mind every time he tried looking on the future. He watched an amazing battle between his son from the future and the ruler who killed them all, and then he watched as his son who resembled him much more than his eldest, turned into a Super Saiyan. Bardock grinned and his eyes opened. "The future might be pretty bleak, but at least my son will avenge our people. I, can live with that."
With thoughts of satisfaction and resignation on his mind, Bardock lived in peace on Planet Plant. His peace did not last long. Days after the final time Bardock decided to look into the future, the Saiyan meditating on his usual perch felt his entire body tense up. He felt something he had not felt since he thought he was dying in vain: he felt fear. The Saiyan with black hair that had several large spikes sticking out to the sides and above his head turned around and lifted his gaze to the sky. He had on his armor that he wore every day, despite the damage done to it by Chilled that resulted in a missing left shoulder strap. He had on a pair of tight black pants that looked better than his armor did, undamaged even since the natives of Plant, who he nicknamed Plants, were able to patch a pair of pants even if they could not repair his futuristic armor.
Bardock stared up at the atmosphere with a look of fear plastered on his face. "What the Hell is that thing?!" Bardock exclaimed, taking a step backwards nervously. The Saiyan stopped after one step though, and his gaze dropped from the direction he was looking, to the town directly beneath that power he felt. Berry, Ipana, everyone. In Bardock's mind flashed the fate of Vegeta, the fate of his entire team on Planet Meat, his closest friends, and a woman with long spiky hair flashed in his mind at the end that made his teeth bare harder than ever. "Not again," he snarled. "Never again." Bardock clenched his fists so tight that even his rough skin broke and blood came out of his palms. He had on a red bandanna wrapped around his forehead that reminded him every day of the mistakes he made in the past, as the bandanna was only red because it had been soaked with the blood of his best friend Tora after his team's crushing defeat to an elite team of Frieza's soldiers led by Dodoria.
The Saiyan warrior flew towards the village of Plants and stopped when he hovered a hundred feet above the center of it. "Bardock!" a voice he recognized called up to him. Bardock ground his teeth and darted a gaze below him to see Berry standing below him with some of the other villagers. The round-faced kid who called up to him looked concerned, but not nearly as much as Bardock knew they should be if they could feel what he felt descending towards him.
"Get inside!" Bardock yelled down. His voice was serious enough that none of the Plants argued. They all ran as fast as they could to let everyone else know and get indoors. Berry ran to his father's doctor's office, and he and Ipana ran inside before looking up out the window to see what Bardock sounded so concerned about. Bardock watched them get inside, then he floated back towards a wide stone pillar and landed on it. Bardock calmed his breathing and lifted his head to see two dots lowering from the atmosphere towards him rapidly.
Strange, I only sensed one of them, but even now the ki I feel is strange. I, can't get a good reading on it, and that's what's bugging me the most. Bardock tried keeping a composed expression on his face as the two figures descended to his level. They dropped until their feet were at the same level his were at, so that he stood face to face with the strange one whose energy he felt a disturbing presence from. The other figure, a taller, blue-skinned man with white hair that stuck up in a point in the center but fell flat on either side, held a blue staff in his right hand that had a gold extension at the top that ended with a bright blue circular halo wrapped around a small black sphere. The halo on his staff was similar to the larger blue loop he had floating around his neck, and he also wore a dark red robe covered by an ornamental black sash that spiked out at his shoulders and draped the front and back of his body.
Bardock glanced at the taller figure for a second, but his eyes were drawn back to the figure who gave off a much more menacing vibe. "What do you want?" Bardock questioned. His eyes examined the creature up and down, and he grimaced as the being actually looked similar to Frieza and Chilled. The difference though was that this figure around his height had a much sleeker body. His head was smooth and rounded, his skin white except for the red bulbs on top of his skull, on his shoulders, in the center of his chest, and for the red skin on his upper thighs. His body was lean but muscular, and he had a long white tail sticking out behind his humanoid body that reminded him even more of the dreaded Arcosians.
The figure Bardock questioned gained a tick mark on his head as soon as Bardock asked. He wore golden bands on his wrists and around his biceps, he had a black cloth wrapped around his waist with a similar sash as his taller associate's dropping down below the front of his waist between his legs. He also had a circular black cloth ornament resting on his shoulders that draped down over his chest and behind his back, and like the sash he and his comrade were wearing, it had orange diamonds and yellow lines decorating it. "Is this him Whis?" The figure questioned, staring straight at Bardock as he said it, even if the words were not directed at him.
"Yes Lord Blizzard," Whis, the tall attendant to the Arcosian-looking figure replied.
"Hmm," Blizzard hummed, floating forward towards the spiky-haired man before him. Bardock rose his arms into a fighting stance, and the so-called Lord floating towards him came to a stop. He examined Bardock's face and hummed to himself again. "So it really was you who killed Chilled?" Blizzard chuckled to himself after asking the question, then as his laughter died down he tilted his head back and let out a loud yawn. He reached up a hand and patted in front of his mouth a few times, before shaking his head to get rid of the sleepiness, or at least that's what Bardock thought he appeared to be doing. "That is surprising," Blizzard continued, "I did not think there were any in the universe who could stand against him. He was doing my job for me while I slept, but when I heard that no planets were destroyed in the last two years since I last started to sleep, I was forced to get up again."
"Who," Bardock started but gulped before he could finish the question. Blizzard's mouth curled up into a smirk, and Bardock got increasingly sweaty as he questioned, "Who are you?"
"I am the God of Destruction, Lord Blizzard," the figure introduced himself. Bardock's eyes opened huge and his heart rate sped up. I heard rumors, stories, but they were myths! I never thought, Bardock gulped again and Blizzard chuckled. "So I suppose you have heard of me then."
"God of Destruction," Bardock muttered, keeping his voice steady as well as he could manage. "Thought you were just a legend to scare children," he admitted to the Godly figure in front of him.
Blizzard frowned and his forehead scrunched in annoyance. "Oh ho ho, what an honest man," the taller figure at his side laughed.
"And who are you supposed to be? Another God?" Bardock asked, glancing towards the other man.
"Whis is my attendant," Blizzard growled. "But what's with that casual tone? Do you want to be destroyed?"
Bardock looked back towards the God of Destruction, and he hesitated before responding. He does not feel stronger than me. Why am I pausing? "Get off my world," Bardock growled.
Blizzard's eyes narrowed and his white tail waved behind him. A dark purple aura surrounded the God of Destruction, and in the same moment, Bardock's hair shot up into a single golden spike. A gold aura flared around the Saiyan like a flame, but the God before him did not even look surprised. "This is the Super Saiyan form you mentioned?" Blizzard questioned.
Bardock was confused as he did not remember mentioning it at all, but then his eyes darted to the God's side again as his attendant responded, "Yes, Lord Blizzard. This is the form Bardock used to destroy Chilled."
"And if you don't get off my planet, I'll destroy you too, God of Destruction," Bardock threatened. He rose his power to its peak, feeling that anything less would be insufficient despite being unable to feel this God's power. Without scouters, he had taught himself to search out energy with his own power, so that if another enemy like Chilled was on its way to this planet, he would sense it coming beforehand. Bardock brought his elbows in to his sides and yelled, "AaaaAAAHHH!" His golden energy flared more and the pillar beneath them cracked and started to collapse.
As it fell though, the men on top of it did not fall with their footing. All three stayed at their same elevation, only now they were hovering without anything beneath them. The pillar of stone beneath Bardock, as well as dozens of smaller other ones close to him, cracked and started to collapse beneath the Super Saiyan's pressure. "Destroy me, huh?" Blizzard questioned. The God of Destruction lifted his right hand to his mouth and patted it a few times as he let out a yawn twice as long as any of his others. "That is good to hear," he added.
Bardock's eyebrows narrowed in at how not-serious this man seemed to be taking him. "Raaa!" He flew forward and pulled a fist back, then threw his arm forward in a powerful punch. As he punched though, the real power was in his right leg that was swinging around in a roundhouse kick. Blizzard stopped yawning and casually moved his right hand over a few inches. Bardock's eyes grew wide while his kick kept flying, as despite how fast he was moving, he could see how calmly the God was moving as if to him he was moving in slow-motion. Blizzard lowered all the fingers of his right hand except for the pointer, and Bardock's kick slammed into that single finger at full power. Bardock was not planning on using everything he had at the start of the kick, but Blizzard only using one finger to block him forced him to go all out, because he had to know for sure.
Blizzard's finger did not budge an inch. Bardock's Super Saiyan kick did nothing to break through the God's defenses, and Bardock leaned back in shock after it. "It can't be," he muttered, dropping his leg down and floating backwards.
"Is that all?" Blizzard questioned. He patted his mouth again and let out a giant yawn, then he turned to Whis. "Hmm, it seems I was mistaken. Let's go." Blizzard turned around and lifted his gaze to the sky. The God of Destruction floated ten feet up, then stopped and snapped his fingers next to him. "Oh that's right," he said, shaking his head and smiling. He turned his head and looked down with a dangerous smirk at Bardock that made the glowing Super Saiyan fill with dread. "I almost forgot to destroy this planet."
"Wh-What!? You can't!" Bardock yelled.
Blizzard frowned at the man below him, and he lifted up the same index finger he used to block Bardock's kick. "And who will stop me?" A ball of purple light smaller that the tip of Blizzard's finger appeared above it. The ball of light somehow darkened the sky around it, turning everything black while lightning bolts shot out and zipped around the sky.
This can't be! Bardock thought, his mind filling with panic. He clenched his eyes shut and shook his head, It doesn't make any sense! This is Planet Vegeta! It will be! He snapped his eyes back open and his golden eyebrows narrowed in towards the center of his face. This is the world where I am born! Where I will grow up! Where my kids will be born! Kakarott, if you are ever to face Frieza, if you are ever to exist at all, I can't let this world be destroyed! His hands stopped shaking at his sides, and his entire body stopped trembling as a more calm aura descended around him.
"Bardock!"
"Bardock!"
Bardock darted his gaze behind him towards the village below. All the hiding villagers had come outside, and all the Plants were yelling his name. He could see Berry, and Ipana, and his fists tightened even harder at his sides. "I have destroyed more races than I can count," Bardock growled, turning his head back towards Blizzard though his eyes shadowed over while he spoke. Lightning coming out of the small sphere of destruction over Blizzard's hand intensified, but Blizzard's eyes focused more on the lightning that started sparking out of Bardock's body all over the place. "I have committed genocide, and I have watched the genocide of my own people," Bardock's body trembled and then his arms bulked up, followed by his legs, and his torso as well. His blond hair spiked up harder while the planet beneath him started shaking, all the rock pillars and buildings for miles breaking apart and collapsing, while the ground far below him started to crush down into a massive crater. "AND I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE!"
"That is a nice speech, and as much as I would like to know what these atrocities you mention are, I am very tired," Blizzard flicked his finger down, and the tiny ball of purple shot below him towards the planet.
"RAA!" Bardock flew towards the attack and he slammed his right palm into it. His palm was surrounded in golden energy, and as he screamed, that energy overflowed from his body out of his palm in a fifty meter wide beam that enveloped the planet-destroying ball and shot it out into space.
Blizzard snapped his gaze to the side to follow the beam's path, and he watched as his own attack exploded out in space in a magnificent blast of purple and red. "How did you-" he began while turning back, but Bardock was already in front of him with both hands held together at his sides. Bardock spun his body in a three-sixty degree punch and slammed his combined fists into Blizzard's left cheek so hard that the God's head snapped to the side. Bardock brought his left knee up after hitting the God in the face, and Blizzard spun back furiously and slammed an elbow down on Bardock's knee as it raised. "Enough!" Blizzard yelled. His elbow knocked Bardock's leg away, then he brought his tail around his body to wrap around Bardock's torso.
The God of Destruction smirked as his white tail wrapped around Bardock and started to squeeze. Bardock's teeth clenched and his body roared in pain, then his eyes snapped open, and his bright teal orbs glared into Blizzard's. Bardock slammed his head forward while looking Blizzard in the eyes, smashing their foreheads together and making the God wince and loosen the grip around Bardock's waist. Bardock brought his hands up to the end of Blizzard's tail and flew out of the loosened loop around him while ripping as hard as he could backwards with both of his arms. He arced Blizzard up over his head, catching a glimpse of the God's attendant higher up in the air calmly watching them fight it out, then Bardock slammed Blizzard down on his other side so hard that the smooth white God shot out of the air towards the planet below.
He's still too strong, Bardock thought while he flew after the God. I need to finish this in one blow! Bardock clenched his right fist, and the soles of his feet started glowing bright red as he shot down through the air. "Get off," Bardock started to yell, and two beams of red shot out of his feet before exponentially multiplying in size until they combined into one massive beam flying into space, propelling him so much faster after Blizzard than he sent the God flying in the first place. "MY PLANET!" Bardock roared, and he slammed forward his fist into Blizzard's stomach. The body of the God bent over his hand, and the beams coming out of his feet doubled in size once more to speed Bardock up even more into the punch, making the God gasp and spit fly out of his mouth.
Bardock thought he had it and was about to fly over the planet with Blizzard at the end of his fist. Then, Blizzard lifted his right hand and grabbed Bardock's right wrist, and he pulled it to the side while their momentum stopped completely in midair. The beams stopped coming out of Bardock's feet from pure shock, as Blizzard stared into his eyes from inches away, not an ounce of pain on his expression. Blizzard rose up his left hand and put it to Bardock's neck too fast for Bardock to even lean away. I gave everything I had, and more, but he's still just, too strong. Bardock's eyes closed as the hand curved around his throat, then after a second he opened them up because he should not have had that long to live.
The God in front of him stared at his face for a few seconds while Bardock stared back, then Blizzard lowered his left hand and he released Bardock with his right. "Whis," Blizzard called out, sounding more serious than he had since arriving on the world. He no longer seemed as tired to Bardock, and Bardock became confused while the God's attendant shot across miles of landscape in an instant to catch up to where Bardock's final attack had taken them.
"What is it Lord Blizzard?" Whis questioned.
"I've changed my mind. He seems like a good choice," Lord Blizzard turned towards Bardock and let out a long, five second yawn that Bardock frowned at as it seemed like the God was mocking him. "I am very tired, Bardock. Myself, and the current Supreme Kai, are very old. It is time for a new, awwwnnn, God of Destruction."
Bardock stared at the God in front of him in confusion and a lot of surprise as he was not expecting this. What happened to destroying the world? Bardock thought. Out loud though, Bardock said, "Alright, give me the powers of a God then. I'll do your job for you." Bardock's hair continued waving around and lightning kept sparking off his body, but the new transformation he reached was not enough to defeat his enemy. I don't even know what I'm saying, but if he makes me stronger, I can protect this world better.
Blizzard and Whis looked at Bardock carefully, while he smirked and clenched his fists in front of him. "If you are offering more power, then I will take it, gladly," Bardock told the two before him.
Bardock watched as the two started speaking to each other without including him in their conversation. "Are you sure Lord Blizzard?" Whis questioned.
The God who looked a lot like Frieza to Bardock nodded his head. Blizzard turned back to Bardock and said, "This Super Saiyan form of yours is impressive, for a mortal. I will enhance it now, give you some of my energy. If your race is suited for it, and if your body can handle it, it will adapt to control my power, the power of a God. You will not just be a Super Saiyan, but a Super Saiyan God."
"If my body can handle it?" Bardock thought, but he abandoned that train of thought far in the back of his mind. I have to. I will! "Give it to me," Bardock said.
Blizzard frowned at the tone of voice, but he nodded his head at the Super Saiyan before him. Bardock watched as the two in front of him seemed to be preparing for something, Whis using the strange staff he lifted in his hands, and the God of Destruction expelling energy out from his own body. Bardock was confused at what was happening, and a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face as both of the others turned to him at the same time. "Hold on, what's-" Bardock got interrupted as his body got surrounded by a dark energy, blackish purple, then dark red, then a much brighter red that illuminated the pink sky above him.
Miles away, in the village Bardock had mostly destroyed with his earlier powering-up, all the villagers who had left their homes to cheer him on looked into the distance where the sky trembled and filled with strange colors. "Bardock," Berry whispered, stepping towards the direction of their world's savior.
Bardock surrounded with God ki, and the Super Saiyan lifted his gaze to his hair to see it was changing colors from gold to red, shifting through every color in between. His hair was currently getting darker orange, and he examined his body next. He did not look as buffed-out as he did after his previous transformation, but there was no doubt in his mind that he was stronger. "Now Bardock," Blizzard began to the man in front of him. "Before I relinquish my position, and grant you the powers of a God of Destruction," Blizzard narrowed his gaze at the Saiyan before him who frowned at him darkly.
What does he mean? Did he only give me some power? It doesn't matter, I will become the God of Destruction in a moment and get the rest of his strength-
"You must destroy your home planet," Blizzard finished. Bardock's eyes grew wide, and his bottom lip lowered, while Blizzard pointed a finger down below him at Planet Plant. "This world," Blizzard finished.
Bardock's newly-reddened eyes narrowed in at the God before him. His dark red eyebrows narrowed, and his hair swayed with dark purple bubbles coming off of a veil surrounding it. His entire body had a thin dark purple aura around it that started to lighten up, getting brighter purple as he stood there glaring at the God of Destruction. "Not a chance," Bardock growled.
Blizzard's eyes opened wide, and he questioned in a deep, angered voice, "Do you have any inkling to what you have just obtained?" Blizzard frowned deeper and said, "You are now imbued with the power of a God. This is not up for debate. You will destroy this world, then you will go with Whis to your new-"
"You don't get to tell me what to do," Bardock growled. "Just because you're too tired to keep doing your own job," he added snidely. Bardock smirked and he rose up his fists again. "And now, you've made me as powerful as you."
The God before Bardock glared at him in fury for a few more seconds. Then, his mouth curled up and his tail snapped to the side behind him. "Ha, hahaha!" Blizzard laughed, and a huge blackish-purple aura surrounded his body that made the world below them shake. "Are you so sure of that?" Blizzard questioned. Whis lifted up into the sky away from the God of Destruction, and Bardock got a bad feeling as Blizzard's eyes bore into his own. "I was not facing you with one percent of my power before. If you truly think you can beat me, then I would like to see you try!"
Bardock flew at Blizzard and the two collided in midair. The blur of bright purple and dark purple whipped around the sky in trails of light. Explosions and shockwaves ripped off of them, and the planet below was taking a toll from it. Each punch made mountains crack, and ravines split in the land. New bruises and cuts appeared on Bardock's body with every collision, and yet he pushed back every time. This is my last chance! Bardock leaned his head to the side to dodge a punch, then he punched up himself into Blizzard's chest, only for Blizzard's tail to swing around and slam him in his unprotected left side. I'll never be stronger than this, never get another chance to save this world!
"RAAAA!" Bardock yelled, slamming his arms out to the sides and creating hundreds of balls of red light in the air. He swung his arms inwards in front of him, and then he flew after them towards the God who was swerving in and out of his attacks with ease. Bardock flew out from behind a ball of energy and extended both of his legs for a kick into the back of Blizzard's head, but Blizzard saw him coming and turned, smacking one of Bardock's red spheres in Bardock's direction at the same time. Bardock surrounded in a huge red explosion, then he flew out the side closer to a smirking Blizzard, his right fist pulled back with a large ball of blue light on it. "Take this!" He fired the blue sphere, and Blizzard lifted his hands to catch it. Before the attack collided with Blizzard's hands though, Bardock curled in the fingers on his hands that were pressing on the back of the blue beam that followed his blue energy attack. All of the red spheres of light flying through the air flew in at the same time, and Blizzard's eyes grew huge an instant before he was slammed into by all those attacks.
HERE'S MY CHANCE! Bardock screamed at the top of his lungs, and the blue beam he was firing multiplied ten times in size. His muscles ripped and his space armor shredded from the power he put into the attack. Blood splashed out of cuts in his skin, and he screamed so hard that blood flew out of his mouth. All the collided red attacks made the God of Destruction's defenses break, and Bardock could hear him scream from inside the beam that he fired. He grit his teeth in anger at the sound of that scream, because it meant the God was still alive in there. EVEN MORE! Bardock put even his entire life energy into it, he could feel his own strength draining as he emptied it all into the beam, and he yelled out in fury, forcing the widening beam out into space and through a planet not far from Planet Plant.
When Bardock finally stopped screaming, his red aura faded and his skin looked wrinkled up. Bardock gazed down at his arms and saw that they had lost most of the color to them, and they were getting covered in blood from the many deep gashes all over them. Bardock fell from the air, but he rose his gaze back into the air to look at where he just destroyed the God of Destruction. He smirked as he fell, because there was nothing there. He hit the ground and bounced up, then dropped back down, and he came to a stop with his eyes half open and his mouth in a small smile. Bardock looked up in the air and watched as a tall figure with white hair floated through the sky towards the spot right above him. Even though he felt like he could die at any moment, Bardock still found it in him to laugh. He called out in a raspy, weak voice, "So what, does a God's attendant do, when he has not God to attend to?"
Whis looked down at the man, and he chuckled with a hand covering his mouth. Bardock's smug, accomplished smile vanished, and he shifted his attention a little higher above Whis, towards a dark purple speck flying through the pink sky down towards him. "Oh shit," Bardock mumbled. He tried to move, but his body was broken, and no amount of spirit could get him up this time.
"You sure went far, Lord Blizzard," Whis remarked as Blizzard flew into the atmosphere and down to his elevation in a second. Blizzard was surrounded in an aura of all his power, black and purple colors swirling around him, and a general feeling of death fell over the planet below.
When Blizzard looked down at Bardock's body though, the furious look faded from his face and he let out a sigh. His flaring aura disappeared and Blizzard lowered his bruised arms down to his sides, a small look of agitation on his face. "I guess, I lose," Bardock said, his raspy voice carrying up to the Gods above who descended closer to him. "What are, you gonna do, now?" The scar-faced Saiyan asked.
Blizzard looked down into the man's coal black eyes, and he stated in a cold voice, "Destroy this world."
Bardock coughed a few times, and blood splashed over his face as he heard that. "Damn," Bardock muttered. He coughed a few more times, then his coughing started to sound more like something else. Whis looked down in surprise, while Blizzard just started lifting a hand to destroy the world with. "Well, I can, at least laugh," Bardock said, and his eyes shifted from the Gods above him to the sky even higher up. "Now that I think about it, I'm glad, I'll never have to grow up, looking at that, pink sky."
Blizzard's arm stopped lifting, and the God of Destruction stared down at the man on his back in confusion. "Oi Whis," he said, his voice low and serious. "What is he talking about?"
"I, am not sure," Whis admitted.
"Hey, Bardock," Blizzard growled down at the dying man. "What did you mean by that? Are you going insane from being on your deathbed?"
Bardock tried shaking his head, but he felt too much pain to move his neck. Instead, he just said in a quiet voice, "One day, I would have been born, on this world."
"You," Blizzard began in shock. "You are not from this time?"
Bardock did not reply, barely finding it in him anymore to even speak. "Lord Blizzard, you know what this means, don't you?" Whis questioned.
What does it mean? Bardock wondered. His half-closed eyes started closing some more, and he could hear a slowing heart beat in his head.
Everything above Bardock became blurry, but over the sound of his own heart thumping, he heard, "I know Whis. We risk splitting the universe with a paradox. If I were to destroy this world, there would be a paradox for sure. Grrr…"
Good, Bardock thought, his eyes closing the rest of the way. He no longer heard the Gods above him, but he no longer heard his own heart either. They're not, going to…
Blizzard stared down at the black-haired Saiyan who never got to finish his final thought. The Saiyan somehow continued taunting him even in death, as there was a smile across Bardock's face. Blizzard yawned and he lifted his gaze back to the stars. "Time to go Whis." Whis tapped his staff down on the air below him and a bubble surrounded the two. They shot into space inside this bubble, and Blizzard began after a minute, "Well the Super Saiyan was a bust, though I did enjoy my fight with the Super Saiyan God," the God of Destruction yawned and patted a hand over his mouth. "Alright, original plan then. Whis, take us to planet Anubis."
One Month Ago
Mount Vegeta
"… I didn't end up beating Blizzard, but at the least he didn't destroy Planet Vegeta before either of us got a chance to be born there," Bardock finished his recollection. He frowned as the kid in front of him had not stopped smiling for most of the story, and finally he relented, "What?"
"That Blizzard guy was even stronger than you? I hope I get a chance to fight-"
Bardock put his face in his hands and rubbed them around in circles a few times. All of a sudden he had the largest migraine. Bardock dragged his hands down his face, then interrupted the kid in front of him who was going on about wanting to fight that God of Destruction. "Anyway," Bardock started in a loud voice to signal to Goku to shut up. "Get one more rest inside a healing chamber, then we're going to train again. This time, I'm the only one allowed to hurt you, got it? Hurt your own body and I'll never let you turn into a Super Saiyan God."
"Healing Chamber?" Goku wondered. Bardock opened his mouth, but Goku's face lit up and he said, "Wait, I used one of those before! Before I fought Frieza, after fighting that Ginyu guy," Goku chuckled to himself as he thought of how he defeated Ginyu in the end.
Bardock chuckled to himself too, Of course he beat the Ginyu's. I'll ask him about it some other time. Bardock stood up from his seat next to the couch, and he started to turn to walk away, but he stopped when he was halfway and let out a sigh. "Kakarott," Goku looked up at Bardock and tilted his head wondering what the man had to say to him. "You are the strongest Saiyan I've ever known, much stronger than I was in my base form or as a Super Saiyan. But I'm so serious with you about not destroying your body, because like I said, the process is risky. My crew, used to have another member." Bardock frowned deeply and continued, "A friend of mine, Borgos, had a similar power to the rest of my crew. Unlike the rest of them though who all underwent the process successfully, like your brother, Borgos' body couldn't take it. Only a handful of Saiyans have taken to God ki, the others were all ripped apart."
"How did they become Gods?" Goku questioned. Bardock frowned over at his son as he was in the middle of a warning, but Goku was confused by what Bardock was telling him. "I thought only you got the power?"
"Yeah, but I learned a way to create more Super Saiyan Gods," Bardock growled at the kid. "Any more questions?" He asked, his tone hinting that he did not want to hear any. Goku didn't catch the hint though, and he nodded his head which made Bardock sigh at the boy. "What?" He questioned in exasperation.
"If you think I'm stronger than you in your base form, and as a Super Saiyan, then how did you beat me without turning into a Super Saiyan God?" Goku questioned.
Bardock frowned, then he grunted and mumbled, "Actually a good question." Bardock turned and walked for the door of his house, "After transforming into a God for the first time, every level of your strength will increase as your body naturally adapts to be stronger to handle the God ki. At least, that's how I interpreted the sudden rise in strength of all my forms." Bardock opened his door and got ready to head out, but he called inside one more time before he left, "Raditz! Show your brother where the hospital is!"
"When I've got time!" A voice shouted back from upstairs.
"You have time right now!" Bardock yelled, and he slammed the door behind him to show the conversation was over there.
Goku heard a loud infuriated growl come from upstairs, and the man in the body of his child self snickered to himself. Laughing hurt though with his injuries, and Goku leaned back on the couch to ease his pain for a moment. Super Saiyan God, God of Destruction, a father, this place is amazing! There're so many strong people I can still fight! Are all of dad's crew as strong as him? Is Raditz still stronger than me? I didn't think he was, but dad said that he was a God too. I should challenge him, and I'll get stronger as I fight him, then I can get strong enough to face dad. Goku smiled wide and he looked up at the ceiling of the living room he sat in. My brother and dad huh? I should bring Gohan and Goten here to meet them. I just hope Raditz doesn't try to take Gohan again. Heh, Bardock wouldn't let him.
A/N Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading. Bardock's the first Super Saiyan God! (At least in this story, though I doubt DBS will ever give an explanation to how SSG came to be.) If you have questions or comments about that backstory, let me know in a review below. Same with predictions about the rest of this chapter! I have finals all of next week, but I also have one last chapter to post that unlike this one (which I shouldn't have spent 3 hours on today with my finals tom ;p ) it's already finished. Anyway, I'll get that one posted sometime soon. Review responses for now:
Limit-Breaking chapter 79 . Nov 30
WHAT, HOW, WHEN, OMG THIS IS CRAZY I AM LOSING MY MIND. FUCK SUPER SAIYAN 4 IM ALL FOR SUPER SAIYAN GOD AND BARDOCK HAS THIS TRANSFORMATION. GOKU LOSING EVEN AS A SUPER SAIYAN THREE I MEAN OBVIOUSLY BUT...(Breaths heavily for a few seconds)...
Ok i calm down from the hype that was given in this chapter and im gaining my sanity back after reading the most epic chapter I've ever read. Hell when it came down to the previous chapter where the world of nexus was shaking like ever before it was because of bardock and he is fighting the ant king, and holy shit how strong is the ant king, is he strong even stronger than goku. He must be since he was fighting in the previous chapters.
My god im still in shock after seeing this chapter like how did this occur when oh my god, and what makes matters worse you probably not going to be telling us anytime soon. I want to cry from how awesome this was and now i have to wait for another chapter for who knows how long.(;_;). But im so hyped as well. *(o)* Please update soon i just got to see more from this story already. And again keep up the fantastic job that you are doing.
HYPE! Haha glad you liked the chapter. Though, Goku didn't lose as a SS3, since Bardock beat his ass before he could transform into it, since Goku's kid body was having a tough time transforming into it. Won't give anything away about Meruem, Bardock, or what caused the shaking that we'll see later this chapter. "How did this occur when..." I actually laughed cuz usually I leave questions hanging for dozens of chapters, and this time I kinda answered it right away XD. Thanks, and thanks for the review!
asdf chapter 79 . Nov 30
I fuckin new it! A god!
So, many, GODS! Thanks for reviewing!
Joebob323 chapter 79 . Nov 30
Ah, Thanks so much for the epic fight scene, I really enjoyed it! Now, the real question is, will Timmy get to regain his memories first or will Goku unlock Super saiyan BLUE, which may or may not be compatible with the kaio-ken on this world. Also, will we be informed on how the hell BARDOCK of all people got access to this form first? Not that I'm complaining about it though... he makes for a Badass super saiyan god.
Glad you liked the fight scene and hoped you enjoyed the ones this chapter as well. Timmy and Goku's missing storylines for the last 5 or so chapters are finally being revealed! XD glad I answered how Bardock got his powers when usually I don't have answers for your guys' questions! Thanks for reviewing, and thanks again to everyone who read, faved, followed, and reviewed this story! 'Til next time!