(Capsule Corp)
The sound of the creature's attack striking the Super Saiyan echoed clear across the countryside, shaking the sky above and the ground at the people's feet. The impact was so deafening and so pronounced that even someone as ki retardant as Bulma was able to feel it. From her spot at the helm of her enormous cannon, through the visor giving her a telescopic view of the battle, the woman saw her husband get struck down by the beast's mighty attack and her eyes widened in shock.
"VEGETA!" she cried out, leaning over the console in horror as she saw the man's body fly in their direction. Just a few seconds after her scream rang out, she saw the Saiyan Prince hit the city and plough through several buildings.
The row of skyscrapers exploding one after the other as a hole was punched through them, Vegeta's body eventually crash-landed several blocks away from Capsule Corp. His hapless form making contact with the ground produced a mushroom cloud of dust and debris, and when the sky eventually cleared, it revealed a huge crater had been formed in the middle of a crossroad.
When the civilians in the area peered into the hole to see what had caused it, they saw Vegeta's gashed up and broken body at the base of it, his hair black and blood dripping out of multiple battle wounds. Twitching and coughing out in agony, the man was down, but not out.
However, his prolonged consciousness did little to cover up the fact that he'd been absolutely wrecked by the monster with only two hits.
At first the people surrounding the crater clamored in concern, believing the man to be dead. But when they saw him roll over and crawl out of the hole, everyone backed away when the Saiyan Prince, gasping for air, came back to ground level and snarled irately. Blood dribbling down his face, the warrior gritted his teeth towards the monstrous entity hovering over the horizon.
"This… proves… nothing," Vegeta growled, pulling himself up little by little, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. "What? Did you think… I would roll over and die… from an attack like that?" Yelling out painfully, the stricken fighter forced himself to his knees. Gripping the stump that was his arm, the warrior growled as he took several deep breaths to suppress the bolts of pain shooting through his entire body and shook his head. "It's not over… not until I say so!"
His words were chiefly ignored, as the extra terrestrial focused all of its attention on the large city standing before it. Its ribbon appendages waving about on either side of it, it began floating towards the great metropolis.
Gritting her teeth after seeing her man get knocked down, the blue haired scientist then focused all her attention back on the invader. Quickly typing into the console beside her, lights quickly sprang up followed by an enormous crosshair, which began homing in on the advancing alien. Due to its sheer size, it was floating smack bang in the middle of it, and as the computer started calibrating, so did the cannon. The loud hum of powerful engines echoed across the property as the battery charged itself.
As soon as the arming process as underway, Bulma tapped into the intercom, "DAD! Are all the power lines hooked up?!"
The elderly scientist, who was standing near the receiving terminal, quickly linked back with his daughter. "They're all set, honey!"
"Alright!" the woman shouted as she took hold of the lever next to her and snapped it back. The result was an even louder hum echoing out as the enormous gun's main lines connected and began pulsing with energy. "Get to the nearest walkway and brace yourself! This is going to be big!"
The founder of the company, sweating bullets and looking completely nervous, quickly responded to the operator. "Are you sure about this, dear? You do realize that if this thing misfires, there's a ninety percent chance that it's going to sterilize the entire planet."
"It won't, dad! Trust me!" Bulma yelled, clenching her jaw tightly as her grip around the firing handles tightened. As soon as they did, she saw several more crosshairs and numbers jump up on screen, at the same time the scope narrowed down on the towering creature bearing down on their position. "The angle is perfect! When I fire this gun, the blast will travel away from the earth and detonate harmlessly in outer space!"
Her calculations were perfect. With the amount of energy this thing could generate, she knew she would be able to get through that retched thing's shields like a knife through butter.
Still feeling concern over the whole situation, the father nodded back to the terminal and went about his final task. "Okay. I trust you." He then signed off, quickly jumping down from the platform in the rear and running down the walkway. Checking the dials one last time, he then took hold of the walkway's railing and braced himself.
As soon as he did so, the old scientist then felt an enormous set of arms wrap around him and looked over his shoulder. When he did, he saw the hulking form of his daughter's Android 16 unit standing behind him and smiling.
"Do you require assistance, Doctor Briefs?" the ever inquisitive automaton asked.
Blinking a couple of times, the old man smiled back, "Brace yourself, big guy. This is going to be a close one."
"Parameters recognized," the orange haired root replied, locking his feet into place as the pair gripped the railing. "Safety protocols engaged. Beginning countdown."
This was it.
The main reactor of the artillery piece groaned loudly as electricity pulsed up every single cable hooked into the weapon. The result was the entire area being subjected to a storm of raw energy zapping this way and that, striking the ground and frying everything it touched. All the people in the vicinity of the company literally had to duck and cover when bolts of lightning shot off of the enormous gun and began attacking the surrounding buildings. Glass shattering and roadways being ploughed by multiple streams of energy, the whole event marked the closing stages of the weapon's firing sequence.
The timer sitting in front of Bulma helped too. With a series of numbers blazing past her on all sides, the woman was given a complete perspective of her weapon's phases. Thanks to her father, not only were the primary nodes hooked in, but the ammunition had been loaded, the backup units had been adapted to prevent overload, and the city's main terminals had been linked up to the core firing mechanism. The latter resulted in every single light in all of West City flickering out of control, with those nearest to the weapon shattering when the power in them began surging through.
Within moments, the engine was ready and, with the reactor magazine glowing brightly and transforming into a miniature sun inside of the globe, the towering cannon was set to fire.
The invader apparently sensed the danger.
Stopping dead in its tracks on the very outskirts of the city, the skull-faced, cowl-draped extra terrestrial snarled loudly and focused all of its attention on the massive gun on the other side of the city. Its red eyes flaring brightly, it prepared to shoot out the artillery piece before it had a chance to blast it.
However, just before it could, a series of explosions impacting its shield from behind had it spin around and glare furiously. When it did, it saw Android 17, Android 18, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu and Yamcha, all bearing debilitating injuries, scattered throughout the sky behind it with their hands pointed in its direction. Almost as soon as it caught sight of them, the group began firing upon it with an onslaught of continuous energy blasts, which detonated against its force field over and over again without effect. They weren't the only ones to attack it either.
The battleships floating off shore also began lobbing shells at it as well, their big guns going off and hitting it from the side in a nonstop bombardment. Jets also started flying in from the carriers and launching missiles at it, making several passes on the behemoth and drawing an irritable growl from the invading giant.
Pissed off at the number of flies shooting at it, the alien instead turned its ire on them. With a quick swipe of its ribbon, it generated a blast of wind that smacked all of the wounded Z-fighters out of the air and sent them flying across the charred landscape, knocking out several planes at the same time. After that, it then turned its fury on the battleships floating over the horizon.
Eyes flaring dangerously, it prepared to lob an energy blast at them. But just when it was in the middle of charging, a huge, golden sphere of energy slammed into it from the side and ploughed into its shield like a blowtorch. The attack shattering a few layers of its barrier, the sneak attack also managed to nudge the creature to the side a bit before it detonated with the force of a star. When the smoke and fire faded from the searing explosion faded, the completely unscathed invader turned to another part of the sky, where it spotted Piccolo floating a kilometer out with both hands extended.
Panting heavily from unleashing a full-power Light Grenade on the beast, the Namekian shouted at it, "Come on. Bring it! I'm still standing."
The warrior's words eliciting a gurgling sound from the extra terrestrial, the creature then focused all of its attention on the fighter and prepared to attack.
Vegeta, who'd managed to pick himself off of the floor, was now up in the sky above the city watching Piccolo face off against their enemy. With all of the damage he'd sustained, the Saiyan was lucky to be even conscious. However, being the persistent fighter that he was, it would take a lot more than a missing or broken arm to put him down for good.
Thanks to all the time the invader had wasted getting rid of the people attacking it from behind, it failed to destroy the enormous gun powering up on the other side of the city.
The second it turned its attention to Piccolo, it left itself wide open.
Bracing herself against the controls, Bulma smirked. "Alright you freak… EAT THIS!" With a quick grunt, she pulled the trigger.
All at once, the entire sky lit up with a blinding flash of light and a brilliant blue beam rocketed out of the cannon's barrel. The attack was so fast and so powerful that simply launching the blast caused the entire cannon to lurch backwards and a shockwave to reverberate across the region. With people crying out in terror when the ground shook all around them, everyone in the vicinity then watched as a powerful beam shot across the sky like a lightning bolt and made a B-line towards the distracted alien.
The flash of light immediately drew the extra terrestrial's attention, the behemoth turning just in time to see a wall of light charging towards it. A split second later, a loud squelch sound echoed out when the beam not only shattered every single layer of the shield surrounding the alien like they weren't even there, it went straight through its chest and out the other side. Such was the attack that it continued to travel across the ocean, through the atmosphere, and off of the planet.
The miniature solar reactor that powered the weapon burned up completely and went out, and every single electrical appliance on that part of the continent shut down, as all the power had been knocked out. When the beam eventually faded, it left a trail of shaken onlookers, smoke, and a gap in the ozone layer that would not be disappearing anytime soon.
It also left a gaping hole in the alien's chest that, upon being exposed to the air, began gushing blood out of both the entry and exit wounds. The Z-fighters, stunned by the power of the highly energized beam, gawked at the alien as it floated there, frozen in shock.
Then, after several seconds of tense silence, the extra terrestrial let out a bellowing screech of agony that had everyone within twenty miles clap their hands over their ears as it rocked the countryside with its pain.
Its ribbon appendages flailing around wildly, the alien looked just about ready to keel over. The sight had Piccolo clench his fists, hoping that it was finally over. But just when it seemed like it was about to die, the titan suddenly stopped screaming and glared towards the city.
The sight of the creature's hateful gaze landing on her had Bulma's eyes widen in bewilderment, "Fuck me, I'm dead."
Skull lighting up, the alien let out a terrifying shriek, fired a gargantuan blast from its mouth and hurtled it towards the thing responsible for the attack.
Due to his grievous injuries, Vegeta was unable to do anything except gawk in shock as the massive blast struck the large artillery piece sitting inside of Capsule Corp and disintegrated half of it. The beast's aim obviously thrown off by a few inches, it was unable to incinerate the entire cannon as the other half of the big gun exploded and collapsed to the ground in a pile of flaming debris. The resulting counterattack also took out half of the company's main structure, which had thankfully been emptied of its entire staff earlier that day.
With the blast detonating over the horizon, the damage to the city was done. Now sporting a large trench across its estate, the Briefs property had been effectively cut in half by the monster's glancing shot. In the midst of all the chaos, Vegeta quickly flew over to assess the damage and, his chest filling with dread, suspended himself over the wreckage of the artillery piece.
Looking down, the Saiyan Prince saw a frazzled Doctor Briefs pick himself off of the ground with the help of Android 16. The black kitten also emerging from the rubble, the three of them appeared shaken but ultimately unharmed. However, when the prince's charcoal eyes scanned over the rest of the wreckage, his gaze then landed on the remains of the pilot seat. There, with her body thrown halfway out of the cockpit, Vegeta saw Bulma lying in the ruins of her invention, covered in burns, cuts, and bleeding from the head.
Sensing her barely registering ki signature was one thing.
Seeing his wife in such a mangled state was another thing entirely.
Expression reflecting nothing but shock and disbelief, Vegeta's eyes then narrowed harshly and an animalistic growl escaped his lips. "That… was my wife!" His body starting to tremble and his fist tightening like a vice, the warrior spun around and faced the towering entity floating on the other side of the city. The sight of it causing the man to shake even more, with rage and anger pulsing through every vein in his body, it almost seemed like Vegeta was about to lose it.
A few moments later… that's exactly what happened.
"How dare YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" the Prince roared at the top of his lungs. With a cry that could be heard across the entire city, the man exploded.
Vegeta's ki skyrocketing, his golden aura blasted from his body like a hurricane, the force of which caused a dozen buildings in the area to collapse from the shockwave and a crater to form directly beneath his position. In a flash of light, the warrior's hair turned blonde and spiked up, and his eyes flickered to a shade of turquoise. To top off his sudden and instantaneous transformation, currents of blue electricity began shooting off of him as well; filling the sky with streams of lightning and the sounds of rolling thunder. The effects brought on by his power up not only had the people on the ground ducking for cover as their environment was subjected to yet another intense maelstrom, but it succeeded in catching the invader's full and undivided attention.
The enormous alien balked at the Saiyan's power up while Piccolo, who was floating nearby, also looked on in amazement as he witnessed Vegeta's jump to the next level.
Feeling the power brought on by his ascension, the now Super Saiyan 2 warrior fixed his hate filled glare upon the extra terrestrial and, priming himself for battle, blasted forward in a blur of motion. His charge being marked by several shockwaves, the prince barreled towards the enemy without fear or hesitation.
Even his grievous injuries didn't slow him down.
"YOU BASTARD!" Vegeta roared, throwing a punch with his free hand that collided with the alien's face and sent it blasting backwards, a loud thunderclap resounding across the country.
Shrieking in surprise, the beast spun around and attempted to shoot the man out of the sky. But just as its eyes were starting to shine, the glowing warrior shot around and kicked it across the face, sending the beast stumbling in another direction. Again and again Vegeta chased after it, hammering blows into its face over and over again. Every attack he landed caused the earth to shake and crack under the force as he forced the creature into a hasty retreat. Soon enough, he'd managed to land enough hits to the alien's face that its carapace head had started to crack and bleed.
After driving yet another kick into its forehead that sent the extra terrestrial crashing to the ground, Vegeta powered up and blasted high into the sky. "GO TO HELL!" As soon as he'd gained an ideal position, the prince cocked his hand back and, charging a purple sphere of energy in his palm, launched a massive blast straight down at the creature. "GALICK GUN FIREEEEEEEEEE!" His scream was drowned out by the sound of his attack leaving his hand.
The beam came down on top of the creature like the sun itself. But just when it seemed like it would hit, the invader suddenly sat up and, with a shriek of its own, produced a massive hexagonal force field in front of it. The wall jumped up in time to receive the attack, which collided with earth splitting force. In a matter of moments, the skies and ground started to tremble as an intense tug-of-war match ensued.
Pissed off by the obstruction, Vegeta bellowed out one last time and poured another heap of energy into his attack, which traveled down the length of the blast and arrived at the head. As soon as it did, a blinding flash of light occurred, followed by a massive explosion that covered the entire horizon outside of West City. Purple fire filled the sky in the form of a geyser like blast that not only broke through the atmosphere, but distorted the entire face of the planet.
People cried out in terror at the sight of the blast, while the Z-fighters held on for dear life under the gale force winds rippling out from the explosion's incredible shockwave. The ships out on the ocean were lucky to remain floating as massive waves slammed into them over and over again.
Eventually, the blast died out and when the air finally cleared, it revealed Vegeta still floating high up in the sky with his hand extended. Panting heavily, the Prince's first thought was that he'd annihilated his target. But when the smog slowly cleared, not only did he see a charred landscape covered in ash that was a direct result from his attack, but the alien standing perfectly intact in the center of it.
Piccolo, who'd watched the whole thing from his position, was gob smacked that the thing was still alive.
Both Super Saiyan 2 and invader squared off, their energy flaring and eyes locked firmly on the other.
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