Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Super Clash Of Super Warriors

"Super Cooler? Don't make me laugh!" Vegeta grumbled. Erupting with the golden aura of Super Saiyan vigor, the king of Saiyans charged right at his opponent. The first dashing strike collided with Cooler's jaw with a resounding thud. Cooler turned his head slightly, though Vegeta expected a far grander impact.

Not to be the one to let up on an opponent when he gained pressure. The royal Saiyan threw a wild flurry of blows, though Cooler leaned out of the second one and put up his forearms to block and deflect the rest. Cooler's body appeared to have gained a certain degree of monstrous toughness after undergoing the transformation. Whereas before Vegeta's blows felt like punching through a melon, soft and squishy on the inside, now Cooler felt more like a pile of boulders. Even if one punched with enough strength to move one, the density of the pile settled it all back into place and it felt like one suffered more damage in return by throwing hands at it.

Seeing an opening when Cooler leaned to his right to avoid a strike, Vegeta exploded with a right uppercut and sent Super Cooler soaring into the air before vanishing right back up to his flying opponent, ready to continue his royal punishment. A stiff knee to Cooler's back. Vegeta had expected to break his opponent's spine like this, but with his current toughness, it felt like he was still a thousand years away from it. Cooler returned to the fighting condition in an instant, recovering in mid-air and throwing a wicked hook, though it no longer found Vegeta.

The king of Saiyans had vanished back down, dashing with a golden shine of his aura back into the fray and moving around Cooler's fist to exploit the opening with a hook of his own. Cooler's red eyes widened and lost their sharp, triangular shape, becoming near-round after the tyrant reeled back from Vegeta's brutish impact.

"A Super Saiyan is a perfect warrior, cold and ruthless, there is no force in the universe like its own!" the rampaging Super Saiyan growled as he continued to throw power hooks from both sides to soften up his opponent's body, rattling Cooler's ribs with a relentless and cruel beating. Vegeta attempted to grab the back of Cooler's head and plummet, smashing him down into the ground, but Cooler's tail wrapped around his arm spun and released him down instead.

Vegeta's feet absorbed the shock from the fall as his warrior's instinct redirected the Super Saiyan to gaze upward where his opponent was already diving in pursuit of him. Like a golden arrow through the skies, Vegeta dashed right back at Super Cooler, spinning in mid-air and maneuvering around his hook to drive his knee into Cooler's gut and then throw a flurry of fists into the tyrant's back until Vegeta battered his enemy into the ground and burrowed him into another crater.

"Humph, it's irritating that you've recovered so much and powered up, but all it'll change is that it will make my beating take longer." The Super Saiyan taunted his fallen opponent while Super Cooler pulled himself out of the crater that had collapsed in on itself, revealing a primordial blaze shine from deeper within where the collapsing asteroid crumbled into. Whatever technology the Crosstillians used to hold this cosmic body together had collapsed in on itself and go critical.

"I wonder about that. This impressive, golden form of yours, just how straining is it really, Vegeta? Then again, why am I asking? This is the first time you've assumed it, after all..." Super Cooler let out a chuckle that took a grungy tone while passing through the impressive helmet the self-made emperor donned in this form.

Vegeta winced, clenching his fists in denial. Cooler wasn't wrong. The Super Saiyan transformation was even more taxing than fighting in one's full power the entire time. It was not a last resort type of technique to be used sparingly and on special occasions, though the fatigue that accumulated required greater training in control of the technique. It was despicable that this self-righteous fop had enough combat awareness to notice that. Cooler was like night and day from Frieza's own elementary understanding of fighting.