Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Unmasked

With the twisted lava-red shine leaking out of him, the Masked Super Saiyan launched himself at Goku, crashing into his son head-first. Goku flinched up from the brutal impact and couldn't resist the force of it, sending him hurling back. The Super Saiyan vanished in a blink, appearing before his stunned opponent to shove his fist into Goku's abdomen and make the younger Saiyan's eyes blank out while he spat out slobber.

Mercilessly, Bardock smashed both of his arms down in a hammering slam that sent Goku plunging down into the ocean's uneasy waters. The Masked Super Saiyan vanished, appearing right where Goku would've landed to kick his son aside, then took a plunge down underwater and appeared in front of him having pursued Goku all the way to where he would've ended up in and emerging from down underwater with a shooting uppercut.

The Super Saiyan pressed his arms by his side and took off, the corrupted aura leaking out from him made it seem like a bloody crescent moon had risen from down under the sea as the Masked Saiyan pursued his opponent into the sky, battering him with further fists and kicks before smashing him back down with a double ax handle slam. The Masked Super Saiyan cracked his head to the sides before rolling his knuckles while his oppressed opponent recovered from the sudden beat down.

"You're not holding back at all, are you?" Goku dragged the back of his fist across his cracked lip, wiping blood off of it before resuming his fighting stance. "I should probably go all-out too but... Somehow, becoming Super Saiyan and enjoying myself just doesn't feel right when you're like this."

Goku took charge of the offensive, rushing across and seeking to drive his elbow into his father's face to smash that accursed, cracked mask that still covered his face up. The Masked Super Saiyan answered Son Goku's attack by catching the point of his elbow and then driving his knee up to collide with Son Goku's. Bardock spun around, dancing around Goku's shooting high kick and then answering with a roundhouse kick of his own. Not feeling content just treating his son like a ball of rags again, Bardock tripped him up to leave Goku in a wild spin before soaring through the air with a devastating hook that detonated with explosive power.

The Masked Saiyan kept a lock on Goku's position and moves. Then, the red dots in the black X of his mask widened, and he turned around. Almost at the same time as Son Goku's image in front of him became blurry, the Saiyan raced it from behind with a spinning backhand strike, but Bardock caught it in mid-air. Goku whipped his kick, lashing it into Bardock's chest with a vociferous thud and earning the freedom to his wrist again. The younger Saiyan made good of that freedom in forming a double ax handle slam, but Bardock exploded with a surrounding energy bubble that blasted Goku aside before the smashing finisher could connect.

Clutching his ribs, Goku somehow maintained a standing position but, bit by bit, began feeling oppressed and threatened by the massive increase in his opponent's power and the completely unwavering stamina he possessed as a Super Saiyan. It was those same Android upgrades that made Goku weary of transforming as well. Super Saiyan battles usually went quite wild and Goku knew he couldn't keep up with a Super Saiyan around his level that had an almost infinite amount of stamina and could keep the form up no matter the amount of damage his body took or the time the breakneck battle extended to. Still, as he struggled more and more in his base form, Goku wondered if staying this way was a better choice in any way whatsoever too.

"Damn it... I guess you're not leaving me much choice. I never intended on using this against you, though I've worked pretty hard in pushing the Super Saiyan as far as I could training in space. I don't like using it against you, but I know you'll never forgive yourself if you end up hurting the people you love while you're lost like this. I can't allow you to bring all that onto yourself again!" Goku clenched his fists and drew his arms back while leaning his upper body down. The gloomy skies spewed thunderbolts out as one of them struck Goku directly.