Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

The Wrong Kind of Maturity

"The comfort of one Earthling woman?" Baby Vegeta looked up, slowly blinking as if he was struggling to comprehend the full scope of how irrelevant he perceived Bardock's wish to be. "You would sabotage the revival of the Tsufurian race just for that!?"

A turbulent torrent of wind made Bardock cover his front up with one hand. In an instant, Baby Vegeta had moved right behind him and now stood back-to-back with the transformed Saiyan. Turning around, Baby slammed his hand in a driving thrust at Bardock's abdomen, but the Hyper Super Saiyan caught it with his own hand, entering the pair into a ground-shaking power struggle. Before long, the second hands of each fighter joined in and the two engaged each other in a heated pushing competition, even ramming their heads against each other for an additional electric discharge to heat the surrounding air.

"While I am not oblivious to the plight of this Earthling, I will require both wishes to realize my dream and undo all the damage that you Saiyans have brought to our planet. I will require a wish to bring back my dead people and another to repair the planet to the way it was before Saiyans put it through so much violence, war, and bloodshed. I'll make Planet Plant into the natural paradise it once was. Your poor Earthling woman only has you and your insolence to blame for why her torment extends further..." Baby Vegeta snarled into Bardock's face before stretching his arms to the side and breaking the power struggle.

A devastating golden explosive wave burst from around Baby Vegeta's entire body, throwing Bardock skidding and rolling backward while Baby dashed forward with a vicious offensive combination. First, he thrust his arm into Bardock's gut, then slammed him again with an uppercut to the chin. A flurry of afterimages flooded the damaged city district as the false images of Baby Vegeta blitzed around in a sadistic dance before the real deal swung in from above and behind with a double ax handle that flattened Bardock to the ground.

"Reverse Shot!" Baby shouted out, taking off into the air with his right arm pointed down at Bardock's flattened body and firing a stream of magenta blasts at his target. Even though the technique had a moderate amount of spread, the streaming energy blasts corrected their trajectory halfway down and all converged on Bardock's flattened body, causing a fusillade of chained blasts that merged into a terrifying detonation streaming with a cloud of dust reaching the sky and looming over even the tallest skyscrapers around.

Bardock stood up, bloodied and grazed. The left side of his modified Saiyan battle armor had chipped off, leaving the chest plate just barely hanging over his body by a thread. With a scored expression, he looked back at Baby, having taken every little ounce of his rage yet only suffered hindering scrapes and bruises from it.

"You'll become Super Saiyan, you say...?" Bardock muttered to himself before soaring through the sky with a flying kick that dug straight into Baby Vegeta's gut and made him belch a mouthful of slobber while wheezing all the air in his lungs out at once. A devastating step-in right uppercut to the chin flinched Baby while nearly pulling his head off the shoulders. A dragon tail sweep followed up by a vicious roundhouse kick to Baby Vegeta's chest sent the Tsufurian body snatcher flying and crashing through skyscrapers, making the job of evacuating the city harder for the assembly of Saiyans.

Spinning around with his left leg sticking out, Bardock delivered a spinning top method of a kicking beatdown in mid-air after catching up to his enemy in a blink. Putting his arms together into a cross-arm dive position, Hyper Bardock plunged down while carrying and dragging his opponent along with him and slamming Baby into the ground. The explosive combination caused a golden bubble of energy that decimated the whole city district and burrowed the two crashing combatants into a crater. At the same time, they left the surrounding city district flattened and smoldering.

"You wimp. To become a Super Saiyan, you need to experience maturity. You need to overcome your flaws, admit your wrongs, and then control the resulting outburst of emotions. You're far too stubborn and infantile to ever manage such a thing," Bardock spat out pure vitriol over his opponent by stomping on his head and shoving it deeper into the dirt beneath his feet.