Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

A Rivalry Revived

A faint Ki signature touched Baby Vegeta's senses. The Earthling was still alive. Most likely as a result of the young hybrid jumping out and taking the most of the blast for himself. He didn't just cover the girl up; he absorbed the overflowing Ki inside his body. Similar to how skilled fighters could channel incredible force and make it flow solely through the body of their opponent, without harming the surrounding environment, the boy streamed the calamitous energy contained within Baby's attack to stream just through his body. It was an amazing show of Ki control, even if it did nothing to reduce the amount of damage he took from it.

Quite the opposite, it drastically boosted it.

With a scornful look on his face, Baby Vegeta extended his hand and prepared a Ki blast to do away with the fallen and unconscious Earthling girl. Before he could blast her limp body away, a cascade of loud bangs made Baby Vegeta cover his face with his hand. A combination of Ki and heavy gunfire came from within the widespread cloud of dust and finer. The forceful shots ripped through the dust, revealing a white scout-type Machine Mutant model with two large weapon barrels aiming from its exposed mid-section.

"Giru-Giru! Videl is Giru's friend! Giru won't let Baby hurt Videl!" Giru proclaimed, revealing the Earthling military technology that he's assimilated into his body by eating up the military-grade weaponry the criminal gangs he and Videl had stopped used. Merely shooting at Baby wouldn't have worked, though if Giru applied just a bit of energy from his artificial Ki engine and imbued the bullets with it, he could make the shots sting a little more.

"Hmph... Now is the time you decide to grow a consciousness? I was practically begging you lot to make a mind of your own back on M-2!" Baby Vegeta hissed, swiping his hand and creating a destructive wall of Ki that blasted Giru rolling aside. Unlike the Earthlings and the Saiyans, even if they were disobedient, Baby Vegeta still pulled his punches against Machine Mutants. Especially one he still desperately needed. "When I finish off that Earthling and her mutt friend, I'll wipe your consciousness and memory and reset them. You will lead me to the Dragon Balls yet!"

A powerful blast shook the very foundation underneath Baby Vegeta's feet and made him wobble while a concussive force knocked at him from the front. It was a golden burst of energy that swept the accumulating dust and black smoke aside and revealed a bloody and bruised Super Saiyan with a torn uniform burning up with wrath while standing beside the body of injured Videl.

"You monster, you could have killed her!" Gohan bellowed, exploding with a radiant burst of Ki that overpowered even the artificial lighting all throughout the station and sank it in streaks of golden light and its pitch-black shade. "Now you've made me mad!"

Gohan took off in a berserker charge at Baby, crashing into the Tsufurian with an elbow strike, which Baby Vegeta blocked with his own elbow. The two began rapidly exchanging strikes, with neither side giving way. A devastating golden energy bubble erected around the two fighters, expanding and burning through even solid steel while its potent electromagnetic field shortened out various Big Gete Star systems it came into contact with. Baby Vegeta caught a strong cross from Gohan's side and pushed the teenager's arm aside with superior physical force.

"Mad? You think you're angry? You've experienced nothing yet. Try confronting me after I've exterminated all of your species and when I'm the only one who can help you undo that catastrophe, only to hear me deny your plight and fight with all my strength to prevent it from happening!" Baby Vegeta answered Gohan with a left-hand cross, then a right-hand step-in hook to the gut, and a double-arm ax handle slam to the back of Gohan's head.

Baby Vegeta's foot stomped on top of the back of Gohan's head, violently grinding his face into the steel grating and squeezing more and more blood from the grazes and cuts all over his face. "Your childish naivety almost makes me want to leave you alive just long enough to see both your races wiped out at my hand and make you feel my despair, feel my need for retribution, only unlike you, I won't get the sweet release and a welcoming journey to my predecessors in the Other World! I've been tasked with their resurrection, so I don't get to just fail, kick back, and die!"