Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

The Power of What's Really Important

"Super Saiyan 2... It can't be! Only the members of the royal bloodline should be able to awaken this power!" Baby Vegeta still struggled to accept the fact that a newly ascended Super Saiyan 2 stood before him.

"You..." Goku muttered with a cold look, staring at Giru as opposed to Baby Vegeta, almost as if the Neo Tsufurian was of no concern at this moment. "Don't waste your life self-destructing. You've got friends who care a great deal about you. Enough to come here to rescue you. Don't throw your life away and dismiss their sacrifice."

Baby Vegeta was about to show Giru's quartered and malfunctioning body off to Goku as a sadistic tease for the Saiyan. Maybe even put a little squeeze on the scout drone to make that loathsome golden-haired brute stop pretending to be some awesome warrior, someone of consequence. However, just when Baby was about to move his hand, he realized it was holding nothing. With a befuddled look, Baby Vegeta blinked a couple of times while staring at his bruised and shaking hand.

When the body-snatcher turned back to Goku, the Super Saiyan 2 was no longer there. Frantically, Baby began searching for the ascended Saiyan warrior and found him near Videl's limp and dying body just as a heavy, building-sized Machine Mutant roller was about to squish paste out of her. Goku didn't even interact with the incoming drone, letting it crash into his immovable back and break into millions of pieces as elementary as screws and bolts. Goku, with Giru in one hand, scooped Videl up with the other and dashed off to Yamcha, placing the pair around the injured martial artist.

"What are you doing!? How dare you ignore me!? Is this your answer to why Saiyans deserve to live? Because you've suddenly decided to pretend like you've grown a heart!? Ridiculous!" Baby Vegeta seethed and spat vitriol at Goku while the dazzling Super Saiyan 2 proceeded to ignore him and vanished in a stunning hyperspace tunnel, approaching Gohan only to scoop him up gently and off the ground. It was only when Goku looked at his son's unconscious and wounded body that his look softened and his eyes became rounder again.

"This must be some kind of trick! One of those martial arts techniques that the three-eyed Earthling was so proud of! I refuse to believe that anyone in this universe could move so fast that I, the sharpest mind hosted in the strongest body in the universe, couldn't see it!" Baby Vegeta exclaimed in pure wrath, pressing his hands together and shooting off a black Revenge Galick Gun only for his energy wave to miss Goku and Gohan entirely and beam off into the farthest reaches of the universe before detonating in a universe-shaking blast. "It... Missed... How!? I didn't even see you move!" Baby Vegeta hissed as his seething hatred began rearing corners of something else entirely — fear.

Fear that he, moreover, everything he has worked so hard to achieve, all the legacy of the Tsufurian people, would be undone and go extinct and forgotten in oblivion again. This invincible, infinitely powerful golden warrior could surely do it. He could extinguish Baby with a snap! Suddenly, even when Goku was paying Baby Vegeta no mind at all and merely making sure that Gohan joined his friends around Yamcha in the middle, the ascended Super Saiyan 2 seemed like he was a living monolith. A mountain of cosmic proportions with Baby Vegeta feeling like a mere ant before his monumental presence.

No! This was all in Baby's head. It was just some psychological trick to demean him. To belittle his ultimate power, which nothing and nobody in the universe can compare to. Goku placed Gohan close to Yamcha and straightened his back. Deafening rumble made it impossible to hear one's own thoughts. A colossal Machine Mutant cannon tank rolled up and aimed its tremendous barrel at Goku. After it fired the shot, but before the blast moved any significant distance within the barrel, Goku grabbed the end of the barrel with both his hands and squeezed it into a filtering nozzle with his hands, shutting it up. This stunt forced the strident energy blaze that should have obliterated the Super Saiyan 2 and his comrades to implode and destroy the merged Machine Mutant monstrosity by blasting its contents out from the back. Utterly destroyed, the colossal machine collapsed as burning and busted spare parts.