The Pride, The Glory: Vegeta's Destiny!

Ch. 8 : Enter The Ginyu Force

Goku was within yards of Vegeta when suddenly the Prince had stopped in his tracks, his aura dancing about him. As goku approached, however, the aura linked itself together and became a sphere that surrounded Vegeta. Goku smashed into to an energy shield, and a fraction of a second later Vegeta screamed louder, which blew the shield apart in every direction with tremendous force. As it was, goku was on low with his ki reservoir, due to the nature of the kaio ken doubling your maximum output for every level added to it's name.

Severely injured, but with a sustainable amount of ki left, Vegeta knew he had little time to set up an attack. This was it, all or nothing. He refused to lose! Without turning around, Vegeta channeled energy into both fists then slammed them together, creating a smoke screen. Immediately thereafter he charged an enormous blast and hurtled it towards Piccolo and tien. The first move was so his targets wouldn't see the attack coming in time. That was the setup move so his following attack would hopefully draw kakarot off of him when he realized the blast would undoubtedly kill his 2 friends and only remaining battle partners.

Vegeta had a battle I.q that runs unparalleled and without match to this very day, and probably for the rest of eternity. His plan worked like a charm. Instantly, goku went zipping off with kaio ken towards the assault, knowing that he would easily make it there in time to deflect the attack. It wasn't until he passed right thru the attack that he realized that it had no mass or volume. Vegeta had launched a decoy, comprised only of the outer layer of a normal attack of its caliber. Stunned, it took goku a second to regain focus and turn back towards Vegeta. As he started to round about from his direction though, a real blast of energy hit him square on the head.

The attack wasn't much, but it was enough to make goku flinch. That caused him to lose control of his muscles and he immediately lost his kaioken transformation. Ontop of that, his energy was so low that his super saiyan abilities had left him. Fatigued and out of ideas goku floated along, legitimately afraid that this was the end; that Vegeta had his victory. Goku shook his head, snapping out of his delirium. On the verge of passing out one becomes lethargic. In that state of mind, the feeling of submission is overwhelming so long as whoever that is experiencing it can go to sleep after they nod in agreement without even understanding.

He spun towards the life signature that was Vegeta's to get a feel for what came next, just in time. Vegeta was charging him with a grin on his face. Vegeta had kakarot, and therefore the planet earth, right where he wanted them. It was inevitable, in Vegeta's mind, that this would be the outcome. He had some of the facts wrong, but he knew. He had only been defeated in a fight once before, and that was at the hands of the person whom Vegeta was about to kill; exacting his revenge with a vengeance. And that's when they landed.

Vegeta came to a complete hault, just feet before he had finished kakarot off. His scouter was beeping intensely, and his pounding head was having none of it. He was about to snatch it off and destroy it, shouting about it's cheap and worthless design, when he realized that it wasn't broken at all. Actually, if it hadn't gone off as it did, he and the rest of earth would have been wiped out in no time.

The scouter showed him 5 seperate power levels, each slightly larger than the previous. Except for the fifth, which was considerably higher than all of them. The prince knew immediately who they were, and chuckled to himself for a moment. His grin faded, and sheer terror replaced it when he realized what that meant. If the ginyu force was here, out of all of the rocks they could have been assigned to, that must have meant that frieza had become impatient with vegeta and sent them after him.

Whenever they were assigned to a planet, there was only on outcome: torture and destruction, in that order. Vegeta knew that in his new transformation, he would have no problem mopping them up. The problem was that his qi reserves were already too low for comfort. On top of that the scouters worn by the ginyu force would undoubtedly have their communicators switched on, relaying any dialogue directly to frieza. If frieza knew that vegeta was a super saiyan, he prince knew that his entire race and planet would be gone before he could do anything about it.

He looked back at kakarot, who had pulled himself to one knee in an attempt to get a view of the power levels that were rapidly approaching. His gaze met vegeta's and both were silent for a second or two, waiting for the other to mention it. Goku broke the silence and said that whoever those belonged to chose an odd time to arrive. Vegeta scoffed, turning back towards the heavens to wait for sight of the space pods.

He had half a mind to kill kakarot right then, and make a bee line for his ship to make an escape. He would never run though, he thought to himself. Especially not from those buffoons that called themselves the ginyu force. His mind scrambled for an answer. He was caught completely off guard by their random apparance. Otherwise he would have no trouble thinking of a make shift plan that would ensure that nothing he had done so far would be compromised.

He sighed, releasing his yellow aura and changing his hair back to it's black state. He did this so that the ginyu's wouldn't rear his power level with their scouters, hoping they alreary hadn't. He reasoned that if they had they would double check once landed and find nothing, blaming a technical malfunction instead of believing the outrageous number that it had shown them. He looked back at kakarot again. This time the younger saiyan was on his feet, one hand covering his brow's from the sun light so he could see.

He wondered aloud who they were and what they wanted, meeting vegeta's glare once again when he was finished. Vegeta was so frustrated at the turn of events that he couldn't help but let out a loud yell in frustration. Goku looked at his allies, who were still where they were minutes before. They were doing as he had, staring at the sky with curiosity marking their faces. Piccolo pointed up, obviously noticing something. Like domino's goku's head snapped in the direction, followed by vegeta's. There they were, 5 smoke streams led by small fireballs that were blazing through the atmosphere. And as soon as he saw the sight, the plan became crystal clear in his mind.