Unexpected Fate

Defying Fate

Unexpected Fate

Chapter 24-Defying Fate

The sky was dark with a hint of light on the horizon. The ruins of a fallen city laid to waste by heedless destruction surrounded the cursed warrior and he wandered in confusion of what monstrosity could do such a thing. Moments later, he had his answer when a painful cry echoed against the buildings; a cry that Bardock alone recognized.

'Kakarrot!'

Running around the corner, Bardock was unprepared when he saw his son slammed into a rocky precipice painfully by Brolly. The very sight sent a chill down the warrior's spine while the behemoth continued tormenting the smaller warrior.

"Your screams make me sick Kakarrot... I will soon silence you permanently..." Brolly vowed with a hiss. He powered up a green blast that he aimed directly at his son.

'Power...' a pleading voice echoed softly from Kakarrot that he could barely hear it; a voice that sounded almost like a dying whisper ringing faintly in the air. 'I need more power... otherwise he'll win... please...'

"P-Prince Vegeta..." Bardock turned to see his future version weakly struggle to remain standing; breathing hard while the blood ran down the side of his face. "Kakarrot knows what he's doing... see to it he gets what he needs..." A white orb of energy flickered to life in his hands.

"What about you?" Vegeta stubbornly questioned in defiance. "You're not planning to...?"

"If I had the strength to do anything else, then by all means, inspire me..." Bardock hissed weakly. "It won't last long at all, but if it will give Kakarrot the edge to beat this motherfucking bastard, I'm all for it..."

"This better work or I'll ensure you're wished to life just to be brutally sent back to the gods with your head in your ass," Vegeta threatened. A defiant smirk crossed future Bardock's face as he floated into the sky on a suicidal course towards his son's captor.

"Brolly!" Bardock beckoned angrily. The behemoth turned when he heard his name called. The giant turned to face the cursed warrior. "Why not just kill me first or are you afraid?"

"Afraid? Of an insect like you?" Brolly chuckled before firing chi rings to pin Goku's weakened form against the crater's surface. "And with a pitiful attack like that, I doubt you could do anything to harm me... in fact, none of you were able to do anything to slow me down, so why do you even try to take down a god?"

"A god doesn't bleed the same as we do," future Bardock stated calmly while his hand twitched. "Nor boasts and harms innocents..." Surprise crossed the cursed warrior's face when he noted that he threw the blast heavenward rather than at the beast.

'Did I intentionally miss or...?' Bardock thought before the images blurred around him. 'Where am I now?'

"For the last time, I will be fine grandfather..." Gohan spoke with tension and frustration clearly in his voice. "Don't worry, I'll take Cell down..."

'Cell? Who's that?' Bardock looked around and noticed himself standing near his grandson. He noticed his hair was spikier than it usually is when he transformed into a Super Saiya-jin and he saw the blood dripping from Gohan's arm. 'What the hell happened to Gohan?'

"That's beside the point! Your arm's broken because you shielded Vegeta from that blast! How are you going to be able to fire anything in that condition?" future Bardock asked rather bitterly.