Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Goku's Last Stand!

"Alright, I'll keep you busy!" Goku declared with a resolute face as he dashed up at the jaw of the Great Ape and delivered a high kick upward aimed at the beast's chin. The titan's crimson eyes blinked and the monster flinched from the impact but no signs of considerable damage tipped Goku off that his attacks might have been at all effective.

Never having been one to give up or stop halfway, the young Saiyan vanished and threw a straight cross to the center of the Great Ape's nose before kicking a pair of times to each of the monster's nostrils. The Great Ape emit an uproar of torment but Goku was no longer there. Jabbing across the beast's eyes and the space in between then with a quick flurry of punches. Once Goku noted how his fists may as well have been wet rags smashing against stone, the martial artist improvised a swift spin kick to the ape's right eye and threw a wayward Ki blast to the left.

Once he thought he had the monster on the ropes, Goku appeared over the Great Ape's head and smashed at the top of his transformed father's belfry. What he had foreseen to be a decisive smash that would knock the monster flat was instead just a dull thud that appeared to piss the monster off more than anything else. The Great Ape thrashed around, throwing mad fists about.

"Damn! I must have spent a whole lot of Ki taking down that big guy from before. Guess my body's been out of the loop of using Hot-Red..." Goku grunted to himself, looking perplexed at his situation and to what any possible solutions to his problem might have been. "At least it doesn't look like you're too sharp in this form. I'd be in trouble if you actually knew how to fight..."

A flash of blinding white caught Goku by surprise. The roar that came from the jaws of the titanic creature only reached him once he had been caught inside the deluge of the beast's mouth blast. Great Ape Bardock was spitting fury in the form of supercharged Ki at the same time as he thrashed about looking to wreak havoc. Hearing his own cry as if he was listening to it beside him from some other place felt odd and disorienting. Had it not been for the searing pain, Goku might have bought in to the idea that he was dead.

Vociferous, high pitched blasts resonated throughout the devastated, rocky battlefield. This breath of raw power that took Goku down was only one of his father's outbursts of wrath. He had to move. If he didn't, he'd die for sure. Goku opened his eyes but there was no light, his vision was playing tricks on him. The last time he had his eyes opened – all was white, now things were dark again even when his eyes were opened in an attempt to escape the shade. It was only when the crushing weight of the Great Ape's hammering slam hit Goku and crushed him into the rocks below that the Saiyan realized he's been found and smashed.

A smash, a pair of stomps... Even if Goku could neither hear nor feel the Great Ape monster's rampage, his experience, and skill in martial arts allowed him to imagine the unskilled and mindless body of his enemy as clearly as if he'd have been able to see it. The Great Ape wasn't resolute with smashing Goku either. It lacked the proper focus even for this simple task, its fury was reserved for the world that hosted it and not one particular person that it saw. Goku's end might not have been in any way more satisfying to the beast than the devastation of a nearby pillar of bedrock.

That might have been the only reason why Goku found a chance to breathe through the relentless beatdown and get back to the fight.

"Hot-Red!" Goku yelled out, emitting a prideful blaze of red Ki from his body as his skin took a deeper shade of pink and his sweat seemed to heat up to the point of boiling. The Saiyan raised his left fist and launched himself toward the monster, hoping that he could somewhat lessen the tremendous difference between their powers.

If was of no use, the titan swatted his hand and knocked Goku aside like an annoying gnat. The martial artist could barely deal with his own grunts as his busted ribs made even translating his pain difficult. Using Hot-Red was the absolute worst idea. It served as a nice clutch tip of the scales against an opponent just barely stronger but it only hastened Goku's collapse when there was no hope in the first place.