Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Beating on the Elderly

Goku's sight lingered on a horde of soldiers surrounding and unleashing barrages of plasma blasts at Gohan. The child grunted in pain and covered up to try and resist and the relentless offensive of the far weaker soldiers who used clever military tactics in order to keep the hybrid Saiyan and his mother at bay as letting them get close meant complete obliteration for their invading force. Little Gohan let out an angered roar and shielded himself with a Kiai bubble, deflecting the following blasts and rushing off in chase for a better position to fend the enemy off from.

"Stop!" Goku cried out, extending his hand to Lord Slug who only displayed a wicked, toothless smile, enjoying the torment of the durable little brat. "Why are you doing all this?"

"I'm looking for a Saiyan woman and your Dragon Balls. Though that is not why I enjoy seeing your child crying out in pain. That is merely why I've hand-picked your puny planet for conquest. The reason why I relish in seeing Earthlings exterminated like flies by my Evil Clan is that I am pure evil!" Lord Slug extended his hands out, bolstering his confidence and infuriating Goku for when the Saiyan looked back at him, it was no longer with eyes full of dread and worry for his family's well-being. It was a look of righteous anger and need to punish the withering Namekian tyrant.

"I said stop this!" Goku roared as he dashed the entire distance between him and Lord Slug in a blink, throwing a right-handed cross right in the center of Lord Slug's cross-shaped block. While the Namekian invader looked overjoyed to have driven the Saiyan mad, when he truly felt the overflowing force behind Goku's blow, his face turned dire and he let out a grunt upon skidding back on the ruined city street for multiple blocks.

"What unruly power. I might not get it done without the power of my youth..." the evil Namekian grumbled to himself, reaching for the earpiece on his hi-tech helmet. "Gyoshu, are the vessels ready? I might need to assimilate promptly."

Cybernetic babble filled the air, the answer didn't seem to please the Namekian for he lowered his blocking arms and yelled out in frustration. With Goku's resolute voice filling the cold, ghastly void of the emptied and frozen city, Lord Slug leaped into the fray to answer the bloodthirsty Saiyan's call for battle. Slug had Goku beat in terms of size though that fact didn't seem to bother Goku whatsoever. The martial artist danced around Lord Slug's hefty blows and jabbed and kicked wherever he could find and opening though Lord Slug's Namekian body manipulation allowed him to bend and stretch his limbs to block or deflect the Saiyan's strikes in ways that Goku couldn't read right.

"Take this!" Goku cried out, leaving Lord Slug to deal with an afterimage as the Saiyan appeared over the elderly space conqueror with an overhead kick meant to crush Slug into the ground. Using just his left, Slug blocked the strike and pushed Goku to roll further in mid-air.

"Your strength is impressive, Saiyan. I haven't met anyone this strong. Against my aged body you might just stand a chance," Lord Slug admitted while stretching and warming up in between clashes with the pissed off Saiyan.

Goku's sights were in-between this clash and his family. Gohan was cleverer than Goku gave him credit for and it didn't appear as if though he needed much help. The little one had led the chasing parties of Lord Slug's grunts into an alleyway where he blasted them away with one, mighty Ki wave. Chi-Chi, meanwhile, struggled against a concentrated beam of plasma emitted from one of Lord Slug's giant battle-bots that towered even over the South City skyscrapers.

"Hold on, Chi-Chi, Gohan, it doesn't look like this is a fight I can settle quickly. Not unless I use that..." Goku muttered, fixing his glare back on Lord Slug as he placed his arms by his side and straightened his back. "King Kai's Fist!" he yelled out. An intense, red aura enveloped Goku, rustling his hair and clothes and dyeing his skin in the shade of a subtle swelling as his muscles tensed up and the Saiyan prepared to use all of his strength to deal with Lord Slug as quickly as possible, even though he felt confident about his odds of winning even without his hidden ace.