Chapter Seventeen - Trouble In The HFIL
Goku and Sakura looked around at the area around them. Goku shook his head. "This place hasn't changed a bit in over two years. He said, looking around. "They really need to redecorate the HFIL sometime." Sakura sniggered before walking into the HFIL.
Furiza stood fifty feet in front of her. Two 'people' stood next to him. One of them had green and black skin, and two long black wings. He had a self-satisfied sort of smirk on his face that made Sakura's insides turn to ice.
The other creature had flaky, electric blue skin, except around his eyes and mouth, where the skin was smooth and white. He was completely bald, and on his forehead was a purple tattoo. It showed a circle containing a triangle with a large dot inside. He held his hands in front of him, and a ball of scarlet energy swirled around between his palms.
"It's Goku!", Furiza gasped, staring at Goku, a slight fear in his eyes. "Why don't you meet my new friend. You already met Cell, didn't you? I don't believe you've met Akumasenka though. I also do not believe you will be laughing when you have caught a glimpse of his true power, monkey!" Then his eyes fell upon Sakura. "Well, well, well." He said smiling, the usual hiss in his voice. "It's my old friend. Sakura." Sakura gritted her teeth as she burned with rage.
"I'll never be any friend of yours!", she spat, sparks flying from her eyes as she glared at Furiza. "You and your Namek friends killed so many people. Including my family, and myself!"
"Unless I am mistaken, girl," Akumasenka cut in, smiling widely, and showing three rows of pointed teeth, like those of a shark. "I have reason to believe that it was a half-blooded freak who took your life. This monkey's son to be precise. I see his name in as I meditate. Gohan."
Gohan? He thought to himself, turning this information over in his head. Gohan had killed Sakura. Why? "Is this true?", he asked Sakura, turning to her, a disappointment coming over him such as he had never felt. Could Gohan have deliberately killed Sakura?
"Well, yes." Sakura said shuffling her feet and looking down at the ground. "But I told him to. I was binding a group of Nameks with my energy, and I told Gohan to fire a Kame-Hame-Ha at us. He did and I was killed." Goku nodded.
"Well?" said Cell, stepping forward. "Aren't you going to fight us?"
"Get real!" Goku laughed, one eyebrow raised. "Cell, I seem to remember you being defeated by my eleven year old son! And Furiza, Vegeta's son from the future beat you, and when he was raised, Vegeta was dead! You guys don't stand a chance!" Cell just laughed.
"Furiza and I are not going to waste our time with you wimps." He said in a snobbish tone. "We will leave it to Akumasenka." Akumasenka smiled threateningly, baring every single one of his many teeth, and the ball of scarlet energy between his palms expanded.
Sakura powered up dramatically. Her hair turned golden and rose up in its plait, her eyes became turquoise blue and her muscles bulged as she transformed into a Super Saiya-jin. Goku gaped for a moment, before powering up himself to a Super Saiya-jin. Sakura smiled for a moment, before the two of them ran towards Akumasenka, their energies blazing around them as one.
Goku rushed up and kicked Akumasenka in the back of the head with the force to send him flying through a large mountain range. To his horror, the blow did not even phase him. Goku yelled, struggling to keep his cool. He would be useless in this fight if he let his anger take control. He gathered his energy, and fired a series of energy blasts at Akumasenka. The monster simply raised a hand, and the energy blasts went flying back towards Goku. Sakura screamed as the blasts hit Goku and sent him flying metres backwards into a wall. She ran up, just as Goku struggled to his feet and wiped blood from his eyes, forehead and mouth. He had put so much power into the attacks, that when they backfired upon him, they had wiped out even more of his energy.
Akumasenka turned upon Sakura, and she backed away in fear. If Akumasenka had done such damage to Goku, then she could not possibly stand a chance. She looked up, and to her horror, Akumasenka was raising his hands, reforming the scarlet energy between his palms. He through the energy, and it hit Sakura with agonising power, but it did not stop there. The energy went inside her very body, and Sakura could somehow feel it wrapping itself around er soul. Sakura screamed in agony, and fell to the ground, unconscious. "Done!" Akumasenka said, smiling as he turned his back on Sakura's unconscious form.
"What did you do to her?" Goku yelled to Akumasenka's back as he knelt down about three feet from Sakura. He couldn't get ant closer than that, because a clear wall of energy, like glass, had formed around her.
"Imprisoned her spirit." He replied without turning back. "I suggest you get out of here Goku. You don't want to end up like your over-confident little niece over there. She really was not very clever. I would warn your pathetic little boy not to interfere as well. I will only destroy him"
Goku snapped, and his rage took control. He yelled at the top of his lungs, and his energy exploded, engulfing the entire area around them. People and creatures in the HFIL went flying backwards, away from Goku's tremendous energy. The ground around him exploded, leaving an enormous cloud of dust and smoke around Goku through which nobody could see. No matter how hard anybody tried, they could not see the spectacular transformation that was taking place behind that thick curtain of smoke and dust. Nobody could see as Goku lost who he was altogether.
Akumasenka squinted, and saw a figure emerging from within the cloud. It was Goku, but he had changed. His golden blonde hair stood straight up on his head like pins, and his muscles had dramatically expanded. His turquoise eyes did not show any of the usual kindness that usually shone there. They were empty and angry, and for the first time, he looked the way he had been intended to look when he was sent to Earth as a baby. Evil. He was not Goku any more, he was Kakarot as he was intended to be. The only thought on Kakarot's mind was to kill Akumasenka. He was not considering mercy, not like he had done when he had transformed into a Super Saiya-jin for the first time on Namek. He had just about held on to who he was then. This time, he had lost it. Kakarot did not care what he did, just as long as he stopped Akumasenka from hurting Gohan. Gohan. His son's name brought Goku back, forced Kakarot out, and Goku thought about what he was doing. Yes, he desperately wanted to destroy Akumasenka, but now was not the time. He would fight him, but right now, he needed to sort out who he was. Goku or Kakarot? Goku existed to do good, and to help the people on Earth, but Kakarot had been born to destroy the Earth. If he gave in to his rage, that would be who he would become. He fired a powerful energy blast at Akumasenka, who stumbled back and nearly fell as the blast hit him, and took off towards the Grand Kai's palace, leaving Sakura behind.