Passing on the torch(Natto/Private/4hiseyesonly/thisisKaula)

It was Natto’s first day back at the Capital, after spending about a week at the Central Wasteland, training with all he’s got. He took a shower the moment he woke up, since he was stinking as hell. It was a very long shower to make him start smelling decently enough to be presentable, even to saiyans standards. After the shower, he put on his weighted battle suit that had also been washed carefully, making it look presentable again. Natto was almost feeling completely comfortable with the weighted armor, making him wonder if he should already give them to Tomoroko. ”I was a little stronger than she is when I first acquired those… But if she was to use them earlier, her growth would be a way faster!” he thought, smiling when he remembered about the young saiyan girl, making him blush slightly as he felt some shivers running down his spine. He wanted to see her.

”Maybe I should go visit her! Yeah… Definitely!” decided, he grabbed his red scouter and put it on, getting ready to scan for her power level before trying to send a message. However, to his surprise, the moment he turned on his scouter, he heard a message. The voice was without any doubt from Kaula, making him frown instantly, as he was acquiring some distaste for the hybrid commander-in-chief of the saiyan defense army. ”Wha the hell does she want now?” he asked himself, only to be surprised by her direct summoning. ”She wants to talk to me?! Urgent matter?! Well… As much as I would like to ignore that annoying conceited girl and go see Tomoroko, I have a duty to the Saiyan Solar Empire! I have to answer this damn call!” he sighed, feeling irritated.

Natto flared his ghostly-white ki aura, which quickly engulfed his body as he flew through the air with all his speed, leaving a trail of white ki energy behind him as he scratched across the skies of Planet Vegeta. His scouter was quick to find a power level that was definitely Kaula’s weighted suppressed power level, as it was a considerable power of 31.347, which was slightly lower than Natto’s present weighted suppressed power level, but he didn’t know how strong he was right now, so he couldn’t compare. ”That’s definitely her…” he reaffirmed to himself, as he managed to approach. The young saiyan landed right in front of Kaula, that was quite easy to spot as she wanted to be found by him.

As he landed, he glared at her with some resentment on his eyes, but he was trying really hard to be respectful towards her, despite his lack of etiquette. – Commander, you summoned me? – he asked the rethorical question, as he folded his arms. His body posture was also indicating that he wasn’t feeling great to be there. He still ruminated the slap to his face on the meeting. His eyes looked around quickly, searching for Reikiko, but he didn’t find her. ”Good…” he thought to himself, staring back at Kaula, waiting for an explanation on why he was summoned.

Kaula sighed before saying that she had good news and bad news, mostly bad news, making him furrow his eyebrows even more, and teased him by asking about his jaw, to which he responded by pointing his thumb to his cross-shaped scar on his left cheek. ”Already dealt with worse things…” he said, and it was an obvious lie, as, even though the scars hurt back them, it could never compare to a slap from a super saiyan. At least she assumed that she misheard what he said, to which he responded sighing. ”At least she is recognizing that she made a mistake her own way… That’s good enough for me…” he thought to himself. Even though he was still angry, he was somehow less angry; Natto wasn’t a resentful person. Quite the contrary, he was easy to forgive fellow saiyans, and as much as he knew, Kaula had saiyan blood, so she was as much as a saiyan as he was.

With that, he shook his head, like he was saying that it was alright, and then she continued. She pointed out about that other time when the strange alien or demon came to the palace, threatening soldiers before speaking to Kaula and Natto. He told them things that Kaula already knew. Even Natto knew quite a lot of things he told them, which made his visit quite pointless. Following that she said that they needed Reikiko to face Virtual Poi, and as much as he disliked that fact, it was – obviously – a fact.

And somehow that alien was leaving. Natto felt quite split. Part of him was glad that the freak was leaving the planed, especially because she actually threatened to lure the accursed android to Planet Vegeta. On the other hand, he knew that her leaving the planet would imply in a considerable loss in strength and the chances of defeating the android would be greatly hindered. Natto sighed with that, but the worst part was about to come. Kaula said that there was some trouble back at her place. ”Like I care…” he thought to himself, but then the hybrid said that she was going with Reikiko, making him cough in a burst. – W-what the heck?! – he asked, completely startled by her statement. But it was about to get worse!

Somehow the young hybrid thought that it would be “better” if she also took Radasha with her. Even though Radasha wasn’t madly strong, she was still one of the few members of the elite, and now she was also leaving the damn planet due to some stupid reason on Natto’s standards. Nothing would be more important to him than the safety of Planet Vegeta, and she was forfeiting it. ”Freaking traitor!” he thought to himself, holding all his anger inside as much as he could. The only visible sign of his anger so far was his frowned eyebrows.

Kaula also said that she would leave him in charge until either she or the queen was to come back from their mission, and then explained that she chose Natto because he was the best available choice at the moment, since Aspa was a real jerk and couldn’t be trusted with such responsibility. Following that, she suggested him to do whatever it takes to protect the planet, allowing him to form a squad or something like that and finally asked him if he had any questions. Natto closed his eyes for a bit and chuckled. – Questions, you ask? – he said, slowly as he showed more of his anger by gritting his teeth and glaring at her with fury on his eyes.

– Fuck the questions! I will not let you betray our planet, and our race by leaving to help that… That girl! – he made a huge effort not to call her anything worse. – Besides, you are taking another member of the elite with you just because!! Screw you, Kaula! You can’t leave us to our fate! You are the only one here who can use the power ball to help with our defenses! You are a freaking super saiyan! How the hell do you think the morale of the soldiers will be after you leave?! Nobody fucking know me! – he growled, letting out his rage. – You try to leave this place and I’ll beat you to the pulp with all I’ve got! I don’t like you attitude! But you are important to everyone on this planet! And I don’t give a shit if you friend’s home will be turned to space dust! The saiyans come first!! – he growled at her, clenching his fists.

He seemed really adamant about not “allowing” her to leave the planet.

They started arguing, as both of them were failing to see each other’s point. Truth be told, Natto wasn’t trying really hard to understand Kaula, since he was still butt hurt by what Reikiko said and Kaula’s overreaction to protect her. She made it crystal clear that she was going with Reikiko to Earth, to fight Virtual Poi where he was supposed to be, as she said it over and over again, finishing with a roar. Then she asked him to look at it strategically, presenting a scenario where they didn’t leave Planet Vegeta and awaited for Virtual Poi to come to here. She pointed out the obvious: he would most likely bring the fight to the Capital, causing countless casualties, as he was powerful enough to destroy a freaking planet on his own. She said that she wasn’t willing to risk some of her people in a fight with him, which only made Natto angrier, as he gritted his teeth even more. ”She speaks of protecting our people?! That’s bullshit!” he thought to himself, feeling the rage building up inside of him.

Then she crossed another line. She said she was playing smart to risk another planet, but she was actually going there since her friend wanted to protect it, so that excuse didn’t convince Natto, only made him get more infuriated as he was pretty convinced that she held earth into some regard to go so far as to protect it, or at least she held Reikiko on a very dear spot on her heart to be willing to go with her to protect her home, which was confirmed when she called her “my love” ”Even more bullshit! She is going there to protect her freaking mate!” he growled, thinking about what she was saying, only to get absurdly pissed off when she asked where the saiyan in him was.

She claimed that she wasn’t abandoning Vegeta, and that he could call them if something went south, to which he laughed in a sarcastic way. – Like we could detect a freaking android before it was too late! – he said in an ironic tone, staring at her with a sarcastic smile.

– Would you shut the hell up?! You only said bullshit! You are going to earth because Reikiko is your mate! Your lover! That is crystal clear now! Even if we were to warn you about his coming, it would probably be too late! Without the power of the Great Apes here, I couldn’t do much by myself! Even though I’m training as hard as I can! – he growled again and flared his ghostly-white aura around his body, as he could no longer held in his rage. – You would rather leave us vulnerable to go on a suicide mission with that girl, just because you care about her more than you care about our home! Our empire! Our people! You selfish piece of shit! I despise you for that! – he growled, and with that, some strains of bright gold started to take over his ki aura, as his power level started to skyrocket. – And I won’t allow you to abandon us like that! For free! I’m going to beat the shit out of you, until you give up with this freaking idea! – his aura became bright gold and his power level was already tenfold of what it was. – I KNOW THAT FIGHTING HERE WILL PUT A LOT OF US INTO SOME SERIOUS RISK! BUT IF YOU ARE NOT HERE AND HE DECIDES TO ATTACK, WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN MANAGE TO COME BACK, YOU FOOL!!! – he shouted with all of his lungs, and his hair bristled and became golden, while his eyes changed from black to teal.

– Try and leave the freaking planet now! – he threatened her, sliding his left foot forward while bending his knees slightly. His left hand came to the front of his head, while the right arm was held next to the body, bent elbows and fist clenched, as he assumed his fighting stance. He was ready for a fight and he was completely enraged. ”I’m not going to let her leave without a fight!” he decided, with his power level being twelve times higher than before.

Natto had become a Super Saiyan, and he was dead serious.

Just as Natto transformed, Kaula started being sarcastic, making him even angrier. She clapped her hands saying “Bravo” as he transformed, then she spoke with a soft huff that he managed to achieve the transformation, and he couldn’t help but to feel some sort of irony or her tone. Maybe it was something that he felt on his own due to being angry at the girl, maybe she had indeed some irony on her tone, but he wouldn’t know and as he didn’t know it fueled his rage further. Then Kaula said that it was a pit and yawned. – What?! – he growled, as she let her hands fall to her side and then said that he couldn’t do a thing by himself, making him grit his teeth even more. – I know this, asshole! That’s precisely why I won’t allow you to abandon us! – he said in a roar, as he was getting rather furious with her attitude towards him. She was wrong, he though, and therefore, he should beat some sense into her. And her cocky grin was almost as annoying as her lack of posture for an impending fight. ”This pretentious little shit!!!” he thought to himself, as he stared at her with all his focus. He wanted to beat her so bad, and he would use his rage as a fuel to be able to do so.

Kaula was far more experienced with her transformation than he was, but Natto wasn’t an inexperienced fighter anymore. He had improved on the past months as he had the opportunity to face countless different opponents, both saiyans and members of different races. He wasn’t that naïve kid anymore. He was a super saiyan, and an elite member of the Saiyan Solar Empire.

The girl transformed, becoming a super saiyan in a really quick way, showing to Natto that she already dominated the basic of that transformation. His scouter beeped and he could see that the transformation raised her restricted power level eleven times. ”Odd… I could swear it was much stronger than the Great Ape…” he wondered, as he didn’t know yet how much was his transformed power level, nor that there was a difference on the power boost gained if you were a pure-blooded or a hybrid. After transforming, she finally got into some fighting stance as she told him to “fuck himself”, to which he responded angrily. – Make me! – he answered, pay close attention to her stance, as she raised her right arm, charging a small crimson orb on top of it. ”A ki attack…” he became alert to that, as he still held his ground.

Kaula made a proposition: if he was to beat her, she would probably stay. If she was to beat him, he would let her go, to which he nodded in response. – Seems fair enough… - he said. Truth be told, he didn’t want her to leave regardless of the result of their battle, but he knew that if he lost to her, there wasn’t a single soul on Vegeta that would be strong enough to stop her. He was the Planet’s only hope of making Kaula and Radasha stay. After that, she said that she would let him tire himself, making him growl again. ”Dammit! Can’t let her have her way!”. She smiled with that irritating cocky attitude before pointing her fingers at him and firing an attack called “Dondonpa”, launching a thin but powerful crimson energy wave with a simple green line wrapping it.

Natto’s body was quick, as he moved at the exact timing of her movement, using one crucial concept of martial arts: the go no sen (後の戦), consisting on paying close attention to the offensive movement from the opponent in order to notice the exact timing of the attack and, as the opponent already started his attack, the user would immediately aim to counter it.

The young saiyan would quickly spin his waist to dodge the attack that grazed beside him, almost hitting. ”Close call!” he though, as he initiated his counter attack: Natto would rush forward her, seizing the opportunity since she had just fired her attack to throw a potent elbow strike to her face. He would use his left elbow, while clenching the left fist and holding it with his right hand, to increase the speed and damage output to his maximum potential.

Should it hit, he would immediately release his right hand and clench that fist and stretching his arm, in order to, as he spun his waist again – now to the left – wrap his right arm around her upper chest and neck, hitting her hard and forcing her to the ground, in a lariat move.

Should he miss the attack, he would just fall back into his fighting stance, in order to be able to respond to her attacks. He knew already that she was quite dangerous, since her ki blast was almost too fast for him to dodge.

That Kaula was an accomplished fighter, Natto had no doubt, but he was still impressed she managed to; somehow, block his full-powered elbow strike. The hit still landed even though she blocked a considerable amount of the damage, she was still punished by the attack. However, due to the fact that she wasn’t guard broke with his first blow, his lariat wasn’t able to connect the way it should, as she sidestepped, making him miss. After dodging, she grinned, making him growl in anger as she hopped back and forth a little, with her fists raised, making him arch one of his angry eyebrows. ”Why the hell is she hopping?” to him that didn’t make much sense. She had an weird posture, maybe it was due to her earthling side, that guy Beryl Roarke also had a weird fighting style. But Natto knew better than to underestimate such different fighting styles, and he didn’t lower his guard, as he fell back into his fighting stance, to evaluate the situation.

”That energy wave… Really fast and dangerous! I’ve got to look out for her, she can be faster than it seems, but I’m still faster than her… But she may still have some aces up her sleeves… After all she is a super saiyan! I cannot lower my guard, but I can’t waste much time either! She is more used to the transformation than I am!” he thought to himself as he tried to see through her weird posture. To be there, waiting meant that she wanted to counter him, or keep on dodging his attacks to make him tired, as she spoke earlier. He had to be better than that and overcome her at her own comfort zone.

His bright gold aura still engulfed his body, shining bright and fierce, as his angry feature remained. Natto once again dashed towards Kaula, this time preparing to throw a haymaker to her face in a straight line.

But that was a feint.

Natto would wait until the very last available second before landing the blow either to her face, or to some blocking and pull his arm back, trusting with his hips as he tried to land a powerful knee strike to her stomach. He would use the movement of his whole body to be able to harvest all his available strength on that attack. - AAAAHHHH!!! - he would shout as he delivered the blow.

Should it connect, he would immediately seize her winding, raising his hands above his head, holding it together in a hammer like posture and then proceeding to sledgehammer her to the ground with all he’s got.

Even though Kaula fell for his feint, she was still quick enough to block his powerful knee strike, making him growl, being furious at the damn girl: she was just too good at fighting, and it was pissing him off. Up until now he had managed to keep the upper hand, as he wasn’t hit by her, but he was also being unable to hit her hard enough to make her feel some serious pain, so it could be considered that they were even, and that wasn’t good. It wasn’t good at all. However, things were about to get worse, as, the moment she blocked his attack, her body started to grow stronger, and Natto knew pretty well what that was: she was bulking herself. ”That’s not good at all! Her power will grow closer to mine!” he knew it, since he was also able to do that, but he wasn’t willing to do so right away. He wanted to see what she was about to do by bulking herself.

She tried to attack him as she pushed his knee away from her, but she was much slower than before, which made it easy for him to quickly back step, avoiding her uppercut. However, her attack was more of a distraction, as she flew up into the skies, out of melee range, where Natto was having the advantage. He frowned his brows even more as he stared at her, roaring as she stopped. He hands came together and she seemed to be charging an attack, a rather dangerous one, making him grit his teeth again. ”That doesn’t seem good! I don’t think I’ll have the time to charge my planet buster to defeat her! I have to give my very best to overcome her attack! I’ll also have to sacrifice my speed! Come on body!!!” he decided, as he started to scream with all his lungs capacity. Natto pushed his ki energy and body to its very limits, augmenting his muscle mass, overcoming his limitations. His battle suit stretched and so did his jumpsuit, as he became incredibly bulked, as he activated his power weighted form.

Kaula spoke, saying that he was strong, but that he would not be able to beat her. The young saiyan stared at her, drawing his right hand to his right side while charging a big red-colored energy sphere on it. – I will never give up! I’m not fighting this battle just for myself! I’m fighting for all the saiyans!!! – he shouted in anger, as he brought his hand forward at the same time Kaula fired her attack. Natto fired the big red energy wave towards her own weird-shaped ki attack. – I will use all I’ve got!!!! SUPER SHINE TRIGGER!!! – he shouted as he fired his attack. Then, the two attacks clashed and a beam struggle began. However, not even for a second it seemed like Natto would win that clashed, as her attack was quick to overwhelm his own. – AAAAHHHH!!! DAMMIT!!!! WHAT POWER!!! – he screamed, as he was being pushed to the ground. Soon, her attack completely overcame his red energy wave hitting him so hard, that the ground beneath him was shattered, forming a square pit a few meters deep, but not much, since he managed to weaken quite a lot of her attack.

Natto, however, was pretty hurt. With some effort, he hovered out of the pit. His battle suit lost both of its shoulder guards, and his jumpsuit was scorched. His right hand was also heavily hurt and his glove was disintegrated due to the beam struggle. He had suffered quite a lot of damage and because of that he couldn’t sustain his power weighted form, reverting back to normal. However, his fury was still burning inside of his eyes, as he stared at Kaula. – What… A monstrous technique… I… I never imagined! But… I will not give up! – he growled, with anger burning inside of him. Motivated mostly by his own will power, he charged towards her, screaming as he did, feeling rather determined to keep on fighting, even though deep inside he knew it was already a lost battle. But he couldn’t give up until he was completely defeated, since he wasn’t fighting only for himself. He was fighting for what he thought it was right for the saiyan empire. ”I can’t give up! I just can’t!! I don’t know how I can turn the tables! But if I’m going down… I’m going down fighting!!! Like a true proud saiyan warrior!!!” he thought to himself, giving him the will power to keep on moving forward.

Natto would try to hit Kaula with a roundhouse kick to the face, with his right leg as he got closer. However, due to being hurt, he wasn’t as fast as before.

He was giving all he’s got! He was trying his very best to withstand the pain he was feeling and to keep on pushing forward. He had to do that. If he was going down, he was going down kicking… Quite literally…. Kaula debulked as he approached her, regaining her full speed in turn for her enhanced strength. She even teased him by saying that he was the very first victim of that technique, which made it clear that it was quite new on her arsenal, but it didn’t matter a single bit now. – Shut up!! – he shouted as he got into close quarters range. Natto knew her guard was up, but he was hoping that she would be tired after blasting such an insanely strong attack.

However, he was too damaged to be able to connect a perfect strike, and therefore, Kaula managed to grab his shin before he could hit her. – Why you…! – he growled as he charged a blue colored ki blast on his left hand, with the intent of firing it straight to her face with all of his remaining energy, but then she countered, and his world shattered. Natto never expected such an attack, and there was absolutely nothing he could do.

As she hit his crotch with her uppercut, his eye sight blacked out immediately, as the pain took over his whole body and soul. He screeched as hard as he could, falling immediately to the ground, as he couldn’t sustain his flight. The moment he hit the floor, his super saiyan transformation was completely gone. His hair fell back to its regular disheveled style, becoming pitch black again and so did his eyes. His flame-like bright golden aura faded instantly as he moaned in pain on the ground, as he tried his best to get up, but all of his strength was gone. ”S-she… Punched me… To the… Freaking… Balls!” he couldn’t even believe what the hell happened, and how low she was to resort to such a dirty trick.

Nonetheless, dirty trick or not, she defeated him completely with that attack. There was no way he could fight now, and he was still there, on the ground, lying defeated. He was completely ashamed of himself, since he wasn’t able to win and force Kaula to stay on the planet. Natto had failed, and now he would have to deal with the consequences. Planet Vegeta would become vulnerable, without one important warrior, and without their other secret weapon: the power ball. ”I’m… Sorry… Everyone… I… I t-tried… My best…” he thought to himself, feeling some tears gathering on his eyes, as he tried his best not to cry there. But a couple tears escaped his grip, running down his face. He hit the ground with his left hand, shattering it with anger, as he mourned his defeat at the hands of Kaula. She had bested him in the end.

With some effort, he managed to stare back at her, with his infuriated feature. – G-go… A-abandon us all… Y-you won… I… I c-can’t stop you… - it hurt him deeply to admit that he couldn’t do a thing, but he was still trying to hold tight to his pride, as the was still burning inside of him.