//------------------------------// // Saiyans // Story: Kakarot in Equestria // by King Ice //------------------------------// Two ponies were walking in a forest in the night, the moon was hidden behind the clouds and they only had a torch to see clearly where they were going. However, they knew the sun was going to be raised soon since they woke up several minutes earlier. “Why are we the ones that should bring sticks to the camp?” The first one asked as he shivered because of the cold night. “You were the one that woke up sooner and wanted to tell spooky stories around the campfire. So, it’s only fitting that you have to bring sticks to fire it!” The second on grunted before looking around wildly, “I don’t even know why I’m accompanying you! I didn’t even want to come on this trip! You guys know I’m scared of the dark!” He yelled as the other pony sighed in annoyance at his friend behavior. “Come on, I promise you I’ll make courageous!” His friend exclaimed. However, the second one didn’t respond as he started into the sky, narrowing his eyes. The first looked at him, then where his friend was staring at. He widened his eyes as he saw to trails of blue falling towards the ground. It looked like shooting stars! They suddenly crashed on the ground a few chunks of trees away, raising a loud cloud of dust. “That’s so cool! Come on, we have to see that!” The first one shouted as he started running in the direction of the shooting stars. “Wait! That’s a bad idea, I can feel it!” The second one yelled, following his friend because he didn’t want to be left alone behind. “Don’t you want to see what’s out there? It’s so exciting! Almost like a movie!” The first responded while grinning. The fearful pony only replied with a grunt. At the shooting stars, or more accurately, the space pods were in the middle of two craters created by their landing. “Landed successfully on planet Equus.” A synthetic voice said as the two space pods opened, letting Vegeta and Nappa slowly get out of it. “Looks like we’re finally here,” Vegeta said with a smirk, he looked at the sky and noticing it was the night. “it’s the night but we can’t see the moon because of these clouds.” “Want me to clear the sky for you, Vegeta?” Nappa asked as he prepared a kikoha in his right hand; however, Vegeta stopped him. “No need. I think you’d be more than enough to take him out, Nappa. And with the three of us, Frieza won’t be able to do anything!” Vegeta replied as he tightened his fist in determination. He was going to bring Frieza down and show him the might of the saiyan race! Suddenly, the two ponies from before came running, but stopped a few meters away from the craters. “W-What are those?” The first pony asked as he looked at the strange creatures. “We should go… I have a bad feeling,” The second one muttered as he tried to pull his friend away. “Are you sure, Vegeta? He killed Raditz pretty easily. I might need your help on that one,” Nappa responded as the two saiyans ignored the ponies staring at them. “Stop being so scared! They must be new friendly sentient beings from space!” The first pony replied before calling out the space warriors, “Hey! Who are you guys?” He asked cheerfully. “Don’t be a fool, Nappa. Raditz was a weakling! Even by the low-class warriors’ standards. We are elites!” The prince replied, still ignoring the two insignificant ponies. Nappa smirked and nodded, agreeing with the other warrior. “You’re right, I’m always worrying over everything,” He said before looking around, then grunted. “I can’t see a damn thing in this forest! Should I clean the area, Vegeta?” “Go on, but don’t destroy the pods,” He replied as Nappa smirked. “What are they doing?” The ponies asked as Nappa raised two fingers. “Of course,” The large saiyan responded as a gigantic blue light engulfed the entire forest, including the ponies in front of them. They started screaming when they felt their skin burning. Everything exploded, raising an enormous cloud of dust. When everything was cleared, only Vegeta, Nappa, and their pods remained. The entire forest was reduced to a giant crater. Vegeta chuckled and activated his scouter. “Now to find, Kakarot,” The saiyans flew away towards the highest power level indicated by the scouter. Vegeta could only smirk as he was prepared to meet Raditz’s brother, if he joined them, they’d be able to slowly destroy everything Frieza created. Then kill that tyrant and show him the power of the saiyan race. *** Celestia woke up in sweat, she was breathing heavily as if she had the most terrifying nightmare ever! She could feel it with her magic, a power that is beyond everything she had felt. However, the most worrying factor was that the energy she sensed was evil, even more so than the previous villains she had fought. “I have to warn Twilight and her friends! And more accurately Kakarot, he’s the only one that could best these new foes,” She muttered to herself before taking a paper and a quill. *** Kakarot slowly opened his eyes and looked around. The sun wasn’t raised yet, and he didn’t wake up because of a nightmare, nor because he wanted to do some training. Just like Celestia earlier, he felt two large power levels coming this way. He couldn’t hold his excitement as the two power he was feeling were at least ten times stronger than Raditz’s. Kakarot stood up, then put on his armor. He was about to go down the stairs when he heard Twilight shrieking. “What’s up?” He asked when Twilight suddenly fell off the stairs. “We are in grave danger! I received a letter from Princess Celestia! There are bad guys even stronger than Raditz on our planet! She wants us to take care of this because she trusts us so much, but she’s overestimating me and my friends,” Twilight started monologuing. Kakarot and Spike just stared at her as she continued,” We have to get the girls and…” “You still don’t know how to sense Ki, Twilight, so you can’t see the gap of power between these guys and you. Maybe you shouldn’t come,” Kakarot tried to convince her. “I know they’re strong, and I and Rainbow Dash didn’t learn much of Ki control yet. However, I think we may be useful on the battlefield. Let’s wait for the girls. Besides, I know you take pride very seriously.” “What do you mean?” “This is a matter of pride for me. To test out my power,” Twilight lied while smiling innocently. Kakarot crossed his arms and nodded furiously. “Of course! If your pride is at stake, then we’ll wait the others and you’ll all come with me!” Kakarot exclaimed excitedly. *** Several miles away of Ponyville, a pegasus and his son were staring at an earth pony and at a mare holding a little filly on her back. “Look at them, son. They are our sworn enemies, so don’t ever try to befriend them,” The pegasus said as he looked at the earth ponies. Both of their families were living in farmhouses placed on opposite of each other. “Why?” His son asked, intrigued. “Because they’re stealing our business! We were supposed to be the only carrot farm in this area and then, they came right in front of us to put their farm! They’re just jerks!” The father grunted while sending a glare at the family. They were always getting up early in the morning to do their farm work and their rivals were always getting up before them. The earth pony, who was a little far from his family, rolled his eyes in annoyance. “It’s been years, man! Come on, be cool! We just thought it was a good spot, and we bought this area, legally! We’re not trying to steal your business,” The earth pony replied as he heard the pegasus’ words. He thought it was stupid to hate someone that much, for a reason like this. Moreover, there weren’t other ponies here, except for them, so it would be better if their children could get along, “and may I remind you that you’re always staring at my wife’s as…” The earth pony started… only to be suddenly interrupted by knee coming from behind and crushing his neck. He gasped and spat blood as life left him. The other ponies screamed in terror as the stallion’s corpse fell on the ground. The one that kneeled him on the neck landed on the ground and started laughing. “Did you see that Vegeta? Nobody saw it coming! It was hilarious!” Nappa laughed before crushing the earth pony’s head under his foot, “Kakarot said he could hide his energy, didn’t he?” “Yes, that means he could very well be coming this way already,” Vegeta answered as he knew where Nappa was getting. “That means we can wait for him and play with these bugs!” Nappa said as he cracked his knuckles. The family of earth ponies ran to their house while the pegasus started flying away while holding his son. “Don’t lose your energy on this, Nappa. Now is not the time to play,” Vegeta replied, getting annoyed by the large saiyan. “Come on, Vegeta! It’s fun!” He exclaimed before forming a Ki ball in his right palm, and throwing it on the house, obliterating it in the process. Vegeta rolled his eyes and pointed two fingers at the pegasus flying away. The pony stopped in midair, with his mouth agape and widened eyes. “Dad?” The colt asked at his father’s strange behavior. The pegasus’ body started inflating in front of the two saiyans and the young pony. “Boom,” Vegeta whispered as the pegasus exploded. Nappa applauded and smiled. “That was some good fireworks, Vegeta!” He praised his prince. Nappa was the type of saiyan that would always support their prince. He knew he was never to dishonor or disappoint him, he didn’t believe Vegeta would go as far as to kill him of course, but still. He could receive a beating. The large saiyan flew off the ground and looked around, looking for something. He grinned when he saw a small village. “Look, Vegeta! I have some neat tricks too! I’ll make that village disappear!” Nappa shouted while readying a Ki ball in his right palm. Vegeta crossed his arms and stared at the ball as it was thrown by the bald saiyan. However, much to the two saiyans’ surprise, the Ki ball was punched back into the air, exploding in the sky, “Who did that?” Nappa asked angrily as he tightened his fists. Vegeta immediately turned around, already knowing who came. The prince smirked at the low-class saiyan that was enough of a fool to rebel against him. “So… you guys are saiyans too?” Kakarot asked, already knowing the answer. He landed on the ground, just as Nappa landed beside Vegeta, “both of you are strong, but still not a match for me.” “Don’t you dare underestimate us, Kakarot!” Nappa shouted angrily, “We are elites, Raditz and you are noth…” “Shut it, Nappa,” Vegeta interrupted him, his grin directed at the low-class saiyan, “Don’t mind him, he’s all muscles and no brain,” Kakarot raised an eyebrow, surprised at how Vegeta was handling his comrade. Nappa only grunted in response and didn’t say anything else. “We leave you a chance, Kakarot. Join us, we’ll need your help getting rid of someone,” Vegeta started the “negotiations”, only to be interrupted by someone. Rainbow Dash landed beside Kakarot while Twilight was slowly flying, trying to stay in the air only using her Ki, and the rest of their friends following them on ground. Except for Rainbow Dash, they were all breathless. “We were lucky they were so close to us,” Applejack pointed out as she tried to breath normally. “It wasn’t just luck, they knew where they were going,” Twilight replied before pointing at the frowning prince’s scouter, “Those things can read power levels. If I remember correctly, Raditz used one too,” “So, they’re saiyans too?” Rainbow Dash asked when she saw the tails rolled up around their waist. “Your race isn’t as stupid as we thought it seems,” Vegeta replied before clicking on his scouter, to proceed at reading Kakarot’s power level, “As I thought… His power level is 500 units. He’s obviously hiding it, but I don’t think it’s higher than 4 000; you should be able to defeat him, Nappa,” Vegeta analyzed the low-class saiyan while chuckling. Kakarot smirked. He didn’t know what all those numbers meant, but he was sure his power was higher than that. “Okay, I’m going to show you my power, and we’ll see who’ll be laughing,” Kakarot smirked before tightening his fists. Suddenly, he started screaming while a white aura appeared around his body. Vegeta activated his scouter again as the ground started shaking and wind blowing, hard enough to push back the mane 6. “What is he doing?” Rarity shouted, not understanding what was happening since unlike her three friends (Twilight, Kakarot and Rainbow Dash) she didn’t even know how Ki works and what it Is exactly. “I think he’s powering up!” Twilight replied while trying to stand on her feet. Small rocks started floating as the energy Kakarot was releasing was rising. Vegeta slowly widened his eyes when the numbers on the scouter started rising up. Suddenly, after several seconds, the scouter exploded, startling Vegeta in the process. Nappa turned around to look at the prince while Kakarot stopped powering up. “What is his power level, Vegeta?” Nappa asked in panic since he never saw the saiyan elite so shocked. Vegeta was mouth agape and didn’t reply right away. It couldn’t be! How could a low-class saiyan have such a power? Not only this, but he dared to be stronger than the prince of all saiyans? Could he be? Could he be the legendary saiyan? “No! I won’t accept this!” Vegeta thought in anger and hate, “The scouter exploded at 70 000 units,” Vegeta grunted before stomping the ground in anger. “7-70 000?” Nappa repeated in disbelief, “It’s impossible! Even elites aren’t that strong, so how could this low-class be that powerful!” Before Vegeta could reply, Nappa dashed towards Kakarot, at a speed that was surprising considering his size. “Kakarto! He’s coming!” Pinkie Pie warned him before putting her hooves on her eyes. “Stay behind, everyone! I can take care of this,” Kakarot replied to Pinkie’s warning. The mane 6 took several steps back to watch how the fight would go. When Nappa arrived in front of Kakarot, he delivered one of his strongest punch; however, Kakarot easily dodged it by ducking, then threw a punch in Nappa’s guts. The big saiyan spat saliva and held his stomach after taking several steps back. Kakarot didn’t attack again after this and put his hand above his eyes to avoid the sunlight touching his eyes, since Celestia started raising it. Nappa grumbled and charged Ki in his hands. “Eat this, Kakarot!” He shouted before throwing several kikohas. However, Kakarot started either dodging them, or punching them away. One went past him and was about to hit the girls, but fortunately Twilight reacted fast enough and teleported several meters away. They fell on the ground because of the panic and the numerous explosions. “Thanks, Twilight,” Fluttershy said while covering her eyes. “That guy is definitely stronger than Kakarot’s brother,” Rainbow concluded as she looked at all the explosions. Kakarot approached Nappa and kneeled him in the face, pushing him back. Taking advantage of Nappa being stunned for a few seconds, Kakarot jumped behind him and kicked him in the neck. Kakarot was about to attack him with an energy wave, but he was interrupted by a punch in the face. Kakarot was thrown back, he wasn’t expecting Vegeta to intervene, and was surprised to be hit. “Vegeta?” Nappa asked, surprised to be protected by Vegeta. “Kakarot, are you alright?” Fluttershy called out to the saiyan. None of the mane 6 were expecting to see him being hit, since he always seemed so strong. “I’m fine. That punch just took me by surprise,” Kakarot replied as he smiled smugly. “I hate this idea, Nappa, but we have to fight together. To teach a lesson at this shameful warrior and take him on our team to defeat Frieza,” Vegeta whispered to Nappa. The large saiyan nodded, not wanting to disagree with his leader, “I won’t let this fool surpass me! I’m an elite!” Vegeta shouted before dashing forward, Nappa quickly followed. Kakarot put up his fighting stance at the approach of his enemies. He blocked Nappa’s blow but had to dodge Vegeta’s. The next five minutes were Kakarot dodging and blocking the punches and kicks. From the mane 6’s point of view, it didn’t look hard for their friend; however, Kakarot was actually really concentrated on his movements because he knew one wrong move would get him a punch in the face. Nappa started getting angry at not being able to hit Kakarot, so he decided to use one of his favorite techniques. He stopped attacking Kakarot and enveloped his body in a white aura. “I named this technique “Arm Break”, have a taste!” Nappa shouted before dashing towards Kakarot. He was way faster than before but Vegeta was able to dodge and let him make his way to the traitor. Kakarot, being surprised, only had enough time to instinctively move away his right arm as Nappa punched him in the guts. The saiyan raised on Equus gasped for air before spitting blood. A part of his armor was broken apart as he was sent flying. Kakarot rolled on the ground but succeeded in stopping himself anyway. He put a knee on the ground and held his stomach. “I must admit… that hurts. If he had touched my arm, it’d be gone now,” Kakarot muttered, breathless. Nappa started chuckling and was ready to brag; however, he was shot straight on by a large bolt of lightning. Vegeta turned around, even himself was surprised by the attack. Even more so when he saw that the origin of this attack was one of the ponies. Twilight’s friends were cheering her for the technique she used. “Good shot, Twilight,” Applejack praised as she was happy to see that jerk being hit by lightning. “It looked way stronger than before!” Rainbow Dash pointed out. “Yes, I tried fusing Ki with my magic, and it makes all my spells more powerful,” “You! You damn ponies!” Nappa shouted in anger, the mane 6 turned around and were expecting to see him at in a bad shape; however, when the dust cleared off, they saw Nappa with no bruises on him but there were several cracks on his armor, “You cracked my armor, you insect!” He yelled before shooting an energy blast. The mane 6 widened her eyes but didn’t have to dodge thanks to Kakarot that came in time to punch the blast away. Before anyone could say anything, Kakarot flew towards Nappa. The large saiyan couldn’t even react as he was sent flying with a large energy blast, he rolled on the ground, several parts of his armor breaking apart. Vegeta grunted and charged energy around his body, then shot a giant beam. Kakarot barely dodged it and dashed to Vegeta, the, started punching him repeatedly in the face. Vegeta screamed in anger and charged his Ki in his fingers; however, before he could shoot at Kakarot, the saiyan traitor kicked him in the guts. The two saiyans were both bleeding and Nappa’s armor was broken while Kakarot was still in a good shape; it looked like the ponies’ friend was going to win. “Now, this is enough!” Vegeta shouted as he stood up, he tightened his fists and looked up to the sky, noticing it was a sunny morning, “I’ve had enough of you, Kakarot! Tell me something, you know about the form the saiyans can take by looking at the full moon, don’t you? Judging by this planet’s shape, I’m sure you’ve never transformed more than one or two times. You can’t control it, can you?” Vegeta grinned while Kakarot raised an eyebrow. “You’re right, I can’t. What’s your point?” Kakarot asked, not understanding where this was going. “Are we going to do that?” Nappa asked while standing up. “Yes, Nappa, do it!” Vegeta replied as Nappa grinned and created a white orb in his palm, “Don’t look at it if you don’t want to kill your friends yourself, Kakarot!” Vegeta shouted before Nappa threw the orb in the sky. The mane 6 stared at it; however, Kakarot didn’t because if it was what he was thinking, the he’d be in trouble, “Feel the full power of the saiyan race!” The orb exploded.