//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Dragon Ball Z: Equestria's forgotten hero. // by BAR0SS //------------------------------// Chapter 4 I let out a content yawn before my eyes slowly fluttered open. It had been a long time since I had felt well rested. My joint's used to feel stiff and some would even click with movement, but now, as I stretched, my limbs felt strong and healthy. But despite my good health, there was still one thing that weighed on my heart. Yet again, I had failed to do what I had set my mind to. My failure streak began back when I trying to save the world. I had managed to collect 5 of the seven Dragon Ball's. That was when I learnt that Omega Shenron was the one responsible for all of the chaos that occurred on Earth. When I got the first five, I got ahead of myself and went after Omega because I thought that I could take him. I was wrong. I tried so hard, but he was unbelievably stronger than me, even when I was in my super saiyan form, and in the end, he bested me. However, he spared me and instead took the Dragon Ball's from my possession before scattering them all over the Earth again. As soon as I could, I began to train again. I knew what I power level I needed to be able reach before I could try again, so with my mind set, I found others to help me try and train to higher levels than ever known by any before I began to set out for the Dragon Ball's again. I had gained so much power that I was able to defeat all of my opponents who had a Dragon Ball with so much ease that I wasn't even in my super saiyan form and it was still really easy. But after I gained 6 of the 7 Dragon Ball's, I knew what I was left with. I knew in my heart who had the final one. Omega Shenron himself. But there was a plus side. I also knew that with my new power, I actually stood a chance against him the second time. ~~~~~ (Flashback) With the Dragon radar in hand, I knew just where I had to go. I already had 6 Dragon Ball's. All I needed to do was get the final one. As I flew through the sky, I looked down to the radar that I held in my hands, a small arrow in the center of the screen and a flashing yellow star that was moving down towards the arrow, signalling that I was getting close. I looked up from the screen again and saw what looked like an arena. 'Darn, this means that Omega knows I'm coming.' I thought to myself. As I got closer, I spotted Omega Shenron, standing in the center of the arena and facing away. Knowing that he knew that I was already ther, I didn't waste any time trying to be stealthfull and instead just flew down and landed behind him. Omega turned around, laughing as he did as to try and put me off, but I wasn't falling for any intimidation tactics. "Heh heh heh, You're finally here." he said as he crossed his arms as if to show that he was not afraid. "I'm back, and I'm not happy." I said, just standing there with a determined look on my face. "I've been waiting for you to collect all of those Dragon Ball's again. I hope you're stronger than you were before." he said as he looked over his hand before folding his arms again "Of course I am. I will defeat you!" I proclaimed before bringing my fists up to my sides and raising my Ki, causing my white aura to engulf me as I glared at him. We both stood there for a second, but that was until Omega rushed forward in my direction. I watched as he pulled back his fist and got ready to strike me. However, with my newly acquired power, I managed to keep sight of his movements and lean backward, causing his punch to miss me and pass over my head. I used this moment to my advantage and kicked out with both feet right into his stomach, winding him before I began my volley of super fast punches. I ended the volley after about 5 hits before kicking him up into the air with my left leg. Without a millisecond's thought, I flew up after him and gave him a hit with my left fist, followed by a backhand with the same fist. I then I lent back and kicked into him four times and doing a flip to kick him one final time straight into his stomach again. I followed up with another left kick, but this time kicking him out to the right before giving chase again. When I caught up again, I gave him two lightning fast punches before yet another left kick to the stomach and then kicking him again with both my feet to send him away again and giving chase. This time, I layed on a super quick volley of punches while keeping up with him as he was flying backwards from each hit, not allowing him a second to do anything but take it.However, I stopped and let him fly back a little further. Omega recovered and began to rush me again, but this time I jumped up into the air before shooting Ki blasts at him and stunning him again. I shot a few more Ki blasts at him before warping behind him and giving him a strong enough punch to the back to send him flying again. I crouched my legs before warping in front of him and hitting him in his exposed stomach and hitting him back again. I did this 3 times before finally charging him again and giving him a hard punch followed by a right kick followed by another 3 punches, the final punch, hitting him higher up into the air.I then quickly flew behind him and kicked him in the back before using the same foot to kick him back down to the ground. Omega collided into the ground with a huge crash that destroyed a portion of the ground. I looked down and saw him laying there, but I knew I had not beaten him so easily. So I brought my hands together before moving them to my side. "KAMEHAME...!!!" I began loudly as I focused my Ki into my hands, forming a blue light ball which only grew brighter and brighter. I then saw Omega flip to his side and land back on his feet, back still turned to me however.As he began to turn, I let loose my attack. "HAAA!!!: I shouted as I thrust both my hands forward in Omega's direction, causing a bright blue bean to fire from my hands and directly at him. Time seemed to slow down as I watched the beam shoot down at Omega. I caught a glimpse of his expression, but to my confusion, he was... smirking. To my dismay, Omega threw out both of his hands and blocked my attack, stopping it in its tracks. I tried to pour more energy into the attack, but was met with failure. Omega then threw both of his hands upwards and redirected my attack straight back at me. I stopped the beam shooting from my hands and warped out of the way. I watched as my attack flew past me and into outer space. But it was at that moment, I made a mistake. I took my eyes off Omega. I sensed his energy behind me, but as I began to turn around, he kicked me up into the air before giving chase. I recovered mid-air, but as I began to search for Omega, he flew past me again at blinding speeds and before I could recover, he did it again and again. Before I could recover, I felt a large foot fly into my stomach, pain exploding throughout my body and causing my eyesight to blur. But even through the blurriness, I could tell that it was Omega that had kicked me in the chest, hard. But that was until he warped away from that spot. I finally recovered again, ignoring the burning pain I felt as I began to try and locate Omega again. But that was until I heard a whoosh from right behind me. Before I could turn around completely, Omega smacked me back down to the ground, and this time, I was the one to crash hard. I lay there o the ground for a moment, just thinking about how he recovered so quickly from my attacks. 'He must have also gotten stronger since our last encounter.' I thought to myself as I pushed myself back up to my feet. 'But why, what is his purpose?' I decided to ask to find out. "Why are you doing this!? Do you want to destroy the planet!?" I demanded. "Destroy it? Now what fun would that be? This is all just for my amusement. Peace is boring." he explained. He looked as if nothing had happened to him, like I had never gotten an attack in on him. "Peace is... what? Thats why you've ruined Earth!?" I demanded, thought of the absurdity of his excuse making my blood boil. 'I am saving the world because he is bored!?!' I shouted in my head. 'NO! That was the last straw!' "You're insane! You wont get away with this!!!" I shouted before flaring my Ki as high as I could, causing my aura to go wild before turning gold. I crouched over and tensed my body as I became a super saiyan, my hair turning gold and my eyes turning green as my muscles bulked up. As I finished transforming, I looked to Omega with a serious expression, but he looked unimpressed. "I was so bored for so long... A world without conflict is just sickening. But thanks to these Dragon Ball's, I have found a fabulous way to entertain myself." he said with tone of voice that gave off his lack of interest of my transformation. 'Oh boy, do I have some new moves for you.' I thought to myself before charging my Ki even higher, my golden aura becoming large enough to take up someone his size. I then dashed forwards at a inconceivable speed, but it was a front. As expected, Omega also charged forwards at the same speed. We both flew directly at eachother before slamming into eachother and entering a struggle. We were both trying to punch or kick while trying to defend against one other at the same time. However, I wasn't even trying. "HIIYYEEAAAHHH!!!" I shouted as I dodged one of his punches and kicked him out with both of my feet before pursuing him. Omega managed to stop and recover, but his eyes widened at how fast I was coming at him. All he could do was mutter "What?" before I flew right up to him and slammed my right fist into his face so hard that anyone else would have exploded from the impact. But I didn't stop there. I kept up with him and hit him with a left hook which was followed by a unseeable right jab then a left uppercut then a right kick to the stomach. I then spun around and gave him a super fast backwards roundhouse kick to the face which was followed by my right kneed slamming into his stomach. I then jabbed him with my left fist followed by a right hook and then another quick left jab followed by the right fist again before bringing my right foot up under his chin for a hard kick, causing his head to snap backwards. Before he could recover, I gave one final right kick to his stomach and an uppercut with my left fist. "GRRRAAAAA!!!" I groaned loudly as I forced as much Ki as I could into a ball of energy in my right hand. I then slammed that Ki ball into his chest as he floated above me before releasing the energy, sending a large, wide beam of light straight up and doing massive damage to him When the smoke cleared, I could see that he was still alive. Omega was floating up in the sky with his eyes shut and panting heavily. He had multiple wounds all over his body. I smiled as I took in the good feeling of pride. But my smile dropped as he threw his head back and shouted out at the top of his lungs. "AAAHHHHH!!!! I will destroy you in an instant!!!" he declared before 6 purple beams shot out of the orbs on his chest, a large red energy ball that seemed to emit a blue light in a circle around it forming in the middle. I got ready into another battle stance. The energy I was sensing was... wrong. And there was a lot of it. Omega then got behind the evil energy ball and placed his hands against its surface. "GO TO HELL!!!" And with that, Omega pushed the energy ball down in my direction and it began to slowly descend down in my direction. 'Oh no! If that energy ball hits the ground, its all over. I have to stop It!' I thought to myself. I knew what I had to do, I just had to do it. I floated about 30cm off the ground and held both of my hands out in front of me. I then focused all the Ki I could muster from inside my body and formed it into a blue orb of energy in front of me that had so much power, it was emitting rings of pure Ki from it. This was my greatest attack. "BIG BANG KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" As I shouted the words, I lent back before throwing everything I had into thee attack. As soon as my hands hit the orb, a huge blue beam surrounded in huge lightning bolts blasted forwards from the orb in the direction of Omega's attack. The light it was giving off was almost unbearable to the eyes. The energy wave blasted forwards before colliding with Omega's attack. Thats when a struggle for power began. I could feel Omega's attack slowly beginning to overpower my. As it did, flashes of what the Earth would be like if I failed flashed through my mind, giving my new strength. "I will not loose!!!" I shouted and I poured even more energy into the attack while also focusing the wasted energy from the rings into the beam itself. My attack expanded exponentially before forcing though Omega's attack, rendering it useless. My attack didn't stop there however. The beam continued before slamming into Omega himself, engulfing his body. "AAAHHHH!!!" I heard him shout out in pain. before the beam exploded and covered the entire desert in a firey cloud. The cloud subsided quickly soon followed by the smoke. When I could see again, Omega was laying on the ground, not moving. I slowly descended back down to the ground before beginning to walk over in Omega's direction. I got about 10 metres from him before he began to stir and push himself back up again, but with much more difficulty from his condition. Omega pushed himself to his feet, but as he did, the 4 star Dragon Ball fell from his possession before rolling over to me. I knelt down and carefully picked it up, but as I did, Omega charged his Ki which cause a ark blue electricity aura to engulf him. "This will fix the world. This will fix... Everything!!!" I shouted as I shot one more Ki blast at Omega. It hit him and exploded on him, sapping the last of his strength, causing his aura to vanish. "I-Impossible...! I-I'm Omega Shenron!" he stated as he collapsed to one knee. "This is far from over. Its way too late for you to save your pitiful world." he said before he began to laugh maniacally before falling down onto his stomach, never to move again. "Blah Blah Blah... You're just a sore loser. Your game is finished." I said before an overwhelming feeling of victory passed over me. "Finally. The 7 Dragon Ball's... All of them... Right here." I said with a sense of glee. I lent back to face the sky before taking a deep breath. "Come forth Shenron!!!" I called out. I watched as the sky turned dark and the weather began to get out of control. But I knew that it was just a sigh of the dragon's presence. I waited for what felt like ages, but the Dragon never appeared before me. "Hmm, whats going on?" I asked myself. I pulled out my capsule case and took out a capsule before clicking the button. A loud *POOF* noise was heard before a saw a small pouch in my hand. I opened the pouch and pulled out what was in it. "One senzu bean left." I said to myself. I shrugged my shoulders before throwing the bean into my mouth and eating it. A moment of nothing passed, but I then felt my entire body explode into good health. The bean had restored me to 100% "Now, to find that dragon." I said before taking off up into the sky and flying away. ~~~~~ (End Flashback) That was the battle I fought just before fighting the Ultimate Shenron. I had won that battle, but it was my last real victory. Ever since then, I have just been making one mistake after another, failing each challenge that presented itself, and its been even worse since I became a pony. All that hard work, all of that power that I had acquired through pain and effort, gone. I still had the potential to unlock it again, but what was the point. 'I'm the worst hero ever.' I thought to myself dejectedly as I let out a saddened sigh, a single tear escaping my eye. I was laying on my side, in what felt like a large bed. I looked around as much as I could without moving my head. I didn't have he motivation to move. My eyes spotted something on the bed side table. It was a crown, and underneath, a note. Without even thinking bout it, I levitated the note over in front of my face and began to read. ----- Dear Solaris. Your presence is required before Princess Celestia at noon. Until then, you have been confined to your quarters. A member of Celestia's Royal Guard will retrieve you for your appointment. Beside you is your Crown. All major royalty, both Prince and Princess's are recommended to wear one as a sign of power. Two guards have been posted outside of your quarters for your safety. If you require anything, please ask one of them for what you require. ----- I read over the letter and put it down as multiple red flags popped up in my head. 'Ok, 1# I will not be ordered around like that. 2# I don't want to see Celestia after what she's done. 3# I will not wear a crown. I fight for the people, but because they deserv it, not because I want to rule them.' I thought as I levitated the note back onto that bed side table. I let out another sigh as I closed my eyes. 'If I can't get away from them, I'm just going to make life really difficult for them.' With my master plan (Not really) set in motion, I got comfortable underneath the blankest of the bed. 'Now all I have to do is wait for that guard. I'ma annoy the hell out'a him.'