Synopsis: As both Goku and Vegeta try to catch their breath after their last clash, Vegeta curses this turn of events. There should be no way a low-class warrior such as Kakarot is able to fight evenly against him, much less to dominate him, as Vegeta thinks himself the strongest in the universe. Meanwhile, Goku can already feel his body throbbing from using a Kaio-ken x3, and thinks that it won't be able to hold up much longer if he drags this fight out. A watching Yajirobe urges Goku to win this fight already. Vegeta wipes blood from his mouth, and screams that he cannot endure the knowledge that it was someone weaker than himself that drew it. He proclaims that he's going to reduce both Goku and the Earth itself to ashes, and launches himself into the sky while channeling an attack. Goku pleads with him not to go that far, but Vegeta gives him an ultimatum – either dodge the attack to save himself, or doom the Earth. As Yajirobe watches the proceedings in horror, Goku resolves that he has no choice and fires up the Kaio-ken x3 again while preparing a Kamehameha. Vegeta proclaims that nothing Goku can do will stop his own attack, the Gyarikku-ho (Galick Cannon), and tells Goku to prepare for death. Yajriobe wishes he'd eaten more food before dying as both Saiyans fire their attacks, and the massive energy beams meet in mid-air. Vegeta remarks that Goku's blast looks similar to his own, and can't believe that it's holding his back for even a moment. Both fighters struggle to overpower their opponent's attack, and as Vegeta surges more power into his Gyarikku-ho, Goku makes a desperate choice – he temporarily channels a Kaio-ken x4, causing even more power to rush into his Kamehameha, eventually blowing away Vegeta's attack and overwhelming the Saiyan, launching him high into the sky as the energy carries him away. His body all but wrecked, Goku pants and doubles over in pain. Has the fight come to an end? Review: Eagle-eyed fans may have noticed a change in Vegeta's manner right at the very start of this chapter – and by eagle-eyed fans, I mean anyone reading this or the manga chapter itself. Whereas Vegeta was calm and confident before, the very second Goku does actual damage to him, he breaks. This goes from a game he's enjoying playing because he's confident he's going to win, to trying to flip the table over the instant he starts to lose. There's a lot I could say about this side of Vegeta, but I'm going to be holding off on commenting too far on this side of him until we see even more shades of it, but suffice to say – I don't like it. Though really it's more than dislike, because honestly, this side of Vegeta is exactly why I honestly can't stand him and come pretty close to outright hating him most of the time. Where a lot of fans see a badass, I see a sore loser that just blatantly refuses to admit his own failings, and a fanbase that equally refuses to see them as well. And now that I've turned a large chunk of Dragon Ball's fanbase against me probably, let's move on. As Vegeta launches his next offensive on Goku, one he means to put an end to the fight for Earth itself, we get yet another named attack, the Gyarikku-ho, which roughly translates to 'Galick Cannon'. You could be forgiven for not getting what Galick is a pun on, but the pun is pretty easy to see all the same – 'Garlic'. Good ol' Toriyama and his puns. Like the source of it's pun, this attack seems to be really strong, and definitely seems capable of blowing away the entire planet, basically making Vegeta's threat of Goku dodging or dying pretty moot honestly. Even if he dodges, he'd die when the planet exploded. ...Hmm. Shelving an idea for later, perhaps? At any rate, Goku is left with no choice but to put his already wrecked body through a second usage of Kaio-ken x3, and while he might not be jumping all over the place this time, there's a chance it's even more arduous. The Kaio-ken works on the premise of perfectly controlling your energy, and if Goku is firing off an energy attack at the time, then...well, let's just say it's a good thing he used his old standby of the Kamehameha and not some sort of move he's less familiar with. The beam struggle itself is absolutely one of the best such struggles the series has to offer, and it's one way that this fight sets itself apart from even the majesty that is the Goku V.S. Piccolo fight – before the Saiyans, you didn't tend to get struggles like this, but they'll become much more of a thing moving forward from here. Personally, I like a good bit of fisticuffs more than I do energy clashes, but I would absolutely be lying if I said I didn't get hyped for these when done well too, and this one? This one is definitely done well. If putting his body through a Kaio-ken x3 for a second time wasn't bad enough though, Goku even has to resort to using a Kaio-ken x4 – as in, he puts his power up to a point that's FOUR times it's normal limits. That means over the course of this fight already, Goku has output about ten times more power than he'd naturally be capable of (just not all at once, obviously). This power is definitely more than enough to overtake the power of even Vegeta, but the question remains – was it enough to put an end to this fight for good, the same way Vegeta was planning to? Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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