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Chapter 6 - A Desire for Battle vs The Consequences of Mercy

Lemogras and Radichio are on a rock formation with Draft, watching what's going down.

"I never thought that he'd be able to grow this much," Radichio comments. "I think that this should be enough to put Parakress down for good!"

"Do you honestly think that he'd kill him? He didn't even bother killing me because 'he didn't want to let such a powerful person go to waste'. The guy's obsessed with seeking the next strong opponent, the next thrill!" Draft says. "Saiyans confuse me a lot..."

"Oh? And what's this? A little palette swap?" says Parakress. "That form won't be able to beat me!"

"Believe me, this'll be more than enough," Baezel confidently says. as he kicks Parakress in his gut to send him away, making him fall. He gets back up and runs to him, trying to sledgehammer him, but Baezel holds his fists with both hands and pushes them upwards, once again making him fall onto some large rocks.

Parakress gets up and shoves his giant fingers into the ground. He pulls and pulls, then tears out a giant rock from the land. He flings the enormous rock at Baezel, and Lemogras, Radichio and Draft brace for impact. Baezel, however, is unfazed. He merely puts both his hands together in a cross formation, then lets out a kiai, or shout. The kiai creates a circular shockwave, shattering the rock into pebbles. Annoyed at Baezel's showing, Parakress tears two large rocks out of the ground, and coats them with ki, slamming them in between Baezel. Then, he charges a giant Galick Cannon and fires it right in between the two rocks. The beam tears through the rocks and the rock formation that Lemogras, Radichio and Draft were standing on, causing it to topple and then move somewhere else.

When the smoke clears, Baezel can be seen, scuffed up, but clear as day. Lemogras chuckles, seeing his father alive. Parakress is even angrier now, seeing that his blast did nothing.

"That's all you've got? If so, I'm gonna end this fight very fast," Baezel mocked. This infuriated Parakress to no end, causing him to roar out in rage. He jumped into the sky and surrounded himself in a large golden aura. He put his hands out and coiled them out, charging up a very large ki attack. Lightning shot out from the aura, tearing the landscape apart. Baezel was unfazed by this light show, but Lemogras, Draft and Radichio were extremely worried.

"DUDE, BAEZEL! AREN'T YOU GONNA DO SOMETHING?! IF THAT ATTACK HITS THE GROUND, THE PLANET'S DONE FOR!" Radichio shouts.

"Don't you worry. I've got this," Baezel replies.

Parakress launches the Shining Galick Cannon at Baezel. The blast is as big as a large city, and is rapidly coming towards Baezel. The others scream in horror, and Draft creates a large hole for them to seek refuge in. He hops inside with Lemogras and Radichio, and hides in the fetal position. Baezel smirks and tries to push the blast back with both hands, but even with the power advantage he has over Parakress, he has a lot of trouble pushing it back. Parakress exerts more force, and Baezel is pushed closer and closer to the ground.

"Damn it! I don't know if I can stop this...DRAFT! THROW ME A SENZU RIGHT NOW!" Baezel shouted.

Draft heard Baezel's screams, and jumped out, landing on top of the rock formation that collapsed. "Baezel, catch!" he screamed. He threw a Senzu at Baezel, which he caught with his teeth, and swallowed. Upon swallowing the magical little bean, his strength returned, with a little extra too! He became stationary, then started floating forward, pushing the beam back.

"KA...ME...HA...ME..."

A small blue ball of ki formed on his hands, pushing the beam back a little more.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

He fired the Kamehameha at the beam, and it pushed it back. It then hit Parakress's giant hands, which he removed and ducked. "How did he deflect my attack?! I had him on the ropes, but then he overpowered it!" Parakress said, shocked.

Parakress launches back down to Earth and tries to hit him, but Baezel has both the power and speed advantage due to being twice as powerful as he is. Parakress punches Baezel, but Baezel catches his giant fist with both hands and kicks his fist back, making him stumble and land on top of some rock formations. He gets up, and rises into the sky, throwing a large ball of ki at him. He holds it with both hands, and fires a blast to push it back at him, making it explode in his face. His face gets injured by this, and he wipes his face.

"This is no problem for me...surely I'll be able to defeat you with how much bigger I am than you!" Parakress exclaims.

"I think that the power difference between us will balance it out," Baezel retorts. "After all, I'm twice as powerful as you are, remember?"

"Oh right, I forgot. You're annoying too."

Lemogras throws a Kienzan at Parakress's tail. The disc shatters due to Lemogras being too weak, and Parakress turns to him. He runs towards him, but Baezel teleports behind him and grabs his large tail. He tries to run away, but Baezel spins around with his tail, slamming him through multiple rock formations - including the one his friends were standing on. Baezel increases the intensity that he's spinning at, and he goes fast enough that Parakress's tail rips straight off, blood and all, sending him skidding through the ground.

He eventually loses the Golden Great Ape form and goes back to how he looked when he first arrived on the planet. He's hurt, but not defeated.

Draft fires a Makankosappo at Parakress, but he sees this coming and counters it with a Wild Cannon.

"Now, now," Parakress says. "Don't hurt yourself. Give me a reason not to crush your skull with my foot."

He charges towards Baezel, and Parakress attempts to fight defensively.

While his Golden Great Ape form was only half of Baezel's power, his base form can't even match Baezel in Kaioken. Baezel dodges Parakress's punch then kicks Parakress in the chin and punches him in the gut. While his fist is still on his gut, he fires an energy wave, quite literally blowing his back out.

Parakress falls to the ground clutching his bleeding gut, wheezing. Baezel fires a Kiai at him, breaking his nose.

"You'll pay for that...!! I swear to that!" Parakress shouts.

"No. You come here to my home, looking for a fight, spawn minions to kill my allies, attempt to blow up the planet when you realize that you couldn't win, and crush me to near death, yet you have the audacity to say that I'M gonna pay? I don't think so," Baezel retorts.

He forms two ki spheres in his hands and charges up a Kamehameha, but this time, it's red with electricity dancing around it.

"KAMEHAMEHA TIMES TEEEENNNNN!!!"

Baezel fires the large red beam from his hands. Parakress bursts into Super Saiyan and tries to tank it head on with a five-layered ki barrier, but it isn't enough to withstand it. Eventually the barrier shatters and Parakress is overwhelmed by it, as it blows his armor and top part of his spandex off, revealing his severely damaged body.

He throws a ball of fire at Baezel, but he easily leaps to the side, avoiding it.

Not having enough ki to fly, Parakress begins to run towards Baezel, roaring in anger.

"You fucking...!"

Baezel kicks Parakress in the chin and then kicks him in the gut, making him drop to the floor like a sack of potatoes.

"Damn…you," he whines, and slumps down to the ground.

Baezel walks over to him with a Wild Cannon ready to be fired. "Hey guys, should I kill him or spare him?" he shouts.

"Well, which do YOU want to do?" Draft replied.

Baezel genuinely thought about this for a moment. If he killed Parakress here, he would rid the universe of a scourge like him, but he would never face such a challenge again. But, if he let Parakress go, he'd be letting out a mass murdering criminal warlord back out into the universe, maybe even getting stronger and giving him a challenge. He lingered on the decision for a while, but ultimately decided that he could just go Super Saiyan 4 and put Parakress down whenever he felt like it.

"Please spare me...pretty please, with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and cherries on top...!" Parakress begs.

Baezel feels his anger flaring, and he knows that if he doesn't rein it in, he's going to give in and let him back up against a wall, and then...because he is a kind man, he launches the Wild Cannon, which was meant to kill Parakress, at the artificial moon, exploding it instantly. Now he wouldn't be able to transform on Earth again.

"Alright, you've been spared. Get the hell off my planet, please," Baezel said calmly.

Parakress takes out a small remote and pushes some buttons, then the Saiyan pod he arrived in comes back and appears a couple feet away. He crawls back to his ship and opens the door. He gets inside with Baezel's help, and the door starts to close, but before the door closes, he takes out a vial of green liquid and throws it onto the ground. The ship rose up with him inside it, and Draft charged up a Makankosappo, preparing to destroy the ship and kill Parakress himself, but Baezel teleported to grab Draft's wrist, nodding his head no. He basically told Draft with body language, "Don't bother. We can get him later."

The vial's liquid spawns one last Saibaiman, the final remnant of Parakress' resistance, which Baezel easily kills with one kiai. He turns back to him and his friends.

"Baezel, what in the hell were you thinking letting him go?! Do you know what he did to us?!" Draft shouted. "He could come back and try to kill us again!"

"Don't you remember the reason I spared you at the tournament, Draft?" Baezel asked him. Draft looked with contempt, waiting to hear the answer. "It's because I didn't want to let a power as magnificent as yours go to waste. Besides, he might be evil now, but if we give him some time, I'm sure he'll reform himself."

"I suppose you're right…time can change a man," Draft says. "But if you're wrong and he tries to kill us again, you can kiss my alliance with you goodbye, you got that?"

Baezel nodded yes, then detransformed from his exhaustion.

"I hope that your conviction was correct, Baezel," Draft said, worried.

"I think that we'll be just fine," Baezel replied. Following that, the gang all said their goodbyes and they all went their separate ways, not knowing when or how they would all meet up again.

Ten years pass after this event. Despite the Earth generally being at peace with only one real threat popping up, that being Nori, a lot happens. Baezel masters Super Saiyan 4, while Radichio attains and masters Super Saiyan 4. Parakress returns to Earth a year later, then leaves. Then about four years later, he returns to Earth and tries to reform himself. Baezel and Dana have a second child named Okara, a girl. Akagane Goukin, a remnant of the Centurion Army, created the Nendojin and Nori, an Artificial Saiyan made to kill Baezel and take over the world, whom the entire gang worked together to defeat. Lemogras showed his first signs of having Super Saiyan 2 in the battle. Aside from those anomalies, the ten years were generally a peaceful time period. Nobody expected what was going to happen on the day that Baezel and his family went to an amusement park…a day that would change his life forever.