Dragonball X: The Ultimate System (Different Path) - Chapter 84

At this point, it had already been an hour since Goku and company teleported away. Kayn often wondered if they had gone on a picnic while he was here standing in place like a statue. Gohan hadn’t initiated an attack on Kayn, and decided to remain on standby.

It was clear that the little boy was hesitant to assault Kayn, he was already heavily intimidated by Kayn’s towering stature. Kayn was thinking of using Instant Transmission to their location to give them a scare, but he decided otherwise.

He took this time to check other things, instead. Kayn checked his full status sheet and saw shocking results, his S-Cell count had skyrocketed. It was at a whopping 730, he was well on his way to becoming a Super Saiyan 4, he just needed 270 more.

“Why did it increase so much?” Kayn couldn’t wrap his head around it, but he didn’t complain, why would he? He nearly jumped in joy seeing this change, this may be due to the change in his personality, or the way he acted towards others; or perhaps the way he tested himself.

While Kayn was speculating on why this had happened, he was immediately alarmed when 3 familiar figures appeared in front of him. They weren’t directly face to face with him but had warped a distance away from him.

“About time, what were guys doing, I almost fell asleep waiting here. I was wondering when Gohan over there was going to attack, but he never even tried.” Kayn faked a yawn before turning his head slightly to look in the direction of Gohan.

Gohan’s body shook and went weak, he thought he did everything right to hide himself but he was still discovered in the end. Right then, he knew he looked like a clown in a circus performing; believing he had got one over Kayn.

“It was these two, they couldn’t decide on what to do, but that doesn’t matter now since we’re here,” Vegeta said with folded arms, he descended on a rock and waited for the show to begin.

Raditz and Goku didn’t pay attention to his remark and instead said. “We want to try something new, I and Kakarot want to see how effective this will be.” Right then, Raditz revealed the Potara Earrings, he had one while Goku had another.

“Oh…” Kayn was stunned, he had given these Potara’s to Bardock before leaving earth. He did this just in case they—for some reason failed to defeat Freiza’s family. This was their last trump card if things went south for some reason.

Apparently, Bardock gave them to Goku or Raditz, did he even test them?

Kayn was speechless, he wasn’t expecting to ever fight a fused warrior like this!

“Who did Bardock give those to, was it you, Kakarot?” Kayn asked.

“Nope, it was Raditz.” Goku denied it right away.

“I should have known.” Kayn stared at the Purple-Gold Potara’s, he could only wait for the results.

“So…how does this work again, hehe?” Goku asked. He seemed to have forgotten.

“You put one on your left ear, while I put one on my Right ear, then something is supposed to happen. We’re supposed to fuse together, supposedly; this would increase our strength by many folds.” Raditz briefly explained again.

“Gotcha! Let’s do this then!” Goku’s expression suddenly turned serious.

Right as he said that, both Goku and Raditz swiftly put on their respective earring on the opposite ear of each other. In that instant, their bodies were like Magnets, pulling towards one another, then their bodies united in a flash of bright white light.

Gohan looked on with surprise, his mouth wide and twitching while Vegeta’s expression was that of curiosity.

Within seconds, it wasn’t two people within the light anymore, but one!

The figure revealed himself, his hair was long but not as long as Kayn and Raditz’s— with it stopping at the mid part of his back with sharp bangs going down his forehead. He wore Burgundy, with a bright orange undershirt similar to Goku’s outfit. This figure’s eyes were deep black with a smirk across his face filled with utter confidence in himself.

“Now this feels good, I feel great, no, we feel great!” The man lifted both his arms up and clenched his fist.

Kayn felt the amplification of strength coming from Raditz and Goku. They were obviously far superior to what they were as individuals before. Gohan was still stunned from this scene, he could only look on with a dumbfounded expression.

“Wow, Kakarot and Raditz, you’re strength has improved a lot, congratulations.” Vegeta commended them after feeling the pressure of the two, he even clapped sarcastically.

“Kakarot? Raditz? We aren’t these two anymore!” Both of their voice seemed to overlap each other in this form.

“Hmm…what does it matter, get on with the fight already.” Vegeta scoffed and said.

“No, no, no, we definitely need a name for this new cool form.” Kayn was speechless, but he didn’t say anything throughout all of this.

“Roku…Ghetis…Gokuriz…hmm, ah, I got it, you can call me Ragnarok!” With that, he turned and looked towards Kayn seriously.

‘Ragnarok? What…like Kakarot and Raditz together?’ Kayn somewhat understood, the name was even related to the fall of Gods, which existed in this Dimension.

“With this fusion, I seemed to have unlocked another form I didn’t expect at all.” He didn’t hold anything back in the face of Kayn and quickly began to power up.

He turned into a Super Saiyan, but he was still trying to break through to the next level. Goku and Raditz understood the depth of Kayn’s power to some extent now, at least they thought they did—but it was definitely something they couldn’t beat individually. They didn’t even have confidence in beating him with this new power-up, but they’ll try.

Kayn was a bit surprised because when they were done powering up, they had managed to become a Super Saiyan 2 in this fused form!

“Now, this form does it all, it has power and speed, it really is amazing. I wonder if we can unlock this form as our normal selves?” Ragnarok asked himself. They didn’t recognize this stage yet as SS2, but Kayn knew what it was from the lightning flashing around him every now and then.

Kayn also amped up his strength a bit seeing their strength being amplified. He wasn’t expecting them to unlock Super Saiyan 2 so earlier, but they fused so there were many possibilities.

“You guys are on a timer, I suggest you start making moves.” Kayn’s deep voice reverberated their way.

“Right…” Right then, they moved. Vegeta was now shocked, he couldn’t even track their movements, nor could Gohan. But this was only the two of them, Kayn could see it all with ease.

Kayn once again shot many lasers their way from his fingertips, but they would after image strike each of these attacks, dodging them with little effort. He switched his tactics and punched towards Ragnarok with crushing momentum.

“Fast!” Ragnarok was a bit stunned, this Big Ape could move that fast!? He smirked afterward, and spiraled around Kayn’s large fist and arm, heading towards his face for an attack.

“Double…!” As he was dodging and racing towards Kayn’s face, he was charging up an attack. The attack was blue and pink, but it eventually turned purple with a faint tint of azure around it.

“Kamehameha!” Two large energy blasts erupted from each of Ragnarok’s palms.

Kayn’s expression changed a bit, but there was no panic to be seen. He didn’t expect them to be so agile, so he had underestimated them in this regard, thus, he paid for it. The attack detonated on Kayn’s face and near point-blank.

Rumble!

A blinding light was set off, which followed a thunderstorm at the same time. It had already started to rain as clouds shifted from Kayn’s previous mouth cannon attack—leaving an unbelievably deep crater in the planet’s crust.

Gohan was too close, he had to cover his eyes as a series of dust and blinding light threaten his vision. This went on for a whole minute, Ragnorak had already back away to safety to evaluate the situation, but Vegeta had already made a move during the confusion.

He could barely see for himself, but he knew this was the best time to target Kayn’s tail. Kayn’s face couldn’t be identified because of the energy clouds from Ragnarok’s previous attack. Plumes of energy had shrouded his face for a brief time.

Ragnarok remained vigilant since he knew very well that this didn’t cause much harm to Kayn, if that, none at all. However, Vegeta didn’t think so, he clearly felt how strong Ragnorak was, so he took advantage of the situation to attack Kayn.

He hated this way of fighting but this was the quickest way to end this.

“Vegeta, be careful!” Ragnarok warned.

Right then, Kayn lifted both his arms into the air when a lightning current swiftly traveled through his arms. As quick as the lightning appeared, it disappeared just as fast; what came next was a large barrier that formed around his body.

Vegeta stopped as fast as he could, and fortunately, he was on time before retreating.

Within seconds, he was back to normal, his tail wrapped around his waist once more.

“He…reverted back?” Gohan was confused as to why Kayn would change back so soon. He wanted to ask how Raditz and his dad had managed to become one, he apparently wasn’t paying attention at that time.

“Let’s fight on regular terms, this is much better.” The downpour was harsh, this rain seemed to be coming down faster than before.

“Sounds fine to me, I wouldn’t want to fight a mindless gorilla all day, you know?” Ragnarok smirked as he got into his fighting stance, but Kayn was no different.

The two stare each other down for about 60 seconds when a bolt of lightning struck—that’s when they both made their move!

Kayn came in with a swift uppercut, while Ragnarok fell back to dodge when his leg came up for a kick toward Kayn’s face. Kayn quickly pushed his leg down and out of the way before his right leg also came toward Kayn’s face.

“Tsk!” Kayn scoffed and grabbed Ragnarok’s right-left and tossed him into the distance.

Ragnarok easily caught himself before forming a beam of energy that looked like a whip of some sort. The long yellow energy whip was formed and coming from Ragnarok’s index and middle finger, as he lashed it at Kayn.

Kayn was fighting at their level, he didn’t raise his strength to completely overcome them. This was his way of taking in a good fight instead of ending it outright, as most would. Kayn formed an energy blade, it was similar to a long sword.

“Oh…” Ragnarok’s voice came over, then the whip changed shape, it turned into a stiff object that attempted to tear through the hands and arms, but failed. Both hands grabbed the stiff long object that appeared to be more of a lance than anything else, and crushed it.

Kayn threw out his arm and the Ki blade extended in a straight line, but Ragnarok was ready to dodge, and he did. Strangely, the Ki blade bent and started to follow him at lightning speed—this was something that Vegeta and Gohan had a hard time keeping up with.

“Haaaa!” Ragnarok shot multiple energy balls at the blade, in an attempt to disperse it. Too bad though, the blade cut right through these attacks like butter. Kayn had worked a lot on the energy blade and his Ki-Control in the past, he just never used them; these attacks were meant to kill.

Of course, Kayn wasn’t trying to kill anyone here but hurt them, instead. This was why he fought them on their level; this was to test his Ki control and see how strong it really was at the same level as his opponent.

Left with no choice, Ragnarok closed his eyes; but Kayn’s attack was upon him and about to strike him! However, his expression remained peaceful, but from Kayn’s perspective, it seemed kinda arrogant to some degree.

Kayn’s target was Ragnarok’s arms or legs, either would do; he just wanted to stab them!

At that moment, before the attack could hit, Ragnarok disappeared. Kayn’s eyes went wide for a second, this was clearly instant transmission. Kayn almost immediately struck the empty space next to him, when Ragnarok’s figure appeared.

Ragnarok caught Kayn’s fist, causing a mini shockwave. Kayn quickly canceled his Ki blade and punched at Ragnarok again, with his fist getting caught by him once more.

“Not Bad, this has been a really good fight,” Kayn said with a smirk.

“Huh, you make it seem like it’s about to end, it ain’t over, not by a long shot,” Ragnarok said in reply.

Their hands clenched one another, in an attempt to push the other back with brute strength and the use of Ki. They both started to sink into the ground, creating a large hole underneath them.

Ragnarok’s body was wrapped in Violet, while Kayn’s was wrapped in Crimson Ki. There was a barrier around them, that no one should dare to touch or suffer the consequences!

Kayn sent a kick over toward Ragnarok’s waist, but he lifted his leg up to block it.

“You’re choking Ragna something…” Kayn taunted and said.

Kayn was pushing him back now, as his feet started to drag through the dirt. Ragnarok tried to break free but Kayn had a firm grip on his hands.

“Now, for the surprise of the day.” Kayn slowly opened his mouth, then it started to glow red.

“Uh, oh!” Ragnarok’s expression turned grave.

Poof!

But before anything was taken any further, Ragnarok’s body went up in a puff of smoke. With that, two figures appeared once more, it could no one else but Raditz and Goku.

The fusion had ended!