"How could this be?" Vegeta could hardly believe it. Android 19 caught an opening and punched him in the chest, sending him stumbling back repeatedly as he clutched his injured chest.
After two months of training, followed by two years of near-mad cultivation in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he had consumed more than a dozen Senzu Beans and pushed himself to the point of grievous injury several times, bringing his Saiyan talent to the utmost limit he could reach.
Even if he had not yet fully mastered the techniques He-El had taught him, Vegeta believed his combat power had already caught up to Goku, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and the others. He was only somewhat lacking in the techniques for using Ki and the body.
But that gap existed because Goku, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and the others had trained under He-El for a long time. He had only been desperately raising his combat power, so it was only natural that his techniques in using his body and Ki were somewhat inferior.
But that did not mean he was weak. On the contrary, Vegeta knew he was more than a hundred times stronger than his former self.
He was not weak, nor did it mean that any random nobody could show up and defeat him.
Even if his skills were inferior to Goku's, Piccolo's, Tien Shinhan's, and Yamcha's, that was only because the martial arts and techniques for using the body and Ki that He-El taught were far too powerful. Even grasping only the surface of them would make one immensely strong.
There was no way he should have been defeated this easily.
Yet when facing Android 19, aside from being suppressed by Vegeta at the beginning, Android 19 had completely adapted to Vegeta's rhythm afterward, beating him into a