The fear of death
Moving backwards as fast as I possibly can, I dodge every stray lightning bolt while shooting ki blasts after ki blasts that Adam just shrugs off. Intent on attacking me as the storm seems to get worse, rain pouring and wind blowing, it's akin to a hurricane in Egypt!
Deciding to stop playing cat and mouse, I do hand signs while flying backwards. "BURNING ATTACK!" A ball of flames shoots out of my hands and impacts Adam as dust rises. I stop flying backwards and stare.
Normally, you would ask, "Why don't you sense his ki?" The answer? People in this world have no ki. That's why.
Huffing a bit, I focus intently on the fog. As I slowly narrow my eyes, they immediately widen as Adam dashes out so fast he's nothing more than a black and blue blur to me.
Grabbing my neck with a grin I realize he has 0 good intentions for me as he slams me down to the ground face first before dragging me face first through rock.
Punching his arm once, It Doesn't budge. Punching a second time with my ki enhanced to the max allows an opening for me to escape, scrapes most likely riddling my handsome face after the abuse this bastard just put me through.
Floating up while breathing heavily I notice that Adam's eyes seem to be glowing white, a wicked grin on his face. I'm not familiar with the guy but I can tell this is new even to him. Like he just achieved this 'transformation'
'of course the guy had to get a power up the moment he decided to fight me and conveniently the moment I changed the tide of the fight' cursing at my situation as I realize this is like one of those shit fanfics I read in my last life where the villain gets a convenient power up to slowly over power the protagonist and balance out the protagonist's op'ness.
Sniffing the air like a weirdo, black Adam stares at me, "Tell me, boy, do you smell it?" He asks as I stare at him like he just grew one hundred heads.
"Well, no, I don't smell what you're smelling, and my nose is pretty good -" I can't finish as I'm blitzed and grabbed in the neck and thrown so fast I'm in the stratosphere in what felt like an instant.
Grimacing at my situation, I see Adam appear in front of me in a bolt of lightning as he stares at me with absolute confidence.
"You know, no one will be able to save you right? The Justice League is busy in a different dimension as we speak, so today will be your last," black Adam says as I crack my neck getting ready to go all out.
Slowly unsheathing my sword, I hold it out in front of me as a thin membrane of ki encloses it.
"I must thank you..." Black Adam asks questioningly as I say "briefs" trying to maintain my secret identity.
"Ah, well I must thank you briefs, for what you have helped me accomplish. If not for you drawing my blood, I wouldn't have realized how fragile I once was and wouldn't have invoked the full might of the gods" Adam says as I see his muscle twitch, fucking, as I barely dodge a punch that would've at least broken my nose.
Kicking Adam away with a ki-enhanced kick, I shoot a ki blast meant to distract as he lets it hit him, smoke covering his glowing visage, as I blitz forward at my top speed. Going for a slash to the neck, which Adam blocks with his finger tips before shattering my sword.
"What the fu-" I can't finish as I'm kicked up higher up into the damn atmosphere as blood begins spilling out my mouth in pools at the force of the kick.
As Adam once again calmly floats up to my altitude I decided what I was gonna do.
Dropping down a small everlasting ki blast so I can find my way back to Earth when needed. I take a massive breath of air filling my lungs to the brim before I shoot off into space.
Flying through the vacuum at my top speed, passing the moon in 4 seconds, breaking my previous time, I begin flying even faster as space itself begins warping under my speed. I can feel Adam following me. 'Good', I think as I reach Saturn in about 5 minutes, landing on one of its moons as Adam slowly floats down in front of me. Saturn's beauty glows in all its might behind me as I can now safely use my planet-busting attacks.
Being a normal guy a week ago, I can't help but smile at this exhilarating feeling my Saiyan blood must be kicking in as I realize for the first time in this universe that my life was in danger. I was under the threat of death
Space is cold, super cold. Almost as cold as the embrace of death. It's also beautiful, too beautiful for anyone not powerful enough to experience its beauty firsthand. A pleasing fact.
Entering a sloppy combat stance as Adam stares at me with his arms crossed. Electricity dances upon his bulked-up form, his eyes still glowing white.
Slowly a white aura covers my entire body and then some as I hold in a yell to keep my held breath intact as I then put my hands in front of myself.
Hands glowing yellow as golden ki electricity dances on my figers as a ball slowly forms. Adam still standing proudly.
'He's an idiot... All that power has got to his head he thinks he can tank a final flash.' grunting as my muscles buck and bend under the compressed force of the final flash I begin stabilizing the attack as the one of many moons of Saturn that we are on begins rumbling, the entire thing.
Smiling at Adam as his eyes remain unwavering 'sayonara, bald dude' soon the final flash shoots out faster than even what I saw Adam move at as it impacts his body meeting some resistance before it explodes right then and there.
Putting my hands in an 'X' in front of my face as the blast engulfs me as well though I don't get the burnt and only the aftermath I can feel it reach its peak as the bright yellow energy fades Adam is revealed missing half his body. A look of shock and fear of something on his face Something I was akin with as it has happened to me before as well. The fear of Death.
(Perfect representation as to how arrogance and pride can get one killed adam lost to someone much less experienced and only half as powerful because he believed he was so significantly above trunks that he could tank anything he throws at him, poor guy.)