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"Mmmm! So sweet! So savory! Truly earth is the universe's pinnacle of otherworldly cuisine!" Beerus said, as he sat down and enjoyed a cup of pudding.

"I'm glad you enjoyed it, Lord Beerus!" Vegeta said, kneeling next to the content(for now) god.

"Ok, this is just too weird. Vegeta what are you doing?!" Bulma finally asked. Finding it extremely strange how submissive her husband was acting.

"Your husband is simply just showing proper reverence to a god of destruction," Beerus explained as he ate his pudding.

"A god!? Wait, hold on a minute! You're a god of destruction!?" Bulma shouted out in shock, getting everyone's attention.

"That's right. Honestly, I'm a little insulted. It took you this long to figure it out, but given how good the food is here I'll look that over, and not destroy your planet." Beerus said. "Although, I do need one more thing."

"And what would that be lord Beerus!?" Vegeta asked nervously.

"You see, the reason I decided to come to this planet was because I received a premonition," Beerus explained as he finished his pudding cup. "That here I would meet a Saiyan with beast-like power. Who would ultimately be my rival? I already defeated that one Saiyan on North Kai's planet, if I recall his name was…Goku."

"Wait a second! Are you saying he defeated Goku!?" Krillin shouted in shock, everyone else seeming almost as alarmed as he was at that news.

He defeated Dad!? Gohan thought, deciding to move a bit closer to the god. His body tensed up. I can't sense his energy at all. Could he really have beaten Dad?

"But he went down rather easily. Definitely not someone I could ever consider a rival." Beerus said casually, further stunning the crowd. "And I doubt the prince could fill that role given how he's acting. So tell me, is there a Saiyan here who's worth fighting?"

"That'd be me," Gohan said, stepping forward. Tucking his glasses away. "If you're looking for a fight, then I'll take you on."

"Interesting. You don't look like much." Beerus said, lazily looking over Gohan. "You'd better know there are consequences to lying to a destroyer."

"He's not lying my lord! As much as I hate to admit it, Gohan is currently the strongest of the Saiyans." Vegeta admitted through his teeth. "If the person you're looking for truly exists, it's likely Gohan."

"I see…In that case." Beerus got up. Cracked his neck. And then-

FWOOSH!

Suddenly an intense amount of pressure poured out of Beerus, causing everyone but Gohan to jump back.

Vegeta grabbed Bulma and flew her away from the two.

"Shall we begin? Or do you dare to make a destroyer god wait?" Beerus asked menacingly.

Gohan got into a fighting stance, and his body exploded into a golden aura, with lightning cracking along his body as he activated Super Saiyan 2.

"I'm ready when you are," Gohan said in a calm and composed tone. In contrast to the panic he was feeling internally.

"Hmph," Beerus smirked.

And then he rushed Gohan, with explosive speed.

"Huh-GAH!" Gohan gasped for air, as Beerus kicked him right in the chest, and sent him flying far, far away, with Beerus flying after him.

Gohan flew into a mountainous wasteland and slowed himself down as he went through the air, before stopping completely, and then charging forward to meet Beerus.

Beerus threw a punch and Gohan ducked under it, and tackled Beerus, wrapping his arms around his waist, and then flying Beerus as hard as he could through every Mountain around them, before flying them both into the ground, creating a massive crater.

Gohan let Beerus go after putting him in the ground, he flew up and he aimed his palm at Beerus, a ki orb forming in his hand as he got ready to fire.

"HAAAAAAAAA!" Gohan unleashed a powerful Ki blast right onto the downed god.

KABOOM!

Most of the wasteland lit up, as a giant beam of light erupted from the crater.

When the explosion died down, Gohan was left flying over the destroyed wasteland, waiting for the dust to clear so he could see the result of the attack.

"Well, you're definitely a good deal stronger than the other one." Said Beerus's voice from behind him.

"What!?" Gohan turned around and immediately got punched in the stomach, knocking the wind straight out of him, leaving the hybrid stunned and clutching his stomach.

"Even in a form with a weaker output, your power still greatly exceeds his." Beerus mused. "However I still get the feeling you're holding back. I'll have you know, that is a grave mistake."

Beerus rushed behind Gohan, and before Gohan could react, he slammed both his arms down on Gohan's back, sending him crashing through the ground.

Gohan's body dug through the ground, eventually breaking into a large underground lake, and Gohan managed to stop himself, just before his back hit the water.

He flew to the opposite side of the hole, and Beerus flew down. The two of them floating just above the surface of the lake.

Gohan got back in a fighting stance, and Beerus simply floated there nonchalantly.

Then Beerus raised his finger and motioned for Gohan to come at him.

"...Haaaaaaa!" Gohan screamed as he charged up ki, shaking the entire cave with his energy, and creating massive ripples in the water below him.

Then he charged at Beerus and aimed a kick right at his head, which the destroyer blocked.

Beerus swiveled around to behind Gohan and tried to kick him in the right side, but Gohan caught the kick, and spun himself and Beerus around, before throwing Beerus at the cave wall. But Beerus flipped mid-air and landed on the wall feet first.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Gohan shot out dozens of small energy shots at Beerus, but the god just deflected them casually, with only one finger.

The deflected shots slammed into the side of the walls, and with each shot they destroyed the sides of the cave, making more and more cracks in the ceiling, until the entire cave collapsed on top of them. And everything went dark for a moment.

Until Gohan and Beerus plowed through the rocks and clashed with each other, the force from their clash pushing away the rocks and making a small pocket in the ground, their blazing auras lighting it up.

Gohan pushed Beerus forward and up, dragging him up through the ground until they reached the surface, and got into the sky.

"Rahhhhhhh!" Beerus shouted as his body suddenly became enveloped in solid purple energy that pushed Gohan back before ki blasts suddenly started shooting out of Beerus in all directions.

"Gahhhhhhh!" Gohan grunted in pain as the blasts pelted him. He blocked them as best he could but their heavy and powerful ki blasts still hurt like hell and left his arms and waist bruised.

Beerus stopped his barrage of blasts and charged at Gohan, hitting him in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him, before kicking him in the head, sending him straight down to the ground.

BOOM!

Gohan hit the ground hard enough to shake the earth, and make a massive crater in the ground.

"Agghhh." Gohan groaned as he clutched the part of his stomach Beerus had struck. "His power's unbelievable…and he's not even taking me seriously. Is this the power of a god of destruction!?"

"Well then. I think it's time we stopped the warm-up." Beerus said. "Let's see if you can survive this."

Then Beerus brought his hands up, and a ball of energy that looked like a mini sun formed in his hand.

The god raised his hands up and chucked the ball towards Gohan, and after getting a few feet from Beerus, the ball expanded, becoming the size of a small mountain.

Gohan's eyes widened as the ball headed towards him. If that thing hits the earth, the planet's done for!

He brought his hands back. "Kame! Hame! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Gohan unleashed a massive Kamehameha at the ball of destruction, but the ball kept pushing through the beam, getting closer and closer to the ground.

"Tch! HA! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gohan's body was wrapped in a golden glow, and then his beam suddenly doubled in size, and pushed right through the ball of destruction, destroying it and allowing the beam to head right at Beerus.

Beerus smirked, and then he was encompassed in blinding blue light.

The beam rushed through the planet's atmosphere, before flying into the depths of space.

Back on earth, the beam dispersed, revealing Beerus to be completely unharmed.

"Not bad," Beerus said, dusting himself off, before looking down at Gohan.

Super Saiyan 3 Gohan to be exact.

"Ah yes, that form your father used. I believe he called it Super Saiyan 3 or something like that." Beerus said. "Could you people have truly not come up with a more creative name?"

Even after taking all that, he's still unphased! Gohan could feel it. Even after only a few seconds of activation time, Super Saiyan 3 was already burning through his energy. Soon it would leave him with nothing left.

He needed to end this fight quickly, or else his defeat was certain.

Gohan flew up, high into the sky, and right over the sun, before holding his hands over his face. "Solar Flare!"

"Now what's thi-ahhhh!" Beerus screamed in pain as overwhelming light slammed into his eyes, forcing him to cover his face as he writhed in pain. "Oww, my eyes!"

While Beerus was distracted, Gohan brought two of his fingers together and brought them to his forehead. Ki sparked from the tips of his fingers as he began charging his attack as quickly as he could.

After a few moments, Beerus eventually managed to regain his sight and turned to glare at Gohan. "NOW I'M MAD! HHHHHHHHHH!"

Beerus's body was covered in menacing purple ki, as he charged at Gohan.

Only for him to vanish, teleporting a good distance behind the rampaging god.

Beerus turned around and went to charge Gohan again, only for him to teleport away once again.

This continued on for a while, with Gohan teleporting away with instant transmission anytime Beerus approached, until eventually, Beerus stopped and stared at Gohan. He's planning something. And judging by that mass of energy he's holding in his fingertips, it's something rather interesting.

He stopped moving! Does that mean he's realized what I'm planning? No. I can't focus on that now! Gohan said as he poured every bit of energy he could into this next attack. It's now or never!

Gohan used instant transmission once more, this time appearing right in front of Beerus, just a bit below him. He moved his fingers and shoved them right under the god's chin. "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"

And then there was an explosion of light that encompassed everything.

When the light died down, Gohan was standing there, now back in his base form. His fingers still pointed at Beerus's chin.

And the god had not even a single scratch on him.

"This…this can't be. This is impossible!" Gohan gasped as his body trembled.

"Now you're catching on," Beerus smirked, as he lightly pushed Gohan back. The god rubbed his chin. "Before we end things I have to say, that was a VERY impressive technique."

"I…It was…it was made by my master Piccolo." Gohan said after calming himself down enough to speak properly.

"Piccolo…ah yes the Namekian! I suppose that makes sense." Beerus mused. "Namekians had always been a race that'd been favored by the Kais. Now then, speaking of impressive, you've done well so far, half Saiyan. But I can feel it. You've far from reached your full potential. Tell me, when was the last time you had someone push you to the brink of death?"

"...7 years ago," Gohan answered, recalling his battle with Cell. "There was another incident with a wizard, and a creature named Majin Buu, but none of them were all that strong."

"Hmph. Not all that strong he says." Beerus chuckled. "And the Kais were so concerned about that guy. I told them it wasn't worth my time. I do hate wasting my time. Which is why I'm going to cut right to the chase."

Beerus raised his hand at Gohan. "Hakai."

Before Gohan could react, he found his body completely entombed, within a purple ball of intense energy. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Feeling his life in danger, Gohan's body burst back into Ssj2, as he tried to fight off the attack, but it was no use.

Bit by bit he could feel it eating away at him. Destroying not just his body, but his very existence.

"HGRRRRRGAGHHHHHHH!" Gohan tried to summon more power, struggling to fight off his exhaustion as he inched towards Ssj3.

"I wouldn't suggest using that ill-thought-up form," Beerus said, smirking as he slowly rose up, higher into the air. "That attack is known as Hakai. The energy of destruction in its purest form. Although this is only a mere showing, it's more than enough to wipe away every shred of your existence. And all that Super Saiyan 3 form will accomplish is weakening your already exhausted body further."

Beerus continued to rise higher, higher and higher still until he was so high up that he entered the upper atmosphere.

Then he created a small clump of energy in his palm that looked like a star.

"It's do-or-die time. Son Gohan." Beerus said, before casually dropping the energy, letting it fall towards earth.

That small bit of energy fell for a bit before suddenly exploding, turning into an absolutely enormous massive ball of energy.

Everyone on that side of the earth looked up in shock, awe, and fear, as it looked like the sun had come crashing down, and was about to slam into the earth.

"Damn that Beerus!" Vegeta growled, using anger to hide his fear, as he stared at the biggest mass of energy he'd ever felt before in his life. "Did I humiliate myself for nothing?"

"Gohan," Piccolo said as he looked up at the ball. "Fight well."

Meanwhile, Gohan could do nothing but watch the ball of looming death draw closer, and closer. Nothing but struggle against his own, seemingly inevitable erasure.

No! I can't stop this! I can't beat him! Gohan despaired as he could feel his very soul being burned and unmade, his life flashing before his eyes. I

The years he'd spent with his mom and dad. Before it all started.

I

Radiz showing up. Crushing his father and his friends with pure power. Ending in a fight that left his father dead.

I

The fight against Nappa, that left three of his friends, and his own mentor dead.

I

The unending terror as they were forced to sneak around Freiza as he committed genocide, until an inevitable bout that left Vegeta, Krillin, and Dende dead.

I

The first time he'd truly tapped into his potential in the battle against Cell. But still managed to let complete victory elude him, his own shortcomings resulting in his father's death.

"I…"

The years he'd spent forcing himself to train, so he'd never feel that powerless ever again.

"I…I WON'T LET YOU DESTROY MY WORLD!" Gohan roared as golden light suddenly exploded from his body once more.

Before the light could subside, a golden streak burst out and ran right into Beerus's ball of destruction, piercing straight through it, causing the ball to explode harmlessly in the air, before it continued upright towards Beerus, with alarming speed.

Beerus put his hand over his left cheek, catching a fist that had been thrown at him by Gohan, still engulfed in golden light.

When the light died down, it revealed Gohan in a form similar to his normal Super Saiyan transformation, but under the golden aura, was another aura, a bright blue one.

"There we go-UGH!" Beerus was interrupted as Gohan kicked him in the side of the head.

"HA!" Gohan added more force to the kick and sent Beerus flying with an explosive amount of force.

Then Gohan appeared behind Beerus as he was still hurtling from the kick, and kicked him back down towards the earth.

KRAKACRROM!

Beerus landed in the center of a mountain range, slamming into the earth so hard the force from the shockwave he created annihilated every single mountain around him, turning it into another rocky wasteland that was covered in dust and rubble.

Another shockwave dispersed the clouds of dust, revealing the God of Destruction, standing there.

He touched the top of his head, and then brought it back down to his face, seeing a drop of blood on it. He smiled

Gohan appeared in front of Beerus with Instant Transmission and tried to mash a ki ball in his face, only for Beerus to duck under the attack, and punch Gohan in the gut.

Gohan skidded back a few feet back, and started throwing ki balls at Beerus, which the god easily dodged.

However, while he was dodging, he noticed something glowing behind him.

Beerus looked behind him and saw a wall of the ki balls that Gohan threw out, just floating there behind him. Then he looked all around him and found himself surrounded by ki balls.

Gohan flew back, putting some distance between them before raising his arms and bringing them down. "Hellzone Grenade!"

And then the balls shot down towards Beerus, all at once.

But Beerus didn't falter. Punching two ki balls away, knocking another one away with his tail, dodging a few, kicking one away, slapping another, and flicking away the last two that threatened to hit him.

"Heh that was a nice tr-" Beerus was interrupted as Gohan used Instant Transmission, and punched Beerus in the cheek, sending him flying once again, and Gohan charged after him.

The two exchanged blows as they flew, whizzing past different locations, until they reached a vast ocean, Gohan landed a powerful blow, punching down the top of Beerus's head, and sending him into the water, where Gohan followed.

For a singular moment, things were calm.

Then the water exploded. Pocket opened up as Beerus and Gohan clashed, each blow repelling the water further and further away, until they created a waterless pocket of the ocean the size of a small city.

Gohan landed a kick that Beerus blocked by crossing his arms, but it still sent the god skidding back on his feet.

Then Gohan brought his hands together and placed them down at his abdomen. He poured ki through his arms, and into his palms, creating a power ball of ki, nestled in his hands. After a few moments, Gohan jutted it forward, launching the ball at Beerus, which grew massively as soon as it left his palms. "Light Grande!"

Beerus looked at the massive ball of energy approaching him and was about to fly up to dodge it when Gohan used Instant Transmission and appeared behind him.

Gohan clapped his hands together in front of him, and blue lightning charged in his palms as he separated them. "Thunder Shock Surprise!"

He shot the lightning at Beerus, and it covered the god, trapping him in its hold.

"What!? I can't…move!" Beerus struggled, but was unable to move, as the Light Grande engulfed him.

There was a massive explosion of light, creating a dome of energy that pushed the water away even further.

In cities around the world, people were running as massive floods broke out due to all the displaced water.

Back with Gohan, he took a moment to catch his breath. Feeling just how worn down and exhausted his body truly was. He'd pushed well past his limits and achieved an incredible transformation. And while this form didn't abuse his body anywhere close to the extent of Ssj 3. The stain it put on his thoroughly beaten down body was nothing to scoff at.

"It's about time to finish this," Gohan said to himself as the dust and light started to die down.

"My thoughts exactly." He heard Beeru's voice behind him.

Gohan immediately reacted by trying to elbow Beerus, but Beerus caught the attack and then delivered a pressure point attack on that arm.

"Guh!" Gohan flew up to get away from Beerus. He looked at his arm, he couldn't move it anymore. And it would likely stay that way for the rest of the fight.

Forced to go all out, with only one arm. It's like fate was laughing at him.

Gohan looked down at Beerus, wondering what he could use to put a stop to this seemingly unstoppable force.

Then something came to mind. The technique his father had used to end his fight with Vegeta after Babidi had taken control of him.

He'd only practiced it a few times. But it was now or never.

"Haaaaaaaaa!" Gohan charged his ki for a moment, before continuing to fly up, while still charging his ki, which burst off his body in a brilliant display of gold and blue light.

Meanwhile, back at the party, the defenders of Earth were all frozen in shock. All of them could sense Gohan's power.

"Woah! I-Is that Gohan!?" Krillin asked.

"This amount of power! It's insane!" Tein shouted.

"That power! Could it actually be enough to finally put down that bastard!?" Vegeta asked.

"You can do it, big brother!" Goten cheered.

"Oh my. To think all that power came from a mortal." Whis said casually as he continued eating. "It looks like Lord Beerus won't leave disappointed."

"Gohan," Piccolo said softly, before smiling. "Finish it."

Back with Gohan, the half-Saiyan warrior had reached the upper atmosphere, and was absolutely bursting with power.

After a few moments, all that power shrank back into Gohan's body, and he charged back down toward Earth. Right on top of Beerus.

"DRAGON!" Gohan roared as he rushed down, throwing out his one working arm. "FIST!"

Gohan exploded, suddenly all his energy wrapping around him, and turning into a giant golden dragon with glowing blue eyes.

Beerus looked down at the mighty dragon that was barreling down towards him, with a fond expression on his face. "Heh. This guy. You're everything I'd hoped."

BOOM!

Beerus's body exploded with power, as a threatening purple aura covered his body.

KABOOM!

Beerus exploded up towards Gohan, moving with such speed and power that it caused the water around them to evaporate and explode.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA! HAAAAAA!" Beerus's energy wrapped around him, turning into a massive purple dragon that flew up to meet Gohan's golden one.

The two dragons clashed.

And everything went white.

Gohan couldn't see anything. He couldn't feel his body. The only thing he knew was that he was losing consciousness.

But before he did, he heard something. His father's voice resonated in his head, likely thanks to King Kai.

"Gohan. I'm proud of you son."

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BOOM!

"Ahhh!" Gohan woke up, his body jutting forward in alarm. "W-Wha-huh?"

Gohan found himself, lying on a lawn chair. Back at Bulma's party. It was nighttime now, and fireworks were bursting in the air above them.

And next to him, sitting in another lawn chair, sipping on his drink. Was Beerus.

"So you're finally awake," Beerus said, taking another sip of his drink through the straw. "I'm fairly certain I've said this, but it's a poor idea to make a god wait."

"Wh-what happened?" Gohan said, looking down at his body to find that his body was completely healed.

"You lost," Beerus answered, still looking up at the fireworks. "A predictable outcome. But your effort was certainly applaudable. I can't remember the last time someone made me use nearly half of my power."

"H-Half!?" Gohan gasped, looking at Beerus like he expected him to be joking. "That's insane!"

"Well, that's a god of destruction for you." Beerus chuckled. "Looks like you'll have to settle for being the third strongest in the universe for now."

"Third?!" Gohan felt like his whole world was being pulled out from under him.

Beerus nodded and looked over at Whis, who was still enjoying some sushi at the bar. "You see that glutton over there? Stuffing his face like there's no tomorrow? That's my teacher. And someone who's significantly stronger than I."

Gohan didn't even respond, too shocked to give any input. Instead, he simply laid back down on the lawn chair, trying to process all this.

For a while the two were silent. Simply sitting down, watching the fireworks go off.

Eventually, Gohan got his wits about him and spoke up. "So…you're not going to destroy the earth."

"If I was, do you think your loved ones would be celebrating right now?" Beerus chuckled. "No, this planet is far too entertaining to destroy. And so long as it stays that way, I have a feeling the earth will be around for quite a while longer. You understand what I mean right?"

"..." Gohan sighed. "Yeah. Next time we fight, I'll be even stronger. I swear."

Beerus smirked. "I'll hold you to that."

Chapter Text

Goku and Vegeta had once again been backed into a corner. Once again.

The two stood in their Ssj Blue forms, ragged and beaten within an inch of their lives, in what had once been an icy tundra. But was now a fiery wasteland, with lava spewing everywhere.

And the person responsible for all this was standing right in front of them. Broly. His hair and body giving off the familiar golden glow of Super Saiyan.

His power was incredible. Terrifying. And it just kept growing! Every second it felt like he was just getting stronger and stronger.

And the two of them just couldn't keep up.

"Ugh." Vegeta fell to one knee, his hair returning to black as his battered body was unable to keep up the transformation. "D-Damn it!"

"Come…on…Vegeta. We need to…we need to…ugh." Goku too returned to his base state, the beating Broly gave to him finally catching up with him.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly screamed, his cries shaking the ground and skies, before he stared down his fellow Saiyans. His eyes pure white, devoid of anything but pure rage. Like a feral beast.

Meanwhile, Freiza looked down on everything, with a sadistic smile on his face. While it's true that HE should be the one to finish off Goku, he couldn't ignore the opportunity right in front of him.

Broly would finish off Goku and Vegeta, then in his savage state, he would ramage around until he ended up blowing up the planet, killing himself in the process due to his inability to breathe in space!

The savage apes, finally destroyed, at the hands of the Super Saiyan they thought would save them.

He couldn't have thought up a more fitting end if he tried.

"Do it Broly! Destroy them! Crush them, and this entire putrid ball of filth!" Frieza cheered. "Oh ho ho ho ho ho!"

Broly opened his mouth and shot out a massive beam of ki, right at Goku and Vegeta.

Vegeta stared down the green beam of death, unable to move.

He was prepared to force himself to stand. To fight back. To do anything. Otherwise, earth was done for.

But that was unnecessary. Because before Vegeta could think, suddenly, the beam was gone. Vegeta had been moved elsewhere. They were now behind Broly.

Someone had moved Vegeta away from the blast, so quickly he didn't even know what was happening.

And he knew exactly who that was.

Vegeta looked up, to his side, and saw Goku. His hair was still black. But his head was face down, hiding his eyes.

Suddenly, a bluish, silvery aura erupted from Goku's body, engulfing him.

His hair shifted into that whitish silver that Vegeta had only seen once before, and Goku looked up at Broly, his eyes shining silver.

"Tch. About time." Vegeta croaked, before finally passing out.

"Ah?" Broly turned around, noticing something had gotten behind him, but the moment he did, Goku rushed forward with incredible speed and buried his fist deep into Broly's gut. "UAGHHHH!?"

Several spots on Broly's body suddenly sparkled, before impacts struck those areas, punches that had been delivered so fast they couldn't be seen, and Broly was sent stumbling back.

Then in a flash, Goku launched himself at Broly, delivering a devastating drop kick to Broly's chest, and sending him flying into a mountain.

"Ah yes. Ultra Instinct." Frieza scowled. "I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Let's see how Broly handles this little hurdle."

"HRAGGHHHHHHHHHHH!" The mountain Broly was launched into exploded into pieces, and Broly launched himself at Goku.

Broly tried to grab Goku but Goku ducked under his hand, and then jumped up, delivering a knee to the underside of Broly's jaw, then throwing a ki blast at Broly's face, knocking Broly back and letting Goku flip back onto his feet.

Broly shook off the pain from the blast to the face he received, and glared forward, expecting to see Goku, but Goku wasn't there.

And next thing he knew, Goku was behind him, delivering a powerful kick to the side of his head, sending Broly flying once more, with Goku flew towards him at overwhelming speed, staying in Broly's face and landing dozens of blows on him each moment, before delivering a finally blow right at Broly's face, which caused him to crash into another mountain, embedding him in it.

Goku then threw a punch in front of him, the air pressure launching off his hips, and directly into Broly's chest, landing like a flurry of blows, then sent him right through the mountain, and hurtling through the air.

FWOOSH!

Goku dashed in front of Broly as he was tossed through the air, staring down at him, eye to eye. Goku's silver eyes flashed.

KRAKOOM!

Broly was blown into the ground with incredible force, breaking apart the ground, and causing several mountains to erupt like volcanoes.

Goku stared down at the cloud of dust and ash, below him.

Then, all the dust was blown away, as Broly's energy surged once more.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly screamed as once again his power rocketed upwards. Energy burst from his body, and hundreds of energy blasts exploded from his body, spreading absolutely everywhere.

Goku batted away the few stray blasts that went towards him, before bringing his fingers to his forehead, using Instant Transmission to get directly in front of Broly before delivering a devastating kick to Broly's mouth.

Broly skidded back on the heels of his feet, but as he did so, he launched several huge ki beams from his hand toward Goku.

Goku charged forward, jumping onto he ki beams, creating ki balls on his feet, allowing him to move on top of Broly's attack, rushing through it and getting to Broly, before delivering a spinning kick to the side of Broly's head, sending him flying to the side, somersaulting through the air.

Broly stuck his hands and feet into the ground to try and stop himself. But just as he was coming to a stop, Goku appeared, and kneed him in the cheek, launching him like a rag doll as he spun across the ground.

Then before Broly could even attempt to stop himself, Goku appeared in front of his path and kicked him in another direction.

Broly was helplessly flung across the fire hellscape, as Goku repeatedly kicked him around like a soccer ball.

Then Goku appeared in front of Broly once again, delivering a sharp ax kick to Broly's face, slamming him hard into the ground.

"Rahhhhh." Broly groaned as he forced himself up, back onto his feet.

But as he got up, he saw a bright blue glow, he looked towards it and saw Goku, charging an attack.

"Kame!" Goku shouted as he charged up, what he intended to be his final attack. "Hame! Hame!"

"GRRRRRRRRR!" Broly growled, his rage boiling over to new levels.

CRACK!

Broly's armor began to crack apart, as Broly's aura started to turn a deeper shade of green.

"Hame!" Goku shouted.

CRACK!

"HA!" Goku shot the Kamehameha wave forwards, as a massive blue beam of ki.

Broly just stared it down, as it completely engulfed him.

A few moments later, Goku stopped feeding the attack energy, causing the Kamehameha wave to quickly shrink into nothing, and vanish. Leaving nothing but smoke in its wake.

Goku looked into the smoke, wondering if it was finally over.

And his eyes went wide, when he saw a brilliant green light, piercing through the smoke.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared as all the smoke flew away, and he released an immense amount of power. His hair was completely green, his armor completely destroyed, and he'd somehow gotten even bigger.

And in a flash, that massive green Goliath was right in front of him.

Broly started wildly punching Goku, but Goku dodged each and every one of them, but not as comfortably as before. Broly was much faster now, and it was only thanks to how sloppy these attacks were, that Goku was able to dodge these reliably even in Ultra Instinct.

Goku found an opening and punched Broly in the gut again.

But Broly barely reacted, giving a small grunt of pain, before opening his mouth, as a beam charged inside, aimed right at Goku.

Goku backflipped just in time as Broly shot the blast at the ground, Broly moved his head up, bringing the beam up with him, and Goku flipped to the side to dodge it, while shooting a ki blast at the side of Broly's face, pushing it to the side, and giving Goku the chance to rush in, and land a flurry of blows on Broly's chest.

Broly flew back but stopped himself almost immediately, and rushed back in at Goku.

Goku flew back, but soon Broly was right on top of him and launched another flurry of punches and kicks, which Goku was forced to dodge.

His blows are getting faster! His body's getting tougher! I can't keep up! Goku thought as he dodged.

Broly threw a punch at Goku's face, and Goku fell back on his hands, before kicking Broly in the chin, then flipping in the air, and launching a ki beam at Broly's chest, launching them away from each other.

Goku flipped onto his feet and took a second to catch his breath. I took too long. Now he's too powerful. At this rate, I won't be able to beat him. Think! I need some way to stop him! …Wait! What about THAT technique! That might work! But if I just leave him here, who knows what might happen…with this form. I might be able to make use of that other technique.

As Broly focused back on him, Goku got into a stance with his arms crossed.

And then suddenly, Goku split into four.

"Alright! Here goes!" All four Goku's said at the same time, as they all brought their fingertips to their heads, and used Instant Transmission.

Three Goku's appeared on both sides and next to Broly.

"Hey over here!" The Goku to his left shouted.

"No, over here!" The Goku to his right called.

"Hey, Broly over here!" Shouted the Goku behind him.

"HUHHHH!?" Broly looked around him, his rage-addled mind, unable to figure out which Goku to attack first.

As Broly was looking around, the Goku, to his right, shot a ki blast in his face. Which did no damage, but succeeded in annoying him.

Then the rest of them started shooting ki blasts at him, annoying him even more.

Broly's body unleashed an explosion of energy, and they all used Instant Transmission to get away.

When the explosion died down, one of the Goku's appeared above Broly, in the sky. "Hey, Broly! Solar Flare!"

A bright light erupted from Goku's blinding Broly.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared, as he started randomly firing ki beams out of his mouth in his confusion, but of course, none of these got anywhere close to hitting Goku.

By the time Broly regained his sight, he found the three Goku's running around him, in a triangle shape.

"This is something I learned during the tournament of power. Let's put it to the test!" One of Goku said.

Suddenly, all three Goku's started doing simultaneous attacks on Broly, from every angle.

These attacks did no damage but did succeed in disorienting and confusing Broly for a few moments.

However, when Broly got his wits about him, he closedlined one of the Gokus, before pouring ki into his arm and making him explode. Making that clone fade into nothing.

Then Broly rushed at one of the other clones and started trying to hit him, unleashing a barrage of kicks and punches.

The clone dodged everything, barely. Broly was so much faster than him now, so he had to push Ultra Instinct to its limit to keep up.

But it wasn't enough, and Broly eventually managed to grab the clone's head.

CRUSH!

A moment later, that clone was no more.

Broly turned to face the last Goku clone, opening his mouth and firing a beam.

The clone jumped up, creating ki balls on his feet, and ran up the beam, traveling all the way to Broly's face, before bringing his feet together, combining the ki orbs on his feet, and turning them into a beam that he fired point blank at Broly's face.

Broly was completely unaffected by this and grabbed the clone's leg, and slammed him into the ground, before stomping on him. Destroying the last clone.

"Heh. Looks like I made it just in time."

Broly turned around and saw the real Goku had returned, with a small jar right in front of him.

"Sorry, Broly! But I'm gonna need you to take time out!" Goku said.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Broly charged towards him, ready to attack once again, with ridiculous speed.

But he wasn't fast enough.

Goku threw out his hands in front of him, and a green vortex shot out all around him, just as Broly was inching closer. "Evil Containment!"

"RAHHHH!? RAAHHHH!?" Broly was caught in the vortex, and was rendered helpless as his body was turned into energy, and became a part of the wave.

"HA!" Goku slammed the wave down into the bottle, sealing Broly inside of it.

He quickly placed the cork and the seal on the bottle, ensuring it'd stay sealed.

"Whew." Goku immediately fell on his butt, Ultra Instinct's power leaving his body as he returned to his base form. Thankfully it seemed like his body was more used to that divine power, meaning he didn't have to suffer the same drastic consequences he did last time.

He held the bottle in his hand and looked down at it. "Now what are we going to do with you."

"Oh, you won't have to worry about that for long." Said a sadistic, far too familiar voice from behind him.

Goku turned his head and saw Freiza standing there, with a smile on his face, and a death beam ready to fire.

"I must say this has all turned out splendidly! I was beginning to worry that I wouldn't get the chance to kill you with my own two hands, but it appears fortune smiles upon me once again." Freiza said smugly. "And since you took care of Broly, I can take my time killing you and your loved ones! As slowly and painfully as possible!"

BRRRRRRRRRRR!

Suddenly the sky turned dark, and a pillar of golden light erupted from back at Freiza's ship, which turned into the Eternal Dragon, Shenron.

"What!?" Freiza shouted in shock, the whole speech he had ready falling to the wayside, as he had the rug pulled from under him. The situation was only made worse when he heard the sound of Goku using Instant Transmission and looked back to find Goku gone. "GRRRRRRR! YOU DAMN APES!"

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"So I just say what I want to wish for?" Cheelai said as she held her gun to Kikono's head. "Thought it'd be harder than that. Alright, Dragon! I wish-"

Then Goku appeared, startling everyone. "Hey, Shenron! Could you calm Broly down! And maybe keep him calm for a bit so he doesn't blow the earth!"

"A simple matter," Shenron said, his eyes glowing for a moment. "Your wish is granted."

"Thanks, Shenron!" Goku said, smiling brightly.

"Hey! You're that guy who was fighting Broly! Who the heck do you think you are!? Coming here and stealing my wish!?" Cheelai scolded, before her eyes widened, as she realized the implications of Goku being here. "Wait a minute!? If you're here, what happened to Broly!"

She turned her gun at him. "What did you do to him!?"

"Oh, you must be one of Broly's friends! Don't worry, he's all safe and sound inside this little jar." Goku reassured her casually, completely unafraid of her weapon. "I was just about to let him out now. See."

Goku popped open the cork of the jar with his thumb, and a wave of green energy came pouring, expanding until it turned into Broly, who was now sitting on the ground in his base form, very confused.

"Wha?" Broly looked around, trying to figure out what just happened, and why he couldn't remember anything that occurred within the last half hour or so.

"Broly!" Cheelai immediately ran over to him and checked for injuries.

It was at this time, that Freiza caught up, flying above the ship, looking absolutely livid. "Which one of you was it! Which one of you treacherous worms intended to steal MY wish!?"

"It was her lord Freiza! That one!" Kikono shouted, pointing at Cheelai. "She knocked me unconscious and stole the information on how to summon the dragon!"

Kikono knew damn well that Freiza would not care if he explained that his life was being threatened. At least this way it seemed like he didn't actually GIVE Cheelai the information.

However, he knew that also might not be enough to save him in the end.

"You! I'll show you what happens when one of MY minions dares bite the hand that feeds them!" Freiza shouted in rage as he aimed a Death Beam at Cheelai, who quickly proceeded to hide behind Broly.

"Hey Shenron, could you send Freiza to the other side of the universe!" Goku requested.

"What!? Don't you dare-" Freiza was cut off, as suddenly he vanished completely.

"Your wish is granted," Shenron said.

"Alright! Well, I think I'm done." Goku said, before turning to Cheelai. "Hey, sorry I had to use two of the wishes. You can have yours now."

"W-Wait? What!?" Cheelai looked at Goku like he was crazy. "You're just gonna…let me wish for whatever I want? I literally just threatened you with a blaster."

"Eh, you don't seem like a bad person." Goku shrugged.

"...You're weird," Cheelai said, giving Goku a suspicious look.

Goku just laughed and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah get that a lot."

Chapter Text

Goku had given up.

It was something that you'd expect to see in a nightmare. Like it couldn't possibly be real.

And yet that was the reality they were living in. Goku had given up in the battle for the fate of the earth.

And in his place, he was sending in-

"Alright Gohan. You're up!" Goku said as he approached his only son, much to the shock of everyone else.

"What!?" Cell scoffed.

"Wh-what did he just say!?" Vegeta gasped, everyone around him looking just as shocked.

"M-Me!?" Gohan looked up at his father as if he expected him to take it back. To say it was all just some weird joke. But Goku's eyes looked completely serious. "You want ME to fight Cell!?"

"Tch. I knew it. I knew from the moment you stepped out of the time chamber and started acting strange, that you had some kind of absurd plan!" Piccolo growled. "If YOU couldn't handle Cell, what makes you think Gohan can, huh?"

"Gohan's hiding way more power than any of us realize. It's downright unreal you guys." Goku answered, seeming completely confident despite the stoicism being thrown his way. "I saw it while we were training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. I know that THAT power is the only thing that can beat Cell."

"Hmph. That's pretty arrogant of you Goku." Piccolo said

Then he removed his weighted clothes and gave them to Gohan.

"H-Huh!? Mr Piccolo?" Gohan looked up at him confused, as did everyone else.

"Just watch Gohan. I'll take care of this." Piccolo said, before flying up and facing Cell.

"What!?" Once again everyone was shocked.

"Piccolo are you insane!?" Trunks called out.

"Piccolo don't! Gohan is the only one who can do this!" Goku warned.

"M-Mr Piccolo I can fight! You don't need to take my place!" Gohan called out, his voice filled with concern.

"Heheheheh." Cell chuckled, as he looked at Piccolo. "Has fear caused everyone to lose their minds? Do you not remember how our last bout went!? And that was in my imperfect form! How could you possibly think you stand a chance against me now?"

"...Just shut up and watch," Piccolo said, before suddenly, his body exploded with energy. "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly Piccolo burst into a new form. One with a slightly lighter skin tone, and a few other small differences.

But the increase in power was anything but small, everyone once again looked up at Piccolo in shock, but now for a very different reason.

"T-This power?! How! When did he get this strong!?" Vegeta shouted in shock.

"Holy cow! It feels like he's even stronger than Goku!" Krillin called out.

"Woah! Piccolo, where did this come from?!" Goku asked, finally getting that smug look wiped off his face.

"Mr Piccolo," Gohan said, looking up at him in awe.

"Now this is a surprise." Cell looked shocked for a moment, before returning to his own smug look. "Now where did this come from? I doubt that simply training in the Time Chamber could produce such incredible power. Ahhh. If I do recall correctly, the skies darkened not too long ago. Don't tell me you asked the dragon for this power?"

"And what if I did?" Piccolo asked.

"Then I have to say, you're more pathetic than I thought." Cell laughed. "Begging for power, and then showing it off like you earned any of it."

"You're the last person I want to hear that from! Everything about you, down to the cells in your body, was stolen from someone else! Be it our stolen DNA or all the power you took from the Androids. Nothing about you was earned." Piccolo scoffed, before looking down at his arms and frowning. "Although I can't say you're wrong. Gaining power like this is pathetic."

Then he clenched his fist. "But is it more pathetic than just standing on the sidelines, waiting for Goku to fix all our problems? I don't think so. Now enough talk!"

With that Piccolo rushed in at Cell, delivering a chop to the neck, that sent Cell to the ground, sliding across the dirt, before crashing into a giant rock.

Piccolo then launched a massive ki blast at Cell, while he was standing back up.

Cell threw back his fingers, before throwing them forward, and unleashing a small energy blast from them. "Dodon Ray!"

The ray pierced through the larger blast, destroying it before continuing up towards Piccolo.

Piccolo tilted his head to the side, and let the attack fly past his shoulder and neck, before rushing down towards Cell.

The two met, and exchanged a flurry of blows, attacking and blocking at superb speeds.

And slowly, Cell was getting pushed back, until his back was literally against the wall.

Then Piccolo landed a powerful punch to Cell's face, sending him flying through the plateau.

And when Cell exited the other side, Piccolo was already there, his palm in Cell's face.

BRRRRMMMMMM!

Piccolo shot out a massive wave of ki, that consumed Cell and wiped away that entire plateau.

Cell burst out of the blast, with a fair amount of wounds on him, and formed his hands into a triangle. "Neo Tri-Beam! HA"!

Seeing the mass of energy coming right at him, Piccolo quickly dodged to the side, just barely dodging in time, as the attack slammed into the ground, creating a giant square hole.

"HA! HA! HA!" Cell continued attacking, shooting out Tri Beams which Piccolo narrowly dodged by flying to the side.

Piccolo shot out his arm, stretching it up at Cell and grabbing his leg, before recalling it back while throwing Cell at another mountain.

Cell powered up, destroying the mountain he was thrown into, before raising his right arm, opening his palm, and grabbing his forearm with his left arm, creating a ball of ki above his hand. "Spirit Ball!"

The android threw the ball at Piccolo, but instead of dodging it, the powered-up Namekian grabbed the Spirit Ball with both hands.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaa!" Piccolo started putting pressure on the ball, focusing his power. "HA!"

With one final push, Piccolo crushed the Spirit Ball with his bare hands, before rushing back towards Cell.

Piccolo tried to attack Cell, but Cell grabbed both of Piccolo's arms.

Then two more arms grew out of Cell's back and started mercilessly beating on Piccolo's face.

But after a few punches, Piccolo looked at Cell, opened his mouth, and shot a powerful blast from his mouth, destroying Cell's head, and causing Cell's grip to loosen, releasing Piccolo's arms.

Immediately Piccolo ripped off the extra arms and then drop-kicked Cell's headless body to the ground.

Cell tumbled across the ground for a while, until his head grew back, and he dug his hand and feet into the dirt, eventually managing to stop himself.

Piccolo then started shooting down a barrage of Ki Blasts at Cell, and Cell started deflecting and batting away.

Until suddenly, Cell noticed that there was energy all around him, and looked around to see the ki balls, lined up all around him.

"Tch! Ha!" Cell up a green ki barrarer around him, to block the oncoming attack.

"That won't work this time! Super Hellzone Grenade!" Piccolo threw down his arms,

The blasts slammed into Cell's barrier, but instead of exploding on contact, they started digging into the barrier at every angle, trying to burrow through it.

CRACK! CRACK!

Slowly but surely, the blasts were creating cracks in the barrier.

Cell made his barrier smaller, forcing more power into it to repair the cracks.

This seemed to work, keeping the attack at bay for a little while longer.

Now how to get out of this? Cell pondered as he struggled to maintain the barrier. Perhaps I could copy Goku's Instant Transmission and-

And then he felt it. Piccolo's power rose to astronomical heights. Hitting Cell's senses like a truck.

He looked up, past the barrier at Piccolo, only to find him with his fingers to his forehead.

"Special Beam!" Piccolo shouted, before throwing out his arm and firing a spiral drill-like beam from his fingers at Cell. "Canon!"

The beam instantly broke through Cell's barrier, shattering it like glass, before piercing through Cell, and breaking through the other end.

With that, the ki balls smashed through what was left of the barrier and rushed right at Cell.

KABOOM!

The blasts connected all at once, creating an utterly massive explosion, the force of which destroyed all the mountains around them, and forced everyone but Gohan to cover their faces.

Back with Piccolo, he stared at the massive cloud of smoke that was created from his attack, and just waited, Slowly descending to the ground.

Eventually, the smoke faded, revealing what was left of Cell.

The Android had been heavily damaged. His crown had been almost completely destroyed, he was covered in burns, cuts, and bruises, and he was missing half of his left arm and a quarter of his right leg. He also still had the hole in his abdomen from the special beam cannon.

"Woah! He's doing it! He's really beating him!" Krillin cheered.

"Piccolo was around the same strength as Cell, but Cell was already tired from his fight with me," Goku explained. "The fight was pretty much over as soon as it started. It's actually a little unfair."

"Hmph! Defeating a tired opponent, with unearned power. How pathetic." Vegeta scoffed.

"PIccolo! Finish him!" Trunks cheered.

"No. No...I can't be defeated! It's impossible!" Cell growled, raising up his one good arm, and pointing his finger into the air, before pouring power into it, creating a dark purple ball of ki. Frieza's Death Ball. He poured every bit of power he had left into this attack and then threw it at Piccolo. "DIE!"

"Hmph. We're done here." Piccolo got into a stance and put his hands over his abdomen, bringing them together and forcing Ki through his arms into his hands, forming a ball of Ki in his hands. "You won't survive this time! Light Grande!"

Piccolo thrust his hands forward, shooting out that ki ball which turned into a massive wave of ki as soon as it left his hand. Rushing right at Cell.

It swallowed the Death Ball and continued on towards Cell, who could do nothing but look at it in horror, before getting engulfed.

Light Grande erupted, exploding and creating a massive wave of light. So bright it could be seen from space.

Everyone closed their eyes to keep from being blinded.

Once everything died down, and the light faded, all that was left of the area Piccolo had attacked, was a giant smoking crater.

"He did it!" Gohan cheered with a huge smile on his face, as he and everyone else flew towards Piccolo. "Mr Piccolo."

Piccolo turned to meet everyone and smiled as Gohan approached it. "I told you I'd handle it."

"Yeah, I guess I was wrong. Gohan wasn't the only one who could defeat Cell." Goku admitted sheepishly. "Although you did cheat a bit."

"Shut up. I don't wanna hear that from a Saiyan!" Piccolo growled.

"And that's supposed to be me exactly?" Vegeta said glaring daggers at Piccolo.

"It means I don't wanna hear anything about unearned power when you guys get stronger every time you lose," Piccolo answered.

"It's over! It's finally over!" Trunks celebrated, looking as if he was on the verge of tears. "The Nightmare is finally over!"

BOOM!

Suddenly there was an explosion of power, as a pillar of light erupted from the smoking crater like a geyser.

Everyone froze up in shock, as they suddenly felt Cell's power return, but this time far stronger.

Before anyone could react, a death beam shot out of the smoke, hitting Trunks right in the chest, and piercing through his body with ease.

"Agh! GAH!" Blood shot out of Trunk's mouth, as he fell back onto the ground, his body immediately going limp when he landed.

Vegeta looked at his son as he fell to the ground. His pupils shrank as a feeling he'd never quite felt before welled up inside him.

"Heh heh heh. Looks like I hit Trunks." The smoke cleared, revealing Cell, now completely healed, and stronger than ever. Looking at all of them smugly. "You're probably wondering why I'm still alive. Allow me to explain. You see, there is a small mass inside of me. A special cell. And so long as that mass is not destroyed, I will continue to regenerate. As for this boost in strength, if I had to guess, this comes from the Saiyan's ability to grow stronger after near-death experiences. You thought you had killed me Piccolo, but in truth, you've only made me stronger!"

"Damn it all!" Piccolo growled as he got ready to jump back into the fight.

Meanwhile, Vegeta hadn't heard a single thing Cell had said. The whole world faded away, and all he was able to focus on was Trunks, and that unknown feeling inside him.

No, he knew that feeling. Rage. Something he should be all too familiar with. But this time it felt different. And his inability to pinpoint why he felt this way only made him even angrier.

All this anger built up, more and more, until. It exploded.

BOOM!

Vegeta exploded into Super Saiyan and rushed towards Cell before anyone could stop him. "YOU BASTARD!"

"Vegeta no!" Goku called out.

He flew up and started throwing down Ki blasts at Cell like there was no tomorrow, each blast so powerful it created a massive explosion that shook the earth.

"YOU'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD!" Vegeta threw everything he had into one last ball of Ki and tossed it at Cell. The blast landed and exploded into a massive tornado of energy.

Vegeta caught his breath as he saw the energy die down, turning into a cloud of smoke.

And then a Destructo Disk flew out of the smoke, aimed right for Vegeta's head.

But just before Vegeta's head got split in half, Gohan rushed in and pushed him out of the way.

Only for his arm to get cut off instead.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gohan cried as he held up the stump of what was left of his arm.

"GOHAN!" Goku shouted out, as he went out and caught his son.

"Heh heh heh. And you were so confident in his ability to defeat me." Cell smirked, staring confidently at Goku, unharmed by Vegeta's attacks. "Tell me, do you still think that now Goku?"

"Don't get so cocky!" Piccolo powered up, and rushed in at Cell.

Piccolo unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks at Cell, and Cell blocked and deflected all of his attacks, before kicking him in the jaw, sending him flying upwards, flipping in the air.

Cell appeared above him, and slammed his elbow into Piccolo's back.

"AGH!" Piccolo coughed up blood, as he felt Cell nearly snap his spine.

SLAM!

Piccolo was spiked down into the ground, creating an eruption of dirt and dust.

Cell stared down at the cloud of debris smugly, and then Piccolo's extended arms rose up and tried to grab his feet. Only for Cell to kick them away, flip in mid-air so he was facing down, and shoot out two energy blasts at Piccolo's arms, destroying most of them.

Piccolo recalled his half-destroyed arms back, and quickly regenerated them, before glaring at Cell.

Cell casually raised his fingers, and started shooting down death beams at Piccolo.

Piccolo deflected them, batting them away, before flying up, above Cell, and then rushed down at him, spinning and then attempting to kick his head from above.

Cell caught Piccolo's foot, and then started spinning around, extremely quickly. A tornado formed around them, pulling in wind and making everyone struggle not to get sucked in.

After a few moments, Cell threw Piccolo away with one hand, before quickly charging a ki blast in the other, and sending it after Piccolo.

Piccolo crashed into a mountain, and then the ki blast landed in the hole he created.

KABOOM!

A massive explosion erupted from the mountain, destroying it completely and shaking the earth, leaving a massive cloud of dust in its wake.

"This isn't good! Piccolo can't keep up with Cell anymore!" Krillin pointed out.

"Cell has completely replenished his energy, and on top of that he's harnessed even greater power." Android 16 explained. "Piccolo's power only slightly surpassed Cell before when he was at full strength. Now Cell has clearly surpassed him."

"Damn it all!" Vegeta growled.

Meanwhile, Yamcha had finally gotten Trunks to eat the Senzu Bean. "Hey everyone! Trunk's is gonna be ok! But he's still unconscious."

"Grrrrr." Trunks grunted in his sleep, as his hand twitched.

Back with Cell, he casually floated towards the smoking crater that was once the mountain he'd launched Piccolo into. His arms crossed as he landed on the ground. "Had enough? Why don't you concede like Goku did? It's obvious you can't beat me."

"Hmph. Don't be so sure." Said Piccolo's voice from within the dust cloud.

Suddenly Piccolo's power surged, forcing away the dust, and revealing Piccolo, with a small jar in front of him. "Evil Containment!"

A green vortex formed around Piccolo, and shot out at Cell.

"Wait! The Evil Containment Wave!?" Krillin cried out in shock.

"He must have figured something like this would happen, and brought a bottle along with him just in case!" Tien deduced.

16 just looked on at the attack, before looking at Goku, whose fingers were already on his forehead. 16 quickly grabbed Goku's shoulder, and Goku stopped and looked at 16 in surprise.

The android gave him a determined look, and Goku gave him an "Are you sure" look, and 16 nodded.

Meanwhile, Cell was facing down the Evil Containment Wave rushing towards him, his eyes widened for a second.

And then he smirked.

Then Cell put his hands forward, and caught the vortex in his hands, before raising it over his head.

"Huh!?" Piccolo's eyes widened in shock and fear.

"Ha Ha ha! Did you forget! You invented a technique, specifically to counter this move!" Cell laughed. "And as I have your cells, I have this technique as well! Now then! Prepared to be sealed again! Demon King Piccolo! HA!"

Cell threw the vortex back at Piccolo, who could do nothing but watch as it quickly approached him.

Then, Goku and 16 appeared in front of him, using Instant Transmission, before Goku vanished using that same technique.

"What! 16!?" Piccolo shouted out in shock.

In the next moment, 16 was grabbed up by the energy wave, his body turned into energy, rendering him helpless to do anything but follow the flow.

"Ha!" Cell shot his hands down, and slammed 16 into the bottle next to Piccolo's feet.

Piccolo quickly tried to crush the bottle to release 16, but Cell, using Frieza's telekinesis, made the bottle move towards him, taking that as well as the cork and seal that were hidden in Piccolo's belt.

Cell corked the bottle, and added the seal.

"N-No! 16!" Krillin cried out.

Goku Instant Transmission back to the group. "16 chose to get himself caught in that attack. So that way Piccolo could keep fighting."

"S-Sixteen." Gohan looked on in horror.

"Heh heh heh. So that miserable waste of parts tried to make himself useful by shielding you from your own stupidity." Cell chuckled as he held the bottle. "A noble sacrifice. But one done in vain."

Cell tossed the bottle into the air, and pointed his finger at it. "HUH!"

Suddenly, the bottle exploded, into earthshaking fireworks.

Robotic parts rained down from the sky, the last of which was a chip, whose light died out as soon as it hit the ground.

"16!" Krillian cried out again.

"N-no!" Gohan shut his eyes in anguish.

"Damn it!" Piccolo fell to his knees and punched the ground. "I can't believe I forgot one of my own techniques!"

Piccolo burst towards Cell, with explosive speed. "I'll make you pay for that!"

The Namekian threw a punch right at Cell's head, but Cell tilted his head to the side, dodging the punch, before headbutting Piccolo, sending him stumbling back.

Cell got into another familiar pose, putting his hands into a claw-like shape. "Neo! Wolf Fang Fist!"

The insect-like android, unleashed a flurry of rapid blows all across Piccolo's head, neck, chest, and stomach, before bringing his hands together, and unleashing one final powerful blow, to Piccolo's chest.

BOOM!

Piccolo was sent flying back, tumbling across the ground, then skidding across it, before finally coming to a stop. Face first in the ground.

"Ug-Uhh." Piccolo grounded, as he forced his battered and beaten body up off the ground.

"...Yamcha. How many Senzu Beans do we have left?" Goku asked.

"Huh? Oh uh, well I gave one to Trunks, and one to Gohan after he got his arm cut off. So. Just two." Yamcha said.

"Perfect! Give me them!" Goku said.

Yamcha shrugged, figuring Goku had a plan, and tossed him the bag.

Goku took out one Senzu Bean and ate it. His aura flared up, as he returned to full strength. "Alright! Vegeta! Remember that attack you used on Cell earlier? Try it again!"

"What!?" Krillin gave him a questioning look. "But that attack didn't even work the last time! Cell dodged it! Plus he's even stronger now! There's no way that'll work."

"Trust me! I have a plan!" Goku said, looking at Vegeta, who was looking away from him. "We're gonna need to give it all we've got to beat Cell! Please, Vegeta, I need your help!"

"...Fine." Vegeta agreed. "But we have one shot at this Kakarot. Don't waste it."

"I won't," Goku told him, before looking back at Piccolo. "Piccolo. Just hold out, a little bit longer."

"Hmmmm. You know Piccolo. Looking at you makes me wonder something." Cell said.

Suddenly, Cell's body started bulging, then expanding, as Cell grew and grew, and grew. Until Piccolo was standing in the shadow of the now building-sized Cell.

"Tch, he really is taking me lightly," Piccolo grunted.

Cell raised his foot to try and stomp on Piccolo, but Piccolo dashed forward and dodged it, positing himself behind Cell, and throwing a Ki blast at one of the joints in Cell's leg, forcing him to fall onto his knee.

"Hmph." Cell turned his head, and shot beams out of his eyes at Piccolo, which Piccolo jumped to the side to dodge, before throwing a ki blast into Cell's eyes.

"Agh!" Cell shook his head trying to recover his eyesight, a few seconds later he regained his vision, only to find that Piccolo was gone. And he couldn't sense him. "Now where did you run off to-"

Suddenly, Piccolo, from behind a rock, tore off one of his arms and threw it into Cell's mouth.

"Pah! Ugh!" Cell tried to swallow it, but only ended up swallowing the arm. "Did you just throw your arm into my-oaf!"

Suddenly, Cell felt immense pain, as Piccolo's arm started shooting off ki blasts from inside him, tearing up his softer, more vulnerable insides.

"UGHHH!" Cell groaned in pain. He then shoved one of his arms down his mouth and started trying to grab Piccolo's arm. It took a bit since his hand was so big, but eventually, he managed to grab it. But as Cell was pulling it out, Piccolo's disembodied arm extended and dug its claws into Cell.

Cell kept pulling up, but Piccolo's arm kept extending, all the while shooting ki blast out of the palm. Eventually, the arm could extend no more and Cell pulled it all out of him.

The arm now looked like a massive green fire hose, the length of the average city, all bunched up at his feet.

Cell grabbed the stretched-out arm, and frustratedly threw it into space, before looking around for Piccolo, absolutely pissed. "Where are you you little green-"

BRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Suddenly, the special beam cannon shot out from behind a rock, piercing straight through it and slamming the black part of Cell's head, cracking it, but not piercing through.

"GRRRR BWAHHHH!" Cell shot out a huge beam from his mouth at the mountain Piccolo was hiding behind.

Piccolo stopped his attack and rushed out from behind the Mountain, barely getting out of the blast range in time as the beam slammed into the mountain, utterly obliterating it.

But the moment Piccolo was out in the open, Cell extended his arm, and grabbed Piccolo, before bringing the Namekian back to him.

"Got you!" Cell smiled sadistically, as he squeezed Piccolo's entire body in his palm.

"GAHHHHHHHHH!" Piccolo screamed out in pain, as he felt his entire body getting crushed. "BWAHHH!"

Piccolo shot his own beam from his mouth, hitting Cell's face and getting in his eyes.

"Gah! Again!" As Cell was once again taken off guard, and grip weakened.

Piccolo's own body began to expand, getting larger until Cell could no longer keep a grip on him before he shrunk back down and fell to the ground.

"Grrrr." Cell scowled, as he too shrunk back down to normal size. "I can see why you never used that ever again. It is the definition of useless."

Meanwhile, Piccolo was just trying to keep standing, breathing heavily as he faced Cell.

"Well then." Cell aimed his hand at Piccolo. "I don't think there's any reason to drag this out"

And suddenly it hit them. The feeling of a large amount of power being charged.

The two of them looked to the side, and saw Vegeta, charging his Final Flash.

"Now what does he think he's doing?" Cell asked himself, not feeling at all threatened.

Piccolo's eyes widened, and he quickly flew out of the range of Vegeta's attack.

"This time you won't get away!" Vegeta shouted. "FINAL FLASH!"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Vegeta launched an absolutely massive yellow beam out at Cell, using everything he had.

And Cell just dashed to the left, dodging the attack. "Ahahaha! What was that about me not getting a-"

Then Goku appeared next to him, with the Kamehameha he'd been charging. "HA!"

Goku slammed the Kamehameha into Cell, the beam shooting out, and pushing him into Vegeta's Final Flash, forcing Cell to take both attacks simultaneously.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegeta and Goku both screamed, as they poured everything they had into that attack.

"Kaioken!" Goku shouted, as a bright red aura overtook him, and his beam grew even larger

"The Kaioken!" Piccolo gasped from the side. "That idiot! He's going to kill himself."

"Mr Piccolo!" Gohan flew over to Piccolo and handed him a Senzu Bean. "Here!"

"Save it! Your dad's gonna need it." Piccolo told him.

"No Mr Piccolo! We need you at full power to finish him off!" Gohan told him firmly. "Vegeta and Dad are going to try and exhaust him as much as they can, but if we can't destroy him completely after that, then he'll just keep getting stronger! So you and I are gonna use everything we have, and finally end this!"

Piccolo looked over Gohan. He was shaking. Scared. How could he not be? He was just an 11-year-old boy, and his father was about to be on death's door, he'd just lost an arm, and now he'd have to help finish off the greatest threat the world had ever known.

There was doubt in his eyes. Doubt in his own abilities. Doubt that they'd be able to pull this off.

And yet here he stood, determined to see this to the end.

Piccolo sighed, and took the Senzu Bean, eating it, and immediately restoring himself to full health and power. Then he put a hand on Gohan's shoulder. "Gohan. Don't hold anything back."

"R-Right." Gohan nodded.

At this time, Vegeta and Goku finally ran out of steam, and their beams faded, leaving nothing but smoke.

The two of them collapsed to the ground, returning to base form.

"Ack!" Goku started coughing up blood, immense pain filling his nervous system as the consequences of using Kaioken and Super Saiyan hit him hard.

"Did they do it!?" Krillin asked, looking at the smoke cloud. "Did they kill Cell?"

Slowly, the cloud started to dissipate, until Cell was visible.

He'd lost the entire lower part of his body and an arm, and once again his crown was broken, as well as half of his face missing.

And he looked absolutely livid.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Cell cried out, as he forcibly regenerated everything that had been lost or damaged. "I hope that was satisfying. Because now you die!"

Cell raised his finger, and was about to charge up a Supernova, but then Piccolo came in, and kicked him in the face, sending him flying.

The android slammed into the earth, landing on his feet and stopping himself before he could fly much farther. "That's it! ENOUGH!"

Cell cocked his hands back, and started charging up. "I've had enough! I'm ending this now! Kame! Hame!"

"Gohan!" Piccolo called as he landed, Gohan rushing to his side.

Both of them raised their hands(or hand in Gohan's case) over their heads, charging up their own attacks.

"You and the earth! Will be destroyed!" Cell shouted, before thrusting his hands forward, shooting out a massive blue beam. "HA!"

"Maskeno!" Piccolo and Gohan shouted as they shot their own massive beams that combined into one.

The two beams rushed towards each other, and collided, stopping each other dead in their tracks for a moment, before Cell's beam slowly started pushing it back.

"Heh heh heh! Behold the power of perfection!" Cell cried, wearing a victorious look on his face.

"Gaaahhh! He's still…too strong!" Gohan shouted as he tried his hardest to push out as much power as possible. "I'm sorry Mr Piccolo!"

"Don't apologize! Just push harder!" Piccolo grunted as he did the same thing as Gohan.

"It's no good! Even after Vegeta and Goku softened him up, he's just too strong!" Krillin said.

"Ugh."

The three humans looked behind them and saw Trunks finally waking up.

"Trunks!" Krillin ran up to check on him. "You're awake."

"Yeah, I'm-" Immediately Trunks looked up, and noticed the massive beam struggle happening right in front of him.

Cell's beam getting closer and closer and Gohan and Piccolo struggled to hold it off.

Gohan, standing there in Super Saiyan, with one arm. About to die.

An image of his teacher flashes in Trunk's mind.

BOOM!

Instantly Trunks burst into Super Saiyan and rushed towards their side.

Trunks landed next to Gohan and raised his hands. "Masenko!"

A third beam was added to the mix, making the combined beam even bigger, and stopping Cell's beam once again.

"Trunks! It looks like you woke up just in time to see your world turn to ash!" Cell laughed maniacally. "Oh, it looks like your premature visit to death's door gave you a bit of a power-up. I hope you don't think it'll be enough to beat me!"

Cell's beam started slowly progressing towards them again, slower than before, but still not stopping.

"I won't let this go the same way as before!" Trunks said. "I won't let another timeline go to ruin! I will! I will change the future!"

Suddenly Trunks's muscles expanded, as he once again assumed his bulky form.

"Did you learn nothing!? That form is useless!" Cell laughed.

"I wonder how useless it is when my opponent can't move!" Trunks shouted. "HAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly, Cell's beam stopped moving forward.

Cell's cocky look turned into a scowl, as he kept trying to push the beam forward, but to no avail. "Damn it! Why won't you die!"

Both sides kept pushing, but the beams didn't move one way or the other, putting both sides at a stalemate.

"Guys, we have to do something!" Krillin called out to his fellow earthlings. "If nothing changes then eventually those three are gonna exhaust themselves!"

"But…what can we do?" Yamcha asked, looking confused.

"We're too damn weak to even bother Cell. Let alone help take him down!" Tien growled, lamenting his own weakness.

"Wait! What about the Tri-Beam!" Krillin pointed out. "You were able to stop his second form like that, and there was a huge gap in power between you two!"

"Yeah, but that was his second form. He's way too strong for that now." Tien pointed out.

"Well, what if we did it together!?" Krillin asked. "All three of us, putting our power into that attack at once!"

"That…I don't know." Tien thought about it for a second, before giving them a serious look. "It might make him stumble a little. But we might be giving up our lives for that."

"Even just that might give them the opening they need to end this!" Krillin said. "It's better than doing nothing."

"Well, if we lose we die anyway. So I guess it's worth a shot." Yamcha said. "I'm in!"

"...Alright. But follow my instructions exactly!" Tien told them.

Meanwhile, Piccolo, Gohan, and Trunks were still giving everything they had to try and push back Cell's Kamehameha.

"M-Mr Piccolo! It feels like I'm losing my grip!" Gohan gasped.

Suddenly Cell's beam started pushing back there's a little bit.

"Damn it this isn't working!" Piccolo shouted.

"Ahahaha! Ahahahaha! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Cell gave off an insane smile. "Say goodbye! Huh!?"

And that's when Cell noticed that he had a shadow over him. Meaning something or someone was flying above him.

Cell looked up, and saw Yamcha, Tien, and Krillin above him, holding hands forming a triangle in the center of them, right over Cell. "What are they-"

"Are you ready!" Tien shouted. "It's now or never!"

"Right!" Krillin and Yamacha shouted.

Then all three of them did exactly as Tien instructed, controlling and pouring the ki in the exact way to get this to work.

"Now!" Tien shouted.

"GRAND! TRI BEAM! HA!" All three of them shouted as an intense blast of Ki shot out from the triangle, down onto Cell.

BOOM!

The blast slammed into Cell, its power causing him to flinch.

Suddenly, Masenko started to push back Cell's beam.

"Yamcha! Tien! Krillin!" Gohan smiled up at his friends, a feeling of hope filling his chest for the first time since Cell came back.

"They're giving us a chance! We can't waste it!" Piccolo shouted.

"HAAAAAAAAA!" All three of them shouted as they continued to push, slowly pushing Cell's beam back.

"No!" Cell growled as he regained his composure, and stopped their beam from progressing for a moment.

BOOM!

And then he was hit by another blast from the Grand Tri-Beam, once again causing him to flinch, allowing the beam to keep moving forward.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

With each blast of the Grand Tribeam, the Masenko crawled forward towards Cell, a little bit faster.

Until it was almost up in his face, only barely being blocked by Cell's beam.

"No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cell tried to push it back, but he couldn't, he could do nothing to stop what would happen next.

"EVERYONE ALL TOGETHER!" Piccolo shouted as loud as he could.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

On the verge of victory, everyone pulled out more power than they knew they had, simultaneously pouring all that power into one final assault.

KABOOM!

The earthlings poured everything they could into their most powerful blast yet, that hit just as Piccolo, Gohan, and Trunks, pushed through their limits and pushed the Masenko even further.

Cell was overwhelmed. He was overpowered, and in a flash, he was engulfed in the Masenko.

It happened in less than a second, but for Cell, it felt like forever. His body was broken down and destroyed bit by bit, down to the cellular level.

And when his nucleus was destroyed, Cell was no more.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The beam continued on, running off the edge of the earth, and blasting into space.

A few seconds later, the blast dissipated, turning into nothing.

Gohan and Trunks immediately faded out of Super Saiyan and fell to the ground, with Piccolo also going back to his base form, and falling onto one knee.

The earthlings all immediately collapsed, falling out of the sky and onto the ground below.

"Gohan…Trunks…you did good." Piccolo said while gasping for air.

"Is it over? Is it really over?" Trunks asked, also gasping.

Piccolo paused and focused on his senses.

Goku was in bad shape, but he'd live. He'd only used Kaioken for a second, and he didn't use any higher multipliers. He still wouldn't be moving around anytime within the next few months. But he'd recover.

Vegeta was mostly fine. The earthlings would need to see Dende soon, and both Gohan and Trunks would be fine.

And Cell.

Piccolo focused every sense he had to try and pick up on if Cell survived. His ki sensing, his hearing, his telepathy.

Nothing.

Still, he waited a few moments. Nervously hoping Cell wouldn't come back out of nowhere once again.

But there was nothing.

Piccolo smiled. "Yeah, we won."

Chapter Text

"Where's the seal!?" Trunks asked as he and Mai held the lid to the jar shut.

If they didn't add the seal to this jar now, then Zamsau would escape, rendering all the hard work they put into sealing him pointless.

"Here!" Bulma ran up, took out the seal from her pocket, and slammed it onto the jar.

The jar stopped, moving, and went silent.

"Whew." All three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a moment of silence, as the three of them silently celebrated their success.

But it couldn't last for long. And Trunks knew that.

"Mom. Take the jar, and go back to the past." Trunks told his mother, handing her the jar.

"What!? You want me to just leave you all here!?" Bulma asked as she took the jar. "I'm not just going to abandon you and Vegeta!"

"Mom, if Black gets his hands on this jar, then all of that was pointless." Trunks told her firmly. "We need to get this away from where Black can get to it, and the only safe place is the past! Please, mom! Just go!"

"You can come back if you want, just get the jar out of here!" Mai told her.

"I…alright." Bulma conceded and started running to the Time Machine and jumping inside. "But I AM coming back!"

"I know." Trunks smiled at her.

As the time machine came to life and started to activate, Black appeared above them, using Instant Transmission.

"What have you done!" Black asked, looking around for his counterpart. "My other self!? Where is he!?"

"He's gone! You're the only Zamasu left!" Trunks shouted at him, flying up to face him.

Gone! Impossible! His immortality wouldn't allow him to be killed. And yet he's nowhere to be found!? How!? Black wondered, before noticing the Time Machine beginning to rise into the air. Leaving all by herself? Has she finally come to her senses and realized the danger of being here? No. Mortals are far too stubborn to do something like that. I don't know what they did, but if I had to guess this must have something to do with my counterpart's disappearance!

Black aimed his palm at the time machine and fired a few ki blasts.

"I won't let you!" Trunks rushed in front of him and batted away the blasts with his sword.

"Hmph!" Black brought his fingers to his forehead and vanished.

Appearing behind Trunks, right in front of the time machine.

"Ahhh!" Bulma's eyes shrunk, as she saw Black's sinister smirking face right in front of her.

Black raised his hand and started gathering energy in his hand, for a point-blank ki blast.

Trunks turned around and swung his sword at Black, but he knew he was too slow, he wouldn't be able to stop him in time!

And then a flash grenade was shot right in front of his face.

BANG!

"AGH!" Black recoiled after getting a face full of light, halting his attack just long enough for Trunk's swipe to connect, hitting his shoulder, and sending him flying to the side, crashing through a lot of buildings.

"Thanks, Mai." Trunks said, nodding to his comrade in arms.

Mai nodded and gave him the thumbs up.

BOOM!

Black came rushing back at full speed towards the time machine, as it started to glow.

Trunks rushed at him with his sword, but Black created his own blade made of his and clashed with Trunks, parrying Trunks's attack, before shooting out a blast at Trunks, that carried him away into the distance.

Black continued rushing towards the time machine, thrusting his blade out in front of him.

His blade was an inch away from the glass, before Goku used Instant Transmission, and kicked Black in the side of the head, sending him tumbling to the ground, skidding across it before he landed on his feet, and dug his blade into the ground to stop himself.

Black looked up, just in time to see the time machine vanish, returning into the past.

Trunks flew back in, regrouping with Goku as Vegeta joined in as well.

"Did it work?" Vegeta asked.

"Yeah, Zamasu got sealed away!" Trunks explained. "Mom took the jar back to the past! Now it's just Black."

"Sealed!?" Black asked, scowling at them.

"Yeah, we sealed Zamsau away using the Evil Containment Wave!" Goku explained. "And Bulma just took him to the past! He can't help you anymore!"

"So…he was trapped in that jar that woman had next to her." Black realized, looking down, hiding his face behind his hair.

"That's right. I think I'll use it to decorate my bedroom." Vegeta taunted. "Perhaps I'll release him and use him as a punching bag, before sealing him away again. Without you, he's hardly a threat."

"..." Black just stood there for a while. He clenched his fist, and his body started to tremble.

"Oh? Is that fear Black?" Vegeta smirked. "Is the inevitability of your demise finally sinking in?"

"...No fear. Just. FURY!" Suddenly Black threw his head back up, and his aura exploded. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The earth shook, and Trunks, Vegeta, and Goku's eyes widened.

"He's getting even stronger!" Trunks said.

"I will not lose! I can not lose!" Black screamed. "I am the hope of the Universe! I am the answer to a cosmos that cries out for peace! I am the destroyer of sinners! I am the light in the darkness! I am truth! Ally to good! Nightmare to you! I am Zamsasu! The god! OF JUSTICE!"

Black's aura exploded upward like a blade, and pierced into the sky, literally cutting through the fabric of reality.

"N-No way." Trunks and the rest stared on in horror, at the terrifying sight before them.

Black stood, his appearance slightly different. His hair was just a bit more spikey than before, and red bolts of electricity crackled off of him, above him was a massive, ominous hole in the sky, which had now turned pink.

"I-is that…" Trunks stuttered, not even wanting to finish his sentence.

"Yeah, it looks like Super Saiyan 2," Goku confirmed.

"...I suppose you think you're clever. Sealing away my counterpart." Black said, looking up at his shocked foes. "But you mortals made one. Crucial mistake."

Suddenly Black appeared in front of Trunks, and before the half-Saiyan could react or get over his shock, Black got close, put two fingers to Trunks's chest, and stared him right in the eyes. "You angered a god."

BOOM!

Black delivered a devastating one-inch punch, sending Trunks flying. Crashing through multiple buildings, before hitting the ground and tearing up the already destroyed street as he skidded through it, before eventually coming to a stop. He laid face first on the ground, his hair returning to its normal color as he was forced back into his base form.

"Trunks!" Vegeta cried out towards his son, before looking back at Black with a look of pure fury on his face and charging towards him. "You bastard! You'll payyyyyyyyy!"

Vegeta launched a punch at Black's face, but Black casually caught his fist.

"Grrrrr! Harahhh!" Vegeta head-butted Black, but the god didn't even flinch.

Black tossed Vegeta's fist aside, before grabbing Vegeta by the hair, bringing his other arm up to Vegeta's chest, and opening his palm.

BLAM!

Black shot out a powerful, point-blank blast at Vegeta's chest.

"Ah! AGHHHHHH!" Vegeta shouted out in pain.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Black shot out a rapid series of point-blank shots, bit by bit destroying Vegeta's armor until he was completely shirtless.

Then Black flattened his hand, turned it to the side, and placed it against the center of Vegeta's chest.

"Stop it!" Goku's aura burst as he went to punch Black in the face.

Then two clones of black formed from the mist around the rift, and rushed in, grabbing Goku, and holding him back.

"AGH! Let go!" Goku struggled against the clones, but they held firm.

Black smirked at Goku for a second, before turning back to Vegeta.

BRRRRR!

Black formed a blade with his hand, stabbing through Vegeta's chest and impaling him.

"Ahhhh! Ahhhhhh." Vegeta gasped, as the blue faded from his hair.

"Goodbye, Vegeta," Black said, unmaking the sword, letting go of Vegeta, and then kicking him over to Trunks, the two now both unconscious on the ground.

Then Black turned to Goku. "You know Goku, I really had hoped to draw this out longer. But after what you've done I can no longer tolerate your existence! You die now!"

"Grrr! KAIOKEN!" Goku's aura exploded as red overlapped with blue, his power causing the two clones holding him to turn back into smoke.

He charged at Black and tried to kick Black in the face, but Black fell back, dodging the punch, caught Goku's arm with his legs, and then threw him down to the ground.

Goku slammed into the street, creating a larger crater, and then Black rushed down and kicked Goku in the stomach so hard, it tripled the size of the crater.

Black flipped him and Goku kicked his leg back and kicked Goku back up into the air.

Then he once again formed a scythe and rushed up at Goku, unleashing a few slashes of energy at Goku that slammed into him and tore apart his clothes.

Black rushed past Goku, grabbing him with his scythe, flying higher into the air, spinning around, and then throwing Goku, before unleashing another energy slash from his scythe at him.

The slash hit Goku and exploded, shaking the earth and creating a massive cloud of smoke.

"HA!" Goku powered up, pushing away the smoke.

Only to reveal he was now surrounded by an army of Goku Black clones that were charging Kamehamehas.

"It's over Goku," Black said, flying above all of them.

SNAP!

With the snap of his fingers, the clones fired.

Goku could do nothing, but put his arms to block, and hope for the best.

KABOOM!

A massive explosion shook the world, and the shockwave destroyed every nearby building and street.

A huge smoke cloud was left, and Goku fell out of it, now in base form.

As he fell, one of the clones kicked him over to Vegeta and Trunks, the three of them now lying on the ground.

"Ahhh. Ahhhhh." Goku grunted, as he slowly forced himself back on his feet, the army of Goku Blacks looming over him.

For a moment, there was silence, as Black just stared at the downed Goku.

Then, Black returned to his base form and raised his hands over his head.

All of his clones raised one of their arms, and energy flew out of them.

Slowly, a ball of blue energy formed above black, getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until a massive spirit bomb was floating over Black's head.

"This attack. Created by a god. Meant to smite evil. This shall be what ends your lives." Black said.

Meanwhile, Mai was looking up at the massive ball of Genki in fear, as she rushed everyone deep underground. "Everyone get ready for impact! Take cover!"

"Ha!" Black threw his arms down, throwing the spirit bomb down at Goku and his fallen allies.

Goku his own ace in the hole, barreling down at him. His body was exhausted, and his power wasn't enough to finish off Black anyway. He was at his limit.

He threw back his arms and charged. "Kame! Hame! Hame! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Goku unleashed a Kamehameha at the Spirit Bomb, at the same time bursting back into Super Saiyan Blue.

The beam collided with the Spirit Bomb, stopping it.

"Why?" Black asked, not looking particularly troubled. "Why can't you see what I see? You barely have the energy left to even stand, and yet you have somehow regained your godly form to resist me. Humanity, weak and fragile, yet despite the efforts of a god, they remain. Blasphemous as it may be, that resounding will, is beautiful. A miracle. A gift of the gods! Can you not tell what that will was given to you for? It was meant to oppose evil! And yet evil has flourished!? Where was this willpower? Where was this resilience?"

Black sighed and gave a sad look. "Perhaps Mortals were created wrong. Doomed from the start. Or perhaps this too is a failing of the gods. Unable to properly guide their own creations towards utopia. Perhaps. If I had ignored Gowasu's words. And guided mankind myself, I could have made even mortals into something beautiful? Well…I suppose there's no use in pondering that now."

In a flash, Black powered back up into Super Saiyan Rose 2, and the Spirit Bomb once again started moving toward Goku. "Mankind's only salvation now is death! And so as your god, I give you this final gift. Oblivion!"

The Spirit Bomb kept pushing until it reached Goku.

Goku stopped his Kamehameha and tried to stop it with his bare hands, pushing it back with everything he had left. "Kaioken! Times 20!"

His Kaioken flared to life, but he could feel it, it was far from enough.

"Son Goku. A mighty tree that grew higher and higher, until it pierced the heavens themselves." Black said. "The slothful, ignorant gods saw this and chose to ignore it. All except one. That one god could bear the blasphemy of this act no longer, and so carved out the tree. Using its wood he crafted a sword that would be used to strike down the sinful mortals and gods alike, that allowed such a sinful tree to grow. Now as the god finishes his work, he turns upon the tree. He admires its beauty, but all the same, he raises his sword. Farewell Son Goku. Fall!"

Black pushed his hand forward, and in an instant, Goku was consumed.

The spirit bomb exploded, detonating in a brilliant blue flash that illuminated what was left of the destroyed city.

A few moments later, the light faded, leaving only an empty crater, where the three warriors once were.

Black looked down at the crater, and released a sigh of relief, before turning around. "This. Is a god's work."

BRRWWORRRRMMMMM!"

Suddenly, a beam of silver light erupted from the center of the crater. The light once again illuminated the city, and pierced through the clouds.

"What!?" Black turned back around, looking at the pillar of silver light in shock and awe.

At the bottom of the pillar, a silhouette of Goku could be seen, rising from the ground with his back turned to Black.

A moment later the pillar vanished, leaving Goku, his hair still black, but his entire body shrouded in silver light.

Slowly, Goku turned around, looking up at Black, his eyes now silver.

"How…what is this?" Black looked at Goku in pure astonishment, before shaking his head. "No. No matter. Whatever this may be, it pales in comparison to the might of a god."

SNAP!

With the snap of his fingers, Black sent every single clone he had at Goku. Dozens, maybe hundreds of clones all rushing in at Goku simultaneously, coming onto him like a flood.

FWO!

Black only felt a gentle gust of wind blow past him, to indicate that Goku had vanished from his spot, and was now behind him.

TWING.

Each clone suddenly had a small spotlight up on their bodies, creating what looked like a field of stars in front of him.

BOOM!

And in the next moment, each and every clone exploded, turning back into smoke.

"Ahhh. Ahhhhh." Black stared at the field of smoke in shock, before quickly getting a hold of himself and turning around swiping his fist at Goku's head, but Goku ducked under the attack with astonishing speed, before kicking Black in the face with the back of his foot, sending him flying away.

Black stopped himself in the air right before he hit a building, but the moment he did, Goku was right in front of his face.

Suddenly Black was being hammered with punches all across his body, being delivered so fast that it looked like Goku was standing still. Then Goku's eyes flashed, and one grand blow slammed into Black's chest, sending him flying through the building, the building behind that one, and the building behind that, before crashing into one final building.

The building exploded, as Black rushed back at Goku, scythe in hand.

When he reached Goku he delivered a horizontal slash with his scythe, and Goku flipped backward to dodge it, and then Black delivered a vertical slash, which Goku spun to the left to dodge, using the moment of that spin to deliver a powerful kick to the left of Black's face.

Black was sent flying to the side, towards the ground, skidding through the ground, before crashing into the base of a building.

"Grrrrrr! Damn, mortals!" Black growled, as Goku floated down to ground level, and started walking towards him. "Don't get cocky!"

Black called down six clones, next to him, and all of them flew at Goku, ki blades drawn.

Goku continued walking towards Black calmly, as the clones approached him in a line.

The first one approached and swiped at his head, and it was like time slowed down, as Goku duked under that attack and the clone flew past him.

After that the next clone rushed at him, blade held forward, trying to impale him, but Goku just jumped over him, and continued forward.

The third clone went low to slash at his feet, but Goku just stepped over his attack and continued forward.

Lastly, the three other clones approached him at the same time, one coming from the right, the other from the left, and the last one flying down from above.

In one moment, their blades were close to slashing into Goku. In the next, Goku was suddenly upside down, catching two blades with his fingers, and the last one above him, with his toes.

Goku flipped right side up again, throwing the clone he'd caught with his toes, before spinning and throwing the other two away as he did so. Before continuing to walk towards Black.

Impossible! Black thought as he saw Goku's movements. It can't be!

All the clones that had missed Goku, came flying back at him from behind, but Goku paid them no mind, continuing to walk closer. As the clones got close, suddenly, something swiped behind Goku, and all the clones exploded into smoke.

His movements. They're like hers. Black thought, as his mind went back to a day, many, many decades before now.

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"So Lord Rumsshi, how have you been these past few eons?" Gowasu asked as he had tea with the destroyer of his Universe, while his angel attendant stood beside him.

"I've been well. Destroying worlds, eating good. All that." Rumsshi said casually as he sipped his tea. "Building some muscle as well."

Kusu sighed. "I keep telling you Lord Rumsshi that just mindlessly gaining muscle won't do you much good. At this rate, you'll never obtain Ultra Instinct."

"Ultra. Instinct?" Zamasu asked as he wheeled in more tea for their guests.

"My goodness Gowasu, did you not even tell him about that?" Rumsshi sighed.

"Right, I suppose I should teach you about that," Gowasu said, turning his attention to his apprentice. "Ultra Instinct is the most sacred technique of the gods. As well as the most difficult, to obtain and master. With it, one's body acts without thought, automatically dodging, blocking, and countering with perfect timing. At its highest level, you'd be practically impossible."

"Truly?" Zamasu asked, his eyes going wide at this revelation. "Such a technique exists?"

"Yes. But as I said it is difficult for even destroyer gods to obtain. And even harder to master. Currently, the only God of Destruction who is even close to mastering it is the 7th universe's destroyer." Gowasu explained.

"Hmph. The only reason he's gotten that far is because his head is already empty." Rumsshi huffed.

"Although all Angles are born already having mastered this technique." Gowasu continued.

"Really." Zamasu looked at Kusu, who smiled and held up two fingers in a V shape. "If I may, I would be honored if you could show me such a mythical technique."

"Oh, that sounds like fun." Kusu giggled, before looking at her destroyer. "What do you say lord Rumsshi? Shall I give him a demonstration?"

"Hmm. Very well. It might be slightly entertaining." Rumsshi said, "Go on."

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Going to the courtyard, Zamasu and Kusu stared each other down. Zamasu was in a battle-ready stance, and Kusu just standing casually, holding her staff and looking like she was about to play a fun game.

Little did he know exactly what she was about to do.

Zamasu rushed forward, forming a ki blade with his hand, and launching a horizontal slice at Kusu's head.

Only for her to casually dodge it, moving her head so fast Zamasu couldn't even see her move.

Zamasu, freaking out by this, moved back a little, before unleashing multiple thrusts at Kusu.

Kusu casually dodged each thrust, while never moving from her spot.

Getting more and more unnerved by how easily she was dodging his attack, Zamasu jumped back further, and flew into the air, before raining down ki blasts on her.

Kusu flew towards Zamasu slowly, casually dodging each ki blast with incredible bursts of speed, before getting close to Zamsau, and then vanishing.

"What!?" Zamasu was shocked by her sudden disappearance until he felt someone tapping his shoulder.

He turned around and saw Kusu floating behind him, giving him a little friendly wave. "Hello."

"Ha!" Zamasu swiped his blade at her, but she just caught it with her fingers.

She threw his hand to the side and then brought her staff to his forehead. "Boop."

The angel tapped Zamasu with her staff, slamming him into the ground, with extreme force, creating a big cloud of dust and debris.

Kusu flew down and looked at the cloud as it dissipated, revealing Zamasu who was back on his feet, still ready to fight, but a bit shaken by the blow.

"Oh my, you're still standing after that. You certainly are strong. You must have trained relentlessly." Kusu giggled. "For that, I'll show you just a bit more of Ultra Instinct's power. Don't blink."

Zamasu readied himself, bracing himself for whatever would come next.

Then, suddenly, points all over Zamsau's body twinkled like stars. And in the next moment, Zamsau felt like he was being assaulted from all angles, by blows stronger than anything he'd ever felt before.

Once the barrage was over, Zamasu felt his consciousness slipping away, and everything went black.

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Black rushed forward, ki blade enveloping his hand, and when he reached Goku he unleashed multiple thrusts towards him, just like he'd done to Kusu that day.

And just like that day, Goku casually dodged each one, moving his body without moving from his spot, before kicking Black in the chin, sending him flying upwards.

Black stopped himself and unleashed a barrage of Ki blasts down on him.

Goku flew up, dodging each blast with small bursts of speed, until he got close to Black, and then vanished.

Being familiar with this situation, Black wasted no time, spinning around while swiping his blade behind him, but Goku just caught it with his fingers.

Black looked at Goku in shock and suddenly saw an image of Kusu overlaid with Goku, their stance almost exactly the same.

A small twinkle appeared on Black's forehead, and then he was suddenly launched back, slamming into the side of another building.

As Black lay in the crater he'd made in that building his mind was racing. How!? How could a mortal possibly achieve something even gods struggle with!?

Then he recalled something.

Currently, the only God of Destruction who is even close to mastering it is the 7th's universe's destroyer. Gowasu's words echoed in his head.

Beerus. It appears they were far closer than I'd realized. Black frowned, a feeling of rage filling him before suddenly he had an apathy, and a viscous smirk crawled over his face.

He brought his fingers to his forehead and used Instant Transmission to teleport in front of Goku.

Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap.

"Bravo Goku. Bravo." Black said as he gave Goku a slow applause. "Achieving Ultra Instinct, a technique that even the gods struggle to attain. I should be furious that you've managed to defile, even the most sacred technique of the gods, but I'm actually rather glad."

Black held up two fingers. "And that is because now I know that I too will soon obtain this technique! I have your body! Anything you're capable of, I can do, and more! It's only a matter of time. And unlike you, I will have all the time in the world to master this technique. After all, this incomplete power has no chance of beating me. While reflexes and speed are incredible, the actual strength of your blows leaves much to be desired. Not to mention I can only imagine what kind of stain this divine technique is putting on your battered and beaten body. Your demise is inevitable-pah!"

Suddenly Goku rushed forward and punched Black in the face, sending him flying back a bit before he stopped himself.

Black extended his ki blade and shot out energy arrows at Goku, and with one swipe, Goku caught them all between his fingers, before throwing them back at Black.

The renegade god batted most of them away with his ki blade, but once managed to stab into his arm.

While Black was distracted by the pain, Goku appeared above him, and kicked him in the head, sending him flying down.

Goku appeared back on ground level, and before Black could crash into the ground, he launched a shock wave from his fist at Black.

The shockwave hit him, and broke apart into multiple shockwaves, hitting him like punches, and sending him crashing into the base of another building.

Black rushed out of the building, back towards Goku, forming another scythe in his hand, then breaking it in half, and making it change form into a pair of sickles with a chain attached to them.

He threw out one of his sickles and manipulated the chain to make it fly at Goku from the side, but Goku jumped up, letting the sickle and chain fly under him.

But Black moved the chain around, causing it to spin upwards, the chain surrounding Goku threatening to wrap around Goku.

Goku brought his finger to his head, and just before the chains ensnared him, Goku vanished.

Black turned around and used his other sickle to block a kick from Goku. The god smirked. "Predictable."

Goku bounced back off of Black's sickle as Black recalled his other sickle, and started spinning them around on their chains, before launching them at Goku.

The earth-raised Saiyan jumped and flipped around, dodging each swipe from the sickles, before flipping onto the side of a building and launching himself at Black with insane speed.

Black could barely react in time, raising his sickle to block, but when Goku reached him, he flipped over him, and then kicked him in the back of the head, sending him flying yet again.

After sliding across the ground like a rock, Black dug his sickles into the ground, slowing and eventually stopping himself.

Black reformed his chain sickles, turning it back into a scythe, but this time it was a double-bladed scythe, and he threw it at Goku.

Goku jumped over it, and the scythe flew past him, before turning around and rushing back towards Goku.

Seeing this, Goku flew away, flying up into the air as the scythe followed him.

Goku threw some ki blasts at the scythe, but it just cut them in two.

Then Goku created a destructo disk and threw it at the scythe.

The two attacks collided, grinding against each other for a second, before exploding.

And then before Goku could do anything else, suddenly he was surrounded by Goku Black clones, once again.

The clones shot ki blasts at him from every angle, creating hundreds of blasts all aimed at Goku.

As the blasts got closer, it was like time slowed down.

Goku batted away five blasts, dodged a few more, and then kicked another ki blasts towards one of the clones.

He continued dodging, and parrying blasts, redirecting them to hit other clones until every blast was dealt with.

All at once the redirected blasts slammed into the clones, turning them back into mist.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Goku roared, sending waves of pressure from his body, dispersing the mist before it could reform back into the clones.

And as soon as he was done with, Black appeared, right in front of him with Instant Transmission, with a fully charged Kamehameha.

"HA!" Black thrust the attack point blank into Goku's face, but just as the blast was leaving Black's hand, Goku flipped backward, and kicked Black's hands upwards, causing the Kamehameha to misfire into the sky. "What!? OUGH!"

Next thing Black knew, Goku's knee was lodged in his stomach.

Goku moved back while Black was still stunned by the attack. He stared at Black, and then his eyes glowed.

Black was once again assaulted by a barrage of punches, before getting hit by one larger punch and sent flying away.

As Black flew into the distance, Goku released a breath.

And then he felt it.

His power beginning to fade.

Goku landed on a building below him and fell to one knee. His eyes started to flash between silver, and their normal color. "Grrrrr! Grrrrr!"

He struggled to try and keep hold of this new power, but he was failing. Soon he would return to base form.

Black appeared above him using Instant Transmission. "It looks like your body can no longer imitate the movements of the divine. It seems your time has finally come, Son Goku."

"Not yet Zamasu." Said a familiar voice

"Huh?" Black's eyes widened as Gowasu walked up behind Goku.

"Gowasu?" Goku asked as Gowasu stood behind him.

"First I would like to praise you, Son Goku, for achieving this miracle. No. Calling it that would do you a disservice." Gowasu said. "While it is not the complete form of Ultra Instinct, to achieve this much, in your short mortal lifespan, is a feat that can not be undermined. Well done. However, as Zamasu has said, the flicker of Ultra Instinct ignited inside of you, has begun to fade. And once that happens, there will be nothing stopping Zamasu from destroying this timeline."

"Saving. This timeline." Black corrected.

"Which is why, I will not allow that to happen." Gowasu put his hand on Goku's shoulder.

Gowasu and Goku were covered in golden fire, and Goku suddenly felt his power begin to flicker back to life.

"I will burn away the remainder of my life, to use as fuel for your Ultra Instinct," Gowasu said, his voice resolute.

"What!?" Goku looked at him in shock. "But Gowasu, you'll die!"

"It is a price I must pay, to atone for my sins," Gowasu said, looking back up at Black, who was staring down at him in shock, with a sad expression. "I have already passed the title of Supreme Kai to the South Kai. So Rumsshi won't pass after my death."

"...Ha…ha ha ha…ha ha ha! Ahahahahahaha!" Black suddenly burst into laughter. "Atone for your sins! You think this is a noble sacrifice!? Don't make me laugh!"

Black raised his hand and made a black power ball. "Why!? Why now!? Why now intervene with the world of mortals!? With a world that's not even yours!? The Zamasu of your world is dead, you have NO reason to oppose me! You have watched mortals suffer and die for eons! So why now does it bother you! Do you truly just despise me that much!? Is that it!? Was taking me as your apprentice just a way to torment me! Make me watch as the universe and all its beauty was tarnished while telling me to sit and do nothing!?"

"...Zamasu. I cherished you. More than you can ever know." Gowasu said. "So much so, I became blind to what you were becoming. And so I failed to steer you away from this path. My negligence has damned countless souls. Yourself included. And for this sin. I will burn."

The golden fire burned brighter, and Goku could feel more and more strength returned to his body.

"Fool. Such a fool!" Black roared and prepared to throw the black power ball. "You're a fool if you think I'll allow this!"

But just as the attack was about to leave his hand, it was shot out of his hand, and into the air, blowing up harmlessly away from everyone.

"What!?" Black looked in the direction where the blast came from and saw Vegeta flying not too far away. "How! You should have been killed by the spirit bomb!?"

"Son Goku absorbed most of the spirit bomb's power when it exploded," Gowasu explained. "This is how he broke through his limits and achieved Ultra Instinct. What was left of the blast wasn't strong enough to kill them, simply put them on the brink of death. Universe 7th's Supreme Kai quickly whisked them away and fed them those miracle beans. And I believe you know what happens when a Saiyan comes back from the edge of death."

"Did you think I would die so easily!" Vegeta shouted, as he charged up, his blue aura exploding from his body. "No! I refuse to die at your stolen hands! You killed Bulma! Terrorized MY son! I swear to you! YOU! WILL! DIE! HUUUUHHHHHHHH! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Vegeta's aura started to change color, turning a deeper shade of blue, and small sparkles appeared. Vegeta's hair turned that same shade of blue, as his muscles bulked up a bit, and his eyes changed, becoming that same shade of blue. "HAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Grrrr! What is this!? An advanced version of Super Saiyan Blue." Black deduced. "Tch! No matter! Have at you!"

Black and Vegeta rushed at each other, and Black thrust his blade at Vegeta's head, Vegeta tilted his head to the side dodging it, before leaning back and kicking Black in the chin.

"Grrr!" Black backed up and released an energy slash at Vegeta.

Vegeta raised his arm to block, and the slash landed, exploded on contact, and sent Vegeta flying back a bit.

Black summoned dozens of clones behind him and sent them flying toward Vegeta like a swarm.

Vegeta brought his hands together, and pushed them out in front of him, before charging yellow energy in his palms as quickly as possible.

"Hmph." Black brought his hand to his forehead and vanished.

The clones got closer and closer to Vegeta, and when they were almost close enough to touch him, Vegeta fired.

"Final Flash!" Vegeta released a massive wave of energy that annihilated the wave of clones in front of him.

A moment later, Vegeta stopped his attack, and the beam faded, leaving nothing but smoke.

But Vegeta didn't get any time to breathe, as more clones came in, from every angle, one coming up behind him and grabbing him.

Before Vegeta could throw him off, more clones started grabbing him. Surrounding him until Vegeta was trapped in a ball of clones.

"Hmph." Black flew down, seeing Vegeta was stuck. He thought about killing him, but he knew spending any more time on Vegeta was a poor idea, when Goku was gradually gaining more energy.

He turned to face Goku and Gowasu and was about to charge in and attack when he realized something. Wait, if Vegeta survived, then surely Trunks must have as well. Then where is he?

Black started looking for Turnks's energy and quickly found it.

Right behind him.

Quickly he turned around and saw Trunks standing in a building. His sword was stabbed into the roof next to him, and his scabbard was also stabbed into the roof, but it was put in front of him.

"EVIL CONTAINMENT!" Trunks shouted as he shot out a green vortex in front of him.

"What!?" Black was too shocked to react in time, and he was caught by the vortex, turning into energy and becoming part of it. "This! This is the move that sealed my counterpart!"

"HA!" Trunks threw his hands down and threw the wave of energy into his scabbard. Then he picked up his sword, and plunged it into the scabbard."Grrrrrrrrr!"

Trunks pushed down with all his might, as he could feel Black trying to get out, and without a seal, there would be nothing to keep him locked inside.

Meanwhile, in the ball of Black clones, suddenly blue energy leaked through the holes, and then there was a burst of energy. "HAAAAAAAAAA!"

In a flash, all of the clones were turned back into smoke, and Vegeta was free.

"Father! I need help!" Trunks said as he struggled to keep the sword in the sheath, it slowly rose upwards despite his best efforts.

Vegeta rushed over and helped try to keep the sword inside. "We have to keep him trapped! Long enough for Kakarot to finish powering up! Push Trunks! Push!"

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The two screamed as they both pushed down as hard as they could.

The sword stopped moving upwards and actually started moving down. Slowly but surely, until the sword was fully sheathed.

BWEMMM! BRRRRRRRRRR!

And then the scabbard and sword, before exploding, sending Vegeta and Trunks falling back, the hilt of Trunks's now broken sword falling next to him, as Goku black burst out in a beam of pink light.

Looking absolutely livid.

"How dare you! HOW DARE YOU!" Black screamed, shaking the earth with his rage.

He was about to attack Vegeta and Trunks, but then he noticed Goku in the corner of his eyes.

The golden fire around Goku and Gowasu had turned silver, and all of it began to pour into Goku's body. The process was nearly complete.

"No more distractions!" Black shouted and then flew as fast as he could in the opposite direction.

"He's ... running away?!" Trunks asked in confusion.

"No. He's just raring up for something. Big." Vegeta said. "Get ready."

Black continued to fly away, getting outside the city, continuing on, and on, charging up energy around him as he flew.

Eventually, he made a U-Turn and charged back towards the city.

He thrust his fist forward. "DIVINE DRAGON FIST!"

Black's energy wrapped around him, until it formed into the shape of a massive dragon that looked very close to Super Shenron. But with black and red scales and pink eyes.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The dark dragon roared as it barreled towards the city.

Vegeta and Trunks looked at the oncoming dragon.

"Tch. So that's what he's planning. He's going to try and destroy Kakarot in one go, and if we get in his way he'll just destroy us too. All with this one attack." Vegeta deduced. "Hmph. What a fool."

"Father. Let's do this." Trunks said, pulling his arms back, and charging up an attack. "For everyone!"

"Well show this bastard the power of Saiyans!" Vegeta shouted as he cocked his hands back to charge the same move.

"Galick Gun!" Vegeta and Trunks shouted as they both shot out a beam of purple energy, the beams combining together, to create one massive beam that rushed towards the dark dragon.

The beam engulfed the dragon, but it kept going, through the Galick Gun, toward Trunks and Vegeta.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Trunks and Vegeta shouted as they poured even more energy into their attack, causing it to double in size.

The dragon ever so slightly slowed as it continued towards Vegeta and Trunks, getting closer and closer until it was upon them.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegeta and Trunks gave one final push with whatever they had left.

And everything exploded a burst of purple and red spreading everywhere, destroying everything it touched.

When it died down, there was just a massive crater left.

Vegeta and Trunks were left lying on the ground, and Black was standing over them. His clothes were in tatters, and his shirt was completely destroyed.

He was breathing heavily, his body covered in wounds, bleeding all over the place.

"Mortals!" Black growled, as he created an energy blade in his hand, and walked towards Vegeta and Trunks, with an expression that could only be described as murderous. "Mortals!"

"Grrrr. Errrrr." Vegeta and Trunks tried to get up, but both of them had poured everything they had in that last attack, and the explosion had left them unable to stand.

Black picked up Trunks with his scarf, and raised his blade, ready to snuff out the life of the half-Saiyan for good.

And then a pillar of light erupted on the rooftop Goku and Gowasu was on, stopping him in his tracks.

Black looked over to the pillar in horror, as it vanished.

Goku went to the edge of that building and looked down at Black, his silver eyes piercing into Black's heart and filling it with a feeling of terror.

In a flash, Goku was in front of Black and kicked him into the side of the crater.

Gowasu walked to the side of the building and looked down at the battle. "Zamasu. I will see you again soon."

With that, his body was compassed in golden light, before dissipating into small slivers of light and fading away.

Black growled as the feeling of terror continued to fill him. He was exhausted, his power had decreased by a good bit, and now Goku was back and ready to go.

The writing was on the wall, it seemed obvious how this would play. The wind was not blowing in his favor.

"Mortals! Mortals! Mortals!" Black shouted out in a combination of fear and rage.

He flew upwards and summoned more and more clones from the tear until the crater was surrounded by hundreds of clones.

Goku continued to look straight at Black. Then, he pulled his hands back. "Kame."

"Die!" Black cried as all of his clones dived in at Goku.

One clone came up and tried to slash at him, and Goku parried it with the uncharged Kamehameha ball, before kicking the clone away.

Multiple clones came at him from behind, blades ready, and Goku parried all of their strikes with his uncharged Kamehameha, all the while continuing to charge it. "Hame!"

The clones started shooting ki blasts while others dived in. Some were bumping into each other or destroying each other in a desperate dive towards Goku.

Three clones rushed at Goku from the front, and Goku parried all three of their blades at once with the incomplete Kamehameha, five more clones approached him from the back, and Goku did a sweeping kick behind him, creating an energy wave that destroyed the give clones.

He dodged the barrage of ki blasts with ease, before making a ki ball with his foot and shooting it up at the clones.

The ball split into many smaller balls that pierced through the clones, destroying them.

"Hame!" Goku continued to charge his attack. "Hame!"

Many clones came down at him all at once, their blades ready to swipe down at him from above, but Goku raised the uncharged Kamehameha ball above him, blocking all of their blades.

Goku then jumped up, blowing all of them back, before flipping mid-air to face, Black, and jumping off one of the clones, towards him.

A wall of clones went in between him and Black, and Goku's eyes flashed, punching a hole through the wall as he continued towards Black.

Black, with no other options, poured all his remaining power into his ki blade, expanding it significantly and thrust it forward at Goku.

But Goku ducked under the thrust, dancing under the blade, as he pushed the unlaunched Kamehameha, right into Black's stomach.

"HA!" Goku launched the attack, engulfing Black in a bright blue beam.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Black screamed as his body was slowly destroyed and he was carried higher into the air by the attack.

SNAP!

His time ring broke, turning into pieces that were destroyed by the brilliant wave of energy.

"THIS! CAN'T! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Black let out one last scream before his body was completely annihilated.

KABOOM!

The Kamehameha exploded in the sky, pushing away the clouds revealing the beautiful night sky, and closing the rift in space.

Goku stared up at the blue sparkles that were created as a residual from his attack, and mixed in with the stars. And he smiled as he returned to base form.

"We did it! We won!" Trunks cheers tiredly, tears of joy running down his face. "It's over Mom. We won."

Chapter Text

Bardock's visit to Planet Cereal had gone in places he did not expect.

He destroyed their civilization. Saved a couple people out of pity. Got into a fight with some guy named Gas, and then saw the future.

Because apparently, when Bardock said he wished to "See his sons grow up healthy and strong" the dragon that Monaito had summoned, had interrupted that to mean he wanted to see every last part of his son's future.

But not just one future. Multiple possible futures.

Which was very distracting when he was in the middle of a fight. But thankfully he'd pulled through.

And so now Bardock was sitting in his spaceship, flying through space, left to think about what he had seen.

The future was bullshit.

In pretty much every timeline Bardock saw, Planet Vegeta gets destroyed by Frieza. Killing him, his wife, all of his friends, and his entire race.

And then later on, his two sons would kill each other. Although Kakarot would come back, Raditz, not so much.

So pretty much his entire family was killed, except for Kakarot. And Kakarot forgot about them for most of his life.

Yeah, fuck that.

Putting together a timeline of events, Bardock guessed he had about 8 months before Freiza destroyed planet Vegeta.

According to the visions, Freiza called every single Saiyan back from wherever they were in space, to Planet Vegeta. So he could kill them all at once.

This order had not been given out yet, and it would take months for every single Saiyan to return to the home planet. Some of them were in very deep reaches of space, so if Frieza wanted to get all of them, he'd have to wait quite some time.

Bardock had two options.

The first was to try and get everyone he cared about off of planet Vegeta before it was destroyed.

Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.

Gine, Kakarot and Raditz he could do. But his buddies from his team would likely not believe a single word about magic dragons and seeing the future.

And he wouldn't blame them, because had he not experienced the visions himself, he wouldn't believe it either.

There was also the fact that the idea of simply turning tail and running away from this, made his blood boil.

So yeah that wasn't happening.

And so that brought him to option B. Kill Frieza.

Which was somehow the more likely option.

The gap between Bardock and Freiza currently…well to say it was large would be an understatement.

The Ginyu Force could beat him without breaking a sweat, and Freiza could do the same to them, in his first form. His first of five forms.

Thank goodness the bastard was too lazy to train otherwise all hope would be lost.

Because while beating Freiza would be impossible for him normally, Bardock was now full of knowledge from the future. And that knowledge included several ways for him to get much, much stronger. Even in only 8 months.

First things first, he'd have to eliminate this pesky travel time. He'd be visiting several planets, and he couldn't afford to spend months traveling through space.

"Ship," Bardock said. "Set a course to planet Yardrat."

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"Haaaaaaaa!" Nail charged his Ki, as he continued his training in a barren field.

And then suddenly, Bardock appeared in front of him, with his fingers on his forehead.

Nail's eyes widened. He quickly jumped up and took a battle-ready stance. "Who are you!?"

"Names Bardock," Bardock said, looking Nail over. "And you're Nail. The guy who guards that grand elder guy right?"

"How do you know that? Where did you come from!? What do you want?" Nail asked.

"You're gonna wanna sit down. It's a long story." Bardock said.

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"I see." Guru said.

Nail had taken the Saiyan to meet the Grand Elder Guru, where he gave him his whole story.

"Do you believe him, Grand Elder Guru?" Nail asked. He'd been hesitant to show him to the grand elder, and he was still hesitant to believe in this story. But it was just so detailed. And he knew things that someone outside of Namek had no business knowing.

"...Given the knowledge he has on things beyond even many of the elders on Namek. I would say this man is telling the truth." Guru deduced. "And if that is the case, we must act. Bardock, what would you ask of us?"

"A lot. First I'd like to ask that you unlock my hidden potential." Bardock requested, before pointing back at Nail. "And his."

"M-My hidden potential!?" Nail looked at him in shock. "Why-"

"I need a partner if I'm going to beat Frieza. A strong one." Bardock explained. "And you're the best I'm going to get. "So I need you to get as strong as you can. Got it?"

"Very well," Guru said. "Is there anything else?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna need the dragon balls," Bardock said.

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Gathering Namek's dragon balls hadn't taken long. They'd travel to a village, Nail would ask for a dragon ball, and then they were on their way.

In little over an hour, all three dragon balls were in front of them.

Nail spoke in the Namekian tongue, and the sky darkened, then from the dragon balls, a golden beam of light shot out from the dragon balls, eventually taking the form of a giant, abnormally muscular dragon.

"Huh. Looks real different from the one on Planet Cereal." Bardock noted. "Does this train or something? Can these things train?"

"What is your first wish?" Nail asked.

"Alright, first I want to revive every race and planet that was destroyed by Majin Buu, Freiza, and the Freiza force," Bardock said.

This would buy them some time. Freiza would be too busy dealing with the chaos of all his empty planets suddenly filling back up with life, as well as all the new planets he could subjugate. He might even decide to leave the Saiyans around for a while longer so he can get the extra manpower.

Plus having a universe filled with life would raise the mortal level. Something Bardock would have to worry more about later, to make sure the universe didn't get erased. Because apparently, the deities in charge of this stuff were really bad at their jobs.

Nail spoke to the dragon, and the dragon's eyes glowed, and then the dragon spoke.

"Your wish has been granted. What next?" Nail asked.

"On earth, there is a room called the Hyperbolic Time Chamber," Bardock said. "I want him to improve it. Remove the two-day time limit."

Nail spoke, and once again, the dragon's eyes glowed.

"Done. What's your last wish?" Nail asked.

"Bring us both to earth," Bardock said. "To a place called Kami's Lookout."

"Couldn't you do that with your Instant Transmission?" Nail asked, confused as to why he would waste a wish on that.

Bardock shook his head. "I need to sense someone's energy and use it as a beacon in order to use it. And everyone on earth is just too damned weak right now."

"Fine." Nail turned back to the dragon, and spoke once more.

The dragon's eyes glowed once again, and in a flash, the two were gone.

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Mr Popo was casually watering the planets on the lookout when suddenly Bardock and Nail appeared. "Oh my!?"

"Hey, bring the old man out," Bardock said. "We need to talk."

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Kami waited in front of the door to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

It had been one week since he met the Saiyan and Namkeian warriors. It was hard to believe their stories at first, but they knew too much for it to be a lie. And as such he gave them permission to use the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

And now a week later, he could feel they were ready to come out.

The door burst open, and immediately, Kami was shocked, looking with the two wide eyes as they came out. Their armor and clothes are in tatters

Bardock and Nail were powerful, no. Extremely powerful when they'd come here, but now they were on a whole other level. "This…this power…are you strong enough to beat this…Freiza?"

"Hmmm." Bardock looked down at his fist and clenched it. "I don't know. I don't have a feel for Frieza's full power so I can't compare…but I'd say I have a shot."

"We have little time to waste." Nail told him. "I'll make my preparations here, you go do your part."

"Right." Bardock nodded, before bringing his fingers to his forehead and looking for his target.

Eventually, he found it. Their energy was faint, but it was enough.

And then he vanished.

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On Vampa, a young Broly charged his energy, training under his father's watchful eye.

"Higher Broly! Higher!" Paragus shouted.

Bardock appeared a good distance away from them and immediately ducked behind a rock.

Good. I found them. I was worried King Vegeta would have sent them here later. Bardock thought. Now I just have to wait until nightfall.

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Hours later, Bardock snuck into the cave that Broly and Paragus had been staying in. The two are now fast asleep after a full day of training.

Bardock went up to Paragus. Sorry about this, but I don't have a choice.

He raised his arm.

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Bardock appeared next to Nail, back at the lookout. "He's dead. Now we just wait."

"Are you sure the child will survive long without his father protecting him?" Nail asked.

"Heh. The kid was already stronger than him. He'll be fine. Physically fine anyway." Bardock said. "What about you?"

"I met with the man named Gohan and told him the situation. He gave me the dragon ball and I took it to Dr. Briefs." Nail said. "Then I convinced him to start working on a dragon ball locator. He says it'll be done in a week."

"Good. Now." Bardock got into a battle ready stance. "Let's get some training done in the meantime."

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Gathering the dragon balls had taken a bit longer than it had on Namak. The dragon radar had told them where they were, but they still had to look around a bit.

But after a couple hours, they'd gotten them all together on the lookout.

The dragon rose from the balls in a golden beam of light, turning the sky black.

"I am the eternal dragon," Shenron said. "State your wish."

Bardock sighed. He hesitated, but he knew what he had to do. "Sorry about not asking you first, but I don't have time to waste. I wish my wife was pregnant with triplets! And I want them to be MY children!"

The dragon's eyes flashed. "Your wish is granted. Farewell."

Shenron vanished in a flash of light, and the dragon's balls rose up, before scattering.

"I still question whether or not that backup plan is going to work." Nail added.

"Look, it worked in the future, so it should work here." Bardock sighed. "It better fricking work."

"How much more time do we have?" Nail asked.

"2 months, assuming Freiza doesn't decide to delay or call the whole thing off," Bardock said, before bringing his fingers to his head. "Let's go."

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Broly wandered Vampa aimlessly.

His father wouldn't wake up anymore. After waiting for days for his father to awaken, Broly had figured out that much. His father was now just like the monsters they'd hunted for food.

And so now the boy was left with nothing to do, wander the barren planet, with a feeling of sadness weighing on his heart.

"Hey, kid."

"Huh?" Broly looked up and saw Bardock floating down in front of him.

Broly stepped back, taking an extremely sloppy defensive stance.

Bardock didn't say anything, instead taking out a capsule, pushing down the pin, and throwing it to the side.

The capsule exploded, revealing a table full of delicious-looking foods.

Broly looked at it, and as soon as the scent of the food hit his nose, he lost all reason.

He lunged at the table.

Bardock looked on as Broly savagely shoved food in his mouth.

Honestly, it was taking a good amount of restraint not to join him, because what Earth lacked in powerful warriors, it made up for in good food and other luxuries.

But Bardock needed Broly to trust him. He was a key part of not just his plan to defeat Frieza, but his plans for the universe overall.

In just a couple of minutes, Broly had devoured the entire feast, and laid on the table, covered in bits of food.

"Hey kid, you want more?" Bardock asked.

Broly quickly shot up and nodded his head.

Bardock smirked and offered the kid his hand. "Then come with me. I'll give you lots of nice things."

Broly hesitated for a moment, before taking Bardock's hand.

Bardock raised his fingers to his forehead, and the two vanished.

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Gine sighed as she continued her job at her Meat Market. Cutting meats and preparing them for display.

To say that these last few months were hectic would be the understatement of the century.

First, all of the races that had been annihilated by the Freiza force since its inception as the Cold Force suddenly came back to life somehow. And to make things worse, a bunch of new planets appeared with their own races!

As such, the Saiyans had been sent in mass along with the rest of the Freiza force, to deal with this problem. Meaning she wasn't exactly getting a lot of business here back at planet Vegeta.

And then to add to the unexplainable events, she had suddenly gotten pregnant with triplets

Not a normal pregnancy either, she just went to sleep one day, woke up the next, and boom, big belly. Which should be impossible, for several reasons.

"I wonder how I'm gonna explain this Bardock," Gine said as she rubbed her belly.

"Explain what?"

"AH!" Gine quickly turned around and saw Bardock standing behind her, still holding Broly's hand. "B-Bardock!? When did you get back!? And…who is that boy? Wait no, this is uh…I can explain!"

"No need, I knew you were pregnant. That's my doing." Bardock explained.

"...Huh?" Gine felt like her brain just crashed, as she gave Bardock a blank look.

Bardock looked away guiltily. "Yeah, it's a long story and…look I'm sorry I didn't talk to you about it first, but time is precious. Anyway, I need you to take care of this kid for a little bit. I need to depose the king."

"WHAT!?" Gine shouted out in shock. But before she could ask any more questions, Bardock vanished into thin air, leaving Broly behind.

Gine just stood there with her mouth hanging open before her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.

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King Vegeta was sitting on his throne, as one his advisors went on about taxes or whatever. He wasn't really listening, it was just so boring, and he was NOT in the mood for it.

And then Bardock appeared in front of him.

"What!?" Everyone looked at him in shock, the guards raising their spears.

"Who are you, how did you get in here?!" King Vegeta demanded. "Answer me!"

"Names Bardock. A low-class Saiyan." Bardock answered.

BOOM!

Suddenly Bardock released his energy causing the air room to fly towards everyone as a force, pushing all the guards into the wall and knocking them unconscious.

"And I'm here to depose you," Bardock told him.

"Ahh." One of King Vegeta's attendants took out a counter, put it on, and activated it. A second later, he gasped. "That power level! It can't be! 440,000, no it's still rising-ack!"

The scouter exploded.

"Hmph. Must have been a faulty scouter. No Saiyan has reached anywhere close to that level of power. Let alone low class." King Vegeta said, looking at Bardock curiously. "Still, I cannot deny you defeated my elite guards in an instant. As king, I should punish you for such insolence, but I'll allow you to live if you kneel before me now. I'll even let you become one of my generals. How does that sound?"

"Hmph. You really can't sense me can you." Bardock sighed, shaking his head. "Sensing energy is like second nature to me now. It's humiliating how our race relies on such trash to try and figure out how strong someone is."

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I take that to mean you're refusing my offer." King Vegeta said, raising his hand up. "A pity."

BRRRRRRRRRRRR!

King Vegeta shot out a big beam that lit up the whole room, as it fully engulfed Bardock.

A moment later King Vegeta stopped the attack, and a big cloud of smoke was left in front of him.

"Hmph. What a waste." King Vegeta said.

"That's what I was gonna say." Said Bardock from the smoke.

"Huh!?" King Vegeta looked at the smoke cloud in front of him, as it slowly faded away, revealing Bardock to be unharmed. Not a scratch on him. "Impossible."

"If you think this is impossible, your imagination is too small," Bardock said. "Why don't we take this outside."

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It was an incredibly peaceful day in the capital city of Planet Vegeta, Stewen.

With most of the warriors out on missions, the Saiyans who weren't warriors, roamed the streets and flew about peacefully.

That was until suddenly an explosion rocked the city, King Vegeta was tossed out of his castle, and into the air above everyone.

King Vegeta eventually managed to stop himself after spinning through the air for a bit, and Bardock flew up to meet him.

Bardock looked down below, every Saiyan around was staring at them now, and more Saiyans coming in to look at what the heck was going on.

Good, he needed as many of them watching as possible.

"You bastard!" King Vegeta roared as he charged at Bardock and threw a punch right at his face.

Bardock didn't block, nor did he try to dodge, he just stood there, looking at the Saiyans below.

King Vegeta's fist connected with his face.

And did absolutely nothing.

King Vegeta's eyes widened in fear, before filling with anger. "HAAAAA!"

He started pelting Bardock with blows, but none of them did any damage, and Bardock just sat there and took them.

Until Bardock raised his fingers to King Vegeta's forehead.

And with a flick, he sent King Vegeta flying uncontrollably into the distance.

Bardock turned around, waited for a second, and then caught King Vegeta by the hair after he finished rotating around the planet.

He looked down at the King to find him unconscious.

"Wake up!" Bardock shouted, shaking him around.

"Huh!" King Vegeta awoke, and Bardock threw him back into the air.

"Let's not waste any more time. Hit me with your strongest attack." Bardock told him. "Your garlick gun or whatever. Charge up as much as you need, just don't do any harm to the city or the castle. I don't wanna have to rebuild that shit on top of everything else I need to get done."

"You…You insolent…fine." King Vegeta pulled his hands back, and got into his charging pose, as a ball of purple energy appeared in his hands. "If death is what you want! Then I shall grant it to you!"

Bardock waited, crossing his arms as the king charged more and more, the planet shaking from his power.

After a few moments, King Vegeta launched his hands forward. "Galick Gun! FIRE!"

A big beam of purple energy shot out and rushed at Bardock, fully engulfing him before continuing on into the depths of space.

King Vegeta continued his attack, pouring every ounce of energy he had into it.

But eventually, he ran out of steam, and the attack faded. Leaving another cloud of smoke where Bardock had stood.

King Vegeta stared at the smoke, sweating bullets and breathing heavily. Hope burgeoning in his chest. Thinking he might have finally killed Bardock.

Only for that hope to be replaced with despair as the smoke passed revealing Bardock to be unharmed.

"N-No. This can't be." King Vegeta said weakly, before Bardock appeared in front of him in a flash, and buried his fist in his chest. "UGGAH!"

"Hmph. Farewell, Your Majesty." Bardock said mocking, before pumping energy into his fist, and shooting a blast from it that went straight through King Vegeta's chest.

"Ahhh. Ahhhh. Ahhh. Ahhhh." King Vegeta grunted, as the light left his eyes and his body went limp.

Bardock pulled back his fist, and as King Vegeta's lifeless body fell, Bardock grabbed it by the hair and held it up for everyone to see. "People of planet Vegeta! I am your king now! If anyone wants to argue about it, come up now and face me!"

No one did. Instead, they all looked up in shock. Before one by one, bowing before him.

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Freiza was not happy.

He'd made this perfect plan, to destroy those unsightly Saiyans, and then something had to go along and ruin it.

Freiza had needed all the manpower he could get when the planets he depopulated suddenly repopulated, and whole new planets and races appeared.

And so he'd allowed the Saiyans to continue living under his service.

But then suddenly his men said they got reports of the Saiyans getting a new king. One MUCH stronger than the previous king, with a power level said to rival his!

There were even rumors that he was the Legendary Super Saiyan.

Yeah no, now they had to die.

And so Freiza was in his ship, watching as Saiyans returned to Planet Vegeta under his orders. Waiting for everyone to get back, so he could blow up the planet.

But then suddenly, his scouter started detecting something.

A lone power level, in the ice content of the planet.

The power level rose rapidly, more and more until.

CRACK!

The scouter broke.

Frieza scowled. It seems like those rumors weren't so exaggerated after all.

This would require his personal attention.

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Bardock waited in the icy tundra of Planet Vegeta. His arms crossed and eyes closed, as he waited for the inevitable confrontation. The thing he'd been preparing for for months.

And then he felt it.

Bardock opened his eyes. "He's coming."

He looked up, and saw Freiza, in his little pod, floating down towards him.

Soon, Freiza was looking at him, face to face, the two nothing more than a few feet away from each other.

"You must be the new king of planet Vegeta. Bardock, was it?" Freiza asked. "I suppose the planet will be changing its name."

"Nah. Too much of a pain in the ass," Bardock said. "That and naming a planet after yourself just feels tacky."

"Well, that saves me the trouble of changing the name in our database," Freiza said. "Now I've noticed that's quite a high power level you have. I don't believe there's ever been a Saiyan this strong before."

"...Let's cut the nonsense. You're here to destroy planet Vegeta and kill off the Saiyan race. Right?" Bardock asked rhetorically.

Freiza's smile faltered for a bit before he started laughing. "Oh my! And how did you deduce that? Don't tell me I have a mole in my army."

"That's not important. All that matters is that you hate Saiyans." Bardock said getting straight to the point. "So much so you can't stand living in the same universe as them. Because you'll always be afraid that we'll surpass you. So long as that's true, there's no need for us to try and talk this out."

Bardock got into a battle ready stance. "Let's do this."

Freiza just stared at him for a second, before sighing. Then he jumped out of his pod and cracked his neck. "Very well. Your funeral begins now."

Bardock charged forward and unleashed a devastating punch aimed right at Freiza's face.

Freiza blocked it but was still sent flying back a little much to his surprise.

"Yeeeeeahhhhhhh!" Freiza shot out death beams at Bardock, which the Saiyan warrior deflected with his hands, before launching himself at Frieza, and delivering a kick to the chin, sending Freiza into the air.

Bardock coated his fist in blue energy and rushed up at Frieza.

Freiza had just finished stopping himself mid-air when Bardock charged up and punched him square in the cheek before unleashing a flurry of ki-charged blows all over his body.

"Grrrrr!" Freiza managed to catch one of his fists before it could hit him, before catching the other one. Locking them face to face.

Freiza tried to nail Bardock in the face with his eye beams, but Bardock ducked underneath them, and kicked Freiza in the face, before unleashing a ki beam from his feet, point blank, completely engulfing his head.

The tyrant's grip loosened, allowing Bardock to flip out of his grip, before forming a ki blast in his hand, rushing forward and nailing Freiza in the stomach with it, and then launching it, sending it and Freiza crashing into a nearby glacier.

The glacier blew up, creating a massive explosion that blew away the nearby clouds.

The gap in power between us isn't too big. But he has almost no experience when it comes to fighting people on equal footing. Bardock surmised, before smirking. Yeah. This is doable.

"YAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Freiza burst from the smoking crater that was once the mountain, charging at Bardock enraged.

Bardock put up his arms to block, and Freiza landed a powerful punch, sending Bardock flying between two mountains.

Freiza used telekinesis, picking up the two mountains, and smashed them together with Bardock in between them.

But then Bardock appeared above Freiza with Instant Transmission and landed a devastating kick on Freiza's head, sending him crashing into the ground hard enough to shake the entire tundra.

Bardock flew down in front of Freiza, as the tyrant pulled himself out of the ice. "Had enough?"

"...I must admit, you're even stronger than I could have imagined, monkey," Freiza said, dusting himself off before looking back at Bardock. "It's been a while since anyone's forced me to put effort into a fight. In this form that is."

"So you're finally ready to Transform?" Bardock asked as he crossed his arms, getting a smug sense of satisfaction as Freiza's eyes went wide, before glaring at him.

"Alright, who is providing you with this information!?" Frieza demanded. "There MUST be a spy in my forces! Tell me who it is!"

"Not important. Just transform already." Bardock told him.

"Grrrrr. Fine. If you won't tell me who the spy is, then I'll just have to torture you until you're willing to do anything just for the sweet release of death!" Freiza shouted. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The ground started to shake, as Frieza's ki exploded from out of his body.

Then, suddenly, his body started to change. Expanding, and growing as his entire body morphed into something else, as his armor broke apart.

By the end, Freiza was now a hulking creature that towered over Bardock.

"Ahh. It's been a while since I've used this form." Freiza said as he gave Bardock a cruel smile. "If I recall, this form's power level was-"

"One Million. Yeah yeah, it's impressive." Bardock then gave Freiza his own smirk. "But I know something you don't, Frieza. You're not the only one that can transform. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly, Bardock's aura exploded as well, and he started charging up energy.

Once again the ground shook. The ice around Bardock melted rapidly until he and Freiza were floating over a large lake that began to swirl under Bardock.

His hair flashed between its normal black, and a golden color, as his eyes turned blue.

"HAAAAAAAAAA!" With one final push, Bardock's aura exploded into a golden color, as he finished his transformation into Super Saiyan.

"W-What!?" Freiza stared at the golden Saiyan, in absolute shock. "But Saiyans can only turn into giant apes! What is…no. This can't be."

"That's right Frieza. This is the form you feared. The legendary Super Saiyan." Bardock said. "Now let me show you what it can do."

Then, with unreal speed, Bardock dashed behind Freiza, and before he could react, Bardock landed a powerful blow to the side of Freiza's head, sending him flying.

Bardock flew after him, quickly catching up, grabbing Freiza slamming him into the ground, and dragging him across the ice.

"Grrrrrrr!" Freiza clenched his fist, before quickly opening it again, causing it to be enveloped in an explosion, covering the area in a cloud of snow.

The two flew up from the cloud, both of them attacking each other while at the same time dodging and parrying each other's blows, while they went higher into the air.

Barodck eventually grabbed Freiza's horns, and started kneeing him in the face, then when Freiza was stunned, he backed up, closed his fist, and formed a large ki blade from his hand, before swiping that blade down at Frieza.

Freiza barely reacted in time, tilting his body to the side, dodging the blade for the most part, but his right horn was cut clean off.

"Heh," Bardock smirked, and thrust his blade at Frieza, making cuts in both sides of his face.

"Grrrr! GRRRR!" Freiza growled, before flying back and landing on a mountain top. "Don't think you've won! You damn ape! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Once again, Frieza's body began to transform.

"Looks like he's starting to take this a bit more seriously," Bardock said to himself.

Soon Freiza had morphed into a grotesque creature, his third form.

"Time to die Saiyan!" Freiza shouted as he unleashed dozens of death beams from one finger on both hands.

Bardock flew to the side, dodging the beams, before creating a ki ball in his hand, and shooting it at Frieza.

Freiza fired death beams at the ball as it traveled towards him, before finally exploding in front of him creating a big cloud of smoke.

Then Bardock emerged from that smoke, spinning before landing a powerful blow on the top of Freiza's head, slamming him into the ice.

Bardock moved forward and grabbed Freiza's tail, and then started spinning around as fast as he could, before tossing Freiza into the air. Then he raised his palm up, made an energy ball, and threw it at Frieza.

Freiza barely recovered in time, stopping himself from spinning out of control, and backhanding Bardock's attack away. Then he powered up a more powerful death beam, before firing it at Bardock.

Bardock formed a ki blade and raised it up, it collided with the death beam, splitting it apart. Bardock rose up towards Freiza, before forming a blade in his other hand, rising up and then attempting to slash down at Frieza.

But Freiza managed to dash to the side just in time to avoid the blade, and then kicked Bardock in the side of the head, sending him flying. Freiza then sent another barrage of Death Beams at him.

The death beams slammed into Bardock's body, and before Bardock could recover, Freiza charged up another, more powerful, and then launched it at Bardock.

It slammed into the hurdling Saiyan, and exploded on contact, creating a massive cloud of smoke.

Frieza looked at the smoke and took the chance to breathe.

And then Bardock appeared above him with Instant Transmission, ki blade in another hand, and slammed the ki blade down towards Frieza's head.

The two plummeted back into the ground, hitting it so hard it shot up a huge cloud of snow and ice.

When the cloud subsided, it was revealed that Freiza had caught the blade with both hands, barely stopping it from cutting into his head.

"Tchhhtchhhtchhh!" Freiza hissed as he used all his strength to keep Bardock's blade from reaching him.

"Grrrrr!" Bardock also tried to bring the blade down on him, but they were in a deadlock. "Hmph."

He opened the palm of his other hand and formed a Ki ball. Then he made it grow bigger, and bigger until it was the size of his head.

And then he smashed it into Frieza's face.

KABOOM!

A massive explosion rocked the tundra, and Bardock was shot out of the blast radius by the force, skidding across the ground until he managed to stop himself.

"Looks like I overdid it a bit," Bardock grunted, stretching his arm as he felt the recoil from his own attack. Then he looked at the smoke cloud that resulted from his attack. "Still. That should be enough to kick him into high gear."

For a while, there was silence, as the smoke from the attack slowly started to fade.

Eventually, it revealed Freiza, his body covered in wounds.

And yet he didn't seem too bothered, in fact, he was smiling.

"Hehehe. Hehehe. Ahahahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Freiza laughed maniacally, before turning to face Bardock with an insane grin, made even creepier by his disgusting form. "I will admit Bardock, that your power is far beyond anything I expected. But now I know its limits. You and I were nearly equally matched in this form. And if that's the case your chances of beating me are 0!"

"Yeah yeah, you have another form. More transforming and less yapping." Bardock told him. "Unless your genius strategy is to talk me to death."

"Heheheh! You'll regret those words soon enough Saiyan! In fact, you'll regret having ever been born!" Freiza shouted as he charged up his energy. "Because I! Lord Freiza! Will personally make the last moments of your life a living HELL! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The ground began to shake violently, as cracks started to appear in Freiza's body, crawling up from his feet to his head until they were all over him.

Glaciers began to crumble and collapse, as Freiza's body was engulfed in a white flash.

And when that flash subsided, Freiza now stood in his final form.

"Ahhh. You should be an honored monkey. Only a handful of people have ever seen this form." Freiza told him, while casually doing some stretches. "And my father has seen it and lived. That won't change now. Get a good look Saiyan, this form will be the last thing you see."

And for a while Bardock seemed to comply, just, staring at Frieza, with a disgusted look on his face.

"What a waste." Bardock eventually spoke, taking Freiza off guard.

Freiza gave him a confused look. "Come again? What exactly do you mean by that?"

"You were BORN with all this power. You have the potential to be the strongest in the universe. And you used none of that." Bardock explained. "Had you actually trained yourself, you wouldn't have even needed to transform to beat me. But now, you're going to die. By MY hands. In the end, it wasn't a Super Saiyan that killed you, just your own damn laziness. Heh. A fitting death for trash like yourself."

"Have you gone mad? Do you not understand the situation you're in?" Freiza asked, getting frustrated by Bardock's confidence. "My third form's power was just a fraction of this form's! The Super Saiyan of legend is no match for the might of Lord Freiza!"

"You're right. Super Saiyan alone wouldn't be enough to beat you." Bardock admitted before giving him a cocky smirk. "But here's the thing, Freiza, this isn't my final form."

Freiza's eyes widened. "W-What!?"

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Bardock started charging his ki, and once again the earth began to shake.

Storm clouds rolled in, and light began to smash into the ice, as Bardock's upper armor and shirt broke apart, revealing his exposed torso.

His hair went back into its normal shape and color for a moment, before starting to grow, as fur started growing all over his body.

"HA!" Bardock's body was engulfed in yellow light that filled the entire tundra.

"What!? What is this!?" Freiza gasped as the light died down.

When the light died down, Freiza could see Bardock, shimmering in his new form.

His arms and some of his body were covered in a pinkish red fur, his hair had grown and now went down to his back, and some rested on his shoulders.

"This is the pinnacle of power that any Saiyan can achieve on their own," Bardock said. "Super Saiyan 4."

"Super Saiyan 4!? Wait!? What happened to 2 and 3?" Freiza questioned.

"Don't worry about that." Bardock dismissed.

In truth, Bardock had yet to achieve those forms.

Super Saiyan had been hard enough to get, and only possible because of the…tingly back trick he learned about. As stupid as it was, it was effective. But it wasn't enough to get someone like him to the higher levels of Super Saiyan.

Thankfully Super Saiyan 4, despite its name, was easy to get and didn't require you to have Super Saiyan 2 and 3. All you had to do was go Super Saiyan in Great Ape and stay in control, something Bardock already knew how to do, then bam.

But Frieza didn't need to know all that.

"What you SHOULD be worried about, is how you're going to make it out of here alive," Bardock said.

Then he rushed forward, and before Freiza could react, punched him in the gut so the imprint of his fist could be seen coming out of Freiza's back.

"AGHHHHHH!" Freiza gasped as the wind was knocked right out of him.

Bardock then raised him into the air, before slamming him down into the ice, then he blasted a ki beam from his fist, burying him further under the ice.

For a moment things went quiet, but then Freiza burst out of the ice behind him and tried to kick Bardock in the back, but Bardock caught Freiza's foot.

Then he raised him in the air and slammed him down into the ice hard enough to make the earth shake.

"YEAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Freiza cried out in pain, before being lifted up in the air again, and slammed down again.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

Bardock did one final slam in front of him before letting Freiza go, slamming him so hard he bounced up slightly, then Bardock raised his foot all the way up, before slamming it into Freiza's stomach, creating a big crater around them.

"Grrrrrrr! GRRRRRRRR!" YEAHHHHHHHHH!" Frieza shrouded himself in energy, and flew up into the air, forcing Bardock off of him.

Freiza then looked behind him, at the three massive icebergs, before pointing his palm at them.

Under Freiza's telekinesis, the mountains crumbled, then the massive jagged chunks of ice floated up coming next to Freiza.

"HEYA!" Freiza threw the massive chunks of ice at Bardock.

Bardock formed two blades with his fist and rushed up at them, cutting through everything sent at him like butter.

Seeing Bardock rapidly approaching, Freiza raised his finger and charged up a big death ball, before throwing it down at Bardock.

But Bardock just slashed that in half as well, the two half exploding and creating a smoke cloud, which Bardock flew up to towards Frieza.

Bardock thrust his blade at Freiza's head, but Freiza flew slightly to the side, dodging it as the blade sailed next to his head.

Freiza kneed Bardock in the chin, but this did little damage to Bardock, as he forced Freiza's knee back down, looking at Freiza, and then opened his mouth, before shooting a giant beam from his mouth that fully engulfed Freiza.

When the beam faded, Freiza was revealed, his body now covered in wounds.

"YAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Freiza shouted as he charged down at Bardock, tackling him down to the ground, and into the ice.

While the two were under the ice, things went silent for a second. And then-

BOOM!

The tundra shook as the sound of a powerful blow being landed could be heard. And the force caused cracks to appear everywhere.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

These quakes continued, until Freiza and Bardock burst out from the ice, Bardock punching Freiza into the air, landing blows all over his body and face, until the two were high into the air, above the clouds.

Then Bardock pulled back his arm as far as he could, and clenched his fist, fiery red energy shrouding it, before he launched it forward, nailing Freiza square in the face.

KRAKOOM!

The blow blew away all the clouds nearby and launched Freiza away at terrifying speed.

Freiza was catapulted away from the planet and into space, slamming into one of his ships, and ripping through it, causing it to explode, as Freiza was launched deeper into the void.

"Hmph." Bardock flew back down to the ground, crossed his arms, and waited.

A couple minutes passed until Bardock could see a small twinkle in the sky.

Then Freiza slammed down into the ice, across from Bardock. Breathing very heavily from a combination of pure rage and his injuries.

He stared down Bardock, and if looks could kill, Bardock would have been atomized.

But instead, he just stood there with his arms crossed.

"YOU! YOUUUUUUUUU!" Freiza growled as he stomped his foot. "Me defeated by a lowly ape! Impossible! I am the strongest in the universe!"

"Except for Beerus." Bardock pointed out.

"He doesn't count!" Freiza hissed.

"And why is that?" Bardock asked.

"Because I said so!" Freiza shouted.

"Wow, you really are nothing but a petulant child with too much power huh?" Bardock chuckled. "I'll be doing the universe a favor by getting rid of trash like you."

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Freiza was so tempted to just launch himself at the Saiyan but he knew that would do him no good. If only I could use my full power! But there's no way he'd simply allow me to

"You're probably thinking about how much you wanna go into that full power mode of yours right?" Bardock said, shaking Freiza out of his thoughts. "Go ahead."

"W-What!?" Frieza balked in surprise.

What? Bardock heard Nail in his head.

"I said get on with it. I won't try to stop you so just hurry up and power up before I change my mind." Bardock said.

Freiza was shocked, looking at Bardock with a beguiled expression, before eventually morphing into psychotic glee. "Hehehehe. Ahahahaha! That's right! I suppose you Saiyan's can't resist a good fight. I shouldn't be surprised you would allow something like this. It's in your nature as brainless apes."

"Starting to change my mind here," Bardock warned.

"Tch. Well, then I'll cut to the chase." Freiza said, before powering up. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Bardock we talked about this. Nail told via telepathy.

I said if I didn't think I could handle it, I wouldn't let him go full power. Bardock reminded him. But I can handle him.

Ugh. Saiyans. Nail groaned. You do realize the fate of the universe is at stake here?

It'll be fine. If something goes wrong we always have plan B. Bardock assured him while rolling his eyes. Now quit complaining! This might be the last good fight I get in a while before I'm stuck having to fix the entire fucking universe.

"HAAAAAAAAAA!" Freiza's aura exploded as suddenly his muscles violently expanded until we became ridiculously bulky. "There. Just like you wanted. Me at full power."

"About damn time," Bardock smirked as he sensed Frieza's power. "This is gonna be fun."

Bardock rushed forward, and slammed his fist into Freiza's gut, sending Freiza skidding back a few feet.

"Grrr.!" Freiza growled, before rushing forward, and punching Bardock in the gut, sending HIM skidding back a bit.

"Hehehe." Bardock chuckled as he felt the pain. "HA!"

They both charged forward and launched their fists at each other, their fist colliding, the force of the collision sending shock waves that destroyed anything nearby.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Bardock roared as he tried to overpower Frieza.

"KEYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Freiza did the same, pouring power into this fist.

The two continued to struggle for dominance until the power from their clash erupted.

KABOOM!

A massive white explosion burst out from their fist, engulfing them both and creating a massive cloud of snow.

"HA!" Freiza roared, forcing all the snow away with a burst of ki, and then looking around for Bardock. "Where did you go!?"

Then Bardock appeared behind him with Instant Transmission, with a ki blade in his other hand, that he swung at Frieza's neck.

Freiza, hearing Bardock appear behind him, quickly turned around, and grabbed the blade with his teeth, before aiming his hand at Bardock, and hitting him with a massive ki beam.

Bardock was launched out of the beam and was sent tumbling across the tundra before he eventually stopped himself.

Freiza raised his hand, and formed a death saucer, before launching it at Bardock.

Bardock flew up to avoid it, but the disk flew up to follow him.

"Tch." Bardock turned around, formed a ki blade, and then charged towards the disk, slamming his blade into it. "Haaaaaa!"

Bardock cut through the disk, splitting it into two.

And then Freiza formed two more death saucers and threw them at Bardock.

Bardock scowled, allowing the disks to get a bit closer, before flying at Frieza, with his fingers on his forehead.

Freiza shot some energy blast at Bardock as he approached, with the death saucers in tow, but Bardock vanished with Instant Transmission, appearing behind Freiza, and kicking him towards the income death saucers.

Freiza barely reacted in time, grabbing the sides of the closer death saucer. The other death saucer slammed into the first one, pushing it forward even harder, which was now a few inches from Frieza's face.

Bardock came in from behind Freiza grabbed the back of his head and started pushing it into the disk.

As Freiza's face got closer and closer to the disk, he suddenly started pumping more energy into the disk, making it glow brighter and brighter, until it exploded.

KABOOM!

Once again a mass cloud of ice and snow erupted, obscuring the two fighters for a while until they both flew out of it.

The two flew across the freezing ice land, occasionally clashing with each other, destroying the landscape with each clash.

Bardock went in to punch Freiza, but Freiza jumped up to dodge it, before aiming his palm at Bardock, then trapping him in a golden ball of ki.

"Heya!" Freiza punched the ball with Bardock in it, sending it flying, crashing through a mountain.

When Bardock came out the other side, Freiza was there and kicked Bardock into the air.

Freiza flew up, passed the ball, raised both his arms, brought them together, and slammed them into balled-up Bardock, sending him crashing back down into the ground.

The ball hit the ground, and exploded, into a brilliant burst of golden light that could be seen from space.

When that light faded, there was a giant smoking crater left from the explosion.

Frieza stared down at the crater, taking some time to catch his breath, when heard Bardock Instant Transmission behind him.

He flew forward, barely making it in time as Bardock came down with his ki blade, cutting off half of his tail.

"Heh." Bardock grinned at him. His body was now also covered in a fair share of wounds, and a bit of blood coming down a cut in his cheek.

"Grrrrr!" Freiza growled, before turning to rush at Bardock, only for Badock to make a big slash across his chest with his ki blade.

Bardock made another blade and started slashing at Frieza with both blades.

Freiza started trying to dodge, but some hits would connect creating slashes across his torso, legs, neck, and arms. "Grrr! Ha!"

The tyrant thrust his arm forward, throwing out a wave of invisible force that threw Bardock back, slamming him into the top of an icy mountain.

This won't do! I can't defeat him like this! Freiza admitted to himself. I need a weakness!? Super Saiyan or not, he's still a Saiyan, he must still have the same weakness as all the other monkeys. Oh yes, that will do.

Freiza rose up and raised his finger, an insane grin on his face, as he started charging up a ball of ki that looked like a small sun.

But it didn't stay small for long, it rapidly expanded in size, growing bigger and bigger, until it was twice the size of a moon.

The ice in the area melted, turning the area from an icy tundra to an ocean.

Bardock flew up and stared at the massive ball of ki.

Freiza moved his finger down and pointed it down towards the planet.

The supernova started slowly traveling down towards the planet.

"Looks like we're at the end then," Bardock said, as he raised his own hand, before enveloping it in ki, flowing around it like blue fire. Bardock then thrust his hand upwards the ball and shot out a massive blue beam. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The beam slammed into the ball, stopping it in its tracks for a moment, before starting to push it back.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Bardock poured more ki into the beam, making it double in size, and pushing the ball away even faster.

The supernova was pushed into space, flying farther and farther away, until it exploded.

"Hmph. Well, that was disappointing." Bardock noted. It felt like there was no force behind that attack. Like Freiza wasn't pushing it all. Wait-

RIPPPPP!

Pain shot throughout Bardock's body, as Freiza rushed in behind him, and ripped off his tail.

In a flash of white, Bardock was forced back into his base form.

"...Shit," Bardock swore as he looked at his reflection in the water, seeing his normal form, before looking behind him to see Freiza, his arm raised and ki shimmering in his palm.

"What was earlier about arrogance being what killed me." Frieza cackled. "My my. Threw too many stones from your glass house, and it all came crumbling down."

Fuck I got too cocky. Bardock realized. "Tch. Damn it I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this."

Freiza looked at him curiously. "Do wha-"

And then Nail flew in, and punched him in the face, sending him flying away.

"I told you letting him transform was a bad idea." Nail said scowling at Bardock. He was also adorned in a new form, with a more yellowish skin color.

"Yeah, yeah. Fun's over I get it." Bardock brought his finger to his head. "Time for plan B."

And with that, he was gone.

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Bardock arrived back in his throne room, where he found Gine and Broly waiting for him.

"Did it work? Did you beat Freiza?" Gine asked hopefully.

"Not yet. Gotta go with plan B." Bardock said.

"You let him transform, didn't you?" Gine said glaring at her husband accusingly.

Bardock looked away. "Not important, let's just get this over with before Nail gets too beat up."

"So you did you! Ugh! We can talk about this later." Gine sighed, before holding out her hands.

Bardock took her hand before looking over to Broly. "Broly, you remember what I taught you?"

Broly nodded, and went over to them, grabbing Bardock and Gine's hands.

Gine and Broly started pouring their energy into Bardock, a blue glow covering all of them.

Then, Gine's stomach started glowing as well, and three distinct glows lit up, their energy pouring into Bardock.

Bardock was completely enveloped in blue light, as he felt his power rise like never before.

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Nail extended his arms towards Freiza, hoping to grab the dictator, but Freiza shot eye beams at the arms, destroying them, before he charged in at Nail, and punched him down into the ocean below them.

The Namekian slammed into the ocean floor, and Freiza dived down after him and kicked him in the face.

Freiza then stood up and closed his fist, then opened it, causing all the water around them to move away, creating an open pocket.

Then he stepped back before he started mercilessly punching Nail in the face.

SLAM!

SLAM!

SLAM!

SLAM!

SLAM!

SLAM!

Freiza raised his arm once more, ready to deliver a massive punch.

And then someone caught his fist.

Freiza's eyes widened and he quickly turned, to see Bardock standing there, holding his fist.

But he was different. He was slimmer, and he had red hair, as well as an aura that looked nearly identical to fire.

"W-What!?" Freiza tried to snatch his arm away from Bardock, but he couldn't break Bardock's grip.

"This is a Super Saiyan God. That other legend you feared so much." Bardock explained. "Sorry, but I'm on a time limit here. Don't have time to play around like I'd like."

With that, Bardock hurled Freiza into the air.

Freiza spun around in the air helplessly, before eventually managing to stop himself when he reached the upper atmosphere.

Bardock raised his hand up and formed a blue ball of ki in his palm.

Then the ball grew, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Freiza looked at it with wide eyes, a bright blue ball the same size as his own supernova.

Then it shrunk back down in an instant, all that energy compacting into a ball the size of his hand.

"You! I don't care if you have the power of a god! I am the mighty lord Freiza!" Freiza raised his, before lowering it towards the planet, towards Bardock. "And you will die by my hand."

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Freiza shot down a massive purple beam, using every bit of the energy he had left.

Bardock saw this beam coming down, and rushed up towards it, pushing his ki ball in front of him,

The beam smashed against the ki ball, and the ball split it apart, as Bardock continued to fly up through the beam.

Eventually, he reached Freiza and slammed the ball into his chest, the ball glowed brighter as it prepared to explode. "With this, the future is changed."

KABOOM!

The ki ball let off a massive explosion that shook the planet below.

"NOO! NOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOO!" Freiza let out one last cry of anguish before he was completely and totally destroyed.

Eventually, the explosion subsided, leaving Bardock alone, staring at the stars.

Finally, it was done.

For now.

He still had so much to do. So much to prepare for.

But for now, he would celebrate this victory with his people.

Maybe they'd even make today a new holiday.

Chapter Text

Buu sighed, as he laid back on an asteroid.

He was bored.

Honestly, he'd been bored for years.

Ever since his battle with Vegito, in which the fusion pretty much threw the fight thinking a barrier would protect him from Buu's absorption for some reason, he'd been free to terrorize the universe as he saw fit.

And boy did that not last long.

28. He'd only found 28 planets with intelligent life on them, for him to destroy.

Not counting the world of the Kai's, which he'd also destroyed, thanks to Goku's Instant Transmission.

But after that, there was nothing. No more civilizations to destroy. At least none that he'd found.

And to be perfectly honest, he's not sure if he even wanted to do the who, great destroyer thing anymore.

Because while a primal part of him still wanted to run wild and destroy the universe, Buu had come to realize something.

Destroying things stopped being exciting to him.

It was all the same. Go down and kill everyone. Sometimes with ki blasts, sometimes he'd absorb things, sometimes he'd turn people into candy.

But after like, 6 planets he didn't get the same thrill out of it anymore. He kinda wished that there was someone capable of fighting back. No, not kinda, he really wished there was someone who could fight back, just to break up the monotony of it all.

The closest thing he had to fun was beating up Vegeta's brother, and asboring him. And that was only fun because he was doing it to spite Vegeta.

And aside from destroying things, what else could he do for fun?

Turn things into food, and splits himself up to train against himself.

That was it.

Sure he'd gotten far, far more powerful, and learned how to better utilize his abilities.

But for what?

He honestly wished he hadn't blown up all those planets. At least he could read the stuff they left behind, or play some of their games or whatever.

But then what?

Eventually, he'd run out of stuff to do, and there was no one around to create any new stuff.

Then what would he do?

Maybe he could go to otherworld and destroy all the souls.

But what then?

Buu had realized destruction was a shortsighted form of entertainment. One that would leave Buu bored for all of eternity.

But what else would he do?

There were no more dragon balls, so it's not like he could bring everyone back? And even if he could, there was that primal part of him. His original self absolutely despised that idea.

And so, unsure of what to do, Buu traveled through space, looking for more stuff. To destroy? Maybe, he'd figure it out once he found it.

Buu looked over to the planet closest. An ugly-looking planet that didn't really look like it supported life.

But hey, if something did live there, maybe it would be strong enough to entertain him.

Yeah right.

And with that, Buu flew over.

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Buu flew across the barren and ugly planet and found himself disappointed.

Nothing but animalistic life forms, not even worth paying attention to.

With a sigh, Buu stopped flying and landed on the planet, sitting down cross-legged.

Honestly why even bother destroying this planet? What was the point? What was the point of doing anything, if still found himself bored a moment later.

""HEEEEYYYYYYYYY!"

"Hmm?" Buu looked to the side and saw an old man running towards him.

An old man with a tail.

"Ohhhh." Buu was interested for a moment, before realizing the reason he hadn't sensed this guy before was because he was so weak. How disappointing. Still. Maybe I can get a little fun out of him.

Paragus ran up to Buu, panting with exhaustion as he approached, and Buu stood, towering over him.

"You!? How did you get here!? Do you have a ship!?" Paragus asked, looking at Buu hopefully.

"Afraid not. Why are you stuck here?" Buu asked, playing along for now. "Do you need help getting off of this miserable planet?"

"YES! YES! Please if there's anything you can do!?" Paragus begged desperately.

"Alright, but it's going to take a while." Buu chuckled.

"YES! Thank yo-AGHHHHHH!" Paragus screamed as suddenly Buu socked him in the face, sending him flying up a bit, before landing on his ass.

While Paragus was still reeling from the punch, Buu went over and grabbed Paragus by the neck, with his head tail thing.

"W-Why-?" Paragus gasped.

"You wanted help getting out of here. So I'm going to send you directly to otherworld." Buu cackled. "However I've been bored for the longest time, so I'm going to take my time with this. I told you it'd take a while didn't I?"

"B-BROLLLYYYYYYYYY!" Paragus shouted.

"Hmmm?" Buu then sensed something. Something stronger than anything he'd he'd felt in a while.

Broly rushed in at Buu and tried to kick him in the face, but Buu caught his foot and took a good Broly.

Interesting. Buu thought as he let go of Paragus, and smirked at Broly. Maybe I can get a bit of fun out of this one.

Buu then threw Broly into the air away from him, but Broly quickly stopped himself before flying too far away and rushed back at Buu.

Broly launched a few punches at Buu, which the Majin easily dodged.

Before one of Broly's attacks landed, his fist slammed into the side of Buu's bubble gum-like face, doing no damage, but surprising Buu for a second.

His speed, his power, and even his skill are growing each second! No! Faster than that! Buu found a grin crawling up his face, and something inside of his chest filling with glee.

This was gonna be fun.

Broly looked at Buu in shock for a second, before glaring at him, and raising his other fist to continue attacking, but Buu headbutted him square in the face, causing Broly to step back in pain for a second, just enough for Buu to roundhouse kick him in his side, and send him flying. With Buu flying after him.

The Saiyan dug his feet into the ground, slowing himself down again, and Buu was right on top of him.

Buu punched him in the face, and Broly flipped back, landing on all fours and launching himself at Buu, tackling him and running into a nearby mountain, and then running through the mountain.

Then Broly slammed Buu into the ground and raised his fist to smack Buu. But Buu lowered his head into his torso, causing Broly to punch the ground instead, before Buu used both his legs to kick Broly back into the air.

Buu then extended his arm up at Broly and grabbed his leg.

Then Buu jumped up, and whipped Broly across the sky, before throwing him into the distance.

Buu could feel Broly's power rising, higher and higher. Soon he wouldn't need to hold back as much. Soon he wouldn't need to hold back at all.

At least in this form.

BOOM!

Broly came flying back at Buu with full force and rammed into Buu, who put up his arms to block but was still dragged along with Broly as they flew over the ground.

They were face to face, Broly's wrathful angry scowl, and Buu's sadistic grin.

Buu vanished, appearing behind Buu, before kicking him in the back.

Broly flipped, turning to face Buu upside down, and shot out a beam from his mouth at the Majin.

Buu opened a hole in his chest, allowing the beam to go right through him, blowing up a mountain behind him.

Then Buu extended one of his arms to punch Broly, but Broly shifted to the side and then caught Buu's arm.

Broly then spun around, spinning Buu around with him, before throwing the Majin into the air.

It took a second due to the force he was thrown with, but he did manage to stop himself.

"Alright. It's time to take things up a notch." Buu said as he looked down at Broly, before pulling his hands back and charging a purple beam. "Galick Gun!"

Buu shot out a huge purple beam down at Broly.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly looked up at the beam and shot out a huge green beam from his mouth.

The beams clashed, stopping each other in their tracks as they struggled for dominance.

"RrrrrrrAGHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared as he poured more power into the beam, making it grow bigger, and slowly pushed back Buu's beam.

"Heheheh. Excellent. You're something special, aren't you? You're not like any Saiyan I've fought before. Not even that fusion could compare to you." Buu smirked as his attack was pushed back. "But you've still got a long way to go. HA!"

Buu stopped holding back, and poured more power into the beam, causing it to almost triple in size, and push back Broly's beam very quickly.

Broly could do nothing but stare, as the beam approached, and quickly engulfed him.

KABOOM!

The beam slammed into Broly, creating a massive explosion, and shaking the planet.

"Broly!" Paragus shouted, forced to look away lest he be blinded by the explosion.

The explosion died down, leaving nothing but a massive smoking crater.

Buu stared down at the crater, his arms crossed. "Come on. Get up. Give me what I need."

For a few seconds, there was silence.

But then Buu could see a green glow, emanating from the smoke.

"RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly from within the smoke, let out a planet-shattering roar.

Suddenly the smoke started to form into a vortex around the center. With green energy pulsing through it, before the tornado exploded, revealing Broly, but looking a bit different.

His hair was standing up, almost like it was in Super Saiyan, but his hair was still black, and he'd gotten bigger as well. Truly becoming a hulking beast.

"Grrrrrrr," Broly growled, steam coming out of his mouth.

Buu smiled. "Yes. Beautiful."

Meanwhile, on the side, Paragus looked on in horror.

Broly was out of control. If this went on, Broly would either kill him in blind rage or blow up the planet.

He took out the remote for the shock collar and pointed it at Broly.

But then he stopped.

Broly couldn't defeat Buu without this power.

If Broly lost, Buu would kill them both anyway.

And if Buu lost, Broly would almost certainly destroy the planet eventually.

There was no winning here.

Today was the day they would both die.

And Paragus got to pick how it happened.

He looked down at the remote, before letting it fall to the floor, then stomping on it.

If they had to die, they were at least going to take this thing with them.

"BROLY! DESTROY HIM! LEAVE NOTHING! NOT EVEN ASHES!" Paragus commanded. "KILL HIM BROLY!"

"HRAAAAAAAAAAA!" Broly roared, and he rushed at Buu with astonishing speed, rushing behind Buu, raising both his arms, bringing them together, and slamming them down on Buu's head.

Buu crashed into the ground, shaking the earth, and bounced off the ground, Broly slammed down behind him, grabbed his head, and one of his legs, and then ripped him in half.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared as he held up Buu's halves.

Then Buu's upper half formed a ki ball in his hand, and mashed it into Broly's face, stunning him for a moment.

Buu's head tail wrapped around Broly's neck and started squeezing down on Broly's neck

Broly let go of Buu's halves, and Buu attached his top and bottom halves, before continuing to strangle Broly.

The hulking Saiyan tried to rip Buu's head tail off of him but to no avail.

So instead, he grabbed him, and pulled Buu forward, before kneeing him in the face. Buu's grip weakened, and Broly ripped the head tendril off of Buu and tossed it aside.

Buu backflipped away, gaining some distance, before pointing his palm at Broly. "Big Bang Attack!"

The Majin shot out a massive ball of Ki at Broly.

And Broly, ran through it, before kicking Buu in the face, sending him flying. Then Broly opened his mouth and sent out another huge ki beam at Buu.

Buu dug his feet into the ground, stopping himself, and facing the beam head-on.

"Well done Saiyan," Buu said as the beam got closer. "Now, let me show you the true power of the Saiyans."

And then the beam overtook him.

But then, for a moment, there was a red glow within the green beam.

KABOOM!

A pillar of fire bursts out from the green beam, a shock wave of energy hitting Broly in the face, forcing him to stop his attack.

Broly shook it off and looked back at the fire, and saw a figure standing in the flames.

Then the flames died down, and Broly could see Buu. But now he was different.

He looked shorter. Much shorter. Being the size of a child. Although he still wore his baggy pants, Gohan's gi, his "M" belt, and his long head tentacle.

His body wasn't bubble gum pink anymore, instead, it was a deeper shade of pink, and his entire body was surrounded by a fiery dark red aura.

Buu took a deep breath. "Ahhhhh."

His voice was higher, also like that of a child.

While Buu was training, he thought about combining the energies of the people inside him, to see if he could get something similar to fusion.

That didn't work, but he found that by combining the energies of the six Saiyans inside him, he obtained god-like power, in this new form.

"I wasn't sure about this form when I first obtained it," Buu said, as he stretched his body. "It's too much like my original self. My ki feels weird. But…I feel calm. Almost…at peace. Maybe I'll stay in this form. Maybe I won't. Well, enough talking. Let's oh-"

Buu looked back up at Broly and saw that the Saiyan hadn't just let him talk the entire time. Broly was now up in the air, with a mountain-sized ball of green energy raised over him.

"Rude." Buu scoffed as he brought his fingers to his forehead. Sparks started to fly from his fingertips.

"HAAAAAA!" Broly threw the massive ball down at Buu.

As the massive ball came down at Buu, the Majin pointed his fingers at it. "Special Beam Cannon!"

A drill-like beam flew out of his fingers, and slammed into the ball, immediately piercing through it, and breaking out the other side as it continued towards Broly.

Broly barely tilted his head out of the way in time, as the beam went flying over his shoulder, and into space.

The ball of ki cracked apart, before bursting into harmless sparkless, that dissipated in the air.

"Hmph. Now let's see if you can keep up. Don't disappoint me, Saiyan." Buu smirked.

In a burst of speed, Buu was in front of Broly and then punched Broly back down into the ground.

"Die Die Missile Barrage!" Buu unleashed a barrage of powerful beams that slammed into Broly, each blast shaking the planet when it landed.

"AHHHHH! AGHHHHHHH!" Broly screamed out in pain, as each attack hurt like hell, and he was helpless to do anything but take it.

Buu ceased the barrage, throwing his head back, before throwing it back forward and shooting beams out of his eyes down at Broly.

KABOOM!

A massive explosion erupted, creating a giant mushroom cloud.

Buu looked at it with a frown. "Hmmmm."

From the smoke cloud that remained, green balls of ki were tossed up at Buu, but Buu batted away each one of them with ease.

Broly dashed up in a burst of speed, appearing behind Buu and ready to punch him in the back of the head.

But Buu just casually raised his fist up, smacking Broly in the face and causing him to stagger, and then Buu spun around and slammed his elbow into Broly's cheek.

Before Broly could even go flying, Buu flipped around and kicked him in the other cheek.

Buu flipped around again, and punched Broly in the face, sending him flying back, but Broly didn't fly far as Buu extended his head tentacle, grabbing Broly's neck and bringing the Saiyan back to him.

The Majin then unleashed a flurry of blows on Broly, whole Broly helplessly took the onslaught.

"Come on! Come on! Grow faster! Faster!" Buu cried as he pelted him, before raising both of his arms and then slammed them down on Broly's head, sending him crashing into the ground and creating another massive crater.

"Ahhhh. Ahhhhhh." Broly forced himself back onto his feet.

But as Broly was staggering, Buu raised his hand over his head. "Galactic Donut."

Buu traced a circle above him, and at the same time, an energy ring formed around Broly, before shrinking in, and trapping Broly.

Two more rings formed around his legs, completely restricting his movements.

Buu floated down to the ground, staring down at Broly who was trying to break out of the rings, with a disappointed scowl. "No, no, no. This won't do. I need you to get stronger, faster. faster! But how do I…ah."

A sinister smirk formed on Buu's face, and he turned to look at a nearby hill.

He raised his hand, and shot out a ki blast at the hill, destroying it completely.

Revealing that Paragus had been hiding behind it.

Paragus looked at Buu in shock and horror for a second, before running away.

"How futile." Buu raised his hand up flat, his palm facing down, and his fingers put together, aimed at Paragus. Yellow energy started to form around it.

Broly looked at this with wide eyes, even his rage-addled mind was able to tell that this was very much not good. He struggled in the rings, trying his hardest to break them but to no avail.

And so as a last-ditch effort, Broly spat out a ki blast from his mouth at Buu, but Buu just casually swatted it away with his other hand, before using that hand to form another galactic donut around Broly's mouth.

"Despair in your own helplessness Broly. It'll make what happens next even more painful." Buu laughed cruelly.

Then, a Spirit Sword shot out from Buu's hand, aimed right at Paragus.

SHURK!

The sword stabbed Paragus, right through the heart.

" ." Paragus looked down at the blade that had run him through, his body quickly becoming heavy and cold.

Buu recalled the sword, bringing Paragus right to him, before moving him to face Broly.

"B-Broly." Paragus croaked, blood leaking out of his mouth.

Broly could do nothing but watch, as his father went limp, and life left his eyes. Until the man was no more, and a corpse remained.

For a few moments, things were silent, as Broly stared at his father's dead body, impaled on Buu's blade.

And then the ground began to shake. Slightly at first, but with each second the shaking grew more and more violent, as cracks began to tear through the ground.

The skies darkened, and lightning slammed into the ground.

"HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" Broly screamed into the energy ring that was covering his mouth, and cracks started to form in it.

Broly rose into the air, golden green energy surrounding him, as all the rings started to crack.

Then Broly bit through the ring in his mouth, crushing it with his teeth.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly gave out a roar of sorrow and rage that could be heard around the galaxy and shook the universe itself. His hair started flashing between black and blonde, as cracks appeared in both the rings of his shock collar and his pupils. Until-

SNAP!

The rings, the collar, and his pupils shattered, and Broly gave off another roar. "RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Green light exploded from Broly's body as he finally burst into Super Saiyan.

Buu smiled up at the shimmering savage, dispelling his spirit sword, letting Paragus's body fall to the floor, before kicking him to the side.

Broly charged down at Buu, his fist cocked back.

Buu put up his hands to block, and Broly slammed his fist into them, sending Buu flying back, then Broly made two large ki balls, before smashing them together and shooting a giant beam from his hands at Buu.

The Majin was barely able to dash to the side in time, but his left arm had gotten caught in the blast and was completely destroyed.

Buu quickly regenerated his arm, flew up, and then started spitting out little ghosts that looked like smaller versions of him. About six of them.

The ghosts flew at Broly, and Broly shot out a mouth blast, destroying one of them, but the rest dodged it.

"Masenko/ Kamehameha!" Two of the ghosts shout out beams at Broly's face, blinding him for a moment, allowing the three other ghosts to launch onto his face, grabbing on.

Broly was about to try and pull them off, but the two remaining ghosts grabbed his arms.

KABOOM!

The ghosts exploded, unleashing a massive amount of energy.

Once again there was more smoke, but Broly just waved it away, before charging at Buu once again.

Broly tried to grab Buu, but Buu weaved by quickly flying up, and then kicking Broly in the back, sending him back down to the ground, before raising his hand up. "Human Extinction Attack!"

His fiery poured through his arm, and shot out of his hand, coming out as hundreds of beams of fire, that flew up into the sky, before diving back down, towards Broly.

Broly shot out ki blasts at the beams, but the overwhelming wave of beams was too much. And one of them slammed into the side of his head, then three more hit him in the back, pushing him to his hands and knees, and allowing the rest of the beams to slam down onto his back.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Broly growled as all those beams slammed into his back before he batted the remaining beams away, looking up and then shot a huge ki beam from his mouth up at Buu.

Buu immediately stopped his attack and dashed out of the way, but Broly just moved his head, moving the beam trying to hit Buu. But Buu just kept flying around to avoid it, before bringing his fingers to his forehead and vanishing.

He appeared in front of Broly, and kicked Broly's lower jaw, closing his mouth.

Buu jumped back, before launching himself at Broly again, fist aimed at Broly's face, but Broly caught his fist, before using his other hand to land a devastating punch to Buu's gut, so hard that the imprint of Broly's fist could be seen through Buu's back.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Buu cried out in pain, before Broly unleashed a powerful headbutt, sending Buu flying back.

Broly ran at Buu like an unhinged animal, continuing to punch Buu across the planet, before Buu was slammed into the side of a mountain.

"RAH" Broly launched forward, and punched Buu in the face, completely destroying both Buu's head and the mountain behind him.

Broly then kicked Buu's body down and started stomping on it savagely, turning it into a pile of pink goop.

That pink goop rose up and reformed into Buu behind Broly.

Buu kicked Broly in the butt, sending him flying.

But instead of going after him, Buu raised his hands, forming a big ki orb in front of him, with two rings around it.

Meanwhile, Broly flipped mid-air, before digging his hands and feet into the ground, stopping himself just in time so he could get a good look at Buu's attack.

"Big Bang Kamehameha!" Buu shouted, before shooting out a beam so massive, it could be seen from space out of the ki ball and rings, aimed right at Broly.

Broly had no time to dodge, and he was completely engulfed by the attack.

"GRRRRRRRRRR!" Broly struggled to not be completely swept up by the power of attack, and he flew forward towards Buu.

Broly struggled against the wave of energy, despite the incredible pain, he kept pushing forward. "HAAAAAAAAAA! RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Suddenly Broly's hair changed, turning more greenish, and his body seemed to almost double in size, as he exploded.

Broly flew out of the beam, and punched Buu right in the face, stopping the attack and sending Buu flying into another nearby mountain.

"There we are! Destructo Disk!" Buu launched a buzzsaw of ki at Broly.

Broly flew at Buu, dodging the disk, and punching it in the side, before continuing at Buu, grabbing his head, and then pushing him through the mountain, before coming out the other side, and then throwing him into the air, before unleashing another mouth beam at him.

Buu stopped himself in mid-air and unleashed his own mouth beam, which clashed with Broly's beam.

The two beams struggled against each other, their clash so intense that it atomized all the nearby mountains and rocks around them.

Little link globs flew out of his back, turning into four more Buus.

The Buu's surrounded Broly, and started changing up attacks.

"Kamehameha/Masenko/Galick Gun/Final Flash!" The Buus all shouted, as they unleashed four beams at Broly.

Broly, feeling the beams coming towards him, unleashed a wave of pure pressure from his body.

The beams slammed into the invisible pressure, not quite hitting Broly.

But with this, Broly's attention was divided, and all five beams got closer, as Broly couldn't force all of them away at once.

"HAAAAAAAAAA!" All the Buu's cried out, as they forced more energy into their beams causing them to double in size.

The beams plowed forward and slammed into Broly.

KABOOM!

The collision created a massive explosion, resulting in yet another cloud of smoke.

All five Buu's looked down at the smoke, and there was a flash of green.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared as he unleashed hundreds of ki blasts from his body all at once.

The Buu's couldn't hope to dodge and were shredded into tiny pieces by the blasts which tore through their bodies with ease.

The pieces of Buu flew together, forming into a pink mass that turned back into Buu.

Buu looked around for Broly, only to not see him anywhere.

Then he noticed it, green waves of energy pulsing throughout the area, turning everything green as power surged upwards.

Broly had flown into the upper atmosphere and was charging an unreal amount of energy into one hand.

"HAAAAAAAA! RAHHHHHH!" Broly formed all that energy into a small ki ball and threw it down the planet.

The ball flew down for a bit, before it suddenly exploded in size, becoming the size of a moon, flying down towards the planet.

Buu looked up at the moon-sized ball of energy, so massive that it was pulling parts of the planet up towards it with its own gravity. "You fool, even if this killed me the planet wouldn't survive. Still. I have to thank you for getting me excited.

The Majin spread out his hands on either side of him, then brought them together pushing them forward, before bringing them back. "Final! Kamehameha!"

Buu shot out a huge beam of blue energy, that was surrounded by yellow lightning rings, and the beam slammed into the orb, stopping it in its tracks.

"Grrrrr! HRAHHHH!" Broly started throwing more ki balls into the massive ki orb, causing it to grow in size and gain power. And the ball started rushing through Buu's beam and continued getting closer to Vampa.

"Amazing," Buu said, looking up in wonder, before smirking. "But not enough! Kaioken! Times 200!"

Buu's red aura exploded, and his beam tripled in size.

The Final Kamehameha broke through the ki ball and rushed towards Broly.

Broly stared at the beam fearfully, the sheer power of it, knocking some sense into him and causing his pupils to return.

"Ahhhh! AHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly screamed as he was engulfed by the beam, and quickly, reduced to nothing.

Moments later, the beam thinned, before vanishing into nothing.

Back on Vampa, Buu's body was shaking. Trembling.

"Heh…heh heh heh. Heh heh heh. Ah ha ha ha ha! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Buu laughed, before falling backward onto the ground.

That was amazing. The excitement, the feeling of being overpowered and close to death.

Before he found it infuriating, but now? It felt exhilarating.

Buu laid there for a few minutes, with a big smile on his face. Enjoying the afterglow of the fight.

But once the feeling of excitement started to die down, Buu frowned, as the feeling of dread and emptiness returned.

"Damn it all, I shouldn't have killed him!" Buu shouted as he slammed his fist into the ground.

He got up.

"I have to find a way! I can't go eternity in an empty universe!" Buu shouted before he flew into space. With a new mission in mind.

His true nature be damned.

Chapter Text

"So these are this planet's defenders?" Vegeta scoffed, as they faced the Z Fighters, with Nappa in front of him.

Yamcha, Tien, Krillin, Chiaotzu, Gohan, and Piccolo, stood in the mountainous wasteland. Some nervous, some rather confident. But all of them were ready to face the threat in front of them.

Nappa activated his scouter and took a good look at the Z Fighters. "Heh! These guys are pip squeaks! They're not even worth our time!"

"Then you know what to do," Vegeta ordered him.

Nappa smirked, before pulling something out of his armor and planting it in the ground. Then he poured a strange liquid onto the ground.

A few moments later, mysterious green creatures suddenly burst from the ground.

"Rahhhhhh!" The creatures groaned as they sprouted.

"These creatures are called Saibamen," Vegeta explained. "And each one of them has around the same power level as Raditz. I do hope you at least put up an entertaining struggle."

"Heh, looks like you're taking us lightly," Yamcha said, as he stepped forward with a confident smirk. "Guess the Yamcha's gonna have to show you why that's a big mistake."

"AHHHHH! RAHHHHHHH!" The Saibamen all jumped towards him, ready to attack.

Yamcha formed a small ki ball in his hand, before throwing it forward.

The ball rushed at the first Saibamen, going straight through it and ripping a hole in its chest.

"Spirit Ball!" Yamacha shouted as he started moving around his finger.

The ball zipped through the air and burst through the remaining Saibamen until they all had holes in them.

KABOOM!

Both the spirit ball and the Saibamen exploded, leaving nothing behind.

"What the!?" Nappa shouted in disbelief, his mouth hanging open in shock.

"What's wrong? Scared?" Yamacha taunted.

"It looks like they have a way of hiding their power levels." Vegeta deduced, taking off his scouter and throwing it aside. "Maybe this will be somewhat entertaining after all."

"Guess I gotta do things myself," Nappa said, stepping forward and cracking his knuckles. "You should feel honored, dying by my hands. It's fate more than you deserve."

Tien stepped forward. "You guys stay back. I've got this."

"Cocky aren't you? I'm gonna enjoy hearing you scream!" Nappa shouted, before rushing full force at Tien.

Nappa tried to deliver a devastating chop aimed at Tien's head, but Tien just caught it with ease.

"W-What!?" Nappa tried to move his hand away, but Tien kept it in an inescapable grip. "What the hell? How are you-"

"How are we this strong?" Tien said finishing his sentence. "Don't underestimate earth and its guardian. He unlocked the hidden potential in all of us before you got here. Before we wouldn't have stood a chance. But now."

WHAM!

Tien shoved his palm into Nappa's chest, sending him flying back.

"You're the one who's outmatched." Tien dashed forward after Nappa.

Before Nappa could hit the ground, Tien skidded under him, sliding across the ground and tossing him up into the air.

Then Tien jumped up, and batted him higher into the air, before flying up above him and raising his palm. "Volleyball Attack!"

SLAM!

Tien spiked Nappa back down, hard. The Saiyan crashed into a mountain so hard it annihilated the mountain and shook the earth.

"Hmph. Pathetic." Vegeta scoffed as he watched the battle. Although it could hardly be called that.

A few moments later Nappa pulled himself out of the rubble, his armor mostly destroyed and his veins popped out as he wore a look of pure rage.

He looked up at Tien. "You dare make a fool out of me! You piece of garbage! DIE!"

Nappa shot a beam out of his mouth up at Tien, using every bit of power he had.

"Dodon ray!" Tien shot out a small beam from two of his fingers, down at the much larger beam.

The Dodon ray pierced through the mouth beam, splitting it apart and heading towards Nappa, until it reached him and went through his mouth, out the back of his head.

"Ah…ah..ahh." Nappa gasped as he felt the beam pierce through his head.

"HA!" Tien poured more power into the beam, causing it to increase in size, completely engulfing Nappa's head.

The attack faded, revealing Nappa's headless body, which then fell to the ground.

"Alright go Tien!" Chiaotzu cheered.

"Geeze, still got that assassin's efficiency huh?" Krillin laughed nervously.

"Hmph, what an eyesore," Vegeta said, looking at Nappa's body.

KABOOM!

Vegeta's eyes glowed, and Nappa's body exploded, vanishing into nothing.

Then the Saiyan prince turned his attention to the warriors as they regrouped. "I'll admit. For a backwater pile of dirt, this planet boats at least half-decent warriors. Still, you'd better not let that praise get to your heads."

BOOM!

Vegeta's aura exploded, creating strong gusts of wind, and filling his opponents with dread as he sensed their power.

"Holy crap!" Krillin shouted. "That power is way too intense!"

"I am a Saiyan elite! The prince of all Saiyans! The mighty prince Vegeta!" Vegeta shouted as he pointed at himself. "Your chances of winning are none!"

"This guy's serious," Tien said. "Everyone! We need to fight together!"

"I'll let you four deal with him for now," Piccolo said, with a smirk. "Have fun."

"W-Wait a minute! You're not just gonna let us tire ourselves out so you can deal with everyone after they're weak, right?!" Krillin asked.

"Heh." Piccolo chuckled, giving no other response.

"Guess that's what we should have expected," Krillin said nervously, before looking down at Gohan. "What about you Gohan?"

Gohan tried to speak up. "I-"

"He's staying here," Piccolo said firmly.

Gohan looked up at Piccolo pleadingly. "But I-"

"You're staying here," Piccolo repeated, glaring at Gohan, causing the boy to immediately back down.

"Y-Yes Mr Piccolo," Gohan said.

"Guess it's just us for now," Yamcha said as he Tien, Krillin, and Chiaotzu all got into fighting stances. "Get ready! We're gonna kick this guy's ass!"

"Haaaaaaa!" Tien charged up, as two extra arms grew out of his back. "Yamcha, Krillin, back me up! Chiaotzu! You know what to do!"

Tien charged forward, with Yamcha and Krillin flying in from the left and right respectively, all three of them approaching Vegeta from different angles at the same time.

All three of them attacked Vegeta, launching punches at him, and Vegeta dodged, blocked, and parried all of their attacks.

But then suddenly, for just a moment, he couldn't move.

That moment was enough for Tien to land a solid blow to Vegeta's face, followed by a knee to the jaw from Yamcha, and then a drop kick to the chest from Krillin, sending him flying back a bit.

What the- Vegeta didn't have time to ponder what just happened as the earthlings went back on the attack.

Krillin rose up into the sky, right over the sun. "Solar Flare!"

A bright light emanated from Krillin, blinding Vegeta.

Tien charged in at the blinded Vegeta, and hit him with a punch to the gut, while punching him in the face with his extra arms.

"Grrrrrrrrr!" Still blinded, Vegeta grabbed the two extra arms as they tried to punch him again, and ripped both of them off, before head-butting Tien away.

Only to be immediately slammed in the back, by a Kamehameha from Yamcha, sending him flying into a mountain that exploded because of the beam, creating a cloud of smoke.

The smoke was then blown away by Vegeta, looking at the earthlings, mighty pissed.

"Ha!" Vegeta shot out a barrage of ki blasts in the direction of the earthlings, forcing them to dodge, almost getting hit several times, until suddenly, Vegeta was paralyzed once again for a moment.

"Ha!" Tien and Krillin threw out a Dodon ray and Kamehameha down at Vegeta, but the prince broke out of the paralysis, just in time, jumping back to dodge the attacks, which slammed into the ground, creating a cloud of smoke and dirt.

Then from that dirt, Yamcha's spirit ball flew out and smacked Vegeta in the face.

"Take this!" Yamcha shouted as he manipulated the attack.

The Spirit Ball smacked into Vegeta a few more times, before Vegeta caught the attack in one hand, and crushed it.

Krillin flew behind Vegeta while Tien went face to face before both of them charged at him simultaneously.

Vegeta fended both of them off with, pushing them back with two strong attacks that they barely dodged, before catching Yamcha's foot as he tried to fly in and kick him in the face.

But just as Vegeta cocked back his fist to punch Yamcha in the face, he suddenly froze once again, then Tien and Krillin, and Yamcha charged in, Tien elbowing him in the face while Krillin tackled his legs, and then Yamcha kicked Vegeta in the chest sending him crashing into the ground.

Krillin and Yamcha flew down, standing together before charging up an attack. "Kame! Hame!"

Vegeta got up and was about to move out of the way when he was suddenly paralyzed again.

"HA!" Krillin and Yamcha shot out two Kamehamehas that joined into one larger Kamehameha.

"Grrr! HA!" Vegeta broke out of the paralysis and barely managed to fly to the side in time to dodge the beam.

Only for Tien to punch him into.

Vegeta grits his teeth as the beam washes over his entire body, but he flies towards the source of the beam, flying through the Kamehameha and out of it, kicking and punching Krillin and Yamcha away simultaneously, before shooting a ki beam back at Tien.

Tien dodged the beam and flew up in front of the sun, putting his hands in front of his face, ready to do the solar flare.

Fool! Does he really think I'll fall for the same thing twice!? Vegeta closed his eyes, ready for the attack.

But Tien never performed it, instead Krillin and Yamcha flew in and punched Vegeta while he was distracted, nailing him in the back of the head and sending him flying forward, hitting the side of a cliff face first.

Vegeta turned around and saw Yamcha charging at him, but once again he was paralyzed.

"Neo Wolf Fang Fist!" Yamcha shouted as he unleashed a flurry of claw-like strikes at Vegeta's chest, before bringing his hand together, into one powerful strike that sent Vegeta flying not just through that mountain, but several mountains behind it.

Vegeta went tumbling across the dirt, before stopping himself by digging his hands into the ground.

He stood up and looked down at his armor, which now had a big crack in it from Yamcha's attack.

"How dare you! Worms!" Vegeta shouted out in rage, as glared up at the earthlings.

"Guys! Let's end this!" Krillin said.

The other two nodded, they knew what they had to do.

Krillin flew down to the ground and put his arm up.

Electricity crackled around Krillin's body, as he forced energy up into his palm, and above it, a small, thin disk of energy formed, slowly getting bigger.

Vegeta was about to blast Krillin, but once again he was paralyzed.

Then Tien and Yamcha came down and grabbed his arms to further hold him in place.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Vegeta growled as he tried to break free, but Tien, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu used all of their strength to try and keep him in place, as Krillin finished charging his attack.

"Here it goes! Destructo Disk!" Krillin shouted as he threw his most powerful attack right at Vegeta's stomach, ready to cut him in half.

The hairs on the back of Vegeta's neck stood up, he could tell the attack was dangerous, and if it landed that would be the end of him.

As the disk flew closer, Vegeta glowed white, as he charged up energy.

And just as the disk was about to cut into him, the energy from Vegeta's body exploded.

KABOOM!

A wave of white energy washed over everything, engulfing Tien, Yamcha, and the disk.

"Uh oh!" Krillin flew back, quickly flying away as the wave of white energy expanded.

Soon enough the wave stopped expanding, and faded away, leaving behind a bunch of smoke and fire.

The smoke began to fade as well, revealing Tien and Yamcha to be covered in burns and wounds, struggling to get to their feet.

But no sign of Vegeta.

"Wait! Where did he go!?" Krillin asked.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Everyone looked over to the source of the scream to find Chiaotzu, with Vegeta holding his head.

"You must be the source of that annoying technique," Vegeta smirked, before throwing Chiaotzu into the air.

"Chiaotzu!" Tien screamed out fearfully.

"No!" Gohan tried to fly forward to do something, but Piccolo grabbed his leg.

"I told you to stay put." Piccolo reminded him.

Vegeta pointed two of his fingers at Chiaotzu.

KABOOM!

Chiaotzu erupted into a massive explosion, killing him instantly, and leaving nothing behind.

"CHIAOTZU!" Tien screamed once again, falling to his knees, and punching the ground. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The smoke from the explosion faded, and Vegeta smirked. "Heh. Now that that's taken care of-"

"YOU BASTARD!" Tien burst up into the sky, and looked down at Vegeta, before bringing his hands together and forming a triangle shape. "TRI BEAM! HAAAAAAAAA!"

A massive wave of energy shot out of Tien's hands, and down at Vegeta.

The prince only had enough time to put his arms and block, before it slammed into him, sending him and the ground around him down.

"HAAAAAAAA! HAAAAAAAAAAAA! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Tien sent out more waves of energy down at Vegeta, sending him deeper and deeper into the ground, each blast shaking the earth.

After a few more blasts, Tien stopped, completely, and utterly drained.

He fell to the ground, landing face first, not even having the energy to sustain flight, and immediately losing consciousness.

Krillin looked down at the triangle-shaped hole in the ground where Vegeta had stood. "I-Is he dead? Did we win?"

For a few moments, there was silence, giving the earthlings hope.

Until Vegeta slowly rose up from the hole, his armor even more damaged, blood coming out of his right eye, and he was breathing heavily.

"No way, he's still standing after that!?" Krillin shouted in shock.

Vegeta flew up and looked down at Tien's unconscious form in rage. "How dare you! HOW DARE YOU!"

The mad prince raised his arm and aimed at Tien, shooting a powerful ki ball at the fallen warrior.

"Oh no you don't!" Yamcha shouted as he flew in and kicked the ball away, causing it to fly up into the air and explode harmlessly.

Then Yamcha flew up at Vegeta and unleashed a flurry of blows at the prince, which Vegeta easily blocked, dodged, and parried, while Krillin flew in from behind.

Vegeta then kicked Yamcha in the kick, then flipped in the air, continuing that kick, and slamming his foot into Krillin's head, sending him back to the ground.

The prince then grabbed Yamcha by the hair and did a little spin before throwing Yamcha down as well.

"Oww." Krillin rubbed his head as he got to his feet, only for Yamcha to crash into him, knocking them both to the ground.

"HAAAAA!" Vegeta rained down a barrage of ki blasts down onto them.

The blasts slammed into the two earthlings, creating a massive explosion.

When the explosion died down, it revealed the two humans in not very good condition.

Yamcha was completely unconscious, and Krillin was just barely holding on, his body absolutely covered in wounds.

"Gah. Grrrr." Krillin struggled to get to his feet. He was barely able to stand. "D-Damn it! A little help!"

"Mr Piccolo, we have to help them!" Gohan shouted as he tried to break free of Piccolo's grip, but Piccolo just stood there, not letting go.

Vegeta flew down to the ground and looked down at Krillin.

WHAM!

Vegeta kicked Krillin back down to the ground before jumping and diving knee-first into Krillin's stomach.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Krillin shouted out in pain.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Knee still buried in his gut, Vegeta started punching Krillin in the face, beating him mercilessly as the earthling could only lie there helplessly and take the abuse.

"No…no…NO MORE!" Gohan shouted.

Suddenly his power exploded, and he broke Piccolo's grip on his foot, before flying over to Vegeta.

"Wha-oghhhhhhhhhh!" Vegeta didn't react in time, as Gohan landed a flying headbutt right in his chest, knocking the wind right out of him.

Then Gohan flipped around and kicked Vegeta in the chin, sending him up into the air.

Gohan flew after him, unleashing a flurry of punches at Vegeta, before bringing his hands together and slamming them down on the back of Vegeta's head, sending him back down to the ground.

"Masenko!" Gohan put his hands together and shot a huge beam down at Vegeta.

KABOOM!

The beam slammed into Vegeta, and exploded, creating a massive gust of wind and force.

"Ha…ha…ha…" Gohan panted, his rage expended, now he was hit by a wave of exhaustion. He looked down at the smoking crater left behind by his explosion, hoping that was enough to take Vegeta down.

Only for Vegeta to appear behind him, more heavily damaged, the chest part of his armor half destroyed.

"Ah!" Gohan barely had time to turn around, before Vegeta grabbed him by the hair.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Vegeta started pelting Gohan in the stomach, dishing repeated powerful blows as he held him in place with his other arm.

The prince cocked back his arm, ready to unleash an even more devastating punch onto the small child.

He thrust his arm forward, but his fist was caught by Piccolo before it reached Gohan.

"That's enough," Piccolo said.

BOOM!

Piccolo's power exploded, as he assumed a new form with slightly more yellowish skin.

The green man then grabbed Vegeta's other arm and squeezed down.

"AGH!" Vegeta hissed in pain, he was forced to release Gohan, the half-Saiyan boy falling to the ground.

With that Piccolo let go, and Vegeta flew back.

That power! This one is much stronger than the others. Vegeta deduced as he took a combative stance. "Waiting until I exhausted myself? Such a cowardly move."

"It's called strategy," Piccolo smirked. "Maybe if you tried it, you wouldn't be on the brink of an imminent demise."

"Me? On the brink of demise! Don't make me laugh!" Vegeta said cockily, despite the terrible situation he was in. "I am the mighty Prince Vegeta! Your doom!"

Vegeta charged forward and tried to punch Piccolo in the face, only for Piccolo to interrupt his attack, by punching HIM in the face, stopping him completely.

Piccolo then delivered a devastating punch to Vegeta's guy that knocked the wind out of him once again.

Then Piccolo grabbed the back of his head, and flew them both down to the ground, slamming Vegeta face first into the rock, burying him in it, before lifting his head back up, and slamming down repeatedly.

Vegeta blasted Piccolo in the face, stunning him for a second and causing his grip to loosen.

Planting his hand on the ground, Vegeta spun to the left, getting a bit of distance from Piccolo, before unleashing a flurry of ki blasts.

Piccolo deflected all the blasts, before shooting out beams from his eyes at Vegeta, and the prince tilted his head to dodge them, the beams cutting his cheek as they sailed past.

Vegeta launched himself at Piccolo and tried to deliver a full-force kick at his abdomen, but Piccolo caught it, and then spun around, bringing Vegeta with him, before throwing Vegeta, tossing him through several mountains before he landed in a cave that collapsed on top of him.

Piccolo then shot out a large ki blast at the collapsed cave, causing it to explode, creating an eruption of smoke and dust.

A few moments later, dozens of ki blasts flew out of the smoke, up at Piccolo.

Piccolo deflected each of the blasts but then Vegeta appeared behind him and dropped down his elbow on Piccolo's head, sending him flying down towards the ground.

The green warrior flipped, landing on his feet, before looking at Vegeta, then raising his arms, and extending them, Launching them at the prince.

Vegeta was forced to fly away from the arms as they pursued him. He zipped through the battlefield, flying around the remaining mountains as he dodged the arms that tried to grab at him.

Eventually, Vegeta pulled a U-turn flying back at Piccolo and shooting ki blasts at him.

With his arms busy, Piccolo shot a big beam from his mouth that engulfed and destroyed the blasts Vegeta had sent his way, before heading for the prince himself.

Vegeta smirked, and dropped down, letting the blast sail above him, hitting and destroying Piccolo's arms which had still been pursuing him.

Piccolo scowled, cursing himself for his short-sightedness, before recalling his arms, which had been destroyed from the elbow down.

That didn't last long, however, as Piccolo immediately grew them both back. "Hope you didn't think that would last."

"Doesn't matter if you can regenerate! I'll make sure there's nothing left to regenerate from!" Vegeta shouted, before holding up a hand and forming a ki disk.

He already copied Krillin's technique huh? Piccolo thought.

Vegeta threw the disk at Piccolo, but Piccolo just jumped up, dodging it.

In response, the Saiyan prince created more and tossed them at Piccolo, but he narrowly dodged each disk, before reaching Vegeta and kicking him in the face, sending him flying back.

Piccolo extended his arm, grabbed Vegeta's face, and unloaded point-blank ki blasts right into it. While he did this Piccolo shoved Vegeta through a mountain, before moving Vegeta to the left and slamming him through another mountain.

Then another. And another. And another. Piccolo pushed Vegeta through half the battlefield and countless mountains while slamming his face with point-blank ki blasts.

Eventually, Vegeta managed to get his wits about him, and grabbed the arm, tearing it off his face, before throwing it to the ground and stomping on it.

Damn it! If things keep going like this…no. I have no choice. It's time to call upon the power of the great ape. Vegeta thought, before flying up into the sky,

He looked around, trying to spot the moon.

Where is it, where is it!? Vegeta continued looking, but couldn't catch sight of the moon. Does this planet not have a moon!?

Oh, it had one, but I already destroyed it before you got here. Piccolo told him via telepathy, revealing he could hear his thoughts. Did you forget? We've had a Saiyan here for decades. We know how your little great ape transformation works.

"...Do you now?" Vegeta smirked, as he landed back on the ground. "Don't compare me to low-class trash like Kakarot! I am a Saiyan elite! The prince of all Saiyans!"

Vegeta formed a white ball of energy in his hand, before throwing it up into the air. "Now burst open and mix!"

The ball suddenly burst, becoming a radiant bright light.

"Ahahaha! AHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Vegeta laughed like a madman, as his voice got deeper. His body grew and expanded, transforming until he took the form of a great ape.

Vegeta loomed over Piccolo menacingly, his shadow engulfing him. "Behold your doom!"

"...I'll admit, I didn't expect that. But-" Piccolo then started to grow himself, until he was slightly larger than Vegeta. "Don't expect that to save you."

Vegeta jumped back and then shot a huge beam from his mouth.

Piccolo ducked under it, rushed at Vegeta, and delivered a devastating uppercut, cutting off Vegeta's attack. Piccolo continued attacking Vegeta, pushing him back.

Vegeta grabbed a smaller mountain, picked it up, and smashed it into Piccolo's face, the rocks and dirt getting into his eyes, stunning him for a second and making him step back.

The prince then performed a drop kick, nailing Piccolo in the chest, and sending them both to the ground.

Vegeta got up first, but before he could capitalize on his opportunity, Piccolo shot some ki blasts at him.

A few slammed into Vegeta before he jumped back onto the top of a mountain, Piccolo kept shooting, but Vegeta jumped from mountain to mountain, swinging off them before leaping into the air, raising his fist and ready to slam them down into Piccolo.

But Piccolo rolled out of the way, causing Vegeta to slam his fist into the ground.

Piccolo got up, and Vegeta quickly tried to punch him in the chest, but Piccolo slapped the attack aside, before kicking Vegeta, causing him to slam into the side of a mountain.

Quickly Piccolo rushed forward, grabbing Vegeta by the head, and pulling him forward, before slamming his head back into the mountain, doing it again before the mountain was destroyed, then pushing him face first into the ground and stomping on the back of his head.

Piccolo raised his foot to stomp on him again, but Vegeta turned around and shot another mouth beam, destroying Piccolo's foot and half of his leg.

"Tch." Piccolo jumped back on his remaining leg, before regrowing it a second later. This also gave Vegeta time to get back on his feet.

Piccolo shot eye beams at Vegeta, hitting Vegeta right in his own eyes.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Vegeta roared out in pain as he covered his now blinded eyes before Piccolo charged forward and tackled him, picking Vegeta chagrin forward, pushing Vegeta through a few mountains, before lifting him up and then slamming him down into the ground.

Piccolo tried to stomp on Vegeta, but the great ape rolled out of the way and onto his feet.

Then Piccolo opened his mouth and shot a beam at Vegeta, which Vegeta avoided by jumping into the air and shooting out a ki blast from his own mouth, which nailed Piccolo in the face.

"Grrr." Piccolo shook it off, before extending his arm and grabbing Vegeta by the foot, before slamming him down into the ground, hard.

Before he could get up Piccolo jumped up, formed a ball of Ki in hand, then landed on Vegeta, burying his knee in Vegeta's gut, before slamming the ki ball into Vegeta's face, which exploded on contact.

"RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Vegeta cried out in pain, before Piccolo decked him in the face, before doing it again, and again, absolutely beating on the downed Saiyan.

Vegeta shot a beam out of his mouth, but Piccolo moved back to avoid it, before grabbing his throat and choking him.

"Ack! Ack!" Vegeta grabbed one of Piccolo's legs and tried to pull him off but to no effect. So instead Vegeta summoned his strength and rolled over to the side, forcing Piccolo off of him, but his green hands were still wrapped around his throat.

Vegeta stood up, Piccolo's arms extending to stay wrapped around his throat, Vegeta tried his hardest to pull them off, but Piccolo had an iron grip.

So instead Vegeta grabbed Piccolo's arms, squeezed as hard as he could, and then ripped them both off.

Their grip loosened, and Vegeta threw the arms to the side, before shooting a mouth beam at Piccolo.

Piccolo, now armless, shot a mouth beam right back, the two beams colliding with each other, beginning a beam struggle.

Vegeta struggled as Piccolo's beam slowly started pushing his back, he was forced to one knee, and he tried to pour as much power into his blast as possible, but to no avail.

And then he felt a paralyzing yet familiar pain fill his body.

Behind him, one of Piccolo's ripped-off arms had grabbed onto his tail.

RIP!

In one motion, the arm ripped off Vegeta's tail, and this distraction easily allowed Piccolo's beam to push through Vegeta's and slam into him, creating a massive explosion.

The explosion created a massive cloud of smoke, which obscured Vegeta.

"Hmph." Piccolo started to shrink down until he was back to his original size and he regrew his arms, as the smoke slowly started to dissipate.

And once it was gone, it revealed a heavily injured Vegeta, back in his base form, and his armor pretty much completely destroyed.

"Ahhh. Haaaa. Aghhhhh." Vegeta panted, struggling for breath.

Piccolo approached Vegeta, looking victorious.

As he got close, he shot a small ki blast from his finger at Vegeta's leg, tripping him and forcing him onto one knee, kneeling before Piccolo.

"Heheheheh. Honestly, I should thank you." Piccolo said. "You not only scared that idiot Kami into giving me this power, but you took out the world's defenders. Now there's nothing that'll get in my way! This world is mine!"

"Don't get ahead of yourself Piccolo." Said a familiar voice behind him.

Piccolo turned around and saw Goku standing there. Having finally arrived.

"Goku," Piccolo smirked, giving his nemesis his full attention. "Finally, time for a proper rematch."

"I won't say no to a rematch, but are you really gonna try and take over the world again?" Goku asked, sounding a bit disappointed.

Piccolo scoffed. "What, did you think just because you spared me that I'd turn over a new leaf? Or just because the Saiyans came, and I fought with you, that things were different? Not in your life! Now enough talk!"

With that, Piccolo charged at Goku.

"Kaioken!" Goku shouted as he was covered in a red aura.

Piccolo's eyes widened as he felt Goku's power double, giving Goku a chance to elbow Piccolo in the face, causing him to recoil back.

Goku then kicked Piccolo in the side of the neck, sending him flying.

"Kame!" Goku put his hands behind him to charge up a Kamehameha, but Piccolo extended one of his arms, launching it at Goku, forcing Goku to stop charging and jump up to dodge it.

Piccolo rushed forward, retracting his arms, and flew at Goku while winding up his fist.

Unable to dodge, Goku just put up his arms to block, taking the punch which sent him flying back into the side of a mountain.

A second later Piccolo was right on top of him, throwing out a flurry of blows that Goku was forced to block and parry.

"Times 3!" Goku shouted as his red aura exploded. He continued blocking and parrying Piccolo's attacks, with his back literally against the wall.

Piccolo kicked both Goku's arms up, before landing a powerful kick to Goku's side that sent him flying to the left.

Goku tumbled across the ground for a bit, before stopping himself, as Piccolo flew up into the air.

Both of them brought their hands together, Piccolo over his head, and Goku behind him, as they charged up, their attacks.

"HA!" Both Piccolo and Goku went as they fired a Masenko and Kamehameha respectively.

The two beams traveled towards each other, before colliding.

"Grrrr!Grrrrrrr!" Goku struggled, he was putting as much power into his beam as he could, but Piccolo's beam was still pushing his attack back. Inching closer and closer to him.

Piccolo smirked. "It's over Goku!"

RIIIIIIIPPPPP!

Suddenly, a ki disk flew in and sliced both of Piccolo's arms off. Stopping the attack for the moment.

"Wha-Vegeta!" Piccolo looked to see if it was in fact Vegeta that had tossed that disk.

"Times 4!" Goku's Kamehameha doubled in size, and rushed forward at Piccolo, quickly engulfing him, carrying him high into the sky before exploding.

Goku deactivated the Kaioken, looking up at the twinkle in the sky that had been left from his attack, and taking a deep breath.

"Man, Piccolo got tough." Goku chuckled. He could tell that that attack hadn't even come close to finishing him, and it probably did half as much damage to himself as it did to Piccolo.

He looked over to Vegeta. "Hey, Vegeta right? I have a plan, and I'm gonna need your help."

"And why would I listen to a low-class welp like yourself?" Vegeta asked.

"Well if you don't then we're probably both gonna die." Goku pointed out.

SLAM!

Piccolo slammed back down onto the ground, landing on his feet, now covered in a few more wounds.

"Tch. Fine! What do you want?" Vegeta asked, looking like it hurt to ask that.

"Just hold him off for a little while," Goku said, as he held both his hands up towards the sky.

Energy from plants and animals all over the earth suddenly started rising up and flowing into his body.

Vegeta flew in front of Goku and got into a battle-ready stance. "Don't think we're done!"

"You just don't know when to quit!" Piccolo growled before rushing at Vegeta.

Piccolo backhanded Vegeta, slamming his fist into the side of his face, sending him flying, before Piccolo aimed his palm back up at the still-charging Goku, and fired a ki blast.

Vegeta, still flying, shot his own ki blast, which clashed with Piccolo's, causing it to explode just before it hit Goku.

The prince then flipped himself mid-air, landing on the side of a mountain feet first, before launching himself back towards Piccolo.

Vegeta tried to knee Piccolo in the face, but Piccolo brought up his arms and blocked it, causing the two of them to skid over to the left, until Piccolo pushed him back, and then shot beams out of his eyes.

The beams slammed into Vegeta's chest, pushing him back into another mountain which promptly exploded, turning into a pile of smoke and debris.

Piccolo once again turned his attention to Goku and extended both his arms towards him.

Before the arms could reach him, suddenly a huge boulder flew out of the smoke cloud, and squashed both of his arms, pinning them down.

Vegeta then flew out of the cloud, back at Piccolo, and tried to kick Piccolo in the face, but Piccolo tilted his head to the side dodging it.

The prince continued to let out a flurry of kicks at Piccolo's head, but Piccolo just kept dodging them, before throwing a glare at the rock pinning his arms, and causing it to explode.

Piccolo quickly retracted his arms and then caught Vegeta's foot. He spun them both around at high speeds, before throwing Vegeta off into the distance. Then he shot a beam from his hand at Vegeta, which created a massive explosion on contact.

Then he once again turned to Goku.

"Come on! Come on! I'm so close!" Goku said he could feel the spirit bomb nearing completion, he just needed a bit more time.

Piccolo opened his mouth and got ready to fire another beam.

Meanwhile, Gohan regained consciousness, but he was still very out of it.

The world was blurry, the sounds seemed so far away. He couldn't focus on anything.

Except for that bright light up in the sky.

Back with Piccolo, was just about to fire at Goku.

THUM! THUM!

Suddenly the ground started to shake.

"What!?" Piccolo stopped his attack completely, and looked behind him, to see a great ape rising up not too far away.

"Gohan!?" Goku recognized.

"He must have regrown his tail." Piccolo realized, before looking up at the glowing ball of ki that Vegeta had made earlier. "And that must have triggered the transformation."

Piccolo's eyes glowed, and the ball of light exploded. But despite that, Gohan didn't turn back to normal.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gohan roared as he immediately started flailing around randomly, smashing everything around him.

He picked up a large rock and threw it over to where Piccolo was forcing him to fly up into the air to dodge it.

Seeing him, Gohan jumped up at Piccolo and tried to punch him, but Piccolo dodged it with ease, and before Gohan hit the ground, Piccolo shot beams from his eyes at the base of Gohan's tail, destroying it.

Immediately, Gohan started to transform back, and Piccolo dived down, catching him before he hit the ground.

"Mr…Piccolo," Gohan said, fading in and out of consciousness. "Do we…really have to fight you?"

For some reason, that hit Piccolo harder than any of the attacks he'd received so far. And he didn't know why. Why did he feel this way?

Deciding to figure that out later, he placed Gohan on the ground.

Then suddenly behind him, a blue glow lit up the area. He turned around and saw Goku had finished creating the spirit bomb. Holding a small yet powerful ball of blue energy in his palm.

"It's done but…it's not enough." Goku could feel that this wouldn't be enough to finish Piccolo off. He was just too strong.

But he had an idea. A very, VERY dangerous idea.

Goku held the spirit bomb close to his chest, and the energy poured into him, filling Goku with its power, as he was surrounded by a brilliant blue aura. "Kaioken! Times 4!"

That blue aura was covered in red, as Goku's power skyrocketed.

Piccolo's eyes widened as he could feel Goku's overwhelming power at that moment. But he wouldn't back down. He charged at Goku, putting all of his power into his fist, hoping to take him down once and for all.

Goku charged at him as well, focusing all this temporary power into his fist as well.

The two met, throwing their fists forward.

They clashed, and at that moment, there was a brilliant explosion of light that could be seen even from space.

When the light died down, Piccolo and Goku were still standing there, both now covered in wounds.

Goku's arm was bloody and broken, and Piccolo's arm was just flat-out gone, and he'd been knocked back into his base form.

The two breathed heavily, stumbling back before just falling onto their backs.

"Heh, looks like…it's tie this time Piccolo," Goku said, unable to move, but knowing Piccolo was in the same boat.

"Don't act like you didn't have help." Piccolo scoffed.

"Well, not bad for a low class."

"Huh?" Piccolo and Goku looked up, to see Vegeta limping in towards them, with an evil grin on his face.

"But now you've outlived your usefulness." Vegeta raised his hand, and formed a ball of ki, pouring what was left into it. "You fools dug your own graves! Now it's time you lie in it!"

"Damn it," Piccolo growled, trying to force himself up, to no avail. Goku doing the same with the same result.

"Time to die!" Vegeta laughed. "Ahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAH-"

SHINK!

Vegeta stopped, the ball of ki disappearing, as he felt a horrible sensation below.

He looked down, to find a sword, impaling him straight through the heart.

"W-What- '' Vegeta spat out blood, already he could feel his life leaving him, he looked behind to see that Yajirobe had snuck up behind him, and dealt the final blow. "Who are-"

Yajirobe pulled out the blade, letting Vegeta's body fall onto the floor, a pool of blood forming under it.

"H-How could this be?" Vegeta croaked as he felt his body grow cold. "I am…the prince of…all…saiyans…"

With that, life left his eyes, as one of the few remaining Saiyans in the universe, joined the rest of his kind in Hell.

The fight was over.

Chapter Text

"I must say boy this is a pathetic showing as the last member of your proud warrior race." Goku Black said as he looked down on a battered and beaten Trunks, on his knees trying to catch his breath. "Although it is appropriate, your last moments, spent kneeling before a true god. Perhaps your body has learned the lesson your brain refuses to process."

Black held up his palm and formed a yellow ball of energy, with a pitch-black core.

Trunks moved his hand towards his sword which was on the ground next to him, ready to throw it.

But then suddenly, a disembodied fist slammed into Black's cheek, sending him flying through the street, tumbling across the destroyed road until he crashed into a building.

The fist fell to the ground, before rising up and rocketing back in the direction it came.

Being caught by a familiar face.

"What!? Android 16!?" Trunks shouted out in shock as he saw the android walk down the street.

"Incorrect. My current designation is Gamma 16." The android corrected as he faced Trunks. "However, it is strange you know my previous designation under Dr Gero. I have no data of us meeting previously."

Right. This 16 is from my timeline, we've never met. But…Gamma? And why is he here? The 16 in my timeline never got activated, so someone must have woken him up. But who? Trunks wondered.

Black flew out of the hole in the building he'd made and faced the two. "You dare lay your hands upon a god! Who are you!?"

"I am designated as Gamma 16. My mission is your elimination." 16 stated.

"I see. You're one of those artificial abominations! Yet another one of mankind's attempts to imitate the gods! Another one of their unforgivable sins!" Black shouted in disgust. "Do you not know that your very existence is blasphemy! A race not created by the gods!? You kind is one of the many reasons I must-"

BOOM!

16 launched his rocket fist at Black's head, and the copycat barely managed to tilt his head to the side in time to dodge it, causing it to whiz past his shoulder and take a few strands of hair with it.

But then the fist made a U-turn and rocketed back at Black, slamming into his back and sending him towards 16, who hit him with a mean clothesline, before slamming him into the ground.

16 detached his other hand, holding it in his armpit, before aiming both of his blasters down at Black. "Hero's Flash!"

Two massive beams shot out of the blasters, right down onto Black, pushing him deep into the ground, the energy being so powerful, that it started bursting out of the ground around them, in the form of energy geysers.

16's attack ended, and he attached his arm, before catching his other arm as it returned to him, and reattaching that one as well.

What the hell? 16 couldn't even defeat Cell's second form, but now he's able to fight Black!? Trunks was extremely confused. Was he just always this strong in my timeline? No, that doesn't make any sense. Whoever woke him up must have given him some serious upgrades. And maybe reprogrammed him too. But who could have done that?

16 stared down at the hole he'd sent Black down into, waiting for the maniac to rise back up.

Only for Black to appear behind him with Instant Transmission, and attempt to punch him in the back, only for 16 to swing around, slamming his arm into the side of Black's face, sending him flying through a few buildings.

While Black was still flying backward, 16 launched his rocket fist after him.

Black grabbed 16's fist before it could slam into his chest, and struggled to hold it back, as it sent Black flying back even faster, crashing through even more buildings, before the fist tilted downward, and started dragging Black through the ground.

"Grrrrr! HRAGH!" Black flipped him and the hand around, before kicking it away.

16 rushed in and grabbed his hand, quickly reattaching it before continuing to rush at Black.

Black shot some ki blasts at him, but 16 just continued forward, the ki blasts slamming into 16's shoulder, seemingly doing little to the android, as he slammed Black with a shoulder tackle, pressing him into the side of a building.

"UGGGGHH!" Black spit out blood, as the force of that tackle to his chest hit him hard.

16 backed up, before grabbing the sides of Black's head. He reeled his head back and then-

SLAM!

16 hit Black with a mean headbutt, slamming his metal dome right into the Goku look-alike's skull.

Then he quickly reeled his head back again, and-

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

With the percussion and force of a ruthless machine, 16 hit Black with repeated headbutts.

Until Black grabbed 16's head, and held it back, before bringing his legs up and pressing them against 16's chest, pushing the android off of him, making him skid back a few feet.

"Hmph." Black dusted himself off. "I admit android, you've provided far more of a challenge than Trunks ever did. But don't let that go to your head. With every blow you land, my power-"

"Target's power is increasing during combat." 16 said as he analyzed his opponent. "Prolonged battle not recommended, resuming termination."

"Will stop interrupting me you-agh!" Black barely managed to dodge the two rocket fists that were sent flying at him, before 16 charged at him and tried to crush the sides of Black's head with his arms.

Black blocked both arms and tried to push them away, only for one of 16's hands to come rocketing down and slammed down on the top of his head, leading him into a knee to the jaw from 16, sending him stumbling back, before 16 batted him in the side of the face with his arm, sending him to the ground.

16 then aimed both his cannons down at him, and fired another huge blast, lightning up the city and creating a huge cloud of smoke.

"Woah! He's- He's actually beating him!" Trunks said as he looked down at the battle from above.

16 looked up at Trunks. "Trunks. Do not intervene."

"W-What?!" Trunks was confused.

"The chances of me defeating this, Black, are not 100%. If I am defeated, you and Dr Hedo will be the only hope this world has. You must work together." 16 told him.

Suddenly the smoke was blown away, revealing Black charging up an attack. "Kame! Hame!"

One of 16's fists rocketed down to slam into Black's skull, but Black vanished, causing it to slam into the ground instead.

Immediately 16 turned around and aimed an arm cannon behind him, just as black jutted his own Kamehameha forward.

"HA!" The Kamehameha collided point blank with a blast from 16's cannon, creating a massive explosion, and another cloud of smoke.

16's hands flew into the smoke cloud, and then explosions could be heard from within, lights popping up for moments before 16 came flying out of the smoke cloud, holding Black who was struggling to get out.

The android flew him higher, and higher, before flipping and flying back down at top speed.

BOOM!

16 slammed Black into the ground head-first, creating a massive wave of force that blew away several nearby buildings.

The android was naturally the first to recover, getting himself right side up, and then grabbing Black's leg, pulling him out of the ground, before lifting him up into the air, and then slamming him back down into the ground as hard as he could.

SLAM!

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Black roared in pain.

But 16 didn't relent, he picked Black up again and then slammed him back down again.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Black continued to roar in pain, as he even briefly lost consciousness for a moment.

16 then threw Black away, tossing him through several buildings, before finally, he landed inside of a final one, where he lay limp.

"It's time to end this." 16 said.

He raised up his fists and then launched them towards Black.

The two fists came together, interlocking their fingers, combining their rockets which doubled in size, propelling them at Black even faster and with greater power.

The fists approached Black, ready to put an end to him.

But then Black raised his hand, and caught them, stopping them in their tracks.

16's eyes widened in shock and horror.

"Did you really think-" Black's arm trembled, as he held back the fists, his body suddenly filling with a pinkish red aura. "-That I would be defeated by a mere machine. This insolence. Must be PUNISHED!"

Black rose up to his feet, and his aura exploded, rising up into the sky. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

His hair started to rise up, turning from black to pink.

"HA!" Black screamed and with one final burst of his aura, he transformed.

Black now sported pink hair, in the shape of the ever-familiar Super Saiyan Form.

"Target has transformed. Transformation appears similar to that of Super Saiyan." 16 analyzed. "This could prove troublesome."

Black spun around and tossed 16's hands back at him.

16 jumped out of the way just in time, as the hands slammed into the building behind him with incredible force.

"You see, machine, this is your true purpose." Black chuckled as he turned to look at his reflection in the glass of a nearby broken window. "Mortals were given the intelligence to create machines, not so they could play god and create life from it, but as a blessing to improve themselves, and make their lives easier. And I'd say you've done that, quite well. Once I destroy you I will-"

16 shot an energy blast out of his cannon at Black, but the mad god simply turned back towards it, and batted it away, his hand steaming from the impact.

"Will you stop interrupting me!" Black shouted in outrage.

16 shot a barrage of blasts at Black, before sending his hands out of the building to rush back at him.

Black stared at the onslaught of attacks coming his way and smirked.

He flattened his hand, tucked his thumb into his palm, and then surrounded it with energy until that energy took the form of a ki blade.

Then one by one, he sliced through each of the ki blasts, before cutting right through 16's hands, cutting them in two, and causing them to explode.

Black then brought his fingers to his forehead, and vanished, appearing above 16 and bringing his blade down upon him.

16 barely managed to back out of the way in time, but one of his eyes was sliced by Black's blade destroying it.

The android aimed his cannon down at Black, but Black lunged forward, grabbing it and moving it aside causing it to blast the ground instead, then Black raised his blade up, before chopping off 16's left arm.

16 stumbled back, raising his remaining cannon up at Black, but Black rushed forward again, this time with a powerful kick to his abdomen, sending him flying back.

Then Black used Instant Transmission, appearing behind 16 as the Android was now flying towards him.

Black rushed forward, ready to bisect 16.

Only for ki blasts to rain from above, forcing Black to jump back, into the air, to dodge them.

Black looked up, to see Trunks flying above him, having been the one who fired blasts.

"Come now Trunks, surely you don't think you can defeat me as I am now?" Black chuckled. "You were simply the appetizer. Now let me finish the main course, and I'll come back to you for dessert."

"Like hell, I'm just gonna stand by and watch you kill anyone else!" Trunks shouted, before diving down at Black.

Trunks raised his sword and slammed it down at Black, but the villain simply raised his ki blade up, blocking it with ease.

Black parried the attack, then grabbed Trunk's foot, spun around then threw him to the ground.

"AGHHHHHHHH!" Trunks screamed in pain, his transformation fading as he returned to base form.

Black aimed his palm down at Trunks, ready to shoot out a ki blast and end his life once and for all.

But 16 came in, grabbing Black from behind, with his one remaining arm, holding him in a headlock.

"There is no other option." 16 said, before flying the two of them up into the air.

As they ascended higher and higher, Black elbowed 16, but the Android's hold remained firm until they reached the upper atmosphere.

Black formed a ki ball in his hand and pressed it against 16's side, causing it to explode, damaging 16, and weakening his grip enough for Black to pull his arm off of him, freeing himself.

Then Black spun around and ran his blade across 16's abdomen, cutting him in two.

"Well, it looks like we're finished here." Black looked over at the stars around them and smiled. "I must say, for a heartless machine, you've picked a lovely place to die. To perish among a sea of stars. It's more you deserve. Even you, machine, must see the beauty of the cosmos! And how it is sullied by-"

"Self Destruction Protcalls finished." 16 said as something began glowing in his chest. "Mission complete. Goku Black has been terminated."

"Wha-" Realizing what was going on, Black tried to bring his fingers up to his forehead to use Instant Transmission.

But he didn't make it in time, as the bomb inside 16 exploded, consuming them both in a massive explosion.

KABOOM!

From earth, Trunks had to cover his eyes as the light from the explosion reached them even all the way down there, as the force of it shook the earth.

And a few moments later, it was over.

"Black's energy…it's gone!" Trunks said as he stared up at the sky.

For a few moments he was frozen, simply taking it all in, before falling to his knees, tears running down his cheeks.

"It's over. It's finally over." Trunks cried as he kept looking up at the sky. "You saved us again…16."

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Hidden in the mountains, in a secret base once belonging to Dr Gero, his grandson, Dr Hedo was typing something on a computer, when he heard footsteps come in behind him.

"So you must be Dr Hedo." Trunks said as he walked into the lab.

"And you must be Trunks, the one who destroyed my grandfather's creations." Dr. Hedo said, turning to look at the Half-Saiyan warrior.

"Grandfather?" Trunks immediately glared at Hedo. "That means your grandfather was-"

"The infamous Dr Gero, yes." Dr Hedo confirmed. "Figured I get that out of the way now. But rest assured, I do not share my grandfather's inclination towards mass murder. Quite the opposite in fact. I'm a rather big fan of superheroes. After the androids ran amok and started laying waste to the world, I knew they were my grandfather's creation. After narrowly surviving one of their attacks, I swore I would find a way to stop them, and so I ventured in search of this laboratory. After many years, I found it. Along with the unreleased and unfinished Android 16. I had intended on reprogramming and modifying 16, to go after and destroy the androids as well as Cell, however before I could do so-"

"I killed all the androids." Trunks finished putting it together.

"Yes." Hedo sighed. "While I was glad the androids were dealt with, you could understand how it's a bit disheartening to have all your hard work go to waste. Still, I continued modifying 16 just in case any other threats appeared. However, given my lack of resources, it took quite some time to make far too many compromises. Which is why I only managed to release him now."

"Well…better late than never." Trunks said, kinda forcing himself to do so. If Hedo had just worked a bit faster, so many more people would still be alive.

Including his mother.

Not that he blamed the man, given how destroyed the world was, but it was incredible he was able to modify 16 to the extent that he did.

"You say that, and yet mankind has pretty much already been destroyed." Hedo sighed. "I doubt there are enough people left to even repopulate. If only I had more resources! I could have created androids that would have destroyed Black with ease, long before it got to this point!"

"Well…I think I have a solution." Trunks said as he pulled out the Time Machine Fuel. "I know a place that can help us restore our destroyed world. And I have some friends there who'd be willing to help."

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CRACK!

Zamasu broke his tea cup, as he stared up in the sky in rage.

Black's energy was gone, meaning only one thing.

His counterpart was dead.

"Those damned mortals!" Zamasu shouted out in outrage. "How dare they commit such blasphemy!... This is not the end! Our zero-mortals plan WILL come to fruition! I will find a way. Rest easy my counterpart. I will avenge you!"

Chapter Text

"Whew." Goku chuckled, as he lay at the edge of the arena.

Things looked dire.

Kefla stood over him, palm aimed at him ready to eliminate him once and for all.

And Goku had no energy left to fight back.

"Heh. You really were amazing, Goku." Kefla praised with a smirk. "But the fight's over! And the winner is ME!"

"You wanna talk about amazing? You two just learned Super Saiyan 2 and look at what you're doing with it already!" Goku praised with a smile on his face.

"I can't look!" Beerus almost wept, as he covered his eyes. Despairing at seeing his strongest fighter about to be eliminated.

"Kefla! Just take him out already!" Champa shouted.

"Hey Kefla," Goku said. "Try your best and achieve Super Saiyan 3. I wanna see just how strong you can get."

"Well then, better keep your eyes on me for as long as you can! You won't be disappointed!" Kefla said as she created a ki ball in her hand. "See ya Goku!"

BOOM!

Kefla launched the blast at Goku, sending him and a small chunk of the arena into the void.

"Bye Bye Goku," Zeno said as they tapped the icon on their god pads, signifying Goku's elimination.

Goku appeared in the stands, to the shock of all those around him.

"G-Goku! You actually got eliminated!" Krillin gasped.

"Heh heh! Yeah, she got me good!" Goku chuckled, scratching the back of his head with a hearty smile on his face.

"Don't laugh, you empty-headed ape!" Beerus shouted going up and smacking Goku on the back of the head.

"OW! What was that for!?" Goku shouted as he rubbed the back of his now very sore head.

"That was for not taking them down when you had the chance!" Beerus shouted. "Now our universe has lost its strongest fighter! Because you wanted to play fair!"

"Well, I didn't think they'd actually be able to beat me!" Goku defended. "And hey, we still have a bunch of fighters left! Like Vegeta!"

"Ah yes…Vegeta…the same person got himself killed because he decided to help awaken Majin Buu." Shin recalled.

"The same guy told Freiza to transform just when we thought we could beat him," Krillin remembered.

"The same guy who let Cell reach his perfect form," Tien added.

"Welp, time to accept our demise now boys!" Roshi said.

"Tch, you're all running your mouths quite a bit, considering you all got eliminated, and I'm still here!" Vegeta retaliated, before focusing back on his fight with Toppo.

Meanwhile, back with Kefla, she started looking down at her body. "Man. Fusion sure is awesome! Goku was a good warm-up, but even he couldn't bring out our full power! I need more! Another fight! Another strong opponent."

She looked over to Jiren, who was still meditating. "And I know where to get it."

"Wait! Kefla! Don't do anything drastic!" Champa shouted out, as he saw Kefla approaching Jiren. "Just let the nice man sleep until the Tournament is over ok!"

"I highly doubt she's going to do that, my lord." Vados pointed out.

Kelfa approached Jiren, feeling his energy filling the air. Giving her goosebumps.

And putting a massive smile on her face.

But as she was approaching, suddenly, Dyspo dived down from above, getting between her and Jiren.

"Uh uh! Don't think I'll just let you challenge Jiren!" Dyspo scoffed, before taking a fighting stance. "You wanna get to him, you go through me."

"Pft! You think a small fry like you stands a chance against ME?" Kefla chuckled, as she got ready to fight. "Get ready to get pounded!"

"Not so fast."

Suddenly Ki blasts rained down on Dyspo, who ran to the left to avoid them.

"Who the hell?" Dyspo looked up, to see that none other than 18 was responsible for those attacks, as she stood on a destroyed chunk of the arena.

18 smirked. "Fast, not that that matters."

"What do you mean by-" Dyspo was interrupted as suddenly, he was trapped by a large green barrair. "HUH!?"

Dyspo looked behind him, to see 17 standing there. Having been the one to make the barrier.

"I wonder how tough you are when there's nowhere for you to run." 17 taunted.

"Grrrr." Dyspo kicked the wall of the barrier, but not even a small crack formed. He looked around. 17 was right, he barely had any room to move around. "Crap!"

"Dyspo!" Toppo tried to rush toward his ally, but Vegeta grabbed his massive finger, spun around, and threw him in the opposite direction.

"Now look who's getting distracted," Vegeta smirked.

"Hey! I didn't need your damn help!" Kefla called out, glaring at 18.

"That's good. Cause we're not doing it to help you." 18 said, before jumping away.

"Having Kefla and Jiren fight is our best strategy now that Goku has been Eliminated." Whis pointed out. "Best case scenario, two of our biggest threats, eliminate each other."

"Come on Kelfa! Don't fall for it!" Champa pleaded.

But his plea fell on deaf ears, as Kefla formed a green ki ball, and chucked it while still meditating.

"Heh, how foolish." Belmod chuckled.

As the ball was about to hit Jiren, he opened his eyes and they glowed red, causing the ki ball to explode before it hit him.

"That. Was a poor idea." Jiren said, as he stopped floating and stood. Staring down Kefla, he crossed his arms. Unimpressed. "So you two think you can match me by joining together? How pathetic. Isn't your warrior race supposed to be a proud one? And yet you shamelessly come together in an attempt to fight an opponent neither of you could ever hope to face alone."

"Heh. What the hell are you talking about?" Kefla smirked, her aura bursting from her body. "Fighting together is just how we roll! Together! We're unstoppable!"

"Hmph." Jiren's eyes glowed once more.

Suddenly a flurry of invisible blows slammed into Kefla's body.

"AGHH!" Kefla cried out pain as she got the wind knocked out of her, and fell to one knee.

"Unstoppable hmmm?" Jiren mocked. "Power gained by relying on others. Is useless. Give up now."

"Tch. We'll see who's useless!" Kefla shouted as she got back up onto her feet. "HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Kefla burst into Super Saiyan 2, electricity bursting off of her and flying through the arena, destroying some chunks of it.

"Let's get this party started!" Kefla shouted before she charged at Jiren.

She cocked her fist back, ready to punch him, the moment she got close, Jiren let loose a powerful punch to the face, sending her flying back.

Kefla flipped, landing on her feet, before forming more green ki spheres in her hands, before chucking them at Jiren as fast as she could.

Jiren walked forward, and as Kefla's ki spheres got close, Jiren batted them away. So fast you could barely see his arms moving.

Seeing as her attacks weren't doing anything, Kefla switched tactics. Gathering red ki in her fist and pulling it back. "Try blocking this. Crush Canon!"

Kefla jut her hand forward and launched a barrage of red ki blasts. There were so many, so close to each other, that unless you looked closer you'd think it was a beam.

Jiren stopped, as he saw the wave of energy blasts rushing towards him.

Then he cocked back his arm, before launching his fist forward, unleashing a wave of pure force. That split the onslaught of beams in half, before slamming into Kefla's gut.

"AGHHH!" Kefla skidded back a few feet and gritted her teeth. "Tch."

"This isn't looking good my lord, none of Kefla's attacks have proven to be even slightly effective against Jiren." Vados pointed out.

"It's pointless." Belmod gloated.

"...Don't be so sure," Kefla smirked, before raising her hand forming a red ki sphere, and then forming a larger ki sphere around it. "Let's try this!"

She chucked the attack at Jiren, who simply stood there, unimpressed.

As soon as the ki blast got close to his face, his eyes glowed red, and it exploded.

But from the explosion, the red ki sphere burst out, and slammed Jiren in the face, sending him skidding back a few inches and causing his head to tilt back a bit.

"S-She hit him! She actually hit him!" Champa cheered, his voice filling with hope.

"Impossible!" Belmod shouted, suddenly looking a bit more worried.

"Cheap tricks. That's all you are!" Jiren shouted as she glared at the Saiyan fusion.

Kefla just smirked, before charging at Jiren.

Jiren's eyes glowed again, as he sent an invisible flurry at Kefla.

And Kefla dodged each attack, before delivering a blow to Jiren's stomach.

"Gah!" Jiren looked down in surprise as Kefla's fist which was buried in his gut.

"You may have amazing power, but your attacks are basic as hell!" Kefla smirked, jumping back a bit. "HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Kefla formed several red ki spheres, before forming larger green ki spheres around them, and then throwing them all at Jiren.

"That won't work twice," Jiren said, as he simply jumped into the air to dodge the attacks.

But the green ki spheres spat out the smaller red ones, launching them at Jiren. Slamming into him, with one even cutting into his uniform.

Jiren's eyes widened as he looked at the tear on his shoulder. He landed and then threw a dangerous glare at Kefla. "How dare you!"

"H-How is this possible!?" Belomd shouted out.

"Saiyans are a tenacious race that is quick to increase their power and skill even in mid-battle," Vados explained.

"And Kefla is a fusion of two, exceptional Saiyans. Calufila being a fighting genius who's very quick to adapt to her opponent's abilities. And Kale who carried within her a truly amazing power." Whis added. "Even if they lack the ability to beat Jiren at first, I wouldn't be surprised to see the tide change as the battle goes on."

"Grrrrr! Jiren! Take her out! NOW!" Belmod ordered, not hiding his desperation.

"Man, what a wuss. I scratched you once, and that guy looks like he's about to lose it." Kefla mocked. "And here I thought our universe got unlucky when we got the fat god."

"What was that you little punk!" Champa shouted out in irritation. "Don't think I won't destroy you for that later!"

"Yeah yeah, alright Jiren. You ready to actually try?" Kefla asked.

"If that's what you want. I assure you." Jiren's aura exploded, flaring around him as if he had been set ablaze, as he shook the entire arena, not the entire null realm with his power, "You will regret it."

"Aw yeah, make me!" Kefla challenged, as her aura burst out as well.

Jiren rushed forward at Kefla with such speed, that she barely had time to react. Raising her arms up just in time to block a powerful punch, which still sent her skidding back.

But Jiren didn't relent and continued rushing towards Kefla as she went flying back, unleashing a flurry of blows on Kefla, which she did her best to dodge and parry. Not even able to attack back with how quick and heavy Jiren's attacks were.

"HAAAAAAAA!" Kefla's aura exploded out once more, and green energy blasts shot out of her in every direction.

Several of them slammed into Jiren, forcing him back and getting him off of her.

Jiren focused energy into his fist, making it glow bright orange, before launching his fist forward, unleashing a small beam of red energy at Kefla.

"Woah!" Kefla ducked, letting the beam rush over her head. Traveling past her destroying several raised chunks of the arena.

Kefla then launched herself at Jiren, shrouding herself in green energy.

When Kefla got near, Jiren landed a blow to the side of Kefla's face, but as soon as he did, her aura condensed around that area and then exploded.

KABOOM!

Both of them went flying back, Kefla flailing through the air, while Jiren skidded back, his fist smoking from the explosion.

Jiren looked down to see his glove now slightly torn. "Tch."

"She created a powerful aura around herself, and then as soon as Jiren struck, she condensed that aura around his fist, causing it to explode," Whis explained. "An interesting, if reckless strategy."

Kefla flipped through the air, before landing on a raised pillar of the arena. "Damn, that one hurt. Guess I'll have to try something else."

"You won't get the chance," Jiren said.

Jiren appeared behind Kefla in a burst of speed, Kefla could only turn around, before getting kicked in the stomach, and sent flying.

The gray trooper jumped down before running after Kefla from below, catching up to her, jumping up, and grabbing her by the leg, before slamming her back down into the ground.

"AGH!" Kefla gasped as she got the wind knocked out of her.

Jiren raised her up, and then hit her with three punches to the gut, before slamming her back down. Then he started running around the arena, dragging Kefla through the floor as he did so.

Then he stopped, threw Kefla up, and raised his palm. Forming a red ki sphere, then thrusting it into Kefla's stomach.

Jiren launched the blast, sending it and Kefla up into the air. "Fall."

He closed his hand, and the energy blast exploded, shaking the entire arena, as the blast filled the sky, sending strong winds all over the place.

"Woah! That power is nuts!" Krillin remarked as he and everyone else in the stand were forced to cover their faces to protect themselves from the wind.

"It's unlike anything I've ever felt before!" Goku shouted out. "This is awesome!"

"No! Very not awesome! It is the opposite of awesome!" Champa shouted. "How could one mortal have this much power!?"

"Looks like Jiren is finally using his full power," Belmod said, becoming smug once again. "Credit where credit is due, I didn't expect even a Fusion to push Jiren this far. But now, you're done for."

Back in the arena, the explosion subsided, and Kefla started falling, now back in base form after being knocked unconscious by that last attack.

"Ah! She's gonna fall off the ring!" Cabba shouted.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Champa cried. "KELFA! WAKE UP!"

His cries fell on deaf ears, however, as Kefla's unconscious body continued to fall towards the black abyss. Heading towards elimination.

"Kelfa!" Goku called out. "Are you done already? I was expecting more."

With that Kefla's eyes shot open, and just before she dived past the stage, she grabbed onto the edge.

"Whew." Everyone from Universe 6(sans Vados and Hit) breathed a sigh of relief.

Kefla launched herself up and landed back on the ring. "I'm not done yet! HAAAAAAA!"

The fusion burst back into Super Saiyan 2 and rushed back at Jiren.

Jiren's eyes glowed red, as another invisible flurry of blows came at Kefla.

Kefla dodged a couple of them, but more landed smacking her in the face, chest, and stomach. But she toughed it out and continued rushing at Jiren, cocking back her fist for a blow to the face.

She threw the punch, but Jiren caught it and punched her in the face instead, sending her flying back instead.

Before she got far she flipped and dug her hands into the floor, stopping herself.

She stood back up, and formed several red ki spheres, before covering them in larger green ki spheres and throwing them at Jiren.

Jiren just crossed his arms, and his aura exploded, expanding around him like fire.

As soon as the ki spheres reached his aura, the green parts burned away, and the red part quickly after.

"Damn it! Go down already!" Kelfa formed two green ki spheres, then mashed them together in front of her, forming a huge green ki sphere that was the size of her body, before launching it at Jiren.

Jiren raised his palm, and caught the orb, before pumping his own power into the orb, causing it to triple in size and turn fiery red, before he launched it back at Kefla.

"Ah!" Kefla didn't have time to dodge, and could only place her arms in front of her, catching the huge ball of energy, but it started pushing her back towards the edge of the arena. "Aghhhhhhhh!"

"Kefla! You need to stop it!" Champa cried.

"WILL! YOU! SHUT! UP!" Kefla cried, summoning as much strength as she could, to grab the orb, and fling it upwards, stopping herself just as she reached the edge of the arena.

Kefla took a second to take a breath after that tremendous effort, but she could barely do that before she had to roll out of the way, as Jiren sent a blast of pressure from his fist at her.

"If blasts won't work then I'll just have to beat the crap out of you up close and personal!" Kefla shouted, as she once again charged at Jiren.

Once she got close she let loose a flurry of blows, at Jiren, which Jiren blocked and parried, before countering with his own small flurry of blows, which sent Kefla skidding back.

But Kefla just charged right back in, ignoring the pain running through her body.

She threw a punch at Jiren's face, but he tilted his head letting the punch fly past his shoulder, as he grabbed Kefla's face.

KABOOM!

Energy erupted from Jiren's palm, hitting Kefla's face point blank, and filling the entire arena with a bright red hue.

When the light died down, Kefla was covered in burns and wounds, her body smoking.

Jiren slammed her into the ground and then stomped on her.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

With each stomp, the arena shook, as everyone present could feel the power of Jiren's attacks. Many of them wincing as they felt the impact of Jiren's stomps.

Jiren raised his leg all the way, winding it up, before slamming it down full force.

SHOOM!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kefla spat out blood as pain flooded her senses. The floor cratered around her, as her transformation faded, and she returned to base form.

Jiren stepped back. "Disgraceful. Do you see it now? Power gained by relying on others is worthless. Don't shame yourself any further. Step out of the ring."

A few moments passed, and then Kefla pulled herself up. And gave Jiren a harsh glare. "Let's get one thing straight. I'm a Saiyan. And no Saiyan worth a damn just gives up! You want us out of the ring? Do it your damn self!"

Vegeta smirked as he continued his fight with Toppo. Not bad. For a couple of brats.

"Very well." Jiren scowled, crossing his arms. "The moment after you unleash your next attack, I will end this, and launch you outside of the arena. Do your worst."

"Tch." Kefla took a moment to think. The gap in our power is just too much. I need to cross it…maybe if I use up all of my power at once.

"Kefla!" Goku called out.

"Huh?" Kefla looked over to Goku and saw him standing up. Looking like he was getting ready for something.

"Take a real good look!" Goku shouted before his aura exploded. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Goku began charging up, bursting into Super Saiyan 2, but he didn't stop there. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"What's dad doing?" Gohan asked.

"Teaching," Piccolo answered with a smirk.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goku's energy flooded the arena, as his hair started to grow longer. "HAAAAAAAAAAA! YAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

In one final push, Goku exploded into Super Saiyan 3.

Goku pushed his energy out, letting everyone feel his power.

Kefla looked up at him. Inspecting every inch of Goku's form. Letting his power wash through her. Feeling it through every inch of her body. "Super Saiyan 3…"

She smirked, before bringing her arms up and getting into a charging stance. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Kefla exploded back into Super Saiyan 2, as she charged up even more energy.

She moved her energy through her body, the same way she felt Goku do it. Using his form as a guide to help her ascension.

Her power was rising, spilling out of her threatening to explode, but she carefully stuck to Goku's guide.

"Come on! Higher! I need to go! Even further! BEYOND!" Kefla shouted, as she sped up her transformation, her hair slowly starting to grow. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HAAAAAAAA!"

The arena started to shake, as Kefla's tower filled the entire null realm.

Jiren's eyes widened.

"W-What is this power!?" Belmod cried out fearfully. "T-This is impossible!"

"Incredible. To think that form I flicked away without a second thought could reach such heights." Beerus said.

"DO IT KEFLA! RAISE YOUR POWER HIGHER!" Champa screamed.

Goku simply smiled and powered down back to base form. "This is gonna be a good fight."

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Kefla's body exploded with light, making everyone but a select few look away as to not be blinded.

When the light died down, Kefla stood, powered up to Super Saiyan 3.

Kefla took a breath and then looked over herself. Feeling her new power. "This is…This is amazing! So this is Super Saiyan 3!"

"Hmph. Once again you rely on others to increase your strength." Jiren said. "Nothing will change. Your efforts are fu-"

SLAM!

Suddenly Kelfa dashed forward with an immense burst of speed, and landed a punch, dead center on Jiren's face, sending him flying back, crashing through several chunks of the arena, before landing in one final pillar, which collapsed on top of him.

"Heck yeah! About time one of those finally landed!" Kefla cheered.

Jiren burst out from the rubble, and stood back up, looking absolutely pissed.

"What's wrong? I thought you said after my next attack I'd be eliminated." Kefla taunted. "But I'm still here!"

"Don't get cocky!" Jiren rushed forward and tried to land a blow to Kefla's face, but Kefla ducked under it and countered with a devastating uppercut, knocking Jiren slightly into the air.

Jiren flipped back, getting some slight distance, before his eyes glowed red again, sending more invisible blows.

But Kefla batted them all away with a single movement, before gathering energy in her right hand and then thrusting it forward. "Crush Wave!"

Kefla unleashed a massive wave of red energy blast, washing over the arena and destroying everything it touched like a tsunami.

Jiren glared at the wave, his eyes glowing red as he sent out many invisible blows, holding back part of the wave, keeping it from hitting him by making a small pocket.

But that pocket got smaller and smaller, as Jiren had a harder time destroying Kefla's attacks as quickly. Until some started getting through his defenses, small ki blasts slamming into his chest like drops of water. Each one stinging enough to slow Jiren down, allowing more blasts to get through, until he was completely consumed by the wave.

"Jiren!" Kai (Universe 11's Supreme Kai) cried out in horror.

Jiren felt himself getting pushed by the wave, towards the edge of the arena and managed to ground himself for a second, before jumping up out of the wave of beams, into the air.

He aimed down at Kefla and fired multiple ki blasts, which Kefla batted away, before charging forward, jumping up behind Jiren, and kicking him back down to the ground.

"Impossible!" Jiren cried, before jumping out of the ground and rolling to the side, as Kefla slammed down into the ground where Jiren was.

Kefla kicked off the ground and charged at Jiren, unleashing a flurry of blows onto him as the two flew through the arena, and Jiren was doing his best to keep her at bay.

"Woah she put Jiren on the defensive!" Cabba pointed out.

Jiren found an opening and launched a punch of his own. Only for Kefla to vanish in a burst of speed, appearing behind him.

Kefla grabbed Jiren, wrapping her arms around him, before jumping up into the air, bringing Jiren with her, then flipping them both upside down, as they fell back towards the arena.

SLAM!

Jiren was driven into the arena, head first, the impact as the two fell creating a massive wave of force that swept through the arena.

Kefla flipped off of Jiren, and back onto her feet.

Then she stomped her foot down, cracking the arena floor. Then she pumped energy into that crack causing it to glow red. One part of the crack started traveling through the arena floor towards Jiren, who was still buried in the arena.

KABOOM!

When the crack reached Jiren, the ground around him erupted, a pillar of red energy exploding up into the nonexistent sky.

After the explosion died down, a smoking crater remained.

Kefla crossed her arms and smirked confidently, staring at the crater and waiting for the smoke to vanish.

And when the smoke did finally start to dissipate, Jiren could finally be seen. Standing again, but covered in wounds, and breathing heavily.

"J-Jiren." Kai whispered in horror.

"N-No this can't be." Belmod stuttered.

"Well, well, well. Look how the tables have turned." Kefla said confidently. "Not so mighty now huh Jiren."

"Silence!" Jiren hissed.

He charged forward, cocking back his fist and filling it with energy until it glowed bright red. "HAAAAAAAA!"

Jiren thrust his fist forward at Kefla.

And Kefla calmly caught it in her hand.

FWOOSH!

A wave of wind and pressure spread out from the force of the attack, but Kefla seemed mostly unaffected. Holding onto Jiren's fist.

"That one actually hurt a little bit." Kefla chuckled.

"Grrrrrrrrrrr," Jiren growled, he tried freeing his arm, but Kefla's grip on his fist was too strong. Keeping him locked in place.

"You know, you've been talking a lot of smack about us combining our power," Kefla said. "Saying that getting stronger like this means nothing. But you couldn't be more wrong! At the beginning of this tournament, no one could have ever hoped to challenge you. But thanks to four Saiyans, that all changed, in less than an hour."

"Four?" Jiren questioned.

"Yeah. There's Kale and Caulifla, who worked hard to raise not just their power, but their bond as well. And used both of those to make Kefla!" Kefla explained. "But it's thanks to Cabba and Goku, that we even got this far in the first place! It was all four of them that worked together, to create a fighter that can topple even you! And yeah it stings a bit that neither Kale nor Caulifla could even come close to beating you. But just being able to get this far at all. Well, I'm not complaining!"

POW!

"UGOOOOOOOOOO!" Jiren spat out blood as Kefla landed a devastating blow to the gut.

POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW!

Kefla unleashed a flurry of blows onto Jiren's gut and chest while keeping hold of his fist.

"PWAG!" Jiren coughed up more blood, trying not to falter in the face of overwhelming pain. "Grrr! HRAHHHH!"

Jiren used his other arm to try and land an uppercut to Kefla's chin, but Kefla moved to the side avoiding the blow, before lifting Jiren up and then slamming him down.

Then she lifted him back up brought him in and kneed him in the gut

While Jiren was reeling from that attack, Kefla finally let go of his hand and then aimed her plan in Jiren's face.

Kefla shot a ki blast, point blank into Jiren's face, sending him flying back, landing on his back.

"Hmph! Looks like this is as far as you go." Kefla jumped back, landing on a tall pillar.

Then she started gathering energy in her hand. Turning the entire arena green as more and more energy was poured into her right hand.

Jiren stood up, looking up at Kefla and readying himself for whatever would come next.

"Here's a little going away present. Just for you!" Kefla cackled, before throwing down a small sparkle of a ki blast.

That small sparkle traveled halfway towards Jiren before it suddenly exploded in size. Becoming a huge ki sphere, that was a quarter of the size of the arena.

Jiren's eyes widened, as he felt the sheer power of the attack coming his way.

He thrust his hands forward, pushing out his energy to try and push it back like Goku's spirit bomb. But to no avail.

The ki sphere reached him, and Jiren put every ounce of power he had into his arms, to try and keep it at bay.

Its weight was tremendous, matched only by the strain it was putting on his body, trying to hold it back.

The ground under Jiren cracked, as he was slowly being forced into the ground.

"Holy crap! Is she trying to destroy the whole arena!?" Krillin asked in a panic.

"Destroy the arena? Not a bad idea! Anyone who doesn't want to get eliminated, better hustle to the other side of the ring!" Kefla laughed as she aimed her palm down at the giant ki sphere. "Omega Crusher!"

Kefla shot out a barrage of green ki spheres down at the ki ball. The larger sphere absorbs the small ones, growing bigger and bigger with each one taken in.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Jiren's feet were now fully pushed into the arena, and soon the rest of him would follow.

He couldn't hold this back. Her power was overwhelming, and he was left helpless before it.

Helpless. Just like back then.

"No," Jiren said. "I refuse. I REFUSE TO LOSE TO THE LIKES OF YOU!"

Jiren's aura exploded out, covering the area around him in flames. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Huh!?" Kefla stopped shooting out energy blasts, her eyes widened as she felt Jiren's power rise.

"I won't lose! I CAN NOT LOSE!" Jiren shouted. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Jiren's muscles began to pulse, before bursting out of his uniform, the upper half of his outfit completely obliterated, exposing his upper half which had now doubled in size.

"J-Jiren's power!? It suddenly exploded!" Krillin commented.

"HRGHHHHHHH!" Jiren started to squeeze down on the ki sphear, and it began to condense. Getting smaller, and smaller and smaller, until it was small enough to fit between Jiren's hands.

"HA!" Jiren brought his hands together, smashing the ki sphere between them.

"He nullified Kefla's attack!?" Cabba gasped.

"Being on the edge of defeat allowed Jiren to unlock his hidden power!" Belmod said, hope filling him once again. "I knew you couldn't lose Jiren!"

Kefla looked down at Jiren. Looking over his musically, burning form. Getting a real good feel for his power. As he glared daggers up at her.

She smirked.

"Heh. What do you know? Looks like you still got some more in you." Kefla started stretching and then cracked her knuckles. "Hey Goku! Are you watching!?"

"Uh huh!" Goku confirmed, with a big grin on his face.

"Good! This fight's gonna be something special." Kefla got on all fours. "Let's go!"

ZOOM!

Kefla dashed down at Jiren at top speed, cocking back her arm and getting ready to throw a big punch.

Jiren did the same, winding his arm back, and charging his fist with energy.

As Kefla got close, they thrust their arms forward, and their fists collided with each other.

KABOOM!

An explosion erupted from both of their fists. Bathing the arena in white light. Forcing all the fighters to look away.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Suddenly explosions erupted from all over the arena, knocking all the fighters about as they tried to avoid the blasts.

Kefla and Jiren appeared in the air before they started trading blows.

"Woah! I can barely even see them fight!" Krillin gasped.

"Wow! Wow! Wow!" The Zenos gasped as they looked down at the fight in amazement.

"Ha! Freaking A man! Can't believe you got this strong just by throwing a tantrum!" Kefla said, dishing out a devastating backhanded compliment as she focused on parrying and blocking her opponent's attacks as they fell back toward the arena.

"Be quiet!" Jiren barked, raising his leg all the way up, and slamming it down on Kefla's head.

Kefla flipped, and landed on her hands, back flipping away as Jiren landed on the ground with a slam.

Jiren rushed at her, and his eyes glowed red.

Kefla grounded herself and barely managed to parry all of the invisible blows, but this left her open to a devastating right hook from Jiren, sending her flying into another raised chunk of the arena.

Jiren then raised his palm and shot out three ki beams soaring at Kefla from different angles.

Kefla batted all three of them away with her feet, before leaning forward and shooting a ki beam out of her mouth at Jiren.

Jiren charged through the blast and socked Kefla in the mouth, stopping the attack, and sending her flying through the metal.

Kefla skidded across the metal with her head, before flipping herself onto her feet. She charged energy in her hand before aiming it at Jiren. "Crush Wave!"

Once again Kefla shot out a tidal wave of energy blasts at Jiren.

In response, Jiren raised his arm, before waving it across him, unleashing a wall of fire that rushed at the wave.

The two attacks met, and the wall of fire pushed back the wave of blasts, as it headed right towards Kefla.

Kefla stopped her attack, and jumped over the wall of flames, only to find Jiren there waiting for her, his arm raised up.

She barely managed to raise her arm to block in time, before Jiren slammed his arm down on her hard. Once again sending her back to the ground.

Kefla slammed into the arena, cratering it. She grits her teeth as she tries to ignore the pain and focus on the fight. Because Jiren was far from done.

He aimed his hand down and shot out a big red beam at her.

In response, Kefla opened her mouth and fired an equally huge beam.

The beams collided and struggled against each other. With Jiren's beam slowly pushing down Kefla's. As it crawled towards the fused girl.

Kefla raised her palms, formed small red ki spheres, and shot them up at Jiren.

The ki spheres slammed Jiren in the face, exploding on contact. Creating a harsh sting in Jiren's eyes, breaking his concentration for a moment.

At that moment, Kefla added even more power to the beam, causing it to double in size, and rapidly push back Jiren's beam, until it engulfed him.

KABOOM!

The beam exploded as it hit Jiren, causing the arena to shake once again, and a smoke cloud to form.

Kefla sat up and looked up at the cloud of smoke.

And then Jiren rushed down from the smoke, his foot pointed down at her.

Kefla flipped to the right as Jiren slammed into the arena.

"Omega Crusher!" Kefla shouted as she raised her palms and shot green ki spheres at Jiren rapid fire.

Jiren rushed at Kefla, batting away as many of the green ki spheres as he could, but some still managed to get through, slamming into Jiren's body and exploding on contact, but Jiren forced his way through to Kefla.

He grabbed her arm, then grabbed her other arm, raising her up, and then glaring at her as his eyes glowed red again.

"AGHHHHHHH!" Kefla screamed out in pain as her body was assaulted by many invisible blows that she had no way to defend against.

Once that was done, he delivered a powerful knee to the stomach, causing Kefla to cough up blood and gasp for air.

Jiren raised her up again, tilted his head as far back as he could, before bringing it back, and slamming it into Kefla's forehead, making blood spurt out.

"Tch! GET OFF!" Kelfa's body started glowing red, and then suddenly she was surrounded by a red, electric-like aura.

"AGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Jiren growled in pain, as Kefla's aura coursed over his body, zapping him as if it were lightning.

Kefla brought up her legs, and kicked herself off of Jiren's chest, releasing her from Jiren's grip as she flipped in the air, and landed on her feet.

Jiren shook his head, shaking off the pain, just in time to block a punch from Kefla that sent him skidding back a few feet.

Kefla stomped on the ground, cracking it, and then causing it to glow red. The cracks started to spread towards Jiren, and they erupted, creating geysers of energy that continued to erupt towards Jiren.

Once again, Jiren swung his arm, creating a wall of fire that rushed towards the rising geysers of energy.

KABOOM!

The attacks collided, creating a huge explosion. That covered the entire area in smoke.

Jiren felt for Kefla's energy, but couldn't feel it. She's hiding her energy.

POW!

From the left, Kefla, cloaked by the smoke, came in and gave Jiren a quick sock to the face. Before disappearing into the smoke once more.

"Tch. You think you can hide! RAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jiren roared. The pressure from his energy pushed away all the smoke.

And yet Kefla was nowhere to be seen.

Jiren's eyes widened as he realized what that meant, and he quickly turned around to see Kefla standing behind him, placing her hand against his abs.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Kefla shot out a powerful beam of green energy that hit Jiren point blank.

"Gotcha!" Kefla cackled.

"Don't be so sure!" Shouted Jiren's voice from inside the beam.

Then Jiren's arm came out, and he grabbed Kefla by the face, stopping her attack and revealing his steaming, wound-covered body.

Jiren slammed her down into the ground, then he raised up his arm and charged it with energy, causing it to glow red hot. But he added more, and more energy, making his hand burst into flames.

And like a hammer, he brought it down on Kefla.

KRACKAKOOM!

Jiren's blow created a geyser of fire that engulfed the two of them.

The impact of the blow caused the entire arena to shake, and cracks to form everywhere.

Pieces of the arena started to split apart, turning what was once one big arena, into several smaller arenas floating in the void. With smaller chunks of the arena floating everywhere.

"He-He broke the arena!" Kirllin gasped.

"KEFLA!" Champa cried out fearfully. Scared for the fate of his universe after his last hope took such a devastating attack.

The flame pillar fizzled out, revealing Jiren, kneeling down with his fist barred down on Kefla. With Kefla's arms raised, blocking the attack.

"S-She blocked it!" Champa breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't be so relieved my lord," Vados told him. "Block is a strong word. It seems all Kefla did was reduce the damage a bit. However, it seems she still took a significant bit of damage."

And how right Vados was.

Kefla's arms were thoroughly burnt, and trembling from the impact.

Damn it! Kefla grinned her teeth. It was taking a lot of concentration just to ignore the pain and keep herself from returning to base form. If I hadn't blocked that then it would have been lights out!

"Tch! Stubborn bastard!" Jiren picked Kefla up by her face. Raising her up off the floor. "But it's over!"

Kefla couldn't concentrate enough to throw an attack, her head still spinning after that punch. Leaving her helpless as Jiren cocked his arm back, and got ready to throw her with all his might.

"Kefla!" Champa cried.

"Kale! Caulifla!" Cabba called out.

"YESSSSSS! Belmod cheered. "I knew it! Jiren's power! IS UNBEATABLE!"

Jiren got ready to throw Kefla out of the ring with all his might.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Suddenly a Special Beam Cannon came from the behind and ran through Jiren's massive shoulder.

"Aghhhh. NRAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jiren screamed out in pain and shock, as he dropped Kefla, and clutched his shoulder, which now sported a large hole.

"That attack!? Piccolo!?" Krillin and everyone else looked over to the direction the attack came from, and their eyes went wide. "No? It was, GOHAN!?"

Gohan stood, a good distance away, his fingers smoking after launching the Special Beam Cannon. "Sorry, but I can't allow her to lose this fight."

"Y-You!? How!?" Jiren roared. "How could someone like you-"

"You let your guard down," Piccolo answered. Getting everyone's attention. "Gohan aimed for just the right moment, just when you thought you'd won when your defenses were at their lowest. Still, even then that might not have been enough to hurt someone like you, which is why he used that particular attack. Ever since you transformed, Gohan's been charging it, just waiting for the perfect moment."

"YEAH! That's amazing Gohan!" Krillin cheered.

"As expected of our team leader." Roshi praised.

"Yeah, good job Goham!" Champa added.

"It's Gohan, sir." Cabba corrected. Although he was ignored.

"NO! Jiren!" Belmod cried out in horror.

"What a dirty tactic!" Kai hissed.

"Kefla! Get back up and finish him!" Champa screamed.

"Tch. I didn't ask for any damn help here." Kefla said, as she got back on her feet.

"Grrrr! HRAGH!" Jiren threw a punch with his functioning arm, but Kefla ducked under it, jumped up, and kneeed Jiren in the chin.

Kefla backflipped back, while Jiren stumbled. Then she formed two green ki spheres, mashed them together to form a larger ki sphere in front of her, and then pumped more ki into that to make it even larger, before launching it at Jiren.

Jiren caught the ki sphere with his one arm but struggled to hold it back.

And while Jiren was doing that, Kefla dashed behind him, created another huge green ki sphere, and then launched it at Jiren from behind.

Jiren could only look behind him and brace for impact, as the ki sphear slammed into him. Causing both of them to burst into a huge explosion. That created another huge cloud of smoke.

After a few moments, Jiren burst out of the smoke, rushing at Kefla, and Kefla rushed towards him in return.

Kelfa drop-kicked Jiren's chest, sending him flying back. Kefla rolled back onto her feet and rushed after him.

Jiren dug his feet into the arena, and stopped himself, just in time for Kelfa to catch up, and unleash a flurry of punches and kicks at him.

The strongest warrior of Universe 11 tries his best to block, parry, and dodge each attack, but with only one functioning arm and searing pain impairing his mind, his defense was quickly broken, and Kefla's blows landed, allowing her to score numerous powerful blows all over his body.

Ignoring the pain, Jiren raised his arm and slammed it down trying to smash Kefla. But Kefla moved back, leaving him to slam his fist into the arena.

Kefla ran up his arm and then jumped off his shoulder up into the air.

She brought her hands together forming red energy in it, before aiming her hands down at Jiren. "Crush Rain!"

Kefla unleashed a massive barrage of Ki blasts down on Jiren, falling upon him like rain.

The ki blasts slammed into Jiren, and he struggled to stay upright in the face of this unrelenting assault.

He poured power into his fist and thrust it up at Kefla. Shooting a pressure blast up through the rain of blasts that slammed into Kefla's face, stopping her attack.

"Owwww! Crap!" Kelfa hissed, as she started falling.

She maneuvered herself so she fell on top of a pillar. "Alright! I think this fight's gone on long enough! I'm gonna finish this! Now! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Kefla started charging up her energy. A thick red aura crackled around her body. "HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Oh no you don't!" Jiren pumped his fist full of ki, before jumping up at Kefla.

"HAAAAAAAAA!" Kefla raised her hand, and three slim beams came out of her aura. Then she brought her hand down, and those beams slammed down onto Jiren. Swatting him back down to the ground.

Kefla then gathered all her energy creating small balls of green and red ki, before swirling them around, creating disks of green and red energy. "GAME OVER! HAAAAAAAAA!"

She thrust the disk out in front of her, and they shot out massive green and red spiral beams that barreled right toward Jiren.

Jiren saw the beams heading towards him, but could only put his hand out before they slammed into him.

"Grrrrrrrrr!" Jiren was pushed back by the beam, all the way toward the edge of the arena. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Just as Jiren reached the edge, he summoned as much energy as he could, his fiery aura roaring back to life, as he managed to stop himself from being pushed off.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Kefla grunted as she continued to pour her energy into her attack. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Come on Jiren!" Bemold shouted.

"Finish him Kefla!" Champa cheered.

"Grrrrrr!" Jiren held back the beams, and then, he started moving forward. Pushing them back.

Then, suddenly a Death Ball slammed into the ground next to Jiren. Causing it to crack and fall apart.

"You!" Jiren looked at where the attack came from and saw Freiza looking at him smugly.

"HAAAAAA!" Kefla gave one final push, and the ground around Jiren completely collapsed, and the beam carried into the void.

"Jiren of the 11th universe has been eliminated." The Grand Priest announced as Jiren appeared in the stands.

"Bye Bye Jaren." The Zenos said as they pressed his icon, graying it out.

"No! This can't be!" Belmod said as he looked at Jiren. Who himself looked utterly stunned. "Jiren can't be defeated! This isn't possible!"

"This has to be a nightmare!? This can't be real!" Kai panicked.

Back in the ring, Kefla breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally."

SWOOP!

And then she defused, back into Kale and Caulifla.

"Huh!? We defused?!" Kale gasped.

"What gives!?" Caulifla shouted.

"What's going on!? That kind of fusion is supposed to last an hour!?" Champa shouted in confusion.

"As I suspected," Vados said, getting everyone's attention. "Lord Champa, how many times do you recall Goku and Vegeta ever making use of Super Saiyan 3?"

"Huh? Well um…" Champa thought back. "I guess only once."

"Yes, and there might be a reason for that," Vados explained. "I could sense during that fight, that while Kefla was in that form, she was losing far too much energy. It appears that that form may put quite the strain on a person's body, and that combined with the massive amount of energy used for that final attack, caused her to defuse early."

"Hmph. Looks like you figured it out." Piccolo smirked.

"Yeah, something similar happened with Gotenks when he fought Buu," Gohan recalled.

"Yeah, that for sure is draining. It's why I don't really use it that much." Goku admitted.

"And you didn't want to tell us that sooner!?" Caulifla shouted.

PEWM! PEWM!

Suddenly two Death Beams came in and destroyed the potara earrings.

"What the!?" The two looked over at Frieza in shock.

"I must thank you both for ridding us of that monster Jiren. However, now that he's gone, you two have become quite expendable." Freiza smirked as he opened his palm and aimed it at the two of them.

"Grrr. Haaaaa!" Caulifla tried to power up, only for her to abruptly stop and fall on one knee. "Agh! Damn it!"

"Caulifla!" Kale leaned down to make sure her sister was ok.

"It took all you had to defeat Jiren. You have nothing left." Freiza said. "Don't worry, you'll get plenty of rest, on the sidelines!"

Freiza blasted the two of them with a large red beam, which swept over them, carrying them out of the ring.

Chapter Text

"Dad, what's going on? Why did Kami call us?" Gohan asked as he and his father flew through the air towards Kami's lookout. "You don't think it's something serious, do you? Like what happened with the Saiyans? Or maybe Mr Piccolo escaped?"

It had been a little over a year since the attack of the Saiyans.

Due to his immense power, they could no longer leave Piccolo to his own devices. And sealed him away while he was unconscious. Leaving him in Kami's lookout.

"I don't know, but I'm sure we can handle it," Goku reassured him.

A few moments later, they arrived. Landing on the lookout, finding that the rest of the Z-warriors were already there.

"Hey Goku! Long time no see!" Krillin greeted.

"Krillin! Yamcha! Tien! Nice to see ya!" Goku said,

"Nice to see you too! And you too, Gohan!" Yamcha greeted, with Tien giving a simple nod.

"Thank you all for coming on such short notice."

Everyone looked over at the small building on the lookout and saw Kami stepping out towards them. Followed by Mr Popo. And someone else.

A green man, who was covered in wounds, and wearing strange torn-up clothing. He was currently being helped by Mr Popo, as he seemed too weak to walk.

"I-Is that Piccolo!?" Krillin gasped.

"No, he looks different. And his ki is different too." Tien said.

"My name is Nail." The man introduced. "And I am a Namekian…one of the last. Namakians."

"Allow me to explain. Me and Piccolo. Or rather, the being we were before we split into two. Were from a race of beings called Namakians. From planet Namek." Kami explained.

"Wait, hold on. So there's a whole race full of Piccolos!?" Goku asked, his eyes sparkling, as he thought of what strong opponents he might find on Namek.

"There was." Nail grimaced. "Months ago, a tyrant named Freiza, invaded our planet with his army. Looking to take out Dragon Balls for himself. Those who resisted, and even those who didn't, were wiped out. Until only a handful of warriors, along with our grand elder, remained. We tried fighting back, but we were overpowered with ease. In the end, my fellow warriors sacrificed themselves so I could get away. Our Grand Elder told me to go here and warn you. Freiza couldn't make use of the Dragon Balls on Namek. Since he killed everyone on the planet, no one could tell him how to summon the dragon. And with Grand Elder dead, the balls turned to stone. Meaning now Freiza's only chance for a wish is to seek out Dragon Balls on other worlds. Namely, this one."

"What!? An alien tyrant is coming here!?" Krillin shouted out in shock.

"And he's strong enough that not even an army of Piccolo's people could beat him," Tien noted, getting a bad feeling about all of this.

"Mr. Piccolo's people were…wiped out!?" Gohan gasped, still having trouble processing that information.

"So, how strong is this Frieza guy?" Goku asked.

"His power is beyond anything you could imagine. As you are now. Even with all our powers combined, we wouldn't stand a chance." Nail said. "We'd be slaughtered within seconds."

Everyone gasped, except for Goku's whose eyes went wide.

"No way! You mean he's even stronger than Piccolo and Vegeta!?" Krillin cried.

"There's no way!" Yamcha shouted.

PING!

And then, suddenly, everyone went quiet. As they all sensed something.

Five energy signatures, of immense power, heading right toward Earth.

"Woah!? What's with that power!?" Krillin exclaimed as they all looked up toward the sky.

"No! He must have sent men out in advance!" Nail growled.

"Wait, so none of these guys are that Freezer guy?" Yamcha asked.

"No. They're not nearly as strong. They must be his underlings." Nail explained.

"Not nearly as strong!?" Gohan gasped.

"There's no time to waste. We need to stop them before they cause any havoc." Tien said, before flying off.

"Hey, do we have any Senzu beans right now?" Krillin asked hopefully.

"No. If we did, then I would have given some to Nail when he arrived." Kami explained.

"Tch. If only I wasn't like this, I could help you all fight them." Nail growled.

Krillin sighed. "It's fine. We'll get through this somehow. Hopefully without anyone dying this time."

And with that, they flew off.

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The five of them ended up in the Arctic. Waiting for the invaders to arrive.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

Suddenly, five pods crashed into the ice in front of them.

"Huh? Those ships?" Krillin took a good look at the pods.

"They look like the same kind of ships the Saiyans had," Tien noted.

The pods opened up and out stepped five alien warriors. Wearing familiar armor.

"Even their armor looks like the armor that Vegeta and the other guy were wearing," Gohan added.

"Guldo!"

"Reccome!"

"Burter!"

"Jeice!"

"Ginyu!"

"And together we are! The Ginyu Force!" Shouted all five of them, as posed together. Colored explosions going off behind them.

"...Uhhhhh." Krillin and everyone else were stunned by that entrance.

"Well then. You must be the inhabitants of this planet." Ginyu said, as he quickly activated his scouter, and took a look at their power levels. "Well, judging by how weak you are, you can't be warriors. Since you must be confused, allow me to explain what's happened. We are the Ginyu Force! The strongest fighters of the mighty Frieza Force. Apart from our Lord Frieza himself of course. We have come here to conquer your planet in the name of Lord Freiza, and take your Dragon Balls for him! Should you all cooperate, you can keep your lives and no one will have to be hurt. Should you resist, however-"

"You'll crush us?" Yamcha guessed.

"Exactly. Good to see you're an intelligent species." Ginyu smirked. "Now use that intelligence and help us find the Dragon Balls."

"Sorry, but we're not just intelligent, we're stubborn," Tien said, as all of them released their power, their auras bursting from their bodies.

"Huh?" Ginyu suddenly noticed their power levels rising with his scouter, and everyone's eyes widened.

"No way!?" Where did all this power come from?" Jeice asked.

"They must have been hiding their power levels somehow." Ginyu guessed, scowling as he looked at the opponents in front of them, and took a fighting stance. "It looks like you're warriors after all, and strong ones at that. A shame you won't bow your heads. Men! Get ready for battle!"

"Right!" The rest of the Ginyu Force got into position, ready to fight.

"Don't let them fight together. Separate them." Tien said. "I'll take the big one. Gohan, take the little green one. He's the weakest."

"R-Right," Gohan said.

"I call dibs on their leader!" Goku said with a smirk.

"Then I guess I'll take the red one," Krillin said. "That leaves Yamcha with the blue guy."

"Alright! Let's go!" Yamcha said.

And with that, they all charged at their respective opponents.

Gohan launched himself at Guildo, cocking back his fist as he got close, ready to punch Guildo in the face. "I'm sorry! Ha!"

But as soon as Gohan's fist was about to touch Guildo, suddenly he vanished.

"Huh?" Gohan stumbled, not expecting his foe to vanish into thin air.

And then chunks of ice slammed down on him from above. Pinning him under them.

"AGH!" Gohan cried out in pain, as he was smushed under the ice.

"I admit for a kid you've got an impressive power level," Guildo said from behind him, using his telekinesis to press the ice down on Gohan. "But you're still nowhere near strong enough to challenge the Ginyu Force!"

"Grrrr!" Gohan took a second to think, before burrowing beneath the ice.

"Huh-gya!?" Guildo cried out in pain, as Gohan came up from under him, and hit him with a devastating uppercut that sent him flying upwards.

Meanwhile, Tien was on the defensive, flying back as he parried, blocked, and dodged attacks from Reccome with great difficulty.

"Hup!" Reccome landed a strong kick to Tien's side, sending him flying to the left, into an icy mountain.

"Agh!" Tein cried out, as his back slammed into the jagged ice, as he was embedded into the side of the ice.

"Haha! Too weak!" Reccome mocked.

"Grrr." Tien pulled himself out of the ice. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Two extra arms bulged out of Tien's back, and he charged at Recoome once more.

Reccome attempted to sock Tien in the face, but Tien swerved to the side, and grabbed Reccome's arm, with his two lower arms, bringing Reccome in, and then he started punching him with one of his extra arms.

The bulky fighter grabbed that extra arm, and so Tien aimed his remaining arm at Reccome's face and charged a ki blast.

Just as Tien fired, Reccome opened his mouth and quickly fired his own ki blast, which collided with Tien's attack almost instantly, creating a big explosion that engulfed the two of them.

A few moments later, Tien tumbled out of the explosion, now without his extra arms, before eventually coming to a stop.

"Agh." Tien groaned as he forced himself back to his feet, despite his wounds.

He looked over at the explosion, which quickly fizzled away, turning into a cloud of smoke.

And when that smoke subsided, Reccome remained. With only a few scratches on his face, and cracks on his armor.

"Tch! Tough bastard!" Tien said, as he got into a combat stance and got ready to continue the fight.

Meanwhile, Yamcha was throwing an assault of punches and kicks at Burter, which the reptile-like warrior dodged with ease.

Yamcha threw one more punch at Burter's face, but his fist went through him, revealing that what he was looking at was an afterimage.

Burter appeared behind him and punched Yamcha in the back of the head, sending Yamcha face-first into the ground.

Then, before Yamcha could get up, Burter grabbed the back of his head and started running across the ice while dragging Yamcha's face through it.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Yamcha screamed out his pain as the ice dug into his skin at super speed, adding more cuts to his battle-scarred mug.

Burter picked Yamcha up and then started spinning. Spinning so fast he created a small cyclone, before finally throwing Yamcha towards an icy mountain, and sending a line of ki blasts after him.

SLAM! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

Yamcha slammed into the side of the icy mountain and then was hit by the barrage of ki blasts, which cracked the mountain apart, causing the whole thing to collapse on top of Yamcha.

"Hmph. What did you expect! I'm the fastest in the universe!" Burter said, crossing his arms as he looked at the collapsed pile of ice.

A moment later, a ki sphere burst out from the ice and rushed at Burter.

Burter moved to the side and dodged it. "Ha! Too slow!"

Then, the ki sphere turned back and slammed into Burter from behind, making a huge explosion.

"Heh! Don't get cocky," Yamcha said as he pulled himself out of the ice.

"I should say the same," Burter said as the smoke from the explosion died down, revealing his slightly damaged battle armor. "Not many people have managed to land a hit on me. Kudos Earthling. But you won't get lucky a second time!"

And with that, Burter charged.

Meanwhile, Krillin was flying through the air, doing his best to dodge the red energy blasts that were being tossed at him by a pursuing Jeice.

"Gah! Stand still will ya!" Jeice growled before holding up his hand and forming a red ki sphere. "Alright, dodge this! Crusher Ball!"

"Now's my chance." Krillin stopped and raised his hand up, forming a green ki disk. "Destructo Disk!"

The two threw their attacks at each other, and they collided. The Crusher Ball smashed apart the disk before rushing at Krillin.

Krillin put up his arms to guard as the attack slammed into him, exploding and creating a big cloud of smoke.

"Ha! What was that supposed to be! No way your dinky attacks could stand up to my Crusher Ball!" Jeice gloated, as he stared at the cloud of smoke.

But when the cloud of smoke dissipated Krillin was nowhere to be seen.

"Huh!? Where'd he go!?" Jeice started looking around for Krillin with his scouter but found nothing. "Damn it! He's hiding his power level?"

Meanwhile, Krillin was hiding behind one of the large icy mountains. Looks like my plan is working. These guys may be tough. But they're also dumb as rocks!

Then Kirllin formed a small ki sphear, and left it there, before getting away as fast as he could.

Juice suddenly got a hit on his scouter, sensing an energy signature behind the mountain. "Got ya now!"

The red warrior formed several red ki spheres and then kicked them all toward the mountain. "Crusher Volcano!"

The ki spheres slammed into the mountain, making the whole thing explode in a violent eruption that shook the earth.

"Heh! No way he survived that." Jeice asserted confidently.

And then he noticed something. His scouter was picking up a power level behind him.

He turned around and saw a Destructo Disk heading right at him.

"That weak technique again!" Jeice smirked, and quickly formed a Crusher Ball, tossing it at the disk.

And then the disk sliced right through it, and continued towards Jeice.

"Wha-" Jeice didn't have any time to dodge.

And the disk severed his head from his shoulders.

"Hmph! That's what you get for underestimating Earth!" Krillin said as he watched his foe's body and head fall to the ground.

That honestly would have been a tougher fight. Had Krillin not faked him out with that weaker Destructo Disk. Lowering his guard enough that he didn't try to dodge the real Destructo Disk.

And of course, none of that would have worked if Jeice could sense energy.

"Alright, time to help the others!" Krillin said.

Meanwhile, Goku and Ginyu were exchanging blows, with Goku on the defensive. Blocking and dodging Ginyu's attacks.

"Kaioken! Times 3!" Goku shouted as a red aura exploded out from his body.

Ginyu saw Goku's power level explode on his scouter, causing him to freeze for a second in shock. "Wha-OUGH!"

Goku took advantage of that moment of surprise, and socked Ginyu in the face, making him recoil back, and creating more openings. Goku unleashed an assault of punches on Ginyu's face, before kneeing him in the stomach.

Finally, Goku brought his arms together, raised them up, and slammed them down on Ginyu, sending him crashing into the ice.

"Agh," Ginyu grunted, as he pulled himself up from the ice. "What the hell happened to his power level?"

Then suddenly, his scouter picked up something else.

Jecie's scouter was reporting him dead.

Ginyu's eyes widened. "Jeice!"

"Kame! Hame!" Meanwhile, above him, Goku was charging up an attack. "HA!"

Goku shot out his Kamehameha down at Ginyu, and the captain was forced to jump up out of the crater and flip to the side to avoid it. Barely getting out of the blast range in time.

Ginyu shot up and aimed his hand at Goku. "Milky Canon!"

The captain shot out a powerful ki blast at Goku, which the Saiyan barely dodged by curving his body, causing it to explode behind him.

Ginyu rushed up and landed a powerful strike on Goku's face, and the two continued their melee.

Back with Gohan, he was chasing Guildo, flying a couple of feet off the ice, and swiftly gaining on him.

And then suddenly, he flew face-first into a block of ice that wasn't there a second ago. "Gah!"

Gohan pulled his face out of the ice and shook off the impact. And when he opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by sharp, jagged chunks of ice.

And then suddenly, he found that his entire body was paralyzed. Unable to move as some invisible force held down every part of his body.

"Playtime is over boy! My psychic powers are the greatest in the galaxy!" Guildo gloated, as he forced the ice closer to Gohan, ready to impale the boy from every angle. "Die!"

BRRRRRRR!

And then a Destructo Disk came in from behind and decapitated him.

Immediately, the ice dropped and Gohan could move again.

"Gohan! You ok!?" Krillin asked, flying up to the young half-Saiyan and checking on him.

"Yeah, thanks Krillin." Gohan breathed a sigh of relief.

"No problem, now let's help the others," Krillin said.

Meanwhile, Tien was flying up into the air, with Reccome following suit.

"Come on! Don't run away now!" Reccome said.

After getting high enough, Tien turned around and put his hands up to his face. "Solar Flare!"

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Reccome cried out in pain as his eyes were assaulted by a bright light coming from Tien.

Tien then shifted his hand, forming a triangle, and aiming it down at Reccome. "Tri Beam! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Reccome, still unable to see, was suddenly slammed back into the ground with great force.

"Haaaa! Haaaaaa! Haaaaaaa!" Tien shot down three more blasts of the Tri-Beam, before stopping.

Tien looked down at the huge square hole in the ice that had been created by his attack, breathing heavily as he waited to see if his opponent had died. "Wha!"

Reccome slowly rose up from the smoking crater, his armor completely destroyed, the black undersuit torn up. Wounds covered his body, blood freely leaking from them.

But despite all that, the man could still fight.

"Hey! That hurt!" Reccome complained as he glared up at Tien.

He withstood that!? Tien wondered if he should have done more. But even doing that much greatly exhausted him. He still took a lot of damage. His power's almost half of what it was before. I can do this.

"BWAHHHH!" Reccome shot out an energy blast from his mouth up at Tien, which he narrowly dodged, before responding with his own volley of ki blasts.

Reccome charged through the volley, and grabbed Tien's leg, before slamming him back down into the ice.

Then Reccome jumped up, and dived back down on Tien, sinking his foot into Tien's gut.

"Time to end this!" Reccome suddenly squatted and started charging up energy. "Reccome! Ultra! Fighting! Bo-huh!?"

Reccome jumped up, dodging the Destructo Disk that had been thrown at him.

"Damn it! He dodged it!" Krillin cursed.

"Masenko! Ha!" Gohan launched a beam at Reccome, but he simply batted it away, before rushing at Gohan and Krillin.

Reccome reached the two and raised his fist, ready to strike.

BRRRR MMMMM!

Until a Dodon beam drilled through the back of his head, and came out the front.

"Ahhh. Ahhhhh." The light left Reccome's eyes, and his dead body fell to the ground.

"Ugh." Tien collapsed on one knee, as Krillin and Gohan flew over to him.

"Tien! Are you ok!? Gohan asked.

"I'll be fine. But that last attack took pretty much everything I had." Tien admitted. "I just need a minute, go help Yamcha and Goku."

Speaking of Yamcha, the guy was standing still in a combat-ready stance, while Burter was running around him.

Burter became a blue burr with how fast he was moving and a blue tornado formed around Yamcha.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Burter would rush in, punch Yamcha, and then run away, before doing it again. And again. And again.

But Yamcha just took it. Planting himself in the ground and taking each attack as best he could.

"What's wrong? Accept your death so soon? I thought you earthlings were supposed to be stubborn?" Burter taunted, before going in for another punch on Yamcha.

And then Yamcha tilted his head dodging the punch from behind and then grabbing onto Burter's arm.

"What!? How did you-" Burter tried to get away, but Yamcha retained an iron grip on his arm, keeping him in place.

"Took me a second, but I was finally able to predict your movements!" Yamcha explained. "Speed doesn't matter if I know what you're doing! But you know what always matters? Sensing energy! Krillin! Gohan! Hit him with everything you got!"

"What!?" Burter looked behind him and saw Krillin charging a Kamehameha and Gohan charging a Masenko.

"But Yamcha, we'll hit you too!" Gohan pointed out. "Throw him!"

"No, he's too fast! Just do it!" Yamcha shouted

"Ha!" Krillin and Gohan threw out their attacks. The beams spiral around each other before joining together into a larger multi-colored beam.

KABOOM!

The beam slammed into Yamcha and Burter, creating a massive explosion.

When it died down, the two were still standing. But definitely wounded.

Burter had taken most of the damage, most of his armor gone, and blood staining what was left of it. Yamcha on the other hand, had a few cuts and bruises, as well as some bleeding, but was definitely in better shape.

"Pah!" Burter spit out blood. "Damn you!"

Yamcha tossed Burter forward, sending him into the side of an icy mountain, before striking a stance and rushing forward. "Neo Wolf Fang Fist!"

The former bandit unleashed a flurry of powerful strikes onto Burter's chest before bringing his hands together, for one extremely powerful strike, caving in Burter's chest, killing him as blood flooded out of his mouth.

"Whew." Yamcha breathed a sigh of relief, before wincing in pain, and staggering a bit due to his injuries.

"You gonna be ok?" Krillin asked.

"Yeah, I'll be fine," Yamcha said. Trying to look cool despite his injuries. "Now let's help go-"

SLAM!

Not too far away, Ginyu was slammed into the ice, his body covered in wounds, and he seemed extremely tired.

"Looks like Goku already beat him," Krillin noted.

Goke flew down to the ground, and deactivated Kioken, staring down the captain as he pulled himself up. "It's over. You're the last one left."

"H-How could this be!?" Ginyu asked, looking at his scouter which reported that the rest of his team was dead. "How could we have lost?! To people from such a backwater planet!?"

"You and your guys were stronger, but strength isn't all that matters in a fight," Goku said.

"...We'll see about that!" Ginyu smirked, as he raised his arm up.

And then used it to punch a hole in his own chest.

"Huh!?" Goku was shocked by this sudden act of self-harm. What on earth could he be planning?

"Your body is mine!" Ginyu shouted. "Change n-"

VRRRRRRRRMMMMM!

And then a Destructo Disk came in and sawed him in half.

The top and bottom half of Ginyu separated, falling to the ground.

"D-Damn it." Ginyu croaked, before he finally died.

"Krillin, why did you do that?" Goku asked, a little miffed about the fact that now he'd never know what Ginyu had up his sleeve.

"S-Sorry, I just thought he was gonna do something big so I uh…stopped him." Krillin laughed nervously.

"No need to apologize Krillin. You did good." Tien said as he regrouped with everyone. "These guys were no joke. Better to finish them when we can."

"Yeah, and apparently they weren't even close to Frieza's level." Krillin gulped.

"We're gonna have to step up our training," Goku said. "So when this Freiza guy comes, We'll be ready."

Chapter Text

Gohan sighed, as he looked up at the starry night sky from the window of his room in Capsule Corp.

It felt like the entire world was resting on his shoulders.

Because it pretty much was.

No one else could combat the Androids. All of the Z fighters other than him had been killed, and now all that was left was him and Trunks. And Trunks was just too young. It would take so much time to raise him up to be a proper fighter.

Time they just didn't have.

Their next battle with the androids could be at any time. And it may just end up being their last.

"Gohan! Hey Gohan!" Suddenly, Gohan heard his father's voice in his head. "Can you hear me?"

"Dad!?" Gohan stood up, looking around for the source of the voice. Wondering if he'd finally lose his mind. "I-Is that really you?"

"Yeah! I'm talking to you thanks to King Kai! Nice to hear you again son!" Goku greeted. "I'd love to talk more, but there's something really important I gotta tell ya! It's about how to defeat the androids!"

"What!? You found a way to beat them!" Gohan gasped, hope filling him for the first time in so long. Of course, death wouldn't stop his dad from saving the day!

"Kinda. It's a special technique I learned here in the afterlife. If you can get it right, then you'll be able to defeat the androids no problem!" Goku said. "But, it needs two strong fighters to master it."

"Two strong fighters?" Gohan asked. "You mean, me and Trunks?"

"Yeah. But for the technique to work, Trunks needs to get way stronger, and a bit older too." Goku explained. "But like I said, once you two master it, the androids won't stand a chance. But that means you can't keep challenging the androids to fights you know you can't win."

Gohan clenched his jaw. Now that was a hard pill to swallow. He should have figured things wouldn't be that easy. "You…You want me to just let them attack the cities?"

"Can you stop them as you are now?" Goku asked in return.

Gohan fell silent. He knew his father was right. If there was a sure shot at beating the androids, he should go with that, rather than throwing his life away in the vain hope of saving a couple of people. "Sorry."

"You don't need to apologize, son. I know it's hard to just stand by while other people are getting hurt, but we don't have a choice right now." Goku told him. "Just trust me."

"Alright, Dad. So how do we do this technique?" Gohan asked.

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KABOOM!

Another building went down, as Androids 17 and 18 stood in the center of yet another city they'd just brought to ruins.

"I think we're done here." 18 said as she looked around.

"Yeah, nothing but empty buildings it seems." 17 yawned.

"Not so fast!"

Suddenly, Gohan and Trunks flew down, landing a few yards away from the androids.

"Ohhhh. You two again huh. Been a while." 17 smirked. "Thought you two died."

"Either that or you developed a brain and went into hiding." 18 sighed. "But no, here you come again. Ready to get your butt kick."

"Things aren't going to go the same way they did before," Gohan said before he looked over to Trunks. "Trunks! Let's do it!"

"Right!" Trunks shouted.

And then, they both posed.

"Uhhhhh. What the heck are they doing?" 18 asked, completely confused.

"No idea. Maybe they've finally lost it." 17 shrugged.

"Fuuuuuuusion!" The two of them performed the dance perfectly, having spent literal years perfecting the process. "HA!"

Their fingers touched, and suddenly a bright light exploded out from them.

"Agh! What the hell!?" 18 hissed as she and her brother shielded their eyes.

When the light died down, the two fighters were gone. And there was one in their place.

A man wearing the signature Metamoran vest and pants. With Trunks's sword strapped to his back.

He possessed long black locks, with two blue parts of his hair at the front. His face looked more like Trunks, but with the scars and battle-hardened look of Gohan.

"Is that…Gohan?" 17 asked.

"No, he has that Trunks kid's sword." 18 pointed out, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

"Alright, enough with the mystery, who the hell are you? 17 asked.

"...I am neither Gohan. Or Trunks. I am the warrior born of their combined wills. The one who will avenge those you've crushed under your heel! I. Am Gohanks." The warrior introduced himself.

"...What a stupid name." 18 scoffed. "Gohanks? Sounds like the name of a circus clown."

"So from the looks of it, you two combined together. Neat trick, but one weakling plus another weakling just makes one bigger weakling.'' 17 said dismissively. "You really think that'll give you a chance?"

"No. We've got more than a chance. We're going to kill you." Gohanks said. "Now enough talk! Time to pay!"

ZOOM!

In a burst of speed, Gohanks rushed at 17, and before the android could react, Gohank delivered a powerful blow to his face, sending him flying into a building.

"What the!" 18 panicked, putting herself in a shaky combat stance, before Gohanks appeared behind her. "Gah!"

She turned around and tried to punch Gohanks in the face, but Gohanks quickly caught the punch, competently neutralizing it.

Then he brought her in and kneed her in the gut.

"ACKKKKK!" 18 gasped as the air was knocked out of her.

17 flew out of the building and rushed at Gohanks, but before he could reach the fused fighter, Gohanks spun around and then tossed 18 at them. Sending them both back into the building.

Then Gohanks brought up his arms, and moved them around with strange sharp movements, before finally jutting them out in front of him. "Burning Attack!"

A fiery ball of ki blasted out of Gohank's hands and slammed into the building the androids were in, causing the whole place to explode, and turn into a pile of smoke and rubble.

And when the smoke subsided, it revealed the androids, protected by a cracked green barrier set up by Android 17.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The barrier shattered, barely having been able to withstand that last attack.

"Tch. So you survived that." Gohanks growled.

"Alright, enough games. This guy has to die!" 18 shouted.

"Yeah! Let's kill him!" 17 agreed.

The two took an attacking formation, with 18 sliding behind 17 before the two rushed at Gohanks together. Then when they got close, they separated, 18 coming at him from the right and 17 from the left.

They both threw out their fists at Gohanks, attacking him from both sides simultaneously.

But Gohanks batted both their fists aside, before grabbing their heads and smashing them together.

"Ow!" The two floated backward, rubbing their aching heads.

While they were recovering Gohanks charged at 18 and hit her with a rising uppercut, before kicking her away into another building.

17 lunged forward to try and punch him in the face, but Gohanks titled his head, dodging the blow, before hitting 17 with a powerful headbutt sending him flying back.

"Gahhhhh!" 17 grunted in pain, as he stopped himself before he hit anything.

18 flew over to him. "How the hell are they this strong!"

"Don't know. But we need to hit him with everything we've got!" 17 said.

They flew up, high into the air, positioning themselves over Gohanks, who simply looked up at them. Waiting for their next move.

The two androids aimed their palms down at him and then unloaded a massive stream of ki blasts. There were so many blasts that it looked like a beam, but if one looked closely they could see each individual blast. All charged with the androids' full power.

Gohanks looked up at the blinding barrage of ki, crouched down, and then flew up, flying through the ki blasts, up to the androids.

"Ah!?" The androids stopped their attack, looking up at Gohanks in shock, but Gohanks didn't give them any time to comprehend what just happened.

He aimed his palm at 18 and shot out an energy blast that carried the gynoid away into the distance.

17 tried to punch Gohanks, but Gohanks vanished in a bust of speed, appearing behind 17, raising his arms up, bringing them together, and then slamming them down onto 17.

SWOOM!

17 slammed into the ground, creating a massive crater and shaking the city itself, causing several damaged buildings to collapse.

"Aghh." 17 grunted in pain, as he slowly forced himself to his feet, while Gohanks descended down in front of him. "Ahh!"

17 jumped back and then started frantically blasting as many ki blasts as he could.

Gohanks saw the dozens of ki blasts coming at him and pulled out his sword.

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

Despite never seeing Gohanks swing his sword, 17 suddenly saw all of his ki blasts get cut in half, and explode before reaching their target.

"N-No this can't be?!" 17 gasped in fear.

Gohanks grabbed his sword with both hands and rushed at 17.

Quickly, 17 put up a barrier.

Gohanks reached the barrier and raised his sword.

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

In a flash, Gohanks was on the other side of the barrier, his sword lowered, and his back to 17.

And then a moment later, the barrier shattered.

17 turned around to look at Gohanks, who still had his back turned to him.

Gohanks went to sheath his sword, as 17 raised his arm, to shoot Gohanks in the back.

SHINK!

The moment Gohanks's sword was sheathed, suddenly 17 fell to the floor, his arms and legs having been cut off.

"AHH! AGHHHHHHHHHH!" 17 roared in pain and fear, as he looked down at the stubs where his arms and legs had been.

Gohanks turned around and hit 17 with a glare that sent a primal feeling of fear through every inch of the android's body. As he tried his best to scoot back away from the fused warrior.

"No! Stay back!" 17 shouted.

"Do you understand now?" Gohanks asked, as he slowly approached the limbless android. "That feeling of powerlessness. Like an unstoppable power is out for your life? Unable to run. Unable to fight. All you can do is cry and scream. And wait for that unstoppable power to finally kill you. That is how you made the people of Earth feel! Every! DAY!"

"Please! Mercy!" 17 begged pathetically.

"How many people asked YOU for mercy!? How many people did you spare!" Gohanks roared, as he aimed his palm down at 17. "You want mercy! Fine! I'll end your suffering here and now!"

"Haaaaaaaaaa!" 18 flew back in a rush and shot out ki blasts down at Gohanks in a desperate last attempt to save her brother.

But Gohanks casually deflected each blast with his other hand, before aiming that hand at 18 and shooting out a ki blast of his own at her.

18 could only stare at the quickly approaching ki blast, before it slammed into her, exploding on contact and creating a massive cloud of smoke.

A couple moments later, 18 fell from that cloud of smoke, falling unconscious onto the street below.

"Looks like she'll get to die in her sleep," Gohanks said before turning his attention back to 17. "A fate too good for either of you. Oh well. You'll get plenty more punishment. IN HELL!"

Gohanks formed a ki blast in his hand, and 17 looked up at the light that would be the last thing he ever saw. He closed his eyes and got ready for the end.

And then, Gohanks stopped.

He sensed something.

Something…odd.

It felt like…like Goku. And Vegeta. And Piccolo. And many others. Including Freiza of all people.

And the source of that energy. Was above him!

Gohanks looked up, and in front of the sun, was a mysterious and strange-looking creature.

"Solar Flare!" Cried out the figure, and suddenly the entire city was bathed in blinding light.

"Ahhhh!" Gohanks was forced to close his eyes to protect himself from the blinding light. That's Tien's move!? How?!

A few moments later, Gohanks heard something odd.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" 17 screamed. His screams were then followed by some strange slurping sound, and then an explosion of ki.

Gohanks opened his eyes again and saw something in front of him.

It seemed to be that weird creature he saw in the sky briefly, but it was different. Not only in appearance, now looking a bit more humanoid, but he felt more powerful as well.

It transformed!? Gohanks looked down where 17 had been, only to find the android missing. And 17 is gone!

Suddenly, the creature made a b-line for 18.

Gohanks raised his arm and shot out a ki blast at 18.

The creature saw this, and his eyes widened, quickly he got in front of 18, and made a barrier. Taking the blast, with zero damage, before deactivating the barrier. "How rude."

"Says the guy who introduced himself with a Solar Flare," Gohanks responded. "Speaking of which, how the hell do you know that technique?! And why does your energy feel like several different people I know, all at once?! Who are you!?"

"Ah, I suppose it was uncouth of me to pop in without introducing myself." The creature said, giving a mock bow. "I am a bio-android created by Dr Gero. Using the D.N.A. of the finest warriors in the universe. You can call me, Cell."

While Cell was talking, his tail was inching closer and closer to 18.

Gohanks saw this and shot another ki blast over at 18.

"Tch!" Cell recalled his tail and formed another barrier, taking the blast once again.

"I see. I don't fully understand what's going on, but from what I can understand, you were created by Dr. Gero, meaning I can't leave you alive, and it seems like you need those androids to get stronger." Gohanks surmised. "Good to know."

And with that Gohanks charged at Cell, and punched him in the face, sending Cell skidding back a few feet.

"Grr!" Cell growled, before charging back at Gohanks, and punching him in the face, sending him flying back.

Gohanks flipped onto his feet, stopping himself from going any further. Then he started frantically moving his arms around before jutting them forward again. "Burning Attack!"

Cell thrust out his palm. "Big Bang Attack!"

Both of them shot out a big blast of ki, which collided with each other, exploding and canceling each other out.

Cell then started shooting more ki blasts at Gohanks, and Gohanks pulled out his sword and charged forward, cutting through any ki blasts in his way before he got to Cell.

Gohanks raised his sword and brought it down on Cell. Cell dashed to the side to try and dodge it, but he was too slow and Gohanks chopped off his left arm.

Cell dashed away, before stopping to look down at the stump where his arm had been, then glaring at Gohanks.

"Next time, it's gonna be your head." Gohanks threatened.

"Hmph. Don't get so cocky." Cell smirked. Then suddenly, a new arm burst out of the stump where the old one had been.

So can he regenerate like Piccolo too?! Damn it, what didn't this guy copy!? Gohanks scowled. I can't afford to drag this out. I've already used up about half my time.

Cell brought both his arms back, putting them together in a familiar pose. "Galick Gun! Fire!"

The monster thrust his arms forward and launched out a purple beam at Gohanks.

Gohanks just stared down the beam, as it slammed into him, exploding on contact and creating a massive cloud of smoke.

Cell smirked for a moment, before his eyes went wide, as he sensed a surge in power coming from the smoke.

As the smoke started to subside, a glowing, golden aura could be seen from within, until suddenly that aura exploded out, forcing the smoke away, revealing Gohanks, now in Super Saiyan.

Before Cell could react, Gohanks zoomed over at insane speeds and punched him in the gut.

"UGHH!" Cell gasped before Gohanks grabbed him by the face.

Gohanks spun around and then, tossed Cell into the air.

Cell spun around wildly, out of control for a few moments, before he finally managed to stop himself in the air.

He looked down and saw Gohank's body enveloped in fiery ki before that fire rushed up at him.

Cell barely managed to back away in time to dodge that attack, the tip of his tail smoking as it had been grazed by the beam.

Gohanks stopped his attacks, and then in a burst of speed, appeared above Cell, slamming his elbow down on the android's head, and sending him crashing down into a building, which collapsed on top of him.

"Masenko! Ha!" Gohanks raised his arms up together and then brought them down, shooting out a beam below him, which slammed into the destroyed building that Cell had landed in.

KABOOM!

The beam created a massive explosion, destroying the building completely, and shaking the ground once more.

What was left from the blast, was merely a smoking crater, not even a single piece of rubble remaining intact.

Gohanks looked down, waiting for the smoke to vanish, to see if his opponent was finally dead.

But much to his disappointment, when the smoke cleared, he saw Cell, protected by a barely intact barrier.

"Haaaaaaa!" Cell unmade the barrier and rushed up at Gohanks, shooting ki blasts up at the fused fighter.

Gohanks simply flew back a little, dodging the blasts.

Cell reached the same altitude as Gohanks, and rushed at him, unleashing a flurry of punches and kicks that Gohanks dodged with ease.

Something's wrong. His power is half of what it was before. Gohanks noticed. Then his eyes went wide, as he put it together. Wait?! He has Tien's techniques, and his power's been cut in half!?

Gohanks swiftly pulled out his sword and sliced Cell in half

Cell split in two, before suddenly, his body vanished into nothing.

"The Multi Form technique!" Gohanks growled, before immediately turning his attention to where Android 18 was.

Only to find her being slurped up by Cell's tail.

Cell's body was engulfed in a brilliant light, forcing Gohanks to look away.

And when the light faded, Cell's transformation into his perfect form had been complete.

"Damn it! Kamehame!" Gohanks brought his arms back, and charged his attack, before launching it down at Cell. "HA!"

"Hmph. Dodon Ray!" Cell brought his arm back, before throwing his fingers forward at the beam, and shooting out a smaller beam.

The Dodon Ray pierced through the Kamehameha and traveled up to Gohanks.

Gohanks stopped his attack and tilted his head to dodge the attack. The Dodon ray still managed to cut his cheek as it sailed by. "Grrrr!"

Cell smirked confidently, before activating his telekinesis, picking up several ruined buildings and tossing them at Gohanks.

Gohanks pulled out his sword and rushed at the buildings, cutting them into pieces in a flash, before throwing his sword at Cell.

Cell caught the sword, but that was just a distraction, and Gohanks flew past him, and then delivered a powerful kick to the back of his neck, sending him flying into another building.

Gohanks planted his feet on the ground, and then did the frantic arm movements again, before bringing his arms back. "Burning! Kamehameha!"

The fused warrior shot out a wave of fiery blue energy at Cell, the android just managing to get up and put up a barrier before it hit him.

Cell, inside his barrier, rushed through the beam, and slammed into Gohanks, slamming him through several buildings, before Gohanks planted his feet into the ground, and started to push back against the barrier.

Gohanks managed to stop Cell from pushing him back any further, before kicking the barrier and Cell, up into the air.

Cell did away with the barrier, and then formed his hands into a triangle shape, aiming down at Gohanks. "Tri Beam! HA!"

Gohanks looked up in fear as he sensed the power of the attack coming down at him, and he jumped back, barely getting out of the way as the attack slammed into the earth, making a giant triangle-shaped hole.

While Cell was still recovering, Gohanks flew up and punched Cell in the face, before following up with a kick to the chin, then flipping back, before rushing forward again, planting his palm on Cell's chest, and shooting out a massive explosion of energy.

Cell flew back, his body smoking and a fair share more wounds now decorating his body.

Damn it. This is no good. We're too close in power. Gohanks thought.

Fusion was a powerful technique. With one. Crippling weakness.

The thirty-minute time limit.

Once that time was up, they would be dead. Neither Gohan nor Trunks could even hope to fight off this Cell, or even escape him. And there was no way that Cell would allow them to fuse again.

And if Gohanks's rough estimation was correct. They had less than 10 minutes left to finish off Cell.

With all his techniques and Piccolo's regeneration, there's no way I could beat him in less than 10 minutes. Gohanks thought as he looked at the hem of his pants. I'll have to use THAT strategy. This is gonna hurt.

Cell opened his palm, and formed a purple ki disk, before tossing it at Gohanks.

Gohanks flew back, away from the disk, while raising his hand and shooting out ki blasts to try and destroy it. Only for the disk to cut through the blasts and continue on towards him.

The half-Saiyan fusion then flew down to try and dodge it, only for the disk to follow him.

"Tch!" Gohanks kept flying down, getting as close to the ground as he could before changing direction and flying over the ground.

He'd hoped the disk would slam into the ground and explode, but it made a sharp turn and continued to chase him. Now gaining on him as it closed in.

Gohanks tried to think of a way to deal with this when he saw the glint of his sword on the ground not too far away and rushed towards it.

He lunged for his sword, grabbing it, and then rolling on the ground and turning, so he faced the disk which was now upon him.

CLANG!

His sword slammed into the disk. The two blades clashed against each other, fighting to see which would cut through the other.

"Haaaaaaaaaaa!" Gohanks poured as much power as he could, into his sword, and pushed it forward. "HAAAAAA!"

Gohanks's sword cut through the disk, the two halves flying past him, before exploding.

"Whew." Gohanks breathed a sigh of relief.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

And then a special beam cannon came in from behind, shooting him through the back and coming out of his chest.

"Ack!" Gohanks coughed up blood, and quickly looked down at the massive hole in his chest, before collapsing face-first onto the ground and returning to his base form.

"Hehehehehe." Cell laughed as he approached Gohanks from behind. "To think that it would be Piccolo's move that did you in. Oh, the irony. But this was inevitable, after all, I am the perfect being."

"Grrrr. Grrrrrrr." Gohanks fought off unconsciousness and forced himself up. Trying to ignore the immense pain and the numbing sensation quickly spreading through his body.

"Are you still trying to fight? Ha! Stubborn as your fathers." Cell scoffed as he saw Gohanks force themselves onto one knee. "But with that hole in your chest, you'll bleed out in less than a minute. Still, you can rest peacefully, knowing that the people of this planet won't have to live in fear. They'll be far too dead for that. Consider it my thanks for helping me achieve my perfect form."

CRUNCH!

"Hmmm." Cell suddenly heard Gohanks bite one something and start chewing, before finally swallowing.

KABOOM!

Suddenly Gohanks exploded back into Super Saiyan, with even more force than before.

"W-What!?" Cell shouted out in shock, as he saw Gohanks stand back up. The hole in his chest now gone, and his power higher than before. "This-this is impossible! How!?"

"The last Senzu bean," Gohanks explained. "I was holding onto it, waiting for the perfect time to use it. What better time than now. And of course, you probably know what happens when Saiyans come near death? Well, multiply that times two."

"You, you let yourself get near death just to boost your power!?" Cell realized.

"That's right! And now to use that power, to finish you off for good!" Gohanks shouted, before entering into a squat and grabbing his shoulders. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Gohanks's body began to glow, as he charged up a massive amount of energy.

"This power!? It-It can't be!" Cell growled, as he jumped back, and started charging up a Kamehameha!. "I am the strongest! A perfect being! I! CAN! NOT! LOSE! Kamehame! HAAAAAAAAA!"

Cell shouted out a massive blue beam at Gohanks, while the fusion continued to charge up energy.

As the beam closed in on him, Gohanks sprung up and raised his arm. "DEMON WAVE!"

White light exploded out from Gohanks, engulfing everything around him as it kept expanding out.

The Kamehameha was consumed by the light, as it rushed towards Cell unimpeded.

Cell's eyes went wide as he saw the light rush at him, unaffected by his attack.

Quickly, he stopped his attack altogether and put up a barrier.

Cell and his barrier were consumed by the wave of light, and a few seconds later, Cell's barrier started to crack.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Cell poured all his power into his barrier, barely able to sustain it against the overwhelming wave of power.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gohanks put every last bit of his power into the attack, causing the wave to expand faster and glow brighter.

Cell's barrier shattered apart, and he was consumed by the destructive light.

"Ahhhhh! AHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cell screamed as his body was completely destroyed. Every cell was utterly annihilated, and blown away.

Eventually, the light faded, and Gohanks was left in a field of dust and dirt. The entire destroyed city having been completely eradicated along with Cell.

SWOOM!

In a flash of light, Gohanks separated, back into Gohan and Trunks.

"I-Is it over?" Trunks asked, looking at his mentor hopefully.

"I can't sense Cell's energy." Gohan smiled and looked over to his student. "We did it. We won."

Chapter Text

Piccolo and 17 stared each other down, both covered in wounds and breathing heavily.

Their fight seemed dead even so far. With neither one proving to have a definite edge over the other.

"Alright, that's it I'm stepping in." 18 said as she flew next to 17.

"I don't recall asking for you to interrupt." 17 scowled, giving his sister an annoyed look.

"Yeah well I'm getting bored out of my mind, so let's get this over with." 18 said, getting into a combative stance.

"So pushy." 17 sighed, clearly not happy but still willing to comply.

"Tch," Piccolo grunted. This isn't good. I could barely fight one of them.

Just when things seemed dark. Suddenly, Goku appeared next to Piccolo.

"Hey there Piccolo! Need some help!" Goku offered cheekily.

"Goku!? What are you doing here!?" Piccolo asked, shocked by his rival's appearance. Honestly, he figured if Goku was gonna show up, he would have done it earlier.

"Well, Gohan looked like he was about to fly out and start fighting the androids himself if I didn't help you. So here I am!" Goku explained.

"What the hell? Where did he come from!?" 18 asked, the two shocked by Goku appearing out of nowhere.

"I don't recall him being able to teleport," 17 said.

16's eyes also went wide, as his scanners confirmed that the person in front of him, was in fact, THE Son Goku.

"Whatever, at least we finally found him." 18 said.

"Hey, about time you showed yourself Goku. We've been looking all over for you." 17 smirked.

"Sorry about that, I was sick for a while so I didn't get the chance to meet you," Goku said with his usual friendly demeanor. "I'm Goku! And you must be the androids I've heard so much about. I can't sense your energy, but seeing as you matched fist with Piccolo, you must be pretty strong. I actually didn't plan on fighting you two just yet, but I guess plans have changed. Oh well, might as well enjoy myself with a good fight!"

"Oh, we'll make sure to show you a good time. It'd be disrespectful not to honor someone's last wish after all." 17 said as he went into a combative stance as well.

"You ready Piccolo!" Goku said as he went into Super Saiyan and went into his own stance.

"Ready as I'll ever be," Piccolo said, getting ready to continue the fight.

"Alright, let's get this started already." 18 said.

"No."

"Huh?" The two androids looked behind them, to see 16 walking up, before stopping when he got in front of them.

"Son Goku." 16 said as he stared down Goku. "I will be the one to kill you."

Without another word, 16 raised his arm at Goku and fired his rocket fist right at the Saiyan warrior.

"Woah!" Goku barely had time to raise his arm to block, before the arm slammed into him, sending him flying back into the water.

"Damn it now the big one's joining in!" Piccolo growled, before unleashing a ki blast at 16, who was reattaching his arm.

16 batted away the ki blast, before charging at Piccolo with incredible speed and grabbing him by his head.

Then the red-headed android picked Piccolo and threw him away.

But before Piccolo could go far, he stretched out his arms and grabbed 16's shoulders, and Piccolo came ricocheting back and kicked 16 with both feet in the side of the face.

16 skidded back a few feet but seemed mostly unphased by the attack.

Piccolo's eyes widened, and he immediately let go of 16 and jumped back.

"My sole target is Son Goku, I would advise you to stay out of my way. Do so, and I will bring you no harm." 16 warned, before looking around to try and find Goku.

Damn it this guy's tougher than both those androids put together! Piccolo thought. We need a plan. Well, Goku hasn't popped up in a second so maybe he's come up with something. If that's the case, I need to make an opening. Something he can't ignore.

Piccolo brought his fingers to his forehead and started charging the Special Beam Cannon.

16's ki sensors, picked up the rising power level, and he immediately turned his attention to Piccolo.

He immediately identified the attack as the Special Beam Cannon. An attack capable of killing opponents much stronger than the user. Extremely threatening.

16 lunged at Piccolo and slammed his fist down on him, but Piccolo barely managed to jump back in time to avoid it, while still keeping his fingers on his head to charge the attack.

But as soon as Piccolo landed back on his feet, 16 shot his rocket fist at his head. Piccolo barely managed to move his head, dodging the fist, but a second one was shot, nailing him in the face. Knocking him to the ground and interrupting the charge.

16 leaped forward and stomped his foot onto Piccolo's stomach.

"Agh!" Piccolo grunted in pain before he looked up to find 16 pointing one of his canon arms down at his head.

But before 16 could fire, Goku appeared behind him with Instant Transmission and grabbed onto 16.

16 immediately changed targets and tried to elbow Goku in the face, but before the attack could land, they both vanished.

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Back on King Kai's Planet, suddenly Goku and 16 appeared, and immediately Goku was elbowed in the face sending him flying to the other side of the small planet, landing flat on his back.

"Owwwwww!" Goku hissed as he rubbed his aching face. "Darn that stings!"

"G-Goku!? What are you doing!?" King Kai screeched as he ran away from 16, who was looking around, trying to see where he had ended up.

"Oh! King Kai! Yeah, this guy is really strong, so I need to leave him here for a while until we deal with the other androids and figure out what to do with him." Goku explained as he got back up, and put his fingers to his head. "Have fun!"

And with that, Goku vanished.

King Kai just stared at the spot where Goku had been in disbelief, and a sense of dread filled him as he heard heavy footsteps approach him, and felt 16's presence behind him.

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Goku appeared back on the small island, next to Piccolo, who had picked himself up and was now dusting off his clothes. "Thanks for distracting him, Piccolo. If he'd caught onto what I was doing even a second faster, my plan wouldn't have worked."

"Yeah, I figured you had something up your sleeve," Piccolo said as he cracked his neck.

"What the hell did you just do to 16!?" 18 asked, sounding less annoyed and more pissed than before.

"Oh, I just left him on another planet. He was a bit too tough for me to handle so I needed to get him out of the way for a little bit." Goku explained.

"Well bring him back!" 18 demanded.

"How about you make us?" Piccolo challenged.

18 and 17 charged at the two of them. 18 first with 17 behind her.

Piccolo extended his arm and shoved it under the ground. His hand popped out behind 17 and caught his leg, holding him in place.

That was enough to break their concentration, stopping 17 and making 18 look back when she noticed her brother wasn't moving.

Goku took advantage of this and charged forward, kicking 18 in the chin.

18 hovered back a few feet, before unleashing a barrage of ki blasts at Goku, forcing the Saiyan to rush to the side to avoid it.

Meanwhile, 17 cut off Piccolo's hand with a chop, forcing the Namakian to recall his arm returning it to normal size.

While Piccolo regrew his hand, 17 looked over at Goku who was avoiding 18's blast, and shot a ki blast of his own.

Goku had to jump up to avoid that blast as well as the stream of ki blast from 18.

17 and 18 took aim at Goku, but Goku brought his fingers to his forehead, and vanished, appearing next to 18 and then punching her in the side of the face, sending her flying into a rock.

Then Goku shot a ki blast at 17, which the android side-stepped on, only to get tackled by Piccolo's shoulder and pushed to the side.

"Grrrrr!" 17 dug his feet into the ground and pushed back, stopping Piccolo dead in his tracks as the two pushed against each other.

18 pulled herself out of the rocks, and looked over at 17 struggling with Piccolo, and saw Goku rushing over to help his green friend.

She shot a ki blast at Goku, which slammed into him, stopping him dead in his tracks, before she rushed in and kicked Piccolo in the face, sending him flying.

Piccolo flipped in the mid-air, and dug his feet into the ground, slowing him down until he stopped, right next to Goku.

The androids then raised up their arms and created two ki spheres, and shot them out, the spheres joining together, to create a much larger and far more powerful ki blast, which was barreling towards Goku and Piccolo.

"Help me hold it for a second!" Goku said before he and Piccolo charged toward the blast.

The two grabbed into the blast, and held it back, Piccolo using both hands, while Goku only used one, bringing the other one to his forehead.

A moment later, Goku and the ki blast vanished, appearing behind the androids.

Goku then flew up, letting the blast rush towards the twins.

The two androids' eyes widened, as their own attack slammed into them, bursting into a massive explosion that engulfed the small island in light and shook it so hard that some of it began to crumble into the sea.

When the light subsided, there was a giant smoking crater left on the island.

Goku and Piccolo stared at the smoke, waiting for it to subside, and when it did, they were displeased to see the two androids, safe behind an emerald green barrier created by 17.

"Tch. Tough bastards." Piccolo grunted.

"That was a nice trick. But you're gonna need more than that to take us on." 17 said as he deactivated the barrier, and the two androids rushed at Piccolo.

Piccolo had no choice but to block, knowing there was no way he could defend against a flurry from them both.

But 18 went low and 17 went high. 18 tripped Piccolo and sent him to the ground, and 17 dived down and slammed his foot into Piccolo's gut.

"AGHHH!" Piccolo gasped as the air was knocked out of him, but the androids didn't give him a break as they rose into the air, pelting him with ki blasts as they flew up.

Goku appeared behind 18 with Instant Transmission and grabbed her shoulder. Hoping to separate them with Instant Transmission.

But 18 whipped her head back, slamming it into Goku's face, breaking his concentration before he could teleport them away.

Then 18 did a half spin kick sending him flying to the side, and 17 nailed him with a ki blast.

KABOOM!

The blast exploded on impact, creating a giant cloud of smoke in the sky, obscuring Goku.

Both androids aimed their palms at the smoke cloud, ready to start unleashing ki blasts, but suddenly, a ki blast whizzed past their head.

The two looked down and saw Piccolo had gotten back up, and was throwing out dozens of ki blasts up at them.

The two easily dodged the sloppy ki blast barrage, before they stopped, realizing that the blasts weren't even close to hitting them.

"Hey, is there something wrong with your eyes?" 18 asked in confusion.

"Maybe we hit him in the head a bit too hard." 17 said cockily before he noticed a strange light coming from behind him. "Huh?"

The two looked around and saw that the ki blasts Piccolo shot out, were now surrounding them completely. Cutting off any escape route.

"Uh oh." 17 said.

"Hellzone grenade!" Piccolo shouted as he brought his arms together and all those ki blasts rushed towards the two androids.

18 rushed over to 17, and 17 quickly put up his barrier.

And then all the ki blasts stopped.

"Huh?" Was all 17 could say, before Goku appeared inside the barrier with them, with a fully charged Kamehameha.

"HAAAAAAA!" Goku shouted as he thrust the attack towards the android twins.

The attack slammed into the androids point blank, creating a massive explosion that broke apart the barrier.

"Now!" Piccolo shouted, as he continued his attack, the ki blasts rushed into the smoke cloud created by Goku's attack.

KABOOM!

A second explosion burst out from inside the smoke cloud, creating a huge shock wave that made cracks in the island, and the surrounding sea shook creating large waves.

When that explosion died down, 17, 18, and Goku all fell out of the smoke cloud and landed on the ground with a loud thud.

"Ugh! Damn it!" 18 hissed, as she and 17 struggled to get back up, both having their fair share of cuts, bruises, and burns from those last two attacks.

But Goku wasn't much better, having taken a good bit of damage from his own attack, and just as much damage as the androids from Piccolo's HellZone Grenade. "Owwww! Man Piccolo, that new technique of your's sure packs a punch!"

"Get back up already, we're not done," Piccolo said as he looked over at the still-recovering androids, and put his arms together. Ready to charge up another new attack.

But before he could, he and Goku froze, as they suddenly sensed something wicked.

They looked over at a tall rock and saw Cell standing atop it.

"Hello, Piccolo. And how nice it is to finally meet you face to face, Goku." Cell greeted. "I have to thank you both for locating 17 and 18 for me. Without your power levels signaling their location, it would have taken me a long time to find them."

"Piccolo, is this Cell creature?" Goku asked.

"Yeah, but his power's on a whole other level than when we last fought," Piccolo growled. "Just how many people did this monster absorb!?"

"What in the hell is that?" 18 asked as she looked at Cell in disgust.

"Bad news. Even for you two. So if you don't wanna die either fight with us or run!" Piccolo warned.

Cell jumped down, and started walking towards 17 and 18. With a menacing look in his eyes.

Neither 17 nor 18 could sense power levels, but they still got a bad feeling from this thing.

They exchanged a brief look with each other and a nod before they raised their arms and unleashed a barrage of ki blasts.

Cell made no effort to dodge the blasts, he simply walked straight through them, taking no damage as the blasts slammed into his body.

The twin's eyes widened as they saw the creature taking no damage whatsoever. Piccolo and Goku rushed in, but Cell's tail batted them aside with ease.

Goku and Piccolo tumbled across the ground for a bit, before coming to a stop.

"Agh! Like getting hit with a whip." Goku groaned as he rubbed the part of his ribs that had been smacked by Cell's tail.

"If he gets a hold of those androids, it's over," Piccolo said.

The twins shot out two large ki blasts, which fused together into a larger ki blast and slammed into Cell, creating a massive explosion.

But a few moments later, Cell just walked out of the smoke, not a scratch on him.

"Yeah, but none of our attacks are doing anything to him," Goku noted as he got back up.

"And even worse, he can regenerate. I could probably hurt him with the Special Beam Cannon, but that'd only slow him down, at best." Piccolo growled as he tried to figure a way out of this mess.

"If that's the case, the Spirit Bomb might do it," Goku said.

"You really think that'll work?" Piccolo asked, recalling that move's lackluster track record.

"It just might. You have any other ideas?" Goku asked.

Piccolo sighed. "Unfortunately, no."

"Alright! Buy me some time." Goku said, deactivating Super Saiyan and flying up into the air, bringing his arms over his head, as he started gathering energy.

Cell looked over to Goku for a moment. The spirit bomb hmm? Well, Goku can gather as much energy as he wants, once I achieve my perfect form. Nothing will stop me.

The twins backed up slowly as Cell approached, unsure of what the hell to do against something this powerful.

Piccolo extended his arms, and grabbed Cell's feet, stopping him for a moment. But only for a moment, as Cell used the narrow part of his tail like a blade, and slashed Piccolo's hands off.

But Piccolo's hands didn't let go, and the palms glowed with energy, before busting, creating a blast that made a giant cloud of dirt and dust.

"18, let's get out of here!" 17 said.

"Don't have to tell me twice!" 18 said before the two flew up and attempted to fly away.

A moment later, Cell flexed his power, creating a shockwave that pushed away the dust, and allowed him to see the fleeing androids. "Oh no you don't!"

Cell raised his hand up and aimed it at the pair, activating Frieza's telekinesis, and stopping them in their tracks.

"What!? I-I can't move!" 17 tried to move away, but both he and 18 were unable to stop their bodies from moving over to Cell. "Grrrrrr!"

Cell placed them right in front of him. "Finally!"

Piccolo rushed up behind him, but Cell casually elbowed him in the face and then kicked him away.

"Now then, let's go in numbered order. 17 first." Cell said as he raised his tail up to the male twin, and started moving it closer.

"Grrrr! HA!" 17 activated his barrier, stopping Cell's tail from reaching him.

But against Cell's power, even that barrier could only hold for so long. As Cell pressed his tail against it, causing a crack to appear, which slowly grew larger and larger.

However, unknown to Cell, someone had him in their sights.

"Neo! TRI BEAM!" Tien shouted from above.

"Huh? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Cell screamed before everything in that area was encompassed by the blast of the tri-beam.

The androids were knocked away, and Cell was blasted right into the ground.

"HAAAAAAA!" Tien didn't let up, and fired another blast, then another, then another, each blast shaking the area stronger than any earthquake ever could. "HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Woah! That's some awesome power! Goku thought as he continued charging the Spirit Bomb. By now he'd got it to a pretty large size, but he'd need WAY more to even scratch Cell.

GOKUUUUUUUUUUU! King Kai screeched into Goku's head via telepathy.

Oh hey, King Kai! Perfect timing! I need you to do me a favor. Goku responded.

DO YOU A FAVOR!? You left a murderous android on my planet you moron! King Kai screamed.

Oh yeah! Are you ok? He's not trying to hurt anyone up there is he? Goku asked.

Oh, now you're worried about that!? King Kai growled. Luckily he's been pretty calm since you left. Actually, he doesn't seem like a bad guy at all. But that's not the point!

Well if he's not hurting anyone I guess it's fine. Goku said. Hey, could you let me talk to the Namakians and all my other friends? I need their power if this is gonna work?

Why should I? I have half a mind to let whatever that thing is blow up Earth! King Kai huffed.

Come on! Pleaseeeeee. Goku begged.

Hmph! King Kai responded and Goku could practically hear him pouting.

Pretty please! Goku added.

…Fine! Give me a second. King Kai said. Alright, you're on.

Perfect! Hey everyone! Hey, it's me Goku! Goku said. Right now the earth is in a whole lotta danger, and I need your help to save it! Please just raise your hands and give me some of your energy!

A few moments later, Goku could feel more energy flowing in, as the Spirit Bomb started to rapidly increase in size.

Meanwhile, Tien finally ran out of energy, and his attacks ceased, leaving a giant square hole where Cell once stood. The human warrior fell to the ground as he lost consciousness, having used up everything he had.

Piccolo went over to Tien and checked on him. He'll live. Barely.

Then he looked over to the crater, and much to his horror, Cell slowly rose up.

Wounds covered his body, and parts of it had been straight-up blown off by the attack, such as the end of his tail, his left leg, and part of his crown.

"Raahhhhhh!" Cell screamed as he quickly grew back all his missing parts. But it was clear he was still quite winded after taking that attack.

He's a bit weaker now, we might be able to stall him just long enough! Piccolo thought.

"Grrrr! No more playing around!" Cell looked over to the androids who were getting up after being blown away from the blast, and then charged at them.

"G-Get away!" 18 shot a big ki blast at Cell, which slammed into the bug man, stopping him just for a moment.

Before Cell could get moving again, Piccolo came up from behind Cell and grabbed his waist, before giving him a full suplex.

"Grrrrrrr!" Cell growled as he tried to stab Piccolo with his tail, but Piccolo rolled to the side and dodged it.

Cell jumped back to his feet, and took a second to assess the situation. He was weakened, but he could still overpower Piccolo and the androids, Goku's spirit bomb was getting concerningly strong. Well, let's take care of two birds with one stone.

The bio-android raised his arm over his head and quickly formed a ki disk. "Destructo Disk!"

Cell threw the attack over at Goku, causing Goku and Piccolo's eyes to widen in fear.

Crap! Piccolo rushed over to Goku, shooting ki blasts at the disk, but it just tore them apart, as it continued closing in on Goku.

Meanwhile, Cell charged at the androids once again, they unleashed another barrage of ki blasts at him, but Cell batted them away, growing two extra arms out of his back so he could do so more efficiently.

As the disk closed in on Goku, Cell closed in on the androids.

And just as the disk was nearing Goku's neck, both he and the Spirit Bomb suddenly vanished, appearing right in front of Cell.

"What the-!" Cell screeched, utterly baffled by what just happened.

"Whew! That was close! Alright! Here goes!" Goku shouted before he launched the Spirit Bomb down at Cell. "HAAAAAA!"

Cell tried to run to the side to get out of the way, but suddenly Piccolo extended his arms, and wrapped them around Cell, holding him in place.

"Grr! Get! OFF!" Cell screamed as he pushed the arms off of him, the struggle was only brief as Cell quickly snapped the arms off.

But that little bit of time mattered as Goku's Spirit Bomb was already upon him.

With no other choice, Cell held his hands out, and caught the massive ball of Genki, using a combination of his own brute strength and Frieza's telekinesis to hold it back "Grrrrr! Grrrrr! GRAGHHHHH!"

"Hmph! It's all over now!" Piccolo smirked as he recalled and then grew back his arms. "Now when to give up! Ha!"

Piccolo shot out a ki blast that slammed into Cell's back, causing him to stagger for a second.

The twins, seeing an opportunity to put an end to this, rushed over to both sides of Cell, and started unleashing ki blasts on him. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

"D-Damn it!" Cell cursed as his hands were engulfed by the Spirit Bomb, he was losing ground.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goku screamed as he went Super Saiyan, pushing the Spirit Bomb forward with all his might.

Nooo! This can't be! I must become perfect! Cell thought, as he knew his death would be imminent if he didn't do anything.

Sneakily, he dug his tail underground, using his Namekian abilities, to extend it through the dirt.

And then it popped up, behind 18.

"Ahhh!?" 18 looked behind her in horror, as the tail opened up, ready to swallow her whole.

"Destructo Disk!"

A ki disk came in from nowhere and sliced off Cell's tail.

"What!?" Cell screamed out in despair.

18 looked over in the direction where the disk had come from and saw her savior, Krillin.

Guess he came over after hearing about the Spirit Bomb, can't say I've been more glad to see him! Piccolo thought as he finished charging his final attack. He jutted his arms forward and screamed. "Light Grenade!"

Piccolo shot out a giant ki blast towards Cell's back.

The blast slammed into him, squishing Cell between two blasts.

"Nooooo! Noooooo! This can't be!" Cell said as the blasts closed and pushed in him more and more until he was completely consumed. "I was supposed to be! PERRRRRFECTTTTTTTTTT!"

Cell was completely engulfed, and every fiber of his being was broken down and destroyed, until a few moments later, the spirit bomb exploded.

KABOOM!

The entire area was engulfed in a light so bright, it could be seen glimmering from space. Blinding everyone present.

After about half a minute, the light died down, revealing that the entire island had been obliterated, leaving nothing but open sea.

"Pah!" Goku popped his head out of the water, alongside Piccolo and the androids.

"I-Is it over!?" Krillin asked as he flew down. "Is he dead!?"

"I can't sense his ki anymore. So I'd guess so yeah." Piccolo said. "But I wouldn't say it's over."

They all looked over to the androids.

"Well isn't this a conundrum, looks like you guys used up a lot of energy fighting that monster." 18 said.

"While WE never run out of energy." 17 pointed out with a smirk. "If we wanted, we could probably kill you all now."

"But you did help us out there, and I'm in a pretty generous mood after killing that monster, so we'll let you off the hook. So long as you give us back 16." 18 said.

In all honesty, they had no real intention of fighting them at all. While they were right about them having a strength advantage, they'd seen firsthand how many techniques these people had to deal with opponents stronger than them. They'd even managed to kill something that the two of them couldn't scratch.

So it was in their own best interest not to tempt fate here.

"Deal!" Krillin said almost immediately.

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"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Goku screamed as he rushed towards Beerus, clad in the power of Super Saiyan God.

Beerus didn't back down and charged right at Goku.

Their fist cocked back as they approached each other before each fighter thrust them forward, and their punches collided.

And everything was engulfed in light.

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Omega Shenron looked down at the red-haired Saiyan, with the sparkling aura. "Huh? Where are the other two?"

"The Saiyans?" Gogeta asked. "They're here. I am they. We are one! Unfortunately for you Omega."

Gogeta looked up at Omega and a sparkle appeared in his eye.

Suddenly Omega was smacked in the face by an invisible force, sending him flying back a back.

"Woah! He didn't even touch him!" Videl cheered.

BOOM!

Suddenly everyone heard what sounded like an explosion, and a shockwave passed over everything, causing the world to shake.

"Woah!? What was that?!" Pan asked as she was knocked down to the ground.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

More unknown shockwaves shook the earth, much to everyone's confusion.

"What the hell are you doing now?!" Omega asked as he felt a disturbance in the fabric of space and time.

"Wait, so this isn't your doing?" Gogeta asked, seeming just as confused. "Then where the hell is that coming from?"

BOOM!

Suddenly a massive burst of light came from nowhere, engulfing everything and blinding everyone around. Forcing even Gogeta to look away.

Eventually, the light began to die down, and Gogeta immediately looked back up at where Omega Shenron was. Worried he'd try something sneaky while he was blinded.

Only to be shocked, when he saw not Omega Shenron, but Goku in his place.

"Huh!? What the heck!? Where am I?" Goku asked as he looked around at the destroyed city around him. "What happened here?"

"G-Grandpa?" Pan asked, looking at Goku in befuddlement.

"Dad? No, it can't be? Dad's still over there, fused with Vegeta." Gohan pointed out. "Not to mention, Dad got turned into a child by the dark star dragon balls."

"And his hair, it's red." Goten pointed out. "He looks slimmer too."

"I can't sense his energy. What the heck is going on?" Trunks asked.

Gogeta was asking himself the same questions, eventually, he flew up to the same level as Goku. "Hey, you."

"Huh?" Goku looked over at Gogeta, and immediately his eyes went wide as he sensed his energy. "Woah! That's a lot of power!"

"I know. I am the strongest in the universe after all." Gogeta gloated. "But enough about me. Who the hell are you? And what happened to Omega Shenron?"

"Omega Shenron? Is that a new kinda food?" Goku asked.

"Well, he sounds like grandpa." Pan sighed.

"Wait! I can't mess around here, I need to get back to fighting Beerus before he destroys the earth!" Goku said.

"Hold on, what the hell is a Beerus?" Gogeta asked.

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"Where the hell am I?" Omega asked as he looked around, finding himself in space.

"Curious," Beerus said as he looked at Omega. "That Saiyan attempted to mitigate the damage caused by the shockwaves, by focusing them into one point. Creating a hole in space and time."

"You there!? What's going on? Are you responsible for this!? Answer me!" Omega demanded as he glared at Beerus. Then suddenly, he was hit with a pang of fear, as he recognized who was in front of him. "Wait. You can't be. B-Beerus the Destroyer!?"

"That's right. And it appears you were acting rather rudely." Beerus said. "And also, what's with that awful energy you're exuding? If I leave something like this around you'll cause the entire universe to decay. Well, I suppose while I wait for that Saiyan to find his way back, I'll pass the time by doing my job and destroying you."

A threatening aura surrounded Beerus, filling the shadow dragon with even more fear.

"Grrrrrrr. Damn it I have no choice! I'll just have to destroy the destroyer!" Omega shouted, before charging forward. "Haaaa!"

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"A god of destruction huh? Gogeta thought over what Goku had explained to him.

The person in front of him seemed like Son Goku. But for multiple reasons that seemed impossible.

First and most obviously, Son Goku was already here. As a part of him.

When he looked closely at the man, judging by his features and his gi, he looked like he could be from the past. The fact that he was an adult supported that theory.

Problem with that, Gogeta never recalled Goku fighting a god of destruction, nor achieving a transformation called Super Saiyan God.

So what the hell is going on? Gogeta asked himself.

Meanwhile, Goku looked around, still trying to get a handle on what was happening, when his eyes landed on Pan, Goten, and everyone else. In particular, Trunks. "Is that Gohan? And, Trunks? Wait, is that Trunks from the future?"

And then it hit Gogeta. "That's it! You're from another timeline! One that played out completely different from our own!"

"Wait, I'm in another timeline!? Oh crap, how am I gonna get back before Beerus blows up the earth!" Goku panicked.

"Well, if you got here because of those shockwaves, all we have to do is recreate what happened, and you'll be sent right back…probably," Gogeta said with a smirk. "And of course, the only way to do that is with a fight."

Gogeta's aura exploded, filling the ruined city with his power. "Don't worry, I'll hold back."

Goku smiled. "No need."

With that, Goku rushed forward, and punched Gogeta in the face, sending him back, slamming in the ground and skidding through buildings until he came to a stop.

Goku flew over to that building and looked down to see Gogeta lying in the rubble. "Whoops! Sorry! Didn't mean to sucker punch ya! You ok?"

"...Heh." Gogeta pulled himself up and dusted himself off. "Nah my bad, I didn't expect you to be THAT strong. But that I know what to expect-"

Gogeta suddenly dashed up to Goku, getting in his face so fast Goku froze for half a second in shock, and that half a second was all Gogeta needed, to land a devastating blow to his gut. "OUPHHHHHHHH!"

"Now we can start this battle for real." Gogeta chuckled.

Goku took a moment to recover from that punch, before smiling back.

Then the two vanished in a burst of speed.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG BANG!

Explosions filled the air, as the pair clashed again and again, at such high speeds that no one could see what was happening.

"They're fighting? So is that fake Goku guy evil?" Videl asked as she shielded her face from the harsh winds created by their clashes.

"Hard to tell. If he's like dad in any way then the two might end up fighting even if he's a good guy." Goten explained.

Goku flew at Gogeta and tried to punch him in the face, but Gogeta dashed to the side, dodging the attack, and countering with a knee to the gut.

Then he grabbed Goku's leg and began spinning him around, before throwing him down towards the street.

Goku flipped himself before he hit the ground, so he landed on his feet. He hit the ground and started skidding back until he managed to stop himself after a few miles.

Then Goku brought his fingers to his head, before vanishing and appearing above Gogeta using Instant Transmission.

Goku came down on Gogeta and attempted to land a kick on his head, but Gogeta caught his foot, stopping him in his tracks.

"Nice try. But I'm very familiar with that trick." Gogeta said before he started crushing Goku's foot.

"Aghhhhhh!" Goku screamed out in pain, before getting a hold of himself and breaking out of Gogeta's hold.

Goku flipped back and started firing ki blasts at Gogeta's back.

Gogeta quickly turned around and started deflecting the blasts, before charging at Goku, and attempting to punch him in the face.

Goku deflected the punch, before countering with a powerful uppercut.

Gogeta responded by bringing his head back down, slamming it into Goku's, sending him crashing back down to the ground.

"Big Bang!" Gogeta aimed his palm down at the building Goku crashed into, a ki sphere appearing in it. "Attack!"

Goku looked up at the attack in shock. "That's Vegeta's move!?

Quickly, he brought his fingers to his forehead, just managing to vanish before the attack slammed into the building, creating a massive explosion that shook the planet.

Goku appeared a good distance behind Gogeta, but the moment he appeared, Gogeta blasted him in the back. "Aghhhh!"

"Told you." Gogeta brought his own fingers to his forehead, before vanishing and appearing in front of Goku and landing a powerful rising kick to the chin. "I know all about that trick."

Goku thrust his palm forward and shot a ki beam at Gogeta, but Gogeta dashed to the side avoiding it, before spinning around and landing a powerful kick on Goku's side, sending him flying once again.

Gogeta followed, catching up to Goku and landing a punch to the face, sending him flying farther and faster.

Then Gogeta used Instant Transmission, appearing in front of Goku's path as he was flying towards him.

"Galick Gun!" Gogeta brought his arms back, in one of Vegeta's signature charging poses. "Fire!"

Gogeta fired a purple beam at Goku, who was flying right towards him.

No! I can't stop myself! Goku couldn't stop himself from flying towards the beam, but he did manage to turn himself around, before bringing his arms back. "Kame! Hame! HA!"

Goku barely managed to shoot his attack in time, firing his Kamehameha wave just before he was hit by the Galick Gun.

The two beams collide, but the Galick Gun had too much ground, Goku couldn't win a beam clash in this position.

So, Goku pushed himself off his beam, managing to move to the side, as the Galick Gun pushed past and soared away.

"Whew." Goku breathed a sigh of relief. This guy is reading me like a book. And he has Vegeta's attack AND the Instant Transmission. And his power. It feels familiar. Wait, could he be-

Gogeta charged forward and attempted to knee Goku in the chest, but Goku managed to block the attack.

"Hey, you're a fusion of the me and Vegeta of this timeline right?" Goku said as he held back Gogeta's advance.

"Heh, finally figured it out? You can call me, Gogeta." Gogeta introduced.

"Cool! But how are you this strong! Even a fusion between me and Vegeta shouldn't be enough to match the power of a Super Saiyan God." Goku pondered. "And why are you covered in fur?"

"That's because of two things. Firstly, you're likely several years younger than the Goku of our timeline, meaning we've had MUCH more time to train and refine our power." Gogeta explained. "The other would be because of our Super Saiyan 4 transformation! A power far beyond Super Saiyan 3. Although it seems to pale in comparison to Super Saiyan God. By the way, how does one become a god anyway?"

The two backed up, before charging forward and locking hands, getting into a contest of strength as they pushed against each other.

"Oh, that's easy! You just need to have five Saiyans that are pure of heart, and put their power into another Saiyan with a pure heart." Goku explained. "That means you need six Saiyans, not five. That confused us at first."

"I see. So it was you, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, Gohan, and either Pan or Bulla." Gogeta deduced.

"Who's Pan and Bulla?" Goku asked.

"Ok, so I guess they haven't been born yet in your time. Wait, then who was the last Saiyan?" Gogeta inquired.

"Oh, we used Gohan's unborn daughter," Goku explained.

"That's Pan. Wait, you used an unborn baby and that still worked?" Gogeta balked.

"Yup." Goku confirmed.

Gogeta then pulled Goku and kneed him in the face. But he didn't stop, he kept Goku close and unleashed a barrage of knees to chin.

Until Goku managed to move his head, dodging a strike, before headbutting Gogeta's stomach.

"Ouhhhhhh!" Gogeta released Goku, and Goku raised his palms up to him.

"HA!" Goku shot out a blast of pure force and sent Gogeta flying into the distance.

Goku took a moment to breathe. Alright. If this guy's a fusion, maybe he'll act like how me and Vegeta did when we fused against Buu. Flashy and overconfident.

Gogeta flew back at Goku, flying up, doing a fancy spin, before bringing his arm down on Goku.

Only for Goku to move to the side, causing Gogeta to crash down onto the ground, creating a massive crater.

Gogeta quickly pulled his fist out of the ground, and looked back up at Goku, only to see him with his hands over his face.

"Solar Flare!" Goku shouted as light burst out from him, blinding everyone.

"Grrr!" Once again Gogeta was forced to close his eyes to shield them from the light. Leaving him blind.

Goku smirked, and quickly used Instant Transmission to get behind Gogeta, and then ran at him.

As soon as Goku got close, Gogeta smirked and did a low sweeping kick behind him thinking he'd trip up his opponent, but Goku jumped over it, and planted both his boots in the fusion's face.

Goku jumped off of Gogeta's face landing on his hands before he did some backflips to gain distance.

Gogeta got back up and rubbed the side of his face. "Not bad. You were always a quick learner."

"Are you ready to start taking me seriously now?" Goku asked as he took a fighting stance.

And then, suddenly, the god power faded, and Goku returned to base.

"Ha!" Goku, seemingly not noticing this, charged at Gogeta.

"Wait! Your form's-" Gogeta couldn't finish his sentence, as Goku suddenly punched him in the face, sending him flying back.

Gogeta flipped himself upright as flew back, and dug his feet and hand into the ground until he stopped. What the hell? He's reverted to base form, but his power and speed are no different.

Goku flew up, before performing a powerful dive kick, aimed right at Gogeta, with the fusion raising his arm and blocking the attack, creating a huge shock wave from the impact.

"Not bad!" Goku jumped back into the air and tossed a ki blast down at Gogeta. "Ha!"

"Ha!" Gogeta shot his own ki blast in return. The two blasts slammed into each other, creating a massive explosion, and a huge cloud of smoke.

Goku looked down at the cloud of smoke, waiting for Gogeta to make his next move.

But when the smoke subsided, he saw Gogeta, charging up another familiar attack. "Final! Flash!"

Gogeta shot out a massive yellow beam at Goku, causing the Saiyan's eyes to widen.

Goku flew to the side to try and dodge the attack, but Gogeta tilted the attack, causing the beam to curve and follow Goku.

The attack was too close to dodge now, and he wouldn't be able to use Instant Transmission in time.

All Goku could do was put his arms up, and brace for impact.

The beam engulfed him, but Goku was able to fly out of it, although he still took a good bit of damage.

"Aghhhhh." Goku groaned as he flew back down to the ground. "Whew, that last one did a number on me."

"Hey, have you noticed yet?" Gogeta asked. "Your Super Saiyan God form's gone, you're back in your normal form."

"Huh?" Goku looked over a broken window and found that in his reflection, was black hair rather than red. "Woah when did that happen!? I didn't notice at all!?... I don't feel any weaker though."

"I don't think you got any weaker. I can sense your energy now, and it's incredible." Gogeta smiled. He put his knee up, and his hands out, forming a ring of ki with a ki sphere inside of it. "Makes me wanna go all out!"

"Woah! That's a huge amount of energy! Better respond in kind!" Goku powered up and brought his hands behind him. "Kame!"

"Big Bang!" Gogeta shouted as he charged up more energy.

"Hameeeeeeeee!" Goku said as he did the same.

"Kamehame!" Gogeta called.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" They both shouted as they launched their massive beams forward.

The beams rushed at each other, destroying everything in their path, until they collided.

BOOM!

The beams smashed into each other, the force of which blew away the surrounding buildings.

Both beams struggled against the other, as Goku and Gogeta tried to overpower each other.

"Heh. Not bad. But not enough! HAAAAAAA!" Gogeta poured even more power into the beam, making it increase in size, and started to push Goku's attack back. "At the end of the day, you're only one man. And I am the combined will of Goku and Vegeta! This is the culmination of their power! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

"Grrrrrrrrrr." Goku struggled, as he felt Gogeta's power pushing him back, as the Big Bang Kamehameha got closer and closer. "No. You're wrong. This power was entrusted to me by my friends. My family. They trusted me to protect them! So I have to get back! I can't lose! I refuse! TO LET THEM DOWN! HAAAAAAAAAA!"

Goku exploded into Super Saiyan, and he poured all of his newfound power into his attack, causing the beam to triple in size, and rapidly push Gogeta's attack back.

Gogeta's eyes widened, as Goku's attack rapidly overtook his, and soon he was engulfed completely by the Kamehameha.

"Grrrrrrr!" Gogeta hissed as the Kamehameha threatened to tear him apart. Through the wave of blue energy, he could see Goku's figure, and he smirked. Such incredible power, I never thought I'd get the chance to fight against someone like this!

Gogeta cocked his right arm back, and poured energy into his fist, covering it in an emerald green glow, before charging forward, through the Kamehameha. "Shining Dragon Fist!"

Energy wrapped around Gogeta, forming a huge emerald green dragon that was charging through the wave of energy, right at Goku.

"He's still not giving up! Guess that's what I should expect from me and Vegeta. But I'm not backing down either! Haaaaaaaaaa!" Goku poured every last bit of his energy into his attack, causing the beam to grow even larger.

Gogeta's dragon continued to charge through until it reached Goku.

And then everything went white.

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"Grandpa!?" Was the first thing that Goku(Gt) heard as he awoke.

"Huh?" Goku opened his eyes and found everyone looking down at him. "Wh-what happened?"

He looked around and found himself lying in a crater, right next to Vegeta who was also just regaining consciousness.

"After you and that other Goku clashed, there was this big flash, and when it went away, Goku was gone," Gohan explained. "Omega Shenron came back but…"

They looked over to another part of the crater and saw Omega curled up in the fetal position, sobbing quietly.

"He's been like that." Trunks finished. "I think when that first flash happened, he and that other Goku switched places, and when the second flash happened, they switched back. Meaning Omega was fighting whoever that Goku was fighting."

"I really don't wanna know what kinda monster that Goku was fighting for someone like Omega Shenron to be like this." Pan shuddered.

"We should probably still take him out before he regains his senses," Vegeta said.

"Oh yeah, how about we try that god ritual thing," Goku suggested.

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"Huh?" Goku looked around and found himself back in space. "Did it work?"

"Well well well, you finally made your way back," Beerus said. "But it looks like you've lost your god power."

"Oh, Lord Beerus! Don't worry, I may not be in Super Saiyan God anymore, but for some reason, I'm not any weaker." Goku said, before realizing that statement was no longer true. While he did absorb the power from his god form, he had also used a crap ton of power in his battle against Gogeta. And was now very, very tired.

"Hmmm. Interesting. Well then, shall we continue." Beerus smirked.

Goku gulped. "Uh oh."

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What if Freiza had trained?

"I am the legendary Super Saiyan! Son Goku!" Goku shouted as newfound Super Saiyan power swelled around him. "Haaaaaaaaa!"

Goku rushed at Frieza, cocking his fist back and ready to unleash his righteous fury on the terrible tyrant.

He launched his fist forward into Frieza's chest.

And his attack did nothing.

"Hmm. Well, I suppose I should reward you. You realized a legend after all." Freiza chuckled. "And so as a reward, I will now show you a bit more of my power."

Freiza held up his fingers to Goku's head, and flicked him, causing Goku's entire body to explode into a bloody mess.

"Hmm. Well, it looks like the legendary Super Saiyan wasn't so super. I didn't even have to transform." Freiza laughed.

What If Goku remembered the Mafuba. Saiyan Saga.

Vegeta looked down at Goku. Arms crossed, smirking confidently.

Credit where it was due, Kakarot had become VERY strong for a low-class warrior. But at the end of the day, he was still a low-class warrior, and Vegeta was a Super Elite. The prince of all Saiyans!

Defeat was impossible.

Which is why he was more confused than alarmed when Goku took out a jar and placed it in front of him.

"Kaioken! Times 3!" Goku shouted as his body was surrounded by a furious red aura. "Mafuba!"

Goku shot out a green energy vortex at Vegeta, who put his arms up to block whatever attack this was, but that turned out to be fruitless, as his body was swallowed by the vortex, and became a part of it.

"What!? What is happening!?" Vegeta shouted, completely unable to move and break out of whatever this was.

"Ha!" Goku shot the energy down into the jar, bringing Vegeta with it.

Quickly Goku deactivated Kaioken, and put a lid on the jar, before placing a seal on it. Thus ending the threat of the Saiyans.

What if Goku Remembered the Mafuba? Cell Saga

Goku took in a few deep breaths, as he watched Cell do the same, the two of them standing next to the remnants of the destroyed ring.

The battle may LOOK even, but I know he's holding back. I can't win. Goku thought. Confirming his earlier suspensions. Well, I still have one trick up my sleeve.

Goku looked over at Piccolo. "Hey! Piccolo, give it to me!"

"Hmph. Finally." Piccolo said, before taking out a bottle and tossing it to Goku.

"Oh and what's this?" Cell asked as he watched Goku set the bottle down in front of him and get in a familiar stance. Oh, it's THAT technique. Oh foolish little Saiyan. Did you forget how well that worked on Piccolo? And that I have his Cells. How disappointing.

"Mafuba!" Goku shouted as he shot out a green vortex at Cell.

Cell smirked, and got ready to perform the reverse Mafuba.

And then suddenly, Goku and the vortex vanished, appearing behind Cell via Instant Transmission.

"WHAT!?" Cell shouted as he turned around, but it was too late, he'd already been swallowed by the vortex, and become part of it. "NOO! NOOOO! THIS CAN'T BEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"HA!" Goku shouted as he dunked the energy into the bottle, trapping Cell inside.

Piccolo rushed over, stretching out his arm putting a cork in the bottle, and adding the seal. Ending the threat of Cell.

What If Piccolo taught Gohan the Mafuba.

Gohan really wished he'd done some more training.

Currently, Majin Buu was making a fool of him, and it seemed like nothing he did work on the squishy pink menace.

However, there was still one thing that could work. One ray of hope. All he needed to do was wait until Supreme Kai returned.

Gohan stared down Buu, panting, his body covered in wounds, as Buu goofy marched towards him, without a care in the world.

And then Supreme Kai appeared next to him, with a bottle and seal. "Gohan! I got the things you asked for? What now!?"

"Thanks, just watch!" Gohan said, as he took the items, and put the bottle down in front of him.

"Huh? What that?" Buu asked, looking at the bottle curiously.

"Mafuba!" Gohan shouted as he launched a green vortex at Buu.

"Huhhh!? HUHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" Buu screamed as he was engulfed in the vortex, and became a part of it.

"HA!" Gohan shot the vortex down into the bottle, trapping Buu inside, and the half Saiyan quickly put the cork and seal on. Ending the threat of Majin Buu.

What if Goku took Black seriously?

Goku and Black stared at each other, and Black opened his palm and shot a ki blast at the Saiyan.

Goku transformed into Super Saiyan Blue and batted the blast away, before appearing before Black in a burst of speed, and shoving his fist, right through the doppelganger's chest.

"ACKK! I-Impossible." Black wheezed before the light left his eyes.

What if Goku took Majin Vegeta seriously?

"Alright Vegeta, if it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get!" Goku shouted as they faced off in the deserted wasteland. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Energy crackled around Goku, and Vegeta's eyes went wide as he felt Goku's power surge and the earth trembled. What!? What is this incredible power?

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goku continued building up power, as slowly his hair began to grow out, crawling down his back.

Goku doesn't! You'll use up all the time you have left! King Kai shouted telepathically but to no effect.

"HAAAAAAAAAA! RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Goku's energy exploded out, into a blinding golden glow.

Vegeta was forced to look away until the glow died down. And when he looked back, he found Goku, in a brand new form. With long golden hair, and no eyebrows.

"This. Super Saiyan 3." Goku explained.

"You…You swine! You were holding back!" Vegeta growled, pushing his anger up to mask the various other emotions that Goku's overwhelming power brought out. "How much do you intend to mock me!?"

"Sorry, but I can't afford to use this form unless I have to. And I also can't afford to waste time while using it." Goku said.

And then next thing Vegeta knew, Goku's fist was buried in his stomach.

BOOM!

The force of Goku's blow created a shock wave that went through Vegeta's body and burst out his back, blowing up the ground behind him.

"ACKKK!" Vegeta stumbled back, as the wind was knocked out of his lungs, and he struggled for air.

But Goku didn't give him any time, kicking him up into the air, before appearing above Vegeta, and elbowing him in the back, sending him crashing into the ground.

Vegeta slammed into the ground, creating a massive crater. Unable to withstand Goku's power, Vegeta closed his eyes and fell unconscious.

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Goku very nearly let his guard down.

With the fusion's time limit running out, Buu no longer held Gotenks's power, and victory appeared to be in sight.

But years of conflict had taught Goku that these things never went so smoothly. Their foes always seemed to have one final trump card.

And Goku just barely noticed it before it was too late. A piece of Buu, sneaking up behind Gohan.

That piece lunged at Gohan, just as Goku put his fingers to his head.

"Wha-!" In the nick of time, Goku used Instant Transmission, appearing next to Gohan and pushing him out of the way, causing that piece of Buu to latch onto Goku instead.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Gohan screamed as he saw his father get engulfed, giving his son a knowing smile, and dropping his earring, before the bubblegum-like substance consumed him completely, shrunk, and then flew into Buu.

"RAHHHHHHHHH! HAHAHAHAHA!" Buu laughed, as he transformed once again, losing Piccolo's cape, and gaining the top of Goku's orange gi. "I didn't get my intended target. But this will do. Yes, this will do nicely."

"How dare you!" Gohan roared as he charged at Buu.

Buu smirks as Gohan attempts to punch him in the face from below, only for Buu to tilt his head, dodging the attack, before he raises his leg up and slams it down on Gohan's head. Causing Gohan to crash into the ground.

"Die Die Missile Barrage!" Buu shouted before unleashing a barrage of ki blasts down at Gohan.

Gohan jumped back to his feet and started flying away from the blasts, barely avoiding each attack as they exploded against the ground on contact, before shooting a ki blast of his own up at Buu.

Buu ceased his barrage, and batted away the ki blasts, giving Gohan enough time to rush at him once again.

Gohan unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks, putting Buu on the defensive as he was forced to block and parry each of Gohan's attacks, but eventually, Gohan broke through and landed a clean punch to the side of Buu's cheek.

"Grrrr!" Buu grabbed the arm Gohan used to punch him, and then he extended his head-tail thing, and wrapped it around Gohan's other arm, restraining him. "HAAAA!"

"AGH! OUF! GAH!" Gohan screamed as Buu started punching him in the face and chest while keeping his arms from moving.

Buu went in for another punch, but Gohan shot up his legs and caught his fist. Then, Gohan managed to flip them in the air, so Buu's back was facing towards the ground, and Gohan flew them down into the ground, and slammed his feet into Buu's chest.

THOOM!

"GAH!" Buu gasped, his grasp weakening allowing Gohan to pull his arm away, before chopping off the head-tail thing, freeing his other arm.

Gohan jumped off of Buu and flew back up into the air. Then he raised his arms up over his head, and brought them together, to charge a powerful attack.

Buu flipped back onto his feet, and looked up at Gohan with a glare, before bringing his arms back and charging his own attack. "Kame! Hame!"

How dare he use that move! Gohan growled as he continued charging his attack. "Masenko!"

"HA!" They both shouted as they launched their beams at each other.

BOOM!

The beams collided, and clashed against each other, creating massive shockwaves of pure force that rolled throughout the wasteland.

Gohan's Masenko quickly started pushing Buu's attack back and closing in on the Majin.

"Grrrrrrrr!" Buu needed to find a way to overpower this brat.

And then it hit him. A wicked smirk split Buu's face, as an idea came to mind.

"Kaioken! Times 10!" Buu shouted, as not only was his body surrounded by a fierce red aura, but his Kamehameha, doubled in size, and immediately started overpowering Gohan's Masenko. Pushing towards the Half Saiyan.

"No!" Gohan poured as much power as he could into his attack, but it was no good, he was still being overpowered.

"Hehehehe! I see! A technique not even Goku himself could fully make use of! Of course, my regeneration, its drawback is not even a concern!" Buu boasted. "Observe! Kaioken times 50!"

BOOM!

Buu's beam tripled in size, and Gohan was left helpless as his attack was obliterated, and he was engulfed by the energy wave.

KABOOM!

The beam exploded in contact with Gohan, creating a massive explosion that shook the earth itself, and created a massive cloud of smoke.

A few moments later, Gohan fell out of the cloud, his battered, burned, and bruised body falling limply onto the ground with a thump.

"Aghhhhh." Gohan groaned, as he barely held onto consciousness after that last attack.

"Hmm. Still alive? Well, aren't you resilient?" Buu chuckled. "But it's far from enough. Thanks to your father's technique, I can raise my power as high as I want! Times 100!"

Buu's aura exploded further, filling the wasteland with his insane power.

Then, Buu brought his hands to his chest and started charging a Light Grenade. "You're finished, boy!"

"No…damn it!" Gohan could barely force himself onto his hands, before softly punching the ground. "Dad."

His memory went back to Goku's face, just before he got absorbed. It reminded him too much of how he looked just before he sacrificed himself to keep Cell from blowing up the earth.

Once again he'd messed up. And once again it cost him. But this time it didn't just cost him dad. His failure to finish the job had cost him Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks as well.

"DAMN IT ALL!" Gohan shouted as he punched the ground again, this time with far more power.

Emotions stirred inside the Half Saiyan. Shame. Despair. Self Loathing.

But out of all of them, the most prominent emotion. Was rage.

He could feel it, rising inside him. And as it did, suddenly the pain from that last attack became less noticeable, and energy filled him once more.

Why? Gohan asked himself. Why do I always have to fight!? Why does someone always have to come along, and try to make our lives hell!? Why can't we just live in peace damn it!

They had peace for seven years, but now it felt like that time was nothing. Old wounds opened up, as he recalled his life from as far as he could remember.

Raditz kidnapped him and caused his father's first death. The nightmare that was Nappa's unstoppable onslaught, killing all his friends one by one. Vegeta's seemingly unending assault threw everything they had at him, and yet he kept getting up.

Hiding for his life on Namek, only to be crushed by the Ginyu Force, and then immediately after he had to contend with Freiza and his boundless power, which seemed to have no end as he just kept transforming.

Then Cell came. And HE was tasked with defeating him. And because of his hubris, what should have been a sure victory, ended up with his father's second death.

And now Buu.

He'd killed his mother. His friends. Almost everyone on earth. He'd absorbed his brother and his teacher. And now he'd taken his father as well.

"No more. NO! MORE EEEEEEE!" Gohan screamed as he rose up and power burst from him like a volcano eruption. Creating a giant beacon of light that pierced the sky.

"What!?" Buu's eyes widened as he looked at the pillar of light before him. And sensed inside of it, an incredible storm of power.

When the light died down, there stood Gohan. But he looked different.

His hair seemed to have tripled in size, becoming far spikier, and turning a light gray color, as a bluish aura surrounded his body.

Gohan opened his eyes, revealing them to have turned crimson red.

"What, what is this?" Buu asked, utterly baffled at seeing the previously half-dead warrior suddenly transform into something completely different.

Gohan looked down at himself for a moment, before returning his attention to Buu. "Don't know. Don't care. All that matters is, I think I have the power to kill you now."

"Ha. Hahaha! Don't get cocky brat! My power is limitless! Times 200!" Buu screamed, as his power exploded once again, and he continued charging his attack. "Light Grande!"

Buu thrust out his hands forward and shot out a massive ki blast at Gohan.

Gohan stared down the giant ki blast and cocked his leg back.

As soon as the blast reached Gohan, he kicked it up, like a giant soccer ball, sending the massive blast into the depths of space.

Buu looked up at where the blast had been sent, in utter disbelief, before looking back at where Gohan was. "How did-"

But when he looked down, Gohan was gone. Now behind him, with his palm raised at the Majin's back.

Buu barely managed to jump up into the sky, as Gohan unleashed a burst of ki, destroying both of Buu's legs which had been caught in the blast.

"I-Impossible!" Buu growled, as he quickly regenerated his legs. "I can't be overpowered! It's impossible! Times 500!"

After another burst of power, Buu spat out a little ghost version of himself, which rushed down at Gohan.

It attempted to grab onto the Half Saiyan, but a swift chop sliced it in two, causing it to explode, creating a big cloud of smoke.

Then, from that cloud, seven more little ghost Buus lunged at Gohan, spreading out and attempting to latch onto him from several different directions.

But in a flash, Gohan punched and kicked all of them away, launching them in various directions before they promptly exploded.

Then, Buu appeared next to Gohan, using instant transmission, with a charged Kamehameha in hand.

"HA!" Buu unleashed the attack on Gohan at point-blank range, immediately engulfing Gohan in the big blue beam.

"Heh!" Buu smirked as his attack connected, but his smile was immediately wiped off his face, as Gohan jumped out of his beam, and kicked him in the side of the head, sending him flying.

Before Buu could stop himself, Gohan dashed past him as he was flying, and stopped him by grabbing him by his face and planting him into the ground.

Then Gohan flew up, high into the sky, before diving back down at full force, slamming his knee into Buu's gut.

BOOM!

A massive shockwave exploded out from the epicenter of Gohan's attack, shattering the ground around them and causing it to fly away, carried by the shockwave, completely flattening the terrain.

"Ahhh. Ahhhh." Buu choked, reeling from the pain of the last attack.

But Gohan didn't give him any time to recover, he unleashed a quick flurry of punches on the pink demon, before grabbing Buu by the shirt, and flying up into the sky with him, then stopping and throwing him upwards.

Buu flipped helplessly in the air for a bit, before he managed to stop himself. "How? How could he be this strong?"

"Kame!" Gohan brought his hands back and started charging an attack. "Hame!"

Buu's eyes widened as he felt the energy Gohan was building up. "Kaioken Times 1,000!"

Then, Buu raised his arms over his head and charged his own attack. "Masenko!"

"HA!" The two unleashed their beams at each other, and they clashed once again.

Gohan's beam easily pushed back Buu's beam, and the Majin knew he needed far more power.

"Times 10,000!" Buu shouted, as once again his power exploded, and his beam sextupled in size, slowing down the progress made by Gohan's beam.

"Tch. HAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gohan poured every bit of energy he had into his beam, making it double in size, and once again it pushed back Buu's oversized beam.

"Noooo! Nooooo!" Buu shouted as his beam was completely overpowered, and he was engulfed by Gohan's attack. "Impossible!"

Buu's body was utterly obliterated by the Kamehameha wave, wiped away without a trace.

Gohan stopped his attack, and the beam diminished to nothing.

He looked up at where Buu was and was relieved to see that not even a trace remained.

And the Half Saiyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he sensed something terrible right behind him.

He quickly turned around, and saw Buu, with a fully charged Special Beam Cannon, aimed right for his chest.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

The attack fired, going right through Gohan's chest.

"AGHHHHHHHHH!" Gohan screamed as he was impaled by his mentor's attack, blood flying out of his mouth.

The attack stopped, and Buu scowled at Gohan. "Tch, so you managed to react to that."

Gohan didn't have enough time to dodge the attack fully, but he did manage to maneuver himself so the beam didn't hit any of his vital organs.

He still had a hole in his chest, however. Which wasn't ideal for this situation.

Gohan stumbled back, clutching the bleeding hole in his chest. Damn it! Why do I always let my guard down!?

"Well, in your current state, I'd say your chances of winning are looking mighty slim," Buu smirked, as he cracked his knuckles. Which was weird, since he didn't have bones.

"How? I annihilated you!?" Gohan asked.

"Do you recall my little smoke screen?" Buu asked. "After that, I split myself in two. The clone distracted you, while I charged this little surprise attack. And you fell for my ploy, hook line, and sinker."

Damn it! He didn't just gain Piccolo's techniques, but his strategic prowess too! Gohan cursed.

He was running on fumes. That Kamehameha he'd taken had done a number to him, so even with the new transformation he knew he needed to finish things up quickly before his stamina ran out. Which is why he poured so much power into his last attack, draining him even further.

And now he was really struggling to keep going. He could feel his power dropping rapidly. And once again a sure victory was slipping away.

"HAAAAAAAA!" Gohan charged at Buu once again, summoning all his strength to continue the fight.

Buu tried to punch him in the face to stop him, but Gohan ducked under it, and then countered with a devastating uppercut, making Buu stumble back.

But Buu quickly shot his head back down, and shot eye beams at Gohan's face, blinding him for a moment.

Capitalizing on this, Buu jumped up, flipping over Gohan so he was positioned downwards, and then shot three Galactic Donuts down at the still-stunned Half Saiyan, before landing back on the ground.

The energy rings tightened around Gohan, pinning his arms to his sides.

Buu then raised his arm up and shot out an energy blast up into the air.

After traveling a bit, the beam curved, falling back down towards Gohan, as the tip of the beam suddenly turned into a razor-sharp blade.

Gohan jumped back, avoiding the attack, and allowing it to slam into the ground instead.

Buu kept his hand raised up and shot another beam up into the sky, but this time, it split into hundreds of smaller beams that rained down on the area below.

Gohan, still bound by the donuts, did his best to dodge each beam, but some still managed to graze him, leaving small cuts all over his body.

While Buu continued his attack, he spat out five little ghost versions of himself, and they launched themselves as Gohan.

The ghosts grabbed onto Gohan, grabbing his legs, shoulders, and head, holding him in place.

This allowed the beams that were still raining down, to hit Gohan, piercing various parts of his body. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Heh." Buu stopped his attack and then snapped his fingers.

Both the Galactic Donuts and the ghosts began to glow before they all exploded.

KABOOM!

The explosion shook the solar system itself and created a blip of light that could be seen from space.

When the light died down, the wasteland had turned into a giant crater, Buu was flying over it, and looked down at the center, to see Gohan lying there.

Dead.

"Ahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Buu laughed as he flew down to Gohan, and placed a foot on his corpse. "I told you! No one can defeat me! I'm invinceab-AHHHHH!"

Suddenly, Buu felt something inside him shift.

Then he was no longer wearing Goku's gi and was once again adorned in Piccolo's cape. "What!?"

"So it's finally happening."

Buu looked up and saw Vegeta flying over him.

"What!? Vegeta? What did you do!? What is happening to me!?" Buu asked, and suddenly he was no longer wearing Piccolo's cape, but Trunks's gi.

"I didn't do anything, this was all because of your misuse of Kakarot's technique" Vegeta smirked, as he saw Trunks's gi get replaced by Goten's. "Using it to such an absurd degree, it was inevitable that even your strange body wouldn't be able to handle it forever. Now Kakarot must have broken free inside you, and is setting free all the others you absorbed!"

"Nooooo! NOOOOOOOO!" Buu shouted as he reverted to base Super Buu. "Don't! Don't! I need them! Without them, I'm not me! NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Suddenly, Goku appeared outside of Buu, with an unconscious Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, and even Fat Buu beside him.

"Huh? Vegeta!?" Goku looked up at his rival in shock. "What are you doing here?"

"Hmph, I was sent to help take care of Buu. But by the time I got here, his power was far beyond anything I could hope to fight against, so I left it all to your son." Vegeta said before glancing at Gohan's dead body.

Goku looked over to his dead son, with an expression of deep sadness. "Gohan. Thank you."

While Gohan didn't manage to kill Buu, he did force Buu to utilize the Kaioken beyond his own limits, weakening his body to the point where Goku was able to awaken and break out.

If they won. No. When they won. It would be because of Gohan.

"Ahhh! Ahhh! AGHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Buu screamed, as suddenly his body started to change, buffing up to an absurd degree. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Huh? What's going on? Is he going for muscles now?" Goku asked as he watched Buu transform.

"No. He's not done transforming." Vegeta noted as he watched Buu's shape continue to change.

Suddenly, Buu shrank down, transforming into a smaller, childlike form. Kid Buu.

"Heh. Hahaha! And here I was worried." Vegeta smirked as he looked at the small Majin. "And here I was worried. Look, he's half of his former self!"

"Yeah, we may be able to win this!" Goku said.

Kid Buu looked up at Goku and Vegeta and gave them a chilling smile. Of pure malicious intent.

Then in a flash, Buu was on top of them, grabbing both their faces and slamming them into the dirt.

Goku's eyes widened, but he quickly kicked it into battle mode, and burst into Super Saiyan 3, with Vegeta doing the same, and going into Super Saiyan 2.

They both punched Buu in the face at the same time, sending Kid Buu flying into the air.

Kid Buu stopped himself and looked back down at the two, seemingly not affected by the attacks all that much.

"Damn, guess we still shouldn't underestimate him," Goku said as he and Vegeta got back up.

"Time to end this, once and for all!" Vegeta shouted as they both powered up and flew at Buu.

As they fought, Dende flew into the crater, and over to Gohan's body. "Gohan."

He confirmed it. The boy was dead.

If only I could have gotten to him just a bit sooner. Dende had been lurking around the battlefield, hoping for a chance to use his powers to heal Gohan. But that chance never came.

Although, that wasn't the only thing Dende had been doing.

Dende looked down at his hand, and the two potara earrings lay in his palm.

Chapter Text

"Something doesn't feel right," Shin said as he had tea with Elder Kai.

"What do you mean Supreme Kai? Kabito asked.

"He's right. Something feels off about today." Elder Kai said as he sipped his tea.

"Perhaps it's because you know in your heart that the savior of the universe has arrived." Said a wicked voice from behind. "HA!"

All three of the gods jumped up in shock, but before they could do anything, all three of them were caught by surprise and engulfed in a massive beam. Annihilating them all but instantly.

When the beam died down, Black smirked as he looked in front of him. Nothing but a burnt trail where the beam had been. All three gods, dead. "Hmph! I've not even gotten close to reaching the peak of this body's power, and yet I killed them all so easily. What failures of divinity. Well, now that Beerus is out of the way, there are only two more things I need to take care of. Before my victory is assured."

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Meanwhile, on Beerus's planet, Vegeta was punching and kicking the air in front of him, while Whis oversaw his form.

Then suddenly, Whis felt it. A shift in the universal balance.

"Oh dear." Whis scowled.

"Huh? What?" Vegeta stopped, curious about what in the universe could bother Whis of all people. It was either completely mundane or extremely important. There was no in-between with him.

"It appears the Supreme Kai, and by extension Beerus, have been killed." Whis sighed, sounding more annoyed than anything else.

"WHAT!?" Vegeta shouted. "What do you mean Beerus has been killed!? Who did it!?"

"I don't know. Probably someone powerful, with ambitions they don't wish a God of Destruction to interfere with." Whis shrugged.

What the hell?! For someone to kill the Supreme Kai, they'd at least have to be as strong as Cell and make it all the way to the world of the Kais. Vegeta scowled. If someone that dangerous is running around…I need to return to earth.

"...Whis. Send me back." Vegeta demanded.

"I'm afraid that's not possible." Whis sighed.

"WHAT!?" Vegeta screamed. "Look if you want more food I'll-"

"No no. It's not that. Believe me, I'd love to go back and enjoy some more of Earth's delicacies. But I quite literally can't." Whis explained. "You see, us Angels have many restrictions placed on us by the Universe itself. One of those being that when our God of Destruction is killed, we become inactive. Meaning our freedom becomes quite restrained. I can not use any of my angel powers to take you across the universe back to your home. If I try, I will be erased from existence, leaving you floating in space."

"T-That's absurd!?" Vegeta shouted in disbelief. "So I'm just stuck here until someone revives Beerus!?

"IF someone revives Beerus." Whis laughed. "It truly is a shame that Goku did not decide to join us. Even more so that you never took the time to learn Instant Transmission!"

"Grrrrrrr!" Vegeta racked his brain, trying to think of any potential solution. "What if I become the God of Destruction! I'm not as strong as Beerus, but I have to be at least stronger than the weakest destroyer!"

Whis laughed even harder. "Oh, Vegeta. You're still a ways away before you could be properly elected as a Destroyer. Though I do suppose I could still train you to try and reach that level. But we'll likely run out of food before you reach it."

"Damn it! I'll try it anyway!" Vegeta shouted, before powering up to Super Saiyan Blue. "I'm not just going to sit on this planet waiting to die!"

"Hmm, very well. It will be harder to teach you without the full use of my power, but I will do as best I can." Whis said.

Vegeta clenched his fist as he got ready to train like his life depended on it. Bulma, Trunks. Damn it Kakarot you better not let anything happen to them while I'm gone!

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"Whaaaaa! Whaaaaa!"

"Oh, Pan, please calm down." Videl sighed, exasperated by her daughter's non-stop crying.

"Did you check her diaper?" Hercule asked as he looked over his daughter and granddaughter.

"Yes. I've changed her diaper. Fed her. Tried to put her to sleep, but nothing worked." Videl explained. "She just suddenly started crying earlier and hasn't stopped since."

"Hey guys! Look who showed up to visit!" Gohan said as he walked into the living room. With Black right behind him.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Pan cried extra loud as soon as Black entered the room. "Nawt grampa! Nawt Grampa!"

"Huh?" Gohan turned to face his daughter, confused by the sudden fuss, turning his back to Black. "Not, Grandpa?

SHING!

Suddenly Gohan felt an unbearable pain in his chest and looked down to see a ki blade, stabbing him right through the heart.

Feeling his strength rapidly leaving him, as numbness and cold set in across his body, he used what little strength he had to turn his head around.

And the last thing Gohan saw before everything went dark was an evil grin that did not belong on his father's face.

He understood what his daughter had tried to warn them about. But it was already far too late.

Gohan's dead body fell to the ground and Black made his blade vanish, the other two staring at his corpse in shock.

The shock didn't last long though, as Videl quickly gave Pan to her father, before taking a protective fighting stance in front of both of them. "Who the hell are you, and what did you do to Goku?!"

Black laughed. "It's amusing is it not? His own infant daughter was able to detect my godly presence before he could! I feel offended and I'm not even a Saiyan! What a disgrace! Mortal arrogance at its finest. Still, I'm grateful, had Son Gohan not slacked so much on his training, I would not have been able to kill him so easily, thus removing yet another obstacle in my path to a true utopia."

"...I don't know what the hell you want, but it's pretty clear that you want to get rid of Earth's strongest fighters." Videl scowled. "But let me tell you this. You're going to lose. This isn't the first time we've put up against a monster. Defeat us, kill us all, destroy our planet. It doesn't matter. Even if you kill us right here. It won't matter. Because we've been through this before. And it always ends the same way. With villains like you, burning in hell, and us back here, living our lives."

"Hmph." Black raised his hand up to them, aiming his palm at the three. "Arrogant, just like your husband."

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

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Dende dropped his staff. "N-No! Gohan!"

Having sensed some weird energies, Dende had used his godly powers to investigate.

Only to find Chi-Chi, Goten, and some weird alien dead on Goku's farm.

Next, he feels Gohan's energy vanish, and looks in to find Goku killing Gohan's whole family!

"I have to warn everyone else! Before it's too late!" Dende shouted.

"Oh, it's already far, far too late." Said a menacing voice from above.

Dende looked up, and much to his horror, there was Black, flying above him.

"The guardian of earth. You distort the natural order of things with those dragon balls, and you have the gall to call yourself a god?" Black hissed. "The fact that such power has been allowed to stay in the hands of mortals, is truly one the greatest sins of the gods! Well no longer. I've already paid those Namakians and that Baba woman a visit, the Super Dragon Balls are inoperable, and now Earth's dragon balls shall be destroyed as well."

Black raised his hand up and slowly formed a Black Power Ball.

Dende looked up at the attack that would soon turn him into dust in the wind.

He didn't have much time. But there was one thing he could do.

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Piccolo honed his focus, as he meditated on top of a mountain near his home.

PICCOLO!

Piccolo immediately opened his eyes, as he heard Dende's desperate cries via telepathy. Dende? What's-

I don't have much time! Gohan and Goku are dead! ALL the dragon balls are gone! You have to-

And then suddenly, silence.

Dende! Dende! Piccolo waited a few moments longer, but he knew Dende wouldn't be responding.

He felt for Dende's ki, but he felt nothing.

He felt for Gohan and Goku's ki.

And he felt nothing.

Damn it all. Piccolo growled. Who the hell is behind this!

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Yamcha was driving down a desert road in his car, enjoying the wind flowing through his hair on his face.

And then a ki blast slammed into his car from his left, causing his car to explode with him in it.

BOOM!

Yamcha's car turned into a smoking crater, and a few moments later Yamcha walked out of the smoke, coughing and a bit scuffed up. "The hell? I didn't sense anyone around here?"

"Of course you couldn't, did you think the likes of you could detect the presence of a god?" Black said as he descended in front of him.

"Goku? No. Goku would never look that evil!" Yamcha immediately got into a fighting stance, albeit a rusty one. "I don't know who you are, but I'll make you pay for blowing up my car!"

Yamcha held up his palm and formed a ki ball. "Spirit Ball! HA!"

The washed-up Z Fighter threw his attack at Black, ready to start manipulating it as soon as Black dodged it.

Only for Black to grab the Spirit Ball, and start to squeeze it in his hand, until it shattered, breaking apart into little energy particles.

"Oh. Uh oh." Yamcha said as he realized just how screwed he really was.

Then Black lunged forward and kicked Yamcha square in the gut, and drove him back, flying through the desert, before smashing him into the base of a mountain.

Black bounced off of Yamhca's gut flying back and flipping through the air before landing on his feet, and then aiming his palm at Yamcha.

PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM!

Black let off a barrage of ki blasts that slammed into Yamcha, exploding on contact and blowing up the mountain, creating a giant cloud of smoke and dust.

"Hmph, what a pitiful showing," Black said as he turned away, ready to continue to his next destination.

Then, Yamcha rushed out of the smoke, charging at Black with everything he had.

"What!?" Black turned around to face Yamcha, but before he could do anything Yamcha struck a claw-like blow onto the villain's chest.

"Neo! Wolf Fang Fist!" Yamcha shouted as he unleashed a flurry of rapid blows, with everything he had. Then he brought his hands together for one final blow. "HA!"

AWOOOOOOOOOOO!

Black went flying back, crashing through multiple mountains before being carried away into the distance.

"Huff. Huff. Ughhhh." Yamcha groaned as he struggled to catch his breath after not only taking all those blasts but unleashing an attack of his own. Damn it, I should have kept up with my training more. Can't worry about that now! I need to warn everyone! I hope they felt my energy.

Yamcha turned to fly away.

Only for Black to be right behind him.

SHING!

With a swipe of his ki blade, he cut Yamcha's throat.

"Pahhhh!" Yamcha gasped, as blood started flying out of his throat, absolutely pouring out. "N-Not….again."

Yamcha collapsed onto the floor, more blood leaking out, as his body grew colder.

"Hmph." Black dusted off his clothes. "How dare you lay hands upon a god."

And with that, Black flew away, letting the former warrior bleed out on the sands of the desert.

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Roshi was casually watering the plants on his island, humming to himself as he went. "Hmm. Hmm. Hmmm."

"Roshi." Said a voice from above.

"Hmm?" Roshi turned around and looked up, to find Black flying above him. "Hmmm. You're not Goku, are you? I can't sense your energy, but the presence you exude is distinctly sinister."

"Indeed. I am a god, here to enact judgment on all mortal kind." Black explained. "Using the body of your beloved pupil."

"I see," Roshi said, as he placed down his water can. "Well then, as his master, I can't simply allow the body of my student to be used for evil. If it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get!"

And without another word, Roshi buffed up.

"Insolutent mortals! Your measly efforts can not rival the might of the gods!" Black shouted as he powered up.

"If that's the case, then why did you go ahead and steal my pupil's body!? Seems to me you need that mortal power to succeed!" Roshi pointed out, as he brought his hands back. "And I won't go down so easily to someone who takes the easy way to obtain power! Kaaaaaaaa. Meeeeeeeee."

"So you wish to die by your own technique, a poetic end. So be it!" Black brought his hands back and charged up his own attack. "Kaaaaa! Meeeeeeee!"

"Haaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeee!" They both chanted as they continued charging their attacks.

"HAAAAAAAAAA!" They both shouted as they launched their beams at each other. With Black's being larger and wilder, while Roshi's beam was smaller and more focused.

BOOMM!

The beams collided, and the force exuded from their clashing sending strong wings rushing through the island and the surrounding sea, blowing away trees and making massive waves.

"Grrrrrrrr," Roshi growled as he mustered up all his power, to push his beam forward, but his attack was slowly being pushed back by Black's own version of his technique.

"Ahahahaha! Repent sinner! Judgment is upon you!" Black shouted as he gave Roshi a villainous grin. "Ha!

Black's beam grew slightly larger and started pushing Roshi's beam back faster.

"Grrrrrrrrrr…Word had. Study well. And eat and sleep plenty!" Roshi shouted. "Haaaa!"

Suddenly, Black's bean stopped progressing, just before it could completely overwhelm Roshi.

"What!?" Black gasped, confused as to why Roshi wasn't dead already.

"That! Is the Turtle Hermit Way!" Roshi shouted as he pushed everything into his attack. "You who stole my pupil's body failed at the first hurdle! I won't lose to a lousy fake, using a bastardized version of my own technique! Now behold the power of the true, Kamehameha!"

Roshi's beam started rapidly pushing back Black's beam, the shocked god was too flabbergasted to do anything, before his attack was overwhelmed, and Roshi's attack reached him.

KABOOM!

When the beam made contact it exploded. The force of the explosion shook the area so harshly one would think an earthquake was happening, as well as creating a massive cloud of smoke.

Roshi looked up at the cloud, his body quickly reverting back to its normal form.

A few moments later the smoke began to dissipate, revealing Black, more surprised than harmed. "That attack should have ended you! How did you manage to overcome it!"

"Your power was good, but your technique was sloppy!" Roshi huffed. "So much waste! So little focus!"

"Tch, well I supposed that is to be expected, seeing as this was the first time I've used that particular technique." Black scoffed. "Rest assured next time I will use that technique perfectly."

"Only took Goku the first time." Roshi brought up. "And he was only a kid. Pretty embarrassing for a god to have less skill than a child."

"YOU DARE MOCK ME!" Black screamed as he got ready to throw out another attack.

"Found it!" Shouted Oolong as he ran outside of Kami house, and threw a bottle into the air, which landed right in front of Roshi.

"Finally! Evil Containment!" Roshi shouted as he shot out a green wave of energy at Black.

"What!?" Black brought up his arms to block whatever this was, but when the wave hit him, his body became a part of it, turned into energy. "W-What is this!?"

"Ha!" Roshi brought down his arms, and the wave curved back down, rushing towards the bottle, bringing Black with it.

The wave of energy slammed down, covering the island in a bright green flash of light.

And when the light subsided it was revealed.

That Roshi had missed the bottle.

Black was on knee, kneeling next to the bottle, and right in front of Roshi.

"Agh…damn it all. That last attack…took too much." Roshi then collapsed, falling on his back as his glasses fell off his face. The light fading from his eyes.

"To think you had such a technique. Zuno will pay dearly for not informing me of this!" Black growled as he stood back up before he glared down at Roshi's corpse. "Still, it looks like your own technique did kill you in the end. You had the chance to fall at the hands of a god, a privilege, and yet you spurned it! I hope you're repenting in hell. Now then."

Black turned his attention to a quivering Oolong. "I believe it's time you paid for your part in that wretched display."

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The weather is pretty appropriate for today. Tien thought as he stood out in the pouring rain.

The crane schoolmaster stood at the gates of his school, as a storm raged on, letting out rain, thunder, and lightning, as well as strong winds.

One of his students ran up to him. "Master Tien! The village has been evacuated!"

"Good work. Now go. Take the villagers, and don't look back." Tien ordered. "I will stay here."

"Master Tien, please! Let us help you!" The student begged. "If we work together we can-"

"If you join me here, you will only be a hindrance. This isn't the kind of foe that can be defeated with numbers." Tien told him. "Today I face a god."

The student looked at Tien in shock, before clenching his fists tightly, a look of great shame and resignation. "Yes, Master Tien."

And with that, the student ran off. And like he was ordered, he didn't look back. And Then went back to staring up at the sky. Waiting.

KAKROOM!

With a flash of lightning, Black appeared, hovering over Tien.

"It appears you were expecting me." Black deduced.

"It would be hard not to notice Yamcha and Roshi's energies rising beyond anything they've ever reached before, and then disappearing suddenly," Tien explained. "And since I can't sense your energy, that must mean you're most likely a god. Aren't you?"

"Hmph, you know this, and yet you decided to face me? How arrogant." Black scoffed.

"Given you went after Yamcha and Roshi first, I figured I was next. I didn't know if I could get to the others in time, or if you would go after my students in my absence, so I chose this as the best course of action." Tien explained. "Now then, who are you? What do you want!? And why are you going after Earth's defenders?! And why have you taken Goku's form?"

"You said it yourself did you not? I am a god! That is all you need to know." Black replied.

"I see. In that case. There's no need for us to speak any longer." Tien said as he took a combat stance. "Let's go, imposter!"

Tien flew up above Black, raised his arms up, brought his hands together, and brought them hammering down on Black's head.

But Black raised his arms and blocked the attack, before forcing Tien's arms away, and then punching Tien in the gut, sending him flying back.

Then Black brought his fingers to his forehead, and used Instant Transmission, appearing in front of Tien's past as the human was now hurtling towards him.

Black raised his hand, and formed a huge Black Power Ball, one double the size of his body, before putting it in front of him, causing Tien to slam into it.

"Ha!" Black shot out the Black Power Ball, causing it and Tien to go flying back towards the temple and the town.

Tien and the ball flew, until they slammed into one of the buildings in the town, causing the Black Power Ball to detonate, bursting into a massive explosion that destroyed the building they landed in, and the shockwaves blew out a devastating gust of wind that caused surrounding buildings to crumble.

As the initial explosion died down, all that was left of the building was a smoking, flaming crater.

The flames quickly started to spread to the already damaged buildings around the crater, as the whole town started to catch fire.

Black flew over to the crater and stared down at it, waiting a few moments for Tien to emerge.

But before the cloud could dissipate, a Dodon ray emerged from the smoke, aimed right for Black's head.

Black tilted his head, dodging the beam, but four more rushed up at him from the smoke.

"Tch." Black batted away all four beams, before deciding to rush in towards the smoke.

But just before he reached it, the smoke parted, revealing an injured Tien with four arms, and two arms in front of his face. "Solar Flare!"

A bright light exploded out from Tien, blinding Black as he stopped in his tracks to cover his eyes. "Aghh!"

Tien flew up and wrapped his arms around Black, holding down his arms, before he flew them both up. Higher and higher, and higher, until they reached above the clouds, before doing a u-turn, and flying them both back down towards the ground head first.

SLAM!

Tien suplexed Black into the ground so hard it created another massive gust of wind, fanning the flames around the town and causing them to spread even faster.

While Black was planted in the ground, Tien quickly got upright and flew into the air.

Once he was a good distance above Black, he stopped, before forming a triangle with his hands, aiming it down at Black. "NEO TRI BEAM!"

A massive burst of energy burst out from the triangle and rushed down at Black.

BOOM!

The energy slammed into Black creating a giant triangle-shaped hole in the ground where Black was.

"HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!" Tien screamed as he used every last bit of energy he had, and poured it into blast after blast of this horrible powerful attack. "HA!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Blast after blast, after blast slammed into Black, causing him to plummet deeper, and deeper, and deeper into the earth,

Until suddenly,

KABOOM!

Having reached the earth's core, fire and magma burst out from the hole Tien had created, erupting like a volcano.

"Uh..ugh." Tien groaned, as he finally stopped his attack, and slowly floated back towards the ground.

Once he hit the ground he collapsed onto one knee, barely finding the strength not to pass out.

He looked up at the fiery geyser he created. Did that do it?

A few moments later, something started to appear from within the fire. A black, humanoid figure.

With a burst of power, the fire was dispersed, revealing Black.

He was covered in cuts, bruises, and burns, and his outfit was utterly trashed, the top completely destroyed, revealing his broad muscled chest.

But he was still very much alive.

"Hmmmm." Black looked down at his hand, as he made a fist. He could feel it, the power of the tri-beam, had brought out even more of his own power. He was more in tune with Goku's body. "Yes, that was very good. I must thank you, Tien, that last attack actually held enough force to push this body to grow stronger."

"Damn it," Tien growled as he watched Black fly down in front of him.

"But it appears you've used up all your meager strength to accomplish such a feat." Black chuckled. "You have nothing more to offer."

"No! I'm not done yet!" Tien shouted as he forced himself to stand and charge at Black. "Haaa-"

BRMMMMMM!

Before Tien could even get close to Black, the body snatcher shot out a beam that pierced right through the three-eyed man's chest.

"Aghhhh." Tien spat out his own blood, before looking down at the hole in his chest, then back at Black. "D-Damn you. You won't…get away…with this."

And then his body collapsed, as his soul passed on to otherworld.

"Hmm. Hopefully, the other fighters here can help increase my power even further." Black said as he looked over himself. "But first, I must address the issue of my attire."

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"Is this everyone?" Piccolo asked as he looked at all the remaining defenders of Earth.

Himself, Krillin, 18, and Trunks. All of them having gathered at Capsule Corp, at Piccolo's request.

"What? No? We're still missing My dad, Goten, his dad, Gohan, Tien, and that weird old guy." Trunks pointed out, confused why Piccolo would even ask that.

"And Yamcha but…I don't think he, Roshi, or Tien are coming." Krillin said solemnly. He too had felt all three of their powers rise, and then vanish. He had a bad feeling that knew what Piccolo called them here for.

"Neither are Goku, Gohan, or Goten," Piccolo added. "They're all dead."

"WHAT!" Everyone else screamed.

"Dead!? What do you mean dead!?" Trunks screamed out, looking the most shocked out of everyone there.

"You can't be serious!? But I never even sensed Goku or Gohan fighting?!" Krillin pointed out.

"They didn't get the chance." Piccolo continued. "I got a sudden message from Dende saying that Goku and Gohan were killed and that ALL the dragon balls are gone. Before he got cut off. I did some more investigating after I called you. First I went to Goku's farm, and I found Goten and Chi Chi dead. As well as dead Kai, wearing Goku's clothes."

"A dead Kai? You mean like the Supreme Kai?" Krillin asked.

"They looked similar but no. He was a completely different kai." Piccolo explained. "And I didn't find Goku's body anywhere."

"If we don't have Goku's body, how do we know for sure that he's dead?" 18 asked.

"Simple, that dead Kai was Goku," Piccolo said, causing everyone to throw him more shocked and confused looks. "After Goku's place, I went to Gohan's. I found him dead. But it didn't look like he was in a fight. There was only a single stab wound to the chest. Like someone had killed him when he wasn't expecting it. Looking at this, combined with the Kai in Goku's clothes right next to Goku's dead family, I think I figured out what happened. Someone took Goku's body."

Once again, more shock filled the room.

"T-Took his body?" Trunks repeated. "S-So you're saying that some Kai just took Goku's body, and used it to kill Goten?!"

Piccolo nodded. "It'd also explain why we can't sense whoever's doing all this. Even in Goku's body, they'd still have divine ki."

"This is insane!? S-So we have to defeat evil Goku!?" Krillin cried.

"As tough as that sounds, it might not be as difficult as you'd think," Piccolo said. "Roshi, Yamcha, and Tien lasted a lot longer in their fights than they would have against Goku. So either this guy is messing around, a LOT, or he doesn't have access to Goku's full strength."

"R-Right! Just like when Ginyu took Goku's body on Namak!" Krillin recalled.

"S-So we just have to take out a super weak Goku body snatcher, and then we can wish back everyone. R-Right?" Trunks said with a nervous chuckle. Sounding obviously desperate.

"No. I'm afraid not." Piccolo winced internally, as he saw the boy's eyes fill with despair. "Dende said the Dragon Balls are gone. And he specified that ALL of the Dragon Balls are gone. This means the Earth Dragon Balls, the Namekian Dragon Balls, and the Super Dragon Balls.

The room fell silent.

"There's…There's no dragon balls." Trunks said in a quiet voice, his eyes empty as he tried his hardest to process this overwhelming information. "Goten's…dead?"

Krillin fell to his knees, and punched the ground, causing it to crack. "Damn it all! Goku! Gohan! Master Roshi! Yamcha! He killed them all right under our noses!"

18 kneeled down next to her husband and put a gentle hand on his back. Although she herself still had a hard time processing all this, she couldn't imagine how hard Krillin must be taking it.

"Don't be so sure," Bulma said as she walked into the room. "Even if all those Dragon Balls are off the table, what about Universe 6?"

Piccolo would have raised an eyebrow if he had any. "Universe 6?"

"They had their own planet full of Saiyans, so there's probably a planet full of Namakians there too. With their set of Dragon Balls." Bulma explained.

"Y-Your right!" Krillin shot up, hope filling his eyes again.

"Maybe, but it's not a guarantee. If I recall, the earth of that universe was in ruins. That universe's Namak may be the same." Piccolo cautioned.

"Well, we won't know until we try. And can't try until we take care of that no good body snatcher!" Bulma smirked. "And I finally found a way to get in contact with Vegeta."

She pulled out her communicator that Whis gave her and started speaking into it. "Hey! Whis! Pick up!"

To her surprise, she got a response immediately, Whis appearing on the screen of the device. "Hello Bulma, I was expecting you to call sooner or later."

"You were?" Bulma asked, thoroughly confused. Normally whenever she called Whis she had to wait a while before he responded. But now he was expecting her call.

"Well with Lord Beerus being dead, and your planet seeming to be a hot spot for important events, it seemed like only a matter of time before you called to get Vegeta so you could deal with whatever's happening over there," Whis explained.

"BEERUS IS DEAD!?" Shouted everyone except Trunks, who was still in a shocked stupor.

"I thought this guy was supposed to be weaker? You're telling me he took down Beersu!?" Krillin gasped.

"Oh no, Beerus himself wasn't attacked. Rather he was killed due to the Supreme Kai being killed." Whis explained. "You see if the Supreme Kai connected to the God of Destruction perishes, so will that Destroyer."

"Wait a minute so if we wanted to get rid of Beerus all we'd have to do is take out that lousy Kai?" Bulma huffed. "Wish someone would have told us that sooner."

"Ohohohoho, I imagine Lord Beerus would be quite upset with you if he heard that." Whis laughed.

"Well we can deal with all that later, for now, we need Vegeta back on the planet pronto," Bulma said.

"Ah, I'm afraid I can't do that." Whis sighed. "As I already explained to Vegeta, when a destroyer dies, the angel attendant serving them becomes inert. Meaning my freedoms right now are extremely limited. I can not use my angel powers to bring Vegeta all the way back to earth, lest the universe erase me for breaking angel laws."

"What?! You're kidding!" Bulma screeched. "So Vegeta's just trapped there!?"

"Afraid so. Unless Vegeta can find a way across the universe by himself or we can give me a destroyer to serve, he's stuck here with me." Whis explained.

"So it's as I thought," Piccolo said. "Whoever's been doing this is extremely well-informed, and has been moving strategically. Taking Goku's body. Making sure Vegeta was away from Earth. Taking out Gohan before he even knew we were under attack. And getting rid of the Dragon Balls."

"But if he went through all the trouble to get rid of Vegeta then he definitely doesn't have access to all of Goku's power yet." 18 inferred.

"It doesn't matter." Trunks said so quietly they almost didn't hear him, as he continued looking down at the floor, his expression obscured by shadows.

Suddenly the room began to shake.

"Trunks," Bulma called out to her son, but he either didn't hear her or didn't care to respond.

"We just have to kill him." Trunks said, as a bolt of lightning quickly surged around his body, and his hair began to rise up. "That bastard…"

BOOM!

Suddenly Trunk's power exploded, his hair rising up and turning gold, as lightning surged around his body, as well as a brilliant golden aura. "NEEDS TO DIE!"

Without another word, Trunks soared up through the ceiling and flew away.

"Wait! Trunks! You don't even know where you're going!" Bulma shouted, but Trunks was already too far gone.

"Crap! We need to go after him!" Krillin shouted. "Piccolo!? We got any Senzu Beans!?"

Piccolo shook his head. "Korrin's place was ransacked. If I had to guess, our fake Goku probably has them."

"Great, even more crap we have to deal with." 18 growled.

"All units! Respond!" Shouted a voice through Krillin's communicator, catching everyone's attention. "East city is being attacked! All units needed for evacuation!"

"You think that's him?" Krillin asked.

"Only one way to find out," Piccolo said. "Let's go!"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BRRMM! BRRRM! BRRRM! BRRMM!

"Ahhhhhhhh!" People screamed as they tried to flee from the terror that flew above them. Sending down destructive beams as he did, taking out an entire swath of people as casually as one would step on a group of ants.

"Hmph, fleeing won't help you. The time for divine justice has arrived!" Black shouted, before bringing his hands back and getting ready to charge a more powerful attack.

But before he could do that, he heard something coming up behind him.

A buzzing sound.

Black barely managed to do a flip in time to dodge a Destructo Disk that had been coming from behind him.

The deity turned and saw Krillin and 18 behind him.

"Krillin. And his lesser half." Black said.

"Lesser?" 18 hissed.

"Yes, less. While may both be sinners. Your sins far exceed his." Black said. "To butcher and alter the body given to you by the gods, is an unforgivable offense!"

"You! You steal Goku's body! Kill my friends! And now you insult my wife!" Krillin shouted, as his aura exploded with fury. "YOU'RE GONNA PAY!"

Krillin then charged at Black, and launched a flurry of punches and kicks at the villain, which Black proceeded to rapidly block and parry.

The earthling knew he couldn't keep up this assault for long before Black countered. He couldn't sense his power, but just by the way he blocked his attacks, he could tell this guy was a good bit stronger than him.

But he only needed to stall for a few seconds, so 18 could get behind him.

"Ha!" Krillin used his last punch, to launch himself a few feet away from Black, while 18 launched a ki ball at Black from behind.

"Futile!" Black said as he dashed to the side a bit, easily dodging the ball, which was now headed towards Kirllin.

When the ball reached Krillin, he batted it back towards Black, and in the brief moment in which his hand was in contact with it, he added some of his own energy, causing the ball to grow slightly larger, and travel a bit faster.

Black dodged it again, and 18 got in its path, batting it right back at Black. Doing the same thing Krillin did, causing the ball to grow larger and move faster.

These two. They're not just making their attack stronger, but faster! Black noted as he continued to dodge the ki ball while Krillin and 18 passed it between them, making it bigger and faster. Enough of this.

As the ball, which was now half the size of him, approached him, Black formed a ki blade, and stuck it right into the ki sphere, causing it to explode. The explosion shattering every window near them and making a massive cloud of black smoke.

"Ha!" Krillin and 18 launched a barrage of ki blasts from either side into the cloud, the ki blasts causing more explosions from within the smoke, and the smoke cloud expanded.

Krillin and 18 flew up to stay out of the smoke and looked down at the cloud.

"You think we got him?" Krillin asked.

"Is anything ever that easy?" 18 sighed.

Black then rose up between the two, before aiming his palms at the two. "HA!"

Two explosive waves of energy burst out from Black's hands, and slammed into the husband-wife combo, sending them flying back in opposite directions, with Black rushing to pursue Krillin.

Krillin eventually stopped himself, but the moment he did, Black caught up and unleashed a flurry of punches that Krillin had to block and parry as best he could.

Crap! He's faster and stronger than before! Kirllin noted, before eating a punch to the face, as Black broke through his defense.

"Gah! Pah! Agh! Gah!" That punch was the first of many, as Black unleashed blow after blow onto Krillin's face and body.

"Krillin!" 18 called out, as she charged at Black from behind.

But before she could get too close, Black did a flip over Krillin, getting behind him before kicking him at 18.

18 caught her husband with one arm, looking down at him to make sure he wasn't too hurt, before looking up at Black, who was now in a very familiar pose.

"Kame! Hame!" Black shouted as he charged up an attack. "HA!"

Black threw out his attack, sending a massive beam at the duo.

Quickly, 18 raised her hand up and formed a ki disk. "Destructo Disk!"

Just before the beam hit, 18 threw the disk at it, throwing it just right to the disk would spin vertically.

The disk hit the beam, splitting it in half, protecting the duo, and letting the disk travel towards Black almost unimpeded.

"Tsk!" Black stopped his attack and dashed to the side to avoid the disk.

"Nice one babe!" Krillin praised as he separated from his wife. "Now let's get him!"

"Haaaaa!" 18 and Krillin yelled as they raised their energies, before rushing at Black.

"Fools!" Black shouted as he charged at them as well.

The three clashed and they all went into a flurry, with both sides attacking, blocking, and deflecting as best they could.

18 grabbed Black's arms, immobilizing him for long enough for Krillin to come from below and deliver a rising uppercut right to Black's jaw.

The artificial human followed up by bringing Black in and kneeing him in the gut.

While Black was recovering Krillin flew below him, grabbed his legs, and started spinning him around before throwing him to the ground.

Black managed to recover in time, and landed on his hands, before flipping onto his feet and looking back up at Krillin to find him charging an attack.

"Kamehame!" Krillin shouted as he charged up. "Ha!"

Krillin shot down a beam at Black, and Black jumped back to dodge it, but halfway there, the beam broke apart into multiple smaller beams.

"Grr!" Black focused, as he dodged each of the beams as they landed. Each beam exploded on contact with the ground making a cloud of smoke that soon turned into a massive ring of smoke that Black was smack dab in the middle of.

Black brought his fingers to his forehead, ready to teleport out of this obvious trap, but then 18 came in from the smoke behind him, and delivered a quick kick to the back of his head, before rushing back into the smoke.

The angered former kai quickly shot a ki blast in the direction 18 had gone in, but it hit nothing, and 18 came in from the side and punched him square in the cheek, knocking him to the ground, before diving back into the smoke.

"Damn woman!" Black growled as he quickly rose to his feet, and tried to fly up, but Krillin appeared in front of him, with his hands over his face.

"Solar Flare!" Krillin shouted, and a bright light shot out from Krillin, blinding the villain.

Krillin quickly zipped behind Black, bringing his hands together and raising them over his head, before bringing them down on the back of Black's head, sending him back to the ground, in the middle of the ring of smoke.

"How dare you!" Black growled as he pulled himself up to one knee, but before he could get onto his feet, 18 rushed out of the smoke in front of him, and kneed him in the face, before again diving into the smoke.

Black got back to his feet, and immediately 18 rushed out again and punched him in the side, before diving back into the smoke again.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

18 repeated her hit-and-run tactics, landing quick blows on Black before vanishing into the smoke. Leaving Black completely in the dark on her location due to her energy being undetectable.

"Grrrr." Black closed his eyes and shut out all his other senses. Putting all his focus into his hearing.

And then he found what he was looking for. The sound of clothing flapping against the wind. To his left.

18 rushed in from the left for another attack, only to get a powerful clothesline, Black's arm slamming into her neck, the impact sending waves of force around them that cracked the surrounding streets and buildings.

"Aghhhh!" 18 screamed as she was knocked to the ground.

Black aimed his palm down at the fallen android and got ready to shoot a powerful ki blast at her, but Krillin came in and performed a dive kick at Black.

But Black caught his foot and then slammed him down on top of his wife.

"Foolish mortals!" Black growled. "You can not kill a god with mere tricks!"

Black then flew up into the air and raised his hand up over his head.

"Oww." Krillin groaned as he and 18 pulled themselves off the ground, looking up to see Black forming a massive Black Power Ball that just kept getting larger and larger. "That's not good. Babe! Get ready!"

"Don't need to tell me that!" 18 said as she already started charging up her energy.

"Kame! Hame!" Once again Krillin chanted those words as he charged up his attack.

"Begone!" Black shouted as he threw down his massive attack at the couple.

"HA!" They both shouted as they launched beams up at the ball of ki. Their beams joined together into a massive beam that slammed into the ball. "Grrrrrrrr!"

The ball stopped moving forward, but the beam wasn't pushing it back either, the two attacks stopping each other entirely, leaving them all at a standstill.

"Bemoan your arrogance in angering a god! In the pits of hell!" Black shouted as he gave his attack an even harder push, forcing it towards Krillin and 18, slowly plowing through their combined attack.

"Grrrrr!" The two of them put everything that they had into their attacks, but it was no use, they were slowly being pushed back, as the attack got closer and closer.

"Just, a little longer!" Krillin said.

"Despair mortals! Because no one can save you now from divine-" Black suddenly sensed something coming at him, fast.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Suddenly a Special Beam Cannon came in from behind and pierced through Black's chest.

"Gahhhhhhhh!" Black vomited out blood as the beam pierced through his insides.

"Now!" Krillin shouted. "HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Krillin and 18 started pushing the attack back towards Black, with the god's focus completely shattered and his power weakened, they were able to quickly push the Black Power Ball right into him.

KRACKAKROOM!

As soon as the ball hit black both it and the combined beam exploded, creating a massive eruption of energy that encompassed the entire city.

When the flash and the explosion died down, all that was left of the city was a huge crater, filled with rubble.

Piccolo flew into the crater, looking down at all the destruction. Good thing they managed to evacuate in time. Now hopefully Black will be dead and that'll actually matter. But first things first gotta get Krillin and 18.

The Namakian continued looking around the ruins until he found something. A gleam of light came out from under some of the rubble.

Piccolo flew down, and used his telekinesis to lift off the rubble, and found that the light had been coming from Krillin's bald head.

"Ohhhhhh." Krillin and 18 groaned, they were both conscious but a bit groggy due to having been so close to that attack.

"You two gonna be ok?" Piccolo asked.

"Yeah. We'll live." Krillin groaned as he pushed himself.

"That bastard better be dead." 18 cursed.

"He can't have survived that right?" Krillin asked. "There's no way."

A dark chuckle came from above. "Truly, your ignorance knows no bounds."

Everyone gasped and quickly looked up to see Black flying above them. Not only alive, but perfectly fine.

His gi had a few scuff marks on it, and there was a hole where Piccolo's attack had pierced him, but there was no such hole in his actual body.

"How!?" Krillin gawked. He knew Goku was durable, but this was ridiculous.

"I will admit you very nearly caused my defeat. However, the might and cunning of a god is simply far too great." Black boasted. "For you see, after I realized what you were planning, I shifted my body so that none of my vital organs were damaged in such a way that I would die instantly."

"Even so, you still took my attack! You should have been weak enough for the blast to kill you!" Piccolo pointed out.

"That is true, fortunately, I did not have to take the full brunt of that attack." Black held up his hand, and a ring glimmered in the light. "Behold mortals! The time ring! A tool of the gods that allows them to travel into the future."

"Travel into the future?" Piccolo's eyes widened. "Wait! You-"

"That's right. Before I could take the full force of the attack, I managed to travel just a minute into the future." Black explained. "Of course, I was still lethally wounded, however just one senzu bean was enough to restore my full might. And I'm sure all of you know what happens when a Saiyan body recovers from the brink of death."

BOOM!

Black's aura burst out from his body, causing harsh winds to stir up and blow in the faces of his three opponents.

They couldn't feel his energy, but they could feel the pressure coming off him. It was far, far greater than before.

"The more I fight, the more I familiarize myself with Son Goku's body! And the more powerful it becomes!" Black laughed. "Behold the fruits of your labor! All your planning and effort have made me stronger than I've ever been before! Your resistance is less than futile!"

"I'm getting tired of listening to this guy talk." 18 said as she got ready to fight.

"Then let's do the best we can to shut him up!" Krillin said doing the same.

"Hmph doesn't matter if you say it's futile, we're not dying without a fight," Piccolo said as he threw off his cape and turban.

Piccolo shot out his arms, extending them up towards Black to try and grab him, but Black vanished as soon as they reached, appearing in front of Piccolo in a burst of speed and delivering a powerful kick to the side of Piccolo's head, sending him into a pile of rubble.

18 and Krillin charged in from behind to try and punch him, but Black flipped over their attack, ending up behind them, before shooting a blast at 18, that sent her flying away.

Leaving Krillin alone for the moment.

Krillin turned to face his opponent, but Black grabbed him by the face and held him up.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Black unleashed a powerful beam, point blank, right in Krillin's face.

When the beam stopped, Krillin could be seen again, but now his body was covered in wounds, with blood leaking from said wounds and getting all over his torn-up gi.

"Ahhhaghh." Krillin choked out, barely managing to stay conscious after receiving such a horrible attack.

"I'm surprised you survived that. Let's see if you can take another?" Black asked with a villainous grin, as he prepared another blast.

But in the nick of time, Piccolo burst out of the rubble and charged at Black, preparing a punch, but just as he was about to throw it, Black held up Krillin in front of him, forcing Piccolo to stop lest he hit his ally.

Black then put his hand in front of Krillin's stomach, forming a ki blast before launching it, causing it and Krillin to go flying into Piccolo, sending them both crashing into a collapsed building, which then promptly exploded.

"You mortals never learn," Black said as he dusted his hands.

"You bastard!" 18 shouted as she charged back onto the scene, creating two Destructo Disks and throwing them at Black.

Black flew up easily dodging the disks, before aiming down at 18 and unleashing a barrage of ki blasts.

18 stopped charging and put her arms up to block the bombardment of ki blasts that rained down on her, but still taking significant damage each time she got hit.

And then suddenly, it stopped.

18 looked up at where Black had been firing, but there was no trace of him.

SHING!

And then in the next moment, she felt horrendous pain.

18 looked down, to see a ki blade sticking out of her gut.

Black chucked from behind her, before unmaking his ki blade and pushing 18 to the ground. "Time to die."

He aimed his palm down at her, ready to deliver the finishing blow.

When suddenly, one of Piccolo's arms rushed up from underground and uppercut Black into the sky.

Piccolo burst out from the ground and followed Black into the air, where the two continued fighting.

18 laid on the ground, bleeding and in unimaginable pain.

But she still had things to do.

Her android biology meant she wouldn't bleed out too fast, and so she forced herself onto her feet, with great difficulty, before slowly flying over to where Krillin had been sent.

But when she reached him, what she saw stopped her in her tracks.

Krillin lay, motionless in a pile of rubble. His eyes open, but no life shining within them. No breath escaped his lips.

18 slowly floated down to her husband's body, no proper thoughts able to form, only fear and dread.

She cradled his body and held an ear to his chest to confirm what she already knew.

There was no heartbeat.

Tears fell from her eyes, and she forcibly held back a sob. "Krillin…damn it."

SLAM!

Meanwhile, not too far away, Piccolo was sent crashing into the ground hard enough to make the earth shake.

Black looked down at the weakened, defeated warriors who had stood against him. "Struggle as much as you please, you will never defeat a true god! I am the pinnacle of power and beauty! The one who stands above all others in the cosmos! I am-"

"FINAL! FLASH!"

"What!?" Black looked to his left, where he had heard the voice come from, but all he saw was a bright yellow light that was rapidly getting closer.

And then he was engulfed.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

A massive yellow beam exploded onto the scene, engulfing nearly the entire battlefield as it tore through like an unstoppable flood, violently shaking the earth as it went.

The blast shot off the earth itself, racing off into the depths of space, destroying asteroids, planets, and stars that it collided with as it tore through the galaxy.

Eventually, the beam began to shrink, before diminishing into nothing.

Trunks breathed heavily, as he felt his body burn up from using so much energy all at once. But paid it no mind.

In front of him was a massive trail of smoke that was left over from his attack. Trunks kept his eyes dead set on the smoke, ready to see if anything came out of it.

Eventually, the smoke faded, revealing Black.

He had his arms up from having to block that attack, but his sleeves had been burnt away, revealing scuffed-up, burnt arms that were still smoking after receiving the brunt of Trunks's attack.

"Heheheheh. Not bad child." Black chuckled as he lowered his arms. "That will actually leave a bruise. But your brutish rage will have no-"

BAM!

Trunks didn't let him finish, instead rushing in and punching Black right in the face, sending him to the ground.

"You-You dare interrupt a god!?" Black growled as he sat back up and glared up at Trunks.

"I didn't come to hear you talk! I came to kill you!" Trunks roared, as he aimed his palm down at Black. "BIG BANG ATTACK!"

Trunks shot out a ki blast, which exploded into a massive ki blast that barreled down towards Black.

Black brought his fingers to his head and barely managed to use Instant Transmission to get out of the way as the attack slammed into the earth.

KABOOM!

The big bang attacked, creating a massive explosion of energy that shook the earth once more and widened the city-sized crater even further.

Black appeared behind Trunks and formed a ki blade.

Trunks turned around, only to find Black's ki blade inches away from his face, ready to slice through him.

Until Piccolo's extended arm came in from behind Black, and grabbed the Saiyan imposter's arm, stopping him just before he could harm Trunks.

"What!?" Black gasped, and then another one of Piccolo's arms came in and grabbed his other arm, before holding both of them back. Black looked behind him to see the battered Namkian flying there doing his best to hold Black in place.

Trunks didn't let his efforts go to waste, as he immediately let loose a flurry of punches onto Black's gut.

"Grrrrr!" Black interrupted Trunk's string of punches, with a rising kick to the chin, before bringing his foot back down on Trunk's head, sending him crashing into the ground.

"HA!" Black powered up and immediately broke out of Piccolo's grasp, before grabbing one of his arms, and pulling the Namakian in, so he could deliver a devastating headbutt.

Meanwhile, Trunks as soon as he hit the ground, pushed himself off and flew right back up at Black in a fury.

Black swung Piccolo around by his arm, batting Trunks away, before then throwing Piccolo back down to the ground once again.

The two quickly got up, and immediately started throwing ki spheres up at Black, which the mad god easily dodged, and yet they both just kept attacking.

"Has my brilliance damaged your eyes? Or have you simply lost your ability to aim due to your immense fear?" Black mocked until suddenly he noticed there was a light coming from behind him.

Black looked around and found that he was surrounded by key spheres that were floating around him.

"Hellzone Grenade!" Piccolo and Trunks shouted as they brought their arms down, and all the ki spheres rushed at Black, hitting him all at once and bursting into a massive explosion that created a giant cloud of smoke.

Before the smoke could even fade, Trunks prepared his next attack, spreading his arms out and turning his hands into finger guns, charging up energy in each hand, before bringing them together, still in the shape of a finger gun and then firing. "Big Tree Cannon!"

A beam shot out of Trunk's fingers, up into the smoke, before hitting something inside and exploding, causing the smoke cloud to expand.

"Wait Trunks don't waste your energy! You won't even know if you're hitting him!" Piccolo scolded.

"Oh, you won't have to worry about that."

The smoke started to clear up, revealing Black, barely injured by their attacks. "Your attacks are hardly a concern."

"Grrrrr! I'll kill you!" Trunks shouted.

"Impossible!" Black laughed. "Although I do love seeing you try! Each blow you land upon my body, only makes me stronger!"

Black then took out the bag of Senzu Beans from his sash and held it up. "And with these, all your pathetic attacks will be nullified! But my growth will remain."

"Ohhh! Beans!"

Then suddenly, Buu's arm came in from behind back, stretching out and grabbing the bag of beans, before bringing it back to Buu, who swallowed the whole thing.

"Hmm. Beans not taste good." Buu bemoaned.

"Wha-You dare steal from a god!?" Black roared in outrage.

"Huh? A god? Why Goku talk funny?" Buu asked as he looked closely at Black, before remembering what Hercule and Bulma explained to him when they woke him up. "Oh right! You a fake Goku! Buu has to beat you up!"

"You will die trying!" Black shouted. "You are an abomination! An embodiment of the failure of the gods! You nearly destroyed the cosmos, killed the supreme kai, and all because Beerus was too slothful to fulfill his role as a destroyer! You are nothing but a mistake! One that will soon be-"

WHACK!

While Black was focused on Buu, Trunks flew up behind him, and kicked him square in the back, sending him flying towards Buu.

Buu then extended his arm and punched Black in the face.

"Gah!" Black recoiled, and before he could recover, Buu grabbed him brought him into a bear hug, and started to crush him.

"How dare you! How dare you touch a god!" Black shouted as his aura exploded out from his body, and he fought against Buu's hold until he finally burst out of it.

Black rose up, before dropping his elbow down on Buu's head hard, causing his head to sink into his body.

Then Black let loose a flurry of punches onto Buu's gut causing him to flail about ridiculously, before Black mashed his palm into Buu's gut and then let out a point-blank ki beam that pierced right through Buu's body, creating a huge hole.

"Heh," Black smirked as he saw the damage he'd done to his opponent.

The smirk quickly faded, however, as the hole in Buu's body quickly regenerated, and then a face formed on Buu's belly.

"BLEH!" Buu opened his mouth and released a massive beam from his mouth that slammed into Black point blank.

Black jumped out of the blast, and flew back, getting some distance from the pink blob.

Buu stopped his attack and sunk his face back into his body before his head popped back up again. "Ahaha! Buu gonna turn you into chocolate!"

A crackling beam of magic shot out of Buu's antenna up at Black, which the body snatcher barely managed to dodge.

Trunks appeared behind Black and tried to slam his fist down on the invader, but Black elbowed the half-Saiyan in the gut, before aiming at Buu and firing a barrage of ki blasts, which the Majin blocked by putting up his arms.

Black rushed in at Buu, and grabbed his antenna, before spinning Buu around by it and throwing him at Trunks.

Trunks dodged out of the way, and Buu's arms extended out at Black while he was flying back.

Buu's arms grabbed Black, and Buu slingshotted himself back at the divine menace, landing a mean headbutt.

While Black was stunned, Buu threw him back down to the ground, before slamming down onto him, butt first.

"Ack!" Black wheezed as the air was forced out of him, and he felt the full force of Buu's entire body on his ribcage.

Trunks raised his arm, and shot a ki beam over his head, the end of the beam turning into a blade before it took a U-turn and started falling towards Buu and Black.

Seeing the beam coming down at him like a guillotine, Black brought his fingers to his head, and barely managed to Instant Transmission away, causing the blade beam to fall only on Buu, splitting him in half.

Black appeared behind Trunks and raised his arm up, forming a ki blade and then bringing it down, ready to bisect the half-Saiyan.

Only for Piccolo to kick him away, saving Trunks in the nick of time.

Black stopped himself before he could get far, but before he could counterattack, Piccolo had already shot a beam at him.

But instead of doing damage, the beam materialized Piccolo's cape onto Black, but upside down, causing the cape to fly in Black's face.

Black was stunned for a moment, both by the unconventional nature of Piccolo's "attack", and the fact that he now had a piece of cloth in his face.

But he didn't stay stunned long, as he quickly ripped the cape off of him, only to find that Piccolo and Trunks had vanished.

Before he could start looking for them, Black's leg was grabbed by Buu's extended arm.

"Buuuuuuuuuu!" Buu slammed back into the ground, before whipping him around, dragging him across the edge of the crater.

"Aghaaggggafhhohag!" Black screamed as he was dragged through the dust and dirt.

Buu lifted him back up, ready to slam him back down, but Black formed a ki blade and sliced Buu's arm, freeing himself.

Or so he thought.

Buu's severed hand traveled up Black like a snake, before growing and wrapping around him. Constricting the villain.

Then Trunks and Piccolo came in from behind and kicked the restrained Black from behind, sending him flying towards Buu.

As Black was flying towards him, Buu put his hands in front of him and formed a massive ki sphere double the size of his own body.

Black slammed into the ki sphere, and Buu fired it, curving it up, high into the sky, before it detonated.

KABOOM!

The ground shook, as a massive explosion parted the clouds, replacing them with smoke.

After the explosion died down, the three waited for the smoke to fade, to see what became of Black.

A few moments passed, until the smoke finally faded, revealing Black, his clothes now even more torn, showing some blood leaking from freshly made wounds.

He took a few moments to catch his breath, as he slowly flew back down to the ground.

"Hehehehe," Black smirked as he wiped away some blood from his mouth. "It seems the fruitlessness of your efforts has yet to sink in. Fine by me. With every blow you land, I grow familiar with this form. And soon my power will transcend even what the original Son Goku was capable of!"

"Just shut up and die already!" Trunks shouted, as ki spheres formed in his hand. "Die Die Missile Barrage!"

Trunks unleashed a massive barrage of ki blasts down at Black, the divine menace only smirking as he saw them approach.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

The ki blasts hit the ground, creating a series of massive explosions that rocked the earth, Trunks not letting up as he threw everything he had down at the man who murdered his friend.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

Eventually, Trunks had to stop and catch his breath, and he looked down at the massive pile of smoke that had been created by his attack.

"Seems you were a bit off of the mark."

Piccolo and Trunks gasped as they looked behind them, to see Black floating there.

They both punched him, but Black caught their fists, and slammed them into each other, before throwing them at Buu.

Buu caught them and set them down. "You ok?"

"I believe it's time, we finished this." Black brought his hands back. "Kame! Hame!"

"Everyone, we need to give this everything we've got!" Piccolo told them, before bringing his hands over his head and charging his own attack. "Masenko!"

"Galick Gun!" Trunks shouted as he charged up.

"Kamehame!" Buu chanted as he too charged an attack.

"Ha!" Black shouted as he fired a massive beam down at the three.

"Ha/fire!" All three of them shouted as they fired their own beams up at Black, which joined together into one combined beam.

The beams collided, and in a struggle for dominance, Black's beam would push forward for a bit, before the three combined beams pushed back, stuck in a stalemate.

Black closed his eyes and focused on his energy. I can feel it. My divine aura, merging with the outrageous potential within this body. This power, I WILL bring it forth!

"HAAAAAAAA!" Black roared as he opened his eyes, and forced out more power, causing his beam to double in size and immediately start pushing towards the three defenders of earth.

Seeing their attack fail, Buu quickly stopped his own attack and jumped in front of the other two.

KABOOM!

The beam slammed into them, creating a massive explosion, and a giant mushroom cloud.

When the explosion died down, Black looked down, and saw the dust and smoke part, revealing an unconscious Piccolo and Trunks. With Buu nowhere to be seen.

"It seems the Majin sacrificed itself to protect those two," Black noted. "How pointless."

Black aimed his palm down at the two unconscious warriors, and shot down a ki blast at them, aiming to finally finish them.

Only for a green barrier to pop up around Piccolo and Trunks, the ki blast slammed into it but did no damage whatsoever.

"What!?" Black balked in confusion.

"So you must be the one that stabbed my sister."

Black turned to his right to the source of the voice, only to get decked in the face by Android 17, and sent right back into the ground, face first.

"And you even went as far as to kill my brother-in-law too. Afraid I can't let that slide." 17 said as he saw Black quickly bring himself back to his feet.

"And so Blasphemy 17 has finally joined the fight," Black said as he looked up at his attacker, before aiming his palm at him and firing a barrage of ki blasts.

17 quickly threw up his barrier, blocking the blasts, although they obscured his view.

Black quickly used Instant Transmission to appear behind 17, inside the barrier. He quickly attempted to punch 17 in the back of the head, only for 17 to tilt his head and dodge it, then counter with a roundhouse kick, slamming Black into the side of the barrier.

Before Black could recover, 17 grabbed his head and started slamming Black's face into the side of the barrier repeatedly.

After about a dozen slams, 17 unmade the barrier, and threw Black up into the air.

Black recovered, getting himself upright, before creating a Black Power Ball, and throwing it at the android.

But 17 formed a barrier around the ball, caught it, and then threw it back towards Black.

Black tried to turn and dodge it, only to slam into another barrier that 17 had made behind him, stunning him long enough for his own attack to slam into him.

KABOOM!

The ki sphere slammed into Black, and exploded, creating yet another smoke cloud.

Black flew out of the smoke towards 17, but he didn't make it far before 17 put a barrier around him.

17 slowly started closing his hand, and the barrier around Black began to shrink, getting smaller and smaller until it began to crush the former Kai.

"Gahhhhhh!" Black futilely attempted to push against the walls of the barrier for a few moments, before bringing his fingertips to his forehead and used Instant Transmission to keep himself from getting crushed.

Black appeared behind 17, only to find 17's palm right in his face.

"Predictable." 17 said, before unleashing a massive beam of ki from his hand which completely engulfed Black.

Black flew back out of the beam, now with even more wounds, and once again charged at 17.

"Haaaaaaa!" Black flew forward and tried to punch 17 in the face.

But just before his first hit 17, it was stopped in its tracks, as Black's first was trapped in a small barrier.

"What!?" Black tried to free his fist, but he found it was completely stuck, and before he could do anything else, 17 trapped his other fist, and his legs in their own small barriers, completely immobilizing the villain.

Without another word, 17 floated up to Black, cracked his knuckles, and got at it.

WHAM!

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Black shouted as 17's fist planted itself in his stolen stomach.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

17 unleashed a flurry of blows upon his helpless foe, leaving bruises all over his face and chest.

Then the android brought his hands together, raised them over his head, unmade the barriers, and then brought them hammering down on Black's head, sending him flying towards the ground.

But just before Black hit the ground, 17 formed a barrier over the ground, and Black smacked into that.

Then, 17 formed a barrier around himself, before rushing down towards Black.

Black managed to jump onto his feet, but couldn't dodge in time as 17 came barreling down at him. He put his hands up, and caught 17 in his barrier, as the android tried to crush him between two barriers.

"Hagrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Black growled as he tried to push back 17, but the android kept the pressure on hard.

"Haaa!" 17 doubled the size of the barrier, which forced Black onto one knee and he kept struggling to keep himself from getting squashed.

A god, kneeling, to an android! Black could feel white-hot rage fill every ounce of his stolen body. Alongside something else.

"No," Black growled, as a reddish aura suddenly started spilling from his body, and he began pushing back 17's barrier. "I will not kneel! I! AM! A! GOD!"

Suddenly, a geyser of pinkish-red energy exploded out from Black's body, forcing 17 off.

17 flew back and unmade his barrier, before looking over at the geyser of energy.

Eventually, the energy died down, and Black could be seen. In a new form.

His hair now in the iconic shape of the Super Saiyan, but rather than yellow or blue, it was pink.

"This power. This form. My very being. It towers above all things." Black said as he felt his new power flowing through him. "I've finally made this body my own and unlocked within it this new form. I think I'll call it, Rose. Super Saiyan Rose."

"And yet, you're still below me." 17 taunted as he flew up.

Black scowled, before flying up to the same altitude as 17. "Don't get cocky Android. Your end starts now."

"Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you." 17 smirked.

Then, a massive barrier formed around the two fighters, this one being the size of a small stadium, and notably, it wasn't see-through.

"What's this?" Black asked as he looked at the green barrier surrounding him. "What manner of trickery will this be part of?"

"Just making sure you can't run. It'd be a bother if you ran away, healed up, and came back even stronger." 17 explained.

"Ah, I see then. You've made yourself a coffin." Black smirked.

17 extended his palm and then formed a ki sphere, which then multiplied into five. "HA!"

The android threw the ki spheres a Black, but Black flew up and dodged them.

But then the spheres bounced off the barrier's wall and began to bounce in different directions.

17 formed a barrier around himself, as the ki spheres began bouncing around randomly.

Black began dodging the ki spheres at first, before forming a ki blade, and slicing apart one that was approaching him from the front, then spinning around and slicing apart another one.

He grabbed one that was coming at him from one side and threw it into another one that was coming at him from the other side.

Black flipped to avoid the last ki sphere that was coming at him from below, before shooting a ki blast at it, destroying it.

With that, he turned to face 17, but the android just stared him down, hidden behind his barrier.

"Don't think your barrier will protect you forever!" Black growled as he brought his hands behind him. "Kame! Hame!"

And then Black disappeared, reappearing right behind 17.

17's eyes widened and he quickly turned around, taking down his barrier and readying a ki blast in his head to interrupt Black.

But when he turned, Black vanished again, appearing in front of 17 now.

"HA"! Black shouted as he thrust his hands forward, and unleashed a point blank, Black(Pink) Kamehameha right at 17's back.

"Ahhhhh!" 17 screamed out as he was engulfed by the beam, and pressed against the side of his barrier. "Gahh!"

As soon as he got his wits about him, 17 pushed against the beam, and formed another barrier, then he began traveling through the beam towards Black.

Black barely managed to stop his attack and moved out of the way in time before 17 rammed into him.

17 turned around, and took down his barrier, before unleashing a barrage of ki blasts at Black.

Black formed a ki blade and started slicing the blasts apart before he made it to 17 and started swiping his blade at him who 17 dodged as best he could, but Black managed to land one thrust at 17's side, gashing apart his shirt and opening a nasty wound.

"Grr!" 17 formed barriers along his arms, and parried aside Black's blade, before punching him in the face.

"Tch!" Black continued his offensive, swinging and thrusting his blade at the android, with 17 blocked and parried each attack.

Black raised his blade up, extended it, and slammed it down.

17 brought both his barrier-covered arms up and blocked it, but that was just as planned.

Black raised his foot up and fired a ki blast which slammed right into 17's gut, sending him flying into the side of the barrier.

"HA! Taste my blade!" Black shouted as he started shooting out pink energy javelins at 17.

17 formed a barrier around him, and the Javelins stabbed into it, as well as the side of the barrier around him.

Once Black's assault ended, 17 unmade the barrier and got ready to rush at him.

Only for the Javelin's around him to glow, and then explode.

KABOOM!

Black flew back, as half the barrier was filled with smoke.

Slowly, the smoke dispersed, revealing 17, his shirt torn up and burnt, and with a fair share of wounds littered across his body.

"Can you feel it yet? The futility of resisting a god's wrath?" Black asked confidently. "With each blow you land, I grow stronger! Soon my power will eclipse yours so thoroughly, that my divine blade will cleave through your barriers with ease!"

"Oh, I know." 17 said calmly.

Black gave him a shocked look. "What?"

"Saiyans are known for boosting their power in the heat of battle. It's why Dr Gero had made so many contingency plans." 17 explained as he formed a barrier around his head. "I've been downloaded with tons of strategies, designed specifically to kill Saiyans, or rather, a Saiyan. The one whose body you stole. Chief among those strategies was this."

And then the massive barrier around them faded, revealing the vacuum of space.

In an instant, all the air in Black's lungs was sucked out, and he began to suffocate, unable to make a sound in the vacuum of space.

"While we were fighting, I moved the barrier up into space." 17 explained. "And you were too distracted fighting me to notice a thing."

Black frantically looked around, until his eyes landed on earth.

He tried to fly towards it, but 17 formed a barrier around the two of them, trapping Black.

Black brought his fingers to his forehead, but before he could use Instant Transmission, 17 started pelting his back with energy blasts, disrupting his concentration.

He grit his teeth, as blasts slammed into his back, and he was quickly dying of asphyxiation.

NO! A god losing to a mortal! To an abomination! This will not stand! Black formed his ki blade once again and stabbed it into the side of the barrier.

He forced every last bit of energy, into the tip of his blade, in one last desperate bid of freedom.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Cracks began to form in the barrier, expanding as Black forced his blade through.

CRACK! SHATTER!

The barrier shattered, and Black immediately dove through the hole.

17 followed suit, attempting to form more barriers around Black but the Saiyan imposter kept dodging each time, now allowing himself to be trapped as he rushed towards earth as fast as he could.

Black turned to face 17, and threw out his arms, shooting a green vortex of energy at 17.

17 stopped and formed a barrier around himself to protect himself, but it was no use, as both he and the barrier were swallowed up and became part of the violent stream of energy.

Black threw the energy vortex into the depths of space, carrying 17 with it.

With his artificial form dealt with, Black turned back towards Earth, his Super Saiyan Rose form fading away as he returned to base, and black spots danced in his vision.

He'd taken so much damage and used so much energy, and he was still dying from lack of oxygen.

Black rushed towards Earth, hoping he could make it before it was too late.

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Trunks.

Trunks!

"Ah!" Trunks gasped, as he suddenly returned to consciousness.

And with that, he immediately felt how sore his body was. "Aghh!"

Trunks! Shouted an unfamiliar voice in his head.

Huh? Who the heck is that? Trunks asked.

It's me! Goku! Goku said. My voice sounds weird because I'm in a different body! But I'm here with King Kai! Trunks! We need you to stop the one who took my body! Get up!

It's no use. He's too strong. Trunks replied as tears fell from his eyes. We couldn't do anything!

Listen, right now he's been weakened! He's heading to Earth, and if he makes it, then may never be able to stop him! Goku explained. You have to get up! You have to finish him! I know you can do it!

But I can't sense him! I don't know where he'll be! Trunks argued.

…Close your eyes. Even if you can't sense his ki, the malice coming off him could be felt a universe away. Sense him with your heart. Goku told him.

.My…heart? Trunks closed his eyes. My heart.

And then, he felt it. And ugly, malicious feelings. Coming towards earth.

Got him! Trunks opened his eyes and forced himself to his knees, and then to his feet. He looked up into the sky, and then his Super Saiyan 2 form roared to life.

Trunks brought his hands back and began to charge his attack. "This is for Goten, Gohan, Goku, and everyone else you've killed! Ka! Me! Ha! Me! HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The young Half Saiyan shot out his beam up into the sky.

Meanwhile Black was getting closer and closer to earth. He could feel his consciousness starting to fade, along with his power, but he was so close.

And then, he saw it. A blue light.

Then he was engulfed.

Black was stopped in his tracks for a moment as he was consumed by Trunks's attack, but his will was too strong. He summoned up every ounce of power he had left and pushed forward.

"Grrrrrrrr!" Trunks growled as he pushed every last bit of energy he had left, into his attack. He was quickly approaching his limit.

Suddenly, he felt energy flow into him.

He looked to the side and saw Piccolo pouring what energy he had left into Trunks. "Finish it!"

TRUNKS! Trunks heard the voices of everyone cheering him on, pushing him forward.

He reached his limit, and shattered through, as his body did something it only half-remembered.

His hair began to grow longer, as he ascended into Super Saiyan 3.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Trunks screamed, as his beam tripled in size.

Black was halted, unable to move forward.

And his body ran out of energy to protect itself.

No…this can't be…I am…a…god. Were Black's last thoughts, before his body was annihilated.

Quickly after that, the beam thinned and vanished into nothing.

Trunks immediately dropped back to base form and collapsed on the ground once again.

I did it. I…did…it. Trunks thought before he lost consciousness.

Chapter Text

"Let's see, the highest power level on this planet is…" Raditz activated his scooter and immediately found a hit. "There!"

Raditz flew in the direction of the power level, eventually leading him to a forest clearing.

But what he found wasn't his brother, but Jaco, the Galactic Patrolman!

The super-elite was currently practicing his poses in the clearing, with his ship right next to him.

A galactic patrolman?! This could be troublesome. Better deal with him now. Radtiz thought, before aiming down at Jaco's ship and shooting ki blast down at it.

BOOM!

"Ahhhhhh!" Jaco jumped as he heard an explosion behind him, and turned around to see his ship turned into a flaming pile of scrap. "My ship!"

"If it makes you feel any better, you won't be needing it anyway," Radtiz said, getting the patrolman's attention. "A ship's no use to a deadman."

"Why you! You're gonna regret messing with a Super Elite!" Jaco shouted before striking a pose, but then he got a good look at his attacker. "Wait a minute, that armor. That tail. You can't be a Saiyan!? You're supposed to be extinct!"

"There were a few Saiyans who were off-planet when our world was destroyed," Radtiz explained. "Speaking of which, I was looking for my brother, Kakarot? He was sent to this planet years ago, don't suppose you've seen him?"

"A Saiyan on this planet!? Oh, this isn't good. Darn it, I'll have to pretend like I didn't hear that!" Jaco said. "Right after I take care of you!"

Quickly Jaco drew his blaster, and shot an energy blast right at Raditz's scouter, destroying it.

"What-You pest!" Raditz growled.

"You destroy my stuff, I destroy yours," Jaco said as he holstered his gun. "Now then, let's get this fight started."

Jaco then immediately turned around and ran into the forest.

"Coward! Come back here!" Raditz shouted as he flew after Jaco.

The two sped through the forest, avoiding trees as they went, the Saiyan quickly gaining on Jaco, until the patrolman made a sharp left behind a tree.

Radtiz made it to that tree and turned left, to find Jaco, nowhere in sight. "What!? Where did he go!?

Meanwhile, Jaco watched Raditz from a branch above him, before silently jumping back down to the ground, right behind Raditz, and kicking him in the back.

"Gah!" Raditz flew forward and smacked his head into a tree."Grrrrr!"

Radtiz quickly turned around and fired a ki blast at Jaco, and the patrolman managed to roll out of the way, pulling out his blaster as he did, before opening fire.

The Saiyan put up his arms, blocking the weak blaster shots with ease.

Jaco kept shooting as he ran away from the Saiyan, before ducking behind a tree.

"You think that will save you!?" Raditz shouted before shooting a ki beam at the tree, blasting through causing the upper half to collapse onto the forest floor.

Raditz flew over to the tree and looked around. Is he dead? Damn it without my scouter I can't tell if I hit him or not!

PEWM!

Suddenly from the leaves of the fallen tree, a blast shot out and smacked Radtiz in the face, blinding him.

"Agh!" Raditz hissed as he clutched his face.

Jaco jumped out of the leaves, and grabbed Raditz by his feet, spinning him vertically as he brought him down and slammed him into the ground.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Raditz screamed as the air was knocked out of him.

Jaco did a few flamboyant backflips back, before jumping up into the air, and then falling back down towards Raditz, aiming his knee at the Saiyan's stomach.

However, Radtiz managed to catch Jaco's knee before it slammed into him.

"Uh oh," Jaco said.

"Shining Friday!" Raditz shouted before purple and orange electricity shot out of his hands and engulfed Jaco.

"GAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA!" Jaco shouted as he got zapped to high hell.

"HAAAAA!" Radtiz poured more energy into his attack, causing Jaco to explode.

BOOM!

Jaco was sent flying through several trees, before slamming into the side of a cliff.

The patrolman fell from the cliff, and barely managed to shakely land on his feet.

"Agh." Jaco whipped some blood from his mouth and took a second to regain his composure. Can't let myself take too many of those or I'm finished.

Unfortunately, his Saiyan adversary wasn't intent on giving him much time to recover and jumped out into the opening before pointing his palms at the cliffside. "Double Sunday!"

Two pinkish beams shot out and slammed into the cliffside, one hitting the cliff from the left, and the other from the right, trapping Jaco between the beams and Radtiz himself.

Raditz then moved his arms, closing the beams in on Jaco.

Jaco barely managed to jump up in time before he was sandwiched between the beams, before kicking himself off the cliff towards Raditz and hitting him with a flying knee to the face, knocking the Saiyan down to the ground.

The super elite then hit the ground and rolled onto his feet, before running back into the forest.

"Oh no you don't!" Raditz jumped back up to his feet and flew up into the air. "No more of this!"

Raditz held up his hand and created a massive pinkish-red ki sphere. "Saturday Crash!"

The invader threw the attack down towards the ground, and Jaco looked at it fearfully. "Oh, crap! Gotta get!"

Jaco activated his jet boots just before the attack hit the ground, creating a massive explosion that quickly engulfed the forest.

"Woah, woah, woah, woah!" Jaco jetted up into the air, the explosion right on his heels, but eventually, it stopped rising, and Jaco stopped his accent to look down on the carnage.

What was once a forest, was now a crater, filled with smoke and ash.

"Yikes, good thing I got out when I did," Jaco said before a ki blast flew by his head. "Crap!"

Jaco quickly dodged a couple more blasts that Raditz sent his way, before turning around and flying away, with Raditz following in hot pursuit.

The two flew over to a beach, and Jaco flew down over the sands, with Raditz quickly catching up behind him.

But right as Radtiz was reaching out his hand to grab the patrolman, Jaco grabbed some sand from under him and threw it in Radtiz's face.

"Pah! My eyes!" Raditz stopped as he quickly tried to rub the sand out of his eyes.

Jaco made a U-turn, and tackled Raditz, taking a deep breath before flying them both into the water.

Raditz, who'd been blinded, had no time to get air before he was plunged into the sea, water quickly filling his mouth as he began to drown. "Aghh! Waghhhh!"

Jaco continued pushing them deeper, and deeper down, Radtiz started wailing on him, punching down on his back, and Jaco struggled to keep both his grip and his breath as he kept pushing them deeper.

Raditz raised up his arm, formed a ki sphere, and slammed it into Jaco's back, finally pushing the patrolman off of him.

Immediately, Raditz flew up to the surface and took a big gulp of air.

But that relief was swiftly undercut, as suddenly he felt a blaster shot hit him, right in the ass,

"Ahahahghh!" Raditz cried out, before looking down to see Jaco holstering his gun and swimming back down.

Raditz took a deep breath and dived back down, following Jaco into the depths.

They kept swimming deeper, and deeper until they got to water so deep that light struggled to reach them, and Radiz lost sight of Jaco.

Damn it does this damn coward intend to hide from me forever! Raditz looked around but he couldn't see a darn thing.

WHAM!

Suddenly he was hit with a blow to the face. Radtiz immediately responded by blindly punching the area where the punch had been thrown, but he hit nothing.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Unlike Raditz, Jaco's superb eyesight allowed him to see perfectly fine even in environments with little to no light. And he used this to his advantage, slamming his fist into Raditz, and easily dodging the Saiyan's wild blows.

KAPOW!

Jaco winded his arm back and let out a powerful blow, right in Radtiz's gut, leaving a giant crack in Radtiz's armor.

But before he could pull his fist back, Radtiz grabbed his fist and held it in place.

Raditz held onto Jaco's arm, and flew up, out of the water, and into the air.

The Saiyan grabbed Jaco's blaster and crushed it in his hand.

"Hey! That's Galactic Patrol Property!" Jaco griped.

Raditz tossed Jaco up, then cocked back his fist and cloaked it in ki. When Jaco came back down, Radtiz landed a powerful blow right on Jaco's face. "Dynamight Monday!"

BOOM!

Raditz's fist exploded in Jaco's face, sending him flying down onto the top of a nearby cliff, skidding through the dirt until he eventually came to a stop.

"Ahh. T-That one's gonna hurt in the morning." Jaco groaned as he pulled himself to his knees, and whipped some blood from his mouth.

Raditz aimed his palms down at the cliff. "Die! Weekly Special!"

The Saiyan then unleashed a barrage of ki blasts down onto the top of the cliff.

Jaco rushed up to his feet and ran away from the blasts, barely outrunning the blasts, before activating his jet boots and flying away.

Once again Raditz followed, flying after the patrolmen.

The two flew to a wasteland, covered in mountains and cliffs.

Raditz caught up to Jaco and flew next to him, and tried to grab onto him, but Jaco ducked under his arm, and then switched sides, before shoulder-tackling Raditz into a nearby mountain.

"Grrrr!" Raditz pulled himself out of the mountain and looked around, and once again Jaco was nowhere to be found. "Damn him!"

Raditz flew up and raised his palm. "You think I'll let you hide again! I'll turn this entire place into a-agh!"

Suddenly Jaco came in from behind and put Raditz in a hold, wrapping his arm around the Saiyan's neck and squeezing as hard as he could.

"Agh! ACK!" Raditz struggled and tried to pull Jaco's arm off of him, but the patrolman held on with every bit of his strength.

"Pah! Why do you have so much hair!" Jaco shouted as he struggled to hold onto Raditz while getting a face full of his unruly mane.

Jaco put his feet onto Raditz's body to try and solidify his hold, but as he was frantically trying to get his footing, he stepped on Raditz's curled-up tail.

"AGH!" Raditz felt a sharp pain, and the strength started to leave his body.

He's losing strength! I must be close to knocking him out! Jaco thought as he tightened his hold, and pressed his foot against Raditz's tail. Completely unaware that he'd found the Saiyan's weak spot.

With his tail being pressed, Radtiz could do nothing as he slowly had the air choked out of him, until his body went slack, and he finally passed out.

The two immediately fell out of the air and onto the ground below. Jaco rolled off his defeated foe and onto his back.

"Ugh. Yeah, that's…what you get…for messing with a…super elite." Jaco laughed before stopping abruptly. "Oh, it hurts to laugh."

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"So, you still think we can take him?" Goku asked as he and Vegeta looked up at an enraged Super Saiyan Broly.

Both fighters were in rough shape, their clothes were half destroyed and their bodies were covered in cuts, bruises, and blood.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly charged at them, and the divine Saiyans flinched as they tried to figure out what the hell they were supposed to do against such an unstoppable force.

And then a red beam shot out from behind them, and slammed into Broly, sending him flying back into another mountain.

"What the?" Goku and Vegeta looked behind them, to see none other than Jiren the Gray.

"Jiren?" Vegeta gasped.

"Woah! What are you doing here?" Goku asked, completely taken by surprise.

"I'd come to ask you about a proper rematch," Jiren said as he walked in front of them. "But it seems like there are more pressing matters."

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" From the mountain, Broly let out a roar that shook the earth and the heavens themselves.

"I can take things from here," Jiren said.

"Hmph." Vegeta really wanted to say they didn't need his damn help, but he knew damn well that wasn't true, and he wasn't going to let his pride get everyone killed…again.

"Jiren, this Broly guy. He's not a bad guy." Goku told him. "It seems like he just got used, and now he's lost control of himself."

"...I see," Jiren said.

SLAM!

Broly landed a few yards in front of them, and glared at Jiren, his eyes filled with feral rage.

"Go," Jiren said.

Goku and Vegeta nodded, and flew back, leaving Jiren and Broly, staring each other down.

"My my, Jiren the Grey," Freiza said with a smile as he watched the fight from the sidelines. "To think yet another one of my most hated foes would appear. I hope you don't disappoint me, Broly."

"Rrrrrrrrr. RAHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly growled before he charged at Jiren, fist-cocked back and ready to smash.

Jiren cocked his fist back as well, and when Broly got close, they let their fist fly.

BOOM!

Their fists slammed into each other, the impact causing the air around them to explode outward, and the ground to break apart as lava flew out of the ground.

Jiren and Broly both skidded back a few feet, their fists smoking.

"RAAHH!" Broly shot out a ki blast from his mouth and Jiren, and the pride trooper swatted it aside before charging at Broly, jumping up and then slamming his fist down onto Broly's face causing him to recoil back.

Jiren's eyes glowed, unleashing a blurry of invisible blows onto Broly's body, sending him skidding back further.

Broly got on all fours, digging his hands and feet into the ground to keep himself from sliding anymore, before he launched himself at Jiren, raising his fist up and slamming it down, but Jiren grabbed his fist and flipped Broly over, throwing him onto his back.

Jiren then proceeded to lift him over his head to try and slam him down again, but Broly twisted his body, and landed on his feet instead, then lifted Jiren up, and slammed him down, releasing his hold on Broly's arm.

Broly wasted no time, lifting his foot up to stomp on Jiren, but the pride trooper rolled out of the way and jumped back onto his feet.

"Haaaaaa!" Jiren thrust out his palm and unleashed a barrage of burning red ki blasts at his monstrous foe.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Gya!" Broly growled as the ki blasts slammed into him and exploded with great force, causing him to skid back further and further with each blast that slammed into him.

Until Broly dug his feet further into the ground and stopped himself, before he started running forward, through the hail of ki blasts towards Jiren, his armor breaking apart as they hit him, but he was undeterred by the pain and continued charging headfirst at Jiren.

Jiren was shocked by this reckless abandon, and couldn't get out of the way in time as Broly tackled Universe 11's strongest warrior, hitting him with his shoulder and wrapping his arms around him as he continued charging.

Broly slammed him and Jiren through a mountain, and then through another one, and another, slamming Jiren through whatever was in front of them.

"Grrr! Ha!" Jiren started slamming his elbow down on Broly's back, but the enraged Saiyan once again ignored his attacks.

Seeing this, Jiren raised his arm up again, aiming his palm at the ground, and forming a ki sphere.

KABOOM!

Jiren spiked the ki sphere right into the ground, creating a massive explosion, and a huge smoke cloud that obscured both of them from view.

A moment later, the smoke was sent flying away, revealing Broly and Jiren exchanging rapid blows, their fists clashing with each other. The force of their clashes made winds so harsh it blew away any nearby mountains.

Jiren ducked under a punch from Broly and countered with a rising uppercut, before following up with some heavy blows to Broly's face and stomach, making the Saiyan stumble back.

Capitalizing on this opening, Jiren formed another ki sphere in his hand and slammed it into Broly's chest.

But instead of exploding, the ki sphere expanded and engulfed Broly, and the Saiyan immediately felt immense pain on all sides as he felt Jiren's energy crash into his body from every angle.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly screamed in pain, but after a few moments of being stuck in Jiren's attack, he closed his fists, and then his body exploded with energy, destroying Jiren's ki sphere and sending out hundreds of green ki blasts that flew absolutely everywhere.

Jiren raised his arms and blocked the ki blasts that slammed into him, but Broly rushed in, and grabbed Jiren's arms, pushing them aside and holding them up, before hitting him with a point-blank mouth beam that engulfed the trooper's upper half.

Quickly, Jiren raised his leg, and kicked Broly right in the stomach, stunning the Saiyan for a moment as he got the wind knocked out of him, stopping his attack.

The upper half of Jiren's costume was now half-tattered, with his left arm almost completely exposed, and various tears covering the rest of it.

Jiren raised his other foot and kicked Broly again, pushing Broly back, and allowing Jiren to cartwheel back onto his feet.

Broly shook his head, quickly recovering before charging at Jiren once again.

Jiren met his charge, and the two clashed, their hands meeting as the two pushed against each other in a contest of strength.

As the two struggled against each other, the ground as well as the very fabric of reality shook.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA" Broly and Jiren shouted, as they summoned more power, every last bit of it they had to try and overpower the other.

Their auras exploded, and Jiren's fiery red rubbed up against Broly's vibrant green.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly both of their muscles exploded in size, destroying their shirts completely as they both reached their full-powered forms.

"YAHHHHHH!"

Jiren and Broly both launched their heads forward and headbutted each other, causing reality around them to shatter. Sending them into some strange blue dimension.

"Rahhhh!" Broly picked Jiren up by his hands and started spinning him around before throwing him away.

Jiren spun out of control for a bit in the air, before stopping himself.

Broly spat out a massive ki blast at Jiren, which broke apart into multiple ki blasts.

"Hmmmm!" Jiren's eyes flashed, and invisible attacks shattered the ki blasts.

Next, Broly himself flew at Jiren and threw a punch at his chest, but Jiren swerved and caught his arm before spinning him around and slamming Broly face-first into one of the strange blue walls in this dimension.

Jiren let go of him and tried to punch Broly in the back of the head, but Broly pushed himself off the wall and slammed his back into Jiren.

Broly turned around, grabbed Jiren by the head, and then flew him down, before slamming him into the ground.

"Rahhhhh!" Broly started pounding Jiren into the ground, cratering it and shaking the walls of the strange dimension, as Jiren put up his arms to block each blow.

In between Broly's punches, Jiren looked at Broly and his eyes glowed, assaulting the beast with invisible blows that caused him to stagger, giving Jiren enough time to aim his palm up at Broly, before shooting out a ki blast, that slammed into Broly's chest and carried him into the air.

"Fall!" Jiren shouted before he closed his fist.

KRAKOOM!

The ki blast exploded into a massive red sun that shattered reality once again, returning them back to their normal dimension, which was once again an iceland.

Broly dropped out of the smoke created by the explosion, landing on the ice with a mighty CRACK. His body was smoking, but he showed no sign of faltering, immediately tilting his head up and locking his eyes on Jiren.

"Come at me beast!" Jiren shouted.

"RAHHHHHHH!" Broly charged at Jiren once again, while frantically throwing ki spheres at Jiren.

"HA!" Jiren raised his arm, before waving it, creating a massive wall of fire that rushed towards Broly, and destroyed the ki blasts coming his way.

Broly ran into the wall of fire, grabbing it with his hands, before pulling it apart.

But Jiren was right on the other side, and punched Broly in the face, sending him flying back.

"HAAAAA!" Jiren aimed his palm at Broly and sent five bright red beams at him flying from all different directions.

Broly flipped onto his feet and stopped himself from flying further, before smacking away all the oncoming beams.

Then Broly's body was covered in a bright green orb, and he flew at Jiren with incredible speed.

Jiren's eyes glowed as Broly approached, but his invisible blows merely bounced off of Broly's orb, and the Saiyan slammed into the trooper, and the two slammed into a giant glacier, which then erupted into a massive explosion, with a giant green pillar of light.

The pride trooper was sent flying out of the pillar, tumbling across the ice until he grabbed on it, skidding back on one knee until he came to a stop.

Jiren looked up at the pillar of light and found Broly ascending up into the air.

Broly put his arms in front of him, and between his hands, he started charging ki, the intensity of which caused the entire area to turn bright green.

A ki sphere formed between Broly's hands, and he raised it up over his head, making it expand to a sphere twice the size of Broly himself.

Then it expanded again, and again, and again, and again, until Broly was holding a massive ball of ki, that looked to be the size of the moon.

Jiren's eyes went wide as he felt the suffocating amount of ki that had been gathered in Broly's attack. That fool! He'll blow us all to dust!

"RAHHHHHHH!" Broly roared, as he threw the massive attack down at Jiren.

Jiren looked up for a moment, before cocking his fist back. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

His aura exploded, as Jiren pumped as much energy he could muster into his fist, causing it to glow red hot.

The heat coming off of him melted all the surrounding ice around him, turning the ice around him into boiling water.

"HRAHHHHHHHH!" Jiren leaped up at the massive ball of ki, his fist shining with energy, like a star about to crash into a sun.

KRAKOOM!

Jiren's fist crashed into the ki sphere, creating a massive shockwave that could be felt all over the planet.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Jiren pushed back against the ki sphere with all his might, managing to stop its charge even if only for a moment, but he was struggling. The sheer might of this attack was stronger than anything he'd faced before.

But he couldn't afford to let this reach the earth. He could not fall!

"RAHHHHHHHHH!" But Broly didn't just sit still and let Jiren push back his attack. He let out a mighty roar, before shooting a wild beam from his mouth, into the ki sphere, causing it to grow in size and power.

Slowly but surely, the ball started pushing Jiren back, and the pride trooper quickly realized that his best efforts would not be enough.

I can't stop it! Damn it all! To think I'd find myself overpowered yet again! Jiren thought. No, there's still something I can do!

"HAAAAAAAAA!" JIren sunk his fist, into the ki sphere.

Suddenly, a red line appeared in the green sphere, moving deeper into it until it reached the middle.

Suddenly red cracks rapidly spread through the sphere, and it started to glow red and green.

And then everything went white.

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"Gah!" Jiren's eyes flew open, as he regained consciousness. "Wha-Wha happened? Right, the blast. I must have lost consciousness-agh!"

Suddenly, as Jiren finally fully came to his senses, the pain caught up to him.

And oh what exquisite pain it was.

Jiren looked down at himself as he lay in a massive icy crater that had been created by the blast, covered in thick icy mist.

His body had been burnt severely, and the hand he'd used to detonate the ball was now completely gone, blown away without a trace.

"Aghhhh." Jiren forced himself into a sitting position with his remaining arm. That beast should have gotten caught in the blast as well. At the very least he should be-

THUD!

Jiren froze up, as he heard and felt massive footsteps shake the entire crater.

Then, in the center of the crater, through the mist, Jiren saw it. A pair of glowing green eyes.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

With a mighty roar, Broly blew away the mist, revealing himself. He was covered in burns, cuts, and bruises, and blood leaked from his massively oversized muscles, but he was far, far from down.

"It-It can't be." Jiren looked at Broly in shock. How can he still have this much power!?

Suddenly, the sky turned black, and Jiren could faintly see a golden glow off in the distance.

But whatever that was, was the last of Jiren's worries, as Broly's eyes landed on him.

Jiren clenched his teeth and forced himself onto his feet.

Even if he was on his last legs, even if his foe seemed to be indomitable, he would not falter.

Not again.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Jiren shouted as he summoned what remained of his power, his aura blazing to life before he ran at Broly.

"RAHHHHHH!" Broly charged, right back at Jiren.

"HA!" Jiren threw a punch that landed smack in the middle of Broly's face.

But the Saiyan wasn't phased even in the slightest and immediately retaliated with a punch that sent Jiren flying into the side of the crater.

"RAHHHH!" Broly charged up ki blasts into his hand, before tossing them wildly at Jiren.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The blasts slammed into Jiren, exploding on contact, each blast making the explosion larger and larger as they landed.

Broly then charged in, and with a mighty stomp, he blew away the explosion, revealing the expanded crater with a broken Jiren lying in its side.

The enraged Saiyan ran at Jiren, before hitting him with a mighty drop kick that sent Jiren flying through the ice.

"RAHH!" Broly spat out a ki blast from his mouth that followed Jiren who was still flying through the mouth, before quickly catching up to him.

KABOOOM!

The blast exploded, creating a giant mushroom cloud.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly roared into the sky, before frantically looking around, seeing if there was anything else to smash.

But as he turned his back, suddenly, he felt a ki blast smack into it.

"Rah?" Broly turned around and looked at the smoke from the explosion.

The smoke started to clear, revealing Jiren, blood leaking from his mouth, and breathing heavily.

"Our…fight…is not…done," Jiren said in between breaths.

He could barely stand. Most of his strength had left him, and it was a struggle just to stay conscious.

But he still had a duty to do.

"Haaaaaa!" Broly charged Ki in his hand, before shooting out a massive green beam at JIren.

It was too fast, and Jiren had too little strength.

He prepared himself for death.

When suddenly, he was enveloped in a green glow, and the next moment, he felt all the pain vanish and his strength return to him.

After being surprised for a moment, Jiren immediately jumped up into the air, avoiding the beam.

"What the?" Jiren looked over his body and was surprised to find all of his wounds gone. Even his hand was back.

At the same time, suddenly the sky turned blue once again.

I don't know what just happened, but I assume whatever it was, Son Goku was responsible for it. Jiren thought.

"RAHHHH!" Broly didn't give him any time to think as he flew up at him and immediately launched a punch.

Jiren dodged the blow and grabbed his fist, spinning Broly around before tossing him away.

Broly stopped himself just before he hit the ground, and immediately flew back up at Jiren.

The berserk Saiyan sent out a flurry of punches at Jiren, which the Universe 11 warrior had to either dodge or parry.

I can't overpower him, but his attacks are wild and uncoordinated, and while he's not getting weaker, his total lack of control is making him tired. Jiren thought. I have to be on the defensive!

Broly lunged at Jiren and tried to grab him, but Jiren ducked under his arms, smashed his feet into Broly's chest, then flipped him over before pushing him down to the ground.

SLAM!

Broly slammed into the ice, and almost immediately he raised his palm up and started firing ki blasts at Jiren.

Jiren flew away, and dodged the blasts, before aiming down and hitting Broly with a few ki blasts of his own.

"GRRRRRRR! RAHHHHHHHHHH!" Broly surrounded his body in a big green ki sphere, before flying up at Jiren at a breakneck pace.

Jiren caught Broly and his orb, of course, unable to stop him as Broly pushed them both upwards, but after getting his bearings, Jiren kicked the orb upwards, causing it to fly into the air.

Broly stopped himself before he got far, and charged at Jiren once again, but this time Jiren dodged to the side, causing Broly to crash into a mountain that immediately collapsed around him.

KABOOM!

A few moments later, the remains of the icy mountain exploded, revealing Broly who had to take a second to breathe, before looking back up at Jiren, and spitting out a ki blast at him.

Jiren grabbed the ki blast, then threw it back at Broly.

Broly batted the blast aside, before flying back up at Jiren.

Once again he tried to lay into Jiren with a barrage of punches and kicks but Jiren dodged and deflected them all, a few close calls causing Broly's fist to knick Jiren's skin and make some shallow cuts.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Broly stopped trying to punch and instead, roared, charging up energy inside of him, which burst out, hundreds of ki blasts exploding out of his body in every direction.

Jiren forced his energy to surround him, turning his aura into a shield that made the ki blasts bounce off of him.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Broly shouted as he forced out even more energy, causing the blast pouring out of him to become larger, and even more numerous.

Jiren grit his teeth as more and more ki blasts bounced off his aura, sparks flying off of his aura, as he began to get pushed back slightly with each blast that hit him. Just need to endure it! Just a little longer!

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Broly's energy began to completely run wild, as energy burst out from his mouth, and Broly began wildly flailing his head around, moving the beam while he was still shooting out hundreds of ki blasts.

Jiren was forced to take down his shield and move away from the beam, knowing he stood no chance of taking that directly.

This forced him to get hit by the ki blasts, but he grit his teeth and endured it as they pelted against his skin, leaving burns and bruises all over.

Come on! Come on! Jiren said in his head as he dodged the big mouth beam.

The energy assault continued for what felt like forever, Jiren doing his best to endure the storm of ki attacks spewing out from his foe.

And that's when Jiren noticed it.

Broly's body was starting to glow green, as his ki reached critical levels.

He's going to explode! Jiren's eyes widened. I need to stop him! Before he blows up the earth!

Jiren focused all of his energy to once again shroud him, but this time he charged toward Broly, like a flaming meteor.

Broly tried to blast him with his mouth beam but Jiren dodged it, and tackled him, before pushing him up, higher and higher into the sky, as the green glow around Broly's body became brighter and brighter.

Jiren carried them into the upper atmosphere and braced for impact.

KABOOM!

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Once again, Jiren opened his eyes, this time finding himself floating in space.

In front of him was Broly, now unconscious and back in his base form.

He'd won.

"Rest now. Worthy foe." Jiren said as he flew over to Broly, grabbing him and bringing him back down to earth.

Chapter Text

Bardock watched as his son rocketed away into the sky.

Now the big question was, now what?

Did they stay on a doomed planet? Waiting to die?

Did they fight back in vain, knowing they'd lose?

Either way, it seems all they could do was accept their death.

Bardock gripped Gine's arm tight.

No, that didn't sit right with him.

He wanted to live. He wanted his WIFE to live. He wanted them all to be together as a family again.

"Gine, we're going to steal another ship. And this time, we're gonna escape." Bardock said.

"Wha-But you said they'd pick us up on their scouters!?" Gine pointed out.

"They'll definitely pick us up. But if we're lucky they won't care that two Saiyans got off the planet." Bardock reasoned. "And besides, what do we have to lose?"

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Vegeta didn't contemplate murder very often.

Now, if you knew the guy, that might be hard to believe, but it was true.

Vegeta didn't really debate with himself if he wanted to kill someone, he just did it.

But if there was one person that made him really ponder the subject, it was Raditz.

The guy was such a weakling that it actually made him sick. A disgrace to even low-class Saiyan warriors.

But he was also one of the few Saiyans left alive, so that's what made Vegeta, slightly hesitant on just outright killing him.

And watching him get the crap beat out of him was also VERY amusing so there was that.

But whether or not Raditz survived would hinge on what they found when they reached Earth.

Raditz had called them on his scouters, saying he found something of interest on that little backwater planet.

And given that it would take them a whole damn year to travel there, whatever he found better be worth it.

Vegeta and Nappa's pods crashed in the spot Raditz had designated for them. An abandoned wasteland, devoid of life.

And when the two exited the pods, they found a whole party waiting for them.

A few earthlings, a Namekian, and to Vegeta's surprise, four Saiyans.

Aside from Raditz, there was a younger Saiyan, likely not even in the double digits in terms of age, another Saiyan who Vegeta presumed was Raditz's brother, and an older Saiyan, Raditz's father.

Before Vegeta could do anything, Bardock pointed to his scouter.

"Who do you think you-" Nappa started, but Vegeta held up his hand to silence him.

Without saying a word, Vegeta activated his scouter, and read their power levels.

And his eyes widened.

All of them had pretty high power levels, but the Saiyans in particular had VERY troubling power levels.

In the span of a year, Radtiz's power level had somehow managed to get to the point where he rivaled Nappa, and the brat wasn't far behind.

But the real issues were Bardock and Kakarot.

Bardock sported a power level of over 19,000! And Kakarot's was even higher!

Vegeta balked at them in confusion. How can this be!? I am the prince of all Saiyans! How could they be stronger than me!?

"Holy crap!" Nappa said as he too read their power levels.

"Tch." Vegeta then took off and threw away his scouter. "Nappa."

"Wha-Oh." Nappa saw what Vegeta just did, and did the same.

"I see whatever you want to speak about you don't want reaching Frieza's ears," Vegeta said. "I'm guessing you're the reason Radtiz called us here."

"That's right. Let's cut to the chase, Raditz told me here that Freiza told you that planet Vegeta was destroyed by a meteor." Bardock chuckled. "I can't believe any of you bought that."

"What are you saying?" Vegeta asked, not liking how arrogant Bardock sounded.

"If a meteor had been on its way to planet Vegeta, we would have picked it up and destroyed it, long before it became a problem." Bardock pointed out. "No, the thing that really destroyed planet Vegeta was Frieza himself!"

"Wha-What the heck are you saying!?" Nappa shouted. "Freiza blew up planet Vegeta!? Why the hell would he do something like that!?"

"It's true," Bardock said. "Before planet Vegeta's destruction, I had gotten into a fight with a group called the Heaters. Who told me that Freiza had something special in store for the Saiyans. I didn't understand him at first, but after Freiza called everyone back to the planet I started to get suspicious, and once I heard that Freiza's men were asking around about the Super Saiyan, that's when I figured it all out?"

"The Super Saiyan? You mean like the legend!?" Nappa asked.

"The Frieza Force had gotten strong. Strong enough that he didn't need us pesky, arrogant Saiyans around. Especially if there was a risk that a Super Saiyan could rival his own power." Bardock explained. "And so Freiza made the decision to wipe out the Saiyans. I knew we couldn't stop him, so I sent Kakarot away in a pod, knowing he was too weak for their scouters to pick up. After that, me and Gine left on a ship of our own. They made a few half-hearted attempts to shoot us down, but they didn't care all too much about two Saiyans escaping, so long as they got the majority of them. And as we left, we saw it, Freiza destroying our planet, with only his finger."

"That's insane!" Nappa shouted. "You expect us to believe-"

"I believe you," Vegeta said, stunning Nappa. "Think about it, do you really believe that my father could have been killed by a rock? I always had my suspicions, this merely confirms them. And so what is it that you want?"

"Isn't it obvious!? Vengeance!" Bardock growled. "Freiza has to die by Saiyan hands!"

"...And what exactly is your plan?" Vegeta asked.

"Vegeta! Don't tell me you wanna be a part of this madness!" Nappa gasped. "Even if Freiza destroyed our planet, there's no way we could fight against someone like him!"

"Hmph, only a handful of surviving Saiyans, and one of them's a coward." Bardock huffed.

"What did you just call me!?" Nappa barked.

"Shut it, Nappa," Vegeta ordered, before turning his attention back to Bardock. "And you, I asked you a question. I don't need to tell you that even if all of us worked together, Frieza would crush us all into dust."

"Hmph, is there any other way? We're gonna train." Bardock said. "Earth has some pretty interesting stuff for such a backwater planet. And if we make use of it, I have no doubt that we can kill that bastard Freiza!"

Vegeta pondered Bardock's offer.

There was simply no way he could continue working for Freiza, and it did seem like this planet was capable of training powerful warriors.

"Fine, but if this proves to be a waste of my time, they'll be hell to pay." Vegeta agreed.

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PEWM!

Granola blasted a tree in a half, with one of his signature finger beams.

He took a deep breath, as he looked at the resulting destruction. Need more focus.

"So, looks like you've done pretty good for yourself, kid."

Granola immediately turned around, after hearing a voice behind him, aiming his finger at whoever it was.

And he was shocked to find a Saiyan standing there, with Monaito by his side.

"Get away from him!" Granola shouted, immediately shooting a beam at Bardock from his finger.

Bardock casually batted away the blast.

"Granola stop!" Monaito shouted. "Please just listen, this Saiyan is not your enemy!"

"What! What the hell are you talking about!?" Granola shouted. "What's going on here!?"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Granola collapsed to his knees in shock.

His entire world just came crumbling around him.

He and his mother had been saved by a Saiyan? The Heeters were the ones who'd killed his mother!

"Why!? Why did you hide this from me!" Granola shouted. "You let me work for them!"

"If I had told you the truth, they would have killed us," Monaito explained, while still sounding ashamed of himself. "I'm sorry."

"So, now that you know the truth, are you ready to hear what I have to say?" Bardock asked. "I'm forming a resistance against Frieza. And I want you to be part of it. While the Saiyans played a part in your people's destruction, most of them are dead. And the ones that remain aren't nearly as big a threat as Freiza. If you ever want a shot at getting back at him, this is your best and maybe only chance."

Granola took a second to think about it.

Right now, he didn't stand a chance of beating Frieza. And he knew that.

This Saiyan saved him and tried to save his mother. And Monaito trusted him. So if he said he had a way to defeat Freiza, he was inclined to believe him.

Could he really refuse an offer like this? A chance to achieve a seemingly impossible goal?

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Freiza looked down on the planet he was in the process of conquering from space.

He didn't even bother to remember the name of it. It didn't really matter.

Or at least that's what he thought when he got here.

However, the tyrant was rather surprised, when suddenly all his forces went completely silent.

"How troubling," Frieza said as he looked down at the planet. "Tell me, have any of our forces reported back yet?"

"No sir." One of his soldiers said. "Our scouters momentarily picked up several extremely large power levels, before our forces went silent. But now we're not detecting anything."

"Interesting." Freiza mused.

KABOOM!

Suddenly the entire ship shook violently as something impacted the ship, causing it to start falling towards the planet.

"Sir, we've been hit!" One of the Freiza soldiers shouted.

Freiza scowled and stayed silent as they fell towards the planet.

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The Z-Fighters stood in a rocky wasteland, looking up at the sky.

Suddenly, Freiza's ship came crashing down, and slammed into the rocks, exploding violently into a fiery inferno.

"Get ready," Bardock said. "He's here."

A moment later, they started to hear footprints from within the fire, and a small silhouette could be seen.

Freiza emerged from the flames, looking more annoyed than hurt. "My my, what an unexpected encounter. I'd wondered where you'd gone off to Vegeta, tell me, have you come to return to my forces after all this time."

"Ha! Not on your life, Freiza." Vegeta scoffed. "I know what happened to planet Vegeta. Did you really think you could get away with lying to the prince of all Saiyans!?"

"I see." Freiza sighed, before turning his attention to everyone else. "I suppose all of you are here for this, group suicide as well?"

"We're here to avenge our people! The people that you mercilessly killed!" Granola shouted, his body trembling with rage.

Oh dear, haven't heard that one before. Freiza thought sarcastically, as he rolled his eyes. "Well if you all went through so much trouble just to have the honor of dying by my hands, then I suppose it would be rude to refuse. Very well, let us commence with the slaughter."

Freiza raised his finger and fired a Death Beam right at Granola.

But Granola batted away the beam, before returning fire with a finger beam of his own, aimed right at Freiza's face.

Freiza's tilted his head, causing the beam to brush against his cheek, making a cut and drawing first blood.

The tyrant's eyes went wide, and he touched his cheek in disbelief. To his shock, he saw blood on his fingers.

His blood.

While Freiza was still in shock, Tien, Krillin, and Yamcha charged forward.

Yamcha threw a punch at Frieza, slamming his fist into the dictator's face, causing him to fly back.

Tien flew behind him and kicked him up into the air, and then Krillin went above, bringing his arms together and slamming Freiza into the ground, burying him under the rocks.

A few moments later, Freiza pulled himself out of the rocks and got back up to his feet, now looking, supremely pissed.

But before he could say something vicious and witty, he quickly realized that he was completely surrounded.

Kakarot, Gohan Krillin, and Yamcha were charging up Kamehamehas, Tien was charging up Dodon Ray, Piccolo was charging a Masenko, Raditz charging up a Double Sunday, Vegeta Granola and Bardock were charging up ki beams, and Nappa was readying a mouth blast.

KABOOM!

All at once they fired their attacks, the beams slamming into Freiza and creating a massive explosion.

Once the explosion died down, all that remained was a giant smoking crater.

"You think we got him?" Yamcha asked.

A few moments later, they heard something from within the smoke, the sounds of something expanding and popping.

The smoke began to clear, revealing Freiza, although now he looked very different.

Gone was a pint-sized tyrant, as Freiza was now in his bulky second form. He had a few scratches and bruises from taking those attacks in his first form, but overall, he was FAR from dead.

So I was right. Bardock thought.

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A few years back, the Saiyans were just finishing up another training session in the gravity chamber.

The training was intense, each Saiyan covered in sweat and bruises, and breathing as if they'd just been nearly suffocated.

"Father, how long must we keep training?" Raditz asked. "Frieza's last recorded power level was under 600,000. Surely we must be more than a match for him now."

"Don't be so sure. There's something off about Frieza's power level." Bardock said after chugging down some water. "King Cold's power level was much higher. Ridiculously so. It wouldn't make much sense for Freiza to be so much weaker, yet so favored by his father."

"You're saying that Frieza's hiding his true power?" Vegeta asked.

"I'm saying it's better safe than sorry," Bardock said. "I won't throw away our lives to carelessness."

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"I must admit I'm impressed, to think a bunch of low life, nothing spices like yours could get this strong." Freiza mocked, as he slammed his tail into the ground, and lifted up his closed fist. "Now then, shall we start this fight in earnest."

Freiza opened his palm, and a massive burst of energy exploded out of his body, sending everyone flying back a bit.

Then Freiza charged at Krillin, lowering his head and aiming his horn at the human's chest.

"Woah!" Krillin reacted just in time, catching Frieza's horn, and barely managing to hold it back before it impaled him.

"Get away from him!" Kakarot shouted as he burst forward, and grabbed Freiza by the tail, pulling him away from Krillin, before spinning him around, and then throwing him at Bardock.

Bardock raised his leg and slammed it down on Freiza's head as soon as he got in range, sending him back down to the ground once again.

Freiza flipped himself mid-air and slammed into the ground on his feet, but before he could retaliate against his opponent, Nappa aimed his fingers down at Freiza.

BOOM!

The ground Freiza was standing on suddenly exploded, sending Frieza flying back into the air.

And in the next moment, Granola fired another finger blast at Frieza, while at the same time, Tien fired a Dodon ray.

Both beams slammed into Freiza, and exploded, creating a big cloud of smoke in the air.

For a few moments, there was silence, as the fighters surrounded the cloud of smoke, waiting for Freiza to emerge and make his move.

But the tyrant's next attack didn't come from the cloud, but from below them, as Freiza used his telekinesis to pick up the jagged rocks from below and send them flying up his assailants.

Vegeta, Kakarot, and Granola noticed the rocks just in time and flew back to avoid them.

Bardock, Gohan, Raditz, Nappa, and Piccolo put up their arms to guard against the attack, taking little to no real damage.

Krillin and Tien also guarded against the rocks but sustained a few cuts anyway.

And Yamcha had a rock hit him directly in the nuts.

"OHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yamcha cried out in pain, his eyes bulging, before he proceeded to drop to the ground.

"Oh." Krillin winced as he looked down at his comrade. "That's gotta hurt."

Freiza charged out of the cloud of smoke, aiming a punch at Tien.

Tien caught the punch and sent his own back in return, but Freiza caught his fist.

"Grrrrrrrr." The two pushed against each other, struggling for dominance.

"Haaaaaaa!" Tien screamed, as suddenly his back bulged, and two more arms burst out of him.

Tien's two new arms landed a one-two punch right on Freiza's face, before following up with a headbutt, stunning the alien overlord for a moment.

Nappa then came up from behind, and grabbed Freiza, putting him in full nelson.

"Rahhh! Filthy Saiyan! Unhand me!" Freiza shouted as he struggled against Nappa's hold, but the Saiyan's grip remained firm.

"Haaaaa!" Bardock charged forward and landed a powerful blow on Frieza's gut.

"Ohhhhhhhhh!" Freiza spat out a bit of blood as Bardock's fist slammed into him.

But that was only the beginning of the merciless assault, as Vegeta and Raditz joined in, and the three Saiyans started mercilessly beating on the tyrant, while Nappa held him in place.

"Grrrrrrrrr," Frieza grunted in pain.

Then, a few moments later, as they were still beating on him, Freiza's body started to change again, and the Saiyans could feel Freiza's body grow tougher and tougher.

"Gah!" Nappa was forced to let go of Freiza and fly back, as spikes grew out of the alien's back.

"Rah!" Freiza shouted, as he unleashed a burst of energy from his body, causing his attackers to pause for a moment, giving Freiza the chance to perform a tail swipe, hitting all of them and sending them flying into a nearby rocky cliffside.

Then Freiza turned around, and hit Nappa in the face with a Death Beam, causing the Saiyan to flinch in pain.

PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM!

Freiza then unleashed a Death Beam Barrage at Nappa, the bald Saiyan putting up his arms to block, but bits of his armor were getting chipped away and small bruises appeared with each hit.

Then, Piccolo extended his arms, and grabbed Freiza by his back spikes, before spinning him around, and then throwing him at Yamcha.

"Haaa! Neo! Wolf Fang Fist!" Yamcha shouted as he stopped Freiza with a barrage of claw-like strikes straight to his chest.

Yamcha brought his hands together and launched the final strike of his technique.

Only for Freiza to grab them, stopping his attack dead in its tracks.

Yamcha's eyes went wide, and then he was hit by a headbutt from Freiza's massive noggin, which caused the human's own head to start leaking blood.

Piccolo, Granola, and Tien charged at Freiza's back ready to start attacking him from behind, but Freiza whipped Yamcha around, and slammed him into Piccolo, sending them both flying, before he charged at Granola and Tien.

The tyrant unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks at the two, which forced them to go on the defensive, dodging, blocking, and deflecting his attacks.

Thankfully they didn't have to keep that up for long, as Kakarot, Gohan, and Krillin came in from Frieza's right, with fully charged Kamehameha's.

"HA!" They all unleashed their attacks together, side by side, their three beams joining together into one massive blue wave of energy.

Freiza noticed the beam, just in time, and turned to face it, putting his arms in front of him, causing him to get pushed back as he tried to deflect it.

Struggling to try and push away the attack, Freiza instead managed to leap upwards, dodging the wave of energy that now rushed under him.

But then Nappa came in from behind, grabbed his head, and pushed it into the Kamehameha.

"Rahhhh!" Freiza cried out in pain as his skull was enveloped in white got pain.

He pointed his finger at Nappa, and quickly charged a full-power Death Beam, before blasting him in the face, causing the Saiyan to recoil and weakening his grip enough from Freiza to pull his head out of the beam and elbow the brute in the gut.

"Ohhhhhhhh!" Nappa gasped in pain.

Before Freiza could follow up, however, Bardock came flying in, and punched Freiza in the face, sending him flying once again.

Raditz came in from behind his father, and charged up an energy sphere, before tossing it at Frieza. "Saturday Crash!"

Freiza managed to stop himself in the air, and backhanded Raditz's attack into a nearby mountain, causing it to explode and destroy most of it.

Piccolo stepped up and started tossing ki blasts at Freiza nonstop, which the tyrant easily dodged, moving very little as each blast whizzed past him until he didn't even need to dodge at all, with Piccolo's blast easily missing him.

"My, my, has your fear caused your aim to grow sloppy?" Freiza taunted.

"You're the one who got sloppy!" Piccolo smirked, as he threw his final ki blast.

Freiza was confused for a moment before he noticed light reflecting off of his body from every angle.

He looked around and found himself surrounded by ki spheres floating around him. Trapping him in a cage of ki spheres.

"Ha!" Granola shot another blast from his fingers, aimed right at Frieza.

Freiza moved to the left, dodging the blast, but the blast bounced off of Piccolo's spheres, before hitting Freiza in the side of the head.

"Agh!" Freiza hissed.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Granola shot out a barrage of finger blasts, this time aiming at the ki spheres Piccolo made.

His blasts all bounced off of the ki spheres, before simultaneously slamming into Freiza from every angle.

"Hellzone grenade!" Piccolo shouted, as she brought down his arms, and all the ki spheres rushed into Frieza.

KABOOM!

The spheres exploded on contact, creating yet another massive cloud of smoke.

A few moments later, Death Beams started blasting out of the smoke, scattering about wildly in every direction.

Every fighter barely managed to dodge the wild beams, before Piccolo and Nappa retaliated, by firing off mouth beams from either side of Frieza.

Freiza put up his arms and held back the beams, but ended up stuck in between them as he kept them back, keeping them from engulfing him.

That's when Krillin silently flew up behind him and put his hand over his head.

Quickly, a big, thin disk made of ki formed above Krillin's hand. And started spinning like a buzz saw.

"Destructo Disk!" Krillin shouted as he threw the disk at Frieza, turning it to the side, aiming to bisect the emperor.

Freiza looked behind him and saw the disk quickly approaching.

He summoned more of his power and pushed back the beams just enough for him to rush forward out of their range, and try and dodge the disk.

But he wasn't able to fully get out of the way in time, and his right arm and shoulder pad were cut clean off.

"Aghhhhhhhhhhh!" Freiza let out a defending shriek, as he looked down at his bloody stump. "My arm! You dare remove the arm of the mighty lord Freiza!"

"Don't throw a fit Freiza, I think the new look suits you!" Vegeta chuckled. "Oh, how low you've fallen. Losing a limb to a weakling species from a backwater planet.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Freiza growled, before taking a moment, to regain his composure. Giving his opponents a dead-serious look. "Enough. I've given you the courtesy of holding back, and this is where it has gotten me. I suppose that's what I should expect from you ungrateful primates."

Freiza slowly descended back onto the ground, and then he started to power up. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Cracks started appearing along Freiza's body, and purple energy emerged from them, getting brighter and brighter, until they exploded out, blinding everyone around him.

Everyone covered their eyes and flew back down to the ground.

"How many transformations does this freak have!?" Nappa asked.

"It's like his power never stops growing!" Tien remarked.

"Holy Crap!" Yamcha gasped as he sensed Frieza's energy.

"Father, is this it? Freiza's true power!?" Raditz asked.

"It better be, or else all our efforts were for nothing," Bardock growled.

Eventually, the light from Freiza's transformation subsided, revealing Freiza in his final form. (Although still without one of his arms).

Freiza took a deep breath, before cracking his neck, and then looking directly at his opponents. "First of all, I believe congratulations are in order. Only my father has ever managed to force me to use my true form. You all have fought quite splendidly up until now. But now I shall teach you, the truest form of despair."

"Everyone! Switch to plan B!" Bardock shouted.

"You heard him weaklings, back off," Vegeta said, looking at the humans, Piccolo and Granola.

A few of them glared at Vegeta, but complied anyway, flying away from the overlord.

But suddenly, Krillin was stopped, as he felt Frieza's telekinesis take hold of his body. "Wha-"

"And where do you think you're going!?" Freiza growled as he held Krillin in place. "You have not yet paid the price for taking my arm! I think I'll remove your head as recompense!"

"Oh no you don't!" Gohan shouted as he and Kakarot charged at Frieza.

Frieza shot beams out of his eyes at them, but the two managed to dodge them before both of them came together and punched Frieza in the face, breaking his hold over Krillin, and sending Freiza skidding back a few feet.

"Grrrr, fine! If you Saiyans wish to die first then so be it! It's time I finished what I started, and whipped out you wretched apes for good!" Freiza shouted.

The tyrant then charged at Kakarot, and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying back, before immediately slapping Gohan away with his tail.

Bardock, Nappa, Raditz, and Vegeta all charged at Frieza, surrounding him and then closing in, before launching punches and kicks at the emperor.

Freiza dodged and deflected all of their attacks with his remaining arm and tail, before jumping up over all of them, and shooting a ki blast down at the ground, creating a big explosion that sent all four Saiyans flying in different directions.

Quickly the Saiyans managed to stop themselves, but Freiza already had his finger aimed at Raditz and shot out a Death Beam.

But before the beam could reach Raditz, one of Granola's sniper beams, came in from the distance, and hit it, causing it to detonate before it reached its target.

Freiza looked off into the direction the beam came from with a scowl before he started flying in that direction, ready to attack Granola and keep him from interfering any further.

But Vegeta shot a beam out in front of Freiza, stopping him for a moment, and allowing Bardock to catch up, and grab Freiza by his tail, before slamming him back down into the ground.

Bardock then let go of Freiza, looked over to Nappa, and nodded.

Nappa smirked, and raised his hand, with two fingers pointed outwards.

Then, he raised his two fingers, and the entire area was consumed in a massive explosion.

After the flash subsided, Freiza found himself unharmed, but in a massive cloud of dust, smoked and powered rocks, completely unable to see anything around him.

And then someone punched him in the back of the head.

Before Frieza could try and counter, he received another blow to the side of his head, and then one to the gut.

Freiza swiped his tail behind him, but hit nothing, and received another punch to the other side of the face.

The dictator continued to get blindsided by strikes from within the smoke, completely unable to tell where his opponents were striking from due to his lack of ability to sense energy.

Eventually, Freiza was tripped, and sent face-first into the ground, and at that point, he'd had more than enough.

"HAAAAA!" Frieza punched the ground, the force of the punch blowing away all the smoke.

Revealing Kakarot behind him, with a fully charged Kamehameha.

"HA!" Goku launched his beam at Frieza, the attack fully engulfing the tyrant.

But this only lasted for a few moments, before Freiza charged out of the beam, and close-lined Kakarot, sending him to the ground.

"Father!" Gohan charged at Frieza, but Freiza used his telekinesis on the rocks under him and had them rise up hitting Gohan in the chin, stopping him in his tracks.

Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz charged at him from behind, but Freiza turned around, and waved his arm at them, causing the air to explode around them, sending all of them flying back.

Then Bardock came down from above, his hands brought together and ready to hammer down on Freiza, but Freiza jumped back, avoiding Bardock's attack, and causing the Saiyan to only hit rocks.

Freiza then charged forward and wrapped his tail around Bardock's neck before he began to choke the Saiyan warrior.

"Aghh, kack!" Bardock struggled and tried to pull Frieza's tail off of his neck but to no avail.

"Dad!" Kakarot cried out, and he tried to rush in to help, but he was immediately blasted by a Death Beam and sent flying away once again.

The rest of the Saiyans rushed Freiza, but just shot Death Beams at all of them one at a time, sending them away.

Bardock started seeing spots in his vision, and he realized he had to do something quick before he was choked to death.

And so Bardock bit down on Frieza's tail.

Freiza's eyes went wide as he felt a rush of pain fill his body, and he instinctively threw Bardock away, releasing him from his choke hold.

Vegeta flew up into the air and then started unleashing a barrage of ki blasts down at Frieza.

But Freiza just flew away from the blasts, Vegeta kept trying to blast at him, but Freiza was simply too fast.

Nappa pointed at the ground in front of Freiza and made it explode.

Freiza stopped himself just short of the explosion and flew up before Vegeta's blasts could reach him.

Freiza then charged at Vegeta, and kicked him in the face, grabbing hold of his head using his alien feet, before flying them through a nearby mountain, and then slamming him into the ground.

Raditz flew in to try and attack Freiza from behind, but the alien tyrant just flew up, high into the air.

Freiza looked down at the ground, before raising his arm up.

In the depths of space, a nearby asteroid belt was taken hold of by Freiza's telekinesis and quickly started rushing toward the planet.

The Saiyan's eyes went wide, as they saw thousands of asteroids coming down towards them, and fast.

Quickly the Saiyans started firing up ki blasts at the asteroids, blowing up as many as they could.

However, one managed to get close to Raditz and was about to hit him, when another sniper shot from Granola destroyed it.

Seeing this, Bardock decided to throw caution to the wind, and flew up into the asteroid storm, towards Frieza.

Granola blew up any asteroids that got near Bardock, and with his support, Bardock made it to Frieza.

Bardock closed his fist, and formed a ki blade with his hand, raising it up and bringing it down on the tyrant's head.

Freiza caught the blade, but Bardock formed a blue ki sphere in his hand and then smashed it into Freiza's face.

BRRRRRRRRRRR!

The sphere exploded into a massive beam, hitting Freiza point blank.

A second later, Frieza's arm came out of the beam and shot out a yellowish ki orb that engulfed Bardock and trapped him inside of it.

Freiza then rose up and kicked the ball down at the other Saiyans.

KABOOM!

The ball slammed into Vegeta and exploded, the massive explosion creating a dome of energy visible from space.

When the explosion died down, Freiza looked down at the giant smoking crater he'd created and saw the Saiyan lying on the ground, now very injured.

Their clothes were torn, and blood and bruises littered their bodies.

"Ughhhhh." They groaned as they struggled to get back onto their feet.

Before they could recover, Freiza aimed his fingers down at the Saiyans, and shot down five powerful Death Beams from each finger, and two beams from his eyes.

BRRRRRRRRRR!

The Saiyans were all impaled by the beams. One Death Beam went right through each of their chests, with the two eye beams going through Vegeta's.

All of them vomited up blood and lay on the ground, blood leaking from their dying bodies.

"Well now, I believe I'm quite done with you monkeys." Freiza raised up his finger and started forming a small ball of ki that looked like a sun, which was slowly getting bigger and bigger. "You can die knowing your efforts were for not, and once I've killed you I'll hunt down your little friends and-"

KABOOM!

Before the Supernova could grow to full size, another sniper blast from Granola slammed into it, causing it to detonate right in Frieza's face.

"Agh!" Freiza shook off the damage from his incomplete blast and got ready to retaliate with a Death Beam.

"Hey!" Called Krillin's voice from behind Frieza.

Frieza turned around, to find Krillin with his hands over his face.

"Solar Flare!" Krillin shouted, as he blasted Freiza point blank with blinding light.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Frieza cried out in pain, as he covered his eyes and seethed in pain.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Then a Special Beam Cannon flew in from behind, and sailed, right through Frieza's chest.

"Ackkk!" Frieza choked, as blood flew out of his mouth.

Meanwhile, Tien flew above him, forming a triangle with his hands, and aiming down so Freiza was in its center. "NEO! TRI BEAM!"

A blast of pure force slammed into Freiza, sending him into the ground which now had a triangle-shaped hole in it.

"HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!" Tien screamed as he sent blast after blast down into the hole, onto Frieza.

While Tien was doing this, Yamcha flew over to the Saiyans and started giving all of them Senzu Beans.

"Agh." All of the Saiyans got up, and started flexing, feeling the new power from their Zenkais flowing through them.

"All right, time for the final stretch," Bardock said. "Prince, it's time."

"Tch, don't give me orders," Vegeta growled, before raising his palm up and creating a luminescent sphere of energy. "Ha!"

Vegeta threw the sphere up into the air, before closing his fist, causing the sphere to expand. "Burst open and mix!"

The ball started reflecting light, turning it from normal light, into blutz waves.

"Rahhhhh!" The Saiyans felt power fill their bodies, as those bodies began to expand and grow. Fur overtook them, as the shape of their faces and feet changed.

Soon enough, they were all six of them, Great Apes.

Moments later, Tien ran out of power, collapsing and falling to the ground.

Yamcha caught him before he touched the rocks, and fed him a Senzu Bean, before taking him away.

After a couple seconds, Freiza started to emerge from the hole, covered in blood, and breathing heavily. As well as looking both terrified and livid.

And those feelings only deepened, when he saw that he was surrounded by Great Apes.

"Rah!" Kakarot raised his fist, and tried to slam it down on Freiza, but the tyrant narrowly avoided it.

Gohan attempted to grab him, but he dodged that as well, he ended up getting caught by Bardock, who threw him to the ground.

Nappa jumped up and then slammed his fist into Freiza, his fist started to glow white with ki, and the ground exploded, bursting with energy in the form of geysers of light.

When the explosion died down, Nappa smirked, but that smirk left as quickly as it came, as he felt Freiza push his fist up.

Freiza continued to push back Nappa's fist, before throwing it off of him, then Freiza shrouded himself in energy, and charged up at Nappa, delivering a powerful full charge uppercut to Nappa's chin, putting the Saiyan on his back.

Then Freiza immediately looked at Gohan, and shot beams from his eyes, directly into Gohan's eyes, blinding him and causing him to stumble back.

Freiza then looked at Vegeta and tried to do the same thing, but Vegeta put a hand over his face to block the beams, and then Kakarot hit him with a mouth blast, sending him flying into a mountain.

"RAHHHHHH!" Gohan charged at the mountain Freiza was embedded in, and then hit the emperor with a powerful drop kick.

The kick sent Freiza flying all the way around the planet, and Raditz then caught him in his hand before slamming him back down into the ground.

Raditz flew up and aimed his palms down at the ground. "Double Sunday!"

Two massive pinkish-red beams shot down, landing on either side of Freiza, before closing in on the wounded emperor.

Frieza barely managed to fly up and away in time, before he got squashed, but the two beams started moving around, trying to catch him.

One of the beams managed to catch his tail, removing most of it.

Freiza flew under Raditz and formed a Death Saucer, before throwing it up at Raditz, aiming for his tail.

"Move!" Bardock jumped towards his son and pushed him out of the way, but the Death Saucer instead went through his arm.

It wasn't big enough to cut off his arm completely, but it did create a big bleeding wound.

The Death Saucer kept flying up before it was hit in the side by one of Granola's shots, causing it to explode.

Nappa charged forward and tried to step on, but Freiza flew up and avoided his foot, only for Vegeta to catch him between his hands.

The Saiyan prince then started to try and crush Freiza between his palms.

"Gahhhhhh!" Freiza cried out in pain, as he pushed against Vegeta's hands, trying to keep himself from getting squished.

Freiza then activated his telekinesis and started moving the tectonic plates of the planet itself, causing massive earthquakes.

The ground started to crumble and sinkholes opened.

A crack in the ground opened under Vegeta's foot, causing him to trip and fall on his face, and loosen his grip. Allowing Freiza to fly out of his hands.

Freiza flew over Vegeta, and raised his hand up, creating a Death Ball, but before he could throw it down, it was shot by Granola, and destroyed.

Gohan jumped up, and clapped Freiza between his hands, stunning him, before he slapped the villain down into the ground.

As soon as Gohan hit the ground, he started rapidly smashing Freiza into the ground, causing even more earthquakes from the sheer force.

Freiza flew down into the ground, tunneling through the rocks before popping up on the other side of Gohan, and blasting him in the back, sending face first onto the rocks.

Bardock charged at Frieza, creating a massive ki blade, and swinging it at Frieza.

Freiza flew back and managed to dodge it, before forming a Death Saucer and throwing it at Bardock.

Bardock's huge sword clashed with Frieza's disk, and moments later, Bardock's blade began to crack, before it broke apart.

The Saiyan barely managed to title his head to the side in time, the disk only creating a gash in his cheek as it flew by.

But then Freiza moved his hand, causing the disk to turn around, and start flying back toward the back of Bardock's head.

Before it hit, Nappa came in from behind, and grabbed Freiza, before cocking back his arm. "Bardock, jump!"

Nappa threw Freiza towards Bardock, and Bardock leaped into the air, putting Freiza on a collision course with his own attack.

Freiza barely managed to fly up a few inches, before the disk hit him, causing it to miss him.

Bardock then caught the disk with his massive fingers, holding it by its side so it didn't cut him, before crushing it.

Then Raditz, Nappa, and Gohan, all started shooting out huge blasts from their mouths at Frieza, which the emperor barely managed to dodge, but this distracted him enough for Kakrot to rush in from the side and grab him.

Kakarot started running with Freiza, pushing the ruler through mountain after mountain, before making a hard turn, and cocking his arm back.

Vegeta aimed his palm at them, and formed a giant blue ki sphere, before firing it towards them. "Big Bang Attack!"

Raditz did the same, creating a pinkish-red sphere, and launching it towards his brother and Freiza. "Saturday Crash!"

The two spheres flew side by side, before joining together into one, massive purple blast of energy.

Kakarot threw Freiza directly into the blast.

KRAKOOM!

The blast turned into a massive explosion that dyed the sky purple and shook the entire planet.

Eventually, the explosion died down, revealing Freiza.

The dictator was heavily wounded, now missing a leg in addition to his arm, with burns, blood, and bruises covering so much of his body that less than half of it was white.

"How the hell is he still alive!?" Raditz asked, completely taken aback by Frieza's sheer resilience.

"He won't be for long! It's about time we ended this!" Vegeta said.

"...I…am…the strongest in the universe!" Freiza growled. "I will not lose. To a pack of apes!"

Freiza then suddenly flew up into the sky, leaving the atmosphere and heading into space.

"He's trying to escape!" Kakarot pointed out.

"Finish him! Give it everything we've got!" Bardock roared.

Piccolo, Granola, and humans flew in, and everyone started charging up their attacks.

"Kame! Ha! Me!" Kakarot, Gohan, Krillin, and Yamcha chanted.

"Gallet gun!" Vegeta shouted.

Raditz created two pink spheres, before joining them together into one. "Atomic! Wednesday!"

"Get ready to die!" Nappa shouted as he charged up one hand with crackling white energy.

"Masenko!" Piccolo shouted.

"Dodon Ray!" Tien joined.

"This is for the Cerealians!" Granola shouted as he brought his fingers together.

"This is for everyone you've killed!" Bardock shouted as he charged up all his energy into one hand.

"HA/Fire/Blast/Haaaaaaaaaa!" Everyone shouted as they launched beams up into the sky toward Frieza.

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Freiza flew through space as quickly as he could, hoping to get away so he could reach his full power.

But that's when he noticed a bright light behind him.

He looked behind his shoulder and saw several beams chasing after him, and catching up quickly.

All the beams converged into one, shining prismatic beam that surged forward, and engulfed Freiza.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Freiza cried, as his body was dissolved, and he was reduced to space dust.

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Everyone looked up at the sky and felt Frieza's energy disappear.

"W-We did it!" Raditz laughed, relief filling every part of his soul. "We-we killed Freiza!"

"Hmph, good riddance." Vegeta smirked, before looking over to the moon ball, his eyes glowed and it burst, causing all the Saiyans to quickly turn back to normal.

"We won!" Gohan cheered as he jumped into his father's arms, the father and son rejoicing along with the humans.

Bardock continued looking up at the sky. "Finally. It's over."

"So, what now," Granola asked, standing behind him. "Are you Saiyans going to take over Frieza's empire? Start selling planets again."

"A tempting idea, but no." Vegeta chuckled. "I have no interest in all the busy work that comes with ruling the universe. My first and only priority will be becoming the strongest warrior in the universe. And the rest will aid me in doing so."

Bossy brat. Raditz and Nappa thought.

"He can do whatever he wants, I'm going back to earth," Bardock said. "I had more than enough conquest and murder for five lifetimes."

"I see…" Granola then turned away and started walking. "Then we won't meet again."

With that, Granola flew away, leaving everyone else to celebrate. Now for the heaters.

Chapter Text

Deep in the Red Ribbon Army's secret base, Magenta, Carmine, and the genius Dr Hedo, were discussing how to take down Capsule Corps's "evil cabal" when suddenly.

KABOOM!

The entire base shook, and the sounds of an explosion could be heard clearly throughout the entire base.

"What the hell!?" Magenta shouted as alarms started going off.

"Sir! The front entrance has been breached! Two people have broken through and are entering the base!" A soldier shouted as he entered the room. "We're trying to stop them but our weapons are useless!"

"Looks like the trouble's come to us!" Gamma 2 smirked, as he punched his palm, getting ready for some action. "Let's go 1!"

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Goku and Vegeta casually walked into the main plaza of the Red Ribbon Army base.

"Woah, to think they were hiding all this!" Goku whistled as he looked around the base.

"Hmph, don't sound so impressed. Bulma could make more impressive technology in her sleep." Vegeta huffed.

Meanwhile, a squad of soldiers grouped up in front of them. "Open fire!"

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The soldiers fired a hail of bullets at them, which the two effortlessly caught as they continued walking forward.

"Stubborn fools," Vegeta muttered. "Can't they see how pointless this is?"

"Heh," Goku smirked. "Hearing you call someone stubborn is a bit-"

"Shut it Kakarot!" Vegeta growled.

"Hold your fire!" Shouted a voice from above.

The soldiers stopped firing, and a moment later, Gamma 1 and 2 flew down in front of them. Staring down Goku and Vegeta.

"You two must be the androids Piccolo was talking about," Goku said as he and Vegeta dropped all the bullets he caught.

Gamma 1 gave Gamma 2 a dirty look, and the blue-capped android at least had the decency to look embarrassed about pretty much exposing their base with his carelessness.

"Hmph, you don't look like much. Are you sure you're not just some overgrown vacuum cleaner?" Vegeta taunted.

"Vacuum cleaners? No, we're actually trash compactors." Gamma 2 quipped. "We were made to crush garbage, like you."

"You've got some nerve calling US garbage when you go around dressing like that." Vegeta barked back.

"Hey! Our outfits are awesome! Retro masterpieces designed by the great Dr Hedo!" Gamma 2 shouted. "The perfect costumes for a pair of grade-A superheroes!"

"Psh, Vegeta." Goku leaned down and whispered in Vegeta's ear. "They kinda look like Gohan when he's in that weird Great Saibaman costume."

"It's Great Saiyaman, and yes I see the resemblance." Vegeta scowled. "Although I've heard Trunks and your youngest have been dressing up like that as well."

"What really? I didn't hear about that." Goku said.

Vegeta rolled his eyes. "Of course, you haven't, Heaven forbid you pay your family any attention."

"Says the guy who took eight years to hug his son." Goku fired back.

"Oh but that you've heard about!" Vegeta shouted.

"Hey! Are you ignoring us!?" Gamma 2 cried.

"Oh, sorry about that, got distracted." Goku apologized. "But anyways, I guess we should introduce ourselves! My name's Goku, and this is Vegeta, prince of all three Saiyans."

WHAM!

"Ohhhhhhhhh!" Goku groaned as Vegeta elbowed him in the stomach. "Owww! Hey, that wasn't necessary, I was making a joke!"

"You are a joke kakarot!" Vegeta replied.

"Ahem!" Gamma 1 said, getting everyone's attention. "We are Gamma 1 and 2. SuperHero Androids created by Dr Hedo. For the sole purpose of saving earth from your evil invasion."

"Or evil what now?" Goku asked, looking utterly confused.

Vegeta just silently raised an eyebrow.

"Don't play dumb! We know you aliens are in league with Capsule Corp, and plan to take over the earth before enslaving humanity!" Gamma 2 accused. "You even turned Androids 17 and 18 against mankind, and destroyed Cell when he tried to stop you!"

"Uh, that's not how that went down I don't think," Goku said, scratching the back of his head. "Man, what is it with people thinking we're evil lately. First Granola then this!"

"Well then, where's your evidence?" Vegeta asked.

"Our what?" Gamma 2 asked.

"Your evidence? What proof do you have of our "evil deeds"?" Vegeta smirked.

"Uhhhhhhh." Gamma 2 looked over to Gamma 1. "Do you have any evidence?"

"Well…we may not have any um…tangible evidence. But um, we have been told of nefarious machinations by Commander Magenta!" Gamma 1 explained.

"So let me get this straight. You were intending to act as our judge, jury, and executioner, without any kind of actual evidence of our supposed wrongdoings. Simply because someone told you to." Vegeta chuckled. "And then you call US villains."

"Hey don't try to confuse us! I'm sure Dr Hedo has good reason to trust them!" Gamma 2 then looked back at Dr Hedo, who'd come out to observe the fight. "Right, Dr. Hedo?"

"Uh, y-yeah! Don't let them get in your heads! Take 'em down Gammas!" Dr Hedo cheered, while internally hoping he wasn't about to murder some innocent people right now.

"You lot are a pack of idiots," Vegeta said, shaking his head. "Let's just get to the part where we crush you like the tin cans that you are."

"Bring it on!" Gamma 2 shouted.

Gamma 2 then crouched down, getting onto all fours, before shooting forwards towards Vegeta, slamming into the Saiyan at speeds he couldn't react to in that form, and tackling him into the rocky edge of the base.

"Woah!" Goku cried as he saw Vegeta getting slammed into the rocks.

"Keep your eyes on me!" Gamma 1 shouted as he jumped up into the, brought his hands together, and then hammered them down on Goku.

Goku managed to turn his attention back to Gamma 1 and bring his arms up just in time to block the attack, but the force caused the ground around them to crater, and a shockwave to shoot out around them, knocking down Dr Hedo and the nearby soldiers.

"Grrrrr," Goku grunted in pain, his bones creaking from the force of Gamma 1's blow.

And that got him excited.

"He he he! You guys are pretty strong huh?" Goku giggled with glee. "Alright! Let's take this up a notch! Haaaaa!"

Goku shouted, as his body burst into Super Saiyan, and he immediately threw Gamma 1 off of him, before rising up and kicking him in his metallic gut.

Meanwhile, Vegeta also decided to transform into his Super Saiyan form, and kicked Gamma 2 off of him, before punching him in the face, sending him flying back.

Gamma 2 stopped himself after flying about a mile away and smirked. "Now we're talking."

The two-finned android then pulled out his blaster and started opening fire on Vegeta.

The prince flew to the left to avoid the blasts, said blasts slamming into the cliffs and exploding behind him.

As he flew past the explosions, Vegeta aimed his palm at Gamma 2 and unleashed his own barrage of blasts.

Gamma 2 dodged the blast while charging up his blaster, before unleashing several beams out of it, towards Vegeta.

Vegeta's eyes went wide before the beams slammed into him and everyone around him, blowing up that entire part of the cliff.

Meanwhile, Goku and Gamma 1 were exchanging blows, with neither being able to hit the other for a little while as Goku would dodge and Gamma 1 would block each attack sent their way.

Until Gamma 1 broke through his defenses with an uppercut to the gut, knocking the air of Goku, and allowing Gamma 1 to fall back, pulling out his blaster, and sticking the end of it in Goku's cheek.

BOOM!

Gamma 1 hit Goku in the face with a point-blank blast, which exploded and sent Goku flying into the ground, landing on the left side of his face.

Before he could get up, Gamma 1 flew down, and grabbed Goku's head, before he started dragging Goku's face through the ground.

Then when he was done with that, he flew up, still holding Goku by his hair, spun him around, and then threw him up into the air.

The red-caped android then pulled out his blaster and took aim.

PEWM! PEWM! PEWM!

Five shots slammed into Goku's body, creating a big explosion and cloud of smoke.

"Hmph." Gamma 1 holstered his blaster, and looked up at the cloud of smoke, activating his scanners to try and check Goku's status. "No signs of life. Either I vaporized him, or-"

Suddenly Goku appeared behind him using Instant transmission, and punched Gamma 1 in the back of the head, causing him to fly a few feet forward.

Gamma 1 quickly turned around and rushed at Goku to punch him in the face, but Goku used Instant Transmission and teleported away just before Gamma 1 could hit him, appearing behind the android again, and shooting him in the back with a ki blast.

Then Goku started spamming instant transmission, teleporting around Gamma 1 and shooting ki blasts at him, before teleporting away again and repeating the process.

Gamma 1 kept getting dinged around by the blasts. His eyes kept locking onto Goku as he popped in and out, his supercomputer brain establishing a pattern with Goku's teleportation locations.

Then he turned toward where he predicted Goku would show up, pulled out his blaster, and shot a blast in that direction.

Goku appeared there and was immediately hit with the blast, stopping his assault.

While Goku was dazed from the blast, Gamma 1 flew up, spun around, and then rushed at Goku with a powerful blazing dive kick that sent both of them through the ground.

Meanwhile, in the air, Vegeta and Gamma 2 charged at each other, both throwing a punch at their opponent's face.

SLAM!

The two clashed, both of their fists smashing into each other's cheek, although Gamma 2 looked pretty unbothered by it, while Vegeta was left with a large bruise.

Then Gamma 2 performed a powerful spinning kick, right on Vegeta's head, before hitting him with two more, and then grabbing his hair, and slamming his face into his metallic knee, causing blood to fly out of the prince's nose.

That's when Gamma 1 burst out of the ground, holding Goku.

The two androids looked at each other, and nodded, before throwing Goku and Vegeta towards each other, causing them to slam into one another.

Both Gammas quickly pulled out their blasters, charged up a shot, and then fired.

KABOOM!

The shots slammed into Goku and Vegeta from either side, making a massive explosion that shook the entire base, and created a big cloud of smoke.

"Heh. Two down." Gamma 2 said as he spun his blaster around in an overly flashy manner, before holstering it.

"What have I told you about not confirming a kill." Gamma 1 said as he used his sensors to peer into the cloud of smoke. "Huh? I'm sensing vitals but…their energy reading is gone."

And that's when the smoke started to clear, revealing a divine, blue aura.

Goku and Vegeta were back to back, both now in Super Saiyan Blue.

"Alright, time to kick things up a notch," Goku said with a smirk.

"I admit, you two aren't bad for a pair of overgrown toasters," Vegeta remarked. "Perhaps that tubby scientist is worth something after all."

Then Goku and Vegeta charged at Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 respectively with a burst of speed neither of them was expecting and landed a solid punch on both of them. Vegeta punched the top of Gamma 2's head sending him downwards, and Goku landed an uppercut sending Gamma 1 through the dome hiding the base.

Both Saiyans then rushed to follow their opponents.

Goku flew up into the air, spinning around before catching up to Gamma 1 in the clouds, and kicking Gamma 1 away.

The earth-raised Saiyan flew after Gamma 1, catching up before punching him away again, then doing this again, and again as Goku punched the android halfway around the world.

Goku went in for another punch, but Gamma one flipped back, dodging the punch, before kicking Goku in the chin with both his feet.

Gamma 1 flipped back into his normal position, before pulling out his blaster and firing at Goku.

Goku quickly recovered from the kick, and dodged the first blast, before deflecting the rest, and then going in for another punch on Gamma 1, but Gamma 1 redirected the punch with one hand and then used the other to deliver a chop to the back of Goku's neck.

Then Gamma 1 whipped Goku around, before throwing him towards the ground.

Goku plummeted down and found that they were now fighting over a desert, flipping himself so he landed on his feet when he hit the sand.

Gamma 1 gave him no time to rest, immediately shooting down a barrage of blaster shots towards him, forcing Goku to run away as the shots blew up the sand around him, causing it to explode upwards before turning to glass.

As Goku was running, he raised his hand up, and formed a destructo disk, before throwing it at Gamma 1.

Gamma 1 tries to blast it, but the disk sliced all of his blasts in two on its way up to him. Forcing the android to dash to the right to avoid losing a limb.

But after the disk sailed past him, curved back around and started heading towards him again.

Gamma 1 flew away from the disk as fast as he could, but it was starting to catch up to him.

So, he went down and dived into the sand. The disk followed him but exploded when it hit the ground.

Goku looked around, getting in a battle-ready stance. He couldn't sense the ki of an android, so he had no idea where he might attack from next.

And then the ground under him turned to glass, and a light flashed under it before it exploded into a big pillar of energy.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Goku screamed as he was engulfed by the energy, before flying out of it in a hurry.

But then once again, the sand turned to glass under him, and Goku quickly got away before he was engulfed by another energy pillar.

A few moments passed, and then, the entire dessert started turning to glass, and a red light touched everything as far as the eye could see.

Goku quickly brought his fingers to his forehead, and barely managed to Instant Transmission away, before the entire dessert exploded.

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Back with Vegeta and Gamma 2, the two were having a stare-down, while standing on top of one of the moving trains that went around the Red Ribbon HQ.

Vegeta raised his hand and motioned for Gamma 2 to come at him, wearing a look of absolute confidence.

Gamma 2 scowled, before running at Vegeta full sprint.

The blue number 2 tried to punch Vegeta, but Vegeta jumped up, avoiding the attack, landing on the back of Gamma 2's head, before kicking off of it, causing Gamma 2 to stumble.

Vegeta landed on the other side of the train, turned, and once again signaled for Gamma 2 to attack him.

"Grr! Don't mock me!" Gamma 2 pulled out his blaster and opened fire on Vegeta.

Vegeta rushed towards Gamma 2, dodging his blasts as he approached, and when he got close, and threw a punch at the android.

But Gamma 2 threw up his arm and locked the punch, before using his other arm to shoot his blaster, landing shots on Vegeta's body and face.

Vegeta shook off the blasts and used his other hand to grab Gamma 2 by the throat, lift him up, and then slam him into the train.

Gamma 2 kept firing his blast up at Vegeta, but then Vegeta grabbed his blaster, and threw it away, the weapon embedding itself into the side of the dome that shrouded the base.

Vegeta started punching Gamma 2 in the face, before Gamma 2 grabbed his fist, and then grabbed the hand that was around his throat, and pulled it off of him.

The two struggled for a while before Gamma 2 flipped them over, and then Vegeta flipped them over again, the two rolling around the train as they struggled for dominance.

Eventually, they came to a stop with Gamma 2 on top, and he threw his head back.

CLANG!

Gamma 2 unleashed a powerful headbutt with his metal skull, before throwing his head back again.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The duel-finned android deviled headbutt after headbutt after headbutt, before Vegeta shrouded his body with ki, which then exploded into a beam that pushed Gamma 2 off of him.

Gamma 2 rolled across the top of the train, before rolling onto his knees and stopping himself just before he fell off.

Vegeta got back onto his feet, and Gamma 2 ran at him, before trying a flying kick, but Vegeta caught his foot, before slamming him down.

The prince then picked him back up to slam him back down, But Gamma 2 landed on his arms, before picking Vegeta up using his foot and slamming him down instead, causing him to let go of his foot.

They both quickly got up, and ran at each other, their hands meeting as they clashed, and struggled against one another.

"Not bad for Mr five foot nothing." Gamma 2 quipped.

"I'll shove my size nine directly up your ass!" Vegeta threatened.

"Ha! Jokes on you, my body doesn't have an entry point there, because I don't poop!" Gamma 2 laughed.

"Rah!" Vegeta picked Gamma 2 up by his hands, spun him around, threw him up, and then tackled him, wrapping his hands around his waist, before flying them both up into the air.

They kept going up until they nearly reached the top of the dome, then they made a sharp u-turn and started plummeting towards the ground so fast a cone formed around them.

SLAM!

Vegeta slammed Gamma 2 into the ground, before flying up, and shooting down energy restraints, pinning Gamma 2's arms and legs to the ground.

Then he flew up and pulled his hands back as he started charging an attack. "Gallet Gun! Fire!"

Vegeta shot down a big purple beam at the android. Gamma 2 struggled to try and get out of his restraints, but he quickly figured out that he wouldn't break free in time.

So instead, he threw up a barrier, just before the beam hit.

The beam slammed into his barrier but didn't break it, giving Gamma 2 enough time to break free.

"HAAAAAA!" Gamma 2 charged through the beam with his barrier, tackled Vegeta and slammed him into the top of the dome.

Gamma 2 unmade the barrier, and went in for a punch, but Vegeta rolled to the side to avoid it, before flying off the barrier and putting a bit of distance between himself at the android.

The two had another brief stare-down, before charging at one another again.

They cocked back their fists and launched them forward.

Only for Goku to appear in between them, getting punched in both cheeks.

"Owwwwwwwww!" Goku cried, the two flew back, and Goku started rubbing his face.

"What the hell are you doing Kakarot!" Vegeta seethed. "Don't tell me you're here to try and steal my kill again! Like with Freiza!"

"I was just trying to get away from a nasty attack, and you're the easiest person to lock onto!" Goku explained. "And why are you still mad about that!? It was your fault! If you hadn't let Freiza blow up the planet then I wouldn't have had to kill him!"

"Blow up the what now?" Gamma 2 asked.

"Oh yeah, there was this really bad guy Freiza, he tried to attack us to get revenge for us killing him a long time ago, but he didn't master his new form so he lost. But since he's a real bad guy, he blew up the planet before Vegeta could kill him." Goku explained. "But then our Angel friend Whis turned back time, and I killed him before he could do it. I mean we brought him back so we could win a tournament with the fate of all reality at stake, so he's still out there, but if he comes back we'll make sure not to let that happen again, right Vegeta?"

"Don't forget to mention the part where you let your guard down and almost died to a gun that I'm fairly certain your 3-year-old granddaughter could deal with." Vegeta chuckled.

"...Error. Can not compute." Gamma 2 said with an absolutely stupefied expression. "Do you seriously expect me to believe any of what you just said?"

"Oh I'm sorry, would you like some evidence?" Vegeta asked sarcastically. "I don't have any on hand, you'll just have to take my word for it. You're good at that aren't you?"

"Also, you're an android made by a secret organization to fight transforming aliens, why was that so hard to believe?" Goku asked.

"...Touche, tell me more." Gamma 2 said, mildly interested in what insane things Goku might say next. "King Piccolo said something earlier about being god, what was that about?"

Goku opened his mouth to explain, but before he could Gamma 1 flew back in.

"What in the world are you doing?" Gamma 1 asked with a groan. "We're supposed to be fighting, not conversing."

"Well just uhhhh, gathering data!" Gamma 2 replied. "Yeah, gathering data."

Gamma 1 face palmed. "I'm beginning to wonder if Piccolo knocked your logic processors loose."

"Hey now, no need to go that hard on him," Goku said. "We were just having a talk among friends."

"We're trying to kill you." Gamma 1 deadpanned.

"Well, most of our friends have tried to kill us at one point." Goku shrugged. "There was Yamcha, Tien, Piccolo, 17 and 18, Buu, Beerus, Bulma."

"Wait a minute, Bulma?" Vegeta asked, giving his fellow Saiyan a befuddled look. "When did my wife try to kill you?"

"When we first met, back when I was a kid," Goku explained. "She shot me right in the face."

"So what you're saying is the head of Capsule Corp shoots children in the face?" Gamma 1 asked.

"Don't try to twist this to make my wife sound like some kind of psychopath! Especially not when you have a habit of shooting first and asking questions later!" Vegeta shouted.

"Yeah, but we don't do that to kids!" Gamma 2 pointed out, before remembering something. "Well I mean…we were talking about um…kidnapping a little girl earlier."

"What!? Dude, that's not cool!" Goku cried.

"Orders are…orders." Gamma 1 said although he looked rather torn while saying it.

"As if that justifies it." Vegeta huffed.

"Says the guy who let the earth blow up!" Gamma 2 countered.

"Ok listen here-"

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"What the hell are they doing!" Magenta shouted as he looked up at the Gammas talking with Goku and Vegeta. "They should be fighting, not talking!"

"Maybe they're gathering intelligence." Carmine mused.

"Pah doesn't matter. We can't rely on those stupid buckets of bolts anyway." Magenta grumbled. "Damn Hedo built them to be heroes, no way they're gonna go along once they find out we've been lying to em the whole time. That's why we NEED Cell Max. Once he's done, we'll do away with them, and the good doctor."

Meanwhile, in the room, Piccolo, still disguised as a Red Ribbon soldier, was recording everything on his phone.

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"And Buu wouldn't have got out in the first place if you didn't fight me!" Goku argued.

"Enough!" Gamma 1 shouted, bringing the conversation to a halt. "Look, I don't know how we got to this point, but can we just go back to hitting each other until someone dies!"

"Presumably you guys." Gamma 2 clarified.

"Heh, it's cute you think you two can kill us." Vegeta looked at Goku. "Kakarot, I believe it's time we stopped going so easy on them. HAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Vegeta's body buffed up, his eyes changing color as his hair turned a deeper shade of blue, and sparkles appeared in his aura.

"Fine by me." Goku's eyes also changed color, turning silver, tapping into a bit of Ultra Instinct in his Blue form.

"Jeez, you guys are just every color of the rainbow huh?" Gamma 2 remarked. "What's next, pink?"

"No, that was the evil version of me," Goku explained. "Well he wasn't really me he was actually-"

"Rahhhhh!" Vegeta charged forward and punched Gamma 2 into a tower, before going after him.

Gamma 1 pulled out his blaster and shot at Goku, but the Saiyan dodged each one with ease, before appearing in front of the superhero, and kicking him up into the roof of the dome, right next to Gamma 2's blaster.

"Hahahahahaha!" Goku unleashed a barrage of ki blasts at Gamma 1.

Gamma 1 quickly pulled out Gamma 2's blaster, and upholstered his own, now duel-wielding blasters, he shot down all of Goku's blasts and returned the fire twofold.

Goku dodged the hail of blasts, before punching the air in front of him, sending a blast of air right into Gamma 1's gut.

"Agh!" Gamma 1 groaned, the simulated pain causing him to cease his assault for a moment, which was more than enough time for Goku to get in, and unleash a flurry of blows all across the android's face and body.

Eventually, Gamma 1 regained his bearings and tried to headbutt Goku, but the Saiyan moved to the side to dodge it, before putting the hero's head into a lock with his arms, and diving down, slamming his head into the ground.

Gamma 1 quickly pulled his head out of the concrete and backflipped away while Goku got back onto his feet.

BRRRRRRRRR!

Gamma 1 charged up his blasters, before shooting out several beams from each blaster that homed in on Goku.

Goku flew up to avoid them, but they just followed him.

He kept flying up, and up, the beams getting ever closer, as Goku brought his fingers to his head.

Then when Goku was just about to touch the dome, and the beams were right about to hit him, he instant transmissioned away, causing the beams to slam into the dome instead of blowing the thing wide open and causing a massive explosion that shook the base.

Pieces of the broken dome rained down on the people below, making them run and flee for cover.

Goku appeared right next to Gamma 1, only to find a blaster in his cheek.

"Dodge this." Gamma 1 quipped before he went to pull the trigger.

But before the blast could go off, Goku's eyes flashed and the blaster was knocked out of his hand, landing on the floor and sliding a few yards away.

Gamma 2 looked at his now disarmed hand in shock, before Goku sweeped his legs, sending him to the ground.

Goku jumped back up and aimed down at Gamma 1, before shooting down a ki blast at him.

Gamma 1 rolled away, narrowly avoiding the blast, Goku kept blasting and Gamma 1 kept rolling, until he reached the blaster, picking it up, and then jumping back onto his feet, and firing at Goku.

Goku started running away from the blasts, while he also continued to fire with one hand.

Gamma 1 ran away from Goku's blasts, the two running, dodging and sliding around. Both of them tried to get a hit on the other but neither one managed it.

Why is he only shooting with one arm? Gamma 1 noticed. Is he planning to teleport again? Or-

KABOOM!

Suddenly Gamma 1 stepped on the wrong spot, and the ground underneath him suddenly exploded.

"Heh," Goku smirked as he saw his energy mine go off. He'd been spreading them around the battlefield as he'd been running, waiting for Gamma 1 to step on one.

Goku looked into the smoke that had been caused by the explosion and waited for it to disperse or for Gamma 1 to emerge.

But when the smoke faded, instead of Gamma 1, all Goku saw was a hole in the ground.

The next moment, Gamma 1 burst out of the ground behind him, both guns aimed at the back of his head.

Gamma 1 pulled the triggers, and the shots came out, but Goku jumped back over the shots and Gamma 1, and kicked him in the back of the head, sending him flying into the cliffside.

Meanwhile, Gamma 2 was flying backward while trying to defend himself from Vegeta's relentless assault. Blocking as many blows as he could before Vegeta finally got in a punch to the gut.

Then Vegeta raised his arms up, brought his hands together, and hammered them down on Gamma 2's head, sending him crashing into the ground.

"Agh." Gamma 2 grunted in pain before looking up to see Vegeta rushing down at him, fist cocked back ready to deliver a powerful blow.

Before Vegeta reached him, Gamma 2 put up his barrier, and Vegeta's fist crashed into the shield, sending it and Gamma 2 deeper inside the earth.

"Haaaa!" Vegeta stayed on top of the shield and kept punching it deeper, and deeper, until they came out the other side of the planet, into the bottom of an ocean.

Quickly realizing that this environment lacked something crucial, oxygen Vegeta went to go back through the hole, but Gamma 2 took down his shield, and grabbed him by the ankle, bringing him back up, before putting him into a choke hold.

"Mmmmmm!" Vegeta elbowed Gamma 2's side to try and get the android to let him go, but Gamma 2 held firm.

With that failing, Vegeta started charging up energy in his body, causing himself to glow white for a second before.

BOOM!

Everything went white as a massive explosion ripped out from Vegeta's body, causing the ocean to explode out and upwards.

What was left was a massive hole in the ocean. Rain now poured down, due to all the water that had just been blasted into the sky.

Gamma 1 had been sent onto his back, while Vegeta was on his hands and knees, gasping for breath.

Slowly they both rose back up and looked at each other.

"Haaa!" Gamma 2 charged at Vegeta and threw a flurry of punches, but Vegeta just brought up his arms and blocked, before raising his foot and kicking Gamma 2 in the gut, sending him skidding backward to the edge of the hole, where the water was slowly closing in on them.

This time Vegeta charged in to throw a punch, and Gamma 2 ducked under it, maneuvered behind him, grabbed the back of his head, and then pushed his face into the wall of water.

"Grrrrrr!" Vegeta, now thoroughly tired of being drowned, grabbed Gamma 2's hand and started squeezing down on it with all his might,

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Gamma 2 cried out as he felt his arm getting crushed, making him release his grip on Vegeta.

Vegeta turned, and flew Gamma 2 over his shoulder, embedding him into the ground, before flying up into the air.

"Let's see if you can survive this!" Vegeta shouted as he spread out his arms, and started charging, electric-like ki crackling off of him before he brought his hands together. "FINAL! FLASH!"

KRAKOOM!

A crackling yellow beam burst out of Vegeta's hands, barreling down towards Gamma 2.

Gamma 2 saw this, and once again put up his barrier.

The Final Flash slammed into his barrier, which held firm at first but then started to crack under the pressure of Vegeta's all-powerful attack.

"Aw crap baskets." Was all Gamma 2 could say before his barrier broke, and he was engulfed in yellow.

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"No, no this can't be happening!" Dr Hedo shouted as he looked at Gamma 1 and Goku fighting.

Gamma 1 kept trying to blast Goku, who was literally flying circles around him.

Goku charged in, and grabbed Gamma 1 by the cape, before spinning him around, and then throwing him into the side of the building.

Then Goku threw back his hands and started chanting. "Kaaaa. Meeeee. Haaaaa. Meeeee!"

Seeing Goku charging up a powerful attack, Gamma 1 pointed his blaster at him and started charging it up with energy.

"HA!" Goku shouted as he threw out a massive blue beam at Gamma 1.

"Take this!" Gamma 1 shouted as he unleashed a big red beam at Goku.

The two beams clashed. Struggling to try and push the other back, but it seemed like they were dead even.

Gamma 1 aimed Gamma 2's blaster to the side, charging it up with energy, before firing it, shooting out several homing beams that swerved around Goku, before rushing towards him from behind.

Goku then formed a Destructo Disk with his foot, and tossed it behind him, that disk then split into multiple disks, and cut all the beams apart, causing them to explode.

Then one of the disks boomeranged back, going over the beam struggle, and then coming down, and cutting Gamma 1's blaster in half.

With his blaster destroyed, Gamma 1's beam dissipated, allowing the Kamehameha wave to charge forward, and engulf him, and the building behind him.

A few seconds later, Goku stopped feeding energy into the attack, and the beam dispersed into nothing, leaving a trail of smoke atop what was left of the building.

Moments later the smoke dispersed, revealing Gamma 1, now heavily damaged. Scratches littered his body, his uniform torn up, and half of his cape was gone.

"Ugh." Gamma 1 groaned as he wiped some oil off his mouth.

Goku just smiled down at him. "You really are strong aren't you?"

Then suddenly, the earth began to shake violently, before Vegeta's Final Flash burst out of the ground, and tore into the sky.

"Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" Gamma 2 shouted as he was blasted out of attack, and rolled across the ground. Just as, if not more damaged than his counterpart. "Ugh, crap. Hey, 1? I think they might be stronger than us."

"Yeah, starting to figure that out." Gamma 1 replied.

Vegeta's Final Flash soon faded, and moments later, Vegeta flew out of the massive hole he'd created. "Had enough?"

"Not in your life." Gamma 2 said, forcing himself back onto his feet.

"As defenders of justice, we will never quit!" Gamma 1 declared. "And since we're androids, we can keep fighting at full efficiency until every bit of energy in our bodies is spent. If you want this battle to end, you're gonna have to throw a lot more at us than that."

"No, I think that's enough."

Everyone looked up to the source of the voice and saw Piccolo in his disguise flying above them.

He quickly took off his helmet, revealing his face.

"King Piccolo! So that's how you managed to get into our base!" Gamma 2 said.

"I told you, it's just Piccolo!" Piccolo reminded him, before taking out his phone. "But more importantly, I need you to listen to this."

Piccolo pressed play on the phone, and a video of Magenta speaking started to play.

"Pah doesn't matter. We can't rely on those stupid buckets of bolts anyway." Magenta grumbled. "Damn Hedo built them to be heroes, no way they're gonna go along once they find out we've been lying to em the whole time. That's why we NEED Cell Max. Once he's done, we'll do away with them, and the good doctor."

And then the video ended.

Gamma 1 and 2 looked up in shock, and Dr Hedo looked…really annoyed.

"Those little! They thought they could use MY own androids to kill me!" Hedo was more upset that they thought they could pull that off than he was about being lied to in all honesty.

"Wait, so you guys aren't bad guys?" Gamma 2 asked.

"Nope!" Goku confirmed. "Just a couple of Saiyans looking to live in peace."

"So it was all a ruse." Gamma 1 looked down at the ground, ashamed of himself. "We really were being played for fools."

"Well, I think we can safely say this fight is just about over," Piccolo said. "Now that everyone knows who the real enemy is."

"Yeah, Gamma 1! Gamma 2! Your new target is Commander Magenta!" Dr Hedo shouted.

But then, suddenly, the earth began to shake again.

"Huh? What's that?" Gamma 2 asked as he looked at the shaking earth.

Everyone else flew down to the ground, looking around confused at what the heck was happening.

But then, Dr Hedo's eyes widened as he realized what might be happening. "No, he didn't!?"

His fears were confirmed moments later when Cell Max burst out of the ground.

"Cell!? Wait no, it's like a monster Cell!" Goku realized.

"That's Cell Max! The new version of Cell created by Dr Hedo." Gamma 1 explained. "But he's not complete! We have no way of controlling him!"

"Magenta must have released him when he saw you losing." Hedo realized. "Damn it all! I should have never gone along with that madman!"

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max roared, as his spots became visible, and he started shooting out mouth blasts willy-nilly.

One of the blasts headed right towards the group, and Gamma 2 quickly put up a barrier around all of them.

KABOOM!

The blast hit the barrier, detonating on contact, and destroying everything around it.

When the explosion passed, it was revealed that the barrier had protected them, although it was heavily cracked, and a moment later, it shattered.

"We have to stop him! Otherwise, the earth is done for!" Gamma 1 shouted.

"He's mine!" Vegeta shouted. "All of you stay back!"

"Hey no fair! I wanna take him!" Goku complained.

"You and your son got to kill the last one, this one is mine!" Vegeta claimed. "Besides, you still owe me for Freiza!"

"Ugh, fine. You can have him." Goku relented.

"What, no! Are you two insane!?" Gamma 2 asked. "We all need to work together to beat this thing-ZTTTTT!"

Suddenly Gamma 2 shuddered, as sparks came off his body.

"2!" Gamma 1 cried out in concern.

"Neither of you are in any condition to face that thing," Piccolo said. "Let Vegeta handle it for now. If we have to step in, we will. Although knowing Vegeta-"

"Haaaaa!" Vegeta flew at Cell Max.

Cell Max quickly noticed Vegeta flying towards him, and spat out a ki blast at him.

Vegeta dodged the attack and aimed his palm at the monster. "You like big? Then have a Big Bang Attack!

A ki blast shot out of Vegeta's palm and slammed into Cell's face, tripling in size before exploding and knocking Cell Max to the ground.

Vegeta flew on top of Cell Max, and then flew up, before diving down and slamming into the monster's gut.

"RAHHHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max cried out in pain, before trying to grab Vegeta, but the prince quickly flew away before the monster could get his paws on him.

Vegeta then flew back up and shot down a barrage of ki blasts down at the beast.

"Rah!" Cell Max put up his arm to block the blasts, while he reached out, and grabbed the remains of a building, before throwing it at Vegeta.

Vegeta just shot at it, causing it to explode into a cloud of smoke, obscuring his line of sight.

Then, Cell Max's tail whipped out of the smoke, and slammed into Vegeta, sending him down to the ground.

Cell Max jumped up, and dive-kicked right onto Vegeta.

"ARAGGHHHHHHHH!" Vegeta cried out as he felt his body getting absolutely crushed by the force of nature that was Cell Max.

Cell Max raised his foot, and then started stamping on Vegeta, sending him deeper, and deeper into the ground, until Vegeta shot his other leg, causing him to trip again, and allowing Vegeta to fly out.

"You want to play that game! Haaaaaaaaa!" Vegeta suddenly began to grow in size, until he was the exact same size as Cell Max.

"Hold on, since when could he do that?" Piccolo asked, completely taken off guard by this bizarre ability.

"Oh yeah, that's on the Yardrats's techniques. It doesn't make you any stronger, just bigger though." Goku explained. "Never learned it myself, but apparently Vegeta did. Kinda reminds me of when he turned into a Great Ape. Remember that?"

"I was dead already by the time that happened." Piccolo reminded him.

"You guys talk about death like it's something you can just get better from." Gamma 2 pointed out. "Like do you guys have some kinda resurrection technique?"

"Whis does, but normally we have to use the Dragon Balls," Goku explained.

"The Dragon's What?" Gamma 2 asked.

Meanwhile, back with Vegeta, he kicked Cell Max to the ground, and then grabbed him by his legs, before picking him up, spinning him around, and throwing him.

Cell Max landed several miles away, hitting the ground so hard he shook the earth again. He quickly got up, running at Vegeta and throwing a punch.

Vegeta dodged the fist blow but Cell landed an uppercut that sent him stumbling back, allowing Cell Max to tackle him.

Cell Max jumped up, grabbed Vegeta's face, and then slammed him down into the ground, before picking his head back up and slamming it down again.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

After several more slams, Vegeta interrupted him with a swift punch to the face, followed by several more curt blows to the chin.

Vegeta then grabbed his head and rolled them over so he was on top. He cocked back his arm ready to let loose a chain of punches, but Cell Max's tail came in and hit him in the back of the head.

Cell Max then grabbed Vegeta by his shoulders, and held him in place, before shooting a mouth beam right in his face.

"Grrrr!" Vegeta interrupted the beam, by head-butting Cell Max.

Cell Max threw Vegeta off of him, and the prince landed a few miles away on his back.

Both of them quickly got back onto their feet, and stared each other down.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max roared as he ran towards Vegeta.

His wings flapped, carrying him above Vegeta and allowing him to perform a powerful drop kick on the prince of all Saiyans, sending him stumbling back into the wall of the base.

"Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!" Cell Max let loose a flurry of blows on the seemingly helpless Saiyan.

"He can't win. Cell Max is starting to get used to moving his body. He's too powerful now." Dr Hedo said.

"Don't count him out just yet," Goku said with a smile. "This is where things get good."

"RAH!" Cell Max went in for another punch, but this time, Vegeta caught it, stopping the attack in its track.

The prince smiled, as blood spilled down from his head. "Alright, let's get serious."

Suddenly a geyser of purple erupted from Vegeta's body, and when it calmed, Vegeta was now donning his latest and greatest form. Ultra Ego.

"Oh come on?! Another one!?" Gamma 2 groaned.

"You guys weren't taking us seriously at all were you?" Gamma 1 realized.

"Don't take it personally, these two never take ANYTHING seriously," Piccolo said.

Vegeta then moved Cell Max's arm aside and landed a powerful blow directly into his gut.

"Ohhhhhhh!" Cell Max groaned as he felt Vegeta's fist embed itself into his stomach.

"Ah, nostalgia." Vegeta chuckled. "But this time, you're not absorbing anyone."

Vegeta retracted his fist, before letting out a flurry of punches at Cell Max, pushing them forward as he did so,

Cell Max's tail whipped Vegeta in the side of the head, causing him to wince before he bit down on it.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max screamed in pain.

His body lit up, spots appearing, and then lasers shot out of his spots, tail, and fingernails. Shooting off in every direction.

Vegeta was bombarded by lasers all over forcing him to close his eyes, while Cell Max's tail wiggled in his mouth trying to get free.

He kicked Cell Max onto his back again, then stepped on the base of his tail, grabbed the rest of it, and started pulling as hard as he could.

"RAHH! RAHH! RAHH!" Cell Max screamed as he could feel his tail stretching, and stretching, until-

RIPPPP!

Vegeta tore Cell Max's tail right off his body.

"Pew!" Vegeta spat the tail out onto the ground, before wiping his mouth. "That's better."

"Rah!" Cell Max spat out ki blasts that slammed into Vegeta's body.

Vegeta tanked each one, charging towards Cell Max, and chopping his throat, making him stumble back.

"Grrrrrrr!" Cell Max raised his arm up, and created a huge orb of black ki

The orb then grew, and grew, and grew, and grew, until it was nearly the size of the planet, and eclipsed the sky completely.

"Holy crap," Hedo said as he looked up at the sky in pure terror.

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max then shrunk the orb all at once, until it was only twice the size of his body, and now had a glowing rainbow core.

"Hmph. Rahhhhhhhhhh!" Vegeta raised his hands over and formed a massive purple ball of crackling energy. "Behold the power of destruction!"

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Cell Max roared as he threw the ball at Vegeta.

"HAAA!" Vegeta did the same, throwing his sphere right at Cell Max.

The spheres clashed, creating a huge burst of force that made everyone have to cover their eyes as harsh winds pushed against them.

The spheres pushed against each other for a few seconds, before they merged together, shrunk, and then.

KRAKOOM!

The sphere created a massive explosion that could be seen as a bright light from space.

All around the planet, earthquakes tore through the ground, tsunamis rolled across the lands, and windows in every building shattered as the force of the blast shook the entire planet.

When the explosion died down, all that was left of Red Ribbon HQ was a smoking crater.

Inside that crater, a barrier created by Gamma 1 and 2, and supported by Goku who'd switched into his Ultra Instinct Form, and Piccolo, barely stood.

"Is he insane!?" Gamma 2 shouted as he let down the barrier. "That could have killed us all!"

"Yeah, Vegeta can be pretty reckless." Goku chuckled.

"Pretty reckless is an understatement." Piccolo huffed.

Meanwhile, the smoke around the center of the blast began to dissipate, revealing Vegeta and Cell Max.

Vegeta had taken a good deal of damage, his armor being blown apart, and blood leaking down his left arm.

But Cell Max had clearly taken more damage. White burn marks littered his body, most of his crown was destroyed, an eye had been taken out, and one of his hands was burned clear off, while the other one was missing a few fingers.

"Heh heh, was that all?" Vegeta asked cockily. "It seems like you don't have your previous version's ability to regenerate. If that's the case."

Vegeta rushed towards Cell Max, and grabbed his head with both hands on either side of his head, before pushing upwards. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"RAHHH! RAHHHH!" Cell Max grabbed one of Vegeta's arms and tried to pull it off him while punching Vegeta with his stump arm.

But it was no use, slowly but surely, Cell Max's head started to rise, and his neck started to stretch, and then soon started to tear, and then-

RIPPP!

Vegeta pulled Cell Max's head clean.

The body quickly went limp and fell to the floor.

Vegeta's smirk grew, and he threw the head up into the air, before pointing two of his fingers at it.

KABOOM!

The head exploded, sending pieces of it flying everywhere.

"Heh, dirty fireworks." Vegeta chuckled.

"He did it, he actually did it!" Dr Hedo exclaimed.

"Dr, remember the self-destruct mode!?" Gamma 1 reminded him. "We need to do something before-"

Suddenly, Cell Max's body began to bloat rapidly.

"Oh, I remember this!" Goku said. "I know what to do."

Goku then used his Instant Transmission, appeared next to Cell Max's body, touched it, and then vanished.

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"Are you sure we shouldn't have gone with Goku to see what's happening my lord?" Whis asked as he looked down at Beerus relaxing in a lawn chair.

"I'm sure they can handle it." Beerus shrugged. "What's the worst that can happen?"

"With Goku, I'd say the worst-case scenario is that all existence is whipped away into utter nothingness," Whis answered.

Beerus thought about that for a moment, before sitting up. "On second maybe we should-"

And then Goku appeared right in front of them, with the ticking time bomb that was Cell Max's corpse. "Het Beerus would you mind destroying this it's gonna-"

KABOOM!

Cell Max's Body exploded, the blast consuming the entirety of the small planet, and once the blast faded, all that was left was Beerus and Whis, floating in space.

Beerus sighed. "Whis."

"At once my lord." Whis sighed, before tapping their staff on…nothing.

Time rewound, going to just before Goku appeared with Cell Max.

Beerus got up and cracked his knuckles. "Here he comes."

Goku appeared in front of them again, with Cell Max's body. "Hey Beerus would you-"

"Hakai." Beerus aimed his palm at Cell Max's body, and then the body glowed, before vanishing into nothing.

"Alright, thanks Lord Beerus!" Goku said, and before the G.O.D. could get a word in, Goku vanished and went back to Earth.

"I'm going to kill that man one day." Beerus deadpanned. "Either that, or he'll kill me."

"Or you two will destroy the fabric of reality and kill us all." Whis suggested casually."

"I'm going back to sleep," Beerus replied.

Chapter Text

It was a beautiful day outside.

Birds were singing, flowers were blooming.

And the biological weapon of mass destruction known as Cell, was standing in his arena. Waiting silently for the day of his Cell Games to begin.

At least until he felt an ominous presence behind him.

He turned his head and saw Dabura standing there, with a sinister grin.

"Oh, and who might you be?" Cell asked.

"My name is Dabura. King of the Demon Realm." Dabura explained. "I am here on behalf of my master, Lord Babidi. He wishes for us to fight."

"Interesting. Well if you wish to fight me, I'd like to ask you to wait until the day of my Cell Games." Cell requested.

Dabura frowned. "I didn't come here for games. My master ordered me to fight you, and so I will."

The demon king then formed a sword in his hand. "I hope for your sake, you don't disappoint me."

Without another word, Dabura charged at Cell, appearing in front of him momentarily.

Cell barely managed to duck under a swipe that would have taken his head clean off, his eyes wide in shock at his opponent's speed.

But he got over that shock quickly, and went to perform a leg sweep, but Dabura simply jumped up over him, landing behind Cell, before raising his sword up and bringing it down on him.

Cell turned just in time, and caught a sword between his hands, and tried to push it back.

But again, to his surprise, he struggled, as Dabura pushed it down towards him, Cell found being pushed into the floor of his arena.

Cell looked at Dabura, and fired beams out of his eyes, which hit the demon king's own, blinding him and making him lose focus.

This provided Cell the opening to push Dabura's sword aside, before punching him in the face, sending him flying into the side of a cliff.

Cell folded all but two fingers into his hand, and cocked that hand back, before throwing it forward. "Dodon Ray!"

The android shot out a small but powerful beam that rushed toward the demon king.

Dabura quickly made a shield, and blocked the beam, before pushing himself off the rock and flying towards Cell.

Just before Dabura could tackle Cell with his shield, Cell used his telekinesis to move Dabura's arm, leaving him exposed, and allowing Cell to kick him in the chest.

Dabura flew back but flipped himself and put himself on his feet, skidding back to the other end of the arena, before stopping.

"Hehehehe." Dabura chuckled as he stood back up. "Not bad. You'll produce a wealth of energy."

Dabura threw aside his sword and shield and then made a claw swipe towards Cell.

Three claw slashes appeared in Cell's chest as he was struck by an invisible force, blood spurting out of his chest, as he skidded back to the other edge of the arena.

Cell quickly retaliated with a barrage of Death Beams with one hand, while using the other hand to create a Destructo Disk, and throw it at him.

Dabura created a spear and spun it around to deflect the Death Beams, before using his other hand to create a mace, and then hit the Destructo Disk from the top, smashing it apart.

Then Dabura chucked the spear at Cell's head.

Cell tilted his head to dodge it, but the spear still cut the side of his cheek as it sailed past, drawing a bit of blood.

Dabura smirked, before making the "come forward" motion, tauntingly.

Cell smirked back, shook his head, and then made that same motion, except he also grabbed Dabura with his telekinesis, and started moving him forward, towards Cell.

Dabura quickly responded by slamming his mace into the floor of the arena, embedding it deeply to keep himself from moving any farther, before looking at Cell, opening his mouth, and shooting out a stream of fire.

Cell flew up to dodge the fire, before moving his hands behind his body, and quickly charging an attack. "Gallet Gun! Fire!"

The android shot down a big purple beam at Dabura.

In response, Dabura created a sword, raised it over his head, and when the beam got close, he swung with all his might.

The force of his swing created an invisible blade of air that traveled up the beam, splitting it in half, until it got to Cell, and cut his right arm clean off.

"Heh, my apologies, it seems I should have held back a bit." Dabura postered cockily.

"Hahahaha. No, no. By all means, go all out." Cell chuckled, before immediately regenerating his arm. "Let's see if you can cut through this."

Cell then raised his finger up into the air, and formed a small Supernova ball that quickly grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger until it became larger than the ring itself.

Then, with the mere flick of his finger, Cell sent the massive sun-like ball of ki down towards his foe.

Dabura dropped his sword, and made another spear, before charging up at the Supernova, and stabbing it, pushing forward and causing the Supernova to start moving back towards Cell.

Cell raised his hand up, to put more force into the attack, stopping it from moving any farther.

"Haaaaaaa! Rahhhhhhh!" Dabura shouted, as he thrust his spear in further, and started plowing right through the Supernova, before coming out the other end, and stabbing Cell right through the chest with his now burning spear, as the Supernova exploded behind him.

"Agh!" Cell spat out blood as he got to run through, and Dabura gave him a vicious grin, befitting of a true demon, before opening his mouth, and engulfing Cell's upper half in a torrent of flames.

A few moments later, Cell's fist came flying out of the flames and decked Dabura in the chest, sending him crashing back to the ground.

With the flames gone, Cell's upper half was revealed, burns covering him, and bits of his crown melted.

Cell grabbed the spear, and grit his teeth, before yanking it out of his body. A second later, all the damage was erased by Cell's regeneration, and he was back in tip-top shape.

As Dabura got back up, Cell flew down to the ground, and raised his palm up, forming a ki sphere. "Spirit Ball!"

Cell tossed the sphere at Dabura, who in response, made a sword and as soon as the ball approached, swiped at it in an attempt to cut it in half.

But just before the ball could touch the sword, it moved down, going under the sword swipe and hitting Dabura in the gut, before flying up and hitting the demon king's jaw.

Then the ball started circling the demon king, while he rubbed his jaw, and looked warrily at the energy sphere.

It came at him from behind, and Dabura quickly turned and swiped at it again, this time going for a vertical slice, however, the ball moved around his sword, and hit him in the face, before going back and forth smacking him in the face repeatedly, before flying up, and then diving back down at him.

Dabura dropped his sword, made a spear, and thrust it up at the ball, but the Spirit Ball swerved to the side, going behind him, and then rushing towards his back, ready to ram into him.

But as soon as the ball got close, Dabura quickly made another sword that formed backward in his hand, and the ball rammed itself into the tip of the sword.

Dabura flicked his blade, tossing the ball into the ground, before stepping on it, and crushing it into nothing.

The demon king then stabbed his spear into the ground and charged at Cell.

Cell used his telekinesis to grab one of Dabura's discarded swords, and dashed towards Dabura.

CLANG!

The two met, and their swords clashed against each other.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Again and again, the two swiped their swords at each other, only for the other to either parry or block the blows.

CLANK!

Eventually the two locked blades, and started pushing against each other.

Dabura slowly started pushing Cell back, the android's feet digging through the dirt, as the pace started to pick up, and Dabura kept pushing, and pushing until he pushed Cell into the base of a mountain.

"Heheheheh." Dabura laughed, as he kept pushing.

With Cell's back against the wall, Dabura's sword was getting closer and closer to him.

And then Cell activated his telekinesis, grabbing hold of the spear that Dabura had planted into the ground, picking it up, and moving it towards Dabura, the sharp end aimed right at his back.

Dabura heard the whirring of a blade cutting through the air right behind him and quickly jumped to the side before he got stabbed.

The spear continued sailing towards Cell, the android grabbing it before it reached his chest.

Then, Cell used his telekinesis to bring another sword and the mace towards him, while also growing two extra arms from his back.

Cell threw the spear up and grabbed both that and the mace with his back arms while grabbing the other sword with his free hand.

"Alright, let's try that again." Cell said with a smirk, pointing all four weapons at Debora.

Cell rushed at Dabura, and swiped one of his swords at him, but Dabura blocked the sword with his own. Cell then thrust his spear at his face, which Dabura narrowly dodged by moving his head, only to get smashed in the side of his head by the mace.

Then while Dabura was dazed, Cell used his other sword to send Dabura's sword flying, disarming the demon.

Cell then went forward, and slashed at Dabura with both swords, making an X-shaped cut in the demon's chest.

"Gahhhhh!" Dabura roared in pain, before jumping back, and quickly forming a shield. To protect him as Cell continued attacking him with all of his own weapons.

Dabura was now on the back foot as Cell's assault left him no room to counterattack.

Well, almost no room to attack.

Dabura peaked his head up from behind his shield and spat out two gobs of spit that landed directly onto Cell's extra arms.

"What the!?" Cell paused as he looked at the spit on his arms in shock and disgust. "Did you just spit on-"

And then, his eyes went wide, as he saw his arms start to turn to stone.

Reacting quickly, Cell flew backward away from Dabura, and let go of his weapons, before ripping off the extra arms before the petrification could spread any farther.

Cell looked back at Dabura with a scowl. "That was a neat trick you just pulled. Shame it didn't work."

"I'm actually quite glad you survived," Dabura said as he dropped his shield. "Master would have been displeased if you died so quickly."

Dabura then created a trident, and breathed fire on it, setting it ablaze, before stabbing it into the ground.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake, cracks appearing all around the area, including under Cell's feet.

Cell jumped up and flew to the left just before a pillar of flames exploded out of the ground like a volcanic eruption.

More pillars of flame burst out of the earth forcing Cell to dodge all of them as he tried to make his way towards Dabura.

But just before he reached Dabura, a pillar of flames appeared in front of him, forcing him to stop short before he flew into it.

Then, more pillars of fire appeared around, forming a circle and trapping Cell inside.

"To hell with you!" Dabura roared. "HAAAAA!"

The ground under Cell cracked, and a massive geyser of fire exploded up, consuming Cell as it climbed up into the sky.

A few seconds later, Dabura pulled the trident out of the ground, and thus the fire quickly fizzled out, leaving nothing but a big cloud of black smoke.

Dabura looked up at the smoke, with a smirk, thinking he'd won.

That was until he saw something green, faintly glowing within the smoke.

As the smoke began to peter out, it was revealed that at the last second, Cell threw up a barrier to protect himself.

Cell slowly lowered himself to the ground, before lowering his barrier. "Not bad, but unfortunately. It's going to take much more than that to kill me."

"Clearly," Dabura said, spinning around his flaming trident, before getting into a combat pose, and then charging at Cell.

Dabura launched a series of swings and spins at Cell, the weapon leaving a trail of flames as it moved.

Cell dodged each swing before Dabura thrust the trident at him. Cell moved to the right, grabbed the weapon, and then elbowed it, breaking the trident in half, before he shoulder-checked Dabura, sending him sliding backward about a dozen feet.

When Dabura stopped, he dropped his broken weapon and launched a claw swipe at Cell.

The bug man flew up, dodging the invisible attack, causing three claw marks to be cleaved into the mountain behind him instead.

Cell flew up a few more miles into the air, before stopping, then forming his hands into a triangle shape, and aiming down at Dabura.

Dabura, sensing that Cell was about to launch an attack, created a shield.

"Oh, you're not going to want to block this one." Cell laughed before he launched his attack. "Neo Tri-Beam! HA!"

BOOM!

A blast of pure force slammed into Dabura, creating a massive triangle-shaped hole and sending him plummeting down into it.

"HA! HA! HA!" Cell screamed as he fired three more blasts down into the hole.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The earth shook as each blast tore into the ground, making the hole deeper, and deeper, until it was a gaping, triangle-shaped abyss.

After the fourth blast, Cell stopped, and looked down into the hole. "Heheheheheh. Told you not to block it."

His smarmy self-admiration was interrupted when suddenly, a flaming arrow flew out of the hole, and into the sky.

The arrow flew higher and higher, and then, it exploded into thousands of flaming arrows that were now falling down like a meteor shower.

Cell threw up his barrier, and the arrows bounced off of it with ease.

But then, Dabura burst out of the ground behind him, another flaming trident in hand, and spat on the back of Cell's barrier.

The spit turned the back of the barrier into stone, and then Dabura thrust his trident right through it.

Cell turned around but couldn't react fast enough to do anything, and got stabbed right in the chest. "Gahhhh!"

"Ha!" Dabura stabbed the trident deeper into Cell's chest before pouring flames directly into Cell's body.

BOOM!

Jets of flame burst out of Cell's eyes, mouth, and tail hole. His spots turned white before jets of flames burst out of them well.

Then Cell's body started to expand, until-

SPLOOSH!

Cell exploded into a mess of blood and burnt body parts, blood and guts flying all over Dabura himself.

"Heh." Dabura opened his palm, and Cell's head fell into his hands. The eyes and mouth still smoking. "Let's see you regenerate from that."

"Be careful what you wish for." Cell's head said before he shot a massive mouth blast out at the unsuspecting demon king.

"AGHHHHHHHH!" Dabura screamed as he was sent flying through a mountain and into the horizon, carried by the blast.

Cell stopped his blast, and just floated in the air, while his body quickly started to regenerate.

His eyes came back as his neck started growing back, everything blew it. Blood vessels and nerves came first, then organs, then bones and muscles, skin and his exoskeleton, and lastly his wings.

"Aghh." Cell groaned as he looked down at his newly formed body. Opening and closing his hands to get adjusted to his new limbs.

Meanwhile, Dabura flew back and glared at Cell.

"Now now, where's that confident look you were sporting?" Cell mocked. "Although I guess it's hard to look smug when you realize you've essentially just dug your own grave."

"Don't act so cocky. The one whose grave I've dug is yours, and yours alone." Dabura said.

"Is that so? I find that hard to believe considering you're the one already half dead. While I'm as healthy as before this battle started." Cell pointed out.

Dabura clenched his teeth in frustration.

It was true, Dabura had taken a considerable amount of damage, while Cell's regeneration had kept him nice and healthy.

He was at a disadvantage.

However, he still had a way to turn things around. He just needed an opening.

"Ha!" Dabura made a hammer fly up, before slamming it down on Cell, sending him careening back to the ground.

Dabura went to the ground, created a sword, and then set it ablaze, while Cell was getting back onto his feet.

"HAAAAAA!" Dabura swung his sword in Cell's direction.

SHING!

A giant vertical slice was cleaved into the land, spitting both Cell and a mountain behind him, in half.

Then the crevice made by the slash created, burst into flames, creating a wall of fire that separated both halves of Cell.

The two halves of Cell activated their telekinesis, picking up two mountains on either side of Dabura, before smashing them into each other, crushing Dabura between them.

With that, the wall of fire vanished, and Cell reattached his two halves.

Then Cell flew up, threw up his finger, and created a Death Ball, before throwing it down at the two mushed mountains.

KABOOM!

The mountains exploded into a giant dome of energy, before dying down and turning into yet another smoking crater.

Cell looked down at the crater, crossing his arms and waiting to see if his opponent was finally dead.

And when the smoke finally cleared, there was nothing left but ashes and dust.

"Hahahaha! Well, that was certainly entertaining." Cell said to himself. "The poor fool didn't know what he was getting himself into."

Then, without any warning, chains burst out from the ground, and wrapped themselves around Cell, pinning his arms and restraining his legs and wings. Trapping the monster completely.

"What the!?" Cell struggled to break free of the chains, but when he did, the chains grew red hot, paralyzing him with pain. "AGHHHHHHH!"

That's when Dabura burst out of the ground, flew right in front of Cell, and spit in his face.

"Agh! N-Nooooooooooo!" Cell screamed as quickly as his body started turning to stone, and he was helpless to do anything about it.

Moments later, his screams died out, as his body had completely turned to stone.

Cell's petrified body, still bound in chains, fell down and smashed to pieces when it hit the ground.

"Hmph, in the end, YOU were the fool," Dabura said, as he flew down to the ground.

"Dabura you imbecile!"

Dabura looked behind him, and he saw Babidi running up to him.

"We almost gathered enough energy to release Majin Buu! If you'd dragged out the fight a bit longer, our long-awaited goal would be at hand!" Babidi hissed.

"My apologies master. That creature was a threat. So I took it upon myself to eliminate him so he couldn't pose a potential threat to you." Dabura explained.

"Pah! Excuse excuses!" Babidi dismissed. "If he tried to harm me, I just would have put him under my spell, and made him my pawn."

"Oh, would you?"

Dabura and Babidi's eyes went wide, and they looked to their left to find Cell, completely fine.

Cell aimed his hand at Babidi, grabbed hold of him with telekinesis, and lifted him up into the air.

"Master!" Dabura cried.

"No! Dabura! Help! AHHHHHHHHHH!" Babidi screamed, before his body inflated and then exploded. Killing the wizard in an instant.

"Ah!" Dabura groaned, as suddenly the m vanished from his forehead, and his mind was free.

"Was that little rat your master?" Cell asked cockily. "I expected more."

"I have no master," Dabura said, as he turned to face Cell. "That was just a worm that managed to make its way into my mind. I have to thank you for freeing me from miserable welp."

"Ah, mind control." Cell surmised. "Suppose it's a good thing I took him out of the equation quickly. Although I doubt he could control my perfect mind."

"I do have to ask, though. How did you manage to survive turning to stone?" Dabura asked, looking at the pile of rocks that was once Cell's body.

"Simple, in my body there is a very small clump of cells, known as the nucleus." Cell explained while pointing to his head. "So long as that clump survives, I can regenerate. And thankfully I can move it around anywhere in my body. Before I turned to stone, I moved it into the tip of my tongue, and bit it off."

"Intriguing. Well then, I believe I'm done here." Dabura said as he flew up. "I have to return to my realm."

Dabura flew up, ready to fly away, only for a ki blast to hit him in the back, shooting him out of the sky and sending him plummeting back to earth.

The ruler of the demon realm quickly pulled himself back up and glared at Cell. "I was offering you mercy. It was a reward for freeing me."

"Mercy?" Cell laughed. "Perhaps you haven't realized it yet, but this body is a bit different from my old one."

BOOM!

Cell's aura exploded out from him, and Dabura's eyes went wide as he felt Cell's overwhelming power.

"You see, every time I get to the brink of death and come back, I grow stronger." Cell explained. "While you, on the other hand, seem to have gotten noticeably weaker."

Dabura growled while a cold sweat ran down his face. It was true. Babidi's spell had made him stronger, and now that it was gone, he was weaker than ever. His body was exhausted from all the energy he'd used and the wounds he'd sustained.

Still, it was clear Cell had no intention of allowing him to leave alive. His only option was to fight.

Dabura created a bow, and arrow, and aimed it at Cell. "This time I won't leave even a trace of you intact!"

The demon king then started launching arrows at Cell, spitting on the tip of each one as it sailed forward.

Cell in response, put up his hands and let loose a barrage of ki blasts, which easily destroyed the arrows and continued traveling towards Dabura.

Dabura was forced to stop firing and start focusing on dodging the blasts, which he found shockingly easy.

Eventually, he stopped dodging altogether, as Cell kept blasting, seemingly not even aiming for him anymore.

What is he up to? Dabura wondered until he noticed a glowing all around. "Wha-"

Dabura looked around him and found he was surrounded by ki spheres.

"Hmm." Cell chucked, before raising his arms and then lowering them. "Hellzone Grenade!"

All of the ki spheres then started rushing towards Dabura all at once.

In response, Dabura made two scythes and started spinning them around, destroying as many ki spheres as he could.

But there were too many, one broke through at him in the face, then another hit him in the back, then in the chest, and then more started pelting him from every angle as his defense crumbled.

"Ha!" Cell thrust his palm forward, shooting a blast of force, then slammed into Dabura, embedding him in the side of another mountain.

Then, using his telekinesis, he picked up all the weapons Dabura tossed away during their battle, and sent them flying at Dabura.

The blades stabbed into Dabura, going through his arms, hands, feet, legs, and waist, pinning him to the rocks.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Dabura choked out some blood as the weapons went through his body.

"Well then, I believe we should end this-" Cell aimed his palm at Dabura. "With a bang."

Cell then shot out a Big Bang attack, the ko sphere flying towards Dabura, before slamming into his chest, and exploding into a massive dome of energy.

"AHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dabura screamed, as his body was vaporized and he was turned to dust.

Once the explosion was gone and Cell no longer sensed his energy, the android smirked. "Nothing beats perfection."

Chapter Text

Universe 6's destroyer was spending his time as he normally did.

Stuffing his face.

Champa was in his dining room eating plate after plate of food, when his attendant Vados walked in.

"My lord, I just got a very interesting call from Merus," Vados said.

Champa stopped eating momentarily as he tried to remember who that was. "Merus, Merus, Merus…ah yes that was your brother right? The angel in training?"

"That's correct my lord," Vados confirmed.

"If I recall correctly, he was in universe 7," Champa said, as he started eating again. "Shouldn't he be bothering Whis and Beerus? Why is he calling us?"

"Well, apparently Lord Beerus has unfortunately passed away," Vados explained.

PLUNK.

The food Champa was eating fell to the floor, as the destroyer went stiff still.

Silence filled the room, lasting for a few more minutes, before Champa eventually spoke up.

"Who?" Champa asked, his tone sounding dead calm but completely serious.

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Buu sighed as he watched a star explode in front of him while he sat on an asteroid. Maybe I should just go to sleep and never wake up.

The Majin had done just about everything that could be done at this point. At least everything that could be done in an empty universe. And at this point, he might as well be in hell.

He was so, unbelievably bored. It was actually painful at this point.

Why didn't anyone tell me that the aftermath of universal omnicide would be THIS boring? Buu thought.

"So, you must be the one responsible for all this."

Buu visibly flinched at the sound of someone speaking, completely caught off guard by the sound of another person after so long.

He turned around, and saw a very displeased Champa, floating behind him.

"Oh! I didn't expect anyone to still be alive!?" Buu immediately felt a rush of excitement and a bit of nervousness filled him. "Why hello! My name is Majin Buu. And you are?"

"Champa. Universe 6's god of destruction." Champa introduced himself curtly.

"Universe…6?" Buu inquired.

"The twin universe to this one. Universe 7." Champa explained.

"There are…other universes?" A big grin spread across Buu's face. "Ahaha! I'm not alone! I can go to new places! Meet new people! Kill those people! But uh, not all of them! Can't repeat my old mistakes."

"Oh, you won't be getting the chance to repeat anything," Champa said. "You see, a god of destruction's job is to destroy things that don't contribute to, or are a threat to the universe under their dominion. However, that lazy bones Beerus, my brother, was too lazy, and didn't bother erasing you before you killed off his kais, killing him in the process."

"Really, is that so?" Buu had no idea he'd accidentally killed a God of Destruction, and now that he knew, he was kinda miffed. Fighting one of those sounded like fun, and he got cheated out of that because he killed that weakling Shin?

Although, it seemed like he was about to clash fists with one of them right now.

"And I suppose, you're here for revenge then," Buu said, getting onto his feet, and cracking his nonexistent bones.

"Of course not. I just can't live the embarrassment of knowing MY brother died to something like you." Champa hissed. "Now let's make this quick. I have other things to do."

Champa raised his finger at Buu.

And then a moment later, Buu exploded into a million pieces.

"Hmph. How underwhelming." Champa turned to leave when suddenly, he heard something behind him.

Turning back around, he saw all the pieces of Buu stick back together into a blob, and then that blob turned back into Buu.

Buu looked both shocked, and excited, after having been blown to pieces in mere seconds, it was clear that this opponent would be no pushover.

"Haaaaa!" Buu screamed, as his body morphed and changed until he assumed his divine form once again.

Buu launched an extended arm punch at Champa, taking the god by surprise and socking him in the face.

But to Buu's surprise, the god didn't budge, only looking even more pissed off.

"Rah!" Champa charged forward and head-butted Buu.

Buu's head went flying back, his head stretching half a mile before stopping and rebounding back hitting Champa with his own headbutt, which did very little.

"Grrrrrrrrr!" The two glared at each other, their heads still mashed against each other, until Buu's aura exploded out from his body.

"Kaio-Ken times 300!" Buu shouted, power bursting from his body, causing the G.O.D. to fly back in surprise. "Rahhhhh!"

Buu launched another punch, planting his fist right in Champa's gut.

"Ohhhhhhh!" Champa howled, as his eyes bulged out.

Then Buu grabbed the destroyer by the ear, and spun him around a bit, before throwing him into a nearby planet.

Buu then aimed his palm at the planet and formed a ki sphere in his hand. "Big Bang Attack!"

KABOOM!

Buu launched his attack at the planet, causing it to explode into a massive blue cloud of energy. The shockwave from the explosion pushed away surrounding meteorites.

As Buu looked down at the resulting devastation, he was shocked, when Champa suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Alright, guess we'll do this the hard way," Champa said, before putting his hand in front of Buu's face, and then flicking Buu in the face.

BOOM!

The flick caused Buu's head to explode and sent Buu's body flying across space.

After flying a few thousand lightyears, Buu eventually crashed into a planet, creating a massive crater in the strange alien jungle he landed in.

Buu got up and quickly regrew his head.

However, before he could do anything, Champa slammed into the ground in front of him.

He took in a bunch of air, before unleashing a massive shout at Buu. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The blast of sound that burst out of Champa's mouth slammed into Buu, making it a struggle to keep standing, while everything else around them got blown away.

"Grrrrrrr!" Buu put up his arms to guard against the sound blast, but it was little use. Bits and pieces of him started getting blasted off of his body and blown away.

Seeing that this was getting him nowhere, Buu slammed his foot into the ground, extending it through the dirt, before it came out under Champa and kicked his jaw shut.

Buu recalled his foot while regrowing any parts of him that had been blasted off, then he extended his head tentacle and wrapped it around the G.O.D. restraining him.

The Majin brought him closer, before growing six more arms and unleashing a flurry of blows onto the seemingly helpless chubby cat.

Except he was nowhere near as helpless as Buu had assumed, and after a few seconds of eating thousands of punches, energy burst out from Champa's body.

"HYAAAAAAAAAA!" Champa screamed as dozens of ki blasts exploded out of him, breaking apart Buu's head tentacle and shooting holes through the Majin's body.

Buu immediately jumped away, letting his body regenerate before he let his aura burst out of his body. "Kaioken times 1,000!"

Then Buu flew up and cocked his hands back, purple crackling energy charging up. "Gallet Gun! Fire!"

Buu fired a huge purple beam down at Champa, the attack slamming into the god, and then into the planet beneath them, causing the ground to crack and heat up before geysers of lava burst out and then-

KABOOM!

The planet exploded, turning into space dust that would scatter across the universe.

Buu flew out of the cosmic dust and looked down at the wreckage, but then Champa appeared above him, his hands brought together, and then slammed them down on Buu's head, sending him flying downward.

Champa flew beside him and kicked Buu away into the distance.

Buu kept flying, until he landed on a particularly large asteroid, in an asteroid belt.

The Majin shook off the hit and saw Champa charging at him.

He extended his arms and grabbed two asteroids, and when Champa flew between them, he smashed them together, with Champa in between.

Then he jumped back and created a Spirit Sword, and slashed through the meteors, cutting them clean in half.

Only to find Champa nowhere inside.

Champa appeared behind Buu, and grabbed his head tail, before lifting him up by it and spinning him around, before slamming him through three asteroids, then flying around, spinning Buu into more and more asteroids as he went.

This continued until Buu's head tendril began to spark, and then it shot out a blast of electricity, pumping ki-infused volts right into the god.

"AGAGAGAGAGAGA!" Champa howled as he was paralyzed by the shock.

Buu reeled Champa in, and then hit him in the face with repeated helicopter kicks, literally spinning his lower half around like a helicopter to strike the god again and again in quick succession.

Then, Buu finished with a dropkick to the face, forcing Champa to let go of his head thing, and sending him flying through several asteroids, before coming to a stop.

Before Champa could regain his bearings, Buu raised his finger up, and drew a circle in the air, causing an energy circle to form over Champa's head, which then dropped, and tightened around him, restaining. Buu then formed two more circles, further retaining the G.O.D.

"Gah! Why you little!" Champa growled as he struggled against the rings, even biting at them to try and get them off.

"Haaaaa!" Buu brought his hands to his chest, and put them together, a white and blue orb of energy charging up for a while before Buu pushed his hands forward. "Big Bang Grande!"

Buu shot out an absolutely massive blast of blue and white ki, that barreled towards Champa at a breakneck pace.

Champa looked at the blast for a second and then sighed. "Guess it's time to stop messing around."

Suddenly, an ominous purple aura leaked from Champa's body. The energy started eating away at the rings, breaking them apart and reducing them to nothing, breaking free the tubby deity.

Then Champa raised his hand up, aimed it at the blast, and said. "Hakai."

Just before the blast hit his hand, it started vanishing, turning into tiny purple particles that quickly vanished into nothing, before the entirety of the blast was reduced to complete nonexistence.

"W-What!?" Buu gawked, never had he seen such a powerful and destructive technique. Which said a lot considering all he'd seen in his time.

Champa leveled a deadly glare at Buu that actually sent shivers down his spine. Buu couldn't sense his energy per se, but he could feel every cell in his body screaming out in panic, telling him that the energy Champa had leaking off of him was dangerous. No, something beyond dangerous.

"Alright, no more warming up," Champa said, before bringing his arms back and his hands together, charging an attack. "Prepare to be erased!"

Champa shot out five ki spheres, at Buu.

Buu dodged all of them, but they immediately came charging right back at him from behind.

The Majin flew up and started flying away, but the blasts followed him, quickly catching up and diving at him from every angle.

Buu tried to keep dodging, but the attacks were too fast, one slammed into his arm, taking it clean off, another his leg, another his stomach.

Quickly regenerating all his damaged parts, instead of dodging, Buu grabbed hold of the ki spheres, turning its feet into hands to grab the spheres under it and hold them in place.

But that left one more ki sphere that rushed toward Buu's head.

However, before it could reach him, Buu turned the back of his head tail thing into another hand and grabbed it.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!" Buu struggled to hold the spheres in place, using all his might to try and keep them from ramming into him.

But then, he got an idea.

Buu detached his body from his arms, legs, and head-tail thing, quickly regrowing these parts back, while his old body parts still held the spheres in place.

Then he made his hand grow, wrapped it around everything, detached that hand, and turned it into a ball of pink Majin flesh stuff, with the ki spheres inside.

Buu then shrunk the sphere down to the size of a volleyball, condensing all the energy inside of it, making it glow bright from within the pink stuff.

"Heh!" Buu spun the ball around on his finger, before tossing it up, and then kicking it at Champa.

Champa just raised his hand and said. "Hakai."

Once again, the attack was reduced to nothing, but while Champa was focused on that, Buu appeared behind him and punched him in the back of the head.

However Champa's head barely budged, and a second later, the purple energy surged around his body, erasing Buu's hand in seconds.

Buu looked at his missing hand in shock, before Champa kicked him in the face, sending him flying once again.

Champa chased after Buu, as the two flew across the universe at speeds unthinkable to mortal men.

Buu stopped himself, and formed a ki disk, before then throwing it at Champa. "Destructo Disk!"

The razor-sharp saw of ki flew at Champa, but the G.O.D. just opened his mouth, and caught it with his teeth, before crushing it in his mouth.

Buu stopped and looked at him in shock, while Champa started rummaging around in his mouth.

"Gah! I think I chipped a tooth!" Champa hissed. "That's it! This fight's over!"

Champa raised his hands over his head and a small ball of ki that looked like a mini sun formed between his hands.

Then the ball rose up over his hands, and suddenly tripled in size, before doing that again, and again, growing larger and larger each second, until it was the size of a moon, then a planet, then a sun, then even larger still, until it was unbelievably massive.

"Heave! Ho!" Champa shouted as he tossed the entire celestial body he just created, right at his opponent.

Buu just looked up at the thing in shock, and let himself be consumed by the massive ball of destruction.

Champa looked at the ball with a scowl on his face, crossing his arms as he turned away. "Hmph, how could you let yourself get killed by something like that."

But as Champa flew away, thinking he'd won, he suddenly heard something as the entire universe shook.

"Kaioken times 10,000!"

He looked behind him, and his ball of destruction started to rapidly shrink, before turning into a black hole, sucking in anything around it inside of it.

That was until something came out of it.

A massive arm larger than any planet in the universe emerged from the hole, and then another, and then, Buu's head emerged, revealing he'd grown to a truly ridiculous size, and now loomed over Champa who looked like less than a spec in front of the massive Majin.

Buu opened his mouth extra white, and trillions of Ghost Buus rushed out and charged towards Champa.

Champa looked at the wave of ghosts approaching him and raised his hand, forming a ball made of the energy of destruction, making it the size of a planet, before shooting it at Buu.

The ball rushed forward, obliterating an uncountable number of ghosts as it sailed toward Buu, but an even larger number of them just moved around it as they traveled toward Champa.

Soon the ball slammed into Buu's mouth, and the Majin bit down on it with all his might, struggling for a bit. Before crushing it between his teeth.

Meanwhile, the ghosts had surrounded Champa, who threw out dozens of ki blasts a second to try and destroy them but there were simply too many.

A few came in and grabbed his arm before more grabbed the other, and then his legs, until his entire body was grabbed by ghosts, and even still more ghosts piled on until Champa was at the core of a literal planet made of ghosts.

The ghost planet then glowed white- before.

KABOOM!

Every single ghost blew up at once, the resulting explosion shaking the very universe itself.

When the explosion died down, Champa became visible. The God had a few burns and scuffs on him but was still pissed off and ready to go.

Buu completely pulled himself out of the black hole and charged at Champa, while the G.O.D. did the same.

The massive Majin extended his arms outwards, grabbing two planets, and then bringing them back, before mashing them together with Champa smooshed in the middle.

But a moment later, both planets were hakaied out of existence, and Champa flew, charging into Buu's mouth, before unleashing an onslaught of energy blasts.

The blasts tore Buu's head apart from the inside creating hundreds of holes in his face.

Buu stuck one of his hands in his mouth, and grabbed Champa, before throwing him away into the depths of space.

After flying a couple light years away, Champa stopped himself, only to be met with a massive Destructo Disk barreling towards him.

The disk slammed into Champa, but since the disk was so big, the "edge" was too thick to cut him, and so instead Champa just got stuck to it, spinning around on it as it hurtled through space, slicing through planets and suns alike.

"Ugh! Gonna hurl!" Champa could feel his massive breakfast threatening to come back up as he was violently spun around at speeds faster than light.

He slammed his hand into the disk, and hakaied it into nothing, before taking a second to recover from all the spinning.

Meanwhile, Buu had brought his fingers to his forehead and started charging up his next attack, hoping this would be the one to finish the flight.

However, before he finished charging, he could see Champa, charging towards him from far, far away.

I need more time! Buu thought.

Suddenly, normal-sized Buus started emerging from his body, more and more, until there was an army of billions of Buus, all charging toward Champa.

Champa continued charging forward toward the army of Buus and barreled right into them.

He tried to just charge through them, but the Buus started grabbing him, and eventually, he was swarmed once again, as every single Buu tried to hold him in place.

"RAHHHHHHHH!" Champa shouted as he shrouded his body in the energy of destruction, destroying every Buu that touched him as he continued charging toward the real Buu.

Buu, seeing that his clones weren't stopping him, created another set of hands, and put them over his face. "Solar Flare!"

Just as Champa was getting close to Buu, he was suddenly hit by a massive flood of light. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The light was so bright, that it actually caused both the surrounding planets and his clones, to catch fire, burning the planets and incinerating the clones.

When the light died down, Champa found he was in absolute agony, holding his eyes as he squirmed about in a manner befitting his station.

"AHAHAHA! My eyes!" He screamed in pain, tears pouring out of his now useless eyes. "It burns! It burns! Make it stop!"

"Oh don't worry! Soon you won't be feeling anything!" Buu finished charging his attack and pointing his massive fingers right at Champa. "Special Beam Cannon!"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

The massive spiral beam slammed into Champa, once again sending him flying, going right through several planets as it continued to travel across the universe.

After carrying him an unbelievable distance away, eventually, the attack slammed Champa into one last planet, before exploding, turning that planet into nothing more than floating space debris.

Champa lay on one of the floating rocks, a giant burn mark now present on his massive tummy.

"Plug!" Champa coughed up blood. He'd used up a colossal amount of energy to try and erase the blast, but all that did was soften in the impact a bit.

The G.O.D. was utterly exhausted, having exercised more today than he had in billions of years. And now he no longer even had the energy to stand.

Buu appeared in front of him with Instant Transmission, now back to normal size, and looked down on him smugly. "Well well, that was quite a fight. I didn't think someone so fat could push me that far, but I suppose you're not called a god for nothing."

"Damn you." Champa croaked, as he tried and failed to push himself back up. "Don't think, you'll get away with this."

"I'm ecstatic to meet the person you think can stop me," Buu said, as he cocked his arms back, and started charging another attack. "Ka! Me! Ha! Me!"

And then, just before Buu could throw out the attack, he felt someone tap on his shoulder.

"Huh!?" Buu stopped what he was doing, and looked behind him, to find someone's fingers in his face.

BOOM!

Buu received an even more powerful flick to the face that sent him flying across space.

Champa smirked as he looked up at his rescuer.

Beerus the destroyer had returned.

"They did it," Champa said.

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Hours ago, Merus had arrived at the palace of Universe 6's destroyer and now stood in front of him.

"Hmmmm." Champa looked at a picture Merus had drawn of Buu. "And this is the guy that killed Beerus."

"It seems he killed the Kais, and thus, Beerus," Merus explained. "And then he proceeded to destroy all life in universe 7. He's a terrifying opponent. And his strength grows at a dizzying speed. I'd advise caution, even for you Lord Champa."

Normally, Champa would dismiss such a warning. He was a destroyer, how could a mere Majin prove to be a threat to him.

However, he was not in the mood to be taking things lightly.

"Vados, Merus, While I'm out destroying this thing, I want you two to look for the last Super Dragon Ball, and restore Universe 7," Champa ordered. "Since Beerus isn't around, there's no need to be careful, scour every last star system, every asteroid. Find it. No matter what."

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"My my, what a pitiful state you're in Champa," Beerus said as he looked down at his brother. "Did that thing do this to you? Pah! And you call yourself a god!?"

"Like you have any room to talk! It killed you!" Champa pointed out.

"It killed my Kai, that doesn't count." Beerus huffed.

"Does too!" Champa responded childishly.

"Does not!" Beerus retorted in an equally childish manner.

"Does too!"

"Does not!

"Does too!"

"Does not!"

"Does to-ack!" Champa suddenly choked on some of his blood, as the energy he felt from seeing his brother away started to leave him, and the fatigue settled in again.

Beerus looked down at his brother, burnt, blood, and beaten, and felt an intense feeling of absolute hatred fill him. "...Stay here."

Without another word, Beerus then burst off, flying in the direction he'd sent Buu.

"Heh, go get him, brother," Champa said before he drifted off to sleep.

Both of them had missed the small piece of pink blob that had been splattered onto a rock nearby.

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After flying a couple galaxies away, Buu finally managed to bring himself to stop.

Beerus was right in front of him seconds later, giving the Majin a look that could only be described as terrifying. "So you're the creature that's been making a mess in MY universe."

"And I'm guessing you must be Beerus." Buu presumed. "I thought that other cat had said you'd died as a result of me killing that weakling kai."

"Yes, that was quite the unpleasant surprise," Beerus growled. "But I guess that's what I get for slacking on my job. Thankfully, while my brother may not be the strongest, he's at least resourceful, I'll give him that. I have no idea how he brought me back to life, and at the moment, I don't find myself caring. No, right now the only thing on my mind, is destruction."

BOOM!

Beerus's furious aura exploded out, causing all the nearby asteroids to explode just from his mere presence.

Before Buu could do anything, Beerus vanished, appearing behind him, and delivering a paralyzing chop to the back of his neck.

Then while Buu was stunned, Beerus grabbed his head tail thing, to hold him in place, while he started kicking Buu in the back, again and again, before putting his hand on the back of Buu's head, pumping him with ki causing his body to glow, before exploding into a billion tiny pieces.

"Hmph, Don't tell me you're done already," Beerus said as he held up Buu's head tentacle, and then Hakaied it out of existence. "I was looking forward to killing you slowly and painfully."

A moment later, the pieces grew and reformed, and Buu was back like he'd never left.

"Rah!" Buu immediately threw a punch at Beerus, which the G.O.D. caught with ease, before twisting Buu's arm away from his face, and then backhanding him through the nearest planet.

Buu stopped himself, then used Instant Transmission to appear behind Beerus to try and strike him in the back of the head, but Beerus just ducked down and then kicked him in the chin, before spinning around and delivering a kick to the stomach that sent him, bouncing off planets like a ping pong ball, until Beerus appeared in front of his path and grabbed him by the face.

Then, Beerus slammed him into the surface of the nearest sun, beat him into the sun, then jumped away, aimed his finger at the sun, and fired a golden beam into it.

The sun then started to expand, consuming its entire solar system, before suddenly shrinking back down to half of its original size, and then exploding, creating a twinkle that could be seen from outside the galaxy.

When the explosion died down Beerus remained, his body smoking from the heat of the massive supernova, but he was completely unharmed.

The same could not be said for Buu. The poor Majin had been reduced to merely a head, an arm, and a foot.

Naturally, however, he didn't remain like this long, quickly putting himself back together and regenerating back to his normal state.

"If I were you, I wouldn't bother with all that regeneration business," Beerus said. "All you're doing is prolonging the inevitable."

"Don't be so sure! Haaaaaa!" Buu charged at Beerus once again, unleashing a flurry of punches and kicks that the purple cat easily dodged, before putting a stop to Buu's assault with a sudden headbutt.

While Buu was recoiling in pain, Beerus backed up a bit and aimed a finger at Buu's leg. "Hakai."

Buu's leg quickly vanished into nothingness. Then Beerus pointed at his other leg and erased that, and then he did the same to his arms, leaving Buu just a head and torso, shaking in fear.

"Just so you know, those erased via the power of destruction will know neither heaven nor hell. Merely oblivion." Beerus explained, as he aimed his palm at Buu, who looked utterly terrified in the presence of true destruction. "So then any last words."

"Y-Y-You!" Buu stuttered.

And then, suddenly all of the fear vanished from Buu's face and was replaced by an evil grin. "You took too long!"

Out of nowhere, a piece of Buu suddenly flew in, and attached itself to Buu, quickly being absorbed inside of him.

Suddenly, Buu's body started to glow purple, as his body began to morph and change.

His arms and legs grew back, as his white baggy pants turned red.

Gohan's gi vanished, and taking its place was the signature destroyer collar worn by Champa.

A sash appeared under the M on his belt, and gold bangles appeared on his wrists.

And lastly, a golden earring took its place on his head tendril, completing his transformation.

"Haaaaaa! RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Buu screamed as he let his newfound power explode out of him, the energy bursting out of his body blowing back Beerus a few feet, as the G.O.D. looked on in shock, horror, and fury.

"That power! Those clothes! It can't be!" Beerus growled.

"Ahahahahaha! That's right! I absorbed you brother! And now his power has been added to my own!" Buu gloated.

"Youuuuuuuuu!" Beerus's own aura exploded out in outrage. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The two charged forward at each other, fist cocked back ready to fly.

KRAKOOM!

Two punched each other right in the face, sending a massive shockwave that spread throughout the universe.

"Heh!" Buu smirked around the fist in his face. Sure he'd taken damage from that exchange, but so had Beerus, the Majin's fist buried in the cat's face. But only one of them had the power of regeneration.

They both backed up and then aimed their palms at each other.

"Hakai!" They shouted.

The stars around them exploded and meteors were reduced to nothing.

But neither combatant was harmed.

"What!?" Beerus balked in surprise before his expression returned to a scowl. "Fine! The hard way then! RAHHHHHHH!"

Beerus charged forward and punched Buu in the stomach.

"Gah!" Buu hacked up spit, before quickly recovering from the pain, and then grabbing Beerus by the ears, pulling him off of him and then slamming him into his knee.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Buu kneed Beerus in the face three times before Beerus grabbed his knee and held it back.

The two struggled as Buu tried to keep pushing his knee forward and Beerus kept holding it in place until Beerus went forward and bit Buu's leg.

"Yow!" Buu let go of Beerus's ears and started rapidly shaking his leg to try and shake the cat off him, and eventually just started biting on his ear.

"Yah!" Beerus stopped biting on Buu's leg and instead chopped Buu's head off with the flat of his hand.

Of course that didn't stop Buu's disembodied head from continuing to bite down on his ear.

"Get! Off!" Beerus eventually pulled the head off his ear, but it took a chunk of his ear off with it.

Beerus threw Buu's head back at his body, and the body caught the head, quickly reattaching it before he spit out the chunk of ear he took off.

Buu then raised his hands over his head and charged up an attack. "Masenko! Ha!"

The Majin shot out a large beam at Beerus, and the G.O.D. put his hands in front and caught the beam.

"Grrrrrrrrrr." Beerus struggled a bit in holding it back, but eventually managed to get a grip on it, then spun it around and tossed it back at Buu.

BOOM!

The beam slammed into Buu, exploding on contact, and creating a cloud of smoke.

When the smoke dispersed, it was revealed that half of Buu's face had been blown clean off.

Buu quickly fixed his face, while Beerus formed six Cataclysmic Orbs, and then kicked them at him.

The pink demon flew up to avoid them but got smacked in the face by another one Beerus just made.

Beerus kept making orbs and continued to kick them at Buu, while Buu had to duck and weave each one, before creating his own Cataclysmic orb and kicking it at Beerus.

The pissed-off deity, batted it aside, before shrouding his body in energy, and then charging at Buu, ramming his body head first, through Buu's body, cutting him in half before coming back and kicking Buu's head off his body.

Buu's head turned as it flew and shot a magic beam at Beerus from his head tentacle.

Beerus narrowly dodged the beam, which went on to hit a meteorite behind him, turning it into an ice cream sundae. "Ooooo."

He went over to the dish and pulled out the spoon that came with the dish and ate a bite of it. "Hmmm. Not bad."

Meanwhile, Buu's legs, torso, and head, all regenerated, forming three separate Buus.

The Majins surrounded Beerus while he was eating, and all went in and attacked him at once, throwing out punches and kicks as fast as he could.

Beerus was forced to try and dodge all of them, lest he stop eating his ice cream, and he managed to dodge most of them until Buu punched away the ice cream. "Hey!"

He dropped the spoon and grabbed one of Buu's arms as he came in for a punch, before spinning him around and slamming him into the other Buus.

Then Beerus flew back and unleashed a barrage of ki blasts at the Buu's creating an ever-growing explosion and a big cloud of smoke.

After ceasing his assault, Beerus looked at the cloud and waited to see what his opponent would do next.

A few moments later, Buu flew out of the smoke cloud and stopped right in front of Beerus.

He formed a fist, but instead of throwing a punch, he placed it over his palm.

Beerus quickly realized what was happening, and did the same.

The two gave each other malice-filled glares, before starting the next phase of the battle.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors! Shoot!" They both shouted.

Beerus made paper, while Buu made rock, and Beerus then shoved his palm right in Buu's face.

Buu quickly shook it off and went in for the next round.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors! Shoot!"

This time Beerus made paper again, but Buu made scissors, then took those scissors and poked Beerus in the eyes.

"Yow!" Beerus growled, but he shook off the pain quickly, and went back for the last round.

"Rock! Paper! Scissors! Shoot!"

This time they both made rock and punched each other right in the face.

CRACK!

The force from their punches caused the very fabric of reality around them to begin shattering. As the universe trembled before their might.

They both flew back, and Beerus looked at the cracks they'd made in the universe. It's as I feared. Now that he has Champa's power, he's considered a destroyer. Meaning if this fight goes on, both of our universes will be annihilated. And worse, I'll have to explain to Grand Zeno how it all happened! Still, I don't see any other way out of this.

Lord Beerus, wait! Shouted King Kai's voice in Beerus's head, startling the cat.

What!? Who is this!? I'm kind of in the middle of something important right now! Beerus growled.

It's King Kai! You know, the guy whose planet you blew up forcing him to put it back together, but smaller because I didn't have all the pieces. King Kai reminded him.

Right, the north Kai. Well, this had better be important, otherwise I'm destroying more than just your planet next time I see you. Beerus threatened. That is, assuming the universe survives this battle.

Yeah, about that, you don't need to fight him to win! You just need to make Buu push himself just a bit harder! King Kai said. Right now, Buu is using a technique called the Kaioken to keep up with you. It's a powerful technique that lets one boost their power at the cost of doing damage to their own body. Buu's regeneration and insane power have let him push the technique farther than it was ever meant to go, but even he has his limits. Combining the Kaioken, with the destructive power of Hakai, has sure to put a lot of strain on his body. If you could push him just a bit farther, I think I could do something to free the people trapped inside of him. Including your brother.

So I just need to get him to use even more power while making sure not to clash with him too many times. Beerus sighed. Well, I guess it's better than nothing.

Beerus took a defensive stance, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes. "Come."

Buu was taken off guard by this for a second, but then steam flew out of his holes, as he charged at Beerus.

The Majin unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks that Beerus dodged and parried with surprising ease.

Seeing that this was getting him nowhere, Buu leaped back and unleashed a flurry of ki blasts at Beerus, which he once again easily dodged.

But Beerus quickly noticed that the blasts Buu was shooting weren't flying off into space, but rather, they were staying around him, seemingly setting up a trap.

So before Buu could finish his trap, Beerus brought his arms over his face and screamed. "YAAHHHHHHH!"

Ki blasts exploded out of his body, destroying all the ki spheres around him, and forcing Buu to stop his assault and start dodging.

Buu flew back, raised his arm up, and formed a Destructo Disk, before throwing it down at Beerus, the disk cutting through all the ki blasts in its path.

Beerus stopped his attack, and ducked back, dodging the disk just in time.

Buu continued throwing disks at Beerus, while just continued dodging them.

But all the disks that flew past, turned around and came at Beerus all at once.

Beerus simply turned his palm back, behind him, and said. "Hakai."

All the disks were quickly reduced to nothing, pissing Buu off further. "Grrrrrr."

Beerus yawned. "Is that all? I hope you don't think absorbing my brother puts us on the same level."

Steam burst out of the holes in Buu's body, as his body trembled. "Kaioken! Times 1,000,000!"

All of space turned red, as Buu's aura burst out from his body, and Beerus's eyes went wide as he felt the sheer power come off of Buu. "Oh cra-"

SLAM!

A second later, Buu's face slammed into Beerus's face, sending him flying across space.

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Go…

Gok…

Goku!

GOKU!

"Ugh." Goku groaned, as he slowly regained consciousness for the first time in so long. "What? Where am I?"

He looked to be in some kind of pinkish-red cavern. He tried to move, but his entire body was wrapped in something, keeping him completely restrained.

Goku! Can you hear me! King Kai called out.

King Kai?! What happened? Goku tried to go back to the last thing he remembered. I remember fusing with Vegeta, and we got ourselves absorbed to try and save the others…oh.

Yeah, oh! I swear, why do you Saiyans have to be so reckless! I knew that would get us all killed one day! King Kai grumbled. But enough about that. Buu's been abusing the kaioken well beyond anything it was meant for! That should cause his body to weaken, just a bit. It seems that was enough to release the seal on your consciousness.

I still can't move though. Goku pointed out. Wait a minute, let me try something.

Goku concentrated for a few seconds, before vanishing out of the weird flesh pod he was in and appearing right in front of it. I did it! King Kai, I'm free!

Good job! Now free everyone else and head back to earth! King Kai instructed.

What about Buu? Goku asked.

Don't worry about him, he'll get dealt with in a moment. King Kai explained.

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Beerus can't recall the last time he'd been overpowered by anyone other than Whis.

Let alone the last time he'd been beaten to a pulp.

Buu proceeded to beat Beerus around the universe, punch after punch, kick after kick, at speeds Beerus didn't think were possible for anyone who wasn't an angel.

"RAHHHH!" Buu slammed his fist into Beerus's face, punching him through an entire planetary alignment, before he finally crashed on the surface of the last planet so hard it caused the area around him to burst into flames, turning into a molten wasteland.

Before Beerus could even get up, Buu appeared over him with instant transmission and started beating him into the ground, each blow creating a shockwave that traveled around the planet, before Buu gave one last good punch.

KABOOM!

This punch was so powerful, that the shockwave it unleashed destroyed every surrounding planet, and made cracks so large in the planet they were on, they were clearly visible from space.

"Ah. Ah. Ah." Buu and Beerus struggled for breath, as Buu slowly stood back up, and aimed his palm down at Beerus.

"Any last words?" Buu asked.

"Ow." Beerus groaned.

"Riveting," Buu said sarcastically, before charging up the energy of destruction. "Haka-"

And then suddenly, he felt something shift inside of him.

In a flash, Buu's godly garb vanished, returning him back to base Super Buu.

"Nooooo! NOOOOOOOO!" Buu shouted as he reverted to base Super Buu. "Don't! Don't! I need them! Without them, I'm not me! NOOOOOOOOOO!"

As Buu stumbled backward, clutching his head in pain, Beerus slowly sat up and looked on at the display before him. "Looks like that Kai pulled through for once."

"Ahhh! Ahhh! AGHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Buu screamed, as suddenly his body started to change, buffing up to an absurd degree. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Then suddenly, Buu shrank down, transforming into a smaller, childlike form. Kid Buu.

"Rah!?" Buu looked around confused, but when he turned he found that Beerus was standing directly in front of him, with his palm extended.

"Hakai." Beerus said.

"Rahhhh! AGHHH! AGHHH! AGHHHHHHHHHH!" Buu screamed as his body was torn apart on a molecular level, as each and every part of him was reduced to nothing.

Until finally, the Majin was gone.

"Ughh." Beerus collapsed onto his back. "Finally…I need a nap."

Chapter Text

"GAHHHHHH!" Shouted some extra as they were promptly sent flying off the arena of the tournament of power, by none other than Basil the kicker.

"Heh! What a chump! These punks are supposed to be the best their universes have got?" Basil scoffed.

"Yeah! I thought we would be in for a challenge!" Lavender cackled.

"Don't get cocky boys, remember we still gotta deal with Universe 7." Bergamo reminded them.

"I'm afraid you'll have to deal with US first!"

The Trio of Danger looked up, to find the maidens of Universe 2 standing on an elevated piece of the arena, looking down at them.

"Formation!" All three of them shouted.

"Brianne! Brianne! Rribrianne!"

"San San! Kakun! Sankakun!"

"Sue Sue! Suesado! Suesadosado!"

The girls were engulfed in vibrant multicolored lights, causing pretty much everyone to stop what they were doing and look on at the vibrant light show being put on in the middle of the tournament.

"Bro? What the hell are we looking at?" Basil asked.

"I have no idea." Bergamo said.

When the light subsided, the maidens were transformed into their magical girl alter egos.

"Love!" They cried as they struck a pose in unison.

"Universe 9 is the universe most devoid of love! As such, we'll be delivering our love to you first!" Ribrianne announced.

"Tch, I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but if you're trying to pick a fight, we're happy to oblige," Bergamo smirked.

Without any warning, Basil jumped up, and then dived down at the trio, slamming his foot down with the intent on hitting one of the girls, but they all jumped back off of the platform which crumbled under Basil's foot.

Basil jumped off the destroyed platform and rushed towards Rosie.

Rosie put up her arms, just as Basil kicked her aside.

"Grrrrr! Rahhhh!" Kakunsa landed on the side of a pillar on all fours, before lunging at Lavender at top speed, slamming into the youngest brother and causing him to skid across the floor of the arena with her on top, before she grabbed his shoulders, and flipped, throwing him into a pillar.

"Lovely Cannon!" Ribrianne shouted as she made a heart with her hands, and then shot a heart at Bergamo.

Bergamo spread out his arms and took the attack head-on, the energy from the attack being absorbed into his body, causing him to grow slightly.

Ribrianne's eyes widened. "What!? He took the force of my love!?"

"Rah!" Bergamo charged forward, and punched Ribrianne in the face, caving it in.

"Mmmm! Mmmm! Pah!" Ribrianne smacked the back of her head, forcing her face to go back to normal.

Meanwhile, back with Rosie, she had hit the ground, quickly rolled onto one knee, and stopped herself.

Basil landed in front of her, and Rosie immediately started rapidly thrusting her arms in front of her, forming dozens of ki blasts. "Yachachachachachachacha!"

All the ki blasts rushed towards Basil, forcing Basil to run the right to avoid them, as Rosie kept on shooting at him.

Basil jumped up, and cocked back his foot, forming a big red energy sphere. "Shining Blaster!"

The red wolf launched the blast at Rosie, the yellow maiden barely rolling out of the way in time to avoid getting hit.

"Yachachachachacha!" With Basil in the air, he couldn't avoid Rosie's secondary assault.

The middle child could only put up his arms to guard his face, as he was pelted with ki blast after ki blast until he eventually landed.

Once he did, he started jumping towards Rosie, jumping around in a zig-zag trail to keep from getting hit, until he finally made it to her.

He jumped up again, then on his way down, spun in the air, before landing a devastating ax kick on her.

CRASH!

Rosie just managed to put up her hands, to block the attack, but the power of the attack still sent shockwaves through her body and cracked the ground beneath her.

Basil leaped off of her, flipping in the air and landing on his feet, before he charged right at her and unleashed a barrage of kicks upon her.

Rosie deflected each kick before Basil went in for a roundhouse, and Rosie ducked under it, before rising up and striking Basil in the throat.

"ACK!" Basil gasped as he stumbled back, clutching his throat all the while, giving Rosie the chance to attack.

"Yachachachachachachacha!" Rosie unleashed a flurry of jabs all over his body, before cocking her arm back, pumping her hand with energy making it glow, and then thrusting it forward, right into Basil's stomach.

BOOM!

Energy exploded from Rosie's hand, sending Basil flying into another part of the raised arena, which then collapsed on top of him.

"Hmph!" Rosie then did her signature battle pose. "Yachina!"

A few seconds later, Basil rose up from the rubble, his chest covered in bruises, with one large burn right in the center. "Grrrrrrrr! RAHHHH!"

Basil quickly got up, raised his leg up, and then slammed it down, causing all the rubble around him to go flying into the air.

Then the middle brother jumped up and started kicking the rubble down at Rosie.

Rosie quickly started running to try and dodge the rubble, but one smacked her in the head, sending her to the ground.

"Let's try this again, Shining Blaster!" Basil screamed as he sent out another scarlet ki sphere, at the downed maiden.

BOOM!

The attack slammed into Rosie, exploding on contact, and creating a cloud of smoke.

"Hmph." Basil landed, and crossed his arms, sneering at the smoke. "You had enough!?"

A few moments later, the smoke started to clear, revealing Rosie, hurt, but now down. "Not in the slightest!"

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Lavender was standing in the middle of a bunch of pillars, while Kakunsa lept around him at incredible speed.

The youngest brother tried to keep track of her, but she was too fast and her movements too sharp.

Kakunsa came in from his left and slashed the side of his cheek before dashing off.

Then before he could recover, she came in and slashed his back, then his front, then his side.

Kakunsa attacked Lavender relentlessly, the yellow would occasionally try to swing at her, but he never even got close to hitting her.

"Gah!" Lavender cried, Kakunsa swept his leg, forcing him to one knee. "Grrrrrrrrrrr!"

Lavender closed his eyes and focused on his hearing. He could hear Kakunsa leaping from rock to rock around him.

And then he heard her start to close in on him from behind.

"BWAHHHH!" Knowing he couldn't get a direct hit on her, Lavender spat out poison mist at the ground, causing a cloud of poison to spread around him.

Kakunsa saw the poison cloud she was leaping right into, but she couldn't stop herself and soon found poison entering her lungs.

"Agh! Caf!" Kakunsa hit the ground and immediately started coughing. The fast-acting poison quickly started to wreak havoc on her body, making her vision blurry.

WHACK!

Lavender kicked her while she was down, sending her tumbling across the floor, out of the cloud of poison.

"Agh! Damn it!" Kakunsa quickly got back on her feet and started frantically swiping around, having been completely blinded by Lavender's poison.

"Hehehehe!" Lavender quietly slinked behind Kakunsa, before rushing in, and getting ready for an attack on his seemingly helpless opponent.

And as he got near, Kakunsa smirked.

Lavender went in for a jab, but Kakunsa ducked, turned, and quickly countered with a powerful rising claw slash, creating three deep cuts in Lavender's chest.

"AGHHHHHHH!" Lavender howled as he stumbled back.

"Rahhhhhhh!" Kakunsa didn't relent, and charged forward, launching a barrage of slashes all over his chest and face, before Lavender eventually countered by blowing my poison towards her, but Kakunsa flipped back away from it before it could touch her.

"Grrr! How the hell can you still see!?" Lavender growled.

"Sight isn't the only sense that matters! I can smell that rotten hide of yours a mile away!" Kakunsa explained. "Rah!"

Kakunsa rushed forward and rammed into Lavender's legs, causing him to fall forward.

Then, Kakunsa bit Lavender's tail, causing him to whimper, before spinning him around, and then throwing him into the air.

Kakunsa lept onto a pillar, then lunged at another one, building up speed, before slashing at Lavender while he was still helpless in the air.

Then she did it again, and again, and again. Kakunsa unleashed relentless assault, leaping across the pillars at top speed while assaulting Lavender.

After continuing this assault for a little while, Kakunsa lept up into the sky, curving through the air, before slamming feet first onto Lavender's back, slamming him back down to the arena.

Once he hit the ground, Kakunsa flipped off of him, although she stumbled a bit on the landing, as she felt the poison start to really take its toll.

"Argh!" Kakunsa hissed as she clutched her chest.

"Heh, the more you move, the more the poison spreads!" Lavender said as he forced himself up onto his feet, stumbling a bit himself due to the beating he had just taken. "Gah!"

"Tch, in that case, I just need to take you down quick!" Kakunsa growled before she charged. "Rahh!"

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"Yah! Yah! Yah!" Rosie was currently on the defensive, deflecting as many kicks from Basil as best she could, but she had to do something quick.

Basil's long legs allowed him to attack at mid-range. Too close for her to start shooting ki blasts, but just far enough that she couldn't jab at him either.

And what's worse she was losing ground. Basil's attacks forced her to move back just a few inches each time. And so inch by inch, she was slowly approaching the edge of the arena.

But she was starting to get the timing of his kicks down.

And so, after Basil launched another kick, Rosie managed to duck under it and sweep Basil's leg, causing him to fall to the ground.

Then before he could get up, Rosie leaped into the air and aimed down at Basil. "Yachachachacha! Yachachachachachacha!"

Basil could only just cover his face, as Rosie unleashed a hail of blasts down upon him, pelting him all over like rain.

"Grrrrrr! BWAAAH!" Basil launched a blast out of his mouth that slammed into Rosie, stopping her attacks and carrying her up into the air.

Basil then flipped onto his feet, and then jumped into the air, over Rosie, raised his foot, and then.

THWACK!

BOOM!

Basil slammed his foot down on Rosie's back so hard it let out a thundering crack that resonated throughout the arena.

Rosie was slammed down into the arena, creating an eruption of debris that obscured the yellow-grabbed girl.

Basil landed on his feet looked at the cloud of debris, and waited with his arms crossed.

Eventually, the debris cleared, revealing Rosie splayed out on the ground.

"Ahhhh." Rosie groaned in pain, as she slowly tried to push herself back up. It was difficult due to that last kick leaving her disoriented, but eventually, she managed. "Aghhh."

"Heh, you're done for." Basil raised his foot and cocked it back. "Shining! Blaster!"

Pouring as much power as he could into the attack, Basil launched a shining red ki sphere, right at Rosie.

Seeing the attack coming at her, quickly closed in, and took a deep breath, before taking another stance, with her palm outstretched.

SHOOM!

The ki sphere hit her palm, and Rosie smoothly spun it around and threw it back at Basil. "Ki redirection technique! Yachina!"

"What!" Basil gasped, barely reacting in time by putting out his arms and catching his redirected attack, but it started pushing him back

"Grrrrrrrrr!" After being pushed back a good distance, Basil dug his powerful legs into the arena, slowing him down a good bit, and almost bringing him to a stop.

But Rosie didn't miss her chance and started tossing another barrage of ki blasts. "Yachachachachachachacha!"

The ki blasts honed on his legs, slamming into them and causing them to weaken slightly, allowing the Shining Blaster to keep pushing him toward the edge of the arena.

"Nooooooooooo!" Basil tried his best to hold on, but with his legs under constant assault, and his much weaker arms busy holding back his own attack there was little he could do.

Once Basil reached the edge of the arena, Rosie charged forward, and struck the back of the ki sphere, sending it and Lavender flying off the arena.

"Damn ittttttt!" Basil screamed as he fell into the void, before vanishing into the bleachers.

"Whew." Rosie whipped some sweat off her brow, before clutching her aching back. "Ow! Gah gotta go help the others. No time to waste."

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"RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Lavender and Kakunsa exchanged a flurry of swipes at each other with their claws. Lavender's poison had slowed Kakunsa down enough to the point where Lavender could keep up to a degree.

Kakunsa dodged a swipe from Lavender and countered with two of her own, only to get smacked in the side of the face and sent flying into a pillar.

"Aghhhh." Kakunsa fell to her feet, and then onto her knees, the poison spreading further throughout her body.

"Hehehehehehe! Looks like your body's about to quit! Why don't you do yourself a favor and take yourself out of the ring!?" Lavender cackled.

Kakunsa stayed silent for a while, as she slowly got onto all fours. "...You know what. That's not a bad idea."

"Huh?" Lavender was completely taken off guard by that response and was even further taken off guard when Kakunsa rushed forward and swept his legs.

Then Kakunsa bit down on his tail again and used what remained of her strength, to sprint full speed towards the edge of the arena.

With this poison in me, I'm done for, even if I beat this guy I won't be anything more than a liability for the rest of the tournament. Kakunsa thought. But I can make sure that this guy doesn't get any of the others!

"No! Cut it out! Stop it!" Lavender cried as he dug his claws into the arena to try and stop himself, but it was no use. Kakunsa was using everything she had, to make sure they both went off the edge.

Kakunsa lept off the side of the ring, bringing Lavender with her into the void before they both vanished into the bleachers.

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Ribrianne was struggling for breath, her dress slightly torn and covered in scratches and burns, while Bergamo, who was now the size of a small building loomed over her, completely undamaged.

GOOSH! GOOSH! GOOSH!

Bergamo walked towards her, his footsteps so big and heavy that they cracked the arena under him with each step.

The eldest brother raised his foot and slammed it down, Ribrianne jumping back on top of a pillar to avoid his kick.

"Heh, why don't you just give up!" Bergamo sneered.

"True love never quits!" Ribrianne argued before her body started bursting with light. "Brianne! Brianne! Bri Bri Brianne!"

Suddenly, a pink cocoon of energy wrapped around her, before then cracking and bursting into a bunch of hearts, revealing Ribrianne now with wings.

"With everyone's love, I am reborn! Super Ribrianne!" Ribrianne cried as she struck yet another pose.

"Tch! Cut it out already!" Bergamo said as he raised his arm up and slammed it down on the spot where Ribrianne was standing, but Ribrianne had already lept into the air.

"Heart Arrow of love!" Ribrianne formed a bow made of energy and knocked back a heart arrow. "Ribrianne Super Amore Shower!"

The extra-sized magical girl unleashed dozens of arrows down at Bergamo, who simply absorbed all of them, growing bigger and bigger with each arrow until he towered over the entire arena.

"Rahhhh!" Bergamo swiped at Ribrianne, but the girl easily avoided his slow attack, and continued raining arrow after arrow upon him, flying around like a butterfly. "I told you it's pointless! Your attacks are just getting absorbed!"

Ribrianne giggled. "That's right, you're taking all of my love quite well. But can the arena do the same?"

CRACK!

Suddenly the arena began to sink under his feet, and Bergamo's eyes widened as he realized his body was far heavier than it should be. "Wha-what the hell!?"

"Love isn't like any silly old energy, it has weight," Ribrianne explained. "And now that weight of my love is going to send you crashing into the void!"

"RAHHHHHHH!" Bergamo shot a beam of energy out of his mouth at her, but Ribrianne dodged that as well, as she continued shooting down arrows at him, making him grow bigger and bigger, and get heavier and heavier, causing him to sink deeper and deeper.

"Now for the finale!" Ribrianne flew high up into the air, created two massive hearts, and then merged them together into an even larger heart. "Ribrianne Eternal Love! KABOOM!

Ribrianne sent the massive heart barreling towards him, but Bergamo didn't just stand there and cocked his arm back, his fist turning red. "Wolfgang-"

"Yachina!"

"Ahhhhhh!" Bergamo was suddenly blinded as a bunch of ki blasts swarmed his face, covering his eyes, causing him to accidentally fire his beam in a completely different direction, allowing Ribrianne's attack to slam into him.

Bergamo flew one final time, and the arena gave way under him, Bergamo fell through the arena, and into the abyss. "Nooooooooooooooo!"

And when he vanished into the void, that signaled the end of the trio of danger.

"Hmph, love always triumphs," Ribrianne smirked.

Chapter Text

Vegito looked down on Buu(Gohan absorbed), with amusement.

The powerful Majin had been reduced to nothing more than an overgrown baby throwing a tantrum.

BRRRRRRRRRRR!

Steam erupted out of the holes in his body, while his face turned bright red with rage.

"This can't be! Someone stronger than me can't exist! They can't! I WON'T ALLOW IT!" Buu shouted, before letting out a powerful scream. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Buu's howl caused pressure and air to burst out of his mouth, sending everything flying away, excipet for Vegito, who just floated confidently with his arms crossed and smirk on his face.

However, that smirk soon faded, as he noticed cracks appearing in the sky. "What the!?"

Buu's scream was so strong, it was beginning to tear at the fabric of reality, until-

RIPPPPP!

A rip in reality formed behind Vegito, and began sucking him in.

"What! No!" Vegito tried to fight against the suction of the tear, but it was too strong and he was pulled in.

"Woah!" Vegito was ejected on the other side of the tear, seemingly in the same location as before, in the sky above a wasteland.

The tear closed, leaving Vegito alone. Buu nowhere to be found.

"What the hell was that!?" Vegito asked, looking around for his foe, but not seeing or sensing him.

What he did sense was everyone else on earth. Which was strange, since they should all be dead.

"Seriously, what the hell?" Vegito was utterly confused. Baffled even.

But there was only one thing he could do, investigate.

Feeling around, he sensed Gohan's power level. Although it was far weaker than it should have been. He also sensed Goten whose power level was also off, and…Goku?

That energy felt distinctly like Goku's. Which should, again, be impossible as Goku was currently a part of him.

Although it likely wasn't Goku, not just because of that obvious reason, but also because the energy was ever so slightly off. As well as being way stronger than Goku ever was.

"Alright, time to get to the bottom of this," Vegito said, bringing his fingers to his forehead, and teleporting away.

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Another day in the idyllic life of Goku, who was currently scarfing down his wife's home-cooked meals, while enjoying the company of his family.

Gohan, Videl, and Pan had stopped by, along with Goten, and the whole Son family were currently eating and talking away without a care in the world.

And then, Goku suddenly sensed something. A strange, yet familiar energy.

He paused. That energy's incredible! But, where have I felt it before?

His question was answered, when Vegito suddenly teleported into the house, startling everyone.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Chi Chi jumped back, and Goku's sons quickly got up in front of everyone, to protect them from this new intruder.

"What the? Chi Chi?" Vegito asked as he looked at his now much older wife…or half wife…however that worked. Then his eyes landed on his two half-sons. "Goten? Is that you?."

Then he looked at Goku. "And who the hell is that?!"

"We should be asking you that question!? Who are you and what do you want?" Gohan asked.

"Woah! It's you! Vegito right!?" Goku finally recalled as he gazed upon the fusion.

"Huh? Dad, you know this guy?" Goten asked.

"Dad?" Now Vegito was even more confused.

"Yeah, remember when I told you guys that fused with Vegeta to fight Buu?" Goku asked them. "Well, this is the fusion!"

"Wait really!?" Pan piqued up, looking at Vegito in awe. "So this is Grandpa fused with Vegeta!? But wait!? How can he be here, if Grandpa is right here?"

"Grandpa? Wait back up! Who are you?" Vegito asked.

"This is Pan," Gohan explained. "My daughter."

"Daughter?! Since when did you have a daughter!?" Vegito exclaimed, once again thrown for a loop. "You're not even married!"

"Not even…wait a minute," Videl said. "Could he be from the past somehow?"

"Ohhh, that makes sense," Goku said, before thinking about it for a second. "But wait, if he's from the past, wouldn't I remember going to the future?"

"Well, Trunks has a different future from ours? Maybe he's from the past in a different timeline?" Gohan suggested.

"Hold on. So Buu blew me into the future!?" Vegito asked, before once again looking at Goku. "And that's supposed to be Goku? Why the hell is a child!?"

"Dragon Balls," Goku explained simply.

"Ah, I see." Vegito didn't quite fully understand it, but at this point, he didn't care anymore. That would be a problem for future him. "Well, I need to figure out a way to get back to the past, pronto. Can't leave Buu all alone to do whatever he wants."

"Right, I guess we can talk to Bulma to see if we can make you a time machine. But first." Goku got up and gave Vegito a big grin. "Wanna see what I learned all these years later."

Vegito smirked. "You're on."

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Goku and Vegito went outside, with the rest of the family choosing to watch from the sidelines.

"You sure you're gonna be able to keep up? I know you must have been training pretty hard, I can sense you're leagues stronger than Goku, that's part of me." Vegito admitted. "But."

BOOM!

Vegito's aura exploded outwards, kicking up winds and sending dirt flying everywhere. "I'm as strong as that Goku and Vegeta combined, and then some."

Goku smiled, before countering by going Super Saiyan 2, his own aura exploding out as well. "Yeah, that's what got me so excited."

Vegito smiled back, as he felt Goku's tremendous energy. He then took a combat stance. "Alright then, come at me!"

Without further delay, Goku rushed at Vegito, flying up and going for a punch to the face, but Vegito ducked under the attack and then countered with a devastating uppercut to the stomach.

"UGHHHHHHHH!" Goku gasped as he immediately got the wind knocked out of him.

Vegito then grabbed Goku by his hair, spun him around, threw him into the air, and then pointed his fingers at him.

KABOOM!

Suddenly Goku exploded, creating a massive cloud of smoke.

"Heh, is that all you've got?" Vegito asked.

Then Goku appeared behind him, and kicked Vegito on the back, sending him flying forward.

Vegito flipped forward and onto his feet, stopping himself before quickly turning and firing a barrage of ki blasts at Goku with one hand.

Goku rushed forward, flying side to side to avoid each blast, before cocking back his arm and then launching it forward and slamming it into Vegito's face sending him flying into a tree.

Then Goku did a backflip, before putting his hands behind him and charging. "Kamehameha!"

Goku unleashed a small but potent beam at Vegito, but the fused fighter just raised his hand and caught it, before saying. "Big Bang Attack!"

The Kamehameha was suddenly pushed back by a blue ki sphere, quickly traveling all the way back to Goku, and slamming into him.

BOOM!

The blast exploded, sending Goku flying back into the forest, with Vegito flying after him.

Goku sunk his feet into the ground, slowing himself to a halt, and Vegito instantly caught up, raising his fist up and then slamming it down.

But Goku swerved to the side, then grabbed his arm, spun him around, and threw him.

Vegito flipped, landing feet first onto a tree, before charging at Goku, who charged right at him as well.

BOOM!

Their fists clashed against each other, creating a massive shockwave that caused all the trees to shake violently.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The two launched a flurry of punches at each other, their fists slamming into each other again and again. The shockwaves making cracks in the ground beneath them.

"Ha!" Vegito ended this parley, with a kick to the chin, sending Goku flying up into the air, and once again Vegito gave chase.

After flying up about a mile, Goku suddenly stopped and brought his hands over his face in a familiar pose. "Solar-"

Vegito quickly closed his eyes and continued charging at Goku, throwing a punch thinking he'd countered Goku's attempt to blind him.

"Got ya!" Goku dodged the fist and punched Vegito in the face, sending him flying back a few feet, before he stopped himself.

"Heh, faked me out with a faint solar flare. Clever. Just what I should expect from you, Kakarot." Vegito said.

"Man, it's weird hearing that name coming out of someone with half of my voice." Goku chuckled. "Or I guess, half of my old voice, since I'm a kid now and all."

Vegito then raised up his hand, forming five ki spheres on his fingertips, before tossing them at Goku.

Goku flew up to dodge them, but the ki spheres followed him up into the sky, steadily gaining on him.

Seeing this, Goku brought his fingers to his forehead, used Instant Transmission to get behind Vegito, and tried to kick him, but Vegito Instant Transmission behind him, and grabbed his arms, holding him in place.

"Heh, I know your tricks too, you know," Vegito said.

Vegito's ki blasts came back and slammed into Goku one by one. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

After the last blast hit Goku, Vegito pulled his arms back and slammed his knee into his spine.

"Heh, what's wrong? Stuck?" Vegito quipped as he kept pushing his knee deeper and deeper into Goku's back.

"Grrrrrrrr." Goku grit his teeth as his body was wracked with pain. He tried to move his arms but Vegito's grip was too tight, and his tiny legs weren't gonna help here. There was only one option. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly, Goku's body exploded with light, obscuring him for a moment before dying down, revealing his ascension back to an adult, as a Super Saiyan 4.

"What the-" Goku quickly broke his hands out of Vegito's grip, and spin-kicked him right in the side, sending him flying to the left.

Goku charged after him, catching up before Vegito could recover from that last attack, and slamming his fist into his face.

BOOM!

The force of the punch sent Vegito across the entire planet, and when he came back around the other side, Goku charged and hit him in the back with a drop kick.

"AGhhhhhhhh!" Vegito was once again sent flying forward, but this time he managed to stop himself after just a couple of miles. "Agh…whew."

Vegito whipped something on his face, and when he looked down on his glove, he saw that it was blood.

"Heh." The fusion smirked and turned around to face Goku. "That was a pretty big shock. What's this all about?"

"This is Super Saiyan 4." Goku explained.

"So there's a fourth one now. It seems like Saiyan power has no limits." Vegito said confidently. "Still, this one looks a bit…different from the others. Less golden hair and more fur."

"Well, you'll figure out why that is, eventually," Goku replied.

"Keep us in the dark huh." Vegito chuckled. "Well if you're taking it to the next level, hope you don't mind if we do the same. HA!"

Lightning burst from Vegito's body, his hair becoming slightly spiker as he ascended to the next level of Super Saiyan. "This is Super Vegito 2!"

"Incredible!" Goku remarked. Having never gone Super Saiyan 2 as Vegito in his timeline, he'd always wondered what that energy would feel like.

And now he wanted to see what it was like as a Super Saiyan 3.

"You sure you don't wanna go all out?" Goku asked.

Vegito smirked. "Let's see if you can make me."

The two then vanished from sight, and multiple collisions burst through the air, before the two reappeared, fists clashing against each other.

Vegito backed up and then sent a kick to the side of Goku's head, which he blocked with both arms, pushing Vegito back before he hit him with a two-piece combo to the face and stomach.

Goku went in for a punch to the chest, but Vegito caught his fist, moving it aside and holding Goku in place before unleashing blow after blow into Goku's gut.

"Agggggh!" Goku groaned he got at least five hits to the stomach before he pushed Vegito back with a headbutt.

Vegito shook off the hit to his dome, and when he looked back at Goku, he found him once again stanced to do a solar flare. Wait, is this a real one or another fake out?

This moment of hesitation allowed Goku to go through with the attack. "Solar Flare!"

A burst of light shot out of Goku's hands, blinding Vegito. "Aghhhh!"

Seizing his opening, Goku charged forward, and kicked Vegito in the gut, sending him flying into the distance, with Goku flying after him.

After flying off a long distance, Vegito eventually brought himself to a stop, and Goku charged in for another punch, but Vegito flew up causing him to miss, and then stomped him down, sending him back to the ground.

CRASH!

Goku slammed into the ground of their new arena, a familiar-looking rocky wasteland, creating yet another crater.

While Goku got up, Vegito landed on top of a nearby rocky spire. "Well well, this place brings back memories."

Goku looked around, and quickly realized what he was talking about. "Oh yeah, this is where I first fought Vegeta. Heh. Man, that was forever ago. It's almost hard to believe he was ever a bad guy."

"Thinking back, it's harder to believe that those two would end up fusing," Vegito said, reminiscing over his two sets of memories. "Life sure is unpredictable. Hey, since we're here."

Vegito flew up and put his hands back into a familiar pose. "Gallet Gun!"

Purple energy crackled off of his body like lightning, destroying anything it touched as it dyed the sky with its color.

"Fire!" Vegito thrust his hands forward, launching a massive purple beam down at Goku.

Goku looked up at the beam, smiling as he reminisced about the last time he'd stared down a Gallet Gun here.

He couldn't use the Kaioken, but he had another trick up his sleeve this time around.

"Times 10!" Goku shouted as he brought his arms back, and charged up a red ki sphere. "Kamehameha!"

Goku unleashed an even larger red beam up at Vegito, which clashed with the fusion's own beam and started rapidly pushing it back.

"What!?" Taken by surprise, Vegito didn't have the time to combat the superior technique.

KABOOOOOM!

Goku's attack slammed into Vegito, creating a massive explosion that shook the earth itself, creating a massive cloud of smoke.

"Heh," Goku smirked up at the smoke cloud. "That's 2 for 2, Vegeta."

Eventually, the smoke cloud faded, revealing a scuffed-up Vegito, with a couple tears in his clothes.

"Well well, aren't you just full of surprises," Vegito said as he dusted himself off.

"You didn't think I wouldn't improve on my techniques after all these years did you?" Goku replied.

"Well, actually it's Master Roshi's technique, but fair enough." Vegito cracked his neck. "Let's see if you've got any other new tricks."

Vegito then flew back down the ground, and the two had a staredown for a good few seconds, before Vegito raised his hand, and aimed it towards Goku with his palm facing the ground.

VRRMMMMMM!

Goku just managed to tilt his head in time as a Spirit Sword shot out of Vegito's hand, cutting his cheek.

"Ha!" Vegito swung his sword, and Goku had to duck under it to keep it from hitting him.

Vegito shrunk his sword to a more reasonable length and then started swinging in Goku's direction, unleashing a barrage of energy slashes at Goku.

Goku flew up and away to dodge the slashes, while Vegito just continued to send wave after wave of energy slashes toward him.

Until Goku flew behind a mountain, and then punched it, sending the entire mountain top flying towards Vegito.

Vegito extended his sword and charged at it, slashing it apart into many pieces before those chunks then exploded into a cloud of dust.

Goku then emerged from that cloud, and slammed his fist down on Vegito's head, sending him face-first into the ground.

"HAAA!" Goku flew up and aimed his palms down before unleashing a barrage of ki blasts down onto Vegito.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

"Gahhhhh!" Vegito grunted as he tried to push himself onto his feet, but he was just getting pelted with ki blast after ki blast after ki blast, keeping him down. "Haaaaaaaaa!"

Blue energy started cracking off of his body, before shooting up towards Goku like a geyser and engulfing Goku.

"Gaaaaaaaahhhhh!" Goku screamed as he was burned and shredded by Vegito's attack, while Vegito rose up through his own beam, and kneaded Goku in the chin, sending him flying up into the air.

He didn't fly far before stopping himself, and then charging back down at Vegito, with his fist cocked back.

Vegito raised his arms over his head expecting Goku to try and hit him from above, but Goku flew under Vegito and rushed back up, hitting him with a powerful uppercut and taking him off guard, letting Goku follow up with a flurry of blows to his chest, face and stomach, before finishing his combo with a roundhouse kick to the face sending Vegito spinning away.

While he was spinning, Vegito unleashed a bunch of ki blasts that went flying off in every direction.

Goku put up his arms to guard against the hail of blasts, before flying back to get some distance away from the spread.

Vegito stopped spinning and brought his hands over his face. "Solar-"

Trying to use my tricks against me huh? Goku instead of closing his eyes or going in for an attack, Goku just used Instant Transmission, appearing behind Vegito.

Vegito swung around and tried to land a sweep his arm behind him to try and hit Goku, but Goku blocked it with one arm and countered with a punch to his side.

"Ohhhhhhhhhh!" Vegito gasped as that punch left a stunning pain running through his body.

Goku then backed up, and cocked his fist back, before delivering a powerful uppercut that sent Vegito flying higher into the sky.

"Time to finish this!" Goku shouted, before flying towards Vegito, full charge, and thrusting his fist forward. "Dragon Fist!"

Goku became shrouded in ki, which took the form of a massive golden dragon that was rushing toward Vegito at a breakneck pace. "RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Vegito brought himself to a sudden stop and then looked down at the massive golden dragon that was approaching him. "Alright then. You've earned it. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Energy exploded off of Vegito's body, his hair expanding down to his butt, and his eyebrows vanished, as he ascended to his final form. Super Saiyan 3.

"HEYA!" Vegito stretched out his arms and created two big spirit swords before bringing his arms together over his head, creating a massive blade of golden ki that pierced the sky itself. "Spirit! Excalibur!"

As Goku's dragon was upon him Vegito slammed his sword into it, splitting the beast in half and making it burst into a massive explosion.

Goku was sent plummeting to the earth, and smacked right into the ground, his body burned and cut up, bleeding all over the rocks.

Vegito lowered himself to the ground and allowed Goku the time to get back to his feet. "You said something about finishing this, right? In that case."

The fusion spread his hands out on either side of him. "Final!"

Goku brought his hands behind him and started charging up his own attack. "Times 10!"

Vegito brought his hands back. "Kamehame!"

"Kamehame!" Goku chanted. As both of them got ready to fire their attacks.

And then Vegito vanished using Instant Transmission, appearing right next to Goku.

Then Goku teleported behind Vegito. Only for Vegito to teleport behind him, and Goku to teleport next to him.

The two continued teleporting around. Trying to catch the other and fire their attack before they got away.

This went on, until the two appeared right in front of each other, and launched their attacks at each other.

KABOOM!

The attacks slammed into each at point-blank range, creating a massive explosion of purple energy that shot into the sky and shook the earth and heavens themselves.

A massive cloud of smoke obscured the battlefield, and deadly silence reigned as the dust slowly started to settle.

When the smoke finally subsided, Goku and Vegito were both still standing, their clothes torn to shreds and their bodies covered in burns, cuts, and bruises.

The silence continued, for a while, as neither fighter moved a muscle.

Suddenly, Goku fell onto his back and returned to base form, while at the same time, Vegito defused, returning to being Goku and Vegeta once more.

"What the!?" Past Goku exclaimed as he looked at himself. "I'm me again!?"

"I thought you said this was permanent Kakarot!?" Vegeta asked, sounding angry but the relief was painted all over his face.

"Huh, now that I think about it, if we were fighting a future me then I guess it couldn't have been permanent." Past Goku realized.

"Weird, I thought it was Buu's weird magic that made us defuse," Goku said. "Guess Old Kai was just wrong then."

"Hmph, I suppose I shouldn't be complaining. Fusing with you was a nightmare, one I won't be reliving!" Vegeta said as he took off the potara and crushed it.

"Woah Vegeta! Why did you do that!" Past Goku exclaimed. "Now how are we gonna fight Buu?"

"Isn't that obvious?! We just have to become Super Saiyan 4's." Vegeta said. "Now spill it Kaktot, how did you achieve that form?"

"Well, it's a long story." Goku started.

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Gathering the Dragon Balls and regaining his youth had been surprisingly easy for Slug.

Not that he expected anything to come close to stopping him, but he at least expected his men to get a good fight or two.

However, it seems like he was aided by the arrival of another threat, who happened to reach this planet the same day as he did.

A giant tree had sprouted, and from the look of things it was draining this planet dry.

And now that he had his youth back, it was time he went to investigate that.

Heading the base of the massive tree, he found bodies. Some unconscious, some dead.

And standing on one of the roots, was one man, eating a strange fruit.

"You there, what's all this about?" Slug demanded.

"Hmmmm." Turles dropped the core of his fruit and turned to face Slug. "Oh, another Namakian. Strange to see two of those on this planet. Well, allow me to introduce myself. I am Turles. Supreme Commander of the Crusher Corps. And you are?"

"Slug. Lord Slug." Slug introduced himself. "Now what is this tree?"

"Ah, yes. The tree of might." Turles said. "I won't bore you with a full explanation, but let's just say that this tree drains the life of the planet it's planted on, to create fruit. Fruit that grants anyone who partakes in it, great strength."

"Really." Slug looked at the tree, an evil grin taking over his face. "Well then, I'll take it!"

"I'm afraid I can't allow that," Turles said as he flew up, to meet Slug eye to eye. "This tree, and every fruit it bears, is mine. And mine alone, if you want it, you'll have to take it from my cold dead hands."

"Heh heh. Happily." Slug said, before shooting lasers out of his eyes, aimed right at Turtle's head.

Turles barely managed to move his head in time to dodge them, the beams chopping off a bit of his hair as they brushed past.

Not taking this lying down, Turles rushed Slug and punched him right in the chest.

Which did absolutely nothing.

Turtle's eyes widened in disbelief, and he quickly followed up that punch with many more, unleashing a flurry of punches at the Namekian, none of them having any effect as Slug just floated there, letting him go at it.

After a couple more seconds of his fruitless assault, Turles ceased punching and backed up.

"Is that all?" Slug scoffed. "I thought you said the tree gave great power. What a disappointment."

"My apologies, I simply wasn't expecting someone as strong as you to show up on a backwater planet like this," Turles said as he opened his palm, and created an orb of white energy. "Allow me to show you, my FULL power! Ha!"

Turles threw the ball up into the sky, before closing his fist causing the ball to expand.

"Aghhhhhhhhhh!" Turles screamed as he felt his body start to transform.

Slug watched, as his opponent quickly grew in size, gaining fur and a monkey-like face, as he transformed into a Great Ape.

"Now then, let's try this again," Turles growled in his now monstrous voice.

He cocked back his arm and sent his arm flying forward, slamming his massive fist into Slug.

KAPOW!

Slug was sent flying, crashing down to the ground getting sent careening through dozens of dead trees.

As Slug was still flying, he grabbed hold of two rocks as he went by, his arms stretched for a while before Slug came to a stop for a second, then slingshot himself back towards Turles.

Slug flew by Turles, stretching his arms wrapping them around Turles's neck then bringing himself on Turles's back, and pulling his arms back, causing them to begin tightening around Trules's neck.

"Gahhhhhhhhhhh!" Turles gasped as he was being choked. He tried to grab Slug off of him, but Slug on the part of his back that he just couldn't reach.

So Turles jumped backward, and slammed his back into the trunk of the tree of might, smashing Slug into it and squishing him between the tree and the ape.

"AGHHHHHHHH!" Slug cried out in pain, his grip loosening as he felt his body groan under the pressure.

So Turles moved up and then slammed his back into the tree again, and again.

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

After smashing Slug into the tree a few more times, he let go, falling to the ground, his arms shrinking back to normal as he landed on the dirt.

Turles took a moment to rub his neck before he looked down at Slug, who was just getting up. The giant ape raised his foot intending to squish the Namkian.

Seeing the massive shadow of Turles's foot looming over him, Slug extended his arms and grabbed one of the roots, before reeling himself in towards it, just before Turles's foot slammed down.

Slug jumped up onto the root, before facing Turles, forming two ki spheres in his hands and then tossing them at the Saiyan.

BOOM! BOOM!

"GAAHHHHHHH!" Turles cried as the spheres exploded in his eyes, stunning and blinding him for a second.

"Haaaaaaa! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Slug immediately followed up, with a barrage of ki blasts, lightning up Turles and covering his entire body with smoke, but even then Slug just continued to fire into the cloud.

A moment later, Turles's head emerged from the cloud and fired a blast out his mouth.

Slug jumped up to dodge it, but then Turles jumped up and caught him between his hands.

"Heheheheh!" Turles laughed cruelly, as he started trying to crush Slug with his massive mitts.

But then suddenly, he felt Slug start to push back on all sides, before bursting out his hands, his body rapidly expanding until he was even bigger than Turles.

Immediately Slug decked Turles in the face, knocking him to the ground, and before Turles could get up, Slug slammed his foot down on his head and started pushing down on it.

Turles's tail wrapped around Slug's other leg, and pulled back, causing Slug to trip and fall right next to him.

Then Turles pushed himself off the ground and leaped into the air, grabbing one of the Tree of Might's branches and hanging off of it, before firing a mouth blast back at Slug.

Slug had just gotten up on one knee and put up his arm to block the blast, before returning fire with eye beams.

Turles leaped off of the tree to dodge the beam, grabbing onto one of the vines and swinging around, before swinging towards Slug kicking him in the face, and swinging away.

"Grrrrrr! Stay still!" Slug growled, as he kept shooting eye beams at Turles only for the ape to jump to a different vine and swing away, eventually getting close to Slug and going for another swing kick, which Slug ducked under.

Slug stopped for a moment, his eyes tracking Turles as he leaped from vine to vine, before looking at the vine Turles was about to jump to, and shooting it with eye beams.

The vine immediately snapped, causing Turles to fall to the ground.

Slug extended his arm, and grabbed one of the smaller branches on the tree, which was still even larger than he was, and yanked it off, pulling it back towards him.

Then as Turles tried to get back up, Slug marched over, grabbed the branch with both hands, raised it over his head, and slammed it down on the back of Turles's head.

TWHACK! TWHACK! TWHACK! TWHACK! THWACK!

Slug slammed his makeshift club down on Turles again, and again, and again, until Turles shot a mouth blast at Slug's foot making him trip and fall on top of him.

Turles quickly got up, pushing Slug off of him, before grabbing Slug by the legs, picking him up, and spinning him around.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

With each spin Slug's head was bashed against the Tree of Might, until Turles finally tossed the Namkian, throwing him a few dozen miles away. Which looked like a lot less given their massive size.

As Slug was trying to get back up, Turles put out his hands in front of him, forming a ring of energy between them, before throwing it at Slug.

KABOOM!

The attack slammed into Slug, bursting into a massive explosion that shook the earth, and created a massive mushroom cloud.

Turles stared into the cloud of smoke and waited to see if his opponent was a corpse or soon-to-be corpse.

Only for Slug's two stretchy arms to reach out of the smoke, and grab Turles by the arms.

Slug then reeled himself towards Turles, and him with a devastating headbutt, making Turles's head bleed.

But the evil Namakian didn't stop there, he cocked his head back, and then headbutted him again and again, nonstop, until Turles brought his mouth forward and bit down on Slug's neck.

"AGHHHHHHHHH!" Slug cried as he felt Turles's teeth dig into his flesh, causing his focus to break, allowing Turles to break out of his grip, and then throw Slug against the tree.

Turles flew back, before charging at Slug, and then delivering a powerful drop kick to Slug's stomach.

"Ohhhhhhhh!" Slug gasped, the air leaving his lungs and blood flying out of his mouth.

Turles got up and started beating on Slug non-stop with a flurry of punches and kicks.

Slug tried to fight back, his eyes glowing as he charged another eye beam attack, but Turles simply grabbed his head and tilted it to the side, causing his eye beams to misfire.

Then Slug tried to grab Turles, but Turles bit his hand, before pulling it off completely, and quickly spitting it out.

Turles grabbed his other arm and started pulling on, it before ripping it off. Then he took the arm and started beating Slug with it. Bashing the Namakian repeatedly, with his own limb.

The Saiyan threw the arm away, and got ready to launch another punch, when he was suddenly hit in the face by a barrage of ki blasts, from Slug's discarded hand.

Turles jumped into the air, and dive kicked onto Slug's torn-off hand, squashing it into a pile of alien flesh and blood.

That's when Slug's torn-off arm extended, and wrapped around Turles's neck, before squeezing down as the Namakian made another attempt at choking the Saiyan to death.

Turles grabbed at the arm, trying to pull it off him, but to little avail, and it was out of the range of his mouth, so he couldn't bite it, forcing him to try and claw it off him to seemingly little effect.

Meanwhile, Slug quickly regrew his lost limbs, and grabbed Turles from behind, holding his arms in place while his own torn-off limb continued to strangle him.

"Aggggg! Agggggg!" Turles gasped. He was in a bad situation, and his panicking mind quickly looked for a solution.

And that's when he saw it. The Tree of Might had finally produced a second fruit.

With a burst of determination, Turles pushed himself back, causing the both of them to tumble to the ground, and Slug to lose his grip on him.

Turles gave Slug a quick elbow to the face, before making a mad dash towards the tree, scrambling towards it on all fours.

Once he was close enough, he leaped at the fruit and immediately swallowed it whole.

A moment later, Turles felt it, a surge of power rushed into his body.

"RAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Turles roared, as he grabbed hold of the arm again, this time tearing it in two, allowing him to breathe once more.

Slug got up onto one knee, and launched an extended arm punch at Turles, but the great ape quickly turned around, and caught the fist, before grabbing onto the rest of the arm.

Then Turles used the arm to spin Slug around, throwing him up, and then slamming him back down, before Turles reeled Slug to his feet, and then aimed his palm down at him.

BOOM!

Turles shot down an energy blast at Slug that exploded into a massive pillar of ki that completely engulfed Slug.

A moment later, when the attack subsided, Turles looked down at Slug, with a smug grin.

The Namakian was covered in burns, cuts, and blood. Nothing was regenerating, as he was simply too exhausted to even heal anymore. He was only barely clinging to life.

"D-Damn you." Slug croaked, as he shrunk back down to normal size.

"Don't blame me, this is your own fault. Had you not gotten so greedy and demanded what was rightfully mine, you would have made a wonderful subordinate." Turles said as he charged up another blast, to finally end the battle. "Lament your own greed and arrogance, in the depths of hell."

"HEY!"

"Huh?" Turles looked up and saw Tien flying in front of him, with his hands over his face.

"Solar Flare!" Tien shouted, as bright light exploded from his hands, blinding Turles.

"Ahhhhhh!" Turles stumbled back, clutching his face in agony.

Meanwhile, Piccolo grabbed Slug and flew the two of them behind one of the roots.

"Hey, don't go dying on us yet," Piccolo said. "Look, I don't know who you are, or why you're here, but you're the only one who can fight that monster."

"Ehhhh. It's too late." Slug coughed. "That last attack…sealed my fate. And even if you could heal me, he's gotten too damn strong."

"Damn," Piccolo growled, thinking of something, anything he could do.

"But, there is a way. To put that bastard down." Slug said. "Take my power, fuse with me."

"Fuse?" Piccolo questioned.

"If I have to die, I'm taking him down with me!" Slug growled. "Now put your hand on me, take my power, and kill him!"

Piccolo nodded and put his hand on Slug's chest.

Suddenly, Slug's body exploded with white light, before that light poured into Piccolo.

Piccolo's aura burst out from his body, as he felt power unlike anything he could have imagined, course through him. "Incredible."

"Where are you! Come out! Now!" Turles demanded as he looked around frantically for Slug or Tien.

Piccolo looked up at him and tightened his fist. "Time to end this."

The fused Namakian grew to giant size, immediately gaining Turles's attention.

"Oh, you're still alive? You should have quit while you were ahead, and left the planet while you still could." Turles opened his mouth, and fired a mouth beam at Piccolo, intent on putting him down.

Piccolo in response, opened his mouth and fired a beam of his own. The beam immediately overpowered Turles's, slamming into him and carrying him into the Tree of Might.

"W-wh-what!?" Turles gasped, completely taken off guard by the previously weak Namakian suddenly being able to overpower him.

Piccolo extended his arm, and grabbed Turles by the neck, pinning him against the Tree of Might, then, Piccolo started running around the tree, wrapping his arm around Turles's body again and again, until he was completely tied to the tree.

"Gah! W-What's happening!?" Turles tried to break free, but it was no use, Piccolo was simply too strong.

Piccolo ripped off his arm from its base, and then immediately regrew it, before walking up to the tree from behind, and grabbing hold of it. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

The earth rumbled as slowly but surely, Piccolo started to lift the massive tree out of the ground. The Namakian flew up and brought the tree with him until the tree and its roots were completely off the ground.

"W-What are you doing!?" Turles roared, as Piccolo carried him and the tree higher into the sky until they reached the upper atmosphere.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Piccolo started spinning the tree around, and around again. "Get the hell off our planet!"

Piccolo tossed the massive tree with Turles on it, into the depths of space, before then raising his arms above his head and charging. "Masenko! HA!"

A massive yellow beam burst out of Piccolo's hands, barreling towards Turles and the tree.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Turles screamed as he and the tree were engulfed by the beam, and subsequently vaporized.

KABOOM!

The Tree exploded, the lifeforce it stole, raining back down upon the earth, restoring it back to how it was before.

Piccolo let out a sigh of relief. It was done, now he'd just have to deal with the aftermath.

Chapter Text

It never got any less weird looking sitting in a room with…yourself.

It was Christmas time at Capsule Corp, and everyone had gathered.

Bulma, Trunks, and Mai…as well as the Trunks and Mai from the dead alternate timeline.

All of them were sitting around the table, eating a meal made by their chefs while they were talking.

That was until Trunks(the one from the dead timeline who will now be called Trunks A) stopped just as he was about to put a piece of turkey in his mouth.

A chill ran up his spine, as he felt a familiar presence.

Trunks(A) shot up and grabbed his sword. "Everyone get down!"

BOOM!

Suddenly something slammed into the ceiling, causing it to explode, revealing the attacker.

None other than Goku Black.

"No. It can't be!?" Mai(A) gasped in horror as she saw the face of her worst nightmare come back to haunt her.

"Black!" Trunks(A) growled.

"What!? I thought you guys said he was taken care of!?" Bulma asked.

"This shouldn't be possible! How did you come back Zamasu!?" Trunks(A) asked.

"Well, Merry Christmas to you too Trunks." Black chuckled. "How nice to finally meet the one who foiled my other selves plans."

"Previous selves?" Trunks(B) asked.

"Yes, I'm assuming he explained most of who I am to you, so I'll cut to the chase," Black said. "You see, Trunks, the Zamasu you faced, was not in fact, the original."

"What!?" Mai(B) asked.

"You see, the original Zamasu had a genius plan," Black explained. "To go across time, creating more timelines, and recruiting the Zamasus from said timelines."

"Wait." Bulma realized. "If he can just create timelines, he could recruit an infinite amount of Zamasus!"

"That's right! Our divine army grows without end. No matter how many Zamasu's you slay, there will always be more." Black said. "Although you won't have to concern yourselves with that. You'll be too dead to worry about it."

Trunks(A) and Trunks(B) powered up into their respective most powerful (A) went into Super Saiyan Rage, while Trunks(B)" 's hair stood up but stayed the same color as he entered his Ultimate form.

Having heard about this during his time in the past, Trunks(A) had freed the old kai and asked him to give Trunks(B) a power-up, just in case.

"The only person dying here today is you!" Trunks(A) shouted as he and his counterpart charged at the invader.

They flew above him, raising their swords and bringing them down on him from both the left and right.

But Black caught both blades with his bare hands, much to the surprise of both Trunks. "Did you think I would only be as strong as the last Goku Black you faced?"

Black swings both Trunks into each other, before vanishing and then appearing next to them, kicking Trunks(A) in the side, sending him and Trunks(B) flying.

Before they got too far away, Trunks(B) stopped himself and his counterpart. The two Trunks gave each other a look before they started their assault.

Trunks(B) fired a barrage of ki blasts towards Black, while Trunks(A) flew over the barrage towards Black with his sword drawn.

Black easily dodged each ki blast that came his way, and as Trunks(A) came around at him from behind, he brought his fingers to his forehead and vanished with Instant Transmission.

The fake Saiyan appeared behind Trunks(B) and kicked him into Trunks(A) who caught his counterpart, before raising his hand forming a Black Power Ball, and throwing it to the half-Saiyan duo.

"Look out!" Trunks(A) threw Trunks(B) to the side before the Black Power Ball slammed into him.

BOOM!

The attack carried Trunks into the distance, before bursting into a massive explosion and a cloud of smoke.

"Other me!" Trunks(B) cried out, before looking back at Black with a furious expression. "You bastard!"

Trunks(B) charged at him with his sword and swung, but Black formed a ki blade with his hand, and easily parried his blade, before hitting him with a kick to the side of the head, sending him crashing to the ground.

Before Black could launch an attack down at him, he was hit with ki blasts, from Trunks(A) who came flying towards him.

"Leave him alone!" Trunks(A) shouted, as he sheathed his sword, and spread out his arms, and charged energy, before bringing them together in front of him. "Final! FLASH!"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

A massive yellow beam exploded from Trunks(A)'s hands, barreling towards Black. And the god simply let the wave of energy engulf him.

The beam carried on, bursting off the side of the planet, and traveling deep into space.

A few moments later, the beam diminished into nothing, leaving a trail of smoke in front of Trunks(A).

Trunks(A) took a second to catch his breath as he stared into the smoke, hoping, praying that he at least did some good damage.

But to his horror, as the smoke cleared, he saw Black staring at him with a smirk on his face and not a scratch on him.

Without a word, Black appeared behind him and brought his hands up, and then slammed them down on Trunks(A)'s head, sending him crashing into the ground, creating a massive crater.

"Other me!" Trunks(B) quickly ran to the crater, to check on his counterpart.

"Now then, it's time I finished what I started," Black said, before cocking his hands back and charging an attack. "KA! ME! HA! ME!"

Trunks(B) helped Trunks(A) up, and both of them looked up at Black charging his Kamehameha. An attack that would certainly spell their doom if things went on like this.

The two Trunks looked at each other, nodding in affirmation.

They knew what they had to do.

"HA!" Black thrust his hands forward, shooting a massive beam down at the two half-saiyans.

The two Trunks stood in the light of the Kamehameha, two glints of green shining off their ears, before they were engulfed by the energy wave.

KABOOM!

The beam slammed into the ground, bursting into a massive explosion, and creating a mushroom cloud that touched the sky.

Black stared down at the ground below, smoke rising up, the only thing visible in the massive crater he created was the flames created by his blast.

He smirked, but just as he was ready to declare his victory, he felt an astounding energy. "What!?"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

A pillar of gold and blue light burst out of the center of the smoke, before pushing it all away, revealing one Trunks. One that looked different from either of the two Trunks he'd been fighting before.

His hair was a mix of gold and its base color, while his outfit stayed the same as the two Trunks, with the exception of the Potara earring hanging off his ears, and the fact that he had two swords.

"What!? The Potara!? But how!?" Black asked, completely taken aback by this unexpected and unwelcome surprise.

Fused Trunks threw up one of his swords, the blade rising above Black, before Trunks rushed up in a massive burst of speed, caught the sword, and swung it down on Black.

RIPPPPPPPPP!

"AGHHHHH!" Trunks's sword cut through Black's gi and his skin, creating a massive bleeding gash in his chest. "Grrrrrr! RAHHHHH!"

Black backed up a bit, before bursting into Super Saiyan Rose, and created a ki blade with his hand, before swinging around and slashing the air creating a sword slash beam that rushed at Trunks.

Trunks swiped at the slash with one of his swords, destroying it before raising his swords up, and slashing them in an x pattern, shooting out an X-shaped energy slash that slammed into Black, further destroying his gi and making him recoil in pain.

"Haaaaaaaa!" Trunks roared before widely slashing his sword and shooting energy slashes at Black.

Black tried to dodge as many slashes as he could while using his own ki blade to destroy any he couldn't, but the sheer amount of them started to overwhelm him. And the slashes started to land, one hitting his leg, the other his shoulder, and the next hitting his waist. Each of them created big cuts that bled all over his gi.

Trunks then threw his swords up into the air, cocked his hands behind him, and started charging an attack. "Gallet Gun!"

Before he could fire, Black brought his fingertips to his head, and vanished, appearing behind Trunks, and cocking back his fist to attack him, only for Trunks to turn around, and fire his attack point blank into Black's face. "FIRE!"

KABOOM!

A massive explosion erupted in the air, creating another huge cloud of smoke.

Black fell out of the smoke, landing flat on his back as he recoiled in pain. "Ughhhh."

The smoke quickly faded, revealing Fused Trunks. His swords came back down, and Fused Trunks caught them both without even looking.

As Black slowly got back up onto his feet, Trunks flew down to the ground and stared him down. "We never thought you'd come back. But, after the androids then you, we didn't want to take any chances. So we asked the Supreme Kai for a little insurance."

"Tch, asking the gods for such a divine relic. I don't know what's worse, that or the fact that he actually complied!" Black growled with disgust. "Know that you will pay with this blasphemy with your life!"

"NO! You're the one that's gonna pay Zamasu!" Trunks roared. "You're no match for our combined power!"

"Hmph, once again you've shown your arrogance," Black said. "I told you before, didn't I? I'm much stronger than the me you've faced before. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Black screamed as the ground began to shake, and his energy started to swell and spill out of him.

Trunks's eyes widened, as he realized what was about to happen. "Oh no you don't!"

The fused warrior let his swords tips meet the ground, before he swung them up, shooting out another X slash at Black.

BOOM!

The x-slash slammed into Black, creating yet another explosion and cloud of smoke.

Trunks stared into the smoke, hoping to see a dead Black.

Only for the smoke to get slashed through by an energy scythe, created by Black, who was now sporting the trademark long unruly hair of Super Saiyan 3, but in his signature pink color.

"Now then." Black did a devious pose with his scythe. "Let's try this again, shall we? HA!"

Black charged forward, and let loose a series of scythe swipes at Trunks, who struggled to block them with his swords.

Trunks jumped back, before leaping forward, spinning at Black with his swords, but Black blocked the attack with his scythe.

Black pushed Trunks off him, before swinging his scythe around, slamming the pole part into Trunks and sending him flying to the left.

Trunks tumbled across the pavement for a second, before rolling to his knees, and then digging both his swords into the ground to stop himself.

The fusion then stood back up, and unleashed another non-stop series of energy slashes at Black.

Black spun around his scythe, easily destroying the slashes, before spinning around and unleashing a massive energy slash of his own.

The energy slash came at Trunks too fast, and all he could do was put up his swords to block, before the attack slammed into him, and started pushing him back.

As Trunks was being pushed, Black flew behind him, before shooting an energy slash at his defenseless back.

Seeing this, and with his arms full trying to block the first slash, all Trunks could do was brace for impact as the second attack slammed into him.

KABOOM!

Both attacks erupted into another explosion and another cloud of smoke.

Black looked into the smoke, knowing that wouldn't be enough to kill them, and got ready for whatever might come next.

So when one of Trunks's swords came flying at him out of the smoke, Black was able to easily bat it away with his scythe, causing it to embed itself in a nearby building.

Unfortunately for Black, this left him open, allowing Trunks to zip in front of him, and jam his palm into Black's chest.

BOOM!

An explosion of energy burst from Trunks's hand, sending Black flying into a building.

Trunks quickly went to retrieve his other sword, and Black burst out of the top of the building and shot an energy slash up into the sky, tearing a rip into reality itself.

Smoke came off of the tear, and that smoke took the shape of Black clones that quickly surrounded Trunks.

The clones charged at Trunks all at once, ki blades in hand trying to swipe at him. Trunks did his best to parry, block, and counter each one, but there were so many, that they started getting hits in. Making a tear in his leg, his shoulder, his cheek. And there were more clones on the way.

"Grrrrr!" Trunks planted his swords in the ground, and as more clones came in to attack, they were pushed back by a wave of heat, as Trunks shrouded himself in a dome of steaming hot ki. "GET! OFF!"

The dome exploded out, expanding outwards while firing up a beam into the air like a volcano, destroying all the nearby clones and reducing them back to smoke.

Once Trunks ceased his attack, before the clones could reform, he threw one of his swords up into the air and then started rapidly moving his arms. Then, when his sword fell in front of him, he thrust out his arms. "BURNING BLADE!"

A blast of fiery ki burst from Trunks's palms, engulfing the sword and sending it flying at Black, in the form of a flaming blade.

Black raised his scythe up to block it, and the sword slammed into the pole of his weapon, with Black struggling to try and push it back.

CRACK!

Suddenly cracks started to appear in his weapon, getting bigger and bigger the more Black tried to push back the sword until-

SNAP!

The scythe split in two, and Trunks's burning sword slammed into Black, carrying him far off into the distance.

With Black out of range, the rift shut, and the clones that were about to reform, dissipated into nothing.

Trunks took a second to breathe when suddenly, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it out and answered immediately. "Mom, is it ready?"

"Yeah, everyone is standing by!" Bulma said. "Give him hell son! Uh, sons!"

"Right!" Trunks nodded, before hanging up and putting his phone away.

Black appeared behind him with Instant Transmission, holding the sword Trunks had flung at him in his hand, before holding it up and shattering it.

Trunks grabbed his remaining sword with both his hands and pointed it at Black. "It's time to end this, Black."

"I couldn't agree more." Black created two long ki blades with his hands and rushed at Trunks.

Black unleashed a flurry of attacks, and Trunks was forced to go on the defensive, blocking and parrying attacks as best he could, all while being pushed back with each strike until he was pushed against a wall.

"HA!" Black thrust one of his blades forward to try and impale Trunks, but Trunks jumped forward onto his shoulder, causing Black to stab the building instead.

Trunks quickly jumped off Black, then flipped back to gain distance, before turning to face Black.

Then he spread his arms out and started charging. "Final!"

As energy started crackling from his hands, Trunks then brought them together over his head. "Masenko!"

Another huge beam burst out of Trunks's hands and barreled towards Black.

Black took his blade out of the building, raised his blades up, and then swung them down with all his might, shooting a massive energy slash that slammed into the beam, and started cutting through it as it traveled towards Trunks.

Trunks barely managed to jump into the air in time to avoid it, but Black appeared above him with Instant Transmission and slammed his swords down onto Trunks, the fused half Saiyan only barely managed to raise his sword over his head to block it, but the force of the attack still slammed him back to the ground, cratering it.

Black brought his blades together, and dove down at Trunks with all his might, but Trunks managed to flip out of the crater, causing Black to slam into the ground, the shockwave from the impact breaking every window nearby.

Trunks threw his sword up into the air, before rapidly moving his arms, and then thrusting out his palm. "Burning Bang Attack!"

KABOOM!

A blast of blue fiery energy shot out of Trunks's palm, and slammed into Black, exploding into a massive dome of blue flames.

When the flames died down, all that remained was blue flames and smoke.

A few moments passed, and Trunks's sword came falling back down towards him.

Trunks caught it, holding it behind his back, blocking a swipe from Black who had teleported behind him.

Black stepped back, giving Trunks the chance to turn before the body-snatching deity charged at him once again, unleashing another flurry of sword slashes that Trunks had to struggle to block.

"HA!" Black threw in a kick, knocking Trunks down on his butt.

Black slammed his blade down on Trunks, who guarded against it with his own sword, but he was slowly being pushed down by Black's overwhelming power.

"Any last words, mortals?" Black asked, as his blade got closer and closer to Trunks.

"Yeah, look up!" Trunks said.

Then, suddenly, Black noticed a gleam of blue light reflecting off of Trunks's blade

"What!?" Black looked up, to see a Spirit Bomb hanging over their heads.

While distracted, Trunks moved his hand and blasted Black off of him.

Black flipped in the air, landing on his feet as he skidded back over a mile away, while Trunks flew up into the air, the Spirit Bomb lowering down and consuming him, before being absorbed into his blade, creating the massive blue Spirit Sword. "It's time! You're finished!"

"No! I. AM. A. GOD!" Black brought his hands back and started charging his attack. "KA! ME! HA! ME!"

Trunks rushed forward, charging at Black with his sword aimed at his chest, ready to deal the final blow.

"HAAAAAAAAAA!" Black roared as he unleashed a massive rose-colored beam at Trunks.

The beam slammed into Trunks's sword, splitting apart, but managing to slow Trunks down to crawl, the half Saiyan was forced to put his feet on the ground and walk forward slowly. His muscles aching, his bones groaning, and his head dizzy from all the blood loss.

Damn it! If I don't reach him soon, the fusion will run out! Trunks thought as he kept pushing.

"Give up!" Black shouted. "You stand no chance against the might of a-"

BANG!

Suddenly a flash bang was tossed right in front of his face, and exploded, blinding and distracting Black. "AGH!"

"Finish him Trunks!" Mai(A) shouted from the sidelines.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Trunks summoned what was left of his strength, and charged right into the beam, letting it engulf him as he charged through it, before reaching Black.

SHINK!

Trunks's sword went right through Black's chest, just a second before he split apart back into two separate Trunks.

All three of them collapsed onto the ground, Black bleeding all over the pavement as he felt his strength start to leave him and he was forced back into base form. "Impossible…"

"Trunks!" Mai(A) and Mai(B) both ran up to their respective Trunks helping the dazed young men sit up while checking on their injuries.

"Did we-" Trunks(A) and Trunks(B) looked over to the dying Black, and released a sigh of relief. "Yes. Finally."

"Don't…celebrate so soon…mortals," Black growled, as blood started oozing from his mouth. "This is not the end. Even if I fall. More Zamasus will come. And they keep coming until all of reality is purged of mortal kind. No matter how many battles you win…you will never…win…the…war."

And with that, the light in Black's eyes faded, as his soul left the mortal plane.

Chapter Text

Life was unpredictable.

Back in his heyday as a Saiyan warrior, if you had told Bardock that he'd one day become a simple farmer, he'd have looked at you like you were crazy.

And yet, here he was, decades later, plowing a field, with his son Raditz.

GRRRRRRRRRRRR!

"Ugh." Raditz groaned as his stomach grumbled. "Father, can we just have lunch already!? I'm starving!"

"Quit complaining! We'll eat when we're done." Bardock told him sternly.

"Come on Bardock, don't work him too hard." Said Gine as she and Gohan walked over to them, holding trays of food. "I think you two have already earned a break."

"Hmph, fine." Bardock relented.

"Break time huh? Then maybe we should come back later."

Immediately everyone stopped, and looked up toward the source of the voices, to see Androids 17 and 18 flying above them.

"Who the hell are you!?" Bardock demanded.

"Oh, we're just a couple of passersby, looking for some fun. In particular, we're looking for that son of yours, Bardock." 17 explained.

"If you're looking for Kakarot then you're out of luck. He's dead." Raditz growled. "Killed by a damn heart virus."

"A heart virus huh? What a pathetic end to the "strongest man in the world"". 18 snickered.

"Though that does put us in a bit of a pickle. You see we were gonna have some fun killing Kakarot." 17 said as he gave all of them a menacing look. "But since he's kicked the bucket, I guess we'll just have to have our fun killing all of you instead."

"Gine, get out of here!" Bardock ordered, before flying at the two androids, cocking his fist back and throwing a punch at Android 17's face.

Only for 17 to catch his fist with ease, and then countering with a punch to the gut.

"OHHHHHHHHHHH!" Bardock wheezed as air and spit were forced out of his mouth, and he was sent reeling from the punch.

Raditz started firing blasts at 18, which she casually batted away. Gohan appeared behind her and attempted to attack her, but 18 just threw her fist back, slamming it into Gohan's face, stunning him.

Then 18 spun around and kicked Gohan down into Raditz, knocking down the long-haired Saiyan and sending them both skidding across the ground. And before they could get up, 18 charged up a ki blast and shot it down at them.

KABOOM!

The ki blast slammed into the two, bursting into a big explosion and a mushroom cloud.

Meanwhile, Bardock kept throwing punches at 17, which the android easily dodged, before headbutting Bardock, causing blood to leak from his nose.

"Agh!" Bardock clutched his bleeding nose, and before he could do anything else, 18 kicked him in the back, sending him flying towards 17, who clotheslined him, causing him to collapse to the ground.

17 and 18 then aimed their palms down at Bardock, created two ki spheres, and then shot them down towards the Saiyan.

The ki spheres merged together, creating an even larger sphere, which engulfed Bardock.

KABOOM!

Another massive explosion rocked the farmland, the harsh winds and violent fires ruining whatever crops they planted, as fissures tore through the ground.

"Think he's dead?" 18 asked as she looked down at the smokey crater they'd made with their attack.

"I'd be disappointed if he was." 17 said.

"KA! ME! HA! ME!" Gohan flew up at the androids, while charging up an attack with all his might, before unleashing it right in front of them. "HA!"

The son of Kakarot unleashed a massive blue beam that engulfed both of the androids.

A few moments later, the Androids burst out of the beam on the left and right, before closing in on Gohan and delivering a synchronized neck chop.

"ACK!" Gohan gasped.

17 and 18 then raised their legs up, before slamming it down on the top of Gohan's head, slamming him into the ground hard enough to create an earthquake.

"Double Sunday!" Raditz shouted as he launched two beams out of his hands at both androids. But the androids just kicked beams away, before charging down at Raditz.

The two started their assault with a double punch to the chest before they both started unleashing a flurry of blows on the helpless Saiyan, finishing it off by kicking him in both sides of his neck."

"AGHHH!" Raditz immediately collapsed to the ground, as he fell unconscious.

18 and 17 aimed their palms down at him, ready to finish him off.

"HEY!"

They turned around, to see Bardock flying at them, ki blast in hand. "YAHHHHHHH!"

Bardock threw the ki blast down towards the pair, but instead of hitting them, it slammed into the ground, creating a massive cloud of dirt, dust, and smoke that completely obscured their sight.

"Agh! Kack! Oaf!" The two coughed as they accidentally breathed in some of the surrounding smoke and dust, stunning them for a bit as they were forced to cough it out.

A little while later, the smoke faded and the two could see again, and found that all of their targets had vanished.

"Tch, they got away." 18 scowled.

"No issue, we've got all the time in the world. They can't hide forever after all." 17 said.

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Bardock's family had made it to Kami's lookout, where, making use of Kami's telepathy, they contacted everyone else, and told them to gather there.

"Woah, you're kidding!" Krillin exclaimed.

"I'm not. They threw us around like rag dolls!" Bardock growled.

"So what do we do?" Tien asked.

"Even if we all fight them together, we'll lose. It's not even a question." Bardock said. "Which is why I'm going to seal one of them away."

"What!? Bardock you can't mean using THAT technique!" Gine gasped in horror.

"What technique? What are you talking about?" Raditz asked.

"The Evil Containment Wave," Bardock said. "It's a technique that allows you to seal someone away in a container. Even if they're far stronger than you. I learned it in secret, in case we weren't strong enough to kill Freiza."

"And I'm guessing there's a cost to such a convenient technique?" Vegeta asked.

"The technique puts an extreme strain on the user, the stronger the foe you're trying to trap compared to yourself, the bigger the strain. Until the strain is so powerful, it kills you." Gine explained.

"And with how powerful those things were, the moment I commit to the technique, my fate is sealed," Bardock said. "Although, so long as we have the Dragon Balls, you can bring me back."

"But even if you seal away one of them, that still leaves the other." Vegeta pointed out.

"Right." Bardock looked over to Piccolo. "For that, I can only think of one solution."

"The Special Beam Cannon," Piccolo concluded. "If I charge it to max, I might be able to do the job. But you'll have to hold them off long enough for me to use it."

"That's assuming I don't kill them before you can even fire," Vegeta said cockily, causing Bardock to roll his eyes.

"In that case, we all know what we have to do," Tien said. "Let's go!"

"Wait," Bardock said, getting everyone's attention. "Piccolo, Kami. I'd like to have a word with you two. In private."

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KABOOM!

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" People screamed as they ran out of the cities as fast as they could. Explosions bursting out all around them, as buildings were annihilated or collapsed on top of them.

And the cause for this mayhem was the two androids flying in the air, randomly shooting out ki blasts, into the surrounding cities.

"I'm surprised we haven't run into any fighters yet." 17 said as he kept destroying the city. "You'd think with how much attention we've been drawing to ourselves, they would have shown up by now."

"Maybe they're all just hiding after Bardock warned them. Tch." 18 said. "That would be a pain."

"HEY!"

"Huh?" Both androids turned around and saw Krillin flying behind them with his hands over his face. "Solar Flare!"

A bright light burst out of Krillin's hands, immediately blinding the two androids.

"Agh! Son of a-" 18 hissed as she and her brother clutched their eyes.

Krillin flew out of the way and looked down at Bardock, who had a jar set up in front of him, and Yamcha standing next to him. "Now!"

"Evil! Containment!" Bardock shouted as he shot a green vortex of energy from his hands, up at 17.

"Wha-What's happening!" 17 shouted as he was swallowed up by the wave, becoming part of it, and completely losing control of his body.

"17!" 18 tried to fly over and help, but suddenly she was hit with a Destructo Disk, sending her flying a few feet forward, before she grabbed the disk, and crushed it in her hand. Although her arm and palm were now bleeding.

"HA!" Bardock slammed the wave of energy down into the jar.

Yamcha immediately ran over, put a lid on the jar, and attached the seal. "Got!"

THUD!

Yamcha looked back and saw Bardock collapse to the ground. His body motionless, devoid of life.

There was no time to mourn, however, Yamcha had a job to do. He quickly scooped up both the jar and Bardock's body and started flying back to the lookout as fast as he could.

"Oh no you don't!" 18 was about to fly after him, when suddenly something slammed into her from above, creating a massive square hole in the ground, and throwing her into it.

"NEO Tri-Beam! HA!" Tien shouted from above, as he launched another blast down at 18, and another and another, and another.

18 tried to fly up through the blasts, but it was too much force, she was pinned down into the hole, completely unable to move away.

This lasted for a while longer, until Tien finally ran out of energy, and collapsed onto the ground.

Not waiting for 18 to get out, Krillin and Gohan shot two full-power Kamehameha's down into the hole while Raditz added in a Double Sunday.

BOOM!

The energy exploded out of the hole, in the form of a massive geyser of purple energy that shot up into the sky and parted all the nearby clouds.

When the energy faded, all that was left was a dark, smoke-filled hole.

Everyone looked down in the hole, waiting for what might happen next.

Slowly, 18 flew out of the hole, looking far more pissed than hurt. Her outfit was all torn up, but other than that she was pretty much fine.

"I don't know what the hell you did to 17, but I do know that you're gonna regret it!" 18 growled.

"Hmph, let's see you try to make us," Vegeta said as he floated down towards her.

Immediately, 18 rushed forward, and punched Vegeta in the face, before grabbing him by the shoulder and punching him repeatedly in the stomach.

Nappa came up from behind and grabbed her, but 18 hit him with an elbow to the gut, knocking the wind out of him, before throwing him over her shoulder and tossing him into Vegeta.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Gohan and Raditz unleashed a flurry of blasts at 18, which the android dodged with ease.

18 charged through the hail of blasts, before kneeing Raditz in the face. 18 then grabbed Raditz by the hair and started kneeing him repeatedly in the face, before raising her arms up and slamming them down onto the top of his head, sending him crashing into the street below.

Gohan tried to go in for an attack, throwing a punch at her, only for 18 to catch his punch, and then squeeze down on his hand.

CRACK!

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Gohan screamed out in pain, as he felt the bones in his hand snap at shatter before 18 tossed him into a building.

Krillin came in from behind, raising his hand up and forming another ki disk. "Destructo Disk!

He tossed the disk at 18, but 18 turned around, caught it with her fingertips, and threw it right back at Krillin.

"Ah!" Krillin barely managed to duck in time, as his attack went over his head, flying past him and cutting a skyscraper in half.

18 was about to charge at Krillin, only for Vegeta to shoot a ki blast at her from behind, getting her attention.

"YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH! YAH!" Vegeta unleashed a ki blast barrage at 18, pelting her with dozens of ki blasts a second, and creating a massive cloud of smoke in the air.

As Vegeta attacked, a small thin beam burst out of the cloud and pierced through Vegeta's shoulder.

"Agh!" Vegeta hissed as he clutched his arm.

Then 18 burst out of the cloud, with a spinning kick, slamming her foot right in the side of Vegeta's neck.

"Ack!" Vegeta's eyes rolled back for a moment as the blow knocked him unconscious for a second.

18 then started kicking Vegeta, knocking his head back and forth, before kicking him in the chin, knocking him upwards, but before he could get far, 18 grabbed him by his foot, then dived down and slammed Vegeta into the street.

She brought Vegeta in and got ready to start beating down on him, only for Nappa to tackle her from behind, and ram her into a building.

"Grrr! You're really getting on my nerves!" 18 whipped her head back into Nappa's chest, causing him to stumble back.

18 then turned around and started beating Nappa, just unleashing a flurry of punches into his stomach and chest.

And while Nappa was getting absolutely demolished, Vegeta slowly got back up to his feet and formed a white ki sphere in his hand. "Tch. Time to show her the true power of a Saiyan! Ha!"

Vegeta threw the sphere up into the sky, before clenching his fist. "Burst open and mix!"

The ki sphere doubled in size, and its light caused the Saiyans to begin changing.

"What the?" 18 jumped back, as she saw Nappa and the rest start to grow, and grow, and grow. Gaining fur and changing shape, until they had all taken the shape of a Great Ape.

Nappa raised his foot up and slammed it down over 18, but 18 flew away before his foot could smash into her.

Gohan ran up and tried to punch her again, but 18 simply blocked the punch, before flying under his arm shoulder tackling him in the chest, knocking him down.

Raditz fired a mouth blast at her, but 18 fired her own blasts that went through Raditz's attack, destroying it, before smacking Raditz in the face and making him stumble backward.

Nappa tried to swing down at her, but 18 dodged his punch, and then shot him in the eye, before following up with a punch to the stomach causing him to back up into a building.

Vegeta tore off the upper half of a building and threw it at 18.

18 destroyed it with a single blast, making it explode into a cloud of debris and smoke.

Vegeta jumped through the smoke and tried to clap his hands with 18 in the middle, but she spread out her arms and stopped both of them. Vegeta tried to push his hands together and squish her, but it was no use.

18 pushed his hands aside, and delivered a flying uppercut to Vegeta's massive jaw, launching his massive body a few feet into the air, before he fell back down on his back.

"HA!" 18 flew up, and shot down a massive barrage of ki blasts down onto Vegeta's body, shattering his armor and covering his body in burns and bruises.

Krillin went up behind her, with a fully charged Kamehameha, and unleashed it point-blank into her back. "HA!"

KABOOM!

The wave of energy slammed into her, creating another cloud of smoke.

Of course, knowing damn well that wasn't enough to even phase her, so he tried to fly away, only for 18 to burst out of the smoke and chase after him.

Just before she could reach him, Gohan jumped up, and grabbed her out of the air, before slamming her into the ground and stepping on her.

But then a few moments later, 18 pushed Gohan's foot up, before throwing it off of her, then flying up and kicking him in the side of the head, sending him face-first into a nearby building.

18 grabbed Gohan by his tail, whipped him up into the air, and then slammed him through another building.

Nappa lunged at her, but 18 slammed Gohan into him, smacking them both onto the ground.

18 let go of Gohan and flew up, charging a ki sphere before shooting it down at the two.

KABOOM!

The sphere slammed into them and burst into a massive explosion, creating a dome of energy that destroyed half the city as it expanded.

When the dome of energy subsided, and the smoke cleared, 18 looked down to see two unconscious apes, lying in the center of a massive crater.

She started charging up another blast when suddenly she noticed a glowing from behind her. "Huh?"

18 turned, to see Vegeta, his arms spread apart, energy crackling off of them, as he charged up an attack with everything he had.

This idiot, does he think I'm gonna just let him hit me with that? 18 turned to flee, but as soon as she did, she saw Krillin right there, with his hands over his head.

"Solar Flare!" Once again light burst out of his hands, blinding 18.

"Gah! Not this again!" 18 growled as she tried to swing at Krillin, but missed due to no longer being able to see.

That's when Raditz grabbed her and threw her towards Vegeta. "Now!"

"Final!" Vegeta shouted as he brought his hands together. "FLASH!"

BOOM!

A massive yellow beam exploded out of Vegeta's hands and engulfed 18.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

The beam expanded out, destroying what was left of the city, as it traveled off the edge of the planet, into the depths of space.

After a few moments, the flash began to fade, as the attack diminished into nothing.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha." Vegeta panted, as he looked at the massive trail of smoke that had been left from his attack.

Everyone waited with bated breath, wondering if that overwhelmingly powerful attack was enough to take out their seemingly indomitable foe.

A few moments later, they had their answer.

"Credit where credit's due." 18 said as the smoke cleared to reveal she was still alive. Although this time she actually looked a bit hurt, some small cuts, bruises, and burns littered her body, and there was even a tiny bit of blood seeping into her clothes. "That one actually hurt."

18 flew up, and raised her palm, before creating a ki sphere that grew, and grew, and grew, until it was the size of a building. "I've had enough of all of you! Time to di-"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Suddenly, a Special Beam Cannon came out of nowhere and hit 18 square in the forehead.

The ki sphere she created disappeared, as 18 fell out of the sky and onto the street.

"Did he do it!?" Krillin asked as he looked down at 18, to see if she was finally dead.

"Ugh." 18 groaned, proving she was still very much alive, but groggy. The attack had left her with a big bruise on her head but failed to penetrate her skull in any way.

"Damn it! She's still alive!" Raditz growled.

"Tch! Everyone, we need to retreat while she's still out of it!" Piccolo shouted.

Krillin picked up Tien, while Raditz picked up Nappa and Gohan.

"Cowards! You intend to run!?" Vegeta growled.

"If you want to stay and die, Vegeta then suit yourself!" Raditz said as he and the other fled.

"..." Vegeta looked down at 18, who was starting to get back up. He was tempted to just attack her now, but he'd expended too much energy for the Final Flash. If he stuck around, his death was certain. "Tch."

Carrying his wounded pride, Vegeta flew away with the others.

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"Damn it!" Tien punched the ground. After being given a Senzu Bean, Tien was informed of their failure, and like everyone else, he was not happy.

"So what now?" Nappa asked the group. "That chick is WAY too strong for us to take down. Anyone else know that sealing thing?"

"Well, Piccolo can use it but if he dies we can't use the Dragon Balls," Krillin said, before noticing something. "Hey, where is Piccolo? And Kami too?"

BOOM!

Suddenly a burst of aura blasted into the sky, and everyone on the lookout suddenly sensed incredible power.

Piccolo then walked out, now sporting incredible power.

"That power…no…you didn't," Gine whispered, tears welling up in her eyes, as she realized what this meant.

"Mr Piccolo," Gohan said, also looking extremely distressed.

"What the hell!? Where did all that power come from?" Raditz asked.

"I fused with Kami," Piccolo explained. "There was no other choice."

"But…that means Bardock is…" Krillin didn't have the heart to finish that sentence.

"How could you!" Gine collapsed to the ground, tears spilling from her eyes as Gohan went to comfort his grandmother.

"Don't get ahead of yourself, earth isn't the only place with Dragon Balls," Piccolo said, getting everyone's attention. "Our home world, Namak, has its own set of Dragon Balls. With those we should be able to bring back Bardock, and maybe even Kakarot."

"Really!? Gohan asked hopefully.

"I don't know. Bardock was the one who convinced us to fuse." Piccolo explained. "He said if everything we had wasn't enough, then this would be the only way to win. And after what happened out there, I can't help but agree."

"So are you strong enough to defeat her?" Tien asked.

"I don't know. But at the very least I'll have a fighting chance." Piccolo said. "You guys should stay on the sidelines, if I can weaken her enough then even if I lose you might be able to kill her."

"Hmph." Vegeta didn't like any of this, but there was little he could do. Once this was over, he'd have to redouble his training efforts.

"Alright, time for round 2," Piccolo said, punching his palm for effemisis.

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18 was busy, frantically flying around the entire planet, looking for the Z-Fighters.

Not only had they managed to prove themselves somewhat of a threat, they'd even managed to take her brother away.

She needed to find them, NOW.

As 18 was flying around, she found herself in a wasteland, where she noticed something oddly green.

Piccolo was standing, arms crossed, in the middle of the wasteland.

18 landed behind him, with a scowl on her face. "Finally decided to show yourself huh! Big mistake!"

Piccolo didn't even turn around to face her, keeping his arms crossed, ignoring her completely.

This only served to piss her off even further, and she charged at him. Throwing a punch at the back of his head.

Only for Piccolo to grab her fist, stopping her attack. Much to her surprise.

"What!? AGH!" Piccolo picked 18 up, and slammed her down onto the ground, before aiming his other hand down at her and firing a blast.

BOOM!

A massive explosion erupted, creating a smoke cloud around the two of them.

For a moment there was silence, until suddenly the cloud was forcibly dispersed, as Piccolo and 18 attacked each other. Striking, parrying, blocking, and defending at insane speeds, neither managing to land a successful blow, until 18 broke through his defense, and landed a punch on Piccolo's cheek, sending him flying back.

Piccolo flipped onto his feet, and skidded back, before extending one of his arms and grabbing 18 by the face, continuing to extend his arm until he slammed her through three mountains, and then reeled her back in, forming a ki sphere in his hand and when 18 was close, and mashed it into her stomach, sending her flying back again.

After flying a couple miles away, 18 forcibly stopped herself and then unleashed a flurry of ki blasts at Piccolo.

Piccolo flew to the right, to dodge the stream of blasts while 18 kept trying to hit him, before flying up and letting loose his own barrage of blasts down on 18.

18 put up her arms, blocking the blasts as they slammed down on her, before charging through the hail of ki blasts, flipping in the air, and kicking him in the stomach.

"UGGGHHH!" Piccolo gasped.

18 jumped back, before charging forward, and unleashing a flurry of punches and kicks onto Piccolo, before flying up and finishing with a elbow drop to the neck, sending Piccolo hurtling into the ground.

"Haaaaa!" 18 didn't let up, aiming her palms down at the ground, and unleashing a ridiculous amount of ki blasts down at Piccolo, which slammed into the stunned Namakian, consuming him in what looked like a beam of individual blasts.

This continued for a little while longer, until a rock suddenly slammed into the side of 18's face. "Agh! What the-"

18 looked around her and found that she was surrounded by hundreds of floating rocks, all being controlled by Piccolo's telekinesis.

All of the rocks slammed into 18 at once, burying her inside them, while Piccolo brought his hands to his head and charged up an attack. "Masenko! HA!"

BOOM!

Piccolo shot a beam out his hands up at the entombed 18, blowing up the rocks and creating another big explosion.

While Piccolo looked up at the cloud to see the result of his attack, 18 appeared behind him, and kicked him in the arm, sending him flying to the side.

Piccolo flipped onto his feet, and then charged at 18, who charged right back.

The two locked hands, as they began their contest of strength, both pushing against the other with all of their might.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" They both shouted, as their power exploded out from them, causing the ground around them to shake and shift.

"Haaaa!" 18 leaned back and then ripped both of Piccolo's arms clean off his body. Then she threw them aside, and hit Piccolo with an uppercut, sending him a couple feet into the air before he fell back down onto his back.

18 aimed her palm down at him, but Piccolo beat her to draw, blasting her with a mouth beam that pushed her back into a mountain, before it exploded, destroying the whole thing.

Piccolo jumped back onto his feet and quickly regrew his arms. He looked back at the smoking crater he'd created with his attack, and faintly, his sensitive ears could hear footsteps.

18 walked out of the smoke and whipped some blood off her mouth. "Is that all you've got?"

Piccolo smirked and got into a fighting stance. "I'm just getting warmed up. HA!"

As the two started to fight again, the remaining defenders of Earth watched on the sidelines.

"Tch, that damn woman's still too strong," Vegeta noted. "Even after taking all the damage, she doesn't seem even remotely tired."

"Damn it! There has to be something we can do!" Tien shouted.

"Unless you can suddenly get ten times stronger, then no, there isn't," Raditz growled, clearly just as frustrated with the situation.

"Damn, if only something could take her down from the inside like that virus did Kakarot," Nappa said. Then, he donned a thoughtful expression, before his eyes went wide with realization. "Wait a minute!"

Suddenly Nappa burst into the air, and flew away, to the shock of everyone else around.

"Wait, where the heck is he going?" Yamcha asked.

"Who knows. Who cares." Vegeta shrugged.

Back with Piccolo and 18, the android threw a punch at the Namakian, which Piccolo dodged before countering with a headbutt, making her stagger back.

Piccolo then shot lightning out of his antenna, giving the android a good zap.

"AGHHHHHHHHH!" 18 shouted in pain as a truly insane amount of voltage ran through her body. It was a struggle move, but eventually, she managed to move forward and chop Piccolo's antenna off.

Piccolo launched a punch at her, but 18 dashed to the left, before going in and unleashing a flurry of blows into his stomach.

"Grr!" Piccolo pushed 18 back, and then shot her in the face with eye beams, forcing 18 to bring up her arms to cover her face, allowing Piccolo to mash his palm into her stomach, and unleash a ki explosion from his palm, forcing 18 onto her back, skidding through the dirt a few yards away from Piccolo.

Piccolo then brought his hands to each of his arms, and got in position, his body glowing as he started charging his next attack. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

18 slowly got back onto her feet, and then looked at the now glowing Piccolo. And while she couldn't sense ki, she could tell that she REALLY didn't wanna get hit by whatever Piccolo was about to unleash next, so she decided to start flying away.

"HA!" Piccolo raised his arms up, and a massive explosion burst out of his body, rapidly expanding into the area around him.

18 tried to get away, but in the end, she was caught in the blast, and consumed by it.

KABOOM!

The entire area was filled with blinding light as any nearby mountains were reduced to less than dust.

When the light finally died down, Piccolo stood in a massive crater.

18 had blocked at the last moment but had taken some serious burns on her arms, and her entire body was smoking. "Bastard."

"Heh, I like the new look. The battle damage suits you." Piccolo said while trying to hide the fact that he just unleashed a massive amount of energy and was getting dangerously close to running on fumes.

"Is that so? Then let's see how well you rock the headless look!" 18 said, before unleashing another barrage of ki blasts at Piccolo. "HAAAAA!"

Piccolo raised his arms to guard, as he was pelted by ki blasts, bruising his arms and rattling his bones. Damn, it's like she never gets tired! This is bad, I have to find some way to end this, fast.

Back on the sidelines, Nappa returned, with a small bag in hand.

"What's that?" Krillin asked.

"Wait a minute, are those the Saibamen seeds?" Vegeta asked, barely recognizing the bag. "What use could you possibly have for those weaklings?"

"Well, I was thinking. What if we could get one of these inside her." Nappa said with a wicked grin. "I mean she may be tough on the outside, but maybe not so much on the inside."

"Ugh, only you could think of such a horrid idea." Raditz shuddered. "But it might work."

"I'm surprised you're able to think that much Nappa, but there's still the issue of getting her to eat one of those," Vegeta said.

"I can do it." Yamcha volunteered, making everyone give him a questioning look. "Hey I might not be the strongest, but my aim is unquestionable, I play professional baseball you know."

"...Alright. But if you miss, I'll kill you myself." Nappa said, as he grabbed some of the dirt, placed a seed inside of it, and then molded it into the shape of a small ball. "Go for it."

Yamcha grabbed the ball and looked over at the fight. "Ok, it's go time!"

Back with Piccolo and 18, the Namkain was on the defensive, forced to try and block and parry 18's relentless attacks.

As he was doing that, his enhanced hearing picked something up. Piccolo looked to his left, to see Yamcha sneaking closer towards them, trying to go unnoticed. What the hell is he doing? Well, I doubt Yamcha of all people would try and approach without a plan. Still, what could he-

While Piccolo was distracted, 18 broke through his defenses and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

18 then put her foot on Piccolo, pinning him in place, Piccolo extended his arms to try and grab her, but 18 grabbed them both, and ripped them off yet again.

With Piccolo defenseless for the moment, 18 brought her hands together and aimed down at Piccolo while charging an attack. "No more games! Time to di-ack!"

In the middle of her sentence, Yamcha threw the ball of dirt, hitting his target and throwing the thing right down her throat.

"Ack! Agh!" 18 stumbled back, clutching her throat as she felt the dirt ball travel down her throat and into her stomach. "W-What did you just-"

And that's when she felt something start to grow and expand inside of her.

"AGHHH! AGHHHHHHH!" 18 screamed as she felt something wiggling around inside, her crawling up through her stomach up into her throat, culminating with a Saibaman arm bursting out of her mouth, muffling her cries. "Mmmmmmmm! Mmmmmm!"

"Holy crap." Krillin gagged, as he quickly went to cover Gohan's eyes.

"I think I'm gonna be sick," Tien said.

"I regret ever saying this was a good idea," Raditz said as he looked away from the awful display before him.

18 collapsed to the ground, as she began to suffocate, due to the Saibaman blocking her throat.

"What the hell." Piccolo stared 18 in the eyes, watching her slowly die until finally she stopped moving.

"Alright! It worked!" Nappa cheered, raising his hand up. "High five!"

Needless to say, he was left hanging.

Chapter Text

"Pah, pathetic." Pui Pui said as he dropped the freshly made corpse of an alien.

He'd been sent on a mission to gather more damage energy, by attacking a nearby civilization.

Pui Pui now stood in the ruins of said civilization. Buildings were blown apart or on fire, and the corpses of the aliens were scattered everywhere.

"They barely lasted long enough to get me any energy." Pui Pui said as he scowled down at his energy collector. "Master Babidi will be most displeased."

Pui Pui turned around and got ready to leave.

When suddenly he noticed a glimmer, coming off of a tall building in the distance.

Pui Pui barely managed to dash to the side, as an energy shot blasted at where his head had been.

Immediately Pui Pui retaliated, aiming his hand at the top of that building and firing a beam, causing the upper half of the structure to explode.

Granola jumped into the air just before his sniping spot had been destroyed, and let loose a barrage of ki blasts down at Pui Pui.

Pui Pui jumped around dodging each blast to the best of his ability, while returning fire on Granola who also tried to dodge the oncoming blasts.

While they both managed to dodge many of the blasts, eventually some of them began hitting their mark.

A blast hit Pui Pui in the shoulder, then another blast hit Granola in the stomach, then Pui Pui took a hit to the abdomen, and then Granola took another shot to the leg.

PEWM!

"Ahhhhhh!" Both of them shot each other in the chest, sending Granola flying back and Pui Pui onto his back.

Granola flew back a few miles, before finally bringing himself to a stop, and immediately hiding in a nearby building.

Damn it, this guy's strong. Granola took cover in the building, taking a moment to look over his wounds. Just a few bruises and burns, nothing too bad, but they were enough to prove that this guy was a credible threat. Guess that's the reason his bounty's so high.

"I told you to be more careful!" Oatmeal nagged. "We should have waited until his guard was completely down!"

"Yes, you were right." Granola sighed, before peeking his head through a window, using his far-seeing eye to look back at the spot where he'd last seen Pui Pui, only to find him gone. "Crap."

"Your hits seemed to hurt him just as much as he hurt you. So he probably won't want to fight you head-on either." Oatmeal suggested.

"So it's a battle on who can get the jump on the other," Granola smirked. "Perfect."

Granola peaked back out the window, making sure he didn't show his head too much, otherwise he'd give away his position.

For a while nothing happened, silence filled the now-dead city, as both combatants waited for the other to slip up.

Then, suddenly, Granola saw something person-shaped stumble out of a building and immediately fired at it causing it to explode.

"Got him!" Granola cheered, before suddenly a blast flew out of the building the body came from, and slammed into Granola, creating a massive explosion, blowing up the top of the building he was hiding in and sending Granola flying into the air before crashing into the ground.

Pui Pui then burst out of a building and fired a few more blasts at Granola while he was down, stopping him from even trying to get back up.

"Gah! Pah! Agh!" Granola was sent tumbling back with each blast, until he was slammed into some kind of vehicle, and managed to fire a retaliation blast that hit Pui Pui right in the face.

"Ugh!" Pui Pui stumbled back, clutching his face as he ran back into another building to start hiding again.

Granola stumbled up onto his feet and ran into a building to seek his own cover. "Damn it."

"Granola, that wasn't him! He threw out a corpse to fake you out!" Oatmeal explained. "You have to calm down, this isn't someone you can take lightly. You have to use your head."

"Understood," Granola said. "And I think I have a plan."

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Come on, where is he? Pui Pui thought as he looked out the window of his hiding place, the second story of some kind of warehouse. Maybe I can try throwing out another corpse, and see if he falls for the same trick twice.

As Pui Pui contemplated his options, suddenly, he saw another glimar, shining at the top of a bell tower.

Got him! Pui Pui aimed his hand over at the tower and blasted it.

GONG!

The tower exploded, the bell letting out a loud noise as it flew into the air before slamming into the ground.

Hmmm. I don't see his body? Maybe I annihilated him? No. He seemed much too strong to die so easily. Pui Pui mused. But then where did his body go? Unless, that glare wasn't him, but maybe some random piece of metal he used to get me to reveal my location!

Then suddenly, Pui Pui heard the sound of rubble shifting in the next room.

Immediately Pui Pui turned and shot an energy beam through the wall into that room.

KABOOM!

The room exploded, destroying the wall between them leaving nothing but smoke.

Pui Pui approached the smoke carefully, still unsure if Granola would come out to attack him.

But the attack didn't come from the smoke, but from below, as Granola's hand burst through the floor, and grabbed Pui Pui's foot, dragging him down and slamming him face-first onto the lower floor.

Pui Pui reacted quickly, yanking his foot out of Granola's grasp, and then jumping to his feet and facing him.

"Yah!" Pui Pui lunged forward and threw a punch at Granola, which the sniper easily dodged by moving back, before going in for a jab to the stomach, stunning Pui Pui and letting Granola go for two more punches to the face which made his opponent stumble back.

Granola then grabbed his scarf and whipped it Pui Pui, the cloth wrapped around Pui Pui's arm, and Granola yanked him in, before kneeing him in the stomach.

Then Granola pushed him back, before swinging him around with the scarf and slamming him into a support pillar.

Granola then tried to yank him back towards him, but Pui-Pui used his other hand to hold onto the pillar to keep him in place, before he yanked Granola towards him, and elbowed him in the chest, making Granola let go of the scarf.