As the blast of energy, created by the combined forces of Gohan, Goten, and Goku, pushed an engulfed Broly into the earth's atmosphere and beyond…

"Ka-kakarot ." Broly repeated the name as the energy rocketed him further into space. Images, memories of his childhood, flashed before his eyes. The day of his birth, the day that seemed to have taken place in time not hours ago, was clear. The memory he despised most of all, the day such a powerful Saiyan as himself was brought to tears by the constant whining of a low-level brat. How one so mighty, at his current level the most powerful among the Saiyan children and most of the adults, was broken by a weaklings screams.

"Kakarot!" Broly could not forget, he would not forgive. Every attempt he made to exact revenge for having been a victim of such humiliation was thwarted. Despite having such immeasurable power, superior to every being on earth, the galaxy, and in the next dimension, he was always defeated. How was this possible? How?

His anger overcame his pain, his body becoming numb as he was flung into the intense fires of the sun. Yet even as his skin begin to incinerate in the flames, although feeling nothing, he could not escape that one image, that one memory, when Kakarot defeated him for the very first time.

Tears, crystal tears rolling down upon his cheeks as his small body shook, crying while Kakarot cried louder.

An uncontrollable rage coursed through his veins, his muscles bulging while the flashback continued, listening to his own pitiful cries that were barely audible above his rival's own. He gritted his teeth, clinching his fists so tightly that his fingernails punctured his skin, drawing blood that evaporated under the intensity of the heat and the energy combined.

"Kakarot!" With his body bulging with a newly discovered power, Broly's energy flared around him. A giant aura surrounded his body, pushing away the heat and opposing power of the triple Kamekameha. His white eyes grew red with fury, muscles continuing to expand while the energy hidden in his blood continued to reveal itself. Such an amazing power, so great! He felt unstoppable, undefeatable, invincible!

As his rage allowed him to successfully tap into the power once dormant within him, a great explosion erupted from his body, the energy escaping through his pores and pushing away at anything that was caught in it's path.

When the energy dissipated, Broly was gone. Having ascended to a new, greater level of power, Broly fell to earth as a blazing comet in the sky. And as he quickly sped into the earth's atmosphere, barely conscious of his body plummeting to the ground, only one thought crossed his mind..… revenge.

DragonBall Z

Broly's Ascension