Blood spilled on the ground, making red intermingle with the ashen black that had replaced the city that had once stood. The creature once-Reborn-now-Morlun traced the green arm impaled on his chest to a broken green man, his name Piccolo if Morlun had the same memory as Reborn.

"You, the green man…" Morlun seemed to basically ignore the arm firmly planted through his sternum.

"My name is Piccolo, is that really so difficult to remember?"

Morlun retracted his fist from Vegeta's tortured midsection and his hand from Goku's perspiring face. The demon seemed to not even feel the projectile in his chest as he rapidly advanced on Piccolo. The Namekian retracted his arm and formed a battle stance, unhindered by the fact that even though blood poured from the wound, Morlun virtually ignored his injury.

The two instantaneously gaining speed, they each placed blows on the other in midair. Goku rushed to Vegeta, a hidden Senzu bean in his pocket, and fed it to his toppled comrade.

"Here, eat it, I took some from Korin on my way down."

Vegeta didn't reply at first, but as soon as he swallowed, he swatted Goku away and stood to both feet. Taking a place on a small uprising of rock, the Prince watched as Piccolo took beatings from the demon and retaliated with ever increasingly powerful maneuvers of his own.

"Damn…that Namekian can fight…" was the only response.

Goku smiled at the comment and watched, but only for an instant. Vegeta raised his Ki slightly and took off in a blast of gold energy. Goku followed with a surge of Ki as well. The two yelled their own distinct battle cry as they neared Morlun, the object of their own individual vengeances.

The demon had barely struck Piccolo with a backhanded fist when Goku rammed a dropkick into his torso, causing enough momentary distraction for Vegeta to come from behind and strike Morlun with a double-fisted hammer. Morlun remained airborne however and wheeled around to strike Vegeta with a backhanded fist, teleporting away to try and hammer the Prince with a hammer of his own.

But Goku vanished and reappeared where Morlun would've struck, forcing his elbow into the demon's lower jaw. Morlun, unfazed, drove his skull into Goku's, making a sickening crack as the Saiyan crashed into the Prince, sending both of them as a bundle into the ground, making a deep imprint in the slag.

Morlun raised a hand and formed a cloud of black Ki, each centimeter jumping with electric current. Pointing at his foes, Morlun somehow manipulated the cloud to release a rain of black Ki bolts in a machinegun-like manner. Goku, having barely sat up, suddenly motioned for Vegeta's arm and teleported away, holding Vegeta up by the Prince's limp wrist.

Vegeta slapped away Goku's hand in annoyance. The cloud of Ki Morlun had summoned suddenly vanished, retracted into his hand like a stream of smoke. Morlun descended, making a sudden current of Ki pass across the land in a circular pattern, wiping weak sands and rocks away. Piccolo took his footing beside Goku with Vegeta on the Saiyan's left. Their clothes were ragged: Goku's undershirt, his weighted blue gi, survived in tatters while his orange gi was somewhere in cinders. Holes dominated his pants while bloody scratches covered his face and exposed flesh. Vegeta's dark blue suit was just as torn and tattered, his gloves without covering for the fingers and his hair dotted with bloodstains. His torso was exposed through all the abuse it had taken with a bloody scar as a reminder of that. Piccolo's purple gi was missing a top part and his pant legs were torn away at the knees. All were bloody and scarred.

Morlun hopped up and down on minute bursts of Ki, all the while jarring weak sand and rock from their places and into the wind. Goku smiled. His companions both frowned as his smirk widened.

"This fight is over, Morlun, you hear me? I'll finish you off in five minutes flat."

"Goku, you're not thinking Level 3 are you?" Piccolo asked, peeling his eyes away from Morlun.

Goku merely nodded, his smile remaining. Vegeta grunted and Piccolo smiled. The two backed away to a cliff overlooking the battlefield, formed by the intense struggle from before. Goku took an obscure fighting stance.

"Now the process might take a long time, but that's because I haven't used this form in a while."

"Just do it." Morlun replied.

"Okay, Super Saiyan Level 3, coming up!"