Author's Note: Hello all. The chapter you've all been waiting for. Just a word of warning, there's another anime reference in here you might be all familiar with. So when you come to it, you'll probably know. :) Enjoy.

Dragonball Z

Legacies

Clash of the Titans

As the landscape surrounding the Egret Necropolis continued to crumble, with enormous chunks of the desert's surface orbiting weightlessly around the main pyramid, on the terrace connected to the structure, the showdown between the Z-fighters and the evil overlord Set had reached its highest peak. The atmosphere in that area had shifted dramatically, and not only was the gravity still out of whack, but the air was also swirling violently and had become so thick it was almost suffocating. The reason for this was the Saiyan sitting in the heart of the abnormality and the immense levels of power emanating from his body.

Shrouded in a brilliant red aura with red bolts of lightning shooting off of him, the enraged Son Gohan, his hair grown down his back and waving violently on the winds of his energy, fixed his ire squarely upon the one responsible for his fury. The person in question was currently still standing by the wall of the top half of the pyramid, glaring back at him. When the dog woman growled, the boy responded with a tighter scowl and the energy fluctuating from his body increasing in ferocity.

The cyclone surrounding him caused the boulders floating in the sky around their position to blast outwards and fracture, earning a concerned glance from Whis.

Still suspended in midair and bound by golden bands, the teal-skinned attendant's eyes shimmered in amazement as he sensed the demi-Saiyan's energy skyrocket. "This boy… his power… it's incredible…"

And he wasn't just talking about the celestial energy swirling through his system.

Through the red aura surrounding his chiseled frame, the man also sensed a much more powerful energy source dwelling inside the youngster. It was the same radiance that was responsible for his initial transformation and the same one that was now being amplified by the Godly ki pumping through his veins.

Gritting her teeth under the fearsome gale racking against her form, the storm deity Set gritted her teeth and rose up to full height, removing her hand from her arm to glare across at the teenager. "What the hell are you?"

The moment she opened her mouth, the demi-Saiyan's eyes suddenly widened and, without even moving a finger, fired a powerful blast of wind towards the woman. The shockwave literally distorted the air space in front of him and warped the surface of the terrace as it rippled towards its target several times faster than light. The sight of the approaching attack had Set recoil in alarm before leaping out of the way. Landing on the very ledge of the courtyard, the canine looked back just in time to watch the wave of repulsive force take out the side of the pyramid they were on, rebound off of its surface and strike the desert beyond.

The attack damn near split the country in two, causing an explosion comparable to several thermonuclear bombs detonating at once.

Breaking a sweat at the size of the blast, which punched a hole in the atmosphere straight up into space, the God of Storms' eyes snapped towards the Saiyan in fright. "This guy's insane!" His terrifying outburst aside, the amount of power he was generating was astonishing. She hadn't felt so much power sitting in one place since her training days, before she became one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Celestial energy was pouring out of every pore and follicle on his body.

"But where the hell did it all come from?"

Set just couldn't figure it out. In her millions of years of existence, she'd only ever seen a handful of transformations like this. The ascension of a mortal being to the level of the Gods, despite being such an incredibly rare occurrence in their reality, was always an extraordinary and thought provoking event to witness.

The process in which a person transformed into a celestial being differed greatly from race to race. Most of the deities currently in existence had claimed their title of Godhood when they mastered the incredibly rare form of energy known as celestial energy or God ki, which could be acquired through a variety of different means. And of course, once a being gained mastery over this particular energy source, they were immediately put in the running for a position as one of the guardians of their universe.

"The Valkas' previous deity meditated for fifty years under a red star to gain control over celestial energy and became the very first God of Fire, and lived a further eighty million years in his time. The current God of Light achieved his power through absorbing the heart of a super massive star. And the God of War Ares unlocked his celestial energy by slaughtering and devouring the souls of his entire race." And that was only a small number of rituals used by different cultures, all of which had culminated in a single entity that possessed the sum total of their respective species' strengths and powers. "The last time I encountered a Super Saiyan God was during the time a Legendary Super Saiyan was rampaging across their home planet of Saiya over a million years ago. The Saiyans used a method of transformation in which the power of five righteous Super Saiyans was pooled into a sixth, granting the host the ability to control celestial energy and use it to amplify his powers."

It was a primitive method of transformation in which the power the Saiyan achieved from that form lasted for only a few minutes, but was potent enough to destroy the abomination that was the Legendary Super Saiyan; the embodiment of hatred, bloodlust and evil in their society. Though it wasn't a full and complete God transformation, it was still a transformation nonetheless.

"This one's different though," Set thought, sweat pouring down her face as she saw Gohan glare in her direction. "This isn't anything like the Super Saiyan God I encountered before. No pagan ritual could create a being of this strength, so where did all of this celestial energy come f-" Her train of thought stopping dead in its tracks, the girl's eyes widened in shock before snapping towards the entrance to the pyramid that was formerly her prison. When she saw the purple wisps of energy pouring out of the gateway, the goddess knew instantly what must've happened. "That's it! His body must've unconsciously absorbed the energy from inside the Nexus!" The copious amounts of celestial energy she'd been producing in her solitude had been unable to return to its host, so it sought out the only living vessel it could find. Namely, the person that'd been closest to it…

And that turned out to be the same Saiyan used to open the doorway in the first place.

Somehow his body had been able to absorb the rare energy that'd been perforating the dimension and was now utilizing it as his own. A feat like that took an astonishing level of natural talent… and apparently this half-breed had a lot of it. This young Saiyan was able to take a foreign energy source and mold it with his own, multiplying his powers exponentially and allowing him to achieve a pseudo-full transformation to whatever level of deity form he'd now assumed.

It was a realization that had Set grit her teeth nervously and take a stance. "This is bad. He's absorbed twenty thousand years worth of celestial energy and is now using it to supercharge all of his senses. That means he's become an incredibly dangerous adversary." She then narrowed her eyes even more when the glowing red man's scowl tightened on her position. "If I remember my Saiyan biology correctly, this form can only last for a certain amount of time. That means if I can get him to burn through all of this energy as quickly as possible, I should be able to defeat him!" That was easier said than done. But if she was going to get through this conflict alive, then she was going to have to step up in this fight and give it all she had. "If I don't kill him before his body adapts to this new level of power, then I'm going to be in serious trouble."

Hell, she could be in trouble either way.

As far as she could tell, this boy was one of the most exceptionally gifted warriors she'd ever encountered as a deity. There was something about him that sent a chill up her spine, both in a good way and a bad way. Considering he was very much like her in terms of fighting prowess and skill, if she was to allow this battle to drag on for too long then she ran the risk of his body memorizing the celestial energy patterns, which would then allow him to fight at this level regardless of the type of ki running through his system.

By this point in time, as the God of Storms was facing down her enraged opponent, over in the pyramid across from them, the grounded Piccolo had momentarily regained consciousness. From his half-buried position in the stone and amidst the chaos upsetting the stability of the planet, the green skinned warrior caught a glimpse of what was happening down on the courtyard. The sight of his student standing atop the wide-open patio bathed in red had the Z-fighter tremble with shock, shortly before blacking out once again.

"G-Gohan…"

Fixing her glare on her foe, Set smirked. "Well then, handsome… what are you going to do now-" Just before she could even finish her question, she saw the demi-Saiyan launch himself from his place several dozen yards away and, in the form of a glowing red bolt, slammed a knee into her face.

The lightning fast blow caused a shockwave that parted the clouds above them and sent a ripple of air across the desert in all directions, shaking the countryside. The attack itself managed to knock the God of Storms off her feet and blasting through the air, her head cocked back and a look of sheer surprise slapped upon her mug.

The boy's movement also dispelled the gravity distortion in the air, allowing all of the rubble and chunks of earth orbiting his position to crash back down to the planet's surface.

After landing the brutally successful hit, Gohan speedily back flipped through the air and landed against the side of the pyramid they were battling on. Crouching against it momentarily, he then took aim at the airborne deity and launched himself at her with a frightening battle cry.

"YOU KILLED VIDEL!" the demi-Saiyan roared, speedily catching the fox woman by the jaw before driving her straight into the desert floor eighty stories below. However, instead of just crashing into the sand, the two of them went straight through it and the earth's crust below that. With a towering explosion of dust marking their entry, Gohan then began burrowing his opponent into the planet's surface and kept right on going for several miles.

His aura having dissipated, the pair blasted through layer after layer of the earth's shell, easily reaching its mantle layer and beginning to plow through an ocean of lava. An ordinary being would've been incinerated the instant they hit the first signs of heat. But being the super powered warriors that they were, the two kept right on going as if the planet's center didn't even exist. In fact, using his opponent as a drill head or a battering ram, Gohan continued pushing his quarry through more and more of the planet's numerous layers. Their forms began to pick up speed as they drew closer and closer to the core.

"How many innocent lives have you destroyed in your quest to take over the universe?! Huh? Millions?! BILLIONS?!" Gohan bellowed with his hand wrapped firmly around Set's throat as they continued crashing through boiling hot oceans of magma. The goddess let out a cry of agony as they continued descending violently through earth's mantle. But even this failed to quell the man's rage as the red haired Super Saiyan God continued yelling at the woman. "I won't let you kill anymore, Set! This ends now!" His eyes widened and pupils dilated in rage, a rush of images of Videl flashing through his head as he literally screamed his threat at the stunned goddess beneath him. "I'M GOING TO RIP YOU APART!"

Teeth clenched and biting back the pain of her descent into what was quite literally hell, Set sneered at her opponent and barked, "Impertinent boy! LUMEN!" With a yell of effort, a blue aura exploded off of her body, allowing the vixen to blast out of Gohan's grip and rocket upwards in the form of a lightning bolt, leaving the teen to continue crashing through to the planet's core.

Looking behind him with a grunt of annoyance, Gohan hit the brakes, slamming his hands into the walls on either side of him and forcing himself to a grinding stop. The second his momentum ceased amidst the inferno of the planet's outer nucleus, the demi-Saiyan then sprang off of the floor he'd dug and began flying after his opponent.

Set blazed a path back to the ceiling of earth's lithosphere, her body glowing brilliantly like a flare as she glared back down the enormous hole her opponent had dug. As she got further and further out of reach of him, a wide grin formed across her face. "You'll never be able to catch me at this speed!"

She spoke too soon.

After flying at cruising velocity for a solid few seconds, the red haired Super Saiyan suddenly hit the accelerator and, powering up, blasted after the woman at an even more ridiculous rate. Red aura blazing around him like wild fire, Gohan rocketed went after the deity like a missile, catching her in a matter of milliseconds and, as her expression switched to one of disbelief, buried a punch straight into her stomach. The lunging uppercut landed with a deafening thunderclap, ripping the crust around them apart and causing Set to reel forward in shock.

Choking up blood, the fox goddess was then blasted topside, the pair exploding out of the desert floor in an explosion of rubble and debris. Their reappearance had Whis staring after them in shock as the pair ascended into the atmosphere.

Feeling the damage coursing through every fiber of her being, the burnt and battered Set roared in anger, "You think you can beat me?! WELL YOU'RE WRONG!" With a yell, the woman threw two feet forward and slammed a double kick into Gohan's stomach, sending the glowing Super Saiyan plummeting back towards the desert.

When the demi-Saiyan tucked up and spun, slowing his descent and landing safely atop the terrace of the pyramid, he looked towards the sky to see Set power up and blast into the stratosphere, leaving a vapor trail behind her.

"I am the master of darkness and chaos! The most powerful God in existence! I will not be bested, certainly not by some half-breed amateur like you!" The eyes of the anthropomorphic deity filled with paranoia and fury. "I know because I'm destined to recreate this universe! It's the reason I am still alive! Once I've defeated you, I will tear down the old regime governing this reality and create a new universe where any and all dreams are possible!" In the midst of her tirade, the goddess sent a barrage of ki rocketing down at her target with enough power to wipe the earth out a dozen times over. But Gohan, quick as ever, smacked the blasts away and effortlessly sent them soaring up into space. His efforts however only served to frustrate the goddess further, as Set's right hand ignited with blue fire and she began slashing it through the air in a series of random and indistinguishable symbols. "I COULDN'T CARE LESS WHAT HAPPENS TO FEEBLE MINDED FOOLS LIKE YOU!" After several more swipes with her hand, the vixen ended it with her arms raised, causing a blue flash of light to fill the sky behind her.

All of a sudden, emerging from the light like a titanic phantom, the space behind the God of Storms was ripped open. An eerie white glow then began gushing out of the crack and into the earth's atmosphere, causing the clouds to part violently. At first this didn't seem like anything to the people watching from below. But after seeing the gap widen even more so and feeling the energy of the entire cosmos begin to circulate around it, pennies started to drop all around with a series of horrible clangs.

Whis's eyes widened in horror. "Elysium Breaker? No, Set! DON'T!" The terrified trainer reeled forward to yell up at his student, pleading her to stop. "If you use that technique without a catalyst you'll suck this entire dimension into the void between universes! There will be nothing left! You'll destroy everything!"

A manic grin quickly formed across Set's face, "That's the idea, master!" An evil chuckle escaped her lips as the energy of the entire solar system started to build and circle around the rip in space. It was a feeling that had Gohan clench his fists tightly and grit his teeth as he listened to the woman's voice echo down towards them. "I'm going to kill two birds with one stone! Why should I waste punches on a primitive life form from a Class C planet when I can simply wipe the entire slate clean with a single-"

"Shut up." Just as his opponent was in the middle of what he assumed to be an 'important' monologue, Gohan's red aura suddenly exploded off of his body at a fiercer rate, before he vanished in a flash of golden light. A moment later, a deafening 'crack' rang out across the planet when his fist promptly impaled Set's chest a second time and had her reeling forward in shock, the teen teleporting directly up to her and burying a blow right into her solar plexus. If the power shot didn't make her chuck her guts up right then and there, then it certainly did its job in stopping her technique from being fully executed.

The moment Gohan buried his knuckles into his opponent's gut, the tear in the universe behind Set closed up and a smirk formed on the demi-Saiyan's face.

"Don't waste time on such flamboyant moves. They leave you wide open," the teen spoke, removing his fist from her stomach to let the woman curl forward and grip her abs painfully. Upon which he cupped his hands overhead and, with a loud yell of anger, drove a hammer blow straight into the vixen's back, sending her plummeting to the planet's surface. A couple seconds later, the fox crash landed in the middle of the desert, shaking the continent with her impact and sending sand hurtling into the air. The Saiyan grunted as he looked down, "Who's the amateur now?"

Dropping from the sky to join her, Gohan landed softly outside of the crater his opponent had formed. His aura fading, the red haired young warrior watched and waited with an intense glare in play to see what'd happened to his adversary. Sure enough, after a few seconds of tense silence, the ground around him began to tremble and the atmosphere became filled with the embers of a growing energy signature.

Just as the tremors were becoming more and more violent, a pillar of blue fire suddenly gushed out of the center of the hole and blasted into the sky, with a dark silhouette slowly rising up in the heart of the column. When it suspended itself above the ground and before the demi-Saiyan, the tower of fire enveloping it dispelled, revealing an incredibly ticked off looking goddess inside of it.

As soon as her hate-filled eyes glued back onto the earthling before her, the vixen clicked her tongue irritably and cracked her neck. "You know what… fuck it. I'm going to enjoy this." Her frown deepening, the woman then gave a low grunt as her blue aura burst up around her, accompanied by a storm of electricity. The blast of her energy engulfing her body sent a gale in all directions, which quickly transformed into a cyclone when she achieved maximum power. As soon as her output stabilized, Set bared her fangs menacingly at her foe. "Don't act so smug just because you think you've gained the upper hand. I'm going to take that cute face of yours and pound it into the ground until it's just a muddy stain on the sole of my foot."

Gohan scoffed, "I'd like to see you try." He then took a step back and gestured for the woman to bring it on. "Come and get me."

The goddess leered excitedly, "With pleasure."

Then, in the blink of an eye, the pair powered up and rocketed into the sky, taking off from the ground and leaving the earth in the form of two pillars of red and blue light. Whis, still tied up and hanging in the air, watched the pair leave the planet until they were well and truly out of sight, yet continued to follow the battle with his other senses.

While Gohan and Set flew safely off of the planet, across the great plains of the desert where Vegeta and Zangya had been sent on a one-way flight, the latter of the two fighters was just regaining consciousness. Battered and covered in dozens of cuts and bruises, the wounded Hera pulled herself out of the ditch she'd formed and back onto the surface of the dunes. Coughing and sputtering on the sand that had gotten into her mouth, the woman peered up through a blurry vision to see what the hell was going on.

Stretching out her ki reading ability, the Z-fighter felt a whole bunch of things at once. For one, the rest of her team was down, and both her best friend and the dog bitch were no longer on the planet's surface. Zangya knew this much because she couldn't see anything over on the pyramid in the distance except for the poor bastard that was tied up and floating in the air. However, while she did sense everybody else was still in the area alive and kicking, she suddenly noticed something else that instantly had all her alarm bells go off.

Following the barely registering ki signature she'd picked up to its source, she quickly spotted Videl lying over on the terrace of the pyramid a full kilometer away. Even though she could barely see through her messed up vision and the blood dribbling down her face, her other extra sensory capabilities allowed her a much better scope of the situation. When she detected the girl's body stationed there with her life force ebbing away little by little, the Hera knew instantly that something was wrong and looked up in panic.

"Videl… no…" Mustering all the strength that she could, Zangya pulled herself out of the mountain of sand and floated all the way back to the pyramid.

Due to all the damage she'd suffered at the hands of the goddess, it was taking everything she had just to stop from dropping out of the sky.

When she eventually arrived on the terrace, the blue woman stumbled forward and collapsed next to the fallen teenager. After seeing the state she was in and the hole in her stomach, the orange haired fighter wasted no time in reaching for the girl's shorts and digging into her side pockets.

"Come on… I know you had more than one. I saw it. Please be here… please be here…" Zangya whispered, her eyes shimmering with desperation as she hurriedly rummaged through the tight sleeve. Withdrawing her hand a few seconds later, relief and joy quickly washed through the Hera, "Yes. Oh, sweet Kai, thank you." As she thought, the girl still had a Senzu bean on her. Grinning through a half-lidded gaze, the Z-fighter promptly elevated the teen and pushed the bean between her lips. "Come on Videl… swallow it. Don't quit on me now, babe…"

She was the toughest girl she knew. There was no way a shot to the chest was going to be enough to put this human down.

Zangya hoped, no… she knew if anyone was strong enough to pull through a situation like this, it was Videl…

XXX

Encased in their respective auras, both Gohan and Set blazed two parallel trails away from the earth. Easily breaking out of its stratosphere and entering the thermosphere in a matter of moments, the pair then began a running battle across the solar system. When the two of them streaked past the moon, performing a variety of impressive aerial maneuvers and spins, the super powered warriors then rushed each other and began trading hits at close range.

Yelling out at the top of her lungs, Set lunged at the boy with a left overhand, the blow connecting with a deafening crack before the two of them began circling each other at high speed. Moving in every so often to trade blows, the pair continued their dance across the heavens until, in the blink of an eye, they left the solar system far behind and blasted further into space. Shockwaves rang out like fireworks as they hammered away at each other, with the God of Storm attempting to land a hook until Gohan ducked under it and drove a side kick into her stomach. This then earned him an elbow across the face before he countered with a right cross, sending his opponent blasting out of the spiral arm of the Milky Way and further into the vacuum.

As soon as he set her up, the glowing red fighter rocketed after her and nailed her in the side with another kick, sending her spinning to another part of space altogether.

The red bolt chased after the out of control blue one, cutting her off with a shot to the back and sending her in another direction entirely. This quickly led into another game of tag as the pair blasted further into the cosmos. Clocking speeds well above what was mathematically possible, the duo passed by dozens of other galaxies towards a green nebula far in the distance.

Arriving at a star system resembling the Sombrero Galaxy floating within throwing distance of the brilliant dust cloud, the pair rocketed towards it at insane speeds. The duo remained locked in epic combat as they exchanged hits while spinning into the outer dust lanes of the celestial region, where Set ended up kicking Gohan through an enormous cloud of dust and straight through to the other side. When she raced around to cut him off, the demi-Saiyan spun on the spot and greeted her with a kick across the face, which she did so as well. Their blows collided with an ear-splitting shockwave and the force of a supernova, breaking up the dense layer of cloud behind them and clearing the vacuum.

When the pair spun away, they quickly halted in midflight and returned to normal positions. Floating amidst a cluster of moons orbiting an enormous gaseous giant, with a star burning brightly in the distance, Gohan and Set took that opportunity to regain their bearings.

Staring each other down, Set spat the blood out of her mouth while Gohan wiped the trickle out of the corner of his. Both now bearing mirroring battle wounds, they then regarded the other with seriousness and caution.

A smile slowly formed on Set's face, "I can't tell you how long it's been since the last time I fought a battle like this one. In the eighty million years I've held a position as a God of this universe, I haven't faced a single opponent worth calling a challenge. Even those who were in the same league as me couldn't measure up to the level that I desired. Meeting you today is a refreshing change of pace."

Narrowing his eyes on the woman, Gohan frowned, "I wouldn't get too comfortable if I were you. You killed my best friend… so don't expect me to show you any mercy or pay you any kind of compliments."

"That much is a given," the goddess replied, tilting her head in his direction as her blue aura fluctuated at its usual rate. "I will not try to argue. You have every right to hate me for what I did. After all, I too have experienced the same pains that you've felt. Serving as a guardian of this universe requires a great deal of sacrifice, especially from those chosen to be its deities. You and I share quite a bit of common ground in that respect."

The demi-Saiyan grunted, "That's the only thing we have in common with each other. Nothing else."

A chuckle came from the vixen as her tail wagged behind her, "Are you sure about that? Why don't we keep things civil between us for a couple more minutes and try to find out more about each other? If we keep this up, I'm sure you and I will be able to find out some interesting things about how the other person ticks… maybe more." She then winked playfully in his direction.

Gohan immediately smirked in response, "Sorry… but I have no intention of talking to you for any longer than I have to." His fist then clenched tightly, a bolt of lightning shooting off of him and striking one of the moons surrounding them. The impact of the expulsion of energy destroyed the satellite effortlessly, turning it into a cloud of rubble. "I'm here to get you back for what you did to my friends and that's that. There is no in between."

Snorting, the fox deity nodded, "I figured you would say something like that. Alright then…" Stretching her neck out, the woman then slid into a fighting stance and fixed her gaze back onto her foe, "Where were we?"

The moment their expressions steeled, the two warriors shifted forward into battle ready positions and, upon marking the other with their senses, charged forward at blinding speeds.

An earsplitting shockwave exploded off of them from their point of impact, shattering nearby asteroids and pushing planets apart. The blast even wiped out an unfortunate moon that happened to be orbiting too close to the anomaly, scattering it across the vacuum in a wave of debris. Moments later, more thunderclaps began ringing out as both Gohan and Set battled each other across the foreign solar system, barreling around the nearby gaseous giant before rocketing towards a neighboring terrestrial world covered in a dark grey, mountainous surface.

Continuing to intersect one another along a sweeping path of their region, Gohan soon managed to pull ahead of his opponent, putting some distance between himself and her.

Spinning around, the glowing red Saiyan narrowed his eyes when he saw Set's blue form blasting towards him, a cry of fury leaving her lips. Telegraphing her approach, the young warrior crouched down before leaping over the goddess when she swung at him with a punch, which he avoided and swiftly positioned himself above her. Before she had time to turn around, Gohan dove towards her foot first, giving a loud battle cry and driving a flying side kick into her face. The blow landed with an earthshaking 'boom', cocking her head to the side and sending spit flying out of her mouth.

Upon landing the hit, the demi-Saiyan then threw a right roundhouse kick into her chest, causing another thunderclap that sent Set plummeting towards the terrestrial planet below.

The woman's body ignited slightly when she broke through a few levels of its atmosphere, only to spin to a stop just short of the stratosphere. As soon as her momentum ceased, the vixen took aim at the Super Saiyan God above her. Then, in a blur of movement, she charged up at him. Her form phased out on approach, putting her in front of Gohan in the blink of an eye.

A series of sonic booms began ringing out as Set unleashed the mother of all beat downs upon her opponent, her fists crashing across the demi-Saiyan's body again and again. The red haired warrior found his head and torso being smacked around this way and that as the goddess leisurely mashed the stuffing out of him, an eager smile framing the vixen's face. This vicious onslaught continued for a full minute, with Set stopping only for a moment to deliver a series of merciless kicks to her target's mug before proceeding with the bombardment once again. Then, after burying a punch into his stomach, the goddess speedily flipped over Gohan's stricken form and drove a kick straight into his back.

Her blow sent the teen rocketing towards the planet below, his form burning up through the atmosphere before colliding with the face of it like a comet. His impact generated a massive explosion reminiscent of a scene taken straight out of 'Deep Impact', the force of his landing causing ripples across the planet's surface.

Not one to miss out on an opportunity, her target's catastrophic landing allowed the orbiting Set to bring her hand overhead and, with a bellowing roar, fired a golden blast straight into the world's surface. "Stella Hastam!"

The attack struck the exact same spot Gohan had landed, causing the planet to fracture with countless red cracks across its crust, a split second before the entire orb went up in a colossal explosion.

Smirking at the fireball as it filled the cosmos with a blinding light with debris scattering in all directions, Set then watched as chunks of the planet's rubble flew at her from the center of the cataclysm. At first she thought it was nothing, but when she saw one of the massive rocks explode and Gohan come flying out of it, her immediate reaction was her eyes widening before a punch slammed across her face.

The surprise hook sent the girl spiraling towards another part of the solar system. Crashing through a moon and shattering it on the way out the other side, the God of Storms quickly flipped herself upright and stopped in her tracks. Gritting her teeth towards the planet still exploding in the distance, she quickly spotted the glowing red form of her foe arcing towards her and cocked her hand back.

Thrusting it forward, the woman shouted and unleashed a barrage of energy blasts, which scattered and streaked towards their target from different angles.

Gohan's form darted through the salvo in a blur; avoiding the projectiles and watching them scatter across the outer rim of the galaxy to destroy hundreds of stars in the distance. After speedily evading the assault, the winded warrior teleported in a flash of golden light and reappeared directly in front of Set.

Seeing her hand held up at his face, the demi-Saiyan smacked it upwards, causing her to unleash her ki blast prematurely and towards another distant collection of star systems, which she inadvertently mowed through with her beam. Gohan then proceeded to uncork a beating on the goddess, smacking her around just as she had done to him before. After landing several murderous blows across her body, stunning the woman at their ferocity, the teen then threw his body back and double-kicked her in the stomach, sending his foe hurtling over the gaseous giant behind her.

As Set's form was sent spinning through the vacuum, Gohan back flipped and, upon taking aim, threw his hand forward and unleashed a powerful blue blast from his palm. "Flash Madan!" The attack exploded from his hand and rocketed towards his target like a spear surrounded by golden bolts of lightning. However, instead of hitting its target head on, it slammed into her side and knocked the woman plummeting into the gaseous giant's atmosphere, punching her straight through the planet and causing it to implode on itself.

Gohan's attack meanwhile streaked off into the distance, tearing past countless systems before eventually striking a neighboring galaxy. The explosion that resulted was catastrophic, wiping out the entire sector in a blinding orange light. The rings of the explosion rippled outwards to wipe out any stray stars or planets that happened to be in the vicinity.

Bringing his hand back, the demi-Saiyan cursed, "Damn it. I missed." His aim was only off by a few inches. If his attack had hit dead on, he would've caused his opponent some serious damage.

However, while it seemed like it'd done nothing, as the gaseous giant in front of him continued to explode, a blue streak of light shot out from behind it and streaked towards him. A split second later, a battered and thoroughly pissed off Set charged towards the confused looking Gohan and nailed him in the face with a haymaker, sending the boy barreling into the distance. After which she gave chase, her opponent recovering quickly from the blow and meeting her head to head.

Their forms tore a path of destruction across the galaxy they were in towards its center, blowing past thousands of stars and planets, while wiping out dozens more in the process. Explosions the size of supernovas filled the skies as entire solar systems were wiped from existence, with the duo continuing to battle it out like there was no tomorrow. Despite it being scientifically impossible, the shockwaves of their attacks could be heard echoing all across the cosmos, the force of which shattered moons and cracked planets from merely being in close proximity of every blast.

More thunderclaps rang out when Gohan and Set dueled across the heavens, bouncing from star to star. Eventually the pair met once again, their hands locking in a grappling match before the demi-Saiyan promptly kicked the Dio-jin towards another planet. The goddess spiraled around it, her form quickly recovering in mid-flight and allowing her to arc safely around the terrestrial orb. The warrior from earth pursued her, blazing a trail of red light in his wake while his opponent laid a respective purple trail to follow as she shot off into the distance.

Turning around, Set suddenly tucked up and threw herself into a spin. Gohan spotted this when he advanced on his adversary and by the time he realized what she was doing, it was too late.

Stopping her spin by thrusting her limbs outwards, the goddess snarled as she focused her energy into her palms before slamming them together. Then, with a bellowing howl, the woman fired a powerful Kiai at her target.

Gohan only had enough time to gawk in shock before he was hit full on by the invisible blast and sent rocketing back. The repulsive shockwave was so powerful it not only knocked the demi-Saiyan flying, it wiped out an entire row of stars behind him, disintegrating several hundred planets at the same time.

This anomaly could be seen from a distance as an entire collection of lights making up the galaxy going out one after the other in rapid succession, like a blackout in a city as seen from orbit.

The force of the blast did its trick in sending the demi-Saiyan barreling into the distance. When he managed to skid to a stop in the midst of the vacuum, he was just about to lock his sights back onto his foe until Set teleported into his blind spot and nailed him in the side with a wicked flying kick. This blow sent Gohan spinning to another part of the galaxy altogether, where his ethereal form crash landed on a massive terrestrial world several dozen times larger than earth billions of miles on the other side of the galaxy.

Bouncing over the planet's rocky surface for several seconds, the teen eventually flipped himself back to his feet and slid to a stop, digging his hand into the ground to halt his momentum. Gritting his teeth, Gohan swiftly looked up to see whether his opponent had decided to follow him.

Much to his shock, instead of seeing the glowing form of his adversary barreling towards him, his entire field of vision was blocked out by the shadow of one of the planet's three moons plummeting in his direction. The sight of it burning up through the atmosphere had the teen assume a defensive stance. But the instant he threw up his guard, the satellite's descent towards his position sped up.

Set, holding the moon from below with one hand while her aura burned brightly around her, gave a loud battle cry as she threw the massive sphere of rock straight at her target. With a deafening clap on impact, the satellite collided with the planetoid, not only burying Gohan under millions of tons of rock, but causing the planet's surface to cave in.

The collision between the two spheres was catastrophic, resulting in a blast of rubble and fire that rippled out in all directions. What followed shortly afterwards was both worlds shattering and imploding on themselves, disintegrating any satellites that happened to be in their vicinity. However, just as the two planets were beginning to go up in flames, the observing Set balked in shock when she saw multiple golden blasts shoot out from the impact point of the two planetoids in all directions before arcing towards her position.

Holding up her guard, the goddess speedily deflected them, sending the barrage shooting off across the cosmos. As soon as she blocked the last one though, a red bolt shot through the disintegrating moon she'd thrown and slammed headlong into her. This was actually Gohan tackling the goddess from the front and sending them both rocketing towards the solar system's sun. The pair's auras spiraled through the vacuum, loud shockwaves ringing out as Set drove a few elbows into her opponent's back, only for the teen half-breed to thrust multiple knees into her stomach.

The grappling fighters continued to barrel through space, slamming into two other planets along the way, going through them, and destroying them completely. With Set being the one pushed into the rocky worlds, the woman suffered the brunt of the punishment as she burst out the other side covered in dust and debris.

"Gah! Ugh! Damn it!" the vixen shouted, driving another elbow into the boy's back before kneeing him in the stomach, "Ugh! Let go of me, you bastard!" She then balked when the teen grabbed hold of her even tighter, pressing his face into her ample chest but inadvertently gripping her backside. "AAGH! You beast! I told you to let go of me!" She then grabbed his head and tried to push him off.

Palm in his face, Gohan snarled, "Make me!" He then cocked back his fist and proceeded to slam punches across his opponent's mug while his other arm remained tightly wrapped around her waist.

More blows reverberated across the vacuum when the pair began descending towards the nearby sun. The temperature climbing the closer they came to it, both Saiyan and Dio-jin remained locked in an epic brawl as they spiraled towards the blinding inferno. At first Set managed to gain the upper hand by grabbing the teen's neck and proceeding to drive multiple hooks across his cheek. But on her last swing, she overshot, allowing Gohan to get around her and put her in an arm lock. Then, with a mighty bellow, the teen pushed Set the rest of the way towards the star and drove her face straight into the sun's surface.

The goddess cried out as her face was literally dragged across Satan's barbeque, fire and molten waves rushing past her at an insane speed as Gohan tore a path around the massive ball of plasma. Yelling out in fury despite being in close proximity himself, the demi-Saiyan continued to push his foe through the inferno of the mass while holding her arm and head tightly in his grip, their auras providing them some protection against the celestial body. With the way the teen was forcing his foe into the star's ocean of fire, if he kept this up he was certain he'd be able to rip her face clean off.

However, unwilling to let it end with her fur being torn out by the roots, the enraged Set gave a roar of anger and, powering up, managed to force herself off of the sun's facade. With a great deal of effort, she swiftly turned around and elbowed Gohan in the face, prompting him to let go and freeing her from his vice-like grip. Thanks to the boy using her profile as a sled, half of her face had suffered some serious burns and bruising. But thanks to her durability as a goddess, they were only superficial wounds that were certain to heal over time.

Extremely ticked off, the woman slammed her feet into the sun's surface and began to skate backwards across the firestorm, while at the same time being pursued by her enemy. Taking aim, the vixen lobbed a few energy spheres his way, only for him to dodge them and sprint after her across the burning ocean, driving a blow into her face before she countered with a kick to his side. After maneuvering around columns of fire and prominences jutting out of the sun's surface, Set then cranked it into high gear and rocketed away from the star with a burst of blue energy. His aura exploding off of him at a much fiercer rate as well, Gohan gave chase to his enemy, the pair leaving the sun far behind.

Flying to another part of the galaxy, the pair attempted to outgun each other with their speed. But after a few seconds of playing cat and mouse, the demi-Saiyan managed to cut Set off and blindside her with a shoulder tackle. He slammed her in the side and sent her spinning off in another direction, allowing him to give chase.

Growling in frustration at being intercepted so easily, the fox deity spun about in mid-flight and watched her opponent come charging after her. Fists clenching tightly, Set then cracked open a hand and began gathering energy into a sphere, which quickly took the form of black matter surrounded by orange fire. "Try and dodge this, you piece of shit!" After concentrating an enormous amount of energy above her palm, the goddess used her other one to stabilize it and, after compressing the sphere even more so that it was the size of a tennis ball, took aim at her target and yelled. "Disappear into oblivion! Black Hole!" Set thrust her hand forward, pitching the black sphere straight towards her adversary.

Gohan, spotting the approaching attack, skidded to a stop and attempted to avoid it. But the attack tracked him and slammed into his stomach, propelling him in the opposite direction at a ridiculous speed.

Trapped against the enormous gravitational pull of the ball of matter, the demi-Saiyan was unable to do anything when, all of a sudden, the black sphere began drawing in everything around it. In a matter of seconds, asteroids, moons and planets of all shapes and sizes were yanked towards Gohan's position and crashed together one after the other. The incredible suction power of the attack was so great that it began mashing the planets together into a single, uneven mass, with even more space debris coming in by the second.

Feeling the crushing pressure of billions of tons of matter pushing down on him from all sides, the thoroughly trapped Saiyan gritted his teeth angrily as the black orb at his chest threatened to crush him into oblivion. "I… can't… let it… end!" Gohan growled while bolts of red lightning ran up and down his body. With the weight of a dozen worlds pressing down on him, it was easy to see how much pain this attack was causing him, "I can't! Not now!"

As the attack continued to draw in planets at high speed, including a nearby sun which began to break apart, Set, maintaining her position in the vacuum, grinned manically and took aim with her finger. "There's no getting out of this! It's over!" Focusing her energy and producing a bright orange glow from the tip, the woman allowed for a moment to catch her breath before letting loose her attack. "Die!" She then unleashed a powerful beam from her finger, sending it rocketing towards the growing collection of planets and rubble, and piercing it effortlessly.

His teeth clenching in rage as he sensed the attack burrowing towards him, Gohan's eyes then flickered before, spurred on by the images of Videl's death, as well as the demise of his friends and his home, the demi-Saiyan curled up, took a deep breath, and threw his head back with a mighty howl. "NO! I WON'T LET YOU DESTROY MY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!" His red aura exploded from his body with multiple shockwaves, dispelling the black hole pressed into his chest, disintegrating the rocks crushing him, and repelling Set's blast effortlessly. Energy skyrocketing, his aura not only shot through the cracks between the spherical bodies pressing tightly together, it also freed him from the prison of rubble and magma. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGH!"

Set had to shield herself when the shockwaves from the teen's outburst rippled out from the mash of planets and struck her like a tsunami, causing her eyes to widen in shock.

Aura blazing like a strobe, Gohan tore through the surrounding layers of rock and mantle. Using his senses to mark a path, he tunneled his way out of the coffin of spheres at high speed and exited its northernmost pole in a spectacular shower of lava and rubble. As the body of planets began to collapse on themselves, the teen kicked his thrusters into action and streaked towards Set in a blur. With a loud battle cry he crashed into her with a punch, slamming it across her face and knocking the goddess senseless.

The teen chased after her, laying into the vixen's body with multiple blows until his kick was blocked by a well-timed check. After that the pair immediately began trading shots, more shockwaves reverberating throughout the heavens as they dueled at speeds no other warrior could reach. Eventually breaking off, Set gained some distance and, thrusting her hand out, launched a barrage of multiple ki blasts towards her target. The bombardment chased Gohan across the outer rim of the galaxy, blasting out planets and stars one after the other before the demi-Saiyan hit the accelerator and arced towards Set like a missile.

As he converged on her, avoiding the hail of blasts, he then thrust both hands forward and unleashed a salvo of his own. The blue attacks hurled by the Super Saiyan intercepted the golden ones, colliding in the center and exploding with enough force it took out another chunk of the galaxy they were in.

With the sector collapsing around them and becoming engulfed in super nova sized explosions, Set quickly bailed on her attempt to shoot down the teen and shot off into the cosmos. Gohan sent a hail of ki blasts after her, but when the deity arced around and effectively avoided the attacks that exploded uselessly in the distance, the demi-Saiyan clicked his tongue irritably.

"Damn mosquito." Sucking it in, Gohan held his hands outwards and took aim. Then, after gathering a substantial amount of energy, he slapped them together with a loud 'clap'. "Hold still!"

All of a sudden, while Set was speedily flying away from her adversary, the woman gave a yelp of surprise when a transparent wall of energy formed on either side of her, before slamming together and sealing her in a red pane of glass. Flattened inside the powerful seal, the startled vixen was unable to do anything when Gohan teleported directly beside her and, with a shout, punched the glass and shattered it into thousands of pieces.

When the shards scattered, they spilled out multiple purple streams of ki that quickly converged around a single point and reformed into the God of Storms. Gasping in shock with blood trickling down her face, the woman's eyes snapped in the direction of her enemy in bewilderment.

"He's fucking crazy!" Alarmed at how proficiently the Saiyan was using his celestial ki, the woman decided to get some more distance and quickly teleported in a puff of black smoke.

Appearing well outside of the galaxy they were fighting in so that she could see the entire star system all the way to its center, Set took aim with her hands before beginning to blast the shit out of it. "Go to hell, you prick!" Her hands thrust out one after the other, unleashing a hail of powerful orange energy spheres towards the area Gohan was in and began mercilessly decimating it.

Reacting instantly, the demi-Saiyan powered up and shot across the spiral galaxy, avoiding the salvo of attacks that started taking out stars by the droves.

From a distance, as Set chased her target with her barrage of Continuous Energy Bullets, countless sphere shaped explosions ripped across the cluster of systems until there was no galaxy left. With the explosions dying out, leaving nothing but dust and debris in the attack's wake, the goddess continued lobbing blasts after the retreating demi-Saiyan, who streaked past a quasar that got caught in the crossfire and became disintegrated in a similar manner to the galaxy that'd served as their battleground.

Just as another one was being subjected to the assault, the fox deity snarled. "Where do you think you're going?!" Cupping her hands in front of her, Set yelled out at the top of her lungs and unleashed a powerful beam of golden energy towards the large irregular galaxy the teen had flown into. "DISAPPEAR!" The attack struck its center in the blink of an eye and engulfed the entire star system in a massive hyper nova that wiped out the entire area effortlessly.

The blast was so enormous and so bright that it could easily be seen from other nearby clusters.

Lowering her arms, the woman huffed excitedly as she began searching for her opponent, who had seemingly disappeared amidst the chaos of her assault. But just as she was beginning to hone in on his position, her eyes widened in shock before snapping around to see his form rematerialize out of golden photons of light directly behind her and charge at her with a battle roar.

In the blink of an eye, the young warrior shot past her, hitting her with a running blow that knocked her back and had her cough up blood.

Expression conveying shock and disbelief, Set then glared after her target. Blue aura springing up around her, the goddess's eyes shone a bright red before, with a bellow of rage, Set threw her limbs out and unleashed a storm of countless energy blasts from her body. The attack indiscriminately scattered, not only forcing Gohan to dodge more erratically, but also peppering and taking out several other bodies in the super cluster. Galaxies were either wiped out or suffered extreme damaged as the enraged goddess let loose all of her pent up anger and frustration upon the quadrant, with the assault soon dying off and leaving her floating in place panting heavily, but ultimately unsatisfied.

Gritting her teeth, the woman then looked to her right to see her adversary teleport into view and swing up at her with a punch. She quickly cocked back her fist and thrust in with a counter, only for her fist to pass through an after image. Before she could withdraw it, a punch from below knocked her upwards, allowing Gohan to get around her stunned form and kick her in the side. The blow produced an earsplitting shockwave and sent Set's body barreling across the sector.

The force of the attack knocked Set for a loop, sending her into a ragdoll like spin that had her passing galaxies left and right. Eventually the woman managed to halt her flight with a quick burst of ki, stopping her dead and allowing her to descend to the surface of a large moon.

As she descended from her flight, bolts of blue lightning began shooting off of her and into space, followed by a black aura that started to bleed out of her pores. A murderous look appearing across her face, the fox goddess then snapped her eyes towards a distant red galaxy shining like a beacon against the backdrop of infinite stars. After considering it for several seconds, her gaze quickly shifted back to her distant target. "Let's see you try and block this." Holding her left hand out to the star cluster as her body became incased in black flames, the entire spiral system became extinguished and all of its energy was sucked into her palm. "My ultimate move. There's not a creature alive, God or Demon, which can withstand an attack of this magnitude!"

As her left hand became filled with glowing red energy from the galaxy, Set then threw her right hand out and drew on the energy from a nearby quasar, taking its entire form and compressing it into her palm. The energy from both the celestial bodies became absorbed into her palms faster than the laws of physics permitted and, once she'd compressed the energy of two galaxies into a red and blue sphere, she mashed them together in front of her and molded it into a purple, basketball sized ball of pulsing energy.

With bolts of blue lightning shooting off of her shadowy form, the enraged goddess snarled and took aim at the cosmos in front of her.

Landing on an enormous terrestrial planet several galaxies away, Gohan looked across in alarm when he sensed the enormous build-up of energy in the distance. After seeing two separate celestial masses get sucked into a single point and watching that source burn brightly on the horizon, the demi-Saiyan gritted his teeth and took a stance.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa… wait just a damn second," Gohan murmured, eyes wide in horror as beads of sweat ran down his face. "Does she plan on firing that at me? The way she's distorting and altering the energy of those quasars, she's built up enough power to wipe out half the quadrant with one shot!" She was compressing several galaxies worth of ki into a single sphere, warping the laws of physics with enough energy to simulate her own big bang.

It seemed impossible in theory, but the laws of earth's physics didn't apply to her. Right now, the goddess was altering existing physics and changing it to suit her means, producing enough energy for an attack that had the potential to wipe out a significant portion of the universe. Hell, the amount of energy she was holding right now was almost comparable to the dawn of creation.

This was definitely not good.

Clenching his jaw tightly and powering up, Gohan cupped his hands beside him and began focusing his energy. "Fuck! Nothing ventured, nothing gained!" If he didn't match a counter to this attack, then he could kiss the entire Northern Quadrant goodbye. So, maxing out whatever power he had and drawing on energy from his surroundings, the teenager produced a massive blue sphere of ki between his palms and continued pouring all the energy he could into it.

With red bolts of electricity streaming off of his glowing form, the young Super Saiyan was producing so much power that the entire planet he was standing on began to shake and crack, with the landscape crumbling under the sheer amount of energy being built up. Gravity shifted drastically once more, with every chunk of land and satellite in the vicinity beginning to orbit his position. Even the planets that were once traversing a path around the nearest star shifted and began orbiting around him.

Expression scrunched up tightly, Gohan felt all the muscles in his body screaming at him in protest as the enormous amount of energy he was producing pulsed and burned between his hands. Blood beginning to drip out of his nose with the amount of ki he was trying to compress, the half-Saiyan pushed on, determined to stop his opponent at any cost. "Come on, body! Don't quit on me now!" His aura blasting out at an even fiercer rate, the gutsy warrior began to chant. "Kaaa…. Meee…"

With her own body trembling violently and blood beginning to trickle out of every orifice on her face, Set grinned excitedly as she glared across the cosmos towards her opponent in the distance. "Yes! That's it! That's exactly what I want to see! Wow… what power!" the woman barked, thrilled that she was finally able to meet an enemy who could match her blow for blow. "You are, by far, the greatest opponent I have ever faced! Kai, I love that no-die-attitude! You are absolutely incredible!" She then laughed as she threw her hands above her head, the purple sphere's light intensifying and the power in it increasing several times over. "It's a shame it has to end now! I was planning on using this blast to recreate the universe in my image, but you will do just fine, handsome! "

Gohan, hearing her loud and clear via his telepathic connection to her, gritted his teeth as his eyes began to bleed. "Haaa… Meee!" Energy pouring in from the surrounding stars, a loud clap of thunder rang out as the entire planet he was on splintered. The aura blazing from his body pulsed as brightly as a quasar, flashing across the entire galaxy he was in while the energy in his palms gained stability.

In a matter of seconds, he was ready.

On the other side of the spectrum, so was his opponent.

Pulling her arms back, Set roared out at the top of her lungs. "Let's see which of us cracks first! CELESTIAL SPEAR: INFINITY BIG BANG STORM!" Then, all at once, she unleashed the largest blast ever conceived by a living organism, which left her hands in a blinding flash of light that could be seen from every corner of the quadrant. "BURN IN THE EVERLASTING HELLFIRES OF CREATION! BE UTTERLY ANNIHILATED! RIGHT DOWN TO THE VERY LAST ATOM!"

A deafening howl rang out across the cosmos when a bright, purple and green blast exploded from her palms and rocketed towards the distant galaxy. The attack leaving her palms was so big and so vast that it literally dwarfed the quasars in their sector by several times. They were like pebbles to a wave. In Gohan's eyes, the blast took the form of a massive wall of energy with the destructive potential to invert the entire face of the universe and blast a hole between dimensions.

However, not one to give up without a fight, the demi-Saiyan bucked up and, with a bellowing roar of his own, launched his attack at the approaching tidal wave.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

A gargantuan blue beam left Gohan's hands with a thunderous howl, rocketing towards the approaching tempest and hitting it head on. The impact between the two was gigantic, generating a sphere in the center so large it swallowed up several galaxies and quasars that were too close to the fire and disintegrated them. The impact also created a repulsive shockwave that pushed many others in the vicinity out of the way, allowing the pair to clash in the biggest tug-of-war battle in history.

Both blasts drilled into each other like opposing vortexes, twisting and warping the very fabric of reality in its center. In the central mass being produced by the attacks, countless galaxies were born, grown, and destroyed all at once, creating explosion after explosion with enough force that the entire quadrant trembled. Though this part of the universe so close to earth remained devoid of life, all across the cosmos civilizations turned to the skies and saw the energy clash taking place before their very eyes.

The clash was so vast that the display was almost surreal.

From where Whis remained suspended on the terrace back on earth, as the attendant stared up at the sky he could literally see the two blasts launched by both warriors crashing into each other at infinitum, as if the battle itself was taking place in the earth's stratosphere. In reality, the fight was taking place billions of light years away, defying all the laws of reality. The sight of it had the man gawking in both awe and terror.

One of them had to give way eventually. But before that, you could bet that more destruction was sure to follow in the wake of this epic struggle.

XXX

(Meanwhile)

Up in Otherworld, the entire community currently living on Grand Kai's planet had stopped everything they were doing to watch the catastrophic events that were taking place down in the universe below. Across the sweeping magnificence of the planet where the greatest warriors in history came to train and study under the overseers of creation, every single fighter present could be seen standing in the open fields with their eyes shut as their teachers, the four Kais, hooked them up to the fight that was quickly capturing the attention of the entire universe.

Normally a battle down in the land of the living wouldn't have garnered so much interest. However, after it was discovered by the ever watchful North Kai himself that the God of Storms Set had been awakened from her tomb, he quickly relayed the events of the catastrophe to his fellow Kais, who then proceeded to inform their students of the chaos that was taking place. From the way they could see the events were progressing, it was an absolute possibility that if they weren't sitting in a completely different dimension, every single one of them would be able to feel the tremors of the battle raging on between the two titans.

Hell they didn't even need to be there to cringe at every single blow that landed. When all of it eventually boiled down to a quadrant-wide tug-of-war match, everyone across the netherworlds held their breaths and waited to see who would emerge victorious.

For the four Kais standing in the same patch of field as their disciples with their fists and teeth clenched, they were hoping that it would be the son of their resident Saiyan.

"Holy free holies, are you watching this?" the blonde East Kai with the wide-rimmed hat spoke up, her voice stammering nervously.

"My glasses haven't fogged up yet so… yeah… I still am," the tall, pink-skinned South Kai also spoke up, sweat breaking out over his face as all of his students behind him murmured anxiously, the battle escalating at an alarming rate.

If they watched closely they could see entire worlds breaking apart as the cyclone of two opposing energies grew even larger.

West Kai swallowed nervously as he looked over in North Kai's direction to see his colleague standing there with his number one student's hand pressed into his back. "Hey… d-do you think that Gohan boy has a chance against her? I mean, between him and the dog woman, I don't really think-"

"Of course he has a chance!" Goku shouted as sweat poured down his face. Fists clenching tightly as he watched the beam struggle intensify, the man lowered his head and spoke up once again, his voice laced with seriousness and determination, "He's my son! There's no way Gohan will lose to her!"

The fury and confidence in the man's words had the short, purple guardian take a step back and murmur uneasily, "A-Alright. If you say so." He quickly turned back to the battle and shut his eyes. "I mean… this is Set we're talking about… the goddess of darkness and storms, and the most powerful force in the universe. Forgive me if I'm sounding a bit dicky about the whole thing."

Glasses flashing thoughtfully, the nervous Kai of the North turned to glance up at his spiky haired apprentice, "He's got a point you know, Goku. The person your son is fighting is one of the most powerful deities in existence. There are very few beings in the cosmos that can compete with the likes of her and even us Kais couldn't hope of stopping such a force on our own. The best we can do is pray and hope your son comes out of this in one piece…"

Breathing in deeply, the full-blooded Saiyan smirked, "If there's anyone out there who can beat this 'most powerful force in the universe', it's him." And despite what anyone else thought, the man meant it. "He's my son… and I know he will win. You can count on it."

Though Goku had every bit of confidence and belief in his child's strength, the Kais still had their doubts, with all of them quickly returning to watch the universal clash inch closer to its climax…

For all they knew, this was the battle that would go down in history as the one that decided the fate of their reality.

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(Back in the Universe)

By this point in time the planet Gohan had been standing on was long gone, having been disintegrated in the wake of the energy struggle. With sweat and blood pouring down his body, the teen felt the top of his gi shred to pieces as the gale from their colliding attacks ravaged them from head to toe. Set too was pushed back under the typhoon, her fur being ruffled by the heat at the center of their clash rushing past her.

They couldn't give up. Not yet. One slipup would lead to the other's fall, but what a glorious fall it would be. The heavens themselves were trembling under their efforts.

Energy clashing and tearing at the walls of the universe, Gohan and Set continued pouring everything they had into their attacks and sending it at their opponents. With the force of their duel pushing them back through the vacuum little by little; it was only a matter of time before one of them broke.

Sensing that time was fast approaching, the demi-Saiyan decided to make his stand. "How does it feel, Set?!" the teen shouted above the raging inferno of their tug of war, watching from his side as the goddess struggled to hold her ground… or whatever it was she was now floating on. "How does it feel to be oppressed?! To be broken down?! To be the victim?! To watch your dreams crumble and die right in front of you?! DOES IT HURT?!"

Hearing him loud and clear over the howl of their attacks, Set snarled loudly as blue fire exploded from her shoulders and a black smoke began to waft off of her body. With her increase in power, the woman drew her hands back a bit before, with her eyes flaring red, unleashing all of her pent aggression in one mighty blast.

"LET ME SHOW YOU, YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITE!" Her output increased several times, a massive shockwave ringing out while her energy gushed out of her hands like water behind an exploding dam. The surge of energy rushed down the beam and struck the head of the attack, where it began forcing the opposing blast back towards its user.

Gohan, feeling the strain of Set's efforts pushing him through the vacuum, gritted his teeth and, snarling loudly, he let loose even more energy from his body. The blue inferno leaving his hands grew in size, burrowing into his opponent's own attack and causing it to split and break. Instead of being swallowed up by the significantly larger blast, the smaller one of the Saiyan's proceeded to push forward.

It was a result that had Set recoil in disbelief. "Impossible!" the God of Storms gawked while her body shook painfully, "Where are you drawing all of this power from?!"

Gohan frowned as he felt the vixen's attack push back with just as much force as before. "You don't get it, do you? Your dream to conquer the universe, to tear it down and recreate it, it's all just a big fantasy! A delusion!" The teen roared as more ki left his body and fed into the stream of blue fire, "Deciding the fate of every single being in this reality is not your decision to make! It's nobody's decision to make! Everyone is free to make their own choices and to live their lives how they want to, without the need for anyone to tell them what to do! Mark my words Set… this battle will decide the future of this world! It will mark a path for everyone behind us; the dreams of those who have gone and the hopes of those who will follow! Tomorrow will bring about the birth of a new universe… a universe where all dreams are realized!" Taking a deep breath, Gohan then bellowed out across the stars, "AND NO ONE WILL NEED TO BE SACRIFICED TO MAKE THAT WORLD A REALITY!"

Shaking her head at the teen's speech, the goddess held her space firmly and brought up whatever energy she had left in reserve to the frontlines. "Strong words! But let's see how well they hold up with no skin on your bones!" With one final roar, she unleashed another burst of energy, her attack surging forward with even greater force.

Lurching back under the increased pressure, Gohan clenched his teeth before, with a cry of agony, blue energy exploded from every pore on his body and rushed into his attack, the power of which multiplied several times over. Like a roaring tsunami, his attack drilled into Set's blast, overwhelming it, and went charging towards her at an unbelievable speed.

The vixen's eyes widened in alarm when her attack's momentum creased and the Super Saiyan's beam barreled in her direction. Not willing to take a blast that powerful head on, the fox deity disengaged from the tug-of-war match and leapt out of the way, watching the missile that was the Son's signature move rocket past her.

Not wanting to be the medium that would lead to potential disaster, Gohan swiftly cut off the flow from his attack and thrust his hands forward. With a shout of effort, he willingly forced the attack to redirect to an empty part of space, where it shot off into the distance and vanished in a flicker of light. It avoided hitting any galaxies along the way and, if his calculations were correct, it would fly off and dissipate on its own.

Once the vacuum cleared, both Set and Gohan floated in the middle of empty space, glaring across at one another. Still shrouded in their respective auras, the former blue and the latter red, the pair took a moment to catch their breaths before deciding that they'd had enough of the silence.

Exhaling, Set frowned, "You're a real piece of work." Taking note of her foe's exposed chest and torso, which had been unveiled when his gi top had been disintegrated in the beam struggle, the deity licked her lips and grinned. "Oh yeah… a real piece of work."

Gohan grunted, "A lot of the guys I've fought over the years might agree with you."

Tail waving behind her, the deity smirked in his direction, "That reminds me. I never actually got your name."

Narrowing his eyes at the goddess, the young warrior considered her words for several seconds before figuring he could perform this one little courtesy. Though it was partly out of some semblance of respect for his opponent, there was another part of him that couldn't deny the request no matter how much of a grudge he held. In spite of having the greatest rage of any of the Z-fighters, the teen was admittedly terrible at having prolonged resentment towards other people. "It's Gohan."

"Gohan, hm?" the vixen exclaimed, the name rolling off of her tongue like an elixir as she shared with him a pleasant smile. "I like that name. I'll be sure to remember it." Rolling her head on her shoulders, she then threw him a challenging look. "Alright then, stud. Let's see what other tricks you have up your sleeve." Streams of electricity running up and down her body, Set then leaned forward and rocketed towards her enemy at a blazing speed.

The demi-Saiyan reciprocated her actions, charging forward with his red aura burning like NOS.

From a distance it looked as though the feuding duo were ready for another head-to-head confrontation. But just as they were closing in on one another, the two super powered combatants suddenly vanished into thin air. While Set disappeared in a puff of black smoke, Gohan's form turned completely gold and disappeared in a flash of light, signaling that both of them had used their respective Instantaneous Movement techniques. As a result, almost every single being across the universe, both in the living and Otherworld, completely lost sight of the warriors.

The pair had taken their fight to another dimension.

Their teleportation sent the fighters into the pocket dimension that allowed them to travel across the cosmos wherever they wished. This particular area took the form of a brightly lit, white void surrounded by countless portals and doorways leading down swirling tunnels to other parts of the dimension. As soon as their forms leapt out of their respective entry points, the pair wasted no time in charging at each other and locking horns in the center.

A loud thunderclap rang out when Gohan threw a counter cross over Set's shoulder and slammed it into her face. After which the demi-Saiyan elbowed her in the head, knocked her leg out and kneed her in the back. He then cupped his hands overhead and slammed a hammer blow down on top of her, sending the woman spinning into a portal below. When he cocked a hand back and prepared a blast to fire after her, the goddess suddenly leapt out of a portal to his right and smashed him across the face with her fist.

The teen returned fire with a swift kick to her side, only for the vixen to check it and punch him in the face. She then kicked him across the cheek and sent him spinning away, but Gohan managed to stop and charge back at her, throwing a hook that she blocked and countered with a powerful roundhouse. When the Saiyan parried it, he instantly slipped to avoid the spinning back-kick that followed and chucked a kick of his own, landing it against her cranium. When Set spun around and thrust her palm into his face, she fired a blast at him, only for the hybrid to dodge it and tackle her in the stomach, sending the pair plummeting down another portal.

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(King Yemma's Palace)

The enormous check-in station serving as the registration zone for all those passing through into the afterlife was currently on break as the staff had called in for an early recess. Reason being was the same reason the rest of the universe was on stand-by; the battle between the Z-fighters and the God of Storms, or more appropriately the beat down between Gohan and Set.

At that very moment, every individual ogre currently employed at the station had assembled in King Yemma's office to watch the enormous television he had set up beside his desk. It was here through the excellent reception given to them by their generous service provider, they were able to witness the universal clash between the two God-level warriors. Despite the spiritual bodies struggling to get a good view of the pair due to the ludicrous speed they were traveling at, the crew was still able to acquire some excellent snap shots of some of the battle's key moments. From the moon being used as a battering ram, to the goddess being dragged across the sun's surface, and to the epic tug-of-war match between them, the pair's little skirmish had set the bar high for sheer galaxy busting awesomeness.

Heck, their duel was so monumental that King Yemma was actually taking the time to record the event for posterity. He and his staff had were having a blast watching the whole thing live, and with Baba floating on her crystal ball atop the main desk, the whole conflict was in the running to be one hell of an after party as well.

That was until the pair suddenly vanished using instantaneous movement, taking their battle to a dimension that they couldn't track.

Blinking as the screen drew up nothing but an empty starry sky, Yemma raised an eyebrow and attempted to flip to another channel. Coming up with nothing but a few more shots of lifeless space, the head ogre with the red skin and purple suit growled and slammed a fist into his table. "This is unacceptable! Where the heck did those two go?"

Baba, rolling her eyes, looked back at the man tiredly, "Give them a moment, you old goof. I'm sure they'll pop up eventually."

Murmuring uneasily while a couple of his crew moved over to the television to see if there was something wrong with the reception, the hulking administration officer propped his elbow on his work space and rested his cheek in his palm. "Damn this old satellite television system. Why couldn't they just have the fight in an arena where we can all see it, rather than across the whole damn quadrant? Hell, they could just have their fight right here if it means I get to watch them duke it out."

The short witch floating atop her crystal ball opened her mouth to say something against that, only to be effectively silenced when the skylight to the check-in station imploded and two figures suddenly dropped down from the ceiling. Crashing into the main floor of the building, causing it to shake violently, the two figures then rolled out of the cloud of dust and across the floor, stunning the administration workers.

Leaping to her feet, a bloody-faced Set growled in a very dog-like manner when she saw Gohan do the same on his side of the office. Upon seeing him get to his feet, the woman charged in his direction with the intent to deck him through the wall, only for the glowing red teen to catch her arm and, kicking her feet out from under her, chucked the goddess across the room at full speed. The woman ended up plowing straight through the leg of Yemma's desk, snapping it and toppling the whole table over while she crashed into the far corner of the room. The poor boss ogre yelped in shock and fell off his chair from the violent tremor caused by the deity's crash.

The contents of the large desk scattering across the office, Gohan rushed forward to engage his opponent a second time, only to see her jump out of the hole she'd made in the floorboards and fly straight at him. The half-Saiyan skidded to a stop and head slipped a straight, only to have a left hook slam across his face followed by a push kick that sent him tumbling to the ground.

Stopping on one knee, the teen glared up to see Set sprinting at him again. But just as she was closing in on the bruised teenager, Gohan suddenly grabbed the massive phone from Yemma's desk lying next to him and, with a wide swing, slammed it into the vixen and sent her into the wall. When she hit the barrier, he ran after her with the busted handset and, treating it like a melee weapon, proceeded to slam it into her repeatedly with a comical 'ding' sound echoing out following every hit.

"It's for you!" Gohan shouted, slamming it across the woman one last time and shattering the striking half of the phone.

Immediately after that last blow, the teen readied himself for another. But just as he was aiming to ram it over the fox's head, Set sprang from the ground with a hearty scream of, "Fuck you," and tackled him in the gut, sending them both hurtling across the room and through the wall. After disappearing outside, the entire section of the office they'd barreled through collapsed, leaving a towering pile of plaster and wood lying where a sturdy barrier used to be.

While the staff was completely stunned by what'd happened, a slightly shaken and befuddled Yemma sat up from the floor and looked around in shock. Upon seeing the destruction brought about to his chamber, the man gawked in confusion, "Uh… what just happened?"

Baba, having also been knocked about from the unexpected scuffle, straightened up on top of her crystal ball and looked back at the boss with a scowl, "That would be the God of Storms and her opponent making a quick pit-stop at your palace, sir."

She couldn't have been more right on the mark. Either way, Yemma got his wish of having the fight take place in his office.

Too bad for him it was nothing like he'd expected.

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After their brief skirmish through the pocket dimension that served as the crossroads of their teleportation abilities, which led the pair through countless portals and tunnels, the two of them ended up taking an unexpected detour to Otherworld. Of all the places they could've ended up jumping to, it was King Yemma's palace that was the first to receive them. Completely ignoring the fact that they just trashed his office, the duo then wasted no time in taking their fight outside and across the golden clouds making up one of the many natural barriers of the netherworlds, where they proceeded to mercilessly kick each other across the fields at high speed.

More explosions and sonic booms reverberated throughout the infinite skies. Leaving a trail of destruction, mayhem and atmospheric disturbances in their wake, the red and blue figures streaked over the highway known as Snake Way to an open part of the cloud layer. Viciously trading blows, Set then received a solid uppercut to the face, prompting her to power up and leg it, gaining altitude. Gohan went screaming after her retreating form, but just when he was beginning to gain some ground on her, he suddenly saw the woman turn, cup her hands in front of her and, with a quick charge, unleashed a flaming ball of energy in his direction.

Dodging it, the teen watched the sphere streak off into the horizon, where it struck the cloud bank in the distance and caused a colossal, dome-shaped explosion. The shockwaves caused by the red blast were extensive, violently shaking King Yemma's palace in the distance and also distorting Snake Way, thrashing it about like a whip while the yellow ocean of gases and the very foundations of Otherworld were rocked to its very core.

Gritting his teeth at the gargantuan attack, Gohan spun back around to see Set charge at him with a yell. She chucked a fist his way, only for the demi-Saiyan to dodge her and slam a fist across her face. After a quick exchange of blows, the pair then rocketed up into the sky, streaking away from the administration zone of heaven toward a far more exclusive area of space. Not really caring where they were going or what they were running into, the two super powered warriors continued exchanging hits, with Gohan grabbing Set by the hair and beating her face in. While they ascended and the demi-Saiyan buried his knuckles into her mug, the deity's tail suddenly came around and wrapped around his neck, strangling the teen and allowing Set to land punches on him at her leisure.

Managing to catch her fists in mid-swing following several vicious hits, Gohan then kicked her in the stomach, sending her soaring.

Without even realizing it, the pair suddenly ascended into Grand Kai's airspace. The planet, complete with lake, rolling hillsides and palace, came into view from over the horizon of a gaseous giant; a beacon for any and all spirits trying to make their way in the afterlife. Their blows echoing across the sky as they plummeted from it, the pair's exchange became sloppy on the final descent before Gohan caught Set around the waist and slammed her into the ground. The duo landed hard in the middle of one of the planet's sweeping fields with an earsplitting crash, sending dust and debris hurtling into the air.

By some absurdly hilarious chance, the two supercharged warriors had managed to crash right in the middle of the crowd of fighters who'd gathered out on the plains to watch the battle via the Kais' telepathy.

The assortment of dead martial artists from all four corners of the galaxy gathered around the crater. They and the Kais, who'd speedily sprinted over to that area of the field, looked down to see Set straddling Gohan and, in full hoodlum style, was mercilessly pounding the crap out of him.

Loud cracks rang out as the fox woman drove blows into the stunned boy's face over and over again, stopping for a moment to catch her breath before going right back into it with a yell of rage.

While everyone in the area from North to South looked on in shock, with Goku speedily pushing his way to the front to see what was happening, the crowd then saw Gohan come to life and, grabbing the woman's fist, sat up quickly and head butted her. With the deity knocked senseless, the half-Saiyan then used that opportunity to reverse their positions, grabbing her by the arms and slamming her into the floor. The goddess managed to roll them a couple of times until she was on top again, locking his arm up before beginning to throw shots into his body, repeatedly and painfully.

Yelping out with every hit, Gohan attempted to fight his way out, but found he was unable to with her knee digging into his chest. "Damn it! Shit!"

The Grand Kai, a white haired man wearing leather and bearing a striking resemblance to a member from the Rolling Stones, gritted his teeth anxiously as he moved forward, "This is bad."

Goku, who was also watching nervously from the sidelines, then stepped to the edge of the hole and shouted into the center of the two-hundred yard wide crater. "Son! Remember that mud-wrestling show we watched together that one time?!" His shout inadvertently drew several odd looks from the nearby fighters, including his fellow sparring partner and rival Pikkon.

Hearing his dad above the string of blows knocking against his ribs, the teen shouted back, "Yeah! Why?"

"Do you remember what that woman did to the other woman when she was on top of her?!"

Thinking back several years as Set continued burying blows into his liver, Gohan was then struck with a sudden wave of inspiration. "Oh?" Acting on the memories of that amateur event, the teen swiftly wrapped his legs around the vixen's waist and yanked her down, pressing her close to him and preventing her from getting a proper angle to throw any hits.

With Set trapped against his chest, the teen twisted in and buried an elbow into her neck, before then slamming a hook across her face. Rolling them over, the demi-Saiyan quickly got behind the goddess, took her left arm, and stuck her in a lock that had him lying on her back.

From where the dead fighters of Grand Kai's planet could see from their places surrounding the crater, the position the pair had assumed appeared very… indecent. If this weren't a battle to decide the ultimate fate of the universe, at least one of them would've pointed it out.

The grunting and groaning wasn't helping the sight either.

Both growling angrily as they wrestled for dominance, with Gohan beginning to bend his opponent backwards in a very uncomfortable manner, Set's eyes suddenly widened before firing two golden beams from her irises. The attack veered upwards and, performing a perfect aerial loop, honed in and slammed into her adversary's spine. The beams ground into the demi-Saiyan's shoulder blades, drawing a cry of agony from the young warrior and prompting him to release her. This enabled the Dio-jin to slide out from under him and kick him in the stomach, sending him blasting across the fields.

When the teen struck the ground a second later, Gohan slowed his tumble and landed back onto his feet, sliding to a stop and digging two trenches into the ground at the same time.

Looking up with a frown, the demi-Saiyan powered up. His red aura sprang around him before he rocketed towards his opponent like a comet. Set, her own aura bursting up, yelled out as well and rushed in, the pair meeting in the center of the field and colliding with one another elbow first. Their impact sent a blast of wind washing over the planet, a shockwave that nearly knocked every single person in the area off their feet. As soon as they made contact, the pair began hammering each other mercilessly with attacks, shockwaves ringing out as every single punch, elbow, kick and knee was effectively blocked or deflected.

They continued assaulting one another in a blur, until an annoyed Set cocked her fist back and thrust it at her foe. Gohan blocked it with a side guard and, as soon as he pushed it away, went straight back to unleashing a storm of punches upon his adversary. The entire planet literally shook to the core under their light speed blows, an anomaly that knocked several fighters off balance and caused many others to stumble.

After a full minute of assaulting one another and not getting anywhere, Gohan quickly ended the skirmish with a quick head slip, avoiding a hook and countering with a right cross. His blow connected with a deafening 'crack', which he quickly followed up with a left hook, a right hook, and then a hard kick to the stunned vixen's abdominals. His last blow's impact was marked by a shockwave that split the ground and sent Set blasting to the other side of the world to crash into the enormous lake. Everyone in the area was able to see the geyser like splash the woman created.

Gohan on the other hand, as soon as he'd sent his opponent packing, held both his hands forward and unleashed a volley of powerful blue energy blasts from his hands. The attacks streaked through the air and bombed the lake Set had landed in, causing several explosions that evaporated a lot of the water and took a sizable chunk out of the planet. When the attack died down several seconds later, the entire atmosphere behind the assault had become choked up with smog and debris.

But just when it seemed the demi-Saiyan had taken his opponent out, the wall of smoke was then violently blown away when a thicker, blacker column suddenly shot up from the ocean and sliced the veil away. The shadowy mass of dark energy twisted and swirled through the air like a vortex, before stretching high into the atmosphere and spreading out like a phantom. The warriors watching from the sidelines gawked in horror as the necromancer like column of black cloud writhed in the air before them, whereas Gohan simply looked on with his battle-hardened expression in full view.

When the collection of gas reached a height greater than the tallest mountains back on earth, in the very center of the formation at its base, the source of the anomaly Set stepped forward and glared in her opponent's direction. The black aura literally gushing out of every patch of fur on her body, the red-eyed deity snarled angrily before bellowing across at her target. "This battle ends now!" Pulling her hand back, she then threw it forward and launched a wave of black smoke in the demi-Saiyan's direction.

Responding quickly, Gohan powered up and took off into the sky, avoiding the tendril that slammed into the ground and punched a much larger crater into it. When he ascended, the black arms of smoke from his opponent's avatar followed him, but he managed to counter them with a quick volley of blasts, dispelling them and allowing him to boost higher into the atmosphere. After arcing across the skies and reaching the planet's mesosphere, the boy then reversed directions and dove for his opponent at full speed.

Growling at her miss, the frustrated Set then thrust her hands out one after the other, firing two more blasts of smoke that shot towards her foe like spears.

With a quick knife hand and a superman punch, Gohan swatted away the first blast and plowed right into the next one, breaking it up while swiftly advancing on his foe. However, after smashing through the first blast, he was then met with a multitude of attacks as the goddess sent more and more tendrils up at him. The black clouds shot up like spikes one after the other, threatening to impale the demi-Saiyan if he slipped up for even a second.

Set had to bite down hard and use every bit of concentration she had to try and shoot her damn target out of the sky. One after the other her hands thrust upwards, until she got fed up and threw both of them forward and fired several blasts of smoke at the same time. Unfortunately, her efforts proved useless as one after another, she watched Gohan slip around her attacks and dispatch each of them in turn, chopping, kicking and hammer fisting his way through the assault. Even a salvo of a dozen smoke blasts failed to do the trick as the teen cut through them like butter.

With a mighty bellow, she brought her hands down, thrust them upwards, and unleashed a powerful blast of dark clouds from her palms towards her enemy. The column was large enough to swallow the boy whole. But just like with all her attacks, Gohan countered it in spectacular fashion. Forming a golden sphere in his left hand, he slammed it into the approaching wave and burrowed his way through it, screaming all the way down before delivering a solid punch to Set's face. His impact with the woman was marked by a sonic boom as he not only knocked the woman back and dispelled the mass of smoke surrounding her; he buried her straight into the floor.

But he didn't stop there.

The instant the goddess hit the ground, a colossal earth-shaking explosion rocked the entire world as Gohan pushed Set straight through the planet. A geyser of rubble and dust shot into the air on both sides of the celestial body, with a whole sixth of the Kai's home being blown out when the two overpowered warriors shot out of the sphere's mantel and began plummeting towards the lower levels of Otherworld.

All of the dead warriors and guardians of the four quadrants could only gape in shock at what had happened. Even Goku was standing there slack-jawed at the amount of power they were producing.

Still holding Set by the face, Gohan yelled out as they descended towards the yellow clouds at high speed. But just before they could reach them and punch straight through to HFIL, an infuriated Set bellowed in rage and powered up. Her blue aura engulfed her before she shot skywards, dragging the demi-Saiyan with her. Their red and blue auras clashed while they spiraled into the air, shooting past the planet that they'd been fighting on and soaring higher and higher into the heavenly plains that governed the order of their universe.

Blowing past moons and stars that didn't exist in the living world, Gohan and Set battled on for some time. Sticking close and circling each other, the pair exchanged punch after kick at high speed, most of them landing but just as many being deflected. Eventually, after several minutes of brawling through the otherworldly cosmos, the pair suddenly came across a distant, spherical world surrounded by moons; far out of the reach of the other Kais. It was here the pair spun in, burning up as they picked up speed before eventually colliding with the field covered planet. Their impact shook the entire world and knocked it slightly out of its orbit.

As it turns out, by some stroke of otherworldly luck, the pair had crash-landed in a field alongside two unassuming spectators. Both dressed in similar posh Kai outfits of blue and red respectively, one of them was a short, purple-skinned young man with a white Mohawk, while the other was a large man with reddish-pink skin with a head of long white hair. Having been out on a pleasant stroll of the hills earlier that morning, the pair had soon become glaringly aware of an outstanding conflict taking place in the universe and quickly linked up with the feed via crystal ball to see what was going on. But just as they were beginning to close in on the source of the untold levels of destruction racking the quadrant, the pair was suddenly interrupted by a pair of figures unexpectedly making landfall on their home turf.

The purple-skinned man with the pointy ears and sharp eyes, blinked in astonishment as he and his assistant stared across at the crater that had formed on the face of their sacred planet. "What in the world…?"

"Where did they come from?" Kibito also asked in bewilderment.

Hilariously enough, the two figures that'd dropped by just happened to be the same ones that were causing all the trouble down below.

Flying out of the hole and bouncing across the grass, Set leapt to her feet and glared at the ditch spewing smoke into the air. But just as she was about to fire a blast his way, a familiar ki signature caught her attention and her eyes snapped to her right. When her eyes landed on the two figures standing several yards away, most notably the shortest one, her surprised gaze gave way to full-blown rage.

"YOU!" the dog woman barked, spinning in the deity's direction and marching towards him. "EAST KAI!"

The figure with the Mohawk gasped and backed away fearfully, "S-Set? Is that you?"

"Yeah! It's me!" the fox deity shouted as her black aura sprang off of her shoulders like wildfire. "That was a real funny joke, you know; helping the other Gods lock me up inside of a fucking pyramid in the middle of nowhere." She then clenched her fists and loaded one at her side. "It was a cold and very, very lonely place. Here… let me give you a taste of what it was like." Aura blasting around her, the goddess launched herself from the ground and lunged right at the terrified Supreme Kai.

But just as she was just inches from landing a punch on him, Set was unexpectedly blindsided by Gohan body-checking her from the side and sending her barreling across the planet, crashing through several plateaus and mountains along the way.

Completely ignoring the stunned and terrified looks of the two aliens standing nearby, the beaten and bruised Gohan powered up and gave chase to his opponent, disappearing in a flash of red. This left both a baffled Supreme Kai and Kibito standing slack-jawed in the middle of the field, staring over the horizon with similarly pale expressions in play. It was while they were looking so close to fainting that all hell finally broke loose.

In a matter of seconds, explosions began engulfing the entire planet as massive chunks of the countryside were blown away in turn. Some areas ended up incinerated in enormous balls of fire, others simply had massive craters punched into them, and a handful more were blasted into a hail of rubble and debris. Either way, it wasn't long before the entire sphere became covered in battle scars and holes, with the Sacred World of the Kais taking on the appearance of a block of Swiss cheese.

Shockwaves and sonic booms reverberating across the skies in the form of trails of red and blue bursts, Gohan and Set continued landing crushing blows on their opposites. It soon reached the point where the pair had received so much damage that they were now battling at only a fraction of the effectiveness they had been at the beginning of their battle.

After receiving a hook across his face that sent him plummeting to the surface of the planet from the upper mesosphere, Gohan quickly tucked up and threw himself into a spin. Just when he was about a hundred meters above the ground, he opened up, slowed his descent, and cupped his hands beside him.

"Ka-me-ha-me …" the Super Saiyan chanted, teeth clenching as he then thrust his hands forward.

But just before he could fire his blast, Set suddenly teleported out of his line of sight and reappeared directly in front of him, grabbing his wrists with both hands and redirecting them skywards.

The goddess laughed at his stunned expression, "Ha! Too slow-"

Gohan smirked,"HAAAA!" He then threw his feet up and, in place of his hands, jabbed them forward and fired a powerful blue beams from his soles. The blast engulfed the woman's torso with concussive force, not only knocking the wind out of her, but also wrapping around her and continuing on. The attack struck a distant mountain and plowed an enormous hole into the planet's surface.

Releasing her opponent from her grip the instant the surprise attack hit her from below, the dazed and burnt Set gawked in shock before glaring in the direction of her retreating opponent. Veins pulsing on her forehead, the woman hit the after burners and blasted after him. "PRICK!" She then elbowed the boy in the face and sent him bouncing to the other side of the planet.

Flying over craters and destroyed mountains, Gohan's form ended up spinning towards what appeared to be a spire of rock standing in the middle of a lake with a patch of grass on top of it. When his body crashed into the lake and slammed into the base of the tower, the column of earth and stone rocked violently to one side before collapsing into the pond. As soon as it fell into the water, sending a cloud of dust and perspiration into the sky, Set wasted no time in advancing upon her quarry.

Lying dazed in the rubble, the badly battered Gohan glared up to see his opponent appear directly overhead. Hands clapping together, the goddess parted them quickly, producing a chain of gold lightning between her palms. "I've had enough of these stupid games! Sword of Osiris!" In a flash of light, a large, impressive sword of Middle Eastern design with a curved edge appeared from the current, which she promptly caught with one hand and brought overhead. "Dodge this!" She then swung down with a yell.

Eyes widening in alarm, the teen's eyes quickly snapped to the boulders next to him, where he saw a large claymore with a gold handle and a gem at the end of the pommel sitting in the ground. Without thinking twice, the Super Saiyan rolled over and, grabbing it, effortlessly yanked it out of the rock before a blade of energy was launched from Set's weapon. The light speed attack slammed into the ground where he'd been lying and, in the blink of an eye, cut the entire planet in half.

The entire world shook violently as the two halves slid in opposite directions, explosions ringing out all across the newly made equator.

Irritated at her miss, Set gave chase to her rival, who she saw was flying backwards with the Z-Sword in his grip. Catching up to the red-haired demi-Saiyan, the goddess swung out at him with swift, wide arcs, the golden blade carving through the air several times before clashing with the heavier one of her opponent's. Sparks flew when Gohan parried her shots, until he dropped to the ground to avoid a decapitating strike. As soon as he'd touched down, he performed a quick back flip, avoiding his opponent when she also dropped down after him and buried a kick into the floor.

Spinning his sword up into a two-handed grip, Gohan quickly sent a wave of ki into the weapon, causing the blade to ignite and turn a hot blue, further protecting it from his opponent's superb edge. Watching the smoking crater carefully, the teen then saw the smoke break and his opponent come charging out of the wall with her sword held back and an enraged look on her face. Rushing towards her in kind, the Super Saiyan clashed with her head to head.

Loud clangs rang out when their swords met, with Set pressing her hand into the back of her blade and pushing forward. Sliding it across her adversary's, she then slashed at him repeatedly, her attacks slamming into his guard over and over, before she swung out wide and sent the boy skidding across the grass with his sword held up. A gust of wind blew between both warriors when they circled one another, the vixen spinning her sword around all-cool style before rushing her opponent once again.

Set attacked her foe viciously, using a single-handed style combined with a series of acrobatic movements that allowed her to avoid her enemy's counter attacks. Gohan on the other hand held his sword in a two-handed grip, utilizing a highly defensive style that allowed him the maneuver around his enemy effectively and counter her hits. His sword slashed out in wide arcs, crashing into Set's blade and knocking her back under the force of his hits. When she leapt at him with a kick, he ducked it, blocking a swing from her sword at the same time before spinning around and swinging his blade in a diagonal motion. His claymore slammed into the woman's and sent her skidding across the field.

Growling, Set threw a downward swing at her target; her blade crossing with Gohan's when he blocked it. But just before she could follow-through, her opponent suddenly grabbed her wrist and yanked her forward. The demi-Saiyan turned on the spot so that the vixen's sword arm was locked over his shoulder and his back was to her. Using his momentum, he then elbowed her in the chest and face, released her, and then spun at her like a top, swiftly kicking her in the face. His hit landed hard and fast, sending her sliding with a shockwave that split the ground beneath them.

When Set stopped skidding from his impressive counter, the woman quickly shook herself out of her daze and moved in for a retaliatory assault.

Ready and waiting, Gohan parried her running blow and quickly sprinted away, the vixen pursuing him relentlessly across the grassy valley. Sensing her right behind him, the teen ducked and spun around, avoiding Set leaping at him with a spinning strike. When she swung at him with a third, he blocked her blow, before retreating a second time. After several yards, the demi-Saiyan unexpectedly changed directions, dropping to the ground with a low swing at his opponent's legs. Set swiftly maneuvered around it, checking his shin when he suddenly performed a break-dancing kick, spinning his legs through the air like a windmill before leaping back up and slashing out at her with his long blade.

Sparks flew between them as they struck out again and again, their attacks colliding in a series of loud clangs. This exchange continued on until Set performed a quick thrust to the teen's head, cutting his cheek when he slipped it yet forcing him to back off. When he ducked under a blow aimed for the neck, Gohan was suddenly kicked in the face, leaving him wide open for the vixen to swing down with her sword and slice right across his chest.

Blood splattered over the ground when her blade carved into his muscles. Though it was only a flesh wound, it still left a very painful impression.

Shouting in pain, Gohan sprinted away, his opponent charging after his tail across the ruined fields of grass. After running up the side of a towering hill to its peak, the demi-Saiyan spun around to meet his fast-moving foe, swinging at her with a low, upward strike, which she avoided by speedily jumping over him. His missed swing produced a powerful energy slash, which arced outwards, cleaves the tops off of a couple of mountains, and cut a third off a nearby, orbiting moon. When he spun around, he met Set rushing at him from behind with several more swings, which he hurriedly blocked with his sword.

When the goddess pressed her advantage, she forced him back, her curved blade crashing into his again and again until they both swung at each other with a downward and upward swing respectively. This resulted in a collision that produced an earsplitting shockwave and a clang, the former of which caused the entire countryside to fracture and shift violently. The resulting earthquake literally knocked an observing Kibito and Supreme Kai stumbling to the ground.

Their blades grinding into each other, both chipped and nicked from the prolonged clash, Set pushed forward, pressing her hand into the back of hers while Gohan kept a firm, two-handed grip on his. Both growled as they drew closer, their noses just centimeters away from their steel as the vixen pushed down from above. When the God of Storm's drew close enough that she could literally feel her opponent's breath on her face, a grin formed across her lips as she leered murderously in his direction.

"Not bad," she chuckled. "Your form is absolutely sublime."

Gohan, snarling, smirked right back at her, "You're not too shabby yourself."

With a shout, the demi-Saiyan disengaged, causing the goddess to stumble passed him. When they spun around to meet each other, Gohan cocked his sword back and, with a loud roar, thrust it upwards hard and fast. Set swung downwards in response, only for her opponent's sword to slash right through hers and the tip of his blade to cut across her forehead. The glancing blow caused a spray of blood, leaving a scar just above her eye that stunned the goddess.

Dropping her damaged sword, Set looked up in alarm to see Gohan bring his sword up and swing down at her. Responding instantly, the fox deity dropped to her knee and, slapping her hands together, caught the sword between her palms. As soon as she stopped it, she then twisted to the side violently and threw her opponent across the field, causing him to drop his weapon and roll down the hill like a barrel.

The moment he was sent rolling, the goddess sprang after him, picking up her damaged sword and spinning towards the teen. When Gohan stopped and turned to face his attacker, he immediately had to throw up his arm to block the stab from his foe, which ended up with her broken sword running right through his forearm. Upon impaling his limb, Set spun on the spot and snapped a kick into his stomach, sending him into the sky and straight through a distant mountain.

The edifice exploded in a shower of rubble when Gohan's form blasted through it before it went tumbling to a stop on the other side. A cry of agony left the teen's lips when he landed on his impaled arm. Quickly reaching for the handle, he yanked the broken sword out, before his eyes shot skywards to see Set diving towards him from the clouds.

With a shout, he chucked the busted blade at her, only for her to kick it out of the way and plummet towards him with a second kick.

Gohan leapt out of the way, avoiding the crushing blow that impacted the planet and cracked its surface. As soon as his feet touched the hillside several yards away, the Super Saiyan dashed forward and vanished into super speed. All of a sudden, the frustrated Set found herself surrounded by Gohans, as the warrior was moving around her so fast that he was producing countless after-images that filled the entire region and were now dashing circles around her. This had the vixen's eyes shooting around in alarm, sweat dripping down her head as she tried to figure out which was the real one.

Just before she could locate her shockingly swift adversary, a blow crashing across her cheek from the side sent her stumbling, the after images vanishing and Gohan reappearing half a kilometer away. Skidding to a stop, the demi-Saiyan took aim at his foe and vanished in a crack of wind, another blow slamming into Set's side when the Saiyan rushed past her at invisible speed. Then, after several seconds of silence, the red haired warrior dove towards his foe in a zigzag pattern, getting underneath her, and driving a kick into her chin that lifted her off the floor and into the atmosphere.

Teleporting after her in a golden flash, Gohan's form reappeared above Set and, just before the goddess could regain her senses, drove a kick into her side that sent her plummeting back to the planet. But the teen didn't stop there.

Diving in pursuit of the fox, Gohan caught her in mid-fall and began driving hundreds of punches into her head and stomach. His fists slammed into her over and over again, the sounds of deafening thunderclaps ringing out with every hit as they drew closer to the grassy floor. Then, after an onslaught of hits that left Set dazed and bruised, the demi-Saiyan loaded his fist and, with a roar that was matched by his red aura bursting around him, drove a right cross into her face that knocked the woman into the planet and out the other side.

The result was an enormous hole being blasted through the Sacred World's two halves, with the exit hole taking a massive chunk out of the celestial body. When the hail of rubble from the resulting cataclysm drifted into orbit, the two audience members on the ground saw Set emerge from behind one of the debris clouds with her glare fixed on the gaping tunnel. It was through the newly made hole in the planet she saw her opponent drift into view on the other side and, with his hands cupped over his forehead, he took aim.

"MASENKO-HAAAAAA!" Gohan bellowed, unleashing a golden blast straight towards his infuriated target. The attack rocketed through the fissure and thundered towards the goddess like a comet.

Seeing the incoming blast, Set smirked and held her hand out to it. "You think I'd fall for such a simple attack?!" She then gathered energy for a decisive counter attack.

But just as she was in the process of forming a fiery orange sphere in front of her palm, her shoulders were suddenly jerked upwards and her back was pulled against a hard surface. Caught completely by surprise, Set looked over her shoulder to see her opponent had caught her in a full nelson and, with a wide smirk framing his face, the teen powered up and blasted forward, taking her with him.

"Hey! What?! How-"

"Eyes front, Set!" Gohan shouted, his red aura blazing around him.

When the goddess looked to see where they were going, she saw the blast that her opponent had fired earlier closing in at an even faster rate. The instant she realized what the hell her enemy was planning, her eyes widened in horror before a terrified scream left her lips. A split second later, both the blast and the vixen collided in midair, the attack exploding above the planet with such force that it pushed the two halves of the ruined world from its original place. The golden, sphere-shaped inferno filled the sky, dwarfing the Sacred World three times over, and even managing to swallow up two nearby moons and disintegrate them.

The Supreme Kai and Kibito had to shield themselves from the shockwaves that crashed into the celestial body, digging their feet into the ground just to stay up. When the gales of wind died down shortly afterwards, the two of them looked back to see what'd happened.

At first astonished by the sight of the fire and smoke filled skies, as well as the completely trashed landscape, the East Kai with the Mohawk then blinked in shock when he saw the air clear. "Th-They're gone."

"Where did they go?" Kibito asked aloud, unable to locate them either.

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(Sometime later)

Back in the land of the living, in the space surrounding planet earth, a flash of golden light and a puff of black smoke appeared just behind the moon. As soon as the small cloud emerged from the vacuum, it quickly spat out two glowing figures that bounced off of the satellite's pole before they went spiraling towards the terrestrial home world of the Z-fighters. Both forms trailing smoke and locked in a heated grappling match, Gohan and Set laid into each other with tired punches while they broke into the planet's thermosphere and began making a fast approach of its mesosphere.

Fire engulfed the pair shortly afterwards as they entered the earth's atmospheric layers at high speed, piling on the damage little by little while punches continued to fly between them. When Gohan managed to wrap his arms around Set and drive knees into her stomach repeatedly, the goddess threw body shots and punches into his abdominals and face. Loud 'bangs' rang out as the force of their attacks echoed across the planet, the duo soon smashing through the clouds, soaring over forests and cities until they eventually hit the desert. It was here where they both crash-landed into the dunes, bouncing off of it once, then twice, and then landing on separate parts of the plain a full minute later.

When the cloud of sand settled from their simultaneous impacts, the two warriors quickly pulled themselves out of the craters they'd formed and, catching their breaths, fixed their swollen gazes once more upon their adversary.

Huffing furiously with his red hair rising up even more, Gohan grunted one last time before his aura roared into life. Kicking up dust and sand with his actions, the boy shouted across the orange valley, "A little more… just a little bit more… and I'll win!" Getting into a sprinter's start, the young male aimed his body and took off, blasting at full speed towards his foe. "THIS ENDS NOW, SET!"

Looking up in shock, the wounded and battle stricken goddess was unable to react in time when her enemy, traveling dozens of times faster than the speed of light, slammed into her and sent her rocketing across the desert. When they were just a few clicks away from the pyramids, Gohan drove her into the dirt and, with speed greater than anything he'd reached before on his own, he began to fly laps around her at blinding speed. The instant he started circling a tornado kicked up, a split second before he began laying punches into her like a glorified machine gun.

A cyclone formed above the two warriors when Gohan laid into his opponent with everything he had, his blows coming in at such a speed that it looked like Set was being attacked from all over by hundreds of opponents. The goddess's body contorted, bent and shook as she was violently rocked by a storm of blows; grunts and cries of pain leaving her lips under the assault. With the amount of damage that was starting to pile up, it was only a matter of time before his opponent eventually caved.

A sand storm blasted across the desert from the tornado that was the demi-Saiyan hammering away at his opponent. Due to the amount of force being exerted, the gales effortlessly reached the Egret Necropolis where the fight all started. In that very area, scattered across the landscape the beaten and battered Z-fighters slowly started to regain consciousness. From their places lodged in the ground, Piccolo, Vegeta, Paprika, Krillin, Android 18, Goten and Trunks looked up and across the desert to see the twister and the cause of it blazing a trail of never-ending laps around his foe.

Whis, who could also see from his shackled position on the terrace, gritted his teeth and leaned forward, counting down the seconds until Set's inevitable defeat. "H-He's going to do it…" This young warrior from earth, whom was just a small blip in the universe amongst countless others like him, was actually going to do the impossible!

He was close! So close!

"Come on! Come on! Come on! COME ON! Just a little more! JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE!" Gohan practically screamed in his head, not caring how much energy he was burning as long as his opponent was beaten at the end of this. His merciless bombardment continued and as he watched Set's face swell up under the beating, he knew he was only a few seconds away from victory.

However, just when it looked like Set would finally succumb to his attacks, the vixen, jaw clenching, reached out with her hand and caught the flying Gohan by the throat. Her firm grip locked around his wind pipe, stopping him dead in his tracks and causing the tornado he'd formed around them to start petering off. Then, as soon as she had him, the goddess snarled.

"BURN!" Set shouted, her red eyes igniting and firing two eye beams right into Gohan's face at pointblank range. The attack slammed into the demi-Saiyan's cheek, cocking his head to the side before the inferno that was the attack started to burn into him like a blowtorch.

The beams engulfed Gohan's head completely and traveled across the desert, flying off the planet's surface as the woman fed all of her energy into her final burst. Determined to fry the young man's brain, the vixen bellowed out as her aura exploded around her and the lasers shooting from her eyes intensified several times over. The glare was blinding and the pain the demi-warrior was subjected to as the tempest of fire tore into his flesh was excruciating.

Much to Set's satisfaction, a scream of agony echoed across the countryside as Gohan felt his skin start to fry and his flesh ripple under the waves of ki gushing out of the God of Storm's piercing gaze. The Z-fighters, who were well within earshot of the battle, could only stare helplessly as the battle-scarred teen's face got roasted by the equivalent of ten thousand suns exploding in his face. Piccolo, Krillin and Paprika especially, unable to bear witness to his suffering, attempted to pull themselves out of the craters they'd formed in the earth to help him.

But try as they might, they just couldn't hash it.

As Gohan continued to cry out under the firestorm engulfing him, Set's grin widened as she saw the left side of his mug start to blacken. "Yeah! This is for dragging my face across the sun earlier! Come on, hot stuff! Let's see that skin boil!"

Teeth clenching under the unending hellfire, the demi-Saiyan allowed one last growl to leave him before, with a great deal of effort, his hands reached up and grabbed the vixen's wrist. It was a response that had the goddess balk in shock. "Not… TODAY!" Then, with a mighty push, Gohan jumped up and slammed a knee into the side of Set's head.

The blow drove into her cheek, switching off her eye lasers, releasing Gohan from her hold, and sending the woman stumbling. The world around her blacking out for two full seconds, the goddess hurriedly tried to regain her balance and fix her crosshairs back onto her enemy. When she saw him land several feet away and set himself into a firm stance, the woman cocked her hand back and focused her energy.

"Why you…!" Just as she was taking aim with her blast, a bright blue light suddenly fell over her when the fully powered up forms of Zangya and Videl charged at her and rammed two Kamehamehas into both sides of her head.

"EAT THIS!" the women shouted, a deafening thunderclap ringing out when they drilled the spheres of energy into Set's ears and unleashed their blasts. A sphere shaped fireball swallowed up the God of Storm's head and body, which pulsed and howled loudly for several seconds before detonating with colossal force. The shockwave the attacks produced knocked the two female fighters away, sending them skidding across the desert sands to a grinding stop. When the dust faded from their respective attacks, both looked up to inspect the fruits of their labor.

Grins framed their faces as Zangya and Videl believed they'd finally managed to cripple the bitch that'd nearly killed them. But when the smoke cleared shortly afterwards, they saw the fox woman's silhouette emerge from the veil, and aside from two burns on both of her cheeks, she appeared relatively unharmed.

Her murderous gaze switching between the stunned females, Set suddenly threw her hands out and aimed them at the interlopers. When the girls backed up at the sight of her palms, the goddess began to charge, "That hurt, you stupid pests! Now you're going to pay!" Two golden spheres appeared in front of her palms, both crackling with blue bolts of electricity as a manic look formed on her face. Her irises dilating to match her wild mood, the goddess laughed, "FAREWELL TO THE WORTHLESS!"

Zangya and Videl threw up their guards, eyes widening in horror when the woman prepared to incinerate them.

But just as Set was ready to annihilate the two female warriors, her gaze was suddenly pulled ahead when she sensed an enormous collection of energy gathering. When the vixen's eyes landed on her half-Saiyan opponent, she saw that Gohan had cocked his hand back and, with a large sphere of blue energy floating between his fingers, had taken aim at her.

As if preparing to pitch a baseball, the fiery haired Super Saiyan sneered as his red eyes fixed squarely upon his surprised target. When he saw he had her full and undivided attention, the boy quickly finished gathering all the energy he needed and acted instantly. With golden bolts of lightning shooting off of the incredible mass of ki he'd collected, the teen stepped forward and with his red aura burning brightly around him, thrust his hand forward.

"FLASH MADAN!" A yell of fury echoed from his lips when Gohan unleashed the full power of his signature move upon his target, bathing her in a blinding light. The blue blast left the demi-Saiyan's palm with a howl as an attack equivalent to the one he used in the previous beam struggle rocketed from his hand towards his opponent.

From the way she was positioned there with her arms outstretched, it was like the goddess was begging to be hit.

Stunned, her eyes glazed over in horror, Set threw her hands forward and fired the two attacks she'd created prematurely. When they bounced off of the blast as it thundered towards her, all the goddess could do was throw up her guard before it ran her down like a hyper-powered locomotive. The blast slammed into her with a sonic boom, lifting her off of the desert floor and blasting across the earth's curvature. The deity's scream was drowned out by the deafening roar of the attack.

The attack expanded when Gohan poured every last bit of energy he had left into it, picking up speed and momentum. In a matter of seconds it left the planet, blasted out of the solar system, and streaked across the cosmos for several seconds. Then, after arcing around a series of star systems, it quickly honed in on Centaurus A, where the attack hurtled its victim towards the nearest, brightest star, and rammed Set straight into its side.

The blast burrowed her into the core of the star, where the battered and bruised Set felt the heat of the attack and the sun burn into her flesh, before a scream of agony left lips. "THIS ISN'T OVER, GOHAAAAAAN! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Her cry was drowned out by the inferno that enveloped her and, after several seconds of useless writhing, the blast pressing down on top of her and the sun exploded in a glorious blue super nova.

The rings of the star combusting rippled out in all directions, filling that region of space in a blinding light for several seconds. In that time, all of the planets that'd been orbiting the super massive giant were disintegrated or turned to dust, and any satellites orbiting them were also blasted into oblivion. It only took a single explosion to end any potential life existing in that area of space, wiping it completely out of existence and rearranging maps all across the galaxy. Then, as soon as the shockwaves from the blast dwindled, so did the inferno that engulfed the system.

In a matter of moments, space went black again, and any and all traces of Set had seemingly been wiped clean.

Gohan had emerged victorious.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

Author's Note: Woo. That was a great deal of fun. This was one of the most enjoyable arcs I've ever had the pleasure of writing. And this is only the beginning.

If you thought Set was bad, wait till you see what I have lined up next.

Obviously this chapter deserves some acknowledgements. When we're talking about God characters capable of wiping out galaxies, you can expect some Gurren Lagann stuff to come into the equation. For all those who didn't get the reference, that beam struggle was directly inspired from the series. I think it fitted quite beautifully.

Sure, the physics don't make sense, but those are only by earth standards. This is DBZ we're talking about. Reality is just a piece of A4 paper to these guys.

I've always wondered how six righteous Saiyans can make a Super Saiyan God. Kind of a very convenient number, as well as a very forced plot element. But it's a concept that can easily be manipulated. In this story it's just a ritual that creates a temporary God and, as explained by Set, there is more than one way to create a permanent God. The one that Gohan transformed into is indeed a pseudo form so it doesn't last long, but he absorbed enough energy for it to help him finish the fight.

Imagine Peter Griffin vs the Chicken, but on DBZ scale. That's pretty much what happened here, lol.

And before people start jumping out of their skin, yes, Videl was still alive, but only barely. If Yamcha could survive having both his energy sucked out AND have an arm shoved through his chest by Doctor Gero, safe to say Videl could survive a couple of minutes bleeding out.

Still though, it was a pretty close one. There were some miraculous saves in the series and there are definitely a handful in here.