Chapter: 25

:The Earth Shattering Battle Concludes

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

Gohan and Brody were now fighting with each other with no remorse. After leaping at each other and re-engaging with each other after having gone into their Vegeta and Goku stances, the two started fighting wildly and with no more reserve, hitting each other with moves and no longer showing any regard for the defense. Many moves like the one earlier where they hit each other in the mirror pose would now repeat and as well as many other moves were hit simultaniously or they would just take turns back-and-forth just hitting each other. They were not even bothering or caring about letting the other guy through. They were just so concerned with hitting the other guy that they were letting there most fundamental guard drop and just taking turns hitting each other.

But their punches were now hitting heavier and stronger than ever before. So much so that when they would hit one another it would tear and rip apart part of their clothing. Eventually after fighting at this pace the attrition to their shirts left them without any shirts anymore. The young boy and young teen just came to a point where they stopped and they were staring at each other, shirtless and bruised all over their bodies but not any less willing to give up. Which the young female members of the audience, those of around their age especially and even those a little older, were much approving of the sight of the guys' shirtless bodies.

Both Gohan and Brody were panting while staring at each other down. Neither one showing any less give. But then suddenly, without words, they just charged each other again. They were just that determined at getting to each other. Once again they met in the middle of the ring for yet another engagement and this time just began fighting fast and brutal as always. But now Brody's style had now notably been shifting to that of getting to a similar style to that of the original Broly. With wide arcing closelines and long sweeping leg kicks and sweeps. But Gohan had fought the original Brody and so with that experience he was able to accommodate for the style to a certain degree. But that still didn't make it any easier to try to keep up.

Brody suddenly went for a hard powerful looping closeline that would've taken Gohan's head off. But then Gohan just barely managed to duck by leaning back his whole upper torsoe like a guy with no spine. But then Brody tried to follow it up with a strategic leg sweep using his longer legs to try to kick out his legs from under him. But Gohan once again was able to dodge by tucking his chins in and doing a roll to keep up with the momentum of his earlier rearwards leaning maneuver. But then Brody didn't let up as he followed that up with following up his other leg to kick in the momentarily in flight Gohan. But Gohan once again barely managed a solution as he used his hands to push up off of Brody's leg and push himself airborne and out of the way. But then Brody went for one last shot as he used his last unused limb in his remaining hand and pitched up a signature green ball much like was seen from his father. The whole attack combination was meant to trap Gohan and catch him in midair like this. The ball of energy went at Gohan but Gohan once again foiled the attack as he quickly sidestepped the attack to the side in midair and the attack was missed. Gohan then came back down the ground level and jumped right back into an engagement.

But now they were at least dodging every two punches or so, but they were definitely wearing the signs of tiring out as their lazy breaths and weighted looking shoulders gave away. They were definitely tiring out due to the heavy attrition they were doing to each other. But still their punches were getting through and hitting each other with as much power as ever. Both guys reeled from simultanious punches that bounced off the corner of their jaws. Kicks, punches to the gut, knees, these were the moves that followed to brutalise each other. Those moves left splotches of blood spread out all over both their bodies.

Then finally Brody grabbed Gohan's head with both hands and headbutted him. Gohan was sent flying back from that shot and his forehead was now marked by a prominent bloody splotch all over it's center. But Brody too now sported a marked forehead as that last move wobbled him too. Though his was only a bruise mark and nothing too serious. Gohan was clearly the one to come off the worst from that move.

Meanwhile, back at the lounge Videl was watching this and starting to get worried. She hadn't seen Gohan in this bloody a condition since when they'd first met at the battle of the Cell Games. Not even in the battle against Broly did he get this much damage. This was really taking a toll on him. But he was still fighting and fighting strong so she kept the hope up. But that still didn't stop her from having a worried look on her face. She just wished she knew why she was feeling that way for him.

But back at the fight, Brody stopped clutching his forehead and sent an arm out and fired a generic yellow beam at Gohan. But Gohan dodged out of the way by zipping away and the beam hit harmlessly the edge of the ring. And when he reappeared he sent his own beam firing away. But Brody zipped away himself in return and then that started a war of beams being fired all over the place. With opponents vanishing out of the way and explosions happening all over. The audience had a hard time keeping up with this cataphony of blasts and dust clouds coming from every which way and they couldn't tell where one was coming or going. It was fortunate that none of the audience was caught by one of these random blasts but it seemed that these two were lucky with their aim.

Finally the two brought their fight back to the air as first Brody jumped to get a better angle it seems and then Gohan followed. Brody fired a midair blast from a higher angle only yards away. But Gohan defended it with an energy shield. Gohan then dropped the shield and countered with his own beam. But then Brody blocked that with a shield of his own too. Brody then followed that up with firing whole volley of round green blasts. His hands firing them off like a machine gun. But Gohan dodged by moving up further into the air but then when he looked down he saw that the waves had shifted upwards. Gohan then bobbed and weaved his way successfully through the wave of blasts and emerge unscathed with them sailing overhead. But then Gohan struck back with his own repeater volley of blasts and then Brody was then one who jumped up to avoid them. Gohan also directed his blasts to follow straight up, but Brody dodged them in the same bobbing and weaving fashion that he'd used.

The two were now at the same altitude and started fighting again. They then broke apart and headed for their opposite corners but only that they'd switched places this time. They both sneered at each other menacingly, but then they remembered something and looked up. They both saw both their own groups of blasts suddenly hang up overhead in the air and then started coming back down from the force of gravity. Both fighters then rapidly dropped altitude and made for the ring.

When they landed they both activated energy shields and the groups of blasts from overhead struck down. It was like a rain of bombs that poured on them as explosions and smoke hit all over the ring as they were hit by their own blasts. Some of the blasts impacted their shields but those blasts were absorbed pretty easily by the shields. But the blasts that hit all over the rest of the area created a lot of explosions. But when the rain of blasts finally stopped they created a large collective dust cloud that covered to entire ring. But when the dust cloud finally dispersed, it revealed a ring dotted with craters and the two boys still in their yellow shields unharmed. The two then dropped the shields and revealed themselves, panting, out of breath, bruised and bloody, but still determinedly holding on. This match was really taking it's toll on them both.

But neither of them couldn't believe that they'd just been rained down upon by their own attacks. This match was really getting crazy. Granted it was crazy from the get go, but that they were mirroring each other to this extent was just plain freaky. They'd just mirrored each other perfectly through every move of that sequence and foiling the very same attacks the same way. That was just insane!

Both boys looked to be breathing hard as they stared at each other with angry determination. "Would ya quit copying my moves already!?" suddenly angrily jeered Gohan, menacingly gesturing his fist as he did so. "Shut up! Who's copying who here!? You're the one who did exactly everything I did after I did them. I'm not copying anything. I'm not even trying to imitate your moves anymore." gestured back Brody, throwing out the accusation. "Oh? Like I'm going to believe that your telling me that we both just did that on our own simultaniously?" incredulously posed Gohan. "Yeah, I guess that's right. I guess we really are both just that much evenly matched even in the way we think about fighting, even with me not copying anything you do, that we mirror ourselves." suggested Brody and he seemed to chuckle at the end of it. Somehow like he found some sick ironic joke in it all. Strangely enough, Gohan too startle to chuckle in almost the same way, looks like he too found the same sick humour in it all. "Heh heh heh... I guess we really are much too much alike. I guess really do mirror each other." said Gohan, somehow then after that both boys got looks on their faces that seemed like they were eager at the prospect.

Then, both boys launched themselves at each other and engaged in yet another brutal brawl. Fists met face, knees and feet met gut and elbows met flesh as both boys scored hits time and time and time again. New blood splotches coated their skins and new bruises and new scratches joined their growing assortment of injuries. This match had long since passed the phase of skirmishing and athletic competition. This whole entire match had degenerated into a gruesome bloody bare-knuckled brawl. With both boys now having injuries too numerous to count and only growing as they continued to lay waste to each other. This had become a match of sheer intensity and willingness to gut out punishment as both boys just stayed with it and refused to give up despite going to the absolute limits of physical injury with each other. This was a test like no other for the boys.

Finally both boys hit each other simultaniously and they both went flying apart where they landed on their backs. They both slowly got up and stared holes in each other. Both were apparently equally determined to win, it being wayyyy personnal for both of them. Gohan for his stolen powers, and Brody for the shame of his family. "You know? You're pretty tough." said Brody as he got up, giving a respectful smile as he panted for breath. "Same goes to you." replied Gohan, equal smile on his face as he too was panting. Both boys nearing their limits of physical endurance.

"Yeah, you're tough alright. So tough in fact that you leave me no choice but to use this! I guess it's time that you learn the full breath of my world travels fighting techniques." warned Brody, ominous grin on his face. "W-Whaaa? What are you going to do?" asked Gohan, backing up, not liking the look on his face and definitely not liking what it was suggesting.

Brody then got into a stance. His arms out, near side-by-side in front, forearms angled upwards, his left angled a bit further forward diagonally then his right, his hands open with their four fingers scrunched together with the thumbs open with the whole hand pointing forward. Like in a mix of the Mantis Style and the Crane Style. But then, on his forearms came red energy that shaped themselves into glowing hot red gauntlets molded to his arms. "Eagle Style: Energy Gauntlets!" called out Brody as he then went to attack.

He attacked with a totally new style, Gohan had trouble dodging the new attacks as they seemed to focus on the forearms of the user moving up and down like the elevators of a crane to create straight punches to the gut. Gohan was totally unfamiliar with such a style and so he was confused by it. But he was still able to dodge for a while. Though the urgency of his dodges was evident as he realized that judging by the glowing arms he didn't want to get punched by one of those arms. But eventually with the unfamiliarity with the new moves he got caught, and got a powerful punch to the gut for his troubles. A then follow up of three stylized punches quickly showed him why he should've avoided those punches at all costs. 'Oh man... those things really, reeeaaaaalllllllyyy hurt!' thought Gohan, the red glowing energy obviously gave extra blunt force and penetrating power to the punches.

But then after doing his damage, Brody suddenly switched up his attack, glowing red hands gone. "Phantom Star Attack! Eagle Style Attack! Dragon Style Attack! Muy Thai, Mutou, Tao, Cross!" called out Brody as he switched from style after style, confusing Gohan with the sudden switches and raining in blows. Eventually they became so constant that they became a whole singular barrage of stylized blows that struck from all over at super speed. Finally he was sent up into the air where the barrage continued as he was sent around like a soccer ball being passed around by a team of soccer players. Then finally after his one man beating, Brody appeared before Gohan with his fingers pointed at him like in the shape of gun. And then Brody fired and Gohan was envelopped by a large yellow blast of energy that hit him squarely in the torso and he was propelled into the floor of the ring.

Brody then softly plotted down on the ring floor a distance away from his downed opponent, his combo clearly over. Gohan was down on his stomach face first and surrounded by debris of broken tiles. Brody looked pleased and clearly overconfident with his "kill". Clearly he thought that his opponent wasn't getting up from that or at least that he had the match in the bag from here on out.

Meanwhile, "Gohan..." worriedly muttered Videl while watching from the sidelines. Goku put his arm on her shoulder to try to comfort her but to little effect. She had never seen Gohan in this shape before. He was so injured and looked so weak now that it was near heart breaking. This match had long ago stopped being just a match. It was now turning into a bloodbath between those two. And it was causing her to worry to the enth degree.

He then started strolling up to Gohan as if stalking his prey. But then suddenly, Gohan started fidgeting and moving his arm. He slowly started to lift himself up with at first one arm and then both arms and he got up to one knee. But he was obviously weak from that last series of attacks he'd gotten. He was very slow and very weak and groggy getting back up. "Well, you're plenty tough, I'll give you that." said Brody. "What the heck was all that that you hit me with?" asked Gohan as he continued to try to get back up but he was only still at one knee. "That my friend was the full breath of my martial arts background. Techniques that I've learned from all over the world over the course of my training. You see I'm a true prodigy, a true hybrid of martial arts, unlike you. Every style that I ever encountered in my personal experience in fighting in the world of martial arts. Every technique that I ever encountered and learned my collective experience. It's ALL been passed down and assimilated into me and I've learned them ALL. I am a true hybrid because I've learned all that I had to learn and mastered all the true martial arts that was taught to me. While you had the luxury of training under two of the greatest martial artist ever and yet it seems you didn't learn a single thing about fighting techniques. While I can say I learned my lessons, it seems you wasted yours. I'm a true hybrid of martial arts, while you're only a half-breed by blood. Not a true hybrid at all, you don't deserve it." finally finished Brody, his words of derision and loathing clearly meant to psychologically cut through Gohan. And they cut through, they dug through Gohan like knifes stabbing through his body in a way that any physical attacks never could.

Gohan just stopped there, on his knees, questioning himself in his mind and wondering if Brody really did have a point? Was he really a failure for not learning as much as he should've been able to? Self-doubt started to creep back into his head. But just he felt he was about to give up something popped into his head. Memories flooded as to all the things that he had been taught in the realm of martial arts and all of the lessons he'd learned. Both from his teachers and his friends. And then suddenly all the doubt went away. Gohan confidently got up and looked Brody in the face. "I may not have learned how to do everything my teachers do. But I still learned plenty every day from every one of my friends and I learned my lessons well. And now I guess that it's time I showed you every technique I've learned." proclaimed Gohan. And then suddenly his whole demeanor changed and he switched into an exact imitation of the Wolf-Fang Fist Attack stance.

Gohan suddenly lunged and started attacking in Yamcha's signature style. "Wolf-Fang Fist Attack!" screamed out Gohan. But just as Brody was barely holding off the attacks, Gohan switched to something else. "Crane Style attack! Turtle Style attack! Demon Style attack! Krillin, Roshi, Videl..." Gohan went on as he switched to surprisingly imitating the styles of every one of his friends, that he either ever saw in action or learned from. He even threw in a few that he learned from Videl. Some patented moves from even Mr. Satans' repertoire could be damn deadly and effective in the hands of someone as powerful and as capable as his. Finally Gohan the attack switches seemed to get faster and faster until Gohan was attacking at super speed from all over and it looked like there was a whole gang of Gohan's attacking and disappearing all over the place. Finally after attacking from every angle, Gohan finished up by hitting him with double palms striking him in the chest in a pose like as if his arms were doing a Kamehameha but instead hitting him with a double pulse of invisible energy that pushed him away.

As he was flying back, Brody managed to flip and push his hands up from the edge of the ring and fly up into the air. "Grrrr... You bastard!" growled and cursed out Brody as he hung up there. Gohan meanwhile was still panting from the effort. "*Huff*Huff* You see... That was my friends' attacks. How did you like them? I think I did a pretty good imitation of their moves if I do say so myself. Though I may not come close to their abilities, but I learned a little bit from each one of them. And studying their moves on my own behind their backs a little didn't hurt either." returned Gohan, proud smile etched on his face.

"BASTAAAAAAARD!" screamed out Brody in frustration and pure rage while he still hung up in the sky. Electricity began to crackle and concentrate around him. "Uh oh..." simply muttered Gohan as he observed from down below. Clearly he was up to something dangerous and Gohan would have to think quick to pre-empt him. "This is bad." muttered Goku from out in the sidelines as he too realised the situation. Videl looked up in wonder as to what Goku meant, but whatever it was it sent a chill down her spine.

Back at the fight, Gohan quickly went for th tried tested and true and cupped his hands to the side. "KAAA... MEEE... HAAA... MEEEEEEE..." chanted Gohan as he went and powered up for his family's familiar go to move. From up at this angle the Earth wouldn't be in his line of sight so it would be safe to use it even at full power at this level. But meanwhile up above it looked like Brody was preparing for his own move in rebuttal. He drew his arms straight up over his head and began crackling red energy in a large ball much like Frieza had once done when he'd charged up for the attack that destroyed planet Namek. But differently this time Brody then compressed the ball until his hands lay flat against each other over his head.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" finally screamed out Gohan as he unleashed the famous Kamehameha. But this one was as big as the ring itself. It was massive! The Z-Fighters or anyone else could hardly believe that Gohan would risk such power into an attack. But as it neared, Brody looked prepared. As the beam neared a few yards away, Brody unleashed his attack. "Spear Cannon Attack!" called out Brody as he brought his arms forward and kept his hands and fingers straight as if in the shape of an arrow or spear. Out of his hands formed a red beam with it's "tip" or "bulb" was in the shape of an arrowhead with it's "tail" staying attached to Brody's hands. The attacks hit each other but as they did Brodys' cut into the massive "bulb" of the Kamehameha and went on to cut through the beam like a hot knife through butter.

"WHAT!? NO WAY!" cried out a disbelieving Gohan, not believing that his attack was being cut through like that. Just as the attack was about to break through and hit him he created a bulb of energy around himself to try to protect himself just before the beam got to him. The arrowhead hit and there was a big red explosion filled with smoke. When the smoke cleared it revealed Gohan lying face down in a trench carved into the side of the ring around him.

"GOHANNNN!" cried out Videl a her heart went out to him as she saw him that badly injured. She tried to bolt out of her place and go to him but she was held back by Goku. "Hold on!" said Goku. "No! Gohan's hurt! He needs me! We have to do something!" cried out Videl as she continued to try to struggle out of Goku's grip. "Believe me, I want to go out there and help him myself. He's my son after all. But as much as we want to help him. We can't interfere as this is still an official match." said Goku. Videl could tell that in his eyes that he was worried just as much as she was and that made her finally settle down.

Meanwhile, the announcer tentatively approached to the downed Gohan. "He looks down and out. I'll begin the count, 1... 2..." began the announcer guy but he was cut off as Gohan suddenly stirred. Gohan made his way up slowly, like he was trying with all his strength as he shakingly tried to get up. The whole audience gasped at the strength of perseverance that Gohan was displaying. But when he finally got up he was barely standing with his legs wobbled and his arms, both of them were leaking blood from the shoulder down much like his one arm had done at the Cell Games. But unlike that time it looked like this time they weren't broken and he could still use them, to some degree.

"You bastard! Why won't you just STAY DOWN!?" cried out Brody. Clearly the frustration was getting to him and now it was morphing to pure rage. His eyes were now glowing white with his pupils now gone and his golden Super Saiyan aura was growing bigger and more sparks of electricity crackled around him as dark clouds formed above him. "Uh oh! This is bad, very bad!" said out Goku, looking nervous as hell. "What? What's going on?" asked Videl, left out of the bunch as everyone of the Z-Fighters looked up in concern. "It looks like Brody's anger has triggered his father's powers within him and they have awakened to taken over him. He's not in control of himself anymore!. He's just a giant lump of rage and power now so that means he could go crazy and do anything at this point." said Goku, his voice dripping with worry.

Brody looked to be charging up a massive attack again! But this time he was lifting his arms up and concentrating a MASSIVE green orb of power much like his father would. Putting more energy into the attack and putting the power of his rage into it. He had clearly lost it was he was no longer concerned with the safety of the planet as he'd been before. Gohan could only look on in horror as he realized that Broly's powers were manifesting themselves in his son and with his added and already unstable Super Saiyan 2 powers and rage added to the mixture he was now more powerful than ever before and so was his attack. 'Great, I couldn't stop his attack before. And now it's even more powerful than before! How am I going to stop it?' Gohan worriedly asked himself. He was searching his head for any answers but none were forthcoming. He had just about given up hope when suddenly he thought back to something his father had said way back when they were training for the Androids. ~:"Gohan, the purpose of your training here with me and Piccolo is not only for you to learn our style. But to impart them to you so that you can create something new with them. To combine our styles and to one day become something more with them. You won't only be a hybrid because of you blood. But a hybrid of your martial arts. A true hybrid. You are the only one to do this.":~ Gohan remembered his father saying to him. "I'm not only a hybrid of blood... I'm a hybrid of martial arts too! A true hybrid!" declared Gohan, and he was prepared to show it.

Gohan brought his left hand to his forehead with two fingers while his right he cupped to his side. He started charging up his two hands, on his forehead charge yellow energy crackling with what seemed to be sparks of electricity while his right hand charged up the familiar blue orb of energy. Meanwhile this whole time the crazed Brody had been using the time to charge up his attack bigger and badder than ever.

"Take this! NOW DISAPPEAR!" screamed out Brody as he launched his attack and sent it roaring down. The green orb had grown to a HUGE size and it was now bigger than the whole stadium and it was coming down to annihilate them all. All the same Gohan launched his new attack in reply. "Special Beam Kamehameha!" he called out as he launched his new attack. He brought he arms forward much like he would for the Kamehameha except his topmost hand was pointing out two fingers like for the Special Beam Cannon while his bottom hand was still open like for the Kamehameha. What came forth from this hybrid attack was what looked like a giant Kamehameha but only with corkscrew spirals going along the "trail" of the beam following the down from "bulb" of the beam. The "bulb wasn't as massive as the one before but it was big enough to fill most of the inside of the ring so you knew that it was powerful.

The two attacks met high above the stadium but as soon as they did one attack proved superior. Gohan's attack pushed into the green orb like it was made of mush and paused it. A few tense seconds passed as the attack trembled and pushed back and forth, like it was struggling for it's life to keep itself intact. But soon enough the struggle ceased Gohan's attack cut through the green orb like a hot spear through a giant beachball and the green energy globe shattered like glass.

"Impossible!? My attack was all powerful! How could he beat it!? " exclaimed Brody, disbelieving that his attack was cut through like that. But what indeed he didn't know was that Gohan's attack was also a cutting attack like the one he himself had used earlier. The combining of the Special Beam Cannon's cutting attack with the pure power of the Kamehameha created a supremely gifted attack that cut through normal energy attacks. And so it was that at the meeting between two attacks the superior cutting power coupled with the necessary power backing it up meant that the overwhelming power of Brody's planet destroying orb was rendered useless by Gohan's new attack.

Brody barely had time to try to erect a shield around himself when the attack hit. The beam broke through his defense and Brody barely avoided being vaporised by the attack pushing him off but not before scorching his upper chest area. Broly fell back down out of the sky motionless and landed hard on his back near the edge of the ring.

Gohan was so exhausted from firing his beam that after the beam was gone he fell face forward. But he barely caught himself with his hands and managed to stay at a kneeling position and breathing hard. "*Huff*Huff*Huff* I'm glad that's over with..." managed to get out Gohan as he tried to catch his breath thinking that it was over. "Sorry, but did you think that that was over?" suddenly rang out Brody's voice. Gohan startled his eyes wide and then looked on in shock as he saw Brody getting back up. His upper chest was singed black but it didn't appeared anymore marked, and though it looked to be giving him problems breathing he was maintaining hmself. "Heh, I sorta was hoping it was." joked back Gohan. Both boys were bloody, covered in wounds and exhausted, but they had the looks on their faces of pure joy of true rivals as they looked like they were going to go at it one more time.

"TIME!" suddenly shouted the voice of the announcer guy. "What!?" exclaimed both boys as they looked back in equal wonder to find out what was going on. "The 30 minute official time limit has expired for the match. And due to the *cough* 'difficulty' of having to judge such a match. The judges cannot make a ruling so therefore this match must be ruled a draw." declared the announcer. Brody just fell over and yelled out several curses at that decision. Gohan meanwhile just collapsed in exhaustion. Videl immediately ran out from where she was and ran through straight to his side. Gohan could just make out as his newfound rival Brody was carted off on a stretcher by medics and spoutting of curses and pointing off to him about saying that this wasn't over. As he fell into unconsciousness, Videl's pretty little face with her big beautiful eyes hanging worriedly over him was the last thing Gohan saw.

Author's Final Thoughts: Well, there's an epic conclusion to an epic fight. I really wanted to bring a really gruelling fight for Gohan and to make something of an epic. I'm sorry if you found some of the moves and some of the techniques as well as the choreography of the fight didn't seem to make too much sense. But that's probably because at least initially the fight was written with another character. You see for the longest time I had been conceiving and developping for Broly's son as a character to be Gohan's rival. I was inspired by the drawing of someone made on Deviantart of a character called Brody, and he was initially the inspiration for my own character and his design, although my characters' origin and personality was going to be much different and my own. And the fight was forming in my imagination a bit differently to reflect this character. Although I still maintained much of the moves I was going to use anyway in this. But at the last minute I decided I wanted a totally original character of my own and I developped his look to be different and I would up writing a totally different fight and one that I felt was way more epic then the one I'd planned for Brody. I wound up calling my rival character Kenichi Sokugawa and he was more geared towards red colored attacks and being more of a copycat, stealing Gohan's powers with his DNA like that. But then I backtracked and realised that I wanted the character to be Broly's son as that would have much more marquis value for you readers as opposed to a just some random original character. So I went back and I rewrote and tweaked the parts of the fight that I needed including his name and origin as well as some small parts of the fight.

The big climactic ending for example was initially a clash between the arrowhead attack and Gohan's Special Beam Kamehameha. But I changed that to a more fitting Broly style style clash that I'd had in my head for the initial Brody character. I also wanted for Gohan to have a big world saving hero moment in his semi-final. Way, way back when, when I initially concieved of the tournament, that role was supposed to be filled by either Bojack or Dabura themselves. But I ended up going with a rival character to fill the position of a mega duel at the end. I think that Broly's son fills the position nicely, don't you? And btw, the little sequence with the multitude of techniques being used was inspired by the final battle between Kenichi Shirahama and Odin from History's Mightiest Disciple Kenichi just to let you know for point of reference.

I also decided and went with calling him Broly Junior instead of Brody since that's pretty much what he is anyway and I felt that that would grab you readers with the marquis headlines. But then I came back and called him Brody again and rewrote him back AGAIN. So that's how that all came about. I hope you can forgive that every once in a while you find that I'd mistakingly refered to Kenichi instead of Brody or Brody. I've tried to sweap away and rename in all the places that I did, but I fear that I might have missed a few. Just rest assured that it just all means the same thing. I hope that straightens things out.

I hope you can accept this explanation. And I hope you enjoyed this epic match anyway. I may have overstoked the furnace and accidently made this fight the most epic one of all, by mistake. I was hoping on making the most epic fight in the finals. But that may be impossible now that I've made this fight soooooo epic. Well that's my explanation, see you next time.