Above the damaged streets of a long half destroyed city,
Goku is pulling back like a rocket, in order to create as much
distance as possible from his adversary, who's stronger and
faster than him, by a hopelessly large margin.
Kakarrot appears right behind him and, with a side kick in
the back, sends him careening in the opposite direction.
Before Goku can even begin trying to correct himself, Kakarrot
appears right above him and, with a hammerfist on the head,
sends him crashing on the already damaged street.
Goku remains there for a while, lying on his back and panting.
'I'm... I'm totally helpless,' he thinks. 'I never expected he
had progressed that much since five years ago. I'm a ragdoll
in his hands.'
His pink haired adversary lands in front of him. 'Want us to
take five?' he jokes.
In a desperate attempt to catch him off guard, Goku launches
himself to him, going for a hook punch.
'Whoops!' Kakarrot leans back and, with his palms on the
concrete, kicks Goku with both feet, sending him soaring in
the air.
Once more, Goku does not have time to correct himself; his
evil counterpart appears right above him and, with a circular
kick, sends him crashing on a half destroyed building, which
collapses.
The hovering Kakarrot extends his arm and fires a continuous
blast, which starts from his fingers and reaches the debris,
grabbing Goku by his half torn shirt and lifting him out of the
destroyed building's fragments (like the Spirit Sword technique
which Vegetto used in his battle against Buu).
Kakarrot takes off his creepy smile and gets an earnest expression.
'Mind that I'm holding back,' he informs his weaker version. 'I
could have killed you in seconds. But I want to give you a chance
to wake up and join my side.'
Goku, who has stood up with the Spirit Sword's help, places
his hands on his temples. 'SOLAR FL...'
'Solar nothing!' Kakarrot interrupts him by rushing to him and
punching him in the guts.
Trunks has drawn his sword. Zamasu has formed an energy
blade around his hand, using it as a makeshift sword. The two
warriors have engaged in a sword fight.
However, Zamasu is superior, not only in power and speed
but also in swordsmanship skills. As Trunkses blade and
Zamasu's energy blade collide again and again, the green
deity smiles while Trunks seems to be struggling.
Goku receives another punch in the guts, which knocks him
out of his Super Saiyan Blue state and causes him to vomit
blood. Kakarrot is not satisfied with that, though; he keeps
driving his arm into Goku's abdomen, thus lifting him high
and finally tossing him away.
Back in his base form, Goku remains on the ground, lying and
panting. Kakarrot raises his body a few meters above the
ground. 'You know, all those blows hurt me more than you,'
he says to Goku. 'I really wish I could open your eyes to
justice.'
'Even if you win, even if you manage to kill all Haikashins and
Angels and rule the omniverse with what you perceive as
righteousness, you'll still be miserable,' Goku replies. 'Because
the path you chose begets nothing more than misery.'
Ignoring his views, Kakarrot starts charging the finishing
blow. 'Goodbye, Son Goku,' he whispers.
Suddenly, a kick out of nowhere sends the evil version of
Goku crashing on the ground.
'Vegeta!' Goku snaps.
The former Saiyan prince, in his SSJ Blue form, further exploits
that opening by showering the fallen Kakarrot with a barrage
of blasts, which produce a series of deafening explosions.
Finally, he lands next to Goku and beckons to him to stand up.
The Saiyan in the torn, red clothes struggles to do so.
'Catch!' Vegeta says and tosses him a senzu.
'You had healing beans with you?' Goku asks as he puts the
senzu in his mouth.
'I took them from that stupid, cat formed friend of yours earlier
(see Episode 25: An unexpected visitor). Why do you think that
I asked you to go and fight somewhere else? I could have
taken a senzu right away, but I wanted to trick the other you
into believing I was dying, so that I would catch him off guard.'
Vegeta pauses and smiles, looking in the direction he sent
Kakarrot towards earlier. 'See? His chi is considerably smaller
than before. My preemptive strike was effective!'
Goku smiles too as he feels his chi recovered. He transforms
into Super Saiyan Blue again.
'But mind that those senzus were my last ones,' Vegeta
takes a serious expression. 'From now on, we have to make
every ounce of our stamina count.'
Goku gets serious as well and nods.
Kakarrot shows up, with visible signs of damage but still in his
SSJ Pink form.
'Give it up, Kakarrot wannabe,' Vegeta takes a fighting stance.
'My surprise attack weakened you and, on top of that, you
now have to face twice the power you've been fighting so far.'
Kakarrot slightly lowers his chin and places his index and middle
finger under it. 'I'm still more than a match for both of you,' he
says.
Trunks has discarded his sword, which broke a long time ago.
He needs every ounce of his speed and concentration just to
barely dodge Zamasu's energy blade, which keeps trying to
slash him. So he doesn't have a fraction of a moment to even
think of counterattacking.
Finally, Zamasu lets him catch his breath. The green deity
smiles, eliciting a curious look from his Saiyan adversary.
'Congratulations, Trunks,' he says sarcastically. 'You completed
the easy mode. Now let's move on to the hard mode!'
'Huh?'
Zamasu creates an energy blade around his other hand as
well. 'Let's see how you will fare against two blades,' he
says.
The Saiyan gulps in agitation.
Vegeta is seen hurled away (obviously by a blow he received
from Kakarrot) and ending up on the street, next to the time
machine he came to this timeline with.
'Darn, I was too optimistic after all,' he thinks. 'He's still too
much, even for both of us at the same time. He's going to kill
us if this goes on.'
His eyes fall on the time machine. Should he hop in right now
and leave? This is probably his last chance to survive!
No, what is he thinking? He would never do that! Vegeta stands
up, slowly, mumbling curses.
Wait a minute... the time machine! He's got an idea! His eyes
widen! He knows how they'll gain the upper hand!