Honor Trip Presents:

Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan

- a Prologue Special Edition to a Dragon Ball Z FanFiction -

Part 2: Liberation

Special Written by: Genescritor

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With that said, we hope you enjoy the story.

Earth, the Cell Games Arena, May 24th, Age 767, two days before the Cell Games…

As the wind blew around him, Cell yet again gave another look around the area, hoping to see anything that wasn't the usual rocks, the road in the middle of which he had built his arena, or the scraps of metal that had been tanks and airplanes until Cell had destroyed them.

Not for the first time, he regretted having given the fools ten days to get ready for the Cell Games. Even for a perfect being like him, such a long wait was boring. Fortunately, there were only two more days to go.

But in spite of the huge boredom, Cell wished in a way that there would be more than two days to go, as the two days missing for the tournament to begin were also the two days that Goku and the others had to come back from their trip through outer space. He hadn't yet been able to figure out why the fools would even consider leaving the planet when they knew he could just destroy it if he decided to do so, and he certainly didn't understand why they would extend their absence for such a long period of time as they had.

Cell wasn't worried per se, but he wanted Goku and the others to return. He cherished the thought of killing them at their best before commencing with Earth's obliteration.

The return of Goku and the others wasn't really all that important, though. Even if the weakling idiots had somehow suffered from a sudden crisis of cowardliness and decided to flee, Cell would still get to destroy the Earth and its inhabitants. After all, the androids from the timeline Cell had come from had never lived to fulfill their main goal of killing Goku, and they had coped well enough to wreak havoc on the Earth for twenty years. Cell, who considered himself to in every way be far superior to them, would be able to cope as well.

Still, the possibility of not getting to fight Goku and the others before he destroyed this planet was something that, to say the least, made Cell quite upset.

He looked toward the sky, in the midst of thought, yearning to have the chance to demonstrate the true breadth of his power.

New Planet Vegeta...

Light years away, Vegeta also was quite frustrated, and he exhibited his sentiment by walking swiftly toward the ship that had brought him to this planet, as opposed to remaining for further disappointment. He was trying his best to walk in the dignified manner that a Saiyan king should display, instead of running in the sort of haste that he perceived was commonplace among low-class morons who didn't care about appearances. However, the truth was that he was more than through and done with this whole matter.

Paragus had wanted him to come here with the promise of starting a new Saiyan Empire, and Paragus had asked him and the bunch of simpletons that had come along to help him kill a certain Legendary Super Saiyan.

But when Vegeta had arrived to his new planet, he had found out that Paragus didn't know the exact whereabouts of this Legendary Super Saiyan.

That in itself was already a supreme flaw from the new Saiyan Empire – not as much that Paragus didn't know, but that Paragus had possessed the nerve to force Vegeta to travel such a distance because of something that couldn't be pinpointed and dealt with right away.

Paragus had said that he could try to locate the Legendary Super Saiyan by attempting to establish a pattern to his attacks, but Vegeta had hardly believed it. Nevertheless, he had endured some waiting, and had given Paragus the chance to prove himself and find this so-called Legendary Super Saiyan.

But enough was enough. He was going to fly around the cosmos on this new spaceship, and if in thirty-six hours he didn't find this mysterious Legendary Super Saiyan, he planned to start heading back to Earth so he could fight in the tournament and squash Cell like the cockroach he was.

It was only a pity that, seeing as he didn't know how to use Instant Transmission, he probably would have to get a ride from Kakarot if he wanted not only to accelerate his search but to be back to Earth on time.

What was really weird, though, was that for some reason, Paragus and Broly didn't seem to want him to leave. Not Paragus at least, who kept running after him and spouting nonsense in an attempt to convince him to say. Broly was simply walking along, quiet as a door, and his face even duller and stupider than Nappa's or Raditz's had ever been.

"Your majesty, please!" Paragus insisted again as he ran after him. "Listen to me. Wait until tomorrow. By tomorrow we will have located the Legendary Super Saiyan's whereabouts!"

Vegeta merely scoffed, and carried on walking to the ship.

However, much to his surprise, there were people waiting for him there. Goku, Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu. All eight of them were waiting for him.

"We're leaving," Vegeta yelled in an annoyed tone. He was not in the best of moods.

"Vegeta, we have to talk to you," Goku stated simply.

"And just what, pray tell, do you idiots want to say?" Vegeta asked.

"How about that this New Planet Vegeta is a big farce, to begin with?" Yamcha asked.

"What did you say, fool?" Vegeta roared at him.

"This New Planet Vegeta is fake, father," Trunks carried on. "We have investigated the area out there…," Trunks said, while gesturing out to the city that could be seen in the distance, "… and the only things that are out there are ruins and mines! The vegetation and the lakes surrounding the palace are decorations, all for the purpose of tricking you and compelling you to stay here!"

Vegeta glared at the boy for daring to spout such gibberish, but, rather remarkably, Trunks simply stood his ground.

"We would have told you sooner, father, but you were too deluded to listen to us then," Trunks said. "Please, listen to us now."

Vegeta growled, and a vein started to throb on his forehead. He, Vegeta, the Prince of All Saiyans, being made a simpleton by Paragus? Trunks had some nerve for thinking that could be possible!

But, on the other hand…

"Trunks and Yamcha are right," Piccolo stated. "Clearly, this is all some sort of trap, and Paragus is trying to keep us here to fulfill his destructive ends. The big question is why."

With that last sentence, Piccolo gave a pointed look at Paragus, who had followed Vegeta all the way, just like Broly.

Vegeta turned around, narrowing his eyes at the Saiyan. While he wanted to believe that all of the comments the fools had spouted were absurd, they did some valid points.

First and foremost was the reasonable doubt that there was even a Legendary Super Saiyan to fight, and that Paragus had quite possibly been lying about that the whole time. The Legendary Super Saiyan seemed to be no more than an old legend. While it had a basis of truth, seeing the way how Kakarot had transformed, nothing could be applied to it anymore, especially since even Kakarot's ten-year old spawn had managed to turn into a Super Saiyan.

If the form of Super Saiyan was as special as he had once thought it to be, surely a mere brat wouldn't be able to reach it! And there was no reason to believe that a Saiyan like the one Paragus had described on Earth would have suddenly appeared after all this time. Indeed, by now it was more than obvious that this was nothing but a farce, like that fool Yamcha had put it.

But still, Vegeta wanted to hear everything from the one who had started it all.

"Well then, Paragus?" Vegeta asked. "What do you have to say about all this?"

Paragus didn't reply to any of their statements. Apparently, he was trying to ponder the responses he could give to this unexpected confrontation.

"Well, they say honesty is the best policy, so I'm going to be honest with you," Paragus said nonchalantly. "Your son and friends are absolutely right, your majesty."

By now, there was no trace of respect in Paragus' voice. Instead, even though Paragus had sounded nonchalant, the term 'your majesty' had been used almost like an insult.

"There's nothing productive about this planet," Paragus said. "Everything you can see here, from the castle to the forest, is fake, and nothing more than decorations that I had to put up in order to convince you to stay here. I have no intention of getting settled on a planet as miserable as this one. Nor do I have any intention of you ruling the new Saiyan Empire. If only you saw the idiot look you had when you were told you were going to rule our new empire!"

With that, Paragus started cackling like mad, obviously thinking he hadn't experienced anything more enjoyable in his life.

"You're walking on thin ice…," Vegeta growled, the same familiar vein throbbing on his forehead.

Paragus stopped laughing, but he carried on speaking as though he hadn't heard Vegeta's remark.

"In fact, I only chose this planet because I knew it was in a collision route with a comet that will soon arrive!" Paragus said.

With that, Paragus pointed at a huge blue sphere similar to the Moon, but much larger in size.

"My real intention is to get settled on the Earth, as it is a planet with an enviable environment," Paragus said. "But I didn't want the Earth to become a battlefield – and so, I had to bring you here, and do everything in my power to keep you here long enough."

"Yeah, good luck with that," Yamcha said sarcastically. "Even if you managed to kill us all here, you'd still have Cell to deal with after that."

"That's right," Trunks said. "Even if you were able to defeat us, you still wouldn't have to worry about the Earth becoming a battlefield. Cell would destroy you with a finger if you were to go there."

"Oh no, he most certainly wouldn't," Paragus said, smug as ever. "I would eliminate that creature without much effort."

"And why would that be?" Vegeta scoffed.

"Because at the end of the day, there is something true in the whole story I told you in order to attract you here," Paragus said.

"And what would that be?" Vegeta inquired.

"The Legendary Super Saiyan!" Paragus shouted, while using his right hand to point at Broly.

Acting on instinct, Vegeta immediately tensed up. Just what stunt was this crazy fool going to pull now?

Almost from the moment Paragus pointed the open palm of his right hand toward Broly, the little jewel in the center of Broly's strange headband started glowing, and a white aura erupted around the Saiyan. Then, his power level started skyrocketing, just like it had on two previous occasions.

Goku remembered what had happened when he'd first fought Broly, and when Broly had come to the mines of energy with Paragus. On the first occasion, there had been a time when the jewel on Broly's headband had started glowing before his power level had dropped. And at the mines, there had been a time when Paragus' hand had glowed green – much like the jewel in the green device on Paragus' hand was doing now – and then Broly's power had started skyrocketing.

Obviously, the device Paragus had around his right hand was some sort of controller, with an associated device on Broly's head. And quite obviously, Paragus now intended to make Broly power up until he was much stronger than he had been.

Determined not to have Paragus make Broly become stronger, Trunks darted at him, in order to stop Paragus from pointing his palm at Broly. Trunks managed to tackle Paragus to the ground, causing Paragus' right hand to cease pointing at Broly.

However, the fact that Paragus was no longer pointing his palm at Broly clearly had no influence, as now Broly's power level kept increasing.

"Don't bother going through so much trouble, brat," Paragus stated scornfully, his single eye locked on Trunks. "Now that I've ordered Broly to power up, he can only stop powering up or power down if I specifically order him to do so!"

And indeed, Broly's power kept increasing, as cracks started radiating from under his feet.

Trunks cursed loudly, stood up and moved away from Paragus. Then, while powering up to his Super Saiyan form, he looked at the others and shouted, "Everyone, hit him with everything you've got!"

With that, Trunks fired the strongest Buster Cannon he could gather in a short amount of time. Following his lead, Gohan fired a Masenko, and Piccolo fired a Destructive Wave. Although none of the attacks had been charged up for a significant period of time, the three combined would still be strong enough to kill Broly at the amount of energy he currently was releasing.

But then, before the others had the chance to properly react as well, Broly's aura expanded slightly, and a huge surge of energy came from inside him, as his power level multiplied manifold and his aura and hair changed color. Instants before he was hit, Broly brought his arms up in a cross block, as the three energy attacks met his aura. For a moment or two, the beams tried to penetrate Broly's aura, and then, they simply bounced off. Piccolo's Destructive Wave sailed several kilometers away, before finally exploding on the ground of New Planet Vegeta. Trunks' Buster Cannon veered into the palace, destroying much of it, and Gohan's Masenko went straight toward the spaceship, blowing it up.

That particular fact did not worry Goku. He knew he could get back to Earth using Instant Transmission. What truly worried him was Broly's actual state and power level.

So he, like all the others, gave Broly, who had resumed powering up, a better look. Broly's aura was much more intense now, and no longer to anyone's surprise, had turned golden.

However, Broly's hair hadn't turned yellow, and it wasn't standing straighter in typical Super Saiyan fashion.

Instead, it turned a weird neon-blue tint, and only slightly spikier, with the hairs on the top of his head standing up a bit. At the same time, his energy didn't seem to increase as much as it should have when someone turned into a Super Saiyan.

But as far as the Earth-raised Saiyan was concerned, Broly was strong enough as he was, as even in this weird, restrained form of Super Saiyan, he was as strong as Goku as a Super Saiyan at full power. Vegeta and Trunks before their second day at the Hyperbolic Time Chamber would have been squashed by him.

The big question was… just how high was his maximum power?

"Alright, Broly," Paragus said, as he again pointed his right palm at Broly. "That should be enough."

From that sentence, it was obvious that the answer to Goku's question was yet to come. But strangely, Broly didn't listen. Instead, he kept powering up.

"Didn't you hear me?" Paragus shouted, as both the jewel on the device in his hand and the one on Broly's headband shone more intensely. "I said that is enough!"

For a moment, Broly powered up even more, but then, his energy steadied, and remained at a constant level. Now, from Goku's perspective, even though Broly's energy no longer seemed to be in its dull state, there was still something about it that seemed forced, which, considering how Broly was under control, was no longer much of a surprise.

Goku thought about Paragus' last sentence. The Saiyan had said that "it," and by "it," referring to Broly's energy output, was enough.

Certainly he meant enough to kill Vegeta and all the others.

That meant Paragus had some sort of idea of how powerful they were. The idea had certainly come from any observation Paragus may have made – observations that had probably stopped only a few days ago, around the time Goku and Gohan had come out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

If this had been just two weeks ago, Broly would have pummeled them all.

And even though many of them had recently used the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, victory was far from a guarantee. If this was the limit of Broly's power, they wouldn't have any problem defeating him if they all fought against him, but there was no real way to tell yet how much more power Broly had.

"Very well, my prince," Paragus scoffed at Vegeta. "Prepare to meet thy death."

For a moment, Vegeta simply stared in puzzlement at Broly, obviously confused by something about this Saiyan.

Then, much to everyone's surprise, he started cackling like mad.

"This?" Vegeta spat when he stopped laughing. "This is the Legendary Super Saiyan? He's an idiot with neon-blue hair! Pathetic!"

"Don't be fooled, Vegeta," Paragus warned. "Broly has reached this level of power without having to train a single day in his life. And I warn you, this isn't all of it."

"You're wrong, Paragus," Vegeta scoffed. "This is all of it, because I'm going to put an end to this right now. I've wasted more than enough time because of your ridiculous aspirations!"

Before anyone else could say anything, Vegeta burst into his Super Saiyan form and jumped up at Broly, delivering a roundhouse kick to the taller Saiyan's right cheek. Then, he sank his fist into Broly's abs, and delivered an uppercut to his chin, before throwing a punch that sent Broly soaring backward. Then, Vegeta placed his right arm forward and fired an energy blast that hit Broly square in the chest, sending him soaring backward even farther.

However, after Broly had traveled only about twenty meters, he flipped in mid-air and landed solidly on his feet. The only visible marks of the blows he had received were a few drops of blood tricking down his chin, a small bruise in the place where Vegeta had kicked him, and a few small scratches.

Opening his mouth in surprise, Vegeta flew back, and landed in the same place from where he had jumped.

"Surprised, Vegeta?" Paragus asked. "You shouldn't be. After all, he is the Legendary Super Saiyan – just like your father feared when he ordered Broly to be executed."

"What do you mean?" Vegeta asked, his usual cockiness apparently dispelled not just by Broly's power, but by the sudden remark.

"You have no idea of how much we hate your father, do you Vegeta?" Paragus asked. "Well, we have every justification for our hatred. All because of what he tried to do to Broly."

His single eye seemed to burn with the fire of revenge as Paragus began to speak.

"My son was born with a power level of 10,000!" Paragus said. "That power was comparable to that of the strongest adult Saiyans alive back then, such as King Vegeta. And because of that, King Vegeta ordered Broly to be executed, out of his own fears that Broly could one day pose a severe threat to his power. And when I tried to convince your father to spare my son, he simply ordered me to be executed as well."

A sadistic, deranged smile was coming onto his lips as Paragus continued.

"But thankfully, luck was on our side. Right as we were about to be executed, the elite soldiers who were going to kill us were called away, as they were required to accompany King Vegeta while he went to his last meeting with Frieza. Our execution was to be put on hold until King Vegeta returned. However, we all know how that meeting went. And although the few soldiers who had been left to guard me and Broly were strong in their own right, I managed to kill them all, and I dragged myself and Broly to a Space Pod, in spite of the severe injuries I had sustained in that battle. Then, we left Planet Vegeta, a matter of minutes before Frieza destroyed it. However, I later learned that you had survived, and as such, I started planning my revenge. At long last, the time has come."

Clenching his left hand in a triumphant gesture, Paragus added, "And after I vanquish you all, I will go to the Earth and have the creature you call Cell blasted into oblivion before Cell even knows what hit him! Then, I am going to use the set of Dragon Balls on Earth to wish for immortality for both me and Broly. And then, the empire of our family will last for all eternity!"

Gritting his teeth, Goku glared at Paragus. Just thinking about what that bastard intended to do was enough to make him not only furious, but determined to make sure that Paragus' plan would be put to an end today.

"And now, here's to your death," Paragus said, with a darksome smirk.

Pointing his palm at Broly again, Paragus started opening his mouth as though he was going to give an order. But he was interrupted.

"Hey, wait a second!" Krillin shouted. "Before you unleash that beast you have there, tell me something. I get that you went through the trouble of bringing us here so that the Earth wouldn't become a battlefield, but why did you go through the trouble of picking a planet that is going to be destroyed by a comet when you've got Broly?"

At first, Paragus seemed outraged that Krillin had dared to address him in such a manner, but soon after, he smiled sardonically.

"You know, I should have you blasted to ashes for questioning the wisdom of my plans," Paragus said. "But I'm in a rather jovial mood today, so I will enlighten you. I took the care to choose a planet with a predetermined fate because I was hoping you would be too stupid to notice that you were doomed until it would be too late, and until Broly and I were well away from danger. However, seeing as I knew you could be aware of things too soon, I was already counting on having Broly kill you all, which actually brings me to the second reason why I picked a planet that was going to be destroyed, and brought you all here only shortly before its destruction."

"And what reason is that?" Trunks said, right before he spat harshly.

"Because it was the best way to make sure you were doomed," Paragus explained. "In the very off chance that you managed to kill Broly while most of his power was suppressed, you wouldn't be able to get off this planet before Comet Camori arrived, as I took the care to make that spaceship so complex that it would have taken you days to figure out how the controls work!"

Looking smug as ever at his own genius, Paragus added, "And Kakarot's little Instant Transmission won't do any good to get you out of here either, as there aren't any planets with energy signatures for him to lock onto around here!"

The warriors of Earth collectively gasped, not just at the fact that Paragus knew of Goku's Instant Transmission technique, but that it seemed Paragus' had been severely thorough.

"So, you see, quite the perfect plan," Paragus said. "Even if you somehow managed to kill me, I would at least die happy."

With the hateful gleam in his single eye intensifying, Paragus shouted, "However, the only ones dying here will be you, because there's no way you can defeat Broly now!"

Goku couldn't help but to feel some sort of grudging admiration for Paragus. The man was one of the most despicable guys he had ever met, but he was also a genius in his own way. He had indeed thought about everything.

Or almost everything.

Clearly, Paragus didn't know that if Goku focused hard enough and searched in a specific direction, he could sense energy signatures that were light years away. So, as far as it came to getting off this planet without a space ship, there was no problem, as long as he remained alive. Goku shuddered to think that there was a strong possibility that Paragus had ordered Broly to wipe out countless nearby civilizations out of the deluded notion that this would prevent Goku from being able to use Instant Transmission as a method of successful escape.

Goku also recognized that he could indeed transmit himself and his friends off the planet without having to fight Broly on this planet at all, and that if things got extremely bad during the fight, Instant Transmission was always an option. However, the last thing Goku wanted was for Paragus to unleash Broly against even more innocents across the galaxy, and Goku realized that Paragus might decide to bring the battle to Earth after all if they fled.

Because of these considerations, Goku knew it would be greatly preferable to defeat Broly here and now before the comet arrived and without having to simultaneously defend numerous innocent people.

Goku deepened his fighting stance, as did Gohan and many of the others.

"It's time for the true new empire to begin its birth!" Paragus snapped. "I've let you all live long enough!"

Pointing his open palm at Broly again, Paragus shouted, "Now, Broly, I want you to kill Vegeta in the most painful way you can conceive!"

The jewel on Broly's headband again glowed for a moment, and then, the Legendary Super Saiyan shot off toward the Saiyan Prince.

As Broly rocketed toward him, Vegeta immediately entered his Ascended Super Saiyan state, which he had learned to do much faster than before after his second relative day in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. However, the transformation was still barely finished before Broly became suddenly close, already throwing a right hook at Vegeta.

Ducking under the blow, Vegeta threw a punch of his own, which hit Broly squarely on his gut, making the taller Saiyan grunt in pain.

Just like Vegeta had suspected, his Ascended Super Saiyan state had placed him on par with Broly. But that still didn't mean his victory was assured. Vegeta knew that he could not make mistakes if he was to win.

A movement at the limit of his visual field caught his attention. Looking in its direction, Vegeta saw Kakarot, Gohan, and Trunks coming forward to help him. Immediately, Vegeta punched Broly away and fired an energy blast at the general direction where the other three Super Saiyans were.

"Stay back!" Vegeta shouted, his voice audible even over the explosion of the energy blast on the rocky ground. "Leave him to me!"

Too shocked by Vegeta's reaction, the three of them stopped.

Not bothering to take notice of more than that, Vegeta turned his attention back to Broly and delivered a second punch to his abs, then slammed him downward.

Recovering from the blow before he hit the ground, Broly put his left hand on the ground, and then jammed his foot into Vegeta's ribs.

The blow was much weaker than Vegeta had expected it to be. Apparently, although Broly's extraordinary strength had come without him having to train in order to achieve it, natural skill was something that just didn't come in the genetic components of a Legendary Super Saiyan.

Smirking at his discovery, Vegeta fired an energy blast at Broly. Broly deflected it away, but Vegeta didn't stay put. Instead, he flew at Broly, ready to deliver a punch. Broly, however, placed his right hand forward and fired a green energy blast at him. Vegeta swerved to the side, allowing the blast to pass by him, but in the meantime, Broly advanced and delivered another punch.

Vegeta caught Broly's left wrist. Instantly after, Broly tried to deliver a punch with his right hand. Vegeta caught that punch as well.

Then, deciding to seize his chance, Vegeta powered up even more, and ascended into the Ultra Super Saiyan state, the same state that he had been told his foolish boy had tried to use when fighting Cell in what that bastard called his 'perfect' form.

Under normal circumstances, Vegeta wouldn't use this state, but this was a good occasion to do it. While this variant of the Super Saiyan transformation caused an extreme loss of speed, it allowed an increase in strength beyond Ascended Super Saiyan, and Vegeta was in the perfect condition to deliver a blow. If he managed to land it, he would have no problem hitting Broly with even more force while the Saiyan tried to recover. After that, it would just be a matter of delivering an effective final attack.

Pulling Broly to himself, Vegeta jumped up and delivered a kick to Broly's belly, sinking his foot into the other Saiyan's abs. The Saiyan moaned in pain, spurting out a considerable amount of drool.

Not wanting to give Broly time to recover from the hit – or the chance to get away – Vegeta let go of one of Broly's arms, while at the same time keeping the other firmly gripped. Delivering a punch with his free hand, Vegeta hit Broly squarely on the nose.

Again taking the chance to hit Broly before he recovered, Vegeta pulled Broly down toward his raised knee, and slammed Broly's face against it. Instantly after, he clasped his hands together into a ball, and slammed them into the back of Broly's head, right as he gave another knee-strike to Broly's face. The resultant sound was as if metal was shattering.

Vegeta brought his right leg backwards, and delivered a kick to Broly's chin, sending the Saiyan flying upwards.

"So much for the legend!" Vegeta shouted as he pointed his open palm at Broly, gathering a blue sphere of energy there. "Big Bang Attack!"

The blue sphere went flying straight toward Broly – but somehow, the Saiyan managed to put himself together at the last moment, and disappeared away from the blast's path.

"Damn …," Vegeta cursed softly. "Just why did that Saiyan have to put himself back together right when I was about to finish him off?"

Vegeta spared himself from finding an answer when Broly reappeared on the ground. His nose was greatly damaged, and streams of blood were pouring out of it. There also were two bruises on his left cheek, and an even bigger bruise could be seen in the middle of his abs, at the location where Vegeta had hit him with his kick.

But Broly appeared much different than he had moments ago. Now, his hair stood up in a different hairstyle, and it was golden, just like it should be in the basic Super Saiyan form. Also, his energy had significantly increased.

Just what had happened?

As though to answer his question, Broly's aura flared around him for a moment, and a few pieces of broken metal fell off of his hair. Then, Vegeta finally realized that Broly's weird headband was no longer there – and remembered that he'd heard the sound of breaking metal back when he'd hit Broly's head.

Vegeta couldn't help but frown. Obviously, that thing was some sort of controlling device. And without the headband, Broly was basically his own person. And based on what Vegeta knew of the Legendary Super Saiyan, he had a feeling things would be better if he had still been under Paragus' control.

"Thank you," Broly whispered, every bit of his voice vibrating with something that sounded like mad anticipation, pent up for years on end.

That was all it took for Vegeta to know that his feeling had been right.

Standing aside of the group, Paragus felt fear starting to overcome him. That stupid Vegeta! The imbecile had just ruined all of his efforts!

Ever since Paragus had realized Broly's potential as the Legendary Super Saiyan, he had been deliberately exposing Broly to violent races that either hated Saiyans or were just extremely aggressive by nature and wanted to have him and Broly killed, so that Broly over time would be motivated to attack anyone who wasn't Paragus. This was all, of course, part of Paragus' plan to make his son into an absolutely unbeatable weapon. A plan that had worked so well that, when Broly was six years of age, Paragus had decided to put a controlling device on him, just as a safety measure to ensure that Broly would do exactly what Paragus wanted, instead of randomly killing everyone. The device had turned out to be a success, allowing Paragus to control Broly's every move. But over time, Paragus had replaced the devices, to accommodate both Broly's growing size and his ever-increasing power. Whenever a new device had needed to be put on, Paragus would keep the former on until the new one was secured, always cautious to never let a moment pass in which Broly could not be restrained.

And now, after years of not spending a single moment without a control device on, Broly was his own person. There was no way of knowing exactly what he would do.

Broly bent his arms, stood up straight, and shouted at the top of his lungs.

Almost immediately, his skin seemed to blow up from the inside, the metal bands around his arms and neck exploded, and a green light erupted around him, as the ground shook violently with the surge of energy, which radiated outwards like the shockwave of a bomb's explosion. The shake was so strong and so sudden that Paragus fell down on his knees.

Soon after, there was a second, much stronger shockwave, which brought all the others to their knees. And then, along with the third shockwave, which was stronger than either of the previous two, came an explosion of green light that enveloped the whole area, so intense that it temporarily rendered everyone in the area unable to see. Fortunately, the green light shrank as suddenly as it had expanded, until it was reduced to a sphere that was a little more than five meters in diameter. Soon after, even that sphere disappeared, revealing that Broly was still there – but completely different from how he had been before.

Now, his total height was one and a half times what it had been before, and his muscles had increased in size to near absurd levels. His irises and pupils had seemingly disappeared, and his hair, aura, and eyebrows had turned yellow-green. Remarkably, although the metal bands around his arms and neck had exploded, everything else Broly was wearing had expanded to accommodate his larger size, except for his earrings, which had stayed intact due to Broly's head having remained roughly the same size, although it looked much smaller compared to the rest of his enlarged body.

In addition to all of that, the injuries he had suffered during the fight with Vegeta had been healed, and there was a smile that couldn't be qualified as anything but bloodthirsty on his face.

A general thought of terror settled in the minds of the warriors from Earth. As severe as Cell's threats against the Earth and the rest of the universe were, the universe had swiftly become a much more dangerous place.

At that very moment, in Otherworld, on a small planet located at the end of a way that was a million kilometers long, the black antennae of a blue-skinned deity went as rigid as metal at what his senses registered: the raw, unrestrained power of a Legendary Super Saiyan.

Since yesterday, King Kai had been keeping most of his attention on Cell, both because it was what Goku had asked him to do and because Cell was a dangerous threat that had to be kept under vigilance. However, he had also kept his energy-senses partially focused on New Planet Vegeta, in order to have at least an idea of what was happening there. Over the last minutes, he had been sensing Vegeta fighting against another Saiyan, although it was a Saiyan whose energy felt different and disturbed in many ways. And now, he sensed a being who had just gained the very likely status of biggest threat to the Universe currently in existence, if he ever got free access to it.

The energy King Kai was sensing wasn't unfamiliar to him. He had known for a long time that some Saiyans could achieve this 'legendary' status, and he had sensed others over the course of his existence, each one stronger than the predecessor. None of the previous Legendary Super Saiyans, however, was anywhere near as strong as this one.

Shortly before the destruction of Planet Vegeta, King Kai had been growing fearful that another Legendary Super Saiyan would arise, as it had been more than 1,000 years since the then-most recent Legendary Super Saiyan had appeared. But when Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta – ironically enough, at least in part out of his fear of having to face a Legendary Super Saiyan – the possibility of such a thing ever happening had seemingly disappeared.

But now, it had returned in full force, as a Legendary Super Saiyan – yet another Saiyan who had survived his race's genocide without King Kai knowing of it – had revealed himself.

Deciding that it would be safe enough to stop keeping Cell under surveillance for a moment, King Kai instead wriggled his antennae in a different direction, and shifted the great majority of his focus to New Planet Vegeta.

Now that King Kai had a much clearer understanding of the situation on the planet, he felt even worse. He couldn't even begin to imagine how Goku and the others had to be feeling down there. He could see a very bleak future, though. If this Legendary Super Saiyan was unleashed on the universe, there was no telling how dangerous things could become. King Kai knew that it was questionable whether or not even Cell might be able to stand a chance against this monster, and he momentarily wondered, if it came down to the most undesirable of scenarios, if for the universe's benefit he would eventually have to pick sides in a battle between Cell and Broly. He loathed the very notion that this was indeed an unfortunate possibility, and recognized that if Broly and Cell ever did fight, there was always the possibility that Cell could somehow manage to absorb Broly's energy and become an even bigger threat to the universe than either he or Broly had been before.

The danger of Broly making his way across the stars was indeed very real. Although King Kai had been unaware of Paragus' existence until the Saiyan had come to Earth, he had been tracking the journey Goku and the others had made across space, and that had allowed him to see that Paragus' spaceship was at least a hundred times faster than a standard Space Pod. Although that ship had been destroyed, as King Kai could see from the scraps of metal lying in the middle of a crater, there was no way of knowing whether there were any more space ships left.

For a moment, King Kai considered trying to find any reserve space ships that could exist on the planet, and then give the location, or locations, to Goku and his friends, so that Goku and his friends could destroy them and then escape the planet through Instant Transmission, leaving the Legendary Super Saiyan to die there when New Planet Vegeta was destroyed by the comet King Kai could see was quickly approaching. But that wasn't a viable option. If he had enough time, King Kai could actually use his skill to run through the whole planet with a fine-toothed comb. But doing such a thing would take days at the very least.

Usually, King Kai could watch events as they took place in real time, no matter how far away those events were taking place, as long as he knew where to look. Most of the time, he could determine where to look because he had energy signatures to lock on to, as energy signatures could be felt instantaneously. But if King Kai focused and had an idea of where to look, and of what he had to look for, he could, as a general rule, find any being in the universe wherever it was. Unfortunately, that was only true when it came to finding living beings, not when it came to finding objects. [Writer's note: The elaboration of King Kai's overseeing skills here is compatible with canon, since in the canon series, King Kai's skill to watch events or to find the position of something or someone is only seen when he uses it to watch fights. There is no recorded instance in which he uses it to find objects that are not associated with detectable energy signatures. The only instance that can suggest such is when he finds the Space Pods with Vegeta and Nappa in outer space. But those pods have Vegeta and Nappa inside them, and although they are each in a state of suspended animation, they could still have somewhat of an energy signature that King Kai could detect, or some other sort of biological signal that only kais can detect.]

Indeed, the defeat of this Legendary Super Saiyan would have to depend mostly on Goku and his friends, even if it merely came down to them keeping him on New Planet Vegeta until the comet crashed. King Kai prayed they would find some other solution, though, because if Goku and the others were to die while killing Broly, then not only would their lives end prematurely, and for most of them, yet again, but there would be no one to stop Cell.

'Goku, I'm counting on you to solve this,' King Kai thought, as he directed his full focus to the battle that was about to start on New Planet Vegeta.

Slowly getting back to his feet, Paragus stared at his son, unable to avert his eyes from him for as much as an instant, as shivers of fear at the thought of what Broly was about to do coursed through him.

All around him, everyone else seemed similarly scared, although for different reasons. Vegeta had even let go of that extremely muscular Super Saiyan form of his in his fright. But no one there was as frightened as Paragus himself.

Broly stood where he was for a considerable amount of time, as though he was trying to let the fact he was truly out of control and free to show his full power sink in for good. But, after an amount of time that seemed eternal to Paragus, Broly turned his head, and locked his pupil-less eyes on his father. Right then, Paragus realized that his guess of Broly's first act now that he was free was right.

Acting on instinct, Paragus turned around, ready to fly away, but he'd barely moved a few inches when Broly appeared in front of him.

"Going somewhere?" Broly asked.

Not giving Paragus the time to reply, Broly shot his left hand out and grasped Paragus' neck in a viselike grip. Paragus kicked desperately at the air and tried to pry Broly's gigantic fingers off of his neck, but to no avail.

Using his free hand, Broly started gathering a green ball of energy. The sight of it made Paragus tremble like a leaf.

"You have no idea of how long I've wanted to do this," Broly said.

And those were the last words Paragus heard from his son.

Trunks watched in a state that could only be qualified as 'horrified' when Broly started gathering the energy ball in his right hand.

This monster was just like the androids. The first thing he did after he managed to get out of his master's control was to kill the one who had given him life. And based on the look on his face, and from the words he had said, he was certainly going to enjoy it.

After he had gathered his energy ball, Broly shot his right arm forward, while at the same time he let go of Paragus' neck. Then, the green energy ball suddenly increased in size, becoming big enough to engulf Paragus. Broly fired it, and the energy blast flew forward, carrying Paragus in front of it.

Eventually, however, the blast seemed to lose impetus and fell down into the ground, releasing a massive explosion. Instantly after, Paragus' energy disappeared.

Looking supremely proud of what he had accomplished, Broly stood there in all of his height, his fists clenched and his arms slightly bent in a victorious pose. He opened his mouth wide, laughing to the top of his lungs. It was a mad laughter that sounded at the same time satisfied, victorious, and ecstatic, and it made everyone who heard him shake in trepidation.

"What a monster!" Tien said, looking in revulsion at what Broly had done, although his voice was drowned out by Broly's crazy laughter.

"He killed his own father!" Chiaotzu gasped.

Acting on instinct, Trunks immediately turned into an Ascended Super Saiyan, and settled into a fighting stance. All around him, the others also got ready for battle. Piccolo removed his cape and turban, and powered up to his fullest, while Goku and Gohan also powered up as much as they could. Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu also prepared themselves for battle.

Only Vegeta remained where he was, fallen on his knees, and trembling like a leaf.

"The Legendary Super Saiyan…," he whispered. "The one that appears once every 1,000 years… the one with unrivaled power… he's going to kill us all…."

Trunks couldn't help but to agree with his father's fear. And to think that he had come to the past to find out how to stop the Androids. If there was a Broly here, there certainly was another one running around in his future. Should the Androids ever meet him, they would be squashed like flies. But there had never been any sign of Broly in his timeline. Why this had been so, Trunks just couldn't figure out at the moment. He snapped out of his reverie when everything around him went silent. Namely, Broly had stopped laughing.

Everyone except for Vegeta – who was still kneeling helplessly and shaking in terror – continued to power up, trying to be ready for the Legendary Super Saiyan's next move.

His mind still reeling from the pure ecstasy that had come from having been released from his father's control, Broly took a deep breath after his explosion of laughter. It felt fantastic to be his own person after having been no more than a puppet for twenty-four years, a feeling that was surpassed only by the pure euphoria that had flowed through him after killing his father.

Broly snarled in rage at the mere thought of being the son of that bastard. Although Paragus had been his father, he had also been the one who had used him as if he was no more than a puppet since Broly had been six years old, thanks to those devices he had put on him. When Broly had received that first headband, Paragus had said it was a gift for Broly being such a good son, and for having done so well at annihilating those that had tried to kill both of them ever since he had been two years old. Broly had been suspicious, as he had never received gifts before, but he had accepted.

And since then, he had permanently been under his father's control. Although he had been forced to endure increasingly larger and more capable devices several times during his life due to natural growth in his physical form and the radical growth in his inherent power, his father had always taken care to keep the old device on him while the new one was being put on. Obviously, such an action had been out of fear of what Broly would do to him – a fear that was only logical, as Broly scarcely had any free will or emotions of his own with those devices on, at least none that he could outwardly display.

Despite all that had been restrained, Broly's anger had built up over the years of his confinement, even though he had not been able to properly show or act upon it.

'He sure was right about that fear of his!' Broly thought, rage flaring inside him again as he looked at the place where his father had been disintegrated. 'Goodbye, father, and rot in hell for the rest of eternity!'

Then, remembering that Vegeta and the others were still here, Broly looked at them, wondering what to do.

In a way, there wasn't much to wonder, though. He was going to kill them. That was a rule Broly had learned on his own ever since his life had first been threatened: kill every living creature you encounter, otherwise it might act on its potential to try to kill you. Broly had traveled across several planets for years, and it had always been like that for him. At least some of the inhabitants of every planet he had visited had tried to kill him – and obviously, Broly had been forced to kill them first in order for that not to happen. And now that he was an adult, the rule hadn't changed. For a while, his father had been an exception to that rule, but of course, the time had also come when Broly had wanted to kill him – albeit for different reasons.

However, he was a Saiyan after all, and he loved to fight. As such, he couldn't help but to be slightly disappointed at the fact he could wipe out entire populations of the most various aliens without any challenge. Because of that, he also couldn't help but to wonder if these beings – four of which were Super Saiyans, although seemingly inferior in their caliber of Super Saiyan – would provide him with some sort of fight before he annihilated them.

Maybe it was best to test them first. His next action after that would depend on the results. If they were weaklings, they wouldn't survive his test anyway. But if they proved to be strong, Broly was going to start with wiping out his father's minions, and then fight Vegeta and the others without interruptions. Hopefully, they would be more than bugs, and actually have some significant power that would enable them to provide at least some sort of a decent fight.

A smile of anticipation came to Broly's lips at the thought.

Powered up to his Ascended Super Saiyan state, Trunks stood in his fighting stance, his eyes trained on Broly. The Legendary Super Saiyan had been still for a long time, as though he was making some sort of consideration. And everyone else had been standing still, giving him the chance to make the first move, so that they were the ones who responded to him. Doing that could bring advantage in a fight.

And clearly, Broly was ready to make his first move.

His face suddenly turning serious, Broly clenched his right hand, like he had done on the previous day at the energy mines, and green beams peeked through his fingers. Then, he swung his arm forward, and again, a hailstorm of energy blasts came from his hand.

As had been the case at the energy mines, Broly's blasts were extremely weak for someone of the power he was releasing, and everyone managed to deflect the few that came at them. Goku and Gohan deflected them easily, just like Piccolo and Trunks. Even Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu, who were far weaker than the others, managed to deflect the blasts that came at them without extreme effort on their part.

The only one who didn't do anything was Vegeta, who remained relatively motionless, clearly in shock over the power level Broly was emitting. And some of the energy blasts were heading straight for him.

Trunks gasped in alarm. He wouldn't have time to step in before the blasts hit his father.

Fortunately, Goku had been watching, and he used the Instant Transmission technique to position himself in front of Vegeta, shielding him while deflecting the energy blasts.

Soon after, the blasts dissipated, and Broly didn't throw any more. Instead, he just gave some sort of approving nod at them. It was as though he had been testing them, and they had passed. And he surely seemed ready for the next strike.

His yellow-green aura again burst around him, and Broly flew upwards, gathering energy in each of his hands. He flew slowly, as though flying was requiring him to make extra effort.

After he had reached a certain altitude, he released the energy attacks that had been gathered in each of his palms in different directions, before he started gathering energy for more.

At first, Trunks wondered if Broly was just going on a mad rampage similar to the one Androids 17 and 18 had enduringly enjoyed back in the original future from which he had come, but, a few seconds after, both of those energy blasts went down to the ground, and exploded. Instantly, Trunks felt several energies disappearing. Then, Broly fired two more energy blasts. Again, they hit two different locations, and more groups of energies disappeared.

And Trunks understood.

Broly wasn't going on a mad rampage. He was deliberately wiping out every place where Paragus' minions were.

Several times more, Broly fired pairs of energy blasts, seemingly wiping out every surviving henchman that was still on this planet, while the warriors of Earth were still unsure of what to do. Then, when he was done with his task, Broly came down from the sky, landing so heavily that the ground underneath him cracked.

Broly turned his white eyes on them.

"This is the part where you run away," he said, as if he thought they were missing a basic point.

"In your dreams, steroid freak!" Yamcha shouted, clenching his right fist at Broly.

Broly trained his eyes on Yamcha, looking honestly surprised at his words.

"Oh, so you won't run away?" Broly asked, his voice sounding as surprised as his look. Again, it seemed as though he honestly expected them to run away.

However, after a few seconds of puzzlement, he merely shrugged and shouted, "Alright then. You're just making my life easier!"

Trunks' eyes bugged out. Making his life easier? What sort of thinking was going on inside this brute's head? Every enemy that Trunks had known or heard of was the kind that would drag out delivering the final blow, in order to prolong his or her own amusement. Broly, however, seemed eager to finish them off as quickly as possible. It was as though he was eager to kill them as soon as possible so they wouldn't have as much of a chance to respond.

Trunks didn't have much time to think about that further, however, because Broly gathered energy for an energy blast, and fired it at Yamcha. Immediately, everyone took off – but again, Vegeta let himself stay where he was, still too paralyzed. Trunks went to get him, but Goku, who had noticed the same thing as Trunks, flew back to the ground and then took off again, this time holding Vegeta.

Thankful to his friend, Trunks flew upwards as quickly as he could after the others. A second later, the blast exploded.

Trunks covered his eyes with his arms in an attempt to protect them from the explosion, as he felt the shockwave going over him. Again, the blast had been rather weak for someone of Broly's power, but it was still strong enough to do some damage.

But Trunks was more worried about the one who had fired the blast.

Searching out Broly's energy with his senses, Trunks found him, right as he appeared behind Yamcha. Apparently, for some reason, his sights were still set on him.

Broly immediately swung a punch, but Yamcha, who had also sensed Broly, ducked underneath the blow, and delivered a mule kick to Broly's abs. The Legendary Super Saiyan didn't budge an inch. Still, Yamcha turned around and delivered the hardest punches he could muster to Broly's mid-section.

Krillin and Chiaotzu joined Yamcha, and started delivering a barrage of punches and kicks. Again, Broly didn't even blink at all the attacks.

"Guys, out of the way!" Tien shouted.

Yamcha, Krillin, and Chiaotzu moved, and Tien fired the strongest Tri-Beam he could muster at Broly. However, Broly simply swung a punch, and threw the blast back at Tien, at a much faster speed than it had been emitted.

Thrown off-guard by the defense, Tien put his arms up in a cross-block, but when the attack hit him, he was still knocked out of the sky.

But Broly didn't stop there. He immediately threw an energy blast at Krillin, and then disappeared and reappeared behind Yamcha, delivering an elbow-strike to the former bandit's back. Then, to finish the set, he delivered a karate-chop on Chiaotzu. All of his three targets fell down after each receiving a single hit.

Even before Broly had turned his focus away from Chiaotzu, Piccolo and Gohan were already rushing toward him. Trunks was about to do the same himself, but he noticed that his father and Goku weren't around, so he looked around to see if he could find them. He spotted them right as Goku finished setting Vegeta down on the ground, at a place that once had been part of the pathway that had lead from the acorn-shaped ship to the castle, but that now was just something that made it seem as though a huge chunk shaped like half a circle had been taken out of the rocky ridge where the path had been built.

Satisfied at having located his father and Goku, Trunks charged at Broly himself, right as Piccolo and Gohan got to him. However, Broly simply clobbered Piccolo toward the ground with his right arm, and then grabbed Gohan with his left hand, throwing him down as well.

Trying his best to not be thrown off by seeing two more of his comrades going down so quickly, Trunks kept his charge toward Broly. However, when Trunks got within range, Broly simply clasped both his hands above Trunks and, far too quickly for Trunks to react, slammed Trunks down toward the ground.

Right as Broly unclasped his hands, Goku rushed in as well, and delivered the hardest punch he could muster to the Legendary Super Saiyan's chin. However, the only thing his attack managed to do was to push Broly's head backwards. Goku brought his left arm back, while he brought the right one forward, but before he could deliver a second punch, Broly bent his arms like a bodybuilder showing off his biceps, and a green energy sphere gathered at the center of his chest.

Even as Goku noticed it, Broly fired the sphere. Without sufficient time to block it, Goku was blasted out of the sky, rocketing downward against the basis of the ridge where the pathway had been built. For a moment, he looked around in confusion, as though trying to regain some awareness, but even as he moved his head, a pile of large stones fell on top of him. Then, his movements ceased.

Broly looked at the pile of stones that were covering the hole that had become Kakarot's grave, then turned his gaze toward the general area where the other fools had fallen. He had thought that these guys, especially the Super Saiyans, had the potential of being strong, but although they were surely stronger than every opponent Broly had ever met, they were still weaklings compared to himself, at least now that he was using his full power, which was at a greater level than it had ever been before.

He was surprised, though. Even after he had demonstrated his power, the weaklings hadn't fled, and instead had tried to fight him. Almost everyone else Broly had met had simply fled in panic after having as much as a glimpse of his power.

But they were still weaklings, and if any of them were still alive, then there was no reason for them to live anymore, especially since they were weaklings.

Broly started gathering some energy to destroy the whole area. But in the middle of doing so, he noticed something.

Vegeta was still there, kneeling on the part of the pathway that Broly had mostly destroyed shortly after starting the fight. And he looked absolutely pathetic, particularly for someone who was meant to be a ruler.

But maybe he could still be stirred up enough so that he would be motivated to fight. And if doing so turned out to be impossible, then Broly would just kill him.

Satisfied with the thought, Broly disappeared from where he was, and reappeared about fifty meters away from Vegeta, expecting him to try to fight. But, surprisingly, Vegeta barely reacted, focused as he was on muttering something to himself.

"What's the matter, Saiyan Prince?" Broly bellowed. "Are you unwilling to fight?"

Vegeta didn't answer. He just stared at Broly helplessly, unable to bring himself to make any bigger movement, while he kept repeating whispers brought by memories of what he had been taught about the one that the legends of his people described about the ultimate, unstoppable warrior.

"The Legendary Super Saiyan… the one nobody has a chance at defeating… his rage is infinite… there's nothing we can do…."

For a moment, Broly allowed Vegeta to keep whispering, only to see if Vegeta was the sort of person who reacted slowly. However, it didn't take long to realize that Vegeta simply wouldn't raise a finger to fight him. And Broly wasn't in the mood to wait any longer.

"Suit yourself then!" Broly shouted.

Without any further words, Broly darted toward Vegeta, while the Saiyan Prince stared at him, feeling powerless to do anything about his quickly approaching end.

Still lying under the pile of rubble, Goku let out a gasp that seemed to have stayed locked inside him. His clothes were singed and dirt-smudged, and he was covered in scratches and small bruises, but he was alright for the most part, as the blast had been seemingly weak for someone of Broly's strength.

'It looks like natural strength has been quite kind to Broly,' Goku couldn't help but to think, as he lifted himself from out of the rubble.

Yes. He was strong indeed. Although Goku had barely fought him until now, he could already tell without exaggerating that Broly was stronger than any opponent they had ever faced. Even Cell – who, actually, Goku still hadn't truly faced – would have trouble holding a candle to this Legendary Super Saiyan. And Cell was already abnormally strong. How were they going to defeat Broly, then?

Deciding to shake off his musings, Goku focused his senses on the Legendary Super Saiyan – and realized that he was about to hit Vegeta.

Thinking fast, Goku used Instant Transmission to appear right beside Vegeta, pushed Vegeta out of the way, and then jumped up, avoiding the punch Broly delivered by centimeters.

Obviously surprised by the unexpected event, Broly turned his eyes toward Goku. For a moment, Goku could swear that Broly seemed surprised that he was still alive. However, that emotion was quickly shaken off.

"Are you eager to die, Kakarot?" Broly asked him. "Because that has to be the only reason for you to step in like that."

"Are you eager to kill me?" Goku countered. "If you are, why don't you come and catch me?"

With no further words, Goku turned around and took off at full speed.

Snarling in rage, Broly shouted, "I won't let you escape!"

Then, he flew after Goku as fast as he could, with his aura leaving a yellow-green trail behind him as he flew.

Goku frowned as he sensed how quickly Broly was catching up with him, before he redoubled his efforts to put some distance between himself and his foe. Ordinarily, he wouldn't be running away from an opponent like this, but in this case, he had to do it, for two reasons. First, he had to get him away from Vegeta and the others, so they wouldn't be hurt by some stray attack. Second, he had to buy some time to think about some strategy to defeat Broly, as his own strength most likely wouldn't be enough to defeat someone of Broly's power.

Fortunately, Broly didn't seem to be a fast flier, as he wasn't gaining any ground.

But right as the thought came to Goku, Broly's energy flared, and an instant later, the Legendary Super Saiyan appeared in front of Goku, his arms open like those of a goalkeeper getting ready to grab a ball. Surprised at such a speed, Goku skidded to a halt, stopping only about a meter in front of Broly.

"Where do you think you're going, Kakarot?" Broly asked.

Goku stared agape at the Legendary Super Saiyan. It was obvious that this new transformation, unlike the Ultra Super Saiyan state, enabled its wielder to gain significantly greater strength without significantly reducing speed despite the wielder's much greater size.

Goku didn't have time to ponder that further, though, because Broly's arms suddenly reached out toward him. Acting as quickly as possible, Goku instant transmitted behind Broly, making the Legendary Super Saiyan miss his grab, although barely.

"What did you just do?" Broly asked him, with a frown of speculation.

Instead of answering, Goku flew away from Broly again, even faster than he had before. But again, after giving him some ground, Broly just disappeared from where he was and reappeared in front of him, ready to grab him.

Goku flew until he was about to crash against Broly, and then he put two fingers to his forehead and instant transmitted to behind Broly once more, without slowing down in the process. For a moment, Broly was again amazed, which allowed Goku to gain a lot of ground, but, for a third time, Broly appeared in Goku's path, looking even more frustrated than he had before.

Deciding that they had moved far enough from the others for his purposes, and that hoping the same trick would work yet again would be pushing it, Goku immediately ascended into the Ultra Super Saiyan state without even slowing down in his flight, blowing his shirt and undershirt off in the process. When he had first reached this variant of Super Saiyan, it had taken him a long time to enter it, but over time, he'd mastered the state to the point where he could enter it in an instant. But he had never thought an occasion would arise in which he would consider it a valid option to use the Ultra Super Saiyan state in battle. After all, this form posed a huge problem of lack of speed. But Goku saw no other way of increasing his power enough to have at least a chance of dealing some damage to Broly.

Bringing his right hand backwards as quickly as possible, Goku gathered all the energy he could, and then brought his arm forward, hitting Broly's abs with the strongest punch he could deliver.

Broly gasped, as the strength of the blow combined with the kinetic energy from Goku sent him rocketing backwards.

Not wanting to give Broly time to recover, Goku put his fingers to his forehead and instant transmitted behind his enemy. Then, gathering all the energy he could into his right hand, Goku sank his right fist into Broly's lower back. Again, Broly was amazed at the burst of strength.

Determined to make the most efficient offensive he could, Goku instant transmitted to above Broly, clasped his hands into a ball, and hit the top of Broly's head, sending him flying downwards at extremely high speed. When Broly hit the ground, the impact of his landing opened a huge crater, and sent an explosion of boulders into the air.

Again, Goku flew down as quickly as he could, to gain as much momentum as possible, with his knees aiming down, and with both his hands clasped above his head. With his golden aura flaring around him, Goku hit Broly's abs with both of his knees, pressing him further into the ground, and then, carrying on with his momentum, slammed his hands into Broly's chest. For a third time, the attacks made Broly gasp in pain.

Goku again instant transmitted to Broly's side, and grabbed his right arm, intending to spin him around and then throw him into the air to start a new series of attacks. However, although he still appeared somewhat disoriented, Broly regained focus, and pulled his right arm free from Goku's grasp.

Then, before Goku could react, Broly grabbed his left arm inside his massive right hand, and then slammed a punch into Goku's abs with his other hand.

Even as Goku gasped in pain, Broly delivered an uppercut that sent him flying upwards. Then, he disappeared from his location, and appeared behind Goku, giving a roundhouse kick to his mid-section, which sent him flying in a different direction.

Then, he disappeared again, and reappeared in the middle of Goku's path. Goku, still too dazed by the blows he had received, slammed into Broly. But the Legendary Super Saiyan, instead of being thrown off, just wrapped his arms around Goku like a deadly vise.

Even as Goku struggled to overcome his dazed state, a maniacal smile came to Broly's lips, and he started squeezing the other Saiyan inside his grip.

Goku tried his best to power up even more in an attempt to break free. However, every attempt at struggling simply made Broly squeeze him tighter.

Suddenly, a purple blur with a golden glow around it appeared, and Gohan punched Broly's cheek with everything he had. The surprise of the attack made Broly let go of Goku and soar several hundred meters away.

"Are you alright, Dad?" Gohan asked him, right as Piccolo and Trunks, who had also recovered, arrived in the immediate vicinity, stopping right behind Gohan.

"I'm fine, son," Goku whispered, trying to overcome the pain that was coursing through his ribcage. "Thanks."

Gohan smiled as if to say 'You're welcome.'

The four of them then focused their gazes on the Legendary Super Saiyan, who was already starting to recover from Gohan's strike.

"So … what's the plan?" Trunks asked the others, as though that would provide a miraculous solution to defeat such an opponent.

Goku turned his head to answer, but no words left his mouth. If even his strongest attacks delivered with the element of surprise had managed to inflict no more than bruises on Broly, it seemed as though defeating him was beyond even his own abilities.

Instinctively, Goku looked at Piccolo, to see if any extra knowledge and intelligence he had gained after fusing with Kami had enabled him to have some sort of plan. But Piccolo didn't answer Trunks' question, which immediately informed Goku of one simple fact: Piccolo was also out of ideas.

And Broly looked like he was just about to charge again.

"None," Goku finally replied, answering Trunks' question. "Let's just fight him all together, and exploit any weakness we can find."

That was all Goku had time to say before Broly rushed forward. An instant later, Broly was already right behind him, about to deliver a punch.

Instead of turning around to meet Broly, Goku stayed where he was, with his back turned to the Legendary Super Saiyan. He had known since the beginning of Broly's charge that he wouldn't have time to turn around and dodge Broly's attack at the same time. But he felt that if he remained focused, he would at least be able to sense Broly's move and anticipate it.

Sensing what Broly was about to, Goku ducked, dodging the blow. But at Ultra Super Saiyan, he moved far too slowly, and Broly's fist plowed its way through Goku's spiked-up hair. Had Goku moved a tad bit slower, the punch would have met his head. Shaking off the fright, Goku slammed an elbow into Broly's abs, making the Legendary Super Saiyan grunt in pain. With Broly distracted, Trunks moved in from Broly's right side, ready to deliver a punch, and Piccolo approached from the left, his leg pulled back for a kick.

Both attacks met their targets, but there was no indication that Broly had felt anything. However, right then, Gohan flew in and delivered a punch to Broly's chin, which, surprisingly, made the Legendary Super Saiyan stagger backwards for about twenty centimeters, somewhat dazed. It was not a potentially deadly blow, but it caused more damage than Goku had caused when he had punched Broly's chin, and Gohan was only in his basic Super Saiyan state.

Goku couldn't help but to smile a bit. Indeed, Gohan had become quite strong. And then, as if light had been made, a thought came to Goku.

Maybe, just maybe, it was time to benefit from a special strategy that he had been preparing for the upcoming battle with Cell ….

It seemed like as good a time as any for the vast, sleeping power, a power that could only be triggered by extreme rage, to awaken.

Goku wrenched the lower half of his body backwards, and slammed his feet into Broly's abs, which again made the Legendary Super Saiyan grunt. Then, he pulled his legs back and started cupping his hands at his right side, with his movements excruciatingly slow.

Immediately guessing what he was about to do, Gohan, Piccolo, and Trunks all fired an energy blast at Broly's face, to leave him dazed for even longer, right as Goku bought his hands to his right side.

"Ka… me…" he started chanting as he gathered energy between his cupped hands.

Again, Gohan, Trunks and Piccolo each fired an energy blast at Broly's head to make sure he stayed confused for even longer. Then, Gohan flew upwards, and Piccolo and Trunks flew backwards, all trying to get as far as they could.

"Ha… me…" Goku carried on as he gathered more energy.

Then, he started thrusting his arms forward to release the attack. But before Goku could shout the last syllable and unleash the energy he'd gathered, Broly recovered, grabbed Goku's leg, and delivered a haymaker to his chest, making Goku lose focus and let go of the energy he'd gathered.

Right as he was struck, Goku shouted in pain, trying to sound as anguished as he could.

Hopefully, if Broly focused on torturing Goku for a bit, the reaction Goku was hoping for would occur.

But then, Broly let go of Goku's leg, and delivered an uppercut to his back, which sent him rocketing upwards.

Even as Goku was soaring up, Broly flew toward Trunks, and delivered a punch to his gut. Piccolo and Gohan rushed in to help their friend, but right as they got to him, Broly flared his aura, and all three of his opponents were sent spiraling away.

Immediately, Broly disappeared from where he was, and then reappeared above Trunks, clobbering him down to the ground. Then, he again disappeared, and reappeared by Gohan's side, grabbing his leg, and raising his arm, as if he was going to throw the half Saiyan down with all his might.

"No!" Piccolo shouted as he fired a Destructive Wave at Broly's face, hoping to distract him so that he wouldn't throw Gohan down at full force. But Broly was too fast for Piccolo, and right after the Namek fired his attack, the Legendary Super Saiyan threw Gohan down as hard as he could. Moments after, the Destructive Wave exploded on his face.

Knowing that there was a chance he had made the Legendary Super Saiyan even angrier, Piccolo fired more Destructive Waves at Broly's head, hoping to somehow delay him. However, Broly flew through the attacks as if they were squirts from a water gun, and then grabbed Piccolo's left wrist. Then, he delivered three punches to Piccolo's torso, before throwing the Namek down as hard as he could, like he had done to Gohan shortly before.

Meanwhile, Goku, floating some hundreds of meters above the spot, nursed his injured torso and back the best he could, as he again made some considerations.

His plan, at least against this opponent, had not worked.

Whenever Broly had more than one opponent, he didn't seem willing to focus on torturing each of them individually. And even when there was only one left, it did not seem as though Broly would prolong torture for all that long.

Cell, however, was a monster of a very different sort, with different motivations and different ways of expressing his diabolic intents.

Whether the plan would work on Cell after all was uncertain, but they would never know if they weren't alive to at least try. Goku knew that it would be hard to unlock the rage, and hopefully, Cell would provide the rage an opportunity that would overcome rationality.

Rationality, it seemed, was an impediment to the success of what Goku had been trying to do, especially because of the realization that the Dragon Balls would be able to bring whoever was killed back to life.

But for now, any more thoughts on defeating Cell could wait.

After all, he still needed to figure out how the hell he was going to defeat Broly.

Goku's musings were cut short as his senses picked up an amount of energy being gathered. Broly was preparing another attack – and either Goku was wrong, or it would be one strong enough to decimate the whole area in which Piccolo, Gohan, and Trunks were, something that would probably kill all of them.

Knowing he had to stop Broly before he fired that blast, Goku instant transmitted until he was right in front of Broly and kicked Broly's face, causing him to fire the blast in a different direction, into outer space.

However, this time, Broly recovered from the hit far faster than Goku had imagined he would.

Even before Goku had completely lowered his left leg – the one he had used to kick Broly – the Legendary Super Saiyan disappeared and reappeared in front of Goku, grabbing both of his wrists. Then, he delivered a knee-strike to Goku's stomach, before throwing him down as hard as he could. Goku was vaulted toward the ground like a missile, opening a crater even bigger than the one Broly had opened with his landing.

Bent on making sure that Goku would actually be killed this time, Broly pointed the palm of his hand down at the crater. The area was suddenly immersed in a green light that seemed to be less and less encompassing as time passed. Eventually, the light completely disappeared, but instantly after, a ball of energy appeared in Broly's right hand.

"Die!" Broly shouted, throwing the ball of energy at the place where Goku had landed.

However, the blast had scarcely gotten halfway there when three yellow energy blasts knocked it away into space.

Even as he looked in the direction the blasts had come from, Broly saw Gohan flying toward him at full speed.

Seemingly less than an instant later, the brat had delivered a roundhouse kick to his cheek. Then, Gohan started punching and kicking like mad at Broly's head. Because of Gohan's small size, Broly was forced to continually move backwards in an effort to get far enough from him to fight back.

Farther away, Trunks and Piccolo joined each other to discuss the situation at hand and come up with the best possible strategy, both of them knowing the dangers of charging mindlessly into battle.

"It looks like Gohan is holding his own against Broly," Trunks remarked as he watched the Legendary Super Saiyan losing ground.

"Indeed," Piccolo said. "Gohan's smaller size and fast attacks seem to give him a momentary advantage. But it will only be a matter of time until Broly fights back."

Trunks nodded. He was thinking the same thing.

"Do you have any plan to counter that?" he asked.

"I have an idea that might work," the Namek replied thoughtfully.

"What?" Trunks immediately asked.

"If I have enough time, I can try to gather all of my energy into a Special Beam Cannon, and hit Broly with it in a sensitive area – namely, his head. Maybe I can kill him like that. However, I will need time to gather enough energy, so you and Gohan have to keep him busy until then."

Trunks nodded. "Alright, Piccolo. I hope this one works."

"So do I."

Immediately, Trunks flew toward Broly, who was still trying to get far enough from Gohan to fight back, as the boy kept punching and kicking his head over and over again.

Stopping behind Broly, Trunks started punching and kicking at Broly's head, so that the Legendary Super Saiyan was being attacked from two sides.

That seemed to be the breaking point for Broly, as he intensified his aura, the impact throwing both Trunks and Gohan away from him.

Having advantage back on his side, Broly immediately flew toward Gohan, who brought both his hands above his head, one of them behind the other, and started to gather energy there.

"Masenko!…" Gohan started shouting, ready to send the attack.

However, Broly cut off the end of the shout, slamming a punch into his torso which sent him away. Again, he started gathering energy for an energy blast.

Trying his best to get Broly's attention before he could hurt Gohan, Trunks brought his hands forward and fired a Buster Cannon at the Legendary Super Saiyan's back. Broly shouted as the attack hit him, and turned his head around to look at Trunks.

Trying his best to be ready for the fight, Trunks powered up into Ultra Super Saiyan. It took him a considerable amount of time to reach that form, but thankfully, he managed to ascend into it much faster than he had when he had used it against Cell. He was more than aware of this form's disadvantages by now, but he still believed he would need it to last longer against Broly. If nothing else, it would make him less sensitive to Broly's attacks.

Fortunately, Broly had been relatively immobile during most of Trunks' transformation, as though he wanted to see exactly what Trunks would do. But as soon as Trunks finished, Broly rushed toward him. Right as Broly brought his hand backwards to deliver a punch, Trunks raised his arms and fired an energy blast at Broly's head. The attack stopped Broly in his tracks, and Trunks decided to use that time to close in, and deliver a punch to Broly's head.

That punch hit its target, but when Trunks went to deliver a second blow, Broly moved backwards, and dodged it easily.

Allowing his momentum to continue carrying him forward, Trunks spun around in a full turn and fired an energy blast at Broly's head. However, Broly disappeared, and reappeared behind Trunks.

Sensing that Broly would reach out toward him, Trunks flipped forward. The bulging muscles slowed him down, but he still managed to avoid Broly's grab. However, he felt Broly's arm grazing along his back as the blow missed.

After his grab missed, Broly delivered a kick, but Trunks brought his hands down, and fired an energy blast at Broly's left foot.

The explosion made Broly pull his left leg backwards, but in the meantime, he reached out and grabbed Trunks' right leg with his left hand. Then, he delivered an uppercut to Trunks with his other hand, and got ready to throw him toward the ground.

However, Gohan delivered a kick to Broly's face. Caught by surprise, Broly let go of Trunks, right as Gohan again went in to deliver a barrage of kicks and punches to his head. But before the first attack could connect, Broly flared his aura, which pushed Gohan away. Then, Broly grabbed Gohan in one hand, grabbed Trunks in the other, and then clapped the two half-Saiyans together as if they were a pair of cymbals.

Then, he threw Gohan and Trunks down as hard as he could muster. The two half Saiyans soared down toward the ground, in spite of trying their utter best to slow down their speed.

"Gohan!" Trunks shouted in the middle of their free fall. "Think fast!"

Trunks threw his arms down, and fired an energy wave toward the ground. Sensing what his friend meant, Gohan mirrored the move, and the two of them went up like rockets, straight back at Broly.

Broly's eyes widened in surprise. Obviously, he hadn't been counting on them going at him again so fast – if he had been expecting them to go at him again at all.

Not letting him recover from his amazement, both Trunks and Gohan delivered a punch to Broly's abs as soon as they got to the right altitude, trying their utter best to hit on the same spot Goku had already struck. The trick seemed to work, because Broly gasped in pain. Their auras flaring around them, both Gohan and Trunks again prepared the strongest punches they could muster, and unleashed them. Again, their blows made contact, and Broly gasped again. However, this time, he pulled himself together faster, and shouted, flaring his aura around him. Gohan and Trunks were blown away again, and Broly pointed one of his hands at each of them. The area was immersed in a green light, but this time, it decreased into two circles, and an energy sphere formed in each of Broly's hands.

Apparently satisfied, Broly threw both blasts, one for Trunks and the other for Gohan. When the blast meant for Trunks reached him, he put his hands against it, and flipped over it. Gohan swerved to the side to avoid the other.

Snarling in rage, Broly started firing successive energy blasts from both of his hands, which Gohan and Trunks – particularly the latter, because of the massive muscles of his Ultra Super Saiyan form – had great difficulty dodging.

However, they wouldn't need to dodge for much longer.

"Gohan, Trunks, move!" Piccolo shouted behind them.

The two of them moved aside, and Piccolo, with his middle and index fingers on his forehead, moved forward as quickly as he could, until he was only about a meter away from Broly.

"Special Beam Cannon!" he shouted.

Broly looked up, and right then, Piccolo thrust his right arm forward, firing the powerful attack, hitting Broly straight on his forehead.

The impact of the explosion was so strong that even Piccolo himself was knocked away, and Gohan and Trunks had to make an effort to stay where they were.

Right away, Piccolo could tell that his attack had failed.

The Special Beam Cannon was a piercing technique, meant to explode only if it found some target too hard to pierce. That meant Broly was still alive.

As soon as the light from the explosion faded, it was even clearer that Broly had survived the blast. He wasn't unharmed, however, as a few cuts of considerable length and depth could be seen on his forehead and face, and a few trickles of blood were running down his cheeks. Such injuries, however, weren't enough to incapacitate Broly. They were only enough to make him mad, or so it could be judged from his snarling.

Not giving them time to feel horrified, Broly shot forward toward Piccolo, and swung a punch at him with his right hand. Piccolo moved aside, narrowly avoiding the blow, but in his haste he had moved to his right, which allowed Broly to deliver a left hook. This time, the punch hit the target, and Piccolo was thrown away.

Trying his best to kill Piccolo quickly, Broly fired an energy ball at him, but Gohan fired another that deflected it into space. At the same time, Trunks fired the strongest Buster Cannon he was capable of, hitting Broly's head.

Although the attack hadn't really hurt Broly, the fact that one of his own attacks had been deflected and right after he'd been hit by an energy wave left him confused. Immediately, Gohan flew forward and started hitting Broly's chest as hard as he could.

Trunks, flying much more slowly because of his Ultra Super Saiyan form, joined him, and started punching at Broly's back.

Meanwhile, back at the spot where he had landed, Goku, who had recovered a few moments before, cupped his hands at his side and started amassing all the energy he could gather at the quickest speed he could muster. He knew he had to be quick, otherwise, Broly could start fighting back.

As he'd gathered all the energy he possibly could in the amount of time he felt he had available, a blue ball of light formed between his palms. Sensing Goku's energy increasing, Gohan and Trunks immediately moved as far away from Broly as they could. Broly looked around in confusion, apparently uncertain of who he should attack first. Goku decided to act before Broly came to a decision.

"Kamehame…" Goku instant-transmitted from where he was, and reappeared right in front of Broly. "Haaaa!"

Right as a look of amazement came into Broly's face, Goku thrust his hands forward, and fired the strongest Kamehameha he had ever created toward Broly at point-blank range.

However, in the split-second that Goku had taken to extend his arms forward, Broly himself opened his arms and tried his best to hold the massive energy beam.

In spite of Broly's efforts, however, the Kamehameha pushed him for more than a kilometer, until Broly managed to completely extend his arms and effectively stop the massive energy wave from pushing him any farther.

Gritting his teeth from the effort, Goku tried the best he could to charge his attack further, so that it would engulf and destroy Broly.

At the front of the blast, Broly could feel his arms starting to falter under the continuous force of the energy attack. Letting out a fierce roar, he brought up his yellow-green aura and intensified his energy output, managing to successfully halt the attack from pushing him farther.

Goku grit his teeth even harder out of frustration. He had just felt that whatever success his Kamehameha had been having at pushing Broly had been nullified. In fact, now it seemed that Broly was somewhat managing to push the attack back. And Goku could already feel himself starting to run out of energy. If he didn't manage to engulf Broly soon, all of his energy would go to waste.

The appearance of two figures – one by his right, the other by his left – caught his attention.

Looking in each direction, Goku saw Gohan to his right, charging up a Masenko, and Trunks to his left, charging up a Buster Cannon.

In spite of the supreme effort he was making, Goku let go of his strained expression for long enough to give them a grateful smile. Both Gohan and Trunks smiled back, before they fired their attacks toward Broly as well, increasing the onslaught of power against him.

At the front of the Kamehameha, Broly could feel his arms starting to falter, and he was enraged that two additional attacks were fast approaching.

Bellowing to the top of his lungs, Broly brought forth even more power from the depths of his strength, and quickly used his left hand to fire a sizable green blast into the center of the wave, while quickly moving himself out of the way.

Then, the Kamehameha exploded, not only engulfing the Buster Cannon and Masenko in the process, but releasing a massive shockwave that impacted a radius of hundreds of kilometers, sending boulders the size of elephants flying in every direction, and unleashing a flash of light that was visible even from outer space.

Trunks and Gohan were instantly blown away, unable to withstand the shockwave. Being the strongest of them while in his Ultra Super Saiyan form, Goku managed to withstand the explosion after being blown away himself for about three hundred meters.

When the blinding light finally disappeared, Goku was panting like a locomotive, both from having expended a significant portion of his energy and from having tried to withstand the attack. Seconds afterwards, his muscles decreased in size like an empting balloon, and he returned to the basic form of Super Saiyan. If not for his mastery over the transformation, he most certainly would have returned to his normal state as a result of expending so much energy.

Goku looked up in rage, knowing his efforts had been in vain.

Broly's energy did not feel any different from before, in spite of all the trouble he'd obviously had holding back the attack.

Indeed, just like Goku had suspected, Broly had come out of the attack nearly unscathed. The only visible signs of damage were the small scratches and burns on the palms of his massive hands. Even that small amount of damage, however, was enough to make Broly even angrier than he had already been before. Clenching his fists to the point where he dug his nails into his palms, Broly let out a fierce growl, and brought up his aura again, the intensity of its cascading waves further revealing all the fury that soared inside him.

Still panting very heavily, Goku locked his eyes on Broly's glowing figure. Apparently, having been about to die was something that made Broly mad – probably because he wasn't used to it. Now, he was going to kill them all for sure. And Goku, being as depleted of power as he was, doubted he would be capable of putting up much of a fight.

Letting out another of his typical roars, Broly shot toward him like a rocket. Acting on instinct, Goku put his index and middle fingers to his forehead, and disappeared, reappearing right behind Broly, as the Saiyan carried on flying forward. However, after flying for only a hundred meters more, Broly made a U-turn in the air, and flew straight back toward Goku. Goku again tried to put his fingers to his forehead, however, Broly fired an energy blast at him right as he finished making the gesture. Acting on instinct instead of on logical thought, Goku flew upwards and avoided the blast. An instant later, Broly's massive left hand was wrapped around his neck.

Too drained to think about fighting back, Goku could only stay limp and immobile as Broly delivered an extremely strong punch to his torso. Then, he slammed his right knee into Goku's gut, before he put his left palm against Goku's torso. Instantly, Goku guessed what Broly was going to do.

"Don't do that!"

Surprise flickering through him, Goku looked at the voice's direction, right on time to spot Gohan flying toward Broly, his right fist pulled back to deliver a punch.

Even in his current condition, Goku couldn't help but to notice that Gohan was flying much faster than usual, that his aura was growing brighter, and that his energy level was considerably higher than what Goku had believed to be Gohan's maximum. And it was still increasing.

Maybe this meant … could it be?

But if such a thing was true at first, it didn't turn out to be so in the end, because in the midst of Gohan's charge, Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan, extended his right arm toward the young half-Saiyan.

"Shoo," he yelled, right before firing an energy blast that hit Gohan at pointblank range. When it hit him, it exploded and sent Gohan flying away, shattering the vividness in power that Goku had sensed emanating from his son. The sight and what he was sensing made Goku feel as if he had a gigantic hand squeezing his heart.

And an instant later, he had a gigantic hand placed against his torso, as Broly again started gathering energy in his palm.

"Die, Kakarot!" Broly shouted after he had finished gathering energy in his hand.

Then, with no further words, he let go of Goku's neck and fired a massive ball of energy that again pushed Goku down to the ground. Too tired to move, Goku could only watch in horror as the blast pushed him down to the ground and it exploded, consuming him in the green light it released.

Even before the blast had exploded, Broly turned around to see if any of the others was still standing.

The first one he saw was the Saiyan boy wearing armor. He was getting up again, and was still in that excessively muscular Super Saiyan state.

Deciding he still had some time to have fun before the comet arrived, Broly shot off toward him.

Still in his Ultra Super Saiyan state, Trunks kept his eyes locked on his enemy, determined to fight this Legendary Super Saiyan until the very end, even though he knew he would need a miracle to win. Even if this meant his end, at least the others would hopefully have enough time to recover as a result of Trunks' efforts to distract this beast. After all, someone had to still be alive to save this timeline from Cell and Broly, and if Trunks' continued efforts resulted in his death, and therefore his inability to save his own timeline, then at least this timeline would still have potential saviors.

When Broly's left fist came toward him, Trunks jumped up, avoiding the Legendary Super Saiyan's charge, although barely, because of the handicap that the Ultra Super Saiyan form placed on his speed. Forming a Finish Buster in his hands without stopping his movement, Trunks flipped forward until he was upside down, right as Broly stopped his momentum and turned around, on time to see Trunks firing his Finish Buster. Without much effort on his part, Broly grabbed the energy-attack in his hands and squashed it. However, the amount of time he spent doing so allowed Trunks to close in with his hands tightly clasped together. Before Broly regained complete awareness of the situation, Trunks ducked under Broly's arms and slammed his clasped hands into Broly's six-pack, hoping to at least stir up the damage that had already been caused there.

As Broly's gasp of pain indicated that Trunks's plan had indeed worked, Trunks put his hands to the same spot and started firing a barrage of energy blasts at point blank range. For the first three times he did so, that worked, as Broly gasped in pain each time he was hit.

However, right as Trunks was charging up the fourth energy blast, Broly brought up his aura, letting out a surge of energy. Trunks immediately dug his feet into the ground so as not to be blown away, but the explosion still made him skid more than twenty meters backwards, and dug his legs into the ground up to his knees.

When Trunks finally managed to withstand the impact, Broly was already flying toward him.

Trunks immediately flared his aura, making a small circular crater expand around him, and setting his legs free in the process. Then, he got into the best fighting stance he could, as Broly began to prepare a punch midflight. Doing the first thing that came to mind, Trunks raised his hands and gathered the strongest energy blast he could, but didn't fire it. Broly's punch hit the blast, shattering it completely, but in doing so, Broly's arm had lost most of its momentum, which allowed Trunks to grab Broly's fist with relative ease.

Hoping to be able to move quickly enough, Trunks threw Broly over him, slamming him into the ground back-first. Trunks' muscles screamed in protest, but he refused to let Broly recover, and instead aimed his palms at Broly's face, firing an energy wave that sent the Legendary Super Saiyan skidding for a lengthy distance, and peeling off part of the rocky ground on the process.

Trunks kept the blast going for as long as he could, but he knew that this fight was starting to take a toll on his energy reserves. Although he was rather skilled in comparison to Broly, and was managing to use that in his favor so far, he knew that wouldn't be enough. Skill was important, but in a life or death fight against such a powerful opponent, Trunks would need more than that. He would need raw power. Unfortunately, even in his Ultra Super Saiyan state, what he had wouldn't be anywhere near enough.

There seemed to be only one hope left in order to truly defeat Broly with Goku seemingly down for the count, and one which went against his strong desire to have at least some of the Earth's warriors leave this planet alive: to keep Broly at bay until that damned comet crashed into New Planet Vegeta. If the planet's destruction didn't kill Broly, then being in outer space without breathable air surely would. Unfortunately, it would also mean that he and all the others would die as well, and then, no one would be on Earth to stop Cell, which would allow the android to destroy the Earth – and then victimize the universe.

The idea of Doctor Gero achieving an even more overwhelming victory in this timeline than back in his future made Trunks sick. Strangely enough, he would even, for lack of a better word, prefer it if Broly, and not Cell, was the one who would be unleashed on the universe, in spite of the consideration that Broly would certainly be more dangerous and destructive than even Cell at his perfect form could ever hope to be. At least Broly would presumably pass away naturally at some point. From what he knew of the androids, it was quite possible that Cell would live forever if unstopped.

Trunks was forced to halt those thoughts, as Broly charged at him again, delivering a punch.

Moving as quickly as he could, Trunks ducked under the blow, and delivered a punch on Broly's abs. Then, he fired an energy wave into Broly's stomach, and yet again, Broly was pushed away for several tens of meters.

Still determined to stick to his plan of keeping Broly busy during the countdown to New Planet Vegeta's destruction, in spite of his personal preferences, Trunks clenched his fists, trying his best to be ready for Broly to come back at him.

Unfortunately, his plan had one important problem. Broly didn't look like he was the slightest bit tired, and he was stronger than Trunks and all the others put together. Trunks, however, had to use a lot of power to have as much as a hope at damaging Broly, and he still wasn't completely accustomed to the Ultra Super Saiyan state. Using so much power would exhaust him sooner, rather than later.

Trunks had no illusion about what would happen once he ran out of energy.

Far away, still on the spot where Broly had achieved his Legendary Super Saiyan transformation, Vegeta was still kneeling on the ground, even as he sensed Broly fighting against Trunks, and Trunks losing energy both with every attack he inflicted and with every hit he received.

Inwardly, deep down inside him, a part of him couldn't help but to acknowledge that his son was brave. But bravery did little good against the sheer evidence that fighting Broly was pointless. After all, Broly was, in every sense, the true Legendary Super Saiyan.

Vegeta remembered all the times his father had told him stories about the Legendary Super Saiyans that had preceded Broly, stories that were both the ones Vegeta liked to hear the most and the ones his father liked to tell the most. Each and every of them described the Legendary Super Saiyan, the one who appeared once in every 1000 years, as the most powerful being in the universe, capable of decimating every opponent he met, because no one could ever hope to stand against him.

Now that he actually saw a real Legendary Super Saiyan, and could actually feel the warrior's overwhelming power, Vegeta knew that the legend hadn't been exaggerating in the slightest. Judging from Broly's power level, even Cell would, in the end, stand no chance against Broly's ferocious power.

Vegeta was brought out of his musings when he felt another sudden drop in Trunks' energy. He knew the boy was about to lose all of his power. When that happened, Broly would kill him. Sooner or later, he would kill Vegeta as well.

And Vegeta would be unable to stop it.

'Says who?' a voice seemed to shout at him from the back of his mind.

For some reason, just as soon as the thought came to him, something inside him snapped. Indeed, what was he thinking to just wallow in hopelessness while Broly did what he wanted? He was Vegeta, the Prince of all Saiyans, and he would never marinate in his own despair just because his opponent was supposedly invincible! That was never what a true Saiyan did. A true Saiyan fought with all his power even if the chances at winning were null, and if necessary, fought until the very end. Giving up was never an option. It was worse than death to do so.

And any rule that applied to a standard Saiyan was a thousand times more meaningful for a super-elite like himself, a member of the Royal Family.

Suddenly feeling an overwhelming amount of disgust at the cowardice and helplessness he had displayed, Vegeta got up, clenched his left fist, and powered up to Super Saiyan, right as he turned toward the place where Trunks was trying to fend off Broly's attacks.

'That's it!' he thought. 'Get ready, Legendary Super Saiyan! I may have been out of the fight until now, but now I've had it! I'm going to destroy you, or die trying!'

With that thought in his mind, Vegeta turned into an Ascended Super Saiyan, and rocketed forward.

Letting out a growl of frustration, Broly reached out for the boy with his massive right hand, hoping that this time he'd finally catch him and get a good hit in. But exactly as he was about to grasp the boy's arm, Trunks fired an energy blast at the palm of Broly's hand. Although the attack hadn't hurt him, it was stinging just enough for Broly to pull his arm back.

Yet again, Broly growled in frustration. Damn that boy! He was a weakling compared to him, but somehow he was managing to be sneaky enough to circumvent most of his strikes. No matter how hard Broly tried, he still hadn't been capable of getting a good hit on the boy ever since he had started fighting in an exclusively defensive manner. [Writer's note: With regards to Trunks lasting this long against Broly when Goku is much stronger than him, it should be kept in mind that Goku was truly trying to kill Broly, and Trunks is fighting defensively, just to buy time.]

His plan to have some fun completely forgotten, Broly clenched his right fist, and fired a hailstorm of energy blasts, trying his best to make sure the blasts occupied the biggest possible area without making the spaces between the blasts too wide.

Trunks' eyes widened in fright at what he saw. Although those blasts were rather weak individually, they were too tightly grouped for him to dodge them, and he wouldn't deflect them at the required speed while in his Ultra Super Saiyan state, as the muscles not only made him slower, but made certain movements clumsier. And if he powered down, he would most certainly be unable to even push Broly away with his attacks, and Broly most likely wouldn't let him power up again.

Trunks used a technique that had been taught to him by the version of Gohan from his timeline, and brought up a spherical energy barrier. Each of Broly's blasts that met it exploded on contact. [Writer's note: In the Dragon Ball Z TV Special, "The History of Trunks," Gohan is shown to know how to use an energy barrier, so it's compatible with canon that he taught Trunks the technique.]

However, even before the barrage of smaller blasts had completely subsided, Broly started charging up a larger one. And right when the last weaker blasts exploded against Trunks' barrier, Broly fired his much stronger blast.

A burst of panic surging through him, Trunks tried his utter best to make his energy shield capable of withstanding the attack. Then, the green sphere hit his barrier, releasing a massive explosion. In spite of his efforts, Trunks was blown away until he slammed against a rock, completely beat, and having been knocked back into his base Super Saiyan form. If not for his energy barrier, however, he possibly wouldn't have survived at all.

For an instant, Trunks raised his head and made a gesture as though he was going to shoot forward, but then, his hair fell down to the sides of his face as it returned to the lavender color typical of Trunks' normal state. A moment later, Trunks lost consciousness.

Satisfied that he had finally managed to bring that restless boy down, Broly flew upwards until he was about a kilometer above the ground, and started gathering energy for a finishing blast. The first thing he was going to do was to blow up the entire area. After that, he was going to go to where he had left Vegeta and kill him. Then, he would get his spaceship and take off from the planet, then, he destroy the planet from outer space, just to make sure everyone here stayed dead, in the same way everyone besides his father had been trying so hard to kill him ever since he could remember. [Writer's note: The mention of Broly having a spaceship separate from the acorn-shaped ship that was destroyed is compatible with the movies in which he appears, as in "Broly – Second Coming," he is shown traveling to Earth via a Saiyan Space Pod.]

Indeed, one of the lessons Broly had learned at his own cost was that 'if you don't kill them, they'll kill you.' Although he knew he was exceedingly powerful when compared to any other living creature he had ever met, he still didn't want to give anyone any chances. In spite of his life having been one of constant horror and slaughter, he valued it enough to not want it to end.

Deciding he had already gathered enough energy to destroy the whole area, Broly fired his blast. However, it had barely made a fifth of its way before another, blue energy blast came and deflected the green sphere away into space.

Broly looked on the direction the energy blast had come from, right in time to have Vegeta punch his cheek. With his guard down, Broly was thrown hundreds of meters away, until he fell inside one of the small lakes on the planet's surface.

Deciding to take the chance while Broly was out of the way, Vegeta looked toward the rock in which Trunks had been imbedded, and made a quick check with his energy sensing skills. That was enough to enable him to recognize that Trunks was still alive.

He suddenly redirected his attention, however, as there was an explosion from where Broly had been tossed.

From the lake Broly had been in, a huge amount of water and stones flew in every direction, as the lake was simply drained by Broly's power up. Vegeta covered his arms to protect himself from the larger stones, and then looked at Broly, who was in the middle of what was now a relatively empty crater.

"Coming to your death, are you?" Broly asked, sneering at him when the explosion settled down. "How convenient. It spares me the effort of going back to you."

On any other occasion, Broly knew that perhaps he would have charged in right away, but now, he didn't do so. Although he did want to kill Vegeta, he also wanted to get some enjoyment out of it. Also, he was rather puzzled at how Vegeta had suddenly decided to charge in, when before he had been beyond himself with terror.

"So you think you are so powerful, all mighty Legendary Super Saiyan?" Vegeta asked. "In that case, let's just see how you will withstand my strongest attack at my fullest power!"

With that, Vegeta spread his arms apart, and buffed up until he had reached the Ultra Super Saiyan state.

The wind suddenly started picking up, and lightning bolts emanated from Vegeta's body.

Then, Vegeta placed his hands together at their heels with his fingers bent forward in front of himself, and a yellow energy sphere was forming in front of his palms.

"Broly!" Vegeta shouted. "If you really are the Legendary Super Saiyan, and have all that much faith in your strength, what you are going to do is to stand still and take this attack head on, just like you have done to all the others!"

At first, Broly couldn't help but to be worried. But as soon as he focused on sensing out the energy that Vegeta was releasing, he relaxed again. The level of power the Saiyan Prince released was nothing that he couldn't handle.

"Or are you a coward, and as such will try to run away from this attack?" Vegeta kept mocking, as his power level kept increasing. "The Legendary Super Saiyan, a coward! Who would imagine?"

That insult was almost enough to make Broly want to charge in and beat Vegeta senseless. But, thanks to a deal of self control not even he knew he had, he managed to hold himself back. He knew that what Vegeta wanted was for him to charge in and stop the attack, and he wasn't going to give him that satisfaction.

Then, as Vegeta's energy soared to an extremity, the Saiyan Prince shouted.

"Final Flash!"

A massive energy beam came forth from Vegeta's hands, heading straight toward Broly. Broly, however, just grunted in disdain, clenched his fist, and batted the energy wave away, toward space.

The Saiyan Prince's face registered complete and utter horror at the ineffectiveness of his attack.

"Is that your best shot, Vegeta?" Broly asked, in the most mocking and sadistic tone he could muster.

Vegeta didn't reply, overcome by terror. However, his muscles shrank and his hair, eyebrows, and eyes went black again.

"It looks like it is," Broly said. "In that case, here is to your end!"

Broly pointed his open right palm at Vegeta, and again, the area was bathed in green light, which gradually became less encompassing as time passed. When all of the green light disappeared, a ball of energy appeared in Broly's hand, aimed at Vegeta, who was still floating in the same spot, paralyzed.

"Long live the Saiyan king," Broly said in a slow, sardonic tone, staring so fixedly into Vegeta's eyes that even at the distance they were, their gazes met.

Then, he fired his energy blast. However, this one, differently from the others he had made, immediately expanded in size after Broly had fired it, to the point where it had become twice larger than Broly himself. After all, royalty deserved the best.

And the best it was, for when the blast hit Vegeta, it completely incinerated him like a match to a barrel of gunpowder. Then, it carried on forward, until it exploded considerably off-planet, as it hit a large chunk of rock that was orbiting the gigantic comet. The light of the explosion was so intense that it lent an eerie greenish glow to the whole area.

But not even that could obfuscate the sadistic smile of the victorious Legendary Super Saiyan.

Thanks so much for reading the second part of Honor Trip's Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, Special, the definitive canon-compatible, logic-compatible, and continuity-compatible version of the original Movie 8 story!

Up next in Part Three, the final part of the Special: Have the warriors of Earth really met their end? Will the Legendary Super Saiyan's malicious power spread throughout the universe? Stay tuned!

Hoping you enjoyed the chapter,

Genescritor

Broly Special Part 2: Completed Sept. 25, 2011

Edit Credit: American Vigor

Writer's additional note, regarding energies during the battle with Broly and during the Cell Games:

One thing that can be pointed out about the episodes of the Cell Games Saga is that, should the Z Fighters have fought any foe remotely comparable to Perfect Cell before the Cell Games, they could have sensed each other's energies at full power, and therefore it might not have made sense for them to have been amazed at Goku's power in uncut DBZ episode 178, "Cell's Bag of Tricks," or at Gohan's power in uncut DBZ episode 181, "Faith in a Boy," considering as how they could have been amazed at Goku's and Gohan's powers before those moments.

This potential plot hole, has been taken into consideration, and there is a logical explanation for it.

The Z-Fighters could logically be amazed and express amazement at Goku's and Gohan's power levels during the Cell Games even if they fought Broly beforehand because, in the midst of battling Broly, they logically might not have had the time to fully comprehend the extent of Goku's and Gohan's powers. Although the Earth's fate was at stake in Goku's and Gohan's battles with Cell, the Cell Games, at least at their beginning, were an organized event where those not battling could take their time to watch and make considerations.

The threat of Broly, however, is one that comes much more suddenly and in which the Z-Fighters were psychologically preoccupied with Broly's menace; therefore, the Z-Fighters would be considerably less likely to take the time to actually analyze and compare each other's power levels, turning most (if not all) of their focus into destroying Broly instead.

Also, Broly is much stronger than Perfect Cell, a being whom the Z-Fighters already thought it would be exceedingly hard to defeat. Such a thing means that it is probable they wouldn't have been as likely to take notice of a large increase in Goku's or Gohan's power levels relative to Broly's as they would have in comparison to Cell's power level. The Z-Fighters likely were also too worried about how to defeat Broly to readily think about comparing their power levels.

Lastly, besides the threat of Broly, there was the imminent and even bigger threat of Comet Camori crashing against New Planet Vegeta, which only adds to the distressful situation the Z-Fighters were in, and therefore would place comparing their power levels even lower in their list of concerns.

Thank you for reading this additional writer's note,

Genescritor