Chapter 20

Gull's world suddenly started to collapse; her youngest son was still dying, even when they quickly brought out the emergency medical equipment, the heart beat monitor showing he was still alive but the pulses where weakening and slowing down. The look of her 12 year old son connected to the life support brought her nothing but despair. Gull and the few doctors where the only people by Tarden's portable hospital bed, but not so far away a group of civilians watched all concerned for the boy's health.

"It's strange, his body doesn't show any physical damage, he has been healed but his life signs are still weakening. We don't know what to do to help any further… it all depends on the kid now…I'm sorry." The doctor said to Gull, but the women didn't hear him she was too busy holding her sons hand.

Ginny woke up not much longer and was currently awake and bandaged. She sat not too far away with the other wounded warriors, and while she was concerned for her brother she was even more nervous for her eldest brother, she watched the screen that shows Gear currently fighting against Garlic Jr.

With Gear

Gear was astonished by the weight behind the punches and kicks of his opponent slowly realizing that this fight is not going to be easy. Gear was able to trade a few hits back and forth with Garlic, as the muscular Makyo-seijin over powered Gear, the only reason gear surprisingly avoided any major damage was due to Lucis managing to launch accurate balls of Ki to intercept and change the direction of Garlic's attacks. And anytime Garlic tried to focus Lucis Gear took advantage of the openings, the clear cut going across garlic's face proof that the moment Garlic lets his guard down, Gear punishes him.

Garlic and Gear caught each other's fist as Gear struggled against Garlic, "You're quite the specimen, I wasn't aware your species can transform as well." Garlic said before Gear smirked.

"You'll be surprised what my people can do." When Lucis appeared behind Garlic a fist covered in a golden glow. Lucis threw his fist out launching a powerful Ki blast as garlic kicked off Gear leaving the younger llab to absorb the attack, that was to Garlic's amused smirk he saw the adolescent reflect the attack at him. Lucis appeared behind Garlic placing his right palm in the small of Garlic's back, as all the life energy that formed his spirit armor appeared onto his hand.

"Say your prayers, bastard" Gear said before Garlic eyes widened in shock, Meanwhile Lucis shouted with all his might.

"Judgment Call!" The most powerful attack that can be mustered by an elder consumed Garlic as the other blast that Gear reflected sandwiched Garlic, leaving the invader screaming in pain. Lucis landed next to Gear and took a knee in exhaustion. "Do you think that is enough?"

"No…." Gear said as he charged a Galick gun, "But he should be weakened enough for me to finish this, you should go."

Sure enough Garlic survived floating in the air the damage clearly visible, but for the first time his face contorted in pain and raw anger as blood was coughed up. Lucis watched in disbelief and realized that he was no longer of use.

"Head back to the bunker, take care of my family. Mom's going to hate this." Then Garlic shouted a battle cry, while Gear unleashed his Galick gun, hitting its intended target, sending Garlic flying into the temple ruins as Gear gave chase, leaving Lucis behind as the old man caught his breath.

The moment Gear arrived Garlic reengaged the man who managed to hurt him, their punches and kicks strong enough to pick up dust but one thing was certain, Garlic is wounded badly and therefore; Gear can win. Gear ducked under a punch and landed a devastating elbow into the chest of Garlic. But Garlic reacted by sticking out his arm and back handing Gear away. Gear quickly regained control of his trajectory as his feet kicked off a part of a destroyed wall. Gear tackled Garlic as the two tumbled through walls and the remains of the Temple, trading punches and kicks with vicious intent.

Garlic managed to grab a hold of Gear and tossed him into the air followed by several Ki blasts that exploded by Gear, only for the Llab to avoid any major damage, quickly diving down low to the ground as he landed a heavy uppercut against the jaw of Garlic Jr, the Invader taking the full force of the attack but not before kicking his leg out to catch Gear in the Jaw. Garlic crashed into some pillars before falling down getting buried in debris while Gear followed a similar path, both rising from the debris holding their chins and shouting in anger. The two enemies charged at each other with the intent to kill, Garlic a ball of energy forming in one hand and Gear forming the deadly Ki enhanced claws.

Things slowed down as they got closer and Gear realized Garlic's reach was longer, Gear felt the ki blast hit and penetrate past his torso, the pain was beyond anything he felt before as Garlic laughed. But Gear refused to go down still going towards his opponent his claws quickly digging into the neck of his enemy, both fighter becoming fatally wounded, but Gear making a solid point. When they both collapsed Gear was struggling to stay consciousness but he was satisfied to see Garlic's head roll across the floor, before passing out.

Lucis felt the energy disappear from the temple and quickly rushed back in to find Gear passed out, "you're too young to die here boy." Lucis summoned the last of his strength to seal the hole in Gears body, the younger Llab eyes opening in surprise only to fins Lucis covered in burn marks and passed out.

"Lucis…..Lucis…." Gear muttered weakly. Before smiling and laughing, "It's hard to go back to rest when you're so damn heavy." Barely able to push Lucis off as they lied beside each other. "I did it brother… next time clean up your own mess." Gear said as he and Lucis go back to sleep.

Back in the bunker

Ginny watched with worry as her brother went back to sleep, the others in the bunker cheered as the enemy died the other warriors celebrating the victory before Ginny quited them down, "We can't celebrate yet, those of you who can go receive Elder Gear and Lucis, let's get them somewhere safer to rest." The other warriors nodded as Ginny used her crutch to walk towards his mother and adopted brother, "Gear won, but he is going to need some rest."

"Both of my boys have fought the deadliest men to invade our planet… one of them is dying right before my eyes and the other is in a similar condition and my baby girl is wounded badly…. I can't stand to watch this anymore." Gull said as Ginny hugged her crying mother and by looking over his mothers shoulder and saw the rest of the elders doing their best to heal Yami. Yami came into the bunker not that long ago demanding the elders to heal her. Yami sat in the center of the remaining elders who tried their best to heal Yami back to her full potential, one by one passing out, when they reached their limits. Ginny couldn't help but be annoyed that the Elders didn't try to heal Tarden some more, despite what they said.

"Tarden is as healed as far as much as we could, it's up to him and the mercy of the gods for him to live, we need to focus on healing Yami back up, she is the strongest and they need her put there." Ginny remembered the elders saying, and even thought what they said was true she still wanted to try.

Then a sudden burst of energy filled the room causing every to look towards the elders who are now passed out as Yami stood flexing her power. Yami's hair flowed with the energy and her eyes where closed as she charged up before her eyes opened with a focused fury, "This ends now…" She said, suddenly appearing by her son, quickly placing a hand on his cheek. "Slug will die." Yami said with a cold anger. The bunker started to tremble in Yami's as if to respond to Yami's anger. The civilians watched in horror as Yami tried to hold back her anger, families huddling together as the bunker shook, the warriors were frozen in fear to scared to try and calm her down. But Ginny and Gull watched in awe, this power was stronger than anything before, as strong as Slug was now. Ginny watched in amazement as Yami's eyes flickered back and forth between their usual black to a light blue color, even her hair was flowing as if it were alive.

"Slug will die for this…." Yami said before taking off leaving the bunker faster than people could keep up. A Drone was quickly dispatched to keep up with her but it too struggled to keep up with her pace, the only thing visible from the screen was how the energy around Yami slowly started to turn a golden color, flickering between the usual blue.

With the South Kai

The South Kai gasped in shock at the power the female Saiyan was releasing, The other warriors who where training again stopped when the South Kai gasped, Gwynn who had his hand on the South Kai to watch what was happening was sweating visibly at everything that has happened. Torbie the leader of the warrior team walked up to ask if everything was alright.

"Both of my children are severely injured, Lord Slug and his subordinate was just too powerful… but Yami is…. She has gained an incredible amount of strength!"

"The Saiyan mother of your adoptive son correct has she…."

"She might be turning into a super Saiyan… But the form still looks incomplete."

"So she is similar to the warrior Goku… You have nothing to fear for anymore my Gwynn my friend, the battle is over its only a matter of time." Torbie said remembering the power of a super Saiyan when he saw goku go up against Pikon in the tournament.

"I wouldn't be so sure, she hasn't fully become a super Saiyan, and lord slug is still strong enough to fight her, although your right about one thing, the fight is coming to an end." The south Kai said causing the others to finally gather and wait anticipation.

With Turles

Turles went for another punch but was easily parried away as the arm that stopped his punch grabbed his face and extended downward as Slug laughed, floating in the air watching as he buried the Saiyan into the earth. Only for Xiox in his imperfect mad claw form to force Slug to disengage the Saiyan as he easily dodged and blocked the Grand Elders efforts.

"Your technique has gotten sloppy old man, tell me is it because it's taking all of your concentration to not lose control and give in to that power… It's not your full power." Slug said as he caught both of Xiox's arms and leaned into The Gran Elders face to say the last part of his sentence, right before opening his mouth to launch a Ki blast the dropped the still form of Xiox to the ground the body smoking. Slug didn't have much time to enjoy his work when Turles reengaged, punching Slug and landing a combination of punches and kicks before he threw one last punch as hard as he can to Slugs face, turning the head of his opponent only for the Namekian to turn against his fist slightly with a smile, chuckling as he did so. Turles watched in frustration as he gritted his own teeth. "And as for you, your energy has dropped. In this battle of attrition it seems I outlasted you." With that said a punch made its way to Turles's gut and forced the Saiyan to double over and cough up blood before Slug elbowed the back of his head back down to the ground.

With his two opponents defeated one lying unmoving the other still trying to stand Slug tilted his head back and laughed as he floated above them. "Oh the joy of being young again, the strength of my prime oh how I missed it, the indestructible feeling the rush of defeating strong opponents and the looks on their faces when they realize they no longer stand a chance." Slug's laughter continued as Turles looked up before charging up one last Meteor Bust.

"The entire Galaxy will bow down before the might of the one and only Lord Slug!" Slug then saw Turles launch his attack and the Namekian frowned as he casually caught the blast with only a single grunt before tossing the attack aside. The Blast went into the atmosphere and exploded over Llabnogard. "You dare interrupt me."

"Lords, emperors, kings, princes the whole lot of you are just some godless bastard's offspring in my eyes. I will never serve the likes of ego inflated cunts like you!" Turles said standing up despite the obvious wounds.

"Turles…. Can you buy me time, I have one last trick on my sleeve but I will need a few minutes." Xiox said finally getting out of his own little crater as he sat down in the meditative form, gathering energy to summon the spirit armor.

"That's not much of a trick since we already showed it off before." Turles said as Slug watched in amusement.

"Trust me; I only need spirit armor to fuel this Ancient technique."

"In that case I'll use my last trick in the book." Turles said raising his hand up to create his own artificial moon. Slug watched thinking the satellite that Turles created was an attack before he watched as Turles the shrunk the satelight, the bright ball of energy now in his hand as he proceeded to eat the orb. "all my time in a cell ever since my tail was cut off, it tried to think of any way to tap into the strength of an Oozaru, and this was my solution." Turles said as he slowly started to transform, "By absorbing the Blutz waves into my body via digestion, I can transform for a short period of time."

"Hahaha, that's your last trick Saiyan, you're going to transform to a giant monkey, very well I'll show you something incredible." Lord Slug said as his power suddenly skyrocketed as he too started to grow. In a short time Slug stood as tall as the Oozaru before him smirking at his snarling opponent.

"I heard transforming into a Giant monkey increases your strength, well I took increase my power when I grow into a Super Namekian!"

"Then let us see which form is superior then." With that said Slug's challenge was met with Turles tackling the Super Namek, and the two traded punches in their Giant forms causing the ground beneath them to crack and shatter. Eventually Turles punched Slug into the Forrest bellow as Slug fell of the Plateau they were fighting above. Surprisingly Turles watched as Slug fell between the trees standing back up so that his head was among the tree tops, very few trees standing taller than the Namekian as an arm extended grabbing Turles's neck and then retracting the Oozaru, slugs free hand uprooting a tree as he used the large trunk as a make shift club to beat into Turles head. The Oozaru pinned under the attacks had his hands trying to release the hold on his neck. When Slug went to bring down the tree on his head for the third time Slug watched as Turles pried his arm of the Oozaru's neck and quickly grabbing the other arm holding a tree. Slug was surprised by the strength of the Monkey before him before Turles head butted the Namekian invader with enough force to draw blood from the Namek's nose.

The two Giants continued to wrestle for dominance, throwing punches and using the large trees as weapons, the wildlife long gone. Eventually Slug pinned Turles under him only for the Oozaru to kick the Super Namek off him quickly getting on his feet and Launching a large Ki blast from his mouth unfortunately for him, Slug had the same idea as they both Launched similar attacks from their mouths the two blast meeting in the middle destroying everything in the way and the trees not caught up in the blast were uprooted by the shockwave that came. The two attacks struggled for dominance until Lord Slug used his extendable arms to grab the Oozaru, making Turles lose control of his attack as Slug's slowly overwhelmed and eventually consumed the Saiyan. The Explosion that came as a result leaving a massive and barren basin, and at the center was an unconscious Turles who reverted back to his normal form, eyes rolled back, as a single Leaf slowly fell miraculously and conveniently large enough to cover the naked Saiyans modesty. Lord slug was catching his breath from the effort, before walking towards the Saiyan and raising his giant foot, "Crushed beneath my boot like the insect you are!" Slug said bringing his foot down. But just as his foot was about to crush Turles Slug was sent flying from an attack he didn't see coming.

Yami had finally arrived and just in time to punch Slug across his giant face, knocking said giant off his feet and saving Turles's life. Her energy No longer Flickering between gold and blue as the golden aura surrounded her, but her hair was still black and her eyes pure white as she shouted as loud as she could. "SLUG!"

Slug sat up and in shock saw the Woman flying in her normal size, glowing in a golden aura, "Impossible" HE said before Yami unleashed the most powerful Galick gun she has ever done, the purple energy blast barreling its way into the super Namekian, carrying slug of his feet as he crashed through several trees before the attack stopped and explode consuming his form in a giant dome of energy. At the same time the Golden Glow faded from Yami as her eyes regained their normal color and she went down to check on Her long time friend and rival Turles. When she got to him she held Turles up, shaking him to wake up.

"Damn it Turles if you don't wake up now I'm killing you!"

"Damn… that's no way to treat someone who's dying." Turles coughed out weakly as his eyes opened to see Yami and then quickly widen at what he saw. Yami had a single tear come out of her eye as she smiled in relief.

"With what happened today… dumbass you don't deserve to die unless I'm the one who kills you!… idiot." Turles could only mutter in agreement as he watched the woman he admired for so long, the strongest and most fearless woman he ever got to meet, cry for him. Even if it is a single tear.

Turles was about to apologize until he watched shocked as Yami took off her pants revealing short black tights going mid thigh and taking off her top to show a black sports bra. Dropping her clothes onto Turles she said "Cover yourself up, "As Turles realized he was naked and quickly turned red for misunderstanding why she was stripping and for the fact he was naked. Putting on the clothes Turles was even more embarrassed to see that the pants where a little tight around the legs and the shirt exposed his midriff.

"I would suggest going back to my home and putting on some of Gwynn's old clothes, but Slug isn't dead and I'm not sure I can take him alone." Turles quickly took of the shirt because he rather go bare-chested, and muttered, "I don't think you realize but I don't have much energy."

"I just need some help… I was close to awakening something back their… I just need to figure out how to do it again." Sure enough from the distance Slug stood back up and was clearly injured and pissed, and he wasted no time running back to engage the two Saiyans.

With the South Kai.

"Wow, that's incredible." South kai said

"I know, Lord Slug is still alive after that." Gwynn said

"No I mean She's super sexy…I mean close to super Saiyan" The south Kai quickly corrected himself, but the Gwynn and the other warriors heard his slip up

"What's happening Lord Kai." Papoi asked.

"She stripped down to her under where. Ouch hey." Gwynn Wacked the South kai, for the comment the kai said.

"Have some respect she is a mother."Gwynn said to the Kai.

"The only good new so far is that Slug seems to actually be hurt now." Gwynn explained to the others while the south Kai continued to observe only for an assistant to whisper something in his ear.

"Is that true… oh dear, Gwynn." The south Kai called out getting Gwynn's attention. The Llab turning to face the South kai and stopped when he saw his face.

"It's your boy, Tarden…. He is stuck between life and death."