Ascension, Part 1

by edgarmash79

In Age 790, Goku eagerly awaited the coming of a new Martial Arts Tournament to enter his new protégé, Uub. Elsewhere in the Eleventh Universe, a mortal with a unique ability was about to set in motion a sequence of events that could irrevocably change the fate of not only his universe but all of them.

27. Chapter 26

Chapter 26 – "Save the Namekians! Goku returns to a familiar battleground from long ago."

The last two Dragonballs…

Esca slid himself along the cold metallic floor of Cooler's main bridge, moving slowly towards the five Dragonballs that had been collected from the Namekian villages, the one-star ball seized by Cooler himself after Esca pleaded for his life. He reached out to touch the one-star ball but Cooler's foot slammed his hand down on the floor, trapping it underneath and Esca cried out in panic and pain from the pressure.

"Now, now, can't have you squirming around like that," he said in an amusing tone, kneeling down to get a good look at him more carefully. Esca had already done a considerable amount of crying, his eyes raw and red from how much he had shed and he tried in vain to pull his hand free. When Cooler eased his foot off, Esca jerked it back towards him as quickly as he could, holding it to his chest. He stared up at him and Cooler frowned.

"Stop looking at me like that, that expression disgusts me," he said and struck the Grand Elder with the back of his hand. Esca breathed heavily, holding the side of his face, a fresh new bruise appearing where he had been struck and Cooler signaled a couple of his crew over to him.

"Put this one in a room and lock it. We'll keep him there until the Saiyans arrive," he ordered and they saluted him, grabbing Esca to bring him to his feet. He looked around frantically and eyed the Dragonballs once more, trying in vain to reach them but the last thing he saw was the back of Cooler as the doors slid shut in front of him. The crew members held him up by his arms and they brought him to the first empty room that was available. When the doors slid open, they shoved him inside, not caring that he couldn't stand on his own feet properly and he collapsed forward, turning to look back up at him.

"Can't wait to see what this dragon looks like. Lord Cooler's gonna be so stoked to get a wish," said one of them as he closed the door. Their conversation was muffled by the thickness of the metal doors and Esca was left in the empty room with little illumination and the simplest of amenities: bed, toilet, mirror, and dresser. A slot opened up in the door, a single panel that slid open earlier, and a waterskin was tossed in there.

"Since all you lizards do is drink water, here's a token of our 'appreciation'," said a different crew member and he slid the slot shut. Esca crawled over to the waterskin and opened it to gulp it down quickly, hugging it against him. His mouth had dried up from all the heavy breathing and crying he had been through and he moved himself towards the bed to climb on top of it. He had some strength left in his arms, even after having holes blasted through them from Cooler's energy beam but there was nothing he could do about his leg, limping heavily as he walked.

When he reached the top of the bed, he laid down and tried to close his eyes to sleep, holding the waterskin close to him once more. He couldn't think of anything, the fear he had been experiencing for the past while made it unbearable to think of anything other than the pain his other Namekians must be going through, the pain of going through the same experience all over again as the first time they were invaded by the Freeza Force, only this other one named Cooler was far worse in terms of how he treated him and his people.

He clutched the waterskin tightly again and clenched his eyes shut. Goku, please come, I'm begging you, save what's left of us and the Dragonballs!

Senzu beans…

Pan flew straight up to the clouds and focused her mind on Dende's energy. She could sense both him and Mr. Popo together on the lookout and used that to navigate herself towards their location. But what she focused on more was the spire that was beneath the lookout, where an elderly figure named Korin lived. This would be the first time she'd meet this Korin and wondered if he was friendly enough or was he as much an enigma as Mr. Popo was when she first laid eyes on him. She shuddered a bit when she remembered Mr. Popo's eyes and started picturing Korin as another version of Popo and she shook her head.

"Aaah, I can't let myself get distracted like that. Focus Pan, get to this Korin guy as quickly as possible."

She could start seeing the tall white spire among a thicket of trees far below, as though the landscape resembled a model train set she had once seen at a toy store. Trees were randomly placed along the grass but there weren't enough of them to consider it a forest, yet she felt compelled to determine that it was a forest regardless. She saw what looked like a campsite set up around the bottom of the spire but the objects were so diminutive that she could've easily confused them for something else. People that were as small as ants moved around the camp site and she wondered if she might stop and say hello to pay her respects but decided the Senzu beans were her top priority.

When she came up to the top of the spire, it looked like a giant pot with two lids on opposite sides of each other, lids that could touch each other. A staircase was seen along the left side and she chose to land there. She cautiously walked up the steps and peeked over the railing.

Sitting against another railing along the east side of the structure was a fat man with an unkempt beard, snoring loudly with his hand concealed underneath a messy orange gi. She could see several crusted food stains that looked like they haven't been washed off in ages and the large man moved his hand to scratch his hairy chest.

Pan wanted to wake the man up, thinking that this might be the one they called Korin. But she was more intrigued by the artifacts that were laid around the place. She eyed an old porcelain vase that rested on top of a pedestal and admired the ancient designs on it. Walking further in, she saw an archway that led to the inner room where a strange looking unpolished bronze jug with a couple of handles on its sides rested on top of another smaller pedestal as though this looked like the most important artifact in the whole room.

It was then that her nose caught the scent of fresh herbs and her mouth immediately began to water.

"That smells so good, it reminds me of mom's tomato bisque," she muttered to herself and felt her stomach growl in response. She let out a small gasp, wondering if that was loud enough to wake the large man to her right and she glanced nervously to see whether he was awake or not. He unconsciously moved his finger to shove it up his nose, digging around inside for something and she averted her gaze, making a disgusted face.

"Eww," she whispered and walked inside the room as quickly as she could tiptoe. She could see the outline of a kitchen in the distance, the light from inside illuminating the darkened room she found herself in and she examined the place.

There were several closed pots slightly larger than her head placed neatly on shelves along the wall, even though some of the walls inside looked curved rather than straight, an aesthetic that seemed to blend in well with the circular exterior of the building. Pan wondered if the Senzu beans might be within one of the pots and casually snuck towards them, hoping not to disturb the person that was currently cooking that delicious meal.

Her stomach growled again and she gritted her teeth, putting a hand to her abdomen. Stop that!

When she reached the pots, she lifted up a lid to look inside and frowned when it was nothing but dried white rice. She looked at it more closely and noticed that it was the kind of rice mostly used to make sushi with and she carefully placed the lid back down without making a sound.

She examined the contents of the next few pots and most of it was the same: rice, rice, and more rice. There was a pot that had oats in it for porridge of some kind and she saw that there was a large stash of fish cakes on another shelf. She pulled one down and looked at the packaging.

How does this guy do any shopping from all the way up here? She asked herself.

"Can I help you with something?" said a high-pitched yet gruff voice from behind her and Pan nearly jumped up to the ceiling. She squealed and spun around, bumping into the pots that caused the shelf to wobble and she panicked trying to hold it steady. A couple from the top shelf fell off and she was able to catch one but the other one crashed onto the floor, a white powder spilling all around it, dredging up a cloud around it. Pan waved the cloud away and held onto the pot for dear life, staring down at the small figure standing before her.

"You're a jumpy thing, aren't ya?" he said, examining the floor where the pot had shattered and sighed a bit.

"Flour's always a mess to clean, but I've been meaning to replace this for a while now," he walked over to the wall to retrieve his walking staff and Pan set the pot down carefully on the floor, bowing deeply at the small person. She couldn't believe her eyes as she eyed him, a large talking white cat that looked like those porcelain lucky cat figurines on display at certain restaurants near Capsule Corporation. She remembered one that looked a lot like this one on display at the main reception desk with a slotted hole on the top to slide a few coins inside.

"I'm terribly sorry for breaking your pot, mister. I'll go and let Mr. Korin know and clean up the mess," she said, not looking up at him.

"Oh him? That's Yajirobe. Lazy oaf ate himself into a coma again. Don't worry about the mess, I'll get it cleaned up later. Now what brings you all the way up here?"

Pan straightened up and held her arm with her other hand, looking shyly at this cat.

"What now, I got your tongue or something?" he asked and Pan blinked, chuckling nervously.

"Oh right, 'cat got your tongue', and you're a cat, ha ha ha," she laughed nervously a bit and Korin cleared his throat, forcing her to stand at attention.

"I'm sorry! My name is Pan, and I was wondering if you could give me some of your Senzu beans to help heal my friends who've been injured, sir!" she squeaked it all at once and Korin walked over to a large sized pot in the corner of the room, lifting up the lid. Pan approached it and saw that the pot was filled to the brim with the green beans and her eyes lit up.

"Wow, there's so many of them."

"I didn't expect to have to give some so soon after only a week, but after all that's been going on down there, I can't blame you all for wanting another batch. Here, take a dozen."

"Huh?"

Korin passed a cloth bag from a pile of empty bags to Pan and scooped up a dozen Senzu beans to slide them inside.

"You're Goku's grandkid, correct?" he said, tying the bag closed with its drawstring and Pan blinked.

"How did you know?"
"Not a lot gets past us up here. I would've sent Yajirobe there to hand the beans over to you but I sensed you were coming," he said and led Pan to the previous room. He jabbed Yajirobe awake with the bottom of his staff as he walked past him and the large man snorted as he stared around frantically.

"Huh? Wha?" Korin chuckled a bit at Yajirobe's confusion and the large man stood up, scratching his chest and head.

"Who's the pipsqueak?" he asked.

"That's Goku's grandkid. She's here to get some Senzu beans," Korin said, a hand behind his back as he stared off in the distance. Yajirobe approached Pan who wrinkled her nose up at him.

"Phew, when's the last time you bathed?" she said, holding her nose.

"Hey! I bathe once a month for your information! Geez, for a grandkid you sure got a lip on ya."

Pan made another disgusted face and backed a few steps away from him.

"Whatever. Is dinner ready yet?" he asked Korin, but the cat didn't look behind him.

"Mr. Korin, do you know of any way to help Uncle Piccolo and Mr. Tien get back to normal?" she asked, holding the bag of senzu beans against her chest. Korin sighed, shaking his head.

"None of what I have up here will do ya any good, kiddo. There might be a way but that's entirely up to your grandpa to figure that one out. Do you wanna risk going back there for his sake?"
Pan clutched the bag tightly in her hand and stood as tall as she could, staring at him with a determined look.

"I'll do whatever it takes to get my friends back to normal and kick those androids' butts!" she said and Yajirobe fished out a nugget from his nose, flicking it away.

"Say kid, how's Goku been anyway? How's everyone been for that matter? All Korin tells me is pretty vague stuff like those new people that arrived earlier."

"Well, um, there's that big guy with his family, who's got an adorable daughter who's taken to Bulla and I really well, making us act like big sisters to her, and there's that brat of a kid with a mohawk with his twin brother. And there was this other guy who looked like a tall monkey and he had a huge scary power to him."

Korin nodded and turned around.

"He's made quite the spectacle, causing Yajirobe to soil himself from the energy we felt," he said and Yajirobe shot him a dirty look.

"But I think you've got bigger problems escalating on ya for now so you might as well hop to it and get those beans to your friends." Pan walked over to him and grabbed his paw for a handshake, smiling down at him. Even though she was still short for her age, Korin was still at least a head shorter than she was. He returned her smile with a grin of his own.

"Oh, before I forget, keep that 'adorable daughter' safe. There's something about her that's been poking my noggin since they got here."

"Oh, uh, sure. I'll make sure she stays safe from those androids," she said and ran to jump out of the structure and take to the air, her hand still clutching the bag.

"It ain't the androids I'm worried about though," Korin whispered to himself as he watched Pan fly out of sight below the group of clouds below them.

Pan stopped her flight after she passed the clouds below. She glanced back and forth, closing her eyes to get a feel for her direction.

"Ok, Papaya island is that way," she said, pointing in front of her, "and Capsule Corporation is that way," she pointed to her left.

"Right, I think I know how I can help both at the same time," she said and closed her eyes. She concentrated her energy and used her split form technique to create a perfect copy of herself without splitting her energy. She handed a senzu bean to her copy.

"I'm going to see Uub at Papaya island. You can take that to Bulla at Capsule Corporation," Pan told the clone and she frowned down at the bean.

"Why do you get to see Uub? Why can't it be me?" she asked and Pan glared a bit, giving her clone a look.

"You're still 'seeing' Uub because we're the same person. I'm only doing this to save time," Pan said and the copy rolled her eyes.

"How about you go see Bulla and I'll go to Papaya island. I can't imagine mom will be too thrilled to see us again."

"What's this 'us' thing? We're the same Pan, you're just a copy," Pan said and the copy looked disgusted.

"I'm Pan too, dummy! Copy nothing, we're all the same and I want to see Uub!" she cried out and Pan sighed loudly.

"Okay, okay, fine! Ugh, I don't know why we're fighting about this. Get that to Uub as quickly as possible and try not to get caught by mom, alright? Once he's got the bean, he can take you both to meet Bulla and I back at Capsule Corporation."

The copy nodded and put forth a burst of energy to blaze through the sky to reached Papaya island momentarily. Pan clutched the bag in her hand and stared at her copy.

"I need to work on my personality skills whenever I do this," she muttered to herself and flew off to Capsule Corporation.

The Pan clone landed on the ground and looked around to see what sort of activity had been happening since she left. The island had quieted down since a lot of the spectators left some time ago and she ran towards the hospital where she figured Uub might be resting after his match. She tried to sense his energy but felt nothing in return.

"He's probably still sleeping. I'll have to see if he's in here to begin with and what room he's staying at," she said and ran to the entrance but stopped when she saw the back of Videl talking to the receptionist. She sounded pleased and she could catch a smile from the corner of her eye based on how much of her profile she could make out, but she quickly hid herself behind a few shrubs, staying within the shadows.

"Crap, mom's probably keeping an eye on Uub waiting for me to come back to visit him," she whispered and approached the entrance to peek around to see if Videl was still nearby. She sidled along the wall and used her energy to stretch out her senses to amplify them and listen in on Videl, wondering whether she was still there or not.

"…else you need, Miss?" she caught the receptionist asking Videl.

"Yeah. I have a daughter, she's about ten or eleven, gosh I don't even know how old she is now, how terrible of me," Videl chuckled a bit.

Pan's time in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber did age her a bit, remembering that she had to celebrate her birthday with Uub, Goku, and Piccolo.

"She'll look a bit like me, jet black hair, wears a really cute orange dress with a ribbon in her hair. If she comes by and asks for Uub, tell her we'll be in room 305. I really miss her."

"Geez mom, I haven't even been gone an hour," Pan whispered, sighing in annoyance. She felt even more annoyed that she still had to wear this dress that had seen a bit of damage and wear from her skirmish with Piccolo and sighed, wishing she could dress in her usual tomboyish clothing. When she heard the room number, she quickly ran around the building to gauge where the room might be on the third floor. She flew up to the balconies that were attached to the rooms and peeked inside each one until she saw a door open and Videl walked in a few minutes later. She quickly ducked out of sight and poked her head over the railing to see what her mother was up to. She could see that Uub was conscious again and looked to be pleading with Videl about something but she silenced him with a look and a shake of her head, tucking him back in the bed he was sleeping in. She sat down on a chair beside the bed and took out an apple to peel it with a pocket knife. She sliced slivers off one by one and handed them to Uub, who raised his hands to protest but she shook her head and forced it on him anyway. When she stood up to wipe her hands, Uub looked down at the apple slices and smiled weakly up at her. When he glanced to his side, his eyes widened when he spotted Pan looking at him. She shook her head and put a finger to her lips to let him know not to say anything and she pointed to the side of the balcony out of sight and Uub nodded. She flew alongside the balcony, keeping herself from being spotted by Videl and hovered to the inside of the balcony. She crouched low and poked near the sliding door to see where Videl was and saw her walk around the room. She approached the sliding door and Pan quickly hopped over the railing to sidle along the side of it, floating in mid-air to keep her back to it and out of sight.

Videl felt something tingle at the back of her head, her motherly instinct kick in and she glanced around.

"Pan?"

Crap!

Pan closed her eyes, hoping she wouldn't be spotted and Videl walked over to the railing, but not the one to the side that Pan was glad to notice. Videl leaned on it and sighed as the warm breeze blew through her hair.

"Pan, if you're out there, please come back. I don't know why you wanted to run off with your dad and grandfather and I wish you'd just come to your senses and come back to stay here," she sounded defeated with her tone and Pan had the urge to go up and comfort her mother but dreaded the scolding that would likely come afterwards. She's already made her dad and grandfather angry with her on top of how her mother's been acting earlier. Adding to this would only make her feel ten times worse and she needed time to think of the best way to make it up to her when she was ready. She clutched the bean in her hand and waited for the door to slide open again. When she heard it shut once more, she nodded and flew back up, but wasn't expecting Videl to still be there, standing beside the door and Pan cried out, almost dropping the senzu bean in her hand.

"Aha! I felt you were hovering around somewhere," she said with a smile on her face, but her eyes were conveying a different emotion to Pan that wasn't as happy, nor friendly. Pan landed dejectedly in front of Videl and stared down at the ground.

"You don't look injured, thank goodness," Videl said, walking over to get a closer look. She frowned at Pan's clothing and saw tears along the fabric with dirt marks and dusted them off, wiping Pan's face as well with her hand.

"M-mom, c'mon, this is embarrassing," she muttered and Videl shook her head.

"None of that. What's more embarrassing is you leaving me all by myself out of the blue. You should've seen the looks I got from the spectators; they think I'm a bad mother for letting you run off like that at the first sign of danger. I bet your father wasn't too happy to see you join them either."

"N-no, no he wasn't," Pan muttered, averting her mother's look. She immediately began regretting volunteering to give Uub the senzu bean now and wanted so badly to switch places with the other Pan who was probably having a great time with Bulla after she had her bean heal her injury.

"Pan," Videl sighed, making her wince from her voice. "Why on earth are you hovering around the balcony? Why didn't you just come in the front like a normal person would've to visit Uub?"

"Because I didn't want you to see me," Pan muttered and Videl leered down at her, arms crossed.

"I'm not some monster you hide from, you know. I'm your mother," she drove that point clearly as she spoke to Pan.

"I know you're my mom. Can we please give this Senzu bean to Uub now? I'm getting kinda tired of holding onto it," she said, showing her the bean she had in her hand and Videl's eyebrows rose.

"Huh? Uh, yeah. I'm sure Uub will be happy to have one of those after he fought that boy," Videl said and Pan waved at Uub as Videl opened the sliding door to let her in. Pan rushed quickly to the side of the bed and almost wanted to tackle Uub onto the bed but she restrained herself, going red in the face with a huge smile.

"H-hey. I'm really sorry for leaving during your match like that," she said, bowing her head and Uub glanced back, a bit confused but he chuckled a bit afterwards.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sure you had a reason to leave with master Goku and your dad," he said and Pan's face was almost as red as a tomato. Why does his voice have to be so sweet and gentle?!

Pan held up the senzu bean in front of Uub and he held out his hand for her to place it in and he smiled down at it.

"Glad to see these are still around," he said and popped it in his mouth to chew it down. Seconds after he swallowed it, he clenched his fist with a huge beaming smile, throwing the blanket off of him.

"Alright, now I can go help master Goku," he said and Pan had a hesitant look on her face, glancing to Videl, who stared at the both of them with her arms crossed again.

"Um, if that's okay with you, Miss Videl?" Uub asked. Videl relaxed her arms and leaned on the front of the bed, gazing down at the bedding.

"Who am I kidding? I've got one of the strongest daughters of the planet with her future husband. Why should I keep you two apart?" she said with a gentle smile on her face and both Uub and Pan looked at each other, red in the face.

"Mom, we're not getting married! We haven't even been dating or anything!" she cried out and Videl looked like she hadn't heard a word Pan said.

"Oh to see you in the same dress that's been passed down the family since your grandmother got married! You'll grow older and fill out quite nicely, and I know you'll wear that dress with the same pride and love I had when I married your father!" Videl laughed a bit and Pan clenched her fists, hiding her chest from both her mother's gaze and potentially Uub's, even though he wasn't even looking at her. He was averting her gaze as well, clutching the bedding tightly in his hands.

"I don't care about growing boobs, mom! I have to save the world against these killer androids who've corrupted Uncle Piccolo and Tien with evil energy!" Pan blurted out as fast as she could and Uub shot her a look of concern.

"Piccolo's been corrupted by evil energy?!" he cried out and Pan nodded.

"If we can join up with Bulla, I'll fill you in on the way," she said and stared at Videl with a less embarrassed look on her face, waiting to see what her mother would say.

"Gohan's fighting them, isn't he?" she said with worry in her voice. "I wish he hadn't been forced to fight so soon after he started his vacation."

"I know mom, but dad's strong enough to destroy those monsters, I know it. And I want Uub, Bulla, and myself to help in anyway we can. We also have to let Broly and his family know what's going on so they too can help. I don't know how safe you all are here, but this could get pretty messy for not just us, but the whole planet if these androids stay around for too long and corrupt others, namely our friends and family."

Videl walked over to Pan and wrapped her arms around her, bringing her head to her chest, holding her tightly. She gently stroked her daughter's hair and looked down with a smile on her face.

"I'm just happy you're safe. Promise me you kids won't get yourselves in too much trouble? You're strong, but not as strong as your dad and I don't want you taking on a task too big to handle. I've been overreacting a lot and I'm sorry. I can't let this be affected by all this stress."

Videl put a hand to her stomach and smiled down at Pan, who's eyes widened. She gasped and let out a squeal.

"No! No way!"

"I wanted to wait until after the tournament was over to tell your father," she said and Pan couldn't contain her excitement, jumping up and down.

"I can't believe this! I'm gonna be a big sister!" she cried out and ran to hug Uub and then almost tackled her mom but restrained herself again, hugging her normally.

"Congratulations, Miss Videl," Uub said, bowing his head. Videl nodded and bowed at Uub.

"Promise me you'll keep Pan safe and out of harm's way? I can feel relaxed knowing she's in good hands from someone like you."

"Mom…" Pan felt a sense of euphoria as she heard her mother ask that of Uub and she closed her eyes, smiling. This is going far better than I expected.

"You have my word, Miss Videl. I'll protect Pan with every ounce of my being and lay my life down for her if I have to." Pan almost fainted when she heard that and had to hold onto the railing since her legs gave out on her. She began to breath heavily and was close to hyperventilating and she glared back up at Uub.

"Geez, Uub, lay it down so thick why don't ya?" she said and Uub blinked, confused. He glanced over at Videl, wondering if she knew what was going on but Videl hid a snicker behind the back of her hand.

He got out of the bed and looked down to see he was only clad in his boxer shorts and he blushed heavily.

"Um, I need, I need um, my clothes, Miss Videl," he said, hoping not to get stared at too much by Pan, who averted her eyes and stared away, occasionally peeking at Uub's physique from behind her. Videl fetched Uub's gi that had been neatly folded onto an end table and passed it to him so he could get dressed quickly. When he laced up his boots, he stood and adjusted the wrist bands on his arms, nodding.

"First things first, we'll go and talk to Broly and his family, fill them in on what's going on. Then I can take all of us at once to Capsule Corporation so we can plan a strategy to handle these androids and see what can be done about this evil energy that's infected Piccolo and Tien."

"Huh? Oh yeah, right, good idea. Mom, don't overexert yourself, okay? I want my little brother or sister to come out in their best health," she said and Videl blushed a bit.

"I'll be fine, Pan. Look at you, the roles have reversed and now you're the one who's worried," Videl said, laughing softly and Pan wrapped her arm around her mother.

"Pan, seriously, I don't need help, I've only just started my pregnancy," Videl protested but Pan didn't say anything. She glanced at Uub, who shrugged his shoulders and the three left the room.

Gather at Capsule Corporation…

When Choi woke up in a familiar setting, he sat up quickly and punched the air a couple of times. He blinked for a moment, then sighed, staring around him. Throwing the blanket off of him, he jumped off the bed but almost collapsed to the floor from the lack of energy. It was all he had to get out of bed in the first place and he grumbled as he lifted himself with the help of the bed.

The noise woke up his family as Cheelai, Bok, and Arugula were startled awake from the commotion and Bok rushed to his brother's side, helping him up.

"Brother! Thank goodness you woke up. I was worried you'd fallen into a coma or something," Bok said and Choi shrugged himself off immediately from Bok, leaning against the bed.

"Like hell I'd get knocked into a coma from such a weak attack. Damn fauxhawk got lucky. Kaioken my butt, more like Kaiocrap."

Cheelai cleared her throat loud enough for him to hear and he glanced over at her.

"Get your butt back in bed, Choi, you're in no condition to move around," she told him and he stared at her for a moment, then sighed as he climbed back on top, sitting cross-legged. He decided to cross his arms as well and stared ahead, searching the room.

"Where's dad?" he asked.

"Out on the balcony," Bok told him and Choi was about to move off the bed to see for himself but Bok held him down, getting a dirty look from his brother.

"I'll let him know you're awake. You stay put," Bok said and opened the sliding door, poking out to look at his father. Broly stared off in the distance, hands clenching open and closed a few times and Bok looked up worriedly at his father.

"Dad? Is everything okay?" he asked and Broly winced, staring back wide-eyed. Bok took a step back, looking up at him and Broly's face drooped a bit, looking down at the floor.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have overreacted," he muttered and Bok blinked a moment before approaching him.

"Choi's awake again," he said and Broly nodded, escorting his son back in the room. He slid the door shut and glanced over at Choi with a frown, forcing the twin to avert his eyes, glancing more at Cheelai and Arugula than at his father. Arugula didn't want to look at him and kept her face hidden beside Cheelai's chest and she had her mother's hand stroking her hair gently. Cheelai looked up worriedly at him. "Is it getting worse?"

Broly didn't respond, instead he leered over Choi, who wasn't sure how he was going to be talked down to and he had trouble acknowledging the look Broly was giving him, having never seen him look this upset before. It was a bit much for him to process and he kept looking at Bok and Cheelai for help.

"Choi, look at dad, he needs to know you're fine," Bok said firmly and Choi swallowed.

"I am fine, see? Dad sees how fine I look, right? Right mom?"

Broly began clenching his fists again, gritting his teeth and Bok felt the tension in the room escalate and he stared at Choi.

"For goodness sake, Choi, just look at dad! If you keep this up he's going to lose it! You remember what Mom told us about Dad's anger, right?"

Choi's hands began to shake nervously and he was reaching for his head. He covered his face between his hands and his eyes were lit up with absolute panic now, staring ahead, muttering something to himself that Bok was able to interpret, though he could only make out some of it. "Please don't be mad," he kept repeating over and over again and Bok sighed, walking over to Broly. Cheelai laid Arugula down on the chair despite her grumbling and she approached Choi, stroking her son's mohawk.

"Choi, sweetie, it's going to be okay. Mommy's right here. She'll help calm your daddy down, okay?" she said amid Choi's ongoing mumbling of "please don't be mad" and she held him against her chest, closing her eyes. She could see Broly was struggling immensely with his anger and restrained his hands from moving up and she turned to Bok.

"Lemo's supposed to be back shortly with the drinks but I think you'll have to meet him half way and go to the cafeteria. I need to be alone with your father," she told him and caressed Choi's face in her hands.

"Choi, sweetie, go stay with Uncle Lemo and your brother. I'll stay with daddy, okay?" she spoke softly to soothe him and his eyes looked to be focused enough to understand what she was saying and Bok helped him to his feet. He was still considerably weakened from his fight and had to have his arm draped over Bok's shoulders to help support him. He approached Arugula and glanced at Cheelai.

"Take her too," she told him and he nodded. He picked up Arugula and held her with his free arm and the three kids left the room. Cheelai had to stand on the bed just to look at him in the eye well enough without straining her neck and she took his face in her hands.

"Please, keep it together for me, just for a bit longer," she said and Broly's hands shook as he reached up to hold her.

"I'm…trying…" he said and she sighed. She reached up and kissed him softly on the lips and looked at him in the eyes, which were shifting from black to yellow as his brow furrowed a few times.

"You've done so well controlling your anger. I'm so proud of you," she told him and he gently took hold of her hands, bringing them back down. He shook his head and put a hand to his face.

"I've never learned how to be a father. My father never taught me what raising a child was like, only that they must be trained how to be powerful warriors like me if the Saiyan bloodline is to be preserved."

"The bloodline, the bloodline, it's always about that damn bloodline with your dad whenever you bring it up," Cheelai frowned up at him and Broly closed his eyes.

"I know you still miss him, but this is our family, not his. We decide how we want this Saiyan bloodline to pass on and the less control we have over Choi, the more Saiyan he becomes; the part of the Saiyan I don't like seeing."

"I was not expecting him to transform into a Super Saiyan," Broly said. He had some measure of calm to his voice and stature but Cheelai was still cautious that his anger would rise up at any moment again.

"Yeah, it shocked all of us. But I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. Pretty soon Bok will be able to transform as well and both your boys will give you a run for your money," she said with a smirk on her face and Broly cracked a small grin. She took his hand in hers.

"Let's go join the kids. I'm pretty sure with your face like this Choi won't freak out," she told him and Broly sighed a moment.

"I don't want him to be afraid of me," he told her and she let go of his hand to put them both on his chest.

"If that's what it takes to get him to listen to me for once, then so be it," she said and walked off the bed to lead him out of the room. As they left, Pan, Uub, and Videl were coming down from the hallway and Pan waved at the two of them.

"Hi, it's us again!" she cried and Cheelai grinned, but frowned immediately when she spotted Videl, who looked at her cautiously as well. They stared at each other for a moment before turning their heads to look away, arms crossed.

"Did something happen between you two?" Uub asked and Cheelai glanced over at him, surprised.

"You recovered that fast?" she asked and Uub chuckled.

"Pan gave me a senzu bean," he told her and she sighed, smiling.

"Right, I forgot those were a thing. You didn't bring one for Choi, did you?" she looked at Pan out of curiosity and Pan shook her head.

"I only brought one for Uub because I need his help for something important. I actually need everyone's help. Things have gotten pretty serious involving my grandpa and my dad, as well as Bulla and her mom."

Broly was fully paying attention and stared down at her.

"What happened to Kakarot? Is he alright?"

"Kaka…oh, Goku's Saiyan name. He's fine, he and my dad are fighting an important battle. I was hoping to get together with the rest of you and tell you all what's been happening outside of the tournament. Oh! Who won by the way? I got so lost in all of this I forgot about the match between Uub and the bra-er-Choi," Pan quickly corrected herself in hopes of not making Broly and Cheelai upset and waited for a response.

"Um, well," Uub started but Cheelai raised her hand, cutting him off.

"It ended in a draw, they both passed out and couldn't beat the ten count from the announcer guy. So they both were declared winners by him apparently."

Uub raised his eyebrows, his eyes lighting up. A smile crossed his face as he thought for sure that he had lost that fight after he passed out, leaving the fate of the match up in the air wondering if Choi had gotten back up before the ten count. He felt elated to hear that news and didn't mind that he shared this victory with Choi given what he's been through. He bowed to her.

"Thank you very much for informing me. I'm pleased to share a victory with a worthy fighter such as your son. I hope to fight him again someday and prove myself his equal in battle."

Pan shot him a look, rolling her eyes and she walked over to Cheelai.

"Where'd your kids go? They're not with you?" she asked.

"In the cafeteria with Lemo. At least I hope they are," she said and led the group down to the cafeteria where Bok, Choi, Arugula, and Lemo were sitting. Arugula was sitting beside Bok, drinking from a juice box while Lemo helped Choi open up a bottle of juice. When Choi saw Uub, he stopped and glared at him. He slammed his hands on the table and stood up.

"What the hell?! How are you back on your feet so fast?! What's going on here?!" he cried out and gripped the table to keep himself steady and Lemo pulled him back down on the chair, opening the bottle of juice for him to shove it in his hands.

"Drink it and keep your trap shut," he told him and stood up, sighing. "Thank the gods you're here! You wouldn't believe the lip this kid's been having all the time we've been down here!"

"How's that any different than any other day, Lemo?" Cheelai asked him and Lemo glared at her.

"He had the audacity to beg for the food in this place! The NERVE of this kid, wanting bland, tasteless hospital food instead of my universal quality cooking that has had Lord Beerus salivating at the mere sight of it!"

"Well you take too damn long cooking it you old bat!" Choi yelled back at him and Lemo almost crushed the bottle in his hand.

"What was that?!"

"You heard me! You cook at a snail's pace, grandpa!" Choi cried out and Lemo growled, baring his teeth.

"You don't rush masterpieces of art, you moron! Only amateurs have the patience to rush in on everything not stopping once to savour the greatness of the craft they're making! It's an insult to everything I ever stand for when I took up the chef's oath!"

"There's no such thing as a chef's oath," Cheelai muttered, getting a "you shut yer pie hole!" from Lemo and both Pan and Uub walked over to Bok and Arugula while the adults were arguing with Choi. Broly decided to tag along with the two and sat down next to his kid. When Arugula saw Pan, her face beamed.

"Pan-Pan!" she cried out and ran to jump into her arms. Pan held her tightly and closed her eyes, smiling widely. She ruffled her hair a moment and Arugula straightened it out immediately afterwards, giggling.

"Sorry I had to run off on you like that, but I hear that both your brother and Uub won together so at least Uub got his victory," she said and Arugula had an excited face, throwing her arms out wide.

"Red like a tomato! He went whoosh, and fwoosh, and he was all sparkly and red and everything shook so much and big brother had different colored hair that also went whoosh and fwoosh and they were all like RAUGH and FWAGH!" she described how the two were fighting and Pan couldn't help but look down at her with loving eyes. I hope my new sibling grows up just like you, Arugula.

"So why'd you run off, if you don't mind me asking?" Bok said, not wanting to break this moment but he was genuinely curious about what's been happening.

Pan nodded and started explaining the situation involving two androids and evil energy that had infected Piccolo and Tien. As she was explaining their behaviour and the way their eyes looked, Arugula's hands began to shake, staring ahead. She crushed the juice box in her hand and the rest of the contents spilled out from inside onto her hand and the table and Pan glanced over at her.

"Arugula? What's wrong?" Pan said, glancing back at the others and Arugula had a petrified look on her face.

"Eyes…"

"Eyes? What about the eyes?"

"The eyes in the dark. Eyes in the dark, eyes in the dark…" Arugula kept muttering to herself and she backed away from the table.

"Hey, Arugula, you're scaring us. What do you mean by 'eyes in the dark'?" Bok asked and Arugula shook her head.

"They're coming, the eyes in the dark are coming!" she yelled and looked around the room frantically and Cheelai stopped herself mid-argument and immediately stared at her.

"Oh no, it's just like in her dream," she whispered, loud enough for some of them to hear and she rushed to take Arugula in her arms.

"The eyes in the dark are coming!" Arugula began sobbing through those words and she bawled again in Cheelai's chest as her mother was holding her and Pan had a hand to her mouth.

"Oh god, what did I do? I, I didn't mean to freak her out like this. Oh god, I'm so sorry," she said, almost on the verge of tears herself and Cheelai sighed, shaking her head.

"It's fine," she muttered and continued soothing Arugula down.

"Why does she keep saying 'eyes in the dark'? What does she mean by that?" Pan asked, and everyone but Lemo and Choi were hovering around Cheelai, who sat down with Arugula on a chair.

"Arugula's nightmare the other night. She woke up screaming and woke the rest of us in the process. It took me all day to finally get her to tell me what it was she had seen in the dream and all I could get out of her was: 'eyes in the dark' and," she hesitated, then looked up at Broly. "'daddy no'."

Broly's eyes widened as he stared down at her. "Why didn't you mention that part?"

"Knowing how much on edge you've been lately? You'd have popped your top much sooner knowing that she had a scary prophetic dream that for all intents and purposes might mean something really bad is going to happen to you. Do you think I'd want to put you through that?"

Broly sighed, shaking his head. "Maybe not. But how can we be sure that this is true or not?"

"Lemme ask you all something," Lemo chimed in, clearing his throat. "Has that kid ever been wrong once on her foresight?" they all paused and then a few gasped as they realized it all at once.

"Oh God…" Pan muttered to herself.

"Yeah, I figured as much. Arugula's got a strong sense of foresight and ESP, and whatever she saw in her dream is happening right now on this planet. I caught a bit of what you were saying but you're sure that these eyes had grid lines on them? Red grid lines?"

Pan nodded. "Yeah, and I know how Piccolo behaves and he would've never attacked us, Bulla, and her mom the way he did."

Lemo sighed and slumped down on his seat, removing the toque on his head. He rubbed his head a moment and put it back on, staring at each one with a look Cheelai had never seen on him before.

"Let me make one thing perfectly clear: the only course of action to take is to get as many of your loved ones unaffected by this and get the hell off of this planet."

Pan's face lit up in shock and panic, as well as everyone else's. Videl rushed over to Lemo and bore down on him.

"Wait, what are you implying here?! Is my Gohan in danger?" she yelled and Lemo shot her a determined look that kept her at bay.

"The Saiyans or anyone with Saiyan blood on this planet aren't in any real danger. At least not yet, but everyone who doesn't carry their blood will become one of them. Dammit, I should've known she'd come up with something like this."

"Lemo, what the hell are you talking about?" Cheelai cried out and got the same look he gave Videl.

"I've been a soldier a lot longer than you have, Cheelai, serving as far back as the Cold Force and I've seen some shady things going on in the background involving some nefarious folks. Berryblue being one of them. There've been others in her close circle of friends, including a couple of Saiyans and I've heard rumors of a project murmured now and then to bring back a dead race killed by them. I can't remember the name off the top of my head but if my assumptions are correct, this project aims to resurrect that dead race and they're using the Earth's population here to achieve that."

"WHAT?!" Pan yelled, standing up. She looked at her mom and began to panic as well.

"You mean, my mom…might be infected by the same thing that's infected Uncle Piccolo and Tien?" she said, her voice shaking and Lemo stared at her. He didn't need to nod since his eyes told her all she needed to know and Pan sank into her chair, covering her mouth. "No…"

"I ain't saying it's a foregone conclusion that everyone'll be infected. You got a lot of strong fighters on this planet and so long as we take out the source of this 'virus', there's a way to save this planet. But my suggestion is to hightail it outta here before the problem becomes too big to handle."

"What about me? Am I at risk too?" Cheelai asked and Lemo shook his head, shrugging his shoulders.

"I don't know, you're not human. The only way I know for sure is to return to Bloss and retrieve all the old files I've got during my time in the Cold Force. I might've written some stuff down at the time based on all the rumours I've compiled. But our best course of action right now is to stick together and not wander off. You got a place we can crash in the meantime?" he asked Pan and she nodded.

"Yeah, it's where Bulla and her mom are staying at. Capsule Corporation."

Cheelai and Broly exchanged looks, then at Lemo. They vaguely remembered Capsule Corporation the last time they were on Earth years ago but they all agreed. Cheelai glanced down at Arugula, who had calmed down after a moment and was staring outward, head close to Cheelai so should listen to her heart beat, which had climbed fast for a moment in the ongoing panic.

Uub stood up and nodded at everyone. "I can take everyone there with my instantaneous movement."

Pan took Uub's hand in hers and nodded at him. Ugh, this is so much to take in. I REALLY should've traded with the other Pan.

"There'll be food there, I hope?" Choi said and Pan glared at him. The stress had mounted so much that hearing him speak set her off and she was almost on top of him.

"Shut up! Shut your damn mouth you stupid ignorant brat! I hate your voice and everything you say from that damn mouth of yours! You don't give a damn about anyone but yourself and I'm getting really sick of it!" she breathed heavily, fists clenched and ready to fight him again and all eyes were on the two of them. Lemo glanced back at Choi and shook his head.

"If you can wait for me to make something for ya, will that shut your trap for five minutes?" he asked and Choi crossed his arms, looking away. "Idiot girl…"

"What was that?! You want another broken nose?! I'll be glad to do so again!" she yelled and Uub held her back, shaking his head when she shot him a look.

"Pan, stop letting him antagonize you like that, it's not good for any of us right now," he said calmly and gave Choi a look regardless, frowning. Choi eyed him carefully but didn't say anything. Cheelai could feel the tension rise again as she caught an emotional spike from Broly, who steeled himself again as he sat on his chair, clutching the table so much he broke chunks off of it and it shocked everyone. He sighed as he gently placed the broken piece on top of the table and stood up.

"Let us go. This place upsets me," he said and they all agreed.

"If I have to wake up in another hospital bed, I'll puke," Choi said, rolling his eyes and Bok helped him to his feet. Pan glared at him as he approached the group and they all joined hands. Broly touched the top of Bok's head, who was holding Cheelai as she had Arugula safely in her arm. Her hand was holding Lemo's, who had joined in with Pan as she gave Uub's hand a squeeze. She glanced up at Uub and gave him a loving gaze as Uub put two fingers to his head and focused on the mass of energy that was in Capsule Corporation, getting a feel for Bulla's energy.

"It's faint but I can still feel Bulla's energy enough to get a lock on. Standby everyone," he said and within seconds the group disappeared, much to the shock of passersby who were in the vicinity. They avoided the heated discussion and yelling that was taking place and some of the staff advised others to stay away from the group as not to antagonize anyone and were left dumbfounded as to what had just happened.

Around the same time, the announcer strolled into Choi's room. "Congratulat-huh? Where'd everyone go?"

He looked around the empty room and sighed, holding one of the metal briefcases that had the prize money in them, a replica of the championship belt under his arm. His other arm had another replica belt and another metal briefcase with the same amount of money and he frowned.

"Just like Goku, they can't stay put for one moment, can they?"

One enters, another leaves…

Gotenks few up to engage Glacial and gave a thumbs up to Goku.

"Don't you worry about anything, Goku! We've got this girly droid covered," the dual voice of the fused warrior told him. He still had the same look and outfit as any Metamoran fused person would with white baggy pants, black vest with puffed gold trimmings, and his hair was a mix of Goten's with Trunk's lavender streaked within. He gloated at Glacial with his fists on his hips and she didn't seem to really care.

"It's been a while since we last jumped on the scene, but you'll be great practice to get the rust out of our fighting. Prepare yourself, lady!" Gotenks told her, pointing at her and giving her the thumbs down and Goku gave him a look that said "get on with it" and he resumed his fight with Tundra. Gotenks and Glacial hovered around each other and she gave him a wide smile.

"It doesn't matter how many of you monkeys fuse together, the end result's still the same," she quipped and Gotenks frowned.

"We'll make you eat those monkey words, you ugly excuse for a robot," he said and made a high speed burst that clipped the side of her face. Her eyes widened as she brought hand to her cheek and a silvery liquid seeped out. Her smile disappeared and she glared back at Gotenks, clenching her fist.

"Lucky shot," she muttered and Gotenks chuckled a bit, disappearing and reappearing behind her again, only another cut appeared on the opposite side of her face and she started losing her cool, staring at him.

"Too fast for ya, huh? That's okay, it happens sometimes," he told her and she narrowed her eyes. She raised her left hand and studied the back of it, glancing over it at Gotenks with a smirk on her face.

"I only need to hit you once," she whispered and rushed at him. The two clashed fists together and Gotenks deflected her left away from him, flipping over her to drive the back of his heel down on her head and it knocked her down to the earth, crashing into the soil. She glared up at him and took off, trying to throw punches but Gotenks easily blocked and deflected them away from him. She grew more frustrated at him and aimed a few precise energy beams from her fingers at him. He flew around to avoid them and pointed to the sky, spinning his finger around several times to create an energy ring. Glacial stared up at it cautiously and flew around to get in a good shot from another finger beam and she paired it with eye lasers. Gotenks moved around to avoid the blasts like before and as he hovered above Glacial, he sent the energy ring coming down and it quickly constricted around her, binding her arms to her body.

"What the hell is this?" she cried and stared up at him. She continued firing eye lasers up at him and Gotenks cupped his hands together. Her eyes widened as she was unable to escape and Gotenks snickered.

"Hehe, say bye-bye, girly droid! Kamehameha!" he yelled and fired a huge blue energy wave at her, making sure to avoid hitting the earth below. It enveloped her and she screamed as it shredded her body. When the energy wave ceased, Gotenks flashed a V sign with his hand.

"Yeah, that's how its done!" he said and glanced down at the earth. He saw puddles of silver colored goo coalesce and merge together, reforming Glacial and his eyes widened in shock.

"She's just like that Majin Buu freak!" he cried and when Glacial reformed herself, she grinned up at him.

"You almost had me there. Too bad," she said and thrust her palm forward, hitting Gotenks with a powerful psychic wave that blew him to the sky, causing him to flip several times before he corrected himself.

Tundra and Goku were trading blows with their punches and kicks, Goku smiling at how good the challenge was to him and Tundra matched that smile as well.

"You're every bit the despicable scumbag uncle Freeza said you were," he said and Goku blocked a fist, returning one that connected with Tundra's face, sending him flying down into the ocean water. Goku followed up his attack by rapidly firing energy blasts into the water. Tundra burst out with a huge splash and concentrated a sonic wave up at Goku, who moved with his instantaneous movement to appear behind him and fire off a huge energy beam that Tundra had no time to avoid and it wiped the top half of him completely.

Goku thought for a moment that it would've killed him immediately but the top half regenerated itself with the same silvery goo that Glacial had and Tundra reformed himself, smiling down at Goku.

"Regeneration, huh?" he said and Tundra snickered down at him.

"It wouldn't be a challenge if we weren't built with the proper features. Father took every liberty and ounce of research to create the perfect bio-androids to carry out not only our orders but to give birth to 'Project Nion.'"

"I don't care about any Nion project you guys got going! Go take the other one and get off this planet!" Goku cried out, flying up to be at eye-level with Tundra.

"We'll leave this planet only after we've obtained your Dragonballs, which seemed to have made their way out in that direction," Tundra said, pointing behind him. Goku didn't bother staring past him, his eyes were still focused on the bio-android in front of him and Tundra readied himself for another round of combat, which Goku acknowledged with a smile on his face.

Gohan handled Piccolo and Tien with ease, powering up to make sure he was strong enough to handle the two at once and he blocked a few energy blasts from Tien while deflecting a mouth blast from Piccolo. The infected Namekian followed up with a few eye lasers that Gohan swerved to avoid and he focused some of his attacks on Tien. He hit him hard in the face and gut with several punches and knocked him down to the ground, then a hand grabbed him from above. He stared behind him and saw that Piccolo had stretched his arm to grab Gohan's ankle while he was busy knocking Tien down and Gohan flew up, pulling Piccolo up with him. He freed himself from the grip on his ankle and made a few high speed bursts around Piccolo to get in a few hits and he scored one on the back of Piccolo's head. The Namekian didn't seem to be phased and he kept that emotionless smile on Gohan. He fired several energy blasts around Gohan one-handed, not bothering where he was aiming and Gohan's eyes widened.

"He's using that technique," Gohan whispered and he screamed, powering up even more. He prepared himself and flew around to draw the energy balls that Piccolo surrounded him with. They were following him as he flew around and he stopped himself in the air, unleashing a powerful shout that dissipated the energy balls. Piccolo flew up while Gohan was distracted and had two fingers to his forehead from his one arm and fired a Special Beam Cannon at Gohan while his back was turned.

Gohan sensed the energy coming his way and flipped over it, flying down to strike at Piccolo. The Namekian let go of his attack and blocked Gohan's punch and the two were blocking each other's attacks until Piccolo slipped up and Gohan sliced off his other arm with a quick swipe of his hand and Piccolo looked down at his severed arms.

"This has to stop, Piccolo! If there's any part of you that's still in control, fight this thing and get rid of it!" Gohan shouted but Piccolo kept smiling at him.

"Typical Saiyan brutality. It doesn't matter how many limbs you cut off from this one, it will not stop the strong will of the Tsufurian race!" Piccolo shouted and fired a mouth blast at Gohan.

"What?!" Gohan had to quickly deflect the energy attack away from him and Piccolo rushed at him, now attacking him with kicks from his legs. Gohan stared at him in frustration and his senses picked up another fluctuation of power from below.

"Crap, I forgot about Tien!" he said and Tien had his hands in front of his face, smiling maniacally up at Gohan.

"SHIN-KIKOHO!" he screamed and fired a huge wave of energy up at Gohan, who's eyes widened. I'll take quite a bit of damage if that hits me.

When he braced himself for the impact, a flash of light burst forth underneath and Gohan shielded his eyes with his arm. He sensed a kick coming from Piccolo and blocked it, gaining some distance away from him.

"Who?" he asked, wondering what it was that stopped the Kikoho from reaching him and when the light faded, he saw Android 17 hovering below him with an energy barrier set up around him, wide enough to block the whole attack from reaching them.

"17, thank goodness you're here," Gohan said and flew down to meet him.

"I caught sight of some fighting going on above this island and I was wondering what was causing all this disturbance," he said and Gohan nodded.

"I'll fill you in later, but right now, we have to find a way to knock Piccolo and Tien out. They've been possessed by some dark energy that's corrupted their minds and made them think they're people called 'Tsufurians'. What's worse, there's two androids made by Freeza and his brother sent here to get the Dragonballs."

"A brother, huh? I'm not surprised a guy like Freeza would have family out there," 17 said and Gohan glanced back at Piccolo.

"I'll handle Piccolo, do what you can to knock Tien out without killing him. If he dies, the Dragonballs won't revive him."

"That's fine. As long as there's not too much destruction on these islands, I'll make sure to be gentle with him," he said and began engaging Tien down below. His speed was considerably faster than Tien's and he knocked him around a few times, sending him up with an uppercut and blasting him a few times with energy blasts. But Tien laughed it off and stared down at him with the same crazed look he gave Gohan and 17 frowned. "Guess gentle isn't going to cut it."

Goku continued fighting off Tundra, who fired off another sonic wave down at him from above and Goku unleashed an energy shout that blew back against it, but most of the sonic wave hit the ground, tearing the earth and foliage below it with the intense vibration and Goku glared up at him. Tundra laughed it off and the two continued to engage each other, Goku leading Tundra away from the island towards where Gohan and Android 17 were fighting and he grinned when he saw the android.

"Awesome, I'm glad to see 17's here," he said and frowned when he saw Tien's face and Piccolo without his arms fighting Gohan with kicks and mouth blasts. He glared back at Tundra and gritted his teeth, flying down to android 17, knocking Tien away across the island to crash into the ocean.

"Goku?"

"Sorry to barge in like that, but switch out with me for a moment," he told him and 17 glanced up to see Tundra flying down towards him, extending his hand to fire another sonic wave that 17 blocked with a large energy barrier that vibrated from the impact.

"Gohan briefly filled me in. So Freeza built himself his own androids?" 17 asked.

"Yeah. I dunno if this'll work but there's gotta be a way to stop the evil energy inside Tien and Piccolo. I only need a few seconds to pull it off."

"Understood. What do you have in mind?" he asked.

"It sorta dawned on me when I first heard about this evil energy. The more I sensed how they were fighting and how this energy worked, the more I got to thinkin' that there might be a way to neutralize it completely without killing them."

"Do what you need to do, I'll keep this one occupied," 17 said and used a burst of speed to fly up towards Tundra, who looked down at him in confusion.

"You're not a Saiyan, you have no place in this battlefield. Get lost," Tundra said, frowning.

"You're the ones who should get lost. You're trespassing on these islands and I have a duty to protect the endangered species inhabiting them."

Tundra laughed. "An android concerned for the living? That's amusing!"

He prepped an energy attack to throw down at the island below him and was rocked hard in the face by a punch from 17, sending him flying back. He pursued him until he caught his ankle and spun him around to throw him into the ocean.

Gotenks and Glacial were in the midst of their fight when he blew off her limbs with energy blasts. When they regenerated immediately, Gotenks frowned.

"That's cheating, you know!" he cried out and Glacial shrugged her shoulders.

"So what if it is? I didn't design these specs. But give credit to Father, he had a lot of info to go on," she said and fired a few blasts from her fingers that Gotenks deflected and he screamed, powering up and transforming into a Super Saiyan.

"Time to get serious," he said and from his mouth he began blowing white translucent mist-like bubbles that formed into copies of himself, though the bottom half was a tail-like wisp. He created ten copies and crossed his arms as the copies loafed around, some cleaning out their ears while others were making faces at Glacial, who looked back in confusion.

"Huh? This wasn't in Father's data," she muttered and Gotenks chuckled.

"Data or not, I hope you're a good dancer," he said and she frowned, glaring at him.

"What the hell does that even mean?!"

Gotenks put two fingers to his mouth and whistled, drawing the attention of the copies to line up. They made sure not to touch each other and Gotenks pointed at Glacial.

"You two, to my right! Go and dance with this girly droid!" he commanded and the two copies flew over to her, who gritted her teeth and fired energy blasts at them. They swerved to avoid her and one of them grabbed her hands in a dancing pose while the other hugged her from behind.

"Augh, gross! Get off me you pervs!" she shouted and she was immediately shocked by the flash when they lit up. She screamed as the exploded and huge chunks of her was blown off completely, leaving two gaping holes where most of her upper body was, arms missing. Half her face had been blown off completely, the other half staring at Gotenks and the remaining eight copies with panic in her eye.

When she regenerated, she growled at Gotenks and channeled energy to conjure a large sphere above her head that expanded in size.

"I will not be mocked like this by monkey scum, fused or not!" she screamed and glared fiercely down at Gotenks.

"Let's go!" Gotenks shouted and the remaining eight flew up to her, forcing her to throw the sphere down at them. It caught three of the copies as it flew down and the rest moved below it to fly up at Glacial, who fired energy blasts, taking out two of them before the last three clung onto her and exploded. Gotenks screamed and powered up even higher, transforming into his Super Saiyan 3 form and he caught the energy sphere, pushing it back up and kicking it out of the earth's orbit. When the explosion stopped, silvery goo fell down and stopped to reform itself back into Glacial, who was breathing a bit after she reformed herself.

"That one took a lot out of ya, didn't it? A little more of that and you won't have the energy to regenerate yourself," Gotenks said with a smirk on his face and Glacial glared up at him.

Gohan was aware that Goku and Android 17 had switched places and he sensed Goku concentrating on the ground, out of his Super Saiyan state into his base form. Wait, is he doing what I think he's doing?

Kicking Piccolo hard in the stomach, he flew over to where Goku stood and knocked Tien away as he was flying back to attack Goku, who was standing still with his eyes closed. Gohan stood in front of him and glanced behind him.

"Father, I hope you know what you're doing. I'll buy you enough time," he said and saw a smile appear on Goku's face. He moved around Goku with high speed bursts, appearing in front of Tien and Piccolo as they came for them to knock them away with either a punch or an energy blast and Goku had his hands out. He felt a trickle of energy gather around him from the foliage and the animals, stopping there to look down at his hands. They were both glowing with a warm white light and he nodded.

"Good, this should be enough," he said and he saw Tien fly to Gohan's blind side and he slapped one of his hands against Tien's back to knock him back down and the energy from his hand enveloped his body. He flew up to engage Piccolo and avoided a kick to slam his other palm against his chest and Piccolo fell to the ground. Gohan's eyes widened as he stared down at the two and they were both writhing and screaming in agony, Tien clutching his head. Piccolo screamed and thrashed on the ground as the white glow surrounded him and the evil energy was seen seeping out of him to try and escape but the white glow absorbed it and the two energies disappeared. When it ceased, Tien was lying down motionless on the ground and Piccolo grunted as he tried to sit up and Gohan breathed a sigh of relief, rushing to help him to his feet. Goku leaned down and checked on Tien's vitals and frowned, closing his eyes as he shook his head.

"I'm sorry, Tien," he whispered and put his hand on Tien's head. He stood back up and walked over to Gohan and Piccolo, who recovered enough to notice that his arms were still gone and he grunted and screamed shortly afterwards, re-growing them. He breathed heavily for a moment and almost lost his footing but Gohan was quick to hold him steady.

"Easy there, Piccolo, I got you," he said and Piccolo put a hand to his head.

"Do you remember anything you did?" Goku asked him and Piccolo shook his head.

"Nothing. After I engaged Tien and he touched me with this strange energy, everything went dark for me. If my mind and body went on auto-pilot afterwards, I'm terribly sorry for anything I did."

"It wasn't your fault. Whatever had a hold of you was strong enough to have complete control. If I gathered too much energy for the Spirit Bomb, I migth've killed you," Goku said, but frowned when he glanced down at Tien. Gohan's eyes widened and Piccolo grunted as they saw Tien's motionless body on the ground.

"It was all I could do to get rid of the evil energy inside him but he had damaged himself too much to survive afterwards. I'm sorry," he said, clenching his fist and he glared up at the two androids in the air.

"Damn you," he growled, his fist shaking and he powered up all the way to his Super Saiyan 2 form before he took to the air.

"Dad, wait!" Gohan shouted and Piccolo caught him in the shoulder before he could move.

"It'll be fine," Piccolo said and almost fell forward. Gohan caught him and helped him sit down against a tree. He walked over and picked up Tien's body and brought him over to lay him down beside him.

"I need you to tell me everything that I did while this energy had a hold of me," he said and Gohan nodded. He recounted their fight and the mention of the Tsufurian race and Piccolo's face grew paler as he listened, glancing up at Goku as he was fighting Tundra more aggressively. He glanced down at Tien and grumbled. Damn you, Freeza.

Goku was more precise in his attacks as he was fueled now by his anger over the loss of Tien and he rushed past Android 17 to attack Tundra, which stunned the android for a moment. He didn't notice Goku move past him and watched as Goku was hitting Tundra with heavy blows, a combination of hard punches and kicks that culminated into a Kamehameha blast that would've obliterated the bio-android but the limbs that weren't destroyed shifted into that same silvery goo that regenerated Tundra back whole and Goku glared down at him.

"It's no surprise to us that you fight better when you're angry, Goku!" Tundra laughed and Goku kept staring down at him. Glacial and Gotenks were making their way back to Tundra and she stopped beside him.

"He's giving you trouble again, isn't he?" she said but wasn't smiling when she said it. She was still considerably angry at Gotenks who along with Goku and Android 17, took up fighting poses in front of the two.

"Where's the two that were infected?" Glacial asked, scanning the area below.

"I got them back to their senses, but Tien was too damaged to survive it," Goku said and the two bio-androids frowned.

"So there is a way to reverse the infection. That's not good," Glacial said, but cracked a smile that threw Goku off.

"Tell me how you did it? I'm curious to know," she asked, her smile disappearing quickly to stare at him with a serious expression.

"Since you guys know so much about us, you should be very familiar with the Spirit Bomb technique I used on your Uncle a long time ago," Goku said with a slight grin on his face, remembering how much damage it had done to Freeza during their first fight before things went very badly and he transformed into a Super Saiyan for the first time.

"That bothersome technique? How pathetic that it worked," she stated.

"It should've been obvious because of the evil energy that was infecting my friends that the Spirit Bomb can neutralize it by attacking the evil part itself. I only needed enough gathered to take it out without killing them, but making Tien destroy his body like that was dirty and you've gone and made me mad now."

Goku clenched his fists and was about to power up but Glacial put a hand up to stop him.

"Before you decide to take this seriously, I wanted to ask you something," she said and Goku paused.

"I ain't got time for games!" he shouted but she shook her head, chuckling.

"So impatient. I'll waste no more of your time then if you're so eager to fight us. Have you ever asked yourself why Uncle Freeza decided not to show his face here? Why would he send us to gather the Dragonballs if he could easily do the job himself?"

Goku paused. "How should I know? All I know is that you guys are after the Dragonballs and we lost a good friend because of it!"

Tundra chimed in. "Oh but it should make you curious, shouldn't it? You know Uncle Freeza better than anyone else here. Aren't you curious as to why this isn't something he normally does? Uncle's the kind of person to get the job done himself, is he not?"

Goku glanced at 17 and Gotenks, frowning. He felt a bit puzzled now and stared back at the androids.

"Where're you going with this?"

Glacial chuckled a bit. "Use that monkey brain of yours and think, Goku." She grinned and Goku clenched his fist even tighter.

"Enough of this! Tell me what this is all about, now! Tell me why Freeza isn't here to get the Dragonballs himself? Why would he have two androids do the job for him?! I wish I knew what the heck's going on but this isn't like Freeza to not come here and gather the Dragonballs. He's done it before."

Glacial glared at him with a menacing smile. "The actual question you should be asking yourself is this: 'When hasn't Freeza decided to go after the Dragonballs?'"

Goku paused, then his eyes widened. "It can't be."

Glacial posed with a hand to her face and glanced at Tundra. "Now he gets it."

"What is she talking about?" 17 asked him and Gotenks stifled a yawn.

"All this talking is eating away at my fusion time. Let's get this fight going again!" he said and charged forth at Glacial, who blocked at punch from him that sent her flying back from the impact. 17 glanced at Goku for a moment.

"What's wrong? Why are you hesitating?" he asked and Goku glanced at him.

"Because I know where Freeza went," he said and flew down to meet up with Gohan and Piccolo. 17 frowned but knocked away a punch from Tundra who had to block a retaliatory barrage from 17 that sent him flying back and he stopped beside Glacial.

Gohan ran up to Goku. "Father, what's wrong?"

Goku powered down to his base form and stared at his son.

"Dad?"

"I know now why he sent these androids to get the Dragonballs here on Earth. He's using them as a distraction so he could get the Dragonballs on Namek and make his wish."

Gohan's shocked look wasn't surprising to Goku and he stared up at the battle ahead.

"So what are you going to do?" Gohan asked and Goku paused, not saying anything. He put a hand on Gohan's shoulder and gave him a loving smile.

"You've grown so much over the years. I'm very proud of all that you've accomplished in your life, son," Goku said and Gohan blinked for a moment. He felt his heart beat a little faster.

"Dad, you're saying this as though you think you're not going to survive this oncoming battle," Gohan told him and Goku glanced up at the battle as well.

"Hah, maybe. But I know I can trust you guys to defend the planet from those androids. They ain't all that strong to begin with but their regeneration ability makes them very resilient. Hit them with all your power and you can win this."

"Right," Gohan said and turned to Piccolo, who was watching them.

"I'll take you to Capsule Corporation, I sense the whole group's gathered over there," he said and helped Piccolo to his feet. He grabbed Tien's arm and put two fingers to his forehead.

"Dad?"

"Hm?"

"You know this is a trap, right?" Gohan asked and Goku gave him a smile, knowing that he's aware he's heading into the lion's den. "They wouldn't have baited you to go to Namek if they weren't sure Freeza had an upper hand in all this. And there's also that brother of his that we don't know anything about. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Gohan and Piccolo glanced at each other, then at Goku, who nodded.

"Sometimes the best way to disarm a trap is to spring it," he said and disappeared, taking Piccolo and Tien with him. Gohan flew back up to join 17 and Gotenks, who were pushing Tundra and Glacial back with their barrage of blows.

When the androids were pushed back against one another, they both looked at each other and frowned.

"I didn't think we needed to do this so soon, but they've been pushing us back a lot, sister," Tundra said and Glacial nodded.

"I was hoping to use my other arm against that fused Saiyan but I guess this method will be even better," she said and the two flew up to stare the three down.

"It's a shame Goku can't be witness to this!" Tundra shouted and he powered up, surrounding himself with a white-blue aura. Glacial did the same but her aura had a hint of pinkish purple to it. The two bio-androids both smiled at the trio and Gohan frowned.

"What are you two up to?" he asked but the bio-androids didn't respond. Their auras glowed brighter as their power skyrocketed and Gohan's eyes widened as the two moved into each other, swirling around to mix together.

"Fusion?!" Gohan shouted and 17 frowned. Gotenks glared at the two androids as they began merging together and crossed his arms and legs while floating in the air.

"Hmph, lame. Meeting fusion with fusion shouldn't be allowed in a fight," he said and got a look from Gohan.

"Be on guard, don't waste too much of the rest of your fusion time. Whatever this is we have to be ready for it," Gohan said and 17 nodded, preparing a barrier just in case.

When the light faded, a single entity emerged, the fused body of Tundra and Glacial smiling at them with its eyes closed. It opened them and they were normal eyes like Freeza but with a similar sheen of translucence from their Tsufurian upgrades but crimson red in color. Their muscular structure looked bigger all around and it had a more masculine look to it, with horns protruding from their forearms, shoulders, and head, like a crown with a purple jewel embedded on the front of it. Similar grid lines of their Tsufurian upgrades, the red and yellow wiring that was on the individual foreheads of the bio-androids was also on this one's face, and more of their wiring was traced along their arms, shoulders, and chest. When it raised and clenched a fist at the three, it spoke with a mostly masculine voice, though Glacial's voice could still be heard along with it.

"We are Tundral. We will make quick work of the three of you," it said and shot a powerful sonic wave that pushed the three of them back, even against 17's energy barrier, which the sonic wave shattered as quickly as he had formed it. Gohan's eyes widened. Not even 17's barrier was strong enough to contain it!

He glanced at Gotenks and frowned. He wasn't sure how much time was left in their fusion and began to wonder if they were strong enough to handle this new being. It sent another powerful sonic wave down at the island and it tore it apart completely, sending foliage and animals flying away and 17's face looked on in horror. Tundral laughed after it lowered its arm and clenched its fist at the three.

"Sorry about that, my aim must've been off there," it said and 17 glared at him. Gohan raised his hand.

"Wait, we have to plan this carefully. We can't just go in blind and expect to come out on top. This thing's way stronger than I thought it would be."

17 reluctantly nodded and flew over to Gohan's side. Gohan motioned for Gotenks to do the same.

"Try and find any blind spots, we need to get this thing distracted enough to attack and get in as much damage. I'm hopeful we can hit it enough times to defuse it," he said and 17 nodded.

"Let me start things off, brother!" Gotenks shouted and Gohan raised his arm in protest. "Gotenks, wait!"

Gotenks ignored him and went on the offensive, attacking Tundral. It blocked the fused Super Saiyan 3 with ease and Gotenks quickly began blowing a bubble for another of his Super Ghost Kamikaze attacks but Tundral grabbed him by his long hair and shoved the bubble back into his mouth to stop it and Gotenks's eyes widened as the bubble exploded, sending him flying down to the earth. When he landed, he immediately defused back into Goten and Trunks and they were sprawled on the ground, unconscious. Gohan watched the whole thing take place with panic in his eyes and he glared at Tundral.

"Damn you!" he shouted and 17 studied the fused bio-android carefully.

"Direct attacks aren't the way to go then," he noted and Gohan glanced down at his brother and Trunks. You knew, didn't you? That's why you rushed him when you did.

Gohan yelled as he burst forth in his well of power, his ultimate form glowing brightly in front of Tundral and 17 readied himself with another barrier, waiting.

"Sword and Shield strategy," 17 told him and Gohan nodded.

"Right."

Two Saiyans leave for Namek…

When Goku appeared with Piccolo and Tien at Capsule Corporation, he saw Uub and the group he teleported with in front of the building's entrance and Pan was elated to see her grandfather appear.

"Grandpa!" she shouted and ran up to jump in his arms for a hug. Goku smiled at the loving gesture and the rest of them walked over to meet up with him. Pan glanced over and saw Piccolo, who smiled up at her and she teared up, rushing to wrap her arms around him.

"Uncle! You're back! Thank goodness!" she cried, holding him tightly and he laughed softly, holding her. He staggered forward a bit and Uub was quick to hold him aloft before he fell forward.

"Thank you," he said and Uub looked up at Pan.

"Tell me you have more Senzu beans available!" he shouted and Pan nodded. She detached herself from Piccolo and nodded. She became a flash of light and flew back inside, confusing everyone, Videl included.

"Ehhh? What did Pan just do?" she asked and Goku pondered it for a moment, then nodded, smiling.

"Her split form technique. Her original body's probably already inside the building and the copy went back to rejoin with her," Goku said and Videl looked at him confused.

"Wait a minute, then the whole time Pan was with me and everyone here it wasn't even her but a copy?"

"Not a copy, it's still Pan, but she split into two separate beings that are both the same person. She's worked hard on that technique during her training that she can pull it off without losing energy," Goku explained but Videl glanced behind her, her face becoming angrier.

"So she really wanted to avoid seeing me! Sending a copy to see me when she couldn't do it herself! OOOH!"

Uub gulped, wondering how this was going to go once the original Pan was coming out and she rushed out of the building with a bag in her hand. She stopped when she saw Videl but immediately rushed to hand a senzu bean to Piccolo.

"Uncle, here you go," she said and Videl stood behind her, arms crossed and glaring down at her.

"I take back anything I might've said about you earlier, Pan. You're in a lot of trouble now!" she said and Pan stared back up defiantly.

"When my copy rejoined me, I gained all the memories and experiences she had when we were separate so I know what happened, mom."

"That's beside the point. You deceived me with that trick of yours and once your father comes back, we'll discuss a suitable punishment for you."

"Hey, what's up with that guy?" Lemo asked, walking up to Goku as he stared down at Tien. Goku frowned and Piccolo put his hand on Goku's shoulder.

"Let me explain this time," he said. "First of all, Tien's dead."

Pan gasped, looking down at Tien's lifeless form. "Oh god…"

She looked up at Goku. "Was there nothing you could do to help him?"

"No, he was too far damaged by overuse of his Kikoho attack to do anything. I cleansed the evil energy from both of them with the Spirt Bomb but that evil energy was the only thing keeping him alive by the time I helped him. I'm sorry, everyone."

"More importantly, we've got a far worse situation on us from not only here but on Namek as well," Piccolo stated and everyone was looking at him. He began explaining what had happened and filled in the gaps Goku helped him with, with Lemo nodding with his arms crossed.

"Tsufurians," he muttered, sighing.
"You know something about Tsufurians?" Goku asked and Lemo nodded.

"Yeah, they're the race of people the Saiyans destroyed on Planet Plant during King Cold's reign when Vegeta's ancestors were in charge. They later renamed it Planet Vegeta in his honor."

"No way," Cheelai said and Lemo gave her a look. He glanced up at Broly, then at Goku and sighed again.

"This new bit of information is making me think more clearly now. But I still need access to the files back home in order to paint a grander picture. Tsufurians are the most intelligent species that existed in the Universe, far superior than what you'd find here on earth. Your Dr. Bulma is smart, but she pales in comparison to Berryblue and Nion."

"Nion?" Goku asked.

"A Saiyan Scientist who worked with Berryblue and Kikono who studied Tsufurian technology while monitoring Saiyan newborns. I don't know much else but word of their exploits traveled often among the Cold Force of how close those three were along with a couple other scientists, but Nion was often heard speaking of her disdain for the Saiyan race, despite the discovery of Broly's potential."

"How do you know all this?" asked Cheelai, setting Arugula back down to walk over to Pan and the two held hands.

"I did as much research as I could on these secret cliques in the Freeza Force when he took over and after he destroyed Planet Vegeta. It was all I could do to dig up this much information but I'd have to infiltrate more databanks on one of Freeza's planets to get more info. You have that strange teleportation technique, right Goku? You can take me right away to Bloss and I can start looking in on this," Lemo asked and Goku frowned.

"Sorry, but with what's happening on Namek, I'm afraid I won't have time to get you to your home planet."

"Tch, figures," Lemo said, crossing his arms and Uub piped up.

"I can do it, master," he said and Goku shook his head.

"You haven't trained enough with instantaneous movement to properly do it, not knowing where their planet is in the first place. Your best bet is to stay here and make sure everyone's safe. Broly."

Broly glanced at him and Goku stared up at him with a serious expression on his face. He extended his hand over to him.

"I need a strong fighter to come with me to Namek," he told him and Cheelai's eyes widened.

"Like hell he's going with you!" she shouted and everyone stared at her. Arugula paused, walking up to the two Saiyans.

"Daddy? Are you going away?" she asked, her voice shaking, and Broly felt his heart sink and his stomach wrench.

"I can't, I can't abandon my family, Kakarot," he said and clenched his fist.

"You heard what we just talked about, though. Freeza's on Namek but he's not alone. He's got a brother who might be just as strong and I can't defeat them both together, even at maximum power with Super Saiyan Blue and Kaioken."

"Why not get Vegeta to fight with you?" Cheelai asked and Goku shook his head.

"There's no time to go all the way to Lord Beerus's world to get him. This needs to happen now or we'll lose the best chance we have of stopping not only these androids here but to save everyone that might be infected, as well as bringing Tien back to life."

"Slow down! I don't understand what's going on," she told him.

"The Namekian Dragonballs are far stronger than the ones we have here on Earth. Their dragon can revive someone as many times as he can, but Shenron can't because he can't grant the same wish twice. And the Namekian dragon is the only one to bring me back in case something happens and I don't make it."

"No!" Pan shouted. "Don't say things like that! You're not going to die on me, Grandpa! We'll all go together to Namek to stop that Freeza monster and whatever brother he's with and make sure those Namekians are safe!"

"No Pan, it's too dangerous for you to go. You need to stay here and protect Broly's family with Uub and Bulla. They're safer here."

"Is there really no other option, Kakarot?" Broly asked and Goku shook his head.

"I wasn't expecting to involve you like this, but I need your power. If you've having trouble controlling your anger, you can unleash it on Freeza and his brother. He won't know what hit him and you were pretty good against him last time as a Super Saiyan. Please, I need your help. I wouldn't be asking otherwise if it was just Freeza."

"No!" Arugula shouted and ran in front of Broly, stretching her arms out. "Don't take daddy away!"

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Cheelai asked, taking his arm in her hands and he stared down at her, then at his children. Closing his eyes, he nodded.

"Yes, I will help you, Kakarot. If these Dragonballs are that important to you, I will do what I can to prevent Freeza and his brother from making their wish."

"No, please! Daddy, no! Don't go, daddy!" Arugula cried and pleaded, clutching him around his leg. Cheelai sighed and pulled her off him to take her in her arms and she struggled to break free to grab Broly and prevent him from leaving but Cheelai was able to hold her at bay.

"Promise me you'll both come back?" she asked Goku, who sighed and nodded, glancing up at Broly. Arugula couldn't contain herself and began bawling again in Cheelai's shoulder and Broly gently patted her head, stroking her back.

"I'm sorry, Arugula. Your daddy has something very important he needs to do. I'll come back, I promise," he whispered and Cheelai squeezed his hand. He reached up to caress her cheek and she sighed into it, closing her eyes. She glanced at the two and nodded, walking out of their way. Broly moved over to Bok and Choi, who stared up at him.

"You don't want us tagging along, dad?" Bok asked, glancing at Choi.

"No. Freeza is a dangerous person, too much for you both to handle," he told them and Choi smirked.

"Only the more reason to fight him, then. You're the strongest Saiyan in the universe, dad, you got this," he said, the first decent thing he's ever said to his loved one and Broly ruffled both his sons' hair before he walked over to Goku. He nodded at Lemo, then at the others and then stood before Goku.

"I'm ready," he said and Goku nodded taking his hand and putting two fingers to his forehead. He closed his eyes and concentrated, searching for Namekian energy signatures and caught a faint one along with several others and both he and Broly teleported off the planet.