Chapter 28 – "Learn the fusion dance! A cornered Tundral unleashes his true power."
A fierce brawl on Namek…
Cooler grabbed Broly's fists and kicked him a few times in the face but the Saiyan didn't relent and threw his arms out to release himself and he laid into Cooler with a hard right to the face. Cooler smirked, wiping the side of his face and Broly continued his assault, throwing haymakers that Cooler blocked, but the force of each impact sent him back and he snickered a bit.
"You're as impressive as the reports have said you'd be," he said, but Broly was full on in his aggressive state and didn't say anything, only continued grunting and growling as he moved around with Cooler, flying across the landscape. Cooler fired a few energy blasts that hit Broly but it did nothing but spur the Saiyan on as he dived down to grab Cooler by the tail and throw him to the ground, stunning him. He hadn't expected Broly to move as fast as he did and he had to spin around to free himself, striking the Saiyan in the face with his tail, moving it back and forth to slap him a few more times.
Broly fired a huge green colored energy blast from his mouth that caused Cooler to look back in surprise and he blocked the attack with his arms, returning fire with a finger beam that struck Broly in the forehead, but the burly Saiyan merely glared back with veins popping out from the side of his forehead and Cooler grinned.
"You haven't truly begun to entertain me, monkey. Let's dance," he said and the two blazed around again, moving in high speed bursts as they disappeared and reappeared to strike each other.
Goku and Freeza continued their light battle, knowing they weren't quite ready to take it to the next level yet, and both wore smiles as they fought, blocking each other's shots as they flew around. They landed successive blows to each other's faces that rocked themselves backwards a bit but they kept going, increasing their speed as they moved around. Goku could sense the growing power within Broly and saw explosions and energy blasts off in the distance. He blocked a near heavy punch to the face from Freeza and had to make himself sure not to get distracted by Broly's fight to concentrate on Freeza's movements as the two landed on the ground. They immediately resumed, launching themselves at each other and their movements were building up in speed and power as they kicked and punched at each other. Goku blocked and spun around to hit Freeza in the back of the head with a roundhouse kick, which caused him to retaliate with a quick blast from his finger aimed at Goku's chest. The Saiyan knocked it away and Freeza continued to fire several more, moving in high speed bursts charging up an energy attack in his hand, flying up to use both hands to launch it down at Goku. The energy ball grew double in size and Goku had to catch it in his hands, the force of the ball pushing down on him and Goku let out a yell to send it flying back up to the sky.
Freeza didn't stop there and was immediately diving down to catch Goku with a punch that was caught in his hand. Goku went in for a punch that Freeza blocked and they continued their fight, blocking each other's punches.
While the Saiyans were busy fighting, Berryblue and Bonyu had returned to the ship. The diminutive blue-skinned woman led her to the bridge where the crew were standing by and she stood with her hands behind her back.
"Prepare the ship for launch, I want this off the planet and standing by in orbit," she said and the crew glanced at each other, confused.
"What's wrong? Namekian air made you all deaf or something? Do what Lady Berryblue says!" Bonyu yelled and the crew panicked, scrambling to sit at their posts and the pilots began entering a few keystrokes on the console, starting the ship up. The latches and domes closed around the hull of the ship as the landing gear retracted itself and the ship slowly began to rise up in the sky. Freeza spotted the ship leaving and grinned. Cooler noticed it as well but he was too focused on Broly to really care. He and Freeza knew they could simply leave the planet to return to their ship whenever they wanted to and Cooler felt at least a degree of ease knowing that his ship wouldn't be destroyed or heavily damaged from the continuous fighting. He wanted to rub that in Freeza's face soon after he disposed of this Saiyan brute and he went in for another punch to Broly's head, but the Saiyan's large hand grabbed Cooler by his head and shoved him hard into the side of a rocky plateau, surprising him. Broly shoved him even more into the rocky surface and Cooler's eyes glowed red with an energy attack and he fired it at Broly. It hit him directly and Broly staggered back a few steps, letting go of Cooler and he followed up with another few energy blasts that kept knocking Broly back a few steps before he grabbed him by the face and flew forward, dragging the Saiyan along his back across the ground, plowing him through the grass, dirt, and rocks that were buried underneath.
Broly screamed and fired an energy blast from his chest that collided against Cooler and it pushed him to the air off of him and Broly stood back up, launching himself off the ground to appear in front of Cooler as he recovered from the energy blast. Broly took a few hits from Cooler but kept going, laying into him with a few hard punches and Cooler gasped from a stomach blow, glaring up at him. He caught Broly's fist before he could hit him again and charged up an energy ball from his other hand, shoving it in Broly's face. The Saiyan was taking a great deal of hits to his head but that didn't slow him down at all. It was only fueling the growing amount of anger within him and Broly fired back with another huge green energy wave from his mouth that Cooler caught with his hands and he glared menacingly at Broly before he launched it away from him, letting it continue onward to strike a section of land masses in the distance. The impact exploded, causing a huge dome of energy to form itself, decimating the terrain around it. Broly continued staring fiercely at Cooler and he screamed again, his power growing even more as his Super Saiyan aura surrounded him. His hair changed and his physique bulked out, his shirt tearing itself off from the size increase and Cooler's eyes narrowed.
"I hardly call what we were doing earlier a warm up but since you're eager to heat things up, I'll gladly oblige myself."
An intense aura surrounded Cooler as he too began to transform in front of Broly, which stunned him a bit but his facial expression continued to show levels of anger a berserker Saiyan would show.
Cooler's size began to increase as his muscles were also expanding. The shoulder plates of his exoskeletal structure shifted and grew out and the plate on his head grew spikes outward with a gem in the middle. His eyes changed to a complete crimson red and he grinned maliciously at Broly as the forearm plates grew spiked blades with another blue gem protruding itself on the side. When he finished his transformation, a face guard covered his mouth and he clenched his fists.
"I'll make this as quick and painless as possible," he said and rushed Broly with a knee to the Saiyan's gut, causing Broly to gasp and spit out bile. But he shook his head and screamed, bringing the fight back to Cooler and they resumed moving around the battlefield, throwing heavy blows at each other.
Freeza grinned as he could see what was transpiring and he glanced back at Goku. "My brother insists on finishing this fight quickly. I suppose we can drop this amusing warm up and get down to business ourselves?"
He cracked his neck and wasted no time, belting out a scream as he changed into his Golden form, shifting his color scheme to purple skin with golden exoskeletal plating around him and Goku grinned.
"Right," he muttered and closed his eyes. Screaming himself, he powered his body into his god form, his charcoal hair flaring up to change into its blue color and he exploded with his Super Saiyan Blue form, hovering in front of Freeza.
"Ho? No Ultra Instinct?" Freeza asked and Goku grinned.
"Not yet," he said and Freeza paused for a moment, frowning a bit. He felt that Goku was still concealing a great deal of power and wasted no time in moving in to attack him. Goku blocked the first few shots and noticed how faster Freeza's movements were as he danced around the field.
"You must've gone through a lot of training over the years," he said and Freeza grinned as they continued exchanging blows.
"It's as I said before, you've motivated me to train myself, something I didn't think I was ever going to adapt into my life," Freeza fired several finger blasts that Goku dodged but he redirected them back at him, like homing missiles aimed straight at him. Goku flew around and dodged them as they flew by, catching Freeza's fist as the golden tyrant moved up to strike his blind spot. He grabbed Goku from behind to allow the finger beams to home in on Goku but he got a headbutt from behind to his face, releasing the Saiyan from his grip and he had to quickly blast the homing beams in the air before they could hit him. Goku was quick on the draw and rocked Freeza in the face with a hard right but Freeza pushed back against the punch with an infuriated glare, gritting his teeth.
"What?" Goku cried and blocked more of Freeza's punches as he was raining down on him. He's definitely gotten stronger since the Tournament of Power.
Back on Earth…
Gohan and Android 17 circled Tundral as they were firing consecutive energy blasts at the fused android and it swept the blast away with another sonic attack, much stronger than Tundra's was when the androids were separate. Tundral moved his hands to his side and from his shoulder blades he unleashed another huge sonic wave against Gohan and 17, forcing him to deflect it with a barrier. The vibrations were fierce against it and the barrier was cracking rather quickly. He reinforced it with several more barriers and the sonic vibrations shattered the first one, pressing hard against the rest of them until the next one shattered, followed by the third, then the fourth.
"These can't withstand those sonic attacks, we need something to counter those vibrations," 17 said, throwing a few more barriers to buy them some time. Tundral laughed as he was blaring the sonic vibrations and he clenched his fists.
"Your barrier is useless! Give up and suffer endless pain!" Tundral shouted in his double voice and Gohan channeled his own energy to strengthen the barrier and he glanced at 17.
"I can sense Piccolo's on his way. The more we have here with us, the better our strategy can get. If I can gauge the frequency of those vibrations, I might produce a counter vibration to neutralize it, but I need enough time to calculate everything."
"How much time do you need?" 17 asked.
"As much as you can afford without taking too much damage. I don't want you to risk yourself recklessly," Gohan told him and 17 nodded. He flew around to throw a few energy attacks at Tundral to gain his attention and he stopped his sonic wave to take the energy attacks full on, hitting him but having no effect on him. He grinned up at 17.
"What a waste of a creation you are. If you had been made with superior Tsufurian technology, you'd live among these worms like a god!"
"Having power over others means nothing to me. I have everything I need right here and I can't allow you to take any more of that away," he said and charged in for an attack, using his super speed to avoid Tundral's sonic waves. Gohan studied the movements closely and observed the shoulders as Tundral was moving around to direct his attacks at 17.
"The air distortion they create paired with the distance travelled and duration of each attack has a point zero zero three second differential between each burst. I just need one more minute to figure out the frequency of a counter vibration to cancel his attack," Gohan said, hand to his chin. He went over several algorithms and calculations in his head as he watched Tundral's movements and could tell there was a consistent pattern to the way Tundral was firing each sonic wave, regardless of where he was aiming and he could sense that Piccolo was drawing nearer to the battlefield.
As Piccolo flew in towards Gohan, he met him half-way and smiled with a nod of his head.
"Thank goodness you're back with us, Piccolo. I was afraid there was nothing we could've done to get rid of that energy inside you and you'd be lost to us."
"I owe you and Goku for that," he said with a grin and turned his attention to Tundral as 17 was moving around like an annoying fly that liked buzzing around the head.
"Watch out for his sonic attacks, he's been keeping everyone at a distance for some time. I don't know how that might affect your enhanced hearing so I wanted to warn you first."
"As long as I'm not caught in the wave directly I should be fine," Piccolo said, hovering beside him.
"I've noticed a pattern to those attacks and I can come up with a counter to the vibration frequency but I need a few seconds to make the proper calculations myself in my head."
"What are you thinking?"
"Use my hands to create a vibration that matches the frequency of those sonic waves so I can neutralize it and stop them completely," Gohan raised his hands in front of him, demonstrating with a quick vibration of his hands.
"Keep in mind you've never attempted something like this before," Piccolo noted and Gohan kept staring at Tundral.
"I know but being able to use all my years of studying to help me out in a fight has me feeling as excited as father does."
Gohan grinned and glanced at Piccolo, who put a hand on his shoulder. "Be careful."
Piccolo powered up and charged forth towards Tundral, who spotted him at the last moment and swept a sonic wave behind him with a movement of his arm and Piccolo put up a tight defense to block most of it and he grunted as the vibration hit him dead on.
"Piccolo! Are you alright?" Gohan shouted, ready to jump in but Piccolo held him at bay with a raised hand.
"I'm fine, focus on your strategy!" he shouted back and he and 17 gave each other a look before they circled around Tundral. He crossed his arms and threw them out, surrounding himself with several consecutive sonic waves that expanded around his body in all directions, an omni-directional attack that forced 17 to throw up another barrier and Piccolo to fire off a few energy blasts at Tundral before the sonic wave hit him and the area around him became distorted, catching him within it. Gohan cringed when he saw the wave move through Piccolo, distorting the image of his body in front of him and the Namekian screamed from the impact. He grunted and glared at Tundral after the wave passed and stopped and he put his two hands together, fingers touching each other at the tips and he charged up energy in between his hands in the negative space within. 17 built up energy as well and let out a scream before he puffed out his chest and fired off a powerful bubble of air down at Tundral, colliding against another sonic wave that he had burst out from around him, and the impact created an explosion that tossed the android and Piccolo back, Tundral raising a hand in slight defense from the elevated power of the explosion.
Gohan looked at his hands in front of him and closed his eyes. He began vibrating his hands rapidly to the point where they were becoming blurry and he believed he had the right frequency in mind as he was doing this.
"I've only got one shot at this, better make it count," he said and flew off towards Tundral, focusing his energy towards a singular position and Tundral responded by turning around and firing pinpoint sonic wave attacks towards Gohan, who was able to deflect and cancel them as he flew inward and Tundral's eyes widened.
"What?!"
Gohan screamed as he flew in with a punch that Tundral blocked with a forearm but screamed as the vibrating fist from Gohan send shockwaves throughout his body and Gohan hit him squarely in the face with his other vibrating fist and the vibration collided with the sonic vibration from Tundral's shoulders, cancelling each other out and Tundral was sent flying. Gohan powered up into a burst of speed to disappear and reappear behind the fused android to knock him back with a counter punch and he made another burst to appear above him, cupping his hands together for a Kamehameha blast.
Tundral recovered enough to look on in shock as Gohan unleashed a powerful blue energy wave that hit him directly and pushed him down towards the ocean. Tundral screamed as he charged up an energy blast of his own to counter the force of the Kamehameha blast and the two burst into a powerful explosion that blew away everything around it. The explosion split the water around it, exposing the ocean floor and the cascade of energy bombarded an island below, though not the one that was among 17's islands he was protecting. Tundral growled fiercely at Gohan, looking scraped and partially damaged from the attack and he clenched his fists.
"That was dirty," he said calmly but with a hint of pure rage behind it. But he started grinning at Gohan as he raised his arms and they detached themselves from his body.
"What the?!" Gohan cried.
"But not as dirty as this!" Tundral yelled and the arms shifted into a liquid state and flew to android 17. He quickly threw up a barrier around himself and the liquid arms enveloped it, trapping 17 inside. It pressed down on it and began cracking the energy underneath it until it shattered it and it began covering 17, absorbing itself through the android's skin and 17 gasped, his face beginning to panic. Gohan and Piccolo watched on in horror as 17 began to change and his skin and hair changed color as well. His normal humanoid skin was shifting to a light blue and his black hair changed completely to white while his eyes had the same red grid lines that Gohan noticed on Piccolo and Tien from before. Red and yellow lines appeared above 17's right eye, replacing his eyebrows and the possessed android smiled down at the two while Tundral laughed.
"How does it feel to have to fight one of your own again, Saiyan?" Tundral boasted and Gohan clenched his fists. Piccolo flew over to his side.
"Leave him to me," he told him and Gohan looked at him.
"Are you sure?"
"I don't know how well that android fights without the use of his arms but I'm familiar with how 17 fights so it's best I handle him while you keep at it with the android."
"Right. Be careful, Piccolo. His resilience has to be astronomical now and he can probably handle anything you throw at him," Gohan informed him and Piccolo was ready for this. He put two fingers to his forehead and began charging up energy for a Special Beam Cannon, smirking down at 17.
"Round 2," the Namekian said and flew down to engage him.
In the partially destroyed island, Uub appeared near Trunks and Goten, who were lying down unconscious. Their bodies had been thrown around a bit from the sonic wave destruction earlier but they weren't affected all that much. He checked their vitals and sighed in relief.
"Thank goodness he didn't kill you both, Pan and Bulla would lose it if you both died on us," he said and draped Goten's body over his left shoulder, while grabbing Trunks by the arm with his hand, using his other hand to put two fingers to his forehead. He glanced up and watched Piccolo fight someone with snow white hair and then spotted Gohan engaged in a fight with another creature that was blocking with its legs since it was fighting him without arms. Uub had a grim look on his face and glanced down at the two in his grasp, then back at the fight and nodded.
"I'll be right back," he said and teleported away back to Capsule Corporation.
A hasty decision to join ranks…
Uub reappeared at the front of the compound with Trunks and Goten and he ran into the building, searching for Pan and Bulla. They were on their way out when he almost ran them over and stopped himself short, his feet dragging on the floor as he put on the brakes.
"Whoa! Uub! Watch yourself!" Bulla shouted as she raised her hands quickly to keep herself from being knocked over and Uub spotted the bag of senzu beans tied around Pan's belt she had around her dress.
"I brought Trunks and Goten back, we need to give them senzu beans immediately!" Uub said and ran back in the opposite direction. Pan and Bulla nodded at each other and ran as fast as they could to keep up with Uub and they exited the front entrance. Bulla gasped as she saw her brother and Pan was equally mortified when she saw how damaged they were. Bulla knelt down and put her brother's head on her lap and he grunted a bit, gritting his teeth.
"He's coming to," she said and Pan took out two senzu beans, handing one of them to Bulla who shoved it in Trunks's mouth while Pan forced the other down Goten's. They waited to see if they were going to eat them and their mouths began moving by themselves as they chewed it down and swallowed it. Their eyes opened afterwards and they sat up. Bulla wrapped her arms around her brother and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank goodness you made it back in time," she said, holding his face against hers and Pan helped Goten to a seated position.
"Uncle Goten, are you alright?" she asked and Goten rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah, I'm fine now, thanks."
He stood up and Trunks was helped to his feet by Bulla and they both had grim looks on their faces as they glanced at each other.
"I saw that thing you guys were fighting and if he was able to knock you both out like that he must be incredibly powerful."
Trunks stared down at the ground, sighing. "It's not that. He is strong, yes, but not impossible to defeat. I've lost my fighting edge and that affected Gotenks's ability to fight effectively as well."
"Huh? Really? I thought we were doing really well until that thing caught us off-guard. You can't blame yourself for our defeat, Trunks," Goten told him and Trunks shook his head.
"I'm sorry, Goten. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I can't keep doing this, not when I've become a liability to us during a fight."
"Then teach us how to fuse and we'll take out that freak for you," Bulla said and Trunks's eyes widened as he gazed at her.
"Seriously? You and Pan want to learn the fusion dance?"
Pan and Bulla both nodded in unison and the two older boys glanced at each other.
"We don't have that kind of time though," Uub piped in, surprisingly, getting everyone's attention. "The longer we keep standing around, the worst it'll get for Gohan and Piccolo. They're both fighting that android and something else that appeared on the field."
"Can you hold them off for thirty minutes?" Pan asked him and Uub lifted an eyebrow.
"Pan, you can't learn how to master the fusion dance in half an hour, that's impossible," Goten told her and she gave him a smirk.
"Not if you have a room that extends that time by a whole week," she said and the older boys' eyes lit up.
"The Hyperbolic Time Chamber, of course!" Trunks shouted and he counted on his hand.
"Thirty minutes is at least a week in there, and Goten and I were able to master it within that time period so this could theoretically work."
Bulla gave Pan a look of confidence and smiled up at him. "We'll do it in three."
"Three days?! Are you kidding me? You have to spend every single minute acting completely in sync with one another if you're ever going to master the dance poses correctly and there's no guarantee that your fusion will be successful the first time you do it!"
Trunks had a few sweat beads trickle down his face and Pan and Bulla stood before him, hands on their hips.
"We'll train as hard as we can!" they shouted together and Goten chuckled, glancing at Trunks.
"Well, they do have the enthusiasm for it. But I hope you can master this as quickly as possible so we don't spend too much time in there," he told them and they nodded together. Turning to Uub, Goten noted a hint of determination in the way Uub was staring back at them.
"You're going to fight that android?" he asked and Uub nodded.
"Yeah. I think master Goku would agree that this is important for the sake of this planet. We have to be there to defend it when he's not available."
"Yeah. Come on Trunks, let's get to Kami's lookout as quickly as possible," Goten said and the four left. Pan and Uub stared at each other for a few seconds before Pan turned to fly off and Uub closed his eyes, focusing his power and bringing two fingers to his forehead.
"Uub!" Bok's voice came as he noticed the group that were standing together seconds earlier.
"Bok, you just missed everyone, they're off to do some special training," Uub told him and Bok looked up and could see a small speck that resembled Bulla fly out of his line of sight and he sighed a bit.
"I was hoping I could say goodbye to her before she left," he said and Uub nodded.
"They'll only be gone for thirty minutes at most so you'll get to see her not too long from now," Uub informed him and Bok lifted an eyebrow in confusion.
"Oh right, you've never been in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. It's a…strange place that alters time and it moves several times faster than time out here."
"I see. I'm really worried about Choi; he's never been this angry before. I don't know what he's capable of doing in this state and I'm afraid he might hurt someone as a result, or worse."
Bok had a distressed look on his face as he kept looking where he had come from and Uub gave him a reassuring smile.
"I think I might know who he can unleash his anger on. Take me to him."
Bok's eyes widened a bit but Uub pressed him on with a nod in Bok's direction and Bok led him to his brother, who was standing with his arms crossed, fists clenched so tightly his knuckles were white. He stared ahead at nothing in particular but he glanced behind him without moving his head, staring back in front of him again.
"You don't have anyone to focus your anger on, right? I know you want to let all that pent up frustration out. I know just the one to do it," Uub said and Choi narrowed his eyes as he turned his head to face him.
"If you both come with me, we can tackle that android that's been causing problems since it got here a few days ago. We can do something good for this planet, or at least have a good fight. I know you've been wanting a good fight, you and your brother." Choi belted out a gruff sigh as he stared back ahead.
"Okay, I admit I don't know everything about Saiyans but if you're anything like Master Goku, you can't resist a good fight against a strong opponent."
Choi turned around completely and walked right up to him, staring up at him since he had to tilt his head up a bit. "You'd better not be lying to me, fauxhawk, or you'll be the one I take it out on, got it?"
Uub smiled. "Don't worry, that thing'll be more than enough for you. I know what kind of power you're carrying inside you and hitting that monster with everything you've got will be what we need right now." At least for half an hour, then we'll see if the girls can pull off their fusion and destroy this thing.
Uub didn't like that he was using Choi as a distraction for the android to fight but knowing how much pent up rage this boy had, it was only fitting that he'd direct it to the right source. Bok gave his brother a small nod with a grin on his face but Choi didn't say anything else, crossing his arms.
"Hold on tight," he said, holding his hand out and Bok took it, putting a hand on Choi's shoulder, who eyed it warily but let it stay there for now until Uub brought the three of them over there and he put two fingers to his forehead, concentrating on Gohan's energy and the three teleported away.
Meanwhile, Lemo was pulling a few herbs from his cooler and chopped them up on the counter at the room they were all staying at. He placed them in the pot as the liquid was boiling and he drank in the savory smells from the herbs and spices he put inside, smiling.
"Once Bok and Choi get a taste of this, they'll never want horrible cafeteria food ever again," he said, stirring the pot with a wooden spoon and he put the lid back on top.
"I don't know, I don't really mind the food they have here, to be honest," Cheelai said, bouncing Arugula on her leg and getting a few giggles out of her as she swung Mr. Bronto around like an airplane, the first time today she wore pure joy on her face and Cheelai stopped a moment, leaning against the table, sighing heavily.
"Don't worry about Broly, he and Goku will take care of Freeza," he said and Cheelai shot him a look, nodding at Arugula and Lemo swallowed. "Sorry."
"Where's Bok and Choi? They should've been back here an hour ago," she said, looking at the clock on the wall. It was nearing their usual dinner time and Lemo peeked at the time as well, shrugging his shoulders.
"I gave up waiting on those two long ago. They'll come back when they're hungry enough."
"You're not their parent, though. I don't like having them wander around so much in a place they've never been to before and I worry Choi's gonna get himself into trouble with some of the people around this place. Broly's not here to keep him in check and I can't sense energy like they can so they could be anywhere right now."
"Here, taste this and stop worrying so much," Lemo said, holding a spoonful of the pot's contents over to her and she blew on it before slurping it in her mouth and her eyes lit up.
"Holy crap that's good," she exclaimed and she could start smelling the concoction completely now and her cheeks reddened with anticipation. The feeling of this cooking reminded her of being held in Broly's arms and her heart skipped a beat, her cheeks blushing even more red and she closed her eyes, smiling and losing herself in thought. Lemo chuckled and put the spoon back on a placeholder and turned the heat down to a simmer to let the rest of the pot cook away and he eased himself into a chair.
"So you try and talk to Videl at some point?" he asked and Cheelai blinked, coming off her small trance-like state and she looked at Lemo.
"Not really no. I'm not in the mood to talk to anyone right now. Being on this planet again seems to bring a lot of bad memories back for me," she said, resting her chin on her hands as she leaned forward on the dining table. She saw Arugula working on a doodle with some crayons and colored paper and grinned a bit before she stared out the window. She decided to get off her chair and walk out to the balcony, opening the sliding door as she could see the sun begin to set over the horizon, marking the coming dusk. She felt the breeze caress her face and hair and she brushed it away, holding the back of her head at the base of her neck, sighing again.
"Please don't let her prediction come true…" she whispered, staring up at the sky.
Teaching Fusion…
When the four arrived on the lookout, Dende and Mr. Popo emerged out of the main building to greet them.
"Hey Dende! Hey Mr. Popo!" Pan cried out, waving at them. Dende waved back and the two stopped, bowing before the four of them.
"It's good to see you're all still safe," Dende said and both Trunks and Goten were the first to approach them.
"We need the Chamber for thirty minutes. We're going to spend that time teaching these girls to master the fusion dance," he informed them and Popo smiled up at him.
"Understood. Chamber is this way," he said in his strange voice and led the four of them to the inside of the building, escorting them to the door that opened up to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
"Certain you only need thirty minutes?" he asked and both Pan and Bulla nodded.
"Yeah, that's more than enough time for us to master this," Pan said and Popo opened the door for them.
"Good luck in there," he said and closed the door behind them after they all entered.
Bulla couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the vast emptiness of the chamber, the structure overlooking a white void that stretched on forever and she felt a drastic change in temperature as one moment it climbed up to blistering humid temperatures and then dropped to a cold that made her shiver and wrap her arms around herself.
"What the heck's up with the temperature in this place?" she said while shivering.
"You'll get used to it rather quickly. Also, mind the first step when you get off the platform, the gravity's different here too," Pan noted and ran to the surface past the platform step and she began stretching and warming up. Bulla took it all in, continuing to hold herself and she nearly fell forward as she stepped off the platform and steadied herself on her feet, gasping.
"Told you," Pan said, bending to her side. She kept looking at her dress and sighed, wishing she had the time to change back into her other clothes but had to stick with it just a while longer. Bulla examined the ground and felt a strange smoothness to it. It felt like her hand was passing through a large wad of cotton balls yet when she stomped down on it with her foot, she was surprised to find that it was remarkably sturdy.
"This place is so weird," she said, hands on her hips and both Goten and Trunks cleared their throats.
"Time's wasting, let's get started!" Trunks called out to them and the two girls stayed close together while Goten and Trunks stood in front of them several feet away. They both nodded at each other and took up a spot further apart from each other and they stared ahead at the girls.
"The first thing we need you both to focus on mastering are the poses you need to make in unison. Each movement, each breath, each angle, have to be exactly the same from the both of you on opposite ends. Think of two flowing rivers of water coming together to collide against one another but flowing like reflections in the mirror. You have to be like a reflection as you move towards each other."
Bulla and Pan sat down to listen as Trunks explained things and Pan tilted her head, a little confused, while Bulla tightened the corner of her mouth, almost losing interest in Trunks's long-winded explanation.
"Pay attention you two, this is important. Now, to start the fusion, your poses must be like this," Trunks said and both he and Goten raised their hands horizontally in front of them, palms facing in. Their legs were apart in a slightly wide stance as both Bulla and Pan looked on, slightly confused.
"Make absolutely sure the arms are exactly 180 degrees horizontally and your hands are open completely. Like a line that's drawn across from you from shoulder to fingertips. Your feet have to be exactly this width apart to start it off. Next," Trunks looked at Goten, who continued the explanation.
"Take three whole steps, making careful note of the way your feet move as you're both drawing yourselves inward and moving your arms in an arc-like fashion. The both of you must begin the fusion chant by saying 'fuuuuu' together as you move three steps like this."
When they finished taking three steps inward, they moved their arms back to their original position but their hands closed themselves into fists. The girls gawked at the two as they saw Trunks's left leg and Goten's right leg lift up and bend itself at the knee in front of their other leg as it stood on its toes.
"When you reach this point, your positioning should look exactly like this, and you both need to shout "sion!" at the same time, in perfect unison. Always remember your breathing and your movements have to be in complete synchronization."
"Then the final part of the movement goes like this," Trunks finished and the two cried "Ha!", moving their legs back down and touching each other's index fingers together at the tips.
"The angles of your bodies must be exactly 45 degrees when your fingers touch. Any deviation in the angle or the way your fingers touch will result in a failure and the fusion will be botched."
When the two finished explaining, they thought the girls had understood what had just been explained but they weren't expecting them to burst out in a fit of giggles and they threw their heads back, laughing out loud. Bulla had her hand to her eyes, covering them as she fell back and Pan was on her side, laughing hysterically. Trunks's face went red with embarrassment and Goten put a hand to his face, sighing heavily. Bulla managed to sit back up and she tried to speak through each bout of laughter.
"You can't be serious!" she belted and tried to calm herself down, only to have another fit of laughter burst out from her and Pan had to hold herself up against Bulla to keep herself from falling back down and the two boys glared down at them, annoyed.
"Are you two done yet?" Trunks cried, hands on his hips and Bulla took a few deep breaths, nodding but trying to stifle more laughter. She glanced once at Pan who made a face and the two burst out laughing once more.
"Hey, this is serious! We only have a week to get this done otherwise this would've been a waste of time!" Goten yelled but the girls continued laughing and the two looked at each other, nodding.
"Right, playtime's over," Trunks said and the two brought themselves back into their original position. They powered up and performed the fusion dance with rapid ease and combined into Gotenks, their power blowing Pan and Bulla back towards the structure and their laughter came to a screeching halt.
"H-hey! Wait a minute!" Bulla screamed and Gotenks was now glowering at them.
"So you think the fusion dance is funny, do you?" he told them in his dual voice and Bulla chuckled nervously.
"Well, it is kinda funny when you look at it," she said and Gotenks grinned.
"How's this for funny?" he said and blew out a few white wisps from his mouth and Bulla's eyes widened.
"Hey, that's not cool, broth…er, Goten, er, Gah!" she was confused as to how to address him and the Super Ghost Kamikaze copies formed themselves in front of Gotenks, half a dozen in total and they lined up with an equal glowering expression on their faces, crossing their arms.
"They think our dance is hilarious. Why don't you show them a funny dance?" he said and the ghosts all grinned at the girls, who stood up quickly.
"Uh, Pan?"
"Y-yeah?"
"RUN!" Bulla yelled and the two girls ran and flew around as the ghosts were giving them chase, three to each one and they had to power up to even remotely handle the damage that they were going to deal should they ever come in contact with them and Bulla was screaming "We're sorry! We won't laugh anymore, we swear it! Right, Pan?!"
"Right! I swear to god we'll stop! Please, call these things back!" Pan cried out and Gotenks had his hands behind his head, whistling with a smirk on his face.
After a few minutes passed by, Bulla and Pan walked back to Gotenks, looking slightly damaged from the attack they had suffered and Pan coughed, wincing at the pain on the side of her face and arm and Bulla's face was slightly swollen from one side.
"So? Still feel like laughing?" Gotenks asked with a salacious grin on his face and Pan stood tall, staring at him with a face full of regret. Bulla held the side of her face and nodded.
"We're sorry we laughed at you," she said, looking away and Gotenks smirked. After thirty minutes had passed, Gotenks defused back into Goten and Trunks and they both stood over the two girls, arms crossed.
"Each minute that you two spend together in this place has to be done in sync, no ifs ands or buts, got it? You have to act as one unit, one person, as though you already are the fusion you're supposed to be. Understood?"
"Yes brother!" Bulla shouted despite the swelling on her face and the two girls proceeded to start moving together, sometimes faltering as they tried to move in sync and they nursed their injuries together, bathed together in unison and ate together in unison. After a day and a half, their movements were pretty well linked together and Goten and Trunks nodded.
"Good, you've been paying attention and working together quite well," he told them and the two girls stood together.
"Now, before you start practicing your fusion poses, the other important thing to remember is your energy levels as you're doing this. Power up as you normally would so we can gauge how well in sync they are."
Pan and Bulla nodded, then channeled energy to power up. Pan raised hers a lot faster than Bulla's, who glanced to her side and tried to raise hers even higher.
"This isn't a competition, you have to raise it as one, remember?" Goten told them and Pan lowered hers.
"Bulla, adjust yours down slightly," Trunks said and Bulla nodded. The two girls were sweating a bit as they were moving their power up and down until Trunks raised his hand.
"Stop, that's perfect. Now remember that power, both of you."
The girls focused their breathing and concentrated on remembering their level of energy and decided it was good enough and powered back down.
"Make sure you remember that as you're doing this, otherwise your fusion won't have the power it needs to pack a strong enough punch," Trunks said and the girls nodded together.
"Now start practicing your fusion poses and don't stop until we say so," he said and sat down on the ground with Goten, watching as the girls fumbled several times, growing visibly frustrated as they were constantly corrected with each mistake and Pan was the first to lose her temper.
"I'd have it down by now if Bulla would stop hesitating on extending her finger!" she yelled and Bulla glared at her.
"Well your angle keeps slipping five degrees, Pan! I don't want us looking like some freak when we fuse, alright?!"
"Your face will make us look freakish enough as it is!" Pan yelled back.
"What did you say?!"
"Stop it you two!" Trunks yelled and the girls continued staring at each other. Goten stifled a yawn and glanced at him.
"Let's call it a day, Trunks, I'm beat. They can't keep going like this if they're this upset. It'll throw off their rhythm the rest of the week."
"Fine. Go grab a bite to eat, wash up and get to bed," he said, walking past them and Bulla closed her eyes, calming herself down. She glanced at Trunks as he pulled up a chair to sit down on and she frowned, shooting him a worried look.
"Brother," she muttered, sighing and Pan pursed her lips, putting her hand on Bulla's shoulders.
"He's right though, we've done this for so long I can't think straight anymore. I really could use a bath right about now."
Goten walked past them to join Trunks at the table.
"Is everything okay, Trunks? Has everything lately been really getting to you this much?" he asked and Trunks had one leg crossed over the other, arms folded in front of him while brooding down at the table.
"I hate not having a moment to breathe, Goten. I hate that I'm always dragged into one thing right after the next and never having one moment to think. Whether I'm training with dad or Bulla, or working with Mom and Grandfather, I'm always pulled in one direction at all times and I can't have a moment to myself to put a barrier to keep everyone away."
"This isn't still about Mai, is it?" Goten asked and Trunks's eyes widened, glancing at him.
"She really messed you up when she left you, Trunks. But now that she's back, it didn't seem to change you all that much anyway."
Bulla and Pan walked back up the step and Bulla walked over to her brother, wrapping her arms around him.
"Please cheer up. You're both trying really hard to help us master this fusion dance and I owe you a great debt of gratitude. I love you, brother."
She kissed him on the cheek and walked to the bathroom with Pan. Trunks grinned a bit, feeling his cheek and Goten gave him a small punch to the arm.
"Let's worry about relaxing until after we've taken this android out," he said and Trunks nodded.
"Yeah."
The twins' power…
When Uub appeared with Bok and Choi, the boys took a look at the archipelago below them. Bok took in the surroundings and felt a sense of comfort and serenity, though some of it ebbed quickly as he saw some of the islands destroyed and much of the landscape that was on them had been wiped out. He looked uneasy and closed his eyes.
"Are there people out in the universe capable of such destruction?" he asked, seeing this all before him for the first time and he couldn't help but glance at Choi, who had his arms crossed as he stared ahead at the battle in front of him.
"Is that the android? Looks pretty weak to me," Choi asked. Uub flew on ahead.
"We can't say for sure what kind of strength this thing has until we start fighting it," he told him and powered up to catch up to Gohan quickly. Bok floated beside his brother and Choi finally cracked a smile after a while.
"I'm so angry I want to punch something a million times. Wanna help your brother vent some aggression?" Choi asked and Bok chuckled a bit.
"Sure, why not? Let's show this android what we can really do when we fight together. We even had dad sweating a bit, remember?"
"Oh yeah, I remember," Choi said, cracking his knuckles and he powered up to his Super Saiyan state. Bok built up his power as well and the two boys flew off to join Gohan and Uub.
"Uub," Gohan said as he saw him in his line of sight. "I thought you were going to stay and look after everyone."
"Pan and Bulla are training with Goten and Trunks on the fusion dance. I didn't sense any danger near Metro west and figured after watching you fight this android you might need some help. Where's Piccolo?"
"Over there," Gohan said with a frown, and Uub gasped as he saw android 17 with a malicious smile on his face, pure white hair and light blue skin fighting Piccolo, as their fists clashed against each other in the sky.
Bok and Choi stopped behind the two and Gohan glanced once before he had to block Tundral's kicks and the android smirked.
"Heh, more lambs to the slaughter, eh? Perfect."
"What's so perfect about an armless trashcan?" Choi said, punching the inside of his palm.
"Be careful, he's strong. He doesn't have any energy to sense so you have to use your range of motion and sight to gauge where he's going to fight."
Choi waved him off. "Yeah yeah, strong guy, whatever. C'mon Bok, let's mess it up."
"Right," Bok said and the two circled around Tundral, who was puzzled at first but then began laughing.
"Your best fighters are gone and all that's left are the children!" he yelled but was rocked in the face by a hard punch from Choi. Uub's eyes widened a bit.
"That was a heavier punch that I've normally seen him throw," he said and glanced at the fight between Piccolo and 17.
"I'm going to help out Piccolo," he said and powered up to join the Namekian. Gohan went to strike Tundral but Choi raised his hand up.
"Stay outta this, this is my fight now," he said with a grin on his face and nimbly dodged Tundral's roundhouse kick, landing on top of the android's leg to boost himself off and he flew around in an unorthodox manner, kicking him hard in the face once more. Bok powered into a burst of speed and kneed Tundral in the stomach, winding him and the android glared at the two. Even Gohan couldn't believe it.
"What the heck's going on?"
"Ah ah, can't have you learning our secrets now," Choi said playfully and swerved to avoid another kick from Tundral. Both he and Bok grabbed Tundral's legs and dragged him down to throw him into the ocean and the android cried out in panic. He began shooting energy beams from his eyes that forced the two to let go and Bok stopped in place to hover and set up his perfect defense. Tundral fired several more energy beams from his eyes but they bounced off him like they were nothing.
"What?!"
"You're wide open!" Choi yelled and unloaded on him with a barrage of punches that forced the android to stagger back and he screamed out a sonic wave from his mouth at Choi.
"Choi!" Bok yelled and began moving again to kick Tundral in the back of the head and Choi had to put up his arms to defend himself as the powerful wave swept through him. Choi shook his head afterwards and his vision had been blurred slightly. Tundral's sonic wave had been stopped prematurely and Bok powered up his fist to hit him again with a hard punch, causing the android to glare menacingly at him.
"You damn brats, I will not be made a fool like this!" he screamed and began channeling energy. He created vibrations from his shoulders and they were so intense that they formed arms where his arms should've been and the twins could see the distortions in the air where his arms were and he stared at the two with a smile on his face.
"You didn't think I was going to let you get carried away while I was armless, were you?!" Tundral shouted and Gohan frowned. Looks like I might have to step in again.
Uub stepped in and blocked 17's punches and he caught his arms, moving him over his shoulder to toss him down to the ocean and he gave Piccolo a reassuring smile.
"Thanks," he said and Uub stared down at 17.
"What happened to him?"
"That android detached his arms and they absorbed themselves into 17, changing him into what you see before you. If he's anything like I was when I was possessed, he'll have frightening tenacity and an overwhelming need to continue despite the damage you might inflict on him. What's worse, that thing will make use of his endless stamina to wear us out if we don't find a way to knock him out."
"We only need to keep them stalled for twenty more minutes until Pan and Bulla show up," Uub stated and Piccolo lifted an eyebrow.
"Why is that?"
"You'll see when they get here."
Piccolo had some sort of idea what Uub meant and the two waited for 17 to fly back up and he fired several blasts as he flew up to them, Uub deflecting them away from him and Piccolo and the two started brawling with him. 17's speed kept up with the two of them as he blocked their punches and kicks, rocking Piccolo with a heavy punch to the gut and he roundhouse kicked Uub before he could get punched again. Uub shook it off and he powered up to pick up speed and the two clashed around the area above the ocean, moving far faster than Piccolo could and he studied where the two were fighting.
Uub, are you able to hear my voice in your head? Piccolo asked telepathically.
Yes, I can hear you clearly.
Keep him occupied while I set up this attack, and make sure you don't allow him to throw up any barriers, Piccolo told him.
Understood, Uub said back.
If you're fast enough, you can avoid this at the last second before this attack hits you, Piccolo informed him.
Uub glanced behind him and wondered what Piccolo was alluding to, but he led the battle making 17 follow him. He attempted a punch to counter the motion so that it could damage him even more but 17 was still able to block them. Piccolo began firing several energy balls in the sky, a constant barrage of energy spheres that flew and stopped in place around 17 and Uub and he wanted to be sure there was absolutely nothing preventing the two from escaping.
17 stopped and noticed his surroundings and he smiled at Piccolo.
"This one remembers the last time you attempted this trick and it didn't work," he said but Uub grabbed him from behind, trapping his arms in a full nelson.
"But was he expecting someone else to be in there with him?" he told him and 17's eyes widened.
"Don't worry about me, Piccolo! I can handle the damage!" Uub said and Piccolo chuckled a bit.
"I know you can, Uub. Brace yourself!" he said and threw his hands together, the energy balls swirling and moving around them fast to collide against 17 and Uub, creating a series of explosions that Uub grunted and took on, powering up enough to resist the damage but 17 was screaming as he was continuously bombarded with energy balls until what had taken hold of him seeped out and flew off of him, returning to Tundral. When the attacks subsided, Uub released 17 and the android grunted, holding his head.
"That was pretty reckless, kid," he said and Uub smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I learned from the best," he said with a smile and 17 returned the smile, glancing at Piccolo.
"How badly are you hurt?" he asked him and 17 clenched a fist.
"I can still keep going, if that's what you're worried about."
The three nodded and flew over to Gohan as the arms rejoined Tundral, fighting off Bok and Choi as they were flying around him nimbly. His vibration arms were able to block a few hits but Choi was clearly able to use his unorthodox movements to throw him off. He stared wide-eyed as Piccolo, 17, and Uub joined Gohan and he found himself surrounded by six fighters now, glaring at them all.
"You're out of options, android. Get off this planet and go back to Freeza!" Gohan yelled and Tundral started smiling. He then began to laugh and this started to unsettle everyone but Choi, who kept grinning at him.
"Talk all you want, monkey," Tundral said, staring at Gohan. "But the one who gets the last laugh will be me after I've sent you all to oblivion!"
Gohan had his fists clenched, ready to power up again to get back into it and Tundral didn't take his eyes off of him.
"If you've known anything about us, Saiyan, it's that there's one thing you forgot to take into consideration," Tundral said and Gohan narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean? Wait, you don't mean?-"
"PRECISELY!" Tundral yelled and began screaming, the winds blowing everyone back a bit and his body began to increase in size, his muscles bulging outward a bit. His face and head started changing as his outer plating shifted and spikes grew out from his shoulders and forearms, two a piece and the head plating's horns curved a bit as its eyes began glowing crimson and a mouth guard covered his mouth. A strange blue gem emerged through the skull plating as Tundral transformed and this unnerved Gohan a bit.
"This is our true form, designed by father to resemble him in every ounce of his glory!" Tundral said in a deeper, more menacing voice, the dual voice from earlier no longer there and Gohan, Bok, and Piccolo reacted with panic, while Uub and 17 remained focused and Choi's smile faded. Gohan looked even more disturbed as he stared at the android.
Choi snickered a moment, then nodded to Bok. "Let's take this guy down, brother!"
Bok was momentarily stunned by Choi's confidence, but agreed. This android looked imposing and they didn't want to lose their advantage. Choi rushed to attack Tundral but he moved his hand in a sweeping motion to throw several energy blasts at him as he was flying and Choi was forced to defend himself by raising his hands to block them. Bok flew in for a punch to the face but Tundral caught his fist while he was staring at Choi and turned his head.
"You little gnats are bothersome. Die!" he screamed and punched Bok hard in the stomach, causing him to gasp heavily from the blow. He threw him to Choi who caught him in mid-air and he glared at Tundral.
Gohan, Piccolo, Uub and 17 began attacking Tundral and while Piccolo and 17 weren't connecting with enough power, Gohan did power up enough to force Tundral into a defensive posture and he blocked his punches. Uub hovered above Tundral and fired a Kamehameha blast that looked like it enveloped the android but the beam dissipated and Tundral was still floating below him, staring daggers at him. He fired energy beams from his eyes at Uub which were travelling considerably fast and Uub barely had time to dodge but his shoulder was clipped by the beam as it passed by and he grunted, wincing from the impact. Gohan engaged Tundral with fists and kicks and the android, now twice Gohan's size, blocked his blows and thrust his palm against Gohan's chest, following it up with an energy blast that pushed him back. Gohan threw the energy beam off and grunted at the level of force the android used and stared at him. Piccolo tried to get in on Tundral's blind spot but each of his attacks did nothing to damage him and he brought up two fingers for a Special Beam Cannon while 17 moved at high speeds to catch the android off-guard, distracting him long enough for Piccolo to fire.
Bok shook his head, coming to his senses and Choi let him go, allowing him to float beside him.
"Think you can give him a good blow with your enraged state?" Bok asked him and Choi was a bit stunned to hear that.
"Heh, I'm flattered you acknowledged my awesome power, brother, but I can't remember how I did it. I almost blacked out earlier in the gravity room."
"Great. I was hoping you'd find a way to control that power of yours," Bok mentioned and Choi chuckled.
"I can't imagine dad's got it under control either. But maybe I can get this trash heap to piss me off enough," he said and powered up even more in his Super Saiyan form, swiping his arms at Tundral to attack with arc beams that sliced through the air. Tundral destroyed the beams with one swift movement of his hand and he made a high speed movement to catch up to 17 and uppercut him in the stomach like he did with Bok, grabbing him by the hair and blasting him in the face with a powerful energy attack, sending him flying down. Gohan quickly flew down to catch 17 before he hit the ocean and the Earth android shook his head, pressing a hand against it while the imposing bulkier android barked a laugh.
"Are you okay?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah. Nothing we're attacking him with is even remotely causing a dent," he said and Gohan glared up at Tundral.
"Rest here, I'll take over," Gohan said and 17 gave him a trusting look before he flew down to the ground, examining the damage to the island and clenching a fist, staring back up at Tundral.
Gohan increased his power and threw a punch that Tundral caught, but he pushed back against it which caused the android to look back in surprise.
"You have more strength than you led on," Tundral stated and Gohan clenched his fists. His power continued to rise but Tundral powered up himself as well. It was just enough of a distraction for Piccolo to fire his Special Beam Cannon at Tundral, who eyed it in his peripheral vision and went to swipe at it, but the beam suddenly changed direction by moving at a 80 degree angle, turning again and moving to strike Tundral in the back of the head, surprising him. Gohan screamed and he flew in to get in several hard hits on Tundral, which was enraging him.
"Don't get cocky you stupid monkey!" Tundral screamed and unleashed a harsh sonic wave from his whole body again, the omni-directional distortion projecting itself all around him that rocked everyone back and they covered their ears. Piccolo screamed even louder as it was having a more profound effect and Gohan had one eye closed, the other observing Tundral's sonic wave but he knew that this was at a more intense frequency than before.
It seemed to have only been done once as Tundral was flying straight for Gohan, focusing his attacks on the hybrid Saiyan. Still feeling disoriented from the sonic attack, Gohan was hit hard from a punch and Piccolo shook his head, getting his vision to stop spinning. He had a panicked look as Gohan took a few heavy blows and he fired several energy blasts at Tundral to draw him away, but all they did was explode and conjure up smoke, lacking the power it needed to have an impact and he glared with his teeth bared.
"Damn you. Not having Goku, Vegeta, or Broly around is making this difficult," he said and noticed Uub had kept his distance, observing the fight.
"Thank goodness I was out of the range of that last attack or I'd be in as bad a shape as you guys," he said, flying to the Namekian's side.
"So there is a limit to the range of this bastard's sonic attacks," Piccolo noted and Uub nodded.
"Whatever advantage that gives us, we'll take it. But considering how powerful this guy is taking our attacks, I don't know how high I'd need to go with Kaioken to even make an impact."
"Best to give Gohan support and use your stamina wisely. You don't want to wreck your body with the Kaioken attack like Goku sometimes does," Piccolo advised him and Uub nodded.
"I won't let Master Goku down," Uub said and flew down to start his attack on Tundral.
"More insects to swat down," Tundral said as he spotted Uub and Uub focused his power.
"Kaioken times five!" Uub yelled and a bright red aura flared around him and he used that power to give him a remarkable burst of speed and managed to connect a hit on Tundral with a counter punch as the large android was swinging with a right hook. The hit sent Tundral flying back and Uub felt the pressure of the technique weigh down on him so he knew he had to make this quick and he flew around to kick Tundral from behind, using his instantaneous movement to teleport back in front of Tundral as he was sent flying back forward and Uub cupped his hands together, building up energy for a Kamehameha blast that he fired at Tundral, who cried out in panic as the beam hit him directly.
"Alright!" Gohan cried out, flying over to Uub. Bok and Choi watched the intense action closely and Choi stared at Uub for a moment.
"He really is a remarkable fighter, brother. I'm happy he gave us both a worthy challenge," Bok said and Choi waved his hand, smirking.
"He still didn't win though."
"Neither did you," Bok reiterated and Choi coughed, crossing his arms.
"Uub's holding his own remarkably well. If we all keep this up we can defeat this monster," Bok added, but that was short lived when Tundral flew out from the smoke the explosion of energy caused and Uub had to quickly block several punches with his current Kaioken state. Uub began to wince from the aftereffects and Tundral was starting to build up more speed in his attacks.
"He can't last much longer like that," Gohan whispered and powered up again to join in and he scored a hit on Tundral, punching him in the face. Uub dropped out from his Kaioken state and Gohan caught him before he could fall from the sky.
"I got you," he said, holding him up and Uub nodded. Gohan let him go and they prepared themselves for Tundral's next attack.
Staring at the two, he narrowed his eyes and the gem on his forehead began to collect energy, converging it to a single point at the tip of it and both Gohan and Uub panicked as they shifted to their defensive stances as quickly as they could to try and take as much of the damage from this next attack.
The beam that Tundral fired shot out in one powerful burst like a canon, causing Uub and Gohan to stare wide-eyed as it looked like a solid pillar of energy that exploded all at once, giving neither of them time to escape and it struck them, pushing them both down to the ocean.
"Gohan! Uub!" Piccolo cried out and Tundral shifted his gaze at him. Aiming with the gem on his head, he fired off another one of those powerful pillars of energy and it blew Piccolo away to the sky. 17 watched on the ground and flew up to catch Gohan and Uub before they landed in the water and brought them to the ground.
"Look at you all drop like flies!" Tundral laughed and he focused yet another attack from his gem, aiming it down at the trio that were on the ground. Gohan and Uub came to after temporarily losing consciousness from that attack and they gawked in panic as Tundral fired again. 17 quickly threw up a barrier to block the attack and it exploded, shattering it. 17 let out a yell and threw out several layers of barriers in front of them and Tundral clenched his fists.
"It doesn't matter how many of those you set up, I'll knock them all down!" he bellowed and started gathering up energy in his gem to fire another pillar of energy down at the barriers. Just as he was about to fire, Choi managed to get in an arc blade right on the point of where the energy was about to be unleashed, using a boost of power he shared with his brother to generate a large impact and the collision caused a huge explosion right in Tundral's face.
"Don't you dare ignore me, you overworked toaster," Choi said, glaring at him and after the smoke cleared, Tundral was holding his face, wincing a bit. He clenched his fists and roared, turning his sights on Choi.
"You'll pay for that you insipid brat!" Tundral screamed at the Super Saiyan and focused another energy beam and Bok flew up in front of Choi before Tundral fired it.
"Bok! What are you doing?!" Choi yelled and Bok stretched out his arms, screaming as he raised his power to its limit and he clenched his fists.
"Let's see him try and take on my perfect defense!" Bok hoped this was going to be enough as he tightened his whole body and made himself float like a steady boulder floating in the air.
"Bok, don't be stupid, this isn't the time for that!" Choi said, concern in his voice now. Bok grinned at Tundral.
The beam shot out from the gem and Bok's stance took the full force of it and he grunted as it was considerably more powerful than any attack he had ever felt before and he screamed as it was cutting into him. When the attack finished, he was left with cuts and scrapes all over his body, his pants torn up making it look like a pair of ripped up shorts with some areas of his body smoking as he shook uncontrollably, his breathing heavy and labored.
"Bok," Choi muttered and Bok stared at the android with that same grin but he faded out of consciousness and fell down.
"Bok!" Choi cried out and Bok's body fell down to the ground below, landing near a beach like area of the island and Choi gaped as his brother was no longer moving. He shook his fists and glared at Tundral.
"You…you killed him…" Choi said and Gohan's eyes widened, stretching out with his energy to sense Bok's and he breathed a sigh of relief, still being able to sense something from Bok but it was greatly weakened from the attack, which meant that Bok was still alive yet Choi wasn't made aware of it for now.
Choi began shaking in anger and he screamed, his muscles bulging out to twice their size and his hair shifting to a lime green color and Gohan's eyes widened.
"He's going berserk again, just like he did against Pan!" he cried and Uub couldn't believe it himself. He saw it for himself the form Choi was taking when he lost control of his temper against Pan and his power soared in front of Tundral and he turned to Gohan.
"I'll bring Bok over here," he said and sprinted around the island to retrieve Bok's unconscious form. 17 still felt the need to maintain his layers of barriers as Uub hoisted Bok onto his shoulder, running back to Gohan.
"What is this kid doing?" Tundral asked, puzzled and Choi's pupils had disappeared yet he was still able to see in front of him. Tundral didn't bother to wait on what this was and prepared another blast from his forehead gem but Choi was quick to respond and he flew in to strike Tundral in the gem with a hard fist. That caused the gem to crack several times and Tundral screamed from the impact, holding his forehead with a hand.
"Damn you!" Tundral screamed and both he and Choi started exchanging blows, floating across the sky as their powers collided, the energy from their strikes shooting out from each blow as they moved around the field.
When Uub laid Bok back down, he checked his pulse and saw that his breathing was slow and faint.
"Thank goodness he's still alive," Uub said, staring at the two above him. Then he remembered that Piccolo had been attacked earlier and put two fingers to his forehead.
"C'mon, Piccolo, please still be alive," Uub said, closing his eyes and Gohan closed his eyes as well, trying to sense Piccolo's energy signature and he put his hand on Uub's shoulder.
"I'll lend you a hand," Gohan said and poured some of his energy into Uub to help him focus more and Uub flinched, nodding as Gohan lifted his hand off.
"Got it," he said and teleported away. Gohan waited a moment, staring up at Choi as he was doing remarkably well against Tundral and he connected with a few shots that were doing some damage to him but Tundral was equally aggressive, responding with haymakers that almost knocked Choi out of the sky. But the berserker screamed and roared as he took on a few hits flying to Tundral to pound away at his upper body. Despite the size difference, Choi's current power made it look like he was as powerful as Broly and he fired several arc blasts from his arms that struck Tundral and he grunted from the impact. He returned fire with several blasts from his fingers and Choi took them, each blow staggering him back.
Uub reappeared with an unconscious Piccolo who had a bad gash along his head.
"I found him on top of several rocks. Looks like his head struck one of them," he said and Gohan put his hand on Piccolo's head.
"He's bleeding out. If we don't give him a senzu bean or get him to Dende quickly, he'll die," he said and Uub nodded. He put two fingers to his forehead to search for Dende's energy but his eyes widened when he sensed other energy signatures appear.
"That's-" Gohan felt it as well.
"Pan and Bulla are out of the Chamber!" Uub said, grinning. He glanced at 17.
"Help is on the way! Keep up that barrier!" Gohan shouted and 17 nodded. "Understood."
Up on the lookout, the door to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber had opened and two blurs sped out from inside. Pan and Bulla didn't waste time and flew down from way high up, making their way directly to Uub and Gohan's group.