Chapter 31: Revenge against The Saiyans

Baby launched straight at Trunks, electricity sparked through the Tuffle controlled Saiyan's silver aura as he clashed with the Half-Saiyan. Trunks had just barely put up his arms in time to guard against a devastating punch, sending the Half-Saiyan crashing through the landscape. Baby now stood in the middle of the Z-Fighters, smirking.

Gohan's Super Saiyan aura exploded as he charged, Piccolo right alongside him. Master and Pupil led an assault on the Tuffle, but their combined efforts seemed to be in vain as Baby was easily countering each of their blows.

16, Krillin, and Tien were preparing to jump into the fray, but were cut off by a strange, silver bodied being. "You three are not worthy of fighting Master Baby."

"Oh yeah, and who are you to stop us?" Krillin shouted at the strange being and charged, Tien alongside him. The two humans were quickly knocked to the side by General Rilldo, who chuckled at their futile efforts.

"I am General Rilldo, and like I said, you are not worthy." Rilldo stood over the two struggling humans, just as he was about to finish them off, the Machine Mutant was interrupted by a devastating blow to his abdomen delivered by the large fist of Android 16.

Simultaneously, up in the clouds…

Dende stood on the edge of his floating palace, walking staff in hand as he observed the planet below, "There's something going on.."

Mr. Popo was only a few steps behind, a platter containing two cups and a pot of tea in his hands, "I sense quite a bit going on. They are down there fighting, but that's not what you are talking about is it, Master?"

"No, Mr. Popo..there's something just as sinister going on..and it's not that far from us." The Namekian Guardian turned around quickly, "It's more devious than that other character.." Dende swiftly made his way into the inner caverns of the Palace, making his way to a darkened room.

Inside was Broly, the large Saiyan was floating in the middle of the room, his eyes closed and his legs crossed. This was a meditation technique that Piccolo had taken the time to teach him, and Broly quite enjoyed the peacefulness it brought him. As Dende walked in, the large Saiyan opened his eyes, "Hello."

"Broly, can you sense what's going on?" Dende questioned his larger friend, "The fighting?"

Broly uncrossed his legs and floated down to the floor, "I was monitoring the situation, they don't seem to need my help." Broly had been feeling awful nervous about fighting lately, although he hadn't had an uncontrollable episode in quite a while, the large Saiyan had a strange feeling about his next encounter.

"That's not what I'm worried about..I sense an even more..sinister presence on the surface."

"Could it be this Babidi the Supreme Kai was talking about?"

"I should let him know..could you head down there in my stead, Broly?"

The large Saiyan slowly made his way out of his room, "I will."

Dende followed behind Broly as they made their way out of the palace. As they walked, the slender Namekian closed his eyes and tried to reach out to the Supreme Kai. He had never used this power at such a range before, Piccolo had tried to teach him a bit about the powers of a Guardian, but to put them to practical use was a bit different. Communicating telepathically was a strange and new process to the young Guardian. It almost felt like you were trying to reach something on the top shelf, but could only move it with the very tip of your fingers until you managed to get it to the perfect position. Dende could mentally see the outline of the Supreme Kai, but it was a very foggy image. The Namekian tried desperately to extend his mental reach, until he could see Shin clear as day. As soon as the image became clear, the young Namekian shouted mentally, "Supreme Kai!"

On the other side of the Planet..

Unbeknownst to the majority of the Z-Fighters, another ship had made a landing on the planet. The inside of the ship was vast, spanning multiple floors. In a large, dark room floated the wizard Babidi, his bulging eyes and brown skin distinctive features. Beside him stood his demonic puppet, Dabura. The large, red skinned demon chuckled, "I can't believe we slipped right past them, Master. With your magic at our side, there's no way we will be stopped."

Babidi let out a shrill laugh, "Indeed Dabura..did you prepare Yakon and Pui Pui for our visitors?"

"I did as you requested, Master. Yakon and Pui Pui are waiting on your orders."

"Good, good." The wizard looked into his crystal ball, inside was a vision of the Supreme Kai, "Oh my purple skinned friend, you are much more naive than your predecessors."

Back by Vegeta's ship..

Trunks felt like he had been hit by a truck, slowly standing up through the rubble and shaking himself off, the Half-Saiyan exploded his energy outward to clear himself of debris. The Half-Saiyan's golden aura erupted as he slowly became surrounded by sparks of lightning.

Gohan and Piccolo had still been relentlessly assaulting Baby Vegeta to no avail. Each time they attacked, the Tuffle easily landed crushing blows that tossed the two to the side like ragdolls. Piccolo grunted in frustration as he wiped the purple blood from his face, "He's toying with us, Gohan!"

"Yeah.." Gohan was flabbergasted at the gap in power between himself and the Tuffle controlled Saiyan Emperor. The Half-Saiyan had become an Ascended Super Saiyan, a kind of power only achieved by Trunks before him, or so he thought. "Vegeta must have become much more powerful in his time away..He can't just be an Ascended Super Saiyan thought..this is more than even that."

Baby laughed at the two and their trivial discussion, "Vegeta himself was definitely stronger than either of you two...but combined with me, we are the strongest thing in existence!" A sinister smirk came across Baby's face as he exploded his silver sparked aura, "Time to finish off the appetizers, I'm ready for the main course."

Just as Baby was about to unleash his fury, a bright flash appeared between him and the two Z-Fighters. As the light died down, it revealed the familiar figure of Trunks, the Half-Saiyan's body was outlined in a bright gold and sparks surrounded him like a cloud in a lightning storm. He was in his Super Saiyan 2 form, but something was different about it. Just like when Trunks had shown his full power to the Supreme Kai, there was no violent aura about it, no spiking energy, just a constant presence of pure power. "I don't believe we've met before.." With blinding speed, Trunks unleashed the first blow that actually landed on his Tuffle controlled father, a gut wrenching punch. "I'm Trunks, and I'd like you to vacate my dad's body."

Simultaneously, not too far away, Rilldo and 16 were exchanging blows. The two mechanical fighters appeared to be evenly matched as neither was able to get the upper hand. The silver skinned Machine Mutant was silently disappointed in his own strength, "Damn it..away from M-2 I don't have the advantage.."

Shin, the Supreme Kai, was meticulously observing the battles going on before him, amazed at the strength displayed by the combatants. The only thing that snapped him out of his amazed trance was a shrill, unfamiliar voice that popped into his head, "Supreme Kai!"

Quickly realizing someone was trying to communicate with him, Shin used his own telepathic abilities to try to connect with the voice. An image of a small, green humanoid, almost like a smaller version of the one called Piccolo became clear as he focused his mind, "Yes? Who is this?"

"My Lord Supreme Kai, I am Dende, the Guardian of Earth, and I have some grave news!"

"What is it, Guardian?"

"It's your wizard! He's shown himself, he's here!"

"Oh no..what timing. Thank you young Guardian.." Shin was shook, how could Babidi have slipped right past him without him noticing? His powers were not near what they should be to let this happen. Severing his connection with Dende, Shin quickly reached out to Trunks' mind "Trunks! Babidi is here!"

Trunks was deadlocked with Baby, their contrasting auras creating a blinding silver and gold light throughout the landscape. "I'm a little busy!" The Half-Saiyan shouted as he narrowly blocked a crushing fist from his Tuffle adversary.

The Supreme Kai turned to Kibito, "Babidi is here..we need to go."

The larger Kibito was perplexed, "We can't sir, not without the Saiyan!"

"I may not be a Saiyan, but I assure you I can be of some assistance..I'm unfortunately outmatched here." The deep, familiar voice of Piccolo entered the conversation between the deity and his assistant, "Besides, it looks like a Saiyan is already heading that way.."

"We'll go too." Krillin and Tien had managed to stand up after being knocked around by Rilldo, "Broly could use our help more than Trunks seems to."

The small, bald monk and triclops made their way next to Piccolo as they formed a circle touching Kibito, quickly vanishing into thin air.

Not too far from Kami's lookout..

Broly was slowly descending to the surface below, calming his mind and using his senses to see what danger was going on below, "Whatever it is, it's certainly dark..something evil." The large Saiyan thought to himself as he touched down on a barren patch of land.

"Where is it?" Broly was thinking out loud as he slowly started walking forward, looking around at his surroundings but only seeing rocks and dirt. It was all the same until one of his steps made a weird sound. Looking down, he brushed away to dirt to reveal a sheet of metal with a strange symbol, some weird M. Sliding his hand across the surface, he found a handle and pulled, "It's an entrance...how did they put something like this underground so quickly?"

Before he could enter the strange hatch, Broly noticed a cluster of familiar powers appear. After turning around, the large Saiyan came face to face with the familiar figures of Piccolo, Shin, Tien, and Krillin standing along with another large figure.

Back over by Baby's ship…

Trunks and Baby collided repeatedly, the shockwaves shaking the ground around them. "He's so strong..maybe stronger than me.." A momentary lapse in the collisions provided Trunks some time to breathe as his golden aura emanated off his body

The contrasting silver aura of Baby Vegeta shone much brighter than Trunks' soft glow. The Tuffle controlled Saiyan wa slowly getting agitated that Trunks was matching him blow for blow, "My revenge will be had!" Baby Vegeta's aura exploded outward along with his yell of frustration.

Before Trunks and Baby could continue their clash, the Tuffle noticed Rilldo slowly being beaten by Android 16. "That's it..hahahahaha!" with a crazy chuckle, Baby disappeared from Trunks' view.

Shocked, the golden haired Half Saiyan looked around, trying to figure out where his foe went. Seconds later he spotted him, Baby had reappeared behind his General.

"Excuse me General, I have need of your services!" The silver haired Tuffle controlled Saiyan plunged his hand into the back of an astonished Rilldo, causing a shriek of actual pain to come from the Machine Mutant as he slowly reverted to a liquid form.

Baby Vegeta cackled as the liquid that was once his faithful General spread all over his body, and once he was completed covered an explosion of energy burst from his form. 16, who had froze when Baby had seemingly killed his opponent, was literally blown away by the surge of energy coming from the Tuffle, bouncing across the landscape like a plastic bag in the wind.

"16!" Trunks burst into the air towards his fallen comrade, landing beside the large android very quickly, "16, you okay?"

The Android was battered pretty badly from the rocks and dirt he had crashed into, but it was nothing he couldn't heal from, "Affirmative, I am still functioning."

As Trunks kneeled beside the recovering 16, he observed what seemed to be a transformation happening to Baby as the Tuffle remerged from the liquid metal that had covered him with a new form. The silver hair that had been a trademark since Baby had taken over Vegeta was now completely white, his skin had a blue hue undoubtedly inherited from Rilldo's blue skin, and red spikes exuded from the otherwise traditional Saiyan armor that Vegeta's body wore.

"His energy...it's gone crazy.." Trunks was shocked, "What am I gonna do?"

"Don't tell me you're losing your faith, Trunks.." A battered and bruised Gohan emerged from nearby rubble, "We fight, like always."

Baby laughed uproariously as he heard the older Half-Saiyan, "Fight? Ha! No my dear friend, this time you die."


Author's Note: My god, it's been such a long time since I wrote a chapter..I wasn't sure I'd ever do it again. I know it's not worth the long wait, but I hope it's close to standard. Next one will hopefully be a LOT quicker as I get back into writing. Thanks for reading! (Yes, I changed the Chapter name as I was writing, the NEXT chapter will be Chapter 32: Saiyan Pride)