The inhabitants of the Eltor Spacecraft were practically running in circles as they began to find out about the ships inevitable crash. Finally someone initated the self destruct sequence to go off in 40 minutes. 5 minutes before the spacecraft crashes into the Earth. This way the Earth would survive, not that they cared about it's inhabitants, but they did like the idea of having a planet to escape to so they wouldn't sufficate to death in the vastness of space. They all prepared to leave the spaceship at the last possible second, this way the fall down to the Earth would be the shortest and the thousands of warriors on board would have the best chance of survival. None of them contacted Lord Mal because they secretly hoped that him and Gohan would be destoried along with the spaceship saving them of the trouble of having to answer to Mal or fight Gohan later.
"So what's the plan?" 18 asked as she flew towards Krillian, Yumacha and Chaozu. Master Roshi, Bulma, Chichi and Mr. Briefs were down below moving everyone away from the crash site.
"Easy, " Krillian responded, "we all shot everything we got at the spacecraft ... I don't think we can destory it but it will slow it down enough so that the impact won't destory the Earth."
"That's your plan?!" 18 responded in shock, "Oh well, I never really liked this planet much anyways."
A ki blast zipped pasted Gohans head and exploded on the ground below him. Gohan responded by punching Lord Mal in the face causing Mal to fall down slightly before charging back up at Gohan and kicked Gohan on the side of his face. Gohan shot a close range ki beam at Lord Mal that drived right through the evil warriors stomac. He lost control of his ki in pure shock and fell to the ground.
Gohan landed at the ground next to him, "Give up."
Lord Mal could feel his life slipping from him, everything around him looked fussy. But he contrated, slowly he stood up, his mortal wound closing up as he did. Without responding to Gohan's threat he began punching and kicking the young Sayjin who responded by dodging and punching back.
"Ready!" Krillian yelled as he prepared for a Kamahama.
"Ready!" The 3 others prepared to fire their most powerful attacks.
"Come on, move!" Chichi said picking up a fallen kid and began running with him out of the city. Gohan, where are you when we need you?!
"Okay men! In 15 minutes we are going to charge out of this misserable piece of junk and begin our invasion of the Earth. Kill everything in sight! If Son Gohan does survive the crash we don't want him to have any allies left..."
Gohan drived a kick into Lord Mal's face, clenched his hands together and used them to hit the top of his enemies head. Lord Mal crashed down into the cold surface of the spaceship. As Gohan charged at Mal to finish him off he was forced to stop and dodge a ki blast that barely missed him. He looked back at the ground and had only seconds before he was dodging thousands of these blasts.
"Auurg..." Vegeta coughed up some blood as he opened his eyes. He was breathing heavily still not fully recovered. Slowly he stood up. It was then that he realized that battle was still going on.
"Vegeta, be careful." Tien warned as Vegeta stood. Vegeta started staring at something. Tien followed his eyes to see the Demon Piccolo. He was a bit suprised that, with Gohan in such an intense battle, the Demon Piccolo would be what would catch his eye but...it's hands moved!
Gohan turned to see Piccolo standing up slowly.
"You need to focus if you want to beat me!" Lord Mal said as he launched a punch at Gohan's stomac followed by another one at Gohan's face before. Gohan blocked the 3rd and retailated before their was a 4th.
Vegeta struggled over to Piccolo, Tien followed carrying Trunks with him. "So your still alive Namek." Vegeta inquired was a half-smirk.
Piccolo responded by throwing a punch and Vegeta who took the full force of the punch before giving one of his own. Piccolo was now fully standing and charged at Vegeta.
Vegeta was in no condition to fight but he didn't care as he transformed into a Super Sayjin and gained some ground to prepare for a final flash. Piccolo wasn't willing to give Vegeta the time needed for the blast. As he flew towards Vegeta, Tien intercepted Piccolo with a Headbutt as they both fell landing several 10s of feet away from Vegeta. Tien placed Trunks down and commanded for him to run as Tien took a fighting stance.
Goku and Pikkon were staring into Bubba's glass ball. They had been sparring when things started and had been watching Gohan and the others fight since Gohan had turned into an SSJ2.
"Your boy has great power Goku." Bubba commented.
"Yah, but not enough. Can you sense that power coming towards them? It makes Gohan's look like nothing..."
"Not neccassarily...that half Ice-jin helped Gohan alot..."
"What makes you say that?"
"Can't you sense it Goku? During the fight between Vegroren and Gohan the Ice-jin kept giving Gohan some of his power. Not much mind you, but it's enough that Gohan could combine the Ice-jin's final transformation with his SSJ2."
"Frezia's power managed to grow through leaps and bounds when he transformed into his final stage..."
"Yes and if Gohan can learn how to control that power, he can use it and may become even more powerful then Eltor."
"May?" Pikkon spoke up for once, "You mean your not sure?"
"It's obvious that Eltor is holding back power," Bubba responded, "I simply don't know how much."
Vegeta was barely paying attention to Tien and Piccolo's fight as he powered up for the Final Flash. Had he been he might have noticed that Tien was losing horribly.
Tien fell back using his good hand to hold on to his limp arm. He wasn't sure how he had expected this battle to go but he was sure that this wasn't what he had hoped for. Tien was about to try and kick the advancing Piccolo when something small wipped by him and punched Piccolo with a suprisingly great force.
Now Vegeta was paying attention to the fight, "Trunks! Get away from their you brat!" It took all his years of training to keep him still and countiued charging the Final Flash.
Piccolo was having trouble hitting such a small and quick moving target. Lucky for him that Trunks punchings didn't deliever much damage, otherwise he could have been in serious trouble. He stayed still for a minute and watched carefully the pattern of attack brought apun it. Trunks was, after all, only a year old and with no basic fighting strategy his attacks became very predictable. Soon Piccolo had little Trunks pinned to the floor while being choked by the Namekian.
"Trunks!" Vegeta was about to give up on the Final Flash when Tien charged into Piccolo.
Tien wasn't about to give Piccolo any time to think, seconds after he crashed into Piccolo he grabbed unto Piccolo's antennae and, while they were still moving away from Trunks at Mach speeds, pushed down on Piccolo's head scraping it on the ground as they travelled.
Tien's victory was short lived as a frustrated Piccolo drived an elbow deep into Tien's stomac before flipping Tien ahead of Piccolo and, seeing as he was still moving forward at intense speeds, headbutted Tien in his ribs. Tien's body grinded against the floor as he came to a painful stop. Piccolo managed to stop just behind Tien, alot less painfully. Piccolo ignored Tien's battered body as he turned around and headed back to were Trunks was. Dispite the considerable distance Tien and Piccolo had travelled, it took mere seconds for him to get back to where Trunks was.
Vegeta had finished powering up the Final Flash as he saw Piccolo heading for Trunks. In a desperate act to keep Piccolo away from Trunks he fired the Final Flash without warning or thinking. He instantly regretted it. True, Piccolo would take the full force of the attack. But only feet away from Piccolo, Trunks too would be caught in the impact. The blast was already launched and out of Vegeta's hands. Or was it? Vegeta decided to throw away his chance at beating Piccolo and flew parralel to the gaint Ki Beam. He turned to face it at the last second and put his hands ahead of him grabbing the giant Final Flash and pushing it back for dear life. He had put so much power into the blast...did he have enough to stop it.
Gohan had been trying to help, but every time he came close enough Lord Mal had hit him away and countiued their fight elsewhere. Gohan was holding back because he wanted to give everything he had in the later battle against Eltor, but he wanted to help his friends more. "Kamahamaha!" Gohan quickly charged a Kamahamaha and shot it straight threw Lord Mal. Before Mal had time to regrenate Gohan was off gaining the needed ground in order to have enough time to help Vegeta, Trunks and Tien.
Vegeta couldn't hold back the Final Flash much longer and Trunks was just standing still dispite Vegeta's orders to the boy to go away. Vegeta was beside himself in humilation. To be killed by his own attack, their was no honor in that! Something hit his shoulder. Vegeta strained a look to see that Piccolo had moved clear of the beam and was now firing at him. Vegeta was furious as he took another shot from Piccolo, this one much more powerful then the last. His son wasn't listening to him, a stupid green alien was firing at him, his own attack was about to destory him. What was their left to do? Wait for the son of a lowly 3rd-class warrior to save the Prince of all Sayjins? No! He was of royal blood. He was the GREATEST fighter in the UNIVERSE. He was VEGETA and he was not going to tolerate this any longer! His son would live! The Namek would die! He swore it on his honor.
He could feel something slipping. The pleasures of battle were returning to him. He felt the power pouring all over him and delighted in the pain. He was once again going to know the joys of battle. He was going to become legendary. "AHHH!!" Vegeta's eyes started to twitch and his heart started to pump blood at a rate that should have bursted his body. He had a sudden surge of energy. He contained it, he did his best to contain every last bit of power he was gaining, he still had to hold back the Final Flash. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" He threw his arms ahead of him, his aura alone disintegrated the Final Flash before him. He smiled as the changes contiued. Everything was going to be okay, for he now was achieving the greatest power the Sayjin race had ever known. He wasn't just ascending beyond a Super Sayjin. He felt in his blood that he was ascending beyond Goku and his son Gohan. The Royal family was finally the strongest once again.