Vegeta grew tired of waiting. For an instant, a bright light burned Vegeta's arm, and then he had the Sword of the Saiyans in his hand once more. He lifted it over his head and it glowed for every warrior to see. The sword of legend beckoned them to battle. Vegeta let the sword sweep and point towards the growing rift.
"FOR THE PRIDE OF THE SAIYAN!" Vegeta yelled and took off towards the rift. Every Saiyan immediately went to full power and followed him with their battle cries, except for Goku who stayed by the mighty Princes side.
"Do you feel that power Vegeta? I've never felt anything quite like that before." Goku said.
"I know. That must be Cordell." Vegeta said as he smiled. He also felt his father and those still with him.
"Look, they're coming out!" Goku said.
Vegeta and Goku were awestruck at the sheer numbers launching themselves from the rift. They seemed endless, and with them came the negative black energy whose touch meant damnation and despair.
Vegeta and Goku immediately deployed a skin level ki shield and reflexively looked around to see if the others had done the same. They had. Kirillin had learned the technique years ago from Goku, as did Uub during his years of training with him. Bura was still at Vegeta's flank and was glowing with her own shield.
The black energy kept coming out of the rift, spreading ever outward. If it isn't stopped, it will soon engulf entire planets, solar systems, and eventually the universe.
Vegeta increased their pace. "We must stop this!" he thought. "No matter what the cost, we must stop this." Vegeta brought his sword to the ready as only seconds remained until the line of demon warriors crashed headlong into the Saiyans. Goku was already preparing a huge kamehameha. Vegeta felt the sword's power, and channeled his own ki through it. Vegeta wasn't sure what the sword was doing, but it felt good in his hands. Suddenly, just as the armies were divided by less than fifty yards, the sword rolled Vegeta over so that they were in front of Goku, and when Goku let loose with his kamehameha, the sword and Vegeta's hands were in the line of the beam, first absorbing it, then amplifying to an exponentially huge power, and then letting it go straight into the demon horde. The resultant explosion killed 10s of thousands of the vile creatures and left an empty wedge in the demon's ranks. Vegeta, Bura and Goku dived in to take advantage of the weakened ranks, followed by several Saiyan houses.
The two lines of warriors collided with a huge power. Had there been atmosphere to carry the sound, it would have been deafening.
Suddenly a huge energy attack struck the Saiyan ranks a harsh blow. Vegeta looked up towards the rift.
"It's him." Vegeta said to no one in particular.
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"That's it!" Jessica said. "Cordell is outside of the rift! Now's the time to destroy the conduit generator!"
"Gohan! Goten! Trunks! GO!" Piccolo said as he flew towards the generator himself.
Goten and Trunks decided to fuse right away and did so. "Gotenks is here!" Gotenks shouted and took off after Gohan.
Roger followed with Jessica close behind Piccolo.
Gotenks and Gohan were to distract or destroy the demons while Piccolo and Roger destroy the diabolical machine.
The Z Warriors moved so fast that Gnasherm and Slasherm barely knew they were under attack when they were sent sprawling across the surface of the planet that the machine had been built. They were tough, and quite fast themselves and recovered quickly. They flew to meet their attackers at a high rate of speed.
Not nearly fast enough for Gotenks and Gohan however. The boys dodged everything the two demons threw at them, barely working up a sweat. Gohan was moving in for a finishing technique when the two demons seemed to loose substance. Their bodies turned to black goo and they flowed towards one another and became one mass. Then the one mass reformed into an incredibly powerful demon that quickly slapped Gotenks to the side, unconscious. Being pleased with his accomplishment, the huge demon turned a green fanged smile towards Gohan.
"Not so tough after all eh?" The demon said and pointed his fingers at Gohan.
"You haven't seen anything yet monster!" Gohan yelled and brought began to bring forth everything he had. He powered up his mystic abilities and his full Super Saiyan abilities." Gohan's screams could be heard throughout The Demon Realm. His power could be felt throughout the omniverse.
The demon, not knowing what Gohan was doing, released a deadly barrage of poisoned quills from his fingers aimed straight at Gohan's heart.
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The battle outside of the rift was joined in earnest. Vegeta had taken full strategic advantage of the huge rift he and Kakkarot had caused to launch himself deep within the demon's ranks. He wielded the sword like he had been born to it. Bura ki blasted first one demon, then plunged the spear the held the banner through two more demons. Vegeta was proud that she had developed into such a warrior.
Uub took a vicious hit just as the battle was joined. He had lost sight of Kirillin and the others and fought a desperate battle to survive, and find the others. He was too dazed to do either. A huge demon swooped in from out of nowhere and plunged a sword deep into Uub's chest. Uub floated there, looking at the jagged metal of the sword protruding from his chest. He looked up into the snarling face of the demon and knew that he only had seconds left to live. His world began to swirl. Then, something else took over. He felt his body began to expand. He wasn't sure if he was hallucinating, but something out of the ordinary was happening to him. His mouth opened up, but it wasn't his voice that came out.
"No! Uub not die! Uub not die!!" The voice said as a large gloved hand reached and pulled the sword from his chest, the hand was familiar somehow."
Then he saw and felt his wound close up.
"Uub not die!" The familiar voice said again.
"Who are you?" Uub managed to say.
"I am Buu!" Was the answer he got. "Let's POW, POW, POW these demons!"
Then he felt his body return to its normal size, and Majin Buu was floating in front of him with his hand around the demon's throat.
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King Vegeta was in a fix. When he attacked the rear of Cordell's troops he had not expected that so many would turn and attack them. They were holding their own for now, but it wouldn't enough against so many. King Vegeta already saw signs that his men were weakening.
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Gohan let out one final, ear-splitting scream and crested through Super Saiyan Five to Mystic Super Saiyan Five and the resulting energy release disintegrated the poisonous quills that were only inches away and knocked the huge demon from the air into the machine, screaming and holding his eyes.
"You're one lucky bastard Gotenks." Roger said. "Had that creature slapped you in any other direction we would not have been quick enough to catch you in my bubble before your ki shield dissipated."
"T-thanks." Gotenks said still a bit dazed. He hadn't been hit that hard in some time.
Gohan stood over the demon for a second then raised his hand to deliver a fatal ki blast. But the demon lost substance again and oozed under the machine.
The creature re-emerged out from under the other side of the machine where Piccolo was trying to figure out how best to destroy it. Before Piccolo could react, the monster pierced Piccolo's heart with a quill, then flew back over the machine to attack Gohan again.
"Piccolo's ki!" Roger shouted. "Gotenks, go and stop that thing, we will see to Piccolo!"
"You got it!" Gotenks re-established his ki shield and flew off towards Gohan.
Roger quickly found Piccolo. He lay dying.
"Piccolo!" Roger phased him through the side of his bubble.
Piccolo gasped, "Pull the quill out."
Roger gritted his teeth, put a ki shield around his hand, and pulled the quill out. Roger dropped the quill and let it phase out to the ground.
Piccolo cried out in pain, then gritted his teeth and lay still for several minutes with his eyes shut.
"Piccolo?" Roger started.
Piccolo's eyes flew open and focused on Roger's face.
"Well, are you going to regenerate or whatever?" Roger asked.
"Not this time kid." Piccolo said. "The poison has already damaged my ability to regenerate my cells."
"What does that mean? Are you dying?" Roger said.
"Yes. But there is dark energy in my body again. I will more likely transmute into a demon." Piccolo said. "There are two alternatives. You either vaporize me now. Or we do a Namekian Fusion."
"How will the fusion help?" Roger said.
"By using my last bit of power to fuse myself to you and rid it of both the poison and the dark energy" Piccolo explained.
"This type of fusion is permanent, isn't it?" Roger asked.
"Yes, it is." Piccolo said, but I don't see any other choice.
"What do I need to do?" Roger asked after several seconds of thought.
"Put your hand on my chest." Piccolo answered.
Roger did as he was told. Piccolo looked at the young man. "Roger, if I had to do this, I can't think of anyone else I'd rather fuse with."
"Thank you Piccolo. The feeling is mutual." Roger smiled
"Here we go!" Piccolo started yelling and as he did his body started to glow. Softly at first, but then brighter and brighter until his body vanished altogether and the light died.
Roger stood up and looked at himself. He looked exactly the same, but he felt as though he had done the fusion dance. He felt Piccolo, Kami, and Nail in his mind. All of their combined knowledge and experience, plus that which Rogalle brought with him. He also felt immensely more powerful, he wasn't sure how much, but it felt even stronger than when he was Rogicollo. He didn't dare test it while Jessica was so close.
Gohan caught the creature coming back over the machine and almost took its head off with a round kick. A nano-second later, Gotenks kicked the creature to the ground, embedding it deep into a rock formation. Gohan felt his old master's ki fading, but didn't dare take his attention away from the demon. Gohan then felt Piccolo's ki flare, and then disappear.
The demon was struggling to free itself without using enough power to destroy the conduit generator.
Suddenly Roger and Jessica zipped out from behind the machine.
"Let's go." Roger said. "Let's just do what we should have to begin with. We'll take out the entire planet."
Gohan and Gotenks followed Roger. "Wait! Where is Piccolo?" Gohan wondered.
"He is here." Roger said.
Gohan looked at Roger for several seconds. "I understand." He finally said.
Roger phased outside of the bubble while still maintaining it for Jessica. "Alright, before that thing frees itself, let's bring the house down."
Roger began to power up. He passed Super Saiyan Four, Through Super Saiyan Five, and with one final scream achieved Mystic Super Saiyan Six!
Gohan and Gotenks were shocked. "I can only do that when we are fused!" Gotenks stammered.
"No, you can't do that!" Gohan said.
Gohan, Gotenks, and Roger smiled at one another and faced the planet where the conduit generator sat.
"Kaaa Meeee Haaaaa Meeee.... " Roger began
"Masenko!" Gohan fired.
"Final Flash!" Gotenks fired.
"Haaaaa!!" Roger fired.
The demon finally reached the surface and brought his head and body to a standing position. He looked up and seen more energy than he thought possible. He knew that his life was over, again. The attacks hit with a catastrophic effect. The planet instantly disintegrated, and sent balls of energy flying off into random directions. One such ball struck Cordell's stronghold and destroyed it completely. Another one flew into the ranks attacking King Vegeta and his troops decimating them down to a few hundred demons.
Another ball flew straight back at Roger. Roger casually flicked it away into space.
"That's it! The conduit generator has been destroyed! Everyone out through the rift!" King Vegeta ordered mentally.
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Yambia and Bardock found themselves fighting back to back against dozens of lower demons when all hell broke loose. A huge explosion of flame and debris came flying out of the rift knocking every one several hundred yards away from the rift, everyone but Cordell, Vegeta, and Goku. Space was no longer empty, but a place littered with the bodies of both Saiyans, and demons. Blood floated shapelessly all around the warriors, both black, and red.
Vegeta and Cordell glared at each other across the void.
Cordell turned and made a motion and all of the demons fell back, and the larger demons, the Orcharns, joined Cordell. The rest took up a position well away from the fight.
It was that moment that King Vegeta and his people choose to emerge from the rift.
King Vegeta believing he had the element of surprise turned his people and attacked Cordell.
Cordell turned and vaporized King Vegeta and over half of his men without effort.
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Kirillin turned his face as he blasted the lower half of Bardock's leg away below the knee. He had been wounded by an enemy spear and the black energy was creeping up towards the rest of his body.
"I'm sorry Bardock." Kirillin said.
"You needn't be, it had to be done." Kirillin said.
Suddenly a huge shadow came over Krillin's shoulder.
Is man hurt? Buu fix! Buu fix!
"Majin Buu?!?!?" Kirillin said astonished. "Where did you come from?"
"From Uub, where else would Buu be?" Buu said with childlike innocence.
"Ok, Buu fix then." Kirillin pointed at Bardock.
"Buu fix!" Buu came forward and put his hands on Bardock and started to glow slightly. After a few seconds a new leg and foot sprouted uninjured and clean from Bardock's stump.
Kirillin looked around and noticed Uub for the first time behind Buu. He looked shell shocked.
"What's wrong bud?" Kirillin asked.
"When Buu joined with me it was like a part of me that had been missing was finally with me. I felt complete for the first time in my life. Now, with him gone, I feel weird. Not complete somehow." Uub said. We've just been going around healing the wounded since the battle ended."
"Your ki is way low bud." Kirillin said.
"Yeah, I had forgotten how much of a power boost the big guy gave me." Uub said. "How do you think we did?"
"I don't know, it looks like our forces are down by around 15,000 – 20,000, but we took out half their forces in the process. I'd say we kicked their butts." Kirillin said.
"Yeah, and most of the Saiyans were killed by the big demons, the lower demons barely made a difference at all." Uub said.
"Look!" Kirillin pointed. "The big demons have all gathered around that guy. Is that Cordell?"
"It must be." Uub said.
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Cordell noticed that the rift was slowly closing.
"Wha? What is going on? There's no way those weak warriors I just destroyed could have beaten Gnasherm and Slasherm! Who the hell else is in there?
Cordell stretched his senses back into the rift. What he felt amazed him. "What? There are two in their with powers that rival my own! How can this be?!?!?" For the first time, Cordell felt panic rising up in his chest. "They've destroyed the conduit generator! Damned them!" Cordell pondered his next move. "I will not wait millions of years for this opportunity to come around again!"
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"Romaine, we need to take out the rest of those demons so Vegeta and the others can take on Cordell." Bardock said standing on two legs again. Buu had managed to heal most of the wounded. "I have an idea." Bardock flew a few hundred yards until he was outside of the dark energy and looked at the soft glow of the full planet.
"Ahh…" Romaine smiled. "Why didn't I think of that?"
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"We gotta get out of here!" Roger warned.
"You might want to concentrate a bit and re-establish a physical form Roger." Gotenks smiled a bit.
Roger looked down at his hands and discovered that he was almost transparent. Bolts of energy flowing all about him. Roger closed his eyes and concentrated without much success at first.
"Concentrate on bringing your energy to your center." Gotenks said.
Roger redoubled his efforts and in a few seconds was good old, solid, Roger again. "What was that all about?
"When you and Piccolo fused, you were able to power up to Super Saiyan Six. Which is the point that you are not simply a being with a lot of ki energy, you are ki energy." Gohan said.
"Alright then let's get out before the rift closes." Roger enclosed everyone into his ki bubble and took off at high speed towards the rift."
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Father!! Vegeta screamed as Totempo and the remainder of the Super Saiyan Five forces quickly backed away towards Vegeta.
"Prince Vegeta!" Totempo started.
"Shut-up! Go join your house!" Vegeta
yelled seething.
"Prince please! You can't attack him alone!" Totempo pleaded.
"That was an order! Now go!" Vegeta yelled.
"Yes sire." Totempo lead the remains of King Vegeta's last command back towards their people.
"Kakkarot, this is where we part company" Vegeta ordered.
"I understand Vegeta. I'll try and clear a path for you." Kakkarot answered.
"Bura?" Vegeta said.
"Stay back and out of this, do you understand?" Vegeta ordered.
"But father I…" Bura began.
"Do as I say for once in your life!" Vegeta yelled.
"Yes father." Bura said looking at her feet.
"CORDELL! PREPARE TO DIE!" Vegeta yelled as he powered up to his fullest and placed his sword at the ready. "Father! I will avenge you!" Vegeta took off so fast that Goku could not keep up with him.
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The remaining lesser demons had regrouped a bit beyond the rift. Many were wounded by most all demons have some form of regeneration abilities and were in the process of healing themselves. The Saiyans had moved off beyond the dark energy and out of sight. Some of the squad leaders had send out a scout or two to see where they had gone off to. The scouts disappeared without a trace. A few of the demons could feel ki in others, and they had suddenly gone slack jawed. "What is it Snail? Report!" a squad leader snarled.
"Sir, the power levels of the warriors we fought have increased ten fold! And they are heading straight for us!"
"I got a bad feeling about this!" The Squad Leader said.
As the demons all watched the darkness, red glowing eyes started to appear. First one set, then another, then hundreds, then thousands, then more than could reasonably be counted.
Then the glowing forms of millions of giant apes surrounded them.
A particularly large ape came right up to them. "So, demons can know fear!" Raditz then opened his mouth and a ki beam of huge proportions cut a swath of destruction through the demon horde.