I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 20: The End of the Zerg?
We watched as Fenix's fellow Protoss warriors loaded him into some sort of long pod. Then they carried the large pod up to a portal of some kind and pushed him through. Most of the Protoss troops left from the battles arrived for the sending of Fenix. Tassadar was one of the first ones to ask what happened, I guess he had been a friend of Fenix for a long time. Aldaris showed his ugly face as well, but he didn't seem to be frowning at the event, from what I could tell anyway. He left quickly after a small Templar approached him and told him he had an urgent transmission from the Conclave, whoever they were.
"He was the greatest warrior to enter the fields of battle in a long time, and he will be remembered as such!" Tassadar announced as the pod went through the gate.
"I wonder how he can get back to his home planet if they couldn't set up such a warp link to call in backup troops," I muttered aloud, not meaning for anyone to hear it.
"The dead go through easier despite the distance, and the pod was actually sent to a ship in orbit. They will send it through a different warp gate. This was strictly for tradition," a rough-sounding Zealot said from just behind me. I'd say it looked like he was frowning, but it was hard to tell.
"Sorry, I didn't realize anyone was listening. I wish I could have been quicker and saved him," I said, allowing me head to lower a bit.
"Nonsense, a warrior who dies in battle is an honored one! The one who avenges his death is even more honored. I promise you, his warrior spirit will be passed onto everyone, even yourself!" the Zealot said, placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Thanks, but weren't you at the battle?" I asked.
"Correct young Saiyan, my name is Krator!" he said.
"Pleased to meet you," I said, extending my hand.
"No the honor is mine, but enough of that for now. I believe your other comrades wish to see you once the crowd clears a bit, cherish this time in victory!" Krator suggested, shaking my hand.
"I will, thanks," I said, walking slowly through the crowd to where Gohan and Tora were. We remained silent as a few other speakers came on, other than the comment by Gohan that they did funerals very quickly. Once the ceremony was over, Vegeta came over to Gohan, Tora and I.
"So where the hell is Broly? He was with your group!" he barked.
"We don't know, during the battle I lost sight of him! And I think they were knocked out at the time," I explained.
"Damnit! Didn't you try to search him out with your senses?" he growled.
"We tried sir, but he must be hiding it because we can't pick it up!" Tora explained though Vegeta directed the question at me.
Vegeta nearly blew up, "Blast it, where did that damned deranged Saiyan go?"
"Prince Vegeta, we've located a ki signature over towards the primary Zerg cluster! Over where we believe the Overmind is entrenched!" a Templar rushed up to inform him. Vegeta scowled and looked in that direction. I scanned with my senses as well, though I noted that the Templar chose to address him as Prince. With all the Zerg signals over there, it was difficult to detect, but after a moment I did discover Broly's rather high power centered among them. When I focused there, I noticed that the central signature was emitting a lot of ki and a lot of Psi, much like Gohan and I were now. The Overmind is like us? Bah, nevermind, I'll figure that out later. Right now what is Broly up to?
"What the hell is he going to do?" Vegeta asked.
"I can bring up the visual from our space observers!" the Templar suggested.
"Do it!" he barked.
Interlude 20.1 –Sacrifice-
Broly powered up as he approached the massive creature that had embedded into the Earth's ground.
"Foul creatures!" he cursed. The massive Overmind reminded him of a huge octopus like creature he had battled one time, except the Overmind was bigger. It filled up about a mile of space in diameter, not including the large tentacles that resembled skinny hills. It didn't move when he arrived, but the Zerg sent a lot of flyers towards him, so it knew he was here. Broly powered all the way up to his ultra Super Saiyan form, bulking up as he did. The Zerg rushed at him as soon as he finished. Despite slightly decreased speed, he was still able to crush any flyer that felt lucky. He either smashed them to the ground, or blasted hundreds of them with one swipe like he had done over and over again. When the Zerg flyers didn't attack anymore, he turned his attention to the Overmind itself. Charging a huge green blast over his head, he prepared to do away with the foul beast once and for all.
"Just what do you plan on doing with that, Saiyan?" The Overmind spoke in its booming voice, hurting Broly's ears a bit.
"I'm putting an end to your reign!" Broly declared.
"Oh but the fun is just beginning! I can sense the power of you Broly! I can also sense that you feel neglected, that the one known as Vegeta and his friends have forgotten about whom you really are! You are the legendary Super Saiyan, the Saiyan with no equal in power, and they treat you as a common soldier!" The Overmind dug at the soft spot it detected from Broly's mind. Broly lightened up on his blast for a moment before continuing to charge ki into it.
"You're wrong, I am cleansed of that old obsession to be the strongest! I already am the most powerful, and right now I will prove it!" he shouted down at the huge beast.
"Oh no, you are not. The two mystical Saiyans still possess hidden powers that will dwarf you in comparison, your power is nothing compared to theirs!" The Overmind countered.
Broly grunted slightly, "That may be so, but that doesn't matter to me anymore! The only thing that matters is destroying your pathetic race!" The Overmind quickly glanced through its options before speaking again.
"That you cannot do Saiyan, no matter how much power you possess. It is fruitless to try! You think the Protoss are here to help your kind and get rid of us? You are terribly mistaken, even now the Protoss plan to exterminate everyone on this planet once we are dealt with! They never truly meant to help you, only use you! They will not hesitate to destroy your friends and allies once we leave!" The Overmind explained, though twisting the truth to an extreme. Broly stopped charging his ki in slight surprise.
"You lie, wretched creature!"
The Overmind's center seemed to flinch slightly, but it merely sounded like a large grunting motion, "Do I? Then watch and see for yourself! Your powers are superior to theirs, but they have strength in numbers. They are afraid of you and will undoubtedly destroy the planet from space if necessary to get rid of you!" Broly was now torn on what to do as he held his maximum powered energy blast.
"What can I do then? If you're so smart on the subject!"
"There is only one thing you can do, you must convince your friends to combine their efforts with our own. Become one with the Zerg and your powers will increase by a factor you can't even imagine, and you will never have the fear of dying!" The Overmind offered.
Broly looked disgusted, "And let you do to me what you did to Borgos, I think not. It doesn't matter how much power that may or may not give me, making one's body so weak that he can't even take one simple blast is all the reason your existence must end! Prepare to lie dead at my feet!" Broly shouted, firing his huge bomb at the Overmind. It struck without resistance, and the explosion lit up all around as the light expanded over half of the planet. When it cleared, Broly stood unmoving in the air, watching where the creature had been. Instead there was a large crater with dead Zerg tissues all over the place.
"Take that freak!" Broly said as he saw more Zerg approach him and he got ready to fight them.
"What's wrong, did I destroy your pathetic master? You will meet him again soon!" he challenged as the Zerg flyers hissed at him. A loud groan sounded beneath him and he gasped in horror to see that the massive creature was digging itself out, and regenerating!
"What the?!" he said in shock. He fired ki blast after ki blast at the monster. Using just as much power as before, he fired another bomb at the creature, getting a similar explosion for a result.
"Come back from that one you beast!" he taunted. The smoke and dust cleared to reveal the Overmind was doing just that, the large tentacles that had drooped down suddenly started to move on the ground. Broly spit at it as he caught his breath, he was running low on power already. The Zerg swarmed in behind him and attacked, pounding the Saiyan before he had a chance to defend himself. He fought off the attack flyers just as the kamikazes flew at him, striking and melting off his armor with an acid shower. He powered up as much more as he could, but took more hits from the flyers that stayed relentless.
"You see Saiyan, its no use!" the Overmind told him, now nearly regenerated.
"No!" Broly shouted as he fended off a few flyers before more kamikazes plowed him from behind. The huge Saiyan took a last breath and summoned the rest of his power, creating an energy shield that deflected any attacks from the Zerg.
"I will take you down myself, even at the cost of my own life!" Broly announced as he flew closer to the wretched Overmind.
"No you can't!" the Overmind claimed.
"I understand now, you say that Gohan and Verto are the strongest, yet I am the one you are afraid of! You tried to destroy me in space and failed, now it is time for you to pay!" Broly shouted back as his power reached dangerous levels. Then his body exploded from all of the ki he was calling forth, leaving a huge bright light that spanned at least a few miles wide. The shock of the blast could be felt all the way back to West City, where Bulma was tracking Broly's signal.
"No Broly! Don't do it!" she called into the scouter. To no avail, he was already gone.
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"Broly, NO!" Goku shouted at the view screen the Protoss had provided. For some reason only the video came in, the nearest Templar said the audio was being blocked out somehow. But the visual was all we needed to guess at what took place. Our senses did the rest as the light from Broly's sacrificial explosion faded. The Overmind lay in shredded pieces over the ground, barely together at all. The Zerg around it seemed to be running about on their own, fighting each other.
"I think he may have done it!" Tassadar announced. That didn't ease the passing much, but it was good news.
"It seems that his sacrifice may have given us the edge we needed. That cursed Overmind can still probably regenerate, but it will take a very long time for it to do so with that kind of superficial damage! Rejoice my friends, this is the first step of many to finally defeat the Zerg!" Tassadar explained as the Protoss soldiers started cheering a bit.
"Then tomorrow we will strike the rest of the Zerg, and kill the rest of them off before they have a chance to rebuild!" Vegeta ordered.
"Agreed! Meanwhile, I think a big celebration is in order," Tassadar suggested. As he and the other Protoss began to run about to get things set up, we waited for the rest of the team to arrive, to explain everything that had happened. The others and myself didn't really agree about the celebration since Broly has just killed himself like that in front of our eyes, but the promise of food would make us stick around. I didn't really speak to anyone for about ten minutes until I overheard Tora explaining my battle with the infested Borgos.
"They did that to Borgos?" Shugesh growled in anger after getting an explanation.
"Afraid so, he looked to be completely under their control! And he was much more powerful than before!" Tora explained.
"How in the blue hell did you defeat him then?" Vegeta asked. We then explained what I did to Borgos, catching a look of pride from the prince.
"And you thought that small amount of training in the time chamber was useless eh Vegeta?" Goku asked, throwing an arm around his shoulder.
"Get off me Kakarot!" Vegeta barked back.
"It was a lucky break, the boys have not mastered their powers that well. Luckily, he gambled just right about his abilities and saw that the infested Saiyan was physically weak, otherwise he could have killed us all," Piccolo frowned as he glanced towards me. So much for a job well done. I generally ignored that comment from Piccolo, though he did have a point. I didn't truly know what would happen if I mixed energies even in a controlled state like that. Truth was that I did not expect the kind of power that I released considering my current power level; it was definitely something to check into later. In a way, it did make sense due to the fact that my ki and Psi were nearly equal.
"But for the effort, good work kid," the Namek acknowledged before looking around for a place to meditate. I noticed the Protoss setting up a huge dinner setting for all of the troops, and to my delight, they were loading it with a lot of food. I licked my lips slightly. Apparently Goku was thinking the same thing, but he was rapidly stepping that way before a few small Templar tried to push him back and tell him it wasn't ready yet. I chuckled slightly at the Saiyan airhead just as Vegeta frowned in slight disgust.
"Blast you Kakarot, can't you ever get your mind off of food?" he shouted at him as Bardock managed to grab his son and drag him back over to us. Just then I sensed a few high powers flying towards us, two of them felt human.
"Krillin, Tien, hey!" Goku called out as his friends landed. Buu and Seventeen came back a few minutes later, as well as the rest of the Protoss troops on the ground.
"How'd the battle go?" Tien asked. After hearing what we encountered, Tien and Krillin were only slightly concerned about Broly.
"Are you sure they didn't capture him like Borgos? After all he was definitely dead!" Krillin asked.
"If they can bring him back from a death like that, I will be very surprised!" Tora said in all seriousness.
"Attention everyone, dinner is served!" Tassadar's voice came over some sort of intercom system. I trudged towards the tables almost on autopilot, but I still felt sick to myself about Broly. As I glanced around at the celebration about to take place, something told me that all was not well. I wasn't really sure where it came from. Being tired and as hungry as I was, I figured I was just losing it. Boy was I wrong.