Chapter 27: A New Weapon
Gogeta struggled against the ki bonds to no avail. He was trapped against the metallic wall with the electricity still causing pain throughout his body. In front of him Maleenia still floated, a smug expression across her face. Slowly she raised an arm.
"How pathetic. You can't even handle a little ki bolt." She scolded calmly. Ki flickered to life around her finger.
"I might as well end this before you embarrass yourself even more." The small blast grew around her finger as she took aim. Just as she fired the blast a wave of pain swept through her mind. Shocked by it, Maleenia was instantly brought to her knees as the pain spread and doubled as wave after wave hit her. The blast continued to hurtle towards the bonded saiyan when a golden ki blast slammed into its side, causing a miniature explosion mere inches away from him. The fused warrior glanced to his right to see Trunks floating with his arm still raised. Behind him stood Zara with a hand to her temple and the other outstretched and pointing at Maleenia.
The ki bonds around Gogeta began to fade before dispersing and the fused warrior dropped down from the wall. He glanced at Maleenia's withering form before turning to the young couple.
"What are you doing to her?" Gogeta asked Zara. Trunks grinned at his girlfriend before answering for her.
"Evening the playing field. She thinks attacking Maleenia's mind might slow her down enough for you to do some real damage."
"And its good payback as well." Zara added before sending another wave of pain through Maleenia's mind. The alien was beginning to adapt to the pain.
"You'll pay for every bit of pain you cause me, girl." Maleenia muttered angrily as she rose to her feet, flaring out her aura. Gogeta stepped forward.
"If you're going to make anyone pay then let it be me. You're not going to touch anyone else here." He declared before entering a tight stance.
"So be it." Maleenia replied. Then with a blinding light, the battle resumed.
Both warriors materialised high above the ground, in the centre of the golden arena. Their forearms slammed together as they ploughed into one another, their auras sending out a flash of light as they connected. Both warriors backed off before attacking simultaneously again; creating flashes of light every time they collided.
Gogeta had to hand it to Zara. Even though his Vegeta half was mad at her interference, her mental attacks on Maleenia was slowing the tyrant down. All Gogeta had to do was defeat her before she increased her power level anymore.
Maleenia swiped at the air just to narrowly miss Gogeta before his foot impacted her chest, sending her flying backwards. Maleenia gritted her teeth before raising her arm horizontally at her sides and firing two blasts and then quickly firing one more in front of her. The first two blasts circled round to hit Gogeta on either side and the third impacted his chest. This didn't seem to affect Gogeta however, as he emerged from the resulting smoke and charged towards her, spinning at the last moment to thrust his elbow into her face. Maleenia grunted in the added pain and then bit back a cry as a fist buried itself in her gut. Gogeta smirked confidently to himself before ending the combo with a swift axe kick that sent the tyrant plummeting to the metallic floor below.
Maleenia forced herself to come to a halt before touching down on the floor. She then moved her arms round to draw a circle in the air before bringing her palms together and letting rip an enormous beam of energy. Gogeta's eyes widened before he raised his arms to block it just to have it explode on impact. Maleenia was close behind and swung her leg round in a perfect axe kick, driving Gogeta into the ground below where she then followed, landing on his chest and pressing down hard.
The group of warriors on the sidelines all gasped as Zara struggled to continue to increase the strength of her mental attacks.
"How come she's got the upper hand again? I thought you were slowing her down!" Goten cried at his friend, receiving a glare from her.
"It's not that easy. She's steadily increasing her strength as she fights." Zara snapped back.
"And that means her resistance goes up with it." Mirai added darkly.
"Well there has to be something we can do!" Alex announced as she attempted to take off just to have her father firmly plant her back on the ground.
"There's nothing you can do but something the adults can. You and your brother stay with Zara." He said firmly before turning back to the fight.
Maleenia began to cackle as she continued to push Gogeta further into the floor, the saiyan gritting his teeth in pain. Maleenia raised her arm, forming a ki blast when a flurry of blasts collided with her side. She looked up just in time to see both Mirai and Trunks along with Goten charging up more attacks.
"Kamehameha!"
"Burning attack!"
"Buster cannon!"
All three attacks hurtled towards Maleenia who took to the air before using her aura to deflect all three. Gogeta took this opportunity to attack from behind, driving the woman forward with one hard blow to the spine. Maleenia whirled round, forgetting about the three demi-saiyans, and attacking Gogeta with a swift punch that he ducked under before driving his fist up towards her jaw line. Maleenia grabbed his forearm and yanked him up to slam her knee into his gut. Saliva ejected from his mouth before she flipped him over her and slammed him into the floor. More blasts were slung at her back by the three super saiyans behind her and she responded by throwing Gogeta into them. Her laughter filled the air as all four men scrambled to their feet.
"This isn't working…" Goten muttered as he glared at Maleenia. The others glanced at him and agreed.
"Well what else can we do? She's too strong." Trunks asked. Gogeta kept his eyes focused on their opponent.
"You three back off and wait. I'm going to have to handle this." He said calmly before powering up, dipping into his energy reserves. He finished with a scream and charged forward. Maleenia was smirking when he reached her.
Gogeta threw blow after blow at her but she playfully dodged every attack. Gogeta growled and sent a round house at her but she flipped backwards to avoid it. Gogeta chased her and fired a small beam of energy that she kicked aside before slapping him round the face. She laughed at him before she kicked him high into the air, not bothering to chase after him.
Gogeta stopped in the centre of the arena and quickly gathered all available energy. He then made his palms meet at his side.
"Ka…me…ha…me…HA!" and the wave fired. Maleenia watched as the raw power hurtled towards her. She almost yawned before raising an arm in front of her and firing a second beam that collided with Gogeta's. The two blasts struggled to push the other back and so entered a stalemate, even if Maleenia was only playing along.
Maleenia soon got bored of the 'game' and put more power into her beam, pushing it towards Gogeta. Gogeta struggled to strengthen his own beam but try as he might, he couldn't push the beam back again. Maleenia wore a triumphant smirk before a small pain shot across her back. She tilted her head to see the three saiyan men charging up and firing their own beams at her. Maleenia's concentration slipped and the beam's meeting points fell back to the centre. But the saiyans couldn't push it any further.
Zara grit her teeth as she watched on from her place on the sidelines. She hated this. Everyone she cared about were facing an incredibly strong opponent and losing and the one thing she thought she could do to help had stopped working ages ago. She frowned as she considered entering the fray.
"This is stupid! We should be out there helping! Dad and Grandpas are losing!" Alex said, frowning deeply.
"Well what do you want to do about it? You heard dad!" Jake replied.
"Well that was before they all started to lose! So let go!" Alex argued back.
"Oh no you don't!" Zara said, grabbing hold of Alex's shoulder before she could rush in blindly. "Your dad told you to stay here."
"So?" Alex asked, trying to push off the offending hand.
"Yea, so? They're all losing out there and need help!" Jake added. Zara sighed as she watched them.
"I know but there's nothing you can do. I don't even know if I can help…" she trailed off and stared up at the battle, her mind racing for a solution.
"…At least not physically…" she muttered as her face slowly brightened. She quickly turned her gaze and focus on to the twins, both demis feeling her mentally probing them. Alex rubbed her head to try and get rid of the odd feeling Zara was casting on her frontal lobe.
"Hey! What are you doing?" she asked but Zara didn't seem to here her.
"…Yea…that might just do it. Ok you two grab a hold of my hands and focus on Maleenia. We're going to try another wave of mental attacks."
"What?" Jake asked, thoroughly confused.
"That wasn't working before." Alex pointed out.
"I know but that was me alone with you guys helping me then we might just be able to slow her down long enough for those guys to do their thing." Zara explained, still receiving unsure looks.
"Look you two, you want to help right? Then help me do this and don't hold back!" Zara pressed and both twins reluctantly did as asked, working with Zara to attack Maleenia with a fully powered mental barrage. High above them, Maleenia started screaming as the attack tore through her mind. She let go of her end of the beam to clutch her agonised head, allowing Gogeta to push the beam right through her. Maleenia continued to scream, her body remaining intact but when the beam dissipated her clothes had burnt away from her midsection and her abdomen was covered in one large gash and a river of blood. A large chunk had also been carved out of her power level but she didn't notice as she was still withering in pain from the mental attack.
"Gogeta! Finish it now!" Zara's mental plea rung through the fused warrior's head and he nodded.
"Time to end this." He muttered and cupped his hands at his side.
"BIG…BANG…KAMEHAMEHA!" he screamed as he thrust forward his arms and fired the attack down at the alien. It tore though her before she could even realise what was happening, scattering apart her molecules and disintegrating them in one final move.
The fight was over.
Maleenia was gone.