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 64: End Game

I wont, be the inconsequential
I wont, be the wasted potential
I can make it as severe as I can
Until you realize
I'll never take a chance
It isn't just one side aversion
We've dealt with the maniac's diversion
And I won't let the truth be perverted
I won't leave another victim deserted!

Goku launched the bomb right at the evil monster, watching it sail through the skies right at him. The grin on Zerg-Broly's face never truly faltered, but it did drop just a bit as he gauged the energy ball headed towards him. He moved back ever so slightly and prepared to re-direct the bomb with his hands. He swung with both fists and knocked it below himself just a bit as he flew upwards, sending it tumbling towards the ground. Goku's eyes narrowed as he saw where it was heading, straight at a fallen comrade named Vegeta. Goku concentrated for a moment and tried to use his instant transmission to beat his own weapon there, but didn't move on command.

"Damnit, I'm out of power! Gohan, get Vegeta!" Goku shouted. Gohan was ready for the task and vanished, reappearing next to his father with the fallen prince.

"Dad, what about the Spirit Bomb?" Gohan asked as the ball was tumbling to the ground.

"I'm too depleted to even move it an inch son, I'm sorry," Goku said, dropping to his knees as their best chance fell to the ground. His head bounced back up with a look of pure horror, "Oh no!"

"What's wrong dad?" Gohan asked.

"Get Verto, Gohan! The bomb is right on top of him!" Goku screamed out. Gohan focused as hard as he could to the area right underneath the powerful spirit bomb.

His eyes went down in defeat, "I can't sense him dad, but I'm going to try anyway!" Gohan vanished and appeared above the dropping ball, which seemed to be picking up speed. He dove down the side and reached the crater next to his fallen friend, holding his arms out to catch. He felt the immense heat from the ball start to burn his hands, but cleared his mind so he could focus without being harmed. Once the bomb stopped above him, he reared back and pushed with all his might. The ball responded by flying back towards Broly, who was looking on. Gohan gasped for breath as he felt success, and reached down to give his young friend a hand. Verto hadn't moved or even shown signs of life for quite some time, but Gohan knew he was in there somewhere. His mangled body said otherwise, in only a short time Broly had probably broken everything that could be broken. His arms and legs were twisted in bad looking angles, and his head was cut open in a lot of places, bleeding a lot.

"You little fools, you really think your little Spirit bomb can harm me?" Gohan heard a shout from above. A green energy blast sent the bomb back at him at a higher rate of speed and he barely blocked against it in time. Goku looked on in horror as the ball turned bright green from Broly's added energy and momentum. Gohan dug into the ground as the bomb pushed against his body, and he shouted in pain trying to move it back. His body exploded from pain and fatigue, and his energy faded quickly as he yelped and groaned loudly. Just as he thought he was for sure going to die this time, he heard a gasp beside him.

This was followed by a whooshing sound of energy in the air with a voice behind it, "I don't think so!"

Interlude 64.1: Reawakening

"Wake up Verto, Wake up!" a voice said. My eyes opened without any blood running into them to my surprise. I also noticed the area I was in was different. It was a black void that I had long since tried to forget.

"Who is it? And why am I here?" I shouted back, though I had a pretty good clue.

"Just your friendly neighborhood Cerebrate dropping by to see how you are faring. Sorry I had to contact you like this, but it's the only place I can commune with you successfully while your unconscious!" a familiar voice said. I looked around for him but saw no one, so the voice was being transmitted right to my head, though I heard it aloud.

"I'm busy trying to win a battle and I don't have time for this, talk later!" I said, turning around to find any sort of exit.

"Can't let you leave right now, for you aren't trying your very best!" he said.

I growled, "Bullshit! I've thrown everything at this guy and he barely budges. And whatever does affect him doesn't last when he regenerates himself!"

"Calm down Verto, your techniques are powerful, but when they don't work anymore you'll have to find new ways to use them and new ways to defeat your opponent! Even if that means making the hard decision!" he said in a much calmer voice than what I was sporting.

I snarled again, "And how am I supposed to do that, the guy took everything I threw at him, even a few combinations that he wasn't able to block against!"

"I said calm down, you're not fighting smart. You're fighting your opponent's battle and not your own. You should never fight an opponent's battle when you have no chance to win it!" Cerebrate said.

"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?" I asked in barely a calmer tone.

"I see that he was bashing you around pretty badly. What I mean is that you've been throwing everything at your enemy when he wants you to do just that! Every technique that you have used was expected and countered effectively by either his purely evil power or his genetic makeup. Your feedback technique won't work on anyone who is purely evil and overly powerful like both Broly and the Overmind. They can eventually break out of it as you have seen. Your energy attacks have no affect because he can regenerate quickly. And any brute force is useless because of his large size and strength. Are you getting it now?" he asked.

I took a deep breath, "Yeah...I suppose your right, but how else am I going to fight an enemy like this. I mean the only thing I haven't done is tried to blow myself up and take him with me! And I'd say I still don't have enough power to do that anyway!"

I heard a slight chuckle, "Then you can't say you've tried everything!" he said. I managed to snort at this and shake my head slightly, gaining another chuckle.

"That's better, a rational mind is the one who wins in the end!" he replied.

"Okay I understand, he expects me to throw all these new moves at him, but how am I going to fight him any other way. I mean, it's suicide to sit there and let him come and get me! And right now I'm way too low on power to try it!" I said.

"That is true, however there are ways to avoid attacks even from an overpowering source. And as you know, there are ways to acquire energy rather than healing over time, you yourself have done it before!" he said, jarring memories and knowledge from my head. I stood there for a moment, recalling many points during the battle that I should have either waited to act or used a different movement or technique to handle a situation. Several points in which I was running a little low in power and could have used my sword to get it back as long as he wasn't all over me.

"Okay, I understand, I'm ready now!" I said, closing my eyes.

"Just a moment, I did want to make one final point to you. You know that if you lose today and the Overmind wins, that most everything in these two dimensions will be destroyed?" he asked.

"Yes I know that," I said, getting over old news.

"Be that as it may, your broken emotions and heart have been in disarray, and rather you know it or not, it has had a negative effect on your ability in the outside world. Remember this, your victory is the only chance for anyone you know to be reunited with you. This is the only chance for life as you know it to continue on whatever path it has chosen. You know what path likely awaits you, if you fail. Now can you safely say that you are prepared to risk everything to prevent that, even your own life?" he asked again.

I thought about that for only a moment before nodding, "Yes I am prepared!"

"Then I bid you farewell, good luck!" A bright white flash lit up before my eyes.

Do you understand (yes)
Do you understand (yes)
Say it again say it again (we won't die)
Say it again say it again (we won't die)

The white flash turned into a green one as the ground around me was shaking badly. I managed to sit up, groaning painfully, but I never even heard myself do it. A loud roar coming from that green light had replaced any sound around me. I examined myself quickly, seeing that there was basically no chance my mangled body could take another hit. Both knees were bleeding, both calves were broken, both arms aching and most of my uniform was red above my chest and stomach areas. My face bones were crushed in many places and bloody cuts had opened on my forehead and all across my face. I hurt so much that I felt like Hot Ice. It was a strange sensation to say the least. I felt the heat of my blood flowing and leaking around, yet my skin and body felt like ice, kind of like walking through a blizzard too long. I struggled to reach my feet, knowing that I could only be running on adrenaline right now. I glanced up to see the source of the bright green light. It was a huge energy ball that was trying to come down onto me and whatever was nearby. I saw it was barely stalled, by a pair of struggling muscled arms that were slowly failing. I turned to see Gohan trying to hold it back, and was doomed to suffer the same fate as I would. I trudged over to right behind him and glared upwards to sense Zerg-Broly laughing as he added more energy to the attack. I also noted that I felt a majority of Goku's spirit bomb energy within this ball, so I quickly deduced what was happening. It didn't feel pure anymore though, and thus I felt Zerg-Broly's evil energy within it.

"Prepare for the end boy, the time has come!" he shouted down. I gathered what little energy I had and formed my Psi sword in front of me, the snap and hissing sound of it being so close startled Gohan a bit.

"I don't think so!" I said, stabbing forward into the bomb. It pierced easily and I turned the sword just slightly in my hands, feeling a new door of energy opening before me. I pulled on the energy and it entered the sword and oozed through it towards my injured arms. I groaned as it flowed over my fresh injuries, but relaxed as it slowly soothed them and numbed my body. The bomb started to drain and it shrank away as I pulled the power into myself, adding it to my own pool of energy.

"What are you doing?" Gohan asked in shock, as he was able to let go of the bomb when it lifted off of him.

"Just giving that monster a bit of his own medicine," I said as I pulled the final bit of energy through my sword. It hadn't been as much as I had hoped, but it did recharge my power completely. That being the case, my body was in no shape for another round with Broly, I was going to have to finish it quickly and I didn't think I should risk even flying to do it. I shook just a bit as the new energy flowed through, a bit more than I bargained for, but filling up my power supply.

"Let me help you then. You're in bad shape. I can't see how you're even standing!" he pleaded. I glared at Broly's surprised form and barely shook my head.

"No, I want you to get away from me right now Gohan. I'm going to do what it takes to take him down and you'll only get hurt if you stay around me too long!" I warned, releasing the energy I had just absorbed to begin the power up. My bleeding wounds clotted up as my power rushed by, a temporary relief as the energy erased whatever pain I currently had. I was also so focused on Zerg-Broly that I didn't even notice pain, like it was on another planet bugging someone else.

"But you can't even move!" Gohan stated.

"I said...GO!" I shouted out just as my transformation hit. I accidentally blew Gohan back a bit, but he got the message.

"Please, just let me do this, then maybe we can all go home," I pleaded as I powered up, wincing a bit at random pain spurts from all over.

He sighed and nodded, "All right then, give that creep hell!"

We fight, for the ones who can't fight us
We live, and no one can stop us
We pulse, with a push too far
And the advantages
Are but a malice
We never, had to fight in the first place
We only, had to spit back at their face
We wont, walk alone any longer
What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger!!!

"So you managed to power back up with all of that energy. I must say I'm impressed, however it still won't do you any good. Your body is barely able to keep that kind of power output going for any sort of time, so this will be a short fight before you drop again!" Zerg-Broly said as he floated down towards me. I didn't wait for him to get much closer before dropping back and charging all of my newly absorbed power.

"Come on then, I'm not afraid of you!" I challenged. He looked at me like I had lost it, and maybe I had, but I was confident that I was going to take him down this time.

"Alright then, boy, since you're literally begging at death's door, I shall deliver you!" he said, firing a big blast straight at me.

"Super Galic Gun!" I shouted, shifting my arms up and firing the beam, sending the ball back at him. Just as a majority of the energy left my body, I felt my legs trying to crumble below me. Pain erupted as my upper arm muscles spasmed when I released the energy. Soon I didn't even feel them when my intestines tied themselves into many knots below. I groaned but kept my power flowing, if my body wasn't going to co-operate, then too bad. The beam had overtaken Broly's energy ball and shot it back at him, but I never felt him move out of the way. I felt his power shoot up and release a tremendous amount of power in retaliation. I scowled as my beam came back at my face slowly but surely. I pushed and pulled for whatever I had left, but my body had either released it all, or was unable to channel it. I dug into the ground with my feet slightly, gaining whatever leverage I could to no avail. His bigger attack was still coming, and my beam was barely affecting it now. I heard more laughing, and it fueled my anger to it.

"You're on your last strings of life boy, can you feel it flashing before your eyes?" Broly laughed above me. I indeed began to see images as I concentrated and struggled with the beam. It showed random people I knew suffering. Videl was dancing with Gohan on a ballroom floor, and it blew up, leaving her dress stained with blood and Gohan's tux in shambles. My adoptive mother Bulma was cooking with a blue haired baby in her arms, and her kitchen blew up and engulfed them both in flames. Only skeletons were left behind before everything fell to ash. Piccolo was meditating until an energy beam engulfed him from behind. A few other random earthlings met their end before I finally saw Vegeta and Goku were fighting a losing battle against a blackened figure. His red eyes gave me the answer to the nightmares I had a long time ago. It was him, Zerg-Broly was in fact that evil being, and if I failed, that destiny would be coming true. I saw that I was on death's door as well, my body felt like it was floating upwards. Shit, I'm dead no matter what happens, but he will not hurt my friends and family. Screw it, I'm going for it all! I thought as I growled in anger. I cringed as I refocused whatever was left of my energy into a synchronization I had been afraid of using. I was fearful of it because of it potential to destroy everything around me. Now it was my only hope in saving all that I had dear. I opened my eyes and saw his energy ball hovering just a few feet away from my outstretched arms.

"I hope you're ready boy, you die now!" Broly called out.

"I don't care if I die, as long as I take you with me! SUPER...KAIO...KEN!!!!" I heard my voice accompany the rush of energy just as I felt it arrive. A dark blue aura surrounded me as I grabbed onto its power. I felt it leaving as soon as it arrived, and I pulled it into myself, channeling it into my beam. My green beam sparkled as I felt all feeling in my feet vanish. As soon as my enhanced power left my hands, I fell backwards and watched the results.

We, we are the new diabolic
We, we are the bitter bucolic
If I have to give my life you can have it
We, we are the pulse of the Saiyans!

I smiled just slightly as the ball of power I had produced rocketed towards Zerg-Broly. He powered up more to try to send it back, but it didn't seem to matter. It hit him with the force of a billion major hurricanes combined, and I watched as it slowly ripped him apart and he disintegrated completely. I heard shouts and curses fade into the air, and his energy signal.

"It's...it's...over!" I managed to say. I wasn't sure how much time passed after that, but eventually five familiar faces appeared above me.

"I can't believe that you pulled that off! That was amazing!" Gohan said with a bright smile. I tried to answer with a joke, but no sound came from my throat except expelled air.

"We need to get him medical attention right away. Commander, send a med team right now!" Fenix said into an armband communicator.

"They better hurry!" Bardock said with a serious look as he gazed at me. Vegeta wasn't saying anything, but the look in his eyes said it for him. I didn't have the time they needed to save me, and I could care less now.

"Guys. He isn't going to make it," Goku said for his rival.

"No...no way...I don't believe that. You're going to be all right Verto, just hang on!" Gohan said, holding my pain filled hand. I managed to squeeze it back at him just a bit, and I felt a smile creep onto my face.

"It's...it's okay," I stuttered, finally getting my windpipes to work correctly. I barely turned my head away and spat out some blood before turning back. God damnit, I'm going to live long enough to say a few last words. I owe them that at least.

"I knew I was going to die when I woke up just a little bit ago. I would rather die knowing my friends are safe rather than throwing a fit in the afterlife about dieing in vain. Just wish me back when you get to Namek. I promised I would do whatever it takes to beat him and I guess...I guess I'm paying for it now. I'll see you guys...later," I said as I felt my head lose the rest of its heat. I soon felt cold all over, and the last image I saw was one of Vegeta, smiling as everything faded to black.

Interlude 64.2: Aftermath

"No, Verto...NO!!!" Gohan shouted at the lifeless child. Goku looked at the ground in tune with his father. Fenix hurried his medical troopers to their position, knowing that he had run out of time. Vegeta smiled in pride, but it didn't last.

"Do not grieve for him too much, the boy would not want that. He died for the future, it is our job to make sure that future comes. We will see him again soon!" Vegeta spoke softly but sternly. Fenix's medical troopers ran in with a stretcher and began to attach devices to the fallen Saiyan. However they didn't get very far when his body began to fade.

"Praetor?" they all asked at once.

"Incredible, he is passing into the Kalah!" another said.

"Like Prince Vegeta said, we should celebrate this death, he has attained great honor in this day!" Fenix roared, getting many nearby troops riled up. Vegeta growled a bit at this, but didn't expect the Protoss to know what that had meant.

"I'll bet King Kai is going to train him, maybe he'll get to meet the Grand Kai also!" Goku said in an excited voice.

"Perhaps he will see the real Fasha in the afterlife, that well certainly help the healing process and maybe we can finally go back to our time and place. It's been a long time since I've had a good rest in my own bed!" Bardock nodded. Vegeta only looked up, and almost as if it was a sign, dark clouds uncovered a bright yellow sun that was setting in the horizon. Gohan allowed himself to smile a bit as well, despite the death of his friend. While he had sacrificed himself to destroy their most dangerous enemy to date, he had placed them all on a path for continued life at the cost of his own. Goodbye my friend. I shall miss you, Gohan thought as he turned from the setting sun and walked over the side of the crater along with his comrades. Scene fade out.

Power levels:

Super Mystic Verto: 600,000,000; Super Kaioken: 900,000,000

Zerg-Broly: 820,000,000

A/N: Well, that's it, that's the end of the story…PYSCHE! Verto's journey in life has only just begun, catch the new adventures of Verto in DBV Series 6: Afterlife and Recovery. No preview for it this time though, as it will begin right where Series 5 ended. I have a lot of creative surprises in store for you all, and I don't want to spoil it any.

There are some issues and concerns that I have received that I would also like to get off my chest now, feel free to skip this and simply hit the review button to exit, though it may answer a question for you as well.

This is also a major crossroad of Verto's story. The end of the Buu Saga was meant to basically be the end of part 1 of Verto's life, and it turned into so much more once I started brainstorming enough and bringing the Zerg idea in. Think of it being similar to the Matrix where movie 1 was the birth of the hero and the other two movies were the life of the hero. Well Sagas 1-5 are technically the end of the birth of the hero era. The Sagas that follow are the life of the hero era, hopefully you enjoy them just as much. This pretty much ends the Starcraft crossover though, which I take plenty of credit in having been the first to mix it with DBZ. Now this story will turn back to more of a purely DBZ atmosphere with some added goodies. And hopefully my creativity doesn't wane too much as I come up with new ideas and tie in some loose ends.

One rant I see a lot from others regarding original characters in other stories is that the OC will turn ultra badass and whip all the bad guys without breaking a sweat while Goku gets pounded, or something like that. Also that the said character would attract all the women and such, basically whatever fantasy grabs that author. I do not in any way plan on making that kind of character. There might be aspects of this here and there, but every story has it somewhere. Will Verto always save the day, no. Will he score with every chick, certainly not, hell he's a kid right now. Even my imagination isn't that deranged (I seriously got this question more than once in a chat session or two). The character I am portraying isn't the happy-go-lucky Goku, or the chick magnet Gohan, or even the next self insert chick that scores with Trunks after two minutes. I aim for a semi-balanced character that has to make hard decisions and face the consequences for his actions. Verto is not going to have the "happily ever after" life, and a lot of it will not be happy at all. I won't keep things totally gloomy either, there will be plenty of comical material to lighten the mood. And the power level issue, he won't gain a substantial amount of power in a short time for a long while. It will be his abilities and strategy that will win most of his battles. The good stories don't always have a happy ending, and are riddled with tragedy and despair to make them more compelling. That should take care of that minor concern.

There is a question that I keep getting on Verto's involvement with what we know as DB GT, and I will take care of that question now. Without giving out any spoilers, I can safely say…NO. That doesn't mean anything as far as the characters and timeline go, but I will not write a GT remake. I don't have anything against GT's story, but it was way too short and the whole "Goku is a kid again" idea blew chunks, not to mention that all of the focus was on Goku, Trunks and Pan, PAN! Who is too much like Videl for her own good, yet not nearly as powerful as her family is. Another little thing that didn't make sense was that fact that Vegeta's daughter DOESN'T fight? What gives there?

And oh yes, that little thing with the actual fighting that lacked the extremely explosive details that Z had plenty of, example: SS4 Vegeta's ki blasts do absolutely nothing to Omega Shenron's face. No explosion, no deflection, no blemish, they just vanish, uh huh, right. I have plenty of beef with the little things that GT did or didn't have, but I'm not going to bore you to death with them, unless of course you page me on an instant messenger sometime (check profile).

That takes care of that Question and Answer/Rant session for the moment.

Until next time, which is when I finish Series 6, Verto out!

P.S, this is the part where you hit the review button.