The people of earth gasped and looked skyward as a massive shape filled the sky. It was a shining silver sphere, the starship belonging to the dreaded Galactus. It parked itself in high orbit, and from it emerged an ominous figure. His basic appearance was human, however he was over 20 feet tall and covered in dark purple and red armor. He wore a helmet with two massive protrusions on the top. The overall effect was one of great power and menace. Then, Galactus spoke. His voice, resonating through his cosmic powers, reached everyone on the planet simultaneously.
"It is time. This planet shall die so that Galactus may live!" Little did he know, however, that that was just the cue Goku and the others were waiting for.
"Now! Attack!" yelled Goku, as he powered up to SSJ1 mode and charged the massive being. He was followed by all the other heroes of earth, as well as the Silver Surfer. Goku and Gohan started off the attack by hitting Galactus with a barrage of ki blasts, yet they had no discernable effect. Buu fired his transmutation beam from his antenna, but it did absolutely nothing to the World Devourer. The heroes flew around Galactus, attacking him like mosquitos biting at a target, yet he completely ignored them. After a few seconds, Goten and Trunks withdrew from the battle temporarily and assumed a distinctive pose.
"Fu-Sion-Ha!" they yelled, as they merged into Gotenks, who went SSJ3 along with Goku. They both fired powerful ki blasts point blank at Galactus, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Vegeta wasn't having much better luck.
"Final flash! Gallic Gun! Big Bang Attack!" He enunciated as the attacks were launched one after another, only to be deflected or absorbed by the mighty Galactus.
"Darn it! He's just ignoring everything we throw at him!" yelled Vegeta in frustration. Just then the Silver Surfer zoomed by, blasting his former master with beam after beam of cosmic energy, but his attacks were similarly ineffectual.
Just then, Goku disengaged from the fighting and attempted to rally the troops.
"Guys, we need to combine our attacks. That's the only way to beat him!"
Heeding the new strategy, everyone drew back several thousand feet from Galactus, and powered up to their maximum levels.
After a few seconds of gathering energy, they fired a combined blast consisting of a six - way Kamehameha from Goku, Gohan, Gotenks, Krillin, Yamcha, and Uub, Vegeta's Final flash, Picollo's special beam cannon, Tien's Tri-beam, The Silver Surfer's maximum intensity cosmic wave, and full power ki blasts from Majin Buu and Android 18.
The attacks merged into an incredible beam of pure destructive energy, and this time Galactus took notice. From his eyes came a glow, then twin beams of tremendous power erupted from them. The beams met the heroes' attack and brushed it aside with the ease of a discharge from a fire hose meeting that of a squirt gun. Everyone managed to dodge the beams before they arrived, yet they were thrown hundreds of feet merely by the proximity of such powerful energies. In the local areas around the beams, the atmosphere itself ignited, the land was scoured, and the oceans boiled. Eventually, the deadly beams arced back into space, disappearing.
"That was horrible!" screamed Uub in terror. "How are we supposed to stand against that kind of firepower?"
Suddenly Vegeta seized the Silver Surfer by the neck.
"You! You used to work for this guy, he has to have a weakness somewhere!" yelled Vegeta in anger, and, though he was loathe to admit it, terror.
"I'm sorry, there isn't - wait, no, there is one thing that could work!" said the Surfer with renewed enthusiasm.
"What is it?" asked Gohan.
"Galactus needs to use a complicated machine to extract the life energies from a planet," responded Norrin. "If we can destroy it, he might give up"
"Well why didn't you tell us this in the first place?" asked Vegeta, enraged.
He was cut off by Goku, as he noticed that Galactus had already begun building his machine.
"Huh, this is going to be way easier than I thought," said 18, as she fired a ki blast at the device. However, a humanoid figure dived in the way of the blast and took it head - on. After the smoke dissipated, the figure was still standing there, unharmed. As they watched, more identical figures appeared from the machine, and several flying spherical objects descended from the Devourer's ship.
"What are those?" asked Krillin.
"Galactus' Punisher cyborgs and defense drones," responded the Surfer. "He uses them to prevent just what we're trying to do."
"Well they aren't going to stop us, are they Kakkarot?" asked Vegeta.
"Nope. Let's get them!" shouted Goku as the two saiyans charged. They were quickly followed by the rest of their companions.
Goku attacked the first cyborg, battering it around with a flurry of punches. The machine struck back, knocking Goku silly with one punch, but he quickly recovered and blasted its head off. However, he was then mobbed by two more. Up above him, Gotenks, Buu, and the Surfer were engaging the flying defense drones. After two of them had been transmuted into candy, they had somehow developed a forcefield that made them resistant to that attack, yet Buu was doing just fine with physical strikes and ki blasts. The Surfer put down 3 more of the drones with his speed and cosmic blasts, but he was attacked from behind and taken off guard by another one, which was then dispatched by Gotenks. The battle on the ground was faring equally well, with Goku, Vegeta, and Uub tearing through the Punisher cyborgs without much difficulty. Krillin, Picollo, and the others were having a harder time, but they were managing. However, it seemed that for every drone or cyborg they destroyed, 2 more would take its place! Finally, it seemed that Galactus had run out of defenses for his machine, and Goku had a clean shot.
"Ka - Me - Ha - Me - Ha!" he screamed, as the beam disintegrated the massive mechanism. Galactus looked quite irked, and turned toward them, glowing with rage.
"Uh - oh, this is not good," stated Krillin, as Galactus looked on menacingly. However, instead of attacking, he retreated! Flying back up into space, he entered his spaceship.
Krillin had his eyes closed and was cowering in fear. He slowly opened them. "Am I dead? Again?" he asked. His question was soon answered when he realized that nothing had happened.
"So is that it? Did we win?" asked Goku, puzzled. However, the Surfer had a look of unremitting horror on his face.
"It's not over!" he screamed. "Galactus is still going to eat the planet! Except this time, he's going to do it directly!"
Next: Last ditch effort!