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-Y.A.R.N.


Kurai paled as he stared at the headline on the paper he was reading, his instincts screaming at him that trouble was on the horizon.

WORLD'S MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT RE-INSTATED!

He hadn't really considered that they would pull off another tournament, but he supposed the few years of peace had been enough of a reprieve for people to see a good old-fashioned fight without death being the cost of losing. Either way this was probably one of the first times that all the strongest — self-proclaimed or otherwise — people on the planet would be in one place at one time. The androids and their destruction had now become a bad memory and people wanted to forget all about it. In lieu of that, they wanted to remind people that martial art tournaments were something that used to be celebrated by throwing the most powerful people in the planet against each other.

Goku for one would be raring to go, and Vegeta would happily go if he got to fight against him and Goku, no matter the circumstance.

Which must have been the exact set of conditions that Babidi and Dabura had been waiting for since Buu needed a significant amount of energy to wake up. Contrary to the Z-fighters — who were a mix of aliens and technically powerful humans — hunting down 'strong' humans at the time Babidi first came and draining them only for minuscule increments of ki was wasteful and frankly time-consuming with a negligible payoff. In the beginning when they first scouted Earth, there frankly was no one on the planet strong enough to warrant killing any of them for the energy to revive Buu, even if mass genocide had been the original intent. Waiting for those sort of people was smarter and it wasn't like they didn't have a wealth of time or other planets to find. Or it may have been due to the fact that the Earth was down so many people and the Earth's Z-fighters hadn't been revived. Dabura was as strong as Cell's final form and he could've swept the androids, Gohan, and Trunks away with ease, and even then they probably didn't have the power to awaken Buu at the time.

But Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Xtrunks, Trunks, Goten, Kurai and even other people like Piccolo, Tien, or Krillin had grown stronger in the years following the death of the androids. That wasn't even counting the time the deceased Z-fighters had spent training in the The Other World. Even in the main timeline after abandoning his training in the years after the Cell games, Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 transformation had been enough to half-way revive Buu. The Gohan of this timeline was considerably stronger as he never stopped training even when balancing his studies, reaching greater heights. There was more than enough power on the planet now to revive Buu and it probably wouldn't have even had to drain Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta clashing to fill the energy gauge.

Kurai had also gotten back to where he used to be recently thanks to numerous sessions in The Hyperbolic Time Chamber with his various sparring partners and added a few skills thanks to asking Dende and Piccolo in using magic. He had never considered learning any magic techniques as he was more of a fighter that should be able to fight considering his saiyan heritage; he figured that branching out wouldn't be a bad idea considering how many techniques his enemies utilized ki, magic was wildcard they wouldn't expect. He learned how to heal before anything else as creating clothes and making a sword as he had done for Gohan as a child wouldn't really help him in a fight as he wasn't a swordsman and he cared little for his modesty if he was trying to stay alive. The healing was unique compared the instances he had seen in ki transfer from one person to another was for powering up his allies and himself; it wasn't actually healing them from damage, just bolstering their abilities so they could keep fighting despite being in pain. The only technique he had in healing was something he had replicated from watching Towa — of all people — use it several times; it was a technique called Energy Zone. He didn't really use it all that much after learning it because the setup time made it really impractical to use if he was in the middle of a fight. He couldn't just call a time-out to set it up and if he was interrupted at any point, the technique wouldn't work at all. He also got a solid handle on how to resist mind control as he knew that if someone used mind control like Babidi and Towa had, he wanted to be able to resist them using him like a puppet.

Either way he shook off his musings of his own growth and turned back to the paper in his hands.

Kurai wasn't unaware that he may have spun some things out of his knowledge with his hand in resurrecting and training with the Z-fighters. Xtrunks had ascended to Super Saiyan 2 before Buu was revived while destroying Dabura and Babidi, avoiding that calamity befalling the earth even before his time patroller days (before Zamasu reared his head). Trunks had already achieved that state and alongside every other Z-fighter — minus the humans and Namekian — had long since surpassed that. In fact, by this point the kaioshin should have taken Trunks to learn how to wield the Z-sword and unlock his latent potential and maybe even a mystic state but they never even pinged on the radar. Then again, with that much power on hand and everyone where they were now, did Kurai need to worry? He was confident that they were more than capable of handling Buu, Super Buu, and even Kid Buu if things went pear-shaped and they somehow got revived.

God, if he never heard that freaking child cackle again it would be too soon; he could feel his body's phantom aches from the many times he had battled Buu; he winced at the the number of missions he had to go through in the past that involved clashing with that crazy-homicidal-pink-bubblegum-bastard. The majin had damn near killed him when he had tackled one of his patrollers out of the way of a kamehameha. He'd been too slow to avoid it and it was luck that the same person he saved had a senzu capsule on hand in case of emergencies and Kurai wasn't too damaged from fighting Buu otherwise he would have died. He still had time to get stronger though, and he intended to do so, if he left things as the were, he would stagnate and he would die because of it. His shoulder eased as he scanned the paper one more time, he didn't need to worry too much about the situation.

Things would be fine.


It wasn't a surprise that the day after the article was printed, Xtrunks wanted to talk to him alone. Vegeta and Trunks both had been watching with puzzled looks before Kurai and Xtrunks flew off into the hills that surrounded West City for privacy. Kurai raised his ki inside himself, a trick he picked up from the training sessions with Whis, Goku, and Vegeta. A useful ability to hide one's ki signature and was one of the steps in mastering godly ki, and Kurai had been inordinately pleased when he had used it to sneak up on unsuspecting targets in his missions. It also helped distract himself to calm down when he was nervous and judging by Xtrunks' expression, this was a nerve-wracking conversation.

"Should we be informing anyone?" Xtrunks inquired, "I know things have changed but this could be the time when Buu shows up in this timeline."

Kurai frowned as he leaned a tree, "We don't know if Dabura or Babidi or Soppovich or whoever is going to show up. If they have the 'M' marking on their forehead than we can start planning and letting everyone know, but you know nothing can be counted on anymore. Maybe the events will happen, but in all honesty the timeline of the events is completely messed up and we still don't know why. Cell showed up way too early complete with his form suited for fighting if not his 'perfect' form and we have no idea if it was because of us or some sort of other interference."


The figure held the ring that emitted dark purple wisps of energy in his hand before slipping it on his ring finger, "I'll have to thank Trunks for his foolish decision to save the Gohan of this timeline. It was difficult and took so much time to siphon all rift's energy to create a ring that could affect time as I had to avoid the Supreme Kai from noticing, but I managed to complete it with the rift he caused as he saved Gohan. At first it allowed me a minor manipulation to time itself, but with the early death of cell and the other deviations in the timeline, it can even open rips to other timelines!"

He clenched his fist and his ring flashed as the air in front of him ripped open like a gaping wound.

"Towa and Demigra were foolish to think that they could simply open an entire realm without interference, they were cocky. Here though? This timeline is already a anomaly, and therefore free for the tampering. Besides, I have no interest in ruling the time stream, watching the fighting of powerful warriors is much more amusing. Pulling the individual I have in mind should prove a valid test for the latter abilities of this ring."

He sensed who he wanted and made a pulling motion with his hand, ring flaring with purple aura.

"You were about to die before being launched into the sun, and the blood left on earth will be enough for the scientists so this won't alter things enough to catch any attention… How about I heal you as well? It wouldn't do to let your wounds slow you down in the coming fight now would it? He is here you know. Kakarot."

"Kakarot..?" A snarling voice echoed from the rift, "KAKAROT!"


Kurai and Xtrunks both flinched as a sharp spike of foreign ki erupted and very literally shook the earth with how much powers was being released.

Kurai blinked as the ki was one he remembered from his missions.

"Broly?" He whispered, face paling.

Xtrunks was horrified, "He's here now? Goku haven't even heard of the gods, how can he be here now?"

They were royally screwed. Broly would kill them all except maybe Kurai in his god forms and the earth would implode from that much power crashing against each other. Frieza hadn't even been resurrected by anyone and even after that it was years before he ever found Broly! That whole battle was still years in the future and that was an entirely different timeline!

"Not that Broly!" Kurai growled as powered up and rocketed into the air.

Xtrunks didn't dither and launched him into the air after him, understanding dawning.

That was much better than the alternative but why was he even here?

He felt the ki of the other Z-fighters as they all converged on Broly's location.


Kurai skidded to a stop at the sight of the mad Super Saiyan Broly howling at the sky and indiscriminately firing ki blasts into the surrounding area. People who had been living in the nearby city were dying from his tantrum.

"Hey!" He roared, powering up to Super Saiyan to catch Broly's attention as well as prepare for the fight, "Over here you overgrown man-child!"

Broly head whipped around and he scowled at the Saiyan, "You dare?"

"What?" Kurai mocked, "Scared to fight something that can hit back?"

Broly howled as he blitzed Kurai who was already drawing the saiyan away from the populated area. Xtrunks had been only moments behind and slowed as he saw the terrified people amongst the flaming wreck of the city, eyes wide in dismay.

"Help them!" Kurai shouted as his and Broly's fists slammed against each other, "I can handle him for a while!"

His moment's distraction cost him as Broly's other fist dug into Kurai's stomach and fired a ki blast at point blank range that sent the former time patroller flying away while trailing smoke. Xtrunks gaped in worry as Broly turned to him with a sneer of contempt on his face, hand already forming a sphere of green ki. He hated fighting the crazed Legendary Super Saiyan, the monster was too damn sturdy and that was with him working with all the others the first time it happened! No matter how long it took it always felt like Broly kept getting stronger the more he raged.

Or they kept getting more tired as they fought the beast.

"You want to die too boy?" He mocked.

Xtrunks fist tightened when suddenly an ki blast flew into Broly's face and The Legendary Super Saiyan recoiled in pain and surprise.

"Hey!" Kurai was already back in the fight despite the smoking hole in the torso of his clothing and the pained grimace on his face, "I am not done with you yet! Don't run away coward!"

Broly howled in fury, "I am going to kill you!"

Kurai got into his stance, "I dare you to try!"

He was immediately swarmed by the pissed off Saiyan's attack as the monster bore down on him. Flurries of punches and kicked echoed from where they fought as Kurai grimace grew more and more strained as he was being overwhelmed under the barrage. He managed to land a kick in Broly's face that he pushed off of to get some distance and launch a barrage of ki blasts at the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly simply rose his arms to guard against them as he barreled after Kurai, laughing at the former time patroller's attacks. Kurai almost slammed himself into the ground before he flipped to plant his feet into the earth to rebound himself back into the sky, Broly closing in on him with almost unfair speed.

Kurai winced as he blocked a punch that almost sent him into an uncontrolled spin back into the ground, 'This bastard is as strong as ever! I hate fighting him.'

Super Saiyan wasn't going to cut it if he was going up against this version of the Legendary Super Saiyan, Kurai was under no delusions when it came to fighting Broly. Kurai halted his flight to duck under a kick that would have him seeing starts and ascended into Super Saiyan 2 as he fell, lighting flickering around his body. He immediately flew up and tackled Broly, slamming an uppercut into Broly's chin that sent the Legendary Super Saiyan flipping away before he caught himself in the air. Broly scowled and rubbed his chin slowly as he felt the pain of Kurai's uppercut radiating through his jaw.

"So you can throw a punch!" Broly grinned savagely, "Good. That means you will actually be much more fun to kill!"

'Oh euphoria. Fucking joy and rapture.' Kurai deadpanned in his head as Broly charged.

He met the charge with his own.


Goku, Gohan, Trunks, and Vegeta just managed to reach the battle as they saw Kurai clashing with the massive Saiyan with lime green aura and hair.

"Woah…" Gohan muttered, "Who is that?"

"Does it matter?" Vegeta sneered, "He looks like he'll be an excellent challenge for me."

Kurai fired a blast that Broly backhanded towards the city that was in flames. Before it could strike, Goku fired a blast that diverted it into the sky before it exploded. Just then, Xtrunks came hurtling out of the city and transformed mid-flight to Super Saiyan 2 before he slammed into Broly's back. Broly lurched forward and Kurai took advantage of Broly's shock slam a fist into the Saiyan's face. Broly growled before roaring and emitting enough ki to send both Kurai and Xtrunks flying away. He turned and saw the four saiyans watching and his eyes landed squarely on Goku before narrowing.

"KAKAROT!" He roared as he dashed towards him, ki raging.

Goku only had time to let out a startled noise as Broly slammed into him and sent him flying into the woods surrounding the city in a cloud of dust. Gohan and Vegeta both had barely reacted before Broly roared and let out a ki explosion that sent them flying away. Trunks manage to move just out of range but it wasn't enough as Broly caught his head and slammed a fist into the younger saiyan's chest that sent him straight into the Earth. Broly laughed maniacally as he surveyed his handiwork before a combined ki blast sent him hurtling into nearby mountain range. Kurai and Xtrunks both hovered from where they fired the blast a moment before quickly flying down to where their friends had landed. Kurai landed next to Vegeta and saw the saiyan prince only just picking himself up from the trench in the ground he had made.

"That bastard!" Vegeta growled as he rose, ki flaring as he transformed, "I am the Prince of The Saiyans! And that includes him!"

He blasted off before Kurai could get a word in edgewise and Kurai sighed in annoyance, typical Vegeta. He left Vegeta to his own devices as he quickly located the rest of the Z-fighters and saw them being tended to by Xtrunks.

"Who was that?" Gohan groaned, "He hits like a semi…"

"His name is Broly." Kurai said quickly, "He's the Legendary Super Saiyan. He's practically a berserker who hates Goku."

"Why me?" Goku said unhappily, "I never even met him before!"

"Because he does." Kurai said shortly, "Why do you think he is screaming your saiyan name?"

There was a burst of ki as Vegeta finally came upon Broly and they started fighting.

"Quick note, you may wan to go at him with Super Saiyan 2 at the least." Kurai advised before he flew towards the fight.