Chapter 22: The Power of Hatred
On the edge of Mount Paozu..
The sound of cracking metal and bones echoed through the area as Gohan drove his mechanical fist straight through the torso of Android 17, the black haired Android disappearing to a purple gas. The Super Saiyan rose his right arm and blocked a hard kick from behind, thrown by Android 18. Twisting around, Gohan threw a small Ki blast into the face of the blonde Android, blasting her away.
As the purple gas continued to engulf the area, Gohan went into a small coughing fit, distracting him enough for a reappearing 17 to land a hit straight into the Super Saiyan's gut. Flaring his aura, Gohan blew the black haired Android away, buying the Half Saiyan a few seconds to regain his breath. "I gotta get rid of this gas.." Struggling to breathe, he charged towards the two Androids, "It's time to end this."
Starting with Android 18, Gohan smashed a fist into the blonde twin's face, using his tremendous speed advantage to disappear as 17 went to retaliate. The Super Saiyan reappeared behind 17, driving a knee into the black haired Android's back. Gohan stood above a fallen 18, grabbing the blonde Android and throwing her hard onto the ground in front of the Destron Gas Machine. Android 17 roared back into the fight, but Gohan was again prepared, catching a flying fist from the black haired twin. Driving a fist into the Android's torso, the Super Saiyan sent his opponent flying into the air, but quickly sped above 17 and sent him crashing to the ground beside his sister.
Gohan quickly descended to the ground in line with the Androids and the Destron Gas Machine, quickly bringing his hands to only a few inches apart, "It's been fun reminiscing with you pieces of scrap metal, but I'm over it."
A familiar azure blue energy began to gather in between the Super Saiyan's hands as he brought them to his side, "Ka-Me-Ha-Meeeeeee" Gohan threw his hands forward, connecting them at the end of his arms as a massive energy blast shot out, finishing the patented turtle school attack, "HAAAAAAAAA!"
The blue energy wave engulfed the two Android and the Gas Machine, completely obliterating them molecule by molecule. "Two birds, one stone." Gohan smirked, reverting back to his natural state and letting his golden aura disappear.
A figure appeared in the distance just as Gohan had finished his objective, the Half-Saiyan looked up smiling, "Sorry to disappoint, you're a bit late."
One of 16's copies landed beside his Half-Saiyan comrade, "Apologies, I went as fast as I could."
"How are the others doing?"
"It appears Krillin and Tien are struggling. Broly appears to be holding his own, he doesn't even appear to be in his Super Saiyan state. I am on my way to assist in both situations."
"You are..? Oh right, the clone thing." Gohan charged a bit of power, "Your powers can get pretty strange. Anyway, I'm gonna go check it out." The Half-Saiyan blasted off into the air.
Meanwhile, just below Korin's tower…
THWACK!
A large purple fist crashed into Broly's face, knocking the large Saiyan backwards. The vicious assault was continued by King Cold and King Vegeta, putting Broly largely on the defensive. The large Saiyan flared his aura, knocking the two back momentarily.
Trying to get a few moments gather himself, the large Saiyan struggled to breath as the purple gas continued to engulf the area. The longer the fight continued, Broly could feel himself getting weaker and he had begun coughing regularly. He thought to himself as he put up defenses, blocking individual blows from the two Kings, "I'm gonna have to go Super Saiyan..I don't have a choice." He struggled momentarily, knocking the pair of Kings back again, "I can do this. This is what Trunks and I trained for."
Increasing his power briefly, Broly smashed blows into both King Cold and King Vegeta, knocking them onto the ground. Landing between the two, the large Saiyan exploded his energy, struggling momentarily as his aura flashed a bright yellow, "Gotta keep it together...focus my energy." As the golden color continued to flicker, Broly seemed to have gotten control, the yellow glow encompassing his body as he attained his regular Super Saiyan state.
"Oh ho ho, so he has a bit of fight in him!" King Cold laughed as he regained his footing, "That familiar Super Saiyan glow…"
"Eyes on the prize, Cold." King Vegeta
King Vegeta charged Broly, but the Super Saiyan was far too quick now, easily dodging and smacking the elder Saiyan to the side. King Cold joined in on the assault, landing a thunderous punch to the face of Broly, but the large Super Saiyan didn't budge. A smirk came across the Super Saiyan's face as he grabbed the Frost Demon's arm. He stared straight into Cold's eyes as he smashed a fist into the King's torso, the cracking of ribs echoed in the air.
Coughing up blood, King Cold fell to the ground and disappeared back to gas. The King of Saiyans came back into the battle, but again Broly easily dodged him. The large Saiyan spinned himself around and smashed a devastating elbow into the elder Vegeta's temple. As the King of Saiyans was down, Broly landing not far from him, in line with the Destron Gas Machine. The large Super Saiyan extended his arm, charging a familiar green ball of energy in his hand.
Just as the blast reached it's full size, a newly formed King Cold's fist connected with Broly's face, but to no effect. The fear was apparent on the Frost Demon's face as Broly grabbed his arm and threw him onto the ground with one hand, his blast still charged in the other. Broly let out an almost devious smirk as he threw his patented green blast, watching it slowly obliterate the two Kings and crashing through the Destron Gas Machine, leaving it in shambles.
Broly was trembling slightly as his arm was still straight out, his mind racing as he struggled to keep himself in check. "The fight is over. Time to let go." The large Super Saiyan closed his eyes, breathing slowly as he powered down, "You're not an animal."
Another of 16's copies showed onto the scene just as Broly had reverted back to his base form, "Greetings Broly." The large Android looked around, "It seems you have the situation under control. I will move along to the last machine."
"I think I'll go as well." Broly had sensed the fighting that Krillin and Tien had been doing, the two appeared to be struggling pretty hard against an unknown opponent. "They appear to need help."
Meanwhile, back on Namek…
A diverse group of figures stood in front of the Capsule Corporation Spaceship, Trunks was there, Piccolo next to him. Across from them stood the Namekian Elder Moori, his two sons Doori and Koori, and Dende
Trunks was awkwardly smiling, "We really appreciate this, Dende."
The slender Namekian smiled bright, "I am more than happy to do it. I owe your Earth my life twice over. I will miss my home, but I know this is the right choice."
"You will always be welcome home, Dende." Moori smiled, opening his arms to hug the younger Namekian, "You will be a great Guardian."
"Yeah, you're gonna guard the crap out of that place." Koori and Doori said in unison, the stockier Namekians joining in on the hug with their father, almost completely covering Dende.
As the hug ended, Piccolo reached his hand out towards Moori, "We can not thank you enough. You are always welcome on Earth."
The elder Namekian took Piccolo's hand in a firm handshake, "We still don't really have space travel yet, but if we ever build a ship, you'll be the first stop."
The group let out a chuckle, saying their final goodbyes as Trunks, Piccolo, and Dende entered the ship, blasting off back towards Earth.
Back on Earth, by the last Gas Machine..
Krillin just barely avoided a lunging kick from Turles, the monk throwing a punch of his own that narrowly missed the black haired Saiyan. "Damn it, the longer this goes on, the weaker I feel.." The bald human coughed involuntarily from the gas, derailing him long enough to receive a flying fist from a laughing Turles.
"Krillin!" Tien dodged a hefty mid-air kick from Slug, spinning around and driving his leg into the side of the large Namekian, knocking him to the ground. Just as Turles was about to land another devastating blow onto Krillin, he was smashed in the side by a charging Tien's shoulder. The tall triclops turned to his shorter comrade, "Let's switch."
The short monk smirked, coughing a bit, "Deal." Krillin immediately ignited his Kaio-ken aura and charged towards a recovering Slug, driving a fist into the Namekian's face. The smaller human continued his assault, ascending above Lord Slug and delivering a devastating two handed hammer blow to the Namekian's head.
Simultaneously, Tien and Turles were trading blows pretty evenly, each thrown punch being met with a counter blow of similar strength. The gas in the area was starting to overtake the fight, Tien coughed involuntarily. Again, the poison of the gas gave Turles an opportunity and the evil Saiyan knew how to take advantage of those moments very well as he drove his fist into Tien's gut.
Krillin saw Tien fall to the ground out of the corner of his eyes, swearing to himself as he blocked a punch thrown from his large, green opponent. "Screw this!" Krillin put his hands spread out in front of his head quickly, "Solar Flare!"
The following light lit up the area incredibly, easily blinding both Turles and Lord Slug. As the two were trying to regain their sight, they could hear the familiar buzzing of Krillin's signature attack, "Double Destructo Disc!" The spinning energy discs easily sliced through both of the monk's enemies, causing them the evaporate back to gas.
Breathing heavily, both Tien and Krillin were getting weaker by the second. Krillen descended to where Tien was regaining his footing, but their moment of victory didn't last long. It wasn't more than a few seconds later before their enemies had somehow reappeared from the gas, an audible sigh coming from both of the humans. Smirking sarcastically, Krillin turned his head to his taller friend and took a fighting stance, "Well, ready for round two?"
"Not really no, but I guess I don't have a choice." Tien took a fighting stance as well, ready for the oncoming assault.
Turles and Slug charged towards their opponents, but their blows never came. The two villains disappeared into thin air just inches from where Krillen and Tien stood, causing the two humans to be completely confused as to what had happened. They looked at each other for a moment, then they looked towards a large figure coming out of the purple gas, it's monotone voice becoming more familiar as it spoke, "I apologize that I did not arrive earlier, I flew as fast as I could."
"16!" Krillin yelled, smiling, "You were just in time, bud."
The third and last copy of Android 16 emerged from the gas, carrying a handful of wires that undoubtedly came from the former Destron Gas Machine. As the two humans took a sigh of relief, something else strange came into their view, a large space ship, larger than any they had ever seen, and it was landing not far from them.
Just as they were noticing the ship, their comrades appeared on the scene. Gohan flew in first, following by Broly and the other two copies of 16 who quickly merged back together with himself. The reconfigured 16 spoke of the spaceship first, "What is the purpose of that ship?"
"I have no idea..but I sense something strong in it.." Gohan cursed to himself, "It's always something more complicated."
The strange spaceship finished it's landing, opening a long ramp that extended down to the surface. A strange blue man floated out of the ship, yelling towards the group. "Oh, so there's more than one Saiyan..goody goody."
Gohan stepped in front of the rest of the group, "Who are you? Why are you attacking our planet?"
"Your planet? Typical Saiyan aggression. What, did you use your strength to take over this helpless planet?" The anger in the blue figure's voice became more apparent as he spoke, "I am Doctor Raichi, the last of the Tuffles. I am here to kill all Saiyans, no matter the cost."
"Okay, Saiyans are definitely jerks, but to destroy a whole planet's atmosphere to kill two? Doesn't that sound like a little much?" Krillin questioned the sanity of the strange figure, though anybody who could poison a planet had no chance of being sane.
"For two? I only knew of one, the half-breed is just a plus." Raichi cackled a bit, "The Saiyans slaughtered every single one of my race. I will do anything to appease my brothers and sister's spirits. Their hatred and vengeance has been reborn, and it's coming to kill you all."
"Hatred and vengeance are emotions, they cannot be born as a life form." 16 answered, perplexed by this strange, floating man. "Please leave."
"They can be reborn, and they have been. They were forged like a blade in the hottest of fire and brimstone, emerging from the darkest depths of existence and exposing itself to the rest of the Universe as my ultimate weapon. I give you, Saiyan and friends, Hatchiyack!" As the blue man's monologue finished, a large, strange figure emerged from the spaceship. It had red, pad like shoulders with a pink skinned torso underneath. The strange figure had green gems on it's knuckles and a gigantic one on it's over sized forehead. The mechanical being easily towered over everyone there, a green gem on his chest was glowing brightly as it approached.
"Everybody move! NOW!" Gohan lit up his Super Saiyan aura and jumped off to the side just in time as Hatchiyack unleashed an incredibly powerful blast from the gem in it's chest. The other Z-Warriors just managed to avoid the blast as well, jumping off in different directions. Broly ignited his Super Saiyan aura as well, his and Gohan's energy lighting up the landscape around them.
Krillin and Tien were breathing heavy, but they ignited their individual aura, ready to fight.
16 stood between the two humans, turning to each. "You two should go."
"What?!" Krillin shouted in anger, "We need to help!"
Gohan turned back towards them, "16 is correct. You two are too tired, let us handle this. We need you rested in case of the worst."
"This guy is ridiculously powerful, come on!" Tien's was just as frustrated as Krillin was at the notion of leaving.
"I said go!" Gohan yelled, his aura growing larger, "Before he fires again!"
"Fine." Krillen turned to Tien, "Let the Super Saiyans handle this one." Tien nodded in agreement, but his face was full of frustration as the two human's blasted off.
Gohan refocused his attention back to Hatchiyack, who seemed to be charging another blast, "Broly..I hate to say it, but he's stronger than us isn't he?"
Broly nodded, "In our current states, much stronger. He's stronger than I was when we fought just a few days ago."
"Damn..that's what I thought. Any options, 16?"
"No strategies at the moment." 16 crouched slightly, "But we might wanna move." The three fighters jumped out of the way again, narrowly avoiding Hatchiyack's massive energy blast. "Through my count, it appears he takes a full fifteen seconds to charge."
"So we attack now, let's go!" Gohan charged first, his mechanical fist colliding with the left side Hatchiyack's pink skinned chest. Simultaneously, Broly threw his own punch that landed square on the right side mechanical being's torso, opposite of Gohan's fist. 16 had charged from the side, his own mechanical fist colliding with the Hatchiyack's face, but all three punches were to no effect on the massive mechanical being.
"Shit!" Gohan cursed and twisted to the side, narrowly avoiding another devastating blast that continued to level the landscape around them. "That didn't work."
Broly had managed to barely avoid the last blast, signing a bit of his pants as he trembled a bit. The chaotic energy in him was bubbling up, yearning to get out and fight but the Super Saiyan was managing to keep it at bay.
Simultaneously, 16 was continuing his assault, but it was to no effect. The large Android threw punch after punch, but Hatchiyack just stood there, charging his attack. 16 stopped throwing blows after a few moments, leaping back between Gohan and Broly, "This is not good."
Hi there! Thanks for reading! This is a slow fight for sure, so I appreciate your patience in reading this chapter. With the emergence of Hatchiyack, it's time to go over power levels again!
Ghost Warriors: The powers they exhibited were proportional to their opponent and does not in any way reflect the power levels they would have had in real life, so there is no sense in giving them a specific number
Krillin (Kaio-Ken x10): 100,000,000 (Weakened by Destron Gas, 35,000,000)
Tien (Kaio-Ken x10) 95,000,000 (Weakend by Destron Gas, 38,000,000) (larger body, not as affected by gas)
Android 16 (Normal): 720,000,000 (Can go up to 900,000,000 while overclocked)(Unaffected by Destron Gas)
Android 16 (Split into three): 240,000,000
Gohan (Ascended Super Saiyan (New Arm and Zenkai)): 875,000,000 (Ended fight before weakened by Destron Gas)
Broly (Unrestricted Regular Super Saiyan(One year training in HBTC)): 1,000,000,000 (Remember: Not LSS) (Ended fight before weakened by Destron Gas)
Piccolo (Merged with Kami): 1,000,000,000
Trunks (Super Saiyan 2(One year training in HBTC)) 1,750,000,000
Hatchiyack: 1,500,000,000
