"Dad!" shouted Trunks.
"That appetizer has made me quite stronger," said Black, now looking down at Raditz. "I wonder how much more powerful also partaking in Goku's brother will make me."
Raditz stepped forward angrily, and transformed into Super Saiyan Blue, shouting, "Bring it on!"
"Whoa!" gasped Trunks.
"Damn!" cried Ranch, her eyes wide.
"Let's see how you handle Super Saiyan Blue!"
Black applauded. "Magnificent. So this is the warrior race wielding the energy of the gods. Super Saiyan Blue you call it? Well then, I suppose you can call my form Super Saiyan Rosé."
Ranch groaned, "Rosé? That prick is so full of himself."
"You two take care of Vegeta," Raditz told them as he took off after Black.
As Raditz and Black began their brawl through the air, Trunks and Ranch rushed over to Vegeta. Ranch didn't know whether she should be surprised or not that he was still alive, but she smiled all the same. Trunks commented as he looked up at the dueling pair that they seemed to be on par in terms of strength, but Vegeta was just conscious enough to dissuade him of that. His point was driven home when Raditz was sent crashing back down. Black landed on a roof above them and began to charge up a Kamehameha.
"That's enough," a voice cried out. A bright light appeared above them, and from it descended a green skinned man with white hair.
He touched down next to Black, who asked, "Why did you stop me?"
"Because," the newcomer said. "I want them to leave here so that they may return with Son Goku."
Raditz stood up, and said out loud, "Based on what my brother told me you must be Zamasu. So you and Black are different people, then. Are you working together?"
"That would be accurate, yes," confirmed Zamasu.
"Then you're our enemy too!" Raditz declared, getting back into his fighting stance.
"I don't know what's going on but I don't like it," Ranch murmured, glowering at their two foes.
Sitting up, Vegeta weakly growled, "Damn them. I'll…" He then hunched over in pain and fainted.
"Now what?" said Trunks.
"Get back in your time machine and leave," Zamasu ordered. "Retrieve Son Goku so that I may do battle with him."
Raditz angrily yelled and powered up more. "Vegeta's right about one thing! You need to forget about Kakarot and realize your fight is with us!" He then propelled himself back up to meet Zamasu head on.
Raditz punched at Zamasu, but Zamasu merely blocked it with his energy blade. From there they began to trade blows all across the area. Raditz desperately and angrily tried to do all he could land anything but it was to no avail. He remembered Kakarot describing his encounter with Zamasu, but whatever version Raditz was currently facing was a lot stronger.
When Zamasu got a hit on Raditz, he was sent back to the ground and landed in the middle of a roadway. Zamasu then sent a series of ki blasts at him that Raditz managed to nimbly get out of the way of. Suddenly, though, through the cloud of debris, Black appeared again as he launched himself at him. Raditz jumped out of the way of Black's attack, and when he landed Raditz took a stance as both Black and Zamasu stood before him.
"Final warning," Zamasu told him. "Leave so that you may bring Son Goku back here."
"Yes, my body desperately wants to fight him," said Black.
"Go to hell!"
"Very well. You've sealed your fate."
Zamasu charged forward and took a swipe a Raditz with his energy blade. Raditz managed to swiftly get under it, only to see Black coming at him. Damn! He wouldn't be able to get out of the way.
Trunks then appeared and blocked Zamasu's attack with his sword. "We're beating you two no matter what!" Right as he said that Ranch came out of nowhere and kicked Black in the head, launching him into the side of building. Taking advantage of the distraction, Raditz hit Zamasu through some concrete, and then went back to back with Trunks and Ranch, both of whom had shown up as Super Saiyan 2.
"This fight's dangerous," Raditz told them.
"Obviously," said Ranch.
"We're fighting," Trunks told him.
"Then let's show them why they shouldn't mess with Saiyans!"
On top of a building, looking though some binoculars, Bulma repeated in a terrified whisper, "Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap." She didn't want to be there, but Bulma had a bad feeling that she should be.
"Miss Tights, what should we do?" one of the soldiers that had escorted her asked.
"Hang on for now," she said, sounding more confident than she actually was. Bulma went back to surveying the scene, hoping that they would pull a victory out of nowhere just like they always did.
From the debris Black and Zamasu reemerged on either side of the group of Saiyans. Raditz faced Black, while Trunks and Ranch had their eyes on Zamasu. Their two foes traded a look, and they let off simultaneous ki blasts at them. The three jumped straight up into the air to avoid the attacks. Zamasu went after Raditz, who had to dodge several swipes from the energy blade before being grabbed and thrown. Ranch and Trunks attempted to intervene, but Zamasu intercepted them.
Raditz then began flying around wildly to get out of the way of Black's ki blasts. When Black suddenly rushed forward to try and stab Raditz with the energy blade, Raditz quickly turned his body just enough so that only his left arm managed to get grazed. With his right hand, Raditz grabbed Black's wrist and pulled him in to head-butt, and then he slammed his palm into his chest to unleash a pointblank ki blast. But Black suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Raditz, and got him with a ki blast of his own, plowing Raditz into the ground.
He could use Instant Transmission like his brother?
Meanwhile Trunks with sword in hand was hacking and slashing at Zamasu while Ranch tried to catch him off guard. Trunks then managed to stab his sword into Zamasu's gut, and Ranch followed it up by landing a spinning kick on his back to drive him further into the sword. Trunks and Zamasu were face to face, when Zamasu just smirked. Stunned, Trunks raised his foot to kick Zamasu back and pull out his sword. He and Ranch looked on in shock as the wound the sword had made simply began to mend itself.
"That doesn't work," said Zamasu.
"But how?" asked Trunks.
From above Black launched an energy ball that knocked the sword from Trunks' grasp. Black then went in to charge at them, but right then Raditz got back into the fight. "Your fight's with me!" Raditz and Black went back to their one on one, just as Zamasu resumed taking on both Ranch and Trunks.
Zamasu tried to say something to them, but it fell mostly on deaf ears, as Ranch landed a series of punches on him. When one of Ranch's kicks sent him into the wall of a building, she went back to Trunks' side, and after he sheathed his sword, they both took aim at Zamasu with their palms.
"Final Flash!"
"Double Sunday!"
The combined power of both attacks caused a huge explosion that Raditz thought might have done the job. But to their surprise Zamasu just calmly walked out of the smoke unharmed.
Ranch grit her teeth and scowled. "Figures."
"This immortal body of mine is a perfect fit for me," said Zamasu.
"Immortal?" Trunks repeated.
"Indeed, so you must realize the futility of all this," he said. "So do you still intend on resisting?"
"Damn straight, ya frickin prick!"
Raditz suddenly touched down next to them. "So attacks aren't going to work on him."
Then Zamasu spoke again. "Trunks, Ranch, and Raditz. We have given you the chance to escape in return for Son Goku, but have spurned the offer. For that and your flagrant disrespect for the gods, you shall be punished accordingly!"
"Ka…me…ha…me…" They looked behind them to see Black charging up a dark Kamehameha.
Raditz shouted, "Run!"
But just then Zamasu came up behind them, kicked Ranch's knee out from under her, stepped on her back to keep her down, and grabbed Trunks and Raditz around their necks to hold them all in place.
"Ha!" Black's energy beam came at them, and they could do nothing. The attack exploded when it hit them, and when the dust cleared the three of them were just barely conscious and unable to get up.
Zamasu and Black then rose together in the air and raised their arms to produce a large energy ball above their heads, intending to finish things with them once and for all. They tried getting up, in disbelief that this could be it, when an energy beam appeared out nowhere and struck the ball, causing it to blow up. Vegeta, who had fired it off while was Super Saiyan 2, powered down as he lost consciousness again.
"So Vegeta still had strength left in him," Zamasu commented. "The warrior race won't stop resisting until the bitter end."
In the distraction they noticed that Raditz, Trunks, and Ranch were suddenly gone. They then decided that they might as well finish off Vegeta before looking for them. But smoke grenades were launched at them, causing them to have a coughing fit, so they retreated for the moment.
Ranch opened her eyes. The three of them had ended up powering down. She and Trunks were being dragged along on the ground by the scruff of their necks. To her left two soldiers were carrying her father. "Oh, hey guys."
"Hi, ma'am," the soldier grunted, carrying Raditz by the armpits.
Next to her, Trunks said, "You saved us? Thanks. What about—?"
"He should be fine," the other soldier said, holding Raditz by the legs. "When things took a bad turn Miss Tights begged us to save all of you."
"Man, he's heavy!" the first complained.
"Thanks, Yajirobi," Trunks weakly said to the one dragging him and Ranch.
"Sure, whatever," Yajirobi struggled to say, profusely sweating from the effort he was exerting.
When they reached a small clearing, Bulma came out of hiding just as a third soldier showed up on a hover bike with Vegeta on the back of it.
"Thank you all so much!" Bulma said gratefully. "I hate to just leave but I need to take them so that we can regroup."
The soldiers nodded. "You're all our best hope," one of the soldiers said. "Go ahead and do what you have to! We'll be okay."
Bulma took the capsule out of her pocket, and tossed it. "It'll be a tight fit, but please help me get them all inside!"
"No way, I'm staying!" Ranch cried before clutching her side in pain.
"You need to go, Ranch," Trunks told her. "Besides, I can be the one to—" He stopped as his injuries caused him to flinch.
"Quit trying so hard to get yourselves killed! The both of you are coming!" Bulma hollered at them angrily.
"What the hell is this thing? A satellite or something?" asked Yajirobi, as they were being helped inside.
"A time machine," Ranch answered bluntly.
Yajirobi looked at all of them for a second, and replied, "Well, that explains yours dads being here and why Bulma doesn't look as old." Bulma grabbed a piece of rubble and chucked at Yajirobi, nailing in the head. "Ouch! What was that for?"
"Next time phrase that a bit more delicately," she said to him before climbing into the machine. With four other bodies taking up so much room in the cockpit, Bulma had to awkwardly work the controls of the time machine. She pressed the buttons and dials, causing it to whir to life again. The rockets activated and shot them up into the air.
Zamasu and Black were searching for the Saiyans' energy, but it was extremely weak and cluttered by all the humans running around. By the time they noticed them, it was too late. Upon reaching where they last felt them they were gone. But no matter. They would return.