Please excuse the off-schedule release of this chapter. Due to a mixture of things (mainly being less of a priority now compared to other things I'm doing and upcoming exams) the pace of updates is going to be a little more irregular for a few weeks. With that said...

Namek

Broly and Kale had been busy for the past several hours honing their energy control via a regimen of rest and meditation, as organized by their tutor Saonel. The two Saiyans and the Namekians were now meditating while balancing themselves on wooden spires on the top of the Martial Arts Arena's sides, allowing them a view of the sky. In contrast with its Universe 7 counterpart, Namek's twin suns were setting, lighting the sky with the faint orange glow of sunset mixed in with the olive green tint of the grassy plain planet's atmosphere. But the Saiyan pair were growing restless by the minute at this point, and eventually Broly let go of his position and asked a question.

"So, uh… Are we actually going to do any combat training? This meditation stuff is getting kinda boring."

"You already have a surplus of physical strength," Saonel replied, "but you still have to work on controlling and using that energy properly."

"Honestly, I agree with Broly here." Kale chimed in. "I wanna have a sparring match with him. It would be shame not being able to see what he's got."

This remark caught Saonel off-guard. He couldn't recall any other time when Kale had shown such eagerness to fight of her own volition, especially since she had seemingly forgotten the incident with Broly's first transformation earlier that day. Either she's making great strides in getting over her anxiety, or Broly's Universe 7 Saiyan influence is really rubbing off on her…

"Very well, I'll allow a friendly spar. But we're gonna travel to the far side of the planet just in case things get out of hand."

The two Saiyans smiled and high-fived each other in response, not even phased by Saonel's implication as to the nature of their power.

"I didn't know you were a mechanic!"

"I learned some basic skills from my dad when he was still around. Always wanted me to learn the tools of the trade."

So went the interaction between Leemo and Saonel as they glided along the grass together in a small green hovercraft. Cheelai and Caulifla were sitting in the back, gossiping about matters that were an enigma to the two men in the front seat, while Broly and Kale flew right besides the vessel just slightly overhead.

"I think we have flown out far enough." Saonel exclaimed, slowing down the hovercraft. The Saiyans flying at their side also slowed down, dropping closer to the ground as they did so, eventually coming to a stop along with the vehicle, which had been parked close to the edge of a grass cliffside just tall enough to give a view of the wide, mostly empty Namekian valley with some hills and trees in the distance, offering a perfect vantage point of where Broly and Kale would be having their duel.

"I'm excited for you, pal." Cheelai said to Broly with a hand on his back. "I'm sure you'll do great!"

"Don't be so sure, greenie." Cheelai said from behind her, startling Cheelai. "Kale's no weakling either. And if that monkey power thingy from earlier comes into play, Broly's gonna be in for a pounding!"

Cheelai rolled her eyes at this remark before sitting with Cheelai and Saonel. The other two flew down to begin their battle.

Broly and Kale stood with their backs against the other's as if they were about to participate in a stand-off in an old western film. The rest of their friends sat on the nearby cliffside, watching down while humorously noting the size discrepancy between their acquaintances. However, they promptly fell silent and focused as the two warriors began to slowly walk away from each other, their footsteps slow, deliberate and in near perfect harmony. As the distance between them grew, each of them held their hands to their sides and began charging neon green Ki blasts within their outstretched fingers. They continued walking while doing so, but upon the two projectiles being fully charged, they stopped.

In the blink of an eye, they hastily turned around and hurled the Ki blasts at each other. The energy balls met where they had stood back-to-back initially, squishing against each other before vanishing in a small green explosion followed by a cloud of smoke just big enough to totally conceal both combatants. While Cheelai, Leemo and Caulifla squinted in confusion, Saonel merely stood up with his hands behind his back, easily keeping track of the Saiyans' power levels. When they re-emerged, they were right up close to each other, the force of their movement having blown the smoke away. Broly threw a low punch, but Kale was able to take advantage of her height and dodged under the punch with ease. Another punch came her way, but she jumped over it and gave a firm kick to Broly's cheek as she came back down, bouncing off of his face and back to the ground. With this new opening, Kale flew up and threw a volley of punches straight into Broly's chestplate. They didn't seem to do much damage, and they certainly did not stop Broly from aiming his head at Kale and firing more green energy blasts out of it. He continued to fire these pellets while his opponent dodged them while backing away, leaving the blasts to hit the ground and leave sizeable craters in the soil.

"Geez, neither of them have even transformed and they're already fighting like it's a death match." Leemo uttered worriedly. "Are they gonna be OK?"

"Well, Broly doesn't seem to be too phased so far, and Kale is more durable in her base state than she looks." Caulifla replied. "Call me selfish, but I'm a bit more concerned about our own welfare…"

Cheelai and Leemo looked at each other with uncertainty. Saonel did not react, continuing to stare head-on at the escalating battle. Just then, they all heard a rumbling accompanied by an explosion from the air. They all looked back up to see Kale falling limply down to the surface, smoke trailing behind her partially cut-up dress.

"Don't worry, she isn't even unconscious, let alone dead." their Namekian guide said before any of them could show any sort of concern. "She's trying to fake out Broly, I can tell."

If that was the case, the trick was working swimmingly. Even from that distance the spectators could see Broly partially trembling in place, wondering if he had let himself too lose yet again.

"Is she insane?!" Cheelai interjected with frustration. "She should know damn well that deceiving Broly like that is playing with fire. What if he loses it again?"

"I have no idea what she's thinking," Caulifla replied, "all I know is that this battle is bringing out a side of her that resembles her opponent's recklessness."

Kale finally flapped one eye open and smirked. With the gap made via Broly's hesitation, she quickly put her body into position and fired a beam that the Saiyan couldn't react to in time, forcing him to take it head on. When the green light cleared, he wasn't too terribly damaged aside from a few bruises and cuts in his clothes, but as it cleared he could hear a swishing sound. When his vision was totally clear again, he could see Kale had used the opening to transform into the basic Super Saiyan state she had demonstrated during their meditation training, the golden aura matching the color of her extended hair.

Kale teleported in front of Broly and launched a vicious lunging punch. Her opponent could already feel by just how much the force of this blow had multiplied compared to the previous ones. He lifted his feet, glided off the ground and rapidly flew backwards, ducking and dodging the volley of mid-air fists Kale was throwing. When one of the punches glided just past his head and ruffled his hair slightly, Broly grabbed her outstretched arm and gained a firm hold on it. While Kale struggled, the taller Saiyan spun her around, searching for a place to throw her. Finally, he made sight of the mouth of a distant, small cave. After a few more spins around his head, she flung Kale at top speed into the opening. She flew far, but was ultimately able to stop herself just before making contact with the back wall. When she regained her composure, she noticed that there was a huge hole inside the cave that went straight down into a dark abyss. And instead of leaving to continue her fight, she slowly began to drop down it, through which Broly eventually came and followed her through.

At first, nothing could be seen. But as Kale dropped farther and farther down the wide hole, she eventually caught a blue-tinted light at the end of the vertical tunnel. The sight that greeted her upon touching down to the very bottom mesmerized her, serving as the only thing thus far that had been able to distract her from the mighty battle with Broly. The wide stone room underneath the unassuming cave entrance was filled to the brim with sparkling water, where gray rock platforms stood within or even occasionally flowed along with the fast-paced stream that was running through the whole length of the tunnel that began from the central room, with other similar, semispherical openings appearing further down the vast stream. The walls of the cave and even the stalactites and stalagmites were dotted with brilliant azure diamonds, whose vibrant sheen lit up the whole cave with a tranquilizing blue hue. Kale stood in the current area on one of two stone platforms, which faced directly opposite each other. And following a few seconds of rumbling and calling by a familiar voice, Broly touched down on the other platform and came face-to-face with his counterpart.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Kale asked. "You almost don't wanna fight anymore. When you think of it that way, maybe it was a mistake coming down here."

"It's no mistake for me, that's for sure." Broly replied. "Not even a month ago, a place such as this would've been beyond even my wildest dreams. To see it, to feel it with my own body and hands… ...It's dreamlike."

"I'd like to say thank you, Kale."

"Wh- what? I barely did anything! We haven't even known each other for a week!"

"You're right, physically you haven't done much. But your mere existence motivated me to make the journey to Universe 6. In this short time, I have met so many new, exciting people, good and bad. I have seen marvels of machinery and nature that were elusive to me beyond a wrinkly, eventually destroyed little book. If your mere existence could push a man like me to discover so much in such little time, then I can't wait to see what you'll do - what we'll do - if we spend more time together."

Kale was momentarily flattered by the giant's speech. Before long, however, her mind turned to the more immediately pressing question.

"So, are we going to fight in here? It's a great battlefield, but I don't wanna ruin this place."

Broly and Kale's auras wrapped around them as they powered up together. The combination of gold and white slowly faded for both parties into a bright green sheath of Ki, enveloping them as their bodies changed and multiplied in power. While Kale's hair grew even longer and adopted a green color, Broly strained and struggled as he had done earlier that day to enter his Great Ape state without going berserk. Slowly but surely his eyes turned gold and his hair stuck up higher and higher without changing color. As his form came closer to its full power, he had to groan and grit his teeth harder while maintaining further concentration. Meanwhile, Kale's mind was already being clogged up by that primal mindset that she had taken on earlier. She too strained herself to not give in to the omen and keep control.

After charging for a bit, both fighters fell silent and their auras snapped out of existence, leaving them in their almost-transformed states. They slowly lifted their heads, with Kale's emerald irises meeting Broly's gold ones. At first they remained neutral, only breathing. Then, they smiled before allowing their power to come out slowly and engulf the arena, momentarily blocking out the blue shine of the cave with their green before it dimmed and only appeared around where they stood. Kale could feel the new slice of Broly's latent ancestral power blazing inside her, providing a boost to fight on the other Saiyan's level. Meanwhile, the latter looked upon his beefed-up body, admiring his newfound control over the state which had caused him so much difficulty in the past.

Broly and Kale warped before their fists clashed in the center of the stone room. They continued to chase after one another down the illuminated underground stream, their rapid movement cleaving through the water as they swiped and blasted at each other while going further down. At one point, after dodging another punch, Kale flipped upside down and set her feet on the top of the cave. From her vantage point, she fired two green homing blasts at her rival, who momentarily fled the other way in a bid to escape the missiles. When he saw this would not be possible, he took in a deep breath before diving into the water of the stream, which he swam through while still being chased after by the blasts. Kale was now having a hard time keeping track of where Broly was, his Ki signature being heavily muddied by the blasts she had sent and the stream itself. Suddenly she felt the energy rise exponentially; in that time, Broly had already appeared behind her before she could even realize, delivering a swift elbow to her back and sending her crashing through the leftmost wall of the tunnel. Despite hitting the rock, she continued to smash through it, making a deep burrow until Broly could no longer see her. He once again made chase, his own size making the hole even wider. But when he reached the end, Kale was already there, having just finished charging another beam between her hands, which she fired at full force. Broly kept trying to move through it, but now he had to land on the ground and struggle against it, and overall he was being pushed back. This didn't last long, however, for when Broly was reaching the mouth of the smaller tunnel their fight had carved, he retaliated with his own mouth beam, which clashed with Kale's. Both fighters powered up their beams making them grow wider and wider, neither being able to get a decisive upper hand. Their beams became so large and so bright that they eventually clogged up their arena and totally engulfed it in a blinding, neon green light, obscuring both of them.

"Oh c'mon, what the heck?" Caulifla asked impatiently, still sitting with her new friends on the very same cliff. "We've been waiting for nearly 3 minutes now. I came here to watch a fight, not a vanishing act!"

"I've already explained they've been fighting underground." Saonel replied. "Haven't you felt the tremors?"

"Weird how good your hearing is, but you can't listen to me. I wanted to watch them fight more! What am I supposed to do, use my imagination?"

Shortly after this sarcastic remark, the ground began to shake again. This tremor was the most turbulent they had experienced yet, jostling them around to where Cheelai was tempted to wrap herself around one of the other members of their party for support. Eventually, the rumble subsided as two trails of green Ki blasted out from and shattered the top of a distant cave. The two auras flew upwards in unison before sharply curving away from each other.

Broly turned back towards his opponent and braced himself for the mighty impact that awaited him. As he got closer, he saw Kale too was preparing one final punch of her own. Her eyes, formerly aquamarine in color, were now totally yellow, and her face had taken a more intent, almost deranged-looking glare. Understanding what this meant, Broly momentarily let loose and manifested his latent rage just this once before they clashed at top speed.

The contact of the two warriors' fists sent a shockwave along the ground below which ruffled the grass and awoke various bugs and other small creatures in the soil from the torrential wind that it created. The two hung in the air, processing the force for a mere second before both were sent flying backwards, eventually crashing and dragging into the ground dozens of meters away from each other. The mounds of dirt their impact flung up circled around and clouded their bodies lying on the ground.

"Well, that must've hurt." Leemo said awkwardly, not really sure what else he could say in this situation. He looked towards their Namekian partner and asked "Are they ok?"

Saonel continue to stand where he had stood the entire time. He said nothing.

"Saonel, answer the question." Cheelai asserted.

He said nothing.

"Fine then. If you're not gonna show proper manners, I'm gonna check up on them myself." As she began to walk towards the cliffside preparing to drag down, however, a gust of wind stopped her. It wasn't anything overly severe, but if was enough to catch her by surprise, blowing her hair around frantically and forcing her to stop where she was standing. She turned back to Leemo and Caulifla: They were surprised as well. That's when she noticed how much darker they and the ground had become. When she looked up, the entire sky, which only a moment ago had been a beautiful green and orange of the final hours of the daytime, was now totally covered in imposing, thick dark clouds, letting through only a miniscule ration of sunlight.

"I'm no astronomer," Caulifla said while looking up in tandem with her peers, "but I don't think that's supposed to happen."

Before any of them could comprehend what was happening, the darkening, empty plain was then bathed by an emerald-green flash.

Plantayne

He hadn't found the need to so much as lift his body from his new throne, but already dozens of dead soldiers were strewn around the carpeted floor of the room of the Royal Museum of the Divine which Derma and Mamba had occupied. The hole that had bored in earlier by the weapons of the mysterious bandits Frost and Sansho offered a view of the outside world, where they could occasionally spot military craft circling around the target, searching for an opening. There too were a few armored, broken bodies. None of this had been able to make Derma or his mother break a sweat; they were already on the verge of zoning out.

And yet, at that moment, he felt something. It was vague and distant, but he was already familiar with this feeling. Turning to the right of his new throne, he saw that Mamba, who had been sitting at its side, was now stood upright, staring blankly out the hole in the wall.

"You feel it too, don't you mother?"

"I may be old, but that doesn't mean you should ask the obvious."

There was a pause before Mamba spoke again.

"So what do you think, my dear?" she asked.

"I'm still not quite sure what to think, truth be told. What I do know is that there will be far less survivors after the purge than I had originally speculated."

Back on Namek…

The isolated plain now resembled the site of a cataclysmic event. The sheer force that had been exerted just a few moments earlier had torn and vaporized the grass from the turf for miles around, leaving nothing but cold, dry stone. Dust was now whipping around wildly in the dark gray sky, and off in the distance mountains that once stood proudly overseeing the expanse of land now had massive craters and punctures in their sides. Not a single living creature could be seen all around, save for two major exceptions.

The ferocious, sparking power that coursed throughout Broly's body, the very same sensation that had pierced itself into the Saiyan's rapidly-beating heart and his wild mind was utterly maddening. As he lifted his immensely-muscled form and the tiny fragments of blue cloth that once formed the training outfit Saonel had given him faded out of view, he got a full glimpse at the figure standing within the miles-high barrier of green light, casting its shine just a small distance away from him. She too possessed an equally intimidating figure, her own muscles having multiplied in size to an extent that Broly had no prior reference to while stretching her own similar outfit. Most noticeably, however, every other feature in her eye other than her clear white sclera had vanished, and her hair had grown even longer and fully assumed the green shade that had become so iconic among the people of her home planet; a mirror reflection of the state Broly was in at that moment, save for a trace of lipstick around her mouth.

Broly was worried out of his mind. This sight and the scenery surrounding it were far too uncannily similar to the nightmare he had prior to landing on Sadal. He was half-expecting the mysterious force to re-appear and suck the two warriors towards each other. But if you looked at his face or his posture, you would find zero evidence. In fact, Broly himself wasn't even aware of this uncertainty, for it had long since been buried underneath the full manifestation of the undying lust for battle of his innumerable ancestors. And rather than cowering in fear or making any attempt to communicate to Kale beforehand, he merely gave a crooked smile and lurched his body into position, bracing it for flight. The other woman responded similarly before the two hurled themselves at one another with not a shred of regret or hesitation.

The first punch the pair tossed at each other shattered the ground beneath them further, forming a smaller shockwave that kicked up bits of dust and gravel as their fists made soon as this transpired, Broly and Kale dropped to the ground and began to furiously clash their fists. Neither was able to gain the upper hand until Kale whiffed a blow, letting Broly grab her arm. With the memory of the first time this had happened fresh in her mind, she screamed and fired a blast into Broly's face before kicking him away in the stomach. She flew at him while he was still recovering from the blow. She prepared to swing yet another punch, but this time Broly generated a thin, translucent green barrier around him before diving down into the ground, crafting a craggy hole in the terrain as he did so. Kale stopped right above the freshly burrowed hole, looking around her and down the hole to try to locate him. When she looked back up, she only then just dodged a large green beam coming vertically out of the hole in time. Before she knew it, another came out from the ground at the spot where she had dodged. This cycle of dodging and beams coming from the underground continued until she became fed up with it, which didn't take long considering her already animalistic state. She lifted up her right fist, which became enshrouded in green aura. She crashed it down directly into the ground with a beastly shout, the impact causing the ground beneath her to totally crumble into a massive crater, exposing the previously submerged Broly to the elements. Before he could formulate a new plan of attack, Kale charged at him, jumped up and began to press her foot down on his neck as she came back down. He let out a few groans at the pain as his body was bent lower and lower. Kale giggled in satisfaction, but this glee was replaced by surprise as Broly turned back to look up at her and fired yet another mouth beam directly into her face. While she was off-balance, Broly wrapped his arms around her in a bear-hug and suplexed her into the rock, causing a loud smash to echo all around. He turned back to look at his downed target, who was already lifting herself up with a shake in her movements. The two green-haired brutes looked at each other once more before continuing their fight.

Cheelai got up from the ground in a daze. As she lifted up her body, her orange companion Leemo was able to do so as well, no longer trapped under the other. Just a few feet away from them, Caulifla was already sat up, rubbing her head with a slight groan. When they got up on their feet and realized the state of the area at that moment, they turned to Saonel, who had seemingly gotten up much earlier than them, for he was stood in same standing position from earlier. When the other three looked out from the cliff which now had several big cuts in its face, they saw their Saiyan friends clashing in their ultimate forms.

"They really just went full power, didn't they?" Cheelai asked after taking a deep breath.

"So, do we evacuate the planet or not?" Leemo asked. Caulifla and Cheelai looked back at him disapprovingly; Leemo realized his question was stupid to ask around the Saiyans' best friends who wouldn't want to abandon them any time soon.

"Namek will be fine." Saonel calmly replied. "It's endured some very difficult times in the past. Besides, it seems like Broly and Kale have just enough control to not do anything that could outright destroy it."

"And you know this because…?" Caulifla asked.

Saonel opened his mouth to respond. Before long, however, he realized he didn't have a valid answer. He fell silent before turning back to the battle.

Broly and Kale, still standing in the middle of the sprawling crater they had formed, now had their arms wrapped around each others', wrestling vigorously. They had a brief back-in-forth in this position, pushing and pulling the other back and forth, unable to gain a decisive advantage. Broly prepared to fire yet another mouth blast, but Kale caught onto this lightning-fast, responding with a similar attack just in time. The two beams pushed them apart from each other, and upon fading away, Kale was in a position to try out yet another new technique. Stretching her right arm up, Ki began to gather all around the hand and upper part of the arm into a blade.

"Hey!" Caulifla called to Saonel upon watching this. "I think she's copying your Ki sword!"

"Not quite."

Back on the battlefield, Kale's green weapon began to develop two protrusions from other side. They steadily formed into two curved blades, transforming the blade into a large battleaxe. From her distance, it only took a single leap for the woman to reach Broly and swing the weapon at him. He spun out of the way, with a large gash in the earth being left where he formerly stood. Kale merely took this as a challenge and continued to wildly swing her axe at Broly, forcing him to walk back slowly while dodging the attacks.

After this went on for a while, Broly leapt far back and began to charge something within both of his palms. Kale was angered by this and once again ran at him with her weapon. Broly merely continued to charge the strange attack until thin strings of green Ki began to extend from the backs of his hands, almost as if they were the whiskers of some sort of large beast. While Caulifla squinted trying to make out what he was doing, Cheelai and Leemo's minds flashed all the way back to the battle on Earth, remembering the technique Goku had used to momentarily immobilize Broly, and how he had been able to partially copy it shortly after escaping it. Sure enough, his former opponent pointed his palms at Kale just as she tried to attack, and before she knew it she could no longer move. While she struggled against the force, Broly stood there and broke a sweat in satisfaction. Instead of counter-attacking, he merely stood in place while breathing heavily. So tired he was that he failed to notice when Kale broke it. Thankfully, she too was exhausted, assuming a similar breathing routine to her sparring partner.

"Alright, how the heck are they already this tired?" Caulifla asked indignantly.

"Yeah, that's a bit strange. Broly has fought people just as strong without getting this tuckered out." Cheelai said alongside the other woman, thinking back to Frieza and the one known as Gogeta. "Either way, at least this fight is winding down."

All of them looked a little relieved upon hearing this. But of course, there was always one exception, as had been case the entire time they had been spectating. That one exception was their Namekian guide Saonel, who his partners faced upon seeing he was not reacting the same as they were, keeping up his stoic observation.

"Oh great," Caulifla groaned, "now what?"

"You're partially correct," Saonel said facing towards them. "their fight is coming to a close. Your mistake was assuming it would end with a whimper rather than a bang."

Kale shook herself out of her stupor and growled once again, stirring her opponent to action once more. Her aura shaking around her more powerfully than ever before, she jettisoned herself straight into the air until all the people and cracks in the land below her shrunk to a fraction of their normal size. She pointed her arm diagonally downward at Broly, energy gravitating towards the center of her hand and building up into a big blast. From the ground, Broly could see the Ki gathering and responded with his own attack. He held up both his arms upright, where another large green sphere materialized between them. The mere force of these attacks being charged was enough to shatter the earth even further, with the lightning that came out of them extending and dragging across the ground leaving massive gashes from which lava and more bursts of green energy came out from. In his first display of caring up until that point , Saonel created a barrier around him and the other spectators, protecting them from falling as the cliff on which they sat on crumbled into a pile of rocks beneath their feet. With their blasts now fully charged, Broly and Kale looked at each other one last time before firing them with disturbing cackles. The world around them violently shook as the two spheres clashed together in a brilliant green spectacle, illuminating the desolate land their battle had created. Broly too lifted himself into the air, firing scatters of smaller shots to power up his original, massive projectile in a bid to overwhelm Kale's. The muscular woman did the same, and the conglomerate of energy continued to expand and mesh further. After firing a few additional blasts, however, Broly suddenly felt a new sensation; a throbbing sore coursing throughout his body. As he grunted in pain, he looked to see Kale reacting to something painful, her hair now flickering between green and its original black shade as if she was rapidly running out of energy. Both of them understood they had to end this fight soon, and so they did, expending their very last reserves firing near-identical beams in unison to power up the original super-sized energy balls as much as they could. As soon as the last of their final beams trickled out of their palms, the clashing bombs began to glow a bright white.

"Brace yourselves!" Saonel said to Caulifla, Cheelai and Leemo while strengthening the barrier he had erected earlier. They instinctively crowded behind him right as Broly and Kale's attacks disappeared in a brilliant explosion. The glistening shockwave trailed around for miles, engulfing and suffocating entire Namekian villages that fell within its radius. Even the sky was consumed by its indomitable luster, leaving nearly a third of the planet as nothing but a blinding white space.

As Saonel lowered the barrier, Caulifla, Cheelai and Leemo arose to a sight they hadn't been able to anticipate earlier. It was if the chaos of Broly and Kale's legendary duel had been magically reversed: The sky was the cloudless dark green of sunset once more, and the blanket of grass that had been cleaved off the ground before had almost totally regrown. The only thing that hadn't been restored were the large gashes that had been left in the earth, whose innards now were covered in a moss-like substance sprouting bountiful pink flowers. As the trio scanned the horizon, they saw their two comrades laying face-down on the ground, their clothes tattered and their bodies wounded.

Broly felt Cheelai and Leemo lift him up gently. His progressively clearing vision saw Saonel and Caulifla helping Kale up in a similar way. His body was aching all over, but for him it was the good kind of soreness, like that felt after a good exercise routine. Kale, must've felt similarly, for while she was hobbling slowly with her friends' assistance, she too couldn't help but smile.

"So, did you have fun?" Cheelai asked Broly somewhat nervously a few minutes later as he and Kale were being sat down and bandaged up.

"Mhm." he replied.

The two sat in silence as their wounds were tended to. Eventually, while Saonel silently deliberated with himself as to how he would explain the bizarre weather conditions and frightening explosion to the Elders, Kale spoke up.

"Hey sis, I wanna ask you something." she addressed Caulifla.

"Alright pal, waddya want?" she replied.

"Can we..."

"Hm?"

The group was surprised when Kale said her next line in perfect unison with Broly.

"Can we do that again?"

Saonel tucked his face into his hands with a frown. The rest of the spectators gave one last nervous chuckle.

Many hours had passed since the incredible conflict from earlier, and the last rays of Namek's suns had long since given way to a brilliant starred nighttime. This time of the day could be sensed everywhere; for instance, the great Hall of Elders off to the northeast had had even its most studious denizens retire for the night, their various devices and utensils left at their desks. Even the greatest villages had had their citizens fall into a silent, peaceful slumber, with their formerly-busy streets totally uncrowded. In one of these villages just like any other was Saonel's lifelong hut, where his friends old and new had chosen to spend the night with their ship parked nearby.

This night was far from Broly's first sleepless night; it hadn't even been his first in the past week, after all. But this time, there was no fear, no abrasion. Much like the sleeping children in nearby households, he too was in a state of bliss, aided further by his full recovery courtesy of the local village healers. Cheelai had tried to get him to settle down earlier, but there he was anyway, looking outside his hollow window into the stars while his compatriots were in a deep sleep. This was not a meaningless act of sight-seeing, however, for as Broly counted each and every one of the shining, distant constellations, he was pondering quite deeply. At that moment, he was finalizing his plan which he had been concocting for the past hour. He was a little nervous that he would stir attention to himself, but then he remembered the incredible progress in self-control he had made earlier that day alone, which reassured him. Taking a significant, yet quiet breath, he slowly shuffled out of his bed, gently paced out the door and towards the ship from which he had came.

Unsure of how long it had been, Broly flew further north until he finally reached an empty plain of grass; the newly formed mossy cracks denoted it as the same one he had fought at earlier. He dropped down from the air more gently than he ever had before, careful not to drop the well-preserved corpse of Paragus that was nestled in his arms.

The Saiyan took his time digging a hole in the soil for his father to rest in. When enough of a room had been scraped up, he gently placed the body in the freshly-carved resting place and began to fill it back up with dirt. Little by little his father fell out of sight; his body, arms and legs all were covered until all that could be seen was his face. Taking what he knew would likely be the last look at his relative's face during his lifetime, he scooped up the last bit of dirt, poured it on him and patted it down. When all of this was done, Broly merely sat in silence, resuming his stargazing with a much better view. Oh how he wished that Paragus could see such a wondrous view for himself after he had went through so, so much. But alas, things had not turned out that way. At least he'll be able to take a nice long rest on this beautiful planet after such a crazy life his protege thought, ultimately deciding to spend even more time at the little tomb.

Broly continued to look at the array of stars. So transfixed he was on the glorious night sky that he initially failed to catch on to the soft tap of footsteps from behind him. When he did notice, however, he already knew who it was.

"Hey Broly." Kale said quietly. Broly turned, waved to her and gestured her to come sit next to him.

"What are you doing out here?" she asked.

"Looking at the stars. Can't get myself to sleep."

"Ha! Same here. How can anyone sleep after experiencing something like that?"

Just then, she noticed the disturbed patch of dirt at the other Saiyan's feet.

"What's this?" she asked, gently tapping it with her foot.

"Don't touch it! Dad is resting there."

"Dad? But you told me he... Oh. I-I'm sorry."

She squirmed a bit in shame. Broly smiled and put his hand on her shoulder.

"It's alright! Simple mistake. Perhaps I should've marked the grave a little better."

"Thanks. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda impressed you're taking this so lightly. Although maybe it's warranted considering some of the things Cheelai said about him..."

"Yeah, we've had a rough history at times. Truth is, while I understand the things he did to me were very bad, I can't help but feel sorry for him. Spending several decades on a place like Vampa with no external contact after serving in a high-ranking position in an army of great warriors must've been rough for him."

"Rough? Are you kidding me?" Kale replied. "With having to deal with all that plus taking care of you, it's no wonder he ended up with a few screws lose."

"Y'know, I just realized that I've never asked you about your parents. What were they like?"

Kale's composed demeanor faded in favor of a hollow stare at this question. She curled up slightly without responding.

"Oh goodness! I'm sorry if that's too much of a rough subject for you. I hope I didn't spoil the-"

"Broly?" she interrupted.

"Yes?"

"Can you keep a secret?"

"O... Ok?"

"I haven't really told this to many other people. You see, I never really had parents."

"What?! You can't be serious."

"Well, that's not entirely true. I had a caretaker, but she was..."

"Y'know what?" she interjected after a brief silence. "Scratch that. I think it's best I start from the beginning..."

Hello again everyone! With this chapter (which despite how long it took to come out really was mad fun to write), we're now more or less past the halfway point. However, the story's gonna be a taking a brief detour for a chapter or two to flesh out Broly's newest companion. We're gonna be dialing back the clock 8 years to witness the harrowing tale behind the Saiyan girls' unbreakable friendship and the mysterious backstory of Universe 6's Legendary Super Saiyan. Tune in next time for Primal Legend's first and likely only special chapter: Episode of Kale!