Chapter 22

Present Timeline - New Namek

Vegeta used Spirit Ficcion to both stop Moro´s Energy Drain and attack him at the same time.

The first strike - that didn´t even hit him directly but was from the distance - already caught him off guard and weakened him.

The second - that actually hit him, right into the stomach - caused him to double over in pain. And the third punch threw him off his feet and on the ground.

With every strike some of the energy he had stolen from others was forced out of him and then automatically returned to it´s original owners.

"What - what kind of technique is that?" Moro asked in shock.

"It is called Forced Spirit Ficcion. And as you see the Namekians and their Dragon Ball are not here. We warned them that you are coming and evacuated them to another place just before you appeared," Vegeta explained.

"But all that is not longer really important to you," he stated. "Because for you it is over."

He now powered up and transformed into SSB form.

Moro´s eyes widened. He now realized just how powerful this opponent truly was.

"Vegeta - think about what we discussed earlier," 18 said. "Finish him off now, before he pulls some other trick. The people he had killed can we bring back with the Dragon Balls."

Cranberry, seeing the situation Moro was in and visibly scared of Vegeta, had made a small step towards her. Maybe to take 18 hostage. Little did he know how hopeless this was and that Eighteen was not really a better option for him than the Saiyan Prince.

"You know - you should better leave here," 18 commented to him. "As long as you still have the chance. We didn´t come for you."

But instead he jumped forward to attack her, obviously completely underrestimating 18 because his scouter got no reading from her.

18 just raised her hand and blasted him into atoms.

"He should have listened," she said.

"Too bad," Moro stated with gritted teeth. He had just been standing up again. "I still had use for him. I would have probably killed him myself later on, but now it was at a bad time."

"That makes no difference for you," Vegeta stated.

He started to charge up a blast.

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On Earth - Seventeen´s Island

Android 17, Piccolo and Gohan were meanwhile standing together at the beach of his island.

While they all were following their task of guarding Earth, they decided to make a small visit.

Gohan didn´t say it, but he was actually glad for this chance to take a short break from everything. The entire day his and Videls home had been practically under siege by journalists and fans. It was the same with the home of his parents and as he heard even with Krillin´s and 18´s house and Tien´s dojo.

That came with the revelation of the Z-fighters. But for the safety of the world and avoiding a mass-panic, it was a small price to pay.

"It looks good so far," Seventeen commented.

"As expected, both Vegeta and 18´s power outmatch Moro´s current one so far that it can not even be taken serious," Piccolo stated. "His Energy Drain might have made a difference - maybe." But even that were unlikely if Vegeta and 18 just did their job and just blasted Moro away, he thought silently.

"But with the Spirit Ficcion and 18 being immune to it anyway, it became useless."

"Yes - Vegeta should win this easy," Gohan said. "And just for the case we still have Eighteen."

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New Namek

"I see," Moro said. He was standing right in front of Vegeta.

"You are indeed far more powerful than anyone I have ever met before. It seems I have absolutely no chance against you," he stated.

"Do I...?" he suddenly called out.

I strange glowing transparent energy-sphere suddenly lighted up around both of them.

Then Moro´s body was with incredible speed shooting towards Vegeta´s and their two shapes literally merged together in a bright light.

For a moment 18 could only stare with an open mouth, as a figure was standing before her that closely ressembled Vegeta. Only with Moro´s horns, an slightly too long face and a white beard at his chin.

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Seventeen´s Island

"What?" Gohan called out as he sensed the sudden change in Vegeta´s energy.

"Damn it - that is what I have feared," Piccolo exclaimed. "Some kind of absorbtion technique or forced Fusion."

"Another one," Seventeen stated in anger, remembering what just happened to himself and Eighteen.

"But his new technique should be able to free him from this, right?" Gohan suggested.

"Yes - if Vegeta manages to control his body enough to use it," Piccolo pointed out. "Otherwise it is on 18."

He didn´t say it aloud. But they all knew that he meant if Vegeta could not free himself, she would had maybe to kill both Moro and him.

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New Namek

"Since I have no chance against you, I am simply taking over your body," the Moro creature said grinning.

The ki Vegeta had been charging up right before was still concentrated in his hand. Moro just fired it as a blast up into the sky as a small test.

"Strange - this was a technique I never thought I would actually use," he stated. "But it was truly worth it. Fantastic - I am stronger than I ever imagined and I sense that this body can actually power up even more."

But just in the same second, he already started to seem to have problems.

He suddenly froze in his movement.

"Ou-... Out," his lips said.

"Get out of my body!" the merged figure suddenly screamed.

One of his hands was moving... towards his own body.

But then suddenly it stopped.

"Ah - I see. This technique of yours can even separate Fusions. But you need to be able to use your body to do it," the Moro side of the merged being said.

"Oh - Yes?" Vegeta´s voice replied. "Eighteen - distract him. I just need one short moment."

His body was still struggling with itself.

"Distract?" she said.

"Just beat the crap out of me - damn it."

She didn´t hesitate to follow his request, jumped forward and punched him right in the gut.

"You..." the Moro-Vegeta Fusion growled.

But was just followed by a punch in the face.

"Sto..."

And a kick, again in the stomach.

Moro was send flying backwards and landed hard on the ground. `His´ entire body was in pain. He swore he would make that artificial bitch pay for that.

In the moment that he fully recovered his senses and tried to stand up however, he noticed that his left hand had moved right in front of his chest and was charging up ki energy... and to his shock he realized that it was not him controlling that hand.

As the Forced Spirit Ficcion was released on a close range, he was thrown backwards once again. But this time he was being split-up into the two bodies of Moro and Vegeta.

Both were landing on the ground next to each other.

"You," Vegeta was growling in pure rage at the shocked looking Moro before him.

In the next moment he had fired a ki blast that pierced a hole right through the so called World Eater´s chest. And a split-second later a second one that burned him away completely.

"Are you okay?" Eighteen asked him.

"I have been better," he replied. "But I have also been worse. Thank you."

"I was just returning a favor."

"I have never apologized," he said. "For the time I let Cell get to you."

Eighteen´s face seemed to become unreadable for a moment - even more than usual.

"Apology accepted," she just said stoically.

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A few minutes later they were meeting up with the Namekians.

"Is it over?" Elder Moori asked. "Is he gone?"

"Yes," Vegeta said. "It is over."

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New Future Timeline

"I see - so in the end Moro tried to merge himself with the entire planet Earth and everyone gave me their energy to stop him," Goku stated.

"... even you Uub."

"The Spirit of the Grand Kaioshin somehow appeared to me and explained to me what to do. Of course I did not know why exactly or even who he was," Uub said.

"He just told me that the world was in danger and that I needed to give my energy to help. And somehow it seemed right."

"In the next four years after Moro was stopped not much actually happened," Goten stated.

"Until Demigra reappeared and you, Vegeta, Gohan, Seventeen, Eighteen and Piccolo left together with Beerus, Whiz and the Kaioshin to fight him."

"And we never returned," Goku stated.

"No," Bulma said. "It wasn´t much later that 21 attacked."

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At another part of the planet, the cloned brain of Doctor Gero had meanwhile received the news about the time-travel of two of the Z-fighters and all what happened in the past timeline.

And especially about the fact that Goku had returned with them.

And while the return of his greatest enemy was certainly a more than concerning threat, a part of him could not help but feel excited.

After all those years he would finally once again have the chance to kill Goku himself in person.

But it also meant that he had to speed his plans up.

The Android body they had created from the cells of that saiyan Broly will be more than perfect to be his own mind´s new vessel.

He would end Goku with his own hands and then he would be the ruler of the world and the entire Galaxy.

Humanity would die and he and 21 would be the creators of a new race of Artificial Beings to replace them.

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The Dimensional Rift

It seems Moro - the being you wanted to use as your instrument has failed Towa... again," Demigra stated.

"That is true," she admitted. "But in this timeline he had been stopped early. In the other one we have watched, he had grown into a very serious threat to them."

"But still not succeeded," he countered. "You are right however that he showed potential. There are still other timelines out there... and more candidates for us."

I am already posting this short chapter here with the conclussion of the Moro fight, that it mostly consisted of. I wanted to wrap this up first, before fully concentrating on the new future and it´s climax.

The next one will have the full length again.