VJ hung lifelessly in a rejuvenation tank, in hopes that he might recover in time to help Goshin. Professor L had discovered that he was just barely alive and they got him to the first available tank they could find.
"So now what do we do, Professor?" asked Nail.
"All we can do is wait and hope that Goshin is powerful enough to hold his own against Zuccil until VJ is healed." said the Professor.
"Is VJ really the only one who can help him?" asked Jarelle.
"At this point I'm afraid so, Jarelle. Once VJ gets out of that tank, he might even be stronger then Goshin. If he can achieve Super Saiyan as well, Zuccil won't stand a chance against the two of them together." said the Professor.
"That's assuming that Goshin lasts long enough for VJ to recuperate." said Nail.
Back at the hanger, Goshin and Zuccil were at a face off. Goshin was totally unaffected by Zuccil's explosion of ki blasts. Zuccil's rage was building as he glared at Goshin.
"You smug little brat!" he snarled. "How dare you…"
"What, Zuccil? I haven't done anything." said Goshin. "You've brought this on yourself!"
"Don't give me that philosophical bull shit that your idiot grandfather clung so tightly to, Half-Breed!" Zuccil growled. "I'm more powerful then you and I always will be!!"
"Then why can't you hurt me, Zuccil?" asked Goshin.
"WATCH ME!!" Zuccil bellowed.
He lunged to swing his fist at Goshin's head. Goshin caught the punch mid-stream and kicked up. Zuccil grabbed his leg and threw him toward the ground. Goshin caught himself in mid-air as Zuccil came down on him. He spun around just as Zuccil drilled him in the face. Suddenly Zuccil was behind him and kicked him up into the air.
In the next instant, Zuccil met him thirty feet up and stopped him with an elbow to the gut. Goshin's eyes were wide as Zuccil grabbed his head and legs. Zuccil lifted Goshin up and proceeded to break him over his knee.
Goshin wailed in agony as his spine made various crunching and popping noises. He fell silently to the ground as Zuccil smiled darkly at him. He hit the ground hard and lay motionless as blood ran down from his right eye.
Zuccil held his arms up at his sides and charged a large ki ball in each one.
"DOUBLE SUNDAY!!" he yelled.
Zuccil fired the blast and it hit Goshin with nuclear force. It exploded tremendously, blowing off the entire left wing of the prison. Zuccil smirked darkly as a cloud of smoke billowed below him.
Back at rejuvenation chamber, air bubbles gurgled up from under VJ's breathing mask as he hung in the fluid. Nail and Jarelle looked worryingly at him as time passed slowly. Professor L watched the monitors in horror as saw the power level readings on the planet.
One of the power levels had become dangerously low very quickly, and the Professor knew it was Goshin.
"Hurry up, VJ," he whispered, "you're Goshin's only chance for survival."
Another bubble escaped from the mask as if VJ were using it to answer Professor L's plea of haste. As consciousness came back to him, VJ caught the Goshin and Zuccil's power levels. He was horrified that Goshin's power had propped so drastically.
'Goshin…hold on…' he though. 'I'll be there as soon as I can…'
"WE CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!" Nail growled. "Goshin's getting killed out there and were just sitting here!!"
"But what can we possibly do to help, Nail?" asked Jarelle.
"We can buy VJ more time to heal." said Nail. "And maybe give Goshin time to get his second wind."
"NO! YOU'RE NOT GOING OUT THERE!" yelled the Professor.
Jarelle noticed that he was looking directly at her. She took a deep breath and looked her father in the eyes.
"Yes I am, dad," she said, "I'm not just going to sit on the side lines and watch my friends get slaughtered."
"Jarelle, it's too dangerous!!" Professor L commanded.
"I'M NOT SOME LITTLE GIRL WHO NEEDS PROTECTING!!!" Jarelle screamed. "I CAN FIGHT FOR MYSELF!!"
"J-Jarelle…" said the Professor, taken aback.
"I'm going to help my friends and there's nothing you can do to stop me!" said Jarelle.
Nail smiled and nodded his head. The Professor stood up straight and nodded to her to show that he wasn't going to try and stop her. Nail and Jarelle ran outside, powered up, and took off as fast as they could back toward the prison hanger.
"That's the first time I ever saw you stick up for yourself in a truly serious situation." said Nail.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Jarelle.
"Nothing…but Goshin and VJ would be proud of you." said Nail. "I know your father is."
"Because I flipped out on him?" asked Jarelle.
"Because you stood up for something that you deeply believed in." said Nail.
"Wait…what…?" asked Jarelle looking confused.
"Never mind…" Nail chuckled.
As the battle raged on, Zuccil continued to use Goshin's now useless body as a punching bag. What made things worse was Goshin could somehow still feel every blow. He was in excruciating pain, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"Ha, not even putting up a fight anymore." he chuckled as he threw Goshin away like an old sock.
Nail caught him in mid-air as he stopped short with Jarelle next to him.
"Nail…Jarelle…you came back…" said Goshin weakly.
"Of course, we weren't gonna let you get all the glory." said Jarelle.
Goshin smiled and passed out, falling limp in Nail's arms. Nail turned to hand him to Jarelle.
"Take him somewhere safe and try to help him recuperate." said Nail. Jarelle took Goshin as he turned to Zuccil. "The traitor is mine!"
"You foolish Namek," Zuccil laughed, "do you really think you'll fare any better then he did?"
"I don't need to do better." said Nail. "I just need to hold you off."
"You ridiculous brat, you don't stand a chance in the world!" said Zuccil with a dark chuckle.
'Even if we just stand here and talk it will buy VJ and Goshin time to heal.' thought Nail.
Behind some nearby rubble, Jarelle was trying to find out what was wrong with Goshin. She found that it was same as with VJ; Zuccil had hit specific nerves to block the flow of energy through his body. After that, it was like Goshin was paralyzed, but still felt pain.
"How cruel…" she whispered.
She placed her hand on Goshin's forehead to give him some of her energy. It didn't do anything. She stopped, not wanting to hurt Goshin more by forcing energy into his body when it had no where to go. He needed real healing, not just donated energy.
"NAIL! WATCH HIS FIGHTING STYLE! HE ATTACKS PRESSURE POINTS!!" she yelled.
"Good, at least now I know how to defend myself." said Nail. "I might actually last a few minutes now."
"Are you ready to die, Nail!?" asked Zuccil.
"Born ready…!" said Nail.
Before Nail could move, Zuccil was behind him. Nail turned and blocked his fist as it came down at his shoulder. He gave a loud yell as a ki blast knocked Zuccil away. Nail used his Mystic Attack to be able to hit Zuccil without getting close to him.
Zuccil knocked his arms out of the way and pummeled Nail in the stomach. Nail pulled his arms in and blocked before Zuccil could hit the pressure point in his side. Nail moved as fast as he could to defend against the onslaught of punches and kicks Zuccil threw at him. He front flipped over his fist as it came down on him, jumped off of it, kicked off of his head, and turned with his index and middle fingers pressed to his forehead.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!!" he yelled.
He shot Zuccil in his spinal pressure point with the attack. Zuccil floated there as if nothing had happened. He began to chuckle darkly.
"You honestly believed I would be so easily thwarted by my own strategy?" he asked.
Nail just floated there in terror, unable to speak. Zuccil turned his head, an evil smile spread across his face. He turned all the way to face Nail and grabbed the young Namek by the head.
"I think I'll just cave your head in and call it a day…" said Zuccil.
He squeezed and Nail began screaming in agony. The screams were muffled by Zuccil's hand, but Jarelle heard them loud and clear. She lay Goshin down, charged up, and clenched her fist.
"TEN TON FIST!!" she screamed.
She threw her fist, launching the attack at Zuccil. He looked just in time to see it coming at him. The blast hit him directly in the face and forced him to let go of Nail's head. Without missing a beat, Nail lurched out and kicked Zuccil in the gut, upper cut him in the face, started charging ki.
"MASENKO HA!!" he bellowed as he fired the blast.
Zuccil was sent flying into a pile of rubble that sent dust and debris flying. Nail smiled thankfully at Jarelle who had returned to trying to nurse Goshin back to health. He got back into a defensive stance as sweat dripped down his forehead.
'Hurry up, VJ, we need your help!' he thought.
'Com'on, Goshin, show me some sign that you're still alive in there…' thought Jarelle as she massaged the pressure points that looked like they'd been hit the most.
Goshin was breathing, but that was the only outward sign that he was alive. Even his blood flow was nearly slowed to a stop. It got better as Jarelle massaged his neck and sides, but it was a slow process.
Back at the rejuvenation center, Professor L was sweating bullets over the scene that the monitors portrayed. VJ hung limply in the rejuvenation tank as his body slowly returned to its full strength. What he could sense outside the tank terrified him.
'This is all my fault…I never shoulda made that deal with Zuccil…' he thought. 'If I only knew how he'd disabled me so quickly…it was like I was completely paralyzed…but I could still feel pain…"
At that instant, the alarm to signal that VJ was fully healed; the Professor turned to open the tank up. VJ opened his eyes, ripped the breathing mask off, and punched out the glass, sending the rejuvenation fluid rushing out and making the Professor jump out of his skin. He stepped out and grabbed his clothes; he quickly got dressed and then noticed that the bag of Senzu Beans was sitting on the table.
"WHAT THE?!?" he squawked. "I can't believe we forgot that we'd brought these!"
He grabbed the bag and ran out the door.
"VJ, TELL JARELLE TO BE CAREFUL!!!" yelled the Professor behind.
VJ dove into the floor and ghosted through the building at lightening speed. He flew up out of the ground and took off like a shot from a gun. He noticed as he flew that he felt a lot stronger then he did before.
He grimaced as he sensed the Nail was starting to lose the fight, though VJ had noticed that he had lasted longer him or Goshin. VJ knew he must have discovered how to fight him, which meant he could tell Goshin how to do it.
"Here I come guys!" he called out.
He accelerated hard and ghosted through several buildings. He blasted off even faster until he was doing nearly Mach 4. The sonic boom was leaving a grove in the buildings that he passed.
Back at the battle, Nail had been hit with several of Zuccil's pressure point attacks. Movement alone was difficult, let alone staying in the air. It wouldn't be long before he was as lifeless as Goshin.
Zuccil suddenly appeared behind him, grabbed his head, and broke him over his knee. Then he kicked Nail into the air, and in the next instant, met him with his elbow twenty feet up. Nail fell silently to the ground.
VJ saw this as he approached the battle zone. In a rage and boosted his speed even more.
"SONIC BOOM ATTACK!!" he called.
Before Zuccil realized it, VJ head-butted him in the gut with the force of missile going through space; the force of it alone exploded in Zuccil's face. The attack itself exploded a split second later and Zuccil was sent flying though several skyscrapers. VJ floated where Zuccil once did, breathing heavily and grinning triumphantly.
"VJ!" yelled Jarelle.
VJ landed on ground next to Jarelle and Goshin. He pulled the bag of Senzu Beans out of his shirt.
"You guys left these behind." he said. "Eat up, Goshin."
He fed one of the beans to Goshin and Jarelle helped him chew. VJ did the same for Nail and the two were instantly healed. Goshin sat up slowly and smiled at VJ.
"Thanks, VJ." he said.
"Does this make up for what I did?" asked VJ.
"Not quite," said Goshin, "but help me beat the hell out of this prick, and all is forgiven."
"You got a deal!" said VJ.
The two friends clasped hands and VJ helped Goshin to his feet. Zuccil floated over head, snarling angrily at them. The two Saiyans powered up and flew at him with a force like no other.