"GOSHIN, VJ, WATCH HIS ATTACK STYLE!!" Nail screamed. "HE'S GOES FOR YOUR PRESSURE POINTS!!!"
"Of course!" said Goshin as they stopped at a face off. "That's how he can paralyze you without taking your sense of feeling!"
"Which means we've got to be extremely careful." said VJ.
"You're the fastest, VJ, so you use all the melee attacks." said Goshin. "You'll be able to keep up with his pressure point attacks. All you need to do is knock him off guard long enough for me to hit with a big blast."
"Sounds like a plan to me." said VJ. "You sure you can hit him?"
"Let me worry about that." said Goshin.
"The only thing you two should worry about is surviving this battle!" Zuccil yelled as he launched himself at Goshin and VJ.
He knocked Goshin aside and brought his fist down on VJ. VJ blocked every shot Zuccil threw at him. Goshin watched as VJ struggled to keep up with the gigantic general. As he watched, the star pattern of the Eight Star Dragonball began to glow on his forehead and suddenly he had an idea. He spread his arms and legs so that his body was stretched out in all directions.
"Nail, Jarelle, give as much of your energy as you can spare!" he called out.
"What the hell for?" asked Nail.
"Just do it!" said Goshin.
Jarelle and Nail transferred all of their spare energy to Goshin. With a mighty roar, Goshin transformed into a Super Saiyan and began charging his attack. From what Nail could sense, however, Goshin was not the real source of the attack, but more of an antenna for something much more powerful.
VJ and Zuccil were battling fiercely as Jarelle, Nail, and Goshin watched. Goshin's power grew and grew steadily as the fighting raged on. Soon it was clear to Nail what the true source of the attack was…it was Goku's Spirit Bomb!
"Of course, he's drawing energy from anywhere he can for the Spirit Bomb!" said Nail. "He's using the power of the Eight Star Dragonball!"
"Wait…Goshin doesn't know the Spirit Bomb attack…" said Jarelle.
"Goshin doesn't…but Goku does!" said Nail.
Goshin used the last of his Super Saiyan power on the attack and began drawing from the planet itself. VJ was starting to get tired and was missing blocks. Nail caught this almost immediately.
"GOSHIN, HURRY UP! VJ CAN'T HOLD OUT MUCH LONGER!" he called.
"Just a little bit more…!" said Goshin.
'Goshin, do it now.' came a voice in the back of Goshin's mind.
"VJ, KNOCK HIM OUT!!!" Goshin screamed.
VJ smirked and let himself be knocked backwards. He powered up as hard as he could until body vibrated like an earthquake.
"SONIC BOOM ATTACK!" he yelled, and caught Zuccil again in the gut.
Zuccil was sent flying and slammed into the side of a knocked over building. With every ounce of strength he had left, Goshin through the gigantic Spirit Bomb Attack at Zuccil. With the absolute mightiest of forces, the attack hit and sent everyone flying as it exploded in a blinding display of light and fire.
In one fell swoop, Goshin had all but killed Zuccil. When he and VJ floated down to him, his body had electricity flashing around it. He suddenly began screaming as if someone were torturing him and his body started to glow. The energy flew up out of his body and into the air where it exploded. After a few seconds, Zuccil smiled weakly.
"Thank you, Goshin." he said. "You've freed my mind."
"What are you talking about?" asked VJ.
"I was under the influence of a mind control technique," said Zuccil, "as are most of Sprout's followers."
"How can believe you?" asked Nail.
"He's telling the truth." said Goshin. "I don't know how I know, but he is telling the truth."
"Goshin, this guy lead the battalion that destroyed your grandfather and the other Guardians of the Trinity." said Jarelle.
"While under the influence of the mind control." said Zuccil. "I'm a pure blood Saiyan, why would I do anything to endanger the Saiyan throne?"
""For power." said Nail.
"You don't understand Saiyans very well, do you, Nail?" asked Zuccil. "Ask Vegeta, the only thing that comes before individual pride is pride in the Saiyan race; that includes the Royal Family. No self-respecting Saiyan would put himself before his King just for power."
"That's why Sprout had to use the mind control." said Goshin. "Zuccil was the only one powerful enough to destroy Goku, and Sprout knew Zuccil would never betray the throne willingly."
"I actually started out as part of the battalion that supposed to help the Guardians if they needed it." said Zuccil. "Goshin, I can tell you thing about the Eight Star Dragonball that Vegeta and the others could never know."
"That's not important now," said Goshin, "what's important now is stopping Sprout before he does anymore damage."
"We have to hurry, or Sprout's tyranny will spread farther then Frieza ever dreamed of…" said Zuccil.
"One problem," said VJ, "I'm out of Senzu Beans."
"Then we've got to get him back to the rejuvenation chamber." said Goshin. "There we can prove that he's telling the truth and heal him as quickly as possible."
Goshin, VJ, and Nail lifted Zuccil huge body up into the air and Jarelle flew underneath incase any of them lost their grip on him. Once they got back to the rejuvenation chamber, Professor L helped Zuccil into a rejuvenation tank and ran several memory pattern scans on him.
"He is telling the truth, kids," he said, "Lord Sprout used a mind control technique on him to force him to attack Goku and the other Guardians and to battle with you."
"But can we trust him?" asked Nail. "True he holds no loyalty to Sprout, but will he hold any loyalty to us?"
"For the time being that doesn't matter." said VJ. "As long as he holds loyalty to the Saiyans and the true Trinity, he'll help us destroy Sprout, and that's all we can from him."
"From what I understand, there's more to what he told about being in the Guardian Battalion." said Professor L. "It seems that he was actually very close to Goku, Krillin, and Piccolo prior to his being placed under the mind control."
"So he was forced to kill his friends." said VJ.
"Just to put in perspective how powerful this mind control is." said Goshin.
"Then the question becomes 'how is Sprout doing it?'" said VJ.
"He's got a point, Goshin," said Nail, "a fighter as powerful would never allow himself to be forced to do such a thing by a mere technique."
"What about that necklace he was wearing?" asked Jarelle, "The one that blew up when Goshin hit him with the spirit bomb."
"What about it, it was part of the Trifecta uniform." said VJ.
"How do you know that, VJ?" asked the Professor.
"They gave one to my brother when he enlisted." said VJ.
"What did it look like Jarelle?" asked the Professor.
"Well, it was a big gold plate on a gold chain with what looked like emerald or jade in the center." said Jarelle.
"What was the cut of the stone?" asked the Professor.
"Oval." said Jarelle.
"Here it is," said the Professor, "the Rem Sh'Dar, a Saiyan artifact used to control energy levels and even thought processes."
"Now that I think of it, I've seen that necklace before…I think…" said Goshin.
"Where, Goshin?" asked the Professor.
"I don't know how I know this, but it's the same necklace Paragus used to control his son Broly's power level." said Goshin.
The alarm for the rejuvenation tank went off and Zuccil climbed out when the fluid drained out.
"You don't recognize it, but Goku does." said Zuccil. "He fought Broly several times because of the blood challenge between them."
"I remember my grandpa telling me about that." said VJ.
"That artifact is illegal on Planet Vegeta, but it is used very commonly among the Trifecta soldiers." said Zuccil. "It must be worn by anyone who didn't join Trifecta of their own free will and comply totally to the Trifecta code of Loyalty."
"So why did they give one to my brother?" asked VJ. "His whole goal in life was to join Trifecta."
"There must have been something in the code of Loyalty he didn't like or expect." said Zuccil.
"It was given to anyone who posed a risk of overthrowing Sprout." said Goshin.
"And why I didn't recognize it as such is maddening." said Zuccil. "I must have been in denial. I couldn't believe that Trifecta would use such a dark artifact."
"Well now we know how to stop Sprout." said VJ. "We can just destroy those necklaces and start a revolution."
"Except think of how much energy it took for Goshin to destroy the one on me." said Zuccil. "We'll never get enough fighters to successfully revolt."
"So what do we do?" asked Jarelle.
"We have to destroy the arm band, the Rem Sh'Dal." said Zuccil. "Without it, all the Rem Sh'Dars become useless."
"It sounds too easy." said Goshin.
"It's not, because Sprout likely never takes off the Rem Sh'Dal." said Zuccil. "The only way to end this tyranny is to destroy Sprout."
"And how do we do that?" asked Goshin.
"Work together, do your best, and use the Eight Star Dragonball." said Zuccil.
"But I don't know how to use the Dragonball." said Goshin.
"That's why I'm here, now." said Zuccil. "And I'm sure old Tien will help me."
"How long will it take?" asked VJ.
"Not as long as you might think." said Zuccil.