Honor Trip Presents:
Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan
- a Prologue Special Edition to a Dragon Ball Z FanFiction -
Part 3: Elimination
Special Written by: Genescritor
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New Planet Vegeta, May 24th, Age 767, two days before the Cell Games…
Far from where he had been, but still on New Planet Vegeta, the Saiyan Prince opened his eyes.
What was going on?
In one moment, it had seemed as though the only thing in front of him was the green of Broly's energy blast – and now, Broly was nowhere to be seen.
"Are you alright, father?"
Vegeta looked around and saw everyone else who had been trying to fight Broly.
Indeed, he was quite surprised that Kakarot, Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu were all staring at him, as he had thought that most, if not all of them were dead.
Was he dead, too?
No, the last time he had died, he had not had any form of consciousness, at least none that he could remember.
So they were all alive … but how?
"What are you all doing here?" Vegeta asked. "And especially you, Kakarot, how are you still standing? I thought that Broly had killed you!"
"He nearly did," Goku said. "But I managed to use Instant Transmission to remove myself from harm's way and transmit here, where Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu were recovering. I later used the technique to get Gohan, Piccolo, and Trunks – and then you. I'm still not sure whether Broly can truly sense energies or not, but if he can, then his skill is very limited, because he doesn't seem to have any idea of the fact that we are here."
Vegeta didn't show any reaction. Kakarot hadn't said anything that needed his approval or his confirmation, so there was no need for him to say anything.
"But that doesn't really solve our problems," Goku pointed out. "After all, not even all of us together are enough to defeat Broly… and he may destroy the planet anytime soon. Besides… there's that comet approaching."
As Goku mentioned it, Vegeta instinctively looked upward. By now, the damn comet – if it even could truly be called a comet due to its apparent size – occupied all of the sky. It would crash anytime soon, for sure. As far as Vegeta knew, if Broly didn't kill them, the comet would.
However, almost after he had made that consideration, Vegeta overheard Piccolo ask a very relevant question, one that significantly sparked Vegeta's interest.
"Say, Goku, you can transmit us all back to Earth from here, can't you?" Piccolo asked.
"Sure I can, Piccolo," Goku said, to not only Vegeta's surprise, but to the surprise of any of the other warriors of Earth who had not already realized this. "I believe I would have to focus for longer than usual, because of the distance, but I know in which direction to search for the energy signatures of Dende and Mr. Popo. Besides, if that doesn't work, I could just bring us all to King Kai's place, and then we could get back to Earth from there."
"Seeing as how it would be rather unfortunate for us to have to go to Otherworld for a very different reason, maybe it would be better to instant transmit us all back to the Earth right now," Piccolo said. "Broly is so strong that even if all of us fight him together at our full powers, we'd need a huge amount of luck to defeat him. So maybe it would be better to escape this planet and let Broly die when the comet crashes – if not from the impact, from the lack of oxygen."
Goku shook his head negatively.
"No, Piccolo. That wouldn't work."
"Why do you say that, dad?" Gohan asked. "Piccolo's idea seems like it could work."
"I'm not so sure, Gohan. Remember one thing: when we accidentally destroyed that huge spaceship, Paragus didn't seem too worried about it. This most likely means that there is some way of escaping here, and probably Broly knows about it, seeing as he doesn't seem too anxious about the comet's approach either. Any other space ship that is certainly hidden, and finding it would take too long for it to be a viable option."
"Or maybe Broly can just destroy the comet by himself," Yamcha said, putting his two cents in.
"Why don't we just destroy the planet ourselves and then grab Goku while he uses Instant Transmission to escape?" Tien asked.
For a moment, Goku considered Tien's suggestion. Then, he spoke again.
"Well, actually, that could be an option… but it has some issues. First, the amount of energy we would need to gather to destroy a planet could end up being sensed by Broly, regardless of how poor his energy-sensing skills are. Secondly, we would need to keep an energy blast going for a considerable amount of time in order to destroy a planet, as it needs to reach the planet's core in order to destroy it. Such a thing means that Broly would realize what we were doing and most likely manage to stop us."
Kakarot's answer was met with dejected looks, but no one raised any objection. Even Vegeta, who used any chance he had to criticize the clown's thinking, couldn't find anything wrong to point out on this occasion.
"There's also another important problem with the idea of destroying the planet," Goku said. "The comet would just keep going. In fact, I think that even if it met the planet on its way, the comet would just keep going unscathed. Which means it could eventually reach some inhabited planet and destroy it. So, in order to not jeopardize any innocent people, not only would we have to destroy the planet but the comet… and I don't think we can destroy both without Broly noticing.
This time, Vegeta couldn't help but to actually criticize the clown's way of thinking.
"Don't be foolish, Kakarot. What's the big deal if some other planet is hit by this stupid comet and is destroyed when we are talking about a Legendary Super Saiyan who is most likely capable of destroying entire planetary systems? It's not like you would personally know anyone who would be on some random planet." [Writer's Note: The idea of Broly being able to destroy entire galaxies relatively quickly, as was the case in the original Movie 8 when he was said to have relatively quickly destroyed much or all of the South Galaxy, was modified to the idea of Broly being able to destroy entire planetary systems relatively quickly, due to the physical impossibility of Broly being able to destroy entire galaxies. Matter and energy cannot move faster than the speed of light in normal space due to the laws of physics, and galaxies are typically thousands of light years long, such that they are typically thousands of times the length it would take for light to travel in one standard Earth year. A galaxy the size of the North Galaxy (the Milky Way Galaxy) is about 100,000 light years long, hence even more evidence that the idea of Broly being able to quickly destroy an entire galaxy quickly is unsupportable and illogical.]
Goku gave Vegeta a look that was quite possibly more serious than Vegeta had ever seen him expressing.
"Vegeta, I would not just stand aside and let this comet possibly end up destroying a planet full of innocent people if I knew I could have done something to stop it," Goku said. "The thought of doing so is beyond dishonorable. I'm ashamed that you thought such a thing would be acceptable."
Vegeta didn't bother to hide his grumble. Why the imbecile had to make things so difficult was beyond him.
"In that case, seeing as you're always turning down other people's suggestions, why don't you come up with your own?" Vegeta asked.
Goku did not answer Vegeta's challenge right away. Most certainly, it was because he had no humanely practical idea of his own, just as Vegeta had expected.
"Well, whatever we should do, we should do it fast," Chiaotzu said. "Broly seems to be getting restless."
Hearing the little clown's remark, Vegeta focused his senses on Broly's energy. Indeed, he appeared to be getting quite agitated at his location, some hundreds of kilometers away from where they currently were. Vegeta had a guess as to why. Broly was almost certainly trying to look for the bodies of those he had defeated, in order to make sure he had killed them, but he wasn't finding even the ones that he was confident hadn't been completely obliterated. Based on Broly's energy output, Vegeta sensed that his nervousness seemed to be increasing, although couldn't figure out this reason at the moment. It wasn't truly important, anyway. What was important was to think of some way to defeat Broly before he found them and came to finish his job.
Right as Vegeta thought that, Yamcha spoke up.
"Hey, Goku, I don't agree with what Vegeta said about just letting innocent people die, but I've just had an idea here."
Goku turned his head toward the person whom Vegeta had informally termed as 'Scarface.'
"What is it, Yamcha?" Goku asked.
"Regarding that whole Instant Transmission thing, why don't you just use it to take Broly to the Earth so that he and Cell can destroy each other? That way, we would kill two birds with one stone!"
Vegeta observed that the fool's proposal was generally met with what looked like a mix of bafflement, amusement and mild approval from the others, except for three people: himself, Kakarot and Piccolo.
Vegeta knew that he, himself disapproved of the idea because he wanted to be the one to destroy that damned android, and that he wouldn't let anyone do it in his stead, even if it was the Legendary Super Saiyan.
Just as Piccolo was about to make a vocal objection, Kakarot wasted even less time in voicing his opposition.
"I don't really think that's a good idea, Yamcha, for more reasons than one," Goku said. "To begin with, it's highly unlikely that Broly would let me hold onto him for the amount of time it would take for me to sense Cell's energy and focus on it. Also, if Broly and Cell were to fight, this could very easily result in one of two really undesirable outcomes. The first is that Broly would destroy Earth in the process of trying to destroy Cell, and the second is that Cell might outsmart Broly, find some way to absorb his energy, and become an even bigger threat to the universe after destroying Earth. Neither of these options are desirable, as we would be handing Earth's fate over to a monster either way. Not to mention that Cell might try to defeat Broly by denying him the ability to breathe, just like Broly might try to destroy the Earth out of believing that Cell would die too, although Cell wouldn't die if he escapes the blast because he has Frieza's DNA as a part of him, and can survive in outer space. It's bad enough Cell might very well resort to trying to destroy Earth during the Cell Games, the last thing we need is for someone else to be targeting the Earth right along with him."
Yamcha looked visibly dejected at having his suggestion turned down, but it seemed as though he understood the implications of why his plan would have been less than desirable.
"I get that," Yamcha said in a serious tone. "And it certainly doesn't sit well with me to potentially victimize the Earth like that. I was just wondering if we really had any other choice, considering how we are determined to stop both Cell and Broly."
"I know what you mean," Goku said. "But that comet still appears to be enough of a distance away that we have some time before its impact, which means we still have some time to try to think about what to do about both Broly and the comet without resorting to absolutely desperate measures.
Then, Goku gave one of his allegedly reassuring smiles, the kind which Vegeta especially abhorred because he didn't see the point in them.
"As for Cell, don't worry about him," Goku said. "I'm confident we are going to win against him without needing to destroy the Earth, and certainly without needing Broly to kill him for us."
Not for the first time, his statements about the upcoming fight against Cell were met with general puzzlement. And as much as he refused to be compared to those fools in any way, Vegeta couldn't help but to feel exactly the same at the clown's self-assured statements.
How could he be so sure that they were going to defeat Cell? While the android had lost the title of most powerful foe they had ever faced, as Broly indeed had a greater level of raw strength, even Vegeta had to acknowledge that Cell was in many ways a superior force to be reckoned with, especially because of his so-far unmatched speed and regenerative capabilities.
Why was the clown so sure they were going to win?
Before Vegeta could make any questions or comments, his son decided to speak.
"Well, even though I still can't really understand Goku's confidence about defeating Cell, he is right about two things," Trunks said. "We must always try our best to not let innocent people die. And we must try to do something to make sure both that Broly gets killed and that the comet is destroyed."
Then, as though he felt he was sounding too stuck-up, or as if he feared he was giving them any false hope about having a plan, Trunks said, "But I have to be honest, I'm not really sure of what we can do right now."
Vegeta couldn't help but to grit his teeth at that comment. Why did his son have to sound like a know-it-all in one instant, and then confess his inability the instant after?
"I've got an idea," Krillin piped in, actually raising his right hand while doing so. "How about you use a Spirit Bomb, Goku? I think it's possible you could make one powerful enough to kill Broly. And I believe anything powerful enough to kill Broly would destroy that comet, so if you took care to aim properly, it would do the trick."
Most of the others gave the person whom Vegeta had nick-named "Baldy" awed looks.
However, Vegeta was far from impressed. In fact, it sounded like a terrible suggestion as far as he was concerned.
"Idiot!" Vegeta spat. "You really think the Spirit Bomb will work against Broly? It didn't work when you used it against me, what makes you think it will work against him?" [Writer's note: As Vegeta was not alive at the time Goku used the Spirit Bomb on Frieza, Vegeta does not reference that occurrence here.]
Krillin gave him a glare, but Vegeta could see that his argument had been convincing.
"I'm sorry to say this, Krillin, but I don't really think that's an option," Goku said. "When we faced Frieza, it took a long time to make a Spirit Bomb powerful enough to be capable of as much as hurting him when he was only using half of his power. And Broly is much more powerful than Frieza. I can't see how we are going to make a Spirit Bomb powerful enough to kill him in the amount of time we have before the comet crashes."
"Maybe making the Spirit Bomb would take less time than you think," Piccolo said. "You're a Super Saiyan now, so you should be able to gather the energy much quicker. We're all stronger than we used to be, so lending you our energy for the Spirit Bomb would be more effective now than was ever possible before. And besides that, Paragus made those mines of energy, and Broly looks like he destroyed them all on his rampage. We saw when we were at the mines that the broken pipes appear to emanate energy, so you can use the energy released by the destroyed mines. With a direct tap into this planet's energy, we have access to even more energy for the Spirit Bomb."
Vegeta looked at the same direction the others were looking. Indeed, the air there seemed somewhat hot, as though there was some source of heat in that area.
Goku looked bleakly at Piccolo.
"I'm not sure this is going to work, Piccolo," he said. "You are all too exhausted to give much energy. And while I believe that I could gather a lot of energy from this planet, with a little extra help from the energy of this planet's sun and possibly some more from any close planet, I'm still not sure that the Spirit Bomb would be made quickly enough, let alone if this would really work against Broly."
"You won't know that until you try," Piccolo stated simply. "And as for our powers being depleted, I have a solution for that problem."
With those words, he extracted a pouch that somehow had survived the fight with Broly from his pocket, and unfastened its straps, emptying the pouch's contents into his hand. Nine Senzu Beans fell out of it, and Piccolo threw one to each of them, before he ate one himself. The others followed his example. [Writer's note: In the original version of Movie 8, Piccolo is shown to have brought Senzu Beans with him. Therefore, it is logical to assume that he would have done the same here.]
"Wow, Piccolo!" Goku exclaimed in amazement. "When did you get these?"
Piccolo smirked.
"Back on Earth, shortly after all of us first sensed the energy of Paragus and the others, I decided to go down to Korin's Tower and get some Senzu Beans, in the off chance that we would need them."
The statement made Vegeta remember that indeed there had been a short period when the Namek had left the Lookout at that time. Vegeta had wondered why at the moment, but had eventually decided that it wasn't important. It had been good thinking on the Namek's part – although Vegeta would rather fast for a month than saying it out loud.
"Thank goodness you did it!" Kakarot exclaimed. "Now, you can all give me energy for the Spirit Bomb!"
Clenching his fist in a display of his inner confidence, he shouted, "Everyone, let's do this!"
With that, Goku started flying upwards, but Gohan beckoned him to stop.
"Wait dad!" Gohan shouted.
Goku stopped only about a meter above the ground.
"What is it, son?"
"Dad, doesn't making the Spirit Bomb require you to stay immobile and with your target on sight?" he asked. "If so, how do you intend on allowing Broly to let you remain in the same pose for so long? And in case you want to gather the energy for the Spirit Bomb a great distance away from him, how can you get him to come to you when you're done?"
Instead of becoming dejected at the question, Goku simply smiled reassuringly.
"That's not a problem in and of itself, son. I know Instant Transmission, and I recently discovered that Instant Transmission doesn't only transmit myself, it also transmits any technique I may be about to unleash, as long as I have the energy for it already gathered. I won't have any problem transmitting to where Broly is with the Spirit Bomb." [Writer's note: The idea of Goku being capable of using Instant Transmission to transmit any energy technique he may be about to unleash as well as himself is compatible with canon, as in the uncut DBZ episode 180, "The Fight is Over," Goku uses the Instant Kamehameha on Cell.]
Goku's demeanor reflected an even greater sense of determination than usual, and he addressed all the others.
"Everyone, when I am floating high above the planet with my arms raised, I want you to power up to your fullest and give me all the energy you can possibly give. To do so, you only have to raise your own hands! Any questions?"
Most of the others shook their heads negatively. Vegeta, however, decided it was best to mention one last thing.
"You clowns are forgetting one last point," Vegeta said. "While it does seem that Broly can't sense energies if he's busy, who's going to make sure Broly stays on this planet without destroying it while Kakarot prepares the Spirit Bomb?"
Everyone looked around for a moment, uncertain of what to say. Vegeta stayed where he was, waiting for the others to realize that they had no idea. Once they did so, he would volunteer to take on the Legendary Super Saiyan. After all, as the Saiyan Prince, not only it was his duty, but he certainly felt himself to be the strongest and therefore the best suited to do so.
"We can do it," Tien said, all of a sudden, motioning to his fellow humans while making the statement.
Everyone else looked at Tien with brief confusion. However, and much to Vegeta's surprise, Krillin, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu then nodded, agreeing with him.
Vegeta scoffed audibly.
"The four of you weaklings are going to keep him busy?" Vegeta spat. "Don't be ridiculous. Broly will squash you like flies!"
"Maybe so," Yamcha replied. "But first he has to catch the flies."
Vegeta looked around, expecting to see the others disagreeing with the humans. However, while it did seem they were resisting to the idea, they were also starting to lean toward it somehow. The thought of them believing that the humans would be appropriate for such an important role was beyond belief for Vegeta.
"Besides, any of you who went to distract Broly wouldn't be able to readily give energy to the Spirit Bomb," Krillin pointed out. "And all of you are just too strong for your energies to go to waste."
"But he's going to kill you!" Goku shouted.
"We'll find some way to avoid that," Krillin said. "And if you really don't want the four of us to die again, then just work fast and get the Spirit Bomb done quickly! That's a little extra incentive for you there, Goku."
"Krillin is right," Tien said. "But remember, don't start making the Spirit Bomb until we start fighting Broly! Although you're very far, he may see it if he's not distracted."
Goku looked like he was going to argue again, but, right as he was about to do so, he held himself back.
"Very well, guys," he said. "I'll contact you telepathically when I have the Spirit Bomb ready. But don't forget these two details. First, I will have to instant transmit to you in order to throw the Spirit Bomb from a proper distance. Second, I want to make sure that after I engulf Broly with it, I change its route so that it hits the comet and destroys it once and for all. However, I can only make the Spirit Bomb go up or down, and forward. I can't make it go left or right, or backward. So, please, try your best to make sure that when you fly off after I tell you I have the Spirit Bomb ready, you fly in a direction that will enable the Spirit Bomb's route to meet Broly first and the comet afterwards."
"We will do our best, Goku!" Chiaotzu said, as the others nodded fiercely.
And just like that, without any further words, all the four humans took off in the direction from which Broly's energy could be sensed.
'Foolish humans!' Vegeta thought to himself. 'What are they thinking?'
Everyone else seemed to be having the same doubts.
But, as if he had decided that there was no more time for arguing or to hesitate, Goku flew high into the air, and raised his arms as high as he could, with the palms of his hands turned toward the sky, as he started getting ready to make the Spirit Bomb, hoping that it would be enough to deal with the Legendary Super Saiyan.
Near the location where he had blasted Vegeta, Broly kept flying around and around, trying his best to find the ones he had defeated, but, as far as he knew, hadn't killed yet.
He was sure that both Vegeta and Kakarot were dead, but the green being and the kid in the purple clothes were nowhere to be seen – and Broly was sure he hadn't destroyed them accidentally. Similarly, he also was sure he hadn't destroyed the lavender-haired boy in the blue armor, but even though Broly had seen him being thrown into the rock by his blast, the boy had somehow disappeared while Broly had been distracted with Vegeta. Broly couldn't see how that was possible, as he believed the boy had been too injured to move.
Apparently, he had been wrong.
In that case, there was only one thing to do. He would have to go to the place where his father had hidden their escape Space Pods, get off the planet with one of them, and then, once he was at a safe distance, he would destroy the planet from his Space Pod. After all, even if the imbeciles were still alive, they had to still be somewhere on this planet, which meant they were doomed anyway. [Writer's note: The idea of it being possible to destroy a planet from a Saiyan Space Pod comes from the uncut DBZ episode 11, "Terror on Arlia," when Vegeta destroys Planet Arlia from his Space Pod. Although canon has firmly established that Saiyans cannot normally breathe in space, as Goku acknowledges that unlike Frieza he could not escape Planet Namek's destruction by flying into space and King Kai also mentions that the plan to revive Goku after the planet's destruction would be pointless since he would suffocate, Vegeta and Nappa are shown in uncut episode 11 to be able to breathe and survive in space even though their Space Pods are open, with no visible containment barrier for breathable air. It can be assumed that the pods have some sort of mechanism that keeps oxygen or another breathable substance around the ship.]
Right as Broly came up with that plan, he saw in the distance four dots that vaguely looked like people surrounded by white auras, and they appeared to be coming toward him.
Amazement flickered within him for a moment. He hadn't known there were four more fighters on this planet.
Or could it be that any of the fighters he had defeated had somehow managed to recover in the meantime?
His question was answered when the dots came even closer. Broly's eyes bugged out, as he recognized them. The white dots were the humans!
"You again?" Broly asked, surprised at seeing them still alive. "I thought I had finished you off long ago!"
"Well, you haven't!" Yamcha said. "And now, Broly, prepare to meet your end!"
For a moment, Broly couldn't help but to think that the scarred guy's declaration was too grotesque and illogical to be real. After all, Broly had only needed to hit each of them once to bring them down in their first fight. And although his energy-sensing skills were extremely rudimentary and limited, he knew that the four humans were much weaker than him.
On any other occasion, he would have laughed at such a grotesque statement. However, right now he was too annoyed at these flies that, no matter how hard they were swatted away, always seemed to come back for more.
"You cannot kill a god," was all that Broly said to the four humans in a low, deadly serious tone.
Then, without saying anything else, he charged toward them.
Even though he was hundreds of kilometers away, Goku couldn't help but to wince at what he had sensed. Unless his senses were fooling him, Broly had charged at Krillin and the others from the instant he saw them. That most likely meant they had told him something that had rubbed him the wrong way. Fortunately, that meant Goku could start making the Spirit Bomb.
"Now, guys!" Goku shouted down to his friends, with his hands already reaching up above his head. "Power up to your fullest, and give me all the energy you can!"
Even as he could sense Gohan and Piccolo powering up to their fullest, and Trunks and Vegeta entering their Ultra Super Saiyan state, Goku made another plea, this time through his mind.
"This planet, every planet that may be nearby, the sun of this planetary system… please, give me all the energy you can!" he begged. "I need it to stop Broly!"
While he made the request, Goku cast another worried look at the comet. It kept growing in size, and now, there was a breeze blowing on the planet's surface, which seemed to emanate from the comet. Time was running out.
However, the comet's breeze was suddenly dispelled when a huge pale-blue sphere of energy appeared directly over Goku's palms. That was the initial boost that his Spirit Bomb had received from the combined powers of Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks, and Vegeta…
'Wait…' Goku couldn't help but to think. 'That can't be! If all of them had actually given their energies, surely I would have gotten some more power from that boost! Maybe not much more power, but certainly an amount that would be noticeably bigger!'
Actually, it was hard to make such a statement with regards to these specific conditions in which he was making a Spirit Bomb. Goku had never made a Spirit Bomb that had used up almost all the energy of one or more people, nor had he ever made a Spirit Bomb that grew so quickly. Although Broly had destroyed the energy mines and the overwhelming majority of the minions around them, whatever mechanism had been put there to extract the energy seemed to be still working, as the mines kept giving more energy to him. But still, Goku believed the Spirit Bomb would be stronger by now if everyone had indeed given their full energies to him.
Just to be sure of whether he was imagining things or not, Goku locked both his senses and his eyes below him, to sense how his friends were progressing. Trunks and Piccolo were almost completely spent, with hardly enough strength to stand. Gohan was kneeling on the ground, and extremely tired, but remarkably, he was still in his Super Saiyan state. Just like Goku had expected when he'd first come up with the idea, he and his son had mastered Super Saiyan to such an extent that they could only lose it unwillingly if they went to near unconsciousness.
Vegeta's energy, however, still felt elevated, as though he hadn't given any energy to the Spirit Bomb at all.
Goku immediately realized why the initial boost to the Spirit Bomb had not been as big as he had wanted it to be.
Down below, Vegeta was, at the very least, fuming in rage, as he sensed the four humans keeping the Legendary Super Saiyan busy, and Kakarot gathering more energy for that damned Spirit Bomb of his.
"Father, what's wrong?" Trunks asked, managing to stop panting long enough to form a sentence.
Vegeta wasn't even listening to him.
'I can't believe this!' Vegeta thought, gritting his teeth in such a way that it was a wonder they didn't shatter. 'First my Final Flash fails to inflict any damage on Broly, then the humans are the ones to go out there to stall him while we get ready to finish him off, and now Kakarot will be the one who kills him!'
Vegeta looked upwards at Goku, and threw the most intense glare he could muster at him. His anger was so intense that he unintentionally flared his golden aura.
High above the ground, Goku frowned. He didn't know what Vegeta was thinking, but even at this distance, he could feel the heat of Vegeta's glare – not to mention that he could sense that Vegeta's power was increasing. Apparently, Vegeta was upset at something, and it had something to do with him.
He couldn't have chosen a worst time to act indignantly. Vegeta's energy at Ultra Super Saiyan was meant to be a significant part of the Spirit Bomb. Although Goku would be able to gather the same amount from other places, it would take longer. Too long. If he had to gather that amount of energy from somewhere else, the comet would almost certainly destroy New Planet Vegeta in the meantime.
Hopefully, Vegeta would snap out of whatever was bothering him soon.
If he didn't, they were all doomed.
As Broly charged at them yet another time, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu dispersed in one direction each, avoiding the Legendary Super Saiyan's strike yet again. Although none of them could hope to leave as much as a pinch mark on Broly, they were skilled and sneaky enough to reasonably anticipate his moves.
Hopefully, they would be able to do so until Goku finished his Spirit Bomb.
Even as Broly turned back around, Yamcha grabbed his own right wrist with his left hand, and gathered energy until he had formed an energy ball the size of a chair, which floated over the palm of his hand. At the same time, Krillin started charging a Scattering Bullet.
"Spirit Ball!" Yamcha shouted, throwing his attack at Broly.
Broly simply stayed still while the attack moved toward his face, as he was welcoming this as a way to mock the human.
However, the blast didn't hit Broly. Instead, its trajectory turned upwards at a 90 degree angle, and it started soaring toward the sky.
Broly turned his head upwards to follow the energy ball's trajectory. However, he only did so for an instant.
At that moment, Yamcha made the Spirit Ball go down again, until it whizzed right in front of Broly's face. Gasping in surprise at having the attack suddenly shift course, Broly stepped backwards, right as Yamcha made the Spirit Ball go up again. At the same time, Krillin brought his arms down, and six blasts came from the main beam of his Scattering Bullet, as it had happened when he had used the technique against the Saibamen and Nappa.
At the same time, both Tien and Chiaotzu each fired a basic energy wave.
Yamcha's Spirit Ball hit its target first, exploding on Broly's chin. Soon after, Tien's and Chiaotzu's energy waves followed, hitting Broly's nose. To complete the set, the six energy blasts from Krillin's Scattering Bullet hit Broly's head, releasing a somewhat more substantial explosion. However, none of the techniques was enough to make the Legendary Super Saiyan do as much as sneeze.
Scoffing in disdain, Broly again formed a green energy ball in his right fist, swung his arm forward, and threw a hailstorm of energy blasts.
Again, the blasts were so weak that Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and the others managed to deflect the few that actually came their way. However, while they were busy deflecting those blasts, Broly was busy preparing a stronger one.
Immediately after the smaller energy blasts had subsided, Broly fired the stronger energy blast. It only had to hit one of them, and would certainly be enough to kill them all.
Working in perfect synchrony, Krillin and Yamcha each fired a Kamehameha, while Chiaotzu and Tien each fired a Dodon Ray. The four combined attacks knocked Broly's blast away into space.
Not phased in the slightest, Broly shot forward, straight toward Tien, with his right hand pulled back for a punch. Tien immediately shot a Tri-Beam at Broly, but the blast simply slipped over the Legendary Super Saiyan, as he kept advancing.
Noticing the ineffectiveness of his attack, Tien dodged to the left, knowing that Broly wouldn't be able to readily hit him from there. He was right, because Broly immediately brought his arm backwards in an effort to see where Tien had gone. Noticing the opening, Tien moved forward as quickly as he could and brought his knee up, slamming it straight into Broly's chin, right as Yamcha landed a kick on the top of Broly's head, and as Chiaotzu and Krillin each delivered a punch to one of Broly's eyes.
Then, the four of them disappeared, and reappeared above Broly's back to attack him from there. Trying to take their chance while Broly was still flying belly down, the four of them started stomping down on it as quickly as they could, hoping they would produce some sort of damage, or at least stall for more time. However, Broly simply straightened himself, making the four humans dodge aside so as not to be hit by his head.
Then, the four of them immediately punched Broly's head, in the hopes that the combined attack would confuse him.
It didn't.
Broly reached out to punch Tien, but as Broly's arms weren't favored for fights at close quarters, the blow was awkward, and Tien managed to duck and avoid it.
At the same time, while Broly's punch kept going, Tien delivered a kick to Broly's nose, but the Saiyan didn't flinch. Nor did he flinch when Krillin delivered a roundhouse kick to the back of his head right after.
Yamcha and Chiaotzu joined their two friends, and clasped their hands together and slammed them into Broly's eyes. However, Broly didn't even blink at the hits, paying their attacks the mind he would have paid a fly.
Shouting to the top of their lungs, each of the humans was enveloped by a white aura, as they tried even harder to damage Broly with their punches. Not a single one of their punches was having any real impact.
Changing tactics, the four humans brought their fists back, and Yamcha and Chiaotzu each delivered a punch that landed on each side of Broly's nose, while Tien and Krillin each threw one that hit Broly's chest.
Broly, however, again acted as if he hadn't been hit, and started flailing his arms around in an effort to hit them. However, the fact the humans were so close to him again placed him at a disadvantage because of his big limbs.
Noticing that, the humans were assiduously avoiding Broly's uncoordinated grabs, doing their utter best to stall for as long as they could. All four of them could sense the power of Goku's Spirit Bomb building up at a surprisingly fast rate.
However, after only about 20 seconds of trying to grab them at close range, Broly realized that his strategy wasn't practical while they remained so close, and he flared his aura around himself.
Immediately, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu soared away from him.
Broly had successfully removed his temporary disadvantage, and now that he had done so, he rushed forward to finish what he had begun.
Far away, Goku frowned as he sensed Broly pushing away Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu with one flare of his aura.
His Spirit Bomb already had about half of the energy he felt he would need to kill Broly, and the next half was quickly coming. Indeed, the method of gathering energy from the destroyed energy mines was turning out to be advantageous, as it was enabling the Spirit Bomb to become stronger at a much quicker rate than Goku had anticipated. But still, there was no way of saying if the energy that still had to be added would come quickly enough. Broly could still kill Tien, Krillin, Yamcha and Chiaotzu while he was out there.
If that happened, it was possible he would destroy the planet right after – and there was no telling of how many planets he would destroy afterwards.
Vegeta was still refusing to collaborate, and the last thing Goku wanted was for his stubbornness and arrogance, in the grand scheme of things, to help contribute to even more unnecessary deaths.
"Don't be so stubborn, Vegeta!" Goku shouted down at him. "Please give your energy to the Spirit Bomb! I need it!"
Still enraged at the fact that others less worthy than himself were the ones taking the primary steps to defeat Broly, especially since Kakarot would be the one to deliver the finishing blow, Vegeta did not even dignify him with a glance.
"Father…" Trunks begged to him in a low, tired voice. "Please…"
"Vegeta…" Piccolo said in a tone that was a mix of a whisper and a moan.
"Please, Vegeta…" Gohan said while he tried to get his breath back.
Vegeta glared at them for daring to ask him to do such a thing, as though they were all guilty of some sort of betrayal for not recognizing that he should have the lead role in defeating Broly.
"Vegeta!" Goku insisted. "Please do it! Krillin and the others won't hang on for much longer, and the comet will crash soon!"
Vegeta growled, clenching his fists so tightly that his fingernails were starting to break the skin on his palm, even though he was wearing gloves. Inwardly, he let out an endless stream of curses at everything that had happened ever since he had gotten to know about the real Legendary Super Saiyan. Not only had he cowered like a petulant child for much of the battle, but he had also failed in killing Broly, even with using all of his power in his strongest attack.
Now, to top it all off, they wanted him, the Prince of all Saiyans, to help Kakarot, his subordinate by heritage and rival by actions, to achieve an overwhelming victory by being the one to defeat the Legendary Super Saiyan!
That was unacceptable, unbelievable, unthinkable, and many other things that Vegeta wouldn't even list because he would keep doing it for the rest of the day if he allowed himself to get lost in the flow of his thoughts.
But deep down, Vegeta knew what had to be done. And he hated himself for what he was about to do.
Gritting his teeth again, Vegeta looked upwards, giving Goku a look that made him very grateful that looks couldn't kill.
"Very well, Kakarot!" Vegeta bellowed up at him, as he flared the aura of his Ultra Super Saiyan state. "You want my energy? Have it! But be warned: if you happen to fail in delivering the finishing blow to Broly with that strike, I will somehow get to you before he does, and I will kill you myself!"
Then, at long last, Vegeta raised his hands, and the energy of his Ultra Super Saiyan state flowed into the Spirit Bomb hovering above Goku's palms. Now it was only a matter of gathering some more, and the grand attack would be ready.
Far from there, at the arena he had built for his tournament, Cell looked up at the sky, toward the enormous energy he was sensing.
According to the knowledge he possessed, that was the energy of a Spirit Bomb made by Goku. The defenders of Earth were far enough away that he could not actually sense their individual energy signatures, but the Spirit Bomb's prominent, collective energy was distinctively apparent.
Apparently, the imbeciles either had gone to help someone on another planet, or had fallen into some sort of trap, and now Goku was using the Spirit Bomb on whatever foe he had encountered there.
A strong foe indeed, for while Cell could not sense the energy signature of whomever it was due to the vast distance away, judging from how powerful the Spirit Bomb felt, this was likely a quite powerful entity.
Cell briefly wondered if even he, himself would be able to survive an attack that powerful. After all, if Vegeta's Final Flash alone could pierce his molecular structure, an attack of this magnitude would be quite challenging.
But there were some things that didn't make sense, which Cell managed to recognize based on information he had acquired from Doctor Gero, the knowledge he had gained from Goku's DNA, and his superior logical deduction. To begin with, the Spirit Bomb was by itself a technique that was meant to be used as a last resort, not only because it could cause massive collateral damage, but also because gathering energy for it rendered the user relatively defenseless. Not only that, but the more powerful a Spirit Bomb was, the longer it took to get ready. And a Spirit Bomb as strong as the one Cell was currently sensing should have taken an hour to get ready, at the very least. And if Goku was getting that Spirit Bomb ready in order to kill a powerful foe, just how could Goku have had so much time at his disposal?
For a moment, Cell wondered if somehow Goku could have gone off the planet so that he could gather energy for a Spirit Bomb far away, and then use that technique of his to return to Earth instantly and use that same Spirit Bomb on Cell. But that option made no sense. Goku was too honest and fair for his own good; he would never backstab an opponent. Also, if he intended to do that, he wouldn't just leave on that space ship with the Saiyan and the other aliens Cell had sensed, he would have gone on his own.
All those factors lead to the same conclusion Cell had already made: Goku using the Spirit Bomb was related to some sort of threat that he and the others had gone on that spaceship to deal with.
But what threat could be so severe that it required Goku to make a Spirit Bomb so powerful?
The most logical conclusion was that somehow, Goku was very much exaggerating on the amount of energy he was gathering for the Spirit Bomb, due to the previous occasions in which the attack had failed. [Writer's note: It is known that Doctor Gero watched the battle against the Saiyans on Earth, and therefore Cell should know that Vegeta survived the hit from the Spirit Bomb that was used in that battle. Even though Doctor Gero didn't watch the battle against Frieza on Planet Namek, it is clear that Cell indeed inherited memories from Frieza, as he states in the FUNimation dub of uncut DBZ episode 178, "Cell's Bag of Tricks," when Cell uses the Homing Destructo Disks he inherited from Frieza, "Ha! Nice try, Goku. The cell from Frieza that's inside me tells me you are trying to draw that disk back this way," referring to Goku's tactics against Frieza on Namek. It is therefore very compatible with canon that Cell inherited the memory of Frieza being hit by Goku's Spirit Bomb in uncut DBZ episode 94, "Power of the Spirit." While the exact mechanical process of incorporating Frieza's DNA through one cell as stated in the selected quote here is inaccurate and illogical, the general principle that Frieza's DNA is within Cell is fundamentally canon.]
In the meantime, there was nothing Cell could immediately do to discern more about whatever was happening out in space. His only option was to keep his senses focused on that Spirit Bomb, in order to have some sort of idea of what was going on.
Looking like he was starting to get more than annoyed at the pesky humans that were bothering him, Broly pulled his left hand backwards to punch Krillin.
However, three energy blasts came from different directions, each of them hitting him at a different point.
Broly growled with frustration as he was hit, although the attacks didn't hurt him.
He started turning his head away, attempting to try and single out one of them, but then, Krillin fired an energy wave, which hit Broly's cheek squarely. The attack failed to hurt him, but it was enough to make him refocus on Krillin.
Broly pointed his left palm at Krillin and fired the strongest energy blast he could quickly muster.
Reacting on instinct, Krillin threw a Destructo Disk at the blast, hoping it would at least deflect it away. But, much to his surprise, it did more than that. Instead, it cut Broly's energy blast in half, and the two halves separated and passed harmlessly above and below Krillin. Meanwhile, the disk went on, straight toward Broly's neck.
The Legendary Super Saiyan gasped in amazement, right as the energy disk hit his neck. However, it shattered on impact, and a few shards of energy scattered away like pieces of broken glass.
It wasn't much of a surprise. If the technique hadn't been able to damage Cell, it was highly unlikely that it would have been able to damage Broly. [Writer's note: Krillin unsuccessfully uses the Destructo Disk technique on Cell in uncut DBZ episode 160, "Cell is Complete," such that the disk hits Cell but fails to affect him.]
However, it seemed to leave Broly surprised, and Chiaotzu decided to take a chance. Chiaotzu fired a Dodon Ray that hit Broly right between the eyes, blocking his eyesight as a result of the explosion. Then, shooting forward, he immediately latched himself to Broly's belly, exactly over the bruises the Legendary Super Saiyan had sustained in his battles with the Saiyans.
"Chiaotzu, no!" Tien shouted, with the sight of Chiaotzu holding onto Broly bringing him a déjà vu of the day his best friend had sacrificed himself in a futile effort to kill Nappa.
"Don't worry, Tien," Chiaotzu said telepathically. "I know what I'm doing." [Writer's note: Chiaotzu is shown to use telepathy on at least one occasion in DBZ. This takes place in uncut DBZ episode 24, "The Power of Nappa," when Chiaotzu, during the countdown to his self-destruction, talks to Tien telepathically.]
Then, Chiaotzu started emanating a blue glow, which again made Tien recall Chiaotzu's ill-fated attempt at killing Nappa. However, the glow was different enough for Tien to realize that Chiaotzu was using another technique: one that allowed him to deliver electrical shocks on his foe. He couldn't see why Chiaotzu was using it, though, as such a thing wouldn't do much damage against Broly. But it turned out to do just enough, as Broly gave a brief shout similar to the one a normal human would give if stung unexpectedly by some type of biting insect. [Writer's note: Chiaotzu uses this unnamed technique on Piccolo in uncut DBZ episode 55, "Piccolo vs. Everyone."]
Growling at Chiaotzu, Broly brought his right arm up, and tried to punch Chiaotzu. However, right when Broly's punch was about to hit its intended target, Chiaotzu disappeared, moving out of the way, and Broly ended up hitting his own belly. The Legendary Super Saiyan shouted in surprise at hitting himself.
Chiaotzu reappeared by the same spot where he had disappeared, and an instant later, his friends appeared right by his side. Then, each of them started delivering a barrage of the strongest punches they could muster to Broly's abs. Thanks to Broly's massive size, everyone had ample room to deliver hits.
But again, although the punches they delivered were capable of delaying the abating of the burning feeling that Broly had after hitting himself, they couldn't hold it off forever. Eventually, Broly recovered – and as soon as he did, he again powered up, throwing the four humans off him with the shockwave.
As soon as they were at a proper distance, Broly fired one more barrage of energy blasts – but this one only had about a dozen of them, and each of the individual ones was much stronger than the blasts in the barrages with thousands of them.
Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu flew down, avoiding the blasts, but Broly just kept firing more and more of them – and for some reason, he was firing over and towards them, but not underneath them. Also, he was firing individual blasts in addition to the barrages. Still, the blasts were coming at a very fast speed, and so quickly that the humans were barely capable of avoiding them.
Eventually, in their desperate attempts to avoid their deaths, the four human fighters got to the ground, landing solidly on their feet. And that seemed to be what Broly had been waiting for.
Even before their feet had touched the ground, Broly had fired a much stronger blast, aimed at the ground underneath them. The blast was strong enough that even the explosion would seriously damage all of them – except for Broly – if they were caught in it.
Trying their best to avoid that, all of them worked together to counter the blast. Krillin used a Destructo Disk, Yamcha used a Kamehameha, Tien used a Tri-Beam, and Chiaotzu used a Super Dodon Ray.
The four attacks went flying straight toward Broly's blast – and they managed to destroy it. However, the explosion was huge, and Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu were forced to disappear away from it, reappearing at a distance they considered safe enough.
At the spot in which they had reappeared, although they still had to shield their eyes from the explosion, they weren't blown off their feet.
The attacks they had gathered in an attempt to counter Broly's blast had expended a good portion of each of their energies.
Broly disappeared from where he had been, and reappeared about 10 meters away from them.
"Is that all?" Broly asked, sounding as though he was, in short and straight terms, tired and sick of the whole matter.
When he didn't get any response, he added, after letting out what looked like a slight sigh of relief, "If if is, I'm going to kill you."
The four human fighters gulped nervously. They couldn't think of anything else that would be of much use against Broly, and even at their full strengths, they hadn't been able to inflict the slightest damage on him.
What were they going to do now?
'There!' Goku thought, after gathering a final portion of energy for the Spirit Bomb that was floating above him,. 'It's ready! I can throw it against Broly!'
Wasting no further time, Goku immediately established a telepathic connection with his friends, to warn them of the final distraction.
"Guys!" Goku warned them through his telepathy. "The Spirit Bomb is ready! Find some way to get away from Broly without him coming after you!"
Tien, Krillin, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu smiled at the message. Their job was nearly done. There was only a last bit they had to perform – but that bit would be relatively easy. And thankfully, they already knew how to get away from Broly, as that had been the main detail they had planned out during what had been their approach to stall the Legendary Super Saiyan.
"Sorry, Broly, but we ain't dying today," Tien said. "In fact, we have one last thing in store for you."
Putting their hands with fingers spread wide on both sides of their faces, all of the human fighters immediately shouted, "Solar Flare!"
Almost instantly, four bright flashes of light erupted in the area. Combined together, it seemed like an extremely bright flash, visible even from the spot where Goku and the others were.
Broly let out a roar of surprise, and immediately brought his hands to his face. Taking the chance, the four fighters blasted off as quickly as they could, leaving Broly where he was, snarling in rage.
"My eyes!" he roared in surprise as he rubbed at them over and over again. "My eyes! You bunch of imbeciles! What have you done to my eyes?"
None of them bothered to shout an answer back. Instead, they just flew away even faster, making sure they took Goku's instructions regarding their escape in care.
As soon as they were at a proper distance, Goku instant transmitted to them, with the Spirit Bomb floating over him.
"Whoa!" Krillin shouted in surprise.
"That's intense!" Yamcha said.
"Amazing!" Tien said.
Chiaotzu couldn't say anything. He just stared at the Spirit Bomb, his mouth agape in amazement. He had never seen anything like it before.
"Thanks a lot, guys," Goku said. "Now just leave the final part to me."
Goku immediately locked his eyes on Broly, who looked as though he was about to recover his sight.
When Broly got over his dazed state, the first thing he thought of was finding the four idiots who had dared to use that attack on him. However, when he located them, they were merely specks at the limit of his visual reach, standing right behind someone. It was Kakarot – and he had an attack floating over his arms.
A quite large attack, indeed – one that Broly realized he certainly wouldn't be able to bounce back.
His mouth agape, Broly stared in pure horror at the huge sphere of energy floating over Kakarot's raised arms, as he realized that his biggest fear was coming true.
"The game ends now!" Goku shouted at the top of his lungs, his eyes locked on Broly. "Goodbye!"
With those last words, Goku threw his arms forward, launching the Spirit Bomb at the strongest foe he had ever met.
Pointing his left palm toward the attack, Broly gathered all the energy he could, and launched a green energy sphere. However, this energy sphere was much bigger than any of the others he had made before, having a fifth of the Spirit Bomb's size. When it met the Spirit Bomb, it exploded on impact. But Broly's attack was nearly fruitless, managing only to decrease the Spirit Bomb's impetus for a moment.
However, a moment seemed to be enough for Broly, as he quickly started firing a barrage of energy blasts from his right hand in an attempt to push the Spirit Bomb back. He wasn't achieving that goal, but he was slowing the attack down.
Goku felt that Broly was charging up another, much stronger attack in his left hand, obviously trying to destroy the Spirit Bomb. While Goku didn't think Broly would be able to do such a thing, he had already slowed the Spirit Bomb down, which meant the attack was now less likely to engulf him. Goku knew he had to do something.
"Haaaa!" Goku shouted, his muscles expanding to the definition typical of the Ascended Super Saiyan state, as he sent the Spirit Bomb forward with even greater speed.
All the energy blasts Broly had been firing were being pushed away. Desperate for an alternative, Broly launched the stronger energy blast he'd been preparing, but like the smaller ones, it disintegrated against a Spirit Bomb that was now moving at a much faster speed.
His yellow-green aura erupting around him, Broly extended his arms toward the attack, in an effort to slow it down.
The Spirit Bomb met the palms of his hands, and started pushing him away like a bull charging against a man. Broly powered up to his very limits, attempting his utter best to push the attack back. Huge blocks of rock were blown away from underneath Broly's feet as the Spirit Bomb opened a deep trench on the planet's ground.
Broly powered up even more, with veins protruding all over his body, and more energy output than he'd ever emitted before. However, it was fruitless. The Spirit Bomb was proceeding as though there was nothing in front of it.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, the comet was getting closer by the second. If it wasn't destroyed soon, they would all be killed. Goku knew he had to hurry things up if he wanted to remedy the situation.
With another scream, he ascended into the Ultra Super Saiyan state. His muscles ached because of the speed of the forced transformation, but Goku ignored the intensified pain, knowing the transformation was necessary.
Thrusting his arms forward, Goku placed his hands together at their heels, the right hand pointing upwards, and the left one pointing downwards.
"Ka… me… ha… me… haaaaaaa!" he shouted, charging up the Spirit Bomb even more with the first energy wave he had ever learned.
An instant later, the energy sphere engulfed Broly, and was plowing across the ground far faster than it had before, knocking off pieces of rock the size of buildings.
Inside the sphere, Broly tried to summon as much energy as he could, in a desperate effort to survive the overwhelming attack. But in spite of his efforts, his energy kept being sucked away as the attack swallowed him.
Strangely enough, he wasn't scared of death. He was merely stupefied at the fact that, after spending so many years having people trying to kill him and always failing, someone who had managed to take him down had actually appeared.
"It's not possible!" The Legendary Super Saiyan yelled, with absolute and deafening shock in his voice.
One more time, Broly tried to break free from the Spirit Bomb. His attempt was proving to be futile.
"I hope you die for this, Kakarot!" he roared at his enemy, feeling the greatest fury he had ever known.
Just as Broly's power had been overwhelmed by the Spirit Bomb, his bellow was drowned out by the thunderous rumble of the energy sphere as it plowed across New Planet Vegeta.
And he did not scream again, except for his roars of pain as the Spirit Bomb kept exerting its destructive forces on his body.
Feeling sure that his Spirit Bomb had managed to achieve its first purpose, Goku directed his hands upward, and the Spirit Bomb soared skyward through New Planet Vegeta's atmosphere, heading straight for the approaching comet.
A few minutes afterwards, the two blue-white spheres met. For the tiniest of instants, the two of them pushed against each other. Then, the smaller Spirit Bomb penetrated the larger comet's surface and headed straight toward its core, making cracks radiating from the spot through which it had entered.
Soon, blue beams started erupting from the comet's surface, as if it was a miniature star shooting out stellar flares.
Then, the Spirit Bomb exploded, releasing a blinding flash of light across space.
When the surge of brightness finally subsided, both blue spheres had already disappeared.
The only thing left of either of them was a huge amount of rubble, which rained down on New Planet Vegeta, and which was no longer capable of causing any significant threat.
Having watched the whole battle against Broly, King Kai felt both relief and pride surging through every fiber of his being.
He was relieved because a grand terror had been defeated, and he felt especially proud because his student had used one of the techniques King Kai had taught him to deliver the finishing blow.
"Excellent job, Goku," King Kai said, before flicking his antennae in the air.
Still with his arms extended in the stance of throwing a Spirit Bomb toward its target, Goku focused his senses on the spot where the huge comet had been moments before. It took only a few moments to realize that Broly's energy signature had disappeared.
Satisfied with his assessment, Goku lowered his arms, as he returned to the basic state of Super Saiyan.
"Whew!" Goku said, as he wiped some sweat away from his forehead, watching thousands of shooting stars falling across New Planet Vegeta's sky, all of them remnants of the fierce battle. "What a relief this is finally over."
"You can sure say that again!" Yamcha said, as he, Goku, and the three others who had been distracting Broly flew down to land close to the huge gap in the planet's surface that had been torn off by the Spirit Bomb.
The five of these warriors, in particular, had been working together to defeat malicious forces for many years. Little had they known, all those years ago when they had teamed up for the first time to stop King Piccolo from tyrannizing the Earth, that many years later they would find themselves working together again to stop Broly from terrorizing the universe.
Wiping the sweat off of his bald head, Krillin let out a huge sigh of relief, before he spoke as well.
"Whew! It sure is a good thing that we have ways of instant healing, and that we won't have to fight on the Cell Games until after tomorrow," he said. "Otherwise, I'm not sure we'd recover completely before then!"
At the mention of the Cell Games, Chiaotzu looked up at Tien.
"Tien, now do you think I can go with you to the Cell Games?" Chiaotzu asked.
Tien gave Chiaotzu a wary look. "Why do you ask that, Chiaotzu? You know I don't want you to go there."
"But Tien, I survived the fight against Broly, who is much stronger than Cell," Chiaotzu insisted. "Why can't I go with you to the Cell Games?"
"Because I would prefer it if you were as safe as possible," Tien said. "I won't deny that you helped against Broly, but the circumstances were different. Also, I'm not even sure I'm going to the Cell Games myself, but even if I am, Cell's a lot more dangerous than Broly was, because of his abilities."
Divided between insisting on going with his friend and respecting his friend's wish, Chiaotzu opted not to say anything else, at least for now.
While his four friends talked amongst themselves, Goku kept his eyes locked on the spot where the comet had been before the Spirit Bomb had destroyed it. Until now, he would never have imagined that the Spirit Bomb could be turned so powerful in an amount of time small enough to be useful in battle, nor had he ever thought that it was possible to use almost all the energy a person could offer, instead of a lesser fraction.
But Goku did recognize that their victory was mostly due to a stroke of very good luck. After all, if Piccolo had somehow lost his Senzu beans during the fight against Broly, or if whatever mechanism Paragus had used to extract energy had malfunctioned after the destruction of the energy mines, it would have been impossible to make a Spirit Bomb strong enough to kill Broly and destroy the comet in the amount of time they had available.
Goku snapped out of his reverie, and smiled before addressing his friends.
"Come on guys, let's go back to the others," he said.
After the others were either touching him or holding someone who was touching him, Goku put the middle and index fingers of his right hand to his forehead. An instant later, the five of them disappeared from their current location, and reappeared close to Trunks, Gohan, Piccolo and Vegeta.
For a moment, all of them stood in silence, as Goku gave closer looks at his son and the others.
Gohan's expression was one of pride, which Goku returned with a thumbs-up gesture.
Trunks slightly smiled, although in a way, he also looked deeply concerned, probably because, as Goku very well knew could be the case, he was thinking of the imminent threat on the horizon against Cell. Because of the horror in which he'd grown up, fighting the androids was in many ways an even more personal battle for Trunks than it was for Goku, despite the fact that Gero had intended for the androids to largely be a method of revenge against Goku for defeating the Red Ribbon Army. Goku recognized this, and couldn't blame Trunks for focusing on the ominous threat, despite their recent victory.
Piccolo, although nearly spent, was as he often was, standing with his arms crossed and with a stoic look on his face.
Vegeta was giving Goku what was easily one of the worst glares he had ever seen on the face of the Saiyan Prince. Given Vegeta's attitude before he had finally donated his energy to the Spirit Bomb, that was of little surprise.
Finally, Goku decided to break the silence.
"Well, seeing as this is all over, I guess we have no reason to be here anymore," Goku said. "Let's go home."
After the nine of them were establishing physical contact with at least one of the others, Goku again put the middle and index fingers of his right hand to his forehead, and then turned his gaze toward outer space, as he tried to sense Dende's and Mr. Popo's energy signatures.
A matter of 30 seconds later, Goku appeared on Kami's Lookout through Instant Transmission, with Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu in tow. Usually, Goku wouldn't have taken this long to perform Instant Transmission, but it had taken some time to sense Dende's and Mr. Popo's energy signatures all the way from New Vegeta. Once he had sensed them, however, making the jump had been easy.
As soon as they had materialized, Dende and Mr. Popo came to greet them. They looked happy to see them, but they also looked quite concerned. Goku immediately assumed they had sensed at least the final part of the battle against Broly.
"Hi Dende," Goku said. "Hi, Mr. Popo."
Most of the others greeted Dende and Mr. Popo as well when they saw them, but Vegeta didn't even bother to grunt in acknowledgment.
"Is this condition of yours in any way related to any eventual encounter with the Legendary Super Saiyan?" Dende asked after all the greetings had been exchanged.
At the surprised looks of most of them, Dende explained, "I used my guardian powers to get a close look at your conversation with that Saiyan called Paragus, and I recently sensed an energy that Mr. Popo told me belonged to a Spirit Bomb. But for the most part, I am ignorant as to what happened while you were off-planet."
Now understanding why Dende had asked the question he had, Goku and the others nodded.
"Yes Dende, we met the Legendary Super Saiyan," Goku said.
Dende looked like he was about to ask even more questions, but before doing so, he gave them another look, scanning them with his gaze.
Then, he set his staff down, and offered, "Well, before you tell me and Mr. Popo anything, allow me to replenish your energy supplies."
Surprised looks dawned onto the faces of most of them, and even Vegeta gave Dende his full attention after that remark.
"You can do that?" Gohan asked. "I mean, I know you can heal people, and I know you always restore their full energies when you do so, but still… we're all a lot stronger now than the last time you healed any of us. Can your powers heal to such an extent?"
"It is easy," Dende said. "Like you said, restoring energy is a natural undercurrent of my healing, so I just have to use my healing on you, and even if you aren't injured, you'll get your energy restored."
Goku beamed at those statements, "That's great! Thanks, Dende."
Then, as a sudden thought came to him, Goku turned to Piccolo and added, "By the way, Piccolo, after Dende heals us, do you think you can restore our clothes? I'll have to talk to Chi Chi soon, and I think it will be better if she doesn't see me with torn clothes."
"No problem," Piccolo said.
There was no conversation while Dende healed them all one by one – hesitating noticeably when he got to Vegeta – and Piccolo restored their clothes. The young guardian's healing particularly amazed Goku. He had known of Dende's healing skills before, but to actually experience them himself was completely different. Not only was Dende healing his sore muscles and restoring his energy supply, but that magic healing was also wiping away any dirt smudges Goku had, whether they were on his skin or his clothes. Although he already knew that he wouldn't be able to prevent Chi Chi's lecture, he could decrease it to a certain degree if he at least appeared to her in a presentable condition. For this, he was quite grateful.
When all of them finally were with their energies restored and their clothes fixed, Dende picked up his staff, stood straight again, and asked, "Would you please now tell me about your encounter with the Legendary Super Saiyan?"
No one answered right away. Goku briefly looked at the others to see if any of them would want to say something. No one seemed up to tell anything about their close encounter with death, though, so Goku decided he would speak.
"Of course," Goku said.
Over the next half-hour, Goku told Dende everything that had happened on New Planet Vegeta, with the others occasionally adding their own comments. As the story went on, Dende seemed ever more amazed at what he heard, and when Goku finally finished speaking, the young guardian was, to say the least, speechless.
"Unbelievable," Dende finally managed to say. "To be much stronger than that fiend Cell without ever having trained… I can't even imagine."
"Neither could we," Tien said. "But we were there, and we sensed his energy at close range."
"I believe you," Dende said simply. "And I know that this Legendary Super Saiyan would have to be as strong as you say if it was necessary to use a Spirit Bomb as powerful as the one I sensed in order to finish him off."
"And to think we have been so worried about Cell…," Gohan said, as he briefly turned his head in the direction from which Cell's energy signature could be sensed. "If a being like Broly was ever to be unleashed on the Universe…."
Everyone there shuddered at such a thought. Gohan was absolutely right. At least, Cell still took the time to kill at a rather slow rate, wanting to savor each and every victim. Broly, although he clearly had a more sadistic side, was much more brutal and merciless, and Goku doubted he would have had any scruples against any further opponents.
"Oh well, look on the bright side," Yamcha said. "We managed to deal with Broly. Now Cell's going to be piece-a-cake!"
"The two of them can't even begin to be compared," Goku remarked. "Broly may have been a monster, but he was probably the clumsiest fighter I've ever seen."
"Indeed," Piccolo agreed. "If he had been a skilled fighter, we'd most certainly be dead."
"Also, although I never fought against Cell myself, I can say, based on what you told me, that his speed far exceeds what Broly was capable of," Goku said. "Last, but certainly not least, Cell is a being who was literally made to corrupt everything we stand for and turn it into horror. He knows most of our techniques, including the Spirit Bomb, and the fact he's able to know so much in advance and be able to counter it is a huge advantage for him."
"Besides, unfortunately, no thanks to me, he can regenerate," Piccolo said, bemusedly.
"I guess we should be grateful that Broly was neither skilled nor aware of our techniques, then," Trunks said. "And I probably should be grateful that he doesn't seem to exist in my future."
"What do you mean?" Piccolo immediately asked, obviously alarmed by the sudden statement. "Broly was never a threat in your future?"
"Well, Paragus never came to the Earth in my timeline, if that's what you mean," Trunks clarified. "If Broly is actually out there somewhere in my timeline, then I certainly can't sense him from Earth. I can only assume that for some reason Paragus hasn't moved forward with his universal conquest in my timeline. I'll have to try to check up on it when I get back, though."
"After we defeat Cell here and you defeat your own timeline's versions of Cell and the other androids, it would be a good idea to try and at least figure out if Broly's still a threat in your timeline," Goku said. "If you discover that Broly's still out there, feel free to come back and ask for our help."
"As always Goku, thank you," Trunks said.
"Well, you should feel quite lucky that you didn't have to deal with him alone," Goku said, reassuringly. "After all, even with all the extra training we've been having recently, we would have been unable to defeat Broly if not for the Spirit Bomb. You would have needed a miracle to defeat Broly if you had confronted him alone."
"Those loser androids might have helped me, but Broly would have blasted them away," Trunks said, with an understandable grin at the thought. "At least if he's still out there, then I'll know what to expect."
"Speaking of knowing about what to expect, you have some explaining to do," Vegeta said, with a slight tone of anger directed toward his son. "Over the three years in which we were preparing for the androids, there were many things that – "
"Believe me, I had my reasons for not telling you," Trunks said hurriedly, interrupting his father and causing Vegeta to look cross. "I'm sorry if you had hardships as a result of not knowing about those things, but I didn't tell you because I was trying to protect you. When I first came back to the past, I did not yet know how my time-travelling would affect not only this timeline, but my own. Therefore, I wanted to keep the changes to a minimum, and that included telling Goku about only the essential things – namely, the arrival of the androids. You all dealt very well in my timeline with the obstacles I didn't tell Goku about, and I knew that all of you would probably be very capable of dealing with those obstacles when they emerged along the way in this timeline. I'm proud that you did."
In spite of Trunks' apology, Vegeta still made a point of scoffing.
"Look, father, had I known about Broly, I would have told you," Trunks said. "I told you about the androids because you unfortunately weren't able to defeat them in my timeline, and by that same logic, I would have told you about Broly had I been aware of his existence."
Then, as if a sudden thought had occurred to him, Trunks added, "Although, to be honest, I have some trouble grasping the concept that we were unlucky enough to fight him in the first place."
At the others' puzzled looks, Trunks added, "I mean, there is a Legendary Super Saiyan born every 1000 years, and Broly not only happened to be born days before Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta, but happened to escape as well. That's improbability at its finest."
"It sure is, Trunks," Gohan agreed. "And the fact Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta largely because he wanted to prevent the appearance of a Legendary Super Saiyan only makes it even weirder."
"Can't you just shut your traps?" Vegeta shouted. "Alright, there was a Legendary Super Saiyan born before Frieza destroyed our home planet, and Frieza was too incompetent to set his schedule on time to kill him. So what? We fought him, we killed him, now stop blabbering about it!"
Vegeta's display of displeasure at the fact they were dwelling further on the fact Broly had as much as existed caused some of them to have fearful looks. Yamcha and Krillin, in particular, inched away from Vegeta in a not-so-subtle manner.
"Easy there, Vegeta," Goku said. "I know that fighting Broly wasn't pleasant, but it could have been worse. At least, none of us died against him."
Vegeta snarled at Goku again, but he didn't seem like he was up to arguing, because he simply turned his back on him in a very forceful manner. Immediately after, Goku remembered something pertinent.
"I think this would be a good time for me to go talk with King Kai and try to figure out whether Broly has killed someone that we should wish back to life with the Dragon Balls," Goku said.
A sea of wide eyes appeared as soon as Goku made that statement. They had all been so concerned about Cell's victims over the last few days that this consideration had not readily occurred to them.
"What?" Chiaotzu asked. "But Goku, if you do that, what about Cell's victims? If we use the Dragon Balls now, it will have been more than a year since they died, and we won't be able to resurrect them!"
"We'll just have to use the second wish on those that Cell killed," Goku replied. "Or, we could just use the set of Dragon Balls on New Namek. Either one of those options would work."
Putting his middle and index fingers to his forehead, Goku said, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be seeing King Kai."
"And I'd better go and talk to my mother," Trunks added. "I should have told her we were going off-planet in the first place, and she must be worried sick."
Vegeta again made a big point of scoffing. Obviously, he wasn't going with Trunks. Goku couldn't help but to wonder how even a man like Vegeta felt no fear from Bulma's temper, which was comparable to Chi Chi's.
"Good luck, Trunks," Goku wished, an edge of wariness to his voice. "If I know Bulma well, I can imagine how pleased she was if she found out you left this planet without telling her anything."
With more than an edge of unease creeping onto his face and into his stance, Trunks said, "Thank you, Goku."
Goku smirked as if to say, "Don't mention it."
Turning to address the others, Goku added, "I'll be back once I have information about what we will have to do regarding Broly's victims."
With that, Goku Instant Transmitted away from the Lookout, with the breeze occupying the space he had emptied in a matter of seconds.
As soon as Goku reappeared on King Kai's planet, Bubbles and Gregory moved toward him, both looking cheerful as usual.
"Hello, Gregory," Goku greeted, nodding at the grasshopper. "And hello to you too, Bubbles," he added as the monkey jumped into his arms.
"Goku, my boy!" King Kai shouted joyfully as he walked toward him. "How good it is to see you."
While he let Bubbles down, Goku replied, "I sure can say the same. I really thought we were done for."
"I can imagine," King Kai said. "A Legendary Super Saiyan is a very powerful being. Standing against one and living to tell the tale is no small feat by far."
Then, looking as though his chest had expanded with pride, King Kai said, "But you managed to defeat him, and with a technique I taught you, no less. Of course, I wouldn't have minded if you had defeated him any other way."
"Well, I'm gladder than ever that you taught me that technique," Goku stated. "And I'm relieved that he's gone."
Then, deciding to talk about the subject that had brought him here, Goku added, "But I did not come here to talk about my battle against Broly. I came here so that I could know who exactly Broly has killed recently, and whether we should use the Dragon Balls to revive them."
Nodding at him in understanding, King Kai said, "I had a guess you would eventually ask that. So, I took the liberty to talk to King Yemma and investigate that matter."
The look on his face growing more somber, King Kai carried on, "Broly killed countless people over the course of his life. Unfortunately, determining exactly who he killed would take too much time. However, the only people that Broly killed during the last Earth year were his own father and Paragus' henchmen who were working on the planet that Paragus called New Planet Vegeta."
Goku nodded.
"Now, I know that you may still be considering using the Dragon Balls to resurrect, at least, Paragus' minions," King Kai said. "But before you do, please let me tell you this: Paragus and his minions did many horrible things over the course of their lives, many of which had nothing to do with Broly. Paragus went to Hell because of his especially atrocious crimes."
"I see," Goku said.
He found it difficult to believe that a being as aggressive Broly had spent a whole year without killing anyone good, but the truth was that Broly had been under Paragus' mind control until very recently. Paragus could simply have not had any reason to order Broly to kill people during that amount of time.
"Is there anything more you need to ask me?" King Kai asked.
"No," Goku said. Then, suddenly remembering the favor he had asked from King Kai before arriving on New Planet Vegeta, he added, "Or rather, there is. Did Cell do anything harmful while we were away, or did any of Paragus' minions stay on Earth without our knowledge?"
"No, Goku," King Kai replied. "Cell has stayed quiet while you were away, although I think he sensed your departure, at the very least. And Paragus did not try to conquer the Earth while you were away."
"On second thought, I didn't really expect Paragus to do that, anyway," Goku said. "He knew about Cell, and he would have been very foolish to have his minions attacking the Earth with Cell around."
Putting two fingers to his forehead again, Goku said, "Now, if you excuse me, I'm going back. I have to tell the others that we won't be using the Dragon Balls after all. Also, the longer I stay away, the more upset Chi Chi will be when I get back."
"Goodbye, Goku," King Kai said. "And good luck for the battle against Cell. He may not be as physically strong as Broly, but unfortunately, he's a much more capable opponent."
The only answer Goku gave was an enigmatic smile, before he finally disappeared through Instant Transmission.
Earth, the Cell Games Arena, May 25th, Age 767, one day before the Cell Games …
Standing vigilantly in the middle of the ring he had built, Cell gave a look around the area, surveying the landscape for the uncountableth time ever since he had gotten back from the television studio where he had broadcast the announcement of the Cell Games.
The wait had been long, but thankfully it was nearly over.
This time tomorrow, Goku and all of his friends would be nothing but memories after falling to his might, and Cell would be able to start massacring every single Earthling on this miserable planet.
Hopefully, however, Goku and the others would give him at least somewhat of a fight before that happened, as he wanted to look at Earth's destruction as some sort of reward for having managed to defeat the planet's defenders.
Cell was brought out of his musings when he sensed that someone had suddenly appeared behind him. Amazement flickered through him, as he realized who had arrived.
But he didn't stay amazed for long. Instead, he turned around to greet his visitor.
"Good morning, Goku."
"Good morning, Cell," Goku greeted back.
The Saiyan was dressed in an orange jacket with black sleeves, a white t-shirt, tan pants, and brown shoes. He didn't look any worse for the wear than he had when Cell had last seen him, although Cell did know that Goku had come out of whatever battle he had fought on another planet very tired indeed, as when Cell had sensed Goku and the others appearing on Kami's Lookout yesterday, their energies had been very low, although they had increased shortly afterwards, presumably thanks to Senzu Beans.
"You are early," Cell remarked. "The Cell Games are scheduled to begin tomorrow. Are you so willing to die that you decided to come a day earlier?"
Goku chuckled humorlessly.
"No, Cell," he replied. "And besides, I wouldn't be so sure of whether I'm the one who's going to die tomorrow. Either way, I'm not here today to fight you."
That much, Cell had already thought. After all, Goku was wearing clothes that weren't exactly meant to be worn when fighting.
"Well, what is it then?" Cell inquired.
His face turning serious, Goku asked, "How much of it did you sense?"
"How much of what?"
"Of what happened ever since Earth received a recent visit from outer space, on the day before yesterday," Goku clarified. "I know for a fact that there were people who sensed some of what went on since then, even though it was in outer space. You, I imagine, would also be among the people who sensed something. So, I repeat: how much did you sense?"
Cell understood what Goku meant.
"I did not sense a lot," Cell replied. "Before yesterday, I sensed that you had left, and then you had gone beyond my clear sensing range. Then, yesterday, I sensed the Spirit Bomb you made to kill whatever being you fought out there. Shortly afterwards, I sensed the Spirit Bomb exploding, and about two minutes after that, I sensed you had used that overly convenient technique you have to bring you and your friends back to Earth instantaneously."
Goku nodded. "I see…."
"Don't get any ideas, Goku," Cell immediately warned. "I won't let you use a Spirit Bomb against me."
"I didn't intend to do that," Goku said. "I just wanted to know how much of that battle you actually sensed."
"I sensed what I told you," Cell said. "And to be honest, I am a bit curious as to why you would go off-planet when you knew I was here."
"I had my ways of keeping an eye on you while I was away," Goku stated. "And as far as what happened – let's just say my friends and I were convinced that we had to destroy a threat even more dangerous than you."
"There is no one more dangerous than me," Cell proclaimed. "I am perfection itself, and you and your friends will experience the true meaning of that tomorrow."
Goku chuckled again – but this time, there actually was some humor in his voice.
"If you were with us in that battle, I believe you would have felt differently," Goku said.
"I doubt it," Cell stated. Inwardly, he didn't have as many doubts as he had verbally implied – after all, the power of the Spirit Bomb he had sensed had been high enough to kill a being stronger than him. But Cell would never imply that facing any sort of being made him the slightest bit nervous. Besides, as a perfect life form, there was no way any other being in the universe could ever hope to match the summation of his abilities.
"Suit yourself," Goku said, while shrugging his shoulders. "Now, if you don't mind, I will be going. See you tomorrow."
With that, Goku put two fingers to his forehead, and vanished.
'That's it, Goku,' Cell thought. 'Go and enjoy the day. It will be the last day of your life, after all.'
Indeed. Tomorrow would be not only the last day of Goku's life, but the last day of the lives of every being on Earth.
Again entertaining himself with picturing the horrors he had in store for the human race, Cell folded his arms while maintaining his stance in the middle of the ring.
Little did he know that tomorrow, not only would it not be the last day of the lives of every being on Earth, but that it would be the last day of something else.
Thanks so much for reading Honor Trip's Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan Special, the definitive canon-compatible, logic-compatible, and continuity-compatible version of the original Movie 8 story!
If you enjoyed the special, check out American Vigor's Honor Trip, the main story that this special is a part of - besides also being an unwritten part of the canon Dragon Ball Z series as it stands.
Hoping you enjoyed the chapter,
Genescritor
Broly Special Part Three: Completed September 25, 2011
Edit Credit: American Vigor – I want to thank Genescritor for writing what I believe to be an outstanding addition to the Dragon Ball universe, and for vastly improving its overall quality through his dedication to enabling this special to be comprehensive in its approach. Genescritor literally spent months refining this special so that it would be of the utmost quality, and he took various advanced story construction and logical deduction considerations into account throughout the production process. I hope you have enjoyed reading his work as much as I have.
Writer's note: As mentioned in the first part of the special, the selected theme song for Honor Trip's Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan Special is "The Rage to Overcome," by Machine Head. You can listen to this song by typing "The Rage to Overcome" and "Machine Head" into the search feature of a standard Internet browser and finding the related music video.
The song is quite symbolic of the special and of Broly's experiences.
Each line has an annotation number that corresponds with a line of symbolic analysis that follows the full text of the song:
This world does not want me (1)
This world does not care (2)
And I'm a product of this world (3)
Confused. I'd say that's fair (4)
This pain will never leave me (5)
It's scarred upon my brain (6)
Destroying everything that brought this (7)
Just to keep me, just to keep me sane (8)
A hatred burns inside me (9)
Emotions out of hard (10)
But I've the will to focus this (11)
Survive, contrive, command (12)
From pain comes a courage (13)
The strength from injustice (14)
The rage to overcome it all (15)
An open mind (16)
With a closed fist (17)
Symbolic Analysis:
1 & 2) Thanks to Paragus deliberately getting Broly in contact with races who either were determined to destroy Saiyans or were inherently aggressive to the point of decimating any member from another race they met, Broly came to the conclusion that every being that existed other than his father desired to kill him, because they did not want him in this world.
3 & 4) Deep down, Broly knows that he is a product of this world, and is somewhat confused as to why everyone wants him killed, but at the same time, never dwells on these considerations for long.
5 & 6) The fact every being other than his father seems to be determined to kill him causes a deep impression on Broly's mentality.
7 & 8) Broly ends up developing the urge of destroying any being he meets before it destroys him, and feels he will go mad if he doesn't follow his urge.
9 &10) Broly has an intense hatred for Paragus out of the control Paragus has over his free will.
11) Broly's hatred for Paragus is massive, but he has enough control to focus his hatred on Paragus.
12) Broly wants to destroy any being other than his father because he doesn't want them to kill him.
13) Over the years, Broly becomes ever more determined to kill his father because of the pain of being no more than a puppet in his father's hands.
14) For years, Paragus carried out the injustice of turning his son into a personal weapon of war, and once Broly recovers his free will, the strength of the blast he uses to kill Paragus is symbolically proportional to the injustice Paragus committed.
15) Broly's rage plays a great role in his killing of Paragus, and by killing Paragus, he feels he utterly overcame the fact he was used as a tool for years.
16 & 17) After Vegeta shattered the mind-control device Paragus had placed on Broly, Broly's mind was literally opened, in the sense that he could now follow his own will. Also, closed fists are a common sign of aggression, and Broly, once his mind was finally open, becomes exceedingly violent, delivering said violence through, among other things, attacks inflicted with his closed fists.
"The Rage to Overcome," while a quite good song, (and hence why it was chosen as the symbolic theme song for this special), was written by Machine Head and is the band's property. Please keep in mind to support the song's official release.
Thanks again for reading Honor Trip's Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan Special. And again, if you enjoyed my work, I advise you to read American Vigor's Honor Trip.
Hoping you enjoyed the chapter,
Genescritor