Chapter 15

:Gohan Returns to the Battlefield

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

The battle against Broly continued to rage on. Goku was sent flying head-over-heels into a building where he then fell back down to the ground but collapsing on his hands and knees once he landed in between two large fallen pieces of rubble. "Heh... I know I'm tough. But I'm no match for him like this." said Goku on his hands and knees with some kind of weak smile on his face. Goku managed get back up and started running at Broly but only for Broly to launch an energy ball at him which he managed to block at the last minute. "Hey! What do you say you give us a handicap?" yelled out Goku after the smoke cleared. "Is that another word for coffin?" was Broly's reply as he then smirkingly started to repeatedly hit Goku with one-handed blasts of energy while laughing. The smoke from the repeated attacks continued to billow out and expand until it shrouded the two fighters. Eventually Goku slowly backed out of the rising cloud of smoke only to find the massive form of Broly walking out of the smoke towards him like a murderer stalking his victim.

Goku then desperately went for his tried and true patented Kamehameha Wave as Broly just walked forward towards him without care. "KAAA... MEEEE... HAAAAA... MEEE... HAAAAAAA!" screamed Goku as he unleashed the full power of the wave point blank full on in Broly's chest. Broly seemed to vanish in a massive ball of blue light as he stood there like a statue not moving. When the smoke cleared in front of Goku it revealed Broly standing there unharmed with a cocky grin and not even boasting a single scratch. Goku trembled in utter shock seeing his move not work. No one could survive that, even Cell was blown in half when he'd been hit with that shot and Broly took it without even a scratch! Broly then grabbed Goku's head and lifted him off the ground. "Heh.. What was that supposed to be, Goku?" Broly mockingly asked as he then released him. Goku had a dazed, goofy look on his face as he slowly fell down, then Broly then pounded him with a mind-shattering fist to the face.

Meanwhile, Vegeta continued to observe the battle as the shockwave from the last hit to Goku shattered parts of the building Vegeta was standing on. The struggle of his companions was beginning to stir something in the prideful Saiyan prince as he seemed to be reflecting in on himself. "They're mere grunts fighting an entire army!" Vegeta said to himself as if one side of him wanted to remind him of the seemingly hopeless situation they were in. But more and more he found himself trying to hold himself back as his courageous pride began to rise to the surface inside of him in a battle that was tearing him apart. Slowly his hands shackily rose their way to his mid-section and then finally the anger and pride in him finally burst out. "I AM PRINCE VEGETA!" Vegeta yelled out as he then ascended to his maximum Super Saiyan level screaming and launched himself into the air.

Trunks was just getting out of some rubble he was buried in when he heartedly saw his father flying back into the fight. "Yeah! Get him dad!" Trunks exuberantly cheered on as his father passed him bye. "I am the ruler of all Saiyans even you Broly." said Vegeta as he speedily flew close to the ground heading directly for Broly. "Then please try your best to make me kneel before you." challenged Broly as Vegeta headed straight for him. Vegeta tried a flying punch which Broly easily dodged by moving backwards but Vegeta flipped in mid-air and landed an upside down kick to the shoulder that Broly only seemed to shrug off. Vegeta then followed it up by rebounding his foot off the ground with such force that it broke apart the ground underneath and gave all the force he could to a punch to the chin. The punch hit but Broly only smirked as the attack made no damage. Vegeta was momentarily stunned at how inaffective his attack was but he quickly returned to the attack. Vegeta skipped backwards while hitting Broly with two balls of energy that had no effect to covered his withdrawl. Trunks flew in to cover his father with one of his signature Burning Attacks but it too had no effect and he got a jaw-jarring uppercut to the chin that sent him flying for his troubles.

Vegeta tried to get away out of city ruins to regroup but he was caught by Broly and got clotheslined into a massive rock that left an enormous crater in the rock. Broly kept his massive hand on Vegeta's jaw-line until Vegeta lost his Super Saiyan state. Broly then let him go and he fell down, sliding down along the edge of the crater. "So it's true, you are all talk and no action. A true piece of trash." mocked Broly as Vegeta slid down to the ground below. Broly then reared up and flared his aura accompanied with a victorious scream that soon turned into a cruel but malicious laugh at having downed his opponents.

Meanwhile, Paragus was making his way up a flight of stairs carved into the side of a cliff to a waiting Saiyan spacepod on a plateau above. "There's less than a day left before this planet and everything on it is iradicated. I wish it didn't have to come to this, but it must... Now that I can't control you anymore, my dear son Broly, you are nothing to me. You are just a thought in the back of my head. I'm sorry son, but you'll die along with this planet." Paragus said to himself as he made his way the spacepod and took one last look to the ruins beyond. Paragus seated himself in the pod and prepared to lift off when a voice stopped him in his tracks. "Where do you think you're going dad?" Broly said rhetorically, saying the last part with a tone of sarcasm as he stood in front of the pod with a terrified Paragus looking through the glass at him. "Ahhh.. Ahhh... Pr-Preparing the rocket so we can escape the explosion." Paragus stammered out with an obvious lie, trying to save his life but being too shocked and too terrified to come up with anything better on such short notice. "In a rocket built for one person?" Broly rhetorically asked, catching him in his lie. Broly then grabbed the pod with his massive hands and began crushing it above his head like a trash compactor. "Aaaaaahhhhh! What kind of an end to life is this? Crushed by your own son who once saved your life?" rhetorically asked Paragus just before he was crushed inside the pod and thrown out into space in the direction of the incoming comet by Broly, laughing as he did it. "Did he really think that I would die just because this planet is about to explode?" Broly asked to no one in particular, more like a final insult to the old man.

Then, something caught Broly's attention off in the distance and so he slowly turned to see what it was. There, off in the distance was Gohan, walking slowly down the valley below as a Super Saiyan and wearing a red and blue uniform just like his father's. "Ahh! There you are, Kakarot's son. So glad you could join us. I was beginning to think you wouldn't show up. Back for another beating I see?" spoke Broly with an arrogant grin on his face. Gohan however, paused his walking and just glared at Broly with contempt in his burning green eyes.

Suddenly, Videl stirred up from where she was laying embedded in the side of a cliff. When she came to she recognised Gohan standing on the battlefield. "W-W-What? Is that Gohan? Hey, Gohan's back!" weakly said Videl with a weak smile on her face. Soon afterwards, the others also stirred from where they lay on the battlefield and looked up to see if she was right. "Y-You're right... It is Gohan!" weakly responded Trunks, glad to see his friend return to help save them. "Attaboy Gohan... Go get him." weakly said Goku from where he lay face down on the ground just outside the ruined city limits and looking on with a weak but smile at his son. "Gohan is our last hope. We have to put all our hopes on him. If he doesn't defeat Broly then all hope will be lost." summerized Piccolo from where he laid on the battlefield.

"You are now all that stands between me and total victory. What makes you think that you can win where both your pathetic father and that weakling prince Vegeta failed?" mockingly asked Broly. "Because this time I'm using my full power and you won't ambush me like before. And you won't be using one of my friends as a hostage like a coward." Gohan explained while keeping the intense look on his face and then burst open his aura in preparation for battle as he then began walking forward again. Broly just looked at him with a frown on his face until finally he open his own aura and powered up into the air causing the cliff he was on to collapse behind him. Gohan picked up momentum to running speed before following suit and following Broly into the air in a collision course with Broly.

In mid-air Broly generated a green energy shield around himself just before Gohan reached him. Gohan threw a punch and tried to break his way through but it was too strong and he got repulsed. Gohan tumbled across the air but he managed to flip out and rebound off the ground at the last second and come back. However, Broly was waiting for him and landed a left handed superman punch right to the face before Gohan could unload his. Gohan was once again sent flying across the battlefield only this time it was more horizontal and just above ground level. When he finally hit the ground he skidded and tumbled across it until he managed to right himself by grabbing the ground with both hands and skidding to a stop just before a large rocky mound. But just as Gohan stood back up again he found Broly running at him at full speed with a green energy ball in hand which he made a running throw and when it hit Gohan it stuck with him and sent him right through the rocky mound that was right behind him and beyond. When the attack dissipated, Gohan was sent skidding back first on the ground and finally stopping right next to where his father lay and then fell out of Super Saiyan. "Hmph! How lucky, now both Kakarot and his son are together in one place. How appropriate that it is that both father and son die together as I kill them. I want to savour this moment." said Broly as he then began to slowly walk to where Goku and Gohan were laying.

Goku began crawling towards his son, and though he was still managing to maintain his Super Saiyan state thanks to his mastery of the form from his training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Goku was still too weak to stand. "G-G-Gohan! Why didn't you use your hidden power? The one you used aganst Cell? I've seen how powerful you are with it and you're just as strong as he is so why haven't you used it to defeat him?" asked a worried Goku as he crawled his way closer to his son. Gohan opened his eyes and wearily looked up at sky, either not being able to look at his father from shame or from exhaustion. "It's because I can't... I'm sorry dad, but I've locked it away forever. Now I can't ever use it again." responded Gohan in a flat tone of voice. Goku was shocked to hear this from his son. "What? Why?" asked the surpised Goku, wanting to know why his son would throw away that fantastic power of his. "It's because of that power that I turned into a monster worse that Cell! I was scared that if I continued using my hidden powers than that 'side' of myself would become who I am someday and that I might hurt one of you or worse. I couldn't afford that risk and so I buried that power deep inside myself so that I could never use it again." explained Gohan with a flat tone of voice that hid an ocean's full of emotions.

"Gohan... You're not a monster." Videl said, being faintly heard from across the battlefield. "Huh? Videl?" Gohan wondered, being barely able to hear her. "Gohan, you're not monster. I don't know how you see yourself from that day but I saw that power first hand and I can tell you that you weren't a monster. When you transformed that day you saved my life and you even smiled at me. That's not the acts of a monster." Videl said with heartfelt feeling in her voice that resonated with Gohan. "She's right Gohan... That anger and that power comes from wanting to protect others. So as long as you can distinguish between those who you're protecting and those who you're not then you are not a monster. Besides, that power is also a part of who you are so that must means that all of you're good traits are also a part of it along with the bad ones and if that's the case than that means it can't be all bad. We all know that you could be nothing like that." explained Goku in an effort to show Gohan that his true loving nature was the real driving force behing his powers and not his supposed 'ugly side'. Gohan was shocked to realise this and it showed on his face but soon that look turned to one of sadness and pity.

"Well I guess it doesn't really matter now anyway. I'm still al out of energy and I still stupidly buried my powers and we're still all going to die because of it." said Gohan in self-pity and closing his eyes in tears of shame at what he felt his decision had cost them. "Don't talk like that son. Where there's a will there's a way! If those powers are still somewhere inside of you then there's still a way to awaken them! All you need is for someone to find them." said Goku as he extended his hand in reaching for Gohan's as he crawled closer and closer.

Finally Goku reached his son's hand just as Broly came into view. With one final effort a strange golden glow tranfered from Goku to Gohan as he sent had all of his remaining power into Gohan. Gohan opened his eyes and looked up at the sky with a look the one would mistake for surprise. "Father... " Gohan said as he could feel the power his father had given him. Gohan turned his head back to the very man who had given him his power. "Just think of this as a little extra help in awakening your powers..." Goku weakly said with the last of his strength as he then collapsed, his golden hair turning to black as he lost consciousness. It was then that Broly arrived and saw the scenery. "Awww... Isn't that precious. Father and son joined at the hands in their final hour." Broly mocked.

Gohan turned himself over and looked at his right hand which his father had touched when he'd transfered his power. It glowed golden and Gohan realised that his father had transfered more than just his energy. He'd transfered part of his mind and soul in as well and he could feel his father in him search and unlocking his hidden power. Gohan stood up with his back facing Broly and his front facing large buildings of the ruined city. "So? Still got some fight left in you?" Broly snidely remarked, arrogant as ever. "Father, I can feel you inside me. You gave me your power so I could save you all AND I WON'T LET YOU DOWN!" screamed out Gohan as then his father's spirit found his sleeping powers and they ignited with spectacular results.

Gohan screamed out and raised his arms up to his mid-section as he quickly ascended to his Super Saiyan level. His now golden hair flew straight up by the force of the winds and golden lights shot out from inside him dazzling all those who witnessed it as his screaming reached a fever-pitch. "Where is he getting all this energy?" asked Broly in honest astonishment and even a little bit of fear as he didn't know what he was witnessing. Finally the lights subsided and Gohan turned around and showed Broly his new look. His golden hair went straight up in gravity defying fashion letting only a single band drop in front and his eyes were now the coldest shade of anger that one could imagine and blue streaks of electricity sporadically danced around his aura and his energy rivaled that of Broly's. For once Broly showed genuine fear as he backed away in fright at this new challenge. The main event was about to begin.

Author's Final Thoughts: And so that's why I had Gohan lock away his powers all that time ago and get injured like he did like that. So that he could dramatically come back and revive his sealed up powers with the help of his father Goku and save the day against Broly. I love it when a plan comes together. I hope that you can appreciate it for the storytelling that it is. I think that it works for what it is and being a highly sensitive subject with Gohan and for him to have an epic realisation moment right here. I hope you enjoyed it, because from now on it's going to be an epic battle.