Chapter 16

:Gohan vs Broly

:A Clash of Titans

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.

Broly couldn't believe what he saw, a child with a power that equals if not surpasses his own. As he stared into the eyes of the son of Goku he saw eyes so much like his own. He saw eyes that were not those of a child but he saw the eyes of a killing machine so much like himself. "I know your kind. You think that you can just waltz on in and destroy this planet... Well you forgot one thing, I'm my father's SOOOOOOONNN!" spoke Gohan as he screamed out, letting out a tremendous burst of power that cracked the ground around him and sent giant pillars of light out of the cracks that surrounded him. Broly leaped out of the way of he explosion of power and landed a fair distance away on top of a nearby cliff.

When the light show finally calmed down and abated, Gohan began walking slowly forward, his footsteps ominously carrying the tremendous, ponderous weight of the power backing their steps. Broly's fear turned to anger at being equalled by another and so with clenched teeth Broly powered up and charged headlong at his quarry. Gohan then simultaniously picked up his speed and ran up to leap into the air and flew forward, flying parallel to the ground in a collision course with Broly.

And when they met in the middle, they both threw simultanious punches at each other and their fists connected. Colliding like two titans and creating such a massive shockwave that the ground churned up beneath them creating a massive fifty foot crater in the earth.

Both fighters then vanished as powerful but smaller shockwaves began littering the skies in quick succession. Both fighters were now moving at hyper speeds and the only evidence that these two titans of power were continuing to clash, were the concussion waves dotting the air.

Finally, after an extended period of time they reappeared on the ground where Broly tried to launch an overhand punch that Gohan easily avoided and countered with a punch right in the middle of Broly's gut. That punch knocked the breath right out of Broly as saliva spewed out of his mouth and a look of shock abdorned his face. Gohan stood completely still in the position where he'd struck Broly and his face stood shockingly just as unchanged as the position he was in, his killer instincts having completely taken hold.

Broly staggered backwards as he held his stomach with both hands trying to get breath. Gohan returned to a standing position and just glared at Broly off to one side. Clearly the winner of round 1 in this fight was Gohan. "Gugh! W-Why? Why are you so strong? I am the Legendary Super Saiyan! I am the strongest of all Saiyans in History and you're nothing but a child, a halfbreed! How can it be that you are as strong as me? TELL ME!" demanded Broly, it didn't make any sense to him. Gohan closed his eyes and reflected on the memories of Broly's life that had come to him the previous night. Gohan then sharply opened his eyes and stared right at Broly. "Because like you I was also given a great power at birth." answered Gohan. Broly's eyes widened as he realised what Gohan was talking about. "You? How did you know about my past? Neither I nor my father told you about our past." Broly questioned. "I know because last night I was sent a vision of your past on planet Vegeta through my dreams. I know that like you I was born with an incredible hidden power. But although your power level was ten times greater than mine was, my powers have always grown with the training, hard work and intense battles that I've fought to grow stronger. My father once told me that enough hard work can always outstrip pure talent. That's why I'm the one to face you. You've only ever relied on your natural powers and talents while I've been trained as hard as I could go and with that my powers have grown strong along with me. I'm a talent with hard work and you're only pure talent." Gohan said, finishing his explanation with his ever unchanging facial expression still in place.

By this time Broly had recovered his breath, had regained his standing and now wore an angry scowl on his face directed at Gohan. But then that arrogant, bloodthirsty smirk returned to his face. "Ha! You can train all you want until you're blue in the face! It won't be enough to kill me." Boasted Broly as he then charged up so his aura was visible again. "We'll see." Gohan simply said as he then crouched his legs a little in preparation for to leap into combat once again.

Broly started off by charging up a green energy ball in his left hand and launching it at Gohan who vanished before it could hit. Gohan reappeared on Broly's flank and threw his own yellow ball of energy at Broly. The blast connected with Broly's chest but when the smoke cleared it revealed Broly staggering backwards from the hit but still unharmed. Gohan twitched his mouth and groaned in frustration that his blast hadn't hurt Broly. Meanwhile, the fact that the blast had forced him back angered Broly, and his face showed it. Broly then began sending one blast after another trying to hit Gohan but Gohan just kept vanishing and dodging the attacks. "Look! Broly's slightly more powerful than Gohan but Gohan's slightly more faster than Broly." Piccolo analysed while watching the fight from his position laying down on the ground below.

Meanwhile, the fight continued in earnest as Gohan seemed to have also made the same observation as Piccolo. As when Gohan reappeared again directly in front of Broly and seemed to be wanting to get in close. But Broly saw this coming and trid to give one of his big clotheslines with his big left arm. But Gohan easily dodged it by ducking his head by crouching his body forward. But then Gohan disappeared in a flicker of speed. He then came back to deliver a straight left punch. But then the big man vanished in a flicker of speed himself and Gohan's punch sailed into nothing. He's no slouch in speed neither, even if Gohan might be little bit faster. But Gohan just stood up straight and didn't move. He seemed to be inviting the attack, with his angry, contemptuous scowl still ever in place.

But when Broly reappeared from behind in a flicker, windding up his giant left arm to bring down a crushing hammerfist down with his big hand. But Gohan didn't move, he just seemed to be oblivious to the attack, with his angry, permanent scowl still in place. But then at the last second, he disappeared again in a flicker, and Broly's massive fist sailed throught the flicker and into the ground, where his power created a small cratter. Gohan then came back with a windmill kick from behind, but once again Broly too vanished with a flicker. And he came back with another swinging clothesline, from behind this time. But Gohan too, once again countered in a flicker of speed. And then came from behind with a swinging left chop swinging to the right but only for that to hit air as Broly flickered away. One after the other, after the other, they continued disappearing in this counter battle of vanishes.

But then, that battle was finally brought to an end when a loud concussion sound reverberated through the valley. It appeared that Gohan was the one to win that engagement as Broly was appeared sailling past, with Gohan in hot pursuit. But then when he regained himself, Gohan went in winding up a right haymaker. But when he went to deliver it, Broly blocked it with his forearm. The sound of that block reverberated throughout the valley. Gohan groaned in frustration over it. They then went into a flurry of fast action as each fighter blocked or dodged each others punches and kicks and the sound of clashes echoed accross the valley.

Eventually Broly got the upper hand and went on the offensive as Gohan was forced to dodge or block Broly's attacks. But then Gohan threw punches of his own only to have them blocked by Broly's punches and both sides settled into another evenly matched contest of fast flurry of strikes and kicks. Finally Gohan caught one of Broly's punches and then both fighters simultaniously charged energy balls with their free hands. They then both threw their hands forward with the energy balls in them and they collided with each other.

The blast collision sent both fighters flying in opposite directions. Both fighters crashed into the sides of mountains on opposite ends of the battlefield. When both fighters got out of the rocks both warriors looked to be in tatters. Both fighters stared each other down in an even standoff as neither one of them would relent to the other. Both fighters were now wearing the scrapes of battle, although Gohan looked more battleworn due to his tattered clothes and bloodstained forehead but he was still determined to fight on, and as was Broly.

"I must admit I'm impressed. You should be proud of yourself as a Saiyan. It was never thought that the powers of the Legendary Super Saiyan could be equalled by any other Saiyan let alone a child such as yourself. I guess that somehow your Saiyan blood must've been improved by the influx of Human blood in your body and creating a new power that neither Humans nor Saiyans could've dreamed of. That must be the secret behind your power and why you're the only one who can equal me in battle. Impressive..." Broly explained, smiling proudly of himself as he thought finally figured out why Gohan was so strong. Gohan was surprised by the revelation and even more so that it came from Broly but it still didn't make him lose focus. "You know what? I never really understood why I had as much power as I did. But now, thanks to you I have some idea as to why. But still that's not the whole reason behind my powers nor why I'm as strong as I am now. If it hadn't been for the training I went through and the battles I've fought I would never be as strong as I am now. Like I said before I'm a talent with hard work and that's why I'm strong enough to beat you." Gohan retorted, not willing to admit that his genes alone were the reason for his strength.

"Believe what you will. It doesn't really matter anyway since I'm still going to kill you. But before I do let me ask you this. If you had the power to transform like this, why didn't you do it right from the start? It could've saved you a lot of pain." Broly questioned, his curiousity getting the best of him. "The truth of it is I couldn't. You see I've always felt both blessed and cursed to have these powers. They always came out when I got angry in times of great need but I could never understand nor control them and they only lasted for short periods of time. Then after years of training they finally came out in the form that you see here. But when I first used them I discovered that I had become almost as great a monster as the one I was trying to slay. Not only that but the arrogance that came with it caused the great losse of someone dear to me. It'd always been know amongst our friends that if I were to control my powers then I would surpass my father. But when it finally happened and I saw what I became because of it I grew scared. I was afraid that someday that nature would cause me to become a monster that would hurt everyone else around me. And so that's when I decided to seal those powers away inside myself forever so that I would never be able to use them again. And thanks to my father lending me his spirit he has re-awakened that power and now with him at my side we'll defeat you together." Gohan empassionately explained with fire in his eyes at the end of his emotion filled speech. "Your father lent you his spirit? What does that even mean? Oh well, no matter, if Kakarot's inside you than it'll only mean I get to kill you both at the same time." Broly announced as he then powered up straight up into the sky with Gohan following his lead.

While rising up the sky Broly once again surrounded himself in a green energy shield to repulse the punch Gohan was throwing as he was closing in from below in a diagonal arc like before. But unlike earlier in the fight Gohan wasn't repulsed and he continued to push in further as Broly struggled to push him back. A massive contest of power and will developped between the two as they both tried to overpower the other and to find out who was stronger. Finally with one last effort Gohan began to concentrate his energy into a ball where he was trying to push through and try to finally blast his way through to Broly. But when Broly channeled in more power to contain it the resulting clash of energy exploded in the faces of both fighters and sent them tumbling from the air to the ground in opposite directions. Broly crashed atop a very thin piece of rock that towered above the whole battlefield while Gohan managed to right himself in midair and gently float back down to the level ground at about a miles distance away from Broly's position.

"Broly, I always feared that someday my powers would overtake me and I would become a monster just like you. But now that I've seen the monster that you've become and how you got there I now know that that'll never happen with me. I now know that the person I become when I unleash my hidden power can only go as far as person that I am outside it will allow it to go. But even so we have many things in common in that. We were both blessed and cursed with incredible hidden powers at birth. But you've allowed your powers to control you while I've learned how to control mine without being controlled by them. Your powers were raised for destruction while I was raised to use mine to protect. Even so I'm sorry it has to end this way Broly but this is the end." Gohan regretfully said, barely audible but still clearly heard from his position down on the ground.

"Not if I end you first!" yelled out Broly from his as the familiar green hue ripple effect began to congregate to Broly's open left hand for one final grand attack. Gohan knew what Broly was going to do and that if he didn't stop him then the whole planet was going to disappear and so he cupped his hands to the side for the move that his father had made so famous over the years.

"Kaa... meee... haaa... meeeeee..." Gohan chanted lowly as the familiar blue ball of light began to appear in his cupped hands. But then Broly launched his attack which went from a small ball of green energy to an enormous green ord of destruction. The large but slow moving sphere threatened to engulf Gohan but Gohan seemed unmoved as he waited for the monstrous wave to get closer. Then at the last second he finally reacted. "HAAAAAA!" screamed out Gohan as he delivered the last chant to his father's technique and completed the attack that began to push back the enormous green orb. Gohan's Kamehameha only got bigger and bigger the more it pushed back Broly's attack until the 'bulb' of the wave became almost as big as Broly's beam was. (A/N: And just to be sure. Imagine like the big ol' beam clash between Gohan, Goten and Broly from Second Coming. Only with this one, Gohan's beam is like the one he launched at Perfect Cell in The Cell Games. Gohan's 'bulb' is now giant sized and is much, much bigger this time than the beam in the movie. And the 'orb' is about only a tenth smaller in diameter then Broly's massive orb. Also the beam connecting to Gohan's hands is much thicker, by over two times. So imagine that same situation with only the applied "superficial" changes that I mentioned. So the attack is much stronger this time around and Gohan could more easily challenge Broly's attack this time around.)

Broly was surprised at this turnaround but he still wasn't going to give up yet. Broly pushed in both his hands forward and began straining to push in more energy into his attack and push back Gohan's advance. Finally Broly halted Gohan's push at the halfway point between them and the beam struggle settled into a stalemate as both sides strained putting everything they got into it.

'Darn it! Broly's too strong! He seemed to get only stronger and stronger as the battle progressed and if it continues at this pace then I can't last much longer. I'm already giving it everything I've got!' despairingly thought Gohan in his head as he strained to keep up his side of the power struggle. Suddenly a voice began calling out to him in the back of his mind. *Come on Gohan, don't you dare give up! There's still a source of power left that you haven't used. Just bring it out to finish him off.* said the voice as Gohan instantly recognized it. "Dad? Dad is that you?" Gohan asked out loud as he looked around and soon he saw the spirit of his father right beside him seemingly aiding him in the Kamehameha. *Yes it's me son. I'm right here beside you. Listen, you haven't used the power I gave to you to restore your powers. Just use that power to finish him off.* encouraged Goku. "Huh? But dad, if I did that I might be sending your spirit into the attack too and you could be gone forever!" Gohan said, reminding his father of the risks involved. *Don't you worry about that now! I'll be fine. Just do it...* Goku said, reassuring his son. It did the trick as Gohan trusted his father's judgement one more time.

The beam struggle wasn't going well as Broly's side was beginning to see a slight push in his favor. It seemed that Broly was going to eventually win this energy duel. But then, through the haze of energy, Broly saw a vision of the spirit of Goku appeared behind Gohan. "Kakarot?" exclaimed a surprised Broly as he couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. Gohan then screamed as he pushed in his father's energy into the wave with one final effort and not a moment too soon. The Kamehameha finally pushed and broke through the giant green orb of destruction through to Broly himself. Broly was overwhelmed by the wave, and as he was pushed away, through the haze, Broly saw for a brief second it seemed that the faces of Goku's spirit and Gohan's face merged. And Broly saw that in the same eyes and expression in them both and to see that the spirit of Goku had truly been passed on to his son. That they truly WERE one and the SAME.

And with that Broly vanished in a sea of light from the enormous Kamehameha. When the light faded Gohan was seen standing on the ground with his hands still held diagonally upwards and panting for his breath. Gohan breathlessly lowered his arms and then fell back exhausted with his hair going back to normal as he then passed out on the spot with a smile on his face.

Author's Final Thoughts: And so I hope you enjoyed my epic battle between Gohan and Broly. Sorry that this chapter is the longest by far up-to-date. But I hope that it was worth it. I trust that it was epic enough. I'd always wanted to see what if Gohan had fought Broly as a Super Saiyan 2 in his prime and now I've gotten to write it at share my version with you. I would have wanted to make the fighting go a bit longer to make it more epic, but since it was a supposed to take place in a movie fight and movie fights in DBZ are usually pretty short but sweet. I tried to strike a balance between that and made it short enough to be considered like a movie fight, but long enough so it would be still considered to be an epic fight between these two epic characters.

I would expect that it would be pretty evenly matched in terms of power levels at first, but with Gohan's hero invinsibility plot armor I think that he would win in the end in a movie. But realistically I think that Broly would win in the long run if he wasn't beaten first because of his supposed ability to grow stronger over the course of a fight. That's how I think it would really go and I tried to incorporate it into my fight. And I hope you liked the corelation between Broly and Gohan. Being as their both notorious for their anger filled rage modes. That and I tried to incorporate the ideas of Naruto, that being of natural talent vs hard work.

Gohan's kind of a mixture of the two I think, and I think that Broly likewise represents total natural talent, being that he seems to only rely on his naturally given powers. So it's an interesting dichotomy between the two, and I think that Gohan can be one of the few people that could understand Broly's troubles. So that's why it's a bit of a tragedy that Gohan had to destroy him. Anyway I hope you like the epic moment at the end where Goku's energy and spirit inhabits Gohan's body and they use their combined powers to blow away Broly in the ultimate beam struggle. That's a real great moment that I was proud to write. I really hope you enjoyed it.