Smoke wafted through the broken streets that Gohan sat in. A slight headache was forming at the back of the saiyan's head as he massaged his temples, hoping to quell the annoying pounding.
What had happened back at Wheelo's base? One moment he was picking up a relic key, the next he was fired into space. A little turbulence, i.e. a lot of jarring quakes, through the atmosphere of Earth and a crash landing in one of many abandoned cities on the planet was the direct cause of his current headache. That and a small nap on the cobblestone ground after the crash.
That had actually been more comfortable than he would've initially thought.
After awhile, the Son boy stood on his feet, taking in his surroundings. The last time he had been on this planet, there was definitely more signs of life than this ghost city. At least he had sensed more life anyways. He doubted every shred of humanity had finally left this dump for bigger and better planets.
Though there was that Cold Empire invasion. They might've exterminated the remaining inhabitances here. Though that would've been unlike Frieza and his family. Those aliens had some weird obsession with dominating every last shred of life before they exterminated it. Perhaps the humans were just hiding out much like his own race had done after being conquered.
"It's about time you woke up."
Gohan couldn't help but stiffen. Slowly, he turned his body to face the last person he had wanted to see.
There, sitting on a pile of rubble, was Broly.
"I take it you've been watching me sleep, Broly?" Gohan questioned the giant saiyan.
"In a manner of speaking," Broly answered, a small grin on his face. "I was just eradicating the last speck of life on this mudball when I saw something in the sky. Came to investigate it and found you lying in the debris."
Well that explained the lack of human life. Seemed Broly had wanted some revenge on the weak race. But why he hadn't obliterated him while he had been out cold was a bit puzzling. "And you let me live this long for?"
"I thought that would've been obvious to you. I want you to fight me; pick up from where we left off the first time."
Gohan shook his head. He should've known that was the only possible reason. Broly was slowly sinking into insanity from his power; so much so that the only thing he thought of was fighting.
Unfortunately, the Son boy had seen the way Broly had fought with Gero and his android brood. He had a very deadly style, one that made him act like an unstoppable juggernaut and fight with reckless abandon. However, Gohan was pretty sure that every opponent Broly had fought up to this point had initially underestimated his power. This round though, the saiyan warrior would give this man everything he had right from the start.
However, instead of starting the inevitable fight, Broly said "You know, I met your grandfather once. He and my father were considered rivals at one time."
Gohan cocked an eyebrow. "That a fact?"
"Yes, it is. In all honesty, your father and I were born to continue that rivalry. Fate would have other destinies for us though. In fact, I forgot what your father's name was," the golden saiyan explained.
"Kakarot. It was Kakarot," Gohan spoke.
"Kakarot huh? Alright then Son of Kakarot. Let's start this massacre."
Not waiting for Broly to make the first move, Gohan's face twisted into a look of concentration. Immediately, a golden aura enveloped him, unleashing his Super Saiyan from. However, he didn't stop there. Baring his teeth, a low hum escaped his lips before he ascending to the next level.
This development caught the other Super Saiyan off guard. "You can do that too?" he questioned before a wide, sinister smile crossed his face. "Impressive."
Then letting out a war cry, Broly leapt from the pile of rubble he sat on, crushing the ground as his feet touched down on it, and ran at the Ascended Saiyan. Due to the giant's speed, Gohan could only get his arms up just as Broly reached him; his larger hands gripping onto the smaller saiyan's shoulders.
In response, Gohan got the best grip he could get on Broly's arms before leaping into the air, slamming his knee into the hulk's chin. Broly's head jerked backwards from blow, caught off guard slightly.
However, that didn't delay the saiyan at all as he forced his head back down, pushing the knee down with his chin. As soon as that was accomplished, Broly then rose his arms up, holding Gohan above his head. Leaping from the ground, the giant saiyan released his hold on his opponent's shoulders as his body rotated in midair. Then with a quick pullback of his leg, Broly swung his foot, landing a kick to Gohan's chin and sending him flying as spit flew from his mouth.
However, Gohan didn't allow himself to continue his unexpected flight course; flipping himself over once before he landed with his feet on the ground, skidding over a few yards as he twisted his body to look at Broly. Once he came to a stop, although his body was slightly off balance, the saiyan gathered a great deal of ki into his hand; righting himself out as he thrust his arm out and fired his ki blast.
Broly, who had landed back on his feet and turned to look at his opponent, saw the blast coming. Crossing his arm over his chest, he swung it out, slapping the blast away. With that accomplished, the saiyan charged once more at the Son boy.
This time, though, Gohan was ready for Broly. Instead of allowing the giant hulk to reach him, the Son boy used a burst of speed to disappear from sight, appearing in midair behind Broly's head, his back to his foe. Then twisting his body to float sideways, Gohan swung a kick that impacted Broly in the back of his head, causing him to lose his footing and stumble forward.
Allowing himself to fall to the ground and landing on his feet, Gohan then launched into a series of extremely fast flips, putting distance between the two saiyans. Ending his flips while conveniently facing the large warrior, Gohan quickly gathered as much ki as he could before he back firing a rapid fire of ki blasts, pumping his arms back and forth in front of him as he launched more and more beams.
Orange and red flames erupted all over Broly as the barrage of ki blasts explode on him, fire and smoke covering the area he stood.
Gohan soon came to rest from his attack, standing calmly as he held both his hands up, one by his head and the other out in front of him with the palms showing. He knew damn well that last assault wouldn't be the end of this fight. The ball was in Broly's court now; he would just have to wait for him to move.
That was when a green glow shown through the think smokescreen; a decent sized green ball of ki bursting from the smoke and racing towards the saiyan.
Reacting immediately, Gohan leapt backwards and slightly to a side. Pulling his now fisted left hand in front of him, and bringing his still open right hand back; the Son boy took a step forward as he swung his open hand and slammed it into the ball of ki. For a moment, a struggle between Gohan's swinging arm and the force of the ki ball occurred before the saiyan got control, allowing him to take another step forward as he threw the orb back into the wafting smoke. A green explosion erupted soon after.
Once the flames died down, Broly suddenly exploded from the smoke, rushing at Gohan with both arms raised at shoulder height.
Not expecting the quick recovery, Gohan had a look of surprise on his face as his opponent rammed into him; clotheslining him with one of his outstretched arms. As the Son boy fell to the ground, Broly stopped his charge, twisting around to look back at the fallen saiyan. Leaping up into the air, the giant allowed gravity to push him back to the ground, aiming to smash one of his feet on this opponent's head.
Seeing the incoming boot sole, Gohan rolled to a side, just as both of Broly's feet smashed into the ground on both sides of his body. Losing track of himself for barely a second, the Son boy found himself on his back with his foe getting ready for another attack.
Quickly, Gohan threw his arms up and bent them at the elbow. Jerking them back, his elbows slammed into the backs of Broly's knees, causing the saiyan to let out a grunt of pain as he felt forward, landing on his knees.
Using a burst of speed, Gohan disappeared from the ground he laid on, appearing high in the air and looking down on his opponent.
That was when Broly began to chuckle, getting back onto his feet. "This; now this is a true fight!" the golden saiyan announced, turning his body to get a better look at his opponent. "I've been craving this for quite some time, Son of Kakarot."
Gohan didn't reply, choosing to stare down at the Legendary Super Saiyan. That was completely fine with Broly though as he completely turned his body to face in Gohan's direction. That was when a greenish tint covered the area before it drew in on Broly. A green ki ball soon appeared in the saiyan's hand.
Letting out a war cry, Broly then threw the ki ball at Gohan. In response, the saiyan warrior steeled himself, waiting for the attack to get closer to him. Then at the last moment, the Son boy straightened the fingers of one of his hands with the thumb curling into his palm. With a yell, the golden fighter brought the stiffened hand over his head before swinging it down as hard as he could; his hand biting into the ki ball.
A moment later, Gohan's hand completely sliced through the green orb, sending two smaller ki balls off to opposite sides of him. As the energy balls began to fall towards the ground below, they suddenly destabilized; exploding as they sent smoke everywhere.
That was the least of the Son boy's concerns. With the eminent ki ball threat dealt with, he turned his attention back to Broly, and received the shock of his life when he didn't find the saiyan.
Falling into a defensive stance, Gohan quickly looked all over the area. He needed to find that maniac fast; otherwise he was just a sitting duck.
That was when two hands came from behind him and roughly grabbed his arms at the wrists; pulling them back before the saiyan could resist. Jerking his head to a side, Gohan found Broly grinning maliciously as he held his arms, one of his legs pulled back and ready to be used.
Then with a swing, Broly rammed his knee into Gohan's back, creating a spider web's worth of cracks in his armor. Between the blow and the increase strain making itself known in his arm sockets, the golden warrior couldn't help but scream out his pain.
"That's right, scream your lungs out. You won't be needing them after this," Broly gloated as he dug his knee between his opponent's shoulder blades; all the while pulling his arms back to keep his prey helpless.
Gritting his teeth, Gohan held back the urge to scream again. He needed to do something now or he'd have his arms ripped from his sockets; and seeing as how he needed those appendages later, that would've been quite inconvenient.
Bracing himself, the saiyan poured as much strength as he could into his arms, slowly beginning to move them forwards and out of their compromised positions. This action caught Broly off guard; causing him to try and pull back against the feat. However, that struggle of strength fell into the Son boy's favor as he had finally positioned his arms into a more comfortable position.
With that achieve, Gohan then swung his lower half up over his head, bending one of his knees in the process. With a jerk of the same knee, he bashed it right into the giant saiyan's face, causing him to lose his grip and draft backwards; leaving Gohan to hover in midair with his back towards the ground and his head looking right at his opponent.
Rotating his body until his stomach faced the earth far below, the warrior charged in, slamming a fist right into Broly's stomach, causing him to bend over the punch. Then with a vicious fury, Gohan launched into a barrage of punches; sending each blow into his foe's unprotected midsection. After that, the golden saiyan threw an uppercut that nailed Broly under his chin, causing his head to snap up. Then with a lunge, Gohan rose up into the air with his hands clasped behind his head, swinging a jackhammer blow soon after.
However, two bulky arms suddenly appeared, crossing over each other and blocking the jackhammer, shocking the Ascended Saiyan. A deep chuckle soon followed as a greenish tint began to appear around the two fighters before bursting into green flame.
The ship wasn't going fast enough for Goten's taste. If he had it his way, they'd already be on Earth and dragging Gohan back onto the ship; supposing that he was lying around unconscious of course.
"Are you positive about that?" Trunks demanded. "You sure there's a fight happening down there?"
"One hundred percent," Sixteen replied. "If you would look at the planet's surface towards the north, you'd see the explosions."
Everyone in the ship looked out of the ship's main window and saw what their robotic colleague was getting out. Clear as day, there were beams of green light shinning from spots on the planet. Moments later, the lights would die off, indicating that the rays were originally from some sort of explosion; one large enough to have been seen from space.
That caused Trunks to growl. "And Gohan must be where those explosions are. He just doesn't know how to avoid fights, I swear."
Tien shook his head regretfully. "I didn't think my prediction would come this early."
"Do you honestly think he didn't know that?" Goten snapped. "Of course he did. Every single one of us, right down to Erasa, did. That's just how life is for a saiyan."
Videl glared at the Son boy. "You know, I'm getting tired of hearing that. 'Saiyans are so tough' and 'saiyans are awesome.' We get it, you're good fighters. Give it a rest already."
Silence filled the ship after that, even as they approached the ruined human planet. It even continued as they entered the atmosphere. Once they broke through that natural barrier though, things took a turn for the worst.
As the ship approached a landing point, a purplish gas suddenly began seeping out of the air vents. Steadily, the room filled up with the gas; and to the horror of the room's occupants, they found out the gas had some nasty side effects.
Hoarse coughing racked from the humans and saiyans, each one trying to rid the fumes from their system. One by one, each one collapsed onto the floor and fell into unconsciousness. Yet, only one person remained immune to the gas.
Looking over his unconscious comrades, Sixteen stood up from his seat. Pressing a few buttons on the control panel, the vents began sucking out the knock-out gas; clean air replacing it.
"I'm sorry friends, but I cannot allow you to leave this ship," the android said aloud. "I hope you can forgive me."
Gohan broke through a crumbling wall, continuing to run.
The fight had taken a nasty turn against him, allowing Broly to pound him mercilessly. As evidence, the left chest portion of his armor was completely gone, showing his firm chest as well as jagged outline of his armor around it. Even worse was the fact that he had lost control of his Ascended Saiyan form and had dropped into his Super Saiyan one; and then into his normal state shortly after. All the while, his opponent didn't even seem to break a sweat.
Not too long after the now broken wall, the Son boy found himself in a desolate street. It was there that a green ki ball came flying from above, aiming to hit the warrior. Reacting quickly, Gohan leapt out of the way as an explosion erupted behind him.
"What's wrong Son of Kakarot?" Broly taunted as he descended to the ground, his arms crossed over his chest. "Are you running out of steam?"
Gohan growled. He'd show this hulk who was "running out of steam." Cupping his hands, he held them in front of his body; his palms facing each other as his finger tips touched each other. Letting out a low hum, the Son boy gathered his ki as his voice steadily rose louder and louder until he was yelling.
"Mokosen Ha!" Gohan shouted as he threw his arms out, firing the attack at his foe. Broly stood there, smiling as the blast nailed him head on, covering him in flames and smoke.
Unfortunately, like the many other attacks that had been used against him, that Mokosen had done little to no damage whatsoever. Even Broly's smile was in place as small wafts of smoke left his body.
Gohan silently cursed. What was the deal with this guy? Was he impervious against every beam attack? Everything he had thrown at him had done minimal damage, if any at all. His frustration was building up to the point he'd blow and throw all caution to the wind. He was gonna blast that guy into oblivion, one way or another.
That was when a thought struck the Son boy. Maybe…maybe he had been going about this all wrong. Perhaps swallowing Broly in energy was the wrong way to go. It was quite possible that instead of plowing through, he should go smaller and try to pierce the evil giant's heart.
Unfortunately, the saiyan only had one move that could possibly get those results and it wasn't the ideal move in his condition. Time was a factor with it and that was something he sorely lacked. But what choice did he have? It was either that move or something he didn't have.
"Well, it's worth a shot," Gohan muttered before gathering his ki once again; this time raising one hand to his head with two fingers extended and hovering in front of his forehead.
"So you want to try again I see," Broly mocked again. "I hope it's a good one this time. Otherwise, it'll be the last move you'll ever do."
"Thanks for the pep talk," Gohan replied, just as small bolts of electricity began to dance over his two fingers. "I'll be sure to take it to heart."
It was at that moment a bright, continuous spark began dancing on the saiyan's finger tips. Here it was, his attack of last resort, at least in this case. Time to make the most of it.
Flinging his fingers out and aiming them at his opponent, Gohan shouted "Special Beam Cannon!" and fired the all too familiar attack; the thin beam with another swirling around it.
The next few moments went by in a flash to the Son boy; quite literally in fact. A blinding white light covered the impact zone that the warrior was sure his attack had hit Broly; right before a large smoke cloud erupted out of nowhere and consumed everything.
To Sigfried Wild: I'm not sure if Gohan's having fun on his second trip to Earth lol.
I must say, this is perhaps my most favorite chapter of this story. Mostly action I must admit, but I had always wondered what a fight between Broly and Super Saiyan 2 Gohan would be like. I hoped I captured that for ya'll.