Hey folks. On this day a year ago, the group SweetestIrony was started. As a birthday present to mark the occasion, I'd dedicating this chapter to the group. Happy Birthday SweetestIrony!

By the way, after the last chapter, I had gotten into a debate with jcogginsa about whether Gohan had been a Super Saiyan 2 in the Broly's Second Coming movie. Out of curiosity, I was wondering if everyone else thought Gohan had ascended in that movie. Tell me your thoughts.

Gohan waited with his fingers in front of him, staring at the cloud of smoke. It was only a matter of time before the results of his attack showed themselves, though the suspense was killing the saiyan. Best case scenario would have Broly dead from the lethal blow; the worst case being the giant saiyan unharmed and thoroughly pissed.

Slowly the smoke dispersed, causing the Son boy to widen his eyes. Standing in the same spot, Broly leaned towards his left side, one of his hands hovering over his right shoulder which was solid red with burns and dried blood. Far behind the hulk, one of the skyscrapers in the background had a large, circular hole in it with smoke wafting from it.

"That was quite an attack," Broly commended, his speech obviously strained. "It's too bad for you that you had poor aim, even with me standing still."

Two emotions welled up within Gohan. The first one was dismay that his beam cannon hadn't finished the fight; the other being joy that he had actually caused some harm on the seemingly invulnerable fighter. But unlike before, at least he knew now what he had to do to take down this insane version of Broly, and for good as well.

Feeling confidence returning to him, Gohan instantly focused on his energy and launched himself back into his Ascended form. The fight wouldn't take much longer, especially now that he knew what to do.

That, however, had been a mistake. Upon reaching his most powerful form, the saiyan quickly learned that his energy was running on empty. That had been a very bad thing to discover, particularly when he was fighting a guy he wasn't completely certain he could defeat.

Fortunately though, the time factor it took to charge the Special Beam Cannon in this form was a few seconds rather than a couple minutes. Considering that Broly probably wouldn't let him get away with that long of a charge again, this was probably the only form that would give him the edge he needed to prepare the attack.

All he needed to do was connect with this next shot and this battle would be over.

Jerking his two fingers back to his forehead, Gohan could feel the needed ki building up rapidly, the familiar spark of energy appearing at his twin fingertips. "I hope you're ready Broly cause this is where you end," the Son boy announced.

Trusting his fingers out once more, the warrior shouted "Eat this!" and fired the attack once more.

However, Broly didn't just stand and wait for the beam to hit him. Instead, he rose one of his feet and slammed it into the ground in front of him. This action caused cracks to burst out all over the cobblestone street before a sizeable chunk of it tore from the earth and rose right in front of the Super Saiyan; his body completely hidden from view behind it.

Gohan's eyes widen in horror just as the beam cannon smashed into the protruded rock and blew right through it.

As soon as the attack died off, the Son boy felt his energies leave him, causing him to revert into this normal Super Saiyan form. Out in front of him, chucks of what remained of Broly's stone barrier laid about without the body of the hulk anywhere to be seen.

Definitely not a good thing.

That was when the building to his left blew apart with a very unhappy Broly emerging from it. In one of his hands a bright ki ball glowed; that was until the saiyan threw that hand in front of him and pressed it right into Gohan's chest.

An explosion sent the Son boy flying until he crashed to the ground, bouncing off of it a couple times before skidding to a stop. Looking up at his opponent, he could see the giant gathering more ki into his hands, that sinister look of his returning to his face. Hastily, Gohan got onto his feet and began running at his foe.

With a yell, Broly threw one of his ki balls at his charging opponent, the ball collide with its target's arms, which Gohan had crossed in front of himself. As fire and smoke spewed from the collision, the Son boy emerged from the impact site with his arms still crossed in front of him as well as running.

That was when Broly began to laugh manically as he threw another ki ball, this one creating another explosion on Gohan as another ki ball appeared in the Super Saiyan's opposite hand, throwing that soon after; repeating that process over and over. In response, Gohan continue to keep running with his guard up, getting hit by the ki balls over and over.

That all changed once the warrior got in close with his much bigger foe. Instead of throwing another ki ball, Broly lunged forwards and threw an uppercut; one went right under his opponent's crossed arms and nailed him on his chin. That stopped Gohan right in his tracks, as well as sending him off the ground to hover in midair defenselessly.

With a yell, Broly charged again, slamming an extended arm right into Gohan's midsection; continuing to run with his smaller foe being carried by his arm. That running didn't stop, even as the two rammed into a building and broke right through its wall. It didn't even stop when all the walls within the structure and its back wall were slammed into; nor in all the other buildings Broly forced the two to crash through.

What did stop all the wall "renovating" was when the two saiyans exited the city. With nothing left to smash his opponent into, Broly came to a stop, allowing Gohan to fall off his bulky arm and down to the ground.

However, that didn't mean the Legendary Super Saiyan was done with his opponent, who had lost his golden hair and fell into his normal black locks once more. Raising his foot, the saiyan slammed it right into Gohan's chest, causing him to cry out as spit and blood flew from his mouth.

"Looks like you were wrong, Son of Kakarot," Broly said as he removed his foot from the beaten saiyan. Leaning down, he grabbed the only shoulder strap on the armor and raised the Son boy off the ground. "My end hasn't come nor will it ever. Yours on the other hand…"

Eyeing a large stone ridge from the corner of his eye, Broly smirked. "Your end has finally come." Then with a movement of his arm, the golden saiyan flung his battered foe in front of him. With an immediate gathering of ki, Broly fired a ki blast right into Gohan's stomach and sent him flying towards the ridge.

The next thing Gohan knew, his body was crushed into the stone surface, causing him to cry out. Panting a bit, the Son boy soon discovered that he was firmly pressed into the rock around him. Today was just not his day for some reason.

Looking around with just his eyes, he soon found Broly floating a few yards away, smirking at him. "Still alive I see. You're pretty persistent."

"Yeah, that's me. Just don't know when to die," Gohan responded.

That caused the hulk to laugh out loud. "I expect nothing less out of a saiyan warrior like yourself. But there's one last thing that needs to be done of you."

"And what could that be?"

"To die of course."

"I was afraid you'd say that," the Son boy grimaced.

"Don't worry, I'll give you an honorable death. That's the least I could do for one of my people."

Gohan closed his eyes for a moment before reopening them. It looked like this was the end of the line. He'd take his last breath staring down what ever death was coming to him.

Then out of nowhere, a giant, golden ki ball raced in and collided with Broly; an explosion encompassing him. Shock went through the saiyan's mind upon witnessing that. Wasn't the rest of life on this dead mudball extinguished already?

That was when a familiar set of black spandex-covered legs descended into his view. "Sixteen?!" the Son boy exclaimed as the rest of his comrades body appeared, his back to the warrior.. "What are you doing here?"

The android turned his head and gave a small smile. "Lending assistance."

"Well, you're timing couldn't be better," Gohan said with relief. "We need to get out of here right now." With some strain on his body, the saiyan's arms broke out of his stone entrapment, moving his body out of it shortly after. "C'mon, before Broly reappears."

"That would be futile," the android responded. "Your opponent is far too persistent for such a tactic."

Gohan looked at the tall man incredulously. "You intend on fighting this guy?"

Instead of answering that, Sixteen said "You must leave now. Someone will die here today and that mustn't be you."

That had Gohan completely lost. "Sixteen, what are you talking about?"

The android sighed. "Out of everyone in our group, you're the only one we cannot afford to lose. Only you hold the power to defeat Frieza and his father, so you must not die here. Now go; do not wait for me to arrive at the ship. I will hold off this monster for as long as I can."

"Not if I can help it."

That caused both Gohan and Sixteen to jerk their attention back to Broly, who was just emerging from the dissipating smoke cloud around him. "I'll have you both dead and gone before you can even blink," he boasted.

Letting out a war cry, Sixteen charged at the giant saiyan, landing a punch on the man's forehead. "Leave now!" the android shouted before Broly retaliated, throwing his own punch that nailed the tall man in the face.

Although his head snapped to a side, Sixteen did not go flying off like both the saiyans had thought he would. Instead, he used one of his hands to grab onto Broly's extended arm, stopping him from an unnecessary flight. Moving quickly, the android put his other hand right in front of his opponent's face and fired an energy blast point blank, covering the golden fighter's head in flames and smoke.

Though it went against his conscience, Gohan turned his back to the fight and flared his aura, flying away at high speeds. Using his ki sense, he could faintly detect the separate power levels of his comrades.

Hopefully they weren't in any trouble.

With a raised fist, Broly swung it down onto Sixteen's shoulder, sending the android crashing to the ground below. Without hesitating, the golden saiyan went charging after his new foe, a powered up ki ball in one of his hands as he let out a war cry.

Sixteen, however, managed to get onto his hands and knees and pushed off of them just as his larger foe slammed his attack into his crash zone. A large dust cloud blew up and covered the fighter.

Managing to land on his feet, though not facing his opponent's landing site, the android twisted his body around and threw one of his hands up. Grabbing his wrist with his other hand, he quickly charged up his energy and began firing ki blasts at his smoke covered opponent.

Though his efforts were futile, the android knew, he would buy as much time as he could for Gohan to get to the ship and leave this planet. The longer he lasted, the better chance the saiyan had at accomplishing this. While he did regret not telling his comrade where the ship was, his sensors did tell him the fighter was heading in the right direction. He just needed to hold out a little longer and hopefully his distraction would work.

Suddenly, Broly's large form exploded from the ground in front of Sixteen, his trademark smirk firmly plastered to his face. Pulling back one of his large fist, he slammed it into his foe's face, causing him to stumble backwards from the force behind it.

However, Broly didn't let him recovered from the blow. Punch after punch he sent into the android's face or body, each hit causing his opponent to stumble backwards. While there wasn't a lot of speed to his punches, that aspect wasn't necessary as each blow landed.

"How…do you…expect to…defeat me…fighting…like this?" the saiyan mocked as he threw a punch during each pause. "Scratch that…how do you…expect…to survive?"

That was when the android lashed one of his arms out, grabbing onto Broly's newly outstretched arm. "I don't," Sixteen said as a small smile crept onto his face.

Suddenly, Sixteen lunged at the Super Saiyan, wrapping his legs around the giant's waist as his arms locked themselves underneath Broly's armpits and onto his shoulders. "In fact, I didn't expect to win."

"What are you doing?" the saiyan said, keeping his cool despite the development.

"This."

Red light began to dance on Sixteen's blue eyes, disappearing just as sudden as they had appeared. Slowly, the android's whole body began to glow until only his outline could be distinguished.

And in one second, that form erupted into light; Sixteen's form disappearing in the flash as well as Broly's.

Gohan had just touched down in front of the ship when he felt a gust of wind pick up. Turning around, the saiyan was stunned to find a large ball of flames growing bigger and bigger in the distance. The next thing the warrior knew, he was shielding his face from the sudden rush of wind and dust that hit him as well as the blinding light emanating from the explosion.

Though he didn't stare directly at it, Gohan could almost tell how big it was. It was like a rising sun covering the entire horizon. Reaching up into the heavens and expanding until his peripheral vision could barely pick out the edges.

Slowly, the light dimmed down, along with the intense wind; finally allowing the saiyan to get a good look at what he could best describe as a very, very large explosion. Even from his more protective stance, his earlier description of the burning ball in the distance was very accurate.

Staring at it for a few seconds, Gohan finally snapped out of the trance he had stumbled into. Turning on his heels, he dashed towards the ship and into the surprisingly open hull door. Sixteen must've left it open when he left.

Hurrying down the ship's halls, the saiyan rushed into the control room and found his still unconscious compatriots. The faint scent of sleeping gas alerted Gohan to the reason behind their states. Unfortunately, the residue gas was starting to have an effect him on as he felt a subtle drowsiness building up.

No time for that his mind screamed, causing Gohan to dash to Sixteen's unoccupied chair and fire up the ship. Moments passed before the ship rumbled alive. Slowly, the world outside the main window began to sink down before it disappeared in a blink of an eye. Soon, the dead scenery of Earth was replaced by the black void of space.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Gohan leaned his back against the seat rest with his eyes shut. Sleep overcame him soon after.

To Sigfried Wild: Glad you liked the fight lol. Too bad the Special Beam Cannon didn't work though.