Chapter 78: Moving Forward

Hours passed by as Broly lay beside his fire, now reduced to nothing more than embers.

Somewhere distant he could feel something pressing against him occasionally. It was an annoying sort of feeling, like a small insect bouncing off his skin.

Without really thinking about it his hand lashed out, striking against a hard shell of some sort before shattering it like an egg.

That same instant a couple of screams sounded around him, finally forcing Broly to begin to wake up.

On his hand were the shattered remains of one of the doctors and one of the terrified nurses stood by her eyes as wide as saucers. Slowly he remembered what he did before his nap.

"Is he healed up yet?" Broly asked not even noticing the needle filled with a lethal dose of morphing hanging from his arm.

The nurse stood silent for a moment shaking from what she just witnessed. Finally, though she stealer her nerves. "Yeah he-" she lurched forward with all her might hoping to have caught the brute off guard. If she could just inject the morphine into him it should be enough to finish him off.

As she neared her goal though. Time seemed to slow down. Broly seemed to be moving faster and faster by the instant until he seemed to blur for a moment before standing still again. Just as she noticed the strange occurrence another thought reached her. She was trying to move her arms but she couldn't feel anything.

She watched helplessly as she passed by Broly, a satisfied grin on his face as he stared at something behind her.

As she continued to ponder what he could be looking at, she realized she was falling.

Lower and lower the field of view got. Until her face smashed into the ground. She couldn't even blink her eyes to shield them from the rocks.

It wasn't until her vision began to roll that a horrible idea on what might've happened crosses her mind.

Her severed head rolled up until she was looking back the way she came. Her last vision was Broly calmly making his way into the hospital, walking through a bloody mess she could assume was once her body.

"He's coming around." One of the nurses said as Gohan began to wake up. The first thing the young demi-Saiyan noticed was everything hurt. Beyond that though he could hear a voice desperately talking to him nearby as he awoke more.

"Please we beg of you. From what we can tell that monster that brought you here has rendered my species essentially extinct in less than a day. He said you were the first fighter who gave him a good fight. He kept mumbling about some final showdown with you. Surely you can make him stop. If we can get you back to fighting shape you can kill him. Please, we'll do whatever we can to assist you." Dr. Ijalanda begged.

Gohan watched the insectoid grovel at his feet as he made his plea. He was under no illusions as to how impossible that request was. He'd given it everything he had, more than he ever thought possible, and in the end, he was squashed like a bug. The fight had been a sharp reminder of his own foolishness. Life seemed destined to constantly remind him of the fact he was too weak to protect those he cared about. Yet time and time again he allowed himself to believe the lie that it would be ok this time. That he was finally strong enough. No more, he refused to allow himself to keep making the same mistakes. He refused to allow himself to become attached to anyone again, not until he was absolutely sure he was the strongest in the universe. Until he was sure that he had eradicated every potential threat. Then, he might consider letting himself get attached again. Until that day came though, he refused to get involved to the point of caring.

Although it appeared impossible, that didn't mean he was going to refuse their offer. It just might not be the results they expected. "I'll see what I can do, but I'll probably need your help."

"We'll do anything." The doctor said, bowing low.

"That's exactly what I wanted to hear." Gohan responded a determined look on his face.

"Damn it, I don't sense anything." Goku continued to grumble. They had come so far, they were so close to finally finding Gohan, yet something was keeping them apart still. Goku couldn't understand why this always happened.

Already the planet was coming into view, it had already expanded to the size of the Earth's moon and yet they still couldn't sense anything from the planet that the fight had taken place at.

"Looks like luck might finally be back on our side." Turles muttered under his breath just loud enough for Raditz to hear.

Raditz stayed silent though, as much as he wanted to be reunited with his nephew, there was still part of him that felt he had paid his due. He was finally free from his obligation to Shizen.

"Don't tell me you dragged us out here for nothing." Vegeta muttered angrily, but he too couldn't sense any life from the planet they were approaching. Even from the surrounding star systems there was no legendary power that could be felt from such a distance. Even something as strong as Frieza should show up from such a distance.

"Kakarot take us to that planet, we'll search it ourselves and if they aren't there, we'll just have to jump from planet to planet till we hunt down this coward." Vegeta said his voice full of irritation.

"I still can't jump us there without an energy to latch onto." Goku said with a sigh. "How long till we land Turles?"

"We'll be there in an hour or so." He replied reluctantly.

"It'll have to do." Goku admitted.

As the minutes passed by Gohan slowly took stock of his current condition. In short it was bad. There was no way he could power up at the moment otherwise he'd rip every stitch right back out. That was fine though, either he'd finally be allowed to die like he should've a dozen times already or Broly would give him time to heal for a rematch. If he did, he'd be stronger and just maybe he could get a lucky hit in.

As Gohan made up his mind Broly burst into the room. "Is he fixed yet?" He asked like an impatient child waiting for his toy to get repaired.

"We...we patched him up as best as we could but he's not in condition to fight…" Dr. Ijalanda managed to say.

"Why not!" Broly growled.

"Because you took me to a class 3 planet. They barely have spaceflight let alone a healing tank." Gohan cut in his tone almost emotionless.

Broly looked at Gohan with a look somewhere between surprise and interest.

"You're up. Good, tell me where to take you to get you fixed so we can fight again." Broly demanded.

"Fine with me." Gohan replied bringing a smile to Broly's face.

"Good we'll destroy that planet and then we can fight again. Then we can find another planet and do it again and again and again. We'll show the universe the true might of the Super Saiyans. We'll destroy everything! And then we can kill each other to finally see which of us will be the final Legendary Super Saiyan." Broly shouted with a mad cackle. His bloodlust rising again. Without thinking he reached out and killed one of the remaining nurses.

"Wait, don't kill them yet." Gohan said causing Broly to eye him suspiciously.

"Why they're vermin anyway. They're only good to kill." Broly replied.

"Because we need them. They know how to patch me up enough to get me to a healing tank. They need to come with us each fight to make sure I survive." Gohan replied his eyes studying the berserker in front of him.

Broly thought it over for a minute. "Can't do, no room." Broly replied as a blast formed in his hand.

All of the aliens looked to Gohan to try and argue against their slaughter.

"Fine whatever. When we get a bigger ship you better let me keep a crew at least." Gohan replied coldly resisting the urge to grit his teeth.

"Sure whatever." Broly said as he got to work exterminating the surviving Millipod like aliens from the hospital.

Gohan forced himself not to listen to their screams. He'd tried to keep them alive because having allies would be useful but, in the end, they were a necessary sacrifice. Although most of what Broly sprouted was lunacy, but the end result was what they both wanted. They would fight and carve a path of destruction through the universe with Broly's game. He'd get stronger with each fight, eventually he'd close the gap and when the day came that he finally beat Broly for the first time, he wouldn't be foolish enough to keep him alive, he'd finish him off and finally be able to take his place as the strongest fighter in the universe. In the meantime, though his mind was already spinning, forming a plan to help accelerate the process. He'd need other followers, as many strong fighters as they could find. He'd find whatever seeds they had left of the Tree of Might and have them spread out across the universe and feed him the fruit. Someday soon, he'd have Broly's head and finally be able to exact his revenge.

20 minutes later they were on their way to space again heading towards a more technologically advanced world.

Vegeta's disappointment was mounting, the group had searched every inch of the planet but there was nothing left alive on the world.

After meeting up near the ship Kakarot looked defeated.

"Are you just going to sit there and accept defeat? Where is your Saiyan Pride?" Vegeta asked with a biting tone.

Goku let out a sigh, before jumping to his feet. "You're right Vegeta, we've come too far for this to be it." He replied some of his confidence back. Closing his eyes Goku focused his mind, he didn't think his plan would work but it didn't hurt to try.

'King Kai...please we're so close why can't you just give us Gohan's location?' Goku mentally begged his former master.

'Damn it Goku, just wait a bit longer please.' King Kai replied back. 'We're scrambling to get a team together to defeat Broly, just give us a few months.' King Kai replied into all of the Saiyan's heads.

"Damn it Kai, give us the damn location!" Nappa shouted back.

'I won't. I'm sorry I can't risk you all dying again without the dragon balls ready to bring you back.' King Kai replied as he cut the connection.

"Fine, we'll just figure out where they went." Vegeta said. "Kakarot jump to the first planet you find we'll take them on."

Goku nodded as the group gathered up again and took off.

It had been a long tiring first day for Videl. She had kept it all bottled up until know as her recently revived father, and her mother dotted on her, and made sure not to take their eyes off her the entire night that she could finally get some time to herself. Videl sat in her room hugging her knees as she thought back to her first day back on Earth. Her cheeks flushed every time she thought about it, the way Trunks held her the entire ride to the hospital, and what he said afterwards.

There was something else building up in her, an impatience. It was like she needed to talk to Trunks right now, she didn't want to wait to see him again. Just as she made up her mind to reach for her phone, to her surprise it started ringing, the caller-id making her heart leap. 'Trunks?'

"H-HEY!" She managed to say her voice cracking causing her to scream internally.

"Hey Videl...sorry for calling even though I just left...but well...do you want to...um...go on a date with me tomorrow?" Trunks' voice came through shakily.

Videl's mind froze upon hearing those words, leading to a painful silence stretching between the two.

"Sor-" Trunks finally started to say before Videl cut him off.

"Sure! Sure, I'd love to." She finally said so happy she could scream.

"Great how about I stop by at 3?" Trunks replied obvious relief in his voice.

"Sure." Videl replied all smiles.

After finalizing the details, they each hung up and let out a yell of pure excitement that shook both of their houses.

(The Next Day) (Cold Planet 312)

Goku and company had spent the entire day jumping from planet to planet gradually making a circle around the planet the battle had taken place on. But with every passing second the idea of actually finding Gohan seemed to be slipping further and further away.

Towards the end of their search they did find another world that had apparently been destroyed but even with several more hours of searching they never found any more of a trail. Unfortunately, they couldn't even tell if the world had been ravaged before or after Gohan's battle against Broly, finally forcing them to head back to Earth in defeat.

Goku felt the sting of defeat worse than any time he could think of. He had been so close, so close to finding his son. But in the end, he had failed to bring him home yet again. 'I should've just wished him home.' He finally admitted to himself.

While the Saiyan team were returning to Earth, Trunks was making his way towards Videl's house.

Somehow, he had managed to keep the fact he had a date hidden from the past version of his mother, but as he began closing in on Videl's house, he began to wish he had asked for advice before hand.

As Trunks started his decent, he felt his heart beating out of his chest. But every time he felt like running away, he kept reminding himself he had already fought the most powerful monster in the universe. Even when he thought that though he couldn't help but wonder if this wasn't a scarier moment.

In the end though he mustered up the courage to knock on the door. Immediately it burst open as an equally flustered Videl answered the door. "Hey Trunks...let's go." She hurriedly said turning Trunks around and pushing him out the door.

She wasn't fast enough. Just as she tried to close the door a large hand slammed against it accidentally shattering the wooden door like it was made of sand.

"Now wait just a minute!" Hercule declared loudly, "Just where do you think you are taking my daughter!" he continued not noticing who he was talking to for a moment.

'Crap...Trunks? Her date is with one of those Super powered Saiyans...' Hercule was starting to panic. When he had heard about Videl's date last night he hadn't slept a wink. All he could think about was how he was going to scare off whoever had the gall to try and steal his daughter from him so soon after his resurrection. He had planned it all perfecting every line, every pose designed to strike fear into the fool's heart. Instead though Hercule was the one filled with fear. If Trunks ended up breaking his daughter's heart, or worse making a move on her, there was absolutely nothing he could do to punish him.

An awkward pause passed between them while Hercule's mind worked feverishly.

After a few seconds Trunks finally gathered his courage and spoke up. "Hi Mr. Satan...how are you today?" He awkwardly asked trying to be as polite as possible to his date's father.

Trunks' voice pulled Hercule from his inward meltdown, Trunks was acting exactly like how he imagined Videl's date would when the caught sight of Hercule's massive form. 'I just might be able to work with this…' He thought to himself as he cleared his throat and started out his carefully planned act.

"And just what do you think you're doing? Do you not even have the decency to face me before running off with my daughter?" Hercule's voice boomed

"I...uh…" Trunks didn't know what to say, he had just gotten here and Videl had tried to push him off immediately.

"And just what do you think you're doing?" Miguel Satan's voice rang out from behind Hercule causing the color to drain from his face.

"Mig...I…" The rest of his defense was cut off by a sudden jerk pulling him back inside.

After a brief moment of tense whispering behind the mostly closed-door Miguel's smiling face popped out. "Sorry about that, Videl's father sometimes gets a bit over protective."

Although she was smiling both Videl and Trunks could sense something terrifying lurking behind that smile. Neither one wanted to be present when it was revealed.

"Oh. uh... no problem." Trunks sheepishly responded.

"Yeah thanks mom now-" Videl started to say.

"Now hold on just a second, it's your first date. I should get to get some pictures first." Videl's mother said a slightly dangerous undertone barely perceptible behind the cheery smile.

In the end the first half-hour of their date was spent posing for Miguel.

After finally getting out on their own the pair made their way to a nearby movie theater to watch a new action movie. Neither one could pay enough attention to it though as they kept focusing on each other. Both wondering if Trunks was going to try anything.

After the movie the pair moved to the mall food court to grab a bite to eat, it was a loud environment but they were at least able to gradually get over the awkwardness and hold a conversation.

After they had warmed up the rest of the day was a breeze, they wandered around town talking about everything from fighting techniques to the show that was on tv the last night. By the time either one of them thought to check what time it was they had already wandered around not just the mall they had started at but they had visited two other malls that day.

As the pair started to slowly make their way back to Videl's house the awkwardness began to grow again. They both had had a great time but there was still one thing they had wanted to do before the day was over.

As they landed and started to walk up towards the door both of their hearts were beating faster and faster.

"Well...thanks for today." Videl said unsure of what else to say.

"Thanks for saying yes…" Both blushed heavily as they tried one last time to work up their courage.

"Um…" Trunks started.

"Yeah?" Videl asked excitedly her face getting somewhat closer to his.

"Well...um…" Trunks continued as he realized just how close their faces were.

Trunks finally decided to just go for it, as he leaned forward and gave Videl a peck on the lips.

As he pulled back though Videl pulled him forward to giving a real kiss.

As they pulled back a second time both flushed red from head to toe. "Thanks again" Videl hurriedly said as she rushed inside and closed the door, her heart beating faster than it ever had before a beaming smile plastered on her face.

Goku and company arrived late that evening and made contact with King Kai, agreeing to follow his plan on the condition that they sped up the time frame, in the end it was agreed that they would confront Broly in 6 months instead of the initial year.

They had a rough idea of the team that they would be able to bring when King Kai made his move solidified the group scattered around the world to renew their training.

It was an awkward 3-day flight for Gohan and Broly since they were sharing a single pod ship and larger Saiyan adamantly refused to use the stasis gas.

So, the flight that usually passed in an instant for the Saiyan youth ended up with his awkwardly sitting on Broly's lap for nearly 3 days, every inch of his entire body was hurting. The later spent the entire time staring off into space a demented smile etched across his face.

Finally, though they reached their target, one of the hundreds of left-over Planet Trade outposts scattered across the galaxy.

A few minutes of rough negotiations, and a dead base warlord later, and Gohan was in a healing tank with the bases best doctors looking after him.

In the meantime, Broly went about having his way with the rest of the base's less fortunate inhabitants.

Within a day Gohan was back to full strength, Broly could finally have his rematch, and Gohan would get his team provided he survived.

With the majority of the base's inhabitants already dead the entire planet would essentially be their battlefield once more.

"Go on. Transform. You're not fun in this form." Broly said with a sadistic smile on his face.

Gohan grit his teeth. How was he supposed to unleash that power on command like that? Quickly he grit his teeth and reached inside himself looking for the well of power he had found before.

Broly watched on expectantly his patience rapidly fading. "I said transform!" Broly shouted

"I'm trying!" Gohan snarled back.

"Try harder." Broly ordered as he began to menacingly make his way towards Gohan.

Using his practice with unlocking his inner rage he began to play back all of the actions Broly had done to make Gohan hate him so.

The death of Ginyu and his men, of Turles, Raditz's sacrifice all flashed before his eyes again, as a wave of energy began to pass through him. It wasn't enough though, the power surging within him was nothing compared to what he had felt just after Raditz's death.

Again, he was forced to dig deeper, looking for the rage he had felt before. Every painful memory was brought to the forefront and finally when Broly got within 5 feet Gohan's hair flashed golden for an instant before returning to his original black.

Broly paused briefly as Gohan's eyes met his, a wildfire burning inside of him. Finally, with one final push a golden aura surrounded him and he had finally transformed.

Broly cackled wildly, now their fight could really begin.

Gohan tried to take the initiative first, although he didn't think it likely if he could find some way to finish Broly off before he transformed it would be the ideal situation. He started with a heavy haymaker aimed at Broly's temple, only for the larger Saiyan to intercept the attack at the last second.

Broly was forced to grit his teeth under the force of the blow, if it had hit home it actually would have done some damage. Broly's smile spread, 'This is going to be fun.'

To the medical personnel who had been unwillingly recruited into becoming Gohan's care unit the sight before them was horrifying. Not only had the majority of the world's life had been wiped out in one day, but now the destroyer was fighting the one they were required to save, destroying everything in their vicinity. Some of them had been at the base for more than a decade so watching their home be completely obliterated in the struggle between two monsters

The rumbling continued for several minutes until a second flash of golden light emerged. The instant it did the entire tone of the fight changed. Within a minute Broly brought Gohan crushed, bloodied body to them and ordered them to fix him on the ship.

The doctors had no choice but to obey and follow Broly onto the bases' only remaining space-worthy vessel.

On Earth word of a new challenge looming quickly spread. Many of the human fighters made their intentions clear, while they would do whatever necessary to defend the Earth, whatever the odds, they wouldn't go into space to a fight they are completely outmatched in. The Earth needed its defenders on Earth.

With the team that would be going on the Gohan rescue mission team limited to mainly the original Z Fighters many of the other fighters moved on with their lives. With the world now fully aware of Ki and its destructive capabilities there was a massive demand forming from the very day civilians to learn how to control Ki so they'd have a somewhat better chance of protecting themselves when the next tragedy inevitably struck Earth.

Because of this sudden demand many of the current defenders of Earth, many of whom were given the chance to retire due to recent deaths, were able to open up martial arts schools of their own. In a matter of 2 months there were suddenly dozens of Ki power martial arts dojos scattered around the globe.

During that time one of the more powerful humans was finally able to move forward with a plan they had been working on before the arrival of the Saiyans threw their future into doubt. 2 months after the end of the Cell games King Chappa announced that the World Martial Arts tournament would be returning. Because of the wide range in powers across the world in order to make it to the main tournament new challengers would need to win at least one minor tournament before-hand. The main fighters of the Cell Games on the other hand would be allowed to compete regardless. With the tournament being held in one-year time.

Hey everyone sorry for the very long delay and the somewhat lacking chapter. This was the single longest gap between chapters I've ever had. For most of the semester i didn't have anytime to write for weeks at a time and trying to start back up was like pulling teeth. I wanted to have this a lot longer i just ran out of time.

Anyway thank you again for sticking with the story so long, i can't believe we've made it to the 5 year anniversary! There is more i want to say but i ran out of time tonight but seriously thank you!

Reviews:

due to lack of time i have to skip the review section tonight. I figured you guys would prefer to have the chapter up tonight on the actual anniversary than tomorrow (especially since you had such a long wait)

Thank you to everyone who reviewed and for your patience! I will try to update tomorrow with individual responses and/or pm's with responses to the reviews.

Thanks again!

Update 3/17/2021: I just finished re-reading/re-editing the whole story up until this point to try and break out of the writers block I've been in since graduating. So we'll see if it worked. If I do post a new chapter and you haven't read in awhile

Sorry it took me so long to get this updated A/N done been very busy even on my 'break'

Reviews:

Thanks to everyone for the reviews, I've got to keep the answers somewhat short again so hopefully I fully answer everyone's questions let me know if I don't.

a guy1013 - An abridged version of the story so far:

Gohan get's kidnapped by Raditz, get employed by Frieza against his will. More Human fighters get trained by Roshi including Chi Chi. Frieza thinks Vegeta is rebelling sends Dodoria in to catch him which fails also Dr. Gero joins in the fun. Raditz tricks Gohan into repeated genocide. Roshi starts training Videl/Hercule Nappa survives the fight on Earth and helps out some on Namek. Goku fights Frieza and loses, Bulma's brain got super charged, Goku gets his rematch. Goku transform-blocked Vegeta on Namek and beats Frieza. Gohan and Raditz thinks everyone else is dead. Ginyu get brain surgery to keeps him in one body.

Slug shows up and wish-blocks Chi Chi only to get eaten by Oozaru Nappa. Garlic Jr gets rekt turns into a ghost and possesses Piccolo only to lose because Videl spit on him. Raditz and Gohan kill Zarbon's cousin and get recruited into a band of space rebels and have to take orders from a survivor of their father/grandfather's last genocide. The Ginyu Force kills the rebels. Turles shows up and offers to become Gohan and company's Fruit-daddy in-exchange for their undying loyalty. Frieza and Cold come to Earth. Vegeta finally gets his vengeance against Frieza and then pulls a Vegeta against Cold nearly getting everyone killed. Piccolo fuses with Kami and with everyone's help (Dr. Gero included) they beat Cold. Trunks and Lime come back in time to save the world. Cooler gets throne-blocked by family-politics and comes to Earth where he is conscripted into the fight against the Androids. Turles becomes King, Trunks has serious issues with the color blue, Nappa goes to hell, Gohan continues his love/hate relationship with Turles and company. Broly gets a murder boner from seeing Turles on space-tv. And Dr. Gero bribes Dr. Wheelo with baby-Cell's body.

Androids show up and play hide and seek with the Z Fighters finally a big fight breaks out against but the androids can mecha-kaioken. Then to make matters worse more androids show up. Fights ends in basically a draw, 19 get's brain damage, Cell shows up and asks Gero for a three-way with 17 and 18, instead a three way fight breaks out. Cell barely escapes after eating Gero. 13 wants to kill Cell, 19 wants to drain everyone, 16 just wants to leave. Cell tricks Z Fighters into helping him. Becomes Semi-Perfect. Vegeta ascends and gets eaten/melted, Cell reaches 'perfection' and decides to hold a tournament to prove it. Vegeta gets a rematch, loses, Piccolo turns aggressive gets bean-blocked. Super-13 likes fire works, Cooler can Kaioken, Nappa ascends but Cell got stronger again and rekts everyone. Krillin has a plan so Goku plays decoy and gets kneecapped. Trunks ascends, Goku goes kamakazee and Krillin splits the difference. Cell goes to hell and finds love and Trunks and Videl go on a date.

serus black antihumannature - That would fit Nappa's character fairly well. We'll just have to see on that though.

spartanxjoe - Ssj3 Goku would have the advantage in power but with Cepa's centuries of battle experience I think Cepa takes it 6/10. She's got plenty of experience fighting stronger fighters

DarkFalconZ - Raditz did get brutalized pretty well after all. He's sort of coming to grips with how utterly powerless he currently is against the galaxies upper elecheon. Before Broly's arrival he thought he was the 3rd strongest fighter in the universe. Instead he can be easily one shot by every other Saiyan (except Gota) currently alive. Looking back on it though I think I probably could've done a better job conveying that. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll try to make an adjustment soon.

Luke - Well...you might not be fully wrong ;)

JOEL - Thanks for reminding me to respond, sorry I got really busy again.

Glad you enjoyed it. So far Goku has resisted using the dragon balls out of pride. As far as Cell meeting the horrors chapter 77 was supposed to be a very very long chapter maybe even the longest I had written but I ran out of time so had to publish what I had and planned on 78 being very large instead. Then I couldn't write again until recently so I churned out about half of what was left for 77 and published again. Basically the introduction should've been posted several months ago I just couldn't write fast enough so sorry about that.

They just need them for directions.

Unfortunately we never did find either of our blind dogs that escaped...I honestly think someone must've let them out of the backyard for some reason because they were both barely able to find their food dishes let alone finding a way out of our backyards. So still don't know what happened with that unfortunately.

super mystic gohan - Yeah it'll be an interesting fight. Would be a bit of a blow-out actually if King Kai and the Z Fighters weren't working with a different set of information.

Cibi - King Kai didn't see the end of the Cell fight so he doesn't know just how strong everyone was at the end. Also Broly is buffed a bit from canon too. But you are correct Cell at the end was stronger than Broly is currently. The Legendary Super Saiyan is constantly getting stronger though so might be interesting soon.

Anonymous -

Do you mean Cell at the end of this arc or canon Cell? Yeah if King Kai had full info sending the team would've been a no brainer.

It is certainly coming soon at least. If I had fit as much in as I wanted the last few chapters it might've already happened.

the1andonlyLucian - Thanks for all the reviews, it is always fun tracking a new reader's path throughout the story :) Sorry I'm not leaving as long of responses on reviews this time as previous times, I've been swamped the last semester+ especially.

I'll have to go back and read around chapter 36 that might have been an inconsistency on my part.

Chapter 39 both ideas would've been good but the second esepcially would've made for a very interesting twist.

With your review for chapter 74; you predicted my plan really well. Good job!

Weesnawthedemonslayer - Thanks! I think so far I've kept Demi-Saiyans zenkai's the same as pure blood Zenkai's

Balmz - I've been trying to keep them relevant. Those are good ideas I will look into them. Right now though Kaioken and Spirit bomb are their best weapons.

EXTRA9 - My original plan was for them to show up in chapter 77. Chapter 77 was supposed to be massive when I first started probably 20k plus words I just haven't had enough time. All of 78 was supposed to be part of it and most of what I expect to be in 79 as well.

GueroCA - Thanks for the review! That's awesome that you've enjoyed it so much :) Yeah I always wished the non-Saiyans were treated better in the show. I fully intend for there to be a couple of characters at the least capable of competing against any Saiyan and all the others should be more competitive as well. Thanks again, sorry my reply is so brief, still very swamped.

Snare646 - Sorry for the long wait between chapters. the first few years I had a lot more free time so I could keep a mostly 2-3 week update schedule. unfortunately the last 2.5 years have been getting increasingly busier it seems like, especially this last semester (my first of grad school) so there haven't been a lot of updates. I keep hoping things will die down a bit so I can start writing more.