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Universe 6, Deep Space

Vegeta scowled while looking over the 3-Dimensional, Holographic map in front of him, seeing the information the Z-fighters had been able to discover with the help of the Saiyan's over the last six or so months. What he was looking at was a zoomed in look at the Northern Quadrant of a small Spiral Galaxy that was in the direction they were heading. Large chunks of planets, stars and empty space highlighted a bright, pulsating red on the otherwise calm blue of the hologram.

"So…the red parts are the parts of space that this…Freeza, controls?" A young, male, voice asked from behind him.

"Fucking, yes." Vegeta growled, turning back to the boy that was roughly the age of Kakabrat.

"S-sorry!" He squeaked.

"And stop apologizing! You're a Saiyan for gods sake! Man up and act like it! Have some pride in yourself!" He berated the pre-teen while throwing his hands up.

"B-But King Sadala says pride is something not to be allowed in Saiyan's." Cabba responded in a confused voice.

"Yes. Well your King is a complete moron with no knowledge of what actually makes a Saiyan powerful. If he had lived in my Universe the other Saiyan's would have torn him apart in seconds. Let alone me and my father."

"H-How can you say that? You're working with the King!" Cabba edged back slightly as he paled.

"I'm working with your buffoon of a King because I have to. Not because I want to. And trust me brat, I don't want to. Especially after we told that idiot about who our foes were and he decided to send two of us with children!" Cabba slid back slightly at the force of Vegeta's shout and waved his arms around to try and keep his balance.

"Your friend seemed fine with it…." Cabba muttered under his breath, unfortunately being heard by the refined hearing of the Saiyan Prince.

"Kakarot is a moron on the best of days. He sees them as an opportunity to train against future strong warriors. Not to mention he actually has a crew with him."

"…Why don't you?"

"Because I work alone. He was already pushing it by making you come along." Vegeta grunted as he turned back to the map and began to mess with controls.

Cabba watched as the map zoomed in and out and Vegeta's eyes seemed to flick around at lightning speed reading all the information that popped up whenever he seemed to select certain planets, stars or pockets of space. He saw the Prince lift up his hands and seem to physically draw himself a path between planets and space stations, Cabba just guessed he was doing it as a way to both memorize and find a flaw in his path.

"You uhmmm. You seem experienced at this?" Cabba began, wincing at his weak start.

"Speak up boy!"

"You seem experienced at mapping out intergalactic routes, sir!" Cabba snapped into a straight stance, showing the minimal military training he said received on Sadala.

"Better." Vegeta grunted, getting a soft smile from Cabba "And I am. The creature I'm going after? I used to work under him as a planet clearer/demolisher." Vegeta growled angrily at the reminder to his much hated past.

"Y-You? B-but I'm here to hel-."

"As I said. The. Creature. That. I. Am. Going. After. Are we clear?"

"Y-yes Sir!" Vegeta grunted and turned back to his planning, Cabba left to silently stand behind him the whole time.

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Universe 6, A different Deep Space

"Come on Kale! Keep it going! You just gotta twist your hips more!" Goku encouraged the girl as he blocked her kick with his forearm, seemingly not even feeling it.

Off to the sidelines of the training room sat Caulifla, currently nursing a deep ache on her side from when she had egged Goku into using more power against her and he had broken through both her guard and a rib or two with a single kick, which also knocked her into the luckily cushioned and reinforced wall. She watched as Goku sparred with/trained Kale, the shy girl obviously having a very difficult time trying to get her body accustomed to the strange ways Goku made them move which had surprising results in their overall fighting. Though she could see that Kale was obviously both far too shy and far too scared of the older Saiyan to put everything she had into her moves.

That thought then brought her back to thinking about Goku and the reason that Kale was scared of him, other than the fact that he could keep up with Vegeta and Vegeta had bodied Caulifla in one hit. When they had first decided to train together, Goku had told them both to come at him with everything they had, only for the adult to counter everything they had without even batting an eye. Eventually flicking both his legs out, nailing both of them at the same time, and sending them flying back into the walls of the training room. The older Saiyan having scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously, his words repeating back through her head.

"Oh jeez. Sorry you guys! I guess I'm a little too used to sparring with Gohan." She had been too focused on how much his kick hurt at the time to ask, and now she couldn't be bothered.

But still, the name gnawed away at her mind like one of those rabid Kaichu's back on Sadala. The little gluttonous bastards that they were. She knew the names of all of the group the short, bald one had called the 'Z-fighters' and there was no Gohan among them. But for now she shelved that thought to watch as Goku launched Kale over his shoulder, making the tanned girl hit the wall and slide down slowly while Goku chuckled and scratched the back of his head.

"Put a little too much force into that one, sorry."

"You're a moron…" Caulifla deadpanned from the sidelines getting a hurt gasp from the man in question.

'It's times like this when I sorta miss having Gohan to train with. Little guy always had the most creative solutions to counter-attacks…..I wonder what he's getting up to? Having fun I hope!' Goku thought to himself as a wide, trademarked-Son Grin stretched his lips.

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Universe 7, Intergalactic Martial Arts Tournament

"AND WE'RE BACK WITH THE SECOND STAGE OF THE INTERGALACTIC MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT. IN THIS EVENT ALL FOUR OF OUR CONTESTANTS WILL BE ROCKETED TO A DIFFERENT ARENA TO FIGHT REAL LIFE ALIENS!" The cheers from the crowd were practically deafening to the three supernatural competitors "SHOULD ONLY ONE OF OUR COMPETITORS PASS, THEY WILL BE FACING DOWN THE LEGENDARY HERCULE SATAN!" This time they actually felt their knees buckle ever so slightly "BUT IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT MORE THAN ONE OF OUR BRAVE COMPETITORS BEATS THEIR OTHERWORLDLY FOE, THEY SHALL BE DUKING IT OUT FOR THE HONOR TO FIGHT OUR CHAMPION!" Eighteen rolled her eyes, just hoping it would be over soon.

Soon all four of them were loaded into separate pods and shot off into four different tunnels. Three competitors stoic or preparing themselves for combat while Gohan just laughed and enjoyed the views of the different combat areas and the fancy patterns of lights placed on the inside of the tunnels. Letting himself feel like a child for just this moment.

Once the pod landed he opened the door and crawled out, looking around at the dark, volcanic region he had landed in. Lava seemed to flow through the purposefully made channels and bathed the area in a warm orange glow. Gohan walked around for a few moments, looking around with a curious look on his face.

"This whole place feels weird…Like there's some kind of Ki- Woah!" Gohan quickly backflipped right as a blast landed where he had previously been standing.

A thick smokescreen blocked Gohan's vision but he could clearly see the silhouette of a fairly short, though still just taller than him, figure standing on a raised rock outcropping. Narrowing his eyes as he felt the raising Ki of the fighter and tensing his muscles, desperately hoping this wasn't what he thought it was, Gohan spoke up.

"So you're my opponent? I know you're probably a little riled up but this is still a tournament you know. That could have killed me" He finished disapprovingly as the smoke cleared and showed the grinning form of Zangya as she flicked her hair to the side.

He watched her hair begin to float as her Ki spiked and he inwardly sighed, now knowing for certain that these weren't competitors. They weren't even from Earth. If he had to harbor a guess they were here to either challenge themselves, or wipe everyone out. Neither thought, given his past experiences, sat very well with him. So as Zangya launched herself over him, seemingly overshooting before, in a fairly clever little trick, pulsing her Ki and launching herself back the other way to kick him in the spine, Gohan wasn't very impressed. Stepping to the side he grabbed her leg with one arm and spun, throwing her away to make some space; watching as she flipped in the air to land on her feet.

'She's flexible and fast. Seems like more of a technique fighter over a brute strength fighter…I can feel she has more power at her disposal but how much? Is it worth using Super Saiyan and possibly giving myself away?' Gohan thought as he slid into the stance of his mentor's signature style, the Demon Style.

Then she ran forward and attacked, and every thought Gohan had, had about her fighting style was thrown out the window. In spite of what her opening attack suggested, the way she grounded herself to attack and the way she held her weight spoke of someone who was taller, someone who was heavier, someone who carried far more physical strength than their appearance suggested. He watched her going for a power punch and his eyes widened in panic, he could already feel his body instinctively moving to follow his training against such attacks.

Forearms crossed over each other, bouncing slightly in the air to give his body the least amount of resistance to the hit as possible. And while the hit was strong it felt strangely weak given her fighting style and power level. That didn't stop him from rocketing backwards, through a boulder and into a wall. Feeling her beginning to get serious he growled and his aura flared and turned golden as he rose into the fabled Super Saiyan state. And thus began the strangest battle of Gohan's 11 years of living.

Every move of the girls seemed to counteract another move. Her movements were fast, fluid, light. Her stance and balance was heavy, grounded, slow. And as he went to go for a strong punch after she over-extended, he watched as her eyes widened and she seemed to instinctively leaned back. Only her footing and stance didn't allow her to move properly and a jolt of pain in twisting her ankle just a little too far made her twist back a little while lifting her foot. Leaving the orange haired beauty in a spiraling tumble which Gohan made advantage of by launching a knee up and striking just below her generous cleavage. The blow was brutal, creating a small shockwave as the world seemed to slow down for a moment between the two fighters.

Zangya could feel her body bending over the knee of the boy. Feeling the wind and saliva leaving her lips as her eyes shrank and seemed to glaze over and clear rapidly. Meanwhile Gohan could feel the girls body beginning to leave the ground and despite the wince which was already covering his face, pressed his foot into the ground and tensed his thigh. A burst of upwards power running through his leg and causing it to snap up and forcing the girl to do the same as pebbles and stones around them flew away from the rapidly moving wind as she shot up and struck the roof of the cavern.

As Zangya hung in the roof, stuck in the indent her body had created with wide, blank eyes as some saliva dripped out of her mouth Gohan took a moment to massage his forearms. Having taken a surprising amount of force from the few hits she had managed to get through with her absolutely horrendous fighting style. Feeling a dangerous fluctuation of Trunks' Ki his head snapped over in his direction with a firm glare.

The sound of dislodging rocks and flesh and bones hitting the floor with a muffled moan of pain met his ears and brought him back to his own fight. Turning back to the girl he watched as she slowly rose to her feet, breathing heavily and wiping some drool off her chin.

"You aren't the only one…what are you doing? What's your plan?" Gohan asked.

"I-I'm not going to tell….an enemy…that" She huffed as a hand clutched her stomach where he had kneed her.

"But why are we your enemies? What did we ever do to you?" Gohan asked, taking a step towards her and opening his arms out.

The girl seemed to hesitate, wincing in pain as she did so, before launching herself forward. The sheer speed of her kick-off shocked the pre-teen and it took everything he had in his Super Saiyan form to even block the kick which still ended up knocking him back into a wall.

"Heh…Haghh. Take that…bastard~" She panted as she fell to the ground after her aggressively rapid attack.

Seeing Gohan still alive and relatively uninjured as the smoke cleared she scowled furiously. Her beautiful face twisting up in a nasty scowl as her fists fell to the side, clenched tightly. Breathing out heavily, keeping his arms crossed over his face he felt his arms burning in pain. All of a sudden Trunks' Ki cut out. It was still there but he had very clearly been hurt and taken out.

Some small thread in Gohan's mind snapped.

Zangya had barely a moment to register the sharp influx of Ki before a small shockwave passed her along with a ring of dust and small rocks. Crossing her arms over her face she felt the force of his Ki blasting out around him, and the terrifying difference in it now.

Opening her eyes she saw the changes the boy had undergone. His hair now a richer gold and spiked up other than one lone bang which hung down his face and his form a bit more bulked up compared to before. Looking at his one eye not covered from her view by his crossed arms. She watched as it slowly opened. Now a Cyan colour as it hardened into a glare which froze her in place, beginning to break out in a light sweat.

The boy took a deep breath in and tensed his shoulders, his arms raising slightly as he did and for a moment all was still. Said stillness was immediately shattered as he exhaled through his nose and shot forward at speeds Zangya had only ever seen Bojack move at. With a roar of power he struck the teenager in the solar plexus with a vicious gut punch that the teen may or may not have stolen from the dead Prince of Saiyans.

Zangya screamed as she tore through the air and a solid chunk of stone before stopping, basically embedded in a 'her' shaped hole. Her body lying limp, bubbling and frothing with pain beneath her skin as a muted moan of pain left her lips.

'W-what happened to his power level? H-he was below me and I-I could have killed him in an instant and now he's..h-he's- I-I'm going to die! I can't die! Not to this! Not now! I survived Bojack's purge! I was the only female who could stand against him! I won't die here! Not on this back water planet! Not without killing that slimy bastard first!' She roared in her mind, her fingers clutching and digging into the solid rock with seeming ease. Her teeth grit and her blue eyes narrowed at the teen walking closer to the hole she had created. Unknowingly, her Ki began to spike and swirl in accordance with her heightened anger, something which Gohan could sense.

With a widening of his eyes and a shout of pure power his golden Ki pulsed out of his body like a shockwave. The life-energy eating away at the rock between him and the girl with astonishing ease, releasing her from her nature-created prison with unreal precision. With wide, panicked, eyes her legs buckled and she stared up at the second being to have ever had her in such a position, with all the fear it entailed.

"P-please. I don't want to die…"

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With Trunks, minutes earlier

Trunks smiled and looked around at the beautiful field of flowers surrounding him. Swiveling his head slowly before hearing a squirrel chattering by his foot and kneeling down. Such an innocent display of nature bringing a warm smile to his face while he watched the squirrel run away. The reason becoming apparent a moment later as the spot that Trunks had been occupying was hit by a ball of Ki which created a small explosion.

The demi-Saiyan meanwhile had managed to sense the attack and leapt away, flipping in the air to land facing the direction of the attack.

"Hey. Watch where you point that thing. I might get the wrong idea" Trunks snapped amidst the sadistic chuckling of the man in the tree, his arm still raised from his first energy blast "This may be a fight but this is still a tournament. No killing allowed"

With only a slight tilt of the man's lips, showing the barest hint of teeth, as an indicator he was about to move the teen narrowed his eyes as the man launched himself out of the tree and towards the demi-Saiyan. He hit the ground right in front of Trunks and launched his right arm out in what looked like a powerful haymaker. The lavender haired teen leant back and let the fist whiz by his face before snapping his left arm out to get a quick strike on the mans face which sadly was not meant to be. Wrapping his right arm around Trunks' and grabbing his fist he threw Trunks over his head and towards the ground. Flipping midair the demi-Saiyan hit the ground feet first and turned around, pivoting on one foot as the other lifted up and swung around heel first, striking the man in the cheek and making him stumble back as his head snapped to the side. Trunks followed through with his momentum and leapt in the hair. Going to knee the man in the face only for his knee to meet the flat of his sword as the man grinned sadistically.

Trunks flipped away as the man giggled and tried to slice out his stomach with the sword but missed. Both of them glaring at each other before a cocky smirk appeared on the other man's face as he stylistically twirled his sword and sheathed it at his hip.

"Nice to meet my newest Cadaver~ Kogu the Swordsbutcher at your service~" He purred with a sarcastic bow.

"And I'm the person who isn't playing your games. Leave the planet at once!" Trunks snapped while reaffirming his fighting stance.

"Too bad kid. Bojack ain't had his fill of fun yet. Matter of fact. Neither have I" With his fist clenched at his sides he shouted to the heavens as his power level rose. His earrings and the medallion on his necklace began to glow golden before his body gave off an intense light which Trunks was unable to look at, being forced to close his eyes.

Once the light died down enough, Trunks wasted no time in opening his eyes and staring down his enemy. Taking in his transformation with a rapid flickering of his eyes. His skin had turned from the blueish tint it had before to a pale green skin tone and had bulked up slightly, his hair having turned from an orange to a dark red which also appeared to have thickened. His black vest seeming to have been destroyed by his transformation.

'Well that's not good.' Trunks thought before being struck in the stomach by the shin of his enemy, crumpling over the leg before the momentum caught up with him and sent him flying into and straight through the thick rock wall and metal inside it and right back through another layer of rock.

Coughing painfully, he rolled onto his hands and knees before pushing himself to his feet, his legs shaking for a moment before steadying himself and wiping some blood and drool from his chin. Looking around for a moment he found himself in a Victorian era city. A power level stood atop the tallest building in the arena caught his attention before feeling Kogu rapidly approaching and deciding he was far more of a threat. Turning to face the approaching enemy his eyes widened as he saw a green hand in front of his face before being dragged through the brick, mortar and wood of multiple buildings, crying out in pain before being thrown to the ground in a painful explosion of brick and dust.

Slowly collecting himself he heard Kogu snicker darkly while approaching, his steps slow and teasing as he made his way closer. Obviously knowing that he had the superior power level between them.

"You fought in vain. But hey, I'll get a nifty jacket out of it" Kogu mocked him while drawing his sword, taking a moment to admire his beautiful blade before winding his arm back and swinging down.

With a grunt of exertion Trunks' Ki exploded in a small golden aura as he turned around and blocked the blade with his bare forearm, stopping it like a regular knife meeting a wall of steel. The two had a short power struggle, gritting their teeth and glaring into each others faces before Trunks twisted his arm and caused the blade to slide away, using the chance to spin and with a roar of power he punched his left hand straight through the green man's stomach. Kogu didn't even have a moment to think over his life choices before the teen wrenched his arm out of the man's body and let him collapse to the ground in a boneless heap, blood seeping out of him at an astonishing rate as Trunks took a moment to let his body relax. His breathing came out in a mild pant as he looked down at the dead form of his opponent.

He never even had a chance to widen his eyes before the effects of the punch to the back of his head caught up to him and his vision went black, his body crumpling to the ground as the large greenish-blue man with an orange beard grinned darkly down at him.

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Meanwhile with 18

"W-what are you? That's not possible! My wires should have sucked you dry!" Bujin screamed in fear as he shakily floated away from the blonde haired woman who continued her unrelenting advance towards him. Purple wires of energy visible around multiple portions of her body.

Eighteen, despite having changed greatly since her initial release from her pod and having decided to live a much more peaceful life after the crapshow that was Cell, couldn't help the trill that travelled up her spine at the feeling of power she had. The little robed midget had been trying to suck her energy dry for nearly ten minutes at this point, and all he had done was injure himself from the constant influx of power that he couldn't get rid of quick enough and panic as it seemed to have no effect on her.

Casually breaking the wires like they were made of frayed string, she smirked cockily at him before phasing forward and grabbing his face in one of her hands, gripping onto him with a strength that he couldn't break free from. Gripping onto her forearm with one hand and raising the other one up, they both began to glow a soft orange and movement behind her caught her attention. Turning her head and looking out of the corner of her eye she saw two boxes rise up before launching themselves at her.

Raising her spare hand she destroyed the both of them with two well placed energy blasts before turning back to him and grinning as he still struggled in vain to free himself.

"You know I had decided to leave this kind of stuff behind me? The fighting, the blood, the death. Wanted to take a shot at a real career and try things the human way. And then you just had to come here and attack me. And sadly for you, fighting and slaughter is something I can't exactly forget how to do" The gap between her hand and his face began to glow a bright blue before it exploded, taking his head with it as his headless remains dropped to its feet, then knees, then toppling over to its side as the charred, blackened remains of what was his neck released a steady stream of smoke.

"Now….where are the others?" She asked herself, looking around with a hand on her cocked hip.

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With Gohan

Gohan stared down at the girl who seemed frozen on her knees, staring up at him with wide fear filled eyes as her entire body trembled, the girl seemingly breaking out into a cold sweat as Gohan approached her with narrowed eyes and thinned lips.

"I didn't want to. But you've attacked my planet and hurt my friends. I'm sorry, truly I am" Gohan raised his arm and Zangya screamed in fear.

"Please no! Bojack's forcing me! Please! I'll do anything! I'll be your slave! Please just don't kill me!" Tears began to roll down her cheeks like twin waterfalls as she weakly and futilely crossed her arms over her bowed head.

Gohan kept his attack stable in front of his palm for a few moments before sighing and dispersing it as he looked at the shivering girl sadly. Turning his head back to where he had last sensed Trunks' Ki his aura flared slightly, making her whimper.

"I'm putting my faith in you that you won't attack anyone else. I'm going to help my friend….please don't betray my trust" He blasted off, his aura eating through the rock and actively digging a tunnel through the earth as he continued flying.

Meanwhile Zangya let her arms once again uselessly flop to her sides as he stared at the hole with slowly drying eyes.

"H-He's trusting me?...W-what?" Everything she knew, everything she had been taught about the world told her that, that boy would have killed her. Or at least demanded her body or loyalty in exchange, and yet he had…..just decided to trust her and fly away?

Getting up on shaky legs she began to float in the air, taking a painfully long time for someone of her power to even achieve that, let alone the speed at which she flew into the tunnel after Gohan.

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With Hercule Satan

"Mr Satan there's actual aliens! Someones died! You have to go down there!" A man yelled while banging on a bathroom door.

"It's all an act! An act I tell you! And why can't you leave me alone!? Can't a man have a moment to himself!" Hercule yelled back before returning to gnawing on his own lip.

'Why does this always happen to me? Creatures just as strong as Cell? What the hell world!' Hercule internally groaned to himself.

Eventually though he did leave the bathroom and returned to his 'throne' in the VIP booth. Shivering ever so slightly and pale as a ghost as he waved off the concern shown to him with a shaky grin and boisterous laugh.

His gaze though was kept on the screens. His assurances to the man earlier, which had promptly been told to the audience, was all that kept pandemonium and chaos to reign down on both the stadium and those watching from their televisions. But even so, even if the rest of the people were fooled, he knew the truth. He knew that one of the competitors had been killed in one strike by the strange blue-ish green skinned man and that in return two of the aliens had been killed.

But he could see his lie wasn't going to fool people for long, so finally he stood up abruptly, shocking everyone else in the VIP booth.

"Dad? Where are you going?" Videl asked in confusion.

"Time for your old man to entire the swing sweet-pea. Show those murderous aliens what-for!" She gasped and smiled happily.

"T-truly Mr Satan? W-we're saved!" Mr Cash excitedly exclaimed from besides him.

"Hah. Hah! Once I get on the field all those aliens are toast! They thought they could back out on a deal with Hercule Satan? Well I'll show them why I'm the world's strongest!" Hercule proudly boasted, walking out of the room into the empty hallway outside, the sliding doors closing behind him.

'Im gonna die!' He screamed mentally even as he ran towards where the launch pods were 'I just gotta hope for a miracle like with Cell. Those glowing weirdo's are here again so it will be fine!...Oh god I hope it'll be fine'

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With Bojack

Bojack chuckled and sat down on the highest windowsill within the constructed Victorian era city. One leg hanging off and one foot placed on it, resting an arm on his raised knee.

"I can feel him coming Bidou, the strongest warrior on this pathetic planet. He feels similar to the idiot who freed us" Bojack said, looking over at where he could feel Gohan's Ki.

"If this one was anything to go by then you shouldn't have to worry" Bidou replied, using the unconscious body of Trunks like a yo-yo with his strings from a lower part of the roof.

Bojack just snorted arrogantly and kept his eyes on Gohan's location before a massive explosion caught Bidou's attention and made him look over.

Dust exploded outwards like a shockwave as stone, cement and steel rained down on the city. A stray chunk of building flew past the two aliens getting a surprised startle from Bidou and an enlarging of Bojack's smirk as it hit another building behind them and caused a second smaller explosion of dust.

Bursting free of the dust, Gohan pierced through the hair like a bullet before stopping in front of the two with a shrieking explosion of golden Ki. A gale force wind began to pick up and made the tower the aliens were on creak dangerously as everyones hair and clothes waved wildly in the wind. Bidou being forced to flare his aura around him to stop himself from moving as he stared at the pre-teen crackling with bio-electricity.

"Are you their leader?" Gohan asked seriously, his eyes narrowed and lips thinned out.

"That I am. And who may I be speaking to?~" Bojack snickered maliciously, getting a slight parting of Gohan's lips to bare a few of his teeth.

"I'm Son Gohan. The protector of this planet"

"Bojack, the Purger. And these people should be thankful. If he was the best you had, they would have been mincemeat long before me" Bojack gestured lazily to Trunks, still stuck in Bidou's wires.

"Trunks!" Gohan shouted out on instinct, reaching an arm out.

"Careful now. Any sudden moves and those wires may do a little more than drain his energy" Gohan's face twitched at the information, keeping the wires abilities in mind.

"Why are you attacking? This planet has nothing of interest" Gohan spoke, his mind racing furiously.

"Why? Quite simply as repayment for your father releasing us. And feeling your power now, to make sure you don't get in my way in the future" Bojack spoke, starting off playful and ending in a grave tone of voice.

"Look, if you want to fight me, then let's fight. But leave my friends, this planets people, out of this" Gohan snapped, throwing his arm to the side.

"And now where's the fun in that? Bidou." The space pirate snapped at the end.

In an instant the bearded man's ki flared around him and he pulled the limp body of Trunks higher into the air, his body level with Bidou's as wires shot out of the tips of his nine spare fingers, fanning out to encircle Trunks. Gohan finally took action, as did Bojack.

Phasing out of existence, the teen appeared next to his friend with a crackle of lightning and the sound of static, breaking the wire with little to no effort and grabbing his friend before gravity could take a hold of him again. Holding the buff teen under his arm he looked around with his greatly enhanced reflexes and saw the wires forming and curling around him in a spherical shape, clicking his tongue in annoyance he shot off from his spot in the air and threw Trunks through a closing gap before twirling through it himself and catching his friend.

Upon catching Trunks he spun again while swooping down low to find a hiding spot for Trunks, as he did so a wave of Ki pulsed over the two of them and caused Gohan to pause in his tracks and look back up at the tower, where the look of realization was just passing over Bidou's features.

Above him was a maliciously grinning Bojack, who had gone through a transformation similar to Kogu's, not that Gohan knew that. His skin had changed from the typical Hera blue-green to a pale green and he had bulked up, his shirt and bandana having been apparently torn to shreds from his transformation, showing his now slightly longer red hair. With a shout of power the Pirate leader disappeared in a displacement of air and a crack of thunder, appearing directly over Gohan and Trunks, though lower in altitude than he had previously been with an energy blast charging in his hand.

The ball of energy morphed into a laser as it struck the two demi-saiyan's, causing an explosion of dust and debris which shook the entire town and made Bojack's malicious grin only grow in size. The distant sound of displacing air, however, put a hamper on that and turned his grin into a distasteful scowl as he turned his head and saw the nuisance of a boy and his unconscious friend on a nearby roof, the boy glaring daggers at him.

"Alright kid" He swung both his arms to his side and lit up energy blasts atop both of them "Lets see where you stack up!" he phased out of existence once more, the glaring boy doing the same.

Meanwhile Bidou scowled and cracked his neck as he looked down at the city where his boss was chasing around a small child trying to protect the weakling he had been using as a yo-yo earlier. With a growl he swung both his hands out and began to fill as much of the city with threads as he could, hoping to prove himself useful to Bojack, unlike the other three he had previously called 'teammates'. Of course using the technique over such a large area took an enormous toll on his mind, basically forcing him into a zoned-out state as he poured all his mental capabilities into maintaining his spiderweb around the central tower and the main streets.

In opposition to the almost meditative calm that Bidou found himself in, Gohan found himself in basically as close to panicking as he could get as he tried to pull off any and every aerial maneuver he knew to both avoid the powerful psychopath bombing him and the wires his teammate was spreading throughout the city. One he could deal with, quite easily in fact, he could even deal with the both of them if he didn't have Trunks to protect, but sadly he did. As it was it took all his effort to keep both himself and Trunks unharmed while phasing in and out of existence around the city and dodging consecutive energy blasts.

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With Eighteen

Eighteen finally emerged from the tunnel she had depth charged to get to the central arena where all the fighting was going on, her eyes instantly noticing the flickering forms of both Bojack and Gohan before noticing the familiar wires which got her to roll her eyes.

"Gohan seems on the backfoot. Well I've got to repay him for Cell somehow" She shrugged and began making her way to the origin of all the wires, the man sitting on top the central tower.

Crouching down low she launched herself up into the air before shooting forward like a jet, cutting through the air with an ease most living creatures could never hope to achieve. She charged straight through the few wires that were set up at her altitude and noticed him visibly recoil and panic as his eyes snapped open. A good 80% of the wires he had been maintaining suddenly fizzling away as Eighteen spun out of her aerodynamic flying position and transitioned into a kick to his face which sent him straight through the tower and another two buildings like a very much injured ballerina before he struck the pavement and ground into it before stopping, sitting in a pile of dirt and upturned and cracked bricks and pavement.

Bidou groaned in pain and slowly pushed himself up, hearing Eighteen land on the ground and glaring up at her while she gave a small but cocky smile. Crossing her arms under her sizeable bust as she looked down at him, seeing the purple bruise beginning to form on his cheek and jaw already.

"Is wires all you have? Because I've already killed one of you guys who has the same skillset"

"I"ll suck you dry you fucking bitch!" Bidou snapped as he jumped to his feet and his Ki roared around him, creating a small crater and sending dust and broken bricks flying away, getting an annoyed glare from her as she brushed off her shoulders and chest.

"Shouldn't it be a female saying that? Or do you swing the other way? Hey, all the power to you" Eighteen chuckled while staring him down, placing a hand on her hips and cocking her hip to the side.

"YOU BITCH!" His Ki seeped into the ground and carved out a jagged spear which he telekinetically dragged into his hand and glared her down.

"I'm terrified" She sarcastically replied while using her free hand to flick some hair out of her face.

He launched himself forward while spinning his spear and thrusting it forward once getting within range, something which she easily dodged. Planting her right foot on the ground and pushing forward as she wound back her left arm. Snapping it forward in a flurry of punches to his face and chest. The alien managing to dodge a few of them before the first landed, making his head snap back and leaving him open for the next punch which staggered him lightly, which quickly lead to him being hit by every blow in the flurry.

Drawing her arm back after the flurry, leaving Bidou leant back and off-balance as he coughed out blood and saliva. A grin crossing her features as she hopped up and slammed her left fist forward once more, hitting him in the sternum and sending him crashing right back into the ground. Another crater once again forming, though larger than before because he didn't get sent flying away due to the angle of the punch.

Raising her hands towards the dust cloud she began to fire a continuous beam of energy blasts, kicking up even more dirt and dust. The sounds of Bidou's pained screams and shouts ringing out as she continued for a couple more seconds before stopping. Narrowing her eyes she swiped her hand to the side and revealed the bruised and bloodied, but still breathing form of Bidou.

One of his eyes was swollen shut and patches of his beard and hair had been burnt off, but his lone eye glared at her with enough hatred to melt a regular human to the bone and his lips were upturned in a feral glare. Before either of them could do anything, a green and red blur struck the building beside them, shaking the ground and causing it to collapse on the figure before being blasted away as they roared in fury and sent out a shockwave of their Ki. Blowing away all the dust and showing Bojack glaring at the floating form of Gohan before looking and seeing Eighteen and Bidou.

"Are you truly so pathetic you could lose to a back-water woman of all things? Keeping you was a mistake" He spat, rising to his full height and cracking his neck.

"N-no! S-sir I can…I can still be useful. I-I can still serve you! J-just give me a cha-" Any further pleading was cut off by a violent scream of pain as Bojack blasted him mercilessly, shredding the man to ribbons with one last, strangled scream.

"Y-you monster!" Everyone looked over to see Zangya staring at Bojack in horror, having been previously hiding to view the battles from afar "You said we were the ones that were safe! You said you would treat us like your old crew! The ones you made legends!"

"I am~" Those words froze Zangya's blood in an instant, her pupils shrinking in fear as her body began to shiver, shakily pointing a finger at him.

"Y-you killed them too?...Y-you were planning on killing us all?" Gohan landed besides Eighteen and placed Trunks on the ground, bio-electricity crackling around him as he watched the tense scene.

"If you proved yourselves to be weak. And seeing as you weren't even deemed important enough to be properly defeated…"

"N-no!" She screamed in fear as he fired a blast at her, faster than she could react.

She felt the heat and energy roll over her but never felt any pain, for a brief moment she entertained the thought that it had killed her so instantaneously she hadn't even been able to feel the pain it had caused, though her opening her eyes changed that theory just a bit.

Before her stood Gohan, his arms crossed over his face as he glared down Bojack, an almost feral snarl leaving his lips as he did so.

"WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Hercule's pod struck the ground down the street, sending up a small shockwave which passed over everyone and waved the clothes and hair of Gohan and Bojack in particular as they continued their stare down.

'That buffoon has staggering timing. Just in time to be killed in the crossfire' Eighteen thought monotonously as she looked over at him.

"You'd throw away your teammates lives just like that?" Gohan growled angrily as Bojack laughed.

"Teammates? They were underlings at best. If that's the best they had then our race deserves to die out"

"Die out?...You're the last two left?" Gohan asked, the revelation only making him angrier.

"She was the last female. But she's not even worth keeping around. She's so weak any offspring that she sired would end up sniveling brats scared of their shadows!" Bojack hunched over and his Ki flared around him in a red aura which matched his hair.

"You would let your race die out because they're weak!? How sociopathic can you be? She survived your purge! She did your bidding for who knows how long and now you're just willing to kill her because I didn't!?" Gohan's Ki began to fluctuate dangerously as he glared down the man, his teeth grit together tightly and his fists clenched by his side.

"A weak Hera is a worthless Hera. Especially a female who can't learn her place" Bojack said darkly.

Gohan's Ki burst out of him like a dam as an echoing scream tore itself out of his lips, his eyes burning with pure rage. The ground underneath his feet tore itself away from him and carved a crater out of itself from the sheer pressure of his wildly fluctuating aura, Zangya herself getting blown back a few meters.

"You won't hurt. ANYONE. Ever again!" Gohan shouted as his power fluctuated and another furious scream left his mouth.

"Y-you…" Zangya stuttered out, staring at her savior with wide, unbelieving eyes "W-why are you helping me? I'm weak! Im worthless! I-I'm not even worth keeping around a-as a slave!" Tears began to form in the corners of her eyes.

"No one is worthless…Least of all you" Gohan said softly, his voice somehow still reaching her over the roaring winds he was creating, his head turned so he could look at her out of the corner of his eye "You're strong. And you deserve better. So does your race. Even if you'll never be able to have a full-blooded child"

"Once I'm done with you she won't even have a chance to have a child!" Bojack roared while slamming his hands together and proceeding to ever so slightly pull them apart, forming a ball of energy between them.

"But you!" Gohan growled, turning his attention back to Bojack as his face hardened once again "You deserve everything coming to you! And I'm going to make you pay for every living being you've slaughtered!"

There wasn't a displacement of air, no crack of thunder, not even a flaring of Ki as Gohan appeared before the hulking brute of a man, his face even with the man's as he flew and his right arm wound back. Well, there was all of those things of course, though just not yet. The world stood still for a brief moment before the furious boy struck, hitting the man in the face for all he was worth, the sound of a crack echoing down the street followed almost instantly by the sound of a gunshot as the man was picked up off the ground and flung through half of the makeshift city in an instant.

The demi-saiyan appeared in the flight path of the man and gripping his face in his hand, stopping all his forward momentum in an instant before reversing it and slamming the back of his head painfully into the ground, getting a shout of pain from the man who tried to blindly swipe at the pre-teen and only hit thin air. Said pre-teen landing and sliding back a few meters, staring at the man as he picked himself up and slid into a fighting stance, his scarred nose twisted to the side and leaking blood like a broken faucet.

"That all wou got bwat! I'm Bojack the Puwrger! I won't be bwought down by a toddler thwowing a tantwum!" He yelled out in a slurred voice, his broken nose making pronouncing a few sounds far more difficulty than they were worth.

Gohan ran forwards and his fist met the man's guard, as did the triple strike he launched with his right arm before leaning down and twisting to the left to avoid the sledgehammer of a punch the man tried to hit him with the force of the blow making his hair wave around from the breeze it created. Using the twisting motion to his advantage and spinning into a kick against Bojack's elbow, messing up his blocking stance and allowing Gohan to kick off the ground and spin the air, connecting a second kick, this one striking the man's jaw and snapping his head to the side as the smaller warrior landed on the ground.

Gohan yelled and both of his arms turned into mere blurs as they struck the man's arms and abdomen in a series of what sounded like gunshots, scaring Hercule even more from half a city away, the man's body bruising and cracking under the unrelenting onslaught before he uppercut Bojack high into the sky, cracking the man's jaw and sending him hurtling upwards with a shockwave that did little to effect Gohan as he bent his legs and sent himself hurtling after his enemy, the ground cracking and turning into a forty meter wide sinkhole as the ground finally gave in, tackling buildings and rubble with it to a dark abyss.

Which to be fair was only about 200m deep.

Flickering into existence above Bojack as he reached the apex of his flight he spun horizontally in the air and brought his heel down on the mans stomach, probably fucking them up even further than his punching onslaught a few moments earlier had as the man spat blood and struck the ground like a meteor. Gohan glaring down at the impact site and hunching over as his aura began to flare and swirl around him as he brought two fingers to his forehead.

Bojack groaned in immense pain and looked around groggily, his vision swimming and his heart between both intensely and sporadically as pain seemed to emanate from every part of his body. Seeing a bright light through his swimming, warped vision of the world he looked up, taking a few moments to fully realize what was happening.

High in the sky, Gohan charged up his attack, paying homage to his first mentor as the energy beam sparkling purple electricity grew in size to swallow almost the entire length of his fingers.

"MA-"

"G-gagh!" Bojack coughed and his body felt like it was trying to set itself on fire as he lurched forward.

"KANKO-"

"GRRRR!" Bojack pushed himself to his feet and began to charge his own beam, unable to speak thanks to his generally just fucked up face.

"SAPPO!" He stretched out his arm and the spiraling beam shot out, heading straight towards Bojack with enough power to more than be lethal.

Bojack launched his own beam, the both of them meeting and for a brief moment a power struggle took place before Gohan's Makankosappo began to carve through it with what looked like ludicrous ease. Bojack desperately trying to push the beam back but only succeeded in delaying the inevitable.

With one final roar of defiance, the beam carved through the muscular man's body like a knife through wet paper, creating a hole at least as large as a basketball in the man's torso as it continued through him and a good portion of the planet, not coming anywhere close to the core of the planet thanks to the angle it came from but piercing through a good portion of it.

Finally allowing his attack to end, the pre-teen let his arm drop uselessly to his side and watched Bojack's eyes go blank as his legs crumpled and he fell to his knees before falling forward. His body falling out of his transformed state in a flash of red ki particles and blood pooling out of him at a rate that wasn't surprising, but was still definitely disgusting.

Having finally finished the fight, and his anger having left him, Gohan could feel the fatigue rapidly creeping up on him and groaned in annoyance as the corners of his vision began to grow dim and he fell out of his SSJ2 state straight back to his base.

"Oh for Dende's sake not agai-" he felt his eyes roll up as he dropped out of the sky like a stone, flailing around and spinning in a wild freefall which would probably hurt like a bitch once he hit the ground.

Luckily for him though, that never happened, as Zangya swooped in and caught him before he hit the ground, landing on her feet and quickly falling to her knees. Hugging him while sobbing.

"T-thank you! Thank you so much! T-thank you!" She repeated over and over again, getting a small smile from him before he fully passed out.

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Underground facility, Universe 7

A large facility full of computers, machines, equipment and tubes full of liquid sat in the darkness of the facility. The only sounds being the beeping of monitors and the bubbling of the green-ish liquid in the large tubes and containers. Though that was shattered by the large beam of spiraling energy which broke through the wall of the facility and melted clean through the middle of it. Ruining millions of Lien in machines, equipment and data which had been accrued over two decades of research.

The beam was only there for a few seconds, perhaps about 23, before disappearing again, leaving molten slag made of copper, gold, plastic and many other materials through the center of the large facility. One of the computers turning on for the first time in nearly 4 years.

Booting.

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Running diagnostics scan:

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Attempting to fix problem:

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Override accepted: Initializing re-awakening of Project #21

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AAAAAAND DONE!

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter! It was nearly a perfect 9K long which puts it in the upper echelons in terms of chap length but in typical fanfic author fashion, I finished this at 1AM so hopefully things actually make sense XD

Regardless I hope you guys enjoy that teaser for the next arc and I can't wait to see your reactions to this chap!

Adios!