Super Vegeta spread his arms out, channeling twin yellow energy spheres in each palm before thrusting them forward without releasing them. With each pumping motion, each energy mass spewed out a barrage of golden Ki blasts that flew in an arcing sideways motion. With their combined luster, they created a glowing circular shape of arcing lines just before their mighty detonation sank the battlefield into rubble and dust. Broly charged out from the wall of rubble, snickering and imagining Vegeta's face when the King of Saiyans would see Broly unharmed by his Ki blast barrage, but it was Broly who froze, bewildered.
The super-elite Saiyan royalty was nowhere to be seen. Broly turned to the right, then the left, up and down. With a cracking swoop, Vegeta shot up from the back. A resounding flying kick smacked Broly at the back of his head before the Super Saiyan kicked off of his opponent's belfry with an evasive roll and gained some space, only to dash right back at the Legendary Super Saiyan.
"You're a disgrace to the Saiyan race! With a fraction of your power I'm fighting circles around you!" Super Vegeta mocked his opponent with a thunderous body shot that bounced off of Broly's brick-hard, pristine abs even when the shockwave of the impact burst outward in a golden energy wave. Without a reprieve, Vegeta delivered a rising uppercut and rocked Broly's head back. Then a stiff, whipping kick to the left ear, a vicious pummel from both fists shooting out like a howitzer cannon with almost automated precision.
With Broly letting out a resounding cry of berserk rage, Vegeta didn't relent, shoving his foot right into the front of his face the moment that the Legendary Super Saiyan decided to disarm and open himself up. Seeing a momentary opening, Super Vegeta drew his right arm back to the side and stuck his index and middle fingers out. A golden energy shine manifested around the Super Saiyan's arm. "Atomic Flash!" Vegeta cried out, shaping a concentrated bolt of energy from the golden beam that smacked into Broly's chest. This impact appeared to stun Broly for the first time in a while. A shiny golden luster beamed outward through the scar on his chest, showcasing an actual gap in his chest cavity where one's heart should've been. Broly grumbled in pain and physical effort as Vegeta's attack nearly did the job intended for the Special Beam Cannon in drilling through Broly's heartless core.
"Incredible!" Piccolo's eyes twitched in a jerking shock reaction. "Who knew Vegeta too had a technique capable of penetrating properties similar to the Special Beam Cannon? Careful though… Don't tip him off to our plan now…" the Ultimate Namekian thought to himself while rampant jolts of neon-colored electricity passed around him, shooting off and evenly in all directions while an ethereal moss-colored aura fumed from the Ultimate Namekian's pores.
With Broly feeling pain for the first time, Super Vegeta rushed in on the offensive. Even if his offense wasn't particularly effective at dealing lasting damage, any moment where Vegeta was irritating Broly with his gnat-like bites, Broly wasn't ripping the King of Saiyans apart limb from limb, which made it the preferred choice of a fighting strategy to Vegeta. Without even pausing to take a breath in, Super Vegeta's fists went rampant, like hammers trying to smash Broly's face in. All they've succeeded in doing was hitting an immovable fleshy barrier that seemed to send painful quakes throughout Vegeta's own arms to the shoulder instead of hurting Broly with as much as a scratch on his face. Super Vegeta's white uniform gloves tore open with a bloody sprinkle of battered knuckles spilling on the tatters.
An uppercut, an upward horizontal kick, another flurry of fists to Broly's face… Vegeta just didn't stop attacking. While he too possessed a technique with drilling properties, similar to the Special Beam Cannon, he wasn't able to escalate in power drastically with additional charge time. The longer Piccolo had to prepare his technique, the more incredibly powerful it'd become. Just a single minute could've been the difference between success and failure. The success of Piccolo's technique was already difficult to measure, given the fact that Broly was swelling up in power with each passing second.
The hurting Legendary Super Saiyan let out an unintelligible roar, engulfing himself in a green energy bubble that propelled Vegeta backward. Without the proper recovery and breath in his lungs, only relentless attacking in mind, the King of Saiyans couldn't see it coming in time or brace himself for impact. Surging with a green aura, Broly charged onward at the airborne Super Saiyan.
"GRAGH!" Broly growled, shooting a devastating left cross straight to the center of Vegeta's face, which showered the face of the royal Super Saiyan in red sprinkles and bruises as the shooting fist piston was massive enough to crack at his entire face. Winding back his right, Broly flashed a powerful uppercut to leave Vegeta spinning vertically before grabbing the Super Saiyan by the neck with enough force to injure Vegeta's throat and spray blood from his mouth just because of intense pressure. Swinging Vegeta like a rag doll, Broly tossed him right at Piccolo.
"No!" Piccolo gasped, showing his pointy fangs and shriveling his sweaty face in terror as all that they'd been working toward was about to unravel. That was until Vegeta corrected his position and shot a golden energy beam downward, throwing him back and over Piccolo and leaving the pummeled Super Saiyan dragging across the devastated remains of the Capsule Corps Star. For a few moments after landing and leaving a trench of peeled-open steel where he skidded across the landing zone, Vegeta panted with a panicking quake in his muscles due to how close their plan got to failing.
"Huh?" Broly noticed Piccolo standing in place with his index and middle finger pressed to his forehead, just charging up and emitting wild electrical discharges in all directions as his Special Beam Power skyrocketed in its build-up and raw power output. "Just what do you think you're doing?"
"Sending you to hell, you rotten bastard!" Piccolo sneered with a mean look, pulling the charged-up Special Beam Cannon away from his forehead and taking aim in preparation to blast through Broly's chest. "That's if freaks of nature like you even belong in the afterlife!"
"WAIT!" Vegeta called out with a desperate cry. "Not yet! Build it up more! I'll buy you more time! We can't risk it, we won't get a second shot of it!"
"So that's what you're up to…" Broly snickered, drawing his right arm back and channeling an Eraser Cannon in it before sending it to obliterate Piccolo and his surrounding wreckage of the Capsule Corps Star. "Let's see if your attack can deal with this…"
"Damn you!" Vegeta cried out, exploding with a golden luster all around his body and pushing his body off the ground to rush in and straight into the path of the Eraser Cannon, flipping his body in an upward horizontal position and thrusting both of his feet into the front of the energy blast to force it to fly off to the side and obliterate a remote star system somewhere else. Panting from the exertion and tremendous effort needed to deflect the energy blast meant for Piccolo, Vegeta clenched his fist before swiping it to the side. "I'm your opponent! As the King of Saiyans, it's up to me to execute an abomination like you!"
"Hmph… You seem to have a craving for punishment. Fine, I guess I can play around with you some more," Broly's manic expression stretched across his whole face. Just as the Legendary Super Saiyan erupted in a green aura and thrust himself forward, Vegeta drew his hands back and cupped them together before bringing them forward again.
"Super Galick Gun!" Vegeta exclaimed, thrusting both his hands forward and letting a fuchsia-colored energy sphere surround him before erupting into a massive energy wave engulfing Super Vegeta and flowing right toward his opponent. The brunt of the incoming impact halted Broly in place for a blink. After flinching temporarily, the Legendary Super Saiyan began charging through the energy wave with just a slight delay to his speed as if Vegeta's signature technique was just a slight inconvenience to him.
After exclaiming with a seismic shockwave erupting from his body, Broly dispelled Super Vegeta's Galick Gun and assumed a semi-crucified pose while levitating in mid-air. Resuming his hi-speed attack, Broly charged right at Super Vegeta with a cracking thud to Vegeta's busted face, sending the humbled Saiyan king crashing down in a surrounding comet tail of his own splattered blood, heated artificial atmosphere, and crumbling armor. In a snap, Broly vanished, appearing underneath where Vegeta was falling, and punted the King of Saiyans into the air, before vanishing once more and appearing directly above him only to grab his crumbling armor and fling him down with peerless brute force.
"That's it… I'm shooting it now!" Piccolo pulled his super-charged Special Beam Cannon that was currently engulfing his entire forearm in mass. "Damn it… I need to make sure this hits…"
Almost as if knowing about Piccolo's plight, Broly showed his pearly whites before laughing out and flexing his titanic muscles in a showy pose of power. It was a challenge for Piccolo to shoot his Special Beam Cannon, though Piccolo had enough experience in both his and the combined warrior spirits fused within him to know that doing so would be the same as shooting it blindly in any direction. If he was aware of what was happening, Broly could dodge the beam easily.
A tight gripping crunch made Broly peek down, only for his smirk to shift to inconvenience and vexation. The royal Saiyan insect wrapped his battered and bruised hands around Broly's heels and began crawling up Broly's body. In a snap, the King of Saiyans transitioned into a chokehold by wrapping his right arm around Broly's thick and throbbing neck while clutching his left biceps with the right hand. Like a sewing needle, the left hand went behind Broly's head and squeezed the two elbows together. A shimmering golden aura burst with lightning crackles and bright sparks and sprinkles as Super Vegeta focused his full power on making sure that the chokehold stays applied, even gambling his own life force into it just to make sure Broly can't break it.
"Go on, do it now!" Vegeta called out. "Do it before the pain in my ribs kicks in!"
"Vegeta…" Piccolo's face became shrouded in shade and disappointment that this had to end this way. Both of them would've wanted this to end any other way, without Vegeta having to sacrifice himself and leaving his family and people behind. Still, knowing what was at stake, Piccolo only hesitated for a blink before pointing his fingers out and clamoring from the bottom of his lungs. "Special Beam Cannon!"
"GRAGH!" Broly cried out, flaring up with a lime-colored aura that dwarfed Vegeta's own life-threatening shine to the point of insignificance. Unable to break the sleeper hold, the Legendary Super Saiyan kicked off the ground and swooped with a horizontal slide directly underneath the beam of Special Beam Cannon. Piccolo's shocked stare dulled out as the two last hopes of the Dragon Team observed mortified Piccolo's beam missing with only light bloody grazes as the beam's surrounding of pressurized air scraped against Broly's chest.
"No… It's all… Lost…" Piccolo slumped, sweaty and his impressive musculature shriveling up after all of his stamina and energy had just left his body in the shape of the final desperation attack.
"Like… Hell it is!" Vegeta cried out, intensifying the shimmer of his life force output as he released the Sleeper Hold and dashed around the stiff ogre, shoving both his feet into Broly's chest with a resounding dropkick that sent Broly's outpacing the Special Beam Cannon all the way into its path once more. Raising his hands over his head, Vegeta formed a pair of donut-shaped Ki shackles he hurled in Broly's way before channeling another pair to wrap around his feet too. After realizing Vegeta's plan, Piccolo's antennae whipped with a crackle of demonic lightning that chipped off a hefty platform of rubble from the remaining debris of the Capsule Corps Star and flung it with telekinetic force right behind Broly.
The synchronized team attack was a resounding success as the debris flew missing Broly by a mile, but the energy shackles wrapped around Broly's wrists and heels and smacked him into the airborne platform of debris that Piccolo flung for just that purpose. Once again, the ray of Special Beam Cannon was millimeters away from punching through Broly's chest and grievously injuring the titanic Legendary Super Saiyan.
Broly grumbled, clamoring as he created a protective green energy dome around him that pulled out and dissolved the energy shackles and crumbled the energy platform Vegeta shackled him into dust. Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon crashed into the energy shield, producing a rippling effect in the energy bubble but since Broly's energy and Ki attacks lacked the weakness of his own chest, the super-charged Special Beam Cannon merely dissolved into a dozen smaller beams before detonating around Broly. The nightmare wasn't over yet. Broly brought his arms to the side, spewing out hundreds of stray Ki blasts in all directions that colored the whole solar system with chained emerald explosions.
Piccolo grumbled, bleeding from his two blown-up arms, his clothes blasted off and grisly grazes decorating his entire body while the Ultimate Namekian lay reduced to a crawling, bloody mess on a stray platform. He could feel Bulma's Ki signature weakening, showing that the Capsule Corps Star and the pitiful state it was in finally left it disabled with the inventor running out of oxygen. She had perhaps a handful of minutes before deep space claimed her, that's only if Broly's rampage didn't finish her first.
"Vegeta!" Piccolo called out to the de-powered and broken Saiyan lying face-down on a piece of floating rubble. Before Piccolo could say anything else, a crippling pressure mounted around his throat. Purple blood spewed like vomit after exotic dinner from his mouth and Piccolo's eyes rolled back while his body floated suspended in mid-air. Broly emerged from the dust cloud with eyes glowing green, choking the Ultimate Namekian with a telekinetic grip. With a horrifying, fleshy churn, Piccolo's neck bent to the side and the Namekian collapsed limp and lifeless, floating in space around dozens of devastated rubble platforms of the Capsule Corps Star.
"Hmph… I've no clue why you ever thought a pea-shooting attack like that would've worked. To think you considered yourself smart, plotting behind my back while your feeble brain couldn't wrap itself around the truth that I'm almighty. As long as I stay in this form, my power keeps rising and surging and as long as hate boils in my heart, I'll never return to normal…" Broly muttered while looking at his hand which felt powerful enough to do away with everything as far as he could perceive it. Destroying this star system would've been as easy as snapping his fingers, destroying this galaxy–like flexing a muscle. The universe was his. His to destroy.
"You…" Broly's white eyes finally locked on Vegeta's crippled body. "You don't deserve to die yet. Not after getting in my way!"
Dashing up to the beaten Saiyan, Broly scooped him up by the back of Vegeta's head and placed him atop his head with Broly's back digging into Vegeta's spine. Each of Broly's hands grabbed Vegeta's head and legs, respectively. The Legendary Super Saiyan began bending Vegeta's body over his head. The torturous pain punted Vegeta back into consciousness. The king began wheezing, humming, and grumbling before transitioning into panicking screams of pain as Broly applied increasingly grueling pressure that came to a snippet away from cracking Vegeta's spine, but then eased up to make the torture that much worse. Reveling in every second, Broly's manic laughter drowned out Vegeta's weakened yelps and painful grunts.
It was a two-pronged attack, as in his current state, Vegeta couldn't even breathe in open space with the Capsule Corps Star's artificial atmosphere vanishing without a trace. Even when Broly's torture rack let up a little, Vegeta felt subjected to a whole different breed of torture as his lungs couldn't breathe in any semblance of reprieve, even when Broly showed him a blink of mercy. Grunts and cries substituted miserable wheezing as Vegeta's eyes became dulled and blank and signs of his blood vessels freezing up under the skin became apparent on his pale face.
"That's just about enough…" Broly said to himself, flipping Vegeta like a rag over his shoulders and slamming his forearm into Vegeta's face point-blank while transferring a shoving force that sent Vegeta hurtling down. Blitzing through the vast open space, Broly grabbed Vegeta by the shoulders and kicked him into the air, smashing through several stray wreckage chunks of the Capsule Corps Star. Vanishing and appearing behind Vegeta, Broly grabbed Vegeta's head from behind and pushed him to show him the slowly dying Dragon Team flying weightless like the corpses they were about to become in open space.
"You're about to join them, King Vegeta," Broly hissed out, mocking Vegeta's regal title. "It's too bad that you don't care about any of them, I'd have loved for you to see your precious people choking up before you instead but it appears Chayote duped me and fought me on some other, mechanical planet instead of Earth. No matter, all of those Saiyans will vanish alongside this loathsome universe all the same, even if you won't live long enough to see it."
Broly burst with a lime-colored aura, charging forward with Vegeta dragging limp alongside him in Broly's grip. The Legendary Super Saiyan smashed Vegeta through the nearest chunk of debris, shattering it into smaller rubble with the added prize of a blue-haired woman bursting out from the wreckage with a dull stare, clutching and clawing at her throat while frost began mounting over her tearful eyes and her vessels became prominent from her blood approaching critical temperature drop area.
"Huh? Who's this now?" Broly turned his head to the side, scratching it, before shrugging and uppercutting Vegeta into the stomach hard enough to force a mouthful of blood shooting out from Vegeta's mouth and the king himself blasting off upward and crashing into another piece of debris, devastating it with the force of the collision and reducing it to mere shrapnel and rubble. "Enough playtime. It's time for this universe to end…" Broly raised his hand. The entire universe became black as a destructive ripple drew from the very edges of space-time to the singularity within Broly's open hand. The black ripple of inverted colors turned bright green as Broly's most calamitous Omega Blaster gleamed within the open hand.
Vegeta lay embedded in a piece of rubble. Several reinforced glass chunks were stuck in his body, with his body impaled on an adamantine pipe and sprawled out. His eyes twitched open, desperate to lock on his opponent, as the battle wasn't over until he let out his last breath. Vegeta's last breath may have been a couple of breaths away, but it wasn't here yet. The grim sight of his wife floating in empty, cold, and merciless space was the sight that greeted Vegeta's eyes.
That thing that freak of nature said just now. He finally felt amped up enough to do away with the entire universe and choke up on oblivion himself. What an absolute psycho. Even if he dies the way that the Dragon Team was dying, how Bulma was dying right now. Choking, freezing, horrified… He was fine winning that way? No… He wouldn't die that way. He'll die laughing it up from the bottom of the void chest cavity as the heartless devil that he was. Bulma… Trunks… The Saiyan people…
Bulma stayed here to the very end, determined to support everyone and do her part. Operate the Capsule Corps Station and help everyone in the only way she knew how. She didn't deserve to die. Not this way, not terrified, freezing, and blinded by her own frozen tears. Not to this psychotic asshole, not with Vegeta's heart still beating. Broly said that a heart was useless. Right now, Vegeta's heart didn't beat pumping blood. His blood felt too thick and freezing for that. His heart pumped emotions. Love for his wife and son, his duty to his people, and rage. Rage against this abominable ogre vowing to deliver a universal end to everything by disavowing everything Vegeta swore by.
Vegeta's body began twitching, jerking with shivers until his teeth clenched together. Then his bloody fists did. His son wouldn't die wondering if his father didn't disappoint him again. His wife won't die without Vegeta showing just how much she meant to him and how much he appreciated her fighting spirit despite not having a drop of Saiyan blood in her. She was just about the only Earthling worth giving a damn about. His people won't be Broly's to rule. Not even for the moment between when Vegeta wheezes out his dying breath and Broly does away the universe.
His heartbeat was like a slow, unmoving red line of chilled blood that was about to freeze up. Vegeta let out a gasp, snapping the imaginary vessel thread and spilling the orderly feeling of love, duty, and wrath all over. A bewildered roar ripped through the empty space before a blinding flash of golden light surrounded Vegeta and expanded like a golden supernova, filling the galaxy with light, even if just for a flash. Vegeta's hair spiked up golden, standing up with even greater intensity and dragging a little behind his back. The incredible radiation of uncompromising energy made Vegeta's aura within the golden shine of warmth take up a jagged, vicious, flaming appearance.
Vegeta's shriveled muscles pumped with raw force, granting him increased musculature comparable to the Super Vegeta form. Power, unlike anything that the King of Saiyans felt before surged through his entire body, feeling almost too much for his crippled state to bear. Ferocious rips of electrical discharges crackled around the golden shine and Vegeta's own aura. Suspended by the surging energy coming out from his entire body, Vegeta pushed himself off of the platform he was stuck on and glared down at Broly with a stern and solemn look. Broly answered with a glare of stunned shock while the Omega Blaster to do away with the universe still lingered in his hand.
Vegeta moved in a blink. Appearing right in front of Broly and locking his grip around Broly's wrist, forcing Broly's hand to close in an aggravated twitch and snuff out the apocalyptic attack. With a look of silent yet deadly simmering rage, Vegeta turned to Broly. The Legendary Super Saiyan snickered before forcefully yanking his wrist back. Vegeta didn't resist and let the titan pull his arm out and stagger back from the inertia of his incalculable raw power, moving his arm completely unresisted.
"Trash! What do you think you're doing? I'm still far beyond your reach, no matter what ridiculous power-ups you discover!" Broly challenged Vegeta with a hateful hiss while winding his fist back. No matter how thunderous and irresistible his blows were, as long as he fought like a savage ogre, telegraphing his every move, Vegeta didn't need tricks or legendary power to outpace him. The Super Saiyan 2 leaned his head to the side, sliding underneath Broly's devastating cross. A purge of golden energy sparkled around Vegeta's fist as the King of Saiyans sought to put the calamitous battle to a swift end before his second wind timed out.
A fleshy thud made Broly's eyes widen in painful shock. Blood poured down his open, twitching mouth as Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta's Ki-infused punch crashed into his chest cavity, bypassing the weaknesses of any drilling Ki technique by using his bare fist. The stunned body of the Legendary Super Saiyan jerked and twitched after suffering an overwhelming amount of damage after Vegeta's decisive attack smashed through his weak spot.
"You say having no heart makes you strong?" Vegeta asked in a calm and apathetic voice. "I say it only leaves it empty to be busted through by the unyielding feelings of stronger opponents! Final Shine Attack!"
Pulsing with the luster of a one-armed Final Flash, a golden energy burst ravaged Broly's body from the inside, breaking through every orifice in his body and shining out from his eyes, mouth, and nostrils, ripping and gleaming through the tips of the titan's fingers and decimating the abominable body of the Legendary Super Saiyan. Vegeta ripped his arm out and staggered back with the Super Saiyan 2 shine dying out and giving way to his battered base state.
Meanwhile, Broly staggered back, vomiting blood with bloody pulps swelling up at various points of his body and imploding within his freaky bodily system. A chain of miniature explosions ripped through the deflated and rotting body of the Legendary Super Saiyan before one final mighty blast ripped him apart to fleshy chunks and scattered him slathered across the debris of the Capsule Corps Star while flinging Vegeta back rolling through the empty void of open space.
Broly was defeated at last!
