Freezer's Ship: Throne Room

Freezer wheezes as he kicks open the door, in his base-final form. He glares at the pair in the room.

"l-l-lord freezer!"

"Hello, Kikono," the battered emperor growls. His eyes blink out a quick series of blinding flashes. Kikono bows, before scurrying away.

...

He pokes his head back in.

"Would you like the deluxe or extraravagant healing fluid...?"

"Just the deluxe, please."

Kikono frantically bows again, before popping out. Freezer sighs before turning to his highest ranking underling. "So... Berriblue. What have you been up to?"

"My Lord, I think that should be obvious~. Trying to figure a way out of this mess."

"Tch! As much as I hate it, you might be right... every powerful fighter on this planet is an enemy at this point." He grumbles, crossing his legs as he settles onto his throne. The purple and white alien gazes off into the lavascape, thinking. "We need... a way to remove Broly as a threat."

"Broly, sire?"

"Oho, that's right! You've missed out on quite a bit! ... To make a long story short, our monkey is not quite the amnesiac any more... and to be frank, the Legendary Super Saiyan is a high enough grade of sadist to make even me a bit uncomfortable. That... Goku may have infected me with a respect for battle, but I! Am not! Going back out there."

"I see~."

"So, my trusted advisor... do we have any courses of action, besides relying on the Earth's monkeys?"

"I'm afraid we don't have much, mi'lord. You only brough the bare minimum equipment and fighters."

"Hm... perhaps that fusion technique...? I hear it can greatly increase one's power..."

"I'm sorry. We have no one here... equal to your power, or stature."

"Hmph, was that an insult~? Fine then! What resources do we have?"

"The Dragon Balls."

Freezer's mouth opens for a second: opens, and closes, and opens again. "M... my, how could I forget~? Where are they now?"

"The brig. Those two who found the Broly, volunteered to 'guard' them."

"..."

"I presume... you plan to deal with them~?" the ednan queries. A monitor flips open, showing the interior of the ship's brig. Cheelai and Lemo can be seen stacking up the Dragon Balls into a pile; Lemo appears to be keeping his eyes on the door, hand twitching over his ray-gun. Freezer stares intently at the duo, before looking away. He senses Broly's increase in power... a facet of his Legendary form, no doubt.

"Perhaps... it would be wise to keep them around."

"Sire?"

"Berriblue," he addresses her, turning around. "That saiyan out there... is a monster. I've never seen anything like it. Despite how they've evolved since that first rebellious monkey so long ago..." he thinks back, to his first encounter with an ascended saiyan.

"Heheheh... NO way, you've lived long enough! Actually it's been too long for my taste!"

"This demon is something different. As much as I hate to say it... Vegeta was right. 'Broly' may very well be the same sort of mutant as I am, the monkey equivalent to a born elite... and may very well be more powerful than Beerus himself already. And if not... he will be soon."

The normally unflappable attendant drains of her color; a sight seen once in a blue moon. "M-mi'lord... are you saying that this being, will constantly increase in power?"

"... Yes. Yes, I am."

"Then... perhaps we should simply aim to escape?" Her voice trembles, though it's almost unnoticeable. "He... might not notice us."

"To the contrary, Berriblue: I believe that the other monkeys may do everything in their power to impede our escape."`

"... Ah. I suppose keeping the two would-be traitors around... and letting them do what they will... is part of your plan?"

"Yeeees... two-fold reasons, you see. One... both of them, especially the woman, appeared to be rather dear to Broly while he was still under our employ. It isn't much, but it's the best chance we've got to keep him under control: something I'm sure you already know. Secondly... that very fact makes them good puppets."

"Oho~. You intend to manipulate them into doing your bidding?"

"Them doing so on my orders would only raise Broly's suspicion~. Better to let the dog run on an invisible track, than to be suspicious of where it's being lead~."

Berriblue scrunches her face slightly, disapproving of the haphazard metaphor but brushing over it. "Hm... I believe I understand..."

Freezer slowly grins, his mouth widening as the plan goes through his head. Yes... once today is done and over, Broly may prove useful to his organization. For now though... he must be removed from the battlefield... and brought under control. "Those two are quite lucky to have ended up in such a spot. I could fry them right now~: I trust that they can come to my intended conclusion themselves?"

"Certainly, sir. They're foolish, not stupid."

Round 7: Everybody Available vs. Super Broly

Broly staggers listlessly, before glaring at the Super Saiyan...?

"Kakarotto's brat... you have true power!" he shouts, causing Gohan to glare. What is this maniac even fighting for...? Back on New Vegeta his saiyan instincts and rage were awakened through his mental suppression by the fighters' power... and on Earth, last time, his resentment for Kakarotto's lineage had driven him totally insane. But he was totally lucid here... so... what did he have to gain from combat...?

... Probably nothing at all. Broly... if he's like most saiyans, he has absolutely nothing holding him down, so no real reason to even try to make it out alive. Even his resentment for Kakarotto... all that he has left to do is try to sate his bloodlust. This entire fight... is just a game to him! Something to entertain him while he waits for his hated counterpart to return from the lookout!

The Legendary Saiyan snorts, tossing 'Small Kakarotto' and 'Princess Trunks Junior?' over towards Videl. Trunks cries out upon slamming into the rock while Goten...

"Ow! You big jerk, what was that for?!"

"Be grateful, whelp." Goten's shaky eyes narrow as Broly zeroes in on him. "Use this time wisely: I expect you to become a slightly more worthy opponent by the time I deal with your brother."

Gohan growls. "Broly... I think you'll find I'm far above where I was last time!"

"I can tell!" he guffaws, spreading his arms. "Look! Everyone's here– the whole gang from the last time!" His gaze hardens. "If you weren't so fun to torture, you'd all be already dead."

Well, that confirms his theory. Gohan takes a step forwards; might as well buy time. "You... you really really are too happy for this situation. You... you realize we will defeat you, right? We have. Every time so far."

"I'm just glad to be back, little worm~! It's been. So. DAMN. LONG! Since my saiyan blood has had the chance to boil in battle. Since I've been 'sane'! I... must savor–"

"KIENZAN!"

"GAAAAAAGH!"

Over the hills! Three glinting lights! Two bald (and one only mostly bald) crania shine: the cavalry!

"Kept you waiting, huh, Gohan?"

Broly writhes in pain as he literally smashes the Destructo Disk out of his shoulder and into the ground. He incredulously gapes at the new gash in his musculature, before breaking out into laughter. The new arrivals freeze, shaking. Except for Tien. But he's shaking on the inside.

"You! Noseless! I recognize you! To think you had the potential to wound me in my Legendary form!"

Tien's expression sours. "Is this just a game to you?!"

"Yes! Yes it is, you three-eyed freak!"

"... You are surprisingly affable, for a depraved maniac."

"I'm sorry," Broly says with a fucking curtsy. "I'm just... so giddy. This day... everything comes to an end! Your planet! Kakarotto's life! My, er, sleeping in my own subconscious! And... my respite from battle!"

"Well..." Tien says with a stoic face. "Would you mind... if we took a little bit of time to organize ourselves? To... provide a greater challenge to you, of course."

"... You know. I know you're playing me. But... You understand what I want. ... Five minutes. Get out of my sight." And Broly just... turns around, impatiently tapping his foot. The earth quakes as everybody present looks at Tien.

"... It worked with Vegeta long ago, didn't it?"

The Lookout

Goku and Vegeta... lie on the ground, panting as Dende refills their energy for another fusion. Veku has ceased to exist, thankfully, and Piccolo looks damn about ready to pop a fucking vein on his forehead.

"All right, maggots. You ready?"

"Shut up, Namek!"

The Prince of All Saiyans lurches to his feet, dragging Goku up with him. Piccolo raises an eyebrow; a little anxious, are we not?

"FU–"

"SION–"

"HA-!"

*fwoom*

A blinding light blows out, forcing Dende to cover his eyes with his arm. Piccolo... snorts in disappointment. The light fades, revealing a terminally skinny weakling.

"Whuh—?"

"Mph. This failure looks like a 'Goja', to me."

"Aw, come on!"

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

The present members of Earth's Special Forces huddle up, keeping a nervous eye on the monstrous saiyan nearby. Videl opens up.

"Well... I don't think I can do much."

"... Sorry, honey, I think you should go. And take Goten and Trunks with you...?"

Trunks huffs and raises his fist before Goten pulls it back down. "Trunks...! I... I don't wanna fight Broly again! Look at him!" he shouts, pointing at the massive bulk they can see. "He's just standing there! Menacingly!"

"All right, you two can sort this out later... first we need to figure out what everybody brings to the table." The subsaiyan hybrid shoots a look at Krillin, implying that he should go first.

"Uh...! Well, Gohan, you know me! Eheheh... I always have a few senzu...? I think I have the last two."

The de facto leader brightens, suddenly far more optimistic. "Goten... Trunks..." Trunks looks up, before brightening as well. Goten looks back and forth between them, realizing what's up.

"Oh no no no no no! I-I don't wanna go back out there...!"

Tien stares him in the eyes. "Goten. We need. Every. Fighter. From what Gohan has said, Freezer's bailed out on us. Everyone else is busy keeping order in the cities. Will. You. Help."

"... Fine."

Krillin, sighs, tossing the two beans to the depleted fusees. Trunks stuffs one in his pocket before splitting the other with his teeth, handing half of it to Goten. "Anyways... I also have my Destructo Disk, you know? It can... uh... cut through anything; even Broly, apparently, though it probably can't get far before grinding itself down into sparks."

"All right Krillin. Tien and Chiatzou?"

Tien's third eye glints. "I have my techniques. I don't know how useful they might be... but at the very least, the Tri Beam packs a punch. And the Solar Flare has received upgrades since my participation in the Tournament of Power."

"I-I've been training...! I'm... nowhere near as powerful as the rest of you," Chiatzou says with a nervous laugh. The Jiang-Shi Type humanoid scratches the back of his head. "But I've gotten even better with my special powers! I-I can use my psychic abilities... and... and throttle his brain inside his skull!"

"That's terrifying. All right. So Krillin and Tien snipe I keep him busy, and you throttle him? Goten and Trunks fuse whenever you're ready. And Videl..."

Goten and Trunks proceed to stick fingers down their throat and make gagging noises as Gohan kisses his wife. She flutters her eyes, putting her arms around him. Krillin and Tien glance away, metaphorical sweat drops appearing.

"See you later."

Videl nods, before lifting off. It's a bit janky but she can still fly. Broly notices.

"Hey!"

Gohan's eyelids twitch. "Fuck off!" he screams, causing Goten and Trunks to gape. Such language! "You've really hurt her: let her go!"

"Hmph, fine!" he says, clenching his fists. "She would've provided a minimal fight if the scum had dared to challenge me again, anyways: I'll just kill her later. So," he purrs, raising a finger. "Is your posse ready to entertain me until my rival returns, brat?"

"Goten and Trunks still need time to rest?"

"Fine. I wouldn't want to sully my hands with their weak, unfused blood anyways."

Krillin and Tien square up, trembling under their composure. Chiatzou is a lot less composed but still floats between the two baldies, raising his palms. Gohan's eyes sharpen suddenly, as though he suddenly went from 240p to high definition. White power explodes around him.

Broly's incredulous expression holds for quite the while, before dropping into a laugh. That asshole! Now of all times?!

"You truly are a worthy opponent, Kakarotto's brat! Die by my hand!"

As blindingly fast explosions start to ring out, Goten and Trunks cower and stumble backwards. The two fall into a ditch, barely managing to avoid a string of magma as the newly resurgent battle plays out overhead.

"Maxi Kienzan!"

"SHIIIIIN–KIKOHO!"

"BRAIN ANEURYSM!"

…

"Goten, I think we're really in deep now."

"T-Trunks! Look at this!"

"Huh?"

He turns around to look at Goten, peering into a crack in the rocky wall. "What is it? Whoah! Is that..." Trunks pokes into the crack, only for his finger to meet pink flesh instead of rock. A weird-ass face manifests, sticking its tongue at the duo.

"Buu! You're alive!"

"Yay!" Goten shouts as he tries to hug the rock wall. Unfortunately, Buu is inside the wall, but he appreciates the effort. Trunks's smile breaks for a second, before bursting into an even greater one.

"Goten I just had the BEST idea I've ever had."

Freezer's Brig

Cheelai watches the video feed, her lip pursing in worry. Saiyan seems to have gotten a hold of himself, seeing the way he holds himself before the earthlings, but something's different. Does he know them? Maybe his amnesia... she shakes her head, watching as he grunts in rage, maybe shaking off a headache. The saiyan gurgles as he receives a massive punch, staggering him just long enough for another energy disc to bite into his thigh and grind itself into sparks against his flesh: it gives him a nasty-looking but shallow gash in return. She winces anyhow.

"Lemo? You figure out how to use those things?"

"Y-yeah, I think so!" He flips his scouter inside out, pointing. "Oh might be a bit too small. Lemme forward these to ya."

The gree sighs as she takes out a small communicator. It takes a few seconds, but the files pop up. She scrolls through them, grimacing.

"They have to be addressed in their native language? That might be a big problem: I only know common."

"Well I'm pretty sure the earthlings speak common, so nah! Sorbet was able to figure it out Cheelai, I think all we need to do is figure out what to say!"

"Hm"

She thinks. How can she help Saiyan? And keep away from the looming threat of Freezer at the same time. Even with Saiyan's strength - his incredible, absurd strength... he probably will still die. Earth is infamous for a reason

"Of course!"

"Huh?"

"That's what we should do!" Cheelai says, her eyes sparkling. "Don't you see?! We just wish to leave Earth! To get away from the Freezer Force!"

"Nice! ... To where?"

"... Why not Saiyan's old world? He knows the place."

"Vampa, really?"

"We can always drop you off, somewhere along the way. Eventually."

"Nah, I think I'll stick with you guys for a while~. Having Saiyan there to protect me might actually make me feel a bit better."

"Heheh...! If we get a couple or more, we should ask for supplies or a ship first."

"Y-yeah we should keep it on the down low, for a while at least. Capiche?"

She grins, blinking back a tear. Aaaah, what a great day! Crashing with some friends on a desert planet will be a way more fun way to dodge the fuzz than being a real hard-time crook!

"Yeah!"

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

Broly grunts as he trundles forwards, menacingly staggering towards the rightly terrified Chiatzou desperately trying to cover his best triclops friend. Even the saiyan's insides appear to be too sturdy for his psychic abilities to attack: though, it's still impressive that he's able to hold him down at all.

"Perhaps I should keep you alive as an instant StairMaster!" he bellows before shakily raising a bulging bicep to 'block' another Destructo Disk. Gohan's despair is visible as he watches him just take all the attacks besides his own: the Tri-Beams and telekinesis are barely enough to touch him (and more than enough to almost kill Tien at this point), while the Destructo Disks and Gohan's own barrage of attacks aren't doing much more to slow him. At least the monster seems to be having fun so far... which he really doesn't know how to take.

"Kakarotto's brat! To think you were so much stronger than your father ever was! Even he was only barely able to match my strength in my base, while you are so much more! Perhaps like me, even..."

"MY NAME! IS GOHAN!"

He loses himself for a second, and his hair explodes into a flurry of golden flame, electricity crackling around! His power level rockets upwards, billowing, to a cool stronger than fucking Whis. Krillin and the others step back in shock: this energy! They had thought only beings like Goku and Vegeta could get this absurdly powerful! Even Broly is afraid for the second he has before he gets fucking decked. His eyes go wide as Gohan's fist suddenly shoots forwards from across the battlefield and rips him a new one, right in one of the few vulnerable spots on his body – his old scar.

"GAAAAAAAH!"

"You know I had promised myself, once. When I first unleashed my potential... I wanted to get in touch with my human side. The real me. And so I forbid myself from transforming into a Super Saiyan while in this state. ... But," he growls, clenching his fists. Cracks ring out. "You really deserve this. ... I'm ready when you are, Broly."

Gohan quickly ruins the numbers in his head. Power levels are bullshit unless you know what you're doing with them.

Math time!

Goku and Vegeta's blue forms have power levels of a little over three billion, as of right now. Converting that into his Super Scale that makes them about 0.8 out of ten. His Mystic and Broly's base form should be around equal, so...

Well first of all, Goku's basic Blue Kaioken form and Vegeta's Evolved form would only be twice as strong; around a 1.6 out of ten. Beerus himself is a 10, while Whis is a 15 in addition to all the non-power benefits knowing Ultra Instinct nets him. Gohan (0.8) transforming into a Super Saiyan on top of unleashing his potential... if he remembers the original fight with Freezer, that's a fifty times multiplier...

A forty on the Super Scale?!

Gohan's face goes blank. He had that much power tucked away within him this whole time?! That that's absolutely insane! He could have shredded the Tournament of Power's competition! Based on what Whis said that might be about as much as the Grand Priest and all mortal energy! The strongest unfused fighter in the univer–!

Wait Broly's base form was an-

Oh fuck.

He sees the looks of horror upon his partners' faces. Krillin, Chiatzou, and probably Tien too if he is conscious are flabbergasted by the sheer power blasting off of him, shredding the rock he stands upon. But Broly... Broly just laughs, as he finally unleashes his full power.