The Lookout

Piccolo, Dende, and a newly arrived Mr. Popo gape off the side of the floating palace. This this absurd ki! The former guardian of the Earth gulps. Gohan had this much power squared away within him this whole time?! Insane!

Goja appears to have knocked right out from sensory overload, and forcibly defused. It's a miracle that the planet itself hasn't been destroyed yet. Perhaps the universe itself receives Zenkai? Or perhaps Elder Kai was exaggerating about the consequences of that first fight, between Beerus and Goku... Either way this fight has reached a whole new level of absurd.

"Tch! To think that this is the margin by which I've been left in the dust," the super namekian grumbles. He frowns for a second, before softly smiling. "I'm pretty proud of him."

"Piccolo, can you feel that?"

"I taste that, Dende... Have you finished restoring them? Again?"

"M-mostly, but... do you really think even Gogeta can handle this? By... by the numbers uh... I think Broly should be about as strong as Gohan is right now. And he will, uh, get stronger..."

"Hrmn. Besides Beerus and Whis, I don't think we have anyone else in the universe who can even put up much of a fight. Gohan and Broly... they're in a league of their own at this point." Dende looks up at Piccolo, quietly terrified. Mr. Popo scuttles into the interior of the Lookout, attending to his business.

"Dende... this is the end of an age; the age of seeing an upper limit to power. Now... there is no reason to think they can ever stop amassing strength, growing in the power that those saiyans can achieve."

"... That's rather terrifying."

"Better our saiyans than theirs. Once... Broly is out of the picture, that is."

"Piiiiiccolooooo..."

"Oh great, you're awake. Get up, Goku."

"What hit us...?" the saiyan mumbles as he climbs to his feet, accidentally stepping on Vegeta. "Fusion's not supposed to make you anywhere near that tired..."

"Can you not sense that."

"Oh. Oh. Hot-cha, is that Gohan?! That's insane! I don't even think Gogeta would... oh man, oh geez! That's like four or five times stronger than Jiren ever was!"

He nudges Vegeta with his feet.

"Get up, Getes! We gotta go!"

"Rmblbrlhrefivemoremintussbulma..."

"No time for that, Vegeta! Up up up up up!"

Goku yanks on Vegeta's tail. Vegeta's eyes shoot open and he socks Goku in the face.

"Owwww!"

"GOOD GOD MAN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I'm awake!"

"Uh... great! Let's fuse!"

"I am... so going to get you back for this..."

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

The two most powerful beings in the universe rain blows upon each other. Gohan jukes and twists, firing off punches like a machine-gun whilst his opponent tanks everything thrown at him and fires back harder. The humans watch in stunned horror.

"Tien, Chiatzou... I think Gohan might be way, way stronger than us."

Tien coughs and grunts. "That's already been established. Now, we just need to figure out how to keep helping."

"I-I'm already helping! Broly would be dodging if not for me!" Chiatzou pipes while looking up. Tien and Krillin nod absently.

"Man... I could probably nail him with another Kienzan if he wasn't... if they weren't so close together and going around so fast!

...

"Krillin, Chiatzou... where are Goten and Trunks?"

The two shorties look up at him before growing pale. "D-crap! I can't sense them over all the power those two are throwing around! Where are they?!" Tien growls, wheezing... "Heeeey... Tien, buddy? You, uh, helped real good... you should go now."

"Hell no. I came all the way here to help..."

"T-tien, Krillin's right! You've fired way too many Tri-Beams already: you might die!"

"If we don't kill Broly..."

"T-t-tien... we already helped enough... we helped Gohan fight long enough to get to this level of power... you should go."

Trillin raises an eyebrow. "What about you, Chiatzou? Shouldn't you... also come with us...?

"Heheh... i can still help without being in too much danger. You guys should go without me."

Tien stares at his oldest friend and grins. "Chiatzou... never thought you would be the last of us to stay in the game."

"Well, all right," Krillin says as he scratches his head. "I should get back to West City anyways... order's falling apart over there. I'll come back if we're on our last legs, though. Tien?"

"Hopefully... it doesn't come to that. But if it does, I'll be here too." Krillin grins, before sticking out his fist.

"Team Heavenly Sunlight?"

"... Team Heavenly Sunlight," Tien snarks out before reciprocating the fist-bump. Chiatzou giggles as he strains, sweat flooding his brow as he does his best to telekinetically screw up Broly's movement and technique. In the distance Gohan gets a brutal jab in one of Broly's burns; the Legendary Super Saiyan bellows with bloodlust before barely missing with a slamming kick.

But then Krillin notices something. A subtle rumble under their feet...? Less pronounced than the shockwaves from the battle, but...

"... Tien? Do you feel that?"

"Feel what?"

The pseudo-Shaolin monk watches in utter confusion as the ground under Broly explodes. The brawler barely has time to shout "What in the–?!" before being kicked into the air. Not very far, but still. A pink... person emerges, flipping out and landing on his feet before posing. Gohan gapes at the newcomer.

"Heheh! Super Buutenks Titan, on the scene!"

Round 8: Super Mystic Gohan, Chiatzou, and Super Buutenks Titan vs. Super Full Power Broly

"ROAAAAAAAAGH!"

"Gotenks! What?!"

"Heheheh!" the fused saiyan chuckles. He poses again, striking Broly and Gohan dumb... as though he had fused with Pink Guy, Gotenks appears to be wearing a tall and lanky (and pink) 'lycra' suit, with only his face being exposed. The only discernible features on it are Buu's signature antenna-tentacle up top and his vent-ear-things on the side.

Broly points at Super Buutenks Titan.

"What. The hell. Are you wearing."

"Heh, can't you tell, Broly~?" Majin Buu's face manifests in the center of 'Pink Guy's' stomach, sticking his tongue out and leaving the others present nonplussed. "As a doubled-up fusion, my power is infinitely higher than ever before!"

"... You're insane."

"HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!"

"Po-po," Gohan mutters. He glances back, looking at Krill and Tien being caught flatfooted the second time that day. "GUYS! GET OUT OF HERE!"

"R-right!"

White auras of power appear around the two, before they blast off the ground and start rocketing away. The Legendary Super Saiyan traces them with his eyes... "I really should knock them out of the sky... but the slaughter should begin with one of you, brats of Kakarotto."

"Hey! I'm only... like twenty percent Goku!"

"I am going. To kill you now."

"Hmph! I'd like to see you try!"

Gohan and Buutenks pop into forward stances. Their hair waves; Buutenks's antenna twitches. Chaitzou hides behind a rock and takes deep breathes as the battle starts without him. The ground shakes and small pieces of pink blubber splatter in front of him. He shakily coughs.

"A-all right, Tien!" he shouts before jumping back around, zeroing in on Broly. "I-I'll help! For you!"

"PSYCHIC!"

Broly's power bloats again as he staggers under the psionic assault; it seems Chiatzou's unique powers really have been underestimated all this time! It also seems that Broly's growth comes in spurts rather than constant growth, but... he is still growing.

Broly, the strongest being in Universe 7 as of right now. Perhaps if Gohan could reuse the second level of Super Saiyan... but for now, he has to settle for second best. And Buutenks Titan... he really isn't much stronger than he was as just Gotenks. But, perhaps he has something up his sleeve...?

The Lookout

"All right, you two lily-livers ready?!"

"Yeah!"

"YES, green man!"

Piccolo grunts. He's been grunting a lot lately.

"Well then. Go!"

The two spread out. Vegeta's face flushes as he gets into the beginning pose: despite having done this before, it never gets any less humiliating!

"FU..."

Goku and Vegeta point their arms towards each other, standing on their feet.

"SION..."

They tiptoe towards each other, swinging their arms outwards, Ki'maj builds up around them, charging the air with mystic energy...

"HA...!"

And the two slam their fingers together in the middle, closing their eyes! Piccolo's focus goes into high definition as the energy starts to pick up and the two become obscured. Any mistakes?! ... No, not as far as he can tell. If all is well, soon...

Gogeta appears!

"It's about time, Gogeta."

"Hm! Nice to meet you too, Piccolo!" the fusion quips, flexing its muscles. He looks around the Lookout, getting a feel for it...

"So... can you do it?"

"'It'? You mean beat Broly...?"

"Yes!"

"Hmm..." Gogeta stares off into space, focusing intensely as his tail swishes: looks like he inherited it from Vegeta. Piccolo's eye twitches as the fused saiyan considers... "Nope! Sorry~."

"... Oh my Dende we are screwed."

"Now hold your horses Piccolo. There's one thing we haven't considered yet," he says, tapping his head.

"What?! What is it?"

"Well... why don't we try to make me a Saiyan God? We can gather five saiyans quickly enough with Instant Transmission..."

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

Broly snarls, barely blocking a ferocious neck chop from Gohan while twisting away to avoid Buutenk's candy beam. This... is frustrating. He's all up for a hard fight, but that little shit of a psion is making it FAR more annoying than exhilarating. He stumbles again as his arm is yanked off course by an unseen yet known force, allowing Gohan to kick him in then neck and knock him sideways.

"Heheh! Yeah, Gohan!"

He snarls. A millisecond of respite before the two jump in: Gohan leaps into a stance ready to combo Broly into a Burst Rush, while Buutenks morphs one of his squishy hands into something reminiscent of a sword, charged with ki. His eye twitches.

Buutenks gasps as he sword clangs off a green field that wasn't there a second ago. An energy barrier...?! Oh yeah, he could always do that... Gohan manages to punch through, but only with great resistance. He's slowed enough for Broly to grab his hand.

"Yo–*gack*!"

His eyes widen as he feels something... pink tighten around his neck. Buutenks's antenna! It slipped around and into the field!

"You're done now, Broly!"

"You... fool... you think your puny tentacle... can crush a neck this swole?!"

"Uh..."

"BLASTERMETEOR!"

"GAH!"

Gohan barely has time to block- scratch that, he has no time at all. The omnidirectional spurt of energy blasts smack into him like an infinite barrage of fiery water balloons, buffering him as he's held down. Buutenks would help, but he's been blasted half a kilometer away. Chiatzou's interference keeps him from getting hit again once he's a little ways away, but he's still badly hurt.

"G-gohan!"

The barrage ends, and Broly picks up his foe. Gohan's bloodied face, smiles. Buutenks raises a non-eyebrow before realizing.

"KAKAROTTO'S BRAT! This... is the end for...!"

"CANDY KAMEHAMEHA!"

"Not this time, whelp!" Buutenks can only watch in horror as Broly whips around. The magical energy blast is conspicuous, and Broly... yeets Gohan right into it. The pink beam fades and a rice-flavored taffy falls to the floor, steaming.

"Muahahahaha! What have you got to say to that, fusion?!"

"... Back-to-normal beam."

Gohan sputters back to life, coughing up a few grains of rice as he suddenly reappears on the steaming rock. Broly is nonplussed

"CURSE YOU, SUPER BUUTENKS TITAN!"

Buutenks doesn't respond with words, but with the sword. His arm-sword, a simulacrum of his future-half-counterpart's Spirit Sword! But made out of bubblegum! The massive blade swipes forward, missing Gohan and Broly by two and ten inches respectively.

Gohan continues to lay on the ground, wheezing as a running Buutenks leaps over him. The Legendary Super Saiyan glares at the approaching fusion. "WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE?!"

"Rolling Thunder Punch!"

The punch slams into Broly's open scar... and barely moves him. He raises an eyebrow as Buutenks narrows his eyes. "Ha! Even with the midget weighing me down... you really can't stand up to me without that Gohan to support you, can you?!"

...!

Buutenks opens his eyes, bleary. Half his vision is tinted red...? Shit, that's his blood! What... what happened...? He sees Broly laughing a short ways in front of him, mercilessly curbstomping Gohan against the lava rocks. Chiatzou is outright sniping him with Dodon Rays, but they just bounce off even his weakest points. It seems that... Buutenks wasn't able to hold Broly off long enough for Gohan to recover...

"Urgh...!"

"Fusion?! You're alive?" Broly asks. "... I shall play with you later, twerp," he snarks. Gohan is thrown back over his shoulder, tossed by a small lava pit. Chiatzou catches him with telekinesis, carefully floating him to cover while Broly focuses on the now shakily standing Buutenks.

"You've got guts, fusion," he says with a dull voice. "Too bad I'm going to rip them out of you." What a dick! How can he be so arro-

Buutenks blacks out for a second. His vision hazes back into existence, filled with the visage of Broly's finger. "W-wait!"

"Hm...?"

"B-broly! Give me... one minute to power up! I'll blow you away, I swear!"

"... With the wounds I've given you, I doubt it." Buutenks proceeds to regenerate. "Oh. All right," he says, leaning back with a smirk. "You have one minute."

"You'll regret it! This time I'm gonna pound you into the ground!" he shouts, hopping to his feet. He stumbles, the heat of the battlefield making him a bit woozy as he stabilizes his ki. Broly chuckles, floating five meters away.

"Come on. Now... is the time for all of you to die."

"Heh! Watch this!"

Super Buutenks spreads his legs, and starts screaming his head off. The gelatin skin of his Majin covering ripples as power explodes around him, shooting out Buutenks's vents and ears.

"Hrrrrrrrrrgh!"

Broly raises an eyebrow as the antenna shifts, and lowers. It extends... sliding down the head! As Buutenks grunts and bellows the antenna eventually slips onto the back of his head instead of being attached to the top, and the fusion's muscles suddenly bulge outwards!

The Lookout

"Is that my son?! Nice! His power's higher than Janemba's was, when he first appeared!"

"Gotenks is... hm, I suppose he is your son, Gogeta."

Piccolo and Gogeta look at each other, before gazing back off into the distance. Buutenks's power... it's skyrocketing! Not as high as Gohan's was, not by a long shot, but he seems to be getting really serious. He must be turning back into a Super Saiyan 3!

"Even if he does transform into a Super Saiyan 3, I don't think he'll be strong enough to fight Broly. He was barely able to hold his own with Gohan backing him up..."

Piccolo of all people gives an arrogant smirk. "Gogeta... you really don't know your son very well, do you?"

"Well, we've never met!"

"Right. Well... Gogeta, what's your opinion on Super Saiyan 3?"

"Hm... The energy drain is far too high to be useful in a fight. Even if you can get past that, it's just not strong enough to bother! It's better to use Super Saiyan Blue. ... Right?"

Piccolo chuckles and taps his forehead. "Goku and Vegeta... the former rarely used the form after the first few fights with it due to the drain. And Vegeta... he never even bothered to learn the form, and forgot about it entirely when he first became a Super Saiyan Blue."

"Yeah...?"

"It is inefficient... in it's basic state."

"What do you...? Are you saying that Gotenks has discovered a secret about Super Saiyan 3?!"

"Gogeta, when Goku first discovered the classical Super Saiyan form... it had effects on his meta'stamina, didn't it? It wasn't until he used it a lot, and trained it that he was able to use it with no downsides. Correct?"

"Yeah..."

"Well. This is the same situation with Super Saiyan 3. Goku never trained it to it's full potential, and gave up on it entirely once he discovered Blue. But Gotenks has been using that form incessantly since he was born, and in the process... managed to push it even further beyond."

"Are you telling me...?!"

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

Gohan manages to stand, with Chiatzou's support. He flexes his arms, looking at Buutenks and Broly facing off.

"Chiatzou... does the... fusion look different to you...?"

"Y-yeah! Gohan, I think he transformed again!" Chiatzou stammers, taking a step back in the air as Gohan wheezes. He slowly turns back, making up his mind: he'll power up. He will power up and go after Broly once he can gather his energy... and give Buutenks a time to shine.

Buutenks cackles at the stupefied Broly, his aura steaming around him like wisps of smoke. Golden light shines through his covering, silhouetting his relatively small frame under the Buu-suit.

"Broly! This... is my full power! BEHOLD!" he bellows, twisting around before dropping into a pose reminiscent of the Great Saiyaman's. "Super Buutenks 3: Full Mark!"

"You... don't appear to be much different than you were before. Is this some kind of joke?"

"Heeheehee~! Do I need to spell it out for you...? My dads can control their ki really well. And I mean, really well: Super Saiyan Blue can last a long time. But..." Buutenks smirks, clenching his fists hard enough to cause static electricity to spark. "Stable-ness isn't power, not really. Guess what this mastered Super Saiyan 3 form gives me?"

"I will be the judge of that!"

A blinding strike! Such power! Such speed! Such... inaccuracy, because it appears that Buutenks shifted his head to the side just before impact. He scowls, throwing another massive blow for Buutenks to dodge.

"HEHEHE– Ow!"

Broly's fist appears to have jammed in the ground and been used as a pivot. His meaty feet smack Buutenks a couple meters away, making him bounce along the ground before slopping to a stop.

"S-stupid jerk! I'm through playing around!"

Buutenks yeets an explosive orb of energy, only for Broly to smack it away and barrel through the smoke. The fusion snarks and waves his hands. "Useless, useless, useless–!"

"ERASER PUNCH!"

"ROYAL PRISM PUNCH!"

The two fists, one massive and one tiny and pink slam into each other: the earth rumbles, knocking Gohan off his feet and into Chiatzou. The two fighters stay locked in their positions for several seconds, glaring into each other's eyes... Broly raises an eyebrow as-

"HEEEAGH! HRREAAAAUGH!"

Broly staggers, the taste of blood in his mouth: 'Super Saiyan 3' is this strong?! His eyes widen as he catches a glimpse of another punch rocketing towards him. It's barely blocked in time, his arms raised in the exact instant before it reaches his face.

"Nuclear Punch!"

"Hrng!"

Another punch parry causes the sky to quake. And another. Gotenks and Brolys' faces contort with frustration as their blows make no progress. They rear up...

"DANGEROUS MACHINE-GUN PUNCHES!"

"DIEYEORRIBLELITTLEFUSEBOY!"

The blows come, rapid and indistinguishable from each other. It looks like - Broly and Super Buutenks: Full Mark are evenly matched! The fists rain onto the same plane between them, the shockwaves ravaging the area around them and blowing a hole in the rocky ground.

Broly's head pitches back. A hit made it past his own barrage?! Absurd! This... this cannot be–!

"ERRRAAAAAAAUGH!"

The Legendary Super Saiyan unfortunately loses his train of thought whence the barrage against him suddenly picks up speed. The blows come harder, faster, more furiously than he thought possible! The punches, the tiny fists coming—!

Prodigal Super Punches!

Miracle Super Uppercut!

Super Special Crush Hammer!

Shrieking Banshee Punch!

The combo shreds Broly's balance, knocking him around like a fucking beach ball. He roars as the final punch shoots him backwards, plowing his feet through several meters of rock while Buutenks continues to run after him...! Broly catches himself at the last second, lurching forwards to pull off one final punch parry!

HOLY SHIT THE BONES IN HIS LEFT HAND JUST CRACKED! He shrieks in pain as he realizes two very important facts: one, having wounds when before he transformed makes him more and more vulnerable despite the facts of his state... and two, having functionally indestructible musculature doesn't keep your insides perfectly intact under pressure.

"Aaaaaaagh!"

An opening! Buutenks lets out a howl of absolute fury ("GRREEAEAEAAAAAAAAAGH!") before rushing inwards, pulling ihs arm back as far as it will go. The air itself shreds around him as he lunges forwards, swinging his fist with all his might into the gut of the Legendary Super Saiyan.

"MAGNUM! SUNDAY! PUNCH!"

Broly's blank white eyes go even blanker, spittle spewing out of his mouth as though in slow motion. Buutenks smirks as his fist drives itself into Broly's gut, forces his breath out in its place... and the enemy is blasted into the air in a parabolic arc.

The Legendary Super Saiyan slams into the ground several decameters distant, unmoving.

The Lookout

"Okay, so Raditz is probably pure enough... Nappa?"

"You've seen his wheeler-dealing. Probably not. I think... Gohan, Raditz, and Zana would be good enough... if Gotenks defuses, that's the number we need for the ritual."

"Huh, right... hey Piccolo, do you feel that?"

"Huh? Yes... Broly's power just took a hit! It's growing faster than before due to the pressure... but that means Gotenks is pressuring him!"

"Tch! We'll keep them there a little while longer. ... I'll use Instant Transmission to pick up Raditz and Zana right now, all right?"

"... All right."

*bawoop!*

Tsurumaitsuburi Lavascape

Super Buutenks Titan wheezes. Broly pushes himself off the ground, growling as the other fighters present watch him. "So... the spawn of Kakarotto both... hold far more potential than him..." His scowl deforms into a manic grin. "But... I'm sure he'll come up with something, won't he...? He will surpass you... and me."

Broly seems almost dejected. As though... the emotions in him are fighting with themselves. He wanted a good fight, a great fight to get his blood boiling, but... if it doesn't end with Kakarotto dead, will he be unsatisfied? He doesn't care about the planet, or any of the others (though slaughtering the population of Earth would help kill time if there were no other fighters...). But the only thing he wants... that he wants... is to fight, and kill that Kakarotto.

But.

It seems like his brats may kill him before he has the chance.

"I can see your aura, fusion... you are grow far weaker when you are not exerting yourself: and even then, your are still but a child. Your energy is running out fast, isn't it?" Buutenks doesn't respond. It's written all over his face – this ascended Super Saiyan 3 isn't quite stable. Not by a long shot. "As I thought..." he sighs. "Your efforts... have been most impressive, however."

A point.

"Leave."

"W-what?!"

"What, are you expecting me to smash your brains out for the hell of it? Little fool. I'm sane now," he explains, tapping the side of his head. "The first time your cadre of buffoons encountered me it was as I was breaking out of mind-control, and the next was after my psyche was unceremoniously shattered. Run along before I make the very sane decision to rip out your entrails."

...

"Chiatzou... what is he doing?"

"I think he's letting Gotenks go! B-but... why?"

"I mean... he did always scream 'Kakarotto' the other times we fought him. Maybe... he just doesn't care enough to kill the rest of us before my dad!"

Gohan studies the battlefield. The lava appears to have cooled by now; the landscape is covered in igneous rock rather than roiling magma. The fusion scowls, his aura flickering as he struggles to maintain his form and his fusion.

"A-all right, Chiatzou. I'm gonna try transforming into a Mystic Super Saiyan 2!"

"Can you even do that?! You haven't been training for very long...!"

"I can't just let Gotenks run out of energy! We have to keep Broly busy until dad and Vegeta are ready!"

*bawoop-awoop!*

And suddenly Super Buutenks Titan, and Gohan, are no longer on the battle field. Broly raises an eyebrow.

"Huh?! ... Ah, yes, I understand. Kakarotto can teleport... and is likely going to approach me soon enough!"

"Now then..." he says as he turns towards Chiatzou. The imp impossibly grows even paler than he ever has been before: he puts his hands up.

"P-p-please don't hurt me, Mister B-broly...?"

Round 9: Super Full Power Broly vs. Chiatzou