Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter Twenty-Five ( Chapter 25 )

The Chosen One

Chapter Twenty-Five

"Extremely strong?" Gohan wondered aloud. "Just how 'extremely strong' is he?"

"Just watch," Hiskos responded and pressed another button. The Saiyan began to power up. Then, all of a sudden, he underwent a transformation that was all too familiar.

"No!" Siber exclaimed. "It's impossible!"

"A Super Saiyan?!" Gohan shouted. "How can that be?"

"Hold it!" Vegeta shouted. "I know who he is! Yes! There's no other possibility!

"This Saiyan you see before you is the true Legendary Super Saiyan born every three millennia! His name is Broly. My father had him sent off the planet because he didn't trust his father, Paragus. He feared he would use Broly, who had a power level of ten thousand at birth, to take over the throne. Broly was deported even before he went to the nursery!" (Author's note: I know that in DBZ movie 8, we're told that Broly was in the nursery, and that Goku's cries aggravated him, but I decided to omit that here.)

"Well, that explains how he got to a Saiyan colony," Hiskos said.

"Saiyan colony?" Vegeta responded. "What are you talking about?"

Hiskos laughed. "Well, I guess it won't hurt to tell you since you will all die. By pure accident, we stumbled across an inhabited moon orbiting one of the gas giants in the Altair solar system. The inhabitants were Saiyans who abhorred the planet purge. They called their colony 'Gardonia.'"

"Gardonia?" Vegeta asked, surprised. "Is that some kind of a joke?"

"What do you mean?" Gohan asked.

"Gardonia is a Saiyan word," Vegeta answered. "The best synonym in English would be utopia."

Hiskos laughed. "That's right! A Saiyan utopia! Anyway, we decided to attack the colony when this Saiyan showed up!"

"I see that he has an iron weapon," Android 16 said. "He must have inflicted some heavy casualties."

Hiskos was not surprised that they knew about the Roxians' weakness. "Yes. But in return for those he killed, we were able to capture him. We fitted him with this control device, and he's been our slave ever since!"

"Why, you . . ." Gohan began, but was interrupted by something strange. He heard a voice, yet no one had spoken.

'Wait . . . Is that Prince Vegeta? He's still alive! And that boy, he must be a Saiyan, too! If I could get this thing off, I'd kill these monsters and join up with these Saiyans!'

The voice was not any of Gohan's friends, and it certainly was not one of the Roxians. It suddenly occurred to him that he had just heard Broly's thoughts.

Gohan turned to his friends. "Guys!" he shouted. "Try not to kill Broly! If we get that control device off of him, he might join us!"

"What makes you so sure?" Vegeta asked.

"I'll explain it later," Gohan answered. "Just trust me."

"Well, that's enough idle chat," Hiskos said. "Time to die!" Broly's power level began to rise and hit its peak.

"Damn!" Vegeta exclaimed. "It looks like I'll have to ascend!"

"No!" Gohan responded. "It will slow you down. I'm the only one who can take him on!"

"You're making a big mistake, little boy," Hiskos said.

"No, you're the ones making the mistake," Gohan responded. "This Saiyan you enslaved is only a Super Saiyan. I am a Super Saiyan II, which is much stronger."

"We'll just have to see," Hiskos said as he made Broly attack. Broly charged forward with a punch, but Gohan dodged it. Broly followed up with a kick, but Gohan once again dodged the attack. For several minutes, Gohan kept dodging every attack that Broly threw his way.

"What's he doing?" Hiskos wondered aloud. "He's not attacking!"

"Why isn't Gohan attacking?" Siber asked.

"I do not believe either of you knows this," Android 16 said, "but Piccolo was Gohan's first teacher. This is a technique he learned from Piccolo. If Gohan continues to dodge Broly's attacks, Broly will tire out and Gohan will have an opportunity to strike. Android 18 used this strategy against Vegeta, and Cell used it against Trunks."

The fighting began to intensify. Broly started firing energy attacks at Gohan, but Gohan kept dodging. Soon, the fighting began to take its toll on Broly's body. He began slowing down, while Gohan showed very few signs of fatigue. Gohan then disappeared from his location in the air, reappeared behind Broly, and delivered a hard chop to the back of Broly's neck. Broly fell forward, and his hair reverted back to normal. Gohan casually walked up to Broly, removed the control device, and smashed it into pieces in his hands.

"Uh . . . What just happened?" Necro asked.

"This Super Saiyan is extremely strong," Gohan said, "but his bulky muscles slow him down. Meanwhile, my form allows for improvements in both speed and endurance. It's not always the strongest fighter who wins, you know."

Hiskos began to tremble in rage. "You may have won, but you will not take that Saiyan alive!" With that, he began to charge an energy blast. In the blink of an eye, Siber grabbed his boomerang and threw it. The boomerang sliced right through Hiskos's waist and arced back toward Siber. He then fired his own energy blast which destroyed Hiskos.

"Well, I guess it's my turn," Necro said. He raised his hands and muttered an incantation. Suddenly, a wave of black energy flew from his fingertips and engulfed Gohan, Siber, Vegeta, and Android 16. As the wave traveled on, it hit a building and exploded, engulfing the area in smoke. Necro stopped his attack and waited for the dust to settle. He expected to see all of them unconscious, but was surprised when he saw that Android 16 was still standing. Android 16 dashed forward, grabbed Necro's neck, and dug his claws into Necro's chest. Necro fell to the ground as Android 16 put his hands between his upper arms and body, detached his forearms, straightened out his upper arms, and yelled, "BLASTERS FIRE!"

When the dust cleared, Android 16 rounded up his unconscious friends. He then headed back to the ship.