BOOM–
After Recoome and Vegeta exchanged blows for a while, Recoome exploded with power, delivering a heavy punch straight into Vegeta's stomach.
Wham–
Vegeta, struck hard, coughed up blood and doubled over, clutching his gut as he staggered backwards.
"Vegeta!"
Seeing Vegeta suffer such a heavy hit, Son Gohan and Krillin's faces turned pale with shock.
Recoome strode slowly toward the injured Vegeta, an amused grin on his face.
"Prince Vegeta, you're not bad. You can still stand after taking one of my punches!"
Recoome rubbed his nose with his finger as he reached Vegeta. He stopped and loomed over the battered Saiyan prince.
"So... can you handle another?"
Recoome pulled back his huge fist, ready to deliver the final blow. But just as he was about to strike, Krillin was already channeling energy, a disc-shaped ki blade spinning above his palm.
"That's...!"
Zeltron's eyes flickered when he noticed the destructive disc in Krillin's hand.
"Destructo Disc!"
Krillin shouted, hurling the razor-edged attack at Recoome.
In that instant, Zeltron's system chimed in his mind:
[Ding, congratulations to the host, Destructo Disc attribute acquired!]
While the system's mechanical voice echoed, Krillin's [Destructo Disc] flew at Recoome with terrifying force. But just before it could strike, Recoome's flexible body bent at a wild angle, dodging the disc by the thinnest margin.
"Damn!"
Krillin groaned as his attack sailed past. The [Destructo Disc] soared into the distance, cleanly slicing a distant mountain in half. The resulting cut was as smooth as glass.
Both Rapp and Toss, standing behind Zeltron, were left in awe by the attack's power.
Even Zeltron's eyes glinted with interest.
"I wonder just how destructive the Destructo Disc would be if I used it, especially combined with [Time Pause]."
The [Destructo Disc] is notorious for slicing through anything.
Its flaw? It can be dodged with fast reactions.
But if Zeltron were to first freeze time with [Time Pause], then launch a Destructo Disc—his target would be utterly defenseless.
Of course, Zeltron wasn't certain if he could fire ki attacks while [Time Pause] was active; he'd have to test that himself. After all, when Guldo (in canon: Ginyu Force's time-stopping specialist) used [Time Stop], he never launched energy attacks.
As he was pondering, the system asked:
["Does the host want to store the [Destructo Disc] attribute?"]
'Store!' Zeltron confirmed, absorbing the new ability instantly.
Meanwhile, Krillin had rescued the battered Vegeta, and Son Gohan began pounding Recoome with a barrage of small ki blasts—machine-gun style.
Boom boom boom–
As Gohan's attacks erupted across the battlefield, explosions shook the terrain, and Zeltron's system continued feeding him power level attributes with each strike.
Dididi——
Suddenly, Toss's scouter beeped wildly behind Zeltron. Surprised, Toss tapped the device—and the numbers on the scouter shot up to an alarming value.
His expression turned deadly serious. Wasting no time, he informed Zeltron:
"Zeltron-sama, there's an extremely high power level approaching fast!"
Before Zeltron could answer, Rapp—half teasing—said, "Relax! You're acting like you've never seen real power before." But as he adjusted his own scouter, Rapp's face stiffened at the reading. Yet, catching Toss's skeptical glare, he quickly masked his surprise and pretended it was no big deal.
"Well... it's just 120,000. That's still nothing compared to Zeltron-sama."
"120,000?"
At that number, Zeltron's eyes curved in interest. He already knew exactly who was coming.
At that moment, Krillin—still engaged in combat—also sensed a new, sinister, and incredibly powerful ki rapidly approaching.
"Gohan!"
Krillin called out urgently. Gohan quickly broke off attacking and focused on the horizon, both their faces turning grave.
"It's... that same evil ki from before!"
Gohan said—the image of five distinctive warriors flashed in his mind.
These were the members of the Ginyu Force.
The "evil power" Gohan referenced belonged to the captain himself: Ginyu.
Vegeta, bloodied but defiant, sensed the overwhelming ki as well.
"Damn it... Ginyu has really come for us!"
Neither Gohan nor Krillin knew Ginyu's name, but Vegeta did all too well.
At first, Recoome and Jeice (who lacked ki-sensing) looked confused as everyone suddenly stopped to stare into the distance.
But the next moment, they saw a purple-skinned figure rocketing towards the battlefield. Both Jeice and Recoome's faces broke into relieved grins.
"It's Captain Ginyu!"
Yes, the one approaching was Ginyu, the terrifying leader of the Ginyu Force.
Ginyu had already picked up on Zeltron's incredible power level earlier.
After delivering the seven Dragon Balls to Frieza's ship, he used a new scouter to try and pinpoint Zeltron's location.
Though the scouter overloaded and exploded, Ginyu had memorized the direction. Now, with another fresh scouter, Captain Ginyu himself was racing directly toward Zeltron.