The moment she breached the hull of the Big Gete Star, Lisette signaled Trunks and Piccolo to suppress their ki and move stealthily. Meanwhile, she took the direct route.
She unfurled her wings and accelerated to full speed, aiming straight for the center of the mechanical world. To Cooler's sensors, it would look like a suicidal charge from the God of Earth herself. If she reached the core, she intended to end it personally. This forced Cooler to divert the bulk of his mechanical army to intercept her.
It was a classic decoy maneuver—but an aggressive one. If Cooler's defense wavered for even a second, she would tear through to his heart. He had no choice but to throw everything he had at her.
"So, you've shown yourself."
"Welcome, Goddess of Earth. I've been expecting you."
The first Metal Cooler blocked her path, his silver body gleaming under the artificial lights. In the original story, this would be a moment of shock, but Lisette already knew he was back. She didn't give him a second of dialogue. She lunged, pressed her palm against his stomach, and detonated a point-blank ki blast.
The sheer difference in their power levels reduced the drone to scrap metal instantly. Without glancing back, she smashed through the interior walls, taking the shortest possible path to the core.
Finally, Cooler seemed to panic. A swarm of Metal Coolers—too many to count—poured into the corridor to bar her way.
It was a sight that would break a normal warrior's spirit. The Goku and Vegeta who had struggled against just one of these drones would have been helpless here.
"You destroyed a reinforced model in a single blow... you've powered up more than I anticipated," the swarm said in unison. The sound of a hundred identical voices echoing at once was incredibly grating. "But as you can see, I am legion. No matter how strong you are, you cannot win against infinity."
Lisette maintained a serene, confident smile, though she was internally annoyed. Does he really need a hundred voices to say one sentence?
"Is that your strategy? Quantity over quality? How refreshingly simple," she teased.
She flared her wings, scattering glittering particles of light through the hallway. It was all theater—a performance to convince him she was going all-out. She needed him obsessed with her so he would forget about the "ants" crawling through his ventilation shafts.
Lisette charged the army, looking more like a divine executioner than a martial artist.
"Hah!"
She blurred through the air, her flight path ignoring the laws of physics as she made instant, ninety-degree turns to weave through the drones. She rained down energy blasts from above, vaporizing several Metal Coolers in a series of explosions. A group tried to rush her with physical strikes, but they were too slow; their fists met only empty air.
"Too slow!"
She spun in mid-air. Her wings expanded to a massive size, glowing with a lethal edge that cut through every drone in her immediate radius. She beat her wings once, launching hundreds of feather-shaped ki needles that sought out targets across the floor.
Without pausing, she combined Afterimage Strike with her Ki Solidification. She left behind "afterimages" that were actually autonomous energy clones. To the Coolers, it looked like her shadows had suddenly gained mass and were ripping them apart. One by one, her "shadows" dismantled the nearest drones before dissolving into light.
"HAAAAAAAA!"
She expanded her wings again and charged the remaining frontline. The wings weren't organic; they were masses of high-density ki. Anything they touched disintegrated. She smashed through the final barrier of the first wave and plunged through another wall, closing the gap to the core.
That was the first hundred. But immediately, a second and third wave deployed. Worse, she could feel their power levels rising. They were already adapting.
"Stop! You will go no further!"
"You really think I'll stop just because you asked nicely?"
Lisette clapped her hands together as if swatting a mosquito.
Two massive, ghostly white hands manifested on either side of the corridor, slamming together and crushing a dozen Metal Coolers into a singular pancake of steel. As Lisette moved her arms, the "God Hands" followed her lead—sweeping, smashing, and pulverizing everything in their path.
Finally, she brought her palms together in a prayer-like gesture.
The giant hands converged, scooping up every remaining drone in the sector.
She clenched her hands. The giant palms crushed the Metal Coolers into a ball of scrap before detonating in a massive explosion that ensured not a single chip could self-repair.
The second wave was gone. Lisette smashed through yet another bulkhead.
Cooler's composure was officially gone. She could sense through her "Far-Sight" that the labor robots in other sectors had been deactivated; the Big Gete Star was diverting $100\%$ of its processing power and resources into producing and upgrading Metal Coolers.
She stopped in a narrow passage to catch her breath.
(Here comes the real fight,) she thought, a bead of sweat tracing down her neck. (He's updating them faster now.)
She knew it was only a matter of time before the drones surpassed her. She just had to hold them off long enough for Trunks and Piccolo to do their job.
"Brat! You won't get away with this!"
(I already am, actually,) she thought.
She spread her arms as the next wave charged. Her entire body erupted in a white radiance.
"Raging Blast!"
She thrust her hands forward, unleashing a torrent of white energy. The corridor was too narrow for the drones to dodge; they were simply erased by the flood of light.
But the resources of the machine planet were deep. More drones emerged immediately.
"If it's numbers you want, I can match you," she whispered.
She manifested two orbiting light spheres. She took the same stance.
"Raging Blast!"
Three beams—one from her hands and one from each sphere—erupted simultaneously, spiraling together into a drill of light that cleared the hallway for the fifth time.
"Huff... huff..."
Her breathing was ragged. She had pushed too hard, too fast. She looked like she was winning easily, but every strike was a $100\%$ effort. She had destroyed hundreds of them, but they kept coming, and each one felt heavier than the last. She had stayed in this narrow corridor on purpose, using the terrain to bottle them up so her beams could hit multiple targets, but the strain was mounting.
Another wave appeared. They didn't run this time. They walked slowly, their sensors locked on her trembling hands.
"Sparking Meteor!"
She launched the massive white orb—the move that had killed Cooler once before. It cleared the vision of the hallway, dicing and melting the metal clones.
"That damned technique again!" they screamed in a terrifying, unified chorus.
"Hah... hah... hah...!"
The ki consumption was astronomical. Her legs were shaking; she wanted to collapse and sleep for a week. But the next wave was already there, moving with eerie, synchronized precision.
"Raging Blast!!"
She unleashed her fourth major beam.
But this time, the Metal Coolers reacted. They used Instant Transmission in unison, vanishing from the path of the beam and reappearing behind her.
They thought they had her. But they saw the beam they had dodged vanish into a Gate. And they saw the exit portal appear directly in front of their faces.
"He anticipated—GAAAHHH!"
Lisette had read their adaptation. She had timed the warp to use their own "clever" teleportation against them.
But the reinforced Metal Coolers didn't all die from the blast. Lisette had to spin around and fire a second volley.
"Raging Blast... MK II!!"
She fired two separate beams from her hands, spinning her body like a top to create a 360-degree sweep of destruction. The remaining drones were finally reduced to ash.
The tactical victory was hers, but the physical cost was paid in full. Her divine "mask" of composure shattered. She stood hunched over, sweat pouring from her face, her eyes blurry. The wings of light had flickered out.
She had the power, but she didn't have the lungs. Even with a higher power level, her human base meant she had less than half the stamina of a Saiyan like Goku.
The enemy saw it. A new group of Metal Coolers stepped over the wreckage. They didn't rush. They prowled.
"Hah... hah... hah...!"
"Heh heh heh... You've done well to reduce our numbers this far," the Coolers sneered. "But it seems you've reached your limit. I'll give you credit—your interference has drained the Big Gete Star's immediate resources."
"S-So... that's good news," Lisette wheezed. "It means... if I keep going... I win."
"Perhaps, but you won't. You have nothing left."
Lisette reached for her dress to pull out a Senzu Bean.
Snap.
Mechanical tentacles erupted from the walls, wrapping around her wrists. Before she could react, more coils snared her ankles and torso, pinning her against the bulkhead.
"Gah...!"
"A pity. The Big Gete Star is me. I was simply waiting for you to tire so you couldn't dodge."
He had been holding this trap in reserve, knowing that a fresh Lisette would have sensed it and moved. He had sacrificed hundreds of drones just to exhaust her.
But as she hung there, Lisette began to smile. She had won the battle of wits.
"GAH!?"
Cooler's drones all spasmed at once. A massive explosion rocked the distant core of the ship. Piccolo and Trunks's ki signatures spiked. They had reached the heart of the machine.
"It looks like... Trunks and Piccolo arrived," Lisette smirked through her pain.
"You... You planned this from the start!?"
"I'm the decoy, remember? I kept the 'ace' in my pocket until the very end."
"DAMN YOU!"
The Metal Coolers began to spark. The Core was under heavy assault. Normally, Cooler should have recalled the drones to protect his main body. But consumed by rage and the realization that his life was ending, he chose spite.
He leveled his hand at the pinned Lisette.
"I may die here! But you're coming with me! You... you're the one I'll take to hell!"
He poured every remaining joule of energy into a final, desperate ki wave. Lisette was trapped; she couldn't move, and her energy was too low to manifest a barrier strong enough to survive this. She gritted her teeth, preparing for the agony, vowing that she wouldn't die here.
The light filled her vision. Cooler's hatred manifested as a wall of fire.
But then, a green blur stepped between them.
"Eh?"
"A decent strategy," a deep voice rumbled. "But your final move was sloppy. That is your greatest weakness, Stepmother."
The man didn't even use a barrier. He just stood there. The massive ki wave hit his back and washed around him like water hitting a rock. He was completely unfazed by an attack that would have killed everyone else on the team.
Perfect Cell turned slightly, looking over his shoulder at the bound Lisette. He offered her a truly effortless smile before reaching out and gently brushing a stray hair from her cheek.
"Allow me to finish this for you."
He flicked his wrist, dicing the mechanical tentacles holding her with a telekinetic blade. He left a protective barrier around her to shield her from the coming shockwave.
"Ka... me..."
The Big Gete Star began to groan. The sheer pressure of the energy Cell was gathering caused the very floor to vibrate. Lisette, even in her weakened state, felt a chill of terror at the magnitude of his power.
"Ha... me...!"
If Lisette's maximum was 100%, Cell was operating in a realm that was 1000%. He existed in a dimension of power they couldn't even fathom.
The Metal Coolers, their bodies already falling apart as the Core died, lunged at him in a final, bloodshot frenzy.
"DON'T INTERFERE! SHE'S MINE—"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
The blue-white pillar of light erased the Metal Coolers instantly. It didn't stop there. It tore through the bulkheads, through the core, vaporizing the "Metal Cooler Core" before Piccolo and Trunks could even land their final blow. The beam continued through the hull of the Big Gete Star, exited into the atmosphere of New Namek, and streaked into the deep reaches of space, visible from across the galaxy.
Lisette watched, speechless, her eyes wide. Cell turned back to her, adjusting his wings with a smug, sophisticated smirk.
"That," he said, "is how you execute a final move."
Lisette could only stare up at him, her mind a complete blank.
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