The seed of the Tree of Might, planted by Turles, was growing at a speed that terrified even the one who sowed it. While the tree usually takes hours to reach maturity, this time it was a matter of seconds. Roots tore through the palace foundations, and massive branches surged toward the heavens, blotting out the stars and cloaking the planet in shadow.
In his past life, Turles had planted the tree on Earth—a planet far more fertile than this one—yet even then, it hadn't reached this level of monstrous vitality. It was as if the planet itself were sentient and had decided to surrender its remaining life force to the tree.
Turles flew toward the canopy, looking for the prize. "Heh... you're a real crowd-pleaser, aren't you? You never grew this fast for me."
According to his experience, the tree should have been heavy with hundreds of fruits. But when he reached the summit, he found only one. A single, singular fruit that radiated a blinding, divine light.
"What is this? The entire power of a world concentrated into one piece of fruit!?"
Normal Tree of Might fruit is a toxic, sickly purple—the color of stolen blood. But this one was Golden. It didn't look like it had been stolen; it looked like a gift offered by the star itself. Turles plucked the heavy, ripened fruit, sweat-dropping as he felt the energy vibrating within it.
"I see. You don't want to go out like a chump either, do you?"
Turles dove back down toward the unconscious Lisette. He knew that a normal fruit only boosted power by a few hundred thousand—a pittance against Broly. But this Golden Fruit was different. It contained the distilled essence of a planetary soul.
Turles sliced the fruit into pieces with a ki blade and began to shove them into Lisette's small mouth. It was an aggressive, unromantic way to save a Goddess. Lisette's brow furrowed in her sleep, her face contorting in discomfort as Turles forced piece after piece down her throat.
When he reached the fourth piece, a white palm suddenly snapped out and slapped Turles across the face.
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The battle between Cell and Broly had reached its breaking point.
Cell had started strong, but his stamina was finite. The strain of the Multiform Technique had taken its toll, and his four bodies were being forced back into one. Broly's strikes were finally connecting. A massive fist buried itself in Cell's gut, launching him across the wasteland.
Cell performed a mid-air recovery, his feet dragging through the dirt as he landed. "N-Not... yet! I'm not finished—"
Broly gave him no quarter. A green ki orb erased Cell's entire upper torso. Cell roared and regenerated instantly, his body now wreathed in violent bio-electricity and a golden aura.
"I WILL NOT FAIL AGAIN!!"
Cell jumped back to create distance, drawing his hands to his side. As the dying Planet New Vegeta groaned and thunder shook the sky, a vision flashed through Cell's mind: a ruined future where a lonely, broken Goddess smiled weakly at him through the glass of his incubation tank.
...I wonder where I went wrong... she had whispered.
Cell remembered her post-war regret. A world without Goku. A world where she had failed to protect her family. She had mourned every single day.
Don't cry, Mother, Cell had thought. I am here. I will be your shield. I am the Perfect being.
But in that timeline, she had died before he was born. His purpose had ended before it began. He was left as a "Perfect" king of a graveyard.
"The future—I WILL CHANGE IT!"
Cell's aura shifted. He activated Super Saiyan (inherited from Goku and Vegeta) and layered Burst Limit on top of it. A white fire erupted over his golden light.
"I will pour every joule of my remaining life into this! An attack that will erase this solar system along with you!"
"KA... ME... HA... ME...!!"
"ERASER CANNON!!"
The two beams collided. The shockwave leveled every standing structure for miles. The power was nearly equal, but Broly began to push back. The green tide was drowning the blue.
Suddenly, four figures landed around Broly. Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and Trunks. Revived by Senzu beans, they recognized this as the one and only chance to win.
"Goku! Gohan! Finish him!" Cell screamed.
"I don't know who you are, but we're with you!" Goku roared.
The two Sons unleashed a combined Father-Son Kamehameha from the flank. Trunks fired his Finish Buster, and Piccolo unleashed his Special Beam Cannon.
Six pillars of destructive light now converged on the Legendary Super Saiyan. The combined heat was so intense it was melting the ground beneath them.
"HAAAAAAA!" Goku screamed. "Gohan! Let it out! Don't hold back!"
"But Dad! I'm already at full—"
"NO! You have more! EXPLODE!!"
Under his father's command, Gohan's potential flickered. Sparks of lightning danced around him. But even this wasn't enough. The scale of the "Team Beam" was massive, but Broly was still standing his ground, grinning through the pain.
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From a distance, Vegeta watched. His fists were clenched so hard they bled.
Low-class warriors... Namekians... even a machine... they are all fighting him...
His pride, once shattered, began to reform into a sharp, jagged edge. His self-hatred turned into a furnace.
"THE PRINCE... OF ALL SAIYANS... IS ME!!"
Vegeta erupted into Super Saiyan and shot toward the battlefield like a golden meteor. He hovered above Broly and leveled his hands.
"DIE, YOU BASTARD!!"
Vegeta unleashed his signature Machine-Gun Barrage, followed by a Big Bang Attack. The hundreds of small blasts didn't do damage, but they provided the perfect distraction, flickering in Broly's eyes and breaking his concentration.
"NOW!!" Goku yelled.
Every warrior poured the absolute last of their ki into the center. Cell pushed his Burst Limit to the breaking point. Gohan finally snapped, his hair spiking further as he reached Super Saiyan 2 for a split second.
The resulting explosion was a pillar of light that touched the vacuum of space.
***
The smoke cleared. The Z-Fighters collapsed to their knees, gasping for air.
"We... we did it..." Trunks whispered.
It had taken everything. Every hero on the field was spent. Only Vegeta was still standing, panting heavily. They had changed the future. They had—
"You really thought... that would be enough to kill me?"
The voice was a cold splash of ice water. The smoke parted to reveal Broly. He was bleeding, his chest was scorched, but his eyes were glowing with a madness that was even deeper than before.
"I won't let you die easily!"
"Wha—!?"
Broly accelerated. He hit Vegeta with a lariat that sounded like a thunderclap, slamming the Prince's face into a rock wall and pinning him there.
"Vegeta!!" Goku screamed.
Broly ground Vegeta's head into the rock until the Prince's hair turned back to black and he went limp.
"Trash," Broly spat. He turned to the others.
Trunks tried to fire a blast. Broly uppercutted him so hard the youth's consciousness was severed instantly. Gohan, in his SSJ2 state, tried to rush him, but Broly simply caught his punch, hammered him into the ground, and blasted him point-blank. Gohan's transformation failed as he fell unconscious.
Piccolo was taken down by a single clothesline. Cell, out of energy, tried to use a desperate "Power-Weighted" transformation (Grade 3), but the loss of speed was fatal. Broly sidestepped his slow punch and buried a fist in Cell's stomach, making the Android vomit and collapse.
The demon walked toward the final survivor: Goku.
"Kakarotto... I'll make this quick."
Broly reeled back for a straight punch. Goku was too weak to move. He closed his eyes.
But the punch never landed.
Behind Broly, a pillar of golden light erupted from the Tree of Might. A presence that felt like the planet itself had woken up suddenly filled the air.
"...You've been very noisy, Broly."
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Technical Data
Lisette (Empowered by Golden Fruit): * Current state: Planet-Synchronized. * Expected Power Level: (Requires measurement).
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