Catching the Potara earring that was tossed to her, Android 18 slipped it on and the instant it clicked into place, it was like the fog in her mind was ripped away.
Everything finally made sense.
"Last time… after that bastard Levos absorbed our fusion, a few little monsters that looked exactly like him showed up…"
"Which means…"
"Damn it… what the hell did he even do to us after absorbing us?!"
She didn't have time to think it through.
Her body was yanked by an invisible force, smashing into Bulma.
The moment their faces brushed
A blinding white light erupted, forcing everyone to squint.
"It worked!"
A fused warrior was born.
Turles' pupils trembled. "Who are you?"
"Who I am doesn't matter," the fusion said, eyes razor-sharp as she rolled her shoulders. "What matters is… you picked a fight with the wrong people."
White aura surged around her.
She exploded forward.
Turles reacted instantly, hands flashing as he fired a storm of dense energy blasts to intercept her.
But the fusion slipped through them like she was weaving between raindrops, moving faster than anyone expected and in the next heartbeat, she was already in front of him.
Her fist crashed into his face.
Pff !
Turles spat blood.
She didn't give him a second to breathe. She came in again, relentless, violent, a pure rush of pressure.
Her speed and power crushed Turles into constant defense, forcing him to block and evade again and again.
Everyone watching was stunned.
"What a terrifying woman…" Yamcha swallowed hard. "Her strength might actually be catching up to Goku…"
"The old ancestor's ability isn't just talk," someone muttered. "Raising someone's potential beyond the limit… the meaning of that is way bigger than some passive buff…"
Turles was driven back step after step.
And he understood this wasn't a fluke.
She was a fighter on his level.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his two allies were both locked in brutal fights. Neither could come help him.
After the high-intensity battle, Shaviza's trio was adapting to their bodies at an insane speed. Their coordination sharpened with every exchange.
Against an opponent that fought purely on instinct reason replaced by battle-lust they suffered at first… then quickly found the rhythm.
"What 'Bio-Broly'?" Shaviza sneered. Having seen true monsters, his confidence was now overflowing. "Compared to the pink one, this is a joke."
The three of them moved smoother and smoother, fully exploiting the strengths of their fused bodies, beating the Bio-Broly clone until it roared in fury.
"Beat him. Absorb him. And I'll get even stronger."
Elsewhere, the masked man was also being completely suppressed by Cell Jr.
Turles' heart tightened.
That little monster's level was terrifying. Even their strongest fighter the masked one was getting pinned down cleanly.
This was supposed to be an ordinary planet. At most, it had a decent ecosystem.
So how in the world did Earth raise this many monsters?
And the battlefield on the other side made Turles feel even worse.
Under the relentless, high-frequency energy blasts from the three-eyed bald man, the Golden Great Ape could barely move.
Worse, when the ape glanced toward the crash site of the flyer showing a trace of grief after a burly man spoke to him
A thread of unease crawled into Turles' chest.
"How… how can a creature with Saiyan blood… pity a lowly lifeform?"
"Damn it!" Turles bared his teeth. "I'm not losing here!"
But after thinking for a moment, the urge to retreat rose inside him.
Why clash with them to the death right now?
As long as he ate the Fruit of the Tree of Might, they could flip the entire situation.
"And besides…"
"The stronger people exist in this universe, the faster that Lord's experiment will reach results…"
With that thought, Turles decided to pull out of the battlefield first.
"This woman's strong," he forced out, eyes narrowed. "How about joining me? Together we can build a new era "
The fusion curled her lip in disgust. "Stand beside someone as evil as you? That's an insult to me."
As she spoke, she attacked again. Her white-aura-wrapped fists fell like a storm, pounding Turles again and again.
"This filthy woman damn you!" Turles cursed internally, barely holding on.
Finally, he seized a tiny opening and shot toward the canopy of the Tree of Might high above.
"Running?" the fusion snapped. "Not a chance!"
She chased, closing in
But right before she could cut him off, a violent aura suddenly exploded.
Forced by Cell Jr.'s suppression, the masked man had no choice.
He transformed.
Golden aura erupted. Lightning crackled.
Behind the mask, a mane of spiky golden hair whipped wildly, flowing long like a savage banner.
"Super Saiyan 3?"
The Earth fighters stared up, shaken and uncertain.
In their understanding, only Goku could reach that form.
"Who are you?!" Yamcha couldn't hold it in. "Why can you turn into Super Saiyan 3 too?!"
"I am…" the masked man's voice dropped low. He tried to speak
But it was like something jammed his throat.
No sound came out.
At the same time, his body began to tremble violently.
"What's happening?!" Chiaotzu cried.
"It's like… he's resisting something?" Dr. Gero… no, Dr. Hedo said uncertainly.
The veins on the masked man's forehead bulged, looking ready to burst.
He let out a pained roar and then, finally, stabilized.
"Hmph!" He exhaled harshly. "I'm a Saiyan with no name."
"And I'm the one who's going to crush all of you."
Boom!
He flashed in front of the fusion, cutting off her pursuit, and met her head-on alone while also keeping Cell Jr. in check.
The fusion's eyes hardened.
She could feel it clearly: his strength had jumped massively compared to before.
"This guy's base power… and his control over Super Saiyan 3… it feels even stronger than Goku's…"
No time to overthink.
She exploded forward at full power.
The clash became a blur back and forth, strike and counterstrike neither side able to claim a clean advantage.
On Gohan's side, the crashed flyer turned out to be a miracle.
Everyone inside survived.
After pulling them out, Android 16 decided they couldn't drag this out any longer. They needed to intensify the stimulus and force Gohan's breakthrough.
He immediately twisted off his own head and placed it solemnly into Mr. Satan's hands.
"I don't fully understand…" Mr. Satan stammered, clutching 16's head.
Android 16's face remained calm. "This is what Levos secretly told me before he left. He said it was in case the worst happened…"
He explained the cause and effect in a few short sentences. Then 16 smiled peacefully.
"…I've been ready to sacrifice myself for a long time."
Mr. Satan wiped at the snot bubble he'd been scared into, hands shaking.
"Y-You people dragged me here… just so I can carry your head in front of that giant ape?!"
"…Yes."
"But anybody can do that!" Mr. Satan resisted with every fiber of his being. "Why can't that little bald guy do it?!"
Chiaotzu almost tore off his hat in protest that he wasn't bald. "Yeah! Just let me do it!"
Android 16 hesitated about to agree
But Videl stepped in first, scolding sharply, "Dad! This is the responsibility a savior has to carry!"
Mr. Satan was about to argue
Until Videl's next sentence hit him right in the weak spot and sealed his fate.
"If Dad won't go… then I will!"
Seeing the determination in her eyes, Mr. Satan finally surrendered. He took the head and sprinted toward the Golden Great Ape.
Along the way, he prayed desperately that nothing would go wrong.
But the universe loved cruel jokes.
A figure dropped down directly in front of him.
Everyone's expressions tightened.
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