"P-Piccolo," Gohan murmured, seeing his master look up at him through a half-lidded gaze as he supported him with his hand.
Even though the man was conscious now, in the condition that he was in, burnt, bruised and barely even able to raise his head, there was no way he could continue on fighting. Piccolo was one of the strongest people the boy knew, able to walk through the most brutal of punishments. But the amount of damage Bojack was able to give him with just a few hits and blasts were simply astonishing.
"Th-That man… is powerful," the Namekian choked out, looking up at his student through an agonized expression, "Go help the others. I'm no use to you now… you have to stop them."
Hearing this, the young demi-Saiyan clenched his jaw and nodded, "Right." Setting his master back onto the floor, Gohan stood up, turned to where the battle was taking place, and quickly took flight.
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Spiraling into a massive clock tower, a badly shaken Vegeta ended up embedding himself in the building's wall. Upon which, he was swiftly pursued by his relentless opponent.
Arcing through the air, Bojack held back for a moment to survey the damage before rushing in, aiming a fist at the Saiyan Prince's stomach. The stunned warrior of earth managed to cough out a startled cry of agony when a blow capable of shattering meteorites plowed into him, forcing him to drop out of Super Saiyan form. The attack was also enough to cause the sleeve of Bojack's trench coat to burst into shreds.
After landing his punch, the demon then drove an elbow into Vegeta's chest, shredding his other sleeve while he buried the man deeper into the clock tower. Then, upon pulling away and watching his wounded opponent slump forward, Bojack then underwent a startling transformation. Balling his fists and bringing his arms out, a green aura exploded off of the alien's body and completely disintegrated the remains of his uniform above the waistline.
The sudden power up not only turned Bojack's hair red and his skin green, his entire form also bulked up, causing simultaneous sonic booms to ring out that brought all of the buildings around him crumbling down.
The clock tower was no exception. The second the shockwave hit it, the entire building caved in, with Vegeta letting out a pained cry as he plummeted with the rubble.
His green aura fluctuating around him, the maniacal Bojack brought his hand forward and took aim at the falling warrior. With a grin and a laugh, the alien leader then unleashed a barrage of green energy spheres, which rained down upon the collapsing tower and firebombed the entire neighborhood.
In one fell swoop, the city was engulfed in a series of dome shaped explosions that reduced everything within two kilometers to rubble.
Trunks on the other hand was experiencing problems of his own. After being confronted once again by the deadly temptress Zangya, the young Super Saiyan was forced to duel with her above the city streets.
With graceful acrobatic maneuvers, the orange haired warrior managed to evade all of the demi-Saiyan's blows. Gritting her teeth when she dodged a right cross, she countered with a right spin kick that he blocked and then retaliated against it with a left knee. Parrying the blow with her leg, Zangya growled and, pulling back, slammed a double kick straight into his stomach that sent Trunks plummeting for a couple of stories. After throwing him off, she retreated, forcing the wounded demi-Saiyan to fly after her.
The moment Trunks started gaining altitude though, a flash of pink wires suddenly flickered by his field of vision and, for the second time that day, the time-traveling hero once again found himself ensnared in energy strings. Arms snapping to his sides like bolts, the stunned fighter looked over his shoulder to see Bujin with his hands extended outwards and a smirk on his face.
Unable to free himself, Trunks then received a killer kick to the body from Zangya rushing in to take advantage of the situation.
The moment she started beating on him, more and more explosions engulfed the city streets.
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In the stadium, the people were getting restless. Through the roaming camera moving across the battle zone, the spectators could see enormous explosions rock the neighborhood and Trunks, who'd been battling the two aliens valiantly, suddenly become ensnared by some kind of invisible barrier. From there, under the cries of protest and exclamations of fear, the bystanders watched on helplessly as the blonde haired competitor was slowly beaten into a pulp by his female opponent.
"Oh no!" Chi-Chi gasped, holding her hands over her mouth.
"My Trunks," Bulma also whispered, her eyes wavering in horror.
They were so invested in watching the battle that the pair didn't even notice Mr. Satan appear atop the coliseum's pyramid and forced into one of the waiting rocket pods. As soon as the man was loaded up, X.S Cash's assistant sent him blasting down the track and into the tunnel, the crowd giving a mighty cheer as their 'savior' was sent galloping into battle.
Of course, only a certain few could care less about where he was going.
Videl was one of those people and was now gripping the railing so tightly her fingers were creating impressions in the metal.
"Gohan… where are you?" she asked, cringing when she saw the competitor Trunks take several more punishing blows to the face.
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Loud thuds continued to ring out as Trunks was pummeled by Zangya, the girl continuing to beat on the Saiyan till he was bleeding from the nose and mouth.
But just before she could do anymore damage, Bujin was suddenly caught completely by surprise when Gohan, now back in Super Saiyan form, tackled the man with a glorious full body check, sending the turban wearing alien spinning across the city. After taking him out, the boy then concentrated a ball of ki into his hand and pitched it across at Zangya, who was forced to evade the ball that took out an entire suburb where it landed.
Liberated from the binds, a thoroughly beaten Trunks gasped in relief while Gohan came to float by his side.
"You alright?"
Smiling across at his rescuer, the older demi-Saiyan nodded, "I'll live."
The pair then had their attention drawn across to another building. There, floating down to land on top of the tiled roof, they saw the transformed Bojack smirk across at them arrogantly.
Realizing that Vegeta had been taken down, Trunks gave an enraged growl and, powering up, flew straight at the transformed tyrant. Drawing the sword from his back, the time traveling warrior let out a loud battle cry and swung in at the enormous alien, only to see his target's body become transparent and passed right through an after image. Stunned, the demi-Saiyan was unable to respond in time when a knee from below knocked him into the air, followed immediately by a double-fisted hammer blow that slammed into his back and sent him crashing through every floor of the building beneath him.
A second later, Trunks's body flew out the bottom floor of the apartment and into the street, where he landed on his front and his Super Saiyan form fading with his consciousness. His sword, which had been released in his attempted death blow, spun down from the rooftops and landed several yards away from his position, impaling the ground.
"No!" Gohan shouted, seeing Bojack land on the same roof with his back turned to him. His eyes fixing upon the large alien, the young warrior sweated momentarily at the amount of energy he sensed coming off of the tyrant.
Right now, he was nearly as strong as Cell was when he came back after killing his father.
Not even close to giving up yet, Gohan revved his aura and gunned it, shooting across the suburbs and towards the bulked up Bojack. With a yell of effort, the half-Saiyan threw a swinging right overhand right for the alien's head, only to pass straight through another after image just as Trunks had before. But this time, instead of falling prey to the counter attack, Gohan was able to block the kick and spring off of it, into the sky. Performing several acrobatic flips, the Z-fighter then spun around and hurled an energy ball down at the tyrant, attempting to catch him by surprise.
Despite the swiftness of the blast, Bojack effortlessly slapped the attack away before rocketing up towards the boy and swinging straight at him. Gohan responded in kind by diving towards his foe and uncorking a kick right into the demon's face. The pair collided in midair with a deafening shockwave, which not only cracked the surrounding dome but punched a five hundred foot crater into the city beneath them, pulverizing an entire area of buildings and turning them into dust.
In spite of his kick, Bojack managed to recover faster and buried a fist in the boy's stomach, causing Gohan to double over and cough up blood. Upon stunning him, the large alien then grabbed his leg and with an almighty toss, threw him into the city streets below.
The demi-Saiyan spiraled in, his world a haze as he quickly righted himself and landed atop a town hall. However, the moment Gohan touched down and looked up, he saw Bojack appear directly in front of him and drive a killer hook right into his body, sending the youngster crashing into the house. The force of the blow resulted in the entire building's roof collapsing in on itself in a great cloud of dust and debris.