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Chapter 229 - Chapter 229

(Some time later)

For the last remaining heroes fighting on planet earth, things quickly started going downhill.

While Kaiser continued blasting away at robots left and right on his end of the field, protecting what was left of their base, Broly's battle with the android Goku had become even more brutal, resulting in untold levels of destruction. Since the beginning of their final, decisive grudge match, the pair had wound up exchanging blows evenly with one another. Despite the fact that the Super Saiyan 3 android had the upper hand in speed, handwork, power and timing, the bulky, green haired warrior still had strength and durability on his side, which he was able to use to great effect. This allowed the psychopath to trade attacks with the longhaired man for quite a while and, even with all the damage he took from the amount of punches Goku landed on him, he persisted and pushed forward.

It soon became abundantly clear that the genocidal maniac wasn't going to be throwing in the towel anytime soon… or ever for that matter. Just like in their first encounter many years ago on New Planet Vegeta, as their battle raged on, Broly's power started to climb. Speed and strength increasing, as well as his rage, the Legendary Super Saiyan began hitting back against the former hero harder and harder, putting on quite a bit of damage on the smaller fighter.

Buildings and mountains leveled as the pair brawled. When Goku's body ended up crashing through an apartment block and was sent bouncing across a ruined expressway, Broly followed immediately afterwards. Tearing through the tarmac like it wasn't even there, the madman seized the Super Saiyan 3 by the face and, cackling loudly, drove the warrior into the ground and proceeded to drag him through it. After ripping across the concrete at high speed for well over a kilometer, knocking wrecked cars, trucks and buses out of the way at the same time, Goku then countered the man with a swift kick to the face.

Landing the blow hard and forcing the bulky warrior to let go, the android fighter quickly sprang away for breathing space.

Looking between the two, it was apparent the former hero had taken on far more damage than Broly had; the latter of who was still continuing to fight at full power while the former hero's energy levels were beginning to wane. Hoping to salvage some sort of an advantage, the cybernetic Goku tried to make a hasty retreat. But much to his utter shock, the enraged warrior flew right on after him, growling loudly while his right fist loaded for another planet-splitting hit.

"KAKAROOOT!" the hulking warrior bellowed, roaring as he pitched a hook at his target. The Super Saiyan 3 avoided it and attempted to counter with a punch of his own. But his fist bounced harmlessly off of the man's side like he'd just hit a brick wall, an instant before he was handily backhanded by the Legendary Saiyan and sent spinning through the sky. Just like before, Broly tore after him with an angry yell. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

The badly shaken ex-hero managed to apply the brakes in midflight just in time to take a defensive stance. Blood pouring out of his mouth and his many other open wounds, Goku then cupped his hands beside him and fired a Kamehameha at the approaching giant. Despite the amount of force he managed to put behind the attack, the monster of a Saiyan plowed right through the beam and slammed his fist across the warrior's face, knocking him into the streets and punching a massive crater into the ground.

Following up on his attack, Broly held his hand out and, charging a ball of green energy that caused an odd discoloration in the atmosphere around him, clenched his fingers around it and then pitched it straight down at the spot his opponent had crash-landed. The sphere of ki struck the human projectile's point of impact with the force of a miniature supernova. A green, dome-shaped blast engulfed the area, wiping out a great portion of downtown West City and filling the sky with a blinding, radioactive light. The Legendary Super Saiyan managed to compress all of that force to the one spot, holding back just enough to keep the entire continent and, by extension, the entire planet from splitting in two.

When the cloud of dust eventually faded from the inferno, it revealed the android Goku had reverted back to his base form and was lying sprawled out in the middle of the hole, his gi in tatters and his leg noticeably bent the wrong way. Gritting his teeth, the badly damaged warrior attempted to push himself up and crawl out of his grave, until his opponent suddenly dropped down from the sky and crashed into his spine with his knee. A loud 'crunch', a shockwave, and a scream of agony filled the air, before the grinning Broly grabbed his stricken opponent by the back of the head and lifted him into the air above him.

Powering up to maximum, his green aura twisting around his body, the Legendary Super Saiyan then grabbed Goku's waist and began to pull the two halves of his adversary in opposite directions. It was only a couple seconds later that a sickening crunch sound was quickly followed by Goku's head being ripped clean from his body by his old nemesis. The psychopath of a warrior cackled madly and tossed the hero's corpse away, before then holding his target's head high for all to see… namely him.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Broly laughed, narrowing his eyes on his foe's disembodied person to see his dead eyes staring right back at him… or… more appropriately, up towards the sky.

However, the legendary warrior's celebration over his finally killing his nemesis was cut short when a powerful red blast suddenly slammed into his back and exploded harmlessly against his skin. Growling irritably, the hulking Saiyan tossed the head away and spun around, where he saw one of the giant, mountainous robots Trunks had been fighting, standing over him with a platoon of smaller units orbiting its head. When it then raised its hand up and produced a large cannon from its palm to fire at him, Broly narrowed his eyes and, with a yell of rage, powered up to maximum.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" His power multiplying once again, the Saiyan abomination then leapt from the ground and charged at the towering mech, dodging the blast it fired and tackling it in the chest. The man's collision with the titan was marked by a thunderous clang as the giant android was sent stumbling back into a skyscraper, which it crashed into. With it pinned against the steel frame, the Legendary Super Saiyan then proceeded to rip into its chassis with his bare hands, disemboweling it of all its critical systems and wiring.

While all this was going on in the background, down on ground level just a block away from where the giant robot was being pulverized into the building by the hulking Saiyan, a sea of metal bodies had been unceremoniously laid out across the entire Southern side of the metropolis. Stretching as far as the eye could see, these metal skeletons and suits of armor had been blasted, smashed, ripped apart, and cut to pieces in a wide variety of different ways, transforming them from once proud, technological achievements into the brand new foundations of the dying West City. From an audience's perspective, it looked like a massive war between two armies had been fought to the last man, with absolutely no survivors; a poetic end to an epic struggle.

In reality though, this particular battle was still going on.

Trunks had no idea how many of these damn robots he'd managed to destroy. Jotting up his total count from the last half-hour of pumping iron, the young man figured he'd lost track around fifty thousand or so. Through economic use of his Super Saiyan powers and his energy, the young sword user was able to wipe out a decent chunk of the armed forces sent after him until there were only a handful of them left. However, the enemy that he and his friends were confronting was a relentless one, and soon enough, the man found himself set upon by wave upon wave of super-powered robot warriors of all shapes, models, and sizes, which came flying in from all four corners of the planet.

The resulting conflict in that part of town soon played host to the most brutal, man-machine carnage the earth had ever seen. At first it seemed like Trunks would emerge victorious, but as the fight carried on, his strength started to leave him… and so did his energy.

If the sheer numbers of enemies weren't bad enough, the fact that the vanguard type robots he was fighting were constructed out of a percentage of the universe's strongest metal, katchin, made his task of beating them even more challenging. This soon became apparent when a couple of the elite units got the drop on him and, after a squadron bombarded his position from above with a hail of blasts, they then ran him through with lances. He soon ended up with two spears in his back and one straight through his side, crippling his movements.

This didn't stop Trunks though, and the boy continued to fight. Several long minutes of hard cutting and explosions later, and the young man was soon on the ground, covered in cuts, burns, bruises, with his cut open, and three lances impaled in his back.

Having spent an enormous amount of energy mowing down over a dozen swarms of these robots, the demi-Saiyan had dropped from Super Saiyan 3 to 2, and had resulted to ground skirmishes. With one hand applying pressure to the massive gash in his waist and the other gripping his sword tightly, the exhausted young warrior held his ground and cut down every single robot that came his way. Covered in blood and losing even more by the second, Trunks's power level dropped like a stone in a lake, even as he cut another android in half and fired a blast at a second, wiping it out with a yell of effort.

Panting exhaustedly and stumbling backwards, the young man collapsed to his knee and gasped for air, at the same time burying the tip of his sword into the earth. He then gritted his teeth angrily and looked up through a squinted gaze, "No… not yet… I'm not giving up yet!" Even though the army of Sentinel drones wouldn't stop coming, the man was determined to finish this on a high note. With their entire universe on the line, this was the least he could do to ensure that their plan ran full circle.

Looking up to see an entire fleet of Sentinel's armies beginning to descend from space, the demi-Saiyan clenched his jaw, cocked his hand back, and launched a powerful, one-handed Buster Beam towards the atmosphere. The golden blast struck one of the approaching dreadnaught-class starships and wiped it out in a large, sphere-shaped explosion. The attack also ended up consuming many of the other squadrons, incinerating entire formations of silver craft group after group. With the airspace surrounding the earth transforming into orange hellfire as a result of the thermonuclear explosion, the exhausted Trunks continued focusing his attention on the drones charging at him from the ruins.

Lowering his hand from the sky, the man then spun around and fired another blast at an approaching robot, only to see it bounce off of its armored chest. Watching it lunge at him with its metal spear, Trunks quickly yanked his sword out of the ground and dodged. He then swung at it with his blade, slicing the droid's head off. Immediately upon taking it out, the Super Saiyan 2 then cried out when a blast struck him in the chest and knocked him back. A second robot rushed him from the front, forcing the adult to evade the thrust from its lance and run his sword through its stomach. It then threw a punch across his face, but he retaliated by slicing it clean in two.

Knees shaking, the lavender haired Saiyan spun on the spot and cut down two more drones sprinting at him from the sidelines, only to then be speared in the back a fourth time by another robot. Crying out in pain, Trunks spun around and rammed an elbow into the robot's face, before then slicing off its head. This allowed another opportunistic soldier to rush at him from the front and bury another lance into his stomach, taking advantage of his momentary weakness. Screaming in pain and choking up blood, Trunks swung his sword up and cleaved the robot in two. His vision becoming blurrier by the second as bolts of pain racked his form, the young man then cocked his arm back and held his sword up defensively, just as a squad of drones flew in from all sides and buried their lances into his body.

The simultaneous impalement causing blood to splatter all over the floor, the Super Saiyan 2 yelled out one last time before, with a mighty swing of his sword, he cut through all five of the androids and wiped them out. Then, after swaying groggily on the spot, the young man fell over backwards and hit the ground with a dull thud, his limbs and body completely impaled by spears. Gasping for breath, Trunks gazed up at the smoggy sky hanging high above him, where he saw another fleet of Sentinel's robot army descend through the atmosphere and begin their reacquisition of the planet.

Energy plummeting as blood pooled around his pincushion body, the demi-Saiyan's eyes slowly shut as he uttered his last words. "Everyone… I'm… sorry…" Head lolling to the side, Trunk's reverted back to his base form and his life force finally dissipated.

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