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The One-Star Dragon bellowed, "What are you doing? Let go of my Four-Star Dragon!"
"I've been waiting for this moment, One-Star Dragon!" the Four-Star Dragon declared.
Goku chimed in, following the Four-Star Dragon's cue. "You fell for it!"
The One-Star Dragon stared in shock. "So you two were working together!"
"But why?" he asked, bewildered. "You must've resurrected because of my negative energy!"
The Four-Star Dragon smiled. "It was Goku who brought me to my senses."
"Listen," he continued, voice cold and steady. "I didn't come back for anything else. I came back for revenge."
"I'm going to show you my strongest move!"
"Panic Flame Needles!"
A fierce blaze erupted across the Four-Star Dragon.
Flames wrapped around the One-Star Dragon in an instant. A blazing sphere of fire formed overhead.
The fireball shot into the sky. As it spun, the heavens themselves seemed painted red. Heat surged; the air around them grew suffocatingly hot.
Everyone watched, stunned, as that rotating inferno loomed above.
The One-Star Dragon sneered, "You think that move is enough to take me down?"
The Four-Star Dragon answered with quiet confidence, "Don't underestimate these flames, One-Star Dragon. You will not escape them. Try if you must."
The Four-Star Dragon released his grip, and as soon as he did, fiery chains shot out and bound the One-Star Dragon's limbs like shackles.
"You coward! You stabbed me in the back!" the One-Star Dragon roared. "I will never forgive you!"
"This was the only way to beat you," the Four-Star Dragon said. "An opportunity only comes once. To make you lower your guard, I staged this with Goku. It's a ruse."
The One-Star Dragon raged, "Don't get cocky. Even trapped here, I can tear you to pieces!"
To everyone's shock, a ki blast began to form in the One-Star Dragon's palm.
The Four-Star Dragon smiled faintly. "Go ahead. Try. You'll be blown to pieces."
"If you detonate a ki blast inside this sealed fire, the energy will balloon instantly. The fireball will explode with catastrophic force. You won't survive. Do you really want to try?"
"Fine. If you insist, I'll release the flame shackles." The Four-Star Dragon loosened the flaming chains.
"There. You're free," he said.
The One-Star Dragon was sweating, too frightened to strike.
"Oh right, you're the sneaky type who prefers attacks from behind," the Four-Star Dragon said, turning away. "Fine. How about this?"
The ki orb in the One-Star Dragon's hand slowly dissolved into the fireball.
"You coward. If you won't strike, I will." The Four-Star Dragon gathered a terrifying ki wave.
The One-Star Dragon panicked. "That will kill you too! Are you serious? Do you want to go down together?"
Goku shouted, eyes on the fireball, "Stop, Four-Star Dragon! You can't do this!"
The Four-Star Dragon laughed. "Fool. I'm not dying with you. The one who will be crushed is you."
"Die!"
His ki wave swelled and the fireball detonated.
The explosion blossomed like a huge fireworks display, tearing outward. The world around them turned crimson. Terrible blasts carved the earth. The battlefield filled with choking smoke.
A small fireball fell from the sky.
Goku cried out with hope, "Is that the Four-Star Dragon?"
"He's a real fighter," someone muttered.
The Four-Star Dragon's silhouette emerged slowly. Goku ran toward him in relief.
But the Four-Star Dragon stood perfectly still, and then—
"I'm sorry, Goku." His body developed countless cracks, from which blinding light poured.
The One-Star Dragon burst from within.
Boom!
The Four-Star Dragon exploded.
Goku shouted, "Four-Star Dragon!!!"
The One-Star Dragon appeared, slowly and triumphant. "What a pity, Son Goku."
Goku seethed. "You… you killed the Four-Star Dragon?"
The One-Star Dragon grinned. "Don't worry. I'll tell you what happened inside the flames."
He recalled the moment. "Were you trying to die with me?"
The Four-Star Dragon had said, "Fool. Only you will die."
The One-Star Dragon realized the trap. "So your body would be fine. In that case, I'll take your body for myself."
All of the One-Star Dragon's dragon orbs shot out and latched onto the Four-Star Dragon's corpse, embedding themselves in it.
"You lost this round, Four-Star Dragon." The fireball detonated.
The One-Star Dragon crowed, "At the moment of the explosion I snatched his body!"
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Dragon Ball world
Goku trembled. "That One-Star Dragon is monstrous. He killed the Four-Star Dragon like that. I will never forgive him."
Piccolo grabbed Goku. "Calm down, Son. That's something your future self will deal with. Trust me, the Goku from the future will take care of him."
Krillin and Gohan nodded.
"Dad will beat that bastard," Gohan said.
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Naruto world
Yah looked at the screen, shaking. "That fire technique is terrifying. If anyone even touched it, they'd turn to ash."
Sasuke was stunned. "Fire techniques used like that… the Uchiha's pride in their fire jutsu? Compared to this, it's nothing."
Hidden in the shadows, Orochimaru licked his lips. "You can steal bodies like that as well? Not a bad method. That One-Star Dragon's body would be quite useful."
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Back on the screen
Goku glared. "You killed the Four-Star Dragon again. I won't spare you. This time I'm really mad."
The One-Star Dragon laughed. "What can you do? You won't spare me? Go ahead and try."
Goku teleported straight at him and threw a massive punch.
The punch struck the One-Star Dragon, but it had no effect. The One-Star Dragon countered with a blow that sent Goku flying into rubble.
After a beat, Goku leapt up. "Kame…hame…ha!"
A white-blue surge of energy flashed at the One-Star Dragon.
The One-Star Dragon mocked him. "You think that still works on me?"
He fired an energy wave at the same time. The two attacks collided.
For a moment they held, then Goku's Kamehameha was shoved back.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion swallowed Goku. Thick smoke rolled over everything.
"Kakarot!" Vegeta charged into the smoke.
The One-Star Dragon settled on a boulder. "Perfect. Reclaiming the Four-Star body has made me invincible."
"From now on I am a god," he declared. "A god of destruction who will annihilate everything. With my negative energy, I will wipe out the universe."
The smoke slowly cleared. Vegeta helped Goku to his feet.
"All right, you two can die now," the One-Star Dragon said as he approached.
"No way!" Vegeta exploded with power, but suddenly his Super Saiyan 4 strength vanished. He reverted to a normal human.
[The much-awaited ally, the Four-Star Dragon, failed.]
[Vegeta and Goku revert to normal.]
[Major crisis]
"..."
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