Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

End of Metal

A humming energy orb of an emerald hue shine peeked through the smoke while it sifted slowly around it while spreading more evenly across the decimated cybernetic rift. Where initially after their ace Deadly Metal Needle attack, the Meta-Rilldos couldn't stuff themselves laughing, the emergence of the massive Android Barrier encompassing not only Lapis but also both of his allies in this fight made all Meta-Rilldo drones scowl in frustration.

"I'm guessing that was your strongest attack? Now who's losing their shit when the going gets tough?" Lapis mocked Meta-Rilldo's earlier observation in reaction to the desperate expressions on all the drones' faces.

"Not bad. To think that you could block something as powerful as that after a fight as tough as we've had," Piccolo panted, clutching his bruised chest that had at least several caved-in ribs and made him wheeze and cough blood once in a little while.

"That's the eternal stamina of the infinite energy reactor for you," Bardock grinned, the gentle vibrations within his own chest. While he went through a few surgeries to reverse the conversion process that Dr. Puri put him through during his crisis, Bardock insisted on keeping a few improvements.

"Oh, you kept yours too?" Lapis turned to the Saiyan berserker.

"Don't make me laugh," Bardock scoffed. "I had Bulma tinker with it a little. I still prefer to get my energy by stuffing my face full, so I had mine throttled by a bunch. My stamina beats that of any organic fighter, but it's not quite limitless like yours."

"That means you have no use to me, Saiyan!" Meta-Rilldo proclaimed, the metallic floor of the little patch of M-2 that the Machine Mutant had created rumbled down below before shooting off rising metallic platforms into the air that socked straight into Bardock and forced the Saiyan to push down against it to prevent being squished to the ceiling. "Hyper Meta Rilldo Punch!" Rilldo barked out, extending his malleable liquid metal hand and molding it into a drill before shooting the drill off like one of his rocket punches.

Navigating from above, the drill went for a downward thrust that would've drilled through Bardock against the rising metal pillar but the Saiyan rolled aside, taking a nasty graze from the rising pillar but leaving the drill to perforate it and decimate it with a downward tunneling rumble. Just as Bardock wound up his arm backward, Piccolo's verbal warning reached him and he instinctively plunged down, avoiding the mint-colored electrical stream of Meta-Rilldo's Metal Breath from his right side.

Bardock burst with a golden aura of the Super Saiyan and shot off, racing around the localized piece of a cybernetic star that Meta-Rilldo had created on this island while Meta-Rilldo coated everything around them in metal in an attempt to catch Bardock with one of their breaths. Bardock did a neat job outpacing the electrical fields that would've turned him into a block of solid metal, but the frustration over his defensive role became apparent on his face.

"Calm down!" Piccolo barked out. "You can't afford to make a mistake, so just mind your positioning!"

Immediately after, Piccolo closed his eyes and exhaled, turning the torment spreading throughout his body and diving into freefall. A mint-colored electrical wave flushed in the direction where he just now was. When Piccolo opened his eyes again, the transformed giant head of Meta-Rilldo, coming from an upside-down colossal communications tower, met Piccolo's gaze and corrected the direction of its metallic breathing. With rapid bursts of King Kai's Fist to throw his body around like a rag doll for just a single motion, Piccolo danced around the metallic breaths before the turning mint wave washed over him. Meta-Rilldo's laughter snuffed out when he realized he breathed his converting breath over a mere after-image.

Rumbling, Piccolo appeared directly in front of the colossal face and lashed out with a roundhouse kick straight to the jet-sized nose of Meta-Rilldo. Swiping his arm at the eyes, Piccolo turned them into a splash of liquid metal and blinded the face, forcing it to retreat. Snapping away from sight, Piccolo met a chasing Meta-Rilldo drone in mid-air and redirected his haymaker downward before rolling over him and kicking him down with a stomping foot thrust. Piccolo clapped his hands, producing a tangible body double that plunged down and began rapidly stomping the crashed Meta-Rilldo drone into the ground before it became just a puddle of liquid metal.