CHAPTER 30: POWER-UP

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Cooler is being held down by Goku, Vegeta and Broly. Vegeta and Goku are holding his arms while Broly has Cooler in a headlock as he tries to break free. Frieza stands before them and holds a death beam at his finger tip.

"You've humiliated me and I will not tolerate being bested!" Frieza states. He fires the death beam and Cooler takes advantage by blasting Vegeta in the face, freeing his arm which he uses to pull Broly over him to take the beam head on. Cooler then instant transmissions behind Frieza to grab his tail and teleports once again slamming Frieza as he constantly uses the instant technique to slam his younger brother in various places around the area they're fighting within. Goku and Vegeta come to and see Frieza being tossed around.

"Hey, Vegeta. You still have any fight left in you?" he asks.

"Why? I hope you're not finally deciding to use fusion."

"No. We'd be out of time before we could even try."

"Damn this guy."

Meanwhile, the Z-Fighters are fending off the guards. Tarble and Piccolo stand back to back firing ki blasts as a Guard drags Krillin across the room. Piccolo charges a special beam cannon alongside Yamcha and Tarble firing their signature blasts and it helps clear a path as 18 smashes her way through the guards with Trunks.

"How's it going in there?" Piccolo asks.

Cheelai has entered the inside of the supercomputer filled with wires and bright lights everywhere. Above her within the growing spire, lies the Big Gete Star's main computer chip attached to several wires, feeding off of energy.

"That's the chip there. Destroy it and the ship is finished" BerryBlue informs her from the entrance hatch peeking in. Cheelai climbs up the wires and it's a tight squeeze the closer she gets to it. She reaches out her hand to grab the chip and suddenly, wires begin to wrap around her and latches her onto the wire lining. Outside of the supercomputer where the others are fighting, wires begin to appear from above and grab the Z-Fighters one by one and hold them into place. They try to break free but to no avail.

"What's going on?" Trunks asks.

"The Big Gete Star must be self aware," Tarble suspects as he sees the supercomputer glow before them. It creates a loud noise before a shock sensation hits them all at once. The shocking stops and they all feel drained. Then, again it happens, and again, and again.

"Why do I feel so weak all of a sudden?" Krillin asks.

"It's draining our energy," Piccolo exclaims.

Energy gets drained from them once again.

On the bridge, Kikono sees the Big Gete Star is 100% complete and sees on the camera footage of the core all of the Z-Fighters are being drained of energy.

"Looks we have another battery supply" he says before looking at a droid, "commence operation as planned."

The droids press several buttons and the Big Gete Star retracts it's drill and rises up from the ground into the sky. Frieza and Broly fight Cooler before they all notice the Big Gete Star in operation. Within the core, everyone screams in agony from the painful energy being drained from them and when it all stops, they appear devoid of life. Tarble has blood dripping as the wires dig into his skin. He remembers Gure and Vegeta's words before a spark of energy triggers. Another surge of energy comes from him and it begins to alarm the supercomputer as Tarble manages to cause a power surge releasing everyone.

"Get everyone out of here," he orders.

"What about you?" Yamcha asks.

"This thing is acting like a battery. If it's at 100% it can't hold but so much."

Trunks manages to get Cheelai free from inside the supercomputer and sees the chip short circuit inside. He and BerryBlue follow the others as they leave while Tarble stays behind. 18 stands with him.

"You probably didn't know, but I'm an android. I have an unlimited energy supply" she tells him.

He and 18 grab the wires off the ground and charge up all the energy they had left in them and channel it into the supercomputer. The supercomputer begins to overload as a massive surge of energy forces its way within it and it causes a short circuit throughout the room and a warning alarm signals throughout the ship. Parts of the core begins to fall apart and collapse on itself. Tarble takes that chance to fire at the supercomputer while 18 quickly blasts through the walls to make an easy exit for them.

"Let's go."

On the bridge, Kikono is in a panic and sees all the droids overloading and soldiers attempting to flee. He shouts, "what is going on?!"

"The ship is overloading sir, it's become unstable."

"Abandon ship!"

In the docking bay, the Z-Fighters rush into the ship and quickly fly off as Tarble and 18 tail behind. Back at Capsule Corp, Whis sees the Big Gete Star is imploding on itself in the sky and smiles.

"Well, looks like this battle is finally reaching its climax."

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Writer's Fun Fact:

At this point like Whis said, we're finally reaching the climax of the story. I know the Big Gete Star was anti-climatic as far as if the ship would've done something drastic but in all honesty this was the B-Story of the plot for our secondary characters. It does pay homage to the second film when Goku and Vegeta overcharged in the Core except this time it was Tarble and 18. 18 was a clever factor to this cause she's filled with unlimited energy and you know how that would go.  With that threat out of the way all that's left is Cooler himself. Not many chapters left till this story's end so stay tuned next time on DBS: COOLER'S WRATH. 

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