CHAPTER 31: THE CLIMAX

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Cooler fends off the onslaught brought by Goku, Frieza, Broly and Vegeta. He sees in the distance the Big Gete Star collapsing which was a good enough distraction long enough for Goku to get a quick jab at his face. Cooler is struck as he sees everything he's had planned fall apart before him yet he still stands strong against the mightiest warriors of the universe.

"I'm starting to see why Frieza had so much trouble with you damn monkeys and destroyed your planet," he laughs.

Goku stands read to fight as the others stand by his side. Cooler increases his energy ten fold and shouts as the ground beneath them quakes and ruins crumble. The four stand ready for another bout and charge directly at Cooler. Cooler charges right at them and they clash. Cooler grabs Vegeta by the jaw and slams him down, but Broly steps in to save him as Goku and Frieza tackle Cooler. Cooler breaks free and grabs them both, slamming them into the ground and drags them across the concrete before tossing them as Vegeta strikes. Vegeta lands a few punches and fires a galick gun at point blank range before Broly tackles Cooler from behind and slams him down. Broly uses a wrestling technique he picked up from Dore to hold Cooler down and in an attempt to retaliate, Cooler instant transmissions out of the hold and appears above ready to fire a ki blast but Goku stops him and they lock into an instant transmission battle where they fight at various points while using the technique. Frieza watches aiming his death beam at the right spot and fires a direct hit at Cooler who retaliates with a Death ball. Frieza tries to push it back and struggles to before none other than Gohan jumps in and helps out. They manage to push the death ball back and without any words, the two acknowledge each other before going to help Goku and Vegeta battle Cooler. The four fight him with all they got as Broly fires a raging blast from his mouth towards them and they dip out of the way in time for it to hit Cooler. Goku and Gohan see one another.

"Good to see you drop in," Goku says.

Cooler begins to laugh, "I'm starting to love this. You're all too much!" Goku and Gohan charge at Cooler and it's starting to appear that Cooler is losing his edge the more fighters he takes on at once. Frieza joins in and Vegeta right after.

"Playtimes Over!"

Cooler repulses them back and unleashes a barrage of energy blasts directly at them. The five dodge the attacks and when the dust settles notice Cooler directly in front of them and one by one he punches them all away while dodging whatever punch is thrown at him. He ascends in to the air as Goku charges at him and blasts the saiyan before disappearing. Goku looks around him before sensing a spike of energy above him to find Cooler has created five giga-supernovas at once.

"What the...!" Broly shouts.

"You should've never kept your eyes off me. I can create things a lot faster than all of you combined. In the palm of my hands is enough energy to wipe out this entire planet and then some!" Cooler shouts from above. His body begins to shake as he's already been beyond his limit and it's now taking a toll on him, "let's see if you can stop it!"

Goku stands alone unsure if he can take it on his own when Vegeta, Gohan, Broly, and Frieza arrive to his aid. He sees them and they're ready to go down with him by any means necessary and proceed to power up to their fullest.

"We need to give this everything we got!" Goku shouts.

He charges up a kamehameha alongside his son as Vegeta prepares a final flash. Frieza extends out one hand full of energy and Broly has an Eraser Cannon in his palms. Cooler fires all five supernovas at once directly at them and the five fighters counterattack to hold off. It's a stalemate at first as both side give it all they got, but soon Cooler gains the upper hand.

"Keep pushing on! We gotta stop this no matter what it takes!" Gohan shouts to the others.

"Let's do this!" Goku shouts on.

The five push on managing to get the upper hand briefly and it's working. The force drags them backwards as they continue firing on. Broly roars once more with a blast coming out of his mouth and it gives them the edge. Cooler is being pushed back and puts more force into his attack. In doing so, his body begins to go into shock from all the exerted force he's pushing onto himself and he soon sees his attack being pushed against him.

"Let's end this! GUAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

They all shout pushing as much power as they can and Cooler starts to feel overwhelmed.

"No, impossible!"

Cooler grasps his attack as he's being pushed back and tries his hardest to push it forward. Down below, the five struggle to keep it going when a flash passes by them and Vegeta notices it's Tarble.

"Tarble, what are you doing?!" Vegeta shouts.

Tarble travels alongside the energy blasts and glides over the supernovas directly towards Cooler, catching his old master off guard. Cooler is stunned to see Tarble as the saiyan elbows him on his side with a precise and hard strike before vanishing. Cooler's body is in shock as the attacks consume him, sending him directly into the falling Big Gete Star. Both Cooler and his ship are sent flying out of the Earth's atmosphere and directly into the sun. Along the way, Cooler feels his body failing and he's unable to move.

"Curse them all, why wasn't that saiyan destroyed with the rest. Wait, I remember now, he was the saiyan I let go! I let him escape! This fate could've been prevented if I killed him!"

Cooler's skin begins to turn to ash as he and the Big Gete Star burn up as it touches the sun's surface. Inside the Big Gete Star, many of Cooler's soldiers are unable to escape and burn up along with Kikono who failed to flee in an escape pod. The echos of fallen enemies turn into silence within deep space as the looming threat is no more. 

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Writer's Fun Fact:

The end is here. The enemy has been defeated and it took not deus ex machina's filled with power ups and new transformations. Cooler a formidable foe fell due to teamwork and trust (similar to Jiren). I find it interesting that I created this version of Cooler as someone who wanted to prove himself and his worth in a universe that deemed he wasn't anywhere near Frieza's level. He cared about his family legacy that turned into a personal pursuit of proving his worth. In the end it became his downfall for his body couldn't take the limits he was breaking upon himself in order to best what his brother couldn't. Surely the way he died in the movie is the way he dies here but slightly different due to Goku not being along in the fight. I can't say whether he can return or not especially if he AND the big gete star were sent into the sun, but in the world of Dragonball no one is really dead. For now I'm leave it a mystery until I myself think there's a good story to bring Cooler back as well you know Meta-Cooler. Until then the fight is over but there's the aftermath of it all before we reach the closing of this story/arc so Stay Tuned on DBS: COOLER's WRATH. 

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