Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Everyone Does Their Best

The Dragon Team hadn't fought an enemy all together yet. Being proud martial artists, they tended to engage their enemy one on one unless special occasions let themselves be known. Regardless of that fact, this time the Earth's defenders acted like they had been preparing for such an attack their entire lives. Flickering and vanishing in rapid succession and shuffling past and around their tyrannical opponent as they positioned themselves around and over Lord Slug who casually observed his opposition with a disgruntled look.

"Ka...!" Goku chanted out, pulling his hands behind his back.

"Me...!" Krillin chanted behind Lord Slug.

"Ha... Me...!" Tenshinhan yelled out repeating the motions of his fellow warriors on the other side to Krillin.

Chiaotzu cried out, extending his hands aimed down toward Lord Slug as his aura took a more ethereal, violet gleam and began rotating in enigmatic, nebula-esque shrouds while fields of rampant electricity stretched out from the floating ghoul all the way to the space conqueror. All three martial artists unleashed their Kamehameha waves all at once while Chiaotzu used his psychokinetic grip to lock the fearsome enemy in place.

The connecting ends of the beams howled in an uncontrollable reaction as azure orbs dyed out in infernal blaze and spread with violent, competing blasts as their combined, world-shaking might swallowed each other up. Each martial artist made sure to channel their Ki so that their blasts do not decimate the entire world and only affect their opponent, focusing their desperation to fend off the extraterrestrial invader.

As the widespread smoke dissipated and the airborne rubble settled, Lord Slug appeared from the center of destruction with his new spacesuit torn-up and ragged and shallow dirt and burns riddling his body but both his eyes and his expression burnt bright with passionate fighting spirit. He viewed engagements and troubling assaults such as these as a challenge to his newly gained might, not just a mere return to his youth but an outright upgrade. Never has the Super Namekian felt more super than at that moment.

"Damn, I might have spent a bit too much power fighting him the first time," Goku cursed, observing the failed attempt to defeat his enemy quickly with a reaction of aloof disappointment that only someone like him could have experienced in a middle of a fight to decide the fate of the entire world.

"Those Senzu would come in real handy right now, I'm running a bit short..." Krillin huffed, sweating all over his forehead while displaying the wounds that he sustained during the battle against Commander Zeeun and didn't have healed before joining the main battlefield.

"Incredible power, I didn't hold back one bit!" Tenshinhan faltered, wrought with shock. Deep down he knew that his opponent didn't even have an opportunity to block the combined attack properly due to Chiaotzu's psychic paralysis and took their attack solely with the toughness of his own body.

"Bugs, as long as I am free to act upon my evil nature, your lives are mine to be taken freely!" Lord Slug howled out while hammering both of his fists downward and opening his jaw that enlightened with a golden gleam. "Darkness Blaster!"

It would have taken a Namekian to contain a mouth-blast of a magnitude similar to that which Lord Slug used in his attack. The beam easily surpassed Goku's Super Kamehameha in vigor and thunderous howl. A golden stream of energy incarnate, sparking with electric outbursts on its edges. The beam enveloped Chiaotzu whole. Tenshinhan reached out for the shape of his friend that became a mere shade of coal-black inside the blinding flash but all three of his eyes were forced to turn away and embrace cover for the luminosity threatened to make the martial artist collapse all by itself.

Chiaotzu's black figure rippled inside the howling blast of destruction before being blown away into mere dust and disassembling before Lord Slug's mouth beam even reached the peak of its destructive power and careened off into space to blast its way through whatever planets it found in its pathway. Tenshinhan trembled on the ground, feeling his friend's Ki no longer being where he last sensed it but refusing to look up and accept the reality that not a single speck of dust remained of his lifelong best friend and the only partner who stuck with him through thick and thin.