Blooming Talent Tie-In: Righteous End of Hell

Broly jettisoned past a bunch of spike trees, and as he rocketed by, they exploded into tiny needles. His power was still rising ever so quickly with each moment that passed, and it didn't look to be stopping anytime soon. The only thing filling the behemoth's mind was Kakarot; the saiyan that had caused him so much fear and anger with his incessant crying as infants.

His warpath was quickly and abruptly disturbed as something landed on him from above, right on the small of his massive back. His huge body slammed and skidded through the dirt and stone, making a trench as he slid. The assailant jumped back as Broly rolled and regained a knee, sliding to a halt as he gripped the ground with his right hand, tearing finger tip-sized gashes in the soil.

The Legendary Super Saiyan slammed his fist into the ground in a sudden burst of anger, giving a curt shout.

"Gah! Who's there?! Show yourself!"

The dust began to clear, but before it did, a bolt of ki surged from the remaining dust, striking Broly's left shoulder with enough force to stumble his massive form back. The big guy started to walk forward as a hulking mass of rage, but was stumbled back and twirled around by another blast from the same direction.

"Stop playing games!" Broly growled angrily. "Fight me like a MAN!"

With the last word, Broly tossed one of his trademark Omega Shell blasts into the cloud, causing a huge green explosion of ki that rended the hell-soil asunder.

Bardock jumped to the side, barely escaping the blast with little more than  few scratches and burns. Broly's anger boiled over at the sight of Kakarot's father; their features far too similar.

"KAKAROT!!"

Bardock had absolutely no time to react as the Legendary Super Saiyan's gigantic fist slammed into him with massive force. He was sent flying at high speeds backwards. He made it about a mile before a second later, he was slammed back into the ground by that same fist; it's mass crushing him painfully as if trying to grind him into dust.

Bardock coughed harshly, and let out a loud grunt as Broly's huge foot stomped down on his gut.

As he continued to put pressure on Bardock, Broly smirked and started to chuckle evily.

"B-Broly...please.." Bardock coughed and puttered between gasps and grunts. "Remember...remember who..you..are...I..am..not your...enemy...ah!"

"QUIET!!!" Broly shouted as he threw down a ball of green ki energy onto the trapped saiyan.

* * *

Sapphic kicked his leg out, bashing the attacker in the hockey mask back several feet. Behind him, Raditz held off a slender woman with freakishly long fingernails and an armored male sporting silver and blue colors; a jetpack secured to his back.

The armored one unsheathed a blade from his gauntlet, and slashed at Raditz's head; the saiyan ducked, and returned a sweep kick, knocking him off his feet. The long nailed woman pounced on him, and dug her sharp claws into his armor; they cuttrough it just as easilt as they cut his flesh.

He let out a cry of pain, but steeled himself to grab her wrists and crush them until they snapped; the cybernetic pieces sparking and exploding as the connections were severed.

As she reeled back in pain, Raditz pulled the hands out of his skin, and Sapphic came to his side. The two nodded, and charged up a ki blast each, releasing both onto her simultaneously, ending her resistance.

The hockey mask wearing one got back up and snapped his neck, swinging a machete at the two. Raditz blocked the blade gaining Sapphic some time to land several hard hits into the torso of the silent maniac.

Raditz twisted the arm he held, and the machete fell to the ground with a clang. The brothers began to couple their attacks together, each landing in quick succession, but did little more than stagger the opponent. Sapphic dropped down quickly and swept him onto his back, as Raditz followed with an axe kick to the hockey mask wearing freak's neck. Immediately they both picked him up, and tossed him with all their might into the nearest cell; the celestial door slamming shut loudly.

The two collapsed to their knees, and looked around at the waning fighting. The prison riot looked to be about over.

Sapphic, breathing heavily, staggered to his feet, wobbling a bit as he did so.

"Alright," he said tiredly. "let's...go get Broly."

Raditz's face lit up in alarm at his half brother's suggestion. "Father said he could handle it, Sapphic."

"You really believe that?"

"Of...course I do." He replied. "but...if...if father says he can--"

"If father could indeed handle him, then why are you so scared?" Sapphic questioned.

Raditz's blood boiled to his forehead at that moment. "I am not scared! I just..."

The silence between them was only broken by the occassional explosion in the distance and shouts of fighting over yonder. The siblings exchanged looks; one wearing a look of doubt, and the other wearing one of determination.

"Look, Raditz," Sapphic started. "everything is pretty much under control here; all of the high level threats have been detained, and by you and me no less. I think the demons can handle things from here. Half these criminals were many times stronger than Broly, so the only problem I see is dad fighting him alone. If we go help him, we can do it for sure. Please, brother; are you with me on this?"

Raditz looked up at his youngest brother with a bit of a defeated look on his features.

"Very well, Sapphic. Let's go help father." He finally said, getting up.

Sapphic smiled, and the duo took off into the red sky, following the ki signature of Bardock.

* * *

Bardock's back collided solidly with the rock behind him as he was forcefully thrown into it, the surface cracking on impact. He let out a loud cry of pain, as a small trickle of blood lept from his maw. His body settled, and he slowly raised his beaten head to focus his blurring eyes on his attacker.

Broly stalked him as if playing with helpless prey; he was smiling devilishly, and relishing every moment of Bardock's pain as if it were Kakarot himself.

"Does it hurt?" He snarled with a grin.

Bardock laughed; a sound which made him seem more wounded than elated. "What, this? Nah...this is...nothing..."

"I'm glad you think so, because I'm not even close to done yet, Kakarot!"

The Legendary Super Saiyan reared his fist back, and launched it full boar into Bardock's face. The rock shattered, and the shock caused his tail to unfurl from his waist. Broly grabbed the exposed body part, and proceeded to slam Bardock around like a toy, leaving imprints in the dirt and stone.

He coughed again, and breathed in before he would be thrown again. "Broly...I'm not...not Kakarot! I'm...I'm your friend.."

"KAKAROT!" Was the behemoth's only response.

* * *

As Sapphic and Raditz flew over the Hell wastes, a sudden surge of power caught their attention.

"Hey, Sapphic;" Raditz called forth. "Do you sense Frieza?"

Sapphic nodded, bewildered. "Yes, and I sense Cell and many others as well. But that's not possible, we locked them all back up after they beat each other down."

"And yet--"

Raditz was cut off as he looked down. "What the blazes is that?"

Sapphic followed his older sibling's gaze; his emerald eyes fell upon a rather massive creature sporting red and black colors and large horns atop it's head. He seemed to be half humanoid and have equine.

"Looks like a giant centaur." Sapphic remarked.

"Can't you sense it?" Raditz continued. "All those power levels are coming from him!"

How could that be? How could this centaur have all the power levels of the inmates unless--

Sapphic's eyes widened a bit. "I think I know who it is, Raditz. We have to stop him!"

"Are you insane?! His power levels are gargantuan! He'll squash us like bugs!"

"Maybe so, but we can't let him go whereever he's going. Trust me, we need to stop him now!"

"What about father?"

Sapphic grimaced, remembering their original destination. "We'll just...just have to hope he can hang on until we can get there. For now, we have to stop Tirek!"

"Tirek?" Raditz repeated, unfamiliar with the name.

The mighty centaur looked back at the two power levels approaching him. He then smirked at the sight of them.

"Prince Sapphic." He greeted with a grin as the two touched down. "I had a feeling I might run into you."

"You know my name?"

"Of course. I know all about the son of Queen Chrysalis." Tirek said. "I was not imprisoned here forever, yknow."

Sapphic nodded grimly. "Yes, I know."

The massive centaur stretched non-chalantly, and noticed the halo over the former changeling prince's head.

"I didn't expect one as powerful as you to be defeated at such a young age. My, those ponies are crafty nowadays."

"I'm no spring chicken, Tirek." Sapphic responded, dropping into a fighting stance along with his brother. "You're going to find that out soon enough."

Tirek smiled evily as he started to raise his power level. "I suppose I shall."

With a blast, Tirek sent the two sibling's dodging for cover behind the few boulders in the wastes. The hiding wouldn't save them; Tirek could sense where they were at all times. It was not like they were trying to hide though; Raditz leapt out of his cover area, and with a yell, planted a fist into the beast's jaw. At first, the attack seemed to have connected, but then Tirek laughed, and grasped the saiyan with his magic, levitating him in front of his face.

Before any attack could be made, two ki blasts staggered Tirek back, coming from the direction of one Sapphic. The former prince tossed several more at the centaur, who shielded his face from the attacks. The damage was not very much, but the assault annoyed the ancient being, and he flung Raditz straight at Sapphic. The two collided, and tumbled away, as Tirek laughed.

They recovered quickly, and launched countless more blasts at the enemy, before closing in and attempting a combo chain. Though Tirek was a huge target, he had absorbed the fighting abilities of some of the galaxies most powerful beings; he easily blocked all of their attacks, and finally countered with a magical blast to Sapphic, and a large, unrelenting smack to Raditz.

The warriors once again hit the dirt, and started to stand back up.

"You're going to have to do much better than that." He taunted.

Raditz's felt his forehead vein throbbing as he regained posture. He flung his hands out at the centaur, readying an attack.

"Double Sunday!" Raditz screamed as large purple beams flew forth from his hands.

Sapphic saw the grin on Tirek's face too late, now unable to warn his half-brother. The creature swallowed the attack as if it were a stream of water from a hose. Tirek burped and thumped his huge chest as the attack finished.

"What...what the heck?!" Raditz sputtered.

"Raditz, we have to avoid using powerful beam attacks like that; Tirek can absorb energy and magic like it was candy." Sapphic told him, coming to his side.

"You tell me this now?!"

"I...didn't think of it.."

"I see you are of no real threat to me as I am, so I suppose our game is over." Tirek announced, cracking his huge fingers. "I have a few equines to conquer back on Equestria; time to get you two insects out of my way."

* * *

Broly stopped beating on Bardock's bleeding face as an explosion rang out behind them. He turned his head to see what it was, and the size of the cloud made him do double-take.

"Huh?" He grunted. "What is that?"

Bardock noticed the beating had stopped, and took in several breathes. He saw Broly grip his head as if he were having a migrane.

"Grr! What---what's going on?" He said through gritted teeth; his voice becoming less feral.

"Broly...?" Bardock managed.

"Bardock..?" The massive saiyan replied, looking as though he had just awoken from a nap.

Bardock marveled at the fact Broly seemed to be starting to regain lucidity while in his Legendary Super Saiyan state; but he did not complain about it. No way was he going to.

Broly looked over Bardock's broken form. "I...did I...?"

Bardock managed to wave a hand up at his friend as if in a 'forget-about-it' gesture. "Don't worry about me...I'm just g;ad the beating stopped.."

"Bardock, I'm so--"

"Sh!" The battered saiyan interjected. "You stopped cuz of an explosion...it must have been a pretty big one to get your attention..."

Broly nodded, and looked back over at the fading dust cloud a few miles away. The explosion itself had not been what had caught the Legendary Super Saiyan's attention; it had been the power behind it. He had sensed Frieza, Cell, Janemba, and many man more from that direction.

"I should check it out...see if I can help." He stated, getting ready to take off.

"I'm...going with...you." Bardock groaned painfully as he slowly stood up from his crater.

"No, Bardock, you're hurt. You should stay and--"

"No way...am I gonna let you have...all the fun..again." The saiyan chuckled. "Besides; you owe me for the beating you just gave me."

* * *

The smoke cleared from the massive indenture in Hell as Tirek observed his work. He had blasted a huge hole into the ground, and it looked as though he had finished off his opponents. He frowned just slightly when he still sensed their power levels in the debris field, however.

"So they are much tougher than they look, it seems." He murmered. "Guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way."

He cracked his massive knuckles and sauntered forward into the impact zone.

Raditz and Sapphic lay wounded and battered behind a crumbled pile of rocks. The ground shook with every huge hoofstep Tirek made toward them.

"Everything...hurts.." Raditz wheezed out. "Damn it.."

Sapphic had to agree; his entire body ached as if he had died a second time. He knew he was still very much...'alive'...as he was still existing. But he figured that wouldn't be the case for long. The blast had been massive, and the power unbelievable. He'd only ever felt power like this once before...back in his final days....

"Apple Bloom..." Sapphic coughed as he struggled to stand.

Several images flashed through his mind as he muttered the name of the filly who had defeated him over a year ago. She hadn't spared his life, but she had taught him quite a bit. Their small talk in the space between dimensions after his death...her kind words to him...her telling of a better future. It all washed over his broken form as he reached his knees.

"I...I said when I got out of my cell here..." He muttered to no one in particular. "I'd change things...be a better person...just like Apple Bloom...but...if I fall here...I..."

He looked up at the incoming Tirek, who seemed to have spotted him, judging by the smirk on his red face.

"I...can't fall here...Equestria...depends on it...depends on me..stopping Tirek here.."

"Brother, run...go get help!" Raditz urged.

Sapphic finally stood up, staring up at the gargantuan ancient centaur before him. "I...can't lose here.."

"It's a pity you will." Tirek laughed, preparing to smash the changeling hybrid.

Before his fist could come down, the centaur was blown back several feet, tumbling as a huge green blast exploded against him.

Sapphic turned a surprised eye to his would-be savior, and saw Broly standing at the ready; his Legendary Super Saiyan energy rising still. Behind him not very far was Bardock, stadning ready, but looking badly wounded.

"Son, let Broly handle this." He called over tothem.

Sapphic just nodded as he watched the behemoth of a saiyan charge towards Tirek like a rhino bent on goring him. Tirek grabbed Broly's shoulders and tried to push back, but his hooves merely dragged scars into the soil as the monster saiyan continued his charge.

The two smashed through a couple of hills and trampled stones into dust before Broly finally punched the centaur in the chest, sending him reeling.

Tirek coughed, and snarled at the pain. "How dare you?! I will enjoy absorbing all of your power!"

"Shut up and die!" Broly cried out, throwing several Omega Shells at the tyrant. Tirek gobbled the first one, but the other two exploded in his face, causing him to rear back. Taking advantage, the Legendary Super Saiyan decked the giant again, and the centaur fell to his side from the blow.

"He's doing it!" Sapphic exclaimed. "But how did--"

"It doesn't matter, son. He's on our side again, and that's that."