Back on the ground at Capsule Corp, standing on one of the structure's many balconies, Bulma, Doctor Briefs and Trunks were currently gathered together at the railing and staring up at the sky nervously. After witnessing the failed attack mounted by the King's military's attempt to shoot down the enormous meteorite, the group was then left waiting to see how Gohan and his companions would fair. Considering that all three of them were more than capable of wiping out a planet with a single blast, there was no way they could fail against a seven kilometer hunk of rock.
With the clouds drifting by overhead and the winds whipping wildly at the countryside, the stage was all set for the most awesome lightshow the planet had ever seen. The barrage from the ground-to-orbit cannons and the missile attacks from the planet's defense forces was simply the opening segment. Now it was time to get to the main act, and it was sure to be a blast.
"Hold on tight guys. This is it," Bulma spoke up, taking her son by the shoulders and making sure he was secure. Considering he was a thousand times stronger than her though it seemed like a practice in futility. But this was mostly for her benefit than anything else.
Blinking a couple of times in worry, Trunks then looked across at his grandfather, who he could see was standing there with an unchanging expression on his face. "Will they be able to destroy that meteorite, grandpa? The army tried to… but it didn't work."
The man with the glasses and mustache smiled back at him, "I'm sure those three will be able to handle it. Don't worry."
As they went back to watching, up on the dome building's rooftop overlooking the city, Piccolo, Krillin and Android 18 could be seen standing there with their arms folded, feet planted, and eyes glaring up into the sky above. They weren't just there for observations sake. In the unlikely event that Gohan, Zangya and Videl's attempt to shoot down the asteroid failed, then they were there to pick up the pieces and finish it off.
However, since the defense was being spearheaded by earth's most powerful fighter and a Super Hera, in all good conscience they didn't really have anything to worry about.
Krillin, having grown a head of hair over the last few months that was trimmed and cut stylishly, and sporting the turtle hermit's signature orange and blue gi, glanced across at his wife nervously, "Are you sure Marron is going to be okay?"
The blonde android nodded, "She's with Launch and Turtle back at Kame House. She'll be fine."
"Good," the man nodded, exhaling in relief and narrowing his eyes on the clouds drifting high above. "Man… the last time something like this happened me and Goku were knocked out and sent crash landing on the other side of the planet. But that was a long time ago."
Piccolo frowned, "Don't worry. The kids can handle this. You can count on it."
With the wind picking up speed in response to the object nearing the planet's surface, the Z-fighters knew things were about to get hairy.
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Up in the sky, the dynamic trio watched as a couple more missiles were launched from the planet's surface to intercept the meteorite. Just like before, the explosions had very little to no effect in changing the object's speed or course, and the massive intergalactic object blew through the detonating warheads like they were nothing. After the fiery blasts from the missiles going off receded, the trio floating above the clouds then watched the asteroid enter the thermosphere and fall within their firing range. Even though they could have hit the target from much further away, Gohan, Zangya and Videl wanted to make absolutely certain that they got all of it and that there wouldn't be any big chunks left over from the resulting strike.
The army had had their shot at trying to take it out. With the meteorite sitting squarely in their crosshairs, now it was their turn.
Blue spheres of energy forming between their palms, the three heroes finished charging and, taking aim, launched their attacks in one mighty bellow.
"Ka-me-ha-me-HAAAAAAA!" Crying out at the exact same time, the trio of fighters threw their hands forward and unleashed their blasts. Enormous beams of blue energy exploded from their hands and rocketed towards the comet at full speed, effortlessly passing the mesosphere and bearing down on the meteor like three celestial lances.
On their own, each of their blasts was more than capable of reducing an entire planet to a cloud of dust. But as their attacks traveled towards the approaching asteroid, they began to spin around each other and, converging on the center, melded together in midflight. The three blasts fused into one attack, forming a large comet-like mass of energy roughly the same size as their target, ready to intercept the extraterrestrial object and disintegrate it in a single blow.
The meteorite had no idea what was coming, its entire front lighting up under the glare of the approaching missile of ki.
Confident in their combined assault, the three watched on as their attack came within striking distance of the entity in a matter of seconds. But just when it seemed like they were about to watch the meteorite fracture and detonate in a glorious blue ball of fire above the earth's surface, they suddenly felt an enormous surge of energy. A split second later, just when their attacks were moments away from incinerating their target, the Kamehameha wave unexpectedly smacked against an invisible force field several yards away in front of the meteor and was effortlessly dissipated like a splash of water against a rock.
Upon seeing their attack fail, Gohan, Zangya and Videl's eyes widened in horror.
"WHAT?! OH NO!" the demi-Saiyan shouted. Even his Hera teammate couldn't believe what'd just happened.
"Oh, you've gotta be KIDDING ME!" Zangya yelled, mouth agape and sweat appearing on her face.
The meteorite breached the mesosphere in a matter of seconds and shot towards them at an unbelievable speed, generating a powerful gust of wind that struck the three fighters and nearly knocked them out of orbit.
It was at this point the trio saw exactly what they were up against.
As soon as the asteroid fell within sight, the group saw the very front of it unwrap itself and the face of an enormous alien emerge from the protective layer that was guarding it. The rocky camouflage it wore over it unfurled in mid-fall, revealing a fleshy, arthropod-like body over which a dark green cowl of prehensile ribbons was draped, two lengths of which were undulating on either side of it like elastic arms or tentacles. The cowl was folded up over it, giving it a mummy-like appearance, with no arms or legs to speak of. Its face however was the most striking, resembling a smooth white skull of an animal wedged into a thick collar with no neck and a flat beak-like jaw, and large, black, hollow eyes. The face resembled the Scream mask, only this one had a more defined shape and was far more menacing.
The entire seven kilometer wide creature looked like a monster from their worst nightmares.
The giant entity barreled towards the three at a fantastic momentum, its two ribbon-like appendages waving beside it. As soon as its shadow was on top of them, its black eyes suddenly flashed bright red and, with a deafening, owl-like screech, it unleashed a powerful shockwave that rocketed towards the three and hit them with the force of a thousand cyclone crosswinds traveling with a force capable of splitting a country in half.
"GOHAN!" Videl screamed, before the three of them were suddenly ripped out of the sky and sent hurling out of orbit.
The three warriors cried out in terror as they were sent tumbling around the enormous alien as it blew past them. In a matter of moments, Gohan was knocked out of Super Saiyan form and all of them were sent bouncing across the alien's back before being thrown thousands of miles across the planet's surface. With the winds smacking them this way and that like a hundred kiai blasts hitting them all at once, which sent the trio into a terrifying spin, the three fighters were unconscious before their bodies even hit cloud cover. Several seconds later, after a harrowing descent out of the upper stratosphere, the team of warriors was gone, disappearing to land in parts unknown.
Dispatching the three earthlings with ease, the titan of a creature, easily dwarfing the planet's largest mountain, then turned its attention towards the earth and the population far below…
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