His mind blinded by rage and madness, Brolt didn't even recognize Zyleth even though he was right in front of his face. Instead, the hulking Saiyan grit his teeth, pulled his hands back and brought them together.
Seeing that Broly was planning on slamming his fists down on his head with a Sledgehammer, Zyleth only raised a single hand and caught Broly's interconnected fists with no difficulty whatsoever.
He then jumped and vaulted over Broly's arms, using him as an anchor, before planting a devastating kick to his chin.
The green-haired Saiyan went flying backwards for a few feet before bringing himself to a stop, roaring out in anger, and charging towards Zyleth with two energy spheres in hand.
Zyleth dodged out of the way, narrowly avoiding the muscle-bound Saiyan's devastating attacks. As he dodged, the spheres that Broly held missed and shot out towards the dark marsh, destroying the landscape and causing massive quakes to occur.
From above, everyone watched on with bated breath as Zyleth took on Broly, but a certain Frost Demon watched over this spectacle with anything but shock or awe.
"Lord Cooler, Zyleth--!"
"Yes, it seems as though your Supreme Commander gotten much stronger in the time he was away." Cooler nodded, cutting Salza short. "He even managed to get a handle on that Super Saiyan transformation of his."
His dismissive tone caused Lila a bit of confusion, along with the fact that he had just called "Evil Saiyan" "Super Saiyan", but she brushed past it thinking it was just a slip of the tongue.
"I would have expected a bigger reaction from you. Aren't you and Zyleth close?" She asked.
"No." Cooler denied immediately.
Yup... Definitely close... Lila thought.
"Besides, you can't be shocked by something that you knew was going to happen." Cooler continued.
"What do you mean?" She asked, tilting her head slightly.
"From how he acts around you, it seems that you've spent some time with him. So you tell me, what does Zyleth want more than anything else in the universe?" Cooler asked back.
"Power." She answered relatively quickly.
Cooler glanced at her with a bit of approval, and a hint of something else that Lila could only recognize as suspicion, before turning his gaze back towards the fight.
"His sudden growth doesn't shock me because it's what I expect from him. No matter what kind of strength he already held, he was never satisfied with it. He always wanted more and more, and he would go through anything to achieve it." He explained.
"Sounds like you know him quite well." Lila said.
"More than most." Cooler replied with a narrowed gaze.
With the way that Cooler's tone and face had shifted, Lila couldn't help but feel as though there was something more to what Cooler said than he was letting on.
She didn't question it though, turning her sights back to Zyleth's brawl.
Zyleth dodged in every direction imaginable, left, right, ducking, jumping, even turning upside up. His movements were always just barely managing to get out of the way of Broly's fists each time, so much so that to everyone else who was watching now realized that he was intentionally doing so.
"Salza, grab Vegeta and Raditz and take them back to the ship for recovery. The rest of you go with him back inside." Cooler ordered the Armored Squadron before his eyes settled on Broly. "Something tells me that this is going to be more trouble than it's worth..."
Angry at his inability to land a hit, Broly decided to go for broke and slammed both of his fists down towards Zyleth again, but they were easily caught and he was suddenly blasted away with a "minor" Ki blast.
"Come on, I know that you can take a lot more than that." Zyleth said as he crossed his arms and smirked at the Legendary Super Saiyan. "Let's see what you got."
Broly immediately flew back towards Zyleth, clashing with the one who had gained his unrelenting furry. This again proved futile as Zyleth blocked everything he threw, but now he had decided to start countering with blows of his own instead of just dodging.
Every punch, every kick that Broly had thrown, Zyleth now returned in full with the same amount of force.
"Dig deeper. I know that you're still holding back." Zyleth told Broly with a shit-eating grin, just trying to provoke him even further.
"RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!"
Broly roared out in a primal rage as he charged another beam attack in his mouth.
Zyleth immediately clapped his hand over Broly's mouth and stopped the attack from exiting. The energy from the beam backfired and sent the two Saiyans flying back in opposite directions.
Grinding his feet into the marshy wet ground, Zyleth slid to a halt and looked down at his hand, clenching it a few times.
That felt odd.
Before he could figure out what it was, Broly had already broke through the smoke cloud and was ready to strike. Zyleth immediately brought his arm up and blocked the strike, but his eyes widened a bit when he felt that his arm was being pushed.
His energy...
Narrowing his gaze, Zyleth spun and hit Broly with a heavy elbow to his abdomen, hitting him again in the jaw with a quick uppercut when he had leaned down.
"What is he doing?" Cooler asked, looking at Zyleth's performance with a criticizing gaze. "Why is he dragging this out? He has more than enough power to end this in one blow. I taught him better than to play around with his opponent."
His words caused Lila to snap her head towards him.
She knew that they were friends... sort of... but Zyleth never mentioned being taught by a Frost Demon.
"Taught him? You were his teacher?" Lila asked.
"Teacher is a bit of a stretch. But I did teach him a few things over the years." Cooler replies, looking at Zyleth with a clearly annoyed expression. "One of them being to take his opponent out as quickly as possible."
"For the past couple weeks, Zyleth has been learning to keep his Evil Saiyan state under control." Lila spoke. "It could be that he want to see how he performs under a strong foe."
That was the bright side of the situation that Lila was hoping to be the case.
The other end of this spectrum was that Zyleth's thirst for a strong opponent whilst in Evil Saiyan is messing with his ability to make logical decisions.
And if that's the case...
"Evil Saiyan?" Cooler glanced at Lila with a confused expression. "You mean Super Saiyan?"
Lila turned towards Cooler with the same expression. At first she thought him calling it "Super Saiyan" was a slip of the the tongue. After all, Zyleth had told her about so many of his people's transformations that she really couldn't keep track of them herself.
But it seems as though Cooler genuinely thought that Evil Saiyan was Super Saiyan.
"This form is called Evil Saiyan. Super Saiyan is the form with the golden hair." Lila explained to him.
Cooler looked at her for a few seconds before turning back towards the fight.
"Then what's the green one? Super Saiyan with green hair dye?" He asked.
Lila could only shrug her shoulders.
She didn't know how or why the opponent Zyleth was facing's form was a different color, but she honestly didn't want to know. If you asked her, Saiyans had enough different colored hair as it was with just the gold and red ones she had witnessed.
After Zyleth's attack, Broly retaliated with more brutal strikes of his own, each of them getting blocked or redirected. But as he struck, his power grew more and more, so much so that the previously immovable wall that was Zyleth was starting to get pushed back.
Zyleth noticed this and instead of being intimidated, his face formed a crazed smirk.
This is what he had noticed before.
Broly's power was slowly increasing, their difference in power slowly began to close more and more as the fight progressed. There were a few theories that Zyleth had that could explain this was, but that was beside the point.
Right now, there was only one thing that Zyleth wanted to focus on.
"That's it... Get even stronger..."
Broly's seemingly never-ending growth was something that he wanted to take advantage of. He was essentially using the Legendary Super Saiyan as a the ultimate training tool.
In his right mind, Zyleth wouldn't even entertain the idea of using the Legendary Super Saiyan like this, but he was far from his right mind.
While Zyleth looked to be dominating and in control of the fight, the reality was anything but. The dark whispers in Zyleth's head began to grow louder and more intense. The longer the fight, the longer he was in his transformed state, the more his instincts and his Saiyan genetics took a hold over his rational thinking.
Zyleth's preexisting knowledge of Dragon Ball now proved to be a double edged sword, as knowing that Broly was capable of so much more made his desire for battle unquenchable.
He needed it, thirsted for it.
He wanted to be pushed to greater and greater heights of power.
And what better way than to test his might against the Legendary Super Saiyan?
The two transformed Saiyans clashed with each other, going blow for blow, each setting off a sonic boom that radiated with pure, unrelenting power.
Each blow dealt to Broly made him angrier and made him stronger. And as he grew stronger, Zyleth began to hold back less and less, in turn making him more battle hungry.
This fight was no longer about rescuing family, it had become an all-out slug fest. And neither of them was going to back down until the winner one of them fell to the other.
"That's it! Get stronger and stronger for me!" Zyleth yelled out like an absolute maniac as he gripped both sides of Broly's face and brought it to his knee.
The smirk that was previously on Zyleth's face had slowly morphed into a crazed and deranged smile. Even though he was still stronger, he knew it wouldn't take very long for Broly to finally reach him.
Broly staggered back before he suddenly shot a beam out from his mouth towards Zyleth, engulfing him in a devastating point-blank attack.
"Zyleth!" Lila yelled out, about to rush to his aid before she was suddenly grabbed by the arm.
"Don't." Cooler told her, his face blank and expressionless.
"What are you doing?!" Lila yelled out.
"The moment you enter that battlefield, you'll be overwhelmed and killed. And at this point..." Cooler paused as he looked at the scene. "...I'm not sure by which one..."
Lila's eyes widened and before she could yell profanities at the Frost Demon, Zyleth out jumped from the beam and landed a heavy kick to the right side of Broly's head.
"That's it!" Zyleth yelled out as he hit Broly with multiple heavy blows.
The Legendary Super Saiyan was on the back burner. Not able to do much of anything as Zyleth kept pummeling him over and over with punches that held much more strength than they had at the beginning of this fight.
Seeing the look on Zyleth's face, that deranged smile, Lila knew he had lost himself in his battle frenzy.
"He's... He's going to kill him..." Lila said as she watched the brutal display that Zyleth was putting on.
"Somehow... I don't think that is the case..." Cooler said suddenly, watching the fight with unhidden curiosity.
As Zyleth continued his unrelenting attacks, he didn't notice that Broly had stopped resisting altogether, not bothering to try and block or counter. Going for one last blow, Zyleth reeled back his fist and aimed at Broly's face, but at the last second, his wrist was caught by a hulking hand.
The pressure on his wrist increased, so much so that he actually felt it crack underneath. Zyleth grit his teeth and brought down his other hand, but that was caught as well.
Broly slowly stood up, his hulking figure towering over Zyleth as he reeled his head back and head-butted him into the ground.
"It seems Zyleth is about to get his wish for a strong opponent." Cooler told her.
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Current Power Levels:
Zyleth (Base) - [5,979,000,000]
Zyleth (Evil Saiyan) - [1,494,750,000,000]
Broly (Base) - [1,790,000]
Broly (Legendary Super Saiyan) (Rage Boosted) - [500,000,000,000^]
[Word Count: 2,081.]