Aize looked indifferently at their figures. He calmly landed on the arena. In the meantime, Broly looked at Krillin and Tien and shot them off the arena with an invisible shockwave. They quickly exited the arena and were caught by Trunks and Goku.
Broly didn't shoot the others out as they were still conscious. The only way this could conclude was for them to give up or to simply die.
Either option was not something they could afford. The androids were slowly getting up, seemingly wanting to continue fighting, but seeing how clumsily they got up, it was clear there wasn't much reason for them to even try.
"Hehe. You aren't as strong as you portray yourself." 17 spat out. By now they could somewhat gauge the strength of Broly's followers' power level. The reason why the weakest of the group started their attack was to see how Aize would handle them. If he could beat them in their base form, there wouldn't be much hope for the Z-Fighters, but now seeing Aize transforming twice to handle their sneak attack, gave them confidence to succeed.
Aize indifferent expression turned into a cold smile. He pointed his palm at the three androids. Visible golden ki arcs traveled to his arm. In front of his palm, his ki gathered to a small sphere. The expression of the androids changed, seeing this. They sensed the immense ki being gathered. The Z-Fighters eyes widened as well, even Cell was deeply frowning.
"You were saying?" Without waiting for a response, the sphere burst open and numerous thin beams shot out as a result. They almost instantaneously reached the three. Each of them suddenly released all their remaining energy into a barrier around them. The barrier held together for a second before easily being pierced by a beam. After one went through, their barrier shattered. Their bodies were completely exposed to the remaining beams that directly pierced through their bodies without resistance.
After piercing through their bodies, the beams flew past the shocked spectators and obliterated mountains in the background.
The androids were flung outside the arena with numerous small holes all over their bodies. They were already close to death, but Gine quickly reached them and fed them a healing capsule, barely saving them. Although she was able to heal 17 and 18 with the healing capsules, 16 wasn't human, he was a machine. A healing capsule wouldn't do jack.
His energy was rapidly depleting through the created leaks all over his body.
"Please win, protect the ear-"
Mid-sentence 16's eyes dimmed, and his voice stopped
Gohan looked blankly at 16's motionless body. Broly observed Gohan. In the last week, Broly was able to see everything on the lookout. He knew that the two have befriended themselves with each other in the short time, the androids had visited them for training.
Gohan suddenly shouted out. His ki rose rapidly, easily entering Super Saiyan, but his power was still increasing, showing no sign of stopping!
Everyone looked at Gohan who was losing himself in rage. His ki crushed the stones around him and arcs of lightning appeared on his body. His hair rose further to the sky and with a golden light burst, all around him were pushed back.
Gohan was ascending! Broly was smiling as he saw how easily, Gohan was entering Ascended Super Saiyan.
'This wasn't his first time, he had transformed into that form.' Broly thought as he looked at Goku, who was just staring back. This only confirmed Broly's assumption. Both of them have reached that level…
"You will pay for that!" Gohan's raging voice sounded out. The others were surprised by the sudden increase in strength.
Without caring for their reactions, Gohan directly dashed onto the arena. With a stomp on the ground, Gohan's body propelled forwards. Aize squinted his eyes. Instead of backing away, Aize took on a battle stance waiting for Gohan to reach him. Gohan was only a meter away from Aize, before he suddenly disappeared, only to appear behind Aize.
Gohan kicked out like a whip towards Aize lower back.
"How naïve!" Aize backflipped, easily evading Gohan's kick. Aize stomped down hard at Gohan's back head. As soon as he made contact, Aize eyes constricted. His foot phased through Gohan's head. Surprisingly Gohan appeared behind him again, but before he could strike, Aize vanished. At high-speed they tried dozens of times a second to breach through their opponents' defense. Explosion like collisions sounded out, devastating the environment around the arena without touching it directly.
The spectating Z-Fighters' eyes were seemingly looking at random places in the air all the time. Even they were barely able to follow the fight.
The ground burst open, clouds dispersed through the shockwaves and from time to time, complete mountains were covered in intense light.
For the earthlings watching the fight through the tv, this was simply a battle of gods. A battle so terrifying that they tried to convince themselves that this was all fake, but the tremors seemingly tried to make them realize that this was the brutal reality.
Gohan, like a meteor, shot to the arena. He was too fast to stop and landed heavily on the arena. He bounced a couple of meters before stopping himself with all four of his limbs.
Now that he stopped, everyone saw his condition clearly. He had several bruises all over, but one of his arms was particular injured. Half of his underarm was covered by his blood. Aize slowly landed a few meters away, his armor had some cracks in it but he himself was mostly uninjured.
It was clear as day that Aize was far above Gohan. Be it power itself or their martial experience.
Gine suddenly transformed into a beam, directly heading for the stage, wanting to confront Aize. She couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't just watch as her grandchild was beaten up.
"Mom! He is a warrior, don't dishonor him!" Raditz shouted out and intercepted her. Gine was shocked at the sudden appearance.
"Raditz! He is just a child, we have t-"
"Mom, don't. No matter his age, he is a Saiyan warrior, who has trained for two years for this day. Now his friend was killed and it's his obligation to take revenge." Raditz spoke out without room for negotiation.
Gine looked back at Goku for support, but he just ignored her. He stood there with crossed-arms as he looked at his son's struggle against Aize.
"Kamehame…haaaaaa!" Gohan's Kamehameha brighten up the surroundings in a blue hue as it directly headed for Aize.
"Graaahhahaaa!!" Aize stopped the advancing Kamehameha wave with both his hands. His ki flared up, covering half the arena. Veins on his forehead and on his arms bulged. Aize swung his arms upwards, sending the wave attack above his head. The ki beam was redirected into the sky.
Boom!!
In the sky, the ki attack exploded. The sky was lit up for seconds before it finally dimmed again.
"Not bad, kiddo" Aize immediately appeared in front of Gohan, who was extremely shocked. Aize took on a full power attack of his and redirected it without a single scratch! While Gohan was distracted for a split second, Aize crouched down and punched out while looking coldly into Gohan's eyes.
Gohan's back deformed as if Aize's hand was going to pierce it any second. The air was instantly punched out of him. Gohan took several steps backwards, covering his stomach with his hands. He was clearly in immense pain and was barely able to breath. He could only take short breaths as he staggered back.
Aize didn't hesitate to follow up. Gohan wasn't able to resist, even if he saw the knee closing in on his face. He was sent flying parallel to the ground by the impact, quickly approaching the edges of the arena.
Aize appeared a few meters in the flying path and as Gohan passed him, he elbowed him into the ground.
Gohan immediately spewed out blood and downgraded to his base. He was struggling to move, wanting to stand up, but only a few fingers on one of his arms were able to move.
"Not giving up, even though you are clearly outmatched? So, be it." Aize stretched out a palm at the lying Gohan. A ki sphere was quickly created in his palm and shot out!
The ground cracked slightly from the attack and started smoking due the high temperature from the attack. The crack was right next to Gohan's head.
Aize's arm was being firmly held by Goku. In the last moment, Goku had appeared and redirected the attack, before Aize could finish Gohan. Aize's eyes squinted slightly but he didn't say anything. He yanked out his arm and took a few steps back.
Goku suddenly looked at Broly.
"Does it matter, who knocked one of us out of the ring to have another chance?" Goku gave Broly a meaningful glance. Broly smiled.
"Of course, not."
"Good." Goku picked up Gohan and threw him off the arena. Raditz caught him and quickly fed him a healing capsule.
"Aize, is it? Let me tell you, you will lose against me." Goku said solemnly. It was clear he wasn't speaking nonsense, he meant business.