Dragon Ball: I Became Cell in a Doomed Future

Chapter 310: Son, Don’t Look Back. I Am Your Father

Gohan struck first.

The fully charged Special Beam Cannon roared toward Broly.

"Insect. Still struggling?"

With a contemptuous punch, Broly shattered the beam.

His next punch then drove straight through Gohan's abdomen.

Just as Broly was about to snap his neck, two voices rang out at the same time.

"Broly, be careful!" Paragus shouted.

"Change now!" Ginyu roared.

An orange beam shot in from the side toward Broly.

Yet Broly casually slapped it aside.

"Hahaha! My real target is your father!"

Boom boom boom!

With both palms stacked together, Ginyu unleashed a dense barrage of energy blasts at Paragus.

Broly immediately turned to save him, and in doing so, gave Ginyu the perfect opening.

The instant they faced each other head-on, the true body-change technique, hidden inside a purple beam, shot from Ginyu's mouth. It was faster than the original orange beam and far more treacherous in angle.

Broly's gaze sharpened. It should have been nothing more than an ordinary energy beam he could crush with ease, but at this moment alarms blared in his mind.

For the first time, he raised a dark violet shield and moved at once, retreating several hundred meters in an instant.

At the most critical moment, the body-change beam brushed past him.

It flew straight into the smoke kicked up by the energy barrage behind him.

"It failed..." Ginyu's face was full of unwillingness.

But in the very next second, he felt his soul being tugged, then forcibly ripped out of his body.

His body-change technique had hit its target.

"Cough... cough..."

As the smoke cleared, Ginyu looked at his own body with despair.

Though this body had also been strengthened by Tree of Might fruit and possessed decent power, it was old and blind, and not handsome in the slightest.

Its real fighting strength was nowhere near that of the fusion body of Jiren and Hit he had before.

"I'm done for..."

"Why did I switch bodies with this old bastard..."

The next moment, he heard Paragus cry out in disbelief.

"Ahhhh! Why? My body...!"

Paragus suddenly discovered that his body had changed as well.

The battlefield fell silent for a brief moment.

Broly moved like lightning, charging straight toward Paragus, who was now in Ginyu's body.

A world-destroying punch came crashing down.

Where the fist passed, space twisted and shattered, while Destruction energy swept through everything.

Paragus screamed in terror.

"Stop! Broly, I'm your father!"

Hearing that, Broly flew into a rage. His Destruction energy surged even more violently.

The man who had nearly killed his father earlier now dared to insult him like this.

That fist, powerful enough to destroy everything, locked onto its target with the purest killing intent.

Paragus could not understand how something as absurd as body-swapping had happened.

He closed his eyes in despair.

"To be killed by my own son... Is this the fate of a Saiyan...?"

At the very last moment, a figure stepped in front of Broly.

Fist met fist.

Boom!

The apocalyptic shockwave ripped apart the space between them.

The earth vanished. The clouds scattered.

Even the barrier, which had been continuously reinforced, shattered at that instant.

Just the aftershock alone sent Paragus flying thousands of meters away, vomiting blood and heavily injured.

The one who intercepted Broly was none other than Cumber.

"You are my opponent. I haven't lost yet!"

Black-red evil flames erupted around Cumber's body.

The aura coiled upward, turning into several savage energy tendrils that lunged at Broly.

Just as Cumber was about to challenge Broly again, Fu's voice sounded by his ear.

"You failed your mission to stop Broly from destroying the experimental field. Come back, Cumber. Your task is over."

A spatial rift opened beside him.

"No! I haven't lost! I haven't fought enough! I'm going to keep fighting!"

Cumber roared unwillingly, but his body was still dragged into the crack against his will and vanished.

Now that his opponent was gone, Broly's gaze once again locked onto the "murderer of his father" in the distance.

"Broly! It's me! I really am your father!" Paragus hurriedly explained. "That bastard used some trick and turned my body into this!"

Paragus' eyes swept wildly across the battlefield, and finally found a sneaky figure trying to slip away.

He instantly understood. That man had stolen his original body.

"It's him! He's the one behind all this! He's the one you should kill!" Paragus pointed at Ginyu.

Broly turned his head, murderous intent blazing in his eyes.

Ginyu stiffened, then had a flash of inspiration.

"Lies! You bastard, how dare you frame me! Broly, take a good look at this face. I'm your father. Now kill him immediately!"

"Don't believe him, Broly. That bastard stole my body!"

For the first time, confusion appeared on Broly's face.

"Broly, can't you even recognize your own father anymore?"

Wearing Paragus' face, Ginyu mimicked the same commanding tone Paragus always used when ordering Broly around.

"That man is the enemy! Did you already forget how he nearly killed me in the middle-tier experimental field? Hurry up and kill him. Then we'll conquer the universe together!"

Paragus was about ready to burst a lung.

Even though he had unexpectedly gained a young, powerful body, what use was that?

If he couldn't explain himself and his own son mistook him for the impostor, he would be killed on the spot.

"Broly! Don't listen to his nonsense! I'm your father! Don't forget how I searched across most of the universe trying to save you when you were on the verge of death!"

"Hm?" Broly tilted his head, a trace of confusion flashing in his pupils.

"Broly, what are you hesitating for!" Knowing he had to press the advantage, Ginyu immediately hardened his tone. "Are you going to disobey my orders too?"

That one sentence seemed to have an effect.

The look in Broly's eyes as he turned toward Paragus was once again filled with absolute killing intent.

He spread his lips into a cruel smile, while the Destruction energy around him boiled up to an unprecedented level.

"I'll begin the blood sacrifice with you. If I kill the wrong one, then I'll just kill the other too. Hahaha!"

Broly simply abandoned all thought and let madness and bloodlust completely take over.

"No!" Paragus turned and fled.

At this moment, he regretted more than ever that he had gone to such lengths to save this monstrous son.

Ginyu let out a huge sigh of relief. "That's right, just like that. Kill him for me. Son, don't look back. Trust me. I'm your father."

"Where do you think you can run?"

Broly's voice sounded behind Paragus like the whisper of death itself.

Paragus was scared out of his wits. He could feel the energy behind him, enough to grind him into dust, racing closer and closer.

He desperately drew on the unfamiliar power in this body and turned into a streak of light, fleeing in utter panic toward the horizon.

Boom!

A massive dark violet beam grazed past his heel and hit the mountain range in the distance.

The endless chain of mountains instantly vanished from the horizon, leaving behind only a bottomless crater filled with rolling magma.

"Why! Why did it turn out like this!" Paragus cursed furiously while fleeing. "All I wanted was to rebuild the Saiyan Empire and rule the universe! Why, just when I was about to succeed, am I being hunted by my own son?"

"Damn it! It's all because of that bastard who stole my body!"

He looked back. Broly had already closed in behind him in an instant, that cruel and delighted smile still on his face.

In a panic, Paragus gathered energy and fired back, but he was completely unable to stop him.

"Hohoho..."

Broly grabbed him in one hand and smashed him into a massive rock wall.

The wall split open into a round crater, covered in cracks.

With just that one blow, Paragus felt as though every bone in his body had nearly shattered.

Broly appeared above him. In his palm, a purple sphere of terrifying Destruction energy condensed layer by layer.

"Broly, I'm your father. Look carefully at me!" Paragus shouted in terror. "We were set up by those crafty Earthlings!"

But his cries only drew out even more savage laughter from Broly.

"Useless. Be destroyed!"

The energy sphere fell, and the entire rock wall along with the earth beneath it vanished in a blinding flash.

That was not the end.

The sphere continued drilling into the planet's core before detonating there.

Boom boom boom boom!

Endless thunderous explosions echoed from every corner of the planet.

In an instant, red cracks spread across its surface.

The earth split open, magma erupted, and the planet was on the verge of total destruction.

...

"Enough! I've had enough!"

A roar filled with endless pain and fury erupted from deep within the planet's core, echoing in all directions.

Merged Zamasu was about to lose his mind.

He felt that he was the unluckiest god in the entire universe.

Ever since he had fused with this damned planet and been sealed inside it, he had not had a single peaceful day.

First came that mysterious woman with Majin cells, who kept hunting down his clones.

Then Cooler, that bastard, like a vampire, planted his mechanical planet in him and crazily sucked away the planet's energy to create those so-called Black Gold mechanical bodies.

Then there was Moro, who treated him like an all-you-can-eat buffet, draining his life energy again and again, always looking as though he had not had enough.

The monkeys of the Saiyan Empire were even worse. The moment they arrived, they planted the entire planet with Trees of Might.

Those roots dug deep into the core, constantly squeezing every last bit of energy out of him. He felt like he had been hollowed out.

Sometimes he even thought that rather than suffer like this, he would rather just die.

But of course, because of the wish he had made on the Super Dragon Balls, he possessed immortality.

Since he had merged with the planet itself, no matter what damage he suffered, he would always regenerate.

And now there was Broly, a complete lunatic!

That bastard made no sense at all, rampaging over his body however he liked.

One punch here, one giant crater there. One energy blast and an entire section vanished.

He had an immortal body. The planet could regenerate infinitely. But regeneration required energy. The power he had secretly been saving for revenge was about to be squandered by these bastards!

"All I wanted was to create an ideal world without mortals. What did I do wrong to deserve this torment?"

Zamasu felt wronged.

"I've had enough! I've really had enough!"

"The Zero Mortals Plan ruined me..."

Now he wanted nothing more than for these plagues to get the hell off his planet.

...

High in the sky, Fu stared with a dark expression at the battlefield below, which had all but been flattened, and at the thick chains used to seal the experimental fields that were being repaired and then torn apart over and over.

"It failed... It all failed..."

He had underestimated the strength of this timeline's Broly. This experiment had completely slipped out of his control.

"Fu, the energy of the Universe Seed has been fully collected." Hearts appeared beside him.

Fu took a deep breath, and the gloom on his face was replaced by feverish excitement.

"Fine. Even if the process had some setbacks, the most important objective has still been achieved." He glanced at Broly, still rampaging below. "The data gathered from this experiment is also extremely valuable. Let's go. I'll return to this place one day. And when I do, I'll carry out an even grander, even more perfect experiment."

He swung his short blade and tore open a spatial rift, disappearing with all his subordinates.

"I won't give up on this universe. When the day comes that the Dark Demon Realm truly descends, every timeline will tremble because of me!"

...

Meanwhile, Ginyu, having successfully fooled Broly with his acting, was hiding in a ruined wasteland, his heart still pounding.

He was utterly dissatisfied with this aged body.

Its only upside was that wearing it meant he no longer had to worry about Broly hunting him down.

The planet was already on the verge of destruction.

At this point, Ginyu had no desire to remain on this planet any longer.

To him, the collapsing world was beyond saving.

Then his sharp eyes caught sight of a small, single-person spherical spaceship hidden in a pile of rubble. It was a standard Saiyan Empire pod.

"Heaven never seals off all paths!"

Ginyu was overjoyed. Just moments ago, he had been worried that this Saiyan body would not survive in space after the planet exploded, and now hope had fallen straight into his lap.

He forced the hatch open and climbed inside.

The cramped interior and the familiar control panel instantly made him feel safe.

"Farewell, lousy planet!"

Ginyu slumped into the pilot's seat, letting out a long breath as he started the launch sequence.

But just as he was about to press the ignition button, a huge shadow fell over the cockpit.

Ginyu stiffly raised his head and met a pair of emotionless purple eyes through the window.

Broly was floating quietly outside the pod, his face unreadable.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing Paragus, thrown carelessly onto the ground and hanging on by a thread, Ginyu's heart clenched with terror.

Broly had not actually killed Paragus?

Had he been exposed?

"I... I was preparing transportation so we could escape together."

Broly looked as though he had seen through everything. A wicked smile spread across his face.

"A single-seat pod?"

Ginyu shuddered. He had not expected this savage and brutal monster to still be thinking so clearly.

Creak. Creak.

Two giant hands gripped the pod and lifted it into the air. The hull began to cave in inch by inch.

Pain from the crushing pressure spread all through his body. Two words remained in Ginyu's mind.

I'm finished.

"You can't kill me. I'm your real father, Broly!" Ginyu made one last desperate attempt.

"When you prepared to flee alone, that means you abandoned me. Hehehe..."

Creak, creak, creak!

The pod was being crushed flatter and flatter.

"Hahahaha!"

Broly laughed wildly, though a trace of sadness seemed hidden in that laughter.

At that moment, a figure appeared beside Broly with Instant Transmission.

Hope instantly flared in Ginyu's eyes as he looked pleadingly at the newcomer.

"Lord Levos, save me..."

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