The headquarters of the Sadala Defense Force transformed into a war zone within seconds. Steel barriers crumpled like paper, sparks erupting from destroyed electronic equipment as energy discharges tore through the infrastructure. Thick, viscous coolant fluids leaked across the floors, mixing with countless small explosive charges that detonated in rapid succession, filling the confined spaces with roiling clouds of gray and black smoke.
BOOM!
A brilliant yellow energy wave tore completely through the primary building structure, triggering a massive cascading explosion. The battle had only just begun, yet the defense headquarters was already being shattered into fragments and rubble.
Beneath the billowing smoke and dust, ruins accumulated rapidly—broken walls, collapsed support beams, shattered technology.
The atmosphere grew oppressive and suffocating, as though a legion of demons were howling in unified rage. Resentment and fury seemed to literally steam from the enslaved warriors, their corrupted energy signatures creating a miasma of hatred.
Baby commanded the entire assault, leading his slave army against Raditz and his family. He had already implanted living parasitic eggs within every inhabitant across the planet—all Saiyans on Sadala now served as his unwilling thralls, their bodies and minds under his absolute control.
But his ambitions extended far beyond mere planetary conquest. Baby intended to restore the Tuffle civilization to its former glory and force the entire universe to submit to Tuffle dominion once more.
He was a king—the rightful ruler of the Tuffles in ages past, and he would become sovereign of the entire cosmos in the future!
Baby's primary target was Raditz's son, Rukon. He launched himself at the boy with bestial ferocity, moving at tremendous speed. Rukon's instincts took over instantly—he transformed into Super Saiyan with a burst of golden light and retreated explosively, narrowly avoiding Baby's grasping reach.
When the initial strike missed its mark, Baby's eyes blazed crimson with frustrated rage. He whirled around immediately to attack again.
"STOP!" Raditz moved with impossible speed, positioning himself directly in Baby's path. With a focused gesture, he activated Psychic Confinement, invisible bonds of mental energy instantly locking Baby's movements completely.
"You think you're powerful? Do you have any comprehension of my true strength?"
Raditz's expression darkened dangerously. When his palm clenched into a fist, his psychic pressure compressed violently, causing the space itself to constrict around Baby's stolen body like an invisible vice.
Occupying Renso's physical form and having only partially digested and assimilated it, Baby's current performance level barely reached Super Saiyan 1 at most. In Raditz's eyes—with his divine perception and power—this was utterly trivial. Baby could be captured effortlessly.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Whose body do you think you're torturing right now?" Baby laughed with manic desperation. "It's merely Renso's flesh—do whatever you want to it! I don't care!" As far as Baby was concerned, even if Raditz completely destroyed this vessel, he could simply possess another host. And Raditz wouldn't actually kill his friend's body... would he? "And besides... I have countless reinforcements!" Baby bellowed, the sound erupting from his throat like a resonating bell.
"Lord Baby! We're coming!"
"Release Lord Baby immediately!"
The other enslaved Saiyans rushed forward in a frenzied wave. Cabba, Caulifla, and the rest possessed considerable individual strength, and their sheer numbers created an overwhelming assault. They attacked Raditz with suicidal disregard for their own safety, fighting as though death meant nothing.
Raditz's eyes flashed with divine light. His entire body began radiating ethereal energy as he transformed into his Mystic State
Zangya and Android 18 took positions flanking Raditz, forming a defensive triangle formation as they prepared for combat.
"What's our approach here? Do we actually fight to kill them?" Android 18 asked, her analytical mind already calculating optimal strategies.
"I'm focused on forcing Baby out of Renso's body," Raditz explained, his voice steady despite the chaos. "Once I eliminate the parasite, everything can be restored to normal. As for these enslaved warriors—just hold them back without causing permanent harm."
"Wait... is that Kale next to Broly?!" Raditz's eyes widened with sudden alarm.
The three Legendary Super Saiyans had converged together, and Kale had already manifested her Berserker state. Her body had grown exceptionally tall and muscular, her pupils completely vanished, her chest expanding with grotesque power. Her wild hair stood out in all directions like a hedgehog's spines, defying gravity.
The soaring emerald aura burned with scorching, violent intensity. The pressure of her energy triggered a planet-scale storm that melted the remaining ruins of the entire Sadala Defense Force headquarters, reducing the structures to powder that scattered in the howling winds!
The Legendary Super Saiyan had erupted to full power, and after several years of experience and growth, current Kale far surpassed her strength from their first meeting.
Rukon and Broly seemed inspired and triggered by proximity to another Legendary Saiyan, especially Broly. He couldn't suppress the rage and murderous intent swelling in his chest—gasping heavily as energy exploded from him uncontrollably!
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" His prolonged roar physically shattered the earth beneath them. The wind and clouds changed color dramatically as the sky plunged into gray and black, then became smeared with layers of sickly green light before turning deathly pale. The scenery shifted back and forth repeatedly, the dimensional space becoming turbulent and unstable due to the transmitted energy of two Legendary Saiyans resonating together.
Rukon was the last to be affected, his vision gradually blurring as his pupils also disappeared. His hair exploded outward in wild spikes, and though his power didn't quite match Broly and Kale's overwhelming force, he still burst forth with violent emerald aura that surpassed most warriors present.
Three Legendary Super Saiyans, transforming simultaneously!
Broly's rage reached indescribable heights, while Kale and Rukon exhibited states completely different from their normal selves—primal, savage, consumed by battle-lust.
"Such incredible strength! Is this the true Legendary Super Saiyan?! Magnificent!" Baby searched through the stolen memories in Renso's mind, genuinely shocked by the spectacle before him. What kind of power was this? It vastly, vastly exceeded the Super Saiyan 1 body he currently occupied.
If he could acquire the body of the most powerful among them—Broly—he would no longer fear anyone! Not even Raditz, who was currently imprisoning him with overwhelming psychic force.
More controlled Saiyans continued converging on their position—warriors from across the entire planet besieging them in numbers that seemed endless, a tide of bodies that could bury anything. Android 18 released continuous ki waves, her infinite energy proving tremendously valuable as she held back large sections of the slave army. Most individual fighters couldn't withstand her assault, but those who pressed forward were then overwhelmed by Raditz with a single look—his majestic psychic barrier shrouding hundreds of warriors simultaneously and pinning them in place.
Meanwhile, the battle between Broly and Kale was utterly devastating. Each earth-shaking blow dismantled portions of Planet Sadala's surface, the entire world beginning to literally disintegrate from their clash after only a few exchanges.
"BROLY, STOP! IF YOU KEEP FIGHTING LIKE THIS, THE ENTIRE PLANET WILL BE DESTROYED!" Zangya shouted desperately, trying to reach through the berserker state and awaken Broly's rationality.
In truth, Broly retained some measure of rational thought even in his Legendary form. But Kale was now completely under Baby's parasitic control. Not only did she refuse to stop—she attacked with increasingly manic ferocity, fighting Broly with absolute desperation and forcing him to respond with greater and greater power output.
She was deliberately pushing Broly to expend maximum energy—creating the perfect moment for Baby to escape his current host and invade Broly's body instead!
It was precisely because of Kale's relentless provocation that Broly's berserker fury continued escalating beyond all control.
On another level of perception, Raditz's psychic power had already penetrated through Renso's brain and established direct communication with the possessing entity.
Through forced mental contact, Raditz extracted the full truth: Baby had arrived on Planet Sadala alongside Dr. Lychee's invasion force. But unlike the mindless Hatchiyack Soldiers, Baby possessed cunning intelligence. He'd infiltrated the planet covertly and attached himself to Ramso as an initial host.
Using that identity and access, he'd subsequently possessed Cabba, Renso, Caulifla, and others in systematic succession, eventually implanting living parasitic eggs within every inhabitant across the planet.
Now understanding Baby's nature and methods completely, Raditz deployed his most powerful psychic assault. The continuous mental pressure functioned like a man-eating predator, consuming Baby's consciousness bit by bit, devouring his very essence. No being in any universe could compete with Raditz in pure mental strength—even Baby's considerable willpower couldn't withstand the onslaught.
"DAMN IT... DAMN IT!" Baby howled, Renso's hands clutching his head as the agony became unbearable.
At precisely that moment, Broly and Kale each launched devastating energy bombardments with absolutely no regard for planetary destruction, exerting one hundred percent of their maximum power. The dazzling light obscured the sun itself, the entire dimensional space filled with the overwhelming auras of two Legendary Super Saiyans in full berserker rage.
Raditz was forced to momentarily divert concentration, erecting an enormously powerful protective barrier to slightly restrain and redirect the catastrophic energy—preventing the planet's immediate annihilation.
Taking advantage of that split-second opportunity, Baby forcibly ejected himself from Renso's collapsing body—and rode the wave of destructive energy directly toward Broly!
No!
Baby's true target had been Broly all along!