about to start another attack when he suddenly had the feeling of being stuck in a vice. He couldn't move anymore ... and he could barely get enough air. His opponent laughed scornfully ... "Now I have you ... you traitor! Do you remember that your father ... that YOU swore your allegiance to me ?!" The pressure of the invisible vice on Piccolo's body increased.He heard his ribs crack as they broke. Had he had enough air, he would probably have screamed. "Well ... isn't that fun for you ?! What a shame! I'm having a great time!" In the meantime, Goku had rummaged through the rubble of the building into which he had been thrown. Now he watched with horror how this revolt was about to squeeze the last spark of life out of Piccolo ... That was enough to make him really angry. He turned into a Super Saiyan and started another attack attempt. This time with moderate, but at least with success. He distracted the Dark Master from Piccolo to such an extent that Vegeta had an opportunity to oppose the invisible vice made of pure energy and free the now more dead than alive Namek. The huge Kame-Hame-Ha that Goku had fired ricocheted off with almost no effect ... almost because it was enough to inflict a deep wound on the vicious attacker's right arm.But otherwise? Piccolo was free and Dende took care of him immediately. Goku got ready ... he expected that HE would now be the target ... but ... nothing like that happened. The guy just laughed ... He laughed! An icy, malicious laugh. "You idiots! Look what I have here!" And he held up his hand ... between his fingers some light shimmered ... THE SPIRIT! The fourth spirit! He had taken it from Piccolo! Slowly the spirit melted into the body of the Dark Master ... Piccolo, who in the meantime had rejoined Vegeta and Freezer, was frozen in horror. Now there was ... if you could believe the words of the Keeper of Time and those of the Kaioshins ... no more chance to save the universe ... As soon as the last spirit had merged with it, the master's body began to glow . A shimmering sphere formed around his body ... expanded ... and pushed back everyone who stood nearby. Goku, who tried to do something despite this energy sphere, raced towards it and ... bounced off!He hit the energy wall several times ... fired his strongest attacks on it ... without the slightest success! Everyone was pushed back ... except for Vegeta, Piccolo and Freezer. The three the Spirits had picked ... finally the sphere stopped after it was about a hundred meters in diameter. The Dark Master floated to the roof of the huge hemisphere ... stopped there in midair and the glow that stretched over his whole body began to pulsate, the first small lightning bolts flashed over the inside of the dome. Everyone thought that was a bad omen ... And everyone, especially Goku and Gohan, cursed the fact that they couldn't help their friends ... and Freezer ... ...


So it had started ... "I never thought I'd really fight side by side with you!" Freezer's voice sounded slightly derogatory. Vegetas too ... "I could have done without it!" Two real friends ... but that didn't matter now.Even Freezer couldn't want the master to get what he came for. They stood in a row, three against one ... Vegeta, Piccolo, Freezer. Three? Three chosen ones? Piccolo was the first to notice this ... "We have a problem ..." - "What kind of you green nonsense ?!" Freezer couldn't and doesn't like Namekians. Piccolo tried to get a calm answer about the dicey situation. "We are three ... there are four spirits ... who is the fourth who should be on our side ?!" A legitimate question ... they had already established that only the chosen ones control the sphere she had formed, could enter ... everyone else ricocheted off it. It was absurd that Freezer ... a dead person! ... was one of them. But ... damn it! It would be an incredible coincidence if it really was one of those present! Still ... you had to try ... Piccolo telepathically contacted Goku and his friends.> Folks ... each of you should try to come to us! At best, only one will make it ... if at all ... but ... ... but you can use any help. All right! We'll try ... 'The whole study had probably had a good influence on the boy's development ... at least he was intelligent. One after the other, who had not yet made the acquaintance of it, tried their luck with the barrier ... and ran into a wall ... meanwhile their opponent, the dark, nameless master did not let himself be dissuaded from his plan. He gathered a tremendous amount of energy ... The guy must be megalomaniac! He already had all the spirits ... What else did he want? It took a while ... then the three within the sphere suddenly realized one thing ... it was not their opponent who was collecting the energy! In any case, he didn't do it on his own initiative. It was the merged spirits that released these tremendous amounts of energy.“Oh shit!” Freezer was the only one who got anything out ... if, admittedly, it wasn't particularly fine, meaningful or helpful. And worst of all ... her opponent would probably have this entire insane amount of energy available once the process was over.


"Done! I'm in!" The three turned ... stared at the person who had managed to enter the sphere ... and their mouths fell open. With astonishment ... First, because someone really did it. And second, well ... Little Marron, of all people, had been able to overcome the barrier ... "Ha! I did it too!" Indeed ... someone else had made it! It was little piccolo. Since he was actually identical to the adult Piccolo, he too had been able to penetrate the invisible wall. Just ... how could two children help them? But they didn't have the time to answer this question at the moment. Still ... Marron, of all people, should be the fourth person?The little one was just two years old, and she knew about as much about fighting as Vegeta and Piccolo knew about crocheting ... namely nothing! By the way ... why five people ?! Piccolo suspected that it was because his younger self didn't really belong here ... and that he was 'rated' as if he was the 'right' Piccolo. It stayed with this assumption, because he had no time for more in-depth considerations. In any case, the presence of the little ones wouldn't change anything. Except that the two would probably be in the way if the going really got down to it. Piccolo turned his face back to her opponent at just the right moment to see how he ended his action of collecting energy. Outwardly he hadn't changed, not in the least. The reptilian skin ... the yellow eyes ... even the wounds they'd inflicted on him during the first part of the fight were still there. But ... his aura had changed a lot.She had been unusually strong before, at least after he had given free rein to his strength. Scary strong. But now ... Neither Piccolo, Vegeta nor Freezer found the right words. The two children stared at the three of them ... and then this other guy ... Marron was a little disappointed because her father had always said Vegeta and Piccolo were strong. Stronger than himself. And Freezer ... he was strong too. At least it should be. And yet the three could not defeat the attacker. When Marron realized that her father's supposedly strong friends had no chance, she got scared ... and like every ... almost every ... frightened little girl she began to cry. Which of course didn't use the slightest bit, and you only got the derogatory comment 'crybaby!' brought in by Klein-Piccolo. But if he was completely honest, he was afraid himself. He had never experienced anything like it before ... and probably wouldn't be again anytime soon.

It was getting tricky ... The master turned his attention back to the three fighters. "So ... then we want to exterminate this annoying shit!" He fired a bright white beam from the tips of the fingers on his right hand ... Vegeta and Freezer could just jump aside at the very last minute. The beam hit the inside of the sphere and burst in a huge explosion. If that part had hit ... Better not to think about it. Piccolo wasn't so lucky, the beam had torn off his left arm ... but even now he still had a spark of humor ... if he had ever had any. "Does that hurt ...! And always the left one, damn it! In the meantime I have not only two left hands, but at least a dozen!" With some effort he managed to regenerate the lost arm. The dark one was already preparing the next attack ... this time nobody would be able to avoid it, the wave of energy he was building up would destroy everything within the sphere ... EVERYTHING!

But suddenly ... he screamed. "Auarg! What kind of vermin is that ?!" Outside the dome Goku had to grin ... Little Piccolo had bitten into the hand of the Dark Master ... and did not let go! When the guy shook his arm, the little Namek only bit harder. When Marron kicked the guy in front of the shin, his concentration was finally over ... The glowing energy shield that had surrounded him since the absorption of the last spirit burst in a silvery shower of sparks ... This cleared the way for powerful Aura and energy attacks. "Vegeta ... Freezer ... Fire as much as you can!" Shouted the older Piccolo ... and attacked himself with his most powerful aura attack. Vegeta did the same ... only Freezer, who didn't understand anything about the whole aura theater, had to limit himself to an ordinary attack which, however, did not fail in combination with the attacks of the other two.Little Piccolo and Marron were thrown away by the force of the attacks and against the wall of the dome ... And the spectacle that followed ... After many explosions and with a lot of effort, the three somehow managed to get one of the spirits off again to detach from the Dark Master's body ... it was Möbius, Vegeta's spirit. This now merged with its actual owner and thus strengthened Vegeta's strength so much that he ... together with Piccolo and Freezer ...