Dragon Ball Z Infinity/Live by the Sword... (episode)

Season 1, Episode 15
== Plot ==
The episode picks up directly where the last left off. Goten, using his Flaming Fist, punches Vollena hard across the face. The attack briefly plays out in slow motion before returning to normal. Vollena gets launched back several hundred feet.
Cut to him getting up, Vollena wipes some of his white blood from the side of his mouth. Some of it is left smeared on. Before Vollena knew it, Goten near-instantly closes the distance and kicks him upside the head. Goten then kicks Vollena down into the ground. The attack thrusts the Gemrant into the ground.
Goten: GET OUT OF MY BROTHER!
Goten’s two fists become imbued with fiery ki again. He strikes Vollena in the chest over and over again with his Flaming Fists; dealing considerable damage. Vollena yells out and releases an Explosive Wave as a “get-off-me” attack, blowing Goten dozens of feet away. Vollena follows that up with a flying shoulder bash, further knocking Goten away. As Goten crashes along the ground from the attack, Vollena stands still to catch his breath.
Vollena: Goodness me… what an overwhelming burst of power.
Goten gets himself up. Bruised up. He gets back into his fighting stance.
Goten: I’m not done.
Goku (voice): Neither am I.
Vollena quickly looks at his 7 o’clock where the voice came from. Goku also got himself up. He looks at Piccolo, Krillin, and Android 18. All down and out. He then eyes down Vollena.
Vollena: Well, isn’t this a sweet family gathering?
Goku: This planet is not yours to take. Leave my son’s body and get out of here. Never come back.
Vollena: Mmm… I’ll pass. Now, shall we resume this little get-together?
Goku & Goten then feel two significant energy signatures closing in on their location. An energy wave comes down from the sky straight for Vollena. The Gemrant dodges by jumping into the sky, but Goten sees an opportunity. Goten appears behind Vollena and attempts to grab him, but Vollena blocks the motion. Soon after, however, Goku flies up and knees Vollena in the stomach. Goten looks up and becomes overridden with joy.
Goten: Trunks!
Goku’s demeanor also becomes jovial.
Goku: Vegeta!
Vegeta and Trunks, as Super Saiyans, fly down from the sky. They bridge the gap between themselves and Vollena, then punch him down to the ground. The four Z Fighters descend to the ground while Vollena recovers.
Goten and Trunks link arms and dance with each other, both having the utmost exuberance.
Trunks: I’m so glad you’re back!
Goten: It’s good to be back, man!
Vegeta is stupefied by their dance, but Goku looks happy for them. Vegeta then turns to Goku.
Vegeta: Trunks and I went to get Senzu Beans. We got three.
Goku: Hey, that’s great! We can give them to Krillin, Piccolo, and Android 18.
Vegeta: The Senzu Beans are for us, Kakarot. Not them.
This confounds Goku.
Goku: What? They need the Senzus way more than we do.
Vollena gets up and his eyes light up. He shoots his white laser attack at the boys. Goten and Trunks grimace, then they fly off in separate directions to avoid the attack. Before Vollena makes another move, he sees little pebbles start levitating from the ground.
Electric sparks begin to surround Vegeta as he powers up. He yells out as he ascends into Super Saiyan 2. Vollena turns to Vegeta with a smile.
Vollena: I like this one. He’s way better than his flower boy of a son.
Trunks: What did you just call me!?
Vollena: However, you’re still ignorant to the true power of a Gemrant.
Goku: We’ll see about that.
Goku follows Vegeta and makes his own ascent to Super Saiyan 2, further shaking the ground. The hills that were made by Vollena’s ascent are further elevated by Goku & Vegeta’s. Seeing this prompts a memory of Vollena’s.
Vollena: This reminds me of my time spent with Tatya. Just fooling around.
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Scene changes to New Titania in Madden’s pod where Thrune’s team got themselves situated. Madden shows Thrune, Amelia, and Lavender around the vessel, starting with the control room.
Madden: This is the control room. This is where I’ll fly… I’LL FLY the ship.
Madden briefly looks at Thrune.
Thrune: Seriously?
The control room is fairly small and minimalist. Around it is the dashboard and captain’s chair at the front. At the sides are computer consoles where more live reports could be given of the pod’s status.
Amelia: This is so cool!
Lavender: I’ll say.
Madden: Come follow me.
Behind them is the training room. Thrune, Madden, & Lavender walk in, but Amelia hesitates a little before following. Inside, the room is very open. An array of gym equipment could be seen off to the side. Dumbbells, weights, heavy rope, and a yellow button on the wall.
Lavender: What does that button over there do?
Madden walks over to the button and presses it. A group of holographic Frieza Force soldiers and turrets appear in the room. They all shoot at the four of them. Amelia screams while Lavender jumps high into the air. She puts out her hands and releases a pulse of energy that completely freezes the holograms. Thrune, Madden, and Amelia look on in wonder.
She then takes out a golden knife-sword from her satchel and descends back to the floor, cutting through each of the holograms until she gets all of them. About fourteen units in total.
Lavender: 3...2...1.
Returning back to normal time, all of the holograms are sliced away at the same time.
Madden: Relax, Amelia. The shots are harmless.
Thrune: You can control time?
Lavender: In a very rough & limited way, yes. The more targets I choose and the stronger they are, the less time I’ll have to make a move before they’re reanimated.
Thrune: Even so, that’ll be really useful for us.
Madden: Absolutely.
Lavender puts her knife-sword back in her satchel while Amelia rubs her arm like she’s hiding something.
Madden: I can already tell that this room is going to see a lot of action.
Thrune and Lavender nod. The three of them then follow Madden to the bedroom of the pod. Inside, there are two beds on each side, making four in total. At the center is a silver dresser with six drawers.
Madden: You guys can decide who gets to use which bed, but don’t choose the one on the far left. That’s mine.
Lavender: I call the one on the far right!
Lavender jumps into her bed and gets comfy under the sheets.
Madden: Don’t you want to dress down first?
Lavender: I’m sure you’d like that.
Madden looks at Thrune and shakes his head. Thrune waves him off in a “don’t mind her” manner. Madden then points to the kitchen which is on the right side of the bedroom. While Thrune, Madden, and Amelia walk in, Lavender stays behind.
Thrune: You’re not coming?
Lavender: Nah, that’s her domain.
Amelia becomes slightly miffed by Lavender’s statement, but that eventually subsides as she realizes that she doesn’t bring much else to the table other than being the group’s cook. As Madden shows Thrune and Amelia around the kitchen, she begins to think that she shouldn’t go on the trip to Namek.
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Scene changes to the hexagonal geodesic dome in the Yardrat Lab. Ramon has taken his place at the center of the operation while Dr. Prehx stands beside him. He, Dr. Prehx, and a dozen other scientists watch as the Infinity Sword is put together by a machine.
[The scientists from left to right according to their name tags: [Jaheel, Stormo, Maig, Little, John, Ortiza, Ramon, Dr. Prehx, Nade, Marshalade, Ethel, Rolando, Pran, Willian]
First, the blade is conjoined with the hilt which, in turn, produces a great iridescent flash of light. The scientists are taken aback by this. One of them says…
Stormo: This is too dangerous! We can’t go through with this!
The machine halts the operation.
John: Ramon wouldn’t have us here if he didn’t believe this was the best way forward. I trust him.
Rolando: As do I.
Marshalade: I trust him.
The other scientists air their rapport for Ramon. Dr. Prehx put a hand on Ramon’s right shoulder with an approving grin. Ramon nods accordingly to him and the rest of his colleagues who believed in him.
Ramon: Keep going.
The machine resumes the operation. It slowly attaches the pommel to the bottom of the hilt. A power surge generates from the attachment of the pommel, causing the light to flicker.
Ramon: Keep going! Don’t stop!
The scientists hold onto each other as the operation continues into its last phase. Five precious gems needed to be placed on the sword. Three on the blade, one on the hilt, and one on the pommel. Ramon puts an arm behind Dr. Prehx on his left, and Ortiza on his right.
Ramon: Keep the faith, guys.
The first gemstone is sapphire. The machine goes to place it at the top of the blade. The precious gem is successfully placed with no ill effects, at first. Ramon’s breath quickens. The entirety of the dome, with the scientists inside, then begins to get sucked into the gem. They bear witness to the very altering of reality.
Stormo: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Ramon: No, we’re not! Everyone hold each other as tight as possible!
The scientists grip each other like their lives depended on it. The dome looked more and more like a crumpled piece of paper as it got further sucked into the gem. Then… it suddenly stops. The fabric of reality quickly goes back to normal.
The scientists breathe a GIGANTIC sigh of relief.
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Scene changes to the open meadow where cylindrical hills of varying sizes were now formed all over the place. Vollena crosses his arms. Goku, Vegeta, Goten, and Trunks surround him on all sides.
Goku: Who’s Tatya?
Trunks: Tatya Hojiko. She’s another Gemrant, supposedly.
Vollena: The boy is right. She’s another of my kind. The one I had the deepest bond with before we were separated by the folly of my brethren.
Cut to a shot of Vollena and Tatya Hojiko in their pure Gemrant bodies. Their bodies were fairy-like but nearly as big as the mountains beside them. They were covered in white, silky garments. Their wings were ethereal, and their skin nearly as white as the garments. Vollena still had his white spiky hair while Tatya Hojiko her black long-flowing hair.
Scene cuts to them holding hands while walking along the landscape of the once beautiful planet of Panapit.
Vollena (voice): Long walks, the pointless conversations that really weren’t that pointless when you look back on them, you know… the little things.
Cut to Tatya smashing her hands against the terrain and various hills forming from the action. Vollena does the same. They both laugh in enjoyment.
Vollena (voice): [Briefly chuckles.] Well, smashing the ground and creating hills were little for us.
Trunks (voice): Take everything that this guy says with a grain of salt.
Cut back to the meadow.
Vegeta: The parasite is not fooling me.
Vollena: I’m telling the truth!
Trunks: Your story keeps shifting. You said you were trapped in that urn for 100,000 years.
Fade cut to Trunks travelling to the forest near the ravine where this whole incident started. It was sunset at this time.
Trunks (voice): I kept that in mind and returned to the forest to have that fact checked.
Trunks scurried along the forest floor until finding the urn on its side. Trunks grinned, picked the urn up, and flew off.
Trunks (voice): I went to have my mom run it through a thermoluminescence test.
Vollena (voice): Thermoluminescence test? Did you just make that up?
Cut to Bulma & Trunks in the laboratory at Capsule Corporation. They both have their lab coats & safety goggles on. She put a small sample of the urn in a machine called the Riso Minisys TL reader. The machine loaded the sample onto a wheel. Then, the readers on the machine heated & irradiated the sample. Bulma motioned for Trunks to go on the nearby computer to read the findings.
Trunks (voice): You tell me. You’re the Gemrant that’s supposed to be much smarter than us foolish mortals.
The findings were widely varied from 55 years to 2,500 years old. Bulma & Trunks were perplexed by this. But then they ran the test multiple times with different samples from the urn. After doing it ten times, the range of numbers that showed up the most were between 100-110. The one number that showed up for every single test was 107 years. Bulma & Trunks clapped each other’s hands.
Cut back to the meadow. Slow zoom-in of Trunks.
Trunks: According to the tests, that urn is only approximately 107 years old. So unless you were going through some weird time mumbo-jumbo in there, your 100,000 number is a straight up lie.
Trunks puts his hands behind his head.
Trunks: Not to mention you can’t even answer your own questions honestly.
Vollena: Excuse me!?
Cut to a shot of the five of them.
Trunks: Yeah, he asked me if I would kill half of 200 people to save the other half from struggling for resources. I didn’t bother answering such a horrible question.
Trunks makes a sly grin.
Trunks: Then, I asked him if he would kill 200 people to save 1,000 more and he choked his answer. [Mocking voice.] “What kind of question is that!? I’d find another way!”
Goten laughs which contagiously makes Trunks cackle. Vollena becomes furious! He rushes at Trunks and grabs him by the throat. The Gemrant rockets up into the sky.
Vegeta: Get him!
Goku, Vegeta, & Goten fly in pursuit. Trunks tries to unhook himself from Vollena, but the grip is too strong.
Vollena: I’m going to make you watch your best friend and your father die a painful death. And when that’s all said and done, then I’ll kill you myself. 
Vegeta: No, you won’t.
Vegeta grabs onto Vollena’s left boot with enough strength to halt his ascent. Vollena momentarily unhooks Trunks to deal with Vegeta, but this gives Trunks the opportunity to punch the Gemrant in the face. While it does minimal damage, the punch allows Vegeta to spin Vollena ‘round & ‘round until finally throwing him down to the meadow.
The four of them then descend to the ground. Goku glances at the boys.
Goku: You know what to do.
Goten & Trunks (in unison): Right.
Goten & Trunks get into position to do the Fusion Dance.
Goten & Trunks (in unison): Fuuuuuuuuuuusion HAAAA!
They perform the dance and link fingers; turning into the super warrior known as Gotenks!
Gotenks: Hahaha! Now it’s a party!
Vegeta: I will never get over the absurdity of that dance.
Vollena recovers and dusts himself off.
Vollena: You are all just full of tricks, aren’t you? I applaud it.
The episode ends and goes to closing credits.
(Main End Credits Theme)
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