When Ji Ming received Vegeta's message, he was eating breakfast on Mount Paozu. His wristband vibrated, and a line popped up on the screen: "Come to the Gravity Chamber. Now." No emoji, no extra punctuation, but Ji Ming noticed the timestamp was a little past four in the morning. Vegeta had never messaged him at dawn. He drained the half-bowl of porridge left in one gulp, called out to his mother, who was busy rolling dough in the kitchen, and headed out.
The training camp's night lights were still on, but among the entire cluster of Gravity Chambers, only Chamber Three's indicator was flashing an eye-catching green. Ji Ming pushed open the door and saw Vegeta standing beside the console, his Silver Blue aura compressed to a paper-thin layer, with only a glimmer of light circling his fingertips. In the corner crouched a massive, curled-up figure, his back arched and his entire body wrapped in a combat uniform that was nearly bursting apart. His hands were shackled before him by chains formed from Silver Blue energy.
As Ji Ming approached, he saw the energy chain—it used the containment mode of Zero Style: Revised. Waves of active force-dispersing energy continuously radiated from the clasp, barely keeping the violent green flames, so dense they were nearly solid, contained within the lock's core. The whole Gravity Chamber smelled of scorched heat, while the floor's grid-like gouges spread outward in a single direction, forming irregular, step-shaped fractures.
"Broly." Vegeta did not look up. "Or rather, they called him the 'Legendary Super Saiyan.' We found him in an abandoned pod at the edge of the Demon Realm. He was a cub left behind when the remaining Saiyan refugees were sucked into the Demon Realm back then. He's been surviving on his own for a long