"Hey... Lemo!"
Cheelai's face instantly turned ugly.
"You idiot, you wouldn't be meddling in other people's business when we're being hunted down like this, would you?!"
Lemo nodded. "That's not someone else's problem; it's a distress signal from our Frieza Force... albeit a bit old..."
"I don't care if it's old or brand new! We're all about to die!" Cheelai screamed, almost jumping up and down.
Just then, a burst of extremely arrogant laughter, mixed with static, came from the spaceship's public channel.
"Hahaha! You little brats from Frieza Force! Don't run away!"
"Hand over your beautiful spaceship and all the supplies inside, and we might consider giving you a quick death!"
"That's right! Come back with us, and we'll make sure you experience the hospitality of Galactic Prison!"
The channel was filled with profanities and maniacal laughter.
These guys are hardened criminals who escaped from the Galactic Prison!
What they had their eye on was the Legion's latest patrol boat, which Lemo was piloting.
"Did you hear that?! These lunatics!" Cheelai's face turned pale as she pointed at the communicator, "They're completely unreasonable!"
Lemo's brows finally furrowed slightly.
He ignored Cheelai and instead turned off the public channel, completely shutting out the noisy background noise.
Immediately afterwards, the artillery fire from behind suddenly intensified!
Several massive laser beams, each the size of a main cannon, trailing devastating exhaust flames, blocked all of the spaceship's escape routes!
"Boom! Boom!"
The spaceship's outer energy shield vibrated violently, blinding red light flashed wildly in the cockpit, and the alarm blared even more shrilly.
"I'm going to get hit!!" Cheelai clutched his head, letting out a desperate scream.
Lemo's gaze sharpened at that moment.
He abruptly switched off the autopilot system and gripped the manual control lever tightly with both hands.
"Hold on tight!"
Before the words were even finished, the entire spaceship seemed to come alive, flipping over at an extreme angle, its hull almost grazing past a main cannon beam!
The intense friction sent up large bursts of energy sparks on the shield, causing the interior of the spaceship to shake violently.
"Ah--!"
Cheelai was so disoriented that he was pressed tightly against his seat.
Lemo, however, seemed to be one with the spaceship. His fingers danced across the complex control panel, creating afterimages as he piloted the spaceship into the dense asteroid belt ahead!
This is the outer edge of Planet Vampa, where a chaotic gravitational field causes countless massive meteorites to converge, forming a natural labyrinth of death.
The pursuing spaceships followed without hesitation.
"These idiots!"
Lemo pulled the control stick, and the spaceship narrowly passed through the gap between two massive asteroids about to collide at an unbelievable angle!
"Boom--!"
The two meteorites behind him collided with a deafening roar, unleashing a terrifying shockwave that sent countless fragments of rock flying like shrapnel.
The pursuing ships following closely behind had no time to react. Their shields flashed wildly as they were hit by a rain of gravel. One of them even had its side armor pierced, and it began to spin out of control, emitting black smoke.
"Well done, Lemo!"
Seeing this, a sliver of color returned to Cheelai's face, and he couldn't help but shout.
But Lemo's expression remained serious.
He knew this could only temporarily delay the other side's progress.
His gaze remained fixed on the old, flickering signal source in the corner of the control panel.
The source of the signal is now crystal clear.
That's the planet ahead, its entire body a dim yellow, radiating an ominous aura— Planet Vampa.
" Lemo! We're about to shake them off! Quickly find a direction and jump away from here!" Cheelai urged anxiously.
Lemo shook his head, his voice soft but unusually firm.
"No."
"What?!" Cheelai couldn't believe his ears.
"The distress signal is on that planet ahead," Lemo explained in a deep voice. "As a Legion patrolman, I cannot stand idly by."
"Are you crazy! That planet doesn't look like a good place at all! And what if the signal is a trap!"
Cheelai was completely enraged.
"The two of us going would be committing suicide!"
Lemo didn't argue with her anymore.
He just stared intently at the dim, yellowish planet ahead, a resolute glint in his eyes.
He jerked the control stick, pushing the spaceship's engine power to its limit!
The spaceship emitted a dazzling blue flame from its tail, broke free from the asteroid belt, and transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for Planet Vampa!
"No!!"
Cheelai's screams were completely drowned out by the violent friction noise of the spaceship plunging into the atmosphere.
The entire spaceship, like a falling meteorite, plunged headlong into the thick, viscous, corrosive, and hazy atmosphere of Planet Vampa!
"Warning! Warning! Strong acidic airflow detected in the external environment! Shield energy consumption rate increased by 300%!"
The piercing system alarm sounded again.
The spaceship was violently jolted, like a small boat in a raging storm, on the verge of being torn apart at any moment.
Lemo gritted his teeth, gripping the direction tightly with both hands, sweat dripping from his forehead.
The environment on Planet Vampa is several times worse than recorded in the data.
Just then, the spaceships of the escaped prisoners who were relentlessly pursuing them also plunged into the atmosphere.
However, their good luck came to an end.
All that could be heard was a "buzzing" sound.
The external armor of one of the spaceships, upon contact with the strong acid storm, reacted as if it were plastic splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid, rapidly emitting thick smoke, peeling off in large chunks, and melting away!
These cobbled-together spaceships were utterly incapable of withstanding the harsh environment of Planet Vampa.
"Hahaha! Serves you right! A bunch of junk!"
Upon seeing this, Cheelai, who had just been terrified, burst into gloating laughter.
The earlier repression and fear were somewhat released at this moment.
However, her laughter stopped abruptly after only a few seconds.
Because she saw that, on the Dragon Radar screen, although most of the red dots were falling in the chaos, two of the largest and most thoroughly modified flagships stubbornly withstood the corrosion and remained firmly behind them.
Lemo was completely focused, his fingers flying across the console, trying to pinpoint the increasingly clear old signal source amidst the raging storm of acid.
Just as he was about to adjust his course and prepare for a final emergency landing.
Without warning, the cockpit fell into a deathly silence of darkness.
All the light was completely swallowed up by a huge shadow.
Lemo's heart tightened suddenly, and he subconsciously looked up at the spaceship's transparent front cover.
With just one glance, the blood in his body almost froze.
A burly man, shirtless and muscular, was lying on the canopy of their spaceship, limbs outstretched like a prehistoric beast.
"Ah--! A monster!!"
Cheelai exclaimed in surprise!
Lemo was so startled by this sudden turn of events that he broke out in a cold sweat.
He gripped the control stick with both hands, ready to immediately activate the powerful reverse thrust engine and blast the uninvited guest clinging to the spaceship away.
However, it was discovered that the spaceship had suffered unexpected damage from the man's sudden impact...
The engine... has stopped working...
What kind of monster is this?!
Just then!
"Stop! Broly!"
A hoarse, furious shout suddenly echoed from the dim, yellowish wilderness below!
Paragus looked up at the spaceship in mid-air bearing the insignia of Frieza Force.
Finally... finally it's here again!
He and Broly had had enough of this damn planet!