"Kakarot's not here?"
Vegeta looked over the assembled superheroes with obvious disappointnt.
"What, is that coward too scared to show himself?"
The heroes exchanged confused looks.
Kakarot?
Who was Kakarot?
Before anyone could respond, a sonic boom split the air.
Tony Stark had arrived.
And unlike everyone else, Tony had no interest in negotiations.
The last Saiyan Earth had encountered had nearly wiped out humanity.
As far as Tony was concerned, there was no point talking.
Only fighting.
The biomitic armor streaked out of the sky and attacked imdiately.
Even Vegeta and Nappa were caught off guard.
"What?"
Vegeta's eyes narrowed.
"They don't have ki?"
That was the first thing he noticed.
No detectable energy signatures.
No battle auras.
Nothing.
Yet one of them had already launched an attack.
"Bug Mode."
Tony issued the command.
In less than a second, the biomitic armor transford.
To everyone watching, Tony simply vanished.
To Vegeta and Nappa, it was even worse.
One mont he was there.
The next mont he wasn't.
Then both Saiyans were sent flying.
Tony had entered an ultra-accelerated state.
Everything around him slowed to a crawl.
The superheroes below appeared nearly frozen.
Even the movent of dust particles seed sluggish.
Over the years, Tony had discovered a problem with this mode.
Speed alone wasn't enough.
Energy weapons beca almost useless.
Even a beam moving at light speed still required ti to travel.
And in this accelerated state, even a femtosecond stretched into an eternity.
High-frequency blades suffered similar issues.
Their destructive power depended on vibration.
But between each microscopic oscillation existed tiny gaps in ti.
During those gaps, Tony could already launch countless attacks.
Eventually, he found a solution.
A technique borrowed from another speedster.
Tony placed his hand against Vegeta's neck.
Then began vibrating it at extre frequency.
The High-Frequency Vibration Hand.
A move once used by the Flash.
By the ti the biomitic armor exited accelerated mode due to excessive energy consumption...
Nappa saw sothing impossible.
Vegeta's head slid from his shoulders.
Thud.
The Saiyan prince's body collapsed.
His severed head rolled across the ground.
Nappa froze.
His mind refused to process what he was seeing.
How?
How could soone with such a low power level do that?
"You're next."
Tony's confidence surged.
The attack had worked because Vegeta hadn't reinforced his neck with ki.
Combined with the millions of vibration strikes delivered in a fraction of a second, decapitation had beco inevitable.
Drex Valen watched from afar.
The outco wasn't surprising.
These weren't the enhanced Saiyans he had created using modified genetics and Reality Stone alterations.
These were the original versions.
Against the superheroes of this Earth, they were badly outmatched.
Tony Stark alone had beco terrifying.
Years of constant battles against monsters, aliens, and superhuman threats had forged him into one of the deadliest warriors in the galaxy.
Combined with the biomitic armor, he ranked among the elite of all non-god-tier super soldiers.
"Don't get cocky!"
Nappa roared.
"You trash with a power level of five hundred!"
He thrust out one hand.
A beam of ki erupted forward.
Tony's biomitic armor had already begun replenishing its energy reserves through arc-reactor output and environntal energy absorption.
In another mont, it would be ready to enter accelerated mode again.
The armor's greatest weakness wasn't power.
It was energy consumption.
Tony still needed a power source capable of keeping up with its absurd demands.
Around him, the other heroes relaxed slightly.
Watching Tony casually kill one Saiyan had boosted everyone's confidence.
"Saiyan."
Tony stepped onto Vegeta's corpse.
"This isn't the Earth you rember."
At that mont, Steve Rogers moved.
He strode forward carrying his star-spangled shield.
Electric light crackled across his eyes.
Years ago, Drex Valen had transford him into a battleship-class Superman.
His abilities now resembled those of a Kryptonian powerhouse.
White energy danced around him like living lightning.
Nappa's scouter began screaming warnings.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
The readings kept rising.
"Impossible!"
Nappa stared in disbelief.
"His power level is increasing!"
Then Steve attacked.
Twin beams of brilliant white energy erupted from his eyes.
They slamd directly into Nappa's incoming ki blast.
The collision triggered catastrophe.
This universe didn't obey Dragon Ball's rules.
Energy beams didn't neatly push against one another.
They reacted violently.
The mont the two energies t, a massive repulsion effect occurred.
Then ca the explosion.
BOOOOOM!
The blast swallowed everything.
Heroes.
Buildings.
Streets.
Nappa himself.
Blinding light engulfed the battlefield.
Hurricane-force winds ripped through the surrounding area.
Entire houses were torn from their foundations.
A tidal wave of destructive energy surged outward.
When the energy storm finally subsided, devastation stretched across the battlefield.
Fortunately, Steve had raised his shield.
The torrent of annihilating energy crashed against it repeatedly.
The shield remained completely unhard.
Nappa wasn't so lucky.
Half his shoulder had been burned away.
Charred bone protruded from blackened flesh.
Even though he'd reinforced himself with ki, the unexpected nature of the explosion had left him severely injured.
And then things got worse.
The first blast had triggered a chain reaction.
Underground power grids.
Gas lines.
Infrastructure.
Everything began detonating.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
A series of explosions ripped through the area.
The street beca a war zone.
Smoke billowed skyward.
Chunks of concrete flew through the air.
The pavent looked as though it had been bombed repeatedly.
S.W.O.R.D.'s extensive electrical systems and gas infrastructure had beco collateral damage.
Unfortunately for Nappa, he thought the battle was over.
He lowered his guard.
He even opened his mouth to deliver a threat.
Then the secondary explosions reached him.
The Saiyan was thrown into the air.
Shockwaves hamred his body from every direction.
When the chaos finally ended, several superheroes had collapsed from their injuries.
Nappa looked even worse.
He was barely alive.
"Authentic Saiyan DNA isn't sothing I want floating around."
Drex Valen appeared silently.
Then both Saiyan corpses vanished.
One mont they were there.
The next they were gone.
The sudden disappearance startled several heroes, who imdiately thought another enemy had arrived.
Drex paid them no attention.
His focus remained on the bodies.
After examining them, he reached a conclusion.
"The genetic structure is identical."
The Saiyan DNA created through the Reality Stone wasn't rely an approximation.
It was exactly the sa.
Perfect in every detail.
Drex couldn't help being impressed.
Such was the power of a true multiversal artifact.
Then again, perhaps it wasn't surprising.
Compared to the Reality Stone, even beings like Zeno existed on an entirely different scale.
As far as Drex was concerned, ordinary Saiyans simply weren't that impressive.
Not compared to Kryptonians.
Not compared to Strontians.
Not compared to Gladiator.
Not compared to Hyperion.
Saiyans relied heavily on ki.
Without it, their physical durability dropped dramatically.
Even a laser weapon could kill a Super Saiyan God if their defenses were down.
That weakness alone placed them far below the truly monstrous species scattered throughout the multiverse.
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