Legendary Ascended Super Saiyan
From afar, a small point on a comet could be seen glowing in a green hue. If one came closer a figure could be seen hovering cross-legged just above the ground of the speeding comet. The figure had green hair and his bulging muscles were going from tense to relaxed couple of times per second.
Of course, this figure was Broly, who chose this speeding comet as his meditation location. His eyes were slightly trembling as if he was in a struggle. From time to time his ki was flaring up, expanding the already big crater around him. He was destroying the ground with his mere ki leakage. Obviously, that wasn't something new even normal Super Saiyans would be able to destroy the ground with their ki, but that was actually a problem. A problem Broly was trying to fix right now. It wasn't something life threatening but a performance issue.
Even Ascended Super Saiyans like Cana and Alea were able to transform without causing a calamity. Even Aize and Taro were able to control their ki in that way. Yes, their control was relatively better than Broly's. It had something to do that his ki was more potent, be it it's strength or nature, it was a level harder for him to reach the same control as they have now. If he were a regular Super Saiyan, Broly was confident that he would have already achieved Super Saiyan 3, even though he wasn't sure if his strength would be greater than now.
It has been a year since he began to hover in this position. After many months he had reached a level where he won't destroy his surroundings anymore while transforming and there had been glimpses of a breakthrough, but he was missing something. It wasn't the amount of accumulative ki since his ki was by far enough to break through to a Legendary Ascended Super Saiyan (LSSJ2). He knew that some could ascend beyond Super Saiyan by relying on their emotional energy, but Broly knew that Alea and Cana weren't using it. They used this tingly feeling on their back to easily reach this form.
Even if Broly knew the methods: training, emotional upheaval, a desperate need or the tingly feeling; he couldn't ascend, and it started to piss him off. He was only a hair's breadth away, he could practically feel it.
He started to think about how Kale achieved her Legendary Super Saiyan 2. Her form was essentially a compressed version of her usual berserk form, but that was her. Kale was after all from another universe. They had progressed differently throughout the ages, but still. He knew after hearing about the curse, that even though there are probably differences, they both were still Legendary Super Saiyans. There had to be more similarities than differences. It was entirely possible that by compressing his own body to a smaller form he could achieve the next level as well, but he was hesitating. He knew that even with his 3-meter-tall physique there were no losses in terms of speed, strength or energy costs. If he now compressed his body, he may become stronger all around, but he would lose his reach.
One may consider the fact of reach as unimportant but in a high-level battle where the contestants were on the same level, the one with a longer striking range would most likely win. Obviously if one became so large that one had trouble to hit his opponent due to the height difference, it would be more of a disadvantage, but 3 meters wasn't in that category yet. Obviously, there are some beings that won't reach 1 meter making his height disadvantageous, but those were less likely to meet, considering the heights of the ones that would take part in the tournament of power. From that Broly estimated that the general elite should be at least taller than 1 meter. One might also argue that with ki blades and blasts, one could make this difference of reach negligible, but Broly didn't want to miss out on something that could raise his stakes by a small margin, even if that margin was less than 1 percent. He was contemplating now, if it was truly worth it.
Broly relaxed his body after thinking about it for a long time and coming to a conclusion. He knew that he wouldn't be losing his advantage but merely reducing it a bit. It was rather unfavorable to delay his evolution and progress because he was too stubborn to let go of minor advantageous. Sometimes it was more appropriate to be flexible and open minded to changes.
With that thought in mind, Broly placed his feet firmly on the comet.
Broly stretched his hands above his hands. His whole body started to glow as his ki started rising. Strangely there wasn't any indication of the violent energy like in the past. He only started glowing brighter by the second until his features couldn't be identified anymore.
In an instant, he pulled his arms down as if he was showing of his biceps while the light trembled all around him. From outside one could only see a figure that was covered by a green layer of light that was slowly shrinking in size from its initial 3-meter height.
"Arghhhhhh raaaaaah!!" A low beast-like roar out of ki rattled the whole comet Broly was standing on. A second later the light intensifies like an explosion.
And like an explosion the speeding comet was blown up into thousands of debris which shot away like lighting. The shockwave pushed everything back, even light seemed to be deflected by the high energy output.
Space trembled. It looked like rips in the fabric of space would appear any second. It took a few minutes until space went back to its normal order and light was able to reach the place a figure was floating in space.
A 2.5-meter-tall figure with spiky hair that rose completely to a point and glowed slightly green. Green lighting appeared all around his body. Broly floated in space with closed eyes as he felt the changes of his body.
If one would have described his body as a balloon before, it would be more of a steel ball now. The difference was immense. His skin's toughness had risen to a completely different level. He could feel that his strength and ki were twice as strong as his maximum output in his normal legendary state, but that was just his benefits of his Super Saiyan transformation.
The compression had brought him other benefits that he wouldn't have imagined before. He could feel the explosiveness of his strength increased tremendously. He felt like he could instantly reach his fastest speed in an instant, which meant that his acceleration had risen by far more than twice like he anticipated beforehand.
He wasn't even sure himself what his current compatibilities were. Of course, the greatest gain was the toughness of his body. His resilience, his overall defense rose terrifyingly.
The only downside to this form was the high energy expenditure to maintain this form. In his normal legendary state, he could basically stay in it indefinitely because he could recover more energy than he used. Of course, that was only if he wasn't recklessly spending it.
Now on the other hand, the maintenance was high as he needed energy to compress his body. The expenditure was so high, he wouldn't be able to maintain it for more than 10 minutes and that was if he didn't move at all like he did now. Obviously, this was because he wasn't used to this form yet. He would need to get used to it until it was second nature to transform to this form.
For the next 8 minutes he felt his body by flexing every muscle he could and make himself familiar to this form. He finally reverted back and started to calm down again. He could feel his body arch. It certainly took its toll on his body. He was exhausted. Good thing he expected this and didn't use up all his energy right then, after all he was without back up deep in the universe floating in space.
He thought it was time to go back and look how they went with the base building. He put two fingers on his temple and searched for his planet. He had traveled far to find this comet, so it took him a second before localizing it.
In the next moment he disappeared and reemerged thousands of lightyears away above his planet. He looked down and saw a giant city reaching inside the jungle. It looked like the city was a combined effort of nature and civilization.
Broly knew this wasn't the result of only the elves and Saiyans.