Chapter Nine: Vegetas
pride
Once the steam had been released,
Bruukus body finally started to assume his final shape. His height
dropped slightly between Kid Buu and Super Buu, the various pieces of
Brollys golden armor/jewelry attached over the regal outfit of
Kabitokai, with Gokus boots.
A green-yellow aura formed around his body, as his red eyes receded into his skull, nose becoming the flat slits he had as Super Buu. His tenticle reached the ground at his feet. His skin became the pale gray it once had as Evil Buu.
Hissing, Bruushin raised his head and glared, turning from one to another.
King Kai, realising the hamper on Gohans speed the weights were, quickly waved his hand and banished them to where they had come from, doing the same for Piccolo before a sudden brown beam hit him from behind.
The Lord of the Worlds became a chocolate bar, which was smashed beneath the right heel of Bruushin an instant later.
Gohans eyes narrowed and a split second later a red aura burst to life around his body, muscles enhancing sharply as though he had become an Ultra Super Saiyan.
With a gleam of violence in his eyes, Gohan kicked off the ground and smashed shoulder first into the still Bruushin, sending him soaring into the mountain of spikes.
Gohan turned his head in Piccolos direction for a moment. "Go." he ordered, eyes flicking upward, then he spun around and threw his head back in time to avoid a kick from Bruushin.
"You want to play that way?" Gohan growled, aura growing more violent as a white hue came into the red. In an instant Gohan had twisted his lower body around and kicked several times into Bruushins head, drawing blood, then with a final kick sending him into the sky.
"Hah!" Gohan leapt into the air and soared above his enemy, drawing his hands together and over head, then smashing down on Bruushins back.
Hissing violently Bruushin twisted around and fired off another chocolate beam, followed right after by a kamehameha beneath him incase Gohan reappeared there.
Gohan dodged the first and appeared beneath the second. "KAMEHAMEHAH!" he yelled, locking his hands together and countering with his own.
The two beams met in mid air and, for a moment, Bruushins held its own, then was deflected back onto the monster. Gohans engulfed his body, burning it away.
'Come on! Come on! You aren't dead that easy!' he thought in anger. He felt the air rustling behind him followed by intense heat, and swiftly side-stepped it, throwing himself forward. Bruushin, half formed and panting, raised both hands again and began firing off multiple green ki bursts.
Gohan raised his arms before his face and blocked the brunt of the attack, but they kept on coming, more and more, and his arms quickly began to grow sore than bleed. 'Enough of this!' "Kaioken... TIMES TEN!" Gohan screamed.
Instantly he felt something had gone wrong. It started as a fizzle in the back of his aura, a slight snap as somethough a spark of fire had come to life, but within an a second his aura began to combust.
Gohan knew he had just exceeded his limits. If he were still alive his body would have exploded from that. His soul was a little stronger after the training, but it, too, would be destroyed if he kept this level of Kaioken up for more than a few seconds.
While he was distracted by this Bruushin had come closer and smashed a knee into his chin, knocking Gohan back and forcing him out of the kaioken.
Then the punchs began falling, and Gohan could feel his ribs breaking. "AAAAAAAAAAH!!" he screamed, activating the four fold Kaioken once more and rolling from beneath the attack.
His right foot shot up and smashed Bruushin in the face, sending him reeling for a second.
Gohan rolled to his knees and grabbed Bruushins left hand, then began spinning, standing up and rotating faster and faster until the world was a blur, then he slammed his enemy to the ground with the additional g-force and weight.
Panting as his spirital body began to ache, Gohan locked his hands before him. "Kame.. ha me..." "Stop, Gohan." Gokus voice came from Bruushin. Gohans eyes widened a fraction of an inch and he halted in finishing the technique.
"You did it. You broke my pod out of Buus control. I've taken him over with the help of Brolly." he said. Gohan growled. "HAH!!" he yelled, pushing his hands forward as the beam erupted, catching Bruushin in its point-blank range.
"FOOL!" Buus voice roared, one arm snaking out and grasping Gohan by the throat, raising him up and throwing him into the mountain of spikes. Wrapped in an energy shield, Bruushin drew his arm back and pushed up from the crater.
"You're broken. I can feel it in your Ki. I don't even have to try to erase you from existence! But oh, I will make you suffer for what you've done to this body in the time you have left." Bruushin growled, pupils flaring white briefly before the aura around his body began shifting eradically and lighting flared off from it.
His ki shot upwards greater then before, and he began walking forward slowly, cracking each knuckle. His mind had been clouded before, the pureness of the Kaioshins and Goku fight with his own natural rage and that felt by Brolly, leaving him speachless and fighting much as he had as Kid Buu.
But now his mind was free of their influence. He had sub-dued them and awoken from it. Now, once he had dealt with the Z-Fighters, he would torture every single living being or creature in this universe, and from there destroy their spirits in Other World afterwards, until he was the last living thing in existence.
Starting with Son Gohan.
Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, Vegeta, Tenshinhan, Krillin, Yajirobe, and Yamcha stood around the TV showing the battle below.
"Gohan can't win like this." Piccolo said darkly. "That much is obvious." Vegeta growled. His body had been rescued from the Planet of the Kais the moment Bruuku finished with him and came after Gotenks.
He had been healed and left at the checkin station before the Kaioshin came to check on Gohan and Piccolo.
"I'm not going to stand by and watch him be killed again! If any of you are with me, be warned, die and you cease to exist. Even the Dragonballs can't restore you from that." he said in a grim tone.
The latter four looked at one another in worry. "I'm sorry, but we're just humans. Your powerlevels dwarfed ours years ago." Krillin said honestly.
Piccolo nodded his head sharply. "Understood. What of you three?" he asked. "I'm not going to let my brother die too!" Goten said strongly. Trunks looked at his friend with approval before nodded his head as well.
"And you, Vegeta?" Piccolo questioned. "... If anyone should fight, its me. I won't, what, cease to exist you said before? Pah. You should know I'm not worried about such a thing. I risked my existence to give kakarrot his precious minute six months ago!" Vegeta muttered.
"So be it." Piccolo turned to Enma. "Can you bring the one known as Dende and any Yardrat currently dead here?" he demanded. Enma frowned at the tone. "Why?" he asked. "Because Dende is the only one who can create a new set of Dragonballs, and the Yardrats taught Goku how to teleport." Piccolo responded, glancing at the TV. It didn't look good.
"If the dragon mould of Namek is still around, Dende can make new Dragonballs for them briefly." he added. Enma looked thoughtful. "I will have to consider this and look into things." he said.
"Then that will have to be enough." Piccolo turned away and made for the doorway leading to Snakeway. "Lets go." he called behind him. Trunks and Goten followed right away, but Vegeta hmphed before muttering "Always having to save the brat from trouble."
Gohans body was a bloody mess. His left arm had been torn away, his face was pummeled in, and from the waist down he was twisted too far for the spine to still be in one piece.
His clothing was in shreds, and every inch of flesh revealed was battered and bruised, a pool of blood beneath him.
Bruushin glanced upwards as he felt four powerful, though weak in comparison to himself, kis descending. Piccolos Special Beam Cannon pierced the air where his head had been a moment before, followed by a dozen Galactic Halos close behind.
"So fusion is reborn." Bruushin grunted, annoyed. "Have you learned NOTHING?" he shook his head. 'The kaioshin are influencing me still. I shouldn't be angry like this... I should fell... eager.' as soon as he thought the word, he smirked and licked his lips, an anticipation he couldn't understand growing.
He snapped the halos around his body and vanished, reappearing behind Gotenks. Grabbing the gold hair by the top, he spun and released, throwing the hybrid into Piccolo before turning to Vegeta and getting a sharp punch to the chin.
Recovering Piccolo threw his hands into the air and released dozens of ki orbs around them, hands waiting to squeeze shut. Gotenks shrugged off the hit and began spitting out Ghosts, until a dozen surrounded him.
Vegeta ducked beneath a kick aimed at his head from behind as Bruushin teleported, twisting around in mid air to counter kick but missing and getting kneed in the head. Bruushins tenticle wrapped around Vegetas neck before he took notice of the orbs around them.
'Piccolos Hellzone Grenade technique' he thought. With a twist of his head he released and sent Vegeta carreening into the deadly attack, smashing through half of them.
Piccolo scowled and focused the remaining on Bruushin, but they collided in mid-air thanks to another teleport.
Bruushin grabbed Piccolos left arm and tore it off from behind, savoring the scream of pain and sight of the purple blood spurting free for just a moment too long. His body was engulfed in white as the Ghosts rushed him.
Piccolo was thrown free just in time to avoid dying and Gotenks once more had to put on additional speed to save his own skin, just like back on earth fighting Bruuly.
Vegeta shook his head, wiping soot off his outfit before turning to the fight below with a low growl and a grimmace. "HAAAAAAAHH!" he screamed, powering up into SSJ 2. But as he did this, he could feel something else, something he had never noticed or felt before.
It was like a hint of power he couldn't tap into as he was. Eyebrows meeting in annoyance he reached for it and felt his body begining to shake. After several seconds he threw his head back and roared, catching the attention of all three fighters below.
Vegetas eyebrows slowly faded away entirely, his golden hair spiking out even further as it began to slide down his back, muscles bulging out sharply.
"HRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" Vegetas voice roared again as lighting sparked off from around his body, power flowing into him like never before. Slowly he lowered his head back down, panting. A moment later he appeared before Bruushin. "So... this is what you felt, kakarrot." he stated with a frown.
Then his fist smashed into Bruushins gut, making the monster gasp and choke up a few specks of blood. With his other hand Vegeta grabbed ahold of Bruushins head and skullbashed him.
"Now, the Saiyan Prince is back." he smiled and began punching every inch of Bruushins body that was avalible. His eyes flicked over towards where Gotenks and Piccolo were watching.
Oh, how he would love to win this on his own... but he knew better than to let his pride begin ordering him about again. "What are you waiting for??" he called across to them in annoyance.
Gotenks blinked and then understood, and began powering up into his own Super Saiyan 3 form. A few moments and a brief scream later and he had ascended, then was at Bruushins back, matching each of Vegetas forward punchs with a punch from behind.
Bruushin was in exquisite agony, and he could feel himself dying with every blow. His mind was a mess of pain, preventing him from focusing long enough to teleport away.
After another few moments of this he reverted to pure instinct, and a primal scream tore itself from his throat as his body exploded into pink goo, showering them and the area surrounding them with pink goo.
Each Saiyan quickly erected an energy shield, destroying the remnants coating them, least he try to invade their bodys as he had Vegerots.
The rest of the goo piled together on the ground, quickly reforming into Bruushin. He was panting and out of breath, ki lowered sharply. Vegeta reappeared above him. "Where do you think you're going?" he asked, left hand slamming just beneath his jaw and releasing a ball of ki that exploded.
Bruushins headless body collapsed backwards for a moment, then began regenerating. But something was different about it this time. A white light was carried with it and washed over his body.
As the heroes felt Bruushins ki shoot upwards again, they all growled. 'Stupid!' Piccolo shouted at himself, 'One of us should have atleast thought about the chance that he could heal himself now that he has the Kaioshin!'
