Finale: His threat is ended
Vegeta scowled. He could already feel fatigue setting in from his first time in this form, and knew he couldn't keep it up for much longer, having pushed himself this far my sheer will alone.

'If we lose this now its over! Buu WILL absorb us... and become truly unstoppable...' he thought in anger and frustration.

Bruushin flipped onto his feet and kicked Vegeta in the jaw, sending him to the ground for a moment. Gotenks threw himself forward but his punch met air as another teleport occured, the hybrid crashing down beside one of his fathers.

Something clicked in Vegetas mind, be it from the hit or desperation, but he thought back to the first time he had encountered Super Buu and fused. 'That could work...' he pushed himself up right and grabbed Gotenks by the hair before the hybrid could rush forward again.

"Listion up! Get absorbed with an energy shield around your body! We both know how to do it!" he ordered in a harsh whisper. A groan above got their attention to Piccolos plight and each kicked off the ground towards the namekian.

Bruushin reappeared before them and smashed Gotenks in the face, aiming his other fist at Vegetas face, but the elder saiyan caught it and skullbashed him again. With a low groan as he pulled back he dropped back into his base form as his power ran out.

Bruushin hissed as he recoiled from the attack and and backhanded Vegeta straight down into and through the ground some dozen feet. The elder saiyan was left dazed and struggling to remain conscious.

Piccolo panted as he felt his life starting to slip away. The hole in his chest was slow in recovering, and if it didn't happen soon, he'd be dead... forever. Gone.

He dropped to the ground beside Gohan, who was somehow still alive despite his number of wounds. 'Hang in there, Son Gohan...' he thought before passing out.

Dende arrived on New Namek, the cloaked yardrat beside him. A few different namekians around rushed forward. "Dende?" they asked in curiosity. "What is that ring above your head?"

"I don't have a lot of time, but we're dead. Earth was destroyed again by Majin Buu, and he's absorbed or killed all of the others that could have stopped him. Do you have the dragon mold used to create the dragonballs still?" he asked.

They shook their heads no, saddened by this occurance. Dende grimmaced. "Then I'll have to make a new one. Have you not noticed how the dragonballs have turned to stone?" he asked.

With a worried glance at one another they turned and began dashing off towards the north, motioning for Dende and the stranger to follow.

Bruushin threw Vegeta ontop of the Piccolo, Goten and Trunks, and Gohans prone forms. The base instincts he was still running on was making it incredibly hard to ration things out, to think for the monster.

With a hiss one arm dropped off at the shoulder, and began spinning into the air over them before spreading out like a sheet. 'Here it comes...' Vegeta thought slowly. "Now..!" he muttered to the others.

A moment later the sheet engulfed them, wrapping tightly about before dragging the struggling forms back into his body.

Bruushins growled loudly and smirked, with the immediat threat gone he was able to calm down and begin thinking rationally as well. And the first thing he noticed was a complete lack of change in his form.

He realised what had happened. "I've been had, again!" he hissed. 'But this time... I won't let them tear out my absorptions!'

Inside, somewhere in the range of the stomach once again, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, and Gohans bodys crashed to the floor. The wide energy shield raised around the group as a whole by the first three fell.

Vegeta wearily pushed himself to his feet. "We need to go. He'll have noticed that he hasn't changed." he ordered. Trunks managed to stand up, but Goten and the others sat slumped around.

Vegeta scowled as he shuffled forward and lifted Piccolo and Gohan to there feet, leaning heavily against him. "Move it! Unless you WANT Buu to absorb you!" he snapped. Trunks helped Goten up likewise, and the group began heading in one direction.

Far ahead in Buus body, Bruushin paced the lining of the room where his absorptions were stored. He was restricted to this one room within his body, but he would not allow them anywhere near the pods.

After walking for close to twenty minutes, the pods came into sight. Goku, Kabitokai, Kaioshin, and a figure that had to be Brolly.

Then he noticed Bruushin, standing walking around from behind one and starting in on another circle before halting, eyes taking in the sight of his enemys. Vegeta lowered Gohan and Piccolo to the ground where they were and stretched his body.

He felt like crap, but he could push himself if it meant the eradication of this threat. Afterall, he was still alive. He had a benefit the others lacked.

"Power up as high as you can, and destroy the cords holding those pods up. Get them out however you can afterwards." Vegeta commanded in a low whisper.

Goten and Trunks both nodded their heads wearily. "What about you, dad?" Trunks asked.

"I'll distract Buu." he responded. Each hybrid stood up straight and focused their energys together, then yelled "HAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!", eachs hair spiking up and turning golden as their eyes became teal.

Vegeta remained in base as the trio strode forward. 'I have to conserve all of my energy for this. They will need every second I can give them.' he thought. Bruushin stepped forward to stand before the four pods, arms crossed.

"Its over, Buu. You've lost." Vegeta taunted, hoping to revert him to base instincts again. The monster simply hissed in annoyance. 'Why doesn't he charge?' Vegeta looked around and noticed something.

"Wait." he ordered Goten and Trunks, who stopped with curious looks towards him. "I was wondering what took you so long to appear, why you hadn't come after us on the way here. Now I know. You can't leave that room!" Vegeta called across to Bruushin.

More hissing, this time in anger. Vegeta allowed himself a smirk. He threw his arms out and his head back, and began focusing all of his energy, every last ounce of it, into once more entering his Super Saiyan 3 state.

With a rumble of power, his hair flared golden and spiked out wildly, rushing down his shoulders and back, eye brows vanishing as his muscles began far more enhanced and defined, eyes turning teal. As soon as his transformation was done, Vegeta threw himself out Bruushin.

Goten and Trunks both rushed for the pods.

Bruushin teleported before them but was kicked in the back by Vegeta, who grabbed onto the tenticle and began spinning, smashing him into the walls and pods in the room, nearly doing the hybrids job for them.

Snarling Bruushin tore his tenticle off and righted himself, teleporting at the hybrids again, but once more recieving an attack, a blow to his face that drew blood. The remains of his tenticle had been erased with a powerful ki blast just a split-second before.

Goten severed the link holding the top of Gokus pod, while Trunks took out the cord at the bottom of it. Instantly Bruushin gasped and hunched over, pain wracking his body.

Vegeta snapped a kicked up, nearly tearing Bruushins head off from the strength behind it.

Both hybrids took care of Kabitokais pod next, and the regal outfit reverted from red to purple, still with Brollys armor and jewelry attached.

Vegeta dropped back into base form, panting sharply for breath, falling to a knealing position.

Elderkais pod came next, and Bruushin was reverted back to Bruuly. "STOP IT!!" he roared, throwing himself at them, but Vegeta managed to trip him up. Grinning to one another, both saiyans gripped the last pod and tore it free. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Bruulys body melted down into the floor with that agonised scream.

His real body began shaking violently. Vegeta rolled to his feet and struggled into a standing position. "Get... get them... out.. the holes..." he panted, staggering towards the hallway he had left Gohan and Piccolo in.

His hands grasped each of the others limply and he began dragging them back to the pod room, where holes far overhead could be seen opening and closing at a rapid pace. His vision was beginning to tunnel as he ascended into the air, then blacked out all together.

Vegeta opened his eyes to see he was gliding through the air. "How... ??" he wondered. "You're pretty heavy, dad!" Trunks muttered up to him. Vegeta glanced down and saw he was being carried through the air on his sons shoulders.

In one hand two pods were tied together by the cords. The other held Piccolo loosely.

Goten was carrying his own two pods also tied by the cords in one hand, Gohan riding on his shoulders like Vegeta was Trunks.

They were closing in on the holes, which shut again just before them, then suddenly shot back open and closed, starting to become more random in the timing. "Go for it!" Trunks shouted across to Goten.

Both hybrids rushed forward and out into open air, where they enlarged rapidly and almost instantly.

The pods released their inhabitants, who tumbled down to the ground below. The body of Bruushin had reverted that of Mr. Buu, who lay on the ground, unconscious.

"We did it!" Goten cheered. Trunks laughed and high-fived him. Vegeta allowed himself a brief smirk before it vanished as he looked at the unconscious forms of the others, the unknown saiyan in perticular.

"The threat.. isn't.. over." he muttered, pointing a hand at Brolly. "He is.. the reason.. everything.. happened." his body was aching terribly, and he felt like he would drop dead at any moment. Speaking was agony.

Goten and Trunks stopped their brief celebrating and turned towards him. "So what do we do now?" "Wake... that Kaioshin." Vegeta murmured, leaning back against a rock and closing his eyes.

When he woke up again, Vegeta was standing before Enma. A golden halo floated above his head. "Dead again so soon? Well, you've arrived on time. Your help is needed below." Enma stated.

Vegeta frowned. 'I died in my sleep. How pathetic!' with a shake of his head he walked over towards the path to snakeway.

Down below, in HFIL, Brolly had awoken. Around him were numerous strong power levels, this he could feel. "So, you're Brolly." Goku stated.

Brolly stood up. He recognized that face, that hair. "Kakarrot." he smiled, licking his lips in anticipation. Goku frowned. "My names Goku." he said. Brolly shrugged. "Ignoring... your saiyan heritage? I... would expect no better of a peasant of your level." he stated with a tone of disgust.

His eyes glanced around at the gathered others. Gohan, Piccolo, Elder Kai, Kabitokai, Trunk, Mr. Buu, and lastly Goten. His eyes narrowed. "Have... you taken up a mate among these earthlings, Kakarrot?" he demanded, turning back to face Goku.

"What if I have?" Goku asked. "Sickining!" he growled. "But... no matter..." he turned from Goku. "I... have travelled far to this dustball. To... face you in battle. If... any of you, interfere with me... I will kill you." he stated.

Gokus eyes narrowed. "I don't know why you want to fight me, but insulting my friends and family is the wrong way to go about it!" he responded seriously. "You can go back to whatever asteroid you crawled out from under." he added, turning his back on Brolly.

"Lets go. We've dealt with the immediat threat." he began to ascend into the air but was caught by Brolly. "You... dare dismiss me, like I am nothing?" he murmured lowly. His hair flashed golden and his eyes became teal as he spun Goku around by the ankle and slammed him into the ground.

"Dad!" Gohan said, stepping forward but was halted by his fathers words. "Stop, Gohan." hopping up to his feet, Goku faced Brolly, rubbing dirt from his gi.

"What vendetta do you hold?" Goku asked. Brolly paused for a moment. "Perhaps... you've forgotten. Or... did you never know? Bardock... killed my father, Paragus." he stated. "For... that crime, your life will be taken!"

With that Brolly shot at Goku and clothslined him again, sending him to the dirt. Coughing a couple of times Goku teleported into air over his friends. "You're a fool to hold me responsible for what my father did! But if you want to fight me that badly, then fine!" Gokus aura burst to life and his hair flickered into golden, spiking upwards, eyes once again becoming teal.

A moment later lighting began sparking off his aura as his hair became even more spiked out, two bangs hanging down over his forehead.

Brolly turned around and yelled, entering into his Legendary Super Saiyan state, hair becoming wilder and pupils vanishing, growing twice as tall and every bit as muscular as an Ultra Super Saiyan.

An instant later their fists met in mid air, the shockwave knocking each saiyan backwards, and sending the rest of them to the ground. 'Whoa! He's easily a match for this form... I'll have to take it one step further!' Goku thought.

He wasn't given the chance, however, as Brolly appeared overhead and smashed him with both hands locked together down into the ground. Dropping down Brolly stomped Goku even further, kicked off of the others body into the air only to drop back down again.

With a gasp, Goku twisted up off the ground and kicked Brolly in the ribs, throwing him into the mountain of spikes nearby. "Darn it.. that hurt!" he panted, but paused as the mountain was reduced to rubble from a scream of anger and an expanding explosion of ki.

The wind backlash knocked anyone who had stood up right again to the ground once more as Brolly shot forward, a large crater left behind where the spikes once were. He kicked Goku backwards towards the others but his follow up uppercut missed thanks to an Instant Transmission.

Gokus Kamehameha slammed into Brollys back, burning the skin. With a growl several green ki spheres shot from the legendarys hands, twisting in mid air to collide with Gokus temporarily still form.

The Kamehameha faded was forced to block. Brolly was on him again a moment later, this time his uppercut colliding, then with a forward flip kicking Goku back down into the ground.

Overhead Vegeta descended, a scowl forming. He landed behind the others and demanded "What are you waiting for?" A few jumped. "Gokus decided to face Brolly alone." Piccolo told him.

"Why?" "Brollys father was killed by Gokus." Vegeta paused. That was indeed a delicate subject, truly earning a one on one match... but Goku was not winning. He was clearly in need of his SSJ 3 form, and unable to find the time to transform into it.

"On Planet Vegeta, such a match lasting beyond five minutes warranted outside influence. How much time has passed since they began?" Vegeta demanded.

"About two minutes." Gohan estimated. Vegetas scowl became more pronounced. "Three minutes. We must wait three minutes more, and if kakarrot falters, its over." he stated.

Blood dripped from gokus mouth, and one eye was bruised and swolen shut. His power had taken a nose dive back into the first form of Super Saiyan, and from there he was truly getting pummeled all over again. 'Damn it!... I need to transform but I can't get away long enough!' he thought.

Brolly for the most part was wound-free, and showed no signs of fatigue, unlike his foe.

He was actually laughing as he punch by punch and kick by kick killed the other saiyan. Then he would work his way through the others, Vegeta for his fathers actions that led to Bardock having to kill Paragus, and the halfbreeds for being abominations.

With a note of frustation Goku fired off another Kamehameha, and had to dodge as his own attack was back-handed at him.

By the time the three minutes had come to a close, Gokus body resembled Gohans after Bruushin was done with it. His face was nearly unrecognizable. His arms were jutting out at odd angles, and his legs were mangled badly. Multiple burn wounds lined his form. He had dropped back into base form entirely.

Brolly licked his lips again as he raised a closed hand, green light emitting from the cracks in preparation to finish this.

Suddenly several shouts were heard from behind. "FUSION-HA!" "HAAAAAAHH!" "KAIOKEN TIMES FOUR!" "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"

Brolly spun around in time to see two of the brats merge together into a single being, who instantly transformed, golden hair reaching the back of his knees as the eyebrows vanished.

The prince had entered a form very simular. The oldest of the abominations had a firey red and white aura around his body. The namekian had locked two fingers together and released a spiraling beam of ki at him. And the pink blob that had absorbed him before now released several rapid fire ki bursts.

Brolly made to jump out of the way but was roundhouse kicked from behind by Gohan into them. Several white Ghosts formed from Gotenks mouth and rushed forward at him. Above Vegetas hands locked together and he released a Final Flash.

Suddenly Gohan was at his side, the white beam of the Kamehameha streaming from both hands as Mr. Buus pink limbs replaced the eldest hybrid, keeping Brolly where he was.

Brolly roared in anger as he released another explosion of ki around his body, successfully repelling their attacks and if Mr. Buu hadn't leapt back in time, would have killed him.

But it left him a little tired. He would need a few moments to recover his energy for another explosion. He never got that precious time. Gohan was on him, punch after punch crashing down on the Legendary Super Saiyan, breaking bones with his punchs.

Kicking away, he motioned towards the others. Plan B of their joint-effort attack plan was about to begin.

Piccolo and Mr. Buu appeared at his front and back. A Masenko and Kamehameha respectively trapped him for the moment, as Gohan dragged his fathers body to safety then rose to the sky with Gotenks.

The trio of saiyans locked eyes with one another and Gotenks ascended higher, then began spitting out Ghost after Ghost until the sky above him was filled with nearly a hundred of them.

Vegeta released another Final Flash from left side down at Brolly as Gohan, after a moment, sent a Super Kamehameha down from the right side.

Gotenks smiled as he ordered his ghosts down at Brolly.

Just before the two saiyans beams hit Piccolo releashed his technique and kicked off from the ground, rushing backwards into the air. Mr. Buu, however remained. He had to to ensure Brolly did not escape.

The two beam techniques crashed down onto Brollys body, ripping away at his flesh and bone with an agonised scream that would have sent chills down their spines if they could hear it.

The hundred Super Ghost Kamikazis ended the Legendary Super Saiyans threat once and forall. The explosion from it reached Snakeway above and eradiciated most of HFIL.

"I'm sorry... but it can not be done." Dende said, looking at the gathered Z-Fighters and Enma. "Only a living scion of the dragonclan can bring the dragonballs back to their former glory. I'm useless dead." he said sadly.

Elder Kai nudged Kabitokai. "Eeh?" he asked, turning to him. Elder Kai glanced upwards to his halo, then to Goku, and back. When Kabitokai continued to look confused Elder Kai grimmaced, and finally leaned in, whispering furiously.

"Oh!" he exclaimed. With a frown Kabitokai walked up to Dende and, placing a hand on his shoulder, closed his eyes. A moment later he fell to the ground, a golden halo forming over his head as Dendes vanished.

"Thank you, Kaioshin." Dende said sincerely, placing his hands together before him and bowing respectfully. Kabitokai pushed himself up to his feet. "I'm not quite sure how long I have left, but you're likely to live another few hundred thousand years at the least." he said with a grimmace matching the Elder Kais.

Nodding his head greatfully, Dende approached the glass encased dragon mold. His hands held out over it, Dende began muttering something, then with a flash of light from the mold, several energy bolts streaked off from it into the sky for a moment before vanishing from sight.

"With that we can restore things back to the way they were before Buus attack." the namekian said happily.

"Good job, Dende."