Vigilante Angel: Chapter the Twenty-eighth
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A/n: I have a note here from Aline. It basically says she's quit. And yet she's still a registered member of AASN, and VA is still going on. What could this mean?
Readers: …
SP: She's taking another vacation.
Readers: /Nod matter-of-factly/
SP: Yeah that's what I thought. Gonna go fish her out of the Caribbean again… Cya whenever and however!
Enjoy!
SP: PS, IT'S THE MAJIN BUU VS. GOHAN FIGHT!!! REJOICE!!! IT IS HERE AT LONG LAST!!! MUAHAHAHA!!
Ahem. /Coughs lightly/ Again, enjoy. AND REVIEW! /Glares/ (Although it's not much of a fight. Hehe)
Last time, on Vigilante Angel—
"Let's kick some Majin Buu butt. This Kid needs a spanking once and for all," Gohan quipped. There were no chuckles or even groans at his bad pun on Kid Buu, although Gohan did feel a mental eye roll coming from Gabrielle's section of his mind. However, Gohan didn't pay any attention to it. Using Qui-klan's super speed powers, he was already on the move.
Son Gohan, Saiyan warrior, defender of Earth, and guardian angel of one Son Goten, was coming.
Woe to Majin Buu.
Gohan got to the battlefield so fast that he almost lost his bearings. He didn't lose them enough that he didn't punch Majin Buu straight on in the face as Buu was preparing to kick off in Gohan's direction (meaning he did sucker-punch that darn Kid), but he did have to hesitate for a split second to regain those bearings (Whoa that's fast. Faster than Instant Transmission, that's so fast. Yikes.) after that, however, there was nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Gohan streaked after the Main and was soon beating it up into a dented pulp. Not a bloody pulp, since that Kid didn't have any blood running through it, but certainly a pulp, oh yes. Kid Buu had no chance to regain its own wits until it hit in an unlucky punch that knocked Gohan away for more than three seconds. In that period of time, Buu shot a pink ki ball at Gohan, who quickly deflected it and went at the Kid again.
Goku, who by now was only in his SS1 state, having lost far too much energy to be able to maintain the SS2 level, was expecting fists and feet in his stomach. He could make no move to prevent those fists and feet, for his body was wracked with too much pain to be able to move much. Goku tried to conquer that condemnable pain as quickly as possible, so that he could at least be semi-prepared for the flurry of pink bubblegum that was Kid Majin Buu.
However, when the expected attack did not come, after many, many seconds, Goku grew curious. He agonizingly cracked open one bleeding eyelid to see, but he couldn't see anything but dirt and the small rocks that had tumbled down after him as he fell through the earth. Goku shut the eye and instead used his ki reading abilities, choosing not to undergo any more pain than he absolutely needed to.
What he felt did cause him pain, however. Not pain in the head (as if Goku would ever get that) but pain from sitting up too sharply and too fast. The Saiyan ignored (with actual difficulty) the pain however, for the shocking sight he could now clearly see merited that at least.
Of course, since we (we being the authoress and the readers), well, I, are all-knowing, we know exactly what is going on. It's only the fight between Gohan (or rather Gohan, Gabrielle, Arikeru, etc.) and Kid Majin Buu (or rather… er…), nothing major. Let us look at how our favorite (and only) Saiyan Prince is doing.
Vegeta. Yes, Veggie-chan. He was doing a lot better than one other childish Saiyan, a fact that he will be quick to mention to anyone who is willing to listen (not us). Of course, he had attained SS3 by this time, and had even listened to a few (but not all) of Gohan's Tips for Extremely Late Bloomers (SP: D) to reduce the drain of SS3 on his energy levels. Thanks to the teen demi-Saiyan, Vegeta was able to not only reduce the damage to his ki reserves, but also to control the level a bit better than he would have without the… help… of that smug Kakkagaki. One just shudders at the mention of that word when used in connection with Vegeta. No good things can come of that usage.
But we stray far from the original path chosen for this chapter. Vegeta was faring a lot better, but he was still beaten up and bloody. He was in much less pain than Goku was, and Vegeta would deny that he was in any pain, but we're not going to listen to him, now are we? No! (:D) Anyway, yeah, Veggie-kun was a lot better, and he was also still in SS3, although it was only be a huge amount of sheer will and pride that he was still (that's Veg-head for ya). For he was at the end of his energy rope for SS3, and he knew that if that darn Buu threw him to the ground as hard as it had last time, Vegeta would not be able to keep it. Curse that ugly gaki of a monster! Why did it have to be so strong and he, the Prince of all Saiyans, so weak against it?
Quite suddenly, the proud Saiyan Prince was snapped out of his self-despising thoughts for something far more important. After all, it wasn't every day you saw, or rather felt, an immensely powerful and just as evil monster (and made of bubblegum too, yum!) just slam into the packed earth right beside you, now was it? Especially when that same monster had just been tossing you and another strong warrior (though not as strong as you are) as if the two of you were plain and faded rag dolls? One can quite understand why Vegeta became… distracted.
Vegeta gaped wide-eyed (not like a fish, no, not quite like that) at the monster lying prone in the crater its body had dug for it, then looked skyward for the source of the action. He almost missed him, the source, and it took a while to identify the ki, as it was mixed with at least two other whole ki signatures and traces of many other, other energy signals. But once Vegeta disregarded this signature and threw away that signal, and then re-tracked the original signal down (as it was moving too fast for even him to see; at which one should wonder, "how do we have a chance?!") he became both shell- and skin-shocked beyond belief.
How could it be that it was the first Kakkagaki who was moving so fast that Vegeta couldn't keep track of him for more than a few seconds? How could it be that it was the first Kakkagaki—er—Gohan—was dealing so much damage to that darn Buu when he himself was helpless against it? For indeed, that was what the gaki was doing: he was doling out so much damage to the Buu monster and at speeds so incredible it was almost impossible to comprehend. Was this the actual fighting capability of the Kakkagaki? If so, how had he (Vegeta) not been able to sense this in him before?! But wait, what about those other weird ki signatures that were with that brat?!
Gohan himself was getting impatient. This was taking too long. He had to find an opportunity to properly vanquish Majin Buu quickly, or something else was going to happen, and Gohan did not want something else to happen at all.
Finally, he saw it. The perfect opportunity. He had just done a triple punch and flying kick combination that had literally flattened Buu, then as Buu sprung back up, sent it flying headfirst straight into the ground, right beside the brooding form of Vegeta. The end result was a prone Majin Buu, and that was exactly what Gohan needed as a break.
Floating still for the first time in the one whole minute since the real battle started, Gohan closed his eyes and firmly locked on Buu's ki. He felt Arikeru and Gabrielle come and join him in his section of their linked minds and appreciated their support. Focusing entirely on the job at hand, Gohan collected all of his powers and intermingled them, fusing them together so thoroughly that they became inseparable from each other, and unable to be taken apart until the purpose of these powers was fulfilled. Even then, Gohan would have a hard time separating them cleanly.
Anyway, Gohan used this thoroughly fused combination of powers and formed it into a ball. This took some time, as most of the powers were unused to being utilized this way, but with the psychic and sword spirit's help, he got it done. Opening his eyes, Gohan discovered that he was no longer covered in his shimmering dark area, but that had gone into his ki ball as well. Even all of Gohan's SS3 strength was in the globe, making Gohan revert back to his normal state, yet the orb was no bigger than an ordinary ki bomb commonly used by the Z-senshi.
The ki sphere itself was a wonder, for it flashed all the colors one could imagine, the rainbow colors, the metallic colors (gold, silver, etc), white, black, grey, brown, pink, ultraviolet, and so on. Every color one could imagine was in that ki ball, and all of them were representative of each individual power lent to one Son Gohan, guardian angel. Not everyone who saw the ki ball knew its significance as such, however. Vegeta didn't, although he could tell it was something major, Goku certainly couldn't, and the remaining Z-senshi were positively dumbfounded as well.
Except for Dende. The little Kami at the moment was outright gaping like an extremely startled Namekian turtle bass. Mr. Popo wasalso startled, but only at the sight of his not-so-new charge, not about any of the events going on, of which he had no knowledge. Dende, however, was in great awe and wonder at all the powers contained within that little ki ball of Gohan's. The young Namekian had never seen so many powers or such high quality ones in one place. It was a big wonder that these powers didn't start fighting against one another, but as Dende knew Gohan well, he didn't dwell much on that subject.
No, it was a wonder that Gohan even got these many powers. He didn't know how many friends and or contacts Gohan had, but they were more apparently more than Dende had thought was possible. Otherworld must be a bigger place than he thought, for so many powers to be lurking around (not exactly, my dear Dende. Hehehe…). But the good thing about these powers was, they were all disastrous when not controlled properly, AND they were lethal to Majin Buu's structure. Mental structure, that is.
Gohan, still with his eyes closed, lifted the ball with all the collected powers combined. As if sensing that its destiny was near, the orb levitated a bit higher in his hand, almost as if it were eager to destroy Kid Majin Buu on its own. Gohan ignored this and re-found his lock on Majin Buu's ki. Using that lock, with his mental empathy powers, the demi-Saiyan formed a picture within his head that looked similar to a Doppler radar picture, but was in a bit more color. Using both this picture and his instincts, Gohan took the orb between both hands and, with a tremendous surge, slung it down at the struggling form of Majin Buu.
Buu pulled its head free of the hole it had created just in time to turn around for a face full of a small but highly compact ball of powers. Gohan made the bomb ignite when it touched Buu's head, thus allowing all the powers to go free. The powers needed a being to contain them, however, and as Buu was the nearest one around, they all shot into it.
Now, this might seem like a very risky thing to do, but these powers (as said over and over again before) in combination with each other were very lethal to someone, or something, whom did not have the necessary will power needed to control these powers. Majin Buu, who did have some willpower (quite enough to kill Babidi in the series anyway), and whose willpower was enough for even Gohan to have trouble, didn't have enough conscious thought development to exercise that willpower over those powers, another requirement needed to survive. Hey, Kid Buu was just that, a kid. Kids don't have the same development of conscious thought as do adults, or even teenagers (unless they're Goten and Trunks, of course). And besides Buu's evil, so that works too. Hehehe.
Immediately Buu's evil red eyes widened and rolled back in its head. Its body arched so rapidly and at such an angle that it seemed to be having a permanent seizure while in mid-air. Its arms flailed about and its legs kicked wildly at everything and nothing, and its head frantically snapped to and fro in this direction and that, sometimes even stretching, but Gohan could see by the stiffening of Majin Buu's little teeny tiny torso that the powers were spreading everywhere. Soon it was like a cancer; despite the Kid's struggles, the powers seeped into every part of it, eating away slowly within every strand of gum that was Kid Majin Buu.
Gohan, who was now in only his normal state (and still with black and gray hair, but with darker brown hair joining the two other colors on top) decided to help along the process by battering Kid Buu more than it already was. Shifting into a very familiar pose, he slid his hands back behind his body on his right side and starting chanting.
Goku, who had been watching the antics of one Kid Buu, suddenly whirled around as he heard a voice. This voice was saying some very familiar syllables, although the owner of the voice he could not quite fathom at all at first glance. The person (was it a girl or boy?) had black hair with grey and dark brown highlights, Gohan's clothes (he realized with a shock that this person was Gohan), a weird type of countenance, and currently a slow-forming Kamehameha Wave in his hands. Since this was Gohan, and he was forming a Kamehameha, then whatever was going on with Buu must not be working, or working too slow. Since, Buu was still in its permanent seizure affliction, Goku thought that it was likely the latter that was the case.
So, the process was being too slow. What could he, Goku, do about that? Well, maybe, the same thing as Gohan; a Kamehameha. He moved into the classic stance and started his own incantation.
Vegeta was still watching that darn Buu when the first Kakkagaki started chanting. But he looked up sharply when Kakkarot started his own K-wave. The "Sons" (pah!, he grumbled. Every one of them—except the first Kakkagaki—were third class bakas) were not aiming at each other with their Kamehamehas, or even at him. They were both focused on Kid Buu, with the obvious intent of blowing it to smithereens.
The Saiyan smirked.
And started charging up his Gallic Gun.
Piccolo and Krillin were watching evens from afar, accompanied by the more than annoying company of Goten and Trunks. The two gakis were making pests of themselves, always cheering when Gohan got a hit on Buu. Their throats should have been worked raw by now, as Gohan had just positively been beating Buu up, but no. They were instead exclaiming in loud voices about the situation Majin Buu was finding itself in. they were even having a contest between each other to see how long Buu would last. Goten was betting ten minutes. Trunks was for five. Whoever won got to have a full day of piggyback riding on Gohan's back for the rest of the day.
Suddenly Trunks sat upright, highly alert. Goten scrambled up too, asking Trunks,
"What is it, Trunks? What is it?"
"Shh, you dummy, you're breaking my concentration!"
"I'm not a dummy! It's not nice to call someone a dummy, Trunks."
"Shut up!"
"Both of you, be quiet!" commanded a voice that belonged to neither Trunks nor Goten. They blinked at each other, then looked up, and blinked at a menacing Piccolo looming over them. They blinked at each other again, then turned to Krillin, whom was looking over their heads at the strange sight before them.
The Devil Duo swiveled back to look at what Krillin was looking at, and gaped in their own turn.
Gohan (well, at least the person who was wearing his clothes anyway), Goku, and Vegeta all had formed some sort of ki attack. The Sons both had a swirling K-wave in their hands, while Vegeta sported a dangerous Gallic Gun in his own. Just at that moment, they released their ki attacks at the same time, and all jumped forward to a prone Majin Buu, which could not do anything to dodge them (too bad). The kis all collided into Majin Buu, crashing together into a single beam of light to take down on thing: the evil child-minded Kid Majin Buu.
And it worked. The fused ki attacks blew it apart. Buu's mind had been destroyed by the powers enough that his regenerative properties were slower to work. So it floated for a while in the air in tons of tiny separate pieces, all of these being eaten away, even as they were slowly drifting towards other pieces, at a faster rate by Gohan's powers thanks to the attacks. A few of these powers even returned to Gohan, already done with their work and begging for more.
One such power was the animalistic mind, so Gohan recorded the fact that Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, and Krillin were on the mountaintop where he had left them, gaping. He also took in the more important concept that Majin Buu was about to blow, even with all of its tiny pieces still slowly clumping together as they were.
You're probably thinking right now that Gohan's going to tell the others to get out of there, he'll be right with them after taking care of the Buu business. That would be the right thing to do, and also the series' Mystic Gohan thing to do. But no, that's not what my bad-boy vigilante did.
What Gohan did was, he trapped each piece of Majin Buu's gum pieces inside a harmless ki shield. He trapped every last piece of those pieces, even the ones that were Buu's eyes originally (heh, heh, heh) and combined the ki shields (SP: Wow, there's been a lot of combining and fusing in this chapter). With this combining of the ki shields, he allowed all the pieces of Majin Buu to at least coexist, if not drift together (as by now, Buu's mind was too deteriorated to be able to regenerate at all). He strengthened the ki shield around Buu's forms so much (he borrowed a little bit of Goten's ki to help, although he did return it later) that no sort of self-explosion would break the shield and harm the Earth.
It was only a few seconds later that the evil entity self-destructed, fear (or something akin to fear) coming in waves off of the pieces of Majin Buu. This explosion bounced off of Gohan's shield (it was a good thing that Gohan had blocked off his mind from his shield, or he would be having a huge headache right now) and went back to its source, harming only the pieces who were about to explode and causing them to explode, resulting in several explosions. All these explosions bounced about everywhere within Gohan's shield, building up pressure, but Gohan only widened his ki shield so that the explosions would have to travel farther in order to get to the opposite side, and thus lose their force.
Soon his ki shield was wide enough that the smaller explosions died away completely. Gohan widened it further, the shield almost coming to touch him; it was so far-reaching. The bigger explosions died away, and then finally the biggest explosions. All that was left of Majin Buu was… the return of Gohan's powers. Gohan received them happily, knowing that he would return them to their rightful owners as soon as he got back to Otherworld. He would also try to convince Gabrielle and Arikeru to free them of their spirit fusion with him, if only for the sake of privacy. If not, then fine. He was comfortable with them each now, even Gabrielle.
Gohan let a few more seconds pass by, just to make sure that it was done, then drained the ki shield back into himself. He replaced the ki he'd borrowed from Goten with that same amount and a little bit more (he'd just say he didn't remember exactly how much he'd borrowed), then turned to the others and said,
"It's nearly sunset. Let's go home."
And that's what they did. They went home, heading away from the sun in the west for the WMAT arena and grounds in the east inthe darkening sky.
Kakkagaki: short for "Kakkarot's gaki", or "Kakkarot's brat".
Gaki: brat
Namekian turtle bass: Not a real fish, unknown if there are any fish on planet Namek
A/n: :D
General Answers to General Questions
No general questions in need of being answered, so... no answers! YAY! I do have to thank everybody for their reviews, for they held so many compliments! Stop it, guys! You're making me blush! /Blushes/ THANKS!! /Bows/
Thanks to Shaye, DBZ Chick1, gaul1, Tiara Shin, Marshmellow13Dragon, and Night-Owl123 for their excellent reviews! /Bows/
Whew! Finally that's over with. Took me long enough. Hehehe… /Sweatdrops/
If there are any spelling or grammar mistakes, that's because my left index finger got badly pinched and is hurting even now like bitter hell. I can't really type with it (I can, but it hurts too much), so my left second finger is doing all the work of the index. I also tend to ignore my spell checker, because if I followed the spell checker all the time some points of my story would not come across as well as if I just left it alone, and besides it would get an ego boost. Trust me, not a good thing. /Glares at the offending spell checker/
Anyway! So Majin Buu's FINALLY been defeated! What's next? Will Gohan actually convince Gabrielle and Arikeru to un-fuse with him? Whatever for?! And what about the rest of the tournament? Is that still going on? Well, let's find out the answers to all of these burning questions, next Vigilante Angel!
REVIEW! My finger will feel lots better if you do. Even if you don't like the chapter, at least review to offer me condolences upon the imminent loss of my fingernail. But if you don't like my whole fic, why'd you read this far? No flames please. If you liked this chapter, AND want to offer me condolences, but are not really in the mood to review, REVIEW ANYWAY!! I need them, I need them!!
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Updated 11.25.04. Happy Thanksgiving from America, everyone!
