Sorry about the lack of update last week. My profile readers are aware that I was out of town last weekend. Unfortunately dealing with family and life in general limited my time a bit on writing this week which is why there was no Serius Prime update this week, and technically this chapter is kind of short compared to the others of this story. I think it came out pretty good still, but I'll let you all read and tell me what you think!


Chapter 28: Perfection Ascertained


The battle ground was uncharacteristically silent. The dust had settled from the stupor of events which had culminated in a shift of universal energies assembling upon a single point of reality.

The newly self appointed god of all creation, Rubu, overlooked himself thoroughly. "Unfathomable…" he clenched his fists as sparks emitted from his plate like scales. His exposed skin bore a rubbery texture with a light hue between grey and red.

Opening his hands, Rubu ran them along his face, moving upward he caressed his scalp, "So this is the form of deities, marvel at its splendor and glory."

On the nearby ground, Vegeta opened an eye and took in the transpired events, "No… damn it all…" He grunted while pushing himself up, driven by nearly pure will. "Can't… can't let this happen… Bulma… Trunks… everyone is in danger!" Vegeta's voice picked up as he found strength within himself and his power returned to him. In a flash of gold, Vegeta's hair lengthened down his back and he screamed as summoned forth almost more power than his bruised body could tolerate.

"The scourge of the dirt calls up in defiance of the heavens does it?" Rubu snickered as he watched Vegeta's energy build.

Vegeta burst through the air at super speed, flying beyond the speeds at which the light reflecting off the objects around him could flicker. The world turned black around him as he drove his fist into Rubu's face.

A deep scowl formed on Vegeta's face as he awaited the reaction of his attack. His look of anger was immediately replaced with shock as he saw Rubu's face has contorted around his fist and simply slid back into position the moment Vegeta's hand was removed, "No!"

Taking a quick jump back, Vegeta gathered pure saiyan ki into his hands and fired more powerful blasts at the monster before him.

Rubu took notice of the oncoming attacks and held out his hands. Moments before the energy made impact, Rubu's own limbs made a drastic conversion to become long tendons of energy which wrapped around the incoming blasts and absorbed them into his being. A glow washed over Rubu as his arms returned to their more solid state. "Living energy, truly the feast for any god," Rubu moved slightly forward, his body vibrated as though moving in many directions at once but remained completely still at the same time.

Vegeta watched the movement carefully; it didn't appear as though Rubu moved more than a millimeter in any direction around his current one. Before the Saiyan Prince could better grasp what had taken place a swell of pressure built in his esophagus. Before his hands could reach his mouth, Vegeta coughed out a large amount of blood and sank to his knees. Pain suddenly wracked his body as he realized he'd been struck at least twenty times in that brief instant without the sensation even registering in his brain.

"Damn it… how…" Vegeta shook unable to support himself as his the gold from his hair faded once again.

"How splendid… to receive my first sacrifice… this moment will be remembered I assure you," Rubu approached Vegeta with an eerie glow emanating from his extremities.

The energy surrounding Rubu began to manifest into a horrifying array of light which beckoned Vegeta inside. Vegeta's teeth clenched tight, blood still seeping from between the gaps in his mouth when two gloved hands closed around the front of Rubu's torso, "Hurting people bad, you very bad!"

"What?" Rubu turned his head to see the larger Buu behind him, "How are you still?"

"Buu stop you hurting people!" Buu ducked down slightly, and with a great heave launched himself with Rubu still in his grasp up into the air at amazing speed. Vegeta watched with a look of pure confusion on his face as the two soared high into the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere almost beyond where his saiyan eyes could even make out the smallest dot of their location and then the sky was filled with light from a tremendous explosion. The shockwave bounded out into space from the energy of the attack.

"That… power…" Vegeta clenched his teeth and tried dragging himself toward the others.

"He's not breathing!" Goku shouted in concern.

"Give it a second here; Panacea Crackers don't just work like magic you know!" Phips crossed his arms and tapped his foot.

"…They don't?" Goku looked completely dumbfounded by the imp's statement.

Seeing his sarcasm was lost on the man, Phips only shrugged and kept quiet, "Just don't worry yet…"

"Is he alright?" Two newcomers approached, one of which Goku recognized immediately as Mister Satan, the guy Chichi wanted him to beat at the tournament.

Phips turned around as Videl approached causing her to immediately take in the sight of the small imp like creature with four long pointy ears atop its head. She slowed her sprint for a moment, but after the things she'd already seen that day quickly shook it off and ran over to them.

After a moment of looking at the strange girl, Phips finally recognized her, "You're that girl from the tournament that Gohan gave the Panacea Cracker to!"

"Gohan?" Videl whispered to herself but quickly composed herself back up, "Yes, he went out of his way to save me, and now he looks hurt. Is there anything I can do to help?"

Phips noticed the anxiousness in Videl's voice and an evil glimmer came over his eye. Goku caught the subtle expression change but didn't know what to make of it.

Phips ran over to Videl and grabbed her hand, "OH! Thank goodness you're here! It's terrible, awful, he could die! But… But you can save him!"

A stricken look crossed Goku's face as he wondered why Phips hadn't mentioned anything before about the situation being so dire.

Hercule finally caught up to Videl and panted as he tried to catch his breath. A look of determination crossed Videl's face, "I'll do anything to help, just tell me what I can do!"

Phips dragged Videl by the hand to Gohan's side and continued his exasperation of over acting, "He… he's not breathing! I don't know how long he can last like that… Hurry, you have to give him mouth to mouth!"

Videl swallowed a large lump in her throat, but after seeing the imp implore her as he was she quickly agreed, "Alright!" Videl kneeled down by Gohan's side.

Phips quickly trotted over to Goku, "Watch this!" he whispered excitedly. Goku was still dumbstruck by what was going on but did as Phips insisted.

Videl lowered her face to Gohan's and with her hands on his chest, their lips made contact. Gohan's eyes slowly opened as the Panacea Cracker chose that moment to take effect. For a second the boy's mind was still hazy as he tried to grasp what exactly had happened to him when the strange sensation on his lips brought his thoughts back to reality.

Gohan's eyes shot open wide and he sat up, startling Videl off of him. A crimson blush spread across his cheeks as he just stared at the girl who had been in such intimate contact with him only a moment prior.

"WOOO!" Phips hollered as he began to roll on the ground and laugh hysterically. Gohan glared menacingly in his direction knowing the imp had something to do with his compromising predicament.

With a blush still evident on Gohan's face, he turned back to Videl and scratched the back of his head, "Sorry about my friend there… he does… weird things…"

Videl shook her head and stood, "Don't… it's okay…" she spoke sounding rather flustered about the situation herself.

Gohan flipped himself onto his feet, "Where's Ru?"

"Oh…" Phips stopped laughing and suddenly looked serious, "You're not going to like it…" Phips pointed up.

Gohan followed the gesture and looked into the sky, "Oh sh…"

"It's going to be one of those days…" Phips hopped up and ran to Videl and Hercule, "Come on now, we need to make ourselves scarce."

"Wait! Isn't there something we can really do to help?" Videl shouted in a commanding voice.

"As of this instant…" Videl was startled by a new voice coming from behind her. She turned to see Shin, the Supreme Kai, and Kibito standing there still affixed on the battle, "…there is nothing any of us can do… I hate to say this… but we should abandon this planet and restructure elsewhere with greater force."

"NOT A CHANCE!" Gohan grit his teeth and clenched his fists tight, "He thinks he's getting his way… If we let him be, he'll terrorize countless trillions of lives… destroy millions of worlds… No, I won't allow it! We stand up to him here and now!" Gohan's power burst to life around him as his hair and aura burned bright platinum and his tail sprung forth from his pants again.

Goku moved his gaze from the light in the sky, to his son, back to the sky, and back to his son once again, "Gohan… He's a lot stronger than all of us now…"

"It doesn't matter…" Gohan took in a deep breath and smiled to his dad, "After all you're the one who taught me… this is what life is all about right?"

Goku closed his eyes and let out a small chuckle, "I guess so."

"Then let's do it!" Gohan burst through the air up toward the light.

"Right behind you son!" Goku powered up, transforming into his third level super saiyan form and shot up after Gohan.

The Supreme Kai sighed, "The entire universe it at stake here… we must do all we can to assist these warriors… Kibito, attend to the wounded hurry."

"Immediately sir," Kibito flew toward Vegeta who was still sprawled on the ground nearby.

Thunderous roars echoed across the sky as Rubu pummeled Majin Buu across the mesosphere. "UUU!" Buu squealed as another blow was dealt to his gummy body.

"You are a completely inferior being, yet you defy me? Now incur my wrath!" Rubu created an energy ball and threw it into Majin Buu, the explosion melting away part of Buu's rubbery flesh.

Majin Buu sank in the sky briefly but quickly restored his body. His eyes opened wide and a bright yellow glow emitted from within, "POWER!" Buu yelled as steam escaped the pores of his body. Buu dove at Rubu throwing all the damage inflicted back upon his enemy.

Rubu just as simply caught the attack, "Don't be fooled into believing that annoying reversal trick of yours will work on me. Also don't flatter yourself by believing I'm actually using a fraction of my power to fight you…"

Buu pulled back another fist and threw a punch aimed for Rubu's head. As the attack approached, Rubu's head became energy negating the effects of Buu's attack. The transformation flowed down Rubu's entire body until he became a lucid glowing pool of power. Like liquid he flowed through the air and entered Majin Buu's body though his various pours and mouth.

"What you do?" Majin Buu swung around mad in an attempt to keep Rubu out of his body. A glow began to build inside of Buu, "Oh no!" Energy gathered from within and an explosion burst Buu apart into millions of small sludge like pieces.

Rubu floated perfectly calm in the epicenter of the shockwave, "Eventually you will have no choice but to learn your place."

"RU!" Below he noticed Gohan approaching.

"Ah, the worms rise from the dank soil to embrace the sullen sky, blind to the truth that their dreams of greatness have long since fleeted away," Rubu grinned as Gohan stopped in front of him.

"This ends now Ru!" Gohan's aura gave off incredible pulses drastically increasing the air pressure surrounding the pair.

"Ru? I'm afraid you've mistaken me for a child born of natural circumstance. I am a lord! I am peace! I am righteousness! I am… Harmony! My name, written among the stars, know it well for I am Rubu! My word is absolute, and by my proclamation your existence now ceases!" Rubu flexed his muscles as a deep aura began to spin around his core.

Gohan shook his head, "You were mad before… but now you're completely insane. A power like that is not yours to wield. I will find a way to stop you! I promise that!"

Goku arrived by Gohan's side also prepared to fight, "To go on, you'll have to take us all down!"

Rubu's eyes narrowed and in an instant akin to a frame of motion on a reel, his body stiffened straight and he let out a mighty howl as his energy rippled from his body and propelled the two saiyans away from him.

Goku's eyes were squeezed shut as he tried to regain his balance when his motion was quickly halted by a grip on his hair. He opened his eyes in time to see Rubu pull his body in an arch and slam a foot into his ribs, audibly cracking at least three of them. With a flip, Rubu kicked Goku downward and turned toward Gohan. In a move that looked as if Rubu's body elongated across the distance between Goku and Gohan, Rubu's elbow implanted itself into Gohan's jaw, twisting his neck to an unnatural degree. Gohan's body began to roll until he stopped himself with and outstretched his hands to counter attack Rubu. Rubu disappeared from sight and appeared behind Gohan, his hand gripped onto Gohan's hair as he rammed his fist into Gohan's face several times before letting go and viscously kicking Gohan to the side.

Gohan shook off the pain and reached for the Realis. His hand grabbed only air where the hilt of the sword should have been. He turned to see Rubu holding the weapon, "Let's leave toys out of this, shall we?" he tossed the sword away and Gohan watched as it soared across the planet.

Energy collected in Gohan's fists as he focused harder and charged Rubu again. A punch from the left and right were easily dodged by Rubu who grabbed Gohan's extended right arm, spun him around and tossed him into Vegeta who was trying to launch a sneak attack from below.

The two saiyans collided and tumbled downward stopping after a kilometer of freefall. Gohan rubbed his head, "Are you alright Vegeta?"

"Just fine!" Vegeta growled only a moment before Rubu's knee struck him in the back. Gohan appeared to Rubu's side out of super speed to knock the monster off of Vegeta but only hit an after image as the real Rubu kicked Gohan across the face stretching the skin of the boy's cheek in the fierce attack and in the same movement firing a blast back toward Vegeta. Vegeta tried to block the blast but the force behind it left him charred and knocked him back a good deal. An elbow dropped onto the top of Vegeta's head impacting with a sickening crack before he could halt himself from the knockback effect from the previous attack and he plummeted toward the ground.

Gohan saw the strike and rushed in to help as Rubu phased in behind Gohan and grabbed him in an arm lock. Gohan pulled forward as hard as he could trying to break free of Rubu's grasp but had no play at all in the beast's hold.

"Amazing isn't it?" Rubu chuckled to himself, "All that power you possess is absolutely nothing when compared to my glory."

"There's nothing amazing or glorious about you!" Gohan spat out. "You're no better than any other bully I've ever fought! You think you're special, you think you're strong, but deep down you're still just a sick nuisance that takes pleasure in the suffering of others."

"You're right about one thing…" Rubu leaned in closer to Gohan's ear, his breath breezed over his skin, "It pleases me greatly watching your pain. You who attempted to defy the birth of this divineness… you deserve to suffer for your heresy. You deserve to suffer for eternity… Yes this physical pain isn't enough!" Rubu squeezed Gohan tightly crushing his limbs against the strong platelets, "Judgment upon your soul will be severe blasphemer! I will crush your heart!"

Rubu's body began to glow and in his place around Gohan formed solid restraint bars holding his body stiff and still. Rubu reformed in front of him, "There is much you hold locked away in here, isn't there?" Rubu's finger extended into a sharp blade which he slid over the left side of Gohan's chest, slicing open his shirt and jabbing into his skin. A Trickle of blood escaped reddening Gohan's blue gi, "What is it you hold most dear?"

Moving his hands from Gohan's chest to his face, Rubu held Gohan's head still and stared into the golden eyes, "You're secrets cannot hide from my gaze of truth you Sovereign fool!"

Gohan tried to squeeze his eyes shut, unsure of what Rubu was trying to do, "Stop this!"

"No…" Rubu held his thumbs over Gohan's eyes and forced the lids open, "You noble idiot, I am well aware of your distaste for the suffering of the innocent, I want something… AH!" Rubu's mouth elongated into a long grin, "You are hiding… family? Quite a large family? A large almost… defenseless… family? Where?"

Gohan yelled as he tried to close off his thoughts to Rubu as best he could, "No way… You won't find them!"

Rubu punched Gohan across the jaw again. Blood flew from Gohan's mouth and dripped off his lips as he attempted to retain his focus.

"Have it your way… We can use this as… entertainment?" Rubu laughed as he floated away from Gohan, "You're going to love this!" Rubu inhaled deeply and held his breath in for a moment. He opened his mouth wide and began to breathe out as a glowing bubble left his mouth and grew larger as he filled it with air and energy from his lungs.

Gohan watched from his swollen eye as the bubble grew and popped. Several dozen small creatures fell from within the bubble. Their appearances varied in mass and color but mostly resembled short sludge like or gummy humanoids.

The lot of creatures began floating on their own power and lined up in front of Rubu, "And so I have created life from nothing! All of you, created to serve and worship me, head my commands. I have given you knowledge of what lies within the Sovereign's heart. Find it… Destroy it… LEAVE BUT SHREDS OF ITS MEMORY!"

All of the creatures began to laugh hysterically in unison and flew away across the planet, "Now behold, as everything you know ends…" Rubu laughed as his creatures scattered quickly across the planet.


End Chapter

Well this chapter certainly had a lot of tone variation… I decided on this chapter that I wanted to try out a few more literary devices in the fight scene rather than making it longer. Don't worry there is still plenty of fight to come, we're just barely scratching the surface right now. Hope everyone enjoyed psycho godling Rubu. He was fun to write. Leave me some reviews!

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'Till next time everyone!