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End of the World
"I CAN FEEL IT! HE`S STARTING TO TAKE OVER!!!"
Goten drearily glanced up from Hercule and over his shoulder, immediately snapping to attention and calling on power he shouldn`t have had by that point and flaring up into Super Saiyan with a yell, quickly hopping forward and standing between Buu and the entire group of downed warriors on the ground. "Feel`s like I just got a vacuum jammed into every cell in my body," Goku grumbled dazedly, wobbling up on unsteady legs and gazing up in time to watch as Buu started to shrink, very slowly turning a more reddish color in the process.
"What the hell is he babbling about?" Vegeta demanded annoyedly, drifting down towards the ground and being followed by Dende and Gohan, though the Namek promptly darted over to check on the entire collection of downed and dazed warriors, all but ignoring the pink shift of the daylight.
"I don`t know," Gohan replied after several seconds, lowering down into a fighting stance. "But his ki is changing again," he warned. "I know that, dolt," Vegeta replied with a snort. "But the question is: Just what is he changing into?" Vegeta asked, feeling shocks as the area began to rumble and change, the sea beginning to churn behind them and the sky beginning to blacken and tinge pink as rocks shot up at random, throwing Hercule and Bee into Dende and throwing all three of them back to the ground with a series of thuds only to fling them back up and over the rock in front of them when another jagged pillar shot up under them.
"I CAN`T FIGHT HIM MUCH LONGER!!!" Buu strained out, screaming again and again in pain that none of the others present could ever hope to comprehend, continuing to shrink down the entire time, skin still darkening to red with each passing second.
Everyone came around here
Everyone else got sick
And watched the clock tickin' slowly
BR> "I don`t like this," Bob muttered. "Not one bit," he added quickly, watching as Buu continued his transformation, screaming out loudly enough to hurt the old Kaioshin`s ears with every passing second, but seeming utterly unable to move from the spot he was rooted to as it happened. "What`s happening to him?" Videl asked with a bit of nervousness, feeling what she guessed was Buu`s ki signature start changing.
Even though he had lost everyone he was drawing power off of, Buu was actually beginning to grow stronger.
"This is what I was afraid of the most," Shibito growled. "Majin Buu is reverting back to his original state, the one where he`s at his strongest," he exclaimed angrily. "... That isn`t right, shouldn`t he be getting weaker if he`s going to his original state?"
"Majin Buu undergoes changes everytime he absorbs someone. When he started by absorbing one of the South Kaioshin, he began drawing off of someone else`s power, using strength that wasn`t his. Then he absorbed the original Dai Kaioshin for this Time, drawing off of his strength and power rather than focusing on the South Kaioshin, and then when Thin Buu absorbed Fat Buu, the resulting Buu had just enough individuality from the people it absorbed and it`s previous incarnations that it added to his strength rather than variating to match the power of whoever he absorbed," Shibito explained.
"... Just... How strong was the original Majin Buu?" Bob asked.
"You don`t want to know," Shibito replied darkly. "Well, we`re about to find out anyway," Videl pointed out anxiously.
Everyone knew the ending
Opened a bag of tricks
And stumbled over their own
They blew minds away
At last, even Buu`s scream began to change as the transformation neared it`s finish, throwing off shockwaves of energy all over the place and almost knocking even Gohan off balance while Cell dropped down and landed on the shattered ground near Hercule, Dende and Bee, covering his eyes from the glaring pink flare that had formed where Buu was originally standing. The scream changed in more ways than one though, it became dual in nature, with a second, higher pitched voice slowly beginning to become more and more apparent while Buu twitched around and winced painfully, the second voice beginning to overcome his own.
"Well, this is just dandy," Goku muttered sardonically, staggering over next to his youngest son and taking a fighting stance, though he was a bit too dazed to even think of powering up out of his normal form or anything like that. It was a pretty awkward sight to see Goku standing next to Goten, one in Super Saiyan, the other in normal, looking like some backwards timewarp. "Tell me about it," the younger Son asked through grit teeth, swinging both arms back far enough to cause a small popping sound and then lowering back down into his fighting stance, providing the only lighting other than the maddening pink blaze that was overtaking everything in sight.
"I DON`T WANT TO DIE! I DON`T WANT TO BE HIM AGAIN! STOP IT! STOP IT! MAKE IT STOP!" Buu howled, finally managing to get his hands up to grab a hold of his head, though his feet were still solidly rooted to the ground beneath him, just as the second voice took over and another face began to take shape, molding into the first. "LET ME OUT! I WANT OUT! I WANT TO LIVE AGAIN!!!" The voice screeched, finally overtaking the original`s and causing the process to finish up in grand fashion with an explosive blast of heated wind and pinkish light, sending shockwaves across the entire continent as something unspeakably evil was born.
It's the end of the world
When the smoke cleared, the Buu of old was gone. The devestator had been reborn, and what it had become was something that looked like a sullen, cherry skinned child form of the previous Buu, radiating an aura of evil so pure that it choked those concious to even look at him without being ready for it. This Buu was vicious in every sense of the word, it had no comprehension of emotions past anger, curiosity and sadistic satisfaction, with only a narrow, hair pin trigger in between. It seemed to have lost most of it`s power though, only proving a little stronger than the first Buu that had been unleashed only the day before.
But then the new Buu cracked it`s neck to either side in a manner that suggested the kind of movements the previous Buu had been in possession of, only a great deal more intense, faster and more flexible without having to dip into the powers all of the Buus had with stretching and bending.
And then the new Buu silently regarded those around it with a neutrally angry expression, glancing from the downed trio next to Cell - the one who had set it free - and then over at Gohan and Vegeta, then to the downed warriors behind the two who looked so much alike, and then right at the younger of that pair.
The kid was powered up.
The kid was resolved.
The kid was challenging Majin Buu.
There was going to be Hell to pay.
Well it's far away
In a hurricane, twisting slowly
Now it's gone today
I'm so happy that it's over
"... I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!" The pure, childlike Buu screamed in a rage, focusing all of his emotions not on Goten, but on the one who had fought it the hardest so far. Throwing his hand up and gathering power, Buu instantly threw away any misconception that it was weaker than the previous incarnation, forming a sphere of energy just as intense as the one that Goku had stopped from being used earlier, then hurtling it right at Gohan with a fierce howl.
The teen replied in kind, kicking the attack straight up out of the atmosphere and then leaning forward with a growl as Vegeta spoke up. "What the hell is wrong with you?! That could`ve just destroyed the entire planet!" The Prince exclaimed jeerily, spurning Buu as a result.
Buu liked that even less than how Goten seemed to defy his mere presence.
"DIE!!!"
Buu stuck both hands up this time, screaming out as more energy poured out of nowhere into his hand, forming another ball of raw, pink ki just as intense as the one before it, only this time he didn`t stop. He kept putting power into the attack, and in response, it kept growing, becoming larger and more intense as the seconds ticked by, halting abruptly as Buu threw the attack forward, causing it to rapidly close the distance on Gohan, Vegeta, Cell, Dende, Hercule and Bee.
It's the end of the world
"... He`s absolutely insane," Gohan muttered in shock, promptly thrusting his hands forward and rooting himself in place, only to skid back several inches as he tried to fight the attack off, only barely succeeding in halting it in place as Cell held up his end of things from crushing himself, Hercule, Dende and Bee. It was the first time in his life that the blue carapaced warrior had ever been forced to become openly desperate without keeping up his calm exterior, taking on an expression of strained surprise as the attack started to crush him down into the dirt, inch by inch.
"I can`t hold it!" Gohan yelled, feeling his palms scorch and the ground begin to crumple like paper beneath his weight and the sheer force behind the blast. "Well, I don`t intend to die today!" Cell managed to reply, though he was certain that nobody really heard him since even his own hearing had only barely registed the teen`s words. On willpower alone, Cell reached around the attack with every ounce of ki he could muster, then promptly wrenched the attack into imploding on itself with a Diffusor, squeezing it out of existence and promptly falling over afterwards, blowing off the scorch marks on his hands.
"Whoever decided to make this little shit so powerful can suck my ass," Vegeta growled before powering up, hair turning a slightly darkened shade of gold, eyes fading to a dim tone of jade and body becoming a bit more defined as lightning cracked up around him, only to be overwhelmed by a godlen aura of flame as the Prince launched off of the ground, darting through the air and making due to attack the cherry skinned equivelent of genocide with legs, lashing out repeatedly in a rapid series of strikes with his fists, causing a small sonic boom with each individual attack.
It accomplished absolutely nothing for all of his efforts. Buu merely let the attacks all hit without yielding one bit, taking on no imprints and no damage from Vegeta`s onslaught before carelessly swatting the Saiyan Prince down, right into Goku and Goten and sending all three crashing into the dirt before breaking apart, throwing Vegeta up into a cliff wall and leaving Goten to lay across his father`s chest with Goku himself planted into an inches-deep body imprint.
My world, my love, my gun
"... Shit," Videl muttered. It was probably the single most accurate word ever spoken on it`s own in all of history given the situation, but even then it didn`t seem to convey the sickened feelings of the three gathered around the crystal ball on Kaioshin-kai, let alone the feelings of those gathered around the second crystal ball at the start of the long, winding path to Lord Enma`s palace. In fact, given the enormity of the situation, Videl highly doubted that there were any words in the English language that properly got across the feeling of the moment.
"No wonder you were so terrified of the original," Bob mumbled, watching with no small degree of shock as the new incarnation of Majin Buu so languidly smacked Vegeta aside like it was literally nothing at all. "Certainly puts Malak to shame," he added, thoughtfully rubbing his chin as the darkness of the moment came through, radiating even through the infinite distances that were the barriers between the mortal plane and the area of the Afterlife that Kaioshin-kai was located in. "Looks like he`s gonna try and blow the entire me damned planet up the first chance he gets," Bob stated dryly.
"Which means he would come here, right?" Shibito asked.
"Yeah, seems `at way," Bob answered. "Any ideas?" He asked.
"Just one..." The newly christened Dai Kaioshin replied hesitantly.
Now I'm all alone
Kept the pain inside
Wanna torch the world
Cause I'm breathin' fire
"NOW DIE! ALL OF YOU JUST DIE!!!" Buu screamed, lunging forward as Gohan tensed up while Goten climbed off of his father`s chest slowly, watching the combat begin in earnest.
Gohan was immediately put on the defensive, his only saving grace being that this Buu had absolutely no combat training and was fighting like an irate little kid, save that he was so strong and fast that he didn`t really need formal training to do much damage, even to someone who had gone through the old Kaioshin`s power-up. "No technique, he`s just fighting at random and he`s still beating the snot out of me," Gohan thought, barely managing to swing his arm into a moving block, stopping no less than seventeen punches in the process and winding up with seventeen bruises across his forearm as a result before grabbing an eighteenth - or was it twenty-first? Gohan had felt several impacts to his body even during his block so he couldn`t tell - and swinging Buu roughly up into the air and following it up with as many machine gun-styled blasts as he could bring to bear in only a few short seconds.
"YOU`RE MEAN, DIE!"
It apparently didn`t do jack. Buu simply smashed his way through each progressive blast, punching through the onslaught of ki one by one and coming ever closer as a result, screaming out in anger with each attack it made to punch through Gohan`s own attacks, coming within an arm`s reach before shooting out both hands and grabbing a hold of the demi-saiyan`s own, squeezing down just as Gohan let loose a final pair of ki blasts.
"SHIT!" Gohan screamed as a searing pain shot through his hands and forearms, only to promptly take Buu`s knee straight into the bottom of his jaw, flinging him up into the air and earning another swift kick right into the chest, which would have sent him flying freely if not for Buu`s sadistically tight grip on his hands, which made the kid demon stretch his arms out hundreds of feet to keep his grasp, then promptly start drawing his hands back once again.
At least he would have.
If Goten hadn`t jumped into the fighting and thrown a devestatingly accurate Galactica Donut around the child demon`s elbows and then wrenching the attack into a twist, causing Buu`s arms to bend in a completely unnatural sort of way, releasing his grip on the older of the two brothers, though Gohan continued flying at Buu, finally scoring an impact of his own on the genocidal brat`s gut with his knee, then driving his elbow into the back of Buu`s neck with a yell, twisting around, grabbing the little demon`s right leg and slinging him as hard as possible through any number of the rocky pillars that had shot up in the past seconds.
"Thanks Goten," Gohan commented with strain, taking a few moments to catch his breath. "Don`t mention it," the younger Son brother replied with something of a smirk, keeping the Donut locked in. "I`m gonna try and bring him back around," Goten announced, giving a hard yank to do just that. Gohan nodded and lowered down somewhat, watching as the rocks began to shatter in every single direction before Buu tore right back out as promised, still held tightly by the ring but not grinning psychotically, shattering the attack in an instant and veering off course to try and attack Goten.
"SUPER GHOST KAMIKAZE ATTACK!"
In a blur of movement, Buu flew back and bounced off of the ground once again as a dazed-but-determined looking Trunks staggered into view, eyes still visibly foggy from the effects of being used as a power outlet of sorts by the previous Buu, but still managing to pull off a level two transformation and launch off a Kamikaze despite his own shortcomings. "Was wondering when you`d wake up," Goten commented with a fairly Goku-esque smirk. "I was awake the whole time, ditz," Trunks replied with the exact opposite, a Vegeta-like smirk that caused Gohan to actually become a little creeped out at the behavior of the two boys.
"Here he comes," Goten announced, setting himself forward in a manner almost mirrored by Trunks as the two prepared for what promised to be the fight of their natural lives. Assuming they lived long enough to actually fight back.
Their aim was more than a little off though as Majin Buu tore up through the ground behind them, elbowing both boys sharply in the backs of the head and flinging them forward, just as a familiar corkscrew-styled beam flared through the space between them both, slamming into Buu with far less force than most of the previous attacks but still managing to cause almost as much damage when it drilled into Buu`s skin and detonated.
Goten and Trunks caught themselves in time to land with a skid to either side of Piccolo. The Namekian warrior had apparently managed to come to not too long ago, long enough to have removed his cape and turban at the least. He was fighting now and the kid gloves, along with any sense of trying to play as an advisor-only to the more powerful warriors, had come off. "Snot nosed little punk," Piccolo growled, driving forward only to scream in pain as Buu burst back out of the cloud of fiery smoke that had previously enveloped him, slamming an elbow viciously into the Namek`s stomach with such force that Piccolo`s gi shirt all but shattered at the point of impact, not tearing, not burning but shattering like glass.
"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!!!" Buu screamed, backhanding Piccolo right to the side and leaving the Namek to be caught in a fairly awkwardly misproportionate sort of way by a newly risen Zangya, who skidded back several yards just trying to keep a relative grip on the larger fighter she had just managed to prevent from becoming a nicely greened batch of pea soup.
"Nice meeting you here," Zangya quipped, off-beat sarcasm and razor wit just as sharp and out of place as ever as she allowed Piccolo to flop down onto his feet, growling out something along the lines of 'thanks and screw you too.'
"DIE!!!" Buu roared like a child having a temper tantrum for not getting the toy he wanted for Christmas.
"He has a really limited vocabulary, doesn`t he?" Zangya asked annoyedly, leaning forward as Piccolo straightened up and spat out a bit of his own blood. "Not to mention the fact that the little shit doesn`t know when to shut the hell up," Piccolo growled. "For once we agree," Zangya pointed out dryly. "I guess Hell finished freezing over," Piccolo replied sardonically. "That makes it two, goin` for broke?" Zangya asked. "Hell no," Piccolo retorted. "Thank Dende for small miracles," Zangya shot back as the two dove forward again, lashing out at Buu with every ounce of force they could manage.
Buu merely dodged out of the way of every single attack, effortlessly leaving the two to attack the air in tandem each time by hopping just a small amount further than they could reach in the process, grinning insanely all the while before stopping, jumping forward and, with far too much speed for either of his two would-be attackers, roughly kicking both in the gut, then elbowing them in the back of the head in a manner that sent them flipping forward while flying back up into the air to be caught by a golden blur of movement and deposited on the ground.
By the time even Gohan could react, Goku was back in the fray, having somehow pulled out the resilience to go straight up to the third stage of the third level of Super Saiyan, proving his strength with every attack and managing to catch Buu off gaurd as a result, leaving the way wide open for none other than Vegeta to erupt into the fighting, catching Buu completely unprepared and socking the little brat across the cheek with a fist, still at the second level as he and his former -
"This isn`t over Kako-satan, I hope you know that!" Vegeta shouted.
"Not by a long shot, Veggie-head!" Goku retorted sharply over the roar of ki and more impacts than you could shake a stick at.
- or perhaps not-so-former rival assaulted Majin Buu.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!" Buu screamed, throwing Goku and Vegeta both back, leaving the two to skid right along into Dende`s grip as the young Namek, accompanied by Hercule and Bee, and soon joined again by both Goten and Trunks, followed moments later by Piccolo and Zangya, threw up his energy barrier trick once again, waiting for the precise moment to smack Buu in the face with it and send the little runt skidding along to nosedive into the ground as the barrier, this one a sphere, started rotating around at a furious rate, promptly slinging the now-burnt little cherry flavored psychopath away as Buu dropped the barrier once again.
"I`LL KILL ALL OF YOU!!!" Buu threatened glaringly, springing back up to his feet in a blur and thrusting one hand skyward yet again, just as Shibito appeared at the core of the group with a shout. "Not yet, Majin Buu!" He yelled, just as all of them vanished in a flash of light, leaving Buu to angrily glare at where they had been standing as Gohan finished regaining his senses. He had been letting the others deal with Buu only to try and catch his wits after the battles he had gone through already, but not it seemed as though he was all but alone in facing the little demon. Again.
Or not.
"Now, are we going to let them have all the glory or are we going to take this little shit apart like we should have at the start of this mess?" Cell Junior asked, landing jeerily next to Gohan. "Think Tien and Chaozu are still out?" Gohan asked. "I wouldn`t doubt it if a random blast you shot off trying to stun Buu earlier offed them," Cell replied morbidly. "Way to boost my confidence, Blubie," Gohan muttered annoyedly. "All in a day`s work, ass ferret," Cell replied cheekily before aiming himself broadside at Buu, a movement promptly followed by Gohan in such a way that it left two of the bitterest enemies alive to stand back to back as allies for the first and probably the only time in their mutual existence.
"Shall we?" Cell asked with a small bit of anxiousness in his usually smug voice. "Let`s," Gohan replied with the same tone, just as the two fighters lit up like miniature suns flaring to life, filling the area around them with golden flames as Buu finally twitched into looking over at them, glaring maliciously at the two who had, by bad luck or stupid intentions, stayed behind to try and challenge him.
With twin yells, Son Gohan and Cell Junior rocketed forward, closing the distance to Majin Buu in a pair of golden exhaust trails before lashing out, Cell`s aura automatically shifting to a more orange-reddish tone as he used a Kaio Ken of some kind, boosting himself up to the point that he could reasonably fight alongside his enemy. In a frenzy though, the fighting was joined as Buu threw his own attacks out, still managing to equal the output of both of his opponents even though he was having to divide his attentions in the process.
The two were like opposing mirrors, whenever one threw an attack, the other threw it`s exact opposite at the same time. Gohan kicked, Cell punched. Cell elbowed, Gohan kneed. Gohan threw a headbutt, Cell used his shoulder and in a matter of seconds, Buu had lost his keen advantage, faltering under the dual assault from the two hateful foes, both of whom twisted around to try and smash Buu`s head with their knees at the same moment, but the demonic child was too quick for that, blurring forward and out of the way and causing Gohan and Cell to clash once again, letting off an enormous shockwave between them from the simple impact of their knees together.
"Damn," both of them growled out at the same time as Buu came to a pinpoint stop in the distance, grunting out in disapproval as he craned his neck around at an impossible angle, only to liquify his body to turn around an instant later. "And I thought the first Buu was a disgusting bastard," Cell muttered. "Welcome to the club," Gohan replied dryly as he touched down, an action followed by his blue enemy-turned-ally. "Any bets on his next move?" Cell asked. "He`s probably going to scream at us..."
"YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!!!"
"... And then he`s probably going to rush us," Gohan pointed out with the same degree of accuracy as before, promptly having to dodge out of the way as Cell flung a leg out and effectively impaled the bratty demon on his foot, kicking Buu back and right into Gohan`s elbow, which drove hard into the back of the small demon, sending Buu into the dirt and right into a kick in the face, which propelled him up off of his stomach and straight into a forearm smash across the right side of the back of the head, sending him to tumble forward and skid along on the ground away from the two, only to spring back up and scream out irately.
"And now he`s going to try and blow up the planet," Gohan predicted. "Any ideas?" He asked. "You put on a pink, frilly to-to and try to destract him while singing 'Oops! I did it again' as I beat the shit out of both of you with a screaming lamb named Nubby the Stumpmeister?" Cell asked with a vague tinge of seriousness in his voice. "... That wouldn`t work," Gohan muttered annoyedly. "True, but at least I`d be able to die laughing at you," Cell pointed out honestly as Buu screamed again.
"STOP IGNORING ME AND DIE ALREADY!!!"
"Oh look, he`s expanding his vocabulary!" Cell jeered. "Not to mention the ball of energy above his head," Gohan pointed out, just after Buu had shot his hand up into the air and formed a small ball of ki above himself, quickly expanding it and pouring more and more raw, unadulterated energy into the attack until it had grown to the size of a small city, still pouring ever more ki into it until the entire area began ripping apart sheerly because the sphere was even existing to begin with, let alone the fact that it was still growing by the yard every single nanosecond.
"... Ah, fuck me with a golf club..." Cell muttered in disbelief at the sight of the attack, which soon blotted out he and Gohan`s views of the sky, still growing until it had built up it`s own gravity field, which both fighters promptly felt as chunks of the Earth began to rip up into the attack, Gohan`s hair promptly spiking entirely up for the first time in years as his clothing even started to flow upward under the force of the insane ball of ki.
Well, It's the end of the world
Well, It's the end of the world
"NOW DIE! DIE BECAUSE I HATE YOU BOTH!!!"
With that, Buu threw his attack and...
It's my world...
My world, my love, my gun
"I made it in time!" Shibito announced as he and the surviving warriors of Earth popped into view with a blast of light, only to be greeted by Videl`s utterly sickened expression and the old Kaioshin`s darkened appearance. "Yes," the elder god replied balefully. "You made it back in time to watch the Earth explode," he stated gravely, just as the words sank in for those gathered. In a blinding flash of pink light, the entire area around the crystal ball all but faded out of view, the rumble of the explosion proving itself audible even through the weak recepting abilities of the old Kaioshin`s looking glass.
Even then though, the roar of the blast couldn`t overcome the sickened scream of the one person bound more tightly to one of the three combatants on Earth than anyone else present, transcending even the bonds of blood or friendship both.
"GOHAN!!!"
Author`s Note: ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER! This brings the total up to how many of these damn things I`ve hit you people with? Sorry about the whole chapters-got-shorter thing, one has to remember the semi-rush involved from when I was writing this stuff down :P But anyway, the chapters`ll get a little longer but don`t be expecting anymore 60+ kb parters from this one.
diamondgirl: Yes, Beavis and Butthead just fit the role quite perfectly, didn`t they? O.o Flying saucer, eh? *Hands her one.* A dragon with a remote controlled flying saucer... Be afraid. Be very afraid.
cobra: He was quite the witty bastard, wasn`t he?
W.V.F.: Glad you like it so far, and glad someone agrees with me about Vegeta`s fething ego. God that annoys the hell out of me when people make it seem so freaking noble when it`s just Vegeta being an arrogant bastard.
CysticLOL17: Congratulations on giving the 100th review for Generations :D *Hands Cystic a cookie.* As for an answer to your question: No, Cell didn`t get absorbed. I`ll leave ya hangin` on that one, and if you figure it out, please don`t leave it in a review and spoil it, `kay? And yeah, he was one of my personal favorites from the series. Zangya, Gohan and Goten, followed closely by Piccolo and Videl, just barely inch him out for me.
And if you`re wondering, I spent three days waiting to upload the last part by accident, so I went ahead and uploaded this one as a little bonus for makin` ya wait :P
That`s all for now folks, Sh33p out and see ya next time!