The creature known as Janemba, a demon born from pure evil energy, shot a wicked glare in the direction of the two who had the audacity to harm him. Piccolo and Vegeta, the Namekian shaman and the prince of all Saiyans respectively. Janemba's intellect was hardly developed, but he was quite certain he vastly eclipse these two in terms of strength...but they had discovered his weakness.
The demon had a rather fragile ego, insults could disrupt his physical form and make him 'crack' whenever he was insulted. Fairly painful, and these two were masters at exploiting such a weakness. He couldn't let them, Janemba had enough brain cells to know he shouldn't waste any time playing with these two.
A portal abruptly opened in front of Janemba, who promptly jammed his clenched fist through it. It reopened beside Vegeta and the shattering punch clocked him in the jaw. With blinding speed Janemba's rubber arm kept contracting and extending, the exit portal of his fist reopening in new areas all around Vegeta resulting in him being struck from every side and unable to block the attacks.
Piccolo leapt forth, ready to yell out an insult, before Janemba took aim with his sword arm. A quick flick of his wrist and a slice of energy was sent flying through the air from the ruby blade, an attack that Piccolo only narrowly avoided.
Janemba started to cackle, now having both warriors on the ropes. With his blinding speed and portal generation he could keep pummeling Vegeta from all sides, and then with the powerful slashes of his sword he could keep Piccolo dodging and prevent him from getting involved. Everything was going to go his way, he was sure of it.
Vegeta had other plans.
While the punches were disorienting, he had taken mighty beatings in the past and lived. He managed to gather some energy into his palm, tried to recognise the pattern of Janemba's punches, and then when one portal opened directly before him he let the energy explode from his hand and through the portal just before the fist could pass through.
The blast caught Janemba off guard, striking him in the thorax and making him stumble back from the power behind it. Piccolo took his chance and drove forward, yelling "STUPID FREAK!" at the top of his lungs. The insult sent shards breaking off of Janemba's body, fragments of multicoloured glass. Then Piccolo's knee caught the demon full on the face and knocked him away, his sword skittering from his hand.
Piccolo reared himself , ready to fire out another insult, when Janemba's body suddenly broke apart/ His body turned into tiny bricks that shifted through the air and then reassembled behind Piccolo in the blink of an eye. The Namekian was shocked, distracted just long enough for Janemba to punch him in the temple with enough force to knock him out. His body sailed through the air, and the Namekian's smacked down into a twisted mass of iron and warped glass.
Janemba grunted, ready to retrieve his blade, when Vegeta suddenly punched him with all the force he could muster up. Despite the pain and fatigue the blow to the stomach did make Janemba's eyes bulge from his head in an almost comical fashion "If you think...I'll lay down and die...against a FREAK like you...You've got another thing coming!" the insult formed more cracks on Janemba's body, which deepened further when Vegeta uppercutted him right into the air.
Suddenly Vegeta's jagged gold aura exploded around his body as he zoomed after Janemba as fast as he could. His hands were pushed out sideways, golden ki building in his palms into a powerful Final Flash attack.
The prince's blood was pumping now, and he ignored the pain burning in his purple bruises and bleeding cuts around his body. He was excited,the thrill only a Saiyan could find when facing down a foe of greater strength. The challenge to be overcome. He'd prove himself here, prove that he was stronger than Kakarot!
After a few more moments the evil entity managed to right himself in the air. He was prepared to blast Vegeta away, until the prince bellowed out another insult "Deformed piece of shit!" The harsh words knocked the demon back and broke more small shards off his body. It bought Vegeta just enough time to close the distance between them.
While Janemba was briefly distracted and disoriented Vegeta kicked the demon in the chin and sent him hurtling backward through the sky. Enough energy gathered for the Final Flash, it was now or never. His aura condensed down and Vegeta slammed his hands together at the wrist.
"FINAL...FLASH!" Vegeta roared at the top of his lungs, the sky around him erupting with a golden hue. The blast shot from Vegeta's hands like a column of light, a sword of pure energy piercing through the heavens. It was definitely going to hit, but the question was how much damage could an attack like this do to a monster like Janemba?
It drew closer, closer, it was going to egulf the demon...And then he managed to flip up and shove one arm up to block the wave of light. It exploded against his body like a volcanic eruption, the heat and power of the attack gradually pushing him backward through the sky inch by inch. This wasn't looking good, he needed to knock Vegeta out before the attack managed to engulf him.
He rubbed what few brain cells he had in a desperate bid to form a plan. He was strong, he could do anything if he thought hard enough. Gradually an idea formed in his mind.
From the distance Goku and Frieza watched. They knew their own plan, but they'd need Vegeta out of the way in order for it to work. "I don't like this..." Goku remarked, the lightning of his aura faintly crackling around his body. "Vegeta's attack is strong but it won't be enough to stop this guy. And he's putting everything he has into this, so once that blast ends he'll be utterly defenceless."
"I'm aware." Frieza replied in a dry matter-of-fact tone "I plan ahead. I might not be a fan of Vegeta, but I know how to save him if he's in trouble. Just focus on your own part of the plan." It was always odd to see just how serious Goku could become when the need arose, going from a manchild to a fierce warrior that even struck fear into Frieza in his tyrannical days.
"I know what I'm doing, I always have been the smarter of the two of us." Frieza added finally.
The impossible force of the Final Flash Attack pushed Janemba backward inch by inch. He could feel the heat burning into his flesh, the pain growing stronger and stronger with each passing second. He needed to end this quickly...and he had an idea now.
The evil entity cast his head in one direction, red and gold light sparking from his eyes. Two searing hot eyebeams shot from his pupils moving to Janemba's right, and then suddenly they turned in mid-air. The two beams of heat and light arced through the sky twisting and warping in the sky and moving closer and closer to Vegeta.
He saw the attack coming but he was in a catch 22 now. If he stopped his Final Flash now then Janemba would blast him to oblivion, and if he maintained the attack then he had no defenced against the optic blasts weaving his way.
Finally the two blasts curved through the air and struck Vegeta in the back with a burst of explosive power. Vegeta yelled in pain once the burn spread across his back and the pain was so disorienting that his blast sputtered out into nothing. With a blinding flash of purple light Janemba closed the distance and then struck Vegeta down to earth with a mighty swing of his tail.
Down he went, his injured body barely even conscious. His body struck the ground of one mesa with such force that the reflective surface shattered and cracked beneath him. His whole body shuddered in pain, and then his hair went from gold to black. Down for the count.
Janemba was huffing for breath, enraged and feeling pain tingling through his body. His right arm was covered in black scorch marks, and even the right side of his face had some singes from the heat of Vegeta's attack. He even had had some newly formed cracks on the purple piece of armour on his chest. Clearly the fact that he had been harmed was deeply pissing him off.
He raised an arm up and then aimed two fingers at the downed Saiyan. He was going to make sure to punish Vegeta for his insolence...A spark of red light glowed upon his fingertips, ready to fire off a destructive wave of energy.
At the last possible second, Frieza materialised in front of Janemba and kicked him in the face as hard as he could. The blow made his whole body shudder, and the demon was launched away through the air. His aura erupted and rippled around his body, and the Super Arcosian shot off after the injured being.
Frieza's elbow slammed down on Janemba's exposed red belly, once, twice and then thrice before spinning around and striking the demon on the burnt half of his face. Janemba was knocked away by the crushing tail slap, seemingly disoriented by the attack, and Frieza shot off to intercept him again with one clenched fist pulled back for a mighty punch.
His fist shot down with a thunderous sonic boom, only for his fist to be caught in the crushing vice-like grip of Janemba's unburnt hand. His eyes widened, the flames on his body flickering out slightly from the surprise. Janemba grinned.
The tables turned in the span of a second. Janemba's head drove forth, his neck elongating to an absurd and grotesque length, allowing him to smash his armoured forehead into Frieza's face. The rigid and dense material of Frieza's faceplate shattered under the force and exposed his face, in addition to flinging him backward through the multicoloured sky. The force of the impact was so violent Frieza thought his head was about to tear off his shoulders.
Janemba's fist flew through a portal that opened directly in front of him, the exit portal appearing in the right place to intercept Frieza so he could be punched down by the fist. His burnt fist shot through another portal, catching Frieza in the temple when it left the portal with enough force to crack two of his swooping horns. Another portal opened and then a beam of light exploded from his fanged maw, blasting the Arcosian in the abdomen and sending his smoking body driving down to the ground.
His head was swimming, his body ached al over. Frieza knew he couldn't endure more damage, he had to put an end to this and he had to do it now!
He gathered his wits, ceased his momentum, and then locked onto the demons energy. He vanished into hyperspace and reappeared right above him in the span of a nanosecond, much to the demon's shock. Frieza shoved both hands out and struck him with the most powerful telekinetic force he could muster, an attack that would have blown a hole clean through the moon.
Janemba was yowling and screaming and roaring as he was launched downward, and then crashed down on his hands and knees on the surface, sending massive cracks along the glassy and metallic surface. He tried to get up but...then the evil entity realised he couldn't move a single muscle. His body trembled, but that was all he could manage to do.
Right now Frieza was straining his psychic powers to the limit, holding every single molecule of Janemba's partially damaged body in place. He had to make sure Janemba couldn't break apart and reassemble elsewhere. In addition he had to make sure even if Janemba managed to open a portal directly beneath him that Frieza could keep his body from falling down into it.
"Goku!" Frieza yelled out "We're away from the others, I can't buy any more time! You have to do your attack now!" he roared at the top of his lungs, his voice carrying across the warped and distended landscape of hell.
In the sky on the horizon, a vibrant golden light appeared. Goku was floating in the sky,his body aglow with all the energy he had left. His hands were cupped at his hips, holding a vibrant blue ball of energy with crackling golden lightning arcing around the sphere. "Get ready for the mother of all Kamehameha's! I'm gonna hit you with everyting I have left!" the normally kind Saiyan yelled out.
With a deafening roar Goku shoved his hands out, blasting out the typhoon of swirling gold and blue light at the restrained demon. Janemba tried to scream but he was drowned out by the ear-rapingly loud volume of the incoming attack. It closed the distance at an insane speed, and then it engulfed the wicked creature.
The wave of energy and the earthquake it produced rocked the entire plane of hell and sent a web of deep fissures running along the ground. A golden dome rose up into the sky from the blast, blinding to stare into like a star. The heat was intense, even the air around the attack was so hot it would have melted steel. Shockwaves of force exploded out into the sky from the epicentre of the ki blast and almost blew Frieza away. But he was determined, he needed to keep this demon in place even if it cost him his own life!
The attack seemed to drag on and on, a blast that would have obliterated the earth. But finally, Goku's energy ran out, the blast and the explosion caused by it faded away into nothing. Frieza's body hung in the air, trembling from the energy he used maintaining a grip on Janemba. His body glowed white and then he powered down into his bruised and beaten 4th form.
He struggled to keep himself up in the air, and he moved as quick as he could. He plucked up Piccolo's body, then Vegeta's and carried them to a slightly undamaged mesa. As he went to get Goku he doubled over and vomited off the edge of the mesa, an intense migraine burning in his skull. Blood pumped from is nose like a fountain...God he had never used his psychic powers to such an extent, against such a powerful being. It was like trying to stop a planet from rotating.
After a few moments of heavy breathing Frieza managed to steady himself enough to float upright. He searched for Goku's faint energy and found the beaten and fatigued Saiyan lying atop one discarded bean gem. "Hehehe...That...that was awesome..." Goku giggled out breathlessly.
"You're...an idiot." Frieza grunted, hefting Goku onto his shoulder for support. "As impressive as our little group effort was...I don't quite think it did the trick...After all, the landscape still looks like a colouring book..."
"Ngh...well...that stinks, hehehe..." Goku managed to breathe out. He glanced to Frieza and noticed all the blood dried to his ivory face "Agh...We better get some senzu's soon...Neither of us are really in great condition, especially if that monster is still alive and kicking."
Piccolo was stirring by the time Frieza set Goku down, and he was slowly rubbing his brow "Is it over...?" he asked through a pained grunt.
Goku tried his best to shake is head, but even that took a great deal of effort on his part "Sorry...Doesn't seem like it Piccolo..." he managed to reply "Ah...over there. J-just take a look..." he added.
Those conscious slowly turned to see a figure emerge from the thick column of smoke rising through the air. Janemba. By god he looked a mess. Half of his face had just been eroded away, revealing the muscle and bone beneath his skin. The purple segments of armour were cracked and burnt all over, revealing a black void beneath. One of his arms was missing from the elbow down, showing nothing but a deformed stump. A cracked laugh escaped him, his mutilated face looking all the more grotesque when it moved.
"Well..." Frieza trailed off, watching the demonic figure sway through the air "Shit."
The demon was about to advance, when his body suddenly froze up again. In the deepest recesses of his mind he heard the word 'Now!' and it was as if his mind was being pried open by some unseen force
Janemba suddenly threw his head to the (Literal) heavens and screamed at the top of his lungs. His shrieking distorted the reality he had forged by his power and talent, shifting everything even further. Volcanoes sprouted up all along the land and started to spew fire and lava into the air. The lava turned into water, then into steam, then into liquid obsidian,and then it froze in the air entirely.
The demons screaming only grew louder. Colour became inverted, colour diluted into black and white, colour became sepia toned, and then colour finally returned to normal. The conscious Z-warriors could only watch in horror and awe, and then all of them seemed to notice something starting to form on his brow. A stylised 'M'.
Janemba's disfigured and maimed body turned into a mound of humanoid tar, his eyes and the M on his forehead glowing red and remaining visible at all times. Over a dozen portals seemed to open in the air all around him and through those several hundred black mounds of tar flew through and merged into Janemba's body, his form growing with every passing second.
The souls of the dead from the living world were being pulled back. Back into hell. Into Janemba. Merging into a single entity.
Colour was gradually being drained from Hell, turning it into a black and white wasteland. The others were transfixed, gazing in horror at Janemba's growing body. He was almost a giant at this stage and still growing. "We need to get out of here! Now!" Piccolo yelled, visibly panicking.
"I don't have the energy to get us out of here with Instant Transmission!" Frieza snapped, glaring back at the Namekian. Piccolo's arm stretched out and he tightly gripped Frieza's hand with his own. A halo of white light enveloped both of them as Piccolo channelled all his remaining energy into Frieza's body. It wasn't much, but...It was going to have to suffice.
Goku and Piccolo both gripped onto the Arcosian a best they could. Frieza's long ivory tail curled around the unconscious Vegeta's waist and held him tight. Frieza stared at the growing mass of tar and bile that was Janemba for a fleeting moment, before vanishing into Hyperspace with his allies.
The other warriors had all gathered several miles outside of West City once the dead seemed to simply vanish of the streets. They stood in one large grassy plain, discussing what the hell happened. Gohan believed his dad had simple solved the problem, but the abrupt nature of this victory plus no communication with Goku had them all worried.
While they spoke there was the noise of a whistling in the wind, and Goku, Frieza, Piccolo and Vegeta all seemed to appear directly behind Gohan. The group turned, clearly shocked and Gohan exclaimed "D-dad! Piccolo! You guys are in rough shape, we better get you some first aid."
The ground rumbled and a golden flash enveloped the group once Inyon abruptly transformed into a Super Saiyan 2. "I'll go to that magic talking cat and bug him for those beans of his! Oooh, I wonder if I can make a giant beanstalk if I plant one..."
"Ah...You guys, something big is still in hell. It's strong, almost beat the four of us."Goku cut in, struggling to sit upright. "It's transforming again, getting even stronger. It'll take a group effort to beat it...Inyon go as quick as you can and get the senzu beans..."
Inyon gave a mock salute, still grinning despite the gravity of the situation, and then she took off into the air like a rocket. Gohan turned, looking to the children of the group "You all need to get out of here. Now." he said sternly.
"Wha- but why?" Goten whined.
"Hey man, we're Super Saiyans too! We can help!" Trunks snapped. Gohan often found it hard to believe that this brat held any relation to the polite young man from the future.
The older Saiyan leaned in close, the two young half-bloods trembling slightly when they saw the grave expression on his face "Do you remember what Hatchiyack did to you two?" he asked "Well this...thing, whatever it is, seems to be even stronger than that. So I sorely advise you kids to run along before you have to slurp up mashed Senzu beans through a straw."
Goten and Trunks both gulped hard, laughed nervously, and then flew off as quick as they could. Glace was aware she got off light against that Tuffle robot, so she took off too. Maybe she could pass the time with Bento and her mom.
Gohan then glanced to Videl "You should get out of here too."
Videl blinked, shocked and annoyed "Wha- you think that just because I'm a girl I can't help you?" she asked, enraged veins popping up on her brow.
"That's not it at all. Videl, 18 and Zangya are almost a thousand times stronger than you, as am I. My dad and Frieza have surpassed me by a fair bit. And if that creature was able to beat them to within an inch of their lives, how good a chance do you think you'll stand against it?" Gohan explained. He placed a hand on Videl's shoulder "I care about you, and I have faith in your abilities...but against something like this, you're just not ready."
Videl's expression was unreadable, a mix of annoyance and understanding would possibly be the only way to describe it. Finally she nodded and said "You stay safe. You idiot." with that she flew off, likely back to her family home.
It was a few minutes later when Inyon returned, twirling the bag of beans on her finger. Everyone who needed a bean took one, and soon the group were in fighting form once again. "So what exactly are we dealing with here Goku?" Krillin asked.
Goku stretched out his sore muscles and then tore off the tattered remains of his navy undershirt "King Kai told me that this guy was one of the ogre workers who accidentally got exposed to pure evil energy and mutated into a reality warping monster. He managed to overpower me when he transformed, even when I was a Super Saiyan 3."
"Huh. Well that's just great." 18 remarked dryly "I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't like our odds of winning here."
Zangya shrugged and looked over the group "Any plan then? Come on, this thing had to have some kind of weakness...Anything at all?"
"Insults." Piccolo remarked "Everything he and everything he made, me and Vegeta could damage them with insults. Sounds strange, believe me I know. Still, I don't know if it'll be as effective against it now."
There was a sudden rumbling, a tremor in the ground growing stronger and more noticeable with each passing second. The stench of death and putrescence filled the air, and there was a definite sensation of heat growing around the group. "We'll find out soon enough..." Vegeta whispered, looking to a white dot in the sky above them.
That dot grew, another tear forming in the barrier between the living realm and the otherworld, being opened by a long red claw. That claw spread that tear until it was like a mile long gap in the sky, and then through that two hands the size city blocks began to pry the rip open. Goku, Gohan and Vegeta both transformed until the light of their Super Saiyan 2 aura's filled the air, an illumination against the void warping the colours in the sky.
Long skeletal black arms held the portal open, and then a head began to peer through the void. It still looked vaguely like Janemba's last form in that he had the horns and the odd helmet atop his skull, but the face beneath that looked like a partially flayed visage. On his brow, quite prominently, there was a glowing orange M.
"I think...I'm gonna be sick..." Yamcha breathed out. He steadied himself as the giant centipede-like body began to crawl through, casting its shadow over the group. His ribcage was quite visible, filled with dripping tar. Eyes were visible inside, fearful pleading eyes, and so many hands reaching out through the gaps in the ribcage, begging for help and freedom. The damned souls dragged and merged into Janemba's body.
This demonic creature, now fully freed from the portal, was over 380 feet in length. It's body an alien travesty, a mish-mash of various different organisms. Like a centipede and a corpse. A clacking sound escaped its mouth, distorted laughter that was almost deafening to hear.
When it finally spoke, it spoke in a voice made from an amalgamation of Babidi and the Demon King Dabura. And its words were chilling to hear, words that made the Z-warriors flinch back in terror.
"I...Am...A god..."
A/N: The final battle with Majin Janemba begins, and the heroes have to pull out all the stops to take him on! How well can they withstand the combined wrath of hell itself?
Now, noble readers, I have something that needs to be said: This fic can not go on forever. Matter of fact it won't even last much longer going by my estimation. It should last about another 10 chapters or thereabouts. I have no plans to do a GT adaptation, this fic will end with Z.
That's not to say I'm giving up on this fic, or that I'm going to end it prematurely. I will still polish off the Janemba arc, and then I will have a character development chapter, then Battle of Gods will be adapted (Though I still have yet to see it) and then the finale at the World Tournament, like the end of Z. I'm just letting you all know that I have a very definite end point in mind for this story and that this story will not extend past Z.
-Pointer39: 600? Lol, I'm about to make it 696! You're practically at 700 lmao.
Believe me dude I'm just as shocked. Mohammad was kind enough to go back and review most of the chapters, so that did help boost the review numbers a fair bit.
-Secundum: Will Majin Janemba have any absorbtion shenanigans?
Eeeeeh...I guess you could call what has happened an absorption of sorts.
-Ocnarf: Can incluid Darkseid in the history
This isn't a crossover, so no. Plus the amount of bitching I'd have to put up with from fanboys would be ridiculous, regardless of how powerful I made Darkseid in relation to the DBZ characters. (And to avoid such comments I will not say how well I think Darkseid compares to DBZ)
-Super Vegetarott: Nah, in all seriousness, awesome chapter. However, I don't believe Janemba could ever form conscious words in his Final Form.
Eh. He could say his own name, I imagine he could form some simple words if he tried hard enough.
