Weird thing. Apparently, whenever I get notifications from this site through email, the emails say they're from exactly 44 minutes BEFORE they were actually sent. I've always noticed it. Not a time zone thing cause... it's an exact strange number. This site is weird.
ONWARD BRAVE HEROES!
"Alright!" A hand rises, holding an orange shining ball in its hand. Yamcha proudly stands with his prize, exiting an cave in the woods. "I thought only foxes took shiny objects they saw. Why would a bear-"
He stops, gaze trailing to the side. Another power? Too strong to be human or a base Saiyan, but too weak to be Piccolo or a Super Saiyan. And whoever it is, they're heading headlong towards Majin Buu...
"Oh, come on!" He complains, rising into the air. "I JUST got the last ball! I'm sure someone else senses-" Aaaand the power just collided with Buu... they're fighting. Which means friendly. "Ah, no..." In a burst of ki with a sigh, he speeds off into the horizon.
. . .
Thankfully, it wasn't far. Barely two minutes of full speed flight finds Yamcha at the edges of a bay side city. Explosions rings out across the water front, but the first detail he notices is the ruined city.
A quick scan of ki gives away that there's no survivors. Everyone within the city is already dead. Likely killed before the battle began. He grimaces, landing on one of the tallest buildings. A loud blast sounds at the water as the other power takes a dive. "Whoa, whoever that is isn't doing well."
He dashes across the buildings, traveling towards the water front, a giant concrete pier. Along the water, he finds the combatant... "Who the heck is that?"
A little boy, with strange clothes, is launched back into the side of the concrete pier, embedding into it. He was beaten pretty badly, with bruises, a black eye, trickling blood from all limbs. He was thoroughly messed up. He couldn't even be ten years old.
That's when he saw the pink monster float down by the water, completely unharmed. "Ha haaaa! You hit wall hard!" Buu giggled incessantly as the boy grumbled and tried to pull himself from the wall.
At that moment, Yamcha feels new presences... very, very weak presences. Looking out to the ocean finds an entire armada of navy battleships with fighter planes launching from them. "Oh, no. What are those idiots doing? Buu's gonna kill them all!"
Unfortunately, that's exactly what starts to happen. The ships and planes begin firing on Buu, bringing the monster's attention away. "Oh? Ohhhhh BUU!" The fat blob of a creature flies dead at the military, beginning his own attack on them.
Yamcha grits his teeth, growling frustrated. "Darn it!" Moving quickly, he flies out over the water's, moving towards the boy. The child barely gets an eye open, groggy. Black spiky hair with lavender sides.
Yamcha merely raises a brow, eyes wide. "Well... whoever you are, let's get you out of here." He pulls the boy from the wall, turning towards the carnage over the ocean behind him. He can only sigh before flying off from the city...
. . .
"YOU UNBELIEVABLE FAILURES!" Piccolo's voice rings out over the whole Lookout.
Yamcha stood, eyes wide, rubbing the back of his neck. Krillin, Gine, Nappa, and Raditz stand by him. Less than a minute after arriving, Piccolo had begun lashing out at the boy, who Krillin began informing him was actually Gotenks, a fusion of Goten and Trunks. He'd defused the moment they landed.
"But I-" The two children spoke in unison, but were cut off.
"No! You're going to defuse, and then we'll have Goten and Raunch fuse for another try!" He snarls in frustration, turning away in a huff.
"What?! Why Goten and Raunch?!" Trunks yells out, demanding in tone.
Piccolo glares down at him, causing Trunks to flinch back. "Because I can't help but feel Gotenks's need to show off might have come from a certain prideful schemer."
The lavender haired boy opened his mouth for a comeback, but nothing came out. Slowly, he slouched, Goten pouting beside him. "It's not our fault, though. Honest!"
"No excuses!" Piccolo left the two, walking towards the crowd.
Beside the two boys, Raunch stood, brunette. She blinks twice before snickering at them. A rather whimsical giggle for the more angry side of her. "You two came back looking teeeerrrrrrrible!"
With the others, Piccolo looked to the others. "We better go ahead and get the dragon balls ready. Once we've used them, we'll..." He closed his eyes, sighing. "We'll go with take two."
"Speaking of." Raditz starts. "We're wishing back Gohan and everyone who's died since this started..."
"Except those not making a life on Earth." Krillin interjects.
The Saiyan continues without acknowledgment. "What's our second wish gonna be?" The group looks between one another, no immediate answers coming for a moment.
"Well,let's hold off on that just a minute." Dende chimes in, standing on the edge of the Lookout.
"What is it?"
"It seems Buu is using another city's people to... make building material." The guardian clenches his staff, downcast. "He's... making a house?"
The entire group tilts their heads, one eye narrowing and the other widening on each face. Raditz takes the time to face palm, growling lowly. "That's a new one. Guess we're holding off a bit on that then."
. . .
Extreme, numbing pain waking up to the sting of sunlight. One would think that by this point in his life, he'd be used to this feeling. Oh god, even down to the cause being a large fat pink man. It all goes back to the beginning.
Eyes open, twitching painfully at the sun peaking down through clouds. Thankfully, the clouds block out the line quickly. Bardock groans a sigh with his eyes blinking. It takes a moment, but his limbs start flexing, twitching, testing movement- "AH!" He winces loudly with the wound on his chest.
Pushing himself, Bardock makes it to a sitting position. A small spot surrounded by debris on all sides. "Bardock?" The voice at his side gets his attention, turning to find Broly, grunting in pain as he stands and moves by the downed warrior. "Are you... are you okay?"
Bardock gives a half lidded stare. "Feeling nostalgic. How are you feeling?"
The larger Saiyan crouches down, cradling his arm and obviously injured as well. "I'm... fine. It's fuzzy, but... I remember what happened. I'm sor-"
"Gonna stop you there." Bardock says with a rasp in his voice. "You successfully fought off that wizard's control. Control lost or not, you definitely succeeded."
Broly quiets, looking down at that. Sighing, the clone man shakes his head. "I don't remember who injured me so badly, you or that... thing."
Bardock pointedly looks away, nonchalant. "Well, a little column A... some B." He groans, attempting to stand before seeing Broly extending a his hands to help. Bardock accepts as the two stand, the smaller of the two supported by the larger. "We need to get back to the Lookout. See where we stand before me and that monster go round 2."
"Is it that powerful?" The clone asked, the two Saiyans walking with the larger supporting the smaller.
"Pretty powerful, but I'm confident I could take it at full power." Bardock states off hand before sending Broly a side glance. "Give you a while, and I'm sure you could challenge-" He stops, senses reaching out. "What the? I... I don't sense Vegeta or Ka-" He stops, looking over to Broly.
Strangely, the large man just stares back. Bardock continues. "-karot?" Broly keeps eye contact, but simply breathes in and out. Bardock's eyes raise. "Hmm. Good job. I'm proud."
Broly continues walking, silence taking them a moment. The clone's mind trailed off to that strange vision that had assaulted him. The image of his... 'original' self. A self that he rejected.
His distraction was clear to Bardock. Something was on the clone's mind, but that was okay. Whatever it was, it clearly gave him focus. Leaving it be, he continues. "I don't sense those two, nor do I sense the Supreme Kai or Gohan still. It seems that monster, Buu, is either in a vastly less populated region... or he killed off a city in that area."
Broly tenses lightly at the mention of Gohan, doubly so at the mention of a dead city. "Can you fly?"
"Not enough energy, it seems." Bardock comments off hand. "Can you?"
"Not... with weight." Broly states, looking ashamed. "I tried to carry you once already."
"Well... let's walk it off a bit and try again." The elder states, little worry in him.
. . .
"Alright, until we feel out the situation and use the dragon balls, we're still going forward." Piccolo calls out. This time, Goten stood alongside the brunette Raunch. One innocent smile and one challenging smirk. "Alright, this time, transform into Super Saiyans first."
"Okay!" The two children cheerfully shout back. In a team roar, both light up shining yellow. Their powers blow the wind back, Piccolo's cape flapping out behind him.
By his side, Trunks stands, a pout on. "This is SO unfair."
"Alright, sync your powers!" The Namek shouts. The two auras fluctuate, both cousins glancing between one another before they even out completely. "Alright, GO!"
Arms out, the two come in. "Fuuuu-" Arms snap out, legs hiked. "-Sion!" They step out, arms in as their fingers connect. "HA!" Just as before, the two silhouettes of children form together and burst in a shining light.
The glare upon the Lookout dulls, revealing a single child standing before them. This one's build was virtually identical to Gotenks, only with just slightly more slim. Before, it had unkempt black hair with brown lines in the hair spikes, a brown bang framing the left side of the face. This time, the wild hair spikes up, the only hair spike downward being the bangs framing the left side. All yellow hair with a golden aura all around.
Black shoes, brown wrap around the ankles, white pants, a brown sash, brown wristbands. The vest was orange-red with the same strange bulbous bordering, this time a more golden amber colored. Gonch stands, this time not shriveled like an old bag of bones. The youthful grin beamed around.
"Good." Piccolo's statement gets the fusion's attention, blinking slightly longer lashes at the Namekian and Trunks. "How are you feeling?"
"Confused." Trunks mutters.
Gonch gives a toothy grin. "I'm great! This is awesome! I bet I could beat you now!" In answer, the golden aura flares up, shaking the Lookout. "Trunks, this is so awesome!" Both cousins' voices shout in unison, excited.
Trunks leans back, wide in the eyes. He wasn't sure if he was leaning away from the power level or from the... confusion of possible pronouns. "Hold up. Are you a boy or a girl?"
The fusion's excitement morphs on a dime to confusion. Blinking the teal eyes, they step back, looking over their body. "Um... hmm." A shake of the hips comes next, eyes widening, alert.
"What's wrong?" Trunks asks, tilting his head. Gonch's wide eyes go down as she leans back. Hands reach down and peel out the top of the sash and pants, peaking through. Their eyes dilate, lips clamping.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
All occupants of the sky palace jump and clamp their ears at the scream. Trunks withdrawing the most from his spot. He looks up, worried. "What the heck-"
"Boy!" Gonch shrieks at him. "Just- Ugh! Go with boy!" He shrinks back, shifting uncomfortably and muttering low. "Gosh, it didn't look right from EITHER perspective..."
"Enough nonsense!" Piccolo shouts, getting the attention of the children. "We've proven you can fuse while Super Saiyan, so we'll wait for the fusion to run out, find Buu-"
"Oh! I bet I can find him before you can!" Gonch lights up. "Oh! Even better idea! Trunks, let's race! I'll totally smoke you!" The fusion beams at the fellow boy.
Trunks flusters, scowling. "No you wouldn't!"
"Yes." Piccolo states. "Yes, he would. But Gonch, we should-"
"Oh man! I bet I could outrace ALL of you! Go!" The boy disappears from sight, a sudden whirlwind blowing around the Lookout.
All the occupants scream at the sudden burst of wind. The edge of the Lookout glows gold, nothing but a blur blitzing. Nappa looks with wide eyes before scowling. "Okay, this is enough!" Walking towards the edge, the blur zipping by him, Nappa jabs his arm out to catch the fusion and-
And a violent burst of ki sends the large hulking Saiyan flying through one of the palace walls, disappearing inside. "F***!"
Raditz grits his teeth, growling. "Damn it!" He roars out, a golden aura flaring around him with lightning, entering Super Saiyan 2. "GONCH, COME HERE!"
The burst of light flies in, stopping directly in front of the Saiyan. He beams a smile. "Hey, Duncle! The view from up here is great! I saw something shining on the ground below! Come on!"
"... did you say 'Duncle'?" Raditz says, confused, before Gonch grabs the grown man's hand, proceeding to speed off the Lookout with the full grown Saiyan dragged helplessly behind. The two Saiyans disappear off the Lookout.
The entire group looks off in the direction, sensing the fusion and her 'duncle' below. Piccolo sighs, hand covering his face. "Fuse an arrogant rich kid with a pure hyper boy, get an cocky child with delusions of grandeur. Fuse same pure hyper boy with an impulsive side of a devious girl..."
Android 18 answers, off with the others. "Get the worst case of ADHD?"
Piccolo sighs, glancing back at Trunks. The boy stares back, gulping. "Guess our bets are on Raunks."
. . .
Half an hour later, two loud CRACKS sound off the Lookout. Raunch and Goten sit apart from one another, each holding their sore heads, tears in their eyes. Goten rocks back, a low whine coming out. "Ow..."
Raunch glares up at the Namekian. "Hey! We didn't do anything wrong-"
"Shut up!" The green man snaps down. He points towards the palace, specifically the hole in the wall left by Nappa. Nearby Nappa sits on stone steps, rubbing a sore spot of his neck, pouting with the others chuckling around him.
Piccolo then points to Raditz, getting tended to by Dende and Gine. Dende heals the man while his mother fans him with her hand.
Piccolo resumes standing over the girl, making her wince and look down in a pout. "... I still say it wasn't our fault."
Trunks speaks up, raising a hand to get attention. "Yeah, I mean. Do you have any idea what that kind of power feels like when you and someone else become one?"
A simple condescending stare answers before the Namekian speaks. "I am EXACTLY the person to understand what that's like. So, yes. YOUR fault." He steps back, glancing at all three. "Okay, we'll get ready to try once more with Trunks and Raunch, and keep going until ONE combination of yours can SIT STILL!"
He continues, stern but calmer. "Now, get ready."
"Actually-" Goten speaks up, but yawns loudly. "Can I get some sleep?
"Yeah, We've been at this for what? A couple days with only a little sleep." Trunks comments, rubbing his eyes. Raunch huffs, though her eyes are half lidded.
Piccolo's eyes twitch, veins bulging as he stares at the three. "... Fine. Get your sleep, and we continue once you're awake." In unison, the three children smile and march off towards the palace. Piccolo glares at the children as Krillin walks up next to them.
The monk gives a low whistle. "Wow, they're a handful. Nothing like Gohan are they?"
"If THEY were born back then first, I'd still be evil, and they'd be dead in a lake." The Namekian turns away, marching over to Dende. "So, how's Buu?"
The guardian sweats a little nervous at the fellow Namekian's frustration. "Well, he's... just been living in his new... home? In fact, Hercule Satan even went to try to fight Buu."
"Oh, god, please tell me he's dead finally?" Raditz grumbles nearby.
"No, he's... actually befriending Buu." At that, the whole group stares dead at the guardian. "I know! It's actually convincing me that maybe Buu has some good in him." He smiles back at them. "We might be able to get by without even having to fight Buu again."
"If that's the case, we probably shouldn't use the second wish from the dragon." Yamcha suggests. "If we use the dragon balls to bring back Gohan, the balls will be ready in six months and we can wish everyone else that's died over the whole time!"
"Why can't we also bring back Bardock and Broly?" Gine interjects.
"Yeah, if he has that Super Saiyan 3 thing too, he could mop the floor with Buu right away!" The monk chimes back in. However, Piccolo shakes his head.
"We can't make the same wish twice, and Bardock was brought back after the Cell Games. After all is said and done, we'll contact New Namek and use theirs to wish him back." He directs back to Yamcha. "Hurry up and bring back Gohan, we'll put the second wish on hold." Then to Dende. "We'll monitor the situation. Maybe things will go smoothly."
Krillin nods, turning to Yamcha. "Well, let's go say hello to Shenron." He sends an apologetic glance at the female Saiyan. "Don't worry. He'll be back."
Raditz stands with his mother, the humans quickly gathering the dragon balls. A few minutes pass, the children asleep inside, everyone else outside. All move fast, as this is several of the group's first time seeing this.
"So... magic wish granted dragon." Erasa states. "Just getting weirder and weirder."
18 shrugs nearby, holding Marron. "You get used to it. It's brought me back once already, but this is my first time actually seeing it."
Videl looks at the fellow blonde, tilting her head. "Wait how many of you have died before?"
"Me!" One by one, the response comes from Roshi, Krillin, Yamcha, 18, Raditz, Gine, Piccolo, Dende, and Nappa. 18 even adds "my brother 17" after her count. Finally, Bulma comments off hand. "Our friends Tien and Chaotzu, Goku, Bardock once already, Vegeta, and even the future version of my son, Trunks."
The bluenette turns with a nervous smile. "One can say Gohan, uh, got the right of passage, so to speak."
"Yeah, let's not speak like that." Chichi growls in the background.
Erasa, eyes wide, answers nervous. "Huh... does it count for Broly since his original was..."
The resulting meeting of eyes among the entire group was... morbid yet interested. "Let's put a pin in that." Bulma answers as the balls begin to flash bright. "Anyway... who is ready to get this started!" The entire group came to attention, Bulma giving a smirk. "Arise, SHENRON!"
The power begins to flash around the balls, Krillin looking up to the sky beside Yamcha. "I hope training is going well with Gohan."
. . .
The halo disappears, fading away. Gone. One could say, that would be a noteworthy moment, but currently, all attention is on something else entirely...
A large, solid gray cube of metal hits the ground nearby. Gohan stands, hands on the hilt of the Z Sword... the broken Z Sword. His eyes bug out, looking at the broken blade. Goku stands nearby, jaw dropped with his own eyes bulging. And the same with Shin, All hope and optimism left in the Kai gone.
The metal, Katchin, sinks into the ground... with all three men screaming in shock at the metal.
. . .
In the darkened wasteland, night time skies overhead, a single structure occupies a large clear arid ground. A strange form of concrete forming the shape of a laying dog. The windows of the building light with the residents inside, one Majin Buu being the primary one.
On a nearby hill, a man lays flat on the ground, hiding behind a rock. His hair pulled back in a ponytail, out of his eyes. He glances over the ridge at the building through a pair of binoculars, guns hanging from his back. He grins at the monster's home. "Ah, there it is."
I will be skipping basically ALL of Buu and Hercule. If it follows the show exactly, no point in me writing it the exact way. Also hey, if Dragon Ball classic can have a scene of Goku freaking out over Bulma not having boy parts, then I can have a confused fusion scream at being suddenly between genders. That said, Gonch will use male pronouns.
I can also promise a lot more deviation from the series once the fighting actually starts.
Powers:
Gotenks– 240,000,000
Gonch SS1 – 12,000,000,000
So, I fully realize some people will want to contest this... But I will directly counter argue through Piccolo. Piccolo saw Gotenks for the first time, wanted them to defuse and then try as Super Saiyans. Sure, Gotenks went in only his base form and got his ass handed to him instead, but moving on. When Goten and Trunks fused as Super Saiyans, creating SS1 Gotenks, Piccolo's suggestion was to let the fusion run out, find Majin Buu, THEN fuse again to fight Buu.
Point? Piccolo directly figured that Super Saiyan Gotenks alone was in the realm of power of Fat Buu. This alone puts Gotenks SS1 around 10 billion based on Piccolo's assertion to have Gotenks fight. Of course, Gotenks wasted his time, defused before even starting a fight with Buu, and the kids came back and went to bed to rest.
Piccolo also made them train in the Time Chamber specifically cause Super Buu was too strong for SS Gotenks, so Piccolo has an understanding of how strong Fat Buu was and how strong Super Buu was, further validating him as an authority that SS Gotenks was close to Fat Buu and SS3 Goku at LEAST, but I'm using the Gotenks powers from Yo Son Goku and His Friends Return as well to help scaling, since no characters gained any scale able or tangible power between Buu and that special.
Reviews:
SuperSaiyajin4Vegeta – Yeah, Male/Female fusions bout to bring some Non-binary diversity in here! (JUST KIDDING) It is strange to think about.
As for Gohan, I do believe it HAS to relate to power, since Shin and Goku try to reason that Gohan got a lot stronger simply handling the Z Sword to cheer them all up after it broke. Gohan's confirmed to have gotten stronger with those lines that I actually forgot to include in my reasoning. (Go dumb me!) Gohan even admits he might be able to fight Buu as he was, simply from the training. The Z sword simply acts as a form of extreme weight training, just like Goku's clothes in Dragon Ball, Piccolo's armor, or the gravity chamber.
Vukk – Eh, the implication is that say, during the History of Trunks movie opening, when Trunks is a baby crying, that's the same approximate time the Pilaf gang made their wish, AND that's the approximate age they made themselves. . . Although if I had to give them anything, Mai would be the one with the best chances of surviving out of the three dimwits. (I never liked Pilaf or his gang really)
TheDarkChronist – Eh, 18 with Krillin is far better to me. 18 with Vegeta would just be a colder more violent version of Bulma x Vegeta in my opinion. Just violent hate screwing.
Although, I did ship Future 18 and Future Trunks. Partly because I always thought Trunks should have followed Goku's example and turned the androids good, and partly because it would follow in his mom's footsteps since Bulma loves the man indirectly responsible for three of her friends' deaths... and she had two kids with him! So, for a Future Trunks pairing, that would have been both interesting following a Goku mentality for story AND echoing his mom since he wouldn't exist if SHE didn't fall for the same type of person.
Although, sure... she's technically 18 years older (Ba dum tss) but that's still a far cry better than the true age difference with Mai. I'll take double his introduction age rather than triple.
