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Big boy Bardock coming in waving that big boy energy. Will it be enough?
Find out now, Brave Heroes!
"WHOA! What is that?!" The shimmering ball flashed the image of Bardock. Before it, Goku and Shin each stood slack jawed. "I-I can feel it from here! It's insane!"
Shin's breath merely shook out as his eye twitched in shock. "I don't believe it. I haven't felt a power like this since... my master." He gulps, staring on.
"HEY! What's going on?! Everything feels haywire down on Earth!" Gohan shouts down from up the hill, only for the old man across from him to swat out his hands frantically.
"PIPE DOWN AND FOCUS!" The old Kai shrieks at the boy. "Show some appreciation for your elders. This isn't a walk in the park unlocking your latent abilities!"
The old man continued to squawk at the boy, leaving the dead man and Kai to focus on the orb. Bardock's image held an aura mixed with gold and red, parts burning orange even. The man's monkey features and fur brightened within the aura as sparks jolted about.
"So... this is what Super Saiyan was always meant to be." Goku's voice was low, eyes wide with awe. "The power of the transformation combined with the tail."
"Absolutely remarkable... Something like this? It boggles the very mind."
Goku shakes his head, a grin forming. He speaks without tearing his eyes away. "You said it was like your master's? Does that mean he can beat Buu?"
Seconds pass, Shin's eyes taking the image in. "I... don't know, but I am truly beginning to see what Vegeta had meant." Bardock began walking away from Broly, towards Buu.
"Saiyans are truly one of the most remarkable warriors to ever exist."
. . .
Buu's cocked head kept his toothy grin alive. Dusty sand blew in the wasteland around him, barely obscuring his view. The dust clouds began to block his view. Stupid dust! He was trying to admire his challenger!
The grin died, a grumble of irritation escaping the pink man. With a scowl, he sucks in air. "RAAWWWWR!" He roars out, a wave of power blasting clouds away from the open battlefield.
The power blows over, pushing at Broly. The giant man shields himself, feet skidding back in the ground. Gritting his teeth, he strained against the wind blowing him back.
Standing off the side in front of him, Bardock scowls, unflinching in the display of power. He walks forward, the spray of dust clouds whipping by him. He steps out, square to Buu's direction. A single grit of his teeth, he calls out. "HAH!"
A single, powerful boom pulses out. The ki radiates out, canceling out Buu's wave and flinching the muscular pink man back. The wave expands, pressing out from the cracked land into the distant remains of forest, into the mountains even father!
Buu stands, eyes blinking as he refocuses on the monkey man.
Bardock stands in a dark golden aura, lightning arcing off him. The man smirks at the monster. "You calm now?"
The pink man twitches, face morphing to a scowl. "Hnn... feeling cocky?"
The Saiyan's smirk fell a touch, a low growling chuckle escaping his lips. "No." Like a snap, his pupils shrank, brow and jaw set. "I'm feeling furious."
Bursting forward like a blur, a trail of lightning marks his path. He blinks to Buu, the pink monster putting up a guard. The impact carries him away, blurs of red and pink bursting across the rocky land. A shuddering impact quakes as craters burst into existence along the ground.
Through the mountains, Buu shatters through, one of the mighty peaks erupting and erasing in a blowout. Buu snickers, righting himself as Bardock emerges from the explosion. The new Super Saiyan fires a flurry of red ki blasts.
The blasts home in, Buu turning tail and rocketing away. Spinning, break turning, and maneuvering throughout the sky, the four ki balls whip around him, missing.
One impacts the peak of another mountain. Two more ignite against each other as Buu narrowly dodges. Buu rockets to another cliff face, hard stopping before his chest opens up a hole. The last beam goes directly through the hole, hitting the cliff face.
Buu turns with a grin, firing a barrage of pink beams from both hands. Bardock's eyes widen as he breaks off to the side, the first stream of ki blasts arcing and veering by him.
They slowly curve back around to give chase, but another stream comes from the left. Bardock flickers up above, dodging.
A third stream of blasts come from the right, Bardock lurching back to dodge. He blinks in realization as all the streams have arced around him, surrounding from all directions. "Damn it!"
Buu grins, directing all the blasts in towards the trapped Saiyan. "You'll take more than that child. Human Extinction Attack!" Dozens of blasts turn to hundreds as they close in.
Bardock growls as his aura flares. Gathering his focus, he let's the blasts close in. Closer. Closer. Ten feet. Five feet. NOW! In a burst of radiating ki, Bardock's image blurs into rapid punches and kicks.
Swipes, smacks, chops, knees. Bardock strikes out in all directions, each and every strike colliding with one singular beam. Each strike bats away a blast. One for one. Each physical strike counters and smacks away another beam.
The hundreds of blasts scatter, falling over the land in an ocean of pink explosions. Buu's eyes widen as he dodges a few of the shots.
Seeing his chance, Bardock kicks the last blast aside directly at Buu. "HAH!" Powering up, he follows after the beam.
Surprised, Buu quickly swipes the beam aside himself, revealing Bardock behind it. The Saiyan closes the distance, blue ki forming around his arm. As he throws it, the blue ki shades bright red as he looses the attack with a roar. A red Tyrant Lancer.
The crimson beam hits Buu center mass, launching the pink grimace away. The red explosion bursts the nearest clouds as Bardock charges after the rocketing pink form. A monstrous roar escapes Buu as the pink meets red.
The two begin an exchange of blows, powerful strikes and flickering after images throughout the sky. Trailing far behind them, tailing along is Broly, watching with wide eyes.
. . .
The Lookout quakes, the floating palace swaying and shifting with each exchange miles and miles away. 18 falls to a knee, supporting Krillin. Glancing over, the others are gathered, everyone attempting to steady their balance.
She, Chaotzu, and Dende had swiftly taken their time to gather all the unconscious warriors from the battlefield. Yet, Dende had yet to begin start healing. How COULD he with all this nonsense going on.
She sits Krillin down, the man resting beside Yamcha, Tien, Nappa, Piccolo, and 17. Upon realizing Gine's and Raditz's fates... they focused on who they could help.
"This is insane! Quick, we need to get the kids out here!" 18 shouts out, going frantic as she shields Marron.
"No." She looks to 16. The half android speaks despite his state. "Bardock is buying them time. Do not panic."
The woman sets her jaw, watching the palace rumble and shake. "It's kinda hard not to panic, 16. You can detect powers. How does it look to you?"
"Bardock's new power certainly counts as the second most powerful reading we have encountered. It will buy us time."
18 turns to give him her fully attention. "H-Hold up... Second? Don't tell me-" Her eyes widened. "Buu is still stronger?!"
The ginger android merely gave her a side glance before nodding. She continued, shaking her head. "No way. That's impossible! All of this is impossible. How are they this powerful, but Buu is still out of their league?"
However, the android answers this time with a grin. "Do not worry. The power difference can be overcome." The ginger's eyes flicker, scanners going haywire. "And Bardock is not alone."
. . .
The fight carries over the forests, meeting the vast blue deep of the ocean. The two fighters separate, twirling about before Bardock speeds backwards just above the water. The blue parts way just under Bardock's foot as he retreats back.
Buu grins as he closes in. His arms stretch out, doubling, tripling in length, further. The Saiyan's eyes widen as the pink monster starts whipping his arm wild.
The extended limbs thrash around, Bardock blocking and deflecting the swipes. The flicking limbs slap through the waters, plumes of blue splashing up into the sky as the Saiyan backs away on defense.
Buu cackles as his arms retract to normal size as he bursts forward, planting his fist into Bardock's gut. A burst of pink ki sparks from the fist, propelling the monkey man along the water careening.
Bardock's body begins skipping along the water. He kicks off the surface, righting himself as he fires a shot into the water. The ocean explodes up as Buu speeds through the water to kick.
The strike swipes through without purchase, the water dropping down. Bardock is gone.
Buu halts himself, blinking confused as he looks around. Left? No. Right? No. Above? No. Below-
The water erupts as Bardock rises, upper cutting Buu in the gut and launching the beast into the sky. The Saiyan rises after the monster, unloading strike after strike into him.
Chasing after him, the man's eyes widened. "What?"
Buu rights himself, body stretching and catching the air to stop. With a wild grin, the flattened body splits down the middle into two Buus. The first drops, colliding with Bardock and morphing to tangle the Saiyan's arms.
The second Buu laughs in triumph as his head tentacle whips forward. "Turn to chocolate truffles!" The pink electric beam fires down, hitting the tangled Saiyan.
Bardock's smolder hardens.
Just as he foresees, Buu rights himself, facing down Bardock. His body begins to stretch, separating into the two Buus. The first drops directly towards the man.
"This is for Raditz. Saturday Crash!" The pink/purple energy forms in his hand as he throws his son's attack into the Buu. The energy washes over the first Buu, sparking around him and stunning the monster. Joints locked.
Bardock smirks, meeting the Buu, gripping and flipping around for momentum before throwing the first Buu towards the second.
The second's head tentacle twitches forward, only for a look of shock to form. The first Buu hits into the second's head as both masses of pink begin to merge back together.
White ki washes over Bardock's palm before he throws his Riot Javelin. The white ball smashes into the pink mass and explodes, blowing out the top half of Buu. Pieces of the monster splatter off in all directions...
The Saiyan dashes in, snatching Buu's ankle before dragon throwing the dismembered monster back to shore.
The torn up pink body hits into the rocky waterline, a blast of dust and water pluming out. Bardock floats lightly down, crossing his arms as he waits. "Problems pulling yourself together?"
The dull growl sounds before the dust cloud clears. Buu reveals himself, veins bulging in his muscles as he seethed. The monster floated up to Bardock's level, snarling. "You. How did you do that?"
"I've no idea what you're on about." Bardock comments with a smirk.
The pink man snarls. "You! You dare mock Buu! Buu make you dead!"
In a snap, he closes the distance, Bardock's only reaction being surprised. Buu lands three punches into the Saiyan before kicking him into sky. He dashes after the man.
Bardock recovers, catching the next punch from the charging monster. He throws Buu away, higher into the sky. The two fighters speed around one another before clashing in another exchange.
The two burst into the clouds, strikes landing back and forth. Seconds in, Buu lands the first solid strike, bashing Bardock away. Chasing after, Buu contorts into a ball, grinning as he rams like a boulder into the Saiyan's back.
Like a pinball, Buu rockets back and forth, battering the monkey to and fro. One final pass knocks Bardock downward as Buu releases his legs and stands tall in the air. With a grin, both hands raise, a gigantic pink Vanishing Ball. He cries out in cheer as he throws the massive pink ball down.
Bardock rights himself, looking in shock as he catches the attack... which quickly forces him down out of the sky. The attack forces the man down, just above the ground.
However, Buu chuckles to himself, having a different idea. His hand flies forward, firing a second small blast down into the back of his Vanishing Ball. Bardock gasps in shock as the second small ball begins to ignite the massive attack.
Just before the ball can explode, a large green ball collides with the igniting attack, carrying it out of Bardock's hands. The Saiyan watches the three orbs carry off before exploding in the sky, blinding him.
The shining blast dims as Buu scowls. "Who interfered this time?"
Bardock glances over his shoulder, finding Broly floating in his Super Saiyan form. The large man breathes in and out from the effort, flying up to Bardock. The elder Saiyan turns his focus back on Buu, muttering. "I told you to stay out of it and rest."
Broly glances up at the monster, staying close by. "I've rested enough. You said we would fight together. I refuse to disappoint anymore."
With his declaration, the hulking Saiyan roars out, a bursting green aura flaring out. His muscles expand, hair spiking out farther and tinging green. The air warps around him as his eyes white out. Seething, he focuses purely on the monster above them.
Hearing the dedication, Bardock smirks beside him. "For the record, I haven't been disappointed yet." His own aura flares to life around him as the two Saiyans focus on their opponent.
Buu floats down, head cocked with a frown. "Funny. I've been pretty disappointed for a while. Sure is a lot of no dying going on. It's ruining the fun." Mulling his head from side to side, his lips curl up, arms raising over his head.
Bardock's eyes widen. Shock fills him as he realizes what the monster plans. "Hold up! If you destroy the planet, there won't be any more fun for you!"
The pink man cackles with that. A pink glow emanates from his hands. "I have a whole universe to toy with. You're nothing but a bunch of cockroaches!"
Gritting his teeth, Bardock's arms shone blue. He drags his arms across, white lightning sparking out, until his right hand facing down is over his left hand facing up. The blue energy gathers between the palms, warping to a burning red.
His hands move to the side, crackling red ki sparking with white lightning arcing off. "Broly, get ready!"
Broly roars out, forming two massive green ki balls, one in each hand. His arms spread wide, charging more and more into the condensed orbs. The two Saiyans charge up their attacks in unison.
Above, the pink light shines as Buu grins madly. Above both raised hands, another Vanishing Ball forms. Bigger this time. Bigger. Bigger. Bigger. The attack eclipses the entire sky, pink illuminating the entire landscape.
The Super Vanishing Ball forms fully as Buu's toothy smile beams down. "Buu strongest! BUU MAKE YOU DEAD!" He brings his hands down, crashing the gigantic ki ball downward from the sky like a titanic meteor.
Both Saiyans' eyes widen as their vision is nothing but pink. Bardock growls out as the red shine intensifies from his hands. His hands throw forward. "10x Spirit Cannon!" A massive crimson blast erupts out, white lightning arcing off in all directions.
The dark red clashes with the massive pink ball, the collision sending a powerful shockwave shattering the rocky earth below. Bardock flinches down as the struggling recoil thrashes back against him.
Buu cackles as his attack steadily forces its way down, pushing through the red beam slowly but surely. The clash conjures a storm with lightning striking the ocean and scarring the shores.
As Bardock is forced downward, feet digging into the ground, Broly shifts to the ape man's side. "RAH!" The hulking man thrashes his arms forward, hands overlapping and firing a great green beam into the sky. The attack collides with the pink ball alongside Bardock's red beam.
The pink ball's descent halts, wind intensifying from the clash. The pulse of air shifts by the cackling pink monster, cutting the laughter short. "Huh?"
Slowly, Buu's eyes widened, mouth agape in surprise. "What?!" The ball raises, the twin beams under forcing up with all their power. The air shook around him as his own attack rebounded back towards him.
Buu's arms rose to meet the challenge, catching the ball to force it back down. The ascent halts before the monster forces the ball back down against the blasts.
. . .
"Guh!" Shin recoils from the crystal ball, flashing green, red, and pink with sparks charging off of it. The orb lights brighter, shading the kai and Goku in the colors. "At this rate, they're going to end up destroying the Earth!"
"There's no choice. Buu's actively TRYING to destroy it at this point!" Goku grits his teeth, hand flicking to his forehead. "I'm going down there!"
"NO!" Shin snatches Goku at the wrist. "You cannot go down there anymore. We must wait for Gohan!"
The Saiyan scoffs, hands clenching at his side. "Darn it! Can we at least somehow take the fight away from Earth?"
"I'm not sure I follow." The Kai admits. "Getting close enough to Buu to use Instant Transmission is suicide."
"Right..." The Saiyan conceded. "And the Dragon Balls can't transport someone against their will-" He pauses, blinking. "Or... can they?" He glances up the hill towards Gohan, a small smirk coming on. The man returns his attention to the crystal orb. "I think I have something, but they need to hold on a while longer."
. . .
The catastrophic Super Vanishing Ball bears down. The kickback on the crimson and neon blasts forces Bardock and Broly into the dirt, struggling to stand. The larger Saiyan buckles, dropping to a knee.
"Keep fighting Broly!" Bardock shouts, eye clenched shut as he grunts out. With a roar, Broly forces himself back to his feet. The hulking man's breathes began coming in and out in loud growls and pants.
Above the struggling attacks, Buu roars out in his own struggle. His teeth crack as they clench, eyes twitching with each push. "Just-... DIE! DIE TO MAJIN BUU!"
The push back staggers the two Saiyans. They catch their footing, halting the push. With a warcry, Bardock shouts. "Not today you bastard!"
"HA!" Both Saiyans roar together, both beams bulging with a stream of power.
Buu gasps, eyes wide, as the pink ball under his hands begins to consume his palms. "WHAT?!" The ki starts to take in his arms, disintegrating his material!
The ball gives, the beams forcing it up into the sky, away from the earth below. Buu's entire arms and legs are engulfed in the ball! With a roar, he fights against it, but the ball overtakes him, consuming the monster fully!
"NO!" Buu's scream dies out inside the erupting ki. The red and green beams combine together and blow the massive Ki ball into the outer atmosphere! Together, they pierce through the ball, igniting the attacks.
Like a solar flare, the blast blinds out from horizon to horizon. Far, far away, the members upon the Lookout stand blinded by the blast, taking cover and shielding themselves. Cities around the planet quake, the screams of the masses accompanying the cataclysmic event.
As quick as the happening occurred, so to does all return to an eerie calm.
The sky dims, the atmosphere momentarily blown open for a black starry sight. Within seconds, the blue closed back in, a chaotic blast of wind conjuring a storm along with it.
Standing atop the shattered remains of the shoreline, Bardock and Broly each hunch forward, gasping for air and in pain. Broly's body began to shrink, hair returning to blast. Bardock's own form recedes, fur disappearing off as his hair retracts to his natural state.
Both Saiyans stand, exhausted in their base forms. "He... Hehe." Bardock's hoarse voice began to chuckle and laugh as he sent a side glance Broly's way. "Damn good job, Broly."
The taller man was almost too tired to notice the praise, lips curving upward. "Th-... thank you."
"Come on. Show SOME kind of celebrations." The elder eggs on, getting a sheepish look from the larger warrior.
Broly huffs. "I, uh... guess we showed him?"
For a possible first, Bardock offers a toothy grin. "Hell yeah, we did." His arm raises, fist out directed towards Broly.
The large man stares at the fist, blinking a moment, before giving a shy smile and raising his own fist towards it... That's when Bardock's eyes widened, seeing something...
. . .
White ki washes over Bardock's palm before he throws his Riot Javelin. The white ball smashes into the pink mass and explodes, blowing out the top half of Buu. Pieces of the monster splatter off in all directions...
Several splotches of pink mass splash into the waters below. Within the deep blue, the pieces slowly wash together. The material twitches, pulsing out and in before morphing together.
All come together in one piece as the water violently shakes. Super Buu slammed into the shoreline by Bardock above. The two continue their battle, moving into the sky.
The rocky shore, as well as the shallow sea floor crack apart. The pink mass in the water moves through like sentient oil. It seems down, moving into the cracks. Wriggling through, digging up, burrowing down. The mass moves through the dirt and rock until coming up on dry land.
Coming up to the violent beam struggle between two super powered Saiyans and the pink monster.
Only when it was over, the pink monster in the sky was completely wiped away, leaving the two exhausted warriors... and the pink materially slunk along the ground towards the two men.
. . .
Bardock's eyes widened, his Change the Future active. Directly behind Broly, the pink mass spreads up into the air. A looming shadow comes over Broly from behind, the man still smiling at Bardock.
The elder man sparks gold, forcing himself into Super Saiyan. He dashes the extra three feet to Broly, smashing his palm into Broly's chest.
With a flick, the larger Saiyan is propelled at speed away from the man. Broly is tossed into the ground away, landing painfully as he looks up in shock. Then with horror. Bardock is left with only a single second to look up in abject shock as the pink mass fell around him. The man is completely enveloped by the mass, removing the man from sight.
Yeah... So context. Also a correction on my part.
Powers:
Bardock SS4 – 120 Billion
Broly FPSS – 50 Billion
Gigantic Spirit Attack – 170 Billion
So, for all intents and purposes, Bardock and Broly could've beaten Buu. Go them!
Super Buu – 160 Billion
Super Buu scales to canon SS3 Gotenks. Since I can't explain Buu without Gotenks, I'll go right on into it.
This scales off of Piccolo's statements that SS Gotenks could face Fat Buu, who is only slightly weaker than SS3 Goku. Again, for anyone who doesn't want to take this statement, I understand, but this IS Piccolo wagering the fate of the world on them succeeding. Either the statement is clear or Piccolo is an absolute moron. Or he read the script and knew Gohan would come later.
Gotenks SS – 10 Billion.
However, this is before training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Trunks directly states that he and Goten had become twice as strong as they had been before entering. This was when they decided to strive for Super Saiyan 3 because they thought it was cool.
So, when Buu entered the HTC to fight Gotenks, the fusion was then twice as strong as well.
Gotenks – 400 Million.
Gotenks SS – 20 Billion.
Gotenks SS2 – 40 Billion
Yes, Gotenks never used SS2, but we know he has to know it to access 3.
Gotenks SS3 – 160 Billion
I DO need to make a retraction on previous statements though. Apparently I had a huge Mendela effect, as I had previously scaled Goten and Trunks based on them vs Abo and Kado remembering them using Super Saiyan to match the two.
Having rewatched that terrible awful special, they didn't use Super Saiyan except after fusing into Gotenks to block one attack. I was massively incorrect in my recollection of the events.
As such, Goten and Trunks, and summarily Raunch, are retroactively changed to...
Goten, Trunks, Raunch – 1 Million.
Kids Super Saiyan – 50 Million.
After the HTC, that will be 2 Million for their base forms and 100 Million for their Super Saiyan forms.
Does it change anything? Really, no. I actually apologize for overstating previously though. I actually recalled them using Super Saiyan in that fight and apparently, I was incorrect. Maybe I was doing my best to imagine Abo and Kado as a threat...
Again, I will apologize. Hopefully soon we can get into the Gohan headache!
Seeing as Super Buu is the combined power of EVERYONE he's absorbed, remove the approximate 21 Billion from Kid Buu and South Supreme Kai, that means that a DEPOWERED Grand Supreme Kai inside Fat Buu offered close to 140 Billion power. This makes sense cause he absolutely bodied Kid Buu with South Supreme Kai absorbed.
Yes, that fatass from Shin's flashback is still stronger than Bardock despite being at the time depowered from his ancient fight with Moro.
Reviews:
Eye Don't See What's Wrong – I speculated where they were a few chapters ago when the Moro arc began, but... I don't see myself trying to scale them after since it's all still going. A Namekian transformation... I already love Namekian fusion and am fine with that, but a unique transformation would need to be a little more reptile like, inspired by many of King Piccolo's children all being demonic and reptilian.
Are we talking Buu before or after the Moro arc? Before, he scaled to Base Goku just like the humans, except harder to put down. Depressing, as that also puts him weaker than 18 and Piccolo. After? He'd be right up with 17 and Frieza for how well he'd do.
Also, while I appreciate the complements, of course they come on the chapter that I admit a huge oversight I'd made. I'm far from perfect.
As far as the tournament, thanks for the interest. I'll try to get back into it when I have time. Had to go back to my friend and see if he still had the original draw up of its events, and he came through! However, I'm already now divided between this story and Volume CRBN, so I wouldn't expect an update soon. I'm sorry.
