Chapter 33: Babidi's Minions
Four of the Future's Z-Fighters stood around the door into what appeared to be Babidi's spaceship. Joined by the Supreme Kai and his ever faithful servant, Kibito, the warriors prepared to enter the unknown. Just as Piccolo reached down to open the hatch, a strange cackle echoed around them.
Shin, the Supreme Kai, looked as if he had been petrified, slowly the words he was trying to say came out, "That's Babidi!" Lifting his head up to look at the floating, bug-eyed wizard now floating above the group. "AND DEMON KING DABURA?!"
Piccolo, Broly, Tien, and Krillin had stern, stoic looks on their faces as they were stared down by a large, red skinned being. Piccolo had once had the moniker as "Demon King", but he never looked half as demon-like as the one called Dabura did.
Continuing from where he left off, the bug-eyed, brown skinned wizard's snarly voice once again pierced the air, "Well well well...Dabura, go do what you do best!"
"What is he gonna do?!" Krillin yelled, "You guys know I had a fear of demons!"
Compared to Babidi, Dabura's voice flowed slowly, like a calming river. "Which ones would you like, Master Babidi?"
"Oh please, you pick!" The snarling wizard insisted to his minion.
Within milliseconds, Dabura appeared behind Tien Shinhan and smiled as he spit a gross looking drop of saliva on the three-eyed humans shoulder, "What the he-" Before Tien could finish his words, his voice had trailed off, replaced with silence. In just a few moments, Tien's entire body was stone.
"WHAT THE HELL DID HE DO?" Krillin shouted, looking around frantically as he wondered who was next.
"Be on your guard!" Piccolo shouted to the other warriors, each perking up their senses, but it was too late.
Dabura had vanished, but he did not reappear near any of the fighters. He had a different target in mind, "Oh my dear, I appear to have surprised you." The Demon King's deep voice traveled in from not too far away, where he stood behind the now stone figure of the Supreme Kai.
"MASTER!" Kibito shouted and took a failed swing at the now disappeared figure of Dabura. "NO!"
Dabura reappeared once again, this time next to his wizard master, "There we go, Master Babidi."
"Ooooh, well, fine choices! Fine choices!" Babidi seemed elated at the action of his most prized minion, "Now you'll have to play by our rules...or we'll smash you friends to rubble!" The floating wizard quickly extended his arms, shouted, and disappeared.
Before the others could retaliate, Dabura, Babidi, and the now stone figures of Tien and the Supreme Kai, were gone. "What the hell is going on?!" Piccolo shouted as he scrambled to put what had happened together in his head.
Broly interjected, "It appears we have to "play by their rules" according to the small floating bug.."
"But what the heck does that mean?" Krillin had a justifiable sense of terror and confusion in his voice. "I guess we have to find that out huh?"
"It seems to be our only option…" Piccolo looked toward the hatch-like entrance to the buried ship, "Let's go down the rabbit hole."
Kibito had been put in a state of absolute shock at the disappearance of his boss, but he slowly came to while the others had been discussing the situation, "We need to hurry! We have to save the Supreme Kai!" The purple skinned, larger kai rushed towards the entrance, pulling the door open, "Please! Let's hurry!" Kibito hurriedly jumped down the vault-like entrance, followed by his Saiyan, Human, and Namekian comrades.
What awaited them was a bright, steel covered room that seemed to have no other exits or entrances than the one they came through. "There's nothing in here.." Piccolo's deep voice echoed through the steel chamber, "What kind of trickery is this?"
"Oh ho ho! Calm down my green friend!" Babidi's shrieking voice pierced through the air, surrounding the group but the impish wizard was nowhere to be seen, "Now now, let me go over the rules of this engagement. You will be fighting my strongest warriors one on one, starting with the mighty Pui Pui!"
"Screw that, we want our friends back!" Krillin yelled, his frustration was obvious through the tone of his voice, "Give Tien back!"
"Oh boy, the little one is gonna have an aneurysm. Calm down small fry. If you don't play by my rules, I'll have Dabura here smash my new favorite statues to pieces! Ahahahaha."
"It seems we don't really have a choice.." Piccolo put a hand on Krillin's shoulder, "We can do this. We got Broly too, remember?"
Broly had been standing silently, observing and keeping any hint of emotion in check, nodding in response to Piccolo and Krilin's observations.
"We have to do it his way..we can't risk the Supreme Kai.." Kibito begrudgingly grunted through his clenched teeth, "I'm not much of a fighter, but I'll do what I can.."
Babidi's piercing laugh again echoed through the chamber, "Not like you had a choice anyway! HA! Now choose who fights first!"
Krillin, Piccolo, and Broly gathered together to discuss their options with the Namekian strategist speaking first, "No offense Krillin..but it probably makes sense to send you first..it's more likely the weaker of his fighters will be our first opponent."
"None taken." Krillin raised his voice, "Alright you wrinkly imp, me first!"
"Oooh, the little one got brave all of a sudden! Very well!" As soon as Babidi finished his sentence there was a bright flash of light and Krillin was gone..
Krillin closed his eyes, briefly blinded by the strange light, but when he opened them everyone else was gone. "What..where am I?" The orange clad monk spoke softly to himself, observing his surroundings. It felt like he had been transported back outside but it was a lot darker. A soft wind blew across his back and he could feel an actual ground beneath his feet, not the steel floor of Babidi's ship. The strangest thing of all though, was that he found it a lot harder to move, almost like he was carrying a lot of extra weight, "What the hell.."
"Oh ho ho, Master sent me a treat!" A high pitched, yet intimidating voice rang through the surrounding landscape, "Welcome to my realm, little..thing."
Krillin turned to see a very strange looking back at him. The being that Babidi had called Pui Pui was clad in what looked like a stone like white armor covering his chest, similar colored spikes protruding from behind his shoulders, and an elongated oval shaped head covered in similar armor. The rest of his body, which included his arms and legs, were covered in a very dark blue jumpsuit, accented by white gloves and boots similar to what Vegeta wore.
"You must be exhausted by now, little one.." Pui Pui laughed as he walked closer to where Krillin stood, "You see, this is my home planet Zoon..and it has TEN TIMES the gravity of your puny planet!"
"Oh..well that makes sense." Krillin grunted as he struggled to get into a fighting stance, "Well, let's get this over with."
"Eager to die are we?" Pui Pui chuckled lightly, "I'll quickly dispose of you and then your friends will be next!" The armor clad alien burst at Krillin with frightening speed and delivered a thunderous fist to the orange clad human's face, sending him flying across the landscape.
Krillin was slow to react and paid for it, tumbling across the ground like a plastic bag in the wind, but Pui Pui wasn't content to let up, continuing his assault by rushing to meet the monk and smashing his white boot into Krillin's unsuspecting back.
"AGH!" Krillin let out a shriek of pain as he slammed into the ground, taking the brief moment he got to catch his breath, "Guess I'll have to get serious right away.."
Pui Pui cackled as he slowly approached where Krillin lay, "This is going to be too easy, you can't even move! Pathetic."
As soon as Pui Pui finished his sentence a blood red blur flashed and he was sent flying with an incredibly quick blow. "KAIOKEN TIMES TEN!"
Krillin now stood where Pui Pui had been laughing, letting a smirk of his own come across his face.
Pui Pui was back on his feet and his smug look had gone away, replaced by frustration and astonishment, "WHAT?! How are you able to move like that?!"
The orange clad monk chuckled, "When I was dead, I spent nearly two decades on a planet just like this...ten times gravity right? That's the same as King Kai's place..I just needed to get used to it again."
"When you..when you were dead?!" Pui Pui looked incredibly confused as he questioned the monk's whole sentence, "That doesn't make sense!"
"Well..there's really no use explaining. I don't have the time anyway. Are we still fighting?"
Pui Pui's anger was evident as he exploded a white aura, "YOU WORM!" The Majin Warrior burst towards Krillin with all his might, clashing with the human warrior.
"Kaioken times ten!" Krillin's own red aura exploded as the monk matched Pui Pui blow for blow, their combined auras clashing as their fight encased the surrounding landscape. Each thrown fist met a matching one, neither fighter gaining an advantage on the other.
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!" Pui Pui screamed at the top of his lungs, jumping back and throwing his hands in front of him, "EAT THIS!" A bright yellow ball formed at the precipice of his outstretched arms, small bolts of lightning burst from the ball as it crackled and buzzed with energy.
"Uh oh." Krillin quickly matched Pui Pui's movement by jumping back, but he cupped his hands at his side and a familiar blue ball of energy formed between Krillin's hands, "KAMEHAMEHA!"
The two fighters threw their might into their respective blasts, the two powerful bursts of energy sent a blinding light throughout the area as they crashed into each other. "FILTHY WORM, HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?" Pui Pui screamed as his white aura erupted further, "TAKE MY FULL POWER!"
Krillin struggled as Pui Pui's blast seemed to start pushing his back, but the bald monk still had more in the tank, "KAIOKEN...TIMES TWENTY!" The blood red aura that surrounded Krillin exploded to twice it's former size and the orange clad Z-Warrior's Kamehameha grew exponentially more powerful as it pushed Pui Pui's blast back towards the armor clad alien.
"WHY MEEEE?!" The Majin Warrior screamed as Krillin's bright blue beam engulfed the alien's entire being, erasing his existence.
Krillin smiled briefly, letting his aura dissipate and his exhaustion take over. "Man..I haven't pushed myself that hard in a long time.."
Back in the bowels of Babidi's spaceship..
"Pui Pui..how pathetic." Dabura's devilish face was full of disappointment as he observed what had happened through his master's crystal ball, "To lose to a fighter like that..a waste of space."
"Oh he wasn't completely useless, Dabura." Babidi chuckled a bit as he peered over his crystal ball and looked at a strange machine behind it, "He's gathered over a quarter of the energy we need with his fight.."
"Ha..well, Yakon better do a better job." Dabura scoffed as Babidi again turned his attention to the crystal ball.
"Well, I should send the little one back and get on with it then.." Babidi extended his hands, muttering something under his breath.
Back in the steel clad room..
Piccolo, Broly, and Kibito were confused as to what happened to Krillin, but they were more confused when the monk reappeared battered and bruised from his fight with Pui Pui. "So..you must have won." Piccolo grunted out towards his human companion.
"Yeah, I guess so!" Krillin smiled and rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "I had to go all out..that guy was weird and strong! Though you probably would have stomped him, Piccolo."
"Hmph, if you beat him he wouldn't have had a chance against me.." The Namekian smirked as Krillin gave him an angry glare.
The familiar ear piercing voice of Babidi echoed in the room, "Well well well! I'm surprised you maggots managed to beat Pui Pui, but he was by far the weakest of my underlings here. You can go to the next level!" As sudden as Krillin had disappeared, a door appeared. "Choose your next fighter...to enter the realm of my next minion, Yakon!"
Piccolo and Broly looked at each other, the two mild mannered warriors each considering who should go next. It was Piccolo who spoke first, "I really wanna go up against that Dabura guy..I feel bad he got the jump on us."
Broly nodded, "Sure..I guess I'll take this one then." The large, black haired Saiyan slowly made his way across the room towards the newly formed door.
"Oh ho ho! The big boy enters the fray!" Babidi chuckled as he observed Broly entering the next level, "This should be good!"
As Broly entered the newly formed hole, it quickly closed behind him and the large Saiyan was surrounded in absolute darkness. "What is this..?" Broly looked around but saw absolutely nothing.
The room was cold and unnerving, not unlike the vacuum of space. Broly closed his eyes, quickly figuring out they were useless in this type of environment. A deep, scraggly voice seemed to come out of nowhere to reach Broly's ears, "Oh, Master sent me a friend.."
Broly kept his eyes closed as he felt whatever was out there, a large, strange energy emitting from nearby. "I don't think we'll be friends.." Broly's deep voice spoke barely above a whisper as he felt the creature creep closer.
"Well...you're probably right!"
Broly quickly moved to the left as what appeared to be a large claw smashed into the ground next to him. The scraggly voice let out an exasperated shock, "How did you dodge that?! You can't see!"
"True." Broly softly said, "But I can sense your energy."
"What? Sense my energy?!" Yakon's voice had a hint of frustration, "I've never heard of such a thing!"
"Besides..I can fill this place with light anytime I want to." Broly cracked his neck, "If this is your only advantage, please give up now. I don't wanna waste energy."
"You have an ego, huh?! Prove it!"
"Well..I guess that's fair." Broly raised his arms and clenched his fists before throwing his arms down and exploding his controlled, Legendary Super Saiyan like aura, enveloping the nearby area in a bright, yellowish green light.
"Oh ho ho! This is a delightful change." Yakon's strange form had come into view, his skin was dark green and he had strange limbs that resembled a praying mantis. His hands and feet had claws that resembled large metal hooks that could rip flesh. Spikes protruded from the strange alien's back and his eyes were bright yellow. "Now you can see me, but now you get to see my true advantage!"
The large, dark green alien opened his mouth and a strange screaming sound erupted from it. Broly's aura seemed to be sucked away like Yakon was some sort of energy vacuum, leaving the large Saiyan forced to revert to his normal, black haired state.
"What happened?!" Broly was perplexed by the loss of his energy, "How..what?"
Yakon licked his lips like a slobbering animal, "That was strange, I've never tasted an energy like that before..again, again!"
"Hmph.." Broly thought to himself, trying to come up with an idea.."Let's try it.." Broly again erupted his aura, covering the area in a greenish-yellow light. Again, Yakon opened his mouth and began sucking in the aura. Broly erupted his power further, forcing his aura to a more green, sickly color.
Yakon began to cough and gag at the consumption of the more sickly energy, but he couldn't stop himself from trying to eat more, "What..what is this?!" the green alien thought to himself.
Broly hadn't let out this kind of power in years..but it seemed like the best strategy as his entire body enlarged to twice it's normal size..his legs and arms the size of tree trunks and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.."Besides..if he drains my energy, maybe I won't go crazy.." His green, sickly aura exploded and filled the entire room, the Legendary Super Saiyan had arrived.
Yakon wanted to stop, but he couldn't. He wanted more and more of this strangely addicting, green energy and light. Consuming more and more, the green skinned alien had engorged himself to resemble more of a balloon than a praying mantis as before, "What's happening to me?!"
Broly continued to raise his power as fast as Yakon consumed it, screaming in what could almost be described as pain as he further lost himself to his Legendary Super Saiyan form. Yakon soon dwarfed even the extremely large Broly in size, his form filled with the light from Broly's monstrous transformation, but the green alien was in his own form of extreme pain.
With a scream of absolutely howling pain, Yakon's body began to rip itself apart as Broly's sickly energy tore it's way out from inside the alien, disintegrating his form and causing a massive explosion to engulf both him and his Super Saiyan foe.
Broly awoke to the cold steel floor of the room their group had started in, back in his normal form. "It worked..lucky for me.."
Back in the bowels of Babidi's ship…
"Yakon too..I didn't expect that." Dabura scoffed, "And whoever that is...his energy is unlike anything I've ever seen."
"Ho ha! Look at all the energy Yakon got from him though! We are almost there." Babidi cackled as he observed the group invading his ship, "It seems we have to let them in now."
Next Chapter - Chapter 34: Demon vs Demon! Piccolo faces Dabura
Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I figure with all these new powers and everything, we should talk about Power Levels again!
Trunks (Full Powered Super Saiyan 2) - 2,000,000,000
Gohan (Super Saiyan 2 with metal arm) - 1,500,000,000
Broly (Restricted Legendary Super Saiyan) - 1,500,000,000
Broly (Legendary Super Saiyan) - 1,750,000,000
Vegeta (Super Saiyan 2) - 1,700,000,000
Baby Vegeta (Super Saiyan 2 + Tuffle Controlled) - 2,200,000,000
Vegeta (Super Saiyan 3, briefly and uncontrolled) - 3,500,000,000 (Can't enter willingly yet)
Android 16 - 1,200,000,000
General Rilldo - 1,200,000,000
Piccolo - 1,200,000,000
Krillin - 12,000,000 (Obviously Kaioken x10 and x20 will multiply this)
Tien - 11,500,000 (Same Kaioken powerups as Krillin)
Pui Pui - 110,000,000
Yakon - 200,000,000 (absorbed Broly's energy before exploding, 1,900,000,000)
Dabura - 1,300,000,000 (Described by Goku and Vegeta in Canon as similar power to Perfect Cell)
Babidi - 500 (Magic powers, obviously)
