The lookout had become packed, but silent as Yurin watched her brother in law sacrifice himself. She shook as she saw all the lost lives that came from the attack as well. But it appeared that Buu was killed, no remnants could be felt. The small amount of life force that was Bobbidi was vanishing as well. She turned to the other, to his wife and son who now waited on her word. "Vegeta… did the only thing he could." Her voice shook before she coughed lightly to clear her throat. "I don't see any trace of Buu… I think he had won." Her eyes turned to the heavens above. "We should gather the dragon balls; I will head to overworld and ensure that Vegeta gets his body in the afterlife tell we bring him back."

"Is that really a priority?" Piccolo argued with the guardian of earth. "If we are going to gather the dragon balls anyway, it wont matter if he had a body or not."

"I will not allow him to spend more then a second from a body… not after what he had done for this world." Yurin snapped back, the Namekian silenced suddenly by her voice. "Dende, your acting Guardian tell I get back." Chichi silently nodded to Yurin in thanks before the woman disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Goku sighed lightly, his hand going to his chichi's shoulder. The others unsure where to start, Nappa and Raditz pulling out their capsules and activating them to reveal their Dragon Scouters. The two of them stating they will start looking for the Dragon Balls now. Mr. Satan more confused on what was going on, Videl not having much information to give him either as she pretended to be her Saiyaman Crimson persona. Sharpner's unconscious body laid on the ground, and her mind realizing that Erasa was one of the crowd members that most likely did not escape. The realization of one of her friends was gone hit her like a truck, as he thoughts also turned to Gohan.

Then a Dark Ki rose! Dende rushed to the lookout side, and he watched as Buu's remains lifted themselves up and reformed into the fat pink body of the monster they hoped was finished. Bobbidi had passed only moments before, and Dende realized it held back it's regeneration for the purpose of letting Bobbidi die! The others were to confused to know how or why it knew how to do that, but Goku realized that the only way they could win now was with fusion… and none of the current fighters were strong enough or the right size and power. Nail and Piccolo were the best option and even then, their power paled to Goku's.

-Supreme Kai's World-

The peaceful realm of the supreme kais opened up to Gohan. Shin had saved them moments before they were taken by Vegeta's attack, though Shin did not make it without being harmed. One leg simply vanished from his body as he was a moment to slow to keep himself from being harmed. He already used his healing to close his wound, and began to heal the three other hybrids.

"What is this place?" Gohan asked as he felt a Ki he recognized only slightly. Looking to a deep red moon in the distance, the feeling of radiant energy flowing into his eyes with the same intensity it was to turn him Oozaru, but due to his removed tail no affect took place. He tried to focus his senses; the Ki would spike and dip wildly. "Is that Tarble?"

"First question, you're on the sacred land of the Kais." The lavender skinned Kai huffed lightly, using a lot of his energy to awake the three others. "Second question… yes. He is still training to obtain a power to outmatch Buu." Leaning back as Garic, Trunks, and Ashe opened their eyes and looked around confused at what happened. "And I hope to have you complete a separate training… in hopes you can surpass Buu through a faster route."

"Gohan? What's going on?" Trunks questioned as the air was extremely pure, not a hint of pollution or any artificial contamination. Just plant made air.

"Hold on, Trunks." Gohan's focus stayed on Shin, as it sounded like the Kai already knew Vegeta failed. "Go on, Shin."

"There is an item here… a weapon that could defeat Buu completely. Buu had been destroyed worse than what Vegeta could have done, and come back… when he fought against the other Supreme Kais." Shin began as Ashe realized what Shin just said about her father. "There use to be five of us, one Grand Lord of Lords known as Daikaioh, and four paths… North, East, south, and west Kaioshins. I am the east supreme Kai, or Eastern Kaioshin. The four others died, and I was fatally wounded. I defeated Buu by killing his master while he was sealed, as you know. But we don't know of Bobbidi will seal him away, and we need a power that reaches beyond me."

"But what happened to my father?" Ashe asked with worry to her eyes. "You said he did something to destroy it. What did he do?"

Gohan looked down as he was not sure what to say. Garic sat up and looked at the older hybrid, and sensed what had happened. Shin tried to find the words that would make the least impact one the young one. "He died… didn't he." Garic said suddenly, Ashe turned to her cousin. "I… felt his power rise up before we were here. I have been trained heavily in mastering Ki… I sense my mother and the others on the Lookout moving even when I am sleeping from time to time. Uncle Vegeta… his power kept rising beyond his limit. He did it to destroy Buu." Shin nodded in confirmation, Ashe in shock before tears rolled down her cheeks as she tried to stifle back her emotions.

"There is only one weapon, and Gohan you may be the only one capable of handling it. I… am the weakest of the Kaioshin… and never got strong enough to try and lift it. I grant you access to this world… to prepare and train to use the weapon. But I must return the children." Shin said as Gohan looked in surprise.

"You want to take the three of them back to where Buu is!" Gohan shouted loudly that snapped the other children's attention to him. "I thought you brought them here to train as well or something."

"I brought them here to save their lives, but they cannot stay. I am already breaking the sacred tenants by allowing you to step here… and if Buu is not defeated this world is no safer than Earth. This is not up for debate. You can stay and train to defeat Buu, or go with them and allow the galaxy to lose all hope… if not the unviverse!" Shin tried to remain calm, but the desperation and blood lose was getting to his head.

Gohan growled as he looked to his brother, and the children of his father's friends. Sending them back felt like a death sentence but if he went back it would be just as bad. Garic stood, feeling his father's Ki wild and unnatural. "Gohan, my dad is training to help right now… Mr. Popo once told me that there are often times when you cannot change what is happening. The point of training is to change the things you can. Mr. Kaioshin thinks you can change this."

"Yeah, you saved the earth once before from Cell. You can do it again with Buu. It wont take long, and when you come back you can be all heroic and everything." Trunks showed his own support. "We will just hold off what ever Buu is. Dad's probably got some training idea he wants to try and get stronger faster. You know he always has something like that."

Gohan looked to Ashe as she tried to hide her face. Lose of her father, if he demanded her to stay, she would be with family she barely knew at best. This place was not the place for her… and the dragon balls could bring everyone back that went missing. That could only be done if he stayed though. "Very well, I will stay. Trunks, tell mom and dad that I will train to defeat Buu on my own. I will be back very soon, and to try and hold out for me as long as possible." Trunks nodded.

"Head that direction. you will see a land mass sticking out of the ground like a pillar, surrounded by water. I will meet you there." Shin spoke as he gathered the three young half saiyans. Trunks wished his brother luck before Shin transported them back to earth and onto the Lookout. Gohan turned and looked to the direction Shin showed. He powered up as much as he could and dashed through the skies. If he could get their quicker, he could finish his training faster.

-Lookout-

Shin suddenly appeared with the three remaining pre-teens. Bulma asked where her son was, Trunks relaying the message Gohan gave him. Goku though was upset, more then he normally showed. He began to yell at Shin, who was huffing and trying to recuperate from the use of his power. Goku reminded Shin that Tarble's training was his idea, Yurin was upset he had not returned. He also reminds the Kai that he and his assistant knew of this threat, and informed no one of it or how close it would happen. Goku placed all that had happened onto Shin's responsibility, and informs the Kaioshin that he would not rely on whatever training he was doing. Goku informed him that they would finish Buu, and when Gohan returns he will find the world safe.

The father of Gohan knew his son did not want to train, this was another instance of fate thrusting onto Gohan to be a hero and savior. He would not allow the weight to be place solely on Gohan's shoulders again, and will do what is needed to keep the world safe. Shin bowed his head lightly, somewhat taking the others aback. The Kai leaves with a final word of, "I hope your right." Returning to his Sacred world and awaiting Gohan. The two of them would then begin to pull the Z-sword from its position and Gohan would begin training to use the Z-sword and mastering its weight.

-Otherworld-

Yurin stood in the lineup for the dead, due to so many deaths happening as once she simply could not find Vegeta and had to wait for his soul's name to be called. Once done, she stepped forward and materialized a body for him to possess. She then placed her own recommendations of being allowed to the Grand Kai's world for training with many great warriors around the galaxy's dead. Yemma was not sure if he should give the permission, but ends up granting it as she remarks any other location could be destroyed by accident by her brother-in-law. A reminder of just how powerful Tarble was when he first showed up and Vegeta being well beyond that power by now. Vegeta is not sure what to think, and Yurin simply says to enjoy his few hours he has in the land of the dead as she is sure the others would be resurrecting him before the day was done.

She saw off Vegeta to the Grand Kai's world, when she felt in the distance her husband's Ki. Shin had informed them that Tarble needed to be alone, to train by himself. But he also said that it was training for a future issue that came all too soon. She was not about to allow herself to be kept in the dark. She placed her hands together as sigils appeared around her. She focused intently on the wild Ki, the fluctuation making it hard to keep focus on. Her mind filled with images of her husband; her heart longed to be with him once more. The distance and time had only been matched from before they were a couple. She summoned her magic and willed herself to be teleported to him.

Yurin appeared on crimson red world, the air instantly felt oppressive and hard to breath. It felt like her skin burned slightly, she felt her stomach growl loudly as hunger kicked in instantly, a sudden realization of danger. Her eyes turned as a gargantuan creature without legs or arms, but a huge maw, much like a snake but with rows and rows of teeth and two massive horns from the crown of its head, had become aware of her. A strange bestial roar as it came down toward. The maw open and ready to devour her, only for a huge beast to suddenly slam into its head.

The snake like creature reeled its head back and looked at it's attacked. A humanoid form, massive muscles bulged and covered in thick brown fur. At least twelve feet tall, and as the two saw each other they roared. The humanoid form beat its own chest rapidly as the snake lunged in, only to have its massive jaw to be grabbed and held back. The smaller formed being twisting the neck and forced the creature to roll out of its coiled stance. The furred humanoid's muscles grew larger as it roared out, the snake lifted from the ground and tossed suddenly.

The face of the unknown creature now visible in the sunlight given. A mixture of the Oozaru ape form and her husband looked down at her. He grunted before charging at her, roaring out loudly as Yurin ducked down thinking her own husband was about to kill her. Suddenly the odd amalgamation of base and Oozaru stopped before her, loud grunts as he leaned in and sniffed heavily. The smell of raw meat on his breath as he breathed out, low slow grunts as his body shifted slightly. He then walked around her, seeming to have lost interest and charge toward the snake creature once more that was not trying to escape.

Tarble's beast form grabbed the tail, the snake lashing back to strike at its opponent. It instead found its body whipped into the air, a snap as he pulled it down and made it crash down onto the ground. His large form then jumped and landed on the writhing body, meaty hands grabbed at scales and tore at the flesh and forced open the body. The Snake's hissing loudly as it coiled to try and crush him. Tarble's bare hands tore at the muscle, roaring loudly as he was sunk into its fresh wound. Instead tearing away at its insides and making the creature wiggle and writhe in pain. Tarble tore away bloodied meat placing it to his lips and devouring it as the snake's will to fight was slowly dying out.

Tarble climbed free of the large reptile, pulling free a large piece of meat again as he bit into the red mass of flesh. His face and fur covered in the red ichor of the fell creature. Yurin watched as he chewed the tough meat, gulped it down and roared out before settling to the ground. She believed this this was why she was told to leave him alone, Tarble was some sort of monster… some sort of beast that could not be controlled. The beast she once knew as her husband, then lifted the bloody meat toward her.

"Eat." The word came out more like a grunt, his eyes did not turn to her though. They scanned the crimson leaves of the forest nearby, watching for the next threat as he offered food.

"Tarble… are you in there." Yurin asked, as she moved slowly to him. A simple nod to respond. "Is this… what Shin has had you been doing?" Another nod. "Are you in control?" A pause, too long for him not to answer. "How long?"

"Since I left." Tarble tried to speak clearly, but his voice seemed unable to properly make the words without growling or grunting them.

"You have been this way for almost a month!" She sounded agitated, which made Tarble stand as charged forward at nothing. He then ran another direction, slowly making a circle around her as he looked around and thumped at his chest as a warning to other. He then came back and sat himself down as he stared out for any threat. "Tarble, we need to get you off of here."

"Can't"

"And why not."

"No… Control. May attack friends… almost attacked you."

"And what stopped you?" Yurin was concerned that he thought he was a threat to his own friends.

"Smell… nice smell. Calming." He motioned the meat to her again. "Eat, then move. Not safe here. Open to attack."

"I am not eating that." Yurin said looking at the mass of torn flesh he was holding. She watched as he simply dropped it onto the ground then, and began walking forward. After the first attack she began to follow him.

-Lookout-

Goku stood before the four hybrids, they were waiting for the dragon balls to be collected still. The saiyan warrior had asked Piccolo to gather more sensu beans from Nappa's storehouse, and for Dende to call for the remaining friends to make their way to the lookout. But now it was time to focus on the next steps on how to take out Buu. "Buu is not guideless. Meaning every moment counts. From what Dende saw, Buu is insistent in fighting people as he had fun with Geta. With that we may have bought time. That time… I will be teaching you how to do the fusion dance. I will take two of you at a time into the time chamber. One hour, or fifteen days in the chamber. To learn, master, and perfect the dance. Any extra time will be used for training to increase your abilities. This will be a total of six hours we will be using."

"Six? Should only be two if your taking us in two at a time." Trunk spoke as he was confused at the thought of having a father that couldn't even do that simple math. He knew his dad was not book smart, but he had to know he was wrong.

"Geta and Garic first, Then Trunks and Ashe, Followed by Geta and ashe, then by Garic and Trunks, and finally Geta and Trunks, then Garic and Ashe. Six hours for each of you to try and fuse with each other, to make sure you all mastered it well enough to not run into issues if your favored partner is forced away. Then one more hour for you all to train together to push your fusions to the limit." Goku already began stretching, Trunks a little surprised that he was going to make them instead train each together for fifteen days. Then the idea of the last fifteen days just being them alone to train.

"Do we have seven hours to waste. Buu could destroy the world by then." Geta said as he stood up. "I feel we should just leave now and gang up on him. He can't beat us all."

"Dad didn't think that would work." Ashe reminded Geta, the young boy looked to the ground. "I want to kill Buu… I want to go in first with Geta. Us two fail, then you can use the last six hours working Trunks and Garic to a higher level."

"Both your personalities would make you make brash decisions." Goku spoke. "You become one warrior. Geta already showed his pride for strength can lead him into making poor decisions. Ashe, your confidence is fickle. You start winning and you begin losing focus on the fight somehow and are overwhelmed easily."

"And you think I won't allow her confidence do so?" Trunks responded. "I don't think I would be a good choice if that's the case to fuse with Ashe either."

"Yes, you act confident as well. But you also act cautiously. You do a lot more strategy then me. You slow down to become aware of what is going on. I am hoping that trait will help counter hers."

"I know what you picked me and Garic, we were the top dogs in the Kid's Division. So, we will be the best fighters. You want us to toughen up so when we fuse with the other two, we can boost them up more." Geta looked to Garic.

"I think he wants me to go with you, because I am a opposite to you. I have little to no pride, because I never needed it. I also have better control over Ki, as you tend to throw it around and waste it." Garic looked to the ground. "And… I am often scared and unsure what to do. You on the other hand always seem to know what to make of for your next move."

"Exactly Garic. You're the perfect counter to each other. Maybe by mixing the quick-thinking mind of Geta and the calm thinking of Garic we can have a fighter that is perfect against Buu. I want you all to master the fusion dance together though, as it does require fine control. And we don't have a lot of time to start. I will be showing it to you four together, then me, Geta, and Garic will go into the chamber. Trunks and Ashe train the hour to try and get use to the movements." Goku said as he was getting excited. He made sure Nail was in to watch him, so he could make sure the others did it properly. After showing it to them a total of five times, he took his first students into the time chamber to try and prepare them for the future battle.

Our heroes all are training to face Buu, will Goku's plan end up defeating Buu? Will Gohan need to Z-sword's weight for training and will he master it sooner due to his training throughout the years? Will Tarble's odd training bring him to mastering some new form in time? Or will Buu end up destroying the world before they get the chance to try and save the universe? Lets see what happens in the next chapter.