((Author's note::
Sorry for the very long wait. It's been a busy few months. And I honestly wrote myself into a corner. Hope you guys enjoy this. Hopefully chapter 36 comes sooner. Thanks
-beepx22))
Chapter 35
The Elder Kai grunted as he leaned over a comic book. His outstretched hands hovered behind Gohan as the ritual of bringing out his potential carried.
Across the field Gohan watched as his dad and The Supreme Kai suddenly became very animated. "What's happening? Gohan asked turning his head the commotion.
Elder Kai scolded him. "Patience. Concentrate on your hidden power!"
Gohan looked forward again and slotted his eyes. 'Concentrate,' he thought, 'easier said than done when it's your home being destroyed.' But the demi-saiyan returned to the task before him.
Meanwhile Goku looked concerned. "This is bad, Supreme Kai, if Buu can use Instant transmission like Bea…"
"Then nowhere is safe…". Continued the Kai.
"They've reappeared, somewhere!" Kibito said as he leaned further over the crystal ball."
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Gotenks felt reality hit him as Buu exited the instant transmission. Apparently with the added power of Bea, Majin Buu was now even more formidable.
Gotenks was slammed through a building of a design he didn't recognize. Buu's hand wrapped around his throat even tighter as building after building exploded at their passing.
Gotenks had had enough. With a flash he ascended to his second super Saiyan form. He chopped a hand up through the choke and broke loose.
"Hey, Majin Buu! No fair, we didn't say we were ready!" The young fused Saiyan extend both hands and Ki blasts poured from his palms. "Try this on for size though!"
As fast as the blast lashed out at Buu he swatted them away. Across the cityscape buildings collapsed and exploded from the barrage.
The law enforcement of this strange world began to show up. Energy weapons blazed skyward towards the ruckus. The resident officers tried to score hits, but their targets were too fast.
Buu killed indiscriminately as the battle proceeded through the expansive boulevards. Gotenks didn't notice the destruction he caused at first, but in a couple of minutes the blinding rage of battle crept away and he realized the chaos he wrought.
"Hey Majin Buu! I really am having fun beating you, but can we go where there's no other people?"
Buu chuckled. Then he whipped his antennae. "Become Candy!"
The pink transformation ray washed over the alien city.
With a dramatic inhalation Buu sucked the candied populace into his maw and chewed.
"No more people." Buu said, he then flashed towards Gotenks and slammed his knee into the hybrids chest. "No more you!"
Gotenks doubled over from the impact. Buu slammed both fist down onto Gotenk's neck. The boy slammed through the empty City street and into its vast sewer system.
Buu held a single hand above his head and pink energy misted into a pulsating ball.
Gotenks shook his head to clear it of fog and pain. He noticed that he was casting a strange set of shadows. He looked through the crater his impact had caused. Above him Buu wrestled an attack that seemed to stretch for miles.
"Oh man! That's not good!" He said.
Buu threw the attack at the ground.
Then Gotenks saw the pink monster touch his fingers to his forehead.
"Whoa!" Gotenks yelled. In a flash he leapt up.
Buu disappeared just as a single hand grabbed his antennae.
Moments later the planet they had been fighting on shuddered as its core exploded. The world spread apart as all life on it died in searing heat.
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Sandy, arid wind filled Gotenk's lungs. Buu slammed him to the ground. "You were not invited!" Buu screamed as he swing a ham handed fist into Gotenks's face.
Gotenks felt around him. Very few life forms here. "Good." He said to himself. He pointed a finger at Buu. "Now it's time to show you the power of Gotenks!"
Buu acted like he was checking his fingers for dirt.
"Hey! You listen to me!" Gotenks stepped forward.
Buu stuck a pudgy finger into what passed for his ear and wiggled it. He yanked it out and inspected the digit.
"Uh huh." Buu said disdainfully. The he flicked his finger at Gotenks.
"Oh screw that!" The fused Saiyan raised his hand to attack.
"Galactic Donut!" A ring formed over Gotenks's head. With a flourish is encompasses Buu. Gotenks made a fist and the ring collapse.
Buu grunted in pain and surprise.
Gotenks yelled at him. "Gotcha, you big dork!"
Buu struggled by ring of ki kept constructing around him
"Ha! You're finished now Majin Buu, brought down by the great and powerful…"
Buu's right stretched up and touched his forehead.
"…Go…tenks…". Gotenks's boisterous statement faded into a question.
But Buu had already faded. A sharp pain snapped across the back of Gotenks's neck. The fused Saiyan felt his super Saiyan form slip away. He turned his head to look at Buu.
He thought he saw a glimmer of Bea's smirk cross Buu's face. "Pride is one thing, cockiness just gets you dead." Buu said as he lifted his left palm with an energy blast already formed in it. Gotenks eyes went wide as the blast exploded towards his own face which was scant inches away.
His last thought was that his Moms were both going to be pissed that he was dead.
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Goku turned his head away from the crystal ball. The brightness of the explosion was overpowering. Supreme Kai gasped in shock, while Kibito lowered his eyes.
Shin finally spoke. "He's a monster, how could he do that!"
Gohan's eyes drifted towards the trio of beings surrounding the crystal ball.
"I wonder what that was all about…", he mumbled.
Elder Kai turned a page and kept doing what he had been doing.
Gohan face forward again.
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Tears streamed down Angel's face as she hugged Piki close. "You listen to Mrs. ChiChi and Mrs. Bulma, you understand?"
Piki nodded. "Okay mama, I will."
"And you have to hide your power level, you'll be one of the strongest people on the ship, but you need to hide it, until you're stronger. Your dad will help you." Angel stood and quickly kissed Yamcha. "Take care of her. And yourself. Hopefully we will see you all soon."
Yamcha stood trying to be stoic and failing at it. "I will. Angel?"
"I have to do this. The ship is ready, it's autopilot is set, Bulma can fly it. It has to go, right now." Angel said hurriedly.
Pikada walked up with Piccolo. "I can't sense Gotenks anymore. Or Goten and Trunks." Pikada said.
Piccolo agreed with him, then added, "Buu will be back. Go now. Tell Bulma and ChiChi after you're going faster-than-light."
Yamcha looked back as he strode up the companionway of the Cruiser.
The ship the streaked from the atmosphere.
Pikada, Angel, and Piccolo leapt from the lookout. As the flew towards the high mountains Angel dropped the ship's remote control. It was the only thing that could override the autopilot and bring their ship back.
She blasted it into atoms.
"You know we're going to die, right?" She asked gloomily.
"Yeah, but there's worse reasons, and worse ways." Pikada replied.
"He's back." Piccolo said to no one in particular.
Somewhere over the horizon an explosion bubbled as another city died.
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Bulma sat behind the controls of the repurposed cruiser. She watched as the azure sky faded to black. On a screen she watched as another city died. Tears filled her eyes as she realized that it was her home. Her parents had just been killed after stubbornly refusing to leave. Capsule Corp was gone.
Yamcha dropped a knowing hand on her shoulder. She bit back a sob. Just then a light on the dash changed from yellow to blue. They had cleared the atmosphere. Her hand slammed down on a mushroom shaped red button. "Hang on!" Bulma yelled. An instant later the sun faded into a pin prick of light behind them as the ship screeched past the speed of light.
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"Angel and Pikada! Bea says he's happy to see you've decided to join him as a part of me. And you Piccolo. Now, Hard? Easy? You can pick."
While the earthlings and Dende loaded up the SMG's cruiser, Pikada and Angel had both switched into their armor, and Pikada had taken two of alien swords from the armory.
Now he pulled one of them free, it's alloy absorbed nearly all of the light that struck it, giving is graphite coloring a menacing deepness.
"Bea, if you can actually hear me in there, I want you to know something. I hate that it's come to this. One of use is going to kill the other, today. Right now.
You taught me so much, and the Guild, we were like a family. Even tighter than one."
Buu wanted to act bored, but deep inside him, Bea's essence held him in check. Bea was fighting from inside. But his fight was waning.
"So this fight? It's for them. It's for Peppe, Sprout, Cress, Nori, and even that bastard Tarma. It's for Angel, and me. But most of all this is for Bea! This time it's for the Saiyans Mercenaries Guild, Buu!"
Blinding golden light exploded from Pikada as he rushed to his super Saiyan two form. He pushed his power further up. A charge ran down his recently repaired right arm and exploded up the blade of his sword.
"And I'll tell you one more thing. I will enjoy literally beating the Bea out of you, Buu."
Pikada charged in, a blast already tearing down his weapon.
Buu grinned as he lifted his hand to stop the attack. Pikada's energized blade cleaved the pink monster's arm down the center.
Buu looked honestly surprised.
So did Pikada. Something about the sword was effective against Buu?
Buu swung his other hand across Pikada's face. The Saiyan jumped in the direction the strike pushed him.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!" Piccolo bellowed as Pikada moved. The attack spiraled through Buu's midriff. Extreme pain passed over his face.
"Buu, you don't seem so confident now…" Angel flashed into her super Saiyan form. "I wonder why that is?"
Angel rushed around the stunned Buu with both hands extended. As she orbited the pink creature left small orbs of pulsating energy in her wake. She turned away from the cloud of energy, and Majin Buu at the center of it.
Then she faced Buu with her right hand outstretched.
"SINGULARITY BURST!" She yelled as she fiercely clamped her open hand into a fist.
All of the energy collapsed to one point. The attack flared blindingly as it produced a multitude of energy. Rocks and dust began to flow towards the vortex.
Buu screamed from somewhere inside of it. His atoms were being crushed in on himself. Angel watched as the center of the light seemed to sink into a absolute void.
Piccolo and Pikada stood by watching, ready to move if needed.
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"What kind of attack is that?" Asked Shin.
"I don't think I've ever seen her use it. Bea has talked about her being able to form a 'momentary similarity'." Goku responded.
Kibito frowned until understanding dawned on him. "A singularity?"
Goku rubbed the back of his neck and head. "Yeah! That was the word! He said it's like a black hole that lasts a half second or something."
"This has definitely been more than a half Second…" Shin trailed off.
"You don't think she over did it, do ya?" Goku leaned in closer to watch.
Shin looked rather bothered.
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"Angel!" Pikada yelled over the din of the surrounding air and debris being sucked into the singularity. "What's happening?"
Angel's face was screwed up into a grimace of concentration and her hand squeezed into a painful looking rictus.
"He's… fighting… back!" Angel said between clenched teeth. Blood began to seep through the palms of her glove. She bore down harder.
The landscape began to tremble outwards in concentric waves. Soon they reached a fevered pitch. Then the ground beneath the attack shattered. A stream of material sucked upwards into the singularity to be crushed into nothing.
Piccolo looked over the destruction. "The Planet is going to tear itself apart!" He screamed at Pikada. Both the Namekian and Saiyan found themselves trying to distance themselves from the attacks epicenter. The were not making much progress.
"If she stops, Buu might survive!" Pikada yelled back.
"If she doesn't, the planet might not!" Retorted Piccolo.
Pikada shrugged the thought away.
Fury rose within Angel and she bellowed in frustration. Another burst of energy swept away from her as her hair took on a spikier form and lightning swept around her. She had gone super Saiyan 2 for the first time.
The planet trembled under the increased power and the flow of material into the singularity increased exponentially.
Angel began to sag under the stress.
Her fist relaxed just a bit.
A hair thin pink tendril exploded from the singularity. It quickly spun into a distraught looking Buu. Buu panted heavily, and though seemingly whole he was still misshapen. He slowly turned his eyes towards Angel, who visibly shook from the strain of containing the beast. She dropped to a knee and fought to keep her form up.
"You next!" Chortled Buu.
"Not… likely… asshole!" She gasped between shuddering breathes.
Buu laughed. "Bea says you've done better than he expected. He also knows you're done! Come join him."
Angel slipped something from a pocket on her armor's belt.
"Uh-Uh." Said Buu. No cheating. He held out a hand and pinpoint of pink energy sprung to life.
Then Buu screamed in agony as both arms slid away. He craned his head around to see Pikada following through with twin swords. Piccolo rose behind him and blew the appendages into dust.
Buu heard a loud crunch and spun to see Angel and her fiery aura.
"A present from Yamcha?" Asked Pikada.
"You know it. A senzu he had saved back. And now Buu!" Angel pointed with two hands. "Die!"
Her power skyrocketed as her attack formed. "SHATTERED WORLD ATTACK!"
A golden sphere of energy that danced with red and black tendril erupted towards the deformed Buu.
It slammed into him with devastating effect.
Buu's scream went from pain to fear to something more primal than either of those.
The attack faded to nothing as Angel slumped with exhaustion.
Piccolo felt around with his inner senses. "Nothing! He's gone! Buu is gone!"
Pikada slid an arm under Angel as she dropped her super Saiyan forms. "Good Job. Bea'd be proud."
She just smiled a little.
Together the old teammates sat down amid the devastation caused by their battle.
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Elder Kai looked upset. "Eh, All of that work for nothing. And Gohan is all finished up too.
The Supreme Kai danced in a circle with Kibito.
Goku stared at the crystal ball intensely. "Hmmm", he mumbled to no one. "Something ain't right…"
"Hmmm?" Shin tilted his head quizzically. "What do you mean, Goku?"
"Something is buggin' me. I don't know what it is though." Goku squinted as he tried to place the missing piece of this puzzle.
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Something landed on Piccolo's arm. He looked down in surprise. Then his eyes opened in pure shock. "No!"
A small pink blob wobbled on his arm. It suddenly expanded around Piccolo and engulfed him.
Angel gasped as she too was swallowed. Pikada's shield expanded but a pink blob encompassed him also.
In a few moments, the three blobs rejoined Buu high above the clouds.
He rejoiced as the new energy filled him, and smiled, knowing the opposition was officially gone.
Buu turned towards one of the few remaining cities and flew away. A feast of candy awaited him.
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"Instant transmission!" Goku blurted suddenly. "Buu knows instant transmission now. He's still alive!"
Kibito and Shin gasped. No sooner had Goku said this, when the three warriors on the crystal ball seemed frozen in fear. Helplessly the Kais, Goku, and Gohan watched as the three were absorbed by Buu.
Goku's face tightened. "I guess it's up to you, Son."
Gohan just nodded. "I'm ready, Dad. I'm ready."
Shin held onto Gohan's shoulder, and they both disappeared. K