We're back at it again with another part for this multi-parter, and I'm gonna warn you now; it's a bit of a feelsy one. Prepare for some angst in this one and get your tissue boxes ready. I mean it. Okay, let's get going!

The Majin Debacle Pt. 4

"So we gotta stop this evil wizard dude from releasing this Buu guy or everything in existence is doomed?" Chinku questioned Supreme Kai as they descended into the ship.

"Exactly," Supreme Kai stated.

"And this wizard is the one who took control of my Dad, brother, and Vegeta while his head henchman turned Piccolo and Krillin to stone?" She followed up.

"That is also correct," Supreme Kai confirmed.

Yeah, this was definitely a lot more than Chinku had bargained for when she agreed to help Chiyo out. The fact that her teacher and one of her friends was turned into statues was one thing, but add on that her brother, father, and sorta uncle-figure were also under some form of mind control and that was a lot to take in.

The two soon came in for a landing and found a bunch of Babidi's minions waiting for them on the next floor. They all looked like the generic goons and didn't have much in terms of power as far as Chinku could tell. The goons in question looked between each other when they saw the duo come down and began laughing when they saw that the one with the Kai was a young girl.

"We have to fight her?" One chuckled.

"This probably won't take too long," Another one joked.

"Yeah, I don't know what Master was worried about," Yet another stated.

Chinku, who slightly getting frustrated by this group, took in a deep breath to calm herself before cracking her knuckles a bit. "Excuse me for a moment," Chinku told Supreme Kai with a smile before walking over to the group of baddies. What followed next was a beat-down that Supreme Kai had to look away from a few times due to how intense it got. He never expected a young child to get so aggressive. (I mean, she's 13, and we all know what it's like to be 13). What was left was a bunch of knocked out minions sprawled out on the floor. They definitely weren't getting up anytime soon.

"Impressive," Supreme Kai remarked after Chinku was finished up. "And you didn't even need to go Super Saiyan to deal with them."

"Those guys were pushovers," Chinku commented after being done with the whole thing.

Suddenly, the door to the next floor opened, which was a bit surprising since Chinku assumed she would just have to kick that in as well.

"Why did it just open up like that?"

"Babidi is getting confident," Supreme Kai answered. However, he didn't seem all that worried now. In fact, he was starting to get the idea that perhaps they could win this. "He thinks he has the upper hand against us, but he could not be more wrong."

Well I'm glad you think that, Chinku thought to herself before glancing up at the hole to the floor above her. She was worried about how everyone else was doing up there. She was concerned for her brother, father, and sister, obviously, but she also felt concern for her mother and younger brothers and sister. Were they okay? Were they looking for her? Were they worried? (Well, she knew her mother would be worried, but that's just a given). However, she knew that Chiyo was counting on her to do this. There was no time for backing down now. Here goes nothing. I just hope Piccolo's training will be enough to do this.

Swallowing down her last bit of worry, Chinku jumped down to the floor below to meet Babidi and Dabura. Touching down on the bottom floor, Chinku was shocked at what she found; a giant ball that was pulsating with what looked like veins all over it. Lighting seemed to crack off of it and evil energy nearly knocked her down with how potent it was. Yep, this was definitely a threat all right.

"All right, time to get rid of this thing," Chinku declared, charging up a blast in her right hand as the Supreme Kai joined her down below.

"Oh, you think it'll be that easy, do you?" A small voice stated from behind the ball.

Chinku and Supreme Kai looked to see that the one who was speaking was none other than Babidi. He smirked as he and Dabura revealed themselves to the two intruders. Chinku and Supreme Kai glared them both down as Chinku slipped into a fighting stance.

"This ends here, Babidi," Supreme Kai declared to the wizard.

"So you say, Kai, so you say," Babidi said, wringing his hands together. "Unfortunately for you and your little friend here, Dabura thinks otherwise."

The king of the demon realm chuckled and stepped forward to glare down the young Chinku. He expected her to cower at his larger stature, but Chinku didn't even show the slightest hint of fear towards him. All she did was glare back. Well, the child has guts, I'll give her that, Dabura thought to himself. But she's no match for me. This shall be a fine warm-up before facing the boy later.

Although Chinku was putting on a brave face, she knew that she was outclassed by Dabura in terms of strength. However, she remembered Piccolo's teachings and how strength wasn't the only determining factor in fighting;

"Remember, Chinku, strength will only get you so far. You have to be able to apply strategy, speed, defense, and many other factors to a battle." She could hear Piccolo say in her head.

I may not be as strong as this guy, but I still got a chance to stop him, Chinku thought as she powered up into Super Saiyan form, full power. I just hope Chiyo's doing okay.

Chiyo could be doing better. She was definitely in one of the toughest fights of her life here and her opponent knew it as well and was using that to his advantage. Currently, the two were engaged in exchanging kicks and punches between each other in mid-air. Gohan was laying in heavy blows on her while Chiyo was barely causing any damage to Gohan. She even powered up to the highest point she could get within the Super Saiyan transformation and was getting nowhere.

Trying to change things up a bit, Chiyo managed to get some distance between her and Gohan as she tried to think of a plan.

"You're not getting away that easy!" Gohan shouted at Chiyo before chasing after her.

Knowing Gohan was right on her tail, Chiyo quickly turned as he was inches from her and shouted, "Solar Flare!" blinding him completely due to how close he was to her. Using this as an opportunity to escape, Chiyo rushed down to the mountains below and took refuge in an underground chasm to hide and catch her breath for a moment. She dropped out of Super Saiyan and lowered her power until it was gone, or so she hoped.

Gohan, meanwhile, soon recovered from this little stunt that Chiyo pulled and angrily looked in every direction for her. He quickly realized she was hiding and went to look around for her. "Where are you?!" He shouted as he tried looking for his sister. Veins were bulging from his forehead. How could he let Chiyo slip away like that? He had her on the ropes and she managed to slip away. "You can't hide forever!"

Laying low and sliding down to sit down for a minute, Chiyo reaches into her shirt and pulls out a small bag. It was the sensu bean bag! You see, back at the tournament, after giving one of the beans to Videl, Gohan had given the bag to his sister to hold on for safe keeping, saying how she would be able to keep much better track of it than him. How one little thing like that could be her saving grace. Chiyo dropped out the one bean in the bag and only had half of it, knowing she'd need the other half for later. It only took her a moment to fully recover.

That's a relief, Chiyo thought to herself after getting completely healed once more. She looked out from the chasm opening and felt for Gohan's power and found he was still flying around looking for her. She figured that after the beating she had just endured, she definitely got a boost. However, would it be enough to slow Gohan down a bit more? I just gotta hold out a little while more. If I do, then I can slow things down with Buu's revival.

She was also hoping to catch a few moments of rest to try and figure out Gohan's deal with the remark he made earlier, how he finally got something confirmed to him. What did he mean by that? What had been "confirmed" to him by her attacking him? His mind is so warped, he probably isn't thinking straight, Chiyo tried to reason with herself. I mean, what else could it be?

After a few more moments of resting, Chiyo suddenly felt Gohan's energy disappear. Had he left to go fight Goku and Vegeta? Or was he waiting for her to come out and attack her right then and there? Or was he still looking for her somewhere else and she could lie low for another minute?

Going over all this in her head, Chiyo waits one more minute before deciding to dare to venture out in the now quiet environment. Nothing happens when she sticks her head out from the chasm. She surveys everything before climbing out and looking around. All seemed clear for now. Did he really leave?

Instead of that being the case, Chiyo was suddenly struck in the back with a powerful knee that sent her flying through three mountains, all before she could even think about going Super Saiyan. By the time she came to a stop in the fourth mountain, Chiyo was pretty sure she would need the other half of the sensu bean. However, she stopped herself from doing it, thinking she'd need it for later.

"This isn't hide and seek, Chiyo," Gohan said as he came to be right in front of Chiyo. "This is a fight. Or did you forget that?"

"….." Chiyo just glared at Gohan. She couldn't believe that this was who her brother had become. How could Gohan become so full of hate and malice? It was like looking at a dark reflection of him.

"But I suppose it's to be expected," Gohan stated before grabbing Chiyo by the front of her shirt and pulling her out of the impression she was left in in the mountain. "After all, you hate me, right?"

Before Chiyo could even reply to this out-of-nowhere statement, she was thrown into the air and then rushed at once more by Gohan. She managed to get herself back far enough to where she could at least charge into Super Saiyan form and put up some defenses. It wasn't much but it was better than nothing as Gohan tried pounding on her over and over again, not even letting up a little bit. When she did see an opening though, Chiyo fired charged up her Kento blast. One blue energy ball formed in her left hand while a yellow one formed in her right. When she was sure she was powered up enough, Chiyo combined the two spheres together and fired off a powerful beam that was mostly yellow but was enwrapped with a blue spiral. The attack hit Gohan directly and sent him down to the ground.

When she was finished with the attack, Chiyo looked down to see her brother had been decently injured, not enough to stop him, but enough to keep him from going in for an attack right away, much to her relief. She descended down towards Gohan and decided to try talking to him one last time; "I don't know what you're talking about," She told her brother as he slightly got up. "I don't hate you."

"Yes you do!" Gohan quickly rebutted, standing to his feet but deciding not to charge at her right away. "Stop lying to me!"

"Why would you think I hate you?!" Chiyo shouted back, slightly out of breath from her earlier scuffle with him. "When have I ever said I hated you?! What would make you even think that I do?!"

"Because!..." Instead of shouting a reply or going in for an attack, Gohan's expression turned into a blank one as he looked at his sister. His eyes were less hardened as well. They still held some intensity in it, but it wasn't the same as before. "….Because I screwed up."

Chiyo was a bit bewildered when she heard this. Had she heard him right? Or had she been hit in the head too many times? "Screwed up? Gohan wha-?"

"You know what I'm talking about!" Gohan interrupted, returning for a moment to that angered state. However, he quickly dropped back to his less-angered one and had this lost look in his eyes as he looked at her. "I screwed up ever since the beginning; I didn't attack Nappa when I should have; I failed to do any real damage to the Ginyu force; I couldn't protect you from Frieza and you almost died; and do I even need to mention the mess with Cell?! You hate me for it! I have all this power and I can never use it right!"

If she didn't know any better, Chiyo could swear that tears were gathering in Gohan's eyes. She didn't realize how strongly he felt about this. She and Gohan had talked about those incidents, but mostly in little conversations that never escalated to anything serious since Gohan would just brush it off like, "Forget it, sis. It's fine". Had they really been festering in him like this, even after all these years?

After slightly clutching his head after saying this, Gohan's anger returned to his eyes once more. "So just say it already! Say you hate me!"

"NO!" Chiyo shouted back. "No, I don't hate you!"

"Why not?! I'm a monster who has all this power and doesn't know how to control it! I let it control me, so how can you say you don't hate me?! Quit lying to me!"

"I'm not lying!" Chiyo then suddenly ran up and slapped Gohan across the face. It wasn't a hard slap, but something more akin to what Chi-Chi might do if she were there and wanted to knock some sense into her eldest son. It seemed to do the trick and momentarily stunned Gohan so Chiyo continued; "I don't hate you. I never did. Have I been jealous of you? Yes. But I've also been proud of you. You've overcome obstacles and barriers in your life that have taken other people years, or even decades, to overcome. You've fought and survived against foes that would make any normal person afraid, all starting from the age of four when you stepped in to try and save Dad when Raditz showed up."

Then, she wrapped her arms around her brother and held him in a hug around the neck. She felt tears run down her cheeks as held onto him. "Gohan, I don't hate you. But I'm scared that I'll lose you. You're my brother and I look up to you a lot with how strong you are, not just physically, but mentally." She did her best to stifle back a sob as the tears continued to flow. "So please, come back. I need you. Mom, Grandpa Ox-King, Chinku, Daichi, Chibi, Goten; they need you too. Please, come back." Unable to hold it in any longer, Chiyo broke down into full-blown sobs, resulting from the physical pain but also the emotional pain she was in. Had she seen the signs earlier, could she have prevented all this? If she had seen how much these things were really troubling her brother, could she have prevented him from going down this path?

In all honesty, Chiyo expected Gohan to shove her off or even smack her away. It made the most sense for him to do in this state of pent-up anger and aggression. However, he didn't do that. Instead, without saying a word, he wrapped a single arm around Chiyo and slightly hugged her back. Tears spilled from his cheeks as he brought them both down to their knees. "…Y-you…you really don't hate me?" He managed to get out in between tears. "…Stop lying to me…Just say it; just say you hate me."

"I don't, Gohan. I don't hate you. You're my brother."

I told you this would be a feelsy one. Is this the end of the Majin Debacle? Probably not, but I'm definitely gonna be taking a break from it for a bit. I think I have some new ideas for upcoming one-shots and the main story. Let's focus on some other family members, shall we? I have a really good one coming up I think you guys will like.

Before I go though, I'm looking for someone to commission for a cover for the Son Squad. If you're interested in doing it, or know someone I should look at for it, then let me know in the reviews or message me. Anyway, tell me what you guys have thought of this multi-parter. Should I do another one in the future? Let me know in the reviews. Have a good day, everyone! And remember to wash your hands!