Part 8- Calling the Eternal Dragon
Quote: There are worse fates then death, like dealing with this pissed off Saiyan
Chi Chi and Bulma moved close together. Now that she had her husband back, Chi Chi had a new sense of focus.
"Do we fuse now?" asked Chi Chi.
"I think that would be smart. I don't know if we can beat him, but we have to try. Goku has to rest and get his memory back so that he can fuse with Vegeta. We have to hold them off." Bulma stood in the first position. Chi Chi did the same.
"FUSION…HA!" There was an explosion. When it cleared, Chima was standing in a fighting stance. Buu grinned at her, then started laughing as hard as he ever had. He was on the ground, rolling around in pain. Chima was not amused.
"You dare laugh at me, you pink gumball?" Chima jumped up and slammed her foot into Buu's face, pushing it all the way thru to the floor. A surprised Buu stopped rolling and stared up at her. Then he melted his face away from her foot and molded it back together again. Goten and Trunks looked at each other and nodded.
"FUSION…HA!" There was another explosion. Both Chima and Buu turned toward the source. The smoke cleared and the fusion warrior Gotenks was standing, a confident smile on his face.
"Majin Buu! Do you remember me? You might have gotten the best of me before, but now I get my revenge!" Gotenks ran at Buu and kicked him in the leg. Chima hurried behind him and clotheslined the pink fighter, almost tearing off his head. Buu fell to the ground and rolled up right away. He kicked Gotenks in the face and grabbed Chima by her hair. Spinning her around with it, Buu threw Chima into an unsuspecting Rae. They collide and land on the floor in a tangle of arms and legs. Vegeta ignores them and works on Goku.
"Kakarotto."
"Hey, Vegeta. Is something wrong?" Goku's eyes struggled to stay open. Vegeta smacks him across the face.
"Wake up! You have to wake up; your mate needs your help." Goku's face was expressionless. Vegeta knew that he wasn't going to be waking up anytime soon. He was going to have to fight Buu with the others and let Goku get up on his own. It didn't bother him, though. There were already two fusions fighting Buu, one of which that was derived from him. Then, of course, there was the fact that he could now go to Super Saiyan 3. Vegeta couldn't help but laugh to himself. Goku had been able to fight Buu at SSJ3 before and he did a good job. Although he wouldn't be able to keep the form for very long, Vegeta was determined to kick as much ass as possible with his new power. "It's time to see what kind of power the Super Saiyan holds." Vegeta powered up to SSJ and SSJ2.
"Hit him, not me, you idiot!" yelled Chima after Gotenks inadvertently kicked her in the back.
"Sorry." Gotenks threw a ki ball at Buu and vaporized his head. It grew back moments later and Buu hit Gotenks with a head butt. Chima kicked him in the back and punched him in the back of the head. Buu flipped over and fired a ki ball right into her stomach. Buu then extended his feet right into her chin. As Chima fell back, Buu grabbed her foot and pulled her back down. He rammed his head right back into her chin and broke her jaw. Chima fell down and landed off balance on the floor. Buu started after her, but Gotenks blasted him into a wall with a beam. Buu splattered against the floor and regenerated, facing Gotenks. His body bulked up and he put both arms out in front of himself.
"BUU!" Buu fired an army of ki blasts, all aimed at Gotenks. The fusion warrior put up a ki shield to take away some of the edge of the blasts, but it was broken down too quickly. Gotenks took the full force of the rest of the blasts and was propelled into the ground and he dug up a huge hole. Buu smiled and formed a huge ki ball over his head.
"Not while I'm around." Vegeta, in SSJ3 mode, rammed Buu with his body and Buu was knocked clean away. Vegeta followed him and jumped into Buu's chest, pinning him down to the ground. Then Vegeta rode him like a skateboard, steering for every obstacle that he could find. Finally Buu's body stopped moving and Vegeta nonchalantly stepped off. "You are pathetic."
"Vegeta, watch out!" yelled Gotenks. A pink tentacle grabbed him from behind and wrapped around him. All of the air was forced from his lungs.
"Vegeta!" screamed Chima. She charged a ki blast and fired it at the tentacle. Her aim was true and she was able to severe the arm, leaving Vegeta coiled in a dead weight. Surprisingly Vegeta was able to break out after only a few seconds, but after he did he fell out of Super Saiyan mode. Vegeta clenched his fists in frustration.
Damn! How could I lose so much power already? I just started to fight. Does Super Saiyan 3 take that much energy? Vegeta got off the floor and took a deep breath. Buu looked right back at him. "I will not lose to you. If you think that I am going to give up just because I couldn't hold Super Saiyan 3, you're wrong." Vegeta quickly powered back up to SSJ2. "It's not as strong, but I don't need anything else to defeat you." Buu laughed and kicked Vegeta right between the legs. The Saiyan Prince fell right to the floor and dropped out of Super Saiyan again. He was totally unable to move. Buu started laughing like he was going to die, once again rolling all over the floor. Déjà vu. Chima's foot was right in his face like she had done before.
"You celebrated too early." From the ground, what was left of Buu's face smirked evilly. Turning himself into liquid, Buu rode all the way up Chima's body until he was covering it entirely. Then he made himself into a solid coil, squeezing the life out of Chima's body. She couldn't yell because all of the air was pushed out of her lungs. Buu didn't have the hold on for long before Gotenks intervened and started pulling Buu off. Rae watched briefly before kicking Goku in the shin.
"Hey, what was that for?" he asked, a little groggy.
"Can't you see that your friends need you? You have to get up and fight, or Buu will kill them."
"Buu." Goku started thinking hard (a miracle in itself), trying to regain his fighting fire.
"Goku…you're wife is being killed." Goku' head shot around and he saw Chima being strangled by Buu. Gotenks was slowly pulling Buu off, but he wasn't going to make it. Vegeta wasn't going to be any help either. Goku began to become extremely pissed off. His fighting fire was back.
"LEAVE CHI CHI ALONE!" he screamed, busting almost instantaneously to SSJ2. After a brief pause, Goku went to SSJ3. He blasted over to Buu and helped Gotenks pull Buu off all of the way. Rae ran over to Vegeta and helped him up.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked, slapping her hand away.
"Don't you want me to heal you?"
"YOU THINK I'M GOING TO LET YOU TOUCH ME THERE? ARE YOU CRAZY?"
"I don't have to touch you," she said. "I just have to place my hand over the area."
"NO!" Vegeta jumped up and tried to stand. Although he was in immense pain, he managed to get to his feet and walk over to Gotenks, Goku, and Chima. Rae giggled to herself.
I guess that worked. I knew he'd get up if I did that. Rae felt as if she were growing devil horns at that moment. Vegeta reached Goku and the others. He said nothing. Buu jumped back from them and dived into some nearby bushes.
"What is he doing?" asked Goku. Buu came back out from the bushes with some yellow objects. "He's got the dragonballs?" Everyone gasped and smacked themselves in the head for forgetting the dragonballs. Buu laid them out on the ground.
"Come…out…dragoon." The sky became black. Thunder and lighting started flashing everywhere.
"Damn it!" said Chima. "We didn't stop him. We're too late."
"He hasn't made his wish yet," said Goku. "We can still stop him. What is his wish supposed to be anyway?"
"We thought he was going to wish back Buu before, when he was fused with you, but now we don't have a clue." Chima powered up. Vegeta, Gotenks, and Goku followed her lead. "Whatever it is we have to stop it before he gets a chance…" A pink strip slapped across Chima's mouth. Three more hit Vegeta, Gotenks, and Goku.
"No!" yelled Rae. She ran over and tried to help Goten pry to off of his mouth, but couldn't budge it. Rae looked up to all of the fighter and they all pointed over to Buu. She caught on immediately. "You want me to make sure he doesn't make a wish, right?" All but Vegeta nodded. They could fight Buu, but with only their noses uncovered, they wouldn't be able to take in enough air to sustain themselves. Rae took a deep breath and powered up the small amount of ki that she had. "I won't let you down." Rae rushed Buu and fired three ki balls at him. They all hit but didn't even get his attention. Rae stopped and clapped her hands together to form a gun. She pointed it straight above her head, arms stretched out. "LASER…" Energy gathered on the tip of her fingers. It formed first into a little ball, and then it radiated through her entire hand. Rae brought her arms down in front of her body, facing her 'gun' at Buu. "FIRE!" A blast, slightly bigger than her two index fingers in width, shot forth and struck Buu right in the temple. He turned around to face her. He was slightly annoyed.
"Buu." He turned back around, totally disregarding Rae. The eternal dragon was almost done forming himself. Rae had little time.
"I guess I have to attack him head on." Rae took a moment to build up her courage, and then she ran at Buu. "I'm not going to let you wish any evil into this world, you monster!" She pulled back her arm to punch, but Buu grabbed her around the throat. He lifted her into the air so that she was a foot off of the ground. The eternal dragon finished forming himself.
"I WILL GRANT THREE WISHES AND THREE WISHES ONLY. STATE YOUR WISHES." Buu looked at the dragon with contempt.
"Bring…back…big…brother…here." The dragon's eyes flashed bright red. All of the warriors stared at him, hoping that the wish wouldn't be possible.
"YOU WANT THE ONE YOU KNOW AS BIG BROTHER TO BE TRANSPORTED OUT OF THE DEAD ZONE THAT WAS CREATED FOR HIM AS HIS PRISON…IT SHALL BE DONE." A flash of blinding white light raced across the sky. When it cleared, the mouth covers on the DBZ clan were melted off and vaporized. A black hole opened in the sky.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Vegeta.
"Who is Big Brother?" asked Goku. He looked over to Vegeta. "I think we should get ready to fuse." Vegeta simply stared at him.
"Vegeta, this is not the time to play high-almighty prince!" demanded Chima.
"Don't you tell me what to do, woman!" Vegeta turned his back to the group. The black hole opened wider. Buu dropped Rae, who ran back over to her friends. She ran over to Gotenks and hid behind him.
"What is going on?" asked Gotenks.
"He called for Big Brother. That means he wants his older brother Boo to be brought back to this dimension." Everyone looked at Rae, waiting to hear more. "Okay. You were told that Buu was created by Bibidi and resurrected by Babidi. The truth is that Bibidi only resurrected Buu. Buu himself had been dead for many years."
"How did Buu die?" asked Chima.
"He died when he got into a fight with his big brother Boo."
"His brother killed him?" asked Goku. Rae nodded.
"It wasn't intentional; they actually have strong family ties. You see there was a three-member family. There was father Bou, big brother Boo, and little brother Buu. They can produce asexually, so they don't need females to carry their babies. Father Bou and little brother Buu were killed by Boo by mistake. In the after life father Bou caused a lot of trouble and was erased from existence. Little brother Buu was about to be erased himself when Bibidi resurrected him. The rest you know about him. Soon after that, big brother Boo was imprisoned in a dead zone and left there. Buu has now freed him."
"Why didn't you didn't tell us this before?" demanded Vegeta. Rae blushed.
"I…forgot." Vegeta slapped a hand over his head.
"You idiot! How could you possibly forget something as important as that?" Goku jumped in between the two.
"Vegeta, there is no time to argue now. We have to figure out how to stop this guy." Rae shook her head.
"How can you stop him? You couldn't stop Buu. How are you going to stop his stronger brother?" Reality set in on everyone. They all new that their chances were slim, but they had to try.
"We have to get rid of Buu. It will be impossible to fight Boo with him around." Chima powered up and looked at Vegeta and Goku. "I think that you should fuse now." They both nodded. Goku and Vegeta positioned themselves for the fusion.
"Are you ready, Vegeta? We have to do it right the first time, or we won't get another chance." Vegeta simply nodded. They started the dance.
"FUSION…HA!" A swirl of energy encased them and they became the fusion warrior Gogeta. Gotenks, Chima, and Rae looked on in complete awe.
"I can't believe his power," said Chima. "He is unbelievable." Rae replied to the scene by letting her mouth hang open. Gogeta stretched out a little bit. "We should start now."
"I'm not ready," complained Gogeta. He continued to stretch. Chima started to argue, but decided instead to start of the attack. She motioned to Gotenks.
"Let's go." Gotenks did as told and jumped into the fight. They caught Buu off guard and nailed him to the floor with piston-like punches to all parts of his body. Chima jumped back and fired a ki blast by Gotenks. Gotenks jumped up into the air and fired down at Buu. Both blasts hit and Buu was slow to get up. He healed himself, but it took a little bit longer than before. Gotenks smirked. Buu knew he was in trouble.
"You're going to lose." Gotenks rushed Buu and tackled him into a tree, embedding him into it. "Super Fire Kicks!" Gotenks started to fire rapid kicks to Buu's chest and face, snapping the pink fighter in every single direction possible. He finished with a vicious kick to the face that put Buu's head thru the trunk. His head hung out the other side. Chima flew up and pulled the tree out of the ground and held it so that Buu's head was pointed toward the ground. She started to throw the tree, but Gotenks stopped her.
"What are you doing?"
"I want to have some fun. Hold him a second." Gotenks was back to the ground before she could argue with him about it. Gotenks looked Buu right in the eyes and started bouncing on his feet. He stepped into a boxer's stance. "Rapid Speed Bag Punches!" Gotenks moved his hands in a rolling motion and moved them fast. He stood in front of Buu and went to work on his new speed bag. Buu's head bounced in every direction off of the tree and came back down for more. Gotenks then attacked with his feet again. Then he started using small ki blasts. He was having a great time.
"Are you done yet?"
"…"
"I'm going to drop him if you don't hurry up." Gotenks moaned.
"Fine." He hit Buu with one more big punch, which coincidentally tore his pink head off and tossed it about ten yards away. The rest of Buu's body fell to the ground. Gogeta stared at the fallen Buu. "Where is he?" Rae had a questionable look on her face.
"Where is who?"
"The new guy…Boo."
"You mean that you are waiting for him? Why?"
"Because I want a challenge." He pointed to the decapitated Buu. "He wouldn't be any challenge."
"NO CHALLENGE? THAT'S BUU!" Gogeta sighed.
"Fine. I'll help, but it's not going to last long." He powered up to Super Saiyan mode and flew over to Buu's body. He held a hand out at it. "Bickubang Attack." He had a nonchalant tone to his voice. The blast he fired disintegrated all possible traces of the body. Gogeta then flew over to the head and picked it up off of the floor. Before he could do anything to it, though, Gotenks fired a huge energy ball and disintegrated it as well. Gogeta raised an eyebrow at him.
"Why should you have all the fun?" asked Gotenks, seriously peeved that Gogeta was trying to steal all of the action.
"You were taking too long."
"Too long?" Gotenks gritted his teeth.
"Don't even bother. You don't have a chance of even touching me." That pissed Gotenks off.
"You conceded freak!" Rae gave him a 'you should talk' look. Chima stepped in between the two of them.
"I would hate to break up this party, boys, but we have to stop Boo from coming here."
"Is that possible?" asked Rae. "If he is wished back, can you really stop it?" Chima shook her head.
"I don't think so, but I don't see any other way to try this. We have to do something." She and everyone else looked up into the sky and saw the hole that was opening into the Dead Zone. There was a large shape coming out of it. There was no doubt in her mind that it was Boo. His power was immense. Chima actually cowered to the ground for a split second. Then her confidence regained control. She said the first thing that came to mind. "I'm going to attack." Gotenks and Gogeta nodded.
"I'll help as much as I can from down here." Rae raised her power as much as she could. Even she knew that there was really very little chance of her having any effect on Boo, but she was going to try anyway. "I'll give you everything that I have."
"Okay." Chima floated up toward the hold in the Dead Zone. "We all have to fire at once." Gogeta and Gotenks nodded. "On the count of three. One…two…three. Now!" Instead of firing, the three fusion fighters cupped their hands at their sides.
"Ka…" Rae started charging up her Laser again. She placed her hands above her head in a gun position.
"LASER…"
"Me…Ha…Me…"
"BOO!" A huge shape came out of the hole and bumped into everyone, causing them to lose the collected energy. They managed to get around the big shape and land on the floor next to one another. Chima took a peek at the thing that had run into them and almost fainted. A fifty foot pink blob was in front of them.
"That's…Boo?" asked Rae, not really wanting anyone to say yes. Gogeta laughed at the massive thing in front of him.
"He's a big boy. I guess I can have some fun with him." He launched off for an attack. Gotenks sighed and followed. Chima was right beside him. They both joined Gogeta, who had stopped in front of the monster. Chima looked puzzled.
"What's the problem?" she asked. Gogeta scratched his head.
"I don't know what to do. He's so big." Sweat dropped down Gotenks and Chima's faces as they slapped hands over them. Gogeta cupped his hands at his side again. "I guess I'll try this. Kamehameha!" The beam streaked out of his hand and hit the monster right in the stomach. It bounced off and knocked Gotenks right out of the sky.
"Gotenks!"
"Sorry." Gogeta laughed nervously. Gotenks rolled off of the blast and rejoined Chima and Gogeta.
"What can we do against that thing? We can even hurt it a little." Chima put her hand on her chin. Gogeta crossed his arms over his chest.
"What is it doing?" asked Gotenks. Everyone's attention went back to Boo. Their eyes widened as they realized that he was getting smaller. Boo was shrinking right before there very eyes and they could now see his eyes. Not only were they just like Buu's, but also Boo's eyes were looking right at the Z warriors.
"I think he knows that we are here," said Chima. She slowly backed away, and Gotenks did the same. Gogeta didn't move. He stood right there as Boo continued to shrink. When he finally reached his new 'height', he was the same size as Gogeta. For the first time everyone had a chance to get a good look at Boo, and there wasn't much of a difference. He had the same pants, although they were black. He had no shirt. The only real difference was that he had a metal mask over his mouth. Gogeta stared right at Boo, and Boo stared right back. Boo wasn't in a good mood.
"You are Boo?" Gogeta waited for an answer and didn't get one. "You must be. You are even uglier than your brother."
"You should talk," replied Boo. Gogeta was hard pressed to hide his sudden shock. Boo smirked. "My brother was an uncivilized fool. You can call it bad parenting. Just because he couldn't talk doesn't mean that our entire family was the same."
"I'm touched." Gogeta frowned. "That means that I'll hear a little more out of you than screams when I destroy you."
"Not likely." Boo smirked and punched Gogeta right in the face. Boo snapped his hand back and rubbed it down.
"Don't tell me that is the best that you can do. You might want to go back into that hole."
"Never. The only thing keeping that hole open is the fact that there is no one in the Dead Zone right now. Once I throw one of you in there, I will be free of my prison permanently." Boo's eyes wandered, looking for a likely candidate. He spotted Rae; there was nothing else to think about. "You will take my place." Boo dived down to the ground to grab her.
"Stay away from her!" Boo turned his face right into a head butt from Gotenks. He shrugged it off almost immediately and hit Gotenks with a roundhouse kick to the back of the head. Boo grabbed Gotenks' jacket, stopping him from going any farther, and hit Gotenks in the small of the back with an elbow. Gotenks cried out in pain as Boo repeatedly hit him in the back. Gotenks was almost about to pass out when Chima saved both Gotenks and Rae with an energy blast that knocked Boo to the side. Gotenks recovered quickly and took Rae to safety. Chima landed in his former spot and waited for Boo to get to his feet.
"I didn't hurt you that bad. Get up and fight. I don't have all day." Boo melted into a puddle and reformed in an upright position.
"You're right. Call it a habit. Get out of my way." Chima shook her head.
"Not in this lifetime."
"I have all the time in the world now." Chima sudden punch to the face was easily blocked. She tried another, but it was shrugged off as well.
"You bastard! Fight me!"
"Okay. Let's go somewhere more interesting." Boo expanded his hand until it was the size of Chima's head and grabbed the Saiyan. Boo flew up and past Gogeta, who was watching the whole time. "It's time for this to end. Follow me if your not afraid." Boo flew right into the Dead Zone portal with Chi Chi in tow. Gotenks was more than a little confused, as was Rae.
"What is he doing?" Gotenks put Rae down on the ground. "They're both going to be stuck in there." Gogeta stayed motionless. Gotenks blasted off to Gogeta's position. "What the hell are you still standing there for? Get the hell off of your ass and let's go! We have to get her back before…"
"He doesn't want her," interjected Gogeta. "He wants me. He could care less if Chima gets out of there while we fight, so long as I am the one who gets trapped."
"I'm going too." Gotenks powered up. Gogeta powered up as well. He floated behind Gotenks' back.
"Fine. How much time do you think we have before it closes?" Gotenks scratched his head.
"How should I know? That's something…" Gogeta hit Gotenks across the back of the neck with a hard blow. He dropped to the floor. When Gotenks changed out of Super Saiyan mode, Gogeta smiled. Rae ran over to the fallen warrior and shook an angry fist at Gogeta. When she saw the smile on his face, she then realized what a blessing Gogeta had just performed.
"That is in case I don't make it back. Take care of those two. Don't let them eat too much candy." Rae nodded and Gogeta turned back around to the Dead Zone portal. It's all up to me now. I won't let anyone down. The father has already been erased from existence for his crimes. The little brother that caused so much trouble was also defeated, and by my own hands. Gogeta gazed into the portal and his rage increased his power. His aura flared up until he was in Super Saiyan 3 mode. Now there is only one more to go, and he has the wives of Vegeta and Goku. That cannot be tolerated. Boo, you will pay for your crimes with your life. I will take my revenge upon you for all of those who can't defend themselves. You will be destroyed Boo. I swear it. Gogeta entered the Dead Zone portal, not knowing what he would find on the other side.