Chapter 6
Trunks gasped as Cell's fist pummelled repeatedly into his abdomen. He could barely summon enough energy to keep himself afloat as Goten went after Cell again. Off in the distance he could sense that Uncle Goku and his father were battling Buu.
" We can't handle him by ourselves Goten."
" We have no choice."
Both boys were slammed to the ground from 500 feet, creating huge craters below them from the impact. Goten laughed despite himself.
" I always thought I was good enough at this...I guess I was wrong."
" Same here. C'mon. If we make it through this lets go on a training trip or something."
" Deal."
A cool wind blew in from the east. Gohan watched Videl shiver in the breeze and pulled her even more tightly towards him. It was so quiet...so conformable...and yet he felt that something was very very wrong.
"Something is happening. I can feel fluctuating ki everywhere...seems like a battles going on. They may need my help. "
Videl sat up and pointed to a bright star in the distance.
" Look Gohan...the star..."
" Videl that's no star. That's...super saiyajin. We have to get out of here!"
Before he could do anything, a flash of pink flew past him and scooped up Videl like she was nothing. Gohan could see his hand reach out but to no avail. A loud cracking sound filled his ears as he watched the child Buu ate the chocolate Videl. He felt his heart clench and his muscles tighten at her death.
" You will die for that." He muttered through clenched teeth. The unmistakable aura began to radiate from him in big waves, catching the attention of all the fighters within earth. Buu looked at him calmly and contemplated his actions. Taking a fighting stance, Buu smiled enigmatically as Gohan flew into rage.
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When the unfused Goku and Vegeta reached Buu, he was already fighting against Gohan.
" Lets go Vegeta. I think Gohan can handle it."
" I don't think my brat and your brat is handling Cell as well as they should be."
Without another word they took off full speed back towards the fight of Goten and Trunks against Cell. When they arrived, Goten and Trunks were barely floating. They were in fact struggling to stay alive.
" Trunks, Goten. Leave it to us." Goku said in a flat tone.
Goten and Trunks floated away from Cell as Vegeta flew out to attack Cell. Goku quickly whispered commands to them before reminding Vegeta about the earrings. In a burst of light, the two arguably most powerful beings fused to become one.
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" Jeez...we did pretty badly out there you know." Trunks muttered.
" Yeh...we really need some training."
Both boys flew in silence, contemplating their very depleted fighting skills.
" So what do we do now?" Goten asked.
Trunks stared straight ahead, focusing on the hordes of saiyajin swarming in a bunch in front of him.
" We go and find Bura and...Pan. Then we'll go to the room of spirit and time. Even if they destroy the earth palace and the doorway we can still get out...when we've powered up enough."
" Yer...we did that before...I guess we could do it again."
" We'll have to take Dende with us...we'll need the dragonballs."
They both let out ki balls to vaporise the saiyajin standing in their way as they flew towards the palace. They could see, standing on the edge of the palace was a lone girl fighting the army of saiyajin. Over her shoulders was another girl, with long blue hair swaying in the wind. Goten sped up to reach the pair faster with Trunks right behind him.
" What happened to her?" he demanded as he took Bura from Pan.
Pan stared wide eyed as Trunks immediately took over her fight with the army.
" What does he think he's doing! This is my fight!"
Pan plunged back into the fight and began to take people out. As soon as she reached Trunks, he threw his ki at her, harmlessly but forcefully pushing her out again.
" Damnit."
" Pan, forget the fight right now. Tell me what happened to Bura."
Pan brushed her hair out of her eyes and tied it up with a rubber band.
" She went all blond for a little while and then passed out."
Goten's grip on Bura began to loosen as he stared open mouthed at Pan.
Pan frowned and began to grab Bura to keep her from falling through Goten's arms and through the sky.
" Goten! Snap out of it...you're going to drop her!"
" Oh um...sorry..."
Goten tightened his grip on Bura as Trunks blasted the last wave of saiyajins.
" Goten take Bura inside the room!" he yelled at them.
Goten shrugged and raced off, leaving Pan alone in the air.
" What room? Goten!"
Pan flew off after Goten but was stopped when Trunks slammed right into her.
" Sorry Pan." He muttered before he threw another ki blast at the now growing number of saiyajin. " These people don't stop coming!"
" Then fighting them like this isn't going to be useful...it's a waste of energy."
" Fine...we're supposed to go now anyway."
" Go where?"
" Your grandfather gave us orders. Stay in the room of spirit and time. After a year in there, if there is no communication...we train until we can defeat everyone."
Pan frowned at Trunks' plans.
" That means...you think we can't defeat them don't you."
" It's a back up Pan...its not my idea."
" I don't care who's idea...I'm not abandoning everyone. I'm not going to let them die!"
Pan powered up and blasted off through the air with Trunks right after her.
" PAN! Listen to me! If they can't do it we can resurrect them!"
Pan stopped flying, hovering in front of Trunks in her SSJ form.
" Do you really expect me to believe that? That you can bring people back to life?"
" We can. With the dragonballs."
" Give me one good reason why I should believe you."
" Because...you know you can trust me."
Pan turned away from the handsome man in SSJ form.
" I want to...but how can you expect me to believe that?"
Trunks stared at Pan who was obviously in mental turmoil. Behind them was the fight between Buu and Gohan and things were getting dangerous.
" Pan...we don't have time. We have to go now. Please...for now...just trust me. I'll explain everything later."
Pan turned around uncertainly, watching her father slam Buu into the ground.
" I..."
Trunks listened impatiently for Pan's answer. Suddenly he spotted a ki blast coming their way. He moved with super speed, pushing Pan behind him and trying to form a defensive ki blast of his own. Buu's pink ki blast proved too powerful for his own and he found himself being shoved away by Pan. The blast grazed his arm before exploding on a nearby mountain, now reduced to a small pile of rock.
" Trunks! Are you ok? Does it hurt?"
Trunks gritted his teeth and shook his head.
" TRUNKS! TAKE PAN AND LEAVE RIGHT NOW!"
Gohan yelled at them from 20 feet away as Buu flew towards them. Taking Gohan's instructions, he grabbed Pan on the arm and began to power up to SSJ 2, blasting off into the sky with increased speed.
" Trunks! Let me go! We have to help...my father!"
Pan tugged on Trunks' arm as she looked back at the fight. Gohan was now getting hit around by Buu. Trunks' grip remained iron tight until they reached the earth palace.
" I can't believe you! Why didn't you listen to me! I have to go back!"
Pan moved to fly off again when Trunks' arm encircled her waist and grabbed her. Picking Pan up at the waist, Trunks prevented any sort of escape as he ran for the room of spirit and time. Upon reaching the door, he set the controls and entered, slamming the door behind him and locking it. He placed Pan gently on the floor.
" YOU JERK! I HATE YOU!"
He was surprised to see that Pan was crying as he struggled to catch his breath.
" But I..."
" You could see my father was in trouble! Why didn't we go back for him? WHY DAMNIT?"
" We couldn't...your grandfather told us to come here...your father told us to leave. He told me to take you."
" I can think for myself damnit! I wanted to help him..."
Pan collapsed on the floor in a fit of tears, vigorously rubbing her eyes in attempt to make the tears stop.
" Pan..." he said softly, taking her into comforting hug. " I'm sorry."
" I wanted to know all about him...all my life...I didn't even know he existed and...now..."
With Pan crying on his shoulder, he couldn't help noticing how soft her skin felt against his own, how well her body molded against his.
"Now is not the time Trunks. She's new to all this...Its probably been a long day for her...heck its been a long day for everyone. "
Gohan backed away to take a breather. The Buu in front of him looked as tired and as ragged as he did. After more than 5 hours of fighting, the physical exertion and begun to take its toll on both fighters. Spitting out the blood in his mouth, let out a flying punch at Buu. It was easily blocked and Buu began to counter attack. Realising that they were equally skilled at close combat, he decided to take a different approach. He had only heard Piccolo talking about it once.
" You killed my wife. You tried to kill my daughter...To defend their honour...I swear on my life that I will kill you."
Buu let out a menacing smile as he went on the offensive. Immediately, Gohan powered up, surpassing SSJ in 2 forms. Buu simply bounced off Gohan's ki wall. Buu had underestimated the power of Gohan's transformation. Buu watched Gohan produce a ki ball, growing in size alongside every unit of power. In response, Buu too pooled all his energy into a ki ball. It would be the showdown. Who's ki was stronger?
Gohan had now reached SSJ3. Without his tail, he knew he could not reach SSJ4.
"You have potential Kid. You can do it."
He remembered Piccolo's words to him long ago when they had been training alone. These words inspired him to pour more energy to his ki ball. His eyes flashed silver as he used the last of his energy to hurl the ball at Buu.
Buu watched in horror as he saw the saiyajin in front of him flashing with a silver gleam. He could feel the man's ki suddenly fluctuate as he thew the ball.
Gohan fell through the sky and landed heavily on the floor. His last ditch effort had left him drained of all his energy. When the dust cleared away, a figure stood inside the crater of which his ki ball had created.
"It...it didn't work. I'm sorry everyone."
Gohan struggled to keep his eyes open as he heard footsteps.
"I love you Videl...Pan."
A blinding light obstructed his view before Buu took his life with a ki blast.
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Trunks gasped as Cell's fist pummelled repeatedly into his abdomen. He could barely summon enough energy to keep himself afloat as Goten went after Cell again. Off in the distance he could sense that Uncle Goku and his father were battling Buu.
" We can't handle him by ourselves Goten."
" We have no choice."
Both boys were slammed to the ground from 500 feet, creating huge craters below them from the impact. Goten laughed despite himself.
" I always thought I was good enough at this...I guess I was wrong."
" Same here. C'mon. If we make it through this lets go on a training trip or something."
" Deal."
A cool wind blew in from the east. Gohan watched Videl shiver in the breeze and pulled her even more tightly towards him. It was so quiet...so conformable...and yet he felt that something was very very wrong.
"Something is happening. I can feel fluctuating ki everywhere...seems like a battles going on. They may need my help. "
Videl sat up and pointed to a bright star in the distance.
" Look Gohan...the star..."
" Videl that's no star. That's...super saiyajin. We have to get out of here!"
Before he could do anything, a flash of pink flew past him and scooped up Videl like she was nothing. Gohan could see his hand reach out but to no avail. A loud cracking sound filled his ears as he watched the child Buu ate the chocolate Videl. He felt his heart clench and his muscles tighten at her death.
" You will die for that." He muttered through clenched teeth. The unmistakable aura began to radiate from him in big waves, catching the attention of all the fighters within earth. Buu looked at him calmly and contemplated his actions. Taking a fighting stance, Buu smiled enigmatically as Gohan flew into rage.
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When the unfused Goku and Vegeta reached Buu, he was already fighting against Gohan.
" Lets go Vegeta. I think Gohan can handle it."
" I don't think my brat and your brat is handling Cell as well as they should be."
Without another word they took off full speed back towards the fight of Goten and Trunks against Cell. When they arrived, Goten and Trunks were barely floating. They were in fact struggling to stay alive.
" Trunks, Goten. Leave it to us." Goku said in a flat tone.
Goten and Trunks floated away from Cell as Vegeta flew out to attack Cell. Goku quickly whispered commands to them before reminding Vegeta about the earrings. In a burst of light, the two arguably most powerful beings fused to become one.
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" Jeez...we did pretty badly out there you know." Trunks muttered.
" Yeh...we really need some training."
Both boys flew in silence, contemplating their very depleted fighting skills.
" So what do we do now?" Goten asked.
Trunks stared straight ahead, focusing on the hordes of saiyajin swarming in a bunch in front of him.
" We go and find Bura and...Pan. Then we'll go to the room of spirit and time. Even if they destroy the earth palace and the doorway we can still get out...when we've powered up enough."
" Yer...we did that before...I guess we could do it again."
" We'll have to take Dende with us...we'll need the dragonballs."
They both let out ki balls to vaporise the saiyajin standing in their way as they flew towards the palace. They could see, standing on the edge of the palace was a lone girl fighting the army of saiyajin. Over her shoulders was another girl, with long blue hair swaying in the wind. Goten sped up to reach the pair faster with Trunks right behind him.
" What happened to her?" he demanded as he took Bura from Pan.
Pan stared wide eyed as Trunks immediately took over her fight with the army.
" What does he think he's doing! This is my fight!"
Pan plunged back into the fight and began to take people out. As soon as she reached Trunks, he threw his ki at her, harmlessly but forcefully pushing her out again.
" Damnit."
" Pan, forget the fight right now. Tell me what happened to Bura."
Pan brushed her hair out of her eyes and tied it up with a rubber band.
" She went all blond for a little while and then passed out."
Goten's grip on Bura began to loosen as he stared open mouthed at Pan.
Pan frowned and began to grab Bura to keep her from falling through Goten's arms and through the sky.
" Goten! Snap out of it...you're going to drop her!"
" Oh um...sorry..."
Goten tightened his grip on Bura as Trunks blasted the last wave of saiyajins.
" Goten take Bura inside the room!" he yelled at them.
Goten shrugged and raced off, leaving Pan alone in the air.
" What room? Goten!"
Pan flew off after Goten but was stopped when Trunks slammed right into her.
" Sorry Pan." He muttered before he threw another ki blast at the now growing number of saiyajin. " These people don't stop coming!"
" Then fighting them like this isn't going to be useful...it's a waste of energy."
" Fine...we're supposed to go now anyway."
" Go where?"
" Your grandfather gave us orders. Stay in the room of spirit and time. After a year in there, if there is no communication...we train until we can defeat everyone."
Pan frowned at Trunks' plans.
" That means...you think we can't defeat them don't you."
" It's a back up Pan...its not my idea."
" I don't care who's idea...I'm not abandoning everyone. I'm not going to let them die!"
Pan powered up and blasted off through the air with Trunks right after her.
" PAN! Listen to me! If they can't do it we can resurrect them!"
Pan stopped flying, hovering in front of Trunks in her SSJ form.
" Do you really expect me to believe that? That you can bring people back to life?"
" We can. With the dragonballs."
" Give me one good reason why I should believe you."
" Because...you know you can trust me."
Pan turned away from the handsome man in SSJ form.
" I want to...but how can you expect me to believe that?"
Trunks stared at Pan who was obviously in mental turmoil. Behind them was the fight between Buu and Gohan and things were getting dangerous.
" Pan...we don't have time. We have to go now. Please...for now...just trust me. I'll explain everything later."
Pan turned around uncertainly, watching her father slam Buu into the ground.
" I..."
Trunks listened impatiently for Pan's answer. Suddenly he spotted a ki blast coming their way. He moved with super speed, pushing Pan behind him and trying to form a defensive ki blast of his own. Buu's pink ki blast proved too powerful for his own and he found himself being shoved away by Pan. The blast grazed his arm before exploding on a nearby mountain, now reduced to a small pile of rock.
" Trunks! Are you ok? Does it hurt?"
Trunks gritted his teeth and shook his head.
" TRUNKS! TAKE PAN AND LEAVE RIGHT NOW!"
Gohan yelled at them from 20 feet away as Buu flew towards them. Taking Gohan's instructions, he grabbed Pan on the arm and began to power up to SSJ 2, blasting off into the sky with increased speed.
" Trunks! Let me go! We have to help...my father!"
Pan tugged on Trunks' arm as she looked back at the fight. Gohan was now getting hit around by Buu. Trunks' grip remained iron tight until they reached the earth palace.
" I can't believe you! Why didn't you listen to me! I have to go back!"
Pan moved to fly off again when Trunks' arm encircled her waist and grabbed her. Picking Pan up at the waist, Trunks prevented any sort of escape as he ran for the room of spirit and time. Upon reaching the door, he set the controls and entered, slamming the door behind him and locking it. He placed Pan gently on the floor.
" YOU JERK! I HATE YOU!"
He was surprised to see that Pan was crying as he struggled to catch his breath.
" But I..."
" You could see my father was in trouble! Why didn't we go back for him? WHY DAMNIT?"
" We couldn't...your grandfather told us to come here...your father told us to leave. He told me to take you."
" I can think for myself damnit! I wanted to help him..."
Pan collapsed on the floor in a fit of tears, vigorously rubbing her eyes in attempt to make the tears stop.
" Pan..." he said softly, taking her into comforting hug. " I'm sorry."
" I wanted to know all about him...all my life...I didn't even know he existed and...now..."
With Pan crying on his shoulder, he couldn't help noticing how soft her skin felt against his own, how well her body molded against his.
"Now is not the time Trunks. She's new to all this...Its probably been a long day for her...heck its been a long day for everyone. "
Gohan backed away to take a breather. The Buu in front of him looked as tired and as ragged as he did. After more than 5 hours of fighting, the physical exertion and begun to take its toll on both fighters. Spitting out the blood in his mouth, let out a flying punch at Buu. It was easily blocked and Buu began to counter attack. Realising that they were equally skilled at close combat, he decided to take a different approach. He had only heard Piccolo talking about it once.
" You killed my wife. You tried to kill my daughter...To defend their honour...I swear on my life that I will kill you."
Buu let out a menacing smile as he went on the offensive. Immediately, Gohan powered up, surpassing SSJ in 2 forms. Buu simply bounced off Gohan's ki wall. Buu had underestimated the power of Gohan's transformation. Buu watched Gohan produce a ki ball, growing in size alongside every unit of power. In response, Buu too pooled all his energy into a ki ball. It would be the showdown. Who's ki was stronger?
Gohan had now reached SSJ3. Without his tail, he knew he could not reach SSJ4.
"You have potential Kid. You can do it."
He remembered Piccolo's words to him long ago when they had been training alone. These words inspired him to pour more energy to his ki ball. His eyes flashed silver as he used the last of his energy to hurl the ball at Buu.
Buu watched in horror as he saw the saiyajin in front of him flashing with a silver gleam. He could feel the man's ki suddenly fluctuate as he thew the ball.
Gohan fell through the sky and landed heavily on the floor. His last ditch effort had left him drained of all his energy. When the dust cleared away, a figure stood inside the crater of which his ki ball had created.
"It...it didn't work. I'm sorry everyone."
Gohan struggled to keep his eyes open as he heard footsteps.
"I love you Videl...Pan."
A blinding light obstructed his view before Buu took his life with a ki blast.
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