Chapter 9: Call to Arms
A strong wind blew through the desolate spirit world outpost as the rest of the villains arrived at the Check-In station. Cell and Cooler were long gone, along with any hope of getting out of eternity.
"Those fools! How could they just leave the Ginyu Force here like this?" Captain Ginyu screamed, "They could need our help!"
"Take it easy cap'n. I'm sure they did it for a good reason!" the fair looking, red skinned Jeice said, trying to calm his boss down. Burter, Guldo, and Recoome looked to their captain believingly. They had been in stickier situations before.
"I believe you'll find a way out of this captain, don't give up! We got to maintain style, even in times of despair!" the blue bodied Burter proclaimed faithfully.
"Yeah!" Recoome and Guldo cheered in unison.
"You're pitiful. You plaze too much confidenze behind zer captain. Cooler left uz becauze we wouldn't be of any help to him, " Salza's French accent angered the ever increasing crowd of villains. He was a small guy, with blue skin and blonde hair. Salza had been the leader of Cooler's Armored Squadron, mirroring Frieza's own Ginyu force. The only difference being that himself, the green giant Doore, and the turtle-like Neiz were infinitely stronger than Ginyu and his men.
"Why you arrogant-" Guldo puffed as he stepped forward.
"Hold it Guldo. You're losing your composure, and more importantly, your style," Captain Ginyu said, placing his hand on his underling's shoulder, "Let me deal with this."
"Heh, you're boss is a smart one!" Neiz's scratchy, high pitched voice stated.
The super namek named Slug appeared at the doorway with his faction of Medamacha, Dorodabo, and Angila, further contributing to the confusion and anxiety that was building within the establishment.
"It seems like we got quite an army forming here," Ginyu said, looking around at the flow of incoming soldiers. Kui, Dodoria, and Zarbon arrived soon after Lord Slug and joined the ranks of the Ginyu force after seeing that lines were being drawn, "So Mr. Smarty Pants, what do you think we should do?"
"The nerve of you, you inzignificant bug! I could squash you!" Salza replied heatedly. He lunged forward to take out the Captain but Doore and Neiz restrained him.
"Ha ha, you don't know what to do! If you don't, then you should shut your pie hole!" The captain boomed his voice across the room, shaking loose rubble from the ceiling, "Let me take care of it. I'll find a way out of here."
The place was getting packed with aliens, monsters, and machines as the two major parties racked their minds to think of something. Many chose to stay out of picking any one side, but the weaker ones leaned toward the bigger groups for protection.
Ginyu eyes stared wide open to the ground. Veins on his forehead protruded as he strained to think of something. He was in perfect form, his legs straight and tight together, and his right arm cradling his left elbow as his hand grabbed his chin.
"Come on cap'n. You can think of somethin! I know you can. You've got a great thinking pose mate, I'm impressed! There's got to be some great ideas brewing up there!" Jeice said, dragging on his flattery. The rest of the Ginyu force threw up their arms in exuberance, cheering on their strongest warrior.
"I . . ." Ginyu began.
"Yeah?" Jeice awaited his response.
"I . . ."
"What is it captain?" Burter asked, his voice soft and lizard like.
"I can't think of anything." Ginyu told them. The Ginyu force fell on their faces in astonishment. It had been four hours, and nothing had come from it!
"I can't take your petty fighting anymore, I'm just gonna blow this place up!" Lord Slug shouted, gathering yellow balls of energy in his palms.
"You might want to hold off on that," A voice came from outside the building. A very muscled, very handsome demon walked haughtily towards Ginyu, his long white hair flowing behind him as though he were of royalty. Behind him was a massive purple demon wearing a horned hat made of wood. He carried a short, stubby woman over his shoulders that seemed to be unconscious. Another part of his group, a short demon with a red complexion and long, furry yellow scarf followed both of them. He held a crystal ball that glowed with mystic power. Bringing up the rear was another monster, the same size and strength as the purple one with the woman. He looked like a bull and wore black and purple armor, almost saiyan looking in origin. The group of bad guys clogging the main floor spread outwards out of respect as these men moved towards Salza's and Ginyu's location. They were cool and calm, suppressing their impressive power amongst the crowd and moving as though they were great people of importance.
The green giant Doore moved in front of the new additions to block their path, "What do you guys want," he asked in his burly voice. His lengthy black hair and different skin tone was the only thing that set him apart from the equally large man with violet skin. They stared each other down, attacking each other with evil glances. Neither one of them would give an inch to the other, causing the groups to stand at a stalemate.
"You need to move," the fair, white haired demon said. He pushed him back a couple feet with one gesture of his hand and continued walking until he came to Ginyu, "This lady's name is Baba. She has the ability to send people back to earth for one day. We caught this ugly witch trying to escape out the back entrance when you arrived.
"Yeah, so?" Ginyu said, scratching his head, "What do you want with us?"
"You see Mr. Ginyu, I heard about you while I was locked away in HELL. I heard about your powers. I've actually heard quite a bit about all of you here. My name is Spice, and these are my fellow compatriots. The short one is Mustard, the beast is Salt, and the one your slime colored friend met is Vinegar. We are the Spice Boys, followers of Garlic Jr. and demons for hire. It seems like you all aren't too bright, so let me inspire you with an idea," Spice was walking on dangerous ground insulting so many with one sentence, but due to Captain Ginyu's lack of thought, the majority of those in the Check-In station would give him a chance.
"What do we have to looze, let him speak, " Salza quietly announced to the whispering crowd.
"Thanks buddy," Spice said, "To those of you that don't know, Ginyu here can switch bodies with anybody he chooses to. He could take mine, he could take yours . . . nobody is safe. But if he transferred into this old hag's body, he could take all of us back to Earth!"
There were heightened whispers and shouts from the back of the room calling for Ginyu.
"Yeah Ginyu, why don't you do that!"
"Very clever, but she would never tell me how to do it," the captain rebutted.
"I wasn't finished yet," Spice interrupted, "In order to learn how to do this, the venerable Lord Slug will have to read Baba's mind. It shouldn't be a problem for you, should it?"
"Not at all," Lord Slug confidently responded, grinning in delight of Spice's brilliant plan.
"The only problem once we are there is the time limit. We could take over the world in less than a day, but defeating Goku would be a much harder task that will take much time and all our efforts. I think we should find the 7 Dragonballs before anybody notices our escape and wish that all those killed by the Z fighters be brought back to life.
"No fair! What about those of us killed by Vegeta!" Kui exclaimed in defense of himself and a few others.
"Who is that?" the bull looking man asked.
"The other saiyan. That no good punk killed me too," Guldo fumed.
"Fine then, the second wish will be to bring back those killed by Vegeta. Happy?" Spice sneered.
"That sounds like a good idea to me," Ginyu confessed," When do we start?"
"Right now . . ."
Meanwhile, back in HELL
Ever since the departure of everything vile and nasty in HELL, the place had begun to turn back to normal. The sky had shifted in color back to its original yellow-orange tint, and the tranquility of the mountains and rolling plains finally overpowered the feeling of wanton destruction that had occurred hours earlier. Souls, or white wisps of spirit energy that contained them, cautiously floated around the place. Their ethereal bodies floated over Mez and Goz's bodies which still lay embedded under the rubble of HELL's office buildings. Thought they weren't capable of conscious thought, they could feel that everything wasn't right in their comfortable little world. More bodies of dead demons littered the landscape around the battle ring, frightening the clouds of spirit away when they saw them.
The most gruesome occurrence of death was found not far under the hole in HELL's sky. A scorched body twitched on the ground, its lower body and arm blown away. It was Pikon, barely clinging to whatever he had left in him. He couldn't last long in his current state and needed help from a mighty healer. A call to one of the Kai's would be more than enough, but if he sacrificed even an ounce of strength to talk telepathically to one of them, it would be all over.
"Darn, I'm not gonna make it," he wheezed to himself. A low rumbling began far off in the distance and quaked the ground Pikon lay on. What was it now? Had they returned? If only he were so lucky to be finished off by them . . .
The intensity of the earthquake doubled, cracking the ground randomly and spreading the ground apart. As it became even stronger, the prison which had held the outlaws of Otherworld for so long began to break up. Slabs of rock slid off from the top and crashed down onto the tops of jail cells. Entire floors separated from the main foundation and slid down the artificial mountainside. The weight from the avalanche of stone and Kai metal picked up speed and decimated the entire side of the prison, leaving it nothing more than a clearly open cliff. What had been causing it though?
The answer presented itself when pink light shone through the cracks in the floor of HELL. It flashed slowly but soon became rapid as a surge of Ki broke through the surface and left a gaping abyss in its wake. Plumes of smoke and dust rose from the darkness below, and from this destruction rose Buu, fresh from his fight with Dabura. He may have gained tons of strength from absorbing Baer and Dabura, but blasting through the millions of miles of rock that kept HELL and Purgatory apart drained him somewhat. The pink creation of Bibidi's may not be at the level he was at before dying at Goku's hand, but there was no doubt that he held the most terrifying power in the universe.
"You really amaze me Buu. First you help me escape from the Dead Zone, then you manage to defeat Dabura with ease, and now we have made it to Otherworld without even breaking a sweat," Garlic Jr. applauded his newfound partner.
Teen Buu grinned, his red pupils looking to the sky from his black colored eyes as he put on a cocky look. The debris from his entrance continued to fall from the sky, but through it Buu could see the bodies laying on the ground and the tear in Snakeway above, "Hmph."
"What is it?" Garlic Jr. asked.
Buu closed his eyes and parts of his body separated into globs before falling onto the ground. Each droplet of his body expanded in size and slithered along the dirt and grass until it found a body. The pink pieces swallowed Mez, Goz, and whatever other viable sources of energy they could find before rejoining with his body. Buu frowned when he noticed that his power hadn't increased at all. It seemed like his trip here would be a waste when he caught a faint glimmer of energy.
"Buu?"
The destroyer of worlds raised his hand to silence Garlic and headed towards the weak power without hesitation. Upon locating it, he smiled, "I remember you. You aren't strong, but you'll do."
Pikon's eyes widened in horror as Buu reach out to his beaten body, "N . . . no. You . . . are supposed . . . to be dead," he somehow managed to say.
Buu kept his smug smirk on his face and pulled a chunk of his flesh off his body. He dangled it playfully above his target, teasing Pikon before his final journey would begin. Buu dropped the pink flesh and it stretched over the dying warrior's body. Covered in darkness, Pikon screamed out telepathically with all his residual strength.
King Kai's Planet
'Why won't this stupid suitcase shut?' King Kai thought to himself as he struggled to put the final latch on his suitcase. A desperate cry of pain suddenly swept through his thoughts and the things he had packed flew out of the over-packed luggage, "What was that?" he asked himself. The North Kai tried to find the source of the transmission but had no luck. He denounced it as nothing and finished his packing.
"You ready King Kai?" Gregory chirped. He carried two miniature suitcases of his own and Bubbles had on a baseball cap and a backpack.
"Yeah, let's go," King Kai replied. Bubbles, Gregory, and himself gathered together and held on to each other. King Kai had Goku teach him Instant Transmission a while back, but this would be the first time he would actually get to use it, "Okay, Otherworld City, here we come!"
In a blur the trio disappeared, leaving their three attackers on the planet under Goku's training gloves (which weighed three tons each). They had escaped one danger only to be confronted with a much greater one. But as they say, "out of the frying pot and into the fire".
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This chapter came out much faster this time, thank god. I know I promised more battles and stuff, but I needed to set this up in order to do that. Next chapter should begin the battling, so stick around. Here are the power levels for this chapter. So you don't have to go back and look at the first chapter again for some power levels, I'm updating all the major players levels in this chapter. As you can see, I'm building for something big.
Teen Buu (Pikon and others in HELL absorbed): 590,000,000
Armored Squadron (Movie 5)
Salza: 18,000,000
Neiz: 11,000,000
Doore: 9,000,000
Lord Slug: 500,000
Medamacha: 32,000
Angila: 46,000
Dorodabo (Winged Guy in movie 4): 20,000
Ginyu Force
Captain Ginyu: 600,000
Burter: 145,000
Jeice: 130,000
Recoome: 112,000
Guldo: 60,000
Kui: 40,000
Dodoria: 80,000
Zarbon: 120,000
Spice Boys
Spice: 4,000,000
Vinegar(purple guy): 2,300,000
Salt: 1,700,000
Mustard (red, short): 1,250,000
A strong wind blew through the desolate spirit world outpost as the rest of the villains arrived at the Check-In station. Cell and Cooler were long gone, along with any hope of getting out of eternity.
"Those fools! How could they just leave the Ginyu Force here like this?" Captain Ginyu screamed, "They could need our help!"
"Take it easy cap'n. I'm sure they did it for a good reason!" the fair looking, red skinned Jeice said, trying to calm his boss down. Burter, Guldo, and Recoome looked to their captain believingly. They had been in stickier situations before.
"I believe you'll find a way out of this captain, don't give up! We got to maintain style, even in times of despair!" the blue bodied Burter proclaimed faithfully.
"Yeah!" Recoome and Guldo cheered in unison.
"You're pitiful. You plaze too much confidenze behind zer captain. Cooler left uz becauze we wouldn't be of any help to him, " Salza's French accent angered the ever increasing crowd of villains. He was a small guy, with blue skin and blonde hair. Salza had been the leader of Cooler's Armored Squadron, mirroring Frieza's own Ginyu force. The only difference being that himself, the green giant Doore, and the turtle-like Neiz were infinitely stronger than Ginyu and his men.
"Why you arrogant-" Guldo puffed as he stepped forward.
"Hold it Guldo. You're losing your composure, and more importantly, your style," Captain Ginyu said, placing his hand on his underling's shoulder, "Let me deal with this."
"Heh, you're boss is a smart one!" Neiz's scratchy, high pitched voice stated.
The super namek named Slug appeared at the doorway with his faction of Medamacha, Dorodabo, and Angila, further contributing to the confusion and anxiety that was building within the establishment.
"It seems like we got quite an army forming here," Ginyu said, looking around at the flow of incoming soldiers. Kui, Dodoria, and Zarbon arrived soon after Lord Slug and joined the ranks of the Ginyu force after seeing that lines were being drawn, "So Mr. Smarty Pants, what do you think we should do?"
"The nerve of you, you inzignificant bug! I could squash you!" Salza replied heatedly. He lunged forward to take out the Captain but Doore and Neiz restrained him.
"Ha ha, you don't know what to do! If you don't, then you should shut your pie hole!" The captain boomed his voice across the room, shaking loose rubble from the ceiling, "Let me take care of it. I'll find a way out of here."
The place was getting packed with aliens, monsters, and machines as the two major parties racked their minds to think of something. Many chose to stay out of picking any one side, but the weaker ones leaned toward the bigger groups for protection.
Ginyu eyes stared wide open to the ground. Veins on his forehead protruded as he strained to think of something. He was in perfect form, his legs straight and tight together, and his right arm cradling his left elbow as his hand grabbed his chin.
"Come on cap'n. You can think of somethin! I know you can. You've got a great thinking pose mate, I'm impressed! There's got to be some great ideas brewing up there!" Jeice said, dragging on his flattery. The rest of the Ginyu force threw up their arms in exuberance, cheering on their strongest warrior.
"I . . ." Ginyu began.
"Yeah?" Jeice awaited his response.
"I . . ."
"What is it captain?" Burter asked, his voice soft and lizard like.
"I can't think of anything." Ginyu told them. The Ginyu force fell on their faces in astonishment. It had been four hours, and nothing had come from it!
"I can't take your petty fighting anymore, I'm just gonna blow this place up!" Lord Slug shouted, gathering yellow balls of energy in his palms.
"You might want to hold off on that," A voice came from outside the building. A very muscled, very handsome demon walked haughtily towards Ginyu, his long white hair flowing behind him as though he were of royalty. Behind him was a massive purple demon wearing a horned hat made of wood. He carried a short, stubby woman over his shoulders that seemed to be unconscious. Another part of his group, a short demon with a red complexion and long, furry yellow scarf followed both of them. He held a crystal ball that glowed with mystic power. Bringing up the rear was another monster, the same size and strength as the purple one with the woman. He looked like a bull and wore black and purple armor, almost saiyan looking in origin. The group of bad guys clogging the main floor spread outwards out of respect as these men moved towards Salza's and Ginyu's location. They were cool and calm, suppressing their impressive power amongst the crowd and moving as though they were great people of importance.
The green giant Doore moved in front of the new additions to block their path, "What do you guys want," he asked in his burly voice. His lengthy black hair and different skin tone was the only thing that set him apart from the equally large man with violet skin. They stared each other down, attacking each other with evil glances. Neither one of them would give an inch to the other, causing the groups to stand at a stalemate.
"You need to move," the fair, white haired demon said. He pushed him back a couple feet with one gesture of his hand and continued walking until he came to Ginyu, "This lady's name is Baba. She has the ability to send people back to earth for one day. We caught this ugly witch trying to escape out the back entrance when you arrived.
"Yeah, so?" Ginyu said, scratching his head, "What do you want with us?"
"You see Mr. Ginyu, I heard about you while I was locked away in HELL. I heard about your powers. I've actually heard quite a bit about all of you here. My name is Spice, and these are my fellow compatriots. The short one is Mustard, the beast is Salt, and the one your slime colored friend met is Vinegar. We are the Spice Boys, followers of Garlic Jr. and demons for hire. It seems like you all aren't too bright, so let me inspire you with an idea," Spice was walking on dangerous ground insulting so many with one sentence, but due to Captain Ginyu's lack of thought, the majority of those in the Check-In station would give him a chance.
"What do we have to looze, let him speak, " Salza quietly announced to the whispering crowd.
"Thanks buddy," Spice said, "To those of you that don't know, Ginyu here can switch bodies with anybody he chooses to. He could take mine, he could take yours . . . nobody is safe. But if he transferred into this old hag's body, he could take all of us back to Earth!"
There were heightened whispers and shouts from the back of the room calling for Ginyu.
"Yeah Ginyu, why don't you do that!"
"Very clever, but she would never tell me how to do it," the captain rebutted.
"I wasn't finished yet," Spice interrupted, "In order to learn how to do this, the venerable Lord Slug will have to read Baba's mind. It shouldn't be a problem for you, should it?"
"Not at all," Lord Slug confidently responded, grinning in delight of Spice's brilliant plan.
"The only problem once we are there is the time limit. We could take over the world in less than a day, but defeating Goku would be a much harder task that will take much time and all our efforts. I think we should find the 7 Dragonballs before anybody notices our escape and wish that all those killed by the Z fighters be brought back to life.
"No fair! What about those of us killed by Vegeta!" Kui exclaimed in defense of himself and a few others.
"Who is that?" the bull looking man asked.
"The other saiyan. That no good punk killed me too," Guldo fumed.
"Fine then, the second wish will be to bring back those killed by Vegeta. Happy?" Spice sneered.
"That sounds like a good idea to me," Ginyu confessed," When do we start?"
"Right now . . ."
Meanwhile, back in HELL
Ever since the departure of everything vile and nasty in HELL, the place had begun to turn back to normal. The sky had shifted in color back to its original yellow-orange tint, and the tranquility of the mountains and rolling plains finally overpowered the feeling of wanton destruction that had occurred hours earlier. Souls, or white wisps of spirit energy that contained them, cautiously floated around the place. Their ethereal bodies floated over Mez and Goz's bodies which still lay embedded under the rubble of HELL's office buildings. Thought they weren't capable of conscious thought, they could feel that everything wasn't right in their comfortable little world. More bodies of dead demons littered the landscape around the battle ring, frightening the clouds of spirit away when they saw them.
The most gruesome occurrence of death was found not far under the hole in HELL's sky. A scorched body twitched on the ground, its lower body and arm blown away. It was Pikon, barely clinging to whatever he had left in him. He couldn't last long in his current state and needed help from a mighty healer. A call to one of the Kai's would be more than enough, but if he sacrificed even an ounce of strength to talk telepathically to one of them, it would be all over.
"Darn, I'm not gonna make it," he wheezed to himself. A low rumbling began far off in the distance and quaked the ground Pikon lay on. What was it now? Had they returned? If only he were so lucky to be finished off by them . . .
The intensity of the earthquake doubled, cracking the ground randomly and spreading the ground apart. As it became even stronger, the prison which had held the outlaws of Otherworld for so long began to break up. Slabs of rock slid off from the top and crashed down onto the tops of jail cells. Entire floors separated from the main foundation and slid down the artificial mountainside. The weight from the avalanche of stone and Kai metal picked up speed and decimated the entire side of the prison, leaving it nothing more than a clearly open cliff. What had been causing it though?
The answer presented itself when pink light shone through the cracks in the floor of HELL. It flashed slowly but soon became rapid as a surge of Ki broke through the surface and left a gaping abyss in its wake. Plumes of smoke and dust rose from the darkness below, and from this destruction rose Buu, fresh from his fight with Dabura. He may have gained tons of strength from absorbing Baer and Dabura, but blasting through the millions of miles of rock that kept HELL and Purgatory apart drained him somewhat. The pink creation of Bibidi's may not be at the level he was at before dying at Goku's hand, but there was no doubt that he held the most terrifying power in the universe.
"You really amaze me Buu. First you help me escape from the Dead Zone, then you manage to defeat Dabura with ease, and now we have made it to Otherworld without even breaking a sweat," Garlic Jr. applauded his newfound partner.
Teen Buu grinned, his red pupils looking to the sky from his black colored eyes as he put on a cocky look. The debris from his entrance continued to fall from the sky, but through it Buu could see the bodies laying on the ground and the tear in Snakeway above, "Hmph."
"What is it?" Garlic Jr. asked.
Buu closed his eyes and parts of his body separated into globs before falling onto the ground. Each droplet of his body expanded in size and slithered along the dirt and grass until it found a body. The pink pieces swallowed Mez, Goz, and whatever other viable sources of energy they could find before rejoining with his body. Buu frowned when he noticed that his power hadn't increased at all. It seemed like his trip here would be a waste when he caught a faint glimmer of energy.
"Buu?"
The destroyer of worlds raised his hand to silence Garlic and headed towards the weak power without hesitation. Upon locating it, he smiled, "I remember you. You aren't strong, but you'll do."
Pikon's eyes widened in horror as Buu reach out to his beaten body, "N . . . no. You . . . are supposed . . . to be dead," he somehow managed to say.
Buu kept his smug smirk on his face and pulled a chunk of his flesh off his body. He dangled it playfully above his target, teasing Pikon before his final journey would begin. Buu dropped the pink flesh and it stretched over the dying warrior's body. Covered in darkness, Pikon screamed out telepathically with all his residual strength.
King Kai's Planet
'Why won't this stupid suitcase shut?' King Kai thought to himself as he struggled to put the final latch on his suitcase. A desperate cry of pain suddenly swept through his thoughts and the things he had packed flew out of the over-packed luggage, "What was that?" he asked himself. The North Kai tried to find the source of the transmission but had no luck. He denounced it as nothing and finished his packing.
"You ready King Kai?" Gregory chirped. He carried two miniature suitcases of his own and Bubbles had on a baseball cap and a backpack.
"Yeah, let's go," King Kai replied. Bubbles, Gregory, and himself gathered together and held on to each other. King Kai had Goku teach him Instant Transmission a while back, but this would be the first time he would actually get to use it, "Okay, Otherworld City, here we come!"
In a blur the trio disappeared, leaving their three attackers on the planet under Goku's training gloves (which weighed three tons each). They had escaped one danger only to be confronted with a much greater one. But as they say, "out of the frying pot and into the fire".
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This chapter came out much faster this time, thank god. I know I promised more battles and stuff, but I needed to set this up in order to do that. Next chapter should begin the battling, so stick around. Here are the power levels for this chapter. So you don't have to go back and look at the first chapter again for some power levels, I'm updating all the major players levels in this chapter. As you can see, I'm building for something big.
Teen Buu (Pikon and others in HELL absorbed): 590,000,000
Armored Squadron (Movie 5)
Salza: 18,000,000
Neiz: 11,000,000
Doore: 9,000,000
Lord Slug: 500,000
Medamacha: 32,000
Angila: 46,000
Dorodabo (Winged Guy in movie 4): 20,000
Ginyu Force
Captain Ginyu: 600,000
Burter: 145,000
Jeice: 130,000
Recoome: 112,000
Guldo: 60,000
Kui: 40,000
Dodoria: 80,000
Zarbon: 120,000
Spice Boys
Spice: 4,000,000
Vinegar(purple guy): 2,300,000
Salt: 1,700,000
Mustard (red, short): 1,250,000