Chapter seven - The Power of Fusion

Otherworld, Supreme Kai's Planet:

Shin sat hunched down beside an Old Kai staring into the crystal ball the Old Kai had created. The arrival of these warriors had been something of a shock, but it explained the distortions in reality he'd been sensing for years. He could remember when he'd first felt the building power on Earth. It was shortly after she'd taken over the planet and she was already many times stronger than the other powers in the universe.

Then, one day, she suddenly became much stronger after a few days of absence from his senses. She was too strong for him anymore, that's when he decided to try his hand at the Z Sword. A year later he'd broken it while training and released the Old Kai. Since then the Old Kai taught him about the fusion earrings and he'd merged with Kibeto. Then the Old Kai had awakened all of his powers, but he still wasn't quite strong enough.

Now he just prayed to his ancestors that these strange mortals would be enough. Just in case they were the Old Kai was preparing something for them. When time shifted these warriors would forget this world, and that couldn't happen. Not if they were to be ready to deal with Gudrun's true form and power. In front of the Old Kai was a volleyball sized orb with lights flowing around inside.

H called it an Essence Orb. He used it to copy the essence of certain people. In this case he'd copied Videl's essence as well as Goten's and was still copying Vegeta's, Gohan's, and Trunks's. He'd also stored a copy of Piccolo's, Krillin's, Tien's, and Yamcha's essences as well. As soon as the world began to distort and return to it's normal state the Old Kai would teleport the Orb through a temporal distortion to Earth allowing it shift between timelines, just as these warriors had done. Once there the orb would release it's essences into the world to find their owners.

Earth:

Vegetan frowned as he held his stomach. This wasn't the way things were supposed to be going. Somehow this Gudrun was still stronger than him! It was inconceivable, and Vegeta's frustration was adding to Gohan's anger giving every punch, every kick, the intent of a death blow, and yet Gudrun was dodging or blocking them all. Not easily, but it was still starting to piss him off.

"You're nothing special!" Gudrun said with a grin. "I'll admit I was worried when the two of you fused but now... this should be fun!" Gudrun shifted her legs slightly, then pulled her arms back to her side cupping her hands. "Kaaaaaa. Meeeeee. Haaaaaa. Meeeeee."

Vegetan's eyes widened in shock. /Damn, they said she could do this! How the.../

His train of thought ended abruptly as Gudrun thrust her arms forward. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Vegetan quickly brought his arms up, palms open, and aimed at the attack. As the attack hit him the KI barrier appeared. He strained to hold back the attack and felt the barrier beginning to give. Quickly he pulled up all the power he could feeding off the anger that still burned within Gohan. Vegetan shifted the position of his arms, straightened them more, and bent his thumbs in.

/Hope this doesn't kill me./ He though forming two balls of golden energy in front of each hand. Slowly he moved his arms close together tilting his hands sideway merging the two energy spheres. Then he bent his fingers around the energy as the KI barrier started to buckle. "Super Big Bang Attack!" The energy ball charged forward and tore through the Kamehameha wave. Gudrun saw it coming at the last second but couldn't move in time and was nailed by the blast, but when the smoke cleared she seemed fine.

"Impressive." She said with a grin. "But not enough to beat me."

"How do you know the Kamehameha wave?" Vegetan asked cracking his neck.

"Hmmm? The attack I just used? Not sure where it came from really. I'm sure when you were forming your little fusion plan with one of those damned Kai's you were told of my origins. I know a few of the things my various parts learned in their years, knowledge of the Sai-jins for example. However I seem to know every attack ever mastered by someone with part of my soul.

"Thanks to one warrior in particular I know a vast amount of powers. The Kamehameha Wave, Special Beam Cannon, Tri-beam, Multi-form, Spirit Bomb, Gallic Gun, and my personal favorite, the Kaio Ken. It's pure irony really, that a move invented by a Kai would be one of my greatest assets."

"There's only one way you could all those skills from one person." Vegetan said with disgust and hatred. "Part of you served as the soul for Cell."

"Cell? Ah yes, I saw the good doctors plans for this Cell once. Explains why I know so much about the Red Ribbon Army. Speaking of Dr. Gero he's below us somewhere working on replacements for those Androids you destroyed."

"A waste of time, since you'll be dieing soon and this reality will cease to exist, replaced by the rightful world."

Gudrun laughed. "We shall see about that Monkey. DOUBLE KAIO KEN!"

Vegetan's went wide in fear. Something with her power able to use the Kaio Ken... her power was devastating enough without the increases yielded by the Kaio Ken. He never even saw her move before he foot slammed into his gut. Then he received a knee to the chest, an elbow to the face, and kick to the back of the head that sent him into the platform again. /Shit, now what do I do?/

He coughed a few times as he got to his feet. Off to the side he saw Trunks standing on his feet again, but just barely. /At least the kid's still alive./ He turned his eyes back to Gudrun. Before giving himself time to argue with his plan he charged in toward her and started pounding on her, but he was getting no where, she wasn't even budging. Suddenly her aura flared out brighter pitching the fused Sai-jin away as she powered up to a triple Kaio Ken.

"What do you think of my power now?" she asked walking toward the fallen Sai-jin. Her muscles where bulging massively now barely able to contain her enormous power. "This power pales in comparison to my true power, if I weren't trapped in this disgusting Human body. Still, it's more than anything this universe has ever seen before, or ever will again. And it's enough to obliterate you Monkey."

Vegetan growled as he got back on his feet and glared at Gudrun. She felt a sudden spike in his power as his pupils shifted to black and the iris became a blood red, but then the changed back and his power dipped back down to where it had been.

"Aw, are all your power reserves drained?" she asked mockingly with a grin.

Trunks stared across the way at the two warriors. He still wasn't sure how his father and Gohan had become one person but it was way cool. Then he saw something sparkle near-by and made his way over to it. Bending down to pick it up he heard a thunderous crash and looked. Gudrun had backhanded Vegetan across the entire platform, further away from him.

He looked back down at the object on the ground. It was some kind of earring. He picked it up wondering where it came from when he remembered seeing identical earrings on Vegetan. /Maybe... this has something... to do with it?/ he wondered squinting across at Vegetan. As he battled Gudrun Trunks noticed he was missing his right earring. /This must be how they did it! Maybe if I put this on I can give them enough power to beat her!/

With that thought running through his head Trunks reached up and slipped the earring on to his right ear. Suddenly he felt himself flung toward Vegetan who was yanked away from an incoming vicious kick by Gudrun. The two slammed into each other in a blinding flash of light.

"What now!" Gudrun demanded. "Who was left with him to fuse with? I thought I killed the others."

The light faded but it looked as though Vegetan was still standing there. Very little about him had changed, his face was a bit softer, and the blue of his outfit was now much lighter in color, but nothing else had noticeably changed. Yet the warrior seemed to be checking itself out. "Way cool!" it cried in an odd triple voice. What made it most bizarre was the naive innocence mixed with Vegeta's more gruff and hostile tone. Then it turned and grinned at Gudrun. "Trugetan at your service!" it declared with a massive grin.

Gudrun grumbled to her self as she remembered the child that had escaped death. No matter, there was no way the added power of that child could possible help them, not when she was this strong. She charged in and swung a massive left hook for the fusion's face but he dodged nimbly to the side laughing and grinning. "That the best you've got?" it mocked. The innocence of Trunks had dulled Gohan's anger enough that it no longer suppressed Vegeta's urge to toy with Gudrun some.

The ancient Kai glared at the mortal that dared to mock her and charged in again, but yet again Trugetan gracefully stepped around her fist, only this time he slammed his knee into her gut knocking her into the air and knocking the breath from her. Then he leapt up with her and brought his heel down on the top of her head slamming her hard into the platform below.

"This is ridiculous!" she cried, her red aura growing blindingly bright. "You fused with a simple child! There's no way his power could have made you this much stronger! It's ABSURD!" she charged in again and started wailing on Trugetan but the fused Sai-jin merely stood looking down at her, the famous Son grin plastered on his face.

A moment later she broke off and landed in the platform's center. "FINE THEN! I'll show you MY ULTIMATE POWER! KAAAAIOOOOOO KEEEENNNN, TIMES FIVE!"

"What!" Trugetan cried as her power soared even higher. Her muscles became huge, bigger around than he thought possible. She charged in and he pulled back out of the way as a massive fist slammed into the platform and smashed the spot into pieces.

Trugetan grinned. "You're stronger than me now, more than enough to tip things in your favor, that is, if you could catch me. Your muscles are to big and bulky, your weight slows you down enough that I can dodge your attacks. I think this is what they call a stand off."

"There's still no way you can win." Gudrun said glaring at Trugetan. "You haven't got the power to even hurt me now. Why don't you just go and leave me alone eh? I should we try to settle this stand off with a test of strength?"

Trugetan stood there and grumbled to himself. She was right. They were in a stand off, and if they tried to settle it with a test of power her attack would over take him, maybe not right away, but eventually. Then he remembered what both Bulma and the Supreme Kai had said. Once Gudrun was dead the world would fix itself, restore to the way it had been before. ~Supreme Kai, are you there!~

~Yes, what is it?~

~As long as she dies everything's restored to the way it was when the brat screwed up Bulma's machine, right?~

~Yes, her death will set this world back to the way it was before Gudrun took over this Human body.~

~That's all I needed to know.~

Trugetan launched himself skyward stopping a hundred miles above the tower. Looking around he realized he wasn't even as high up as the lookout yet, if it was even around still. Looking down he could see the red glowing dot of Gudrun below him still, she didn't seem interested in chasing him, which was fine by him. He pulled his arms back and cupped his hands channeling his energy, every last drop, into his next attack. This would settle the battle once and for all.

"Videl, Goten, Tien, Yamcha, Piccolo, Krillin, don't worry guys, you'll be back soon." he said softly. "People of Earth, if Bulma and the Supreme Kai are wrong... then please forgive me." Suddenly a blue-white glow flashed between his hands. "Kaaaaaaaaaaa. Meeeeeeeeeeee. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Meeeeeeeeeeeee." Trugetan looked down at his target wondering if this was the right course of action or not. But, even if Bulma and Shin were wrong, this was probably still the best option, probably the only way to stop Gudrun. "HAAAAAAAAAA!"

Gudrun grinned as she saw Trugetan let loose his attack. She could feel the massive amount of power he'd put into the attack but it wasn't enough to stop her, and she knew it. But then she watched in shock as the attack zoomed by over her head about a mile up. "I think you missed!" she yelled up watching the moon sized stream of energy continue to pour from his hands.

Trugetan stopped the attack and began to fall, he no longer had enough energy left to keep himself in the air, or transformed. A he fell there was a flash of gold and Trugetan reverted to his normal state, tall hair like Vegeta, only it was the same color as Trunks's hair.

He hit the platform with a hard thud and pulled himself up into a sitting position. The look on his face shocked Gudrun. He had a the famous Son grin with just a hint of Vegeta's smirk. "What's that grin for? You don't have the energy left to fight me and your attack missed." she moved her arm pointing toward where the attack had gone. She turned slightly to see for herself just what he'd hit, maybe a city or a mountain.

Then she froze. He hadn't been aiming for her! That attack he'd been aimed at the Sun, he meant to blow it up and take her out with it! And even if she did survive she'd suffocate in space! "No, the attacks to far away! I can't stop it!" She threw her arms back in rage as her aura flared brighter. The tower began to shake and the platform to crumble. Trugetan fell over unconscious as Gudrun continued to roar her anger.

The platform collapsed out from beneath her and Trugetan landed on the ground below between Goten and Videl. Despite his being unconscious his Son gin/Vegeta smirk combo grew larger. A few moments later a warmth filled him and everything was silent.