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Supreme Kai Planet
Gohan lowered the sword down in his prosthetic hand, Kabito noticing how he expertly channeled extra energy into his mechanical limb to keep it from tearing off his body from the sheer weight. It illuminated neon blue from every outlined wiring across the metallic limb, "So, now I train with this sword while you arrange a training session with King Kai?" he said as Kara slowly came down from the dopamine high that she received from three yellow stars orbiting her. Her power grew as a golden aura surrounded her, more than quadrupling her power along with strengthening every cell in her body the longer stood amongst the light. She could feel energy encompassing her every atom in her body, overlooking her glowing palms and fingers.
Kara frowned as she made a realization, just like back on Earth, all of this power will fade leaving her back to square one, "In the past I got a full dose of pure sunlight and I managed to take on both Androids… briefly; hopefully, with this amount of star light plus the training, it'll be enough to catch up," she stared at the back of Gohan's Gi, realizing she had a goal to get stronger, powerful enough to protect him just as he protected her.
Shin nodded his head, bringing her back to her senses, "You've by far exceeded my expectations, as such there is one other you are to train with while you're here, he's been waiting a very long time to see you, he claims," taking the sword with him, Gohan followed the Supreme Kai and his attendant down toward the grassy plains where the large tree they arrived under was planted.
A figure stood in the shade now, a familiar face that hadn't changed in nearly three decades, his unkept raven-black hair, blue and white trimmed, and a smile that was practically all he could remember from the man. Gohan noticed as he landed that the man waiting for him was none other than Son Goku himself, wearing a glowing halo two inches above his head.
"F-Father?" Gohan stammered in disbelief.
The man turned to face his son, having switched his orange and blue turtle uniform for a navy blue Gi with a white belt tightened firmly around his waist, "Hello there, son, it's been quite a while, huh?" Goku muttered as he noticed his son's fist tightened by his side.
Quickly the younger Saiyan lashed out, striking his father in the face hard enough to force his heels to dig through the dirt they stood atop, while it seemed to definitely have hurt, Son Goku didn't seem very phased at all. Shin and Kabito were both in shock as this was the last reaction they expected him to have, "I know I deserved that," Goku said as a burst of pressurized air flew out omnidirectionally.
"Where were you? The team needed you; the world needed you…" Gohan paused for just a moment before muttering under his breath, keeping his tears briefly maintained, "I needed you."
Gohan followed up by approaching him, wrapping his arms around his father's torso quickly, and pulling him in for a tight embrace, the version from the past wasn't his source of anger when it came to his father. It was this version who left them far too soon, "I missed you, Dad…"
Goku put his hand on his sons raven black hair that matched his own, "You have no idea how painful it was to watch all of you suffering on Earth without me, it makes my blood boil even now but, it was all worth it to finally see my boy save Earth just like I once did," Goku kept his hand on Gohan's head as they separated their embrace, he felt pride in his son following his footsteps in becoming a protector of Earth.
Dashing through the air above them a red and white blur of speed whisked by them over and over, astonished by how much power the three supergiant Stars that orbited the already massive Kai planet granted her just by being exposed to its light. She twirled through the air gracefully as she dove upwards and basked in the exuberant solar energy, her arms opened wide allowing her chest to be bathed in the light, "You really love her, don't ya?" Goku asked out of the blue.
Gohan blushed a bit as he examined her glowing form silhouetted by the golden sunlight behind her, "I, uh, yea… I really do," he was distracted as his Father winked over at King Kai standing hidden behind the older Saiyan, nodding with a mischievous grin, waving his hands over at Gohan.
Suddenly, the half-breed Saiyan was pulled to his hands and knees abruptly by his wrists and ankles, pounding the ground and cracking through grass and dirt, "W-What the-" he referred to the weights now strapped to his limbs.
Goku shook his finger with his eyes closed at his son, "If you really want to protect her, if you really want to reach a new level, than you're going to have to push yourself beyond anything you've ever experienced, alright, Gohan?"
The aforementioned half-Saiyan tried to pull upwards, flexing his muscles summoned a bright-clear aura which expanded with the more effort he applied but, with no luck he dispersed it and huffed for a deep breath, "How much do these even weigh?" he asked to King Kai who was walking away abruptly.
King Kai snorted as though it was very amusing to him, "I manifested the heaviest object my power can muster, just around a quarter million tons each," the Kai snorted as the weights around Gohan's ankles and wrists became even more apparent he once again frowned, flexing his muscles across his body as they expanded just a bit. His hair defied gravity and sprung upwards, flashing blonde with a golden-aura engulfing his person, he effortlessly stood up, stretching his arms.
Now being strong enough to lift his limbs with ease; beginning his work out, his fists were slower than sound as he attempted to shadow box, clearly this training would be arduous.
Kara touched down once noticing Gohan had powered up into Super Saiyan, standing between the teachers and himself, she faced Gohan with a raised brow; "What are these for? Are you starting your training already?"
"He's gonna have to start right away if he wants to stand any chance against this Majin Buu fellow," Goku spoke up prompting her to turn around slowly, noticing the man who'd said this was the spitting of the warrior they met in the past while time-traveling.
Kara blinked and almost stuttered, meeting his real father for the first time, she too felt as though man's past version wasn't truly who she would intend to impress, "Y-You're Gohan's Father? B-But how?" she asked slowly raising her attention to notice the glowing halo above his head, "Are you dead?"
"As a doorknob, I was visiting King Kai's planet from Heaven when the Supreme Kaio's attendant contacted us; I figured it must have been fate that I could help guide my son through training just one last time," Goku stepped forwards with his hand outstretched for a casual shake leaving Kara almost dumbfounded, "You must be Gohan's wife, right?"
The Kryptonian blushed deeply waving her hands out in front of her prompting Gohan to chuckle with his organic hand scratching the back of his neck, "N-No," she stuttered leaving Goku slightly confused, "I'm just his girlfriend, we haven't talked at all about marriage just yet!" feeling a bit rude, she quickly gripped his hand and shook to be as polite as possible.
As their handshake ended, Goku glanced upwards in thought, rubbing his chin, "Sorry, I guess it's a little weird to me since Chi-Chi and I kinda got engaged as soon as we met… well, after I met her again after childhood at least."
Shin stepped forwards clearing his throat, walking in between the Saiyans and Kryptonian, "I'm afraid the time for pleasantries are over; while a day here is worth at least several years of training on Earth, I fear we will need every spare moment if Gohan is going to be prepared to face Majin Buu again."
Gohan nodded with a confident smirk, grabbing hold of the Z-Sword's hilt once again, "Right."
…
After twelve-hours of swinging the blade in expert skill and with pinpoint precision; Gohan had dug the Z-Sword into the dirt nearby which prompted a rather bored Kara to approach it, yanking it from the ground with just one arm; "This thing isn't all that heavy now that I've gotten used to it," King Kai approached her, leaving Goku and Gohan to train to their hearts content, It was obvious that he was more than skilled enough to train his son again. Sparring as Super Saiyans far above the ground in the vast sky littered with distant stars and nebulae.
Shin chuckled and approached her, "I can read minds and I know you wish the blade was as heavy as it was when you first picked it up…" he gave her a knowing smile prompting her to chuckle a bit in response.
"Kind of, it would make continuing my training much more fun," having spent almost all of her time on Earth with Saiyans it seemed she was picking up on their battle habits and tendencies. "Plus I don't think Gohan likes using weapons in battle so, I figured I would be the one to use it once we returned to Earth."
Shin suddenly glared with a flash of blue light from his pupils, illuminating the blade in an aura before it quickly dissipated, "W-What did you do to it?" she stammered, feeling it loosen from her grip hitting the ground at her feet tip-first.
The Supreme Kai gestured to it and tried to be as polite as possible, "I figured since your boyfriend and Father are training that you might want to join at their level; I increased the weight of the sword by about ten-thousand times, which is all I could muster…" he shrugged with the same genuine smile, waiting for her to respond, "Are you telling me it weighs over four-billion tons now?" she exclaimed, eyes widened in disbelief, her jaw almost slack from awe.
She pulled with all of her might as her hands began to burn from the effort of even lifting its handle to this degree, her heels cracked the ground at her feet as she attempted to lift the blade with everything she had. Finally giving up and falling back on her rear, the blade hit the ground flat and shook the area, her brow was a sweat and she huffed with exhaustion. "I might need you to lower the weight just a bit."
Before Shin could respond, King Kai intervened as he waddled forth into their conversation, "Actually I might be able to help with that… he can return the blade to normal once your finished training then."
"Who- Who are you again?" she murmured looking at the blue rotund dwarf with antenna and black robes.
"It's Kai! King Kai of the North! I'm here to ensure Goku remembers how to teach Gohan how to use the Spirit Bomb properly!"
"Oh… thanks…" still confused, Kara remained polite as possible.
Clearing his throat once more, King Kai dusted off his robes, "I could teach you a technique that would certainly help you lift the sword, and even train to your hearts content with it," he snorted and chuckled, "Along with a whole lot more with your dense-physiology."
"What king of technique is it?" Power Girl folded her arms over her chest,
The Kai held a finger out before continuing, "to begin as my pupil, you must tell me a joke that makes me laugh."
Kara nearly fell over after his request but, was clearly standing back up at the sound of shockwaves booming over the landscape; in the distance she could see Goku in his base form keeping up with a weighted Super Saiyan.
…
Gohan's aura exploded around him as he threw a right-straight aimed for his father's face, however; even in his base form, Goku was more than fast enough to dip his head to the right avoiding the blow and slipping into his son's close quarters. He landed an upward sucker-punch to the solar-plexus ejecting the air from the half-Saiyan's lungs. "You need to adjust to your opponent, we've been through this, let out all the potential I know you have!"
Gohan shouted and his aura exploded around him once again, vanishing in a burst of speed as he aimed a right roundhouse kick to his face. At the last second, Goku thew up a left guard keeping himself protected as a shockwave rocked the super-massive planet below for hundreds of miles.
"Alright! That's my boy!" Goku didn't hesitate to counter, being much faster, he effortlessly slipped into his Super Saiyan form with a matching golden aura of flames which illuminated his hair as it sprung upwards. Dodging the furious swings his father sent out at thousands of times faster than light, Gohan collided forearms with his father generating a shockwave outward, carving into the sacred-grounds below. Gohan's organic arm stung forcing him to compensate with a transformation of his own turning Super Saiyan on a dime as well. Their combined aura sent bolts of blue electricity towards the grassy-plain at the Kai's feet, baffling Kabito.
They were striking at speeds that not even the Gods could keep up with, exchanging blows that sent shockwaves out around them too quickly for even himself to keep up. "How is it possible for mortals to ascend to such a level?" Carving up the ground with every single matched strike, fist to fist, knee to knee, Goku even matched a headbutt from his son however they both did-so with a smile emblazoned on their faces.
As they floated backwards, both holding their heads in pain, each of their auras fading off aside from their golden glowing hair; "Wow, you haven't changed a bit, Dad," they both chuckled before continuing their sparring match. Goku clenched his fists together by his side, pumping his muscles full of Ki before questioning.
"I hope you've at least tapped into this level by now," he punctuated his sentence by more than doubling his raw power, every strand of hair on his head standing on end carried by a billowing aura that was twice as expansive. So much raw power gathered into one person that it produced bolts of pure electricity to cascade across his skin and aura. Through every muscle fiber and each limb.
Gohan adjusted the settings on his arm, raising the limits to its Ki intake, "I've been through my fair share of ordeals myself, Dad," he too quickly shifted into his ascended Super Saiyan state with a single flex, leaving not a single bang to hang in front of his face as it usually had even in his super-form. "I've been calling it Super Saiyan Two," their auras increased to the point where the force of their wind sheer pushed against the Kais who covered their eyes to keep watching the intense sparring match.
Goku gave a smile only he could muster, grinning ear to ear, "Does that mean you found the level beyond two?" clearly well aware that there was a form that surpassed even their current level. More than likely having reached it himself.
Gohan chuckled and shifted into a fighting stance, giving off an identical smirk, "Why don't you come find out?"
Every blow that shook the ground never once distracted Kara who kept thinking of a good joke, even with an accelerated brain like a Kryptonian's she still found it difficult to come up with on the spot. Now sitting on a nearby rock with her legs crossed, she snapped her fingers, "Ummm…. Oh!" she planted crimson gloved fist into her palm before smirking confidently, "What do you call a pig, that learned karate?" she almost giggled nudging the God's shoulder as he waited for the punch line, "A pork chop!"
King Kai was silent, giving her no indication whether it worked or not, though he slowly began giggling into a fit of laughter, "Pfft P-Pork chop! Ahhaha!" he wiped a tear from his eye and chuckled out the last of his laughter, covering his mouth. "Wow, you're a natural… alright, you passed the test, now on to your lessons."
Gohan glanced down at the blade buried in the ground beside King Kai and Kara; "Oh! I think Kara is gonna learn the Kaio-" he was interrupted by his father swinging from above, striking him across the face with his right fist which sent him hurtling into the ground faster than light itself. His body created a massive crater of dirt, knocking him back into his base form but, still conscious enough to complain about it.
"That was totally a cheap shot!" he shouted sitting up, holding his cheek in minor-pain.
Goku cupped his hands around his mouth to project his voice, still floating in the sky above him, "You left yourself wide open!"
Gohan looked over his body and even felt his unfazed cheek, "It didn't really hurt though…" he noted even with his weighted gear and the increased gravity being a thousand times that of Earth's.
"That's because you're becoming stronger here already…" Goku spoke up as he slowly lowered himself to the ground by his son's side.
Gohan scoffed in disbelief, "I've only been here a day… how could I have improved that much?"
Goku folded his arms, tapping his chin as he recalled his very first lesson with King Kai, "Every day you spend in this realm is worth like a thousand years of training on Earth, or at least that's what they told me," he rethought the situation he was in when he was told that by what he thought was the God at the time.
Goku left his hand out, happily helping Gohan up from the ground, "Hey, why call King Kai to teach her when you know the Kaio-Ken yourself?"
He chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck, "I may sorta-kinda forgot how I learned it, it's like breathing now… I just do it," he shrugged with a light-hearted chuckle. His nervous laughter was something the boy had certainly missed in the last two or three decades.
"You mentioned a level beyond Super Saiyan Two, and I've already achieved the third level but, it still wasn't enough to finish off Majin Buu. Plus, the form wiped me of my Ki in, like, seconds…" Gohan looked to his Father for answers but, he seemed to already have an idea in mind. Goku landed on the ground next to him reverting back to his own base form to speak more casually.
Goku swung his arm around his son's shoulder, walking away from the crater and back towards the sacred tree they arrived near, where Gohan had put down the Z-Sword and Kara had eventually dropped it. "Ever since you were born, you've had this insane potential, beyond anything I could ever muster. Not even after twenty-years training here. Raditz, Nappa, Freeza… you were just a child and you were outclassing me time and time again."
He looked to his feet as they walked eventually reaching the shade of the massive tree, "Are you saying there's a state beyond Level Three?" Gohan stopped and stood in front of him, to look into his eyes and ensure he wasn't joking.
Goku put his hands up in defense, "I don't know for sure what's beyond that threshold," he reached out and planted his hand on Gohan's shoulder, "All I know for sure is that there's something there. It just takes someone with more potential than I ever had to finally push passed it and go… further beyond."
Gohan smiled, with the prospect of a form beyond Super Saiyan Three on the horizon, he was sure that Majin Buu wouldn't be a problem; "For now, I need to teach you one technique you might remember that's a guaranteed win against a foe like Buu…"
"The Spirit Bomb," Gohan muttered, recalling how he felt it bounce off the palms of his hands when he was only five-years-old, he still remembered the sensation of positive light over the skin of his remaining hand.
Goku sighed and folded his arms, "Unfortunately, the Earth is in no shape to be giving you any energy, besides I don't think a single planets energy would be enough anyway."
"Than what exactly am I going to be drawing energy from in the first place?"
Goku placed his fists on his hips and looked directly up to the three super-massive Suns orbiting the small-Galaxy sized planet they walked on, "Oh," he answered himself.
…
Thirty-Four Hours Later
Shin approached the weary, and thoroughly trained, trio of Goku, Gohan, and Kara with urgent news; "I've just sensed Majin Buu's reappearance in the Suns orbit in your Solar System, I believe his atoms are still reassembling but it will only be minutes before he reconstitutes now."
Goku and Gohan were battle torn, cuts and scrapes across their bodies but, smiles across their faces; the training they did together would have to be enough even if they hadn't achieved a new form. "Well, I guess I'm off to the world of the living, it was really nice to see you again Dad, especially after all these years."
Goku grabbed his son and yanked him in for a tight embrace, "You've done great things in my absence, son, I trust you with Earth completely," he pulled back and looked Gohan dead in the eyes with a grave expression, "Now, go teach this Majin Buu guy what a real Saiyan is made of!"
Kara, who had all but mastered the Z-Sword, held it over her shoulder nonchalantly; her suit was torn as well, revealing a bit too much skin for Gohan's comfort.
"Shin, before you transport us back to Earth, would you mind fixing our outfits?" He was mostly concerned with Kara arriving on the battlefield with half her cleavage showing, "And if you can, healing us up would be really helpful."
"Kabito, if you don't mind," Shin ordered, glancing back at his attendant.
The smug demi-god approached with a smile as Kara set down the Z-Sword now that she was done training with it, "You've more than proved yourselves these past days, both of you have earned my respect," with a gesture of one hand, a white flash of light enveloped their bodies restoring their clothing and turning it into a full-bodied suit with pants included for Kara.
"Hey, I liked my unitard the way it was, you didn't have to change it!" she announced in protest, still annoyed by his interference regardless of his respect.
Kabito Kai turned around snobbishly, "It was far too inappropriate for battle, this will suit you much better," he rubbed his nose with his eyes closed, not admitting it was the fact that her long, slender legs being exposed were too attention grabbing for a young-woman.
Gohan chuckled and wrapped an arm around her waist, "It's fine, I think you look amazing either way," his smile made her melt and the gesture prompted her cheeks grow rosy, blushed, spreading over the bridge of her nose.
"Well, if you really think so…" she giggled a bit before turning her gaze away from him to avoid an awkward moment.
Shin cleared his throat once again, catching their attention, "We must be going now, I believe Buu is close to reconstituting himself completely," he gathered together beside them allowing them to place their hands on his individual shoulders, "We're off."
"Say 'Hi' to your Mother for me, okay?!" Goku shouted one last time before they left.
Gohan gave a final wave to his father before they were enveloped in divine white light, dematerializing from sight instantaneously.
…
Earth
Gohan, Kara, and Shin rematerialized in the same deserted battlefield they fought on just a few days prior, craters across the ground and trenches dug by massive beams of energy. It was battle torn with entire canyons carved into the landscape where Babidi's ship was once buried.
The young half-Saiyan glanced to the shorter Kai, "Thank you, Shin, but I think it's best that you return to the world of the Kais now," Gohan turned and began adjusting his prosthetic, assuring it would be set to a proper limit for the inevitable battle to come, "Now that we're back in the actual Universe, I can sense Majin Buu, and he's taking his time flying back here from the Sun."
Shin held his hands out, "Before I do go, you left something behind," in his palms materialized from the sacred world the Z-Sword they had been training with and learned to wield effortlessly.
"I don't think I'll really need-"
Gohan was interrupted by Kara grabbing hold of the hilt gleefully and without hesitation, "I'll take it!" she announced.
"Wonderful, remember your training, and I'm sure there wont be a threat in the cosmos you wont be able to face together," he gave once last bow before using instant teleportation to vanish in the blink of an eye.
Power Girl swung the sword expertly spite its immense weight, it cleaved through the air, cutting right through the molecules in the atmosphere, one swing to the left send a sheer through the air that cleanly sliced through a boulder two-hundred-feet away. "I love this thing, it's so much lighter than it was back in that other dimension," she exclaimed.
"I'm glad you like it but, you wont be using it… I'm going to end this with Buu first thing, I'm not giving him a chance to pull any tricks," Gohan raised his organic hand up above his head, beginning to absorb the life energy from the Sun the way his father had taught him. Kara grabbed his arm, feeling his muscles gently as she pulled it down.
Power Girl smiled up at him and placed a hand on his chest, "You have to give me a shot, please? I trained so hard and I've been so bored with reconstruction lately," she looked into his eyes as he ceased his gathering of energy from the star and planets surrounding them, "I just wanna show him what I'm made of!"
Gohan placed both hands on her shoulders, taking notice of his serious expression, she gulped lightly as he looked down on her, "This is a serious battle, I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you… I'll handle this demon myself," he sensed the sentient gum rocketing back towards Earth, it seemed to have been waiting for them.
"He's coming…" from deep space a purple auraed twinkle came rocketing down towards the ground only a few hundred feet away, his feet pounded into the Earth with enough force to crack apart his surroundings. Sending omnidirectional shockwaves through the deserted wasteland.
Gohan responded, correcting her ominously, "No, he's here…"
He looked between the two warriors, looking up to the sky and shrieking with a vicious high-pitched howl, pounding on his chest like an untamed gorilla, "Oo ha Oo ha Oo ha!" with every beat of his chest he became more excited, seemingly unphased by the Kamehameha and the Sun that totally eradicated him not even a full forty-eight hours ago.
"I'm not holding back just because you're afraid you'll lose me; do you know how many times I was worried sick not knowing if you would come back or not?" Kara looked into his eyes with her knee-weakening ocean blue stare directly into his eyes, she readied the Z-Sword, which weighed almost nothing to her now, out in front of her. "It's time the incarnation of evil in the Universe was extinguished!" she stomped her foot into the ground, darting off with all of her might, vanishing from sight with sheer speed.
"Kara, wait!"
Buu was confused at first until Power Girl reappeared behind the demon, cleaving his head off with a single swing; spinning in mid-air to land a thundering kick to its head sending it miles away. The demon's body collapsed onto the ground though, it was mostly for show, the headless foe simply leaned on its back and hopped forth to his feet again, a brand-new identical head popping out from between his shoulders. Ominously leaving an entire heads worth of Buu's gum-like demonic substance lying in the distance.
"Get serious!" Gohan announced, cupping his hands around his mouth.
Kara dodged a left straight that extended nearly a thousand feet to just barely scrape her cheek, grabbing her shortened hair and retracting at double speeds. Flinging her into the ground, the sword landed beside her as she reached for it, Buu stepped on her wrist, "Ah, Ah, A-" she didn't hesitate to bisect the demon with her heat vision. Rolling on the ground over her sword, she grabbed hold of it and rocketed upwards above the battlefield where Gohan watched her progress. She was most certainly more powerful than his Level 2 form was when he first faced Buu two days ago but, that wouldn't be enough, even with the help of the Z-Sword.
Majin Buu reformed and darted off into the sky at triple Kara's speed, appearing behind her as she had done to him at the beginning of their battle. Bringing both fists down on her back, with a downward axe-handle strike sending her hurtling to her hands and knees with a thundering, ground shaking impact. Majin Buu rushed her attempting to stomp her into the ground with his extra momentum, however; she swung up and backwards at tens-of-millions times the speed of light, cleaving Buu into two at the waist but, it didn't stop him from firing off orbs of purple Ki with a devious grin, which exploded across her body. She flew across the landscape like a blur of white and red, dodging to her left and right where the beams struck the ground just barely missing her. It wasn't until Buu finally fired at the ground in front of her flight that she was consumed by an explosion of red-hot energy and dirt; the evil Majin continued to fire off round after round of energy blasts rapidly until he felt like he'd finally gotten her.
"Ooo! OOo! BUU!" His midsection became like jelly as the demon danced with his stomach acting like a belly-dancers only distorted and freakish.
Gohan raised his brows as the smoke overcast across her body, skewing his vision, until he saw the Z-Sword flew through the air, swung accurately through the smokescreen, and landing impaled through Majin Buu's chest. Kara darted upwards from the smoke, clearing it with her takeoff, moving so quickly she had her hands on the hilt of the blade still embedded in the demons torso before he could react.
"Kaio-Ken!" she shouted summoning a crimson aura to tighten every muscle in her body, multiplying every physical aspect simultaneously. Pulling the sword out and using a burst of speed at least twice her regular movement to dice apart the demon until he was only floating chunks of pink goo, "HargH!" she grunted using one palm to unleash a blast of yellow Ki which seemingly vaporized the foe entirely, not even ashes, only smoke left in its wake.
Kara rushed down to Gohan's side, wrapping an arm around his out of excitement, "I know that didn't kill him but, damn, did you see me out there? I think I'm as strong as you were as a Level 3!" her giddy smile made his heart melt, he'd do whatever it took to save the world but, he would do anything possible or otherwise just to see her happy. He couldn't help it, even if he didn't show it as often as he should, he was much like his Mother and Father's odd relationship; he knew that Goku loved his Mother to the ends of the cosmos and back. The fact that he was starting to feel the same way about his beautiful girlfriend, her golden hair naturally swaying in the wind as it slowly grew out over time. Not to mention, even he had to admit, her training in otherworld with the Z-Sword plus the ability to use Kaio-Ken without ever learning to master Ki itself made her a prodigy beyond prodigies. He promised himself he would not only make her happy but, ensure the world would be safe in his Father's absence just so that they could live in peace together and have some semblance of a normal life together.
"You did amazing, Kara."
He understood that after all of these years, Goku, Piccolo and the others had probably made peace with the idea of being dead and living their lives in the Otherworld. He would take on their legacy and form a new team of Z-Fighters, so far with the state their planet was in, two of them was all they needed but, to this day Gohan felt regret knowing Trunks sacrificed himself for their cause.
This internal monologue gave Buu just enough time to reconstitute, the gum-like substance reforming into a childish humanoid figure with a short antenna sprouting from the top of his head.
"Errrrg," was all the demon had to say, only with a smile that showed he wasn't truly fazed by her attacks in the slightest. He instead giggled and stomped into the ground, his leg flying upward from underground stomping Kara in the chin, forcing blood from her lip as she flew into the air. Gohan dodged backwards allowing the Kryptonian to continue the battle on her own terms just like she requested.
Tumbling uncontrollably through the sky until she caught herself, the hip-length crimson cape on her back billowed as she wiped her power lip from the blow. Her blue glove trickled with blood only made her angry rather than feeling injured or discouraged, "Kaio-Ken Times Ten!" her aura exploded around her even more viscously now; her muscles, her speed, her reflexes, even her heat vision and Ki based attacks were amplified by ten-times with that shout.
She darted towards her opponent who seemed less playful now that she had injured him multiple times, leaving a devious smile on his face; even with this incredible increase, she swung her blade down only to find it caught between the demons two palms. Buu opened his mouth and unleashed a massive wave of Ki energy that engulfed her whole body, knocking the blade out of her hands and sending her back first into the ground forming a trench in the desert stone with her body. Her suit and skin were smoking but, the KaioKen aura seemed to protect her for the most part.
Kara allowed the aura to disperse as she picked herself up from the ground, slowly getting to her feet, she could taste the blood on the inside of her mouth now and recalled that it was almost invigorating the last time she'd tasted it against Cell only now, it felt like it was a terrible sign that her training was all for nothing. "Kaio-Ken!" she shouted again igniting her ten-times boost as the aura shot up around her once again, the crimson energy bathed her body with incredible enhancements allowing her to dematerialize from sight multiple times as she approached the demon fist first.
She landed a barrage of star-shattering punches to his face, still empowered by not only this new technique but the solar energy of three unnaturally massive stars that she bathed under for two days straight. Majin Buu was still keeping up more than even Kara would like to admit, however; this was far from her limit and certainly not all the tricks she had up her sleeve.
"Times… Twenty!" her speed increased just enough for Powergirl to land her next few strikes to his face with force that obliterated Buu's head entirely, as he collected himself and began to reconstitute, she subsequently landed a roundhouse kick to the abdomen that sent his body flying into the ground below.
Kara followed this up by charging Ki into her pupils where her heat-vision began to light up with crimson energy trailing up around her eyes encompassing them in energy. She fired her beams down at Majin Buu frying him from the inside out, down to his base elements as his body was more than vaporized but, more appropriately atomized into nothingness though, still this type of attack wouldn't negate the dark magic that pulled his essence back together unnaturally. She landed right in front of a boulder which hid from her the severed head that she'd chopped off during the beginning of the battle not too long ago, not even seeing it melt down into a puddle and crawl forwards.
Kara huffed as her aura dissipated, "I think I could end this myself!" she shouted back at Gohan who raised his brow at her confidence, "Just get your Spirit-thingy ready and we should be able to finish this battle in no time!"
Gohan was confident that at this rate, she was right, and she could handle the actual battling while he simply fired the proper attack with the right elements and the evil energy that continued to bring Majin Buu back from certain death would be extinguished for good. "Right! Okay then!"
Majin Buu reformed once again in front of her, only his face was no longer a smiling one, it was certainly filled with rage and confusion; this thing had never been so completely challenged like this before, everything it did was useless it was almost as fruitless as fighting that Destroyer God eons ago. This type of fear triggered a sort of defense mechanism with Buu's animalistic brain.
Kara was startled suddenly when the pink-gum substance that had been crawling toward her out of sight expanded without warning, the severed head she'd chopped off threatened now to consume her completely, "What? No! Kara!" Gohan shouted cutting off his concentration that was maintained on the Spirit-Bomb.
The goo continued to trap her completely within its binds until it seemingly crushed her but, most likely used magic to turn her into pure energy; Majin Buu's smile returned as his enemy was consumed and with a gesture of his finger, the wad of gum that ate her alive flew towards his body, merging with the rest of his essence.
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