Reda: I don't own Dragonball Z...

Chi-Chi: What's Dragonball Z?

Reda: It's...never mind...too complicated.

Gohan: What?

Reda: Don't worry about it.

Vee: Reda, you are officially boring!

Reda: I know...

Vee: You're tired aren't you?

Reda: Yes! I'm really tired! I need some cheese...

Mysterious Voice: No! No cheese! Pie is better for you!

Vee: Who the hell?

Mysterious Person: (falls through the ceiling, on top of Chi-Chi) Reda, you're a moron!

Reda: Who are you?

Gohan: Mom!

Mysterious Person: The question is...who are you?

Reda: What?

Vee: OMG! It's Pieboy!

Pieboy: Yes, it's me! And I'm running away from Jake because he's trying to kill me for calling Reda a moron.

Reda: Who's Jake?

Vee: (gapes at Reda) Have you forgotten who Jake is? (Pounds Reda's head into the keyboard) How can you forget Jake??? Jake??? It's JAKE!! I fight with him...You two are supposed to be in love...and you FORGET, Reda?

Reda: Oh yea...Oops...Trunks isn't going to like this...

Pieboy: Ha ha! Reda's going to have boy trouble!

Reda: Would you shut up! You are annoying! I hope Jake kills you when he gets here.

Pieboy: Oh, he can't do that.

Reda: Why not?

Pieboy: I'm invisible!

Vee, Reda: Huh?

Pieboy: Uh...I mean...I'm invincible!

Vee: Right...Reda; get on with the damned story!

Reda: Okay, okay...Jeez.

(Connection Pulled)

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Chapter 35: Fusion Failure

Wheh! That was a deep chapter. I mean, how much deeper can you go? Goku fighting against Kakarot, Vegeta dropping Goku's Saiyan name because he wants to help Goku out...And now I give you a "nice" chapter title. I ruin it, don't I? Should I just shut up? Yeah, I'll do that.

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Goku still fought back Kakarot, but he was stronger now; he even had Vegeta's help too. Once they fused, Kakarot would disappear, and Goku would rejoice silently in triumph.

All right, Goku, you can act strange later. Right now, we have to tell a crazy, evil, madman to leave us alone, using force.

Right.

In no time at all they were acting as one; it had been a while since they had done this, but now more than ever they were linked. Once they were the greatest rivals, and they still were, only now they were friends too. Psyfoam stood absolutely no chance once they were together.

As one they breathed together; as one they thought of defeating Psyfoam; as one they moved together. "Fu...sion...Ha!" The light surrounding Goku and Vegeta was greater than the one Goten and Trunks had produced, not that anyone really noticed.

In another huge flash of light, Goku and Vegeta were gone and Gogeta had been born. "Oh, I have been called again to aid good fight evil."

Psyfoam was angry when he made it back to the fighting arena. Piccolo had revived everyone except Reda and Vee because they were too close to the battlefield and he didn't want to risk losing the senzu beans. Goten and Trunks were awed by their father's fusion. Krillin was close enough to the battlefield to act as back up, but he wasn't alone. Supreme Kai was up, hanging back, but clearly wanting to jump in and kick Psyfoam's ass with Gogeta.

"Ah, well, I suppose we should fight now; I don't have much of a choice, do I, Kakarot?" Psyfoam had been surprised by this turn of events, and he clearly had no idea what was going on.

Gogeta just stood and watched his enemy. "Kakarot is gone, as are Goku and Vegeta. Neither of them are here, only me, and I am but your destruction, whether you care to admit it or not."

"Well," Psyfoam stated, exasperated, "That's new. It's your move, fusion. What'll it be?"

"I have already stated how this battle will end; do you really want to act the fool and let me go first? By the way, I will be called Gogeta, if you must speak my name with your soiled tongue."

Psyfoam chuckled as he drew himself into a real fighting stance for the first time in this battle. "All right, it's your funeral, and it's only that if I allow it."

"Whatever you say," Gogeta said as if he hadn't really been listening.

Psyfoam lowered his eyebrows as he controlled the anger that flashed toward him. Gogeta got ready to break a charge attack, but Psyfoam had a different method of attack planned. Starting right from the get-go, the evil monster shoved his arms out lengthwise to each side of himself. The fusion, and everyone else around, could tell Psyfoam was actually straining to gather his energy. A black, rippling aura began to rotate around his body as everyone that could sense nearly cringed at the humongous power, even Gogeta began to get worried.

Suddenly, Psyfoam's eyes turned a deep shade of purple as he glared at the ready-looking Gogeta. Supreme Kai jolted as if remembering something that had been forgotten. "No! He wouldn't do that attack now would he?"

"What attack?" Piccolo asked from his position next to Supreme Kai, Goten, and Trunks where they were all standing on a cliff over looking the battle below.

"One of Psyfoam's best attacks. He calls on the power of every demon ever consumed in Empty Space, basically calling on the power of Empty Space itself, and he throws out all that energy...Gogeta, dodge it! If Psyfoam's attack hits you, it'll be like experiencing Empty Space!"

"What?" Goten nearly yelled, frightened more than the others because he actually knew what Empty Space could do to people.

Back on the battlefield, Gogeta gave no indication that he had heard, even if he had. Psyfoam glared, not smirking because his teeth were clenched with the power. The fusion put himself in a nice defense posture, completely ignoring Supreme Kai's continuous warnings, smirking at Psyfoam. The evil being began to disappear as his own black aura seemed to swallow him whole.

"What the?"

And then the attack was pushed out. Psyfoam gave no warning at all, not even a good old-fashioned yell. Gogeta barely had time to blink before the dark attack covered him and seemed to swallow him whole, just like Psyfoam.

Supreme Kai lowered his head in defeat. "We're doomed."

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The area was empty and dark. Nothing seemed to exist, not even air. The feeling of evil was strong, stronger than anywhere else in the real world.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in all this dark emptiness, defying all laws of this bleak area, even if he hadn't come of his own free will. The fused warrior—Gogeta—looked around and blinked. Where am I? Almost as an after thought, he answered his own question. Empty Space! But...how?

And then Psyfoam appeared in front of them. At least he fit in here; it was where he became what he is today, but why come back? Besides, there was something different about the evil enemy; he didn't have any feeling or emotion on his face, not even anger, hate, fear, or a smirk of cockiness. Psyfoam just looked exactly like a picturesque of pure evil, and that was something even Gogeta seemed uneasy about.

"Welcome to a special area of Empty Space, fusion," Psyfoam said, his voice plain and unmoving.

Gogeta snorted, but didn't resume a pose of cocky behavior that Vegeta normally would have done. "Special?" The question was meant to insult Psyfoam, but Gogeta was beginning to get uneasy; something was wrong. "How is it special?" Looks exactly the same to me.

Psyfoam replied without even a laugh, his eyes shrouded in a strange black mist, which was somehow different from the dark attack he liked to use on Reda. "It's where I transformed into the form you see before you. Perhaps you have heard my story, perhaps not," he said, almost as if he were talking to both Goku and Vegeta. "This is an area of Empty Space that wastes no time in transforming good to evil."

So, that was it! The sense of wrongness, the strange feeling...Empty Space was somehow alive! Gogeta got himself ready for a fight with this strange Psyfoam and Empty Space; he was ready if need be. "So, why bring me here? I thought you wanted a fight."

Psyfoam still did not smirk. "I don't need to fight if I can do something much worse."

Gogeta gulped, trying not to think about what Psyfoam could have in mind. "Like what?"

Still no smirk. "Well, for starters, I can lower your power level to make you as weak as a mouse."

The fusion felt his eyes widen as his power dropped to a lower level than an Earthling baby. "H...how?"

Psyfoam still showed absolutely no emotion, and before Gogeta could inhale, he had been punched so hard that his body went bouncing through the emptiness. Once the fused warrior got to his feet and met eyes with his evil enemy, he was amazed and confused at the way Psyfoam didn't even laugh. I don't like this.

"How did you like that?" Normally, Psyfoam's voice would have been mocking, but it still remained to be just as straight as his face.

Gogeta wiped blood from his lip and smirked. "We are men here, not mice."

That got a reaction as Psyfoam frowned, but the frown became a straight face and Gogeta wondered if he had imagined the frown. The fusion slowly felt his power return, and he almost laughed in triumph. But Psyfoam's next words stopped him.

"I am neither mouse nor man; I am a new form of the existence of pure evil, and Empty Space is my domain, especially in this certain area. I can do anything I want here," he plucked out a tail from his cape and wrapped it around Gogeta's neck in a flash, "even separate a fusion."

Gogeta's eyes completely widened when Psyfoam rose his hand in front of the fusion's face; the warrior tried to gulp at the realization that he couldn't move and Psyfoam was right, but a bright light consumed Gogeta and instead of two eyes staring at him, Psyfoam saw four.

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Chi-Chi: (now standing up and looking at Pieboy with her "evil" look) I think this one is a troublemaker. Gohan, let's go.

Gohan: But Mom I'm a grown man now! I can make my own decisions!

Vee: (laughing) Yeah, really, Chi-Chi...You can't be the bitch forever you know...

Chi-Chi: (turns her glare to Vee) What?

Vee: Uh...I didn't say nothing.

Reda: Anything Vee...use correct English in the presence of a writer...

Pieboy: You ain't no writer, Reda. You just write stuff.

Reda: Huh?

Jake: (Runs into the room as if chasing something, then notices Pieboy) You always run from a fight, don't you?

Pieboy: Yes, I do like ketchup.

Reda: Would you shut up! Your randomness...is confusing me. (A/N: Hey wow. randomness is a word!)

Vee: If you don't like him, why don't you kill him...?

Jake: He runs away every time we try to.

Reda: Yeah!

Vee: No, I mean, kill him in your story.

Reda: But he's not in this story...

Vee: Not this story. Pieboy's not a DBZ character...how can he be in this "story?"

Reda: Well...hmm...good point.

Vee: What I mean is, why don't you kill him in the other story.

Reda: Oh...that story. Ok. (Smiles)

Pieboy: So...I'm gonna die in a story? What do I say before I die? Pie?

Reda: Uh...probably...

Pieboy: Yay!

Jake: Can I be the one to kill him?

Reda: (nods her head) Uh...huh...

Chi-Chi: (turns to Gohan) Do you have any idea what they're talking about?

Gohan: (shakes his head) No clue...Guess I'll be the one to ask for reviews this time. So...if you're reading this, and you like me...j/k...then review Reda's "story." Uh...I guess you can review even if you don't like me, but...

Chi-Chi: Gohan...that's enough now...pull the plug.

(Connection Pulled)