I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to any of the music pieces you may see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 19: Buu's desperation
"What's wrong, I thought you said something about making me dead?" Gohan continued to taunt Buu, who had just received a vicious blow to the gut. Lightning crackled around the dent in the pink beast's skin as he reformed it quickly.
"Buu make you dead! What Buu say, Buu do! NOW YOU DIE!" Buu lunged at Gohan, who dodged aside very quickly. Buu unleashed several punch and kick attacks that Gohan blocked very easily. One such punch was caught, and then used to throw Buu into a rocky hill. Buu recovered quickly and shot a blast out of his mouth at Gohan, who knocked it aside and away from the bystanders, creating a big explosion in the distance. When the light cleared, Buu was still standing, but Gohan had vanished. Buu was frantically looking around for him when a ki blast shot towards him from behind. He somehow twisted his upper body like a wet washcloth and knocked it away with his hand, letting a wicked grin cover his face.
"You'll have to do better than that stupid boy!" Buu declared, slowly twisting back to normal. But when his head turned back around he was immediately hit square in the face by Gohan. He landed face first in the dirt, but was back up pretty quick, snarling. Blood was coming from his mouth, a little like earlier with Gotenks. The difference was that Gotenks was very even with Buu. This was caused by Gohan very easily, and Buu didn't like it one bit.
"What's the matter, BuBu?"
"Buu! Not BuBu, Fool, I'll kill you all!" Buu growled at Gohan, his face was starting to turn red in anger.
"Damn, he looks pissed," I noted, catching a nod or two in agreement from the Kai's and Kibito.
Buu turned crimson red all over, "No one mocks me, especially not a wimpy earthling like you!" Buu lunged at Gohan again, only to be kicked in the back of the head. Buu was sent into a rock pile, before exploding outwards and sending the rocks right at Gohan, who knocked them away to protect the others behind him. Buu came flying out on top of a big chunk of rock, jumping off and catching Gohan a little unprepared. He charged a powerful blast in his throat and proceeded to shoot it out his mouth. Gohan grabbed the blast and shoved it right back down Buu's throat, making Buu puff up and blow up from the inside. When the smoke cleared, Buu looked like he had stayed on the train tracks too long. A semi dazed expression plastered on his face, steam and smoke emerging from several new holes in his pink body. Gohan landed a hard punch to his gut, sending all the smoke and steam out and sending Buu to his knees in shock. Gohan elbowed him in the back of the head several times, keeping him down to the ground.
"Give it up, you can't beat me!" Gohan said. Buu got back up slowly, dusting himself off.
"So it's you, I've been waiting for you to show up for quite some time..." Buu said, explaining how he sensed Gohan's growing power even as far away as he was, "I can't let a power greater than mine exist!" Buu laughed happily as he let loose a flurry of rapid-fire ki blasts at Gohan, blowing up the area around him. Gohan remained unharmed, more annoyed than anything else. Buu rushed at him, still grinning, and launched a punch at him. When Gohan dodged it, Buu used his own forward momentum to wrap his arms and legs around Gohan's body.
"Time to die boy!" Buu cackled as he began to release his energy to surround Gohan, making him glow brightly. Gohan was trying to break free, but Buu's grip was pretty strong.
"Oh no, Buu's gonna try and blow himself and Gohan up at the same time!" Goku concluded. Buu was nearing completion of the deadly blast, and Gohan was still struggling to get free of his tight grip. Finally Gohan quit struggling and powered up himself. Buu was blown back good way by his energy, freeing Gohan.
Gohan's face was intense, "If that's all the power you have, you're going to have a lot of trouble taking care of me!" Buu looked past Gohan for a moment, but barely a moment, as if he was eyeing someone else at the time.
"You're missing the point boy! Now you see what happens to those I hate!" Buu's energy skyrocketed rather high as his aura glowed pink and distorted the air and clouds above. Gohan waited patiently for what Buu might do, whose body was fluctuating a little oddly, his grin getting larger by the second. Suddenly Gohan lifted off and flew away incredibly fast. Buu exploded from the inside out, blinding the screen in a bright pink light that didn't vanish very quickly.
"He blew himself up on purpose?" Goku asked.
"But why?" Shin asked as well.
"He was trying to take Gohan with him remember, he just didn't have enough time when he had Gohan tied up. But…surely he knows that Gohan could've gotten away easily from that blast. I smell a rat," I said in distaste of Buu's tactics.
"Agreed, let's continue to observe," Shin said, turning back to the screen. Gohan had barely enough time to grab Piccolo, the boys and Future Trunks, and get away. But thanks to his new powers, he had more than enough speed to grab everyone. He floated above the huge hole in the ground, fresh black smoke surrounding the crater.
"Whoa, Thanks Gohan!" Piccolo managed to say.
"Sure." Gohan set everyone down on a nearby hill, and then turned to watch the battlefield for any sign of Buu. His energy signal was gone though, making me wonder even though I was sure that he wasn't dead. Gohan explained this to the others as well, as if he had heard me, but I knew he didn't. Earlier I had tried to send a thought of good luck out to him after he went back to earth, but he didn't receive it. Piccolo inquired about his strength, and Trunks was wondering as well; both versions of him.
"You could say that Dad helped me in that aspect, though it was really my fault when I shattered this ancient sword..." We stopped listening to the discussion of earlier.
"So what is Buu planning?" I asked.
"Good question young one," Old Kai said, still engrossed in his reading.
"Surely he's going to look for a way to defeat Gohan, but I don't see how he can. Gohan just wiped the floor with him and didn't even break a sweat!" Goku exclaimed in excitement.
"Then perhaps he is waiting for something else, something that will undermine Gohan and the others. We can only hope they will be ready once he shows his demented face again," Kibito said in distaste.
"Hey Goku, what are we going to do about the dragonballs? Dende was killed wasn't he?" Shin asked.
"Well, it certainly looked like it, but we never actually saw Buu take him out. So I'm not going to rule anything out yet, and we always have the Namek dragonballs to look to if Dende was killed," Goku said, reassuringly. This didn't make Old Kai any happier, in fact he was angry now.
"Hold it young man, I'm very familiar with the dragonballs, and using them in this case just isn't proper! Those balls belong to a very advanced and peaceful race, using them here can only upset the natural evolution of the living universe!"
"But sir," Shin started.
"Don't 'but sir' me, I will not permit it!" Like he could really stop us, I thought, as I stood up, ready to put him in his place. Goku tried another tactic, bribery.
"You know, the Earth does have some very beautiful women on it, and there's one I'm thinking of. Your reward for helping Gohan…" he teased, causing the Kai to break out in excited laughter.
"But wasn't she killed with everyone else on the planet?" Kai asked.
"Yeah, but we can wish her back with the dragonballs!" Goku pointed out. Kai debated over this for a minute or two.
"No, I will not permit it, even for my personal enjoyment." That's it, I'm telling him how it is, I gave a glance at Kibito, who wasn't sure what to make of all this. I knew he was going to give me an ass chewing after I was done venting, but I didn't care. I cross my arms much like Vegeta and sucked in a deep breath. Shin gritted his teeth when he glanced at me and was shaking his head, as if that would stop anything.
"You just can't go wishing your problems away, the dragonballs are dangerous if misused and mustn't be used except for extremely special cases…"
"Fine then old man, we'll remember that if Buu comes here and destroys you!" I finally let it out, interrupting and startling him. Shin didn't really react, he had probably sensed my angry thoughts long ago. Kibito looked mad, but didn't react as Shin had put a hand up to silence him.
Old Kai was furious, "How dare you threaten someone in high power like me!"
"Maybe if you weren't going on and on about natural evolution, you would see our point. Letting the earth's people get destroyed by a magical being created and released by a wizard who lived god knows when isn't exactly natural either. Neither is getting sealed up in a sword for eons of time. So you haven't got much room to talk. As far as the dragonballs go, I highly doubt you can do anything to stop us from using them to restore our planet and it's people. Our friends and family will be wished back one way or another, so do us all a favor and shove all the natural evolution crap straight up your ass, you disgusting old prune!" I finally stopped myself before I said anything else. I was sort of surprised that I had gone off and managed to keep from the heavy cursing. Silence covered the field we were all on, and probably the planet to. Shin looked shocked, as did Goku, Kibito looked furious, and Old Kai; well I wasn't sure what he was thinking at the time. Here comes eternal damnation in hell.
Old Kai just smiled slightly and laughed a little, "Okay okay, no need to get so worked up about it! You can use the dragonballs after this is over." No way, no way was it that easy! I just looked at him and promptly fell over, Shin and Kibito had already done so.
This old man just keeps getting weirder, I thought as I was getting up and walking back over to the orb showing the earth's fighters. They were now flying, Goku watched intently.
"Where are they going?" I asked.
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About twenty minutes or so later, the remaining Z fighters found Dende, alive and hiding in a large area of mountains. To my great distaste, they had found Mr. Satan and his dog along the way, who had somehow survived when Buu destroyed everyone else in a mass genocide. After Dende explained how he escaped, he right away set about healing Future Trunks. Trunks had been able to fly there, but was still weakened from the battle with Buu.
"So since Dende is alive, what do they plan to do with the balls? How will they utilize the wishes?" Shin asked.
"I'm not quite sure, we should probably wait until Buu is destroyed for sure before we decide how to carry them out," Goku said.
"Hey wait a sec, weren't the dragonballs used earlier to restore the victims of Vegeta?" I asked.
"Yeah they were, Dende said that as long as we only made one wish that we could call Shenron again in four months," Goku said, slightly concerned.
"Looks like we'll have to go visit Namek anyway, can you take us there?" I asked.
"Maybe, but I can barely sense them so we'd need to take a spaceship. To top it all off, we're dead so we can't go, and everything else was destroyed on earth. Oh boy, it might be worth waiting four months, it might take twice as long to get a spaceship up and going," Goku said.
"Can you take us, Supreme Kai?" I asked.
"Yeah I think so, Kibito's instant transmission isn't limited by distance. We can go anywhere we want, if you guys have a plan we can at least help out," Shin said. All of a sudden my senses picked up on something large, powerful, and very familiar.
"It's Buu, he's coming back." Goku said for me. Buu was indeed coming back, the remaining fighters with Dende and Mr. Satan noticed him right away.
"So, why now? It sure didn't take long," I said.
"His power level is the same," Goku pointed out, deep in thought.
"So Buu, are you ready to go down now?" Gohan asked. Piccolo was giving orders to Trunks to stay back with Dende and Satan. He stood his ground, telling the two boys not to move.
"It is time to take care of all of you, stupid boy!" Buu announced.
"Bring it on," Gohan replied coolly.
"I bet he's bluffing guys, fifty zeni says he runs away again!" Little Trunks said in a cocky manner.
This seemed to grab Buu's attention, "Come on then little worms! I want to fight you now!"
"No way, that is not going to happen. You're fighting me Buu, you got that?" Gohan said sternly.
Buu just ignored him, "I have a score to settle with them first, then you're next!" Buu declared.
"Who died and made you boss? You don't make the rules here, if you want a fight then I'm your man!"
Buu just ignored Gohan's speech, "Come on boys, don't tell me you're scared to fight Buu?" That set a fire in Goten and Trunks' eyes. Piccolo tried to tell them to stay back, but they jumped up and stood next to Gohan.
"What's wrong boys, you were ready to go before! I must have misjudged you. Now that your friend showed up, you're acting like cowards!"
"Apparently you don't recall us kicking your butt, we just wanted to give Gohan a shot. You got your wish Majin Buu, Gotenks is back in the ring!" Trunks declared. Gohan said something to them about staying back, only to have Goten beg him to let them fuse.
"Something about this doesn't feel right…" I said, catching a few nods.
"C'mon on Gohan were really good when we do Super Saiyan three!" Goten claimed. This statement seemed to catch Gohan's interest.
"Hurry up and do you're little magic so we can get started, all this talk is boring me!" Buu said.
"Let's do it Trunks, with Gohan on our side there's no way he'll win!" Goten said.
"Yeah, and I'm tired of hearing this pink guy run his stupid mouth, let's permanently shut it for him!" Trunks said, jumping a few steps away and lining up with Goten. Buu's sadistic smile deepened as they prepared for the dance again. In the background I heard Satan's dog barking like crazy about something.
"Fu..Sion...HAAAA!" the boys shouted, the temporary light of fusion lighting up the area.
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The white light gave way to a golden flame of ki as Gotenks powered up to Super Saiyan three instantly. His cockiness was showing just as brightly as his aura as he started doing what he called the dance of death, which was really just jumping around and warming up with stretches.
"Your maker will be meeting you today Buu, or should I say you'll be meeting him. In front of you is the ultimate god of death!"
"Man that attitude needs a cleanup, even Vegeta isn't like that," Goku said, holding his head slightly.
Gotenks did a few more stretches, to our annoyance, "You can have the first move ugly!" The dog came running up to a position about thirty feet behind Gotenks, barking like crazy as Satan scooped him up and carried him back to a safer place.
Suddenly a pink blob emerged from the ground and expanded to envelop Gotenks in itself.
"What is this, get this nasty goo off of me!" Gotenks wailed. I heard muffled sounds from Piccolo, who also had one surrounding him.
"What's that?" Goku asked for everyone. Buu lifted his fingers and the blobs lifted up, with its passengers completely covered. Then they rushed towards Buu, who had a very evil grin on his face as they ran into him and formed a bigger blob that twisted and manipulated his body. His ki rose rapidly, getting close to Gohan's in no time.
"Man, this looks bad! Quick Gohan, raise your power, he's changing again!" Goku said to the globe. Lightning crackled around Buu as his new form began to take shape.
"That what he was planning, to absorb Gotenks and Piccolo and overpower Gohan!" I said in conclusion to the obvious. All Shin and Kibito could do was gasp. Buu's new form took full shape, revealing the same black and yellow vest that fusion gave Gotenks. His forelock was really long now, dragging to below his rear.
"What do you think Gohan? New clothes to match my figure, and a few new abilities as well!" His voice sounded more sinister now, "I suppose the sudden loss of your family and friends has upset you. Hurry and drain your tears so we can fight!" Gohan yelled at him about fair play and why he did it. Buu response was simple, he wanted to kill everything and everyone, nothing new there. He then explained how he felt Gohan's power and knew he was beaten before the battle even began, but then waited out the hour for Goten and Trunks to be able to fuse again, and with Piccolo's brain he knew he wouldn't be completely arrogant and allow Gohan to undermine him. I did another ki scan of Buu and Gohan, they seemed about even. It was hard to tell at this distance rather one was holding back or not. Gohan though was plenty confident in his ability to hold off Buu until the fused Gotenks separated. Buu bragged that it wouldn't take ten of the thirty minutes to beat him. Both fighters assumed stances and prepared to battle each other.
"This is not gonna be pretty," I muttered. They rushed towards each other, meeting in mid air and clashing for a second or two, then jumping out and back in. Initially neither fighter landed any blows, just blocked a few. Then they started hitting nasty looking hits that could level a mountain range without much trouble. Gohan and Buu both landed thunderous blows. Gohan hit an elbow to Buu's chin only to get a kick in the chest in response. This went back and forth for a minute before Gohan managed to grab Buu's leg and swing him to the ground. Buu came back up with a strong, pink ki blast aimed at Gohan, who vanished before it hit. Buu launched a stronger one that Gohan barely dodged and watched it explode in the air.
Gohan reared back with his hands in position, "Kamehameha!" He fired the blue beam at Buu who responded with a pink one. The two beams met and pushed against one another. Both fighters fed it loads of energy, but Gohan appeared to struggle slightly, Buu kept going strong. Gohan shut off his beam and jumped out of the way, the resulting explosion behind him slightly phased him. The stun lasted long enough for Buu to sneak up on him and smack him into the ground. Buu curled up into a ball like he had done earlier and chased Gohan down, who kept jumping out of the way before turning and flying at Buu. Buu kept on the collision course, causing both fighters to kick each other in the chin. Buu recovered just a bit faster and got to Gohan before he awoke, nailing him with a heavy punch to the stomach and a kick to the head, sending him into the dirt. Buu landed and waited for Gohan to get up.
"Man, this new form of Buu might be more than Gohan can handle..." Goku said. I agreed, though I didn't want to, Buu's power had jumped to an impossible level now, and Gohan still had twenty-seven minutes before the fusion wore off. I deeply hope he can last that long.
Power levels
Majin Buu: 400,000,000
Mystic Gohan: 490,000,000
Super Buu (Piccolo and Super 3 Gotenks): 550,000,000