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 20: Call for the Ultimate Fusion

Gohan received another nasty blow that crumbled another mountain when he smashed into it. Another ten minutes had passed in the fight and Gohan had not faired well at all. Every attack he mustered against the evil Buu was countered or blocked, every advance was thwarted. Buu's fusion with Piccolo was hurting Gohan more than the fusion with Gotenks, for Piccolo knew Gohan inside and out. Goten may have as well, but the fusion produced a cocky warrior, not a thinking one. It didn't matter though, with Buu using the mind of Piccolo plus the power and intensity of Gotenks, he was beginning to be truly unstoppable. The best Gohan was able to do was fire a Kamehameha and blow off one of Buu's legs when he dodged it. After that Buu rarely let him up long enough to get his bearings.

"Gohan's power level is dropping, I don't think he can last the full thirty minutes!" Shin said. Old Kai didn't answer, just kept observing the battle. We weren't the only ones that noticed Gohan starting to lose. Trunks and Dende were fully aware of it as well, and notably Mr. Satan whenever he saw Gohan get plastered and remained still long enough for him to see. Buu knocked Gohan into the dirt again and brought two fingers to his forehead, and they lit up with energy.

"Wait a sec, that's..." I managed to say before he fired it.

"Special Beam Cannon!" Buu roared, sending the screw beam right at Gohan, who somehow blocked it, but it drained his ki reserve all the more.

"With anyone Buu absorbs, he can use their abilities and fighting style," Shin said, saving me the trouble of asking. The attack drained Gohan enough that he had to take a knee, a painful knee. Buu flew in close, taunting him all the way. Gohan took advantage of the rest time and attacked while Buu was in point blank range, only to have his punch caught and his kick blocked. Buu vanished and appeared behind him so fast that his fist was already at the side of Gohan's cheek.

"That could have been your head, didn't Piccolo teach you better than this? He isn't impressed!" Gohan tried to kick him again, but was knocked into the air before he could recoil his leg. Buu held out his palm and shot three small ki attacks that surrounded Gohan like energy rings, then closed and binded him, arms pinned to his sides.

"You can thank Gotenks for that little move! Isn't it embarrassing Gohan, being taken out by your baby brother's own attacks?" Buu asked, bringing his arms behind him and charging a blue blast.

"Please stop me if you've heard this one! Kamehame, HAAA!" Buu shot the blast at the restrained Gohan, who could do nothing but scream in anger. Fortunately that broke him free, and Gohan dodged aside of the deadly beam that his father had mastered upon seeing it done once. Buu looked slightly surprised, but brushed it off.

"So Gohan, you have a little energy left. All the more for you to lose when I beat it out of you!"

"Man, this is really bad, isn't there something we can do?" Goku said loudly, catching Old Kai's attention. Old Kai's eyes looked quite concerned. Though he may have been a dirty old man at heart, just like Master Roshi he knew between right and wrong. I gazed into them, wondering what may have been going through his head at the time when Goku shouted at the globe again.

"No Gohan, don't let it touch you!" I spun back around to see Gohan trying to blast a ghostly white version of Buu. The recognition hit me as one of Gotenks more effective moves, except this time the little ghost looked like Buu. Gohan's ki blasts never hit, the ghost just spun and twisted around them on its deadly warpath. Gohan landed a kick on it, causing it to explode all around him.

"Oh no!" Goku gasped. Somehow Gohan emerged from the smoke, how I may never know, but he did. The only thing was that he dropped to the ground immediately afterwards, causing Buu to laugh uncontrollably.

"Goku, come with me, you too young Kai. Verto remain here and observe the battle, let us know of anything...of dire consequence," Old Kai said, practically dragging Goku with him over the next ridge, Kibito and Shin running after them. Buu's laughing made him completely clueless though, had he been paying full attention, he would've noticed a certain small Namek make his way over to Gohan's motionless form. Behind me I heard the Kai's arguing about something, Old Kai was blabbering something about young men staying and the old going. Dende was hurriedly healing Gohan, which Buu seemed to totally allow, or was unaware of what was happening. Dende scampered away back to where he and Satan had been hiding with Trunks as Gohan got back up, totally recharged. Buu was stunned, until he seemed to register what actually happened.

"Dende's healing power, he'll pay for that!" Buu cackled as he fired a large blast at Gohan. Gohan powered up and blocked it, but far from easily. His power dropped slightly but he was still in fighting shape since he was healed. Behind me I sensed a little activity, Goku's energy spiked slightly while Old Kai's dropped to nothing, before popping back to normal a minute later. Any other time I would have rose to investigate but I stayed put to observe. Buu prepared a blast to shoot at Gohan but instead chose to fire at Dende. Mr. Satan popped out firing a gun he had hidden on him, nothing doing there. Trunks rose and shot into Super level two, ready to protect Dende. He stopped short when another blew the blast away, not from Gohan. The view turned for me and shown a familiar figure in blue with a white cape.

"Tien!" Gohan cried happily. Tien put his palms together, bowing slightly to Gohan and Trunks before scowling at Buu and drawing his hands into a familiar triangle form. I suddenly felt Shin and Kibito's energy disappear before sensing another one pop up, much stronger than both of them. Tien fired his Tri-beam at Buu and engulfed him and the landscape. I was half expecting to see Buu in shreds after it, but instead he hadn't even flinched. Buu fired a ki beam at Tien, who dodged. Trunks came out of nowhere and hit Buu with a nicely aimed kick in the head, taking full advantage of the gap made by Tien. Gohan jumped in while Buu was slightly stunned and hit a sharp punch that gave Buu a bloody nose. Tien didn't wait around either and jumped into the fray and soon it was three fighters beating on Buu, who either couldn't fend them all off, or wasn't bothering to. After turning his body into a virtual steak after a meat grinder, Gohan dropped back into stance for the Son's trademark move. Gohan hit the Kamehameha dead on and kept the beam going on Buu, who was trying to block against it. Trunks appeared above him and moved his arms around in quick motion before charging a blast in his hands. Tien appeared below Buu and fired another Tri-beam, this time keeping the move going. Buu managed to hold off the two continuous beams, but appeared to struggle slightly.

"BURNING ATTACK!" Trunks bellowed, releasing a large ball of ki that hit Buu in the back of the head. Buu couldn't hold this one off and it ate through him until it hit the blue beam from Gohan. Then Buu vanished within all the ki around him, and then exploded. The explosion sent Dende and Satan reeling. Trunks and Tien floated up next to Gohan, who had just shut off his beam. All three of them were panting heavily, and Trunks powered back down to normal. At first I didn't sense Buu's energy making me wonder if they had actually done it, but deep down somehow I knew better. The horrifying thought then took shape as Buu emerged, barely hurt at all even after the combined attacks on him. Gohan and Trunks' faces fell, Tien's jaw dropped, and Satan was now running fast for a normal human. He drug the dog and Dende away from the battle as fast as he could. Buu held his hands up, and formed a large pink blast, and the ki I felt from it signified what he was about to do.

"Guys, Buu is about to blow up the Earth!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Goku's ki vanished the instant I said it. I spun around to see Old Kai and someone else walking back toward me. Old Kai looked normal enough, except he now had a halo above his head. The other one looked strangely like a Kibito and Shin crossbreed.

"And you are who now?" I asked, putting my guard up at this point.

"Relax Verto, it's me, the Supreme Kai," Shin's voice said, but it was a little deeper now, louder too. I raised my eyebrow, it practically begged explanation, but I decided not to ask and turned back to the globe. Buu was laughing crazily with his giant planet-killing ball when a yellow disc sliced through him and his extra long forelock. He lost control of the ki ball and it exploded harmlessly in the distance, his lower half fell to earth.

"Huh?" I managed to ask, knowing that disc had not come from any of the fighters presently there. Buu spun and I saw behind him a damn familiar figure and felt the ki to go with it. What I didn't understand was why he didn't have a halo and why he was wearing an earring of all things.

"How did Goku just come back to life?" I asked, stupefied.

"I gave my life to him," Old Kai answered. Well that was the short version I guess.

"And I gave him my Kai earrings, with those he can fuse with Gohan and defeat Majin Buu. It's a better way of fusing since Gohan doesn't know the dance," he said, answering my next question before I asked it.

"And I suppose that's what happened to Shin and Kibito?" I asked, glancing at the new Kai.

"Except my honorable elder forgot to mention that this fusion is permanent," Kibito Kai muttered.

"Not my fault, you forgot to ask before you tried it," Old Kai retorted. Back on the screen, everyone was astonished that Goku was on Earth, especially Buu and Gohan. Goku had a cocky expression all over his face, another earring dangling from his hand. Buu didn't seem to care what Goku was planning.

"So you're Goku, Piccolo says that you're dead, but no matter! I have absorbed your friends and their powers and now I will do the same to you!"

"Wrong Buu, I've come with something that will finally make you pay for your crimes against the Earth!" Goku fired back.

"And that would be what?"

Goku kept his grin and tossed his earring towards Gohan, "Here catch!" Unfortunately Gohan didn't catch the hint or the earing and missed big time, the earring dropped and fell between the rocks behind him.

"Hurry and find that earring Gohan! Put it on your right ear and we will be able to join bodies and defeat Majin Buu!" Goku shouted to his son.

"That's what you're up to, more fusion? Don't make me laugh! You obviously do not understand the powers I recently received, allow me to demonstrate!" With that said, Buu's lower half sprang up and knocked Tien and Trunks out cold easily, and then rose up to it's master and rejoined, making Buu whole again.

"There now, you see what happened to your friends after a few attacks? Now just imagine what I will do to you now!" Buu declared.

Goku grinned slightly, "You sure did pull yourself together quickly, I think your starting to get nervous!" Buu responded by powering up, prompting Goku to give added encouragement to Gohan to find the missing earring. Then Goku cranked up to Super level three very quickly. Goku dodged Buu's first kick by flipping upside down and over him. Buu's forelock grabbed Goku by his leg and lassoed him across the landscape with a snap. Goku flipped back up, ki crackling around him, and fired multiple blasts at Buu. Buu dropped below the ground and dug through it, emerging up behind Goku, who punched him into a mountain for his efforts. Meantime Gohan was throwing boulders around trying to find the tiny earring, and then dug around in the small amounts of pebbles and ironically finding it there.

Holding it up, "Okay Dad, I found it! I'm not exactly sure what this does, but I'm putting it on!" Goku quickly dropped back to normal form so he and Gohan wouldn't overload their power when they fused. Buu grinned at this and moved in to attack, only to stop and grab his head, sweating severely like he was in pain. Gohan and Goku both stopped to watch in confusion. I watched with my ki sense, suddenly feeling Buu's power plummet to around where it was before he absorbed Piccolo and Gotenks.

"The thirty minutes of fusion must be up for Gotenks, at last Buu can be destroyed by Gohan. The fusion won't even be necessary now," Old Kai said happily. This fact remained for Goku as well, who told Gohan not to put on the earring, until Buu asked if Goku knew what insurance was. Goku was obviously confused, as was until Buu flipped his forelock around, revealing that part of it had not been regenerated. At first I didn't think much of it, sure Buu had plenty to be sidetracked about and forget to regenerate something, then it hit me. Goku used a destructo disc to cut him in half and save the planet from blowing up, and it had lobbed off the end of the forelock, something Buu could still use if he wanted to absorb someone.

"Oh shit, look out Gohan!" I shouted at the screen. He obviously didn't hear me, and the pink blob got him from behind, dropping the earring. Goku raced down to intercept the blob but Buu had already called it to him. Goku scooped up the other earring and cringed as Buu absorbed his eldest son and gained more power.

"Oh dear me," Old Kai said, holding his knees.

"Help them!" Kibito Kai urged.

"I've done all I can!" Old Kai claimed. Buu's look changed slightly, his forelock grew even longer, and his clothes were replaced by Gohan's upper outfit of an Orange and blue gi.

"Awesome! I have way more power than I had before, why didn't I do this sooner? Now all that's left is you, right Dad? Think about it Goku, both of your sons are apart of me now, I think we need family counseling! They're telling me how they despise you for leaving them!"

"That won't work on me Buu, you're the one who destroyed our friends and families!"

"I suppose you're right about that, but you were the one that supposed to show up and stop me. Since I'm a sport, I will give you a chance to join bodies with someone. Only because I want a challenge so I can test my new skills, I'll give you to the count of five!" Buu said. I frowned, no one was left, no one in fighting shape anyway.

"The only option is Trunks, but he's out cold now, so is Tien and neither are in any shape after Buu hit them!" Kibito said in a panicked tone. Goku was going through the options as well, glancing at Dende several times as well as Trunks and Tien. Then he looked over and saw the only other one available for fusion, and grimaced slightly. Buu started to count down, and Dende tried to make his way over to Trunks, obviously seeing what Goku had to do. He stopped when a ki blast hit the ground in front of him, followed by the shaking finger of Buu not to progress further.

"Damn! Buu knows that Goku has to fuse with Trunks when he's in relatively decent fighting shape. Unlike before, he won't just let Dende go over to heal him!" I shouted angrily. Goku continued to look at the only other option, and when I thought about it, I frowned. The thought of Mr. Satan fused with Goku was hilarious to imagine, but the only thing it would do is ensure destruction. However desperate times call for the same decisions, and Goku actually started to throw the earring to Satan. I say started because he stopped just as I felt a new ki, a little ways from the battle site by a several miles. Goku locked onto it and thought it over before grinning and putting two fingers to his head just as Buu counted five and fired a blast at him. Goku was gone long before the blast hit him. Buu looked off in his direction and cursed for a little while, before taking off after him. Dende set about healing the fallen warriors, of which Trunks followed Buu once he got up.

"Show us where Goku went," Old Kai said to the globe, which changed right away to see him talking to someone. The view turned and revealed a figure dressed in blue. When I saw him, my eyes welled up a little bit. His tall spiky hair and rough exterior that always seemed unhappy was providing the opposite effect.

Kibito Kai wasn't necessarily as happy, but was just as surprised, "Look it's Vegeta!"

Power levels

Super Buu (w/ Piccolo and Super 3 Gotenks): 550,000,000

Mystic Gohan: 490,000,000

Future Trunks (SS2): 365,000,000

Tien: 30,000,000

Goku: 80,000,000; Super Saiyan 3: 475,000,000

Super Buu (w/ Piccolo, Kid Trunks and Goten): 410,000,000

Ultimate Buu (w/ Piccolo, Kid Trunks, Goten and Gohan): 600,000,000