Don't Look At Me Like That
By Moonraker One
A/N: Fans of The Boss unite! This chapter is titled after a Springsteen song.
CHAPTER SEVEN - Murder Incorporated
Not a few moments after a slightly bloodied Gohan took a vicious hit to the face from Nakia, no less than seven of his nearest allies decided to make their presences known by arriving to provide some needed assistance. Vegeta, Goku, Piccolo, even Krillin and Tien were there to hopefully quell a massive attack. The Z-Warriors didn't hesitate a moment to get their powers up as far as they could go, with the Saiyans rising to Super Saiyan Two. Vegeta turned to his rival, Goku. What's our plan? he telepathically asked.
I dunno, was the response given by the Saiyan warrior. I mean, if we all fight together, we can win this, but I don't know if she has any further powerups up her sleeve.
She does! Gohan shrieked mentally, just moments before she lifted him from the dirt. She reached Super Saiyan 3 in the chamber after you left!
Vegeta almost soiled himself. WHAT?! YOU LET HER GAIN THAT MUCH POWER?!
"Will all you morons shut UP?!" Nakia screeched, her voice sounding exactly like Broly's. "I CAN READ YOUR THOUGHT CONVERSATION! YOU AREN'T HIDING A DAMNED THING FROM ME!" About the only one who didn't know what the hell to think was Babidi. On one hand, he saw the girl doing his work, but on the other, moments before his magic did he use on her, she tried to kill him. Was she on his side or not? He had to know before anything else happened.
"Nakia!" he shrieked. "Whose side are you on?!" Angered by his outburst, she took him by the scruff of his throat.
"MY OWN," she grumbled, an instant before he became the epicenter of a rather violent surge of energy being released. His body reached a million degrees Fahrenheit in about a nanosecond, effectively reducing him to vapor. "NOW THEN, ABOUT YOU GUYS..."
Vegeta could not wait for her to launch the opener; he flung himself forth and hurled a strike directly at her face, which she blocked only to find it a fake into a side kick, which she took with no effect. About a third of a microsecond later, Goku teleported behind her and nailed her in the back of the head with a kick, but it barely affected her. She sent elbow strikes in opposing directions, nailing both Saiyans in their chests at the same time, pushing them back a considerable distance. Tien's tri-beam didn't even singe her clothing, as she flew through it to send him sucking dirt with one kick. Krillin didn't even make it to an attack, as her fist met the side of his head a second later. Goku and Vegeta launched quite the vicious flurry of punches and kicks in her direction, but she parried them easily. Waiting a handful of minutes until they were slightly out of breath, she carefully countered their moves and when their defenses lowered just the slightest, she pushed them away from her with careful attacks.
"Not bad," she cautioned, keeping her guard up while Goku and Vegeta regained their breath. "You still haven't remembered one important detail...I'M THE LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN! EEEYAAAARRRGGHH!" Her yell penetrated the air for hundreds of yards around, as her hair lengthened to the typical Super Saiyan Three length. Then, to the shock of the z-warriors, something happened that could only spell trouble: it turned the light green shade that only became present in Legendary Super Saiyan status. And her power increase reflected in the change.
"WHAT?! LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN THREE!?" Vegeta could not believe what he was looking at, or sensing. This girl easily out powered them five to one. A look given to him by Goku reminded him: they had to keep going, no matter what.
An attempt at a sneak attack on Goku's part managed to fail due to their surprising underestimation of her increase in speed capability. Had Goku managed to hit his flying kick to the side of her head, the struggle would have gone easier, but she managed to duck beneath it, and it struck Vegeta in the chest, hurtling him to the ground. He did, however, manage to ricochet off and back into the air where he threw himself at Nakia with full force and flew head first into her stomach, pushing her into range of a full nelson grip by Goku. The Saiyan prince then rocketed towards Nakia with fist held back in position to slam directly into her gut. Unfortunately, the Saiyan girl under Brolly's control managed to flip herself over so Goku got thrust into his battle partner. Not wasting a second, the instant Goku and Vegeta collided, Nakia threw a ki blast in their direction. Without even thinking, Goku grabbed his partner and teleported behind Nakia.
"You guys're really good," she reminded them, Brolly's voice still audible. "I can't believe the mistake I made last time when you killed me. You won't see that happening again." She took the two Saiyans by their necks, and tightened her grip. Is this it?! Goku thought. What's gonna happen if we die?!
A foot, seemingly out of nowhere, collided with the back of Nakia's head, with such force that it threw her to the dirt. Goku, just released from her grip by a mysterious saviour, looked around; Tien, Krillin and Gohan all were on the ground, unconscious. Who was this person? When the two Saiyans looked, and Nakia got up, they couldn't believe who it was.
"Who the blue hell are you?!" Vegeta demanded of the short, pink figure.
"ME KID BUU!" he screeched, his voice like fingernails on glass. "SLEEPING QUIET AND COMFORT-LIKE, JOLT OF LIGHTNING WAKE UP! ME MAD! WHO WAKE BUU UP?!" He then proceeded to let out such a loud scream that the mountains behind him began to tremble, and ultimately, crumble like cookies. Sensing an open moment, Goku quieted Buu down and got his attention by pointing in Nakia's direction. Buu turned, and with a scowl on his face, launched himself in the girl's direction.
"Got a new challenger, huh?" Nakia joked as she entered into combat against the short, pink warrior. She made careful work of dodging Buu's rapid punches and kicks, which possessed a great deal more speed than those thrown at her by Goku or Vegeta. The level of power that Buu managed to display at his full strength was greater than the two Saiyans combined, but Nakia still kept her power above his by a good enough margin that she could predict all of his attacks readily and with enough pre-attack time to dodge them. However, when he came up for a punch to the face, she found out quickly that it in fact was a fake, as he stopped mid-swing and instead thrust his knee into her abdomen, bringing her face into range of his fist, which sent her to the ground nearby. Using her reverse momentum to leap back into the air, she continued the struggle against the pink warrior. As he tried to begin another flurry of attacks, she snatched his fist out of the sky and brought her foot up to his chin with an axe kick. Just before he could go flying off into the sky from the force of her kick, she slammed her elbow into his chest, which in mid-flight changed his course and sent him rocketing off towards and into a cliff wall. A scream immediately came before a surge of energy shattered the entire cliff side, with the pink fighter hovering midair, his angry scowl having gotten angrier.
"BUU MAD! BUUUUU MADDDDDD!" He fired off an energy blast, which she flew straight through without being affected by it at all. In complete shock that she went through his blast with no damage, she put her extended palm an inch from his face.
"This's been fun. Now DIE!" The same moment she finished that sentence, a river of ki poured out her hand, rapidly reducing Buu's body to vapor. Once his scream of agony and the energy blast died down, she descended to ground level and began walking towards the remaining two warriors, who weren't exactly in the best physical condition at that moment.
Oh shit, Goku thought to himself. I think that went our only chance of winning. I was hoping Buu would at least be strong enough so that they'd take each other out. I can't believe how powerful she is. Nakia took Goku and Vegeta by their necks and hoisted them above her head.
"Oh, don't ever question how powerful I am," she reminded them. "After all, I still got...eerrrggghhh!" The two Saiyans managed to break out of her grip as they realized: there was a struggle going on inside her body. And it managed to lower her power a significant amount.
"You won't control me ever again, Brolly!" she screamed in her own, familiar feminine voice.
"What?!" she shouted in response, her voice changing momentarily back to Brolly's masculine tone. "How can you be taking control of me?! You shouldn't even be able to speak!"
"You shouldn't have killed Babidi," she answered her other personality, her voice returning to feminine for a moment. "His life ki was the only thing keeping me suppressed! You can never kill me! This's my body, so give it back!"
"Never!" she countered, Brolly's voice returning. "I'm the most powerful Saiyan ever to exist! I kill whomever I please! You're just a ridiculous Human girl without ME!" Just then, Nakia's own personality, desperately struggling for control against Brolly, held her arms erect at her sides, and her legs firm below her; she would not let him move her. "LET, LET GO OF ME, NAKIA! LET ME MOVE!"
"NEVER!" Brolly couldn't believe it; his spirit within her had a great deal more power, yet her Human self wanted full control! He wanted to kill her, but then again, what could he possibly do to defeat her, that wouldn't impact himself?
At that moment, while two souls within one body fought for control, an arm flew up from behind and impaled Nakia directly through the chest, the fist down to the elbow protruding out the front of her shirt. The two Saiyan warriors looked in disbelief, as did Nakia, the finishing blow had been dealt by Kid Buu. "You mean," Buu said. "Buu make you dead." With his peace said, he extracted his arm from her body, and she fell limply to the ground.
"Un...believe...ab..." Brolly managed to say. One instant later, Nakia's body lay dead in the dirt.
From a barely conscious position a few meters away from the attack site, Gohan managed to force himself to a standing position when he felt her life force completely disappear. He clutched her lifeless frame in his arms as tears fell to the ground.
"No! Nakia!" his pleas were in agony, albeit useless. He stared into her eyes, then turned to his father. "We have to bring her back."
Goku shook his head. "She's too big a threat."
"DAMMIT! WE HAVE TO BRING HER BACK!"
"I won't take that risk, Gohan."
He grabbed his father by his throat. "WE HAVE TO BRING HER BACK!" His tears fell onto his father's gi as he refused to surrender his position. "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK! WE'RE BRINGING HER BACK!"
"There's no need for the Dragonballs," a voice called out. All present turned to see who it was. A pink outfit-clad, female Kaioshin hovered a few feet above the battlefield. "I can handle this."
"Who're you?" Goku inquired. "We can't bring her back! With Brolly inside her, she's too big a risk!"
She reasoned with the warrior. "I know what you're trying to say, Goku," she reasoned. "But we don't have to punish her for what Brolly's done." Going about her business without giving an explanation, she pulled a small jar from her pocket, and opened it over Nakia's body. The dead female warrior's body erupted into a fit of convulsion, swiftly followed by a black cloud of smoke exiting through her mouth, and entering into the jar. Capping it, the Kaioshin pulled out a second, and opened it, pouring a golden liquid over the dead body, restoring it to the same condition it was in before the battle had begun. "My part's done here. I shall return to the land of the Kaioshin."
"W...wait!" Vegeta demanded. "Aren't...you one of the upper gods?"
"Yes, my name is Ellyna. Before you ask, yes, I'm the one who put Brolly's spirit into her body," she motioned at Nakia, who was just awakening. "I needed to test the mortals of Earth. You passed." With that, she vanished into thin air.
"How do you feel, Nakia?" Goku asked.
She fired a mild energy blast, and in doing so, she sensed that the Legendary Super Saiyan left his power with her after he'd been sucked out. With a grin, she tapped Gohan on the shoulder playfully and replied, "Why don't we pick up where we left off and you can find out?"
Kid Buu walked away shaking his head. "People complicated," he whispered to himself. "Buu no understand," and hastily took off into the sky.
THE END