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Super Saiyan Aftermath
Chapter 18 Angry and Pink
Cable flew at a moderately fast speed, letting Buu know fully well that Cable was there. He grinned at the thought of being with his parents again. The upcoming battle wouldn't be that worrisome, with his transcended form. Cable watched as a pink ball ripped through the air, right at him. Cable smirked, catching it with little difficulty. Cable forced white energy into the ball, disbanding it. Cable sensed Buu's anger from quite a large distance away. Pushing his speed a bit more, Cable flew to the new battlefield.
Buu looked shocked to see Cable there. Cable began laughing at the sight of Buu's head tilted with a frown on it. His laughter was short and sweet as he prepared a massive assault. In each arm he held up a black ball, with lightning bouncing on the surface of each. He floated slowly towards Buu, grin widening. Buu threw an energy ball at Cable, and with certain horror, realized it flew directly through him. Cable appeared behind Buu, shooting a one handed SuperNova. Buu was hurled upward as Cable phased in front of him, launching the other he had built up, knocking Buu up and away from him.
As Buu neared the top of the arc of his fall, Cable slammed his wrists together, and fired a full strength SuperNova. As it raced towards Buu, he tried to right himself and deflect the blast. Cable phased behind him, slamming him into the beam. Cable flipped over the blast and laughed at Buu's plight. Buu reformed himself as expected. Buu rushed Cable, before he could react. Cable took the fist to his face, flying backwards. As he righted himself, Buu kicked him in the gut. As Cable leaned into the blow, Buu's elbow struck the back of his head, holding him in place for a second. Then Buu brought up his other leg, sending Cable a fair distance before he hit the ground.
Cable got up smiling. Buu didn't question this, but responded with a chop from each hand into Cable's shoulders, knocking him downward. Buu kicked Cable in the face right as he got near his foot. Cable soared through the air and landed with a hand spring, flipping so his feet would hit first. Before he hit the ground, he transformed to the first form of Legendary Super Saiyan. Buu spun sideways through the air, in an attempt to kick Cable. Cable phased out before the blow landed. Reappearing above Buu, Cable stomped Buu into the ground. As Buu attempted to kick Cable, Cable phased again, just above Buu's kick.
Cable began to launch a rapid ki blast assault at the ground. Buu didn't have enough room to deflect them all and ultimately ended up getting several holes ripped through his being. Cable raised both hands above him and brought them down, releasing a bomb of energy. Buu was ripped asunder, pink blobs flying everywhere. When things began to calm down, all the pink flew at Cable, covering his entire body. As all the blobs connected, Buu's form appeared, bulkier than normal. Buu began to smile, which quickly faded as a silver aura appeared just off of his skin.
With only the aura as warning, Cable powered up to the next level. His arms bulked up and veins began to surface. His pupils turned pure white. His hair grew a bit longer, but still bent down, due to his dwellings. Buu expanded as well, to the point of ripping. Cable raised his arms, ripping out of Buu's. Cable reached to his face and ripped the pink layer off it. He ripped all the way down the middle of the pink suit. As he stepped out, he turned around seeing Buu looking very disgusting, inside out. Cable jerked his arm towards Buu, letting loose an invisible energy blast, ripping Buu into pieces and blowing them away.
Cable looked around for Buu, satisfied that he wouldn't be coming back to fight Cable for a while, he powered down to regular Super Saiyan. He then took off in the direction of the wizards. He had a mission to accomplish, and no pink warrior would stop him. Cable reached the wizards almost immediately. He heard their disheveled cry for help, and realized Buu would come, no matter how scared he was. Cable powered into the third form of Super Saiyan, his long hair touching the back of his knees. As he neared the younger looking wizard, the wizard made a barrier. The old one said some weird words and stepped into the barrier too. Together they forced the barrier stronger.
Cable took another step, hearing rocks crumble, but pretended not to, and powered down to the first form again. As he stepped up to the barrier, he used a Zanzoken and watched from a distance as Buu came in and attempted to pummel the after image. Cable drove into the first form of Legendary Super Saiyan and phased behind Buu, placing his hand through Buu's gut, and onto the barrier. Before Buu could react, Cable filled the inside of the bubble with indescribable anguish.
Buu looked down to see his creator's barrier, empty then fade away. He slid Cable's arm out through his side, very slowly. His anger skyrocketing, along with his power. Buu started to falter, his image fading for a second.
"NO I WILL STAY UNTIL THIS BOY IS DEAD." Buu screamed at the Kais. Buu powered up more, all strains around him gone. His image came back, clearer than ever. Cable took a step back, slightly worried. His worry subsided as Buu began to glow a faint purple. It seemed to radiate off him, the way steam does off boiling water. Buu's power was halved. Cable looked around, dismayed to see everything around him glowed that same purple and radiated that same fog. Cable looked at his own body, also irradiating it.
All of the sudden, Buu stopped screaming, and Cable began to feel happy. Buu looked his way, and smiled. Cable was about to start the fight up again, when he lost the will to hurt Buu more. Cable began to feel at ease, until he looked up to where all of the purple was gathering. There, in the sky, a figure was taking shape. An ebony figure. Things seemed to get lost in the skin of this thing. As the form definitively took shape, its hands formed, three rather large fingers protruded. Same with the feet, except larger. The arms and legs looked muscular, not quite bulky, but large. The upper body was covered in what looked like muscles. The head. The face looked like a human or Saiyan, except terrifyingly dark. The forehead held some sort of reflective crimson jewel. The top of its head was completely rounded except for the two crimson horns that really stood out.
"Buu! What is that?" Cable asked, truly shocked.
Buu looked at him and smiled an unknowing smile and looked back at the thing. The thing looked down at the two warriors with distaste. It floated to the ground in between them, a whole yard.
"Who are you?" Cable questioned.
"Names...triviality. You need to no nothing. You aren't part of the grand scheme. I am here to balance the afterlife. Too much hate has consumed. You two are the source of my power, at least the majority. I will stop this futile existence and then cease to be. You may call me Death if you want to know what reason you were killed." The figure responded.
"Death? Ha. I am warrior of the Kais. There is no power you have that I am not ready for." Cable sneered.
"Very well." The dark figure turned its head towards Cable, looking him in the eyes. Death's eyes, inversely, were pure black. Cable didn't even have time to look surprised as Death punched Cable in the chest, sending him flying backwards. Cable stopped himself and powered into the Ascended Legendary Super Saiyan. Death looked on, uninterested. That all changed when Cable landed a clean punch on Death's cheek, knocking him into Buu. Buu looked down and smiled. All of his hate was gone.
"Buu, he killed your creators. Are you going to let him get away with that?" Death snickered. Buu looked down, his face still child like. His innocence seeped outward, detectable by Cable. As Buu pulled Death's arm out of his gut, he giggled. Death was puzzled for a moment, until he realized what was wrong. A darker pink fist slammed into his face, knocking him away. The docile Buu looked on, childlike. Cable spiked Death downward when he flew towards him. Cable looked at Buu, then at an extremely skinny and tall person. This person was pink like Buu, except darker.
Buu waved at this new Buu and smiled. The new Buu simply looked at him with disgust. He feigned turning, then looking old Buu in the eyes, he simply unhinged his jaw and swallowed the old Buu whole. For a second nothing happened. Then while Cable turned towards Death, Buu began to change. He shrank a few inches, and he became thicker. He retained his dark pink, but looked like the old Buu. As he evilly grinned at Cable. Okay...his hatred went to Death, but his hate also went to this new Buu..I think the "Evil" went to new Buu and hate to Death... Cable thought, deeply focused on this turn of events. But isn't Evil created by Hate? Or is Evil just the counter to Good. Is Love the counter to Hate then? Or are the two unrelated? Cable went on.
As Evil stood, Buu charged him, power raising as he flew forward. Evil blocked the first punch to the outside, but was hit with two more before he left his feet. Buu spun over him, both flying horizontally. As Buu spun, his fists buffeted Death. Death was losing. Was that good? Should Evil beat Hate? Cable decided it was best to just eliminate both of them. He took off after the two battling. He joined the fray as well, dodging a sweeping kick that Buu didn't dodge. Cable punched Death away and slammed an elbow into Buu's jaw. Death ducked Buu's punch and grabbed his arm. Death swung Buu into Cable, knocking Cable back a bit, but looked at Buu's foot just as it smashed his face. Buu landed in front of Death and was about a foot away, when Cable's fist slammed through Buu's chest into Death's face. Cable put his other hand into Buu's chest as well and ripped them apart, vertically. Buu swayed a little, both halves of him doing a backflip at different opponents. Cable took a toe to the jaw as well as Death.
The two warriors looked at each other and charged Buu. Buu reformed and bent backwards to dodge the pair of punches. Cable spun and hit Death in the chest with a back hand. Death was lifted a bit, but landed, side-punching Cable's jaw. Buu used his hands to handstand as he kicked both of them in the chest. Cable and Death each grabbed a foot and ripped Buu apart and smashed both sides together. Death walked to Cable as Cable got into stance ready to fend off Death. Death held out his hand, as if offering a hand shake. Cable was about to accept when Death fired a blast into Cable's gut, sending him off into the distance. Forming a dark sword, seemingly from nowhere, Death turned to see Buu, liquefied, spilling over him. Death dropped the sword as Buu washed over him.
Death struggled in the net that was Buu for what seemed like eternity, before Buu crushed him into himself. Buu began to lift off the ground. His arms raising from his sides, slowly becoming parallel with his shoulders. His pink aura turned black and widened harshly. He vanished in a dark ball that surrounded him. As Cable watched, the dark ball shattered, leaving a person in fetal position floating. As the legs unfurled, Cable could make out features. Wings were on its back. Large black feathered wings. Cable noticed the creature also had tentacles on its back, which were glowing. His arms, chest, abs, back, thighs, and shins were covered in a golden armor. Under the armor was a black robe, which also hooded his head. Darkness emanated from the opening.
As this figure landed, it bent slightly, grabbing the Dark Sword. It swung it a few times, testing its new strength. Cable looked on horrified. This thing was easily stronger than Cable, even if he maxed out and took a Senzu, he couldn't match up. The thing might be holding back as well.
"SuperNova!" Cable fired his attack, watching it race at the thing and as it hit, nothing happened. Then as Cable was about to stop, there was a sudden backlash and Cable was tossed away. Hitting the dirt, Cable looked on at the thing. It hadn't even looked up. "What are you?!" Cable asked, obviously frightened.
"I am...I am the culmination of Hate and Evil. I am the fear of the universe. I am the cause of all things that cry out in pain. I am destroyer of the innocent, murderer of the weak. I am your worst nightmare. I digress, this newfound intelligence makes drama oh so irresistible. I am Buu." The winged thing spoke, gently.
"I won't allow you to harm anybody else!"
"You don't seem to understand. I am only an avatar of what is happening. While I am the most powerful, I am not the only. Everywhere there is Evil, or Hate, some part of me is there. Killing me would do nothing."
"It's a start!" Cable screamed. His anger seething, Cable pictured innocence and the loss of it. He shouted and bent backwards, raising his arms. Power emitted from him like a beacon. As he neared his max, he looked on at the creature with raw hatred.
"You won't be the one to stop me. You're far too weak, and let's face it that fact alone dooms you. I cannot be beaten by someone that uses my substance as drive. Only a pure fighter can win. As a Super Saiyan, you are not pure. You shall perish like so many before you." Buu mocked, although truthfully.
"We'll see about that, you monster!" Cable growled. He took off at Buu, eyes raging. Buu phased out of the way, slicing Cable's back and phasing upward. As Cable hit the ground, he turned and fired a bolt while sliding. Buu cut the attack in half, both sides flying away and exploding on some distant part of Hell. Cable cursed as he flipped upward. He phased upward, only to have the Dark sword slice between his middle and ring knuckles, cleaving well into his hand. Cable floated away while holding his hand. He ripped part of his belt off and wrapped his hand, hoping, not to stop the blood, but keep his knuckles from separating.
Buu grinned at this and rushed Cable, right hand way outside. Cable held up his left arm to block the punch. It succeeded, in the part where he wasn't hit in the face with the blow, but failed in stopping damage. He could feel the bones in his arm shatter and his arm become almost jelly on the inside. Tears streaming down his face, he looked at his attacker in fear. Only darkness looked back at him. Cable hopped backwards, throwing a bolt and attempting to run. Buu grabbed Cable's legs with the tentacles on his back. As they pull him closer, several other tentacles wrapped about Cable's body, squeezing him.
Cable looked at this Evil, Hate incarnate in fear. Tears flowed freely from his eyes. He realized he failed, he couldn't protect anyone. His parents would be killed as well. Goku wasn't ready for this. Nobody was. Cable's mind revisited every bad thing that happened to him. Then his victories appeared. Shallow victories that meant nothing. He wished he could wake up back at the Academy with Zed and just train. Or live happily with his family as a scholar. Believe his mind told him again. You must believe. This isn't the end. Believe. Cable looked at Buu, still very much afraid. BELIEVE!!! Cable screamed at himself.
"Sss..sssuper Kaioooooohhhh...K...ehhh...N!" Cable finally manage to grasp the attack. His power increased sharply. The tentacles burst all around him. Cable's one good arm powered up his attack. "SUPERNOVA!!" Cable shouted, the super charged beam zoomed from his hand, slamming into Buu's chest, pushing him back a ways, but not much. Buu's body language suggested he wasn't the least bit worried.
"Kaioh Ken times Two!" Cable shouted. His beam's stature doubled. Buu became acutely aware that if he could keep powering up like that, it may be a problem. "Damn it! Kaioh Ken times three!" His beam again jumped in size and power. This time Buu put his hands on the end of the attack and pushed himself off of it, long enough to shoot an attack of his own. It pushed against Cable's knocking him back a bit, but he kept the beam going. "Grr....Kaioh Ken times..Four!!" Cable shouted. The beams became evenly matched for a moment.
Cable couldn't hold it any longer. Believe! Cable held onto it, not letting go. Cable couldn't believe the strain on this beam. "Kaioh Ken Times Five!!" Cable finally muttered. His beam overpowered Buu's pushing it back to Buu's hands. Buu brought up his aura, and with it his power. His beam overcame Cable's and raced at him with too much speed to dodge. Just before the blast hit, his beam intensified, forcing a stalemate again, only momentarily, then it won! Cable's beam went into Buu's chest and ripped through it. Cable dropped out of Super Saiyan instantly.
As he looked to his side, he saw Gotenks bending over to help him up. As Cable got up, he lost his balance and fell on his rear. He waved off another attempt to stand.
"Thank you so much!" Cable grinned. Gotenks merely nodded, grim look still on his face. Cable felt Buu regenerate for a moment, then felt him shatter. Goku was in the midst of Buu. Gotenks dropped a Senzu bean and joined the fight.