Gohan the Mighty Ch. 17 - Game Over
This was it; this was the battle that would define the future of Earth and the people on it. His brother, Piccolo, Dende, Hikaru, and her family had to be defended. This was the fight Buu had practically promised him when he had made that announcement several days before.
Gohan calmly awaited for Mr. Pickles to start the match while Buu grinned maniacally and Tio seemed to be sleeping, but if one were to look closely then they would see that she was glaring at Buu through extremely narrowed eyes it would seem ridiculously childish if it were not for the fact that one could literally feel daggers slice through them if they were the recipient of the gaze.
The three fighters immediately noticed when Mr. Pickles stepped back onto the stage, and waited for the command.
" So, moving on to the the last round of the tournament, a three-way battle for the world championship title and belt. The three competing are Eighteen(Tio), Gohan, and Buu. Ready . . .Fight!"
Tio flew at Buu while blasting at Gohan. When she did reach Buu, she attempted a spin kick, and was promptly blocked and countered with a high kick. Tio was hit in the shoulder, but she was shocked when Buu, instead of following up his attack, was hit by the ki blasts that Gohan had sent back.
She sobered up after the last blast Gohan sent back hit her instead. She focused on him but could not find his ki, nor could she see him. Buu was in the same predicament. One could see the fear in Tio's eyes as she saw Buu's body going through what could have seemed like a seizure if it weren't for the punch and kick marks that appeared constantly.
What happened next would have looked like Tio had caught what the audience though was a bad case of convulsions. One could see the extreme pain Tio felt if they looked into her eyes,or if they saw the huge bruises she was now sporting. Buu was fairing much better due to his greater power level, but he still had difficulty in not losing ground.
The crowd was relieved when the 'disease' Tio and Buu had ceased. However, apprehension came over them as Gohan appeared between them and extended an arm toward each of them while never looking at them, maintaining a constant forward stare. The blasts had knocked Tio near the edge of the ring and Buu just had a gaping hole in his torso, and, with arms still extended, he fired a small blast at Tio that knocked her out of the ring and a much larger blast at Buu.
Of course Buu was unable to move while this badly injured since his regeneration had yet to complete, thus he was hit by the blast, knocking him out of the ring.
Buu could not believe it, untill he realized that this was the same man who had killed his Dragon with a sword less than a week earlier. Obviously, this angered him, and in a sudden burst of power, he jumped back onto the ring before floating upward a little bit. Before he was only going through with the rules as a formality to their planet before he wiped them out. But there was one thing about Buu, he never loses.
Buu looked at his opponent,"How about we up the ante Gohan!" With that he powered up all the way, destroying the tile five feet below him. Then Kaisar, the blue-haired dragon, flew onto the stage and stood next to Buu.
Gohan just stood there, staring at Kaiser in the eyes before powering up as far as he could. The two opposing him smirked at him evilly. Kaiser then flew at him while Buu ran.
Right before either of them got to him, he triggered the second level of super sayain. This suprised the other two, but they continued the attack. Buu jumped kicked him, but it was dodged and Buu flew right past him while forming a ki ball. Buu spun and tossed it while Kaiser kicked and punched from above. When the ball reached Gohan, Kaiser flew up while unleashing a fatal barrage of ki blasts that all hit Gohan. Gohan smacked Buu's at Kaiser, and since he could not dodge the barrage he simply let it hit him.
Bruised, but not broken, Gohan easily found the strength to yell,"Masenko." As expected, the ki blast erupted from his hands, which formed an cross in front of him. It stopped about a centimeter away from Kaiser, its sheer power frightening the dragon who had been injured by Buu's ki blast, then seperated into seven parts which flew to the sides befored going behind Kaiser and forming the original blast and flying towards Kaiser, who was currently fighting Gohan who had followed his blast. Kaiser smirked when Gohan was easily pushed back, thinking that he had won.
His scream of pain from when the blast hit him didn't need a microphone in order to be heard by the crowd. His scream lasted only seconds before he was obliterated.
Taking this as a cue, the other dragon-man, Infini, flew from the shadows he had been hiding in towards Buu. Buu gave Gohan a glare that rivaled that of a very disgruntled postal man, and not the kind that delivers mail. Gohan glared back defiantly but looked away. The dragon-man and Buu started their fusion the same time that Gohan had flown over to Hikaru, her family, and his family.
Luckily for Gohan the fusion was going to take awhile.
They stared at him in pure amazement when he stood in front of them. What the majority of them saw was them disappearing and then Buu was beat up and Kaiser missing. They shook of their shock when he addressed them.
Gohan looked over each and every one of them for a long time, his gaze lingering on Hikaru and Goten. He sighed deeply realizing that his time was drawing near to an end.
"Piccolo I need you, Dende, and Goten to get Miss Shidou and her family and friends away from here." He said each word in his usual tone, and it made the others wonder if he really was even worried about it.
"But onii-chan!" Goten started, but was quickly silenced by a concerned look from his older brother.
"Gohan, do you need us to gather the dragonballs after we drop them off at their dojo?" Dende asked his long-time friend.
"No, I believe that won't be necessary." Gohan said, noticing that the fusion was almost finished. He looked over at Hikaru, "I love you and I promise to come back to you." Disgustingly emotional and cliche, but it got the point across
/Piccolo/
/Yeah Kid/
/A few miles away from here is a cave I put the Z-team fighters in. In a few days, could you go over and exterminate them/
/No problem./
With that, Gohan stepped back, and did a backflip that landed him in the ring next to a newly fused Buu. Gohan, with sword out, powered up as the Namekians and Goten flew out with the others.
"Hey Piccolo," Goten asked Piccolo, both of their arms full of people.
"Yeah kid?" Piccolo answered as they started flying.
"Why didn't Gohan attack Buu while he was fusing?" Goten asked, which brought on an expected reaction from Umi.
"Because he's stupid that's why."
"Ignorant girl!" Piccolo yelled uncharacteristicly. "look below!."
Sure enough, there were several dragons and an army of skeletons surrounding the stadium. There were about eight dragons and a few thousand skeletons.
Hikaru was the first to figure it out, "Did Buu threaten Gohan not to interefere?" And she was correct. Almost.
Goten realized something that was closer to the truth. "He threatened him with our lives. (Though it was more of a silent threat, as Gohan saw the look on Buu's face when Infini flew over to him.)
Umi bit her tongue for first time in her life while Fuu said, "Intrigueing."
"Why do you not tremble boy?" Buu asked, knowing that he was now much stronger than the demi-sayain. If one were to look closely then they would see a confident smirk upon his face as he glared condescendingly at Gohan.
"Is that all you got?" Gohan said as if he were bored. "Because I'm not impressed."
"What is your malfunction! I am obviously stronger than you.
Gohan sneered as he went to the third level of super sayain. Buu gasped and immediately created more dragons around the Stadium. They all started up and over to Gohan. Buu calmed himself before staring at Gohan in confidence once again.
"What now boy? Even you cannot defeat us all!" Buu haughtily said to the still man.
"I told my brother that I had grown three times stronger, and I would never lie to him." With that, he absorbed all of the power from the sword, including the power that had been inside of it before he had installed his own ki into it.
Buu's smirk faultered, but quickly regained itself as he transported all of the youkai he had created on Earth and in this solar system over to where he was.
Now there stood over three hundred dragons, in rows around the stadium. Five thousand skeletons joined the ones that already were making their way into the stadium.
Gohan, for the first time since the incident in which he forgot his senzus near dragons, felt fear. But fear had never stopped him before, not since he was a kid. He calmly floated upwards, until when he was fifteen feet above the rings, and yelled as loud as he could so that all the youkai could hear him. As he yelled, he released an explosion from his body which destroyed all the youkai. Unfortunately, A dragon and a wall of skeletons had been guarding Buu, so he had remained unharmed while a deformed, burning piece of dragon flesh lay in front of him. Buu smirked as he saw a tired-looking Gohan floated down, with black hair.
Gohan was suprised, for the first time since he had realized that he had fallen in love with Hikaru. Apparently Gohan had not expected for Buu to use a shield. He chuckled at Buu's smile, making the pink man look at him strangely.
"You obviously don't know my secrets." Gohan laughed out while reaching into his pocket.
"What do you mean boy?" Buu said.
"This is why you can't beat me." So saying, Gohan pulled out a senzu from his bag and ate it before throwing the bag in the direction Piccolo had flown off to. Somehow, he knew Piccolo would catch it.
Feeling rejuvenated, Gohan transformed into level three before staring at Buu, who was raising his ki to the max, and in the unsuprising and cliche ending to all of the Dragon Ball Z major battles, they were equal.
Gohan changed his position so that he stood straight up, with his feet shoulder width apart, and his hands in front of him, forming a familiar cross.
Buu launched a ki blast which held all of his power in it at Gohan.'
Gohan responded in a way that only one who knew him for a long time would notice to be predictable.
"MASENKO"
The two blasts had collided in such a way that the world literally shook with the enormous and controlled power. There was no clear winner in this stand off, but what was clear was that no matter who won, much destruction would have been caused.
Both were giving it all that they had, and it was easy to see since they were both contorting their faces as if in pain. Both were driven to win this battle. Buu by ambition, greed, and pride. Gohan by love, hate, and also pride.
Their drive to win caused them to call upon every ounce of strength that they had. The world shook more violently as the power started to cause climate disasters and the tectonic plates to shift much more quickly. And just when the point where the two beams were contacting seemed like it couldn't hold any more power, the dragons around them shot their own at it in order to push the Daimo back.
The strain of power indeeed made Gohan fall back, but it also made something else entirely rip open, the other dimention, the very one that at some point was connected to the Room of Spirit and Time.
Gohan, at this point, became so pissed off that he shot another blast out of his eyes and body that destroyed all of the dragons. This meant an end to the extra burden on his original blast. It also meant that he had less power to take care of Buu with.
The others had made it to the Shidou household where the three brothers were trying to console a crying Hikaru, who kept mumbling,"he's losing."
Goten was silently crying into Picollo's leg while Dende muttered obscene curses. Picollo said nothing, but was clenching his fists so hard that his claws cut into his green palm. These three were taking it very badly as well.
Umi was, for once, quietly waiting while others were grieviing and Fuu was, of course, trying to figure out a logical explanation for how Hikaru, Goten, Picolo, and Dende knew what was happening.
Gohan knew that he wouldn't win, but he knew that he couldn't lose either, he wouldn't allow it.
'If I can't kill him. . .' the Daimo thought as he eyed the other dimention, which was starting to close without the power of the dragons holding it together. He let go of his beam and flew out of the way and towards Buu. Gohan tackled him mid-air, knocking the both of them into the dimention seconds before it closed.
And somewhere far off, a group of agonized screams could be heard, caused by four people who sensed the absence of Gohan's ki.
THE VERY END
Author's note: I, ESCUDO, am sorry for the slight six month delay. I got sidetrackedseveral times and truly apologize. If you want a sequel, tell me in your review or at my e-mail at or