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Review Responses
I'm glad you like my story so far and how I'm handling Hercule's disgrace. As for the Fusion comments and questions. It's true that Goku learned those in other world so in this story he doesn't currently know the technique. I have yet to decide whether to make a way for them to learn fusion or not. All the questions and/or hopes about who has reached Super Saiyan 3 and who hasn't should be answered in this chapter and if not it is clarified at the end of the chapter. And I'm sorry the last chapter was a little short but the Goku Vegita fight seemed like a good cliff hanger and the next good cliff hanger was a ways off so I decided to end it there. This chapter is longer. Read and enjoy.
Chapter 9
"Remember there are people here, Vegita. We can't go all out."
"Whatever Kakarot just fight me."
Goku and Vegita charge each other both fazing out at the last second. Vegita appears behind Goku with a fist to the back of the head. His fist passes through an afterimage as Goku appears behind him with a kick to the back of the knees. Vegita quickly recovers and blocks the fist Goku sends at his face. He retaliates with a kick to the legs. Goku also quickly recovers blocking the next blow from the Saiyan prince.
I'm tired of this. Fighting at such a low level proves nothing. With a yell Vegita turns Super Saiyan.
"Vegita we're not going all out," Goku protests.
"This is just the tip of my power Kakarot. You can either transform or be beaten." Vegita charges Goku and lands about twenty punches to the Saiyan. As Goku looks up the Saiyan prince brings both hands down on Goku's head slamming him into the ground.
Goku gets up out of the small crater. "I will not fight you all out, Vegita. Too many people will get hurt. I forfeit."
"Did you hear that ladies and gentlemen? The former champion of the world has just forfeited."
"You can't forfeit Kakarot. I will have my fight with you." An M forms on Vegita's head as he ascends into the second level and his power goes even beyond that. He raises his hand and shoots a ki beam into the crowd incinerating thousands of people. "You will fight me Kakarot or I'll kill everyone here."
Out in the desert by Babidi's space ship the evil wizard grins. "This is perfect Dabura. The energy you brought back from the tournament is almost enough to revive Majin Buu. With this new pawn under my control and the Supreme Kai not even close to finding us, Buu will be revived in no time."
"Yes master he will be unstoppable."
Back at the tournament Vegita raises another ki ball and shoots it into the crowd.
"What's wrong with you Vegita?" Goku asks.
"He's under Babidi's control. Babidi's awakened the evil in his heart."
"All right Babidi," Goku yells. "Transport us somewhere away from people and I'll fight Vegita."
"No you can't. All the energy you lose will go to Majin Buu."
"I have to. I can't let people die because of me. Gohan go and find Babidi and stop him. I'll hold off Vegita." Goku and Vegita are transported to the middle of the desert. "Ok Vegita you'll have your fight." With a primal scream he transforms strait to the second level of Super Saiyan.
"Ha you think you can beat me like that. Babidi also increased my power greatly by awakening the evil in my heart. I'm the perfect warrior." Vegita charges Goku and punches him in the stomach doubling him over. Just as the taller Saiyan is recovering, Vegita backhands him, sending him flying into a nearby mountain. "You are weak, Kakarot. You can't even come close to my new power."
"Ok that's it," Goku screams. "I'm through holding back." With a scream Goku clinches his fists and begins to power up. His hair grows down his back and his eyebrows disappear as his ascension into the third level is complete.
"So you have been holding back on me all this time, you and your brat both." Vegita calms slightly. "No matter with this new power I got from Babidi I can still beat you." Vegita charges Goku and throws some more punches. Goku dodges or blocks them all but just barely. Goku retaliates with some more punches and kicks of his own, all of which Vegita deftly dodges or blocks. The two warriors fight at Super speed both seemingly evenly matched.
Meanwhile, back at the tournament, Gohan walks over to Videl. "Now I'm going to go hunt down an evil wizard. I want you to stay here."
"Can we go with you Gohan," Goten and Trunks both ask at the same time. We can help you. We're both Super Saiyans after all.
"No you'll just slow me down." Gohan raises two fingers to his head and teleports himself to the lookout. He appears right in front of Dende, the earth's new guardian with the Supreme Kai and Kibito appearing next to him. "Dende," Gohan starts, "we need your help. We need to locate the evil wizard Babidi and his henchmen before they can release Majin Buu."
"It's too late, Gohan. Didn't you just feel that? Buu has been released."
Gohan suddenly feels the large evil power. "Well I guess that makes finding them easier. Now I've got to go and beat Buu."
"How can he have been released so soon? Even Super Saiyans would have to fight for days to release enough energy to free Buu. It just doesn't make sense," the Supreme Kai mutters to himself.
"They are fighting at a level far above Super Saiyan," Gohan explains. My dad's power is at about what it is when he goes Super Saiyan 3. And Vegita's is almost exactly the same as my dad's."
Back out at Babidi's ship, Buu's egg suddenly shudders. "It's happening. Buu is being resurrected."
"Yes master your plan will be fulfilled."
Suddenly Gohan, the Supreme Kai, and Kibito all instantly appear right in front of Babidi. "Quick, Gohan, destroy the egg before Buu gets out," the Supreme Kai says.
"I'm not sure that's such a good idea. It could make him more powerful. Besides it's not really fair."
The egg containing Majin Buu suddenly cracks and falls open revealing a big fat pink monster curled up in the fetal position. Buu slowly uncurls and stands up.
"That's your ultimate weapon," Dabura scoffs. "He's almost useless. There's no way he…" Before Dabura is finished Buu punches him in the stomach.
"Buu no like you. Buu make you cookie." A beam of pink light shoots from the top of Buu's head and hits Dabura, turning him into a giant cookie. Buu quickly gobbles up his new treat.
The Supreme Kai looks over in fear. "We're all doomed. We must retreat and find a plan to beat Buu."
"I have a plan."
"And what is that."
Gohan lets out a scream and ascends to the second level. He keeps screaming and ascends further to the third level. His power now is nearly equal to Majin Buu's. "I'll beat him." Gohan charges Buu and lands a punch right to the face.
Vegita throws endless volleys of punches at Goku, who dodges every one of them. "Hey wait Vegita. Did you feel that?"
"I felt nothing Kakarot. Now keep fighting."
"Don't lie, Vegita. You felt it the same as I did. Majin Buu has been revived."
"So what we haven't finished our fight yet."
"Vegita the earth could be destroyed."
"It doesn't matter as long as I beat you first. Besides your brat just powered up to face him anyway. Majin Buu is not threat compared to us." Vegita charges Goku again. The battle resumes faster than ever.
Gohan throw a kick at Buu connecting to the fat monster's stomach. Buu simply pops the ensuring dent back out. "Buu no like you. Buu make you dead." Buu charges Gohan with a speedy punch kick combo of his own. Gohan deftly doges out of the way and delivers a hard right kick right to Buu's face. Gohan grabs a hold of Buu's head and uses him for a punching bag before throwing him into the air.
"KA… ME… HA… ME…" A massive ball of blue energy forms in Gohan's hands.
"Oh my goodness Gohan is stronger than Buu," the Supreme Kai says. "I was worried for nothing."
"NO!!!" Babidi shouts you can't kill Buu.
"HA!" Gohan releases the huge Kamehameha wave at the pink blob.
"You did it Gohan you beat Majin Buu."
"No he's still alive. I can still sense his power."
Sure enough a minute later Bull reforms from the tiny particles that survived the Kamehameha wave. "That was fun. Buu try no." Buu cups his hands at his side mimicking Gohan's kamehameha stance and shoots a large ball of energy at Gohan.
I can't dodge or the Earth is finished. I have to deflect it. Gohan puts his arms up to catch the massive beam of energy. The energy wave reaches Gohan and stops as the Super Saiyan 3 holds the beam back. Finally after struggling for a few minutes Gohan manages to redirect the beam and send it flying into space.
"Just finish him Buu," Babidi yells from the sidelines.
Buu charges at Gohan with another series of punches and kicks. The Super Saiyan 3 uses his Superior speed and agility to dodge all the blows. Gohan retaliates with his own attack. Gohan begins with a kick to the side of the head. He then fazes out and punches Buu hard in the back and fazes back in front of Buu to deliver another hard punch to the stomach. Gohan continues to play his little game of punch Buu from both sides until finally he punches Buu hard enough to send him flying into the ground hard. Gohan floats with his hands on his knees panting as Buu climbs out of his hole. I better finish this quickly, Gohan thinks. I don't know how much longer I can maintain Super Saiyan 3. I can feel the power fading already. As if this thought was an unspoken omen, Gohan's hair suddenly shortens and his eyebrows reappear. Buu then charges out of his crater and throws some more punches and kicks at Gohan. In his less powerful state, the Super Saiyan 2 is unable to dodge very many of them. Buu throws Gohan into the ground. Gohan gets up and charges back at Buu but the pink monster just continues to pummel him at every opportunity. Finally Buu kicks Gohan into the ground. Gohan lays there unconscious his hair it's normal black.
"Ha Buu beat him. Now kill the Supreme Kai," Babidi orders.
"Vegita we have to stop this. Gohan's power is fading if we don't intervene soon he'll die." Goku continues to try to talk as he dodges punches thrown by the Saiyan prince.
"And I care? If your spawn dies it means nothing to me."
"If we're not there to stop him, he could kill everyone on earth, including Bulma and Trunks."
Vegita pauses his attack on Goku dumbstruck. The pause came none to soon as at just that moment Goku's power faded and he dropped out of Super Saiyan 3 and back into Super Saiyan 2. "All right Kakarot. We'll postpone this for the time being. And I'll stop Buu. Besides you look worn out."
"Great, here's a sensu bean." Goku gives Vegita a sensu bean and starts to take one himself. Before he can put in his mouth, however, he is hit on the back of the head and knocked unconscious.
"No Kakarot. I will finish Buu on my own." Vegita pops the sensu bean in his mouth and then takes off toward Majin Buu's energy.
The Supreme Kai shudders in fear as Buu launches himself at the purple god. The hits land and land hard. In minutes the Kai is laying on the ground bleeding.
"Good Buu. Now finish…" Babidi is interrupted by a huge explosion. He looks over and sees his ship in ruin. "What who did that."
"I did," Vegita answers.
"Vegita how dare you. You openly defy me. Buu kill him."
"You forget. I'm almost as powerful as your stupid monster."
"Buu no like being called names. Buu mad." Steam starts to rise from Buu's head and he charges Vegita. Vegita dodges and delivers a punch to Buu's gut. Buu retaliates with a punch to Vegita's face.
While the giant pink blob is distracted, Kibito picks up his fallen master and Gohan and teleports them to the world of the Kais.
At the world of the Kais, Kibito revives Gohan and the Supreme Kai. Gohan gets up groggily. "What happened?"
"You were amazingly strong out there Gohan, but it wasn't enough."
"I know I can't maintain Super Saiyan 3 long enough to wear him out. And that is the only level that can match his power."
"Gohan I have a plan on how to make you stronger. There exists a weapon that is indestructible. The wielder is undefeatable. This weapon is the Z sword. And it's on this planet." The Supreme Kai leads Gohan to a giant stone where the Z sword is stuck. "All you have to do is pull it out."
Gohan grabs the swords handle and pulls. The sword doesn't move. He turns Super Saiyan and pulls more. The sword still doesn't budge so he ascends into the second level and give a mighty tug. The sword comes flying out of the stone and sends Gohan flying back.
"Great now for how to train to beat Buu…"
Gohan interrupts the Kai. "No disrespect, but I can train on my own." Gohan puts two fingers to his head and disappears.
Vegita continues to fight Buu, but the monster is too powerful. Buu delivers a punch to the stomach, bending Vegita over and causing him to cough up blood. "Now Buu make you dead. "Buu shoots a massive energy beam at Vegita, sending the Saiyan to the next world.
Goku wakes up from his Vegita induced nap and senses around. He can no longer sense Gohan or Vegita but he senses most of the other of earth's fighters at the look out. He finds the sensu bean and pops it in his mouth. Buu must have already killed Gohan and Vegita. If he is that powerful, I better head to the lookout and try to make a plan instead of rushing in like Vegita did. Goku puts two fingers up to his forehead and disappears.
What does Gohan have in mind as far as his training goes? Does Goku have a plan on how to beat Buu? Find out next chapter.
Ok another chapter finished. Just to clarify Vegita isn't a Super Saiyan 3. But since he was already a Super Saiyan 2 under Babidi's control his power almost matches that of a Super Saiyan 3. He was beaten by Buu so quickly because his power is still below Buu's. Goku was holding back in the fight. That made Vegita think he could match Buu. Gohan lost to Buu because even though in this universe he is way more powerful, (He's about equal to Goku) Super Saiyan 3 is still a new power and he and Goku can not maintain it very long. Buu on the other hand can't fight as well as a third level Super Saiyan (as seen in the show when Goku kicks his ass) but can maintain his power much longer.
This chapter took a little longer but it's pretty long and I was pretty busy for the last couple of days. Anyway read and review as always.