Chapter 23

Meanwhile, in the vast emptiness of HFIL, Nate and Uub appeared in a cloud of smoke. Both taking in the eroded, and desolate wasteland that lay before them. Nate surveyed the area and then pulled out a book from his cloak.

WELL, IF WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NORTH SIDE WE SHOULD FINALLY COME ACROSS SOME SORT OF 'CIVILIZATION' IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT THAT. Nate said as he pointed towards a crop of jagged rocks.

Uub looked on, hopeless thoughts crowded his mind. He knew what he had to do, but still could almost feel something from back home. He felt a ping of despair as he realized what was happening. Goten, and Trunks had died.

"No, we were too late!" Uub said as he fell to his knees, "Goten and Trunks have been defeated, they are dead!"

Nate looked at him quizzically, and then looked in his schedule book.

OH, APPEARS THEY HAVE. WELL, I GUESS I HAVE NO CHOICE THEN BUT TO MAKE SURE THEY COME BACK NOW DON'T I?

Uub looked at Nate and his face lit up, "That's right, your Death!"

Nate looked at him with a grin, and then made a motion with his hand.

NOW YOU MIGHT WANT TO STAND BACK UUB. THIS COULD GET KIND OF FREAKY. Nate said as he concentrated his powers.

The next thing Goten and Trunks knew they were standing in front of them. Both looking up as if they were talking to someone massive.

"Goten! Trunks! You guys are alive!" Uub said as he rushed to them and tackled each one with a hug.

Trunks looked over and seen Nate smiling. He then understood what happened and started to pat his body down. He was alive, and he felt better than ever! Now he definitely could make a difference in the fight against the androids. But then Trunks realized that they were not on Earth.

"Ok, where are we?" Trunks said.

WE ARE IN THE DEPTHS OF HFIL. WE ARE LOOKING FOR KIDD BUU SO THAT WE CAN FUSE HIM AND UUB TOGETHER, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE THE MOST POWERFUL ALLY WE CAN HAVE. WELL, BESIDES GOKU AND VEGETA FUSING THAT IS.

"Well, then what are we waiting for," Trunks said with vigor, "Let's get started in finding him."

The quartet started on their trek across HFIL looking for the one they needed. Trunks, Goten, and Uub lifting monstrous boulders yelling out for Kidd Buu. Finally, Uub got an idea.

"Wait a minute guys. Isn't this Kidd Buu the same as me but evil?" Uub asked.

Trunks, not understanding what Uub was getting to shrugged and nodded his head.

"Great, well then why don't we just search for an energy signal like mine, and high tail it over there. I mean, I assume, we can still fly here right?" Uub said as he pointed himself in the direction Nate had pointed to earlier.

Trunks, Goten, Uub, and Nate all sat pointed in the same direction. All of them concentrating on Uub's energy signal, and for one like it. Then Trunks thought he caught a slight tingle of something familiar. He focused on that area again. And sure as ever, Trunks found what they were all looking for.

Trunks shouted, "I found him!"

Goten and Uub turned abruptly towards Trunks and noticed where he was aiming his finger, then concentrated in the same direction. Neither of them knew what Trunks was talking about at first, but then they noticed it. The signal was faint, but it definitely matched Uub.

"Great, now we can go get him!" Uub said.

Goten interrupted, "Wait a minute guys, it took my Dad and Vegeta an enormous amount of strength to beat this guy, and then my Dad killed him. Not to mention he probably remembers fighting us."

Trunks looked at him confused, "So what?"

Goten shook his head.

"Well, then what makes you think that he is going to just say hello, and help us. We were his biggest problems, not to mention a very painful thorn in his side. I mean, it would take an enormous amount of energy just to get him to shut up and listen for a minute. Not to mention any longer than a minute." Goten said, taking in a long breath.

Trunks contemplated this for a moment, and realized that his best friend was right. They needed some way to get him to sit down, and shut up for a moment, or at least distract him. And then they could get to explaining why they needed him. All of them started to wrack their brains, trying to come up with a solution. It hit Goten after a few minutes, and it was so obvious that he was surprised he didn't think of it before.

:"Hey, what if we have Nate materialize some candy? We know he loves candy, and any other types of sweets. I mean god, Uub when you get around sweets you go nuts!" Goten said.

Uub blushed at the comment and then thought about it.

"Must be what I picked up from Good Buu." Uub said.

Nate looked around, agreed with the rest of them, and materialized some candy and cakes. They all grabbed a handful and started to fly towards the energy signal. What they found when they got there, was something they would have never expected at all. There sat Kidd Buu, Super Buu and the evil grey Majin Buu, all arguing about who was the real Majin Buu. The tall grey one, walked over to Super Buu, and yelled at him.

"I'm Buu, you a big fake" the grey Buu said.

Super Buu looked at him, and then laughed.

"I don't know, with a vocabulary like that, I'm inclined to agree. At least I'm not a disgusting shade of grey," Super Buu said as he pointed and laughed.

Kidd Buu stepped between them both and grabbed them each by the collar.

"You not Buu," He pulled them closer, " Me Buu, not you."

And with that the shorter Kidd Buu slammed their heads together and shot a very large and very strong attack at them both. The blast took off most of their bodies, and Kidd Buu went to work on that as well. Blasting with very large energy waves at the individual pieces, making sure they didn't regenerate.

"Well, at least we will only have to contend with one," Uub said as he cracked a grin.

Kidd Buu then felt a familiar energy, making his facial expression one of shock, and turned his head slowly all the way around. His body, not moving, stayed facing the other way. His neck twisting like a towel in your hands would. The scene almost made all the comrades turn green in disgust. Kidd Buu looked on at the group, but his eyes, his eyes were looking right at Uub. Something in the way that Uub stood, made the engineered killing machine almost cringe. Buu couldn't believe what he was feeling, nor could he deny it at all. This creature staring at him, made him feel incomplete. As if this creature was what he was missing, the piece of the puzzle that would complete him.

"OK, is it me, or is Buu looking at Uub like he recognizes him?" Trunks said confused.

Goten looked at Uub, and then at Buu.

"Yea, I think he is," Goten said, "And I think, that he isn't too happy about it."

Buu's face slowly started to change from one of shock, to one of sheer utter hatred. His body changed and morphed as his front became his back. His neck, previously twisted, untwisted, becoming normal again. Buu's face was contorted, eyes half squinted, nose scrunched up, his teeth bared. Buu looked as if he was angry that Uub was standing before him. Then the short, pink, warrior tensed up his entire body. Blood vessels strained across his skin, muscles bulged, and strained against his skin. Then the silent, angry Buu, yelled out loud unleashing his anger in a powerful show of his energy.

"ME BUU!" The pink warrior screamed, "NOT YOU!"

Goten, and Trunks looked on as they watched Buu's exclamation of power. Both looking on as they felt the awesome power of the creature they had before them.

"You know, I really don't want to have to go up against this guy," Goten said.

Trunks nodded, "No kidding, I remember how bad it was to lose against him. Not even Gotenks stood a chance."

Uub now looked on at Buu, not saying a word. The calm dark warrior was starting to get angry as well, sensing the complete evil of his counter part.

"I don't care how powerful he may be. If he was a part of me, I don't want it back." Uub said through clenched teeth.

Both Uub and Buu looked like they were going to blow up. Both of them looking like they would explode at any moment. Little whisps of electricity coming off of them, almost striking the other. The group didn't know what to do, let them fight, or try to break it up with the risk of pissing one or the other off.

LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT, IT WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS EASIER. THEIR STRUGGLE NEEDS TO BE FOUGHT OUTWARD BEFORE IT CAN BE TAKEN INWARD. BOTH ARE UNWILLING TO ACCEPT THE OTHER, MUCH LESS BE ABLE TO AGREE TO REUNITE. LET THEM HASH OUT THEIR DIFFERENCES THEIR WAY. Nate said.

Then, without warning, the two launched into a battle that rocked HFIL and the heavens. King Yema could even feel the effects of the battle from his high place, which didn't please him one bit.

"Darn them! Who do they think they are to fight in my HFIL?" The massive King Yema questioned as he braced himself on his desk.

Meanwhile Buu and Uub continued their battle, furious and fast they moved. Neither one able to out maneuver the other, or hurt the other, no matter how strong a blow they landed. Buu, easily angered, flung his arm out at Uub and wrapped it around his neck. Uub tried to block it with his hand but to no avail. Buu let out a sickening laugh, one might say it was a laugh of sick pleasure, then he pulled it back hard. The recoil of his arm sent Uub slamming into the a nearby jagged rock. The rock didn't impale Uub, instead it just went through the hole that he subconsciously created in his stomach.

"It's gonna take a lot more than that to kill me you freak!" Uub yelled as he flew out from the rock and then fixed his body.

This angered Buu even more and he put his hands above his head.

"No," Goten shouted, "That's too powerful of a blast!"

Goten powered up to Super Saiyan and created a blast of his own. Without thinking he fired it at Buu, putting his full power into the blast. The energy wave went right through Buu, tearing away his right arm and exploding on a rock nearby. Goten then stopped a second, and then realized what he did. Buu looked at him angrily and regenerated his arm. Then without warning Buu fired an energy blast at Goten. Goten powered up and tried to deflect the blast, but Buu expected it and suddenly waved his hand to the side and the energy beam darted off the direction Buu directed it. Goten sat there in shock as he watched Buu direct it, not even paying attention to where the blast had gone.

"GOTEN LOOK OUT!" Uub said as he flew over to his friend's aid.

Goten turned back in the nick of time as the blast started to head his way. The young Saiyan powered back up and crossed his arms in front of him. Buu looked on in great joy as his moment for attack was best. He shoved his hand to his right quickly as his expression turned from glad to sheer hate again as he turned his head to his counterpart. Then Goten looked on again in confusion when the blast didn't hit. He then followed the trail and realized the blast was heading right at Uub.

"Look out Uub!" Goten shouted as he tried to warn his friend.

But the warning came too late, as the blast had already hit it's target head on. Uub flew back from the impact, smoking, and landed on a pile of rubble. Uub got up, and grinned.

"Come on, do you really think that small of an attack would take me out? We are one in the same Buu, neither of us are destroyed by a simple attack." Uub said with a smirk.

Uub got up and tilted his head in an almost hideous smile. Then slowly all his wounds healed and he was like new. This aggravated the pink counterpart, and made him yell out in anger.

"Me Buu! Me Buu! Me Buu!" He said as he smashed his feet into the ground and steam came out from the holes on his body, "NOT YOU!"

And with that, Buu launched himself at Uub and powered up. Uub did the same and threw most of his strength into the swing, as he dodged Buu's punch. Uub's kick landed right against the pink killers face. The angry Buu grabbed Uub's leg and then swung him in a circle, letting go, and watching him fly. Then Buu without hesitating generated another large blast and fired it. Uub, hurting from the punch, turned around and noticed the energy blast headed toward him, and then proceeded with his own. Both blasts meeting almost in the middle. Both warriors panting and struggling hard to make his own blast over take the others.

"My god, they are both so powerful. I'm afraid ancestor that a lot of HFIL won't make it." Kibito Kai said as him and the Elder Kai looked on through the help of their crystal ball. The old kai looking on with interest.

"I'm not so sure young kai," The old man said, "Look at the fire in Uub's eyes. There is something he is hiding from the others. It's almost as if he is testing Buu, making Buu work to see, maybe, to see if he would be an asset to him."

Kibito Kai looked back at the crystal ball, wondering if his ancestor would be right. But the fight looked so grim for his friends. He wanted to maybe go and help, but he also wanted to respect the elder kai's wishes. And at this point he already made a promise to not intervene.

"I wonder Elder how things are going with Goku and the others." Kibito Kai said, as he tried to persuade his ancestor to look back to Earth.

The elder Kai looked at Kibito Kai, and just stared at him for a while.

"You know very well, that they are doing just fine," Old Kai said, "And besides, seeing Death in an orange robe is just hilarious, he looks like a giant Orange!"

Kibito Kai fell over from the comment and Old Kai started to laugh.