Chapter 3 - Fusion vs Fusion
Earth, Western Wastes
Who am I?
This was the first question to run through Vegehan's mind as his consciousness and body took form, given birth by the magical construct two mighty Saiyans fueling it. It was strange, how he could see his life flash before his eyes even before he could blink, before he could even move.
Then he saw two lives, and two names.
One was Vegeta, heir to a race that all but died out almost half a century ago. He was a proud man with impeccable drive to keep his honor and held his pride almost above all else. He had a wife, and a son, one of which had traveled back into the past to save him and their timeline. He was the archrival of the 3rd Class Warrior Goku of the Son family, and respected his half breed son, Gohan. While he may never had been the strongest, his character and persona defined him as one of noble beginnings and ultimately a noble end.
The other was Gohan, son of Goku and Chi-Chi. A boy who had constantly struggled with the turmoil of unadulterated rage that would burst to the surface, overpowering him and controlling him within the heat of flaring emotion. With help from the fatherly mentor, Piccolo son of King Piccolo, and his own father, he managed to help tame the power within him and become a fighter with unprecedented skill and strength. His fight with Cell ultimately marked him as a prophetic savior, despite the loss of his father, managing to slay the evil creature once and for all.
Who are they to me?
Vegehan thought about this as his form began to take physical shape. He knew that at one point they were independant people, yet had distinct characteristics that made them very identical. Born with incredible power that flourished at tender ages, forced into conflict without any alternative choice, and having the terrible vice of letting ultimate power lead them astray. One passive the other agressive; they were more alike than most would credit them.
What does that make me?
Vegehan opened his eyes and everything became crystal clear. This was his first second of the first hour he would be born into the world. Everything up to this point was preparation, experience coupled with intelligence that he wouldn't have ever known until now. The power he felt at the core of his being felt natural, as if it was always been there, just as the thoughts and feelings coursing through his system were there to begin with.
Raising a thumb up, he made the proud declaration of his newfound existance to the being he was created to destroy, jabbing it at his chin as he smirked, "My name is Vegehan. It is a pleasure to meet you, Majin Buu."
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"They did it!" Kibitoshin said with a gasp of elation and surprise. Falling onto his knees with thankfulness, he was grateful that Vegeta showed up when he did. With Goku out of the fight so soon, their hopes were almost dashed until Vegeta showed up. After much apparent convincing made to the stubborn Saiyan Prince, the two joined forced and managed to fuse.
"Oh...oh my!" Elder Kai's eyes opened wide, almost gaping at the crystal ball showing Vegehan's posing form.
"What is it, Elder?" Kibitoshin inquired, curiously darting his eyes from the ball back to his ancestor's face.
"I had thought the bond between Goku and Gohan would have been a fantastic choice. Their love and trust as father and son been seen throughout their past, from what I've read from Goku's mind," Elder Kai began to explain, calming himself down slightly, albeit still sporting several beads of sweat crawling down his violet-hued scalp, "However I clearly have underestimated the deep understanding and mutual respect Vegeta seemed to have shared with this boy. This Fusion just might be just as strong if not stronger than I could have hoped!"
"Just how much stronger?" Kibitoshin asked with a shocked expression, not understanding how such a revelation surprised his ancestor so greatly.
"I'm not sure yet," Elder Kai said with a shake of his head, "we'll just have to wait and see."
Earth, Western Wastes
"I-Incredible!" Tien said aloud, his three eyes open wide and nearly bulging at the miraculous event that occurred before his vision, "they really did join bodies...!"
It was the most incredible sight to behold. Like a celestial light had enveloped two people he knew personally, and transformed them into an entirely new being. And the way he stood, he talked, and introduced himself...really seemed like a person born of two people.
Meanwhile, the abominable fusion of dear friends and comrades, stood with arms crossed. A pleased smile adorned his visage, his gleaming red-black eyes blinking with fascination and intrigue rather than fear. If anything, he looked much more excited than he had minutes ago.
"Vegehan, hm?" Buu said aloud with his head cocked to the side, "that does have a nice ring to it. I can see now that you really are a combination of two great fighters, even if they were the only ones left of any notable worth."
"Jealous of my good looks?" Vegehan asked coyly, waving his own hands dismissively before setting them on his hips, "don't feel bad. I know you try hard but not everyone can stop looking like a piece of gummy skinned shit. But hey, I can't blame you for trying, Bannana Head."
"Bannana Head?" Buu furrowed his hairless brows, his smile evaporating upon hearing Vegehan's insult.
"Did I hurt your feelings? Don't worry, I'll make it up to you," Vegehan said with a cocky, tooth-spread grin, "by the time I'm done with you, your feelings won't be the only thing hurting!"
"Tch," The Fused Majin clucked his tongue, rolling his eyes as he unfurled his own arms, "ever the one with such rapier wit. I can see the Vegeta and Gohan in you quite clearly, though it matters not. The only reason I allowed you two to fuse was a last second pause for my own curiosity. To see if you could actually test the limits of my newfound power."
"Funny, that does sound like something Goku would do," Vegehan said with an amused smile, taking a few steps forward as he inquired, "are you sure you're in charge, or is he the one pulling your strings?"
For a second, the Homunculus paused and let loose a faint gasp. After a few seconds of realization, he heard Vegehan's laugh, causing him to glare with disdain at him.
"You should've seen your face! Wow, you're as gullible as he is, hahahaha!" Vegehan let loose a playful, mocking laugh escape his throat as he slapped his knee with jeering expression to his own amusement.
"Cute," Buu growled out, balling his fists at either end. A dark smile stretched across his face as his glare lightened along with his tone, "now if you're done fooling around, I think it's time we get down to business."
"Sure thing," Vegehan smiled back, eyes widened with query, "would you like to start with a warm-up? This IS the first time I've used a body and I'd like to see how it works."
"Fair enough," Majin Buu nodded with acceptance turning right side around before bending forward. With an arm stretched up behind him and a downwards facing palm over the spare piece of soil in front of his foot, he perfectly mirrored the Turtle Hermit stance Goku used against Vegeta, "let us test the waters."
"Oh right!" Vegehan said with apparent anticipation, holding a clawed out hand close to his forehead while the other was kept by his side. As a gust of wind caressed the land, his vertically aligned hair billowed to his left, vice versa with the Ultimate Majin's head tendril.
Then, the two evaporated into thin air.
"What the-?!" Tien blinked his eyes, looking around briefly to see where they disappeared to, "where did they go?!"
They'd reappear three dozen paces to his left, Vegehan's left upraised leg blocking a roundhouse kick from Buu. The result of the sudden collision caused an electrifying seismic tremor, shaking the entire debris ridden valley. Keeping arms up to shield the skin biting dust away from his eyes, Tien could only gape at the speed and power delivered from each other's contact.
"I'm going to need move if I don't want to be caught in the crossfire," Tien thought with a sheepish smile, quickly leaping up into the air to watch from a more safer distance.
It didn't stop the two from continuing their attacks, though.
Buu followed up with a spinning kick, blocked by a swiveling forearm by Vegehan. Stretching out his available hands, the Majin creature let loose a Double Masenko, meeting an palm-thrusting discharge of a Maximum Flasher. The result caused a widening blast of spherically rolling solar-hued flames, cracking the earth and sending a deafening boom that rattled the canyon further.
While Vegehan backflipped out of the detonation's range, Buu flew out of the side, arms upraised as he gave the Saiyan chase.
"Nice reflexes," Buu admonished as the two hovered in the middle of the air, spinning upwards while keeping their bodies facing each other at all times.
"You're not half bad yourself," Vegehan said with a passively elated grin, tightening his fists that were clenched near his sides.
"Alright then," Buu said with a chuckle, rearing back both of his arms to his sides, "take...THIS!"
With an emphasized thrust, Buu discharged two torso sized balls of azure light, rushing towards him with a cobalt lit trail in their wake. They appeared like ordinary Ki Blasts, rushing at him like seeker missiles.
Upon reaching the halfway mark, however, it seemed to spread out into hundreds of microsized bullets of cerulean light. It appeared like an army of streaking fireflies, screeching across the air like bottle rockets towards its target.
"A spread shot attack? No problem," Vegehan thought with a grin, raising his right clenched hand in an upraised manner.
Just before they could touch the linen of his uniform, he opened his hand, releasing a cyan-lit omnidirectional blast from his blue-black gi form. The storm of energy shattered upon the expansive ballooning blaze of energy, hitting the ground with enough force to distend it several dozen meters downwards.
A whoosh of movement tipped the Fused Saiyan, causing him to lean his head to the right, narrowly avoiding a thrusting left fist. Grappling with an open left palm over the black linen covered wrist, Vegehan hurtled Buu over and around his back to his front.
Buu retaliated with a kick towards Vegehan's right temple, blocked readily by Vegehan's right forearm, causing a crackle of azure electricity to flourish between their limbs. The Ultimate Majin reared back his available fist, this one redirected with a swiveling twist of his right defending arm, passing near his chin harmlessly.
Without hesitation, both warriors thrust their foreheads towards each other, causing a seismic shockwave to emanate between the radically contrasting hued dermal surfaces. Red eyes locked onto onyx orbs, both adorning carnally pleased smiles, both enjoying the thrill of the fight.
By the time the distilling air waves kissed the earth below, the two enemies broke apart, and began a dizzying dance. They'd move to and fro, only appearing in an instant, creating explosions of electrified pockets of cracked airspace wherever they went. Dozens upon dozens of exchanges were made, none of which the triclopian airborne observer could keep track of.
When they finally rematerialized, their right knuckles struck each other, creating a ballooning burst of ignited Ki and kinetic force. It tore apart the ground beneath them, shattering standing mineralized formations and crops of hillsides. As the rumbling of their attack subsided, the two pink and azure bioelectric enraptured fists would slowly separate.
Both warriors would hover only a handful of meters away in the air, smiling at each other with satisfaction, arms at their sides to ready themselves to go at it again.
"I know it's too early to tell...but it looks like they're completely equal as far as skill goes," Tien surmised mentally, his trio of eyes blinked warily from the kilometer of altitude he placed himself, able to take in the subtle details of pair more than other warriors could, "the real question is, when they're done warming up, which one is stronger?"
As the sole observer of the fight hung up in the middle of the air, the two warriors born of fusion continued to give each other appraising stares.
Buu clenched and unclenched his hands, feeling excitement well up within his being. He never felt so excited in his previous battles, not since facing Goku in his most primitive state of being. A potential equal, a person to test the utmost limits of his newfound abilities against. It truly boiled his Majin blood with joy to no end!
But, if the new Buu was anything, he wouldn't be called unfair. With that mindset, he cocked his head to the side, smiling at Vegehan as he inquired, "How's that body treating you now, Vegehan? Feel more of that blood circulating better?"
"It's better, but, I dunno," Vegehan said admittingly, reaching over to his left shoulder, spinning his opposing arm around in a circle as he furrowed his brows, "I feel like my limbs are a bit stiff. Maybe if we upped the ante of our battle, I'd get my blood really going!"
"Tired with our friendly warm-up? Very well," Buu concurred with a nod, raising up his halfway clenched hands close to his chin, swishing his legs underneath himself in an attempt to mimic a bouncing posture, "let's see how you handle this level of power!"
"Hm?" Vegehan's eyes widened a fraction, seeing Buu approach him, retaining an aura of scarlet light.
Just before he could ready himself, the pink-skinned demon disappeared before his eyes, reappearing in a blur of motion beside of him. A balled up left pair of knuckles bludgeoned into his torso, twisting around before hurtling him forward, the air popping like a supersonic bullet had been discharged.
The Fused Saiyan appeared as if he was pinwheeling in the air, incapable of halting his momentum as he twirled within the air. Before he could right himself up, Buu would materialize behind him at an instantaneous rate, lariating his back into his arm with a crimson tendril-lit crackling burst of Ki-imbued force.
"HAAAAAAAAAAA!" Buu shouted aloud, letting loose an arc of blazing pink energy at Vegehan's haplessly spinning form, thrusting him through the air like a cannon ball. A fissure of orange flames erupted from the fissure of earth Vegehan's energy endowed form careened through, leaving an eruption of rosy hued light to discharge into the air.
"V-Vegehan!" Tien shouted out with dismay, his eyes wide with alarm at how quickly Buu overpowered the fusion born Saiyan.
As Buu lowered himself before the pyre of flames, he stared at it with a satisfied smile. Crossing his arms, he sensed a low amount of energy brimming within, knowing that Vegehan was alive though he presumed that wouldn't be for long.
Before the Saiyan could rise, Buu thrust out his arm, stretching it out to grapple him by the neck tightly. Swinging him out of the chasm of ashen soil, the Fused Buu drug him across the earth for what seemed like a good kilometer, cutting a swathe through the natural lay of the land.
Unleashing another point blank blast of coral colored Ki, a billowing pillar of light would extend across the horizon, causing more untold destruction to wreak and erupt the canyon side. As he retracted his limb back with an audible snap, Buu cupped his palms to his sides, forming a scarlet hued orb of light.
"Kamehameha!" He shouted aloud, discharging the beam of rosy-divine hued energy, having it collide into the pit of which he sent Vegehan, "let's see you get up from this!"
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"Oh no!" Kibitoshin stood up with alarm, his hands rushing through his silver hued tresses with dismay, "it wasn't enough! Buu is too powerful!"
"It certainly seems that way," Elder Kai mused, his eyes blinking at the orb as he watched the battle unfold before him.
"I don't understand...is Vegehan inferior to Majin Buu? Surely he didn't gain that much power from Goku alone!" Kibitoshin paced back and forth, scratching his head with confusion.
"Maybe you should look closer at Majin Buu's movements," Elder Kai pointed at the ball, just as Buu seemed to grapple Vegehan through the flames, "don't they seem a bit too fast, even for him?"
"W-What are you suggesting, Ancestor?" Kibitoshin inquired, his eyes now attentively looking at the orb as Vegehan was slung across the canyon side.
"I'm saying that Buu is multiplying his power from another source, a power not dwelling from his captives or his own inherently dark well of energy. A technique that has only been taught to Goku and ever mastered to an extent his teacher couldn't attain," the older Kai said, albeit in a cryptic manner.
After only handful of seconds to recall what technique he could mean, Kibitoshin seemed to recoil with horror, just as the secondary explosion ignited over Vegehan's form, "No...this is horrible! That monster has access to THAT blessed technique?!"
"It appears so," Elder Kai nodded, his brows furrowing as he saw Buu charging the Kamehameha, "although...something doesn't seem to be right."
"What now?!" Kibitoshin groaned out, his weary tone only defusing when he saw the perplexion of his ancestor.
"Hold on a sec!" Elder Kai waved at the fused Supreme Kai dismissively, his face practically smacking into his orb to get a better look, "something's happening!"
Earth, Western Wastes
"This is too easy," Buu thought to himself, a smile spread across his joyous visage, illuminated by the rosy-white glow of his Kamehameha that inched closer and closer to its target, "I've barely used the depths of what real power I can-!"
A thunderous crack broke Buu's daze of glory-filled nirvana. Blinking, his mouth opened agape as he saw the bristling edge of his energy blast ricochet away from the smoldering pit it was aiming for, flinging haplessly at an angle into the depths of space past the skyline.
"-the hell was that?!" Buu finished his trail of thought audibly, his eyes looking up at the dwindling rays of pink light, replacing it with the normal rays of sunlight. Turning his gaze back to the pit, he saw a figure rise from the smoke, the flames of the prior explosion dispersed by the Kamehameha's redirection.
Flickering from his position, Buu super-sped to reappear in front of the rising entity, finding himself slightly taken aback by what he saw.
"Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaah," Vegehan groaned out with satisfaction, a look of relief donned upon his face, the sounds of shoulder joints popping in place in sync with a neck crack signified the source of his enjoyment, "that did the trick. I think the stiffness is gone now, thanks for that."
His hairless brows twitched at this comment, though it didn't lessen any of his bewilderment. There was nary a scratch on his body, not a single hair out of place, not even a piece of torn linen upon his muscular frame. It was as if none of his attacks had even been landed upon him.
"Did he deflect my attacks or is that part of his real power?" Buu queried, his face contorting into a frown as he studied Vegehan with keen eyes.
"Hey," Vegehan called out, earning Buu's attention, "hit me with your best shot."
"W-What?!" Buu inquired in an incredulous tone, shifting slightly back in a recoiling motion.
"I want you to really hit me as hard as you can," Vegehan pointed to his left cheek, his smirk widening as his tone deepened, "what, do you want me to turn my back to ya, make it easier for you?"
"Why...you...arrogant...!" Buu snarled, veins beginning to sprout above his dark sockets, teeth baring to signify his anger. Crimson tendrils began to snake up and down Buu's body, the power the fusion born Saiyan drawn out by goading that hit a sensitive nerve within the proud Majin.
"My earlier attacks were only at two to four times in yield, with my Kamehameha being six times," Buu thought to himself, his dark eyes gleaming with dark trepidation, a sinister smile spreading across his visage, "let us see...how he can fair against...ten times..."
"KAIOKEN!" Buu shouted aloud in declaration, his body producing dozens of crimson bioelectric currents. Before Vegehan could utter a follow-up quip, Buu's body seemed to streak forward, visibly distorting the air as it bent around his electrified person.
A energy endowed fist struck the point where Vegehan indicated, snapping his head back with a violent jerk, splitting the air in an explosive dispersal of oxygenated currents. Within a dramatic supersonic boom, the powerful Saiyan was hurtled out in a blue-black blur into the horizon, leaving the ground and air to curl around him in a material shredding velocity.
Buu's smile returned to full spread as he saw his handiwork, feeling Vegehan's energy signature spin across the planet, moving in a complete arc back towards his location. Turning around, Buu kept his aura of the enhanced Kaioken power, facing the pinwheeling Saiyan head-on.
"C'mon," Buu said with growing anticipation, rolling his fist back as the visually distorted figure of Vegehan came quickly towards his airspace, "lemme return the favor again!"
Just as Buu's fist thrust towards the widowspeak cropped crown of the Saiyan, he heard a distinctive pop. The sound of his punch collapsing the billowing wave of planet-lapping air pressure created a geyser of earth-rending kinetic force, splitting the ground for what seemed like kilometers in either direction.
But before Buu's fist, as much as his eyes blinked with understandable confusion, there was no Vegehan.
"Where-?" Buu began to query aloud, just as Vegehan's dark silhouette appeared in a materializing motion of super-speed, looming above his head.
Hammering into the top of his head was a pair of clenched fists, causing his black eyes nearly bulge out of his socket. His body flung down into the ground with a mighty impact, the kinetic force completely flattening the canyon and turning it into a embedded below sea level crater. Blistering winds send rumbling sound waves to shake the earthen horizon for many kilometers around.
Buu struggled up from the earth, pushing up enormous slabs of disheveled rock off his body. He wanted to nurse the obvious dent on the top of his pink crown, but he knew he had little time. Just before he could acknowledge his tattered condition, a fiery cobalt figure crashed into the ground in front of him, blasting away the debris far away into the air.
"What the-GAH?!" Buu felt the air driven out of his lungs, whistling out of his skin's blowholes, as a fist was driven deep into his chest cavity. What followed would be a series of unrelenting punches, thunderously annihilating the already fragile earth beneath them, as each pair of knuckles cracked against his jaw, chest, and abdomen. All Buu could do was gasp and shout with exclaimed pain and confusion at the battering he was taking.
"I'm clad in ten times Kaioken! So...how is he making me suffer so greatly?!" Buu thought with incredulous disbelief, finally feeling an end to the flurry of impacts, his body stumbling backwards with relief.
He was a mess. His left eye socket was swollen over, his face was indented and twisted in a comically astrewn manner, with blood trickling out of various porous tears in his skin. His chest had numerous indentations of its own, past the ripped and shredded gi top, as if his body had sustained craters of similar magnitude to which the ground beneath him had suffered. And every place his wound was sustained was a crackle of azure electricity, signifying the lasting damage was dealt by a power greater than the crimson currents that danced around his putrid skin.
"Wow, look at you," Vegehan jeered, his smirk showing his teeth as he stood proudly before the bloodied and disfigured Majin Buu, "all beat up and looking hopeless. Does anyone get the feeling of Deja Vu here, or is it a habit of yours to get your ass kicked?"
"Y-You'll pay," Majin Buu snarled, his tendrils crackling in sync with his growing rage, just as his body began to assimilate itself to normalcy, "for that ins-OOOOOOH!"
Silenced by a flying kick into his chest, the Fused Majin flew backwards in a pinwheeling motion, just as the earth buckled and the air curled around his own being. Plateaus, higher raised elevations of earthen slabs collapsed by his rocketing form, the outline of his visage from a distance was visible a sparking crimson flash of light.
It wasn't too long until he crossed over into the cold north, finally righting himself just above the polar ice cap with a mighty full-body Kiai. Growling he felt his teeth grind upon each other's surfaces, his eyes livid in projection of his slowly building wrath.
Just as he looked for his oppressor, an instantaneously materialized Vegehan, appearing behind Buu caused him to open his eyes wide with shock and bead rivulets of sweat down his scalp upon hearing his words so close to him, "Yeah, like I haven't heard that one before."
"Why you-!" Majin Buu snarled as he twisted his hips around, swinging his foot around to catch his foe in the midriff, only hitting the faint traces of a disappearing after image.
A sudden violent tug was felt on his skull attached tendril, pulling his body backwards into a thrusting elbow jab, segmenting forcefully into his backside. A bulbous stretch of flesh pushed out of his chest, causing him to convulse and gargle with unabated pain, blood splaying out with copious amounts of saliva from his gaping maw.
"Big Bang..."
Majin Buu's eyes widened at the sound of that diabolical technique. Turning his spasming head slowly over his shoulder, he would see an unmistakable cerulean illumination cast over his backside, spreading out with a large spherical expanse as it whined with its priming.
"...KAMEHAMEHA!"
Buu's voice curdled into a shriek as his back was bludgeoned by bodily sized orb of the Big Bang Attack, pushed up at an upward angled arc by the Kamehameha. By the time the bomb exploded, the pyre of trailing energy fed its incinerative energies, creating what would appear like an asteroid sized maelstrom of flames bristling in the middle of the upper atmosphere.
Lowering his gloves down, Vegehan could only let a dark chuckle escape his smirking lips, "Gotcha!~"
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"I-I-Incredible!" Kibitoshin muttered out with a wide-eyed, agape expression. How quickly the battle turned before his eyes was just incredible. The fact that it seemed Vegehan had been toying with Buu this whole time just seemed almost unfathomable.
"See?" Elder Kai pointed at the crystal ball with a satisfied smile, "I told you, the power of Fusion isn't based solely on a combination of two people's strengths. It takes their mutual disposition of each other, thrives upon it, and then magnifies that empathetic energy into raw power."
"I never knew such a being could exist," Kibitoshin looked at his hands, clenching and unclenching his hands with realization, "no wonder you thought I'd be no match for Buu. My power pales in comparison to his."
"The Saiyans seem to be an elusively gifted bunch. I wonder if it was my generation's way of having a morbid sense of humor, but they are practically the most unrivaled sentient species in the cosmos for a reason," Elder Kai said with a sage nod.
Just then, a brilliant flash of light enveloped the crystal ball, forcing their eyes to shut with their arms protecting their vulnerable sockets. As the light dimmed from their viewing crystal, Kibitoshin furrowed his brows in sync with Elder Kai's.
"Did...did he kill him?" Kibitoshin inquired pointedly, trying to peer into the orb to see any trace of Majin Buu.
It didn't take long. Pink sludge seemed to be oozing with smoke and fiery embers, seared into a blackened crisp by the severity of the attack. As it began to realign itself into a body, Elder Kai huffed.
"Why didn't you do it?!" He fussed at the ball, placing his hands on it, practically shouting at the ball, "you held back, didn't you?!"
"Uh, Ancestor?" Kibitoshin looked at his now undignified elder with sheepish perplexion.
"Confound it! All that power and you're going to allow Majin Buu another chance to destroy the Universe?! You stupid, stupid Saiyan!" Elder Kai cursed at the ball, practically pulling out what few hairs he had left.
Kibitoshin could only let out a soft sigh, shrugging as he looked at the ball with innate curiosity, wondering where the battle's direction was going to lead next.
Earth, North Pole
Majin Buu could only growl as he painfully reattached his repaired, gummy tissue where it belonged. As he restored his martial arts uniform back accordingly, he glared down at Vegehan, having taken residence upon the peak of a ice berg peak. His arms were crossed and looking up at him confidently, chilly northern gusts caused his earrings to move in sync with his singular hanging bang of borderline onyx hued hair.
"What's the matter, Buu?" Vegehan hollered up at Buu, using his own immense Ki to magnify the volume of his cocky toned words, "is a times ten Kaioken not enough to stop me? Is my power too great to handle?"
"He knew how strong my Kaioken was?!" The Fused Buu realized from Vegehan's words. Using a combination of Goku's battle cunning in sync with Piccolo's intelligence, Buu quickly put together how Vegehan feigned him so easily, "he must have used a suppressed fraction of his power. Every time my attacks connected, he raised it up just at the moment my attacks connected. That's why he appeared unaffected without my noticing his level of strength."
"Judging by the lack of witty banter, while not surprising, I'm guessing you finally figured it out," Vegehan shouted up, chuckling as he remained stalwart atop his icy platform, "yes, my power does exceed yours, over ten times in fact. Quite impressive, don't you think?"
Glaring heatedly downwards, Buu clenched his fists on each side of himself. Despite the radical distance between them, he could tell that Vegehan was making a smug expression on his face, angering him even further than the words jabbing at his core. He wanted him to die, and painfully so!
"RRRRRRGH, NNNNNYYYYRRRRRGH, GRRRRRRRRRR!" Majin Buu snarled out, his voice contorting and shifting in radical tone, as his body convulsed with spasmic release of energy. Veins protruded all across his skin, his body's muscular disposition bloating and expanding, making him nearly twice as large as before.
Then, he let out a terribly shrill scream.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Bibidi's terrifying creature shouted out, piercing the heavens as scarlet-white ribbons of energy curled and projected around him, creating a blinding overcast of illuminating energy. Even as the tendrils of bioelectric power struck the ocean and various icy precipices, arcing even around Vegehan's stalwart posture, he stared on with reveling anticipation.
"That's it, keep it coming," Vegehan whispered out, his eyes flashing dangerously as a scarlet lightning bolt flashed in front of his face, "show me your rage, Majin Buu."
And after what seemed to be hours of throat tearing shouting, the Homunculus presented a single hand up above his head, seeming to be presenting a blanketing mass of light that filled the entire sky. If one was to look from orbit, there would be a glistening and crackling orb of pinkish energy, comparably the size equal to if not greater than Sol's moon itself.
"Whatcha got there, Buu? Another crazy technique?" Vegehan asked with curiosity, his voice somehow still audible to the looming nightmarish being above him.
"Hardly," Buu said with a laugh, "every time I've destroyed a planet, I take a piece of its energy with me. This orb, my Cosmos Bomb if you will, is the culmination of eons of destruction I've wreaked across the Universe. Ages before the Saiyans rose out of the mud, I've slaughtered more than your entire race, let alone the tyrant that held it captive for their final hours."
"Tell me something I don't know!" Vegehan said with a laugh, his eyes looking up at the horizon, to and fro with turns of his head, "any Death Ball I've seen Frieza make looks like a gum drop in comparison. Which makes what I'm about to do kind of anti-climactic, really!"
"What?!" Buu his eyes widening with incredulous disbelief.
"Are you a gambling man, Buu?" Vegehan inquired rhetorically, looking down at the peak of ice beneath his feet, "you see this spot? I wager that you can't push me a single inch beneath altitude. That should show you just how outclassed you really are!"
"You...will...regret...that!" Buu snarled out, howling as he curled his hand in a downwards arc, causing the skylined blaze of light to descend slowly and ominously towards the Earth's northernmost location, "prepare to taste cold oblivion, fool!"
Fissures of scarlet lightning danced across the frozen north, striking the ocean and ice accordingly, shattering and distilling voluminous wells of moisture all around. Even the oceanic tides began to distend as the magnanimous expanse of light charged towards its surface, revealing the large mountains of ice that remained standing.
It was the most terrifying force of nature that the Earth ever would see. Not even the maelstrom of competing Kamehamehas between Cell and Gohan 7 years ago looked so epic. Even the collapsing environment of Planet Namek's atmosphere looked so benign in comparison.
And yet, Vegehan didn't hold a single ounce of fear.
It was then, as the Cosmos Bomb rocketed downwards within arm's reach, Vegehan began to laugh. A laugh so hearty and so full of excitement, that it drowned out the roar of the energy bomb heading his way.
"ALRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!" Vegehan shouted bombastically, putting both arms up to press against the folds of descending energy, just as his body ignited an aura of cobalt-white light. Dancing tendrils of bioelectricity flowed around him, as his power rose up to full force, intending on arresting control of the bomb's trajectory and intended target.
As he did, rivulets of rippling light strode across the energy lit skyline, spreading outwards in a circular fashion. An entire ocean of energy rippled and distended from the microscopic origin of titanic force issued against it, finally rendering it fully to a dramatic halt.
"I-Impossible," Buu uttered aloud, having used Instant Transmission to appear a dozen meters away from Vegehan, seeing him keep his word and stop his attack without even rupturing his icy perch, "w-what is this?!"
"Hey!" Vegehan called out to Buu, causing his daze to be snapped and his focus back to reality, "watch this!"
Slowly, Vegehan rose into the air, pushing the skylined orb further up and back into the vacuum of space. After what seemed like an hour of ascension, the fused Saiyan reared back a fist, and thrust it into the fabric of energy, "AND AWAY YOU GO!"
Without any reasoning or thought behind it, Buu watched his precious reserve of energy he had savored for ages launch itself back into the dark void. The illumination of light receded back to normalcy, the deep blue of the now cloudless sky returning, as a circular orb of light slowly but surely vanished from sight.
Rising up within a shimmering blur, Vegehan's body crackled with cobalt currents as the rest of his being flourished with passive thrums of azure light. All the while crossing his arms over his dark blue garbed chest, sporting a cocky grin, "Not bad, huh?"
After taking in the long moments of just how powerful Vegehan was, Buu allowed himself a chuckle of his own. Turning to face him fully, the Homunculus clenched his fists at his sides, staring at him with his own renewed confidence, "I see that's an impressive power you have there. For some reason I get the feeling you were holding out on me. But now I see the true depths of the power you possess."
Waving an arm, Buu's hairless brow glowered at him as he growled at the fused Saiyan, "But don't allow that to go to your head. I will find a way to destroy you, and when I do, it will be the end of all life everywhere. Don't you forget that!"
"You're wrong, Buu," Vegehan unfurled his arms, declaratively stating aloud in a confident tone, "the gods themselves have anointed me as your executioner. I am the ultimate warrior, given life by the last crown prince of the Saiyans and the bridge between humanity and its kin. I am destined to destroy you!"
As if to further prove his point, Vegehan clenched his fists, and dug his elbows into his sides. A deep growl emanated within the recesses of his throat, slowly and surely building into a yell as a newfound well of power was tapped into. It was at this point that the entire planet itself began to shake.
"W-What?!" Buu's eyes widened with shock, seeing energy crackling all around the surface of the planet, caressing its surface and wrapping around every tall precipice. The ocean roared out with explosive waves, spurting lightning from the moisturized mass into the air, splitting the sky with its presence.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegehan shouted aloud, his voice carrying on as his body glistened within a pyre of white light, stretching out and dispersing across dozens of meters of airspace. Airwaves rippled Buu's skin as violently as the widowspeak flickered within the heart of the growing power building and rising up to the surface.
Tien, feeling his cape flapping wildly around him, could barely open his eyes for a second as every pillar of light that would discharge around him. He was just thankful it had no target in mind, otherwise he felt that he would be pummeled into oblivion.
"This energy is ridiculous! It doesn't seem to have an end in sight!" Tien muttered to himself as he crossed his arms, at the sensation of such large power erupting around him.
And it only seemed to get larger, and larger.
Earth, Western Wastes
"This energy!" Dende shouted with shocked exclamation. His eyes darted back and forth, energy flowing to and fro, coiling and almost holding a sentient hold over all of the land's mass as far as the eye could see. The sky sprouted hundreds of towering electric tendrils, splitting the air with thunderous announcement, making known the power that was building up far away.
"H-H-H-Hold O-O-O-On, B-B-B-Bee!" Hercule shouted comically, as his widened and dumbfounded eyes drawn upwards, holding the cowering dog closely to his chest, "I w-w-will p-p-p-protect y-y-y-y-ya!"
"Oh merciful Kais, protect us!" Dende prayed aloud, even though he knew it was in vain. All he could do was bow his head and not look at the terrifying blaze of electrifying energy crackling and choking the planet with its presence.
But Earth wasn't the only place feeling the power. The vacuum of space itself seemed to be filled with the shocking tendrils, snaking around each planetary body and constricting it with its power. A chorus of crackling light filled the entire solar system and beyond, seeming to spread and never end in its reach...
Earth, Furnace of the Eight Divisions
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" A beautiful, tall woman by the name of Annin rocked back and forth, almost collapsing onto the ground. Wild, howling winds roared outside of the confines within the dimensional gate between the living and the spiritual world, safeguarded only by the Immortal and its other occupant.
One of which had long since fell to the ground, rolling side to side by the seismic shakes the mountain gate took.
"If I wasn't already dead, I'd say I'm too old for this!" Grandpa Gohan quipped humorlessly, before a rock from a ceiling fell onto his head, clanging onto his head hard enough to make him see stars.
"What in the oblivion is causing such a feat?!" Annin shouted aloud as she finally spread her feet, taking a more sturdy yet wobbly stance, "I felt Goku's energy before...but whatever this is pales that now! I don't even recognize it!"
"Let's just hope it doesn't want to come barging in here!" Grandpa Gohan groaned, holding his head as he stared at the ground with trepidation, "I can't take much more of this!"
"I can only imagine the state Other World is in if a sacred place like this feels such a powerful tremor!" Annin bursted out with widened eyes of shock, realizing just how powerful the currents of growing power is building up could reach.
Otherspace, The Check-In Station
"What a pain...!" Baba groaned, trying to fix the connection with the TV, set up within King Yama's office. They had been given a live feed, courteousy of the Kais, to see the battle transpiring on Earth but a sudden electrical interference was caused. Baba was instructed to get to the TV since he was still stuck with paper work.
Then, the entire office shook with a violent seismic force.
"What in the damnation is going on?!" King Yemma shouted aloud with a mixture of frustrated fury and incredulous fright. Towering stacks of paperwork have long since fell to the floor, writhing with the crackling currents that sporadically burst and ignited around the interior of the immensely proportioned building, "can someone tell me why my office is shaking and everything is lighting up?!"
"S-S-Sir!" An ogre attendant reported, wobbling to and fro on his feet, as dozens of others scrambled madly across the floor mostly in panic as they fell on their faces and buttocks promptly, "it isn't just the of-f-f-fice, s-s-sir!"
"What do you mean?!" King Yemma pushed himself forward on the rattling, wooden desk as his full height towered over the poor wobbling subordinate of his, "what is doing this?!"
"The entire sky of Otherspace is lighting up!" The ogre responded with a despondent tone, his eyes practically bulging from his sockets.
"What?!" The enormous ogre bellowed, rushing out of the office with long strides, each footstep drowned out by the seismic thunderclaps that rattled the building. As his red hands leaned for support on a window proximate wall, he looked out with an agape expression of his own.
The violet-hued skies with a golden cloudy landscape was rattling with hundreds to thousands of cobalt colored lightning bolts. They danced, crackled, and rattled the air with its presence, filling the pores of every sentient being with the Ki that was imbued within the energy that expanded and flourished all around them.
"Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah," King Yemma stuttered with apparent fear, too overcome by the awesome sight to create order for the many manic employees of his from within. What kind of interdimensional source could cause such a cosmic storm of untold measure?
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"E-Elder?!" Kibitoshin looked around with very apparent fright, seeing the grass dance with hundreds of sparks just as the violet-hued sky filled with enormous fissures of azure energy. Everything, even the Otherspace's endless breathable void ominously blazed with the power that was spreading like wildfire. "what is going on?!"
"That fool!" Elder shouted aloud, his eyes now bulbously staring at the crystal orb, his body trembling with his own share of fright, "I told him there was no need to transform! Why?! He could tear apart the Universe AND Otherspace if he's not careful!"
"But Ancestor, he's-!" Kibitoshin began to say, before a vividly bright golden light shined from the ball, creating a chink within its flawlessly smooth sphere, "w-what is that?!"
Sol System
At the center of a white pyre, residing upon the world's northern polar cap's airspace, glowed and projected its power far beyond that of any ordinary being could fathom. It spread across the fabric of the cosmos, touching and coiling around every living and inanimate object for what seemed like an eternity. The power projection was insane to produce an aesthetic light show such as this!
But then, a geyser of golden light erupted from the polar expanse, spreading on a planetary scale. It wasn't long until the entire planet was bathed in the maelstrom of flaming light, soon its rivulets of light spreading out into the vacuum of space, spilling out and coloring the emptiness in its magnified presence.
The divine light seemed to touch everything and flow to every precipice and height capable of thought. Then, as long and suddenly as it appeared, the light and seismic shocks of bioshocks vanished, leaving everything untouched and as if nothing had transpired. A solitary, minute glow at the polar cap, however...
Earth, North Pole
Majin Buu was left stunned in every sense of the word. The energy he felt, being so close to it, felt nigh unfathomable to touch. His eyes, having been blinded ten fold, have finally recovered to see what his gummy skin bristled with sensation. What he saw caused his mouth to hang open like a pelican's.
There, hovering in midair, was a golden enshrouded being. A widowspeak crop of hair rippled with visible motion, now transformed into solid golden bladed tresses, coiling with bioelectric pulses. Onyx eyes now opened to reveal emeralds, a single blonde bang flickering back and forth across the vain-filled visage as a dangerous smile flashed across his face.
As the solar silhouetted being raised a right handed glove towards his chin, a deep and dreadful chuckle broke out as he spoke, "Call me, Super Vegehan!"
A/N: To some, you might have all seen this coming, but I hope what you saw was beyond your expectations :)
So, a couple things I wanted to go over.
Regarding the phonetic pronunciation, Vegehan is pronounced, "Vege-han," and not "Vegan" as a Reviewer once inquired in my last chapter. Just thought to make that clear before you guys continue reading, lol
Next, about the inclusion of all the power projection reactions.
I did some research as I wrote this, trying to find every possible angle to have reactions of the more important and elusive angles. Considering Annin (despite being part of a Filler Arc) was part of a fundamentally critical area of the world's gateway to and from Other World, I thought was important enough to debut as part of the reactionary audience.
And considering that Super Saiyan 3 Goku was enough to "shake" the Universe, I felt obligated to outdo such a performance with Vegehan's power projection
Overall, let me know how I did on this chapter on the Review section below ;)
I'll see you all in the next chapter, of Dragon Ball Zenkai!