Chapter 4 - Power
Earth, North Pole
Exhilarating.
That's all Vegehan could describe the sensation sweeping his body in a singular word. Even it did injustice through the boiling heat that caused his blood to flow at speeds defying comprehension. The bioelectric spasms his nervous system convulsed instinctively, as much as the azure currents crackling occasionally around the golden, thrumming mantle of pure energy emitting from his pores.
And all of this power was at his command.
When his declaration of his new state of being was made to Buu, he could see the etching of fear mingled with frustration on his face. The power he released was so dramatic, and so terrifying, that it paled any transformation he had undergone up till this point. He may deny it to the bitter end, but Vegehan took satisfaction from reading it from the expression his body spoke louder than any words:
Majin Buu, was afraid.
"You feel it, don't you?" Vegehan inquired cocking his head upwards, sticking his chin out at the now attentive Homunculus, "you feel my power, right?"
"Tch, fool!" Buu snarled, visibly contorting his visage as his hands balled with renewed vigor at his sides, "it doesn't matter how many times you transform or how much stronger you've become. I am Immortal and my body cannot be destroyed. You can't kill me even if you've become one thousand times stronger than the Supreme Kais!"
"That sounds like a challenge," Vegehan said with a smirk, crossing his arms over his chest as bioelectric tendrils crackled around his passively thrumming aura of golden light, "you want to see how many times you can will yourself back from the brink of death? At this state, I can do that for an eternity against someone as weak as you."
"So you think," Buu announced, raising up a balled up right-handed fist, baring teeth in a indignant dark grin of revelation, "just to let you know, I have been holding back. The ten times multiplier I used for Kaioken is barely the tip of the iceberg of power I can produce on my own volition."
"Oooooooooooo," Vegehan feigned fear, raising his hands slap his cheeks, his eyes widened to a degree of false surprise, "you've been holding back THAT much? Here I thought I was in the clear, but I guess there's no comparing to your AMAZING power, right?! Son of a Ozaru, I'm really done for!"
"Mock me all you want!" Buu shouted aloud, throwing his fist to the side as he glared at Vegehan, veins beginning to bulge across his hairless brow line, "you'll rue the day you insulted me!"
"Go ahead then," Vegehan goaded the "Super" Buu, nodding in his direction, "show me this power that you've been holding back from me."
Given leeway to do as he pleased, Buu didn't hesitate a single moment longer.
Pulling his arms back, crimson tendrils of flickering light crackled around his body. A guttural growl emanated deep within the recesses of his throat, as his eyes nearly closed, sockets nearly clenching with effort. Even as his muttered inaudible sounds murmured across the air, unmistakable currents of virulent blood red lightning began to discharge out and about his person.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Majin Buu howled out with widened eyes, his body now ignited with an expansive fiery aura of crimson light. Bioelectric currents of whitish hued rosy coloration danced around his body freely, even as more enlarged discharges of energy struck out and about from his person.
"That's it. Keep it up," Vegehan thought with a devilish smirk, unphased by the light show and sensational pressure of steadily climbing power the Ultimate Majin was drawing out. "I want to see your absolute limit, Majin Buu."
"Twenty...times...twenty five...times..." Majin Buu thought to himself, as his muscles began to expand and contort around his limbs. His aura burned and howled as much as his voice emitted a guttural roar, energized currents flashed brilliantly around the atmosphere, darkening the sky around him.
As veins began to bulge grotesquely around exposed tissue, Majin Buu's eyes almost glowed red from the exertion of power draw. With his mouth held agape, he snarled out in a clear and steady voice, "Forty five times Kaioken..."
A brief crack was heard, causing Vegehan's left brow arch upwards, noticing a glowing fissure rip across the Homunculus's shoulder. Another appeared across his chest, sending out bloody mist and white light, indicating the overuse of the infamous boosting technique.
"Hey, maybe you shouldn't raise it any-"
"FIFTY...TIMES...KAIOKE-!"
That was all either one was able to say before it happened.
Erupting into a pyre of virulent light within an instant, Majin Buu's body detonated from the inside out. The result let loose all of the excess built up energy and spewing it upwards into the heavens, disrupting the darkened skyline as it jettisoned into space, annihilating any planetary body it would come across for hundreds of light years of aimless travel.
"Well," Vegehan shrugged, smirking as he saw the atmosphere resumed a normal hue, revealing Buu's steaming puddy remains hovering in the air, "I did try to warn him."
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"D-Did Buu just...blow himself up?!" Kibitoshin inquired in an almost flabbergasted manner.
"Overexerting the Kaioken can do that. It's probably why King Kai never tried to use it in a conflict, for fear his own inept version would cause himself to be blown to kingdom come," Old Kai surmised, staring impassively at the crystal ball, watching the progress of the battle as it stood now.
"But...even if Majin Buu didn't go to that extreme, he still can't get to Vegehan's level. So we have nothing to fear from him!" Kibitoshin rationalized with a smile, which was quickly defused by a doubtful roll of the eyes from his elder.
"Sure, young'n. If that's what you want to believe," Old Kai groaned as he fixated his eyes back at the sphere and away from his younger counterpart, "now I just hope that this Vegehan will act soon, less Majin Buu be given a chance to do some REAL damage!"
Earth, North Pole
Buu's body didn't take long to assimilate back together.
A product of the power coursing through his fusion-empowered cells, he didn't even feel as much pain as he once had before. The self-inflicted injury had only stung, but because of the instantaneous combustion, he only took the embarrassing act of self destruction in stride.
"Ahhhhhhh," Majin Buu sighed with relief, opening his eyes to gaze back at Vegehan, placing his hands on his hips, "good as new."
"And back to square one," Vegehan quipped with a chuckle, folding his arms over his chest, "I fail to see how this stunt of stupidity has reaped anything of value. Did you blow a few brain cells you had left, or is idiocy a common thing for you at this point?"
"Fool," The Super Buu leveled his tone as he cast a dark stare at Vegehan, raising his right hand upwards with emphasis at the fusion born Saiyan, "I was finding the boundaries of which Kaioken could take me. With proper control, I can use forty five times my own current strength and maintain it. Anything beyond that is futile and self depreciative to my person."
"Don't strain yourself with the big words, Buu," Vegehan cocked his head to the side, earning a growl from his enemy as he continued, "it's unbecoming of you to sound smart."
"I'll make you pay for insulting me!" Buu shouted out loud, balling his fists into his palms as his eyes widened to a near incredulous size.
Just as the Homunculus dug digits into his palms, he swung his hands out in both directions, discharging them from their sockets like bullets. Stopping after a dozen meters of travel distance from each other, circling around Vegehan, each contorting and expanding in size. Within a handful of seconds, what was once a staredown between Majin Buu and Vegehan turned into eleven Buus against one fusion-born Super Saiyan.
"If you had trouble with a single Majin Buu," The original body of the Super Buu said, propping both hands on his hips as each of his bodies performed various stretches and projected glares of their own at Vegehan, "how about eleven Majin Buus?!"
A round of demented laughter chained around Vegehan, whom seemed to laugh with humor himself, "Gotta say, I don't know the punchline is, but a clever one just came to me. Don't worry, I won't give it away till this plan of yours bites t he dust!"
"Your confidence is understandable, but misplaced," Buu stated as if it was a fact, raising his hand upwards to extend both forefingers of his right set of digits, twitching them towards his direction, "take him down!"
In that instant, flashes of virulent crimson light and electricity sprung up from each of the Buu bodies, creating a overcast of damning blood-hue over the environment. Lightning discharged wildly about, cracking the air with thunderous applause, as the shattered ice layered waters below stirred and distended from the force pummeling it from above.
After but a few seconds of consolidating the amassed power, the ten Buus disappeared within a blur of movement, all of their fists rushing towards each exposed spot of Vegehan's body. The sheer force of the collision was fantastic, causing a warping eruption within the middle of space that distended the arctic ocean below hundreds of meters.
But beyond the attack's visage, all of the Buus would stare aghast, seeing only their knuckles cracking against each other with no Vegehan in sight.
"Where did he go?!" One inquired, blinking with perplexion.
"He can't be that fast!" Another shouted with indignation.
"Just look around you idiots!" A third shouted aloud, causing them to lean around and look around their shoulders.
"There he is!" A fourth and fifth shouted aloud, pointing towards the Eastern direction at a casually floating Vegehan.
He floated in the middle of the air, arms crossed and looking totally relaxed. Even his magnificent thrumming aura was dissipated, leaving only his golden tressed and earring adorned visage to make him iconically familiar to his enemies. Smiling mockingly, Vegehan cocked his head in a goading manner, inviting them to attack freely. "C'mon! I don't like being kept waiting!"
"GET 'EM!" Nearly all ten Buus shouted aloud, rushing towards him with a wake of bloody light left in their wake.
When the ten Majin Buus reached Vegehan's proximity, a dizzying dance of flailing limbs and super speeding movement ensued.
From the distance, a wary Tien had followed the battle, anxious to see its outcome. As he watched the discharges of fiery light and electricity, his third eye allowed him to have a more telescopic view, seeing that the coordination and unity of all the Buus were frightening to behold. For every three punches came in, six kicks would come about at the weak spots, with the final one aiming to grapple the Super Saiyan.
But for all of the salmon-hued clones' work, not a single one of them could even touch the seemingly omnipresent Vegehan.
"It's like Vegehan doesn't even have his eyes open, yet he can read all of their movements perfectly," Tien gaped openly, beads of sweat caressing his bald scalp as he watched the titanic battle ensue with an obvious one-sided advantage, despite the numerical bonus Buu gained.
"Hold-"
"-STILL-"
"-YOU-"
"-BASTARD!" Four Buus said in synchronized follow-up to each other, just as their fists were dodged by Vegehan's body seemed to blur around like a twister. But as those words were spoken, without any inclination, the Super Saiyan halted his evasive maneuvers and stood within their midst.
"Fine," Vegehan said with a dark, carnal smile as he raised a single gloved hand to clench with audible emphasis towards them, "my turn!"
In an instant, Vegehan's body blurred forth, producing what seemed like ten simultaneous attacks all at once. One Buu felt a punch rip through his abdomen, leaving a gaping hole in its gut and forcing him to buckle over with unimaginable pain. Another had his face indented with an elbow strike, with another proximate to his side slapped half a dozen times, with the third behind them axe kicked down the middle with enough force to split him in two pieces. A pair of golden blasts were let loose, lighting the others on fire, emitting shrilling screams among the pained grunts and snarls of incredulous pain they were all feeling.
"Oh come now, that was hardly me being serious," Vegehan reprimanded from a dozen meters away, admiring his handiwork with fists propped onto his hips, "man up, why don't you?!"
A series of growls and low muttered strings of profanities exited the mouths of the collective mass of recuperating Buus. Judging by the various protruding veins stretching across their limbs and foreheads, it was clear they were all collectively livid at the Super Saiyan.
"Tell ya what," Vegehan said with a chuckle, raising both hands up in a beckoning gesture towards the group, "how about you all forgo that ridiculous excuse of fighting prowess and just attack me all at once! Maybe you can force me to really take you all seriously...maybe."
It was then at this moment, all of the Buus seemed to calm down. As if a voice directed their actions rather than their own independent will, the Buus sneered at Vegehan with disdain. Raising their right arms forward, their foremost index digits pointing at him with purpose and emphasis, they would all snarl out in unison, "You'll regret that mistake, Super Saiyan!"
"Then MAKE me regret it!" Vegehan crowed out.
As those words were uttered out, ten orbs of coalescing golden light emitted from the Buus' fingertips. The ominous crimson overcast was replaced by a collective solar illumination, casting a menacing yellow-lit silhouette over the pink-skinned Homunculus bodies. The energies whined and thrummed with priming intensity, slowly amassing in size and compressed energy.
When they all joined into one amassed body of Ki, howling currents of ravaging energy began to warp the airspace around them. With fissures of sun-hued currents cracking the air, it left explosions of hyperaccelerated pockets of air pressure, creating a cacophony of impending destruction to dance around Vegehan like pyrotechnic fireworks.
"So, they're using Tien and Chiaotzu's technique, hm?" Vegehan thought with a pensive look in his eyes, contrasting the elated grin passively stretced across his face, "Majin Buu was right to use multiple bodies instead of the Multi-Form technique. Considering how Goku said the Dodon Ray, in the hand of a superior fighter, would trump the Kamehameha this combined charged attack could possibly be at my level."
Just as Vegehan was comprehending this, he failed to pay attention to the 11th and original Majin Buu's movements. Having been observing the fight from a safe distance, he had calculated and came up with a solution to overwhelm the stronger warrior. But in order for it to work, he had to ensure there would be no escape for the fused being.
With this min mind, he moved and intercepted Vegehan, employing Instant Transmission to appear nearly unheard from behind him.
"Hm?" Vegehan's eyes widened and his pleased expression defused, finding his waist cinched by crossed satin legs, while his arms and head were locked by a full nelson lock.
"I won't give you a chance to dodge this time!" The proud Majin Buu announced with an insane, gleeful smile spread across his face, "I read the memories of Goku and Piccolo. The strategy I am using is the exact one employed against Vegeta's former subordinate and his arch rival's own older brother, Raditz. You have nowhere to go this time, Vegehan!"
"Really?" Vegehan's tone projected an amused tinge, causing Buu's confident visage to waver with uncertainty, "you think I have no way of dodging this attack?"
"Of co-OOMPH!" Before the Super Buu could retort, a snapping gesture of Vegehan's head indented his face with a popping sound of thunderous force. Bioelectric tendrils of golden light danced around his injured face, a sign of the power used in the attack.
With his limbs going slack, Vegehan sensed the opportune moment to move. Rearing his body back a few inches, he tumbled forward, flipping Buu's limp body head over heels to ram forcefully into the swirling arctic ocean below.
In that instant, all of the other Buus shouted aloud in unison as they fired their charged and combined attack, "SUPER DODON RAY!"
Just as the massive fissure of golden-white light discharged, Vegehan pointed a hand in its direction, allowing it to lapse over his being.
The blast's power was terrifying, causing the entire planet to quake with seismic force, the ocean's water billowing back with the wake of the energy's launch towards the Earth's horizon. What few standing bergs of ice were left had assuredly been shattered by the discharge of power, flowing outwards and past the atmosphere of the Earth.
Unknowingly, the massive beam would soar out into the cosmos, narrowly missing the rocky spherical body of Luna as it thunderously roared forth. With unprecedented speed and velocity, the blast would reach the orange-red atmosphered form of Mars, spearing through the Earthen equivalent planet's crust and exiting through the other side.
The result left a massive explosion of epic proportions in its wake, as the beam continued to flow into the depths of space, leaving nothing but destruction and annihilation in its wake.
Having to cover his eyes from the flashy discharge, the rivuleting laps of blistering wind billowed Tien's cloaked form for long seconds after its power left the Earth. Slowly with trepidation, the triclopian warrior's eyes opened as he lowered his arms back to his side, looking almost with disbelief at what he saw.
A round of evil laughter broke out from among the ten Buus, believing themselves to be the victor, as they couldn't see anything beyond the haze of steam resembling Vegehan. That is, until the audible thrum of energy was made known to them, in the form of a pointed glowing construct.
"W-What the-?!" One Buu stated, his face being the nearest to what he could only describe as a blade of golden light. It appeared to be emanating from around Vegehan's right gloved wrist and hand, forming a spherical pommel of a sort, before projecting the dozen meter long blade of controlled energy.
"He cut through the Super Dodon Ray?!" Another realized with horror etched into his features, backing up in the air with apparent fear.
"Hey, not as stupid as I thought you out to be," Vegehan said with a cocky smile.
Before the ten assembled Majin Buus could form retorts or actions to counter their dire predicament, Vegehan's arm moved. In a series of dizzying gestures of his arm, the blade created a disorienting blur of dancing light, flourishing magnificently within the midst of the Buu bodies.
By the time Vegehan had withdrawn his arm back to defuse his Spirit Blade, each of the Buu bodies had been perfectly bisected and split into searingly severed pieces. They all grunted and convulsed with pain, each patch of floating piece of gummy skin twitching with pain. Butchered effortlessly, it truly marked them all as victims of the Super Saiyan's raw might.
"And now, for my next trick," Vegehan announced with a dark chuckle, cocking both of his hands upwards, forming a pair of finger pistols.
"W-Wait-!" One of the Buu heads pleaded out, eyes widened with desperation in a futile attempt to be spared.
"Shooting Gallery!" Vegehan shouted aloud with a dark laugh, aiming his finger pistols at the sections of bisected and searingly severed body parts. At a nigh instantaneous rate, the Super Saiyan let loose a storm of solar-hued bullets of Ki, each of them colliding with the pink skinned patches of flesh and exploding in brilliant array of sparks and flames.
In a matter of five seconds, nothing remained of the ten bodies Buu had constructed from his own flesh. Not even gaseous mass, from which Buu would employ as a last resort physical composition in order to regenerate from harsher lengths of punishment, hovered in the air.
Fancifully blowing off the steam rolling off each gloved digit, Vegehan called out from over his shoulder, noticing the now airborne original Super Buu levitating behind him, "That was a nice trick, Buu. Using your own body instead of Multi-Form was clever. Even amassing a large Dodon Ray to overpower me and hold me down to take it without resistance was good...well..."
Shrugging, Vegehan turned to don an insulting smirk towards Buu's direction, "Good for an amateur, that is."
The pink-skinned demon snarled, his fists cracking with audible infuriation. Veins protruded across his body, his muscles bulged and swelled with forceful exertion as unadulterated growls emitted from the back of his throat. His eyes were the size of ball points, his teeth bared and almost producing foam as beads of sweat enamored his hairless brow lines.
"Insufferable cretin!" Majin Buu announced in a dark, low tone , "I will see you die before this day ends! DO YOU HEAR ME?! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!"
As he spoke this, grotesquely large bulges expanded up his throat and into his mouth. When his cheeks expanded, his mouth spat out white ectoplasmic bulge after bulge, regurgitating what seemed to be six floating orbs of chalky white mass.
"Wait a minute," Vegehan blinked a few times, finding that a particular memory of Gohan's mingled to the forefront, "is he using...that...?"
"Allow me to introduce you to a technique I've used against Gohan," Majin Buu announced in a grandiose manner, his disposition returning to a more sinisterly pleased one, signs of his rage having been simmered upon creating the ghostly apparitions, "the Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack!"
As he shouted aloud, the apparitions took upon a effigy of Buu himself, cackling in high pitched tones as they fixated hellish azure gazes at him. Complete with heads and head tendrils, their bodies were diminutive with comically proportionate limbs to match their bodiless mass.
"Hmph, another stolen technique," Vegehan grunted with disinterested, almost rolling his eyes, "as cliche as this sounds, resorting to a child's game seems a bit childish of you."
"Oh but this child game has bite to it," Buu quipped back, sneering with a dark toothy grin, "since you have Gohan's memories, you should know the slightest touch and these suckers go BOOM, end of story! Not even your immense power can deny the power they possess!"
"This isn't going to work," Vegehan thought with a chuckle, a dark challenging grin donning upon his face.
"Now," The Super Buu began, moving his arms to and fro in a style similar to that of Gotenks, "Super Ghost Kamikaze...ATTACK!"
"PLAY TIME, YEAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The ghosts sang out in a shrill tune, as they charged towards Vegehan's person.
Unfurling his arms to be raised to either side, Vegehan would proceed to swing them back forcefully in front of himself, gloved hands clapping mightily. The shockwave created by the emission of such a powerful Kiai would be great enough to distort the visual spectrum. The hurricane-grade wave of skin tearing force would send the cold waters below into an immense rolling wave for kilometers on end.
The collision of such a wide spread blast of air pressure caused the Kamikaze Ghosts to tumble backwards, inexplicably tumbling into each other, just as Buu himself flew back dozens of meters away. After a series of purple explosions were created, Buu managed to right himself dozens of meters away, twitching slightly with apparent shock of what transpired.
"Okay," Vegehan said with a high volumed, mocking tone as he physically dusted his gloved hands, "what else you got for me?"
"Dammit!" Buu thought to himself, growling as he clenched his fists at his sides, "I can't have the Kamikaze Ghosts rush him head-on. He'll just knock them back or dodge them. They need to be closer...wait! That's it!"
With a look of realization dawned upon his facial features, Majin Buu allowed himself to chuckle once more. Righting himself up to a taller, proud stance, he placed his fists upon his hips as he announced with certainty, "Don't get cocky. That attack was merely an experiment, to see if a certain theory of mine would work."
"Experimenting on the art of losing? Seems to be a redundant experiment of yours, Buu," Vegehan jeered back with a dark laugh, causing a violent twitch to form underneath the Homunculus's left eye.
"This better work or so help me..." Buu snarled to himself, his body physically bulging once more, only this time adorning the forty five times aura of Kaioken. A sharp inhale sounded before a slow exhale, with puffed up cheeks and parted lips, it seemed as if he was blowing up a balloon of golden elastic energy over Vegehan's head.
"Huh...this is new," Vegehan remarked, blinking at the swelling bubble of energy, watching it expand in mass.
Once it reached the size of a zeppelin hot air balloon, the stretched out energy would pop in a dramatic concussive wave of blistering air pressure, releasing a horde of ectoplasmic carriers.
Upon registering the unmistakable effigy features of each ghostly apparition surrounding him, Vegehan couldn't help but smile with genuine pleasure. "Not bad."
"Isn't it though?" Buu rhetorically stated, admiring the conical formation of Kamikaze Ghosts, numbering in the dozens that surrounded him. While he himself had receded in power draw, every one of the impish spectres retained a field of dancing bloody currents around their bodies, revealing the immensely compressed power within their familiar bodies. "I used my forty five multiplier of Kaioken in conjunction with this technique. Each of those ghouls possess the ability to destroy the Earth a dozen times over, should I wish it. Luckily for you and I, the blast radius will be a bit more focused and localized, centering mostly around your body!"
"You really think this is going to hurt me," Vegehan stated aloud as a fact, rather than a question.
"Not even you can survive this kind of power, and at such a close range!" Majin Buu shouted with victory on his mind.
"Then go ahead," Vegehan urged on, smiling past the field of ghosts that surrounded and cackled around him, "I'm not afraid of such a cheap trick."
"If that's the way you want to play it," The Ultimate Creation of Bibidi announced theatrically, raising his right hand up for emphasis, "then allow me to end this game of ours!"
With a snapping gesture, he crowed out in a damning tone, "SUPER GHOST BOMB!"
What happened next seemed to transpire in seconds. All of the Kamikaze Ghosts lit up with orange glows, illuminating the entire airspace in a strikingly final silhouette. Too bright to see what Vegehan's reaction was, all Majin Buu could do was stare ravenously at the conical shaped explosion as it expanded and condensed to the mass equivalent to that of a skyscraper.
Spearing into the arctic waters below, creating a maelstrom of super-heated moisture that bathed the lower airspace in steam and bubbled the roiling surface, it crackled the skyline with its magnificent presence.
"I don't care what you are," Buu began to declare with a victorious, menacing smile coupled with a chilling glare as he waved his hand in the direction of the simmering blaze of light he conjured, "that had to do some damage."
"Nope," Vegehan answered readily in a bland, unamused tone behind the veil of steam.
"W-What?!" Majin Buu gaped out, his mouth hanging wide open and his arms going limp at what he saw.
Within the veil of steam that faded in seconds a glowing Vegehan remained. A skin-aligned barrier seemed to pulsate and thrum across his body with a slow heartbeating presence. This seemed to gift him an even more godly presence than his earlier flashy appearance had possessed.
"A barrier of psionic and pure energy. It is my ultimate defense that I thought up when you were taking your time thinking up ways to make yourself look more foolish than before," Vegehan explained with a mocking tone in his voice, folding his arms over his chest as the barrier dimmed to non-existence, "I think I'll call it Saiyan Shield. What do you think?"
"Ngh...grrrrr...errrrgh!" Twitching violently, the gummy terminator growled and snarled with unabashed infuriation.
"What's the matter? Did I strike a nerve?" Vegehan asked with a cock of his neck to the side, grinning with dark pleasure, "feeling humiliated your plans are falling apart?"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The Homunculus roared out mightily as his body expanded and bulged with swelling muscular disposition, crackling with ebbing crimson currents of Kaioken magnfiying energy. As he did so, not only did he gain a musculature comparative to a body builder behind his orange-blue gi and white satin pants, but he grew in stature as well.
In the passing seconds, Vegehan would watch a foreboding shadow blot out the Sun in his direction, creating a overcast that stretched out and covered the icy waters below in its shadow. Engrossed boot covered feet sank into the frigid waters, the impacts creating unnatural tides to flow outwards in violent reaction to the descent of the titanic sized Buu.
"I'll...crush...you...Saiyan!" The Super-Sized Buu said in slow, loud and deep words, emphasizing his new stature that he adorned. His eyes flared with a fire of rage only matching his power that burned heatedly around his pliable skin, sending rivuleting waves of oxygen around his gigantic body.
"Bigger than any size Piccolo's used," Vegehan thought with a few bats of the eye, his smile shifting into one of dispassion, "but it seems Majin Buu needs a lesson in power difference. Seems like a repetitive task of mine to ferret it out on his pink ass, doesn't it?"
Uncaring of the Super Fused Saiyan's thoughts, the gargantuan proportioned Buu took a long stride through the airspace and skin biting waters below forward. In doing so, it crossed half the distance he needed to reach his target, allowing his surprisingly swift moving arm to rear back in preparation for a punch.
"Here it comes~" Vegehan said in a dry, sing-song tone.
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" The Titanic Sized Buu shouted aloud, in sync with the thrusting skyscraper sized limb, shearing through the air like a battering ram to walls of paper.
When it met Vegehan's person, the impact created a shockwave that resonated across the upper hemisphere of the Earth, forcing oceanic waters to erupt in geysers that no living man or woman would be able to witness. Hundreds of kilometers away, mountains and plateaus that had been unmarred by their battle would be ripped apart by the sheer kinetic pressure generated by making contact with its intended target.
And yet, Vegehan didn't seemed to be effected on it in the slightest. A single left hand that looked entirely puny in size compared to Buu's, held it up with an effortless gesture. The age-old parable comparison of David and Goliath would do little justice to describe the sizable difference between the Super Saiyan and the Super Majin.
"NGH?!" Buu grunted out with disbelief, still coated in a thrumming and crackling aura of virulent series of crimson light and tendrils of actively towering currents. Sweat coated the knuckles as it strained to push the airborne Super Saiyan, doing little to nothing but indicate the confirmation of his own weakness.
"I'd be lying, Buu," Vegehan said with a glare pointed up at his visage, slowly birthing a malicious grin, "if what I'm about to do next will tear me up in side as much as it will you!"
Raising his right hand, the Fusion-born Saiyan manifested an orb of light around his gloved wrist and digits. A shrilling, high-pitch whine sounded as a circular shaped spear of energy stretched out at astronomical proportions, piercing through the air as much as it did to Buu's immense abdomen.
The penetration's diminutive scale should have been painless, but it was far from it. Gargled gasps emitted from Majin Buu's mouth as his eyes widened with incredulous disbelief. Pyres of erupting beams of similar size would pepper across his immensely sized body, piercing him from the inside out all across his gummy clothed skin. Even his eyes jutted out energy, violet steaming blood raining across his body, as the line of spears ended with the extended straining fist.
With a deft wave of the energy spear-toting hand, a brilliant wave of golden light would shred and detonate Majin Buu's enlarged being in a cacophonic series of explosions. Deafening and immense in stature, pockets of steaming flesh would rain down into the ocean from which part had exploded, since the feet were partially submerged in its cold waters.
When Vegehan only saw a rain of Buu's remains a fraction of the size, he smiled with satisfaction, "Sorry, Buu. But I guess you could say you couldn't make the cut."
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"Wow! Buu just got torn apart!" Kibitoshin proclaimed with jubilous abandon, laughing heartily on his hands and knees. Having been tracking the progress of the fight this far had not only been exciting but very entertaining. Not once had he found doubt in his heart that Vegehan would lose, and every planetary shattering feat he performed against Buu, that certainty was never proven wrong. "he doesn't stand a chance against him!"
Staring at the opposing angle of the crystal ball was Old Kai, part of a generation of Supremes long since departed from existence. Hands were resting on his knees, with each leg crossed over the other. His knuckles began to whiten with tension, as his eyes practically glared, silently taking in Vegehan's actions with the utmost disapproval.
Then, he finally lost his composure.
"NOW! Finish him NOW!" Elder Kai grated out, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets as his hands gripped the ball with both hands, shaking it as he commanded ineffectively, "what are you waiting for?! Is your lust for battle and vengeance really clouding that brilliant mind of yours?! Stop foolin' around and END him!"
"Please calm down, Elder," Kibitoshin said with a hesitant smile, waving his hands around with emphasis, "look, why don't we just trust in Vegehan? You've felt his power from here, and you saw that Buu can't even make him budge. If he wants to have the pleasure of humiliating him, who's to say we can't allow it? I know if I was in position with that kind of power, I probably wouldn't pass that opportunity up either."
"And that, my young'n, is the problem with the new generation," Old Kai said in a harsh tone, his eyes glowering over at a now sheepish Kibitoshin, "power in of itself doesn't guaruntee victory. For all these years dedicating your existance on eradicating Majin Buu, I'd thought you would know better than to place blind faith in powers you believe to be superior to him."
"But I don't just believe it! He IS stronger than Buu, at a ridiculous league he can't even reach using the Kaioken!" Kibitoshin argued, his confused gaze turning into a frustrated glare. "why am I supposed to doubt someone's abilities, who are plain as day in their worth, when they're the ones risking their lives?!"
"Now see here-"
"No, YOU listen here!" Kibitoshin growled out, causing his Elder's to widen with surprise, "I am tired of you questioning the methods of people who have done far more than what you and I have ever done against a threat within our duties to eliminate. I SHOULD be the one to eliminate Buu, but I am weak, and the mortals are stronger than I should have gave credit for!"
Old Kai sat silent, his eyes drifting back to the sphere, watching Buu's remains slowly assemble back into one normal sized body. With a belated sigh, Old Kai closed his eyes and breathed out, "Fine, you want me to shut up and place blind faith into this arrogant Saiyan? I'll do just that. But don't come cryin' to me, whippersnapper, when this comes back to a head on all of us!"
"That's all I ask of you, Elder," Kibitoshin said with a soft smile, looking attentively at the sphere in front of his lap, "have faith in the ones fighting our battle. As petty as that sounds, it is the least we can do for him but trust in his decisions being the right ones."
Earth, North Pole (What's left of it...)
"G-Gaugh...agh!" Buu breathed out in a haggard manner, still feeling lasting traces of the pain and humiliation of being defeated so nonchalantly. Beads of sweat slowly dissipated from his pink crown, his red eyes glowering across the expanse of airspace to Vegehan's emerald orbs, staring back with a mocking glint within his gaze.
"Did ya' feel bad from that? Don't worry, I got plenty more where that came from," The fusion birthed Super Saiyan said with a cocky laugh, thumbing towards his own chest for emphasis.
Majin Buu's body shook with indignation and shame at himself. The fact that this Saiyan could taunt him so openly without any fear of consequence, caused his blood to boil. This fury was only heightened by Piccolo's fiery temper, the two temperamental children, and Goku's own undying Super Saiyan wrath.
With a telltale whistle, steam exhaled out of his body's airholes, while he stuttered and shouted out with unadulterated rage, "I will...I will...I WILL END YOU!"
Leaping up higher into the air, his body began to shift in form, turning into a stream of gooey fluid as he corkscrewed downwards. He let out a shrill battlecry as he flowed down towards the incredulously staring Super Saiyan's visage. Much to his surprise, he aimed straight for the agape maw, pouring his essence into his throat forcefully.
"MMMMMMMLLLLLLLLLLLRRRRRRRRP?!" Vegehan gurgled loudly with shock, not prepared for this kind of assault upon his person. His body's musculature structure expanded to ridiculous proportions, causing sickly squelching sounds from within, as digestive and internal organs were possessed and held captive by the beast.
As the last of Buu's body went down his throat, Vegehan twitched a few times before looking down at his body with aghast shock, "W-What the Hell?!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Buu's laugh seemed to echo within his body, as if the porous substance was everywhere and nowhere at once, shifting with bulbous bulging movements across his limbs and torso intermittently, "it's over now, Vegehan! I have invaded your body and am now riding toll free! Don't try to power up, less you want me to get stronger than I already am!"
Blinking a few times, Vegehan flexed his hands, finding that he still had bodily control. Using his intelligence as he raised his hands up close to his face, he concocted a plan within only a hand full of seconds time. Chuckling, Vegehan quipped to Buu haughtily, "You must think I'm an idiot, don't you?"
"Wait, what are you-?!"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Vegehan shouted aloud with heavy exertion, veins protruding all across his skin, reddening with forceful pressure on his body. Sweat beaded across his crimson-tinted dermal surface, and a series of low growls, the Super Saiyan stretched out his limbs in spreadeagled stance as the remainder of his voice screeched in the air.
It was at this point, that Vegehan's entire body exuded a high-pitched whistling sound, as a pink gaseous mass exuded from his body's orifices and cell structure. His nostrils, ears, and mouth all produced an almost tangible smoke, as the rest of his slowly shrinking form sweated out a more steam-based makeup of Buu's composition.
Two minutes would follow, with the last of Buu's physiology exiting Vegehan's, allowing the Super Saiyan to breathe easier.
"Whoo!" Raising up a gloved hand to his sweat-covered brow line, he rubbed off a slick quantity of his own sweat, "you know, I didn't think I'd work up a sweat fighting you. But now that I have, consider yourself lucky I had to actually exert myself to beat you this time."
"H-How?!" A barely formed face of Buu inquired, the rest of his body shifting from steam and gas to the gummy body he had prior to his vaporization, "how could you do that to me?!"
"I harnessed the Ki you clung to so stupidly. I used that energy to force you out through my body's secretional glands and respiratory system. It's simple science with a moderation of energy manipulation." Vegehan answered readily, wiping patches of sweaty skin, trying to clean himself of his own moist body. "No amateur could pull that off. Unlike you, I'm anything but."
A deafening pop would sound as Buu's body would reconstitute fully. Any sense of incredulity, disbelief, and fear had vanished over the course of his regeneration. The words that Vegehan had so casually use to taunt and explain, as if it were something a child should understand, drove him to the depths of madness. A madness dwelling deep within his form, barely kept in check by his current mental disposition and absorbed properties.
Raising his hands up in clawed gestures, Buu settled back into a fighting stance as he laughed out, veins pulsating over his eye sockets as he smiled viciously at him, "I'm getting very angry, Super Saiyan. And trust me, unlike your race of temperamental primates, it is a VERY bad thing to get me upset. So WATCH yourself!"
"Oh yeah, I'm all a'trembling over here," Vegehan feigned a shuddering motion, using his arms to hold his sides, his face twisting into a falsely afraid visage, "I hope big bad Buu won't go all BUU SMASH on my poor head! Hahaha, what a laugh you give me!"
"ENOUGH!" The enraged, magic born doll shouted aloud, in sync with a veil of Kaioken enshrouding his body once more. Rushing forward with bloodhost eyes, Buu thrust out his right fist with a snapping thrust, meeting an upraised and prepared left forearm of Vegehan's.
The air thundered for kilometers around them, forcing the distantly watching Tien to raise his arms up to protect his eyes with futile desperation. Lightning flashed to and fro, dictating the exact point of contact the exchange of limbs and fists were held. Just like before, Tien could see no headway gained by this outburst of Buu, and ultimately led to another counterattack by Vegehan.
Just as Buu raised both arms up to hammer down at Vegehan's head, the Super Fused Saiyan swiftly grappled him by the elbows. Using his arms for leverage, the mortal enemy of Majin Buu swung up his right knee to crash into his chin. The thunderous force sent a screaming Buu's head flailing upwards, his neck stretching comically along with the bruised jaw.
Following up, Vegehan leaned back and planted his left foot into his abdomen, sending a pulse of crackling energy to fry the skin of Super Buu's body while the sheer concussive force blew steam out of his exposed air holes. When his neck spiraled back with a violent snap onto his shoulders, Vegehan clapped both hands on either side of his gummy skull, flattening it to a degree that made his eyes bulge out in a grotesque, pain-induced state.
As the Ultimate Buu allowed himself to fall, the defender of the Universe grappled his head tendril, causing it to stretch a good dozen meters with his body limply hanging downwards. Raising his free right hand, he coalesced a field of bioelectricity around the gloved hand full of digits, discharging them with a thrusting gesture towards Buu.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Buu screamed out gutturally, as his body was sent through violent convulsions by the fantastically brilliant array of shocks and spasms the bio-lightning induced upon his person. In the midst of these writhes of pain, he looked up hatefully at Vegehan, forcing his own counterattack through the overwhelming pain he was forced to go through.
Using his own body's current elastic disposition to his advantage, Buu spiraled around in the air, corkscrewing into a tight body sized vice grip. Like a snake to a man, Buu's face smiled devilishly up from where his upper torso was, constricting the Super Saiyan's body with all the pressure he could muster.
At first, it seemed to work. The audible rubbery grip the tensile gummy skin had over Vegehan seemed to keep him from using his own innate physical prowess against him. But after a handful of seconds, Vegehan cast a mischievous smirk at him, allowing his body to go completely slack in his grap.
A loud follow-up yell would erupt from Vegehan's throat, as his entire body glowed with a high-pitched thrum of energy. Seconds later the energy would detonate in a spherical, ballooning explosion that would rip apart Buu's coiling frame, reducing him into flaming bits of puddy flesh to hover in the air aimlessly once more.
Ironically, the only thing relatively intact was the head tendril, still in Vegehan's left gloved hand.
Looking at the display of disembodied bits of Buu's body, Vegehan chuckled before shaking his head with disapproval, smirking for additional insulting effect, "Pull yourself back together. It's humiliating to see the terror of the Universe be so beside himself!"
The airborne convulsing gum defused the flames among their collective surfaces, swiftly flowing into a symetrical center of roiling mass. Seconds would pass and Buu's body would regain its former glory, lacking all but an obvious severance of the head-tendril to the base of the skull.
Raising his hand, Buu asked in a beckoning tone, "Now...if you would be so kind."
"Oh, you mean this?" Vegehan gestured with widened eyes of elation, bouncing the head-tail up and down in his left hand.
"Yes," Buu nodded with a dark smile.
"Okay," Vegehan nodded back, his eyes narrowing with dark delight as he tossed the prehensile limb back to Majin Buu, saying aloud in a sing-song voice, "catch!~"
"Such a gentleman," Buu muttered aloud in a sardonic manner, his right hand instinctively outraised to catch his severed body part.
However, the limb didn't get very far, as a golden bullet of energy rocketed into the stem of the tendril. The result caused it to explode in a small, localized detonation, popping the piece of gummy flesh to dissipate into nothing, disallowing even regeneration to be possible.
The sight of it caused Buu's eyes to widen and mouth held agape, before turning into one of complete infuriation.
"Bang!" Vegehan crowed in a jeering tone, using his right hand in a lowered finger pistol stance, steaming from the discharge of energy he employed, "I'm a good shot, aren't I?"
"You...you...YOU BASTARD!" Majin Buu snarled out, his blood-red eyes glaring heatedly, as the skin around him pulsated with throbbing veins of barely suppressed rage.
"Oh come now, I was doing you a favor," Vegehan said with a wry grin, raising his right finger up to blow the steam off cockily, using it to point at his enemy with emphasis, "I was sick of thinking of you as Bannana Head. Gum Boy sounds much better with that ridiculous tail growing out of your head, don't you agree?"
Growling, Buu regenerated his prehensile limb to full length, just as his eyes glowered with pure hatred. Fists clenched at his sides and teet bared once more, vehemently heaving breaths full of ire towards his enemy. He wanted to kill him and do so in the most painful, horrifying and humiliating manner.
Upon this realization, a thought, a single strategy dawned upon him. An elated grin spread across his face, one of which that would go unnoticed by Vegehan as he chuckled at his disposition.
"Ready to call it quits, Buu?" Vegehan inquired with arms folded.
"Hardly," Majin Buu chuckled lowly, raising his clenched fists slowly to frame sneering visage, as if preparing for another round of thrashing, "I have just come up with a way to destroy you, and I hardly have to break a sweat."
"Oh really?" Vegehan inquired, a doubtful raise of his eyebrows signaled his disbelief of Buu's 'master plan'.
"Yes, it's actually very simple," Buu said in a devilish tone, a series of chuckles escaping his lips, "just make sure to...NOT BLINK!"
"Say wha-?!"
"SOLAR FLARE!" The Cunning, Artificial Terror shouted aloud as his digits splayed to either side of his face, releasing a wave of blinding light towards Vegehan's direction.
"Ngh!" Vegehan winced, raising his arms up in a futile gesture to protect his own dazed vision.
Using Instant Transmission, Buu quickly closed the gap between himself and his nemesis, twirling his overgrown antenna to point towards the meter apart Vegehan.
"TAKE THIS!" Buu shouted aloud with glee, discharging a pink current of magical energy from the antenna tip, coating the Super Saiyan in its transmuting properties.
Not even able to react other than let out a startled yell, a puff of smoke would silence him, leaving him very much transformed and diminutive. Behold, from the roiling mass of scarlet gas dropped a yellow colored gum ball, landing weightlessly into Super Buu's right palm.
"Eh...ehehehe...ahahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Majin Buu slowly cackled, building up to an audacious dark laugh, practically dancing in the air with victory, "YEAH! TAKE THAT, VEGEHAN! I WIN AND YOU LOSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Tien could scarcely believe what he just saw.
In one moment his newly fused comrade was inducing fits of rage from Majin Buu. The next, a blinding flash of light he knew was the Solar Flare incapacitated him long enough for him to get the upperhand. Least expected, he was turned into candy!
"What hellish nightmare have I stumbled into?!" Tien muttered aloud with disbelief and shock.
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"Oh no!" Kibitoshin cried out, his face beading with cold sweat, as his hands ran through his hair with shock, "candy?!"
"IDIOT!" Old Kai shouted, comically bouncing off the ground with his face almost slamming into the crystal ball, "NUMBSKULL! NINCOMPOOP! LOUSY WORTHLESS SAIYAN EVER!"
"I completely forgot about this power of Buu's...no one has ever been able to fight back in such a state...not even the King of all Demons could resist being eaten!" Kibitoshin stuttered aloud with memory of the infamously diabolical technique Buu had employed in his more docile, plump child form.
"I rue the day we ever depended on their ilk! We would have been better off leaving things to chance with Gohan, rather than attempt this fiasco of a plan!" The former Supreme Kai huffed aloud, veins visibly protruding from his balding, wrinkled scalp.
Earth, North Pole Airspace
"And so the mighty Vegehan, clad in his Super Saiyan form, fell before the terrifying power of Majin Buu. Poetic, don't you think?" The Supreme Majin monologued out loud, allowing the yellow ball of bubble gum candy to shine in his palm, "lemon flavored bubble gum. I'll chew you up nice and good, Gum Man!"
The candy didn't move a single inch nor retorted, as the humanoid form of Vegehan had often done. Not even a muscular twitch of bodily insult could be gestured in his direction. The relief that came with this unbelievable sense of nirvana caused another string of giggles and laughs to emit from the wide open mouth of Buu.
Clenching his hand over the candy in an iron grip, Buu looked at his clenched digits in a demanding manner, "Go ahead! Tell me it is all futile! Tell me how the gap of power can never be breached! Oh wait, you can't. Candy doesn't talk back. IT JUST GETS EATEN, AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Subtly, the clenched fist began holding the lemon bubble gum leaned back ever so slightly, almost completely parallel in the air. As Buu's laughter calmed down, his eyes blinked curiously at his clenched fist. Did it just move without him knowing?
His answer was revealed in the form of pain, the knuckles of his clenched digits swinging back into face like a wrecking ball. A howl of pain erupted from his indented, bleeding face, leaving the candy ball to fall out of his grip and to float up in the air.
"Man, I've heard of people being self destructive, but this is ridiculous. Letting your own fist hit you like that, what a disgrace!" The chastising, jeering toned voice of Vegehan emanated clear as day from the orb of yellow colored candy.
Tien's eyes widened, his face twitching with as much disbelief as the monster's, uttering aloud, "What the...he can still move?!"
Otherspace, Check-In Station
"What in damnation...Vegehan lives?!" King Yama mouthed out with disbelief, as if his own chosen words sounded ridiculous as the floating orb, taunting Majin Buu as if nothing happened on the television screen within his office.
"Still as brazen as ever, I see," Baba huffed, rolling her eyes as beads of sweat rolled down her scalp.
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"V-Vegehan?!" Kibitoshin muttered lowly in a hopeful quivering tone.
"My...my word!" Old Kai gaped openly, his eyes bulging from their sockets as he saw something he had never thought possible, "Vegehan...has retained his consciousness and power, even when his body was transmuted by that heinous magic!"
"Then...does that mean Vegehan has a chance?!" Kibitoshin asked in a nervous smile, hoping his own voiced thoughts wouldn't jynx the glint of triumph upon the horizon.
"I...I don't know," Old Kai shook his head, gulping audibly as he just looked on at the crystal ball with confusion, "I just don't know..."
Earth, North Pole Airspace
"You...you can speak?!" Buu gasped aloud with horror, cradling his bleeding nostril with one hand while the other hung limply at his side, "how...HOW is this possible?!"
"Oh I can do more than speak," Candy Vegehan spoke back with assuredly, his spherical body bouncing around, to and fro in a comical spinning dance to demonstrate his newfound dexterous movements, "it seems I've retained all of my power from my normal body. YAH!"
"Ah!" Buu backed up, letting out a fearful yelp, crossing his arms in front of his face to protect him from the unnatural phenomenon born creature, seeing it almost thrust into his hurt visage once more.
"You know, I can understand it being too embarrassing to fight me. Just stand still and I can kill you instantly, to remove you from existence and allow you to die with what dignity you have left. That is, if you have any," Vegehan finished skeptically, after giving his ultimatum to the much larger Majin Buu.
"You-!" Buu uttered aloud, before catching himself in mid-sentence. Laughing, he threw a hand out towards the infinitesimal orb of magically transmuted candy, "you're joking! There's no way I'll cower before someone as insignificant as you! You don't have a head, arms, or legs. What can YOU do against me?"
"Oh, you suggest we fight?" Candy Vegehan inquired, a chuckle breaking out across the air with amusement that made Super Buu's lips curl with feral anger, "fine. I'm warning you, it'll be next to impossible to even land a hit on me, what with my size and all..."
"FIGHT YOU?! Ha! Don't make me laugh," Majin Buu retorted doubtfully, smiling devilishly with a drag of his blue-tinted tongue across his lips in emphasis, "I don't fight food. I EAT it!"
"Alright," Vegehan sighed with resignation, rising upwards to be level with Buu's face, rearing back visibly before lunging forward with breakneck speed, "EAT ME!"
A thunderclap of epic proportions would be sounded as the orb of chewing gum candy thrust into the Ultimate Majin's face. An elliptical rupture of airwaves would split outwards, cutting a swathe through the heavens and earth, just before sending Buu's body reeling backwards at an uncontrollable pace.
Soaring across the opposite end of the planet, Buu would come across a debris-ridden city, placed upon a large island. A former marvelous jewel the metropolitan land used to be, now pummeled by Buu's Human Extinction Attack's bullets, leaving hundreds of thousands of dead lying astrewn in the streets.
Just as the Homunculus's eyes squinted open, grunting with effort, he found himself staring upwards at the golden streak of movement, thrusting into his abdomen with another electrifying impact.
"AHN!" Buu yelled out with agonizing pain, feeling his body convulse as he pinwheeled down into the cityscape, unable to halt his own descent. His back would shatter the earth beneath him, shattering earth for kilometers, ripping skyscrapers down from their tall statured postures.
Even then, the immortal evil terror wasn't given respite, as the gumball struck his exposed chest once more, shattering the island nation's entire surface. Oceanic water began to swoop inwards at the caving, shattering island, as large fissures of earth ripped open and revealed golden tendrils of bioelectric light spewed upwards in dramatic fashion.
Like a pinball machine, Candy Vegehan drilled mercilessly into his torso, creating hundreds of indentations across his body. All the mass murderer could do was spasm, convulse, and writhe in pain as screams mingled with gargled howls, unable to mount a physical counterattack let alone defend himself with Kaioken.
As tidal waves flowed all around towards the combatting warriors of magical origin, Vegehan would grind his spherical body a final time before rising upwards into the sky. As massive waves of moisture lapped over the bruised, disfigured, and bloodied frame of Majin Buu, arcs of azure currents danced around the super candy.
"SUPER GALICK MASENKO...HAAAAAAA!" The orb shouted, discharging an astronomically proportioned beam of golden light, containing dozens of arcing tendrils of violet currents as it roared downwards.
Upon hitting the drowned, shattered island, an explosion of titanic expanse spread outwards in a maelstrom of a chocolate hued flames. The tidal waves would be pushed back, bubbling and steaming with contact as it would be forcefully thrust back, as dozens of kilometers of earthen sea soil beneath the island would be detonated. The blast's shockwaves was enough to send rivuleting blistering winds in all directions, howling for miles upon miles around.
"Hahahahahaha," Candy Vegehan laughed to himself, jiggling his spherical frame with emphasis of his voiced amusement, "wow, you really are sad. Aren't you trying to fight back?"
As waves of oceanic water began to flow back over the annihilated island, a pyre of crimson light speared through its surface. An enraged Buu would emerge, rising upwards, body wreathed in Kaioken flames. Nothing but unintelligible roars of indignant anger left his mouth, as he charged towards his enemy.
Swinging a fist upwards, he missed his bite-sized nemesis by a hair. Thrusting a dozen snapping punches with his right fist, turning his hips to accelerate himself further, he struck nothing but air. Pivoting around, he flipped around to swing his head-tail around to strike at him in a whipping fashion, following with a spinning kick.
The flailing dance of limbs and body continued to no avail, as Vegehan literally spun around him in circles, without even being touched by the gummy digits. Heaving with exertion, Buu was left haggard, visible bruises he didn't care to heal adorned his visage from the recent explosion.
"What's the matter? I thought you wanted to eat me? Am I not good enough for ya?" Candy Vegehan jeered in a false hurt tone, thoroughly enjoying Buu's newfound disposition of frustration and rage.
"FOOL!" Majin Buu howled with an agape mouth, rapidly grabbing out at his would-be meal, "This is ridiculous! When I get my hands on you, this charade will end and you'll be dead! Do you hear me?! DEA-ULP!"
Cut off by a sudden shearing motion by Candy Vegehan, crashing into his mouth and striking the back of his throat, stretching it backwards at a painful distance. Popping back out, the candy nemesis swung around in pendulum fashion, pummeling each side of the trembling jaw. This left shocking, golden current impressions in each jaw, causing his eyes to widen with agony to the point of forcefully tearing up.
With his Kaioken aura defused, Buu hung in the air in a convulsing mass, gurgling and groaning with unbelievable suffering. He could only fathom how it all went wrong, his master plan to turn his enemy into an edible piece of delicious lemon flavored gum. How did it all go wrong?
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Candy Vegehan shouted aloud with vigor, rocketing forward with a trail of sparks left in his wake, pummeling him in the abdomen. The shockwave left another widespread shaking impression upon the planet, sending the pink skinned monster pinwheeling across air once more.
After passing by in a tunneling warping motion of kinetically accelerated flight, leaving a wake of uproared earthen landscape and moisture underneath his stunned frame, he would end up at the southern polar cap of the planet. He would fail to notice the shimmering gum ball appear behind his head, butting into his skull with enough power to produce a seismic crack to shatter the ice laced mass below.
Smooshed into a intensely compressed form that would leave him looking like a dwarf, Buu growled and writhed within the air, unable to nurse the indention that was rammed into the top of his head. Stretching forcefully, the gum skinned nightmare would reconstitute himself into his full stature once more, now more livid than ever.
"Here I come again!" Vegehan jeered again with declarative announcement, rearing back and swaying in the air, igniting a faint aura of golden light with wisps of cobalt lit currents dancing around his delicious form.
"I've got only one shot at this!" Buu thought to himself, quickly devising a method to halt the super powered orb of candy dead in his tracks. Stretching his arms out towards the charging sphere of candy, Majin Buu announced with desperation, "Ultra Buu Volleyball!"
After the modified name of the technique was declared, three golden rings of the Galactic Donut technique Gotenks created. Discharging outwards, they splayed out after connecting with each other, creating a net for the charging piece of gum to dive straight into. Once the spherical body made contact, the rest of the energy enclosed around it, creating what would be seen as a baseball sized orb of volatile energy.
Breathing out a sigh of relief, Buu smiled with a vicious grin, "I may not be able to eat you, but I can blow you to into oblivion!"
Clasping his fingers together, he raised both hands over his head, looming over the hovering and motionless Vegehan.
"SAY GOODBYE, BUTTERCUP!" The Super Majin crowed out as he bludgeoned his fist atop the spherical prison, containing his target. Instead of moving down at an unprecedented speed, a violent flash of bio-crackling light was emitted, as the ball absorbed all of the force and didn't budge an inch.
"What?!" Majin Buu looked on with disbelief, seeing his hands straining over the insignificantly sized ball of compressed energy, not seeing it move. Worse, it began to thrum with an ominous build-up of welling energy, expanding outwards at an unbelievable pace.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!" He roared out with fear and futile denial, his arms raising up to protect himself as he was enveloped in the wave of destructive force, ripping his body into dozens of pieces. The elliptical blast of golden light roared outwards, caressing the southern hemisphere with enough brilliance to roil out into the upper atmosphere deep into space.
As the explosion died down, the steam dissipated, a slowly reforming Buu was left to hover aimlessly in the middle of the air. Him and a golden dot of supposedly delicious taste, brimming with a faint aura of solar hued light, azure currents of electricity dancing around its spherical body.
"That was a good try, though it kind of sucked at doing any damage to me," Candy Vegehan quipped back, bouncing haughtily in the air to emphasize his superior position, "want to have another go, or would you rather face a man instead?"
Growling with exasperation, Majin Buu felt he'd do anything than face the bite sized enemy of his. With a whipping motion of his prehensile limb, he discharged a ray of scarlet magical light, encasing around Vegehan in a shocking field of transmuting currents. By the time it was over, Vegehan emerged with a DynoCap equivalent blast of purple smoke, blinking with a dazed look on his face.
"Daddy?" He blinked a few times, trying to get his bearings, gripping his hands in remembrance, "oh yeah! I'm handsome me again!"
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"Whew!" Old Kai breathed out in relief, "he's changed back. All is well, for the moment..."
"I knew he'd come through for us!" Kibitoshin shouted with glee, pumping his fists as he knelt in front of the crystal ball, "there's no way Buu can win now!"
"Is there?" The Elder Kai inquired, rubbing his wrinkled hands over the ball's surface, "as long as the beast lives, the Universe and Otherspace are in grave peril. Nothing will be left standing so long as he draws a single breath and a single fragment of his being remains."
"I guess you're right," Kibitoshin sighed, pouting his lips as he looked onward with keen interest at the crystal ball's view of Vegehan and Majin Buu equally, "this is far from over."
Earth, South Pole Airspace
After checking to see everything was in its proper place, the Super Saiyan cocked his head towards the simmering Homunculus, "You know what they say about candy? Too much of it can be a bad thing. I guess turning me into a candy gave you the case of some major toothache, among other forms of pain, didn't it?"
"You wretch!" Majin Buu growled aloud, veins protruding all across his skin, his complexion reddening with swelling rage, "I hate you! I despise every atom of your being!"
"Ah, don't be like that," Vegehan waved at his enemy, chuckling in a too-good natured tone, "I thought we were getting along just fine!"
"I'll kill you soon, just you wait! I'll kill you and every living thing in the cosmos! I'll kill you all!" Super Buu declared with a snarl, rearing his arms back as his eyes widened, his pupils shrinking to the size of ball points.
"So you say, but I don't see that happening any time soon," Vegehan crossed his arms over his chest, shrugging to emphasize his doubts.
"I'll find a way! I always find a way to win!" Buu shouted aloud in retort, not even acknowledging how his nails dug into his palms, causing blood to seep between his clenched digits.
"Sounds like someone's a sore loser," Vegehan laughed outright, nodding in his direction with a devilish smile enamoring his person, "what's the matter? Did Buu-Buu get a Boo-Boo?"
That insult.
It was the one phrase that sent him into a fit of pure rage, enough to force his own body to be rendered asunder in order to get back at Gohan in the first place. Not only was it a sacrilege against his own namesake, from which he was titled by his diabolical master, Bibidi but it meant more than that. It was labeling him as a joke, a form of entertainment, something not even worth substance in the grand scheme of things.
KILL
MAIM
MURDER
ANNIHILATE
These words took hold in Majin Buu's mind, causing his body to writhe and convulse in place, as a darker side of him began to emerge and awaken his instincts. Sockets became blank, replaced by a blood red haze of light, as his mouth uttered with anger from which he had never felt in his entire existence.
"I WARNED YOU!" Buu shouted aloud, his fists balling up as his muscular body contorted with a rippling scarlet aura, "I WARNED YOU NOT TO MAKE ME ANGRY! NOW EVERYTHING DIES!"
A blood curdling scream erupted from Super Buu's throat, ushering erratic discharges of rosy hued lightning to crash and tear through the fabric of space. The planet's sky instantly darkened in the wake of the power that skyrocketed, shaking its foundation with unrestrained seismic violence, uproaring earthen soil from within the sea with geysers of pink light enveloping the planet in a deadly embrace.
"Incredible!" Vegehan's eyes widened, a pleased grin stretched across his face, "his rage is bringing up higher than even his Kaioken was capable of. Maybe things will finally get-"
His line of thoughts ceased when he saw a large pyre of light discharge up from the distant arctic ocean, spearing upwards into the vacuum of space. The ominous, visually distorting pressure soon climbed up to levels that Vegehan himself thought only he was capable of. The revelation caused his eyes to widen with shock as he saw the cacophony of chaotic energies released at an astonishing rate.
Earth, Western Regional Wasteland
Tien felt unabated terror coiling in his gut. It was all it took for his powers of perception and evasion skills to avoid the damning currents that gripped Earth in a chokehold of explosive power. The energies stemming from each scarlet and rosy bolt of lightning was unmistakably Buu's, no doubt entering his mind about it.
"Unlike Vegehan's, which seemed to be everywhere but benign, this power is aimed to destroy everything it touches. I got to get back to Dende and the others," Tien thought to himself as he barreled towards the horizon, aiming to find the trio of refugees that included the Namekian child guardian, "hopefully Chiaotzu's alright in all of this!"
Earth, Furnace of the Eight Divisions
The shuddering, just as before, shook the cave interior of the supposedly sealed cavern providing as a gateway to the netherworld. This time, crackling bolts of scarlet energy cracked wildly and abound, sending searing fissures that narrowly missed the two occupants from within.
"Yikes!" Grandpa Gohan leapt to the side, rolling across the ground before skidding upright, jumping backwards against to avoid another geyser of malicious energy, "this isn't good! Not good at all!"
"At this rate, the cavern itself could collapse and the furnace-" Annin began to say, suddenly widening her eyes at a particularly malevolent arcing fissure. Seeing the impending target, unintentional or not, was heading to the large furnace itself caused her mouth to emit a yelp of panic, "no!"
Leaping upwards, Annin transformed into a colossal size of twenty meters in height, using her mass to intercept the beam of destructive firepower. Throwing both hands outwards, she cried out in agony as her palms cushioned and absorbed the searing heat of the arcing current of bioelectricity.
"Annin!" Grandpa Gohan shouted with fear and concern.
"Do not worry about me!" Annin shouted back with beads of sweat crawling down a serious, if not pain-ridden visage, "my duty as Guardian of the Furnace will be for naught if I allow it to be destroyed! I mustn't allow it!"
Otherspace, Check-In Station
Chaos ensued.
What was once a calm, if not trepidating office interior at the stake of the battle originating upon the material world's planet, Earth, now spread back into the realm of the afterlife. A flurry of crimson and scarlet fissures of spacial warping currents crackled around and above the ghostly apparitions of trembling, panicking spirits.
"This is terrible!" Baba screeched, her eyes staring out an open window at the lightning ripping through the divine cloud mass, causing it to rupture and detonate intermittently around the horizon, "Other World will be torn apart at this rate!"
"Let them all in!" King Yama said with urgency, shouting down at his ogre subordinate who wasn't pissing his pants or running about in renewed terror.
"B-But sir, that's against protocol-!"
"Fool! I invented protocol!" King Yama bellowed, standing up from his desk, pointing to the bodily masses of gaseous spirits, "I'll start a rapid, temporary judging! You will all go to Heaven for what remaining time I see fit! NOW MOVE!"
Without any delay, the crowd of screaming ghosts charged inwards, attempting to enter the divine realm of Other World as quickly as they could. None bothered to turn behind and see an occasional blast of crimson light strike a group of souls behind them, causing them to flail and fall off the path, descending down into the depths of Hell.
It truly was the epitome of madness!
Otherspace, Sacred World of the Kais
"My gosh! It's happening again!" Kibitoshin shrieked with terror, cowering in by his elder, seeing the rivulets of planet shattering geysers of interdimensional reaping currents attempt to destroy everything around them.
Clasping his hands together, Old Kai grunted aloud, his aging eyes glowing a pure white as the entire planet shuddered underneath him, "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The planet itself suddenly became alive, discharging white currents of light, dissipating the currents of negative energy that had crackled into their dimension. Slowly but surely, the bolts would vanish, and their hold over the homeworld of the Kais was saved from utter annihilation.
Heaving on the ground, the withered Supreme Kai beaded sweat across his brow line, "I managed to...activate...the planet's...defenses...just in time...ooooh boy!"
"Wow! I didn't even know that a planet could do that!" Kibitoshin stared agape at the partially smoldering horizon of the still beautiful world from which he had been born from.
"It was made during my era. But enough about that!" Old Kai turned to Kibitoshin, grasping him by the collar and pulling him down to face him at eye level, "I want you to head to Earth! We have precious little time left if we are to save the planet and keep Vegehan alive!"
"U-Understood, Elder!" Kibitoshin nodded, practically shaking under the weight of the severe situation they were thrust into.
"Right," Old Kai nodded, releasing his hold over Kibitoshin, saying in a low tone, "here's what you do..."
Earth, South Pole Airspace
Vegehan was astonished.
Even as Majin Buu clawed out the final restriction his power possibly had, it was a power he never thought possible coming from him. Bathed in a thick, scarlet aura, that undulated with warping pressure waves, he truly appeared like a demonic entity. Vehemently glaring eyes bore no pupils with only glazed red light emitting from the sockets. With bared teeth and balled fists, the Super Buu emerged with nothing but rage and carnage on his mind.
"TIME TO DIE, SUPER SAIYAN!" He roared out thunderously, as it charged through the air at Vegehan, screaming with unadulterated rage.
The battle for the Universe, has finally begun!
A/N: Whoo! What an action packed chapter of Epic and Hilarity this was to write. XD
I hope you all enjoyed the various original twists I took to make this fight interesting to read and less predictable. The titanic clashes between these two beings were a blast to write and I hope you were all entertained from start to finish. w
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And until next time, I'll see you all on the next, Dragon Ball Zenkai!