Looking back at this now, this was kind of interesting as a concept, but I don't think this was a good as I hoped it to be. With that said, I might as well finish this out of obligation, so I don't have to deal with it in the future. We got about two chapters left after this.

Plus, an issue I have is that I try not to make dialogue seem forced and have characters talking feel natural, hence why there are some pauses of speaking and radical speeds of here now appearing here and in current and future stories, a practice I found in a show called Smiling Friends, which seems to work really well. The issue is though, you have to imagine the characters talking when reading them here, in the show, it's showcased in every way for you, which makes it more effective than on literature, but those are my two cents. This is still a practice I see as useful, and I'll still use traditional dialogue that is normally found in storytelling and other shows and movies.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 9: Lento

"I'm starting to think maybe it wasn't a good thing I went."

"It would have been for the best. I know you all want to play a part, but you would have been nothing more than a liability."

"I know, I know, that's what frustrates me!"

Dende, Videl and Krillin, who was entertaining his blonde-haired daughter by having her sit on his leg and lifting it up and down in rapid succession, were now chatting at the edge of the Lookout, all the while sensing out what was happening, and venting each of their frustrations at each other, albeit respectfully.

After Goten and Trunks had left the Time Chamber, they had immediately flown off to the battlefield to the protests of Videl, but she was stopped by Piccolo, sensing their power and thought they could do some good considering their massive spike in strength and speed. Plus, it was his turn in the Chamber, along with the Android twins.

Obviously, Videl had gotten considerably fatter after spending much more time in the Time Chamber than Chi-Chi and Bulma. She had more muscle than before, but its growth was minute compared to the fat. Videl's stomach was bigger than Trunks and Goten's whole bodies when they had been before the Buu incident, big enough to contain her old skinny self within and was past her dimpled knees. and each of her butt cheeks were just big enough to not surpass how far her back fat went.

"You know, imagine if 18 was looking like this," Videl joked, hoping to bring the mood up.

"Don't even start," complained Krillin. "I'm already self-conscious about my power and height, don't make that blow worse."

"But isn't 18 already taller than you?"

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I have so much of a problem with it! You've gotten a bit taller all because of this!" Krillin gestured his free hand all around Videl's massive and bloated form, making his insecurities all the clearer.

Videl's cheeks puffed up as she grew a bit infuriated before slapping her enormous belly to have it jiggle and make an emphasis. "Well excuse me for wanting to be forced to become a giant fat blob! I didn't ask for this to happen you know!"

"And at the same time, you're not complaining about it though. If you were the first time I saw you, you wouldn't have tried to get bigger voluntarily in the Time Chamber. Is this because of Gohan or something, because as far as I know, he doesn't have any kinks."

"Well, thanks to that literal stupid piece of Buu, I'm probably stuck like this, so I might as well embrace it, and you know what? It's not the worst thing in the world."

"Yeah but... well... actually yeah, you're right, I can think of worse. I mean, you could have died, or-"

"Don't suggest me dying! That's the absolute last thing I wanna hear!"

"I'm just saying, take it from me, the guy that's died two times, and the only reason I'm still here after those times is because Dragon Balls exist."

"... W... wha-"

"I know, right?"

"H-how in, how have you not gone insane?"

"Honestly, I just like to believe it's a miracle, and I'd rather not think about that, plus we've been through so much crazy sh... crazy shenanigans in our lives, at some point in time, we'll be treating death as an everyday thing."

"That... is... morbid..."

"Just don't think about philosophies or that stuff like existentialism, or any of the sort. I'm certainly enjoying life, so you can't really call me a nihilist. Acknowledge these things and pretend you aren't a part of it until you have to. Everyone else down on Earth does this, but they don't actually know what's beyond their own solar system. You know what they say, ignorance is bliss."

There wasn't any argument over here. Krillin was barely ever seen to be the guy contemplating life choices for the small duration Videl had known him.

It was so surreal and bizarre to see how these people, Gohan's friends and family, acted about these things. Sure, they could probably destroy an entire continent and centuries worth of prosperity in any city, but she had to remind herself, like her, they were human.

Not everyone in a literal sense, but metaphorically. They still each had human emotions and displayed them more often than not. Hell, before the second wave of Buu, Gohan had straight up said to her that he was half-Earthling, along with his little brother and his father was completely alien.

It's a small universe they lived in.

Here was to hoping Gohan came out of this alright.

Trunks was practically relishing with his untestable power.

He was just having the absolute time in his life! This was probably the most fun he had in months, with Buulma's punches literally not working against him, as he floated in the middle of the air, while the insane Majin had delivered blow after blow after blow to every part of him that she could hit, but it didn't look like he was taking any sort of damage whatsoever with that irritating smug on his face.

Buulma was expecting was raging like an angry video gamer after dying multiple times repeatedly. So what?! Just because the annoying child Saiyan got a little fatter and his hair changed color, he can beat her? HELL NO!

But here he was, taunting and mocking her, letting her have hits on him without him defending himself, and he didn't even need to, adding insult to injury in the metaphorical and literal senses. She tried everything to make him budge, smash her fat fist into his cheek, kick his arms and legs, send an elbow to the face and let loose a barrage of punches to Trunks' big gut, the act resembling dough being beaten.

"COME ON!" screamed Buulma, smashing her cupped hands into Trunks' skull, but the blubber boy didn't even flinch from the impact.

Buulma swore she heard a giggle from Trunks, before he smacked her away with the back of his pudgy hand into a pile of rocks. Before Buulma could even lift her head up to make sense of things, Trunks outstretched his arm and grabbed onto her head tentacle.

Trunks mischievously grinned with a childishly devious intent, lifting Buulma high into the air, before pulling her down into the ground at high speed. This led to the smashing of the pink marshmallow-like monster into the landscape. Buulma's body, bloody and bruised, made it abundantly clear her regeneration was reaching its limits. It wouldn't be long before she was finished.

"Ready to give up?" asked Trunks, letting go and his arm retracting to its normal length, keeping his battle performance over adequate levels, even with his blobby 800lbs shape.

"Never..." hatefully spat Buulma, coughing up a bit of blood at the ground, before flying up to Trunks' height.

"They never give each other the other answer," sighed Gohan from the sidelines, he and everyone else quickly catching up to the new area of the ongoing fight.

Vegeta rolled his eyes. "They're both stubborn. I don't know what other kind of behavior you were expecting from them."

"AHHHHHHHHH!" roared Buulma, before her cheeks puffed out and she let loose some kind of strange white substance ooze from her lips.

Trunks blinked as the ooze took shape, and thanks to his memory as Gotenks, he and Goten were able to recognize this.

"Wait, isn't that from Gotenks?!" gasped Goten, recognizing it.

"You should be scared," smirked Buulma, now surrounding by dozens of chubby ghosts with her face. "This is the Super Kamikaze Ghost Attack: Buulma Version!"

Trunks on the other hand, wasn't impressed or scared, rolling his turquoise eyes in the Vegeta-esque fashion. He wasn't even a teenager yet and he was already feeling way too old for this. He might even say the Majin in front of him was acting more like that of a child than he was. "Seriously? You're just copying people now."

"Get her, girls!" shouted Buulma, before the ghosts all converged for the fat half-Saiyan.

Trunks just shook his head and spawned a few small energy balls around both of his hands, before throwing them at the ghosts. They spread all over, each little ball causing each ghost to explode even from the simplest touch, one of them, even tearing Buulma's left arm off clean.

"What?!" exclaimed Buulma as she regrew her arm, obviously enraged while Gohan and Goten just sighed of relief, Vegeta and Buichi already knowing there wasn't anything to worry about.

"You know, since you decided to be a copycat, I'll be one too!" Trunks chuckled, before popping his thumb into his mouth. As with last time he tried this, he blew hard, causing himself to inflate to immense proportions, as he took on more of a ball shape. His belly swelled, his hips widened, his thighs thickened, his arms filled out and his clothes didn't even look like they were filling out. His body expanded and blossomed like a flower sprouting ten times its normal pace, as his legs and some of his arms began to disappear, covered by the rest of his inflating rubber body.

"This fight is starting to get a little ridiculous," sweat dropped Vegeta.

Buichi on the other hand, didn't mind it. "Eh, it seems like something I would do. Can't let all of this go to waste, right?" she gestured to her giant body.

The full-blooded Saiyan rolled his eyes and looked away, partly out of embarrassment of being exposed to, whatever this was supposed to be. Were there people on Earth that took enjoyment in this?

"Hey, look at me."

Vegeta didn't budge.

"Look at me, mister!"

Directing his eyes towards the female fusion was the least he could do.

"Listen, this'll sound completely insane but, I have a plan, and whatever you do, don't try to stop me."

He could at least give her this, he was intrigued. "I'm listening."

Meanwhile, Trunks finally stopped the assault, being about four times bigger than he was before, before he spun like a bowling ball in the air towards Buulma, so fast in fact it didn't even take two seconds for Trunks to smash her and send her flying into the air.

Trunks mischievously chucked, before blowing air out of his mouth, deflating himself to his original blobby proportions. He couldn't even be mad that Buulma wasn't challenging, it was just a whole load of fun. "COME ON! BE SERIOUS WITH ME!"

Buulma, managing to turn herself in the air, couldn't keep her cool and was moments away from literally blowing her brains out. The pain and embarrassment were just that bad, her mentality couldn't handle all of this bullshit and her sanity was quite frankly beginning to get at wit's end.

"I'm beginning to question myself," groaned the youngest of the two Kais, rubbing his temples together, embarrassed of his ancestor being a perverted leech, as well as the fact that this was how the fate of everyone in the many galaxies was being decided. From almost any angle, the fight itself seemed to be incredibly stupid, absurd unappealing at all, to the point where it was difficult to take either Trunks or Buulma seriously, regardless of the fact of them being a threat or not to the Earth and the universe. He hated to admit, but there were times where this whole conflict felt comical!

Never did he think he would ever bear witness to something so nauseatingly ludicrous and childish.

Goku on the other, didn't think too hard about it, after all, a fight was still a fight, so obviously was unable to tell what the fused deity was implying when he was questioning himself. "What do you mean? Shouldn't you be happy Trunks is winning?"

"Of course, I am, Goku!" replied the Supreme Kai. "It's the methods that puzzle me!"

"I mean, I get what you're saying," Goku agreed. It was true, they never fought anything like this, or actually fought like this, so it was quite unusual, even for their standards. "But there isn't much we can do about it either, we just have to let it play through."

"Well, as much as I didn't want this, I'm getting bored of this too," sighed Old Kai. It was fun when Bulma and Chi-Chi were actively taking part in the fight, but with Trunks taking over, he wasn't interested whatsoever.

"ANCESTOR! Surely the fate of the Universe means something to you!" exclaimed the Supreme Kai, seeing Old Kai's nonchalant response as a noncaring way.

"It DOES, dimwit, I live in this Universe too! I'm just not interesting in how this fight itself goes, only what happens in the end!"

Goku didn't like where this was going, so he tried to end this charade before it escalated. "Hey, come on! Can't we all just agree this was a misunderstanding?"

With this going on, no one was paying attention to the battle whatsoever.

Surprisingly enough, Trunks was beginning to feel really bored. He thought he would have a much more fun time toying around, but when it was just the same gimmicks over and over again, it started to lose its comedic touch and feel old.

"Well, I guess this isn't fun anymore," sadly sighed Trunks, his fat arms folded on top of his large bulging belly.

No! No! I can't lose! Especially not to him! thought Buulma, sweating nervously. But she tried everything she could have to win! Or did she?

An evil smirk came across Buulma's face when she remembered something from earlier. She just had to focus and keep Trunks talking. The issue is, she wasn't the only one who noticed this, but on the other hand, that other who wasn't Trunks, so was completely ignorant of the Majin's ploy.

"You know, if you want fun, I can go at this game even harder for you. Besides, I can still win this and you're going to be in my belly before you know it," smirked Buulma, as something slithered in the rocks behind Trunks.

"You're still going on about that?" grimaced the purple-haired halfling with a bored sigh.

Everyone else besides Trunks, however, happened to notice what was slithering behind him, with Gohan and Goten looking quite nervous, Vegeta being a mix of stoic and anxious, while Buichi was completely concentrated, nodding at one of the Saiyans, motioning him to follow her.

"I have a reason to be, I thought you Saiyans were supposed to be tough and brave," taunted Buulma. "But hey, all I see is a giant fat blob just wanting to eat. Hell, you probably want to turn me into a piece of candy right now to fatten yourself up, don't you, ya little greedy brat?"

"Yeah, I'm just deciding what to make you. I mean, come on, you gotta agree there's no way I'm not losing this at all, I'm literally a Super Saiyan, over ten times stronger than I was before-"

Trunks was too distracted to sense them coming, as his arms were held by Goten and Buichi, to his astonishment and confusion.

"HEY! What are you doing?!" exclaimed Trunks as he tried to wriggle his way out of this situation.

"Just trust us!" replied Buichi, as not even a second later, a large pink mass came over them and enveloped the three completely! It had been Buulma's arm that she had been forced to cut off to escape from Trunks earlier. They were completely absorbed into the mass, which then floated over to Buulma with a wave of her fat fingers.

"YES!" laughed Buulma, as the mass merged with her own fat flesh. She was in complete glee, reveling in her victory and now being able to get more powerful. "YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!"

"This had better not backfire," Vegeta growled from afar. Gohan agreed with his sentiments, since on paper to him, this plan was completely absurd as well as being the equivalent of a suicide mission.

Buulma began to grow in body fat, laughing, her body expelling massive amounts of pink smoke.

"YES! YES! YES!" continued Buulma, almost insane from her victory. But then, she felt something going wrong. "What?"

Suddenly, Buulma's body began to expand out into a shapeless blob, her fat enveloping everything except for her face.

"What's happening to me?!" screamed Buulma, as she changed into a gigantic blob of pink fat, large pores opening everywhere.

When the trio woke up together, the purple-haired Saiyan, no longer in his Super Saiyan form, was quite heated at the fat fusion and fatter half-Saiyan, who did feel guilty about tricking his best friend without warning. He was still not comfortable at all with this place, the fact that they were literally inside someone who was alive, didn't put a great mental image on his head, and some of the inside just looked nauseatingly ugly. Even some of the pathways they stumbled on looked askew.

Goten, being the naïve and happy goofball he was, either didn't mind it, or didn't care. Well, good for him, since he always tried to look on the bright side of things. He was the yang to the yin in the friendship these two had.

"So, you still didn't tell me what the point of this was," mumbled Trunks, keeping up walking pace with the fusion.

"Believe it or not, it was just a giant gambit, I was getting worried that the barrier wouldn't work on all of us," smiled Buichi as the three of them walked around, looking around in the massive purple flesh lined chamber that was their enemy's belly. "Plus, if I told you about this, you would 100% be against it, you're not exactly Mr. Brave here, Trunks, I've seen you act scared the first time ever we saw Buu."

"I-I WAS NOT!"

"We're literally your mother and the other person that looks after you constantly, it's impossible to lie to us."

"Come on..." Trunks flustered and groaned, hating being embarrassed by his two motherly figures. It was still a bit weird since his birth mom and Goten's mom, who often took care of him were the same person. "You know... you could have told me about this plan, and I would have gone myself, you know."

"Look, Trunks, if we let you get absorbed on your own, you wouldn't have any idea what to do next, much less how to break free."

He didn't want to admit, but she was right.

"Anyways, Buulma decided to, believe it or not, swallow the Dragon Balls whole and keep them inside here, probably so she wouldn't have to go through the trouble of watching over them in one spot I bet."

"So, we're here to get the Dragon Balls back and turn everything back to normal?" surmised Goten.

"Obviously, but the issue is, while the Dragon Radar tells me how far we are, the paths here-" Buichi spoke when, out of nowhere, began to glow and suddenly split apart in two familiar halves, their total weight now evenly divided.

"Wait, WHAT?!" exclaimed Trunks, not thinking the fusion would be over until they were out of this place.

Goten was obviously ecstatic, happy to see his mother again, and quickly ran up to hug her as best as he could. It was still difficult with both of them being great fatties, but their flesh was able to squirm and move around with little issues. "Mom, you're back!"

"Huh?" blinked Bulma, regaining her senses shortly after bouncing onto her big butt. "What just happened?"

"We split back to ourselves!" shouted Chi-Chi, before letting go of Goten and removing the Potarra Earring on her ear. "But I thought these were supposed to last longer!"

"Hey, can I see that?" requested Bulma, taking off her own.

"Why though? These things are magic, not trying to say you aren't smart but there's no way science would be involved in this."

"Chi-Chi, can we not do this now? We have much bigger problems. If you want, I can keep my thoughts to myself and just-"

Out of nowhere, an earthquake-like rumble erupted.

-HOOLD!" finished Bulma as Goten, Trunks and the two fat femme fatales fell to the ground.

Since she had lost her balance, the earring had left Bulma's meaty hand, and fell to the ground in a very unfortunate place, a crunch coming out loud enough even after the rumble.

"Uh-oh..." gulped Bulma, feeling something under her blubber buns.

"Please don't tell me you..."

"Yep..." sighed Bulma, reaching under her large self to pull out two crushed earrings. "I sat on them..."

"Great..." sighed Chi-Chi. "What else could go wrong?"

"HEH, HEH, HEH!"

"What was that?!" shouted Bulma, before something ran by them. Chi-Chi only got a brief glimpse of it. Whatever it was, it was small, pink, and looked like it was heading in excitement for something.

"So what do we do now?" asked Gohan, before suddenly a bust of pink steam shot out of one of Buulma's pores. Something grew from the smoke and made an evil laugh.

"HA! HA! HA!" smirked the small pink creature with black eyes with red pupils. It looked like Buulma, except it was male, and much thinner and shorter. He beat his bare chest like a gorilla as if making an eager challenge.

Now this thing had looked nothing like the other versions of Buu, and it was probably the creepiest looking one of all.

"W... what is that thing?" Vegeta spluttered, baffled and very confused.

Of course, Gohan couldn't give a proper answer as he was just as clueless as the Saiyan Prince was, but the slim alien started to develop a smile, and immediately, they could tell this creature was trouble.

"I don't know..." Gohan finally responded. "But I don't like it one bit."

"Wait, I don't get it! Where did that guy even come from, I can't even wrap my head around as to what Buu even is anymore," whisper-shouted Videl, watching the fight from the edge of Dende's lookout, focusing her newfound ki sense to follow it.

"He's probably the biggest enigma we've ever fought, so I don't think I wanna look too deep into this," sighed Krillin.

She and everyone else couldn't really yell since Marron was asleep, and obviously the powerful dwarf didn't want her to wake up in the middle of the crisis they were amidst.

But thanks to Videl's ginormous stomach growling, which Marron was laying her head on, she had sat up straight thanks to her reflexes, being much startled by that noise.

"Wait, Videl, was that your stomach? That didn't sound human one bit," whispered Krillin. It sounded so monstrous, as if it was ravening for amounts of food twice the normal amount the average Saiyan would eat on a daily basis.

"Ugh... I guess so, this damned thing," agreed Videl, rubbing her belly. "It makes sense since I haven't really gotten a chance to pig put since Goten, Trunks and I came out of the Time Chamber. Isn't there anything else to eat?"

Almost the entire pantry had been taken out and Mr. Popo was still busy refilling it, so she was stuck like this for now.

Actually... now that Krillin thought about it, there was something. He felt really stupid and ashamed at himself for not thinking about it sooner.

"Wait here."

Krillin had jumped off the edge of The Lookout, and sped towards the clouds like a bullet train, leaving Dende and Videl flabbergasted. There's no way he was actually being serious about bringing Videl some food in the middle of a giant fight. They would have tried to stop him from going on a suicide mission, but he was the fastest and strongest one of them all.

"Wait... he's coming, back?" gasped a dumbfounded Videl. Did he really leave just for nothing? Just for a few shits and giggles, because with how far the closest city was, even with Krillin's immeasurable speed, it would be impossible for him to get back so quickly. But he actually had something in his palm, a small beige colored sack, and in the other, a Senzu Bean which he threw to the other Earthling.

"You're kidding, right? A bean?" asked Videl, seeing a green bean had been dropped into her pudgy palms. "This won't don't anything."

'Krillin, are you sure we should be using such a valuable resource for a purpose like this?" wondered Dende.

Krillin sheepishly shrugged. "I know it's not the best use for this kind of thing, but Korin has made plenty more of these guys over the years Trust me, Videl, that bean will do wonders for ya."

"Well... alright," sighed Videl, before she popped the bean into her mouth and swallowed it. It had a nice texture, and it was as crunchy as a cookie, but the taste was very mixed, but she needed something.

"Doesn't have much of a, OH!" she began, before her stomach bulged out larger, becoming fuller, rounder and much more blubbery. The rest of her body was attestation to this to as her meaty arms became fuller and puffed up along with her hands, her breasts grew a few inches closer to a bigger bust size, her rear slightly pushed outwards, and her side and back fat spread out further even more, making her look more like a ball before, not being completely round, with her stomach still being the biggest component. She had to have gained about 70 more pounds from this.

She wasn't the only one who was bewildered by this, as Dende looked away completely, Marron was astounded as she was still a child so she was completely clueless on this, and Krillin just, didn't know what to think of this.

"Well... its supposed to replace ten days of eating food, at least that's what Korin said, soo... maybe it goes by how much that would be for each person," guessed Krillin, rubbing his chin.

"You're right about that, I feel stuffed! Gohan would love one of these I bet!" grinned Videl, rubbing her bigger belly.

In hindsight, Krillin agreed it was a great idea as Gohan and the others could use them after all that's happened. Sure, why not? She and Gohan would make a great tag team, she could handle the Senzu Beans on the way surely. He quickly threw the sack to Videl. "Well don't let me stop you here. Just try not to eat them on your way, you'll probably get too big to move!"

"Very funny..." sarcastically laughed Videl, she wasn't letting this dwarf get the best of him. "So, are you coming?"

"Nah, if anything happens, I gotta watch over little Marron here."

That was understandable, little children like her needed to be looked over at all times, and he couldn't defend her from here if Piccolo and the Android twins didn't leave the HTC in time.

"Well, alright, wish me luck!" exclaimed Videl as she took off to the battlefield.

Krillin hoped this decision wasn't a mistake, and that she would live out this fight alongside Gohan.

The last few bits were the result of a burnout, if it wasn't obvious.