A/N: Just because things got a little wonky when I deleted that extra chapter, make sure that you've read chapter 40! It's a "new chapter 40" so there will be double reviews for chapter 40. Long story short, when I deleted an extra chapter yesterday, chapter 32 (an update chapter), I renumbered everything so that everything was numbered properly. And that's probably why most of you didn't get a notification for chapter 41 because I technically already released a chapter 41.

Anyway, main thing is, double check chapter 40 as it's new, and things will go back to normal when I released chapter 42 and you should receive a notification for it!

Sorry for any confusion and thanks!

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Chapter 41: Making Things Right


"Y-You can't be up here!"

"Out of my way!"

"But - "

"- It's fine," King Yemma interrupted, eyes diverting off of his staff and onto Vegeta. "What's all this ruckus about Vegeta? Aren't you in hot water as is?"

Vegeta opened his mouth to rudely retort, but King Yemma stopped him before he could say anything. "I should warn you to tread carefully. After all, there must be a reason you're coming to me, right?"

Vegeta's eyes widened, but he ultimately listened. "I want to make things right and in order to do that, I need my body back."

"While I don't like your attitude, Kibito Kai requested this a while back as well. I told him I would only consider it if you wanted to make things right yourself." King Yemma's eyes narrowed slightly and then he was sighing. Personally, he didn't like Vegeta, but he supposed he could push his feelings aside just this once. Though, that was very challenging. "Very well. I'll grant the request."

Vegeta looked shocked. Was it really this easy? This simple? The Prince could hardly believe it.

"You're no Goku, but obviously you'll need your body for this. Kibito Kai wanted you to be present in case you were needed to fuse with Goku using the Potara Earrings, and he wanted your assistance in looking for the dragon balls with him and Goku. Goku seemed to support it."

"Also, seeing as you're responsible for destroying innocent lives," King Yemma continued, "I think it's fair you take part in searching for the dragon balls to restore them. Should you mess up again Vegeta, no one will save you from Hell. I don't care what the reason is."

Vegeta said nothing, but he seemed to understand.

"Looks like we're clear. Is there anything you'd like to state before we make arrangements to get you back to Earth?

"No."

"Good."

~0~

"You have a lot of faith in Gohan."

"Of course I do," Goku answered back easily. "I'm sure he'll take care of Buu. I have no doubt about it."

Kibito couldn't help but smile. "Well then, hopefully, King Yemma will be contacting me soon about Vegeta. Then the three of us can find the dragon balls a lot quicker."

"Yeah," Goku agreed. "We could cover a lot more ground. That way when things are wrapped up with Buu, everything can go back to normal. We'll have to wish Krillin and Vegeta back with the Namekian Dragon Balls though."

"Right." Kibito agreed. "Say Goku, maybe we should split up after Vegeta joins us?"

"I think that's a good idea! I was kinda thinking the same thing."

~0~

Gohan released a sigh of relief.

The first thing he did was instinctively search out everyone's ki and it didn't look as if he was too late.

He could still feel Piccolo's ki and even Tien's. Though, he could no longer feel Gotenk's ki. That was pretty concerning.

Gohan frowned, picking up the pace a bit. The sooner he got where Buu was, the better. This time he would make things right. He didn't want things to go the way they did with Cell.

Where he got cocky and cost his father his life.

He has definitely grown a lot since then, and he'd prove it.

Plus Buu was costing too many lives and he needed to be stopped.

Nearly everyone was gone because of Buu.

Even Videl.

Gohan clenched his fists.

As if she hadn't gone through enough already.

Gohan ceased his thoughts. It looked as if he was finally coming up on Buu.

Buu, on the other hand, 'tsked' at the sight of Gohan. Now what? Now, who was this hotshot approaching him? How come fighters kept approaching him left and right? Was there no end?

Buu frowned, his displeasure evident. "Are you also here to fight Buu?"

Gohan scoffed. "Fight you? No. I'm here to kill you. I think we're way beyond fighting."

Buu looked taken aback at first, but quickly regained his composure; his frown transitioned into a grin.

He was amused.

"You think you can kill Buu?"

Gohan smirked. "Oh, I know I can."

"Gohan!"

Gohan diverted his eyes off of Buu and onto the source. It was Piccolo.

"A word."

Gohan's eyes diverted back onto Buu. "Hold that thought. I promise it'll be worth your time."

"Buu doesn't like waiting."

But Gohan was already making his way towards Piccolo and the others. "It won't take long." He dismissed with the wave of a hand.

In little to no time, Gohan was in front of Piccolo, a huge smile spreading across his features. "Piccolo! I'm glad you're okay!"

Piccolo returned the smile. "Thanks, kid. I'm glad you're okay too. I'll skip right to the point, so you can take care of Buu once and for all. Gotenks is still alive. Trunks came up with the plan to willingly allow Buu to absorb Gotenks - a fused being - so that they can split apart in Buu when the fusion comes undone and find Raditz."

Piccolo stopped to gesture to Tien, "Tien was going to use the Evil Containment Wave and we figured getting Raditz out of Buu would help with our odds."

"Yeah," Tien agreed. "But it looks like we may not need this after all. We're probably going to need you to buy a bit of time for Gotenks to get out of Buu, though."

"That'll be no problem at all. Either way, Buu is going down."

"Hey," 17 called out curiously, "What's Goku up to?"

The others were curious as well and waited for Gohan's answer.

"Goku and Kibito Kai are going to collect the dragon balls. I hear they're going to get Vegeta involved too, so they should have the dragon balls back in no time."

Tien's features lit up at this. "Then this means that Chiaotzu and the others can be revived soon?"

Gohan gave a nod. "Right."

Then he diverted his gaze back onto Piccolo. "Why don't you guys keep hanging back? It's a pretty crazy and reckless plan, but I can see what Trunks was going for. Let me know when Gotenks returns with uncle Raditz. Give me some sort of signal and I'll wrap things up with Buu."

Gohan and the others wrapped up their conversation and Gohan was making his way over to Buu just as quickly as he left. "Thanks for waiting. Looks like you know how to exercise patience, after all."

Buu scowled at the insult, tilting his head to the side. "Are you ready?"

Gohan slid into his fighting stance, smirking. "Yeah."

~0~

"Ew!" Goten cried out. "It's disgusting in here!"

"Tell me about it," Trunks mumbled, dusting himself off as best as he could. They had been attacked by all sorts of things in here. If he and Goten succeeded in getting uncle Raditz out of here, he owed them big time for this.

"Hey, Trunks! Look over there!"

The purple-haired Saiyan followed Goten's tiny finger. "What is it?"

Goten was running ahead. "I think that's uncle Raditz!"

Trunks couldn't bite back his smile even if he tried to. "Is it? If that's the case, we can finally grab him and get out of here. I feel like we've been in here forever!"

Though before Trunks could celebrate further, Goten was sent flying backward with a hard kick.

Goten grunted, sliding against the insides of Buu before coming to a slow halt. Goten sat up slowly, clutching his stomach. "O-Ouch. What was that?"

Trunks, on the other hand, paled. "Uh, Goten. Looks like we're not quite done fighting just yet."

Goten blinked, eyes widening. "Uncle Raditz?"

"Don't be dumb, Goten. It looks like a clone of sorts. We have two choices. We can either stay here and try to take on uncle Raditz, or we can run and try to find the real body."

Goten spared a glance in Trunks's direction, rising up to his feet. "Wouldn't it be faster if we just found the real body?"

"Yeah, I think so too." Trunks informed.

Then his eyes were narrowing. The thought clone of Raditz was charging them. "But it looks like we're going to have to give him the slip first."

~0~

Android 18 sighed. She wanted to comfort Bulma, but she just didn't know how to. She couldn't stand seeing Bulma like this. She was clearly unhappy and who wouldn't be? 18 didn't even know what she would do if she was in Bulma's shoes. If it was her husband that killed innocent people.

18 shuddered at the thought.

That was a hard pill to swallow.

18 spared Chi-Chi a glance.

Chi-Chi seemed to be playing with Marise and Taro.

18 cracked a light smile at this, before finally working up the courage to go talk to Bulma. She hadn't said much last time because she wasn't necessarily good at these things, but maybe Bulma would see that her heart was in the right place.

"Hey, Bulma." She approached carefully.

Bulma lifted her head up weakly, blue eyes dull. "Yeah?"

18 had been slightly taken aback by the lifelessness in Bulma's eyes, but quickly managed to gain her composure. "How are you feeling now? Are you serious about divorcing Vegeta?"

"I don't feel any better." She answered truthfully. "And yeah," Bulma tacked on seconds later, "I'm serious about divorcing him. I feel like I don't even know him anymore. But even then, what do I tell Trunks? Will Trunks understand or will he be upset with me?"

"I think Trunks would support whatever made you happy, Bulma. I think you're being too hard on yourself. You had no idea he would do this."

Bulma laughed harshly. "I didn't know, but I still feel responsible." Then the blue-haired scientist was diverting her eyes to Android 18. "Maybe I should have married Raditz, after all. You sure did snag a good one, 18."

18's lips twitched at the comment but refrained from saying anything. "Whatever you decide, Chi-Chi and I will stand beside you no matter what."

Bulma smiled weakly. "Thanks, 18."


A/N: Double chapter tonight! Though this one isn't as long as the previous chapter. Again, sorry about any confusion. Once again, I took out an unnecessary extra chapter so that all the chapters were numbered properly. I hope I didn't throw anyone off too much! Also, thanks to coldblue2015 for the idea of Vegeta being in King Yemma's office trying to make things right. I tweaked it slightly though!

coldblue2015: I went back and read things and Chiaotzu passed away during Buu's human extinction attack.

Mugetsu700: Thanks!

Gamelover41592: Thank you!