Chapter 4: Super Buu Absorbs Gotenks! Vegetto Enters the Mix!
It looked dire for Piccolo and the boys. With Gotenks defused, it looked as if all was lost. However, Buu looked at the two boys in confusion. "Where did strong guy go? Will he come back?" Buu asked.
"Uh…" Piccolo wondered, 'Wait a minute, if we play our cards right here we could make it out alive.' "Yes! The strong guy will return. He will be back in one half hour…" Piccolo explained to Super Buu.
"Okay, me wait for strong guy." Super Buu plainly stated as he turned his back on the trio and fell asleep.
"Nice work Piccolo." Trunks giggled as he looked at Buu. 'What an idiot!'
However, Buu was not as dumb as he appeared. Buu did have a scheme of sorts in the works.
Elder Kai allowed Gohan to rest a day before they began the next step of training. However, the day that followed proved to be the hardest yet.
"Okay Gohan, I am going to begin to subject you to a number of illusions that you must deal with. Are you ready?" He asked the refreshed warrior.
"I'm ready for whatever it takes to beat Buu." Gohan said, a hint of confidence in his voice.
"Remember those words son… Remember them." Elder Kai emphasized. Without any hesitation he began doing a weird dance in front of Gohan. Gohan looked dumbfounded at what the silly old man was doing. However, before Gohan could ask him what it was he was doing hopping around like that, he was transported into a dark room.
'Where am I? It's sure dark in here.' Gohan wondered to himself, 'Ah, I know.' Gohan created a ball of energy in his hand to illuminate his surroundings. In the distance he saw a crowd of people. He could also hear faint yelling.
"Hello? Who is there? Uh oh, it sounds like they're in trouble." Gohan exclaimed as he rushed over to the crowd. His mouth dropped when he saw who was in the crowd. Videl! Mother! Dad! All his friends and family were in the crowd, but there was not happiness on their faces. It was terror. Gohan felt an ominous presence behind him. He turned around and could not believe who he saw. Super Saiyan Nappa, Final Form Frieza, and Perfect Cell all stood ominously behind him. They all stared at Gohan's loved ones.
"What!? Frieza! Cell! Nappa!? What the hell?" Gohan wasted no time in going full blown Super Saiyan 2 to take these guys on.
"Dad! Vegeta! With our combined strength we can beat them easy come on!" Gohan rallied.
"No Gohan… We cannot. You see they kept training. If only you kept training Gohan…" Goku said passively as he sat on the black floor.
"I hate to say it, but Kakarot is right… They will slaughter us all." Vegeta stated as he walked away.
"What? But no! I'm Super Saiyan 2 I can beat them… Well fine, I'll just do it myself." Gohan declared as he launched his first blow right into Nappa's chest… But it did nothing! Nothing at all! Gohan winced in terror as Nappa opened his mouth, charging up his all too familiar blast.
"I… I can't hurt him. What?" Gohan stood frozen in fear as Nappa blasted Gohan with his mouth beam. Gohan fell to his knees about to accept his end, but then something happened…
Piccolo jumped in the way to deflect the blast before Gohan got hit. Gohan looked in despair as he saw his best friend fall to the ground dead. Fall to the ground protecting him…
"Piccolo!" Gohan cried as he powered back up in rage. "I will end you all!" Gohan roared as he charged at Nappa.
Gohan began an all out assault on the bald, golden eyebrowed Saiyan. But not one single attack Gohan threw landed on him. After a while Nappa grew tired of Gohan and threw him aside.
"Fool! Maybe if you were a full blooded Saiyan, you would have had a chance. But you're nothing, you're just the half-breed son of a low class weakling!" Nappa laughed as he stomped on Gohan. The force was so great Gohan burst into tears. He was helpless, his anger did nothing to help him.
"That's enough time wasted on this baby Nappa." Perfect Cell interrupted, sneering at Gohan. "You and Frieza go and slaughter the others. I'll pin him down so he can watch."
"NOO!" Gohan sobbed as he gave his all in trying to break Cell's grasp. But he could not. He could not even close his eyes for some reason. All he could do is watch in pure agony as Nappa and Frieza slaughtered all the Z Fighters… All his friends. Gohan furiously struggled, tapping into all his anger to escape, but it was fruitless.
"I'll never forgive you for this! Do you hear me! Cell! Nappa! Frieza! I hate you! I hate you all!" Gohan declared as he slowly began to white out. "Never… I will never… Never…"
The next thing Gohan could remember was waking up in a cold sweat in the Extra-Dimensional Rift. Elder Kai stood next to him shaking his head. "You failed. We'll try again tomorrow."
30 minutes had passed, and Piccolo signaled for Goten and Trunks to fuse again.
"Fu-sion-ha!" they chanted as they turned back into their old friend.
"The strong guy is back Buu! And this time will be the last time! No more playing around!" Gotenks hollered at the sleeping Buu. And as Buu woke up from his slumber Gotenks wasted no time in turning Super Saiyan 3.
'Thank God, it looks like Gotenks understands now he needs to be serious.' Piccolo smiled to himself at how fast Gotenks powered up to charge at Buu.
"Eat this Buu! DIE DIE MISSILE BAR-" Gotenks attack was cut short however, when a huge wave of pink engulfed him! "What the heck is this! Get this crap off of me!" Gotenks struggled to fight the goo, but it proved no use. The goo engulfed them, slithering over to a grinning Super Buu as Gotenks was absorbed into him!
'NOOO! Somehow Buu has been able to absorb Gotenks! Damnit this is the end! Well, I'm not going down without a fight.' Piccolo determined as he got into a fighting stance.
Watching all this from his crystal ball, Supreme Kai got worried as he turned back to Vegetto, "You guys must go now! Gotenks has been absorbed by Majin Buu!"
"What!?" Vegetto gasped. "Okay, I'm going." Vegetto put his finger to his head to do instant transmission, but something was wrong. "Uh… I'm still dead Supreme Kai, I can't go to Earth…" Vegetto laughed scratching his head.
Supreme Kai practically fell backwards, "No! How could I be so stupid!"
"Sir, if I may, I may be able to forfeit my life to Vegetto so he may live again to fight Buu." Kibito explained.
"Kibito, are you sure?" Supreme Kai asked.
"Of course, Vegeta and Goku made their sacrifice to fuse, this is my sacrifice." Kibito smiled as he grabbed Vegetto's arm. "At the very least Vegetto, just hold the bastard up."
Vegetto nodded as Kibito transferred his life to Vegetto. Vegetto shook the now haloed Kibito's hand before he instant transmissioned away.
"That was a noble thing Kibito." Supreme Kai smiled, looking at his old friend.
"Well, let's just hope it doesn't go to waste…"
"Buu now end this puny planet." Buu said to himself, realizing Earth no longer had any value to him.
"Not until you end me!" Piccolo cried out, charging towards his certain death.
"Happily." Buu giggled as he reached an arm up to blast Piccolo into the Other world. But… before his blast could reach Piccolo, it got deflected.
'What?' Piccolo stopped in his tracks as he looked around.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Buu boomed.
"Hey Piccolo, what's up?" Piccolo looked up to see the new warrior.
"Who… Who are you? You look like Vegeta, but your eyes… Your eyes are like Goku!"
"You hit it right on the head." Vegetto snickered as he drifted down to the Earth. "I'm the fusion of Goku and Vegeta. Call me Vegetto."
"What? Ve—Vegetto? Unreal…" Piccolo contemplated. 'The fusion of Goku and Vegeta? This guy must be invincible! But wait…'
"Goku and Vegeta—er.. Vegetto, be careful, Buu has the ability to absorb people by breaking off pieces of himself, that's what he did to Gotenks!" Piccolo warned.
"Aye, I'll look out for that." Vegetto grinned as he turned to Buu. "How's about time you fight a really strong guy Buu."
Buu smiled, "Buu already make strong guy a part of Buu. You no match for Buu."
Vegetto began bouncing in excitement, "We'll see. In any case I can't wait for this fight! This is gonna be awesome!"
"Damn Saiyans." Piccolo groaned.