Chapter 6: Inside Buu: Vegetto Separates! Gohan's Final Challenge!
"How!" Supreme Kai cried, " How could he just let this happen, and Gohan still has so much time in the Rift!"
"What? Gohan!?" Piccolo asked Supreme Kai. He had thought Gohan had been killed a while back.
"Yes, I never expected Vegetto to actually fully defeat Buu, but I thought once Gohan gets his power boost, if he were to team up with Vegetto they would make easy work of Buu… But this… This is ridiculous how could they get absorbed so quickly?" Supreme Kai wondered.
"Gohan… 13 hours? We don't have that kind of time." Piccolo stated.
"Wait, why is my crystal ball glowing?" Supreme Kai wondered as he looked into his crystal ball. "No way… Krillin was right!" Supreme Kai laughed, "Vegetto… He got absorbed but, I can see him in my crystal ball, he's inside Buu! I think he's trying to free Goten and Trunks before he fights Buu at full force!"
"That would make sense, of course!" Krillin cheered, "I knew they weren't that stupid!"
The group watched as Vegetto flew through Buu.
"Okay, I think this way is where the boys are at-" but before Vegetto could finish his statement, Vegeta and Goku separated back into two!
"WHAT!" The guys watching through the crystal ball shouted.
"Oh! I am so dumb!" Supreme Kai stated, "I forgot the Potara fusion is NOT forever when used on mortals… How could I be so dumb! ... Oh well, they should be able to just refuse after a little bit of time—WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE SAIYANS!" Supreme Kai boomed as he saw Vegeta crushing the Potara Earring in the crystal ball.
"We don't need this thing anymore Kakarot," Vegeta explained as he crushed the earring, "once we free Goten and Trunks, the two of us plus Gotenks should make easy work of Super Buu. Besides, I couldn't stand another second of being fused with you, my lord." Vegeta grimaced.
"That's fair enough, but don't you think you should have kept the earring around just in case, I mean if we defused inside Buu's body, then surely it's not actually an infinite fusion like Supreme Kai was convinced it was." Goku asked.
"Shut it up Kakarot, let's just find the boys," Vegeta said, changing the subject.
"Right, well I suppose they are probably in the area wherever Buu thinks, so let's try and find that." Goku estimated.
"Fair enough, I'll lead the way… Wait, Kakarot! You have a halo again!" Vegeta proclaimed, pointing at Goku's now returned halo.
"Oh man, so do you!" Goku replied, "I guess only Vegetto is not dead, eh?" Goku joked.
"But that means once we leave Buu's body, won't we be sent back to Other World?" Vegeta stated, exasperated.
"Not if Buu destroys Other World." Goku laughed.
"Buu… Buu did it! Buu won!" Buu laughed as he flew around, excited that his trick on the Really Really Strong guy seemed to have worked.
"Damn, well if Vegeta really crushed that earring, that means he has no intention of fusing ever again. And if that's the case… we have no other choice but to fight. Try our best to hold him off as long as we can so that when Gohan comes out, hopefully Buu hasn't destroyed too much." Piccolo stated.
"I'm right behind ya Piccolo, I wanna get back at that bastard for what he did to my family." Krillin declared.
"I have felt useless this entire time… I'm sick of sitting back and watching, I'm taking action!" Supreme Kai declared.
"Count me in you guys." A familiar voice called from behind. As the group turned around they found out it was Tien!
"Tien Shinhan!" Krillin laughed excitedly. "It's been too long man, you survived Buu's huge attack on the Earth?
"Yep. Let's give this demon everything we got." Tien said coolly as he ripped off his cloak and stared down Buu who just took notice to the fighters on the ground.
"What's the final task Elder Kai?" Gohan asked.
"You have to defeat someone familiar Gohan. You have to kill one enemy." Elder Kai smirked.
"Who?" Gohan asked.
"You'll see," Elder Kai said as he disappeared.
"You ready to fight Gohan?" Gohan turned around to see his father, Son Goku standing there.
"Dad! Wait… Wait I have to fight my father? I have to kill my father!?" Gohan's heart dropped.
Goku spent no time exchanging pleasantries with Gohan. Goku turned immediately to a Super Saiyan 3.
"What the hell is that? Is that a third form of Super Saiyan?" Gohan cried as this is the first time he has ever seen a Super Saiyan 3.
"Fight me Gohan!" Goku screamed as he lunged at Gohan.
'Uh oh, I'm in trouble, I still have no ki! I can't even transform into a normal super saiyan right now!' Gohan worried as he narrowly dodged Goku's first punch. 'There's no way I can beat him! There's no way!'
Goku kept up a torrent of attacks. Gohan could dodge some, but on other occasions he didn't get so lucky. 'What do I do? What do I do?' Gohan's anxiety grew to new heights. 'Let me think for a second, what was the lesson of the first task I had… The lesson was learn to let go!' Gohan got sent flying across the room by a kamehameha. 'And what about that second lesson… Forgiveness! Of course, the way I'm going to beat him is not through my anger, like I always have used in the past… This time I'll beat him through my calm… Through my calm.'
Gohan calmed his anxiety down, released his anger, and let go of worry. His entire life had been full of worry. Always worried if he would make it to the next day. Always worried if he could protect his loved ones.
And from deep within his core, Gohan could feel it. Not his ki returning, no, the sensation was very different. But whatever this was, this was it, he knew that for sure.
Goku charged at Gohan with a super dragon fist to finish things, however, Gohan grabbed his father's fist mid punch and threw him back across the shrine. "You are not really my father, because I sense no love in you, and I know my father loves me. You are Kakarot, and I feel no remorse in killing you." Gohan declared as he swiftly moved towards Kakarot.
Kakarot laughed at Gohan's declaration and got in a defending position but Gohan slipped through his defenses like butter. Just in base form, Gohan began giving the smack down to the Super Saiyan 3 legend.
"Kamehameha!" Kakarot chanted as he launched the strongest iteration of is signature attack at Gohan, only to have Gohan absorb the blast as if it was nothing. "What!? Impossible!" Kakarot screamed.
"Try this on for size, MASENKO-HA!" Gohan roared as he unleashed a super Masenko that raced at lightspeed towards Kakarot. Kakarot had no time to dodge; the blast hit him and ended him in and instant.
The next thing Gohan remembered he woke up again in the forest of the Rift. Elder Kai stood next to him impressed.
"Remarkable son… Just remarkable…"
Goku and Vegeta continued their journey in Buu's body, having to deal with many gross things, but they eventually made their way to the brain.
"Look Vegeta, there's Goten and Trunks! And…"
"And the fat bastard I sacrificed myself trying to kill." Vegeta scoffed as Fat Buu was also in a white cocoon next to Goten and Trunks.