Chapter 8: Gohan vs. Majin Buu! The Strength of The Only Hope!
Buu was shocked and confused to see his powerful blast had been kicked away by this new warrior. However, he began to be happy once again as perhaps this meant there was a new strong guy for him to fight.
"Gohan! How did you get here?" Supreme Kai asked.
"I brought him you damned fool, and just in time too it seems." Elder Kai barked from behind Supreme Kai.
"Esteemed Ancestor… I." Shin started.
"Don't start kid, let's just see how my pupil here performs." Elder Kai said, looking up at the transformed warrior.
"G...Gohan!" Piccolo stammered, amazed to see his best friend back… But why couldn't Piccolo sense any Ki from Gohan at all? Gohan needed to power up big time if he was going to be any threat to the even more powerful Super Buu.
"Hey Piccolo. Where is Goten?" Gohan asked, slightly turning to his old friend.
"Bu… Buu absorbed him Gohan, he absorbed his power!"
Gohan turned furiously to Buu, but then let out a cool sigh and closed his eyes. "Yes, you are right, I can faintly sense Goten's energy… And Trunks… And Vegetas? And Dads?"
"Yes Gohan… He absorbed them all!" Krillin shouted.
"Very well." Gohan took a deep breath in and then looked at the confused Buu in the eyes. "Hello Buu, do you remember me?"
Buu took a hard look at Gohan, and then began to laugh. "Oh now I do! I already crushed you like a bug! You nothing to Buu! Buu will kill you quickly!"
"Is that so? Go ahead and try you bastard. Words cannot begin to describe how much hate I have for what you have done. But now is not the time for that. Now is the time where your life ends… permanently." Gohan got himself into a defensive stance, ready for Buu to make the first move.
"Buu done talking!" Buu charged blindly at Gohan, but he did not get the result he wanted. Gohan grabbed Buu's fist with ease and threw him over his shoulder and slammed him into the ground.
"Heh… Hey Buu! I'm still alive buddy, what was all that about killing me quickly like a bug." Gohan taunted as Buu got himself upright.
"How did you get so strong!?" Buu asked, now accepting Gohan wasn't all talk.
"I've learned to control my anger and rage and use it without letting it blind me," Gohan stated, "something you obviously have trouble with." Gohan flew down to the ground a foot away from Buu's face.
"You no patronize Buu!" Buu started. "But Buu now is happy. Buu now may get good fight Buu has been wanting."
"You sound like my father." Gohan smirked as he got himself into stance. "But then again, he is inside you now, isn't he?"
"Gohan, be careful Buu doesn't absorb you through tricks like he did the others!" Piccolo called out.
"Oh please." Buu laughed, looking at Piccolo. "I want this to be a fair fight. Buu need to test his powers."
"Now you really sound like my dad." Gohan joked. "You ready Buu?"
"Buu ready." Buu gave a big smile as he got into stance as well.
As if the wind was the shot of a pistol, the two titans began their clash.
"DIE DIE MISSILE BARRAGE!" Buu began as he used Gotenks move point blank at Gohan. Gohan lifted up a single finger and deflected the onslaught of blasts.
"Masenko!" Gohan shouted as he fired his signature attack. Buu easily dodged this attack, laughing at Gohan, however this was cut short when Buu saw the Gohan that fired the shot disappeared as an afterimage.
"HAA!" Gohan blasted a kamehameha wave as he reappeared directly behind Buu. This blew the pink devil in half. And each half grew a new smaller Buu.
"What?" Gohan exclaimed, surprised at his foe.
"You may be fast, but can you handle two Buus!?" The Super Buus laughed in unison as they both attacked Gohan from different sides.
"This is new." Gohan smirked as he dodged both attacks and fired a double masenko at the pink duo.
"AHHH!" Buu was split into four pieces.
"I can do this all day!" Gohan laughed as he launched four simultaneous maseko's, now turning Buu into an asteroid field of pink goop.
"His regeneration abilities seem to be even greater than Cells." Gohan noted as he observed Super Buu regenerate. "It's going to take a far more powerful blast to destroy this guy than it took for Cell then… But… I can't… Not with Dad and then in there… Perhaps I could let myself be absorbed…" Gohan continued to ponder as the fight went on.
"DIE!" Buu unleashed thousands of the same blasts he used to wipe out the human race on Gohan. However, Gohan managed to dodge them all with ease.
"Oh come on Buu! You can give me more than that!" Gohan laughed. 'Wow, what is this feeling? My blood is boiling… What a thrill! Is this what my dad always talks about? Is this my Saiyan side kicking in?'
"CANDY!" Buu shot a beam, quickly turning Gohan into candy.
"No!" The Z Fighters all screamed.
"HA! HA! HA!" Buu roared with laughter.
"Oh come on Buu." Gohan the candy said, cutting Buu's laughter short. "This is what you got for me?"
Gohan then proceeded to beat the daylights out of Buu while just being a single piece of candy. And now that Gohan was so small, Buu had no chance of hitting him at all.
"ENOUGH!" Buu cried out as he turned Gohan back to normal. "Buu is not having fun."
"Gotta admit big guy, I'm not either! Come on! I haven't even broken a sweat yet!" Gohan chuckled, rolling his shoulders back.
"Gohan is just toying with Buu!?" Supreme Kai started, "What is it with these Saiyans!?"
"Saiyans are a warrior race Supreme Kai, even though Gohan is not a natural born fighter like his father, he still has a joy of battle deep inside that is showing itself now." Piccolo replied, "I think he also senses Goten, Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks trapped inside Buu and is trying to find a way to get them out."
"Oh he better not let himself get absorbed like Vegeta and Goku," Supreme Kai started.
"Why don't we send someone to Namek and get the Dragon to wish the guys absorbed were let out?" Krillin suggested.
"What a great idea!" Supreme Kai stated, "Krillin and Dende come with me to Namek. Piccolo, tell Gohan our plan when you get the chance." Supreme Kai grabbed hold of Krillin and Dende and teleported away.
"Buu make dead, BUU MAKE DEAD!" Buu chanted as he and Gohan clashed, lighting up the now nighttime sky.
"Let's keep going Buu, I'm actually having a lot of fun!" Gohan chirped, seemingly forgetting briefly that he was fighting for the Universe. "You have a lot more in ya to give, right?"
"I keep mistaking Gohan for Goku, I have never seen him act like this while fighting before?" Piccolo laughed, seeing how much fun Gohan was having.
"He is a Saiyan Piccolo, and perhaps he's finally realised that." Tien replied.
"Heeheehee!" Gohan giggled, dancing around Buu's attacks. "That tickles Buu stop!"
"You bastard! You die! Please die! Die! Die!" Buu wailed, completely losing his cool.
"Unreal, how can Gohan be this strong! He's even stronger than Vegetto and I thought that was unreal!" Piccolo continued, marveling at his former pupil.
"Gohan is like no mortal I have ever seen." Elder Kai cut in. "And there is still a grand well of untapped potential yet."
"What!?" Piccolo and Tien said in unison.
"Say fellas," Mr. Satan started, being very nervous, "this Gohan kid looks very familiar to me… Where… where would I have seen him before?"
"Hmph," Piccolo snorted, "last I checked he was dating your daughter Videl… And he was the REAL one who defeated Cell."
"The… The real one… But the kid who defeated Cell had blonde hair!" Mr. Satan proclaimed, thinking he had solved something.
"That's because… ugh do I really need to explain this?" Piccolo moaned.
"He had his hair dyed blonde when he fought Cell for a school play he was in." Tien said, trying to get Mr. Satan to shut up.
"HAA!" Gohan blasted another kamehameha at Buu, sending him crashing down. "I have to say Buu, I'm now VERY disappointed that I spent all that time training when this is all you have for me… Oh well, too bad you only absorbed weaklings."
"He's… He's trying to get Buu to absorb him!" Piccolo shouted, sweating like a faucet. "Gohan! Do not let Buu absorb you, Supreme Kai is on Namek right now to wish your father and the others out!" Piccolo explained.
"What's that?" Buu said, overhearing Piccolo. "Buu cannot allow this." Buu put his finger to his head and instant transmissioned away.
"Shit! Elder Kai! Warp me to Namek now please!" Gohan shot as he zoomed down to the old Kai.
"Alright, the rest of you should come too, who knows when we're coming back to Earth." Elder Kai said as Piccolo, Tien, Mr. Satan, and Bee all went with Elder Kai to Namek.
"They already have the Dragon summoned but… Oh no!" Gohan cried out as he saw Super Buu attacking the Namekians and Supreme Kai, Krillin, and Dende who were all around Porunga.
"Buu must kill Dragon! Cannot allow wish to be granted." Buu roared as he charged up a powerful attack. "Ill canon!" Buu shot a huge blast of power just to be narrowly deflected by Gohan.
"HA!" Gohan blasted a retaliatory blast at Buu, trying to distract him so that Dende could use the Dragon to make the wish.
"How dare you!" Buu lashed out, falling for Gohan's bait and charging at the Saiyan with a powerful blow that sent Gohan flying.
"YA!" Gohan shot a beam out of his feet to propel himself back to Buu, returning the blow back to him.
"Damn you!" Buu cried as he crashed into the ground. "Buu make you suffer!" Buu began wildly firing blasts that Gohan could easily dodge.
"Don't you go and have a temper tantrum on me now Buu." Gohan taunted, seeing Dende finally make the wish.
"Dragon!" Dende shouted out in Namekian, "release all those Majin Buu has absorbed to increase his power!"
"NOOO!" Buu roared, focussing back on the Dragon and trying to stop Dende, but Gohan grabbed him before he could fire a blast and pinned him down.
"Your wish is granted." Porunga replied.
"Noooo!" Buu screamed. "You don't understand, I won't be me anymore!" Buu began a furious transformation that engulfed in a huge light, sending Gohan hurdling away. And within a few moments the light had died down. Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Goten, and even Fat Buu were all lying down unconscious next to a much smaller, child-like Majin Buu.
"Ha, now he's much weak-" Gohan was cut short as Pure Buu stood up and began to power up far beyond what his previous incarnation could ever achieve.
"Oh no! I didn't even consider this!" Supreme Kai cried, "Pure Buu has retained all the power of the previous incarnation, but he now has no inhibitions since he no longer has any good guys in him and thus has become evil incarnate!"
"What!?" Gohan blubbered. Gohan then looked around and saw all the terrified Namekians. "Supreme Kai, let's get off this planet and go back to your world. The Namekians have already had to lose one planet, let's protect New Namek from any more destruction."
"Very well, grab the ones passed out Gohan, everyone else grab ahold of me!" Supreme Kai motioned to the other Z Fighters who quickly grabbed hold as Gohan grabbed Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, and Goten.
"Thank you son, we will keep the Dragon around in case you need to come back and use it's two other wishes." Elder Maury stated as Gohan gave him a quick nod.
"Wait, grab Buu too!" Mr. Satan told Gohan, pointing at Fat Buu.
"What?" Gohan replied.
"Please, he's good.. I… I swear it. He can help us defeat the little Buu!" Mr. Satan stammered.
"Fine!" Gohan replied, not thinking too much in this quick situation. "Hey Buu!" Gohan yelled at the now transformed Pure Buu. "Follow us." Supreme Kai teleported away to the land of the Kais. Once the gang all disappeared, Buu smirked and grunted as he instant transmissioned away to the Kai realm as well.