Chapter Thirty-five - Super 18
17 set the ship down near the palace, but off and away, out of sight in the trees. They all knew that Saiya's sensor net had picked them up once they'd come within a million miles of the planet. But it would take time before anyone realized exactly where they'd landed at. By then the fight would be over, win or lose. Now they were all gathered at the exit from the ship, Faith with her arms around 17's neck so the Cyborg could carry her. None of them wore their battle armor. Pan, Bra, and 17 were in civilian clothes while 18 had borrowed one of Bra's blue body suits.
"Last chance for anyone to stay behind." 18 said, looking toward the palace not more than two hundred yards to her right, just visible beyond the trees. When no one said anything, or moved back into the ship, she nodded. "Alright, let's go." she said, lifting into the air. The others followed after her and they flew out beyond the trees toward the front of the palace. They'd decided before arriving that the fastest and easiest way to get the attention of those inside was to make as much of a commotion as possible. So 18 pointed an arm at the palace, near where the ship bays were located, and fired off a string of energy blasts.
As 17 landed so that Faith could climb off his back the ten shots hit the stone wall of the building and exploded, blasting apart the supports and tearing open a hole into the ship bays. They heard the sound of the alarms going off a moment later.
"They're coming." Pan said, gazing toward the palace. "Vegeta, father, grandfather and..."
"Buu." Bra said. "That really big power is Buu."
Pan nodded as, a moment later, the four in question appeared before them, the three Sai-jins in their battle armor. And then Pan saw that there was a fifth one with them, one that she hadn't been able to sense. Her mother. She felt her stomach flip. She'd expected her father and grandfather to come, but seeing her mother too... She closed her eyes for a moment and fought to get herself back under control. While she was doing that she heard a voice she didn't know.
"Why Bra leave without telling Buu?" Buu asked.
Bra turned her gaze from her father to the large pink creature, her scowl fading away as she did. "Sorry, Buu." she said. "I didn't want to be around him..." she gave a head jerk in her father's direction. "Any longer than I had to." Buu blinked a few times and seemed to be considering her answer. Before he could say anything else, though, Kakkarotto spoke up.
"Pan, why don't you come back over here." he said. "This isn't the way to handle..."
Pan's eyes snapped open and she glared up at her grandfather, the unexpected scowl causing him to trail off mid sentence. "I don't think you have any room to be lecturing me on the 'right way' to handle something." she said.
The Sai-jin sighed and rubbed his forehead. "We did what we had to..."
"Had to?" demanded Bra. "Don't give me that bull. There was no 'had to' about it."
"You have to understand." Gohan said, cutting off Vegeta before he could reply to his daughter. "We..."
"I understand just fine." Bra said, turning her gaze toward Gohan, her scowl returning.
"Let him finish." Pan said. "I want to hear this." Bra continued to scowl but nodded.
Gohan sighed and shook his head. "We were already concerned about Marron before the power spike incident." he said. "Her father, the destruction of Earth... we were keeping an eye on her because we already felt her background could make her a problem. We don't even know if that was the maximum amount of power she could draw out. If she ever got control of her power..." He sighed again. "We had to think about the future, had to take steps to protect the Empire."
Bra snorted and shook her head. "Fine job you did there." she said.
Pan glanced over at her friend then back up at her father. "What about Gorneo?" she asked. "What about all of the people there who had nothing to do with Marron?"
"We close down facilities all the time." Vegeta said.
"Close... down...?" Pan repeated. "Close down! You had them all killed!"
"That's what he means." 18 said. Pan glanced over at the Cyborg, but the blonde was still staring at Vegeta. "You never had access to Gero's computers, to the black ops records. At least a quarter of the facilities that he's had closed are in those files because he's sent a team in to clear them. Outside groups can't steal equipment if it's molten slag and they can't entice the former workers to defect and spill Imperial secrets if they're dead."
Pan blinked and then turned to look back at 17. "Did you..."
"Know about it?" he asked. "Yeah."
"Did... did you ever...?"
"No. I've never 'closed' any of their facilities." he said. "It's always been a strike team or..."
"Or one of them." said 18, scowling at the three Sai-jins in front of her. "All under the banner of protecting the Empire." Pan turned her focus back to her father and grandfather, waiting for them to say that 18 was wrong, but neither of them did. Instead, Gohan addressed 18.
"What about you?" he asked. "How many have you killed?"
"Too many." she replied. "But never anyone who wasn't a threat to the Emp..., no, to Marron. I did everything I could to save lives, to put a stop to things as peacefully as possible. I only did what was needed to stop an actual threat to Marron. But never one that was 'maybe' a threat 'sometime' in the 'possible' future."
Vegeta snorted. "We can talk until we're all blue in the face, it's not going to change anything. What's done is done. Bra, it's over. Get over here."
"Hell no." she said, scowling more. "What's the problem? You keep telling me to act more Sai-jin, and now that I am you don't like it?" She shook her head. "Marron was my Mate. You can't honestly think I'd just roll over, let you get away with killing her? I intend to see justice done."
Vegeta scowled but it was Videl who spoke up next. "Pan, come over here..." she called.
Pan looked over at her mother for a moment, then back to her father and grandfather and shook her head before floating down to join 17 and Faith. "No." she said. "I like it better over here."
"I say we settle this." said 18. "Just you and me, Vegeta."
The Sai-jin King smirked. "One on one?" he asked. "You may have been able to catch Trunks with one of your energy discs but you wont be so lucky with me. Our difference in power is too great for them to work on me." There was a bright flash of gold as he transformed. "The rest of you, stay back. This is between the two of us." Gohan and Kakkarotto nodded and floated back and away. Videl hesitated a moment and then joined them, leading Buu along with her. Once they were gone Vegeta turned his green eyes back to 18. "Well, I'll give you the first shot." he said as Bra floated down to join the others.
"Your arrogance will be your death." 18 said as she began to glow blue. The Sai-jin King's eyes widened as Gohan and Kakkarotto glanced at each other. When they looked back 18's transformation was over. "Now, let's finish this!" she cried, surging in at Vegeta. Her fist slammed into his face with a resounding crack and knocked him flying away. In a burst of blue the Cyborg shot after him.
"What the..." Gohan said in shock as 18 finished transforming. He'd felt her energy suddenly spike up, something that, in and of itself, was strange, just as she finished the transformation. 18 didn't use ki so there shouldn't have been anything to sense. But sense it he could. Her changed appearance was odd as well, though he figured it was something else the doctor had included in her design somewhere along the way.
"That's the strangest aura I've ever seen." Kakkarotto said as the Cyborg lunged at Vegeta. Gohan had to agree. Every aura he'd seen before looked something like fire, with peaks and valleys, something that flowed up around the person like a second skin. This was more like a cocoon of light, a solid wrapping of blue with occasional bits that lifted off of it like a fine mist.
"You think that's all the power she's got, what we can sense?" Gohan asked as 18's punch connected with the Sai-jin King's face and sent him sailing.
"How should I know?" his father replied. "I'm not even sure why we can sense it."
Vegeta's eyes snapped open as he saw 18 appear above him, right arm pulled back, blue and purple energy snapping around her fist. He quickly brought an arm up as her first came down and deflected her aim just enough to miss his head. That quick impact, however, startled him further. When she'd first punched him he thought, for sure, she was about equal to his power. Now, however, she felt stronger than that. Pushing it aside for the moment he lashed out with a punch for her head but she dodged around it with ease and then slammed her knee into his stomach driving him down into the ground.
"What... what's she doing?" Bra asked, blinking. She could still feel her father's energy just fine, and it was still high, indicating that not only was he not dead, he was still concious. "If she keeps this up he'll transform again before..." she trailed off then as Vegeta did just that in a bright burst of gold.
18 scowled as she flew back, deflecting an energy blast away from her as she did. "I thought I had a better grip on this form than this." she thought. "I can't seem to keep my strength up at full. I'd meant to kill him with those two hits." She just managed to dodge around a punch and then slam her knee into Vegeta's chest before driving her elbow down into the back of his neck. "No matter, I can still beat him. It wont be easy, I can tell that just from how fast he is, but I still have a chance." Then she smirked. "If I can get a good enough opening to shove that Energy Inhibitor onto his neck I'll have an even better one."
She blocked a kick aimed for her chest and countered with her own for Vegeta's head. The royal deflected it and then slammed an elbow into 18's jaw. As she reeled back from the blow he smashed a fist into her stomach before moving above and behind her and kicking her in the small of her back driving her into the ground. He then fired off a blast of gold energy which impacted and exploded savagely, causing even 17 and the others, standing a hundred yards away, to fall over.
"Destructo Disc!"
Suddenly the Sai-jin's eyes widened as an energy disc came surging up out of the dust cloud. He slipped to the left around it only to see another charging for him followed by a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and a seventh. He dodged around each of them, though barely avoided losing a few fingers on the last one. Just as he got around it and went to look for 18 the Cyborg smashed her foot into the back of his head. As he was knocked forward she reached out and grabbed his foot and then surged down at the ground at full speed coming to a stop only ten feet up and pitching him into the ground head first.
18 then thrust her arms down and fired off a volley of blue energy blasts, each one impacting with a thundering explosion and throwing more dust and debris into the air. After nearly a hundred shots she stopped and dove into the dust cloud. A few seconds later there was a loud crack and the dust cloud was blown apart. The Cyborg had her right arm up blocking a left kick from Vegeta while he had his right leg up blocking her left punch. The two floated there for a moment and then transformed into a blur of color, bright flashes, and thundering cracks as they begin a fierce exchange of close range attacks.
"Vegeta's got the advantage in power." Kakkarotto said, crossing his arms as he watched the fight, best as he could. Without being transformed he had to rely on his ki sensing to follow them and it was proving difficult with 18. Her energy wasn't entirely stable, neither in level nor in pattern. If he tried to focus on it too much it disoriented him and pulled on his mind and stomach. He thought it felt a bit like what happened when you spun around in circles really fast.
"18's got infinite energy, she's not going to be tiring out anytime soon." said Gohan. "At least part of her power should have unlimited reserves, anyway."
"Yeah, maybe." agreed Kakkarotto. "But I figure we can sense about half of her power which means only half of it is coming from her generator. Even if it is an unlimited supply of energy it's only an unlimited supply of half of her energy."
Another thundering crack sounded as both fighters landed right hooks to each other's jaw and were knocked, spinning, away from each other. Vegeta recovered first and launched off an energy disc of his own but 18 saw it and slipped to the side, the disc only cutting a small gash in her body suit and along her right arm, drawing a little blood. She ignored it, her nano-bots would have the cut sealed over and fully healed in less than twenty seconds. Raising her hands in front of her face she spread her fingers. "Solar Flare!"
As the blindingly bright light bathed the area 18 charged in at Vegeta again and pounded a fist into his stomach doubling him over and cracking the red padding of his armor. Then she smashed her elbow into the side of his head, grabbed his arm as he was knocked away, yanked him back toward her, and thrust an open palm into his face with a resounding crack. As the glare faded everyone saw the blood running from Vegeta's nose as the Sai-jin King scowled at the woman in front of him.
"What's the matter?" 18 asked. "Not going as easily as you expected?" She slipped into a fighting stance then. Turned so that her left side was facing him, left leg forward, right leg back, left arm forward and low, right arm back and high.
"Well, this at least explains how you beat Trunks." Vegeta said, working a cramp out of his shoulder from having his arm yanked before. "But it's not enough to beat me."
18 smirked. "We'll see about that." she said. The odd blue aura around her suddenly grew brighter as she surged in at Vegeta again. The Sai-jin was ready for her and lashed out with a right kick toward her head as she neared but her left arm came up and blocked it, then her right snapped out for his stomach. Vegeta pulled back and the woman's punch barely grazed his damaged armor. As he pulled away he thrust a leg out and up, kicking her in the side. He then spun around behind her and slammed his other foot into her back, between her shoulder blades.
As she was knocked away from him he slammed his arms together, palms facing forward, golden energy sparking to life in front of them. "Final Flash!" he cried, the golden energy surging toward her just as she started turning to face him again.
18's eyes widened as she saw the attack nearing and quickly cupped her hands at her side, blue energy gathering between her hands. "Kamehameha!" she cried, thrusting her arms forward and firing off her counter. The two beams hit only a hundred feet from the Cyborg and the shockwave of their impact drove her back nearly fifty more. She ignored the sudden surge of pain that flared inside of her and focused on pushing more power into her attack. The warring attacks were only twenty feet away from her when they finally stalemated and then started reversing.
"Vegeta held back on his attack, probably trying not to burn himself out too fast, but it's going to make things easier for me." she thought. "If he's too worried about tiring out to use his full power in his attacks that increases my chances at surviving long enough to win."
With a growl of anger and frustration Vegeta ended his attack and dodged around the Kamehameha as it sped toward, and then past, him. He hadn't been willing to commit more power to that exchange. He hadn't been sure if he'd have been able to over power her before his energy began to drop. The last thing he wanted in this battle was to start wearing down. He slid to the left as 18 surged in at him and swung a punch for his head. His arms came up a second later and blocked the following kick for, also aimed for his head. As she pulled back to launch another attack he thrust his arms forward and fired a blast of energy into her chest where it exploded and drove her back.
He shot off after her in a burst of gold and launched a kick for her head but she managed to slip it and then grabbed his ankle. With a twist and a cry she flipped over in the air and pitched him at the ground a hundred feet below. The Sai-jin veered off at the last second and then surged back up at her. As he charged she scowled and the raised her arms above her head, golden energy gathering quickly. "Finish Buster!" she yelled, pitching the attack down. Vegeta scowled and pulled to a stop, thrusting his arms up to catch and deflect the charging ball of ki. Then he heard her call out again. "Burning Attack!"
The second ball of ki shot off at incredible speed and slammed into the golden energy Vegeta had just caught. There was a blinding and thunderous explosion as the twin attacks detonated. The blast tore up the ground beneath them forming a forty foot deep crater. The shockwave nearly knocked Pan and Bra over and slammed into the palace a moment later shattering nearly three hundred windows. Bra tried to see through the glare, hear through the roar of wind, to know what was going on. She'd felt her father's power take a drop after that but she could tell 18's had as well. Apparently the energy they could sense wasn't unlimited and that had the Hybrid worried.
A moment later there was a loud crack and then a crash. At last the glare cleared and Bra saw a towering dust cloud, above which her father floated. "Who do you think you are, using my son's attacks against me!" he yelled down, breathing heavily. His armor was even more cracked now, black lines tracing along the right side of the golden breast plate, and the right sleeve of his body suit, from the shoulder to just above the glove, was gone, blood flowing from numerous cuts.
"Who do you think you are, ordering my daughter's death!" 18 countered from within the dust cloud. "But alright, you don't like me using his attacks let's see how you do with some of mine! Death Blossom!"
Vegeta's eyes narrowed and then widened as a forty foot wide ball of pink and gold ki surged out of the dust and charged toward him. He dodged to the right but the energy suddenly curved and shot straight up while still ten feet from hitting him. He followed it with his eyes as it flew up another two hundred feet and then suddenly shrank to no more than a foot across before exploding into more than a hundred orbs of energy, all of which shot off in random directions toward the ground. Vegeta slipped around five that were coming his way before he saw 18 charging him from below.
As he turned to face the Cyborg she smirked, thrust her arms out, closed her hands into fists, and then slammed her fists together. The Sai-jin quickly pulled up into a tight ball as all of the energy blasts suddenly stopped and redirected back at him. They surged in and collided with him in thunderous succession, the ground shook under the shockwaves as the battle was hidden by a new billowing dust cloud, growing ever larger as more attacks impacted and detonated.
As the last one hit and exploded 18 reached the location and threw a punch into the dust cloud. With a resounding crack Vegeta came surging out the other side trailing smoke, the left strap of his armor now gone and the legs of his body suit, from knee down, missing, along with his boots. More blood flowed along his arms and legs, and was soaking into what remained of his body suit.
18 charged into and then out of the dust cloud, chasing after him, and pulled back her right fist gathering purple and red energy around it. The energy quickly changed into a ball of spinning ki, swirling blades of energy spinning around it in a dozen different directions. "Shredder Mine!" she cried, thrusting her arm forward and firing off the attack just as Vegeta righted himself again. He dodged to the side and the blast sped past him and hit a tree, bored into it nearly a foot, and then exploded ripping the three in half.
The Sai-jin scowled at the destroyed tree then turned to glare at 18. "This is getting tiresome." he said. "It's time to put an end to this." He thrust an arm out toward her, golden energy gathering quickly in front of his hand. 18 braced herself and slipped her left hand behind her back, cupping it, and charging another ball of spinning ki. "Big Bang Attack!" Vegeta suddenly cried.
18 smirked as the ball of golden orange ki surged at her. "Shredder Mine!" she cried, pitching the attack toward Vegeta's. The two balls of energy met about halfway between them and Vegeta's exploded in a blinding flash of yellow and a thunderous roar. 18's, however, punched right through and continued its charge for Vegeta. The Sai-jin dodged around it at the last second and as he turned from watching it speed by his eyes widened and then 18's fist slammed into his face. He recovered in time to block her follow up kick and then smashed his knee into her face and then his fist into her stomach before thrusting an elbow down into the back of her neck and driving her down into the ground again.
18 had managed to get up onto her hands and knees by the time Vegeta reached the ground. His right leg snapped out and he kicked her in the stomach before dropping his heel down onto her back and driving her into the ground again. "Damn it! I can't get my power back up!" she thought, forcing the pain from her mind as best she could. She hurt like hell everywhere, every attack she'd launched since using the Kamehameha seemed to make her entire body burn. And the longer the fight went the more trouble she was having keeping her power up and stable.
Suddenly Vegeta's foot came surging in and smashed into the side of her head knocking her flying a good fifty yards before coming back down, bouncing and rolling another ten before stopping. Her vision blurred as she pushed herself up onto her knees and squinted, trying to see where the Sai-jin was. "Shit!" she thought, seeing him charging at her again. She quickly brought an arm up and pointed a finger at him, best as she could with her currently seeing double. "Dodon Ray!"
The energy beam slipped past Vegeta's head missing him by less than an inch, but it was close enough he swerved off the side. By the time he started in at her again the Cyborg's vision had cleared. "I need to distract him a bit, give me some time." she thought, bringing her hands up before her face again. "Solar Flare!" As the bright glare flooded the battle field again she quickly moved her hands in front of her abdomen, fingers bent so they were pointing at each other, and began channeling red energy between them. She could feel the burning flooding through her already and had the feeling this might be her last attack, her last chance to win.
A sudden flash of red light, even through the slowly fading glare, and then the rush of wind made 17 try and see through the glare to his sister. He had an idea what she might be doing and if he was right... As the glare faded from his eyes and he caught sight of 18 again he cursed. She was hunched over, a bright ball of red energy between her hands, more swirling in and making the attack larger as it pulsed and rippled. "Back!" he yelled, grabbing Faith and flying backward. Bra and Pan glanced at him for moment, then out at 18 as her attack suddenly flashed and seemed to grow out to engulf her, before following after him. 17 didn't stop until he was a good five hundred yards away from his sister.
Back in the battle field 18 followed their retreat with her scanners. "Good, they should be out of range now." she thought as they came to a stop. Turning her focus from them and back to Vegeta she scowled. The Sai-jin had decided that he'd rather attack her then wait for what she was preparing to be finished. He was coming in too soon and too fast, she wouldn't be able to get as much of a charge as she'd wanted. "Hopefully it'll still be enough." she thought as Vegeta reached 50 yards. At 40 yards she smirked. At 30 yards she called out. "Nova Bomb!"
All sound was drowned out in the deafening roar that followed. The entire planet shook as the red energy gathered around 18, and between her hands, suddenly and savagely exploded. The crimson energy rushed out more than four hundred yards from 18 in every direction and then surged up into the sky like a massive volcano spewing lava into the heavens.
"No... way!" Pan cried as she quickly transformed to the second level and grabbed both Faith and 17 to stop them from being blown away from the rushing waves of wind and power. Bra shared in the sentiment from where she stood behind Pan, using her as a wind break, and starring in shock at the palace as the quaking sent snaking cracks up through the stone. There was a sudden, loud, cracking and grinding sound just barely audible over the rush of ki, and then the front outer wall of the palace shattered and collapsed.
Gohan and Kakkarotto had both transformed as well in order to out run the rushing energy, as it nearly engulfed them. "If this keeps up the entire planet could start ripping apart!" Gohan cried. His father nodded but, as he did, the energy began to subside. The towering column grew smaller and smaller, the rushing wind faded, and the loud roar died off. As the last of it faded away it revealed 18 down on one knee, the blue glow of her odd aura fading in and out, but no sign of Vegeta. 18 grinned for a moment, then grimaced and flashed blue as she reverted to normal and collapsed to her hands and knees, in almost too much pain to think.
"Damn it!" Bra cried, eyes going to the sky. The others all looked up as well and saw Vegeta floating there, panting, armor completely shattered, body suit little more than a half tunic draped over his left shoulder, right glove gone, and leggings reduced to mid thigh length shorts. Blood ran down his arms, legs, and forehead, but blue energy still crackled about his aura. He'd taken a good beating but he was in much better shape than the Cyborg below him. 18 couldn't get her arms or legs to cooperate through the pain.
"Time... to end... this." he panted, thrusting an arm down at the Cyborg and channeling energy in front of his palm.
"Bra!" Pan cried as the girl flashed gold and surged forward. A second later she shot after her, 17 right behind them. Vegeta scowled as he watched his daughter fly up to 18 and then stop to float in front of and above her, between the woman and his forming attack.
"If you want to kill her," Bra began, scowling up at him as well. "Then you'll have to go through me, first."
"We'll never make it back to the ship." 17 said as he and Pan reached them and he knelt beside his sister.
Bra turned her head slightly so she could see him without losing sight of her father and spotted the damage to the palace. The hole in the wall that 18 had created to announce their arrival. "The palace." she said softly, so that only those with her could hear. "We've got a clear shot into the ship bays. Father's ships are the fastest in the Empire, we'll take one of them. Pan, go get Faith. 17, carry 18." The two hesitated only a moment and then did as told. 18 cried out in pain as 17 draped one of her arms over his shoulder and then flew for the palace.
Bra kept her eyes locked on her father's, watching for any sign that he was going to attack one of the others. As she sensed Pan grab Faith she started floating away from her father but, though he watched her, his arm and attack never moved. Half way to the palace Bra turned and flew off at full speed. Vegeta scowled as he watched her go, the attack he'd formed fading away into nothing.
"We should go after them." Kakkarotto said, floating forward. "Try again to get Pan and Bra to stay."
"No." Videl said, flying past the others and turning to look at them. "If you go you'll just make things worse. Buu and I will go."
Gohan nodded so Videl motioned to Buu and then flew off for the palace. The two reached the ship bays and found Pan and Bra standing just outside the door into one of Vegeta's newest saucer ships.
"Bra leave without saying bye to Buu again?" Buu asked. "Bra mad at Buu?"
Her look softened, she'd expected her father to come, not Videl and Buu. "No Buu, I still like you." she said. "It's my father I don't like."
"Ok, but where Marron?" Buu asked, looking around. "Buu thought she with you."
Bra closed her eyes and fought against the rush of emotions that suddenly hit her. "She... she's gone." she said.
"Gone? Where she go?"
The Hybrid swallowed and shook her head. "She's... dead. Trunks... Trunks killed her."
"Dead?" Buu asked, blinking. "Why Trunks do that? Buu liked Marron."
"Me too." Bra said, smiling even as her eyes misted up again. "It's why I don't like dad anymore. He told Trunks to do it." She raised a hand as she saw Buu was about to ask another question. "It'll take too long to explain." she said. "Buu... can I ask you to do something for me? I... I don't know when I'll be back. I'd feel... better... knowing mom was ok. Can you keep an eye on her? Make sure she's ok and no one hurts her?"
Buu nodded. "Buu like Bra so Buu help!" he cheered.
"Thanks, Buu."
Meanwhile Videl was talking with her daughter. "Pan, I know how you feel but..."
Pan shook her head. "You... you've been working with Gero for years." she said. "Did you know? About how they 'closed' some of their facilities?"
Videl closed her eyes, sighed, and nodded. "Yes. I was usually the one to record it in the computer."
"How could you... how could you know about that and not try and stop it!" she yelled.
"It's not that simple, Pan." Videl said. "You saw what happened with Marron. I didn't... didn't want to do anything to put me, or you, in danger. I don't think your father or grandfather would ever hurt either of us but... Vegeta..." she shook her head. "I'm not proud of it, or a lot of other things I've done, but I did what I thought I had to at the time to keep us safe."
Pan closed her eyes and sighed. "It's ok." she said. "I understand." Opening her eyes again she smiled. "I'm sorry I yelled. It's not you I'm mad at." She glanced behind her as she heard the ship's engines flare to life at last. 17 had gone ahead to start it while she and Bra had stayed behind to head off anyone following. "I'm sorry, but I have to go." she said, turning back to her mother. "I can't stay here, can't be part of this anymore."
"Then let me come with you." Videl said, grabbing Pan's hand as the girl turned to leave. "I've been going crazy these last few weeks, not knowing where you were or if you were ok. Let me come with you."
Pan bit her lip and then smiled and nodded. "Yeah, ok."
"Ready, then?" Bra asked.
"Yeah." said Pan as her mother walked into the ship. "We going back to Zendavou...?"
"No." 17 said, emerging from the ship again. "The location is in the computers of the other ship. They'll know about Zendavou once they look at the flight records. We're going out to the fringes." The two girls walked up into the ship, Bra waving good-bye to Buu as the door closed. "We'll head to Xentron." he said as the door closed with a click.
Buu stopped waving as the ship lifted a few feet off the ground, then its legs came up and the landing hatches closed over. He stood there watching as the ship flew out through the hole in the wall then off into the sky. Once it was out of sight Buu looked around for an exit but couldn't see any except the hole so he went back out and found the three Sai-jins floating there waiting.
"Where's Videl?" Gohan asked.
"She leave with Bra and friends." Buu replied. Gohan just stared at him in shock but Vegeta scowled and turned his gaze up at the sky.
"Do you know where they went?" Kakkarotto asked.
"Ummmm..." Buu thought, scrunching up his face in concentration. "Xentron, Buu think." he said. Then he floated past them and waved good-bye. "Buu hungry, Buu go find cake now. Bye-bye."