DragonBall Z: A Whole New Era
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Chapter 24: The Journey to the Center of Buu
Gohan and Vegeta just stared at each other, trying to process what just happened. One minute ago, they were Goheta and now they're separate again.
"W-what the?" Gohan stuttered as he looked at his hands. "How and why did our bodies separate when he broke out of the barrier? Elder Kai said that once we join together, we stay in that form forever." Vegeta glared at him before taking the earring off.
"I'm me and you're you spawn of kakarot." Vegeta said. "And that's the way I like it. So to hell with this earring!" Before Gohan could react, Vegeta crushed the earring with his hand.
"Vegeta you idiot!" Gohan shouted. "That was our only chance of winning this thing! Isn't it worth being you and I being stuck together to beat Buu?!" Vegeta 'hmphed'
"I'm the captain of my own ship." Vegeta replied while looking away. "Besides we can beat him without fusing." He walked away while ignoring the demands of Gohan. He smirked to himself until he stepped in what appeared to be a silver liquid. He grunted while trying to break free.
"Vegeta!" Gohan ran to his aid, but also got stuck in the goo. They struggled to break free, but the goo started to make them sink. About a minute later, Gohan and Vegeta landed on a chunk of giant cake, which was heading to Buu's digestive system. "Looks like we're gonna be sucked through that hole."
"How the hell are we gonna get out of here?!" Vegeta growled as he tried to look for a way out. Gohan thought for a moment while food started to surround them. "Oh no!"
"WH-AAHHHHH!" Gohan yelled as he and Vegeta fell into the stomach acid. The eldest son of Goku looked for a way out of there while Vegeta formed a ki blast in his hand. Ignoring Gohan, He fired the blast in Buu's stomach, finding the way out. Gohan looked at Vegeta for a moment before escaping. "We better be more sneaky down here so Majin Buu won't find out we're alive." He said as he landed on the ground.
"Well, I guess we should've went down that hole like mice." Vegeta replied, being sarcastic. "And become a part of Majin Buu's feces?" He let out a single laugh. "No thanks Gohan. I'm a true saiya-WAHHH!" Vegeta slipped on the floor, making Gohan laugh. "Shut up!"
"A true saiy-WAHHH?!" Gohan laughed. Vegeta turned red and stormed away from him. He wiped a tear from his eye and followed him, letting a couple chuckles escape from his mouth. They kept walking until Vegeta put his hand out, signaling him to stop.
"Wait. Do you hear that?" Vegeta asked as he looked around for the voices. Gohan turned serious and also looked around. "It sounds like they're coming from everywhere."
"But what is it?" Gohan asked.
"THERE!" Vegeta pointed to the ceiling to notice little bean like green circles falling. Most of them landed on the food and started to eat it away.
"Looks like these things help you digest food that don't make it to the intestine." explained Gohan as he bent down to get a closer look. "Look, they're eating the food really fast." Vegeta also bent down but the green thing jumped on his shoulder and burned him. He yelped and swiped it off him. "Look at that, that little thing takes down the Saiyan prince!"
"Watch it brat!" Vegeta growled. His growl turned to a smirk as a bunch of them crawled behind Gohan. "Looks like you have a sweeter taste than me." Gohan turned, yelped, and fired at them. They all jumped down on them as they fired on them. After some of them were destroyed, the ground started to shake making them lose their balance. "Earthquake!"
"I doubt earthquakes will be in people's body, Vegeta." Gohan reassured. Than a giant worm rose from the ground, making Vegeta look wide eyed and Gohan raise an eyebrow. The worm roared, showing its bloody teeth.
"Do something!" Vegeta shouted. The worm opened its mouth and flung towards Gohan. Gohan powered up, knocking the worm down, and Vegeta.
"You idiot! Did you know we were supposed to go undercover?!" snarled Vegeta. Gohan put his hand behind his head and laughed nervously. He stopped when they heard another growl in the shadows. They hopped to their feet as another giant worm showed up. Just when they were about to attack, the worm crawled away from them.
"Lennon! You hurt my big brother!" The worm cried. Gohan and Vegeta's jaws dropped to the floor. "What have they done to you?! DADDY! Lennon's hurt!"
"Wow. The daddy must be at least 50x their size." Gohan suggested, making Vegeta turn blue. The ground shook once more as the daddy worm, who's about 20 or 30 times their size, appeared. Vegeta put his hand over his mouth, trying to stop himself from puking. The worms talked for a bit before the daddy worm turned his attention to Gohan and Vegeta.
"Let's just blast him! There's no more hiding, Buu knows we're already down here!" Before Gohan could react, Vegeta fired ki blasts at the daddy worm, but he ate them. Vegeta looked in shock. The worms talked again until the dad hit them on their heads and faced Gohan and Vegeta.
"Excuse my son, he's young." Apologized the daddy worm.
"No problem." Gohan replied. Vegeta growled as he turned blue again. "But excuse me, I think you can lend us a hand. We're trying to find our sons, have you seen them?"
"I've seen them!" The two worms raised their, well, really short arms to the brain. "The green guy went that way. The others did too." Another rumbling was felt as water, with a mixture of food, came towards them, washing them away. "Dad! What's going on?!"
"I believe it's potty time!" The daddy worm replied. Gohan tried his best not to puke while Vegeta paled.
"Potty time?!" Gohan shouted in disbelief. "That means we gotta go out..."
"Not me!" Vegeta shouted as he knew what Gohan was going to say next. He jumped in the air and flew up the ceiling, with Gohan behind his trail.
Shortly after escaping the stomach, Gohan and Vegeta arrived on Buu's brain, well, head. This man has no brain!
"It's so empty! No wonder Majin Buu doesn't think!" Gohan laughed until he stopped and turned serious. "The boys must be in here, this is the only place we haven't looked." They stopped when they reached a path with two paths: One going left and one going right.
"What path do you wanna take Gohan?" Vegeta asked. Gohan thought for a moment.
"I'd say, left."
"Fine, I'm going right." Ignoring Gohan, Vegeta went right while Gohan went left. It was dark for Gohan to see so he had to be on guard. While walking, Gohan noticed a light aura, shaping a kid's body. Gohan go into a stance as he approached the figure. "Hey little guy!"The kids turned around, revealing his son and Taro. Gohan smiled. "Junior! Taro! I'm I glad to see you two! Come on, let's find Vegeta and get out of here." He started to walk away until he heard them doing the fusion dance.
"FU-SION-HA!" Goharo appeared in his super saiyan three form. And charged at Gohan and sent a kick. Gohan blocked it and pushed him back.
"Guys! What're you doing?!" Gohan shouted. Goharo replied by swinging his fists and kicks at his dad, but Gohan kept blocking them. Gohan was caught off guard when their elbow smashed into his cheek. "I can definitely tell you're not my son by your eyes. But you sure do hit like him." Gohan powered and kicked him across the face. Goharo crashed to the ground as he seemed to disappear and reappear again. He charged at his dad again and started to attack. All Gohan could do is block the punches and kicks. Goharo stepped back and cupped his hands to the side.
"KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" Goharo fired the kamehameha wave as Gohan gasped. He dodged the wave as it hit the wall and opened it. Once the smoke cleared, Vegeta was on the floor with goo and blood on him. He grunted as he sat up and glared at Gohan.
"Was that you?!" He snarled as he wiped the goo and blood off him. Gohan pointed to Goharo as they charged at him. Gohan dodged him and elbowed him in the back of his neck, making him crash to the floor. Goharo stood back up, with not even a bruise on him. Gohan and Vegeta went back to back as Goharo, Gotenks, and Piccolo surrounded them. "They just won't stay down!"
"I've noticed!" Gohan replied.
"Any ideas?" Gohan shook his head nervously.
"MA-SENKO!" Goharo then cupped his hands to the side again. "KA-ME-HA-ME..." Piccolo put two fingers on his forehead while Gotenks burped out ghosts. Just when they thought they were finished, Gohan noticed Goharo turn into cake.
"Cake?!" Gohan shouted in disbelief. Piccolo turned into pound cake as Gotenks and his ghosts turned into chocolate cupcakes.
"What the?!" Vegeta shouted. "Chocolate! Cupcakes!"
"Strawberry! Pound cake!" Gohan's mouth started to water as he said this. He shook it off and slowly walked away from the cakes with Vegeta. About 5 minutes later, they went past a bunch of cob webs in his head.
"Stupid cob webs!" Vegeta growled.
"That's about all that's in here! No brain or anything!" Gohan blew a cob web away from his face. "Where could they be?"
"Hey! Over here!" Vegeta motioned Gohan to come over there. "Check this out!" Gohan ran over towards him to notice his mentor in a cocoon. "Check him to see if they're alive!" Gohan floated near his mentor and put his finger under his nose. Yep, still breathing.
"He's alive!" cheered Gohan. He then looked to the right to notice everyone else in a cocoon. "Vegeta! They're here too!" They quickly flew over to them to notice that Goten and Trunks are still in their fusion form.
"Looks like Trunks and Goten are still fused." Vegeta pointed. "Junior and Taro separated." Gohan nodded as he placed his hand on the cocoon.
"It's squishy." Gohan shrugged. "It'll be easier for us to cut them loose." Gohan and Vegeta fired beams from their fingers to cut them all loose. Shortly after that, they piled them up and did a double-take to see if they got everyone. "See, Majin Buu has his own power back when I kicked his butt. Now it'll be easier." Vegeta turned and held his hand out as a ki blast formed.
"Now let's blast our way outta here." Gohan nodded and copied him. He was about to fire until Vegeta noticed another cocoon, but larger than the others. "Eldest spawn, you're not gonna believe this." Gohan followed his gaze.
"Majin Buu?" Gohan asked. "He's in his original form!"
"I see that but what does it mean?" Vegeta replied/asked. Gohan took a step closer and looked at Buu. He was silent until he found it out. "So there must be two Majin Buu's! A nice one and a mean one."
"And ol' ugly won the battle." Vegeta referred to Super Buu.
"Who're you calling ugly you ridiculous bore." Buu cackled as Vegeta and Gohan turned around. "Why haven't you two been absorbed yet?! And how dare you touch with my people pods?!" He powered up as a pink aura surrounded him.
"Vegeta! I can handle this myself! Go get the others outta here!" ordered Gohan. Vegeta growled in annoyance.
"You think I can't handle myself?! Move aside I'll handle him!" Vegeta pushed Gohan out of the way and got into a stance. He charged at Buu and sent a punch, but the monster dodged it and kicked Vegeta, who also dodged it. He grabbed Vegeta's head and threw him at Gohan. Gohan gasped and jumped out of the way, earning a grunt from Vegeta. Buu flew at Gohan, but Gohan punched him in the face and kicked him in the ribs. Buu growled until Gohan elbowed the back of his head and kneed him in the face. Buu grunted as he backed away.
"I forgot how strong you are!" Buu growled as Gohan smirked. With a battle cry, Vegeta kicked Buu, sending him flying to the other side of them. They fired blasts at him, disintegrating him. Gohan sighed as he and Vegeta started to shoot the remains of him that were scattered all over the place. Gohan's head shot up when he finally figured out something.
"Wait Vegeta!" Gohan stopped the Prince. "We're in his body right? So that means..." His sentence was cut off when Buu laughed wickedly.
"Don't you fools get it?!" He laughed as he reformed. "As long as you're in my body! I can come back!" He started to laugh again, making Vegeta growl. He gritted his teeth and fired multiple ki blasts at him. Buu dodged it as the blasts aimed at the cocoons. Gohan gasped and destroyed the ki blasts by firing his own at them.
"Watch it Vegeta!" Gohan warned. "He's just toying with us." Buu got their attention by hanging on the ceiling and swinging back and fourth.
"Tick-Tock! Tick-Tock!" He kept saying that until someone snaps. That someone was Gohan. He shot a small blast at Buu, who disappeared, which made the blast hit the ceiling creating a way out.
"Gohan, you found the way out!" Vegeta looked with a slight smirk. Before they could move, Buu's giant head came out of the hole and laughed at them.
"Enough! Our little game is over!" He yelled while smirking. "Now You'll become part of me!" Buu summoned a giant fist and it came down at them. Gohan formed a ki blast just as the fist came down. When it was about to hit, it hit the ki blast, making Buu yelp in pain. "You little runt!" He formed a hand, which formed a ki blast. Gohan swat the ki blast away and fired at the Buu head. Buu growled in pain and glared at Gohan. "I HATE YOU!"
"Weird, Is that what you say everytime someone beats you?" Gohan smirked as Buu turned back to his self. With a battle cry, Buu charged at his enemy, but Gohan elbowed him in the face and kicked him in the stomach, sending Buu crashing. While Gohan was fighting Buu, Vegeta turned his attention to the old Majin Buu and smirked. He grabbed the pod and started to yank on it.
"Hey Majin Buu!" Buu turned his attention to Vegeta, and gasped in shock.
"Don't touch that!" He screamed. Vegeta ripped the chord attached to the pod, making Buu charge at him. With one final yank, Vegeta ripped the pod attached to Buu, making Super Buu fall to the ground and melt. They looked in confusion as the area started to shake and collapse.
"Grab the pods and lets go!" Vegeta grabbed Taro and Piccolo while Gohan grabbed Junior and Gotenks. They blasted through the hole and tried to find a way out. While flying, they found a way out and flew to the hole that was closing.
"Hurry!" They were about to reach it until it closed. Gohan and Vegeta stood there for a moment, trying to find another way out. (A/N: Sorry, But I rushed around here) "Wait! The steam hole!" Vegeta looked at him. "Remember when Buu gets mad, steam come out of his head?"
"Yes! Of course!" Gohan gave the pods to Vegeta and fired a small blast at the wall, creating a hole. They waited until the steam shot up, sending them out of the head. They floated away from Buu as Junior and the others popped from thin air. "Look, people popcorn." Gohan laughed at his own joke. Vegeta growled and grabbed Piccolo and Taro while Gohan grabbed the rest. They turned to look at Buu, who started to pant and sweat as his muscles bulked up. With one final scream, Buu shrank and panted. He stopped and stood straight up, and looked in the sky.
"He shrank!" Vegeta said.
Otherworld
Kibito Kai gasped when he saw Majin Buu's new form. Elder Kai and Goku looked at him with confusion.
"What's wrong?" Elder Kai and Goku asked. Kibito Kai was silent for a moment until he replied.
"Majin Buu's back to his original form." He replied. Goku looked at him.
"But he's so small." Goku said.
"Don't let his size fool you." Kibito Kai warned. "This Majin Buu destroyed several planets. I believe this is the end of the universe."