Chapter 89: Monster Without
Ho ho ho, see what I did there. It's…it's witty. Laugh, damn you.
Wow, we're going to be done with the Buu saga earlier than I thought. I'd planned on finishing it with chapter 100. Well, I'll try and do something special for 100, in any case.
It wasn't quite as hard as he'd thought.
Each Majin Buu was a good deal stronger and faster than Gohan, even in Super Saiyan 3, true. But they lacked skill, just as the real Buu had before he'd absorbed anyone. This always let him get some decent hits in, and here was where his other advantage came in: Majin Buu's toughness and resistance to damage had always been lower than his actual power level would indicate. Even fighting an equal, he would frequently sustain wounds that would be fatal to any other fighter, only surviving thanks to his monstrous regeneration. These internal copies, though, had extremely limited regeneration capabilities, which could be overloaded by one or two killing blows—and they retained Buu's relatively low resilience.
Gohan dived out of the way of a magically-elongating arm snatching at him, rebounding off the wall and leaping over the front three ranks of the Buu's, tackling one from the middle of the group to the ground. I can't afford to get stuck here fighting all of these…I have to get through! Behind him, he could hear rhythmic thumps and crashes as his father fought through the small army, Goku's unprecedented power letting him dispose of each foe in a single blow, now he was in full swing. Not that it was just his power that carried the pure-hearted saiyan through the onrushing hordes with such ease—his battle-instinct was flawless, letting him react instinctively to every twitch of movement from his enemies, timing his attacks perfectly and hurling them back in ever-greater numbers.
Baby's 'squad' of possessed Buu's was also making good progress. They'd suffered a few casualties, but Baby's skill and co-ordination made each of them a match for several of the enemy. The Tuffle controller himself took care to stay a couple of steps behind the action, using his minions as shields to protect himself from incoming attacks.
Gohan threw a punch at the Buu he'd tackled, but it jerked its head to the side, avoiding the attack, and threw him off. He fired a one-handed blast as he fell away, missing with this too. The Buu scrambled to its feet, swinging a haymaker that he only just ducked. Having diverted its attention to its front, Gohan then exerted mental control on his still-flying energy beam, swinging it around and pulling it back towards his opponent. It smashed into the Buu from behind, tunnelling into the flesh of its back before exploding, blasting the creature into pieces. It didn't recover, and Gohan didn't stop to admire his handiwork, reaching out with his mind and mapping out the five-dimensional layout of the area ahead. As several Buu's in front of him began to advance, he Shifted past them, his image disassembling into a multitude of coloured particles which shortly vanished as he passed out of phase with the four-dimensional world, then reappeared and formed themselves back into Gohan's humanoid shape at the end of the corridor.
Now he stood at the entrance of another large chamber, this one more brightly-lit than any part of the interior Buu's body he'd encountered so far. Arranged in a row by one wall were a pair of roughly spherical pods, made out of the same veined fleshy material that the rest of Buu's insides seemed to be, attached via thick cords to the ceiling and floor.
Before he could investigate further, Gohan heard the growls of a pair of inner Buu's approaching from behind him. In a flash of high-speed movement, Goku appeared between them and his son, arms raised protectively. "Go on," he said in a commanding tone. "I won't let any of them through."
"R…Right!" Gohan nodded his thanks, then quickly approached the strange objects. As he drew closer, it became obvious what he was seeing—from each pod protruded a head; one was Break's, the other Tien's. "I've found them!" he called back to the others. A third cord dangled from the ceiling, snapped off at the end, and a smooth hole occupied the spot on the floor directly below it. I guess this was Piccolo…Gohan realised. Buu must have jettisoned that cocoon to another part of his body right before the explosion so Break and Tien didn't get killed by such close proximity to the centre of the blast…smart.
"So…seems fairly obvious." He fired a series of small blasts, severing the cords suspending Tien and Break's pods, then caught them before they hit the floor. "I got them!"
Outside…
Buu, who had up until now been absorbed in directing the battle inside his own body, suddenly shrieked with frustration, arching his back and hissing like a cat.
"Uh…?" Raditz watched in confusion. What's happening in there?
Buu's features began to melt, muscles losing some of their tone, his entire body shrinking a little, face becoming less human and reverting to its previous, more monstrous appearance. A third eye snapped open wide on his forehead for a moment, then was gone just as quickly.
"What…" Buu gurgled. "…they…done…to me?!"
Inside Buu…
The entire chamber shook violently, everyone grimly hanging on as the lurching settled down. Abruptly, all the Buu copies—Baby's included—froze in place. They shivered slightly, twitched, and melted into the floor.
"All right!" Goku walked over to Gohan, taking Tien's pod from him. "I guess you were right about the Multi-Form. Now he doesn't know it, there should only be one or two of those guys roaming around."
"So, I guess we should try and leave now we've got our friends?" Gohan asked. "Though Buu still has Piccolo's power, and none of us are at 100%…we're probably still going to have to fuse to beat him." He sighed. "Ah, man, it's going to be tough to explain to everybody…"
"Yeah…about that…" Goku grinned sheepishly, holding up the chain that had once been attached to the main part of a Potara earring; now a smoking ruin was all that was left. "I wasn't paying attention, and one of them kind of shot it…eheh…heh…heh."
Gohan gawked. "You what?!"
"Hey, don't blame me, I was just dodging! It was that or my head…"
"How are we supposed to beat Buu now, Dad? With Piccolo's energy, even you can't—"
"Gentlemen?" Baby's voice cut across the 'room'. "Look at this."
Goku turned. "What've you found?" Baby was on the other side of the area, pointing to what appeared to be another absorption pod. From the centre protruded an extraordinary sight—the head of the fat, goofy Majin Buu. "What the…"
"How'd he get in here?" Gohan wondered.
Baby shrugged. "I guess when Babidi's spell brought the evil—more evil, anyway—half of Buu to the surface, this is where the other half went. Say…" He brightened up. "Even the fat Buu was pretty powerful, right? If we remove him too, this Buu—" he pointed to the ceiling. "—should lose quite a lot of power."
"Sounds like a plan." Gohan gave the thumbs-up. "Do it."
"Don't!" a harsh, guttural voice called—Buu. A single Buu copy stood in the entrance to the chamber. "You can't…do that!"
"No, I'm pretty sure we can." Baby raised his hand, preparing to fire and remove the fat Buu.
"Don't!" Buu repeated, desperation creeping into its voice. "If he goes, I…I won't be me!" It held out a pleading hand. "I'll be him again!"
"What you'll be is weaker," Gohan said decisively. "Baby!"
"Right." Baby fired, energy beams slicing through the connections that held the fat Buu's cocoon in place. It tumbled, unsupported, to the floor, and rolled away ungracefully.
"N-No…!" Buu fell to its knees, eyes twitching uncontrollably. "I…don't want…to go back…!" It stopped talking, choked, and fell onto its face.
The chamber began to shake again. "Let's get out of here!" Goku decided. "Whatever this is, I don't like it."
"No arguments here," Gohan concurred. "Should we just leave the less-evil Buu in here?"
"He tried to kill us too, remember," Baby reminded him. "This one was just better at it. Come on." The three fighters fired in unison, blowing open a large hole in the ceiling (well, a large hole relative to them; in reality, it was tiny). As chunks of pink 'flesh' rained down around them, they flew up and out before it could close up and heal.
And just like that, without any drama or ceremony, they were back outside and at full size. Buu was emitting an ear-piercing scream, and they fled before their ears gave out, setting Tien and Break down in a clearing in a nearby forest. "Baby…" Goku hesitated. "Well, you can't possess Buu, and his power is a bit out of your league, in any form…"
"I understand." Baby smiled. "Don't worry, I don't mind missing a fight. As long as I know somebody's taking care of it…I'll get these two out of those pods, and watch them until they wake up."
"All right, thanks." Goku turned back to Gohan. "We should probably go tell your uncle what's going on—maybe the three of us can gang up on Buu, or something."
"There's no need to tell me," came Raditz's voice from behind. "It all looks pretty clear. You removed those two, and Buu's pitching a fit."
"Not quite that simple," Gohan replied. "We removed the fat Buu, too…that's what really got him worried."
"Yeah, now that you mention it…" Raditz said, "…his ki's been all over the place for the last couple of minutes. Just losing Break and Tien would barely affect his energy at all, now Break's powered down—just his intelligence and techniques." He paused. "Hold on. Didn't you fuse?"
"Uh, yeah…" Goku grinned his 'I'm-innocent' grin again. "Turns out Buu's insides mess with the earrings' magic, so we separated…and then mine got broken, so we can't re-fuse, eheh!"
"Ugh…somehow, I'm not surprised," the older sibling groaned. "Well, it's done now. Come on, let's not leave our friend unattended." The other two saiyans grabbed hold, and one Instant Transmission trip took them to directly opposite Buu, who had landed on a hilltop and was continuing his agonised shout.
"Gyaaaah!" His whole body bunched up, growing suddenly shorter and hunching over. Enormous muscles sprung up on his top half, swelling his torso and arms to grotesque proportions.
Raditz nodded. "Like Kaioshin said…after he absorbed the old South Kaioshin, the original Buu took on his muscular appearance…I guess what we're seeing is Buu before the good-bad split."
"Hold on…" Goku muttered. "He's still changing!"
Indeed, Buu was still as obnoxiously loud as ever, and continuing to undergo physical changes. Heralded by a high-pitched whine, clouds of steam billowed out from his head and shoulder pores, filling the air with a gigantic white cloud.
"Get ready—!" Gohan warned. They powered up in readiness, Goku to his base maximum, the others to Super Saiyan 2.
That wait, the near-silence as they awaited Buu to reveal his new form, stretched out to eternity. Gohan's own aura, even at rest, sounded to him like a thunderstorm in those quiet moments; every breath was a gale. If Buu's figure hadn't slowly become visible through the clearing steam after a couple of minutes, he attested later, he would've gone insane there and then.
Buu had indeed changed once again. Still short, now it was thin enough to match. Its features had softened—in fact, it looked for all the world like a child. A child version of Majin Buu, anyway. Its eyes were glazed over, and it stared blankly down at its feet, arms hanging limply at its sides.
"So…this is his original form?" Raditz deduced. "I guess the fat Buu was really what was holding everything together. Anyway, he should be much weaker than any version of the tall one."
"Unless he still has Piccolo's power absorbed," Goku countered. "And the big Kaioshin in him didn't just vanish from existence. Honestly, there's no way of telling how powerful he is."
"There's one way," Raditz said, making fists. "Let's attack before he takes the initiative, and just be done with it already. This has already gone on too long."
Ironically, though, speaking these words took up all the time they had; almost as soon as he'd finished, Buu raised one hand towards the sky. It began to form an energy sphere, which grew larger with alarming speed. Buu hadn't even had to power up at all, the energy was just there. It was soon easily sufficient to destroy the planet—the sun—the whole star system—but it kept growing, growing beyond belief.
"Wh-What the hell…?" Raditz growled. "Where'd this come from?" He's far more powerful than me…that can't be right!
"Get ready!" Gohan shouted. "We can block it if we work together—"
"Fool! He's not aiming for us!"
"What do you—"
Buu released the colossal attack, throwing it straight down at the Earth itself. The onrushing wave of power it threw out ahead of it smashed up the ground before it even got close, and the whole area was bathed in its unearthly pink glow.
There was no time for doubt or second-guesses. Two of the fighters there had been doing this for years, knew each other's skills and abilities like their own, and true to form responded instantly. "Times three!" Goku's aura blazed. "Raditz!" A hand gripped his shoulder, an Instant Transmission hop took them directly into the path of the incoming blast.
Super Saiyan 3 power burst out of Raditz's body once again, a combined field of red and gold energy building around the brothers, crackling as the edges of it touched the wake of Buu's attack. Their reply would have to be timed perfectly—and the thought hit them at the same time. It was barely conscious, relying on instinct and intuition forged out of a lifetime of battle.
Now!
"KAMEHAMEHA TIMES TEN!"
"DRAGON FIST!"
That clash of insanely powerful energies, the direct opposition of one fighter's will and power against another's, should have gone on for much longer, to suit its climactic nature. Sadly, this was not the case, and the brothers' combined attack hurled Buu's directly back in its own path in a matter of seconds. The seemingly-inexorable energy sphere, it turned out, was no match for their combined might.
There was an explosion, because there always is, with this sort of thing. Luckily it was directed out into space—otherwise it would have cracked the planet in half. As it was, the backblast alone was enough to fling the two powering-down saiyans to the ground, thrown for all their strength like ants in a hurricane. Of Buu, there was no sign.
Gohan landed behind them as they stood wearily. "Guys, that was incredible! I barely had time to react…"
Goku gave a tired smile. "Heh…no time to celebrate now, though…"
"Yeah." Raditz nodded. "Buu's still out there. But by now pieces of him are spread from here to Saturn, so we've got a little time. Ideas?"
"I'm pretty sure I could take him at full strength," Goku said. "But not like I am now."
"Well, if we've got a couple minutes, I could go get Dende," Gohan suggested. "I passed by him earlier—he's still alive."
"Let me." Raditz tapped his forehead. "I'll go ahead and get everyone still alive." He vanished, returning shortly with Dende, Launch, Eighteen and Goten in tow, the latter two unconscious—that is, until Dende applied his restorative magics to them. Eighteen still wasn't at 100%; the young Namek could heal her biological human body, but restoring her mechanical components would take full technical repairs.
"I'm afraid I'm getting tired…" Dende confided. "I've only got energy left for one more." Consensus was reached instantly—Goku was their best shot at taking Buu down. Another Instant Transmission trip brought Baby and the now-awakened Tien and Break.
"So…" Launch swung her legs idly, sitting in the lower branches of a tree. "Do we just wait for Buu to show up and jump him?"
Goku scratched his head. "I guess, but I don't like it. I mean, this one's even more crazy than the others. I don't think there's anything on his mind but mindless destruction. He didn't even care about us—I guess he just felt like blowing up Earth. We can't fight something like that without too much collateral damage."
"In that case…" Gohan spoke up. "Come to think of it, there is a place where we can fight with no damage to anything…why don't we try and lure Buu into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber?"
"But the Lookout was destroyed," Break reminded him.
"Mostly. To get into the Chamber, we just need the door…why don't we go check if it's survived? Raditz, can you take dad and me there?"
"Sure, sure. A free ride, that's all I am to you people…" the shaggy-haired man grumbled, teleporting the other two over to the ruins of the Lookout. A quick search revealed disheartening news—the door had survived, but was burned almost black, and one corner was completely missing. Opening it, they felt a rush of the Chamber's hot, stifling air, but nothing on the other side—just a solid wall. "So…" Gohan said quietly, rubbing his chin. "The connection's still there, sort of…it's just damaged. Hmm." A thought struck him. "Raditz, come help me with this."
"With what? You know how to fix it?"
"Maybe. Look, if we were in the Chamber right now, standing behind the door like this, we'd be behind the building. Equally, there are two spaces just in front of the door—one inside the Chamber, one in the Lookout. You follow?"
"No, but go on, I'll get there."
Gohan tapped the door. "I'm thinking…as a different dimension, the Chamber occupies the same three or four-dimensional space that we do, just slightly removed in a direction we can't normally move in or even comprehend."
The beginnings of realisation dawned in the older fighter's eyes. "This is starting to sound a lot like that technique of yours…"
"Shifting, yeah. I can see, and move, in those directions. If the damage has knocked the Chamber out of alignment, maybe I can Shift it back."
"So what do you need me for?"
"Your Instant Transmission technique. You can pick out an energy signature from across the universe, and travel there in no time at all. I need you to do the mental legwork, basically." He pointed towards his uncle. "I never got the hang of telepathy, so you'd better read my mind."
"Right. No problem." Raditz placed one hand on the damaged door, and the other on Gohan's head, connecting their minds to each other, and to the broken dimensional portal.
Space expanded. A whole new dimension of movement he'd never even been aware of, like he was a stick figure who'd stood up off the paper. He'd felt like he was simply standing on Earth, amidst what had seemed like solid objects, but they were all flat, merely 3D. Around him swam an infinite void, an unending stretch of blank whiteness.
And yet there, off in the distance, was an indistinct shape. Like he said. I can find anything. Focus. Focus! It swam into view, a memorable domed building flanked by a pair of giant hourglasses.
Yes, it had been knocked out of line. But moving it back? He could move himself anywhere with Instant Transmission, transverse distances instantly, but not such a distant object, floating beyond his mere four-dimensional body's reach.
But I can, said Gohan's voice. I can Shift other objects, remember? I just can't do it at this kind of distance. Combining my ability to move anything and see into the fifth dimension…
…with my unlimited range, and my ability to find the damn thing in the first place… Together, their minds reached out, grabbed hold of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and dragged it towards them. Physical strength was irrelevant here—mental fortitude carried them through, unwavering, pulling on an entire miniature dimension with every fibre of their combined willpower.
The backlash when it 'clicked' into place with the door was a sufficient shock to 'snap' them back to their reality, falling in an ungainly heap on the floor before jumping to their feet and finding something to lean on.
"Goku! It's done!" Raditz pulled open the door, showing the familiar Chamber within.
"Awesome!" Goku said, then froze up. "Uh…good timing, though…'cause if I'm not mistaken, he's coming back." He took a deep breath. "All right. I'll do my best…but if I can't beat him, I'll just destroy the door completely, and he'll kill me and be trapped in there. You guys wait a day or so, then wish for me to be resurrected in this dimension."
"You don't want anyone to go in with you?" Gohan asked. "The more of us there are, the better our chances of winning."
"No, I can't ask you to do that. If there's someone else in there with me, neither of us'll be able to bring ourselves to blow the door and trap the other in. Plus…" he grinned. "…I know it sounds crazy, but I really want the chance to take this Buu on. No absorptions, no fusion and in an empty dimension where I can fight with no holds barred."
"I understand." Raditz nodded. "You just lure him into the Chamber, and do what you do best."
"Eat?" Goku asked, playing dumb. This drew a nervous chuckle—Buu's approaching ki heralded his arrival in a couple of minutes.
"One thing," Gohan said. "Normally, the Chamber's kinda weird-looking in the fourth dimension—that's time. It's sort of bunched up. Not any more though; we had to move it a lot closer to this dimension than usual to get it to link to the door despite the damage. So there's no more year-in-a-day thing. Time here is time there."
"Right, thanks. Well…he's getting close now. Wish me luck." Goku took a couple of steps back, standing in the doorway and throwing his shoulders out, ki building around him.
"Dad…don't die," Gohan said, stepping aside.
"Don't worry about it, kid. I don't plan to."
"Hey—" Raditz began.
Goku waved dismissively, smirking. "Yeah, I know. 'Don't die', I get it."
"No…you know this isn't about 'live' or 'die'." Raditz clapped his brother on the shoulder. "Win!"
"Do my best. Now get out of here!"
"But he won't be here for another minute at least—"
"NOW!" At his words, Raditz flinched away, a moment before Buu flickered into view directly opposite Goku.
Instant Transmission! Gohan felt himself almost freezing up with fear again, Buu's enormous aura a tangible pressure in the air. He learned it just by watching it a couple of times!
Goku took another half-step back. "Hey, Buu. You're not dumb." He pointed a thumb at himself. "You know I'm the strongest here. You want to blow up this place for kicks? You'll have to get past me."
"Eheh…" The new childlike Buu grinned savagely, then without warning charged Goku bull-like, slamming into him and tackling him through the door. Raditz sprang forwards and slammed it behind them. He leaned heavily on the door, panting. His face shone with sweat. He felt that power too…Gohan noticed. I didn't even think my uncle could feel fear…
Goku twisted free of Buu's grasp in mid-flight, kicking the nightmarish creature's face and breaking away from it. They both hit the ground on their feet, skidding away in opposite directions.
Buu fixed him with that same vacant stare, somehow even more eerie than the unreined malice in the other one's eyes. It swayed slightly from side to side, teeth clicking against each other.
"Don't talk much in this form, do you?" Man, all this fighting…my shirt's ruined. Goku tore free the last scraps, running his other hand through his gravity-defying hair. "I wasn't even using the Kaioken just now, but I know you weren't using anything close to your full power. So let's both go all out now, huh?" Finally. Just me and the enemy. I'm at full strength. No innocents to hurt. Nobody absorbed to worry about. His hands were shaking, but not with fear. A wild grin stole its way onto his face.
This is what I live for.
Posted a day early because I'll be out on Sunday.
Some people will be happy with no second Gokhan fusion, I know, and some people will not. Can't please them all, I suppose. But rest assured there will be more fusion of one kind or another before the story is over.
Q: The Crimson King is an important (very important) character in the Dark Tower series. Are you going to be introducing a multiverse concept to EFB?
A: There will be more than one universe. But it's not related to the Dark Tower.
Q: the fusion was good shame gokhan didn't have a big role maybe you plan on something later in the story and I know you don't like power levels and you give everyone a number but didn't you write in your earlier chapters radits had a power level off 3.5 ?
A: Nope, it was always 3. Though, given Raditz's second fight with Buu, maybe TFS Vegeta was right about power levels…
Q: It seems to me that the Fruit is already having an effect on Gohan's mental health. Several times he has shown fear fighting the inner Buus and what seems jealousy to his father's attitude about fighting them. It seems that his emotions quickly go to the extreme. And a side question, did Gohan retain the energy from the fruit he ate or did he burn it out when he fought Buu to a stalemate?
A: He's still got the energy, and can still use SSJ3.
Q: Since Kaioken x3 Mystic Goku (6) is triple the strength of Mystic Goku (2) (In your power scale), doesn't that suggest that "3 would be 1.5x stronger than 2" instead of "3 is stronger than 2, but not by 1.5x"?
I'm not sure if that will make any sense to you. Hell, it doesn't even make sense to me.
To break it down: since you introduced Kaioken Mystic Goku, you have flawed your 'linear' PL system.
A: All it suggests, I'm afraid, is that it's linear for Goku's power but not other people's. Because I got lazy when doing the Kaioken levels. Which is one of the reasons you should not take the numbers I give as any kind of logical system; they just work for the situation at hand.
Q: A shame Gokhan didn't last long but I feel like we haven't seen the end of him yet since they didn't crush the earrings like in the canon. What would his power be rated? Like an 8-9?
A: Vegetto and Gokhan I prefer to leave off the system of measurements. But very, very high. Much higher than 8-9, definitely, since I think canon Buuhan would be at least 10 (Super Buu at 4.5, mystic Gohan at 6), and Vegetto kicked his ass, and Gokhan is somewhere in that region of power.
Q: Also with the thirteen, Idk if you've ever read the "Dark Tower" Series by Stephen King but there are 13 magical orbs that have different abilities to the user. The Black Thirteen was considered the most dangerous one. The phrase: "Thirteen beyond our ken/The Fallen One shall serve his time..." sounds like something that would have been said in that series.
A: Not quite. That's twice now people have alluded to the Dark Tower. I'm not using it, sorry.
Q: Hi I have been reading this story since last year sepetember, and I say your story is amazing. You actually give the humans an actual fighting role (they might not be as strong as the super saiyans and piccolo and androids but they are still strong in my eyes) other than toriyama who dropped them in a hole so they could die. Here are the actual powerlevels for buu saga:
Dabura: 5 billion
Super Saiyan 2: 7.5 billion
Majin Piccolo (Pre Training): 10 billion
Majin Piccolo (Post Training): 15 billion
Super 18: 15 billion
Super Saiyan 3: 20 billion
Super Buu: 30 billion
Super Buu ( Piccolo and SSJ3 Break): 75 billion
Super Buu (Piccolo and Break): 52.5 billion
Mystic Goku: 15 billion
Mystic Goku ( Kaio-Ken Times Three): 45 billion
Mystic Goku (Kaio-Ken Times Four): 60 billion
Gokhan: 35 billion (N.B he is in base form)
Bye
A: Er…I'm glad you liked the story, but…I think saying Toriyama "dropped them in a hole so they could die" is a little too strong…I mean, Krillin was pretty plot-central for most of the canon series, and Tien made a significant difference in fights right up to the Buu saga…
Interesting guesses for the power levels. Though saying "Here are the actual power levels" is, again, a little strong. Since it's pretty much impossible to say what they 'actually' are.
Q: Inappropriate review time...
CAPTAIN SPACE! YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE WORK ON BEST SERVED COLD! IT R SO GOOD!
Inappropriate review time ending...
A: Infrequent updates are sort of a Best Served Cold tradition…sorry.
Q: I have a crazy idea that your clearly not going to use, but how I would have done the fusion...I would have had it give Gohan the power that he would get if he went mystic (since Goku is mystic already) and then combined those powers to make the base power for the fusion and maybe when they defused Gohan gains the mystic power up without having to sit through it,...though that would be kind of strange.
A: Yes, it would have been kind of strange. I suppose it's unlikely given that Vegeta didn't get SSJ3 or anything like it after defusing from Vegetto.
Q: Wait, could he Shift? And now I want Vegeta back. More on that elsewhere. PLEAAAAAAAAASE?
Anyway...Happy New BTtL Year! Hanukkah! Frieza Day! That...Anyway, all my wishes and luck for future endeavours :D! Thanks for yet an other amazing year Space :D! Break Through The Limit FTW!
A: Thanks very much. Er, could who Shift? Gokhan? If he wanted to. Vegeta is dead. Actually, really, genuinely dead. I'm sorry.
Not that we won't be hearing about him againWHAT WHO SAID THAT SPOILERS nothing to see here, move along.
Q: Wait if Gohkan can combined thee SSJ3 and the Kaioken, and has a much higher base power via Goku, the his power level when at his maximum would make Vegito's look like an ant?
A: Perhaps, but Vegetto got a power boost for Goku and Vegeta being rivals, so that might balance things. We have no idea how much it increased his power.
Q: I feel like fusion should have lasted longer then it did but i understand the reasoning behind it. I know you said the fruit would make gohan unstable does that mean his saiyan side will finally come out and he will want to actually train. I feel like with them fusing a little bit of gokus drive should at least rub off on him. Are you going to have half breeds reach ssj4, if not you should at least give them a different transformation to make up for it. btw sorry for the mistakes im typing this on my phone. till next time
A: There's no restriction on half-breeds reaching SSJ4. Any Super Saiyan with a tail can try. Succeeding is hard, though.
Q: would you ever consider doing or letting someone make an abridged version of break through the limit?
A: I kind of did that myself, but if somebody who's actually funny wants to try, I'd welcome it. Just…let me know first.
Q: Just for refrence, where is Gokhan and Vegitto on the power scale?
A: Once again, pretty much off the charts. This is mainly so I don't have to do the headache-inducing conundrum of comparing them to, say, a non-fused SSJ4.
Q: Another interesting chapter has come and passed. I will come straight up and say not only am I upset about the early de-fusion of Gokhan... I kinda saw it coming within the first paragraph :P
The reason I'm upset though is because I thought that you were one of few authors I believed could handle the fusion well, and then it just ended like that without really serving a purpose besides getting inside Buu. I mean, couldn't both Goku simply have been absorbed, thought of the barrier, Gohan/Raditz saw this and have simply done the same?
A: Maybe? If so, you'd think one of the many people Buu absorbed before Vegetto would have done it.
In any case, it wasn't so much about fusion serving a purpose, story-wise. It was going to be their ultimate weapon to defeat Buu. The storyline was actually more there to thwart that and force them to try something else.
Q: [chapter 52 review] Alfheim? SAO reference? Loved the Kuriza action. Random thought, but if Vegeta doesn't become a Z fighter, I hope Tarble can go to Earth
A: Norse mythology reference, actually.
Q: Hey mate,
Just wanted to say this is an awesome story. Sorry to hear about your computer! Just wanna clarify a couple things for my sake:
1. You said Broly is dead and not coming back, is this the same for Vegeta? (That maybe spoilers)
2. Raditz vs Gohan? Raditz has more experience and more training in SS3, so id lean towards him.
A: 1. Vegeta is, as I said above, dead. For reals.
2. Raditz, yeah. They both have some interesting techniques, but Raditz has superior skill.