Chapter Hundred-thirty-four

Goku and Vegeta's Fantastic Voyage! Vegeta, What Did You Do!?

"Yeeees," Super Boo drawled out the word, practically moaning it as he looked at his hands. "Yeeeees! The power! The absolute POWER!" he threw his fists up into the sky and threw back his head, laughing maniacally in his triumph.

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"Okay," Xībito groaned, "So, I guess I'm waking up Beerus after a–" she turned her head as she was speaking to Pracya and noticed that he was frantically loading a suitcase. "What are you doing?!" she demanded. Where had that even come from?!

"Forget Beerus!" he told her quickly. "We gotta get an audience with Zenou! Get the Grand Priest to convince him to fix this mess!"

"So why the suitcase?" Xibito demanded.

"Because we're gonna need to move to a new universe when Zenou's done!"

"WHAT?!" Xibito exclaimed in horror. Before she could argue her case— though what counterargument Xibito could offer at this point, she had no idea– she noticed something on the crystal ball again. "Hey," she pointed out, "Why isn't Boo changing?"

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At that moment, Super Boo was wondering the exact same thing. Where was his absolute power and his change of clothes? "I suppose it would make sense that he would be a little bit hard to digest," he muttered to himself. "Arrogant fool. 'Your life was forfeit the moment I was born'," he echoed in a childishly mocking tone. "'I'm the one that's going to destroy you', 'Fuck you, that's how!' Ugh," he spat as he rolled his eyes. "Super Vegetto, really." Boo decided that his ultimate triumph had earned him a snack and so he flew off in search of any remaining bakeries on the planet that hadn't been destroyed. While he did so, he pondered what he should call himself now. If he had been Super Boo before… "Hyper Boo? Ultimate Boo? Supreme Boo? Boous Maximus? ...No, that one's silly. Hmmm…"

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"I wonder if…" Xibito muttered to herself, giving the crystal ball a whirl while Pracya frantically lowered his fishing pole down into the hammerspace of his suitcase. "...Oh my Zenou," she breathed when the ball came to a stop.

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Deep inside the impossible innards of Super Boo, Vegetto took in his surroundings with mild confusion, surrounded by a protective ki barrier. "Knew I should've brought a map," he muttered to himself. The most unpleasant thing about his current predicament wasn't the way the ground squelched under his feet or the smell of it all or even the fact that he was probably the size of an amoeba. No, the worst thing of all was the strange… dripping sound. What was dripping? Why was it dripping? He supposed it didn't matter. The important thing was that everything had worked out as planned. Since being turned into candy hadn't stopped him, he didn't see why being absorbed would slow him down, either. He had come to the conclusion that Boo couldn't be destroyed by negative energy which all but one attack held. Given that, he decided to go inside Boo and free the others while hopefully finding some other way to destroy him. After a moment, he decided to let his aura drop.

Something felt wrong…

"I don't feel so good," Vegetto muttered as he looked down at his hands. He felt like he was fizzling away. "No… no, I don't want to g–" Then there was a puff of smoke and Vegeta and Goku were standing where he had once stood, pressed cheek to cheek.

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"What the hell is that?!" Xibito demanded. "What happened to permanent?!"

"Okay, so they're not dead but now they definitely can't beat Boo," Pracya stated hurriedly. "Back to packing!"

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"Oh, thank the Gods!" Vegeta exclaimed as he shoved himself away from Goku and rubbed his cheek with one hand. He ripped off his earring with the other hand and stomped on it, grinding it into dust.

"Aw, come on, it wasn't that bad!" Goku insisted as she took off her own earring and chucked it over her shoulder. Vegeta started jumping up and down on the dust, stamping it into oblivion. She huffed and crossed her arms. "Okay, now you're just being crazy!"

Vegeta wheeled around and pointed a finger angrily at Goku. "I am never, ever doing that again!" he told her firmly. "It would take the threat of the literal death of the universe to get me to fuse with you again!" Goku just rolled her eyes.

"Are ya done now?" she asked. Vegeta panted for a few seconds, wild-eyed, before he straightened himself and ran a hand through his hair.

"Yes," he decided calmly, "Yes, I'm done."

Goku nodded and gave a quick look around. "Right," she declared, "So you remember Vegetto's plan? If I'm sensing it right, the others are… that way!" She pointed a finger emphatically down a tunnel and started marching in that direction.

Vegeta rolled his eyes and followed after her grudgingly. Then he came to his senses and started walking beside her instead. "Why don't you just use your Instant Transmission to get us there?" he asked bitterly. He'd been forced to share a mind, body, and soul with Kakarot and he hadn't even learned her stupid technique! All he'd gotten was a fundamental understanding of her ridiculously simple outlook on the world and that ridiculous song stuck in his head. 'Go ahead and try to hit me if you're able; Can't you see that my–' he caught himself humming the abominable tune and shook his head. 'No, stop that!'

"No luck," Goku told him after focusing for a second. "I think it's the fact that we're surrounded by Boo that's throwing off my senses. I can get the general idea of where they are but if I try to focus, it just gets all muddled."

"Well, do we have to walk there?" Vegeta grumbled in aggravation. "Given our size, and the fact that we don't know where in Boo's body we wound up, it could take a thousand years."

"We can't risk flying," Goku told him. "Right now, Boo doesn't know we're still alive. If he feels our ki, he'll know something's up. Now, I dunno what he could do if that happens but since we're inside his body and he can turn himself into all kinds of weirdo shapes, my guess is literally anything." Vegeta groaned and Goku walked a little more before she was struck by sudden inspiration.

"What are you doing?" Vegeta asked, coming to a stop when he noticed Kakarot had stopped and watched her get down into a runner's stance.

"Race ya there," Goku offered as she looked up at Vegeta with a smirk. "Unless you think you'd lose to me again."

Vegeta smirked as he got into position right next to her. "You were the one who said I defeated you the first time," he reminded her.

"Yeah," Goku agreed, "But you were the one who forfeited last time. Plus, I got to Super Saiyan 3 and you didn't!"

"Fair enough," Vegeta conceded with a shrug. They both tensed for a few seconds more, waiting to see which one would start them off.

"On your marks…"

"Kingmakestherulesgetsetgo!" Vegeta shouted before he took off in a blur, leaving Goku in the dust.

"Hey!" she called after him in irritation as she sprinted to catch up. "That's cheating!"

"Says the one who needed three people's help to defeat me!"

"Says the guy who sold his soul to try and get as strong as me!"

"Oh, let it go!"

"It just happened yesterday!"

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Xibito groaned and rubbed her temples. She couldn't believe that the literal fate of the universe was hanging on these two. "...What the hell," she muttered as she got up. Where was her suitcase, anyway?

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So now, Dende noticed, that other ki– whoever it was– was gone and there was only Boo. Granted, Boo didn't seem to be getting any stronger for a change but a slightly-better nightmare was still a nightmare. It had become abundantly clear to Dende that there was only one thing left to do.

"Alright, we're out of here," he told Hercule bluntly. The mustachioed man blinked at the green man in confusion.

"O-out of here?" he echoed in befuddlement. "What're you talking about?!"

"The Earth is doomed," Dende replied tersely. "It's literally falling apart. Look!" he pointed to the ground in front of them at the chasm that had stretched from one end of the horizon to the other and had appeared after that tremendous earthquake. "That's ten feet wider than it was just two minutes ago!" Even as he spoke, the gap was widening more and more. Hercule stared off into space in dull shock and existential dread as he realized just what this meant. He, Hercule Satan, was the last human being. Dende didn't really have time for this and snapped his fingers in Hercule's face. "Come on," he told him, "You can be sad later. We need to be ready to move now." Maybe Dende was being overly-harsh but he was mostly bitter and ashamed that he'd failed so spectacularly at being the Earth's Guardian. Kami had watched over the Earth for more than three hundred years while Dende hadn't even made it a full decade. So, with no one else to talk to, he took it out on Hercule.

"Okay," Hercule agreed in resignment with Bee still tucked under his arm. "But how are we gonna leave? I don't really see a spaceship capsule on ya." Rather than reply, Dende closed his eyes tightly and focused with all his might. He hoped that he had enough power left to do this. Once the sky went black, he'd need to talk fast before Boo noticed.

Dende snapped his fingers and seven balls appeared out of nowhere and clattered onto the ground in front of them. When Dende opened his eyes, he realized that these were seven stone balls. "Oh, right," he muttered. He'd forgotten that it had only been a day since the others had used them to wish back those that Vegeta had killed at the Budoukai. Which had really been worth the wish, hadn't it? Still, he could barely believe everything that had happened in a day. So they still had two months before the Dragon Balls would be active again. Which was less than useless. "Okay," Dende mumbled as he rubbed his chin, "Gonna have to think about this one…" Maybe he could take Hercule and the Dog to Enma and he'd be able to ferry the three of them to New Namek. After that… well, Dende had no idea.

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As Super Boo horked another slice of delicate, airy angel food cake into his infinite gullet, he found his mind wandering. He wasn't really focused on the fact that he still wasn't Infinite Boo– he decided that he'd be going with that one– yet, because he knew that was inevitable. He'd absorbed him, there was no way he was getting unabsorbed, it just didn't work like that. No, what Super Boo was concerned about was the slight tinge of regret he felt over his actions.

'I don't know if I'll find desserts like this anywhere else in the universe,' he thought to himself as he picked up an entire plate of petit fours and tipped it back into his waiting mouth, letting them all pour into his bottom jaw before swallowing like a frog croaking in reverse. Even the candies he made himself weren't this good. Or maybe it just seemed that way because it wasn't until he finally got to Earth that he was able to think, to compare, to discern that some things could be better than other things. Where he discovered free will and true sapience. He had some degree of thought when he was that insufferable pink blob but before that he was nothing more than a mindless beast, full of hate, rage, and destruction. Now he was truly free, free to do whatever he wanted. He knew exactly what he wanted. As he had told Son Gohan, his desire was to be the end of everything, to end all life in existence.

And to eat some cake along the way.

It would take a while, Super Boo knew, but he wasn't in any particular rush. He had eternity and it wasn't like he had anything to worry about. He would kill everyone here– he'd start with the last Kaioushin– and then he'd just move on. He was already much stronger than he had been when he'd screamed open a hole between dimensions and once he'd had some practice– and again, he had forever– he'd be able to traverse this tainted multiverse with ease and return everything to the way it had been. All would be nothing. He was the most invincible being that had ever existed and if anyone was stronger than him… well, he'd just absorb them, too.

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Goku and Vegeta stopped their race, albeit reluctantly, when they realized that every side of the endless hallway that was Boo's inner workings was lined with millions upon millions of moaning, wailing faces. Everyone Boo had ever eaten, they realized. The sound wasn't particularly loud but it was incredibly persistent, following them every step of the way. There was the occasional "Please," or "Kill me…" sprinkled among the mindless droning. Goku found it incredibly unnerving but Vegeta didn't seem terribly bothered by it.

"You know," Vegeta mused, "If you hadn't hit your head, you'd have killed everyone and then gone with Raditz to help the rest of us keep killing. You'd be used to this sort of thing by now." Obviously, the King had mellowed out enough in the intervening years that he'd either forgotten or didn't feel comfortable mentioning the original reason he'd wanted Raditz to bring Goku to him.

"Yeah," Goku agreed with a shrug, "Or since I wouldn't have been strong enough to go Super Saiyan and you wouldn't have gotten your butt kicked by me to get stronger, or any of the other stuff that happened, Freeza would have just killed all four of us."

That actually made Vegeta stop for a second. That was… surprisingly articulate and an excellent point. Despite his humiliation and the fact that it had led to the culling of their race in half, Kakarot hurting her head as an infant had been the best possible option. In a truly bizarre turn of events. "...Fair enough," he agreed as he walked quickly to catch up with her.

"Oh," Goku added once Vegeta was walking side-by-side with her, "And if you'd tried to put a kid in me, I would've bitten your dick off." Vegeta's eyes went wide and his face went pale as he came to a stop again. "Hey, we shared the same mind and stuff, remember?" she reminded him with a grin. "It never happened and it's not like you'd be stupid enough to try anything now. Bulma'd kill ya. Come on, let's keep moving!" Thoroughly embarrassed, Vegeta trudged behind before catching up to her again.

Soon enough, the voices began to become vaguely familiar to the pair of them, the familiarity growing stronger the further they traveled. "We must be getting closer to the source," Vegeta observed. "I can feel the others' kis growing stronger. Do you think you can use Instant Transmission from here?"

Goku pursed her lips, trying to concentrate. "I'm not sure," she admitted. "It's clearer than it was before but I still don't know where we'd end u–" But then she stopped and stared at the wall.

Vegeta noticed she wasn't following him after a moment and turned, frowning at her. "Kakarot, what are you d–" but then he saw it as well. Her friends, embedded in the wall, their features marred and hidden by the pink slime that covered them but their voices still distinct.

"Goku," they groaned, dragging out every syllable, "Save us… where were you? Help us, please…" Goku flinched and started to walk away before something else stopped her again.

"Goku," Suno's voice whimpered as the figure actually starting to lean out of the wall. "Goku… help me. Please…" Slowly, Goku raised her hand and started reaching for her wife.

"Kakarot," Vegeta told her harshly, "Ignore it! It's just a trap. If you try to touch them, Majin Boo will know we're here."

"But–"

"There's nothing we can do for them," Vegeta insisted. "The only way we can save them is to destroy Boo, which we can't do if you're just standing here like an idiot! Now come on!"

Goku closed her eyes and turned her head away from her wife and her friends before taking a deep breath to focus herself, clenching her fists and pushing them all away. "You're right," she agreed with a sigh as she started walking again, "Let's get out of here. It's giving me the creeps."

"Vegeta," a voice familiar to both of them whispered. It froze Vegeta in his tracks and it felt like a fist was squeezing his heart. Up out of the ground in front of them, a figure grew. Feminine in shape and with a shape around its head like a bob haircut. This was no formless blob like Goku's friends or even the half-formed creature carrying Suno's voice. It was—

"Bulma," Vegeta whispered, his eyes going wide as his mouth fell open. Even though he knew of her death beyond a shadow of a doubt— he would have sensed her otherwise— to actually see her here and to know that she had been murdered and was trapped inside this monster shook him to his core.

"Vegeta, don't," Goku warned him as she put a hand on his shoulder. "Remember what you said? This isn't real. We have to keep moving. If you touch her–"

"Vegeta," Bulma implored, a sorrowful and heartbroken expression on her pink face as one pink hand reaching forward as if to touch Vegeta, her palm a hair's breadth away from his cheek, "How could you? I thought you were better. I thought you'd changed. How could you do this to us?"

And Vegeta, King of All Saiyans, responsible for the deaths of countless millions and one of the most feared beings in the universe, felt his heart shatter. Tears welled up in his eyes as he leaned his cheek into Bulma's touch.

"Vegeta, no!" Goku exclaimed as she tried to rip him away.

"Bulma," he whispered again as he reached a hand out to Bulma to touch her cheek in return, "I'm so so–" but the word caught in his throat as her hand moved down to wrap around it, her grip impossibly strong as she started to squeeze. Her tear jerking expression turned into a smug and malevolent grin as her grip tightened and Vegeta coughed and sputtered, pulling at the fingers around his throat. 'Idiot!' he snapped at himself even as he felt the air start to leave his body as the pressure grew on his windpipe. 'How could you fall for something that even Kakarot could ignore?!' He raised a hand to strike her, to blast her away, but she was still wearing Bulma's face and he couldn't–

"Kienzan!" Goku cried out, the blade of yellow ki slicing Bulma's arm off at the bicep, making her shriek in pain as the lifeless appendage released Vegeta's throat and fell to the floor.

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Super Boo stopped gorging himself as he felt the slightest twinge of pain somewhere in his collarbone, slapping his hand against the area as if he'd been bitten by a mosquito. He felt a pain and a heat moving swiftly up his neck and his expression of confusion turned into one of rage as he realized what was happening.

"No," he snarled through gritted teeth. "That's not… he can't… no!" He didn't know how, he didn't know why, but it didn't matter. He was going to kill him. His eyes rolled back in his head until they disappeared in the sockets and he went stock-still.

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"If we get out of this, I'm gonna kill you!" Goku howled at Vegeta as they flew through the corridors of Super Boo's body, chased by the spectral pink monstrosities of everyone Boo had absorbed or at least those not so far gone that they were nothing more than faces screaming in walls. All of them deformed and mutated, with stretched out faces, red eyes, massive fangs, long fingers, and hideous veins running up and down their bodies. Which included, ironically enough, Bulma.

"Oh, like you wouldn't have done the same thing!" Vegeta snapped back at her as he blasted at any that got too close to them. He didn't have as much of a problem with it now that Bulma didn't look like Bulma.

"I almost did but when you told me to ignore it, I listened!"

"Did you honestly expect me to listen to you, Kakarot?"

"Ugggh, this is why nobody likes you!"

But then, almost as soon as the horde had appeared, Vegeta and Goku rounded a corner and realized they weren't being followed anymore. Their pursuers had simply… disappeared. This allowed them a moment to breathe and take stock of their surroundings. Rather than yet another long hallway, they were in an enormous and cavernous dome-shaped room. Against a far wall, trapped in cocoon-like pods with only their faces visible, were Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, Lapis, and Gohan. There was also one more pod but they couldn't sense any energy coming from it or get a discernible face against the pink.

"Where did all those guys chasing us go?" Goku asked before noticing the bright lights shining from two… enormous… holes… in the wall across from them. Uh oh.

"What does it matter," Vegeta snapped obliviously, "Let's just free them and get out of he–" But the sound of slow, sarcastic clapping froze them in their tracks as Super Boo descended from the ceiling, cracking his knuckles. Only, instead of Pink, this Boo was jet-black with solid red eyes.

"Congratulations," he told them in a tone as dripping with sarcasm as the walls of his skull dripped with… something. "You made it all the way to the top. I'll admit, I was worried," he conceded, "When I thought you were still… him. But the two of you? That shouldn't be a problem at all."

"We'll just see about that," Goku retorted as she and Vegeta powered up to Super Saiyan 2. "Alright, Vegeta, time to break out your danci–"

"Absolutely not," he said stiffly.

"What?!" Goku snapped at him, her eyes bulging in disbelief. But before she could say anything, Super Boo shoulder-checked her across the expanse of his skull and smashing her against one of the far walls, making him flinch slightly. That momentary flinch gave Vegeta a window of opportunity and he slammed his hands together at the wrists.

"Final Fla–" Boo smashed both fists to the sides of Vegeta's temples and his arms fell slack at his sides as he gasped in pain and his knees buckled.

"You really need some new material," Boo suggested before kicking him in the chest, smashing him into a wall as well.

"How's this for something new?" Goku declared as she attacked Super Boo from behind. She slammed two glowing white-blue fists into the ground. "Kamewana!" The energy went through her fists and into the ground, traveling across in a flash before exploding up from underneath Boo in blue-white tendrils, trapping him in a net. "And here's an old classic!" she added as she charged forward and dropkicked him with all her might… and it was like hitting a brick wall. Well, a normal person hitting a brick wall. Super Boo broke free of the net with a sneer and grabbed Goku by the throat, slamming her into the ground before tossing her up into the air and kicking her away. 'Where the hell did Vegeta go?!' she demanded as she tried desperately to rebound through the air. 'Some teamwork would be nice!'

Speaking of Vegeta, he was still reeling from the kick he'd been dealt when he realized where he was. Somehow, by the grace of all his Gods, he'd been sent directly into the pods where all of the others were trapped. In fact, he was directly between Lapis and Trunks. While logic dictated that he should cut Gohan free first, since he was the one giving Boo the most power… he formed a blade of ki around his hand and quickly cut Trunks free. This minor lapse in power made Super Boo pause for just a second from the thrashing he was giving Goku, allowing her a brief window to retaliate.

"Kameha Crusher!" she cried, pressing both fists together and spinning at Super Boo like a drill, her body wreathed in spiraling blue flames. The first blow almost managed to knock Super Boo off his feet but when she'd come back around for another attack, Super Boo had mutated his body into a giant head, mouth opened wide and red fangs gleaming to gobble her up. She put on the brakes just in time for Super Boo to reform himself and grab her throat in both hands.

"It was a good run, Goku," he told her icily as his eyes glowed with deadly light. "I know it's rude to kill you again after you just got back but don't worry. When I'm bored enough, I'll kill everyone who ever died, too. Take that with you to oblivio–" But he was cut off by the a loud hum and a flash of purple light. He and Goku both looked up to see Vegeta with an elongated blade of ki coming from his hand, having cut down all of the pods but one with a smirk on his face.

"What," Goku croaked out despite the grip around her throat, "Was I bait?!"

"In a manner of speaking," Vegeta agreed with a shrug and a smirk. Super Boo's grip went slack as he stumbled away from Goku, skin bubbling and writhing as he cried out in pain, clutching at his face. His white gi top sloughed away like liquid and he howled in frustrated despair as he felt his mind slipping away.

"Alright," Goku shouted up at Vegeta as she flew toward him, grabbing Gohan and Goten, tucking Lapis under one arm while Vegeta carried Piccolo and Trunks, "Let's go through the eyes, wake Gohan up, and end this!"

"No!" Majin Boo roared at them. "It not matter who you free!" he insisted, pointing an angry finger up at them. "You not beat Boo! Boo kill you! Boo is the strongest one there is!"

"Maybe you're right," Vegeta agreed before turning his focus on the last cocoon. "But I didn't have any plans to free him." Goku looked over at the last pod and floated around to get a better look at the face and… well, that was weird. Somehow Majin Boo was inside himself. The fat one that she'd fought when she was dead.

"Don't touch that!" Majin Boo demanded in a panic. "Boo stop being Boo if you hurt him!" A malevolent grin crossed over Vegeta's face at that.

"Well, that sounds like a can't-miss prospect," he told him mockingly.

"Vegeta, we should just get ou–"

But it was too late. Vegeta had already tossed Piccolo up into the air and, before Goku or Majin Boo could react, he raised his hand. "Big Bang Attack!" The trapped Majin Boo was blasted into oblivion and the Majin Boo they'd been fighting howled in pain and horror as he writhed and fell to the ground of his skull, squirming. Everything trembled around them as Vegeta caught Piccolo again.

"Okay, now we really need to go!" Goku insisted as she already started flying out as fast as she could. Vegeta followed swiftly thereafter and, as soon as they left Super Boo's skull through his eye sockets, they were returned to their normal size and went rocketing away. Black ooze poured out of Super Boo's empty eye sockets as he began to scream and scream, a scream of countless billions.

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Pracya had stopped gathering his luggage when he realized that Xibito had gone back to watching the Crystal Ball and he frowned at what he saw. "So… is this good or bad?" he asked.

"I honestly have no idea," Xibito admitted. "But I want to say… bad?" Why wouldn't it be? Everything else that had happened in the last day had wound up being bad, why should this be any different? What did "Boo stop being Boo" even mean? Was Boo going to die? Somehow, she very much doubted they could possibly be that lucky.

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"Okay," Dende sighed as he stood up from the cross-legged position he'd been sitting in for the last five minutes, "I managed to contact Enma. He's been pretty busy today but he was able to set up a ferry for us through New Namek's afterlife to the planet itself." Hercule looked at him like he had no idea what any of that meant… because he didn't. Dende sighed again and shook his head. "Look, just grab my hand and we'll get out of here, okay?"

Before there could be any grabbing of any hands, however, two figures came hurtling through a mountainside and crashed into the ground hard enough to push the Earth a few more yards apart. If he weren't in such a state of shock, Dende would have screamed at whoever the hell they were before he realized who they were.

"Goku?! Vegeta?! But you were– I– what?!" Not only was it Goku and Vegeta, and not only was Goku not dead and Vegeta, somehow, had a halo, but also Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, Trunks, and Lapis were splayed across the ground, unconscious and trapped in some kind of weird pods.

"No time to explain!" Goku told him as she and Vegeta hopped to their feet as the echoes of Majin Boo's nightmarish legion-scream reached them. Goku and Vegeta exchanged a look, Goku glaring and Vegeta scoffing, before they started cutting the five out of their pods. "Just start healing people! Start with Lapis, he's the most injured!" It was true, Lapis was still missing both of his arms at the elbows and his eyes.

"No, start with Gohan, he's the strongest!" Vegeta insisted.

"He'll also take the least amount of time to heal," Goku pointed out. "Dende, do not listen to Vegeta!"

"Oh, that was never gonna happen," Dende assured her as he pressed his hands to Lapis's chest and began the unpleasant business of watching blood, muscles, bone, and sinew, all infused with nanites and nanomachines, started growing from the stumps, as well as his eyes also began to grow and his eyelids grew to cover those. Before he could move onto Gohan, though, the ground started to quake, over and over, like the stomping of massive feet. The four all looked over the horizon as a positively titanic Majin Boo stomped toward them. If Vegeta had still had his tail, the beast would have towered over Oozaru Vegeta the way Vegeta had towered over Goku. This monstrosity was not one solid being like the original Super Boo had been but a writhing, constantly shifting mass of arms and legs, with screaming heads where the steam holes should have been. It looked down at them with massive, empty eye sockets and roared with its entire body.

Worst of all, it was now much, much stronger than it had been after absorbing Gohan. Goku fixed Vegeta with a pointed, hard stare and he threw up his hands in exasperation. "Well how was I supposed to know he was going to do that?!"

"I told you not to blow up the other Boo!"

"Did you know this was going to happen?!"

"No but we didn't need to! If you'd just followed me and woke up Gohan then we wouldn't–"

"Oh, will you two shut up and do something?!" Hercule bellowed, stunning them into silence. Goku looked at Vegeta severely again and he sighed, getting into position with a defeated expression.

"Now, we've only got one shot at this," she reminded him as a very confused Lapis started to sit up and wonder just what in the actual hell he was looking at, "So don't fuck this up." Hearing that kind of uncharacteristic vitriol from Goku made Vegeta swallow hard and he nodded.

"Fuuuuu…. Sion!"

But before they could complete their desperate dance, something bizarre happened. Monstrous Boo moved in for an attack before it froze and looked at itself in horror as it started to melt. With a shriek that shattered whatever glass might be left standing on Earth and made Dende's ears bleed, Monstrous Boo completely fell apart into a titanic pink tidal wave. Instead of crashing down on them, though, it just hung in the air, frozen at the crest.

Goku and Vegeta just stared, stuck in the halfway pose of the dance, not trusting themselves to move.

"What the shit is goin' on?" Lapis asked irritably as he, too, stared up at the wave. Then, as if the bizarreness would never stop, the tidal wave quivered like gelatin and began to recede into itself. It shrank down almost comically small, defying every known law of science that asked just where the rest of it was going. But, in some tiny fraction of a percentage of relief, at least whatever the hell they were looking at was getting much weaker.

"We should be able to take this guy on without fusing," Goku suggested, which caused Vegeta to immediately drop out of the pose. She did the same soon enough as the five of them waited to see just where the hell this was going. The pink shrank into a small humanoid figure hovering high in the air above them that looked very similar to a shrunken-down version of Majin Boo's first transformation. Only instead of an elongated head, his was larger and more round, and he lacked the red irises around his pupils. He looked down at the world beneath him with cold disinterest and raised one hand high above his head.

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"Oh no," Xibito whispered with a sudden and horrible realization. Awful memories of the Twilight of the Gods flooded back to her as her stomach roiled. "They need to get out of there now!"

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"The heck is he doing?" Goku asked, her head cocked to the side as Dende healed the extensive damage to his own ears.

"Who cares," Lapis pointed out, "Let's just kill this little bastard an–" with a flicker of light, a giant pink ball of ki hovered over Boo's upraised palm. "...Well, that ain't good."

"Boo, wait!" Goku shouted up at him. "If you blow up the Earth, we can't fight!"

"What are you doing?" Vegeta hissed.

"Uh, guys?" Lapis interjected.

"The last time I fought Boo, he seemed way more interested in having fun fights than anything else!"

"Guys?" Dende echoed.

"I killed that Majin Boo, you moron!"

"Guys!" Hercule exclaimed.

"Yeah, which was a great idea, wasn't it?!"

"GUYS!" The trio cried, Bee adding his bark to it.

"What?!" the other two demanded, at which point they saw the other four pointing in front of them and saw that Boo's ki ball had grown even larger.

"Hoo boy," Goku muttered with a wince. She and Vegeta quickly got into their charging stances and Lapis followed suit. "Kamehameha!"

"Galick Gun!"

"Photon Blast!"

The three beams collided directly with Boo's attack… and did nothing. In fact, it only continued to grow. Then Majin Boo reached his arm back and the ball drifted backwards.

"Kakarot, Instant Transmission, now!" Vegeta barked. Goku nodded and grabbed Lapis with one hand and Vegeta with the other, while Dende grabbed Hercule and Hercule grabbed Bee. Before Vegeta or Lapis could grab the other four, however, Majin Boo went from several hundred feet above them to ten feet away, bathing everything in a horrible pink light as he swung his arm down.

'No time!' Goku thought with horror. With a wince, she closed her eyes and looked away from her children before the six of them disappeared in a blink.

Half a heartbeat later, the broken, bruised, shattered Earth, which had endured the Saiyan Invasion, an Arcosian attack, the Reign of the Demon King, and the Cell Games; winked out of existence in a pink blossom of flame.