Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Internal Darkness ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 4 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Alright, Trunks has made the newest super saiyajin level. What kind of surprises await him and the others? You'll just have to read and find out. No this new level isn't ssj4, it's more like an in between level if you know what I mean. Now, on with the chapter.



Piccolo was scared, yet awed by Trunks' new transformation. He looked very imposing in his new form. He had grown by at least three feet, making him even taller than Piccolo now. That on top of the black fur and red eyes gave him a predatory look that would have scared just about anyone else. The thing that scared Piccolo though was his ki. The Kami part of Piccolo was telling him that something was amiss with his energy, about the way that it now seemed totally negative. Piccolo had never before seen anyone that had a totally negative ki. Frieza, Cell, even Buu had at least miniscule amounts of positive energy in them, but not Trunks, no. With his new transformation, Trunks' energy had become totally negative.
"This is impossible." thought Piccolo. "There is now way that any creature can survive with totally negative energy, not even Buu. Gotenks was staring dumbly at Trunks when Piccolo motioned for him to come closer.
"What's up Piccolo?" he asked.
"Something's not right about Trunks." he said. "Be ready to run if he turns on us. I may just be paranoid, but just to be on the safe side if I yell run, you run. Got it?" Gotenks looked like he was about to protest, but then looked at Trunks and just nodded in response. "Good. I'm going to try and talk to him, so be ready." Gotenks nodded again and Piccolo cleared his throat and walked over to Trunks.
"It's dark." was the first thought that came to Trunks' mind when he awoke. He couldn't see anything aside from himself. There was no floor, no ceiling, no walls, no light, nothing. Suddenly, he heard a voice call out his name. "Who's there?" he demanded, getting into a defensive posture. "Where am I?" "What do you want?" There was laughter, a laughter that sounded eerily familiar to Trunks. "Wait. That's my voice." he thought out loud.
"That's correct." said the voice out of nowhere. Suddenly, a figure emerged from the shadows, startling Trunks. Trunks gasped when he saw the figure standing before him. It was a mirror image of himself, only the other him looked dangerous with black fur, knee length black hair, crimson eyes, and an extra three feet added to his height. Though he looked quite a bit different, the other Trunks was unmistakably Trunks.
"But how can you be me?" asked Trunks. You have an aura of evil around you and I'm not evil. The other Trunks smirked darkly at him.
"I am you, but at the same time I am not you." he said. "You don't actually exist. You were created to keep me imprisoned in this body so that I couldn't have any kind of control over anything in the physical world."
"I don't believe you." said Trunks. "How come I've never noticed you before now? If you've been there all along, then I would've noticed something."
"Foolish mortal." the figure (That's what I'm going to call the other trunks when I don't feel like saying the other Trunks.) laughed. "You mortals are all the same. Only believing in what you can feel, smell, hear, or sense. I am the origin of your soul, you and I after being scanned by any means, would be exactly the same. This dark aura you sense around me is what you are currently displaying in the physical world. If you were in your first form of super saiyajin, the aura and physical appearance you had is what you would be seeing and feeling now." To emphasize his point, the figure materialized a mirror in front of him. "Go ahead, look into it, you'll see the exact same thing that you're looking at now." Trunks looked into the mirror and was horrified at what he saw there.
"How could I look this menacing?" he asked. "I'm not evil, but I look like some reincarnation of the devil himself."
"Quite easily actually." the figure said. "With a little help from me and a lot of hatred."
"So this is another super saiyajin level?" he asked, curious.
"Yes and no." came the reply. "in a way, you've reached super saiyajin three, but you don't reach that level the same way you reached the other two. Super saiyajin three is reached with immense training, while the other super saiyajin levels are reached with extreme anger. You had so much hate after hearing that your mother was dead that your body started to undergo another transformation, but such a transformation is supposed to be impossible, so I stepped in and allowed it. Technically, you shouldn't be able to survive with a ki like the one you're giving off now, but I bent the laws of physics just for you."
"How can you change the laws of physics? Especially if you can't control anything physical."
"All will be explained later, but right now you need to finish off Buu." Before Trunks could ask another question, the darkness around him faded and the lookout once again filled his vision with Piccolo snapping his fingers in his face. He looked at Piccolo quizzically, but he immediately regretted it as Piccolo flinched and backed away cautiously, getting into a defensive posture as he did so.
"Relax Piccolo, I'm still one of the good guys." he said. Piccolo eyed him warily, but relaxed after a few moments. "I know I look imposing, but I'm still the same me." He looked over at Buu and snarled. "You're going to pay for all the people you've killed Buu, now prepare yourself!" Buu smirked back at him.
"So you've changed the way you look, big deal. The people that I've been fighting so far have been able to do that too, but their changes didn't make any difference at all." Just then Gohan flew in from out of nowhere, surprising them all. "So I didn't kill you last time huh?. I'll just have to finish what I started earlier. But first, I have something I want to do. I want to show you an interesting ability I have." Ignoring Buu, Gohan looked over at Trunks, who looked like he would explode at any minute and destroy everything.
"Lighten up Trunks, I'm going to fight him first. If I fail, then you can have a shot at him okay?" Trunks looked as if he were about to scream, but managed to contain himself.
"Look Gohan, I can tell that you've gotten stronger, but it doesn't seem like you've gotten that much stronger and besides, in case you haven't noticed, I've reached a new level of super saiyajin." Gohan smirked.
"Just watch and see." With that he began to power up. Everyone gasped in surprise as they felt the power emanating from him.
"All that power, and you haven't even transformed into a super saiyajin?" Piccolo asked in astonishment. "How could you have possibly gained that much power in just a few days? You weren't in the hyperbolic time chamber, so you must have undergone training somewhere, but if that were true, then how come no one could sense you?"
"Because." said Gohan. "I underwent special training on the supreme Kai's planet which unlocked my hidden potential." With everyone else distracted, Buu took two large chunks of flesh off of himself and hurled one at Piccolo and the other at Gotenks. Both struggled, but it was short lived as they were drawn to and absorbed into Buu. "What have you done?" demanded Gohan, oblivious to the enormous power increase Buu had just gotten. "You won't get away with this you monster!"
"I've already gotten away with it, and there's not much you can do about it. In case you haven't noticed, my power has increased dramatically."
"We'll see." was Gohan's only reply as he launched himself at Buu. He punched at Buu's face, only to have it blocked by one of Buu's own punches. Gohan then proceeded to sweep Buu's feet out from under him, but Buu saw it coming and jumped over it, launching an energy blast down at Gohan at the same time. Gohan barely saw the attack coming and was grazed by it as he tried to push himself off the ground. Gohan immediately kicked Buu on his side and then uppercutted him in the jaw, sending him flying several feet up into the air. Gohan flew up at Buu, preparing to punch him again, but Buu dodged it and smashed both fists down onto Gohan's back, sending him smashing down onto the lookout creating a Gohan sized crater. Suddenly from out of nowhere, a foot slammed into Buu's back sending him hurtling towards the lookout, but Buu exerted his energy and managed to stop just a few inches from the floor of the lookout.
"Stay out of this boy! This is between me and Gohan! I'll come after you once I've finished him off."
"Sorry, I can't do that." said Trunks. "I was forced to stay out of a fight that Gohan was in before and it got him killed. No, you fight him, you fight me too. Besides, the power you got from Gotenks will only last for about a half hour before he splits up again, meaning that Gohan will have the upper hand."
"Ha! Half an hour is all I need to dispose of you two weaklings. Besides, even if I do lose some of my power and become weaker than Gohan, I'll still know what to expect from him since I'll still have Piccolo's knowledge of their fighting style and how to defeat it. Now enough talk. If you're going to fight me, then make your move." Trunks launched himself at Buu and punched him squarely in the face, followed by a spinning kick that sent Buu flying off to the side. Trunks launched himself at Buu only to have a fist hit him in the stomach, causing him to double over in pain. "You're not too bad for someone so weak." he said, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth. "However, I've had enough of this foolishness and I'm going to kill you now." Buu overlapped his hands in front of his forehead then brought them forward and crossing them into an x shape. "Masenko Ha!" he shouted as he unleashed a yellow energy ball about the size of his head at Trunks. Trunks caught the ball and was struggling to keep it from hitting him when Buu threw another energy blast that caused it to explode in Trunks' face, knocking him out of the sky. As he hurtled toward the ground, he heard Buu behind him. "Do you think I'm going to let you out that easily?" suddenly, he felt a fist sink into the center of his back, almost breaking his spine. Just as suddenly as the fist came, it was gone, and Trunks turned around to see Buu quickly falling and Gohan floating where he had been.
"You alright Trunks?" he asked.
"Other than about having my back broken, yeah I'm fine." Trunks said sarcastically.
"No, I mean you look as though you're struggling mentally. You look about ready to just destroy the planet and go on an intergalactic rampage. Maybe you should sit this one out for awhile." Trunks was suddenly angry, though he didn't know why.
"Don't tell me what to do!" he growled. "I feel just fine, and I'm going to fight Buu until either he or I are dead, so just get over it!" Trunks hadn't been entirely truthful though. In fact he was struggling to maintain control of himself. For some reason, ever since Trunks ascended, he had had a very strong urge to just maim and destroy everything in sight. He felt almost...evil. Trunks flew down in the direction he had seen Buu falling, effectively ending the discussion.
"Gee, it was just a suggestion, he didn't have to blow up at me like that." thought Gohan as he followed in the same direction as Trunks. Suddenly, an explosion of energy shot up out of the crater that Buu had been previously inhabiting revealing a very angry Buu.
"Blast those two!" he shouted. "I'm stronger than both of them, but they keep sneaking up on me all the time. I'll just have to absorb one of them to make me even stronger."
"You shouldn't talk out loud about your plans, especially when the enemy is right behind you." Buu turned around to see Trunks standing behind him with his arms crossed. "You really are a fool if you think you can beat both me and Gohan together. And now that I've heard your plan, I know what to look out for." Instead of the panicked reaction that Trunks was hoping for, Buu simply smirked. "What do you find so amusing?" Trunks demanded agitatedly.
"You think it'll be easy to avoid being absorbed? If just a small piece of my flesh falls off, you can be easily absorbed. You'll have to constantly be watching your back while you fight me, giving me the advantage. You might as well just give up, you know I'm going to win."
"Listen up you trash!" Trunks shouted, though he didn't know why Buu's words were getting to him so much. "You don't stand a chance at me as it is, but you're going to be fighting Gohan as well, how could you possibly win with those odds? Hmm?" Suddenly, before Trunks could follow, Buu had a tight grip on his throat and was slowly applying pressure.
"Such an ego you have." said Buu. "You're all talk. You aren't as tough as you think. I think I'll just put you out of my misery now." Trunks gasped for air and clawed at Buu's hand as the life was slowly squeezed out of him. Trunks heard his own voice calling out to him in his head.
"Just great." thought Trunks. "I'm dying and now I'm hallucinating as well."
"You're not hallucinating." the voice said. "I'm here to help you out."
"It's you!" Trunks thought. "You're the other me!"
"Yes." said the voice. "Now listen carefully, as what I'm going to have you do will save your life and make you stronger. Are you listening?" Trunks mentally nodded. "Good. Can you feel the evil and hatred in his soul?" another nod. "Use it to your advantage. Absorb it into yourself. That is one of the many abilities you have gained with this new form. You can draw in the negative energy around you to make yourself stronger. You must do this or all hope for your friends is lost. Do this and you can save the universe from Buu." with that the voice cut out, leaving Trunks to decide on whether or not to listen. He did. He concentrated on the evil he was feeling from Buu and willed it to absorb into him. Gohan, having just landed, was both amazed and horrified by what he saw and sensed. It seemed Trunks was actually absorbing the dark energy that Buu was emitting and using it to make himself stronger. He could actually see the black tendrils of energy flowing off Buu and into Trunks. Surprised, Buu released his grip on Trunks, allowing him to gasp for breath. Trunks smirked.
"Alright Buu, you're time is up. I've found a way to make myself stronger, so you had better prepare yourself." Trunks extended an arm above his head and summoned an energy disk, which he threw at Buu, cutting his arm off. Buu simply grew another arm.
"I'll admit, you are stronger somehow, but you only made yourself as strong as Gohan. Still not strong enough to beat me." Gohan started to speak, but suddenly felt something enclosing around him. He tried to fight it off, but it was no use. Sensing what was going on behind him, Trunks whirled around to see something pink flying at him. He dodged at the last second, but the thing just ignored him and attached itself to Buu. Gohan had been absorbed.

Well, that's the end of this chapter. I think it's better than the previous two, but I want to know what my readers think. Please R&R.