Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Internal Darkness ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 7 )

Sorry for yet another long wait. I had to move my computer which meant I no longer had an internet connection for awhile. I networked mine and my dad's computers together to get a new connection but that went down after a couple of days so I had to wait for my dad to go out and get wireless equipment. After I got my connection back once again life just got in the way (homework and a couple floods in my basement). On with the chapter.

 

 

 

Trunks flew at Bardock, fully intending to hit him when he suddenly found himself in a two foot crater. He stood up and looked up to see Vegito floating next to Bardock and Radditz looking down at him. Trunks flew up to where they were and growled at Vegito.

“Just who do you think you are attacking me like that?” he asked.

“Why did you attack Bardock?” was the reply. “He isn't any threat to you or to anyone else so just leave him and Radditz alone.”

“Hmph! I do what I want when I want understand? The only way for you to stop me is to force me yourself so either shut up or put your money where your mouth is.”

“What's your problem anyway? It's not like I insulted you or anything. You need to lighten up and besides, we have an enemy to fight, we don't need to be fighting amongst ourselves.” Trunks' eyes glowed for a second and he looked like he was about to say something, but he stopped.

“Let's both go after Buu.” Said Trunks finally. “If we double team him, he won't have a chance.”

“What about us?” Asked Radditz. “We want to be a part of the action too you know.”

“Actually I have a plan that involves you three.” Said Vegito.

“What is it?” Bardock asked.

“I'm going to let him absorb me.” Said Vegito. “I need you three to keep him busy while I move around inside of him and try to free the others. No doubt he'll eventually notice what I'm trying to do and attempt to stop me. That's where you three come in.”

“Why do you need those two?” asked Trunks. “I can handle Buu myself, you know that.”

“Yes but the more people he has to deal with, the less he can concentrate on any one thing. Understand?” All three nodded and Vegito flew over to where Buu had been floating through the whole discussion.

“Are you done yet?” asked Buu. “For a minute there I thought that you had forgotten about me.” Vegito merely smirked at him and formed an energy disk which he threw at Buu's head tentacle, successfully cutting it off. Buu looked none too happy as he regrew the lost limb. “You're really starting to get on my nerves.” Buu growled. Below them Buu's severed head tentacle lost its shape and turned into a blob before slowly floating up at an unaware Vegito. Buu smirked at him “I've really enjoyed this fight, but I'm afraid that it must end now.” The pink blob that was Buu's head tentacle expanded until it was as big as Vegito and encased him. Vegito, having already seen the blob right before it attacked squirmed and thrashed enough to make Buu believe that he was actually trying to get out. After a few seconds of struggle, the now Vegito sized blob flew over to and seemed to melt into Buu. Trunks was surprised that Buu's power didn't change and his physical appearance didn't alter, but he figured that Vegito had some kind of barrier up that was preventing Buu from absorbing him.

“What are you two waiting for? Now is the time for us to attack.” Bardock asked before taking off to where Buu was already landing and attempting to fight off Goku and Vegeta who had defused and were making their way through his body to try and find those that Buu had absorbed. Despite Bardock's lead, Trunks was faster and thus made it to Buu before both him and Radditz. As Bardock and Radditz landed, Trunks cracked his knuckles in anticipation of the upcoming beating. All at once the three of them began an all out assault on Buu that suddenly distracted him from his internal struggles. He roared in anger as he suddenly found himself lying on the ground face down in the dirt. Buu quickly got up and was greeted with three ki blasts that blew two large holes in his chest and incinerated his head which he quickly grew back.

Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta had freed everyone and had come across a pod with the original fat Buu inside.

“Gee I wonder how there can be two Buu's.” Goku thought aloud. “Maybe there was a battle and this one lost.”

“Now how do you suppose that could be possible?” Vegeta asked.

“Maybe one was good and one was evil and the good one lost.”

“Preposterous!” Came Vegeta's reply though he was beginning to wonder if maybe Kakkarot was right.

“What do you think would happen if we took this guy down? Maybe this is evil Buu's source of power.”

“There's only one way to find out.” Before either of them could move, Buu suddenly formed in front of the pod that held fat Buu. He grinned at them like a predator about to devour it's prey.

“Now that I've temporarily taken care of your annoying friends, I can have my fun with you.” Buu flew at Vegeta and punched him in the face and sent him flying. After Vegeta righted himself, he and Goku began launching a number of ki blasts that were either blocked or deflected except one which headed straight for Fat Buu's pod. Buu saw what was going on and quickly deformed and reformed in front of the pod and allowed the blast to hit him in the face, incinerating it. Vegeta noted Buu's behavior and started rapidly firing ki blasts at the pod, all of which Buu intercepted. Vegeta flew in toward the pod and Buu doubled his fists and slammed them down on his back. Vegeta allowed himself to slip out of Super Saiyajin 2 (both Goku and Vegeta were in that form) and acted like he was unconscious, bringing his power level down as far as he could. Buu looked surprised that such a blow would knock Vegeta unconscious, but didn't have time to ponder as Goku was suddenly in his face with a flurry of punches and kicks. After waiting a few minutes to be sure that Buu was distracted Vegeta got up and went over to the pod and powered up to his max.

“I wonder what happens when I pull this down.” Vegeta said rather loudly. Buu twisted his head all the way around and suddenly looked very panicky. Vegeta smirked at him and started pulling on the pod. Buu suddenly wasn't enjoying the pounding he was laying on Goku and started to yell at Vegeta.

“Don't tear that off!” He shouted. “If you take that off, I won't be me anymore.”

“Now you've got my interest.” Vegeta said and began to pull with all his strength. Now Buu began to plead.

“Please don't tear that down; I need that to stay the way I am.”

“Wait a minute.” Vegeta said. “First you talk about how much fun you're going to have with us and now you're crying like a baby? Where are your manners?” With that said, Vegeta gave a mighty tug and the pod broke free from the top of Buu's head. Buu began to fly at Vegeta but suddenly fell to the floor and started melting as if he had just been thrown into the sun. Goku eyed the bubbling pool of flesh for a minute before Vegeta reassured him. “He's not coming back this time.”

“But he's always managed to regenerate before.”

“I think that's the last time we'll have to worry about that.” As if in response to Vegeta's statement, a vague looking half melted version of Buu's head rose out of the puddle of flesh like a dead man's arm coming out of a grave to try and get another chance at life, but as soon as it came out it started melting back again. “Alright now let's go.” Vegeta said.

Outside Trunks, Radditz, and Bardock had just pulled themselves out of a mountain and were preparing to attack when they heard an earth shattering howl coming from Buu. When they flew over to where Buu was, they were astonished by what they saw. Buu was flailing his arms around and howling in pain. He looked like he was trying to perform some ritualistic dance and upon further inspection, they noticed that he was drooling excessively. Within moments Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Trunks, Goten and Gohan popped into view.

“Wow! People popcorn!” Exclaimed Goku. After they put Piccolo, Trunks, Goten and Gohan down Goku became worried when he couldn't wake any of them up. Vegeta assured him that they were alright and he found that they were breathing so they turned their attention to Buu once more. Buu's physical appearance had changed since they last had seen him as his muscles had become so large that he didn't look like he should be able to move around. Trunks, Radditz and Bardock had noticed them and had landed right by them and were also watching Buu. “He's…. getting bigger!” Exclaimed a surprised Goku. There was a bright flash of light and where the muscle bound and screaming Buu had been, there was now only a child-like version of Buu no taller than what Krillin had been.

“Feh, he's gotten smaller.” Snorted an unamused Vegeta.

“I don't know, it's hard to read his power.” Said Goku. Kid Buu looked around and found the remains of a city and laughed maniacally as he charged up an enormous ki ball and launched it at the ruined and desolate city. He then proceeded to yell which caused high winds to erupt from nowhere and the ground to start shaking. “Man, he sure has a strong set of lungs.” Said Goku trying to keep himself standing amid the chaos erupting around him. As suddenly as he started yelling, Buu stopped and charged up another ki blast and aimed it for the ground. Before he could launch it, Goku, Vegeta and Trunks flew up toward him and Vegeta called out to him.

“And just what do you think you're doing? You're fight is with us, not the planet.” Buu spun his head around until he was facing Vegeta who was standing right behind him. Buu smirked at Vegeta as he turned his body around to align with his head and raised his hand up.

“I think we've made him mad.” Goku said. Buu started laughing as he raised his arm up in the air and started charging another ki blast, this one at least twice as large as the previous one. “That can't possibly be meant for us.” Said Goku as he suddenly became very worried. “That's enough energy to blow up the planet ten times!” “Why are you doing this?!” Goku suddenly shouted out. “You're going to kill us all!” Buu continued to laugh as he continued charging the blast which was now the size of an asteroid. Buu then threw the blast down towards the ground. Goku raced towards Gohan and the others but quickly noticed that there were two other people watching from afar. He quickly flew over to them and then tried to get back to Gohan but there wasn't enough time so he and Vegeta flew off. Goku brought two fingers to his forehead and was about to teleport when he saw Kibitokai materialize in front of him.

“Let's go!” he shouted over the roaring wind created by the looming energy blast. Bardock and Radditz quickly caught up carrying Gohan and the others and they teleported to the Supreme Kai planet. Unbeknownst to them however, Trunks had not gone with them and instead had gathered more darkness from Buu and was now struggling to stop the blast from destroying the planet. It looked like he was going to succeed but Buu just threw more energy into it causing it to explode. The mountainous landscape was bombarded with millions of smaller (though still quite large) energy blasts created from the premature explosion. Trunks thought that he was in the clear when he saw one of the blasts drilling its way down toward the Earth's core.

“Oh no! I'm done for, but at least he's going down with me. At least I hope.” Were the last thoughts that went through Trunks' mind before Earth blew up in an amazing display of fire and lava.

As everyone materialized on the Supreme Kai planet Vegeta walked over to where Goku sat and grabbed the scruff of his neck and pulled him up so that they were face to face.

“WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” He shouted in Goku's face. “You were going to leave your sons and save the buffoon and the Namek instead?! You disgust me!” Goku could do nothing but hang his head in shameful silence. Vegeta threw him down and stormed away.

“Don't worry Kakkarot, your sons are safe so there's no reason to be ashamed.” Came Bardock's voice from behind.

“No, Vegeta's right, I'm a pathetic excuse for a parent. I should have went after Gohan and Goten and then Dende and Hercule. I'm a failure of a father.”

“If anyone's a failure of a father, then it's me.” Bardock said as he put a reassuring hand on Goku's shoulder. “I didn't spend any time with you at all when you were a baby. In fact, the next day I'd already forgotten when you were born, and I wasn't any better with Radditz either. It wasn't until after I was heading off to fight Frieza and die that I regretted not holding you, so if anyone should be ashamed it's me.”

“Thanks.” Said Goku softly. “I hope that after we've repaired all the damage you and I can have a chance to get to know each other, and that also includes you.” He said pointing to Radditz.

“What do you mean repair all the damage? You're planet was destroyed by that thing so there's nothing left to repair.”

“Well,” said Goku. “There are these orbs called dragonballs…” Goku was abruptly cut off by the Elder Kai's yelling.

“Everyone, come quick, something's happening!” He shouted loud enough to wake the dead. Everyone who was conscious ran over to the crystal ball that the Kai was sitting at and peered into it and what they saw disturbed them greatly. In the middle of the rubble that used to be planet Earth, a pink mass quivered and started to take form. Buu had survived. But even that wasn't enough to prepare them for the shock of what they saw next…

 

 

 

And thus ends another of my oh so wonderful story. What could it be that everyone is seeing? If you wanna know, you'll just have to wait for the next chapter. Sticks tongue out teasingly. Until then, Sayonara.

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