138The sound of wood breaking filled the air as Vegeta's feet smashed down onto the large desk. The desk being far too large for Vegeta's hand to make a decent impression, the deceased prince decided that his feet would have to do the trick. Staring up into the face of an annoyed Yemma, Vegeta crossed his arms over his chest and growled up at the giant.
"You said that we would be released to go back down to Earth when we were strong enough. Well I'll tell you right now that we are plenty strong enough to destroy that piece of bubblegum several times over," Vegeta spat out. The prince was antsy, he had been pent up for far too long and he could only beat up the boy and namekian for so long.
Yemma's thick bushy eyebrows came together, the lord of death was not pleased to see his decision questioned and especially not by some upstart prince who by all accounts should've been sent to hell for everything he had done. It was only due to his power and the tenuous state of his neutrality that Yemma allowed him to stay. Before the three fighters from Earth had died, Yemma had seriously debated allowing the strongest fighters Otherworld had to offer to go aid the battle. But when Buu had turned the tables so quickly and efficiently that plan went to scrap immediately. If the monster had managed to place the pure Piccolo under his control purely due to the connection he had with his dead father then imagine what he could do with someone like Cell or Bojack.
Yemma glared down at Vegeta, "Are you that eager to be put under Buu's control again Vegeta? Gohan hasn't even come close to gaining full control over his new transformation and were he to fall you would be next. Even if by some miracle you don't fall back under his influence he could easily just decide to erase you from existence. Otherworld may be different, we can bring you back as long as your body isn't destroyed, but Livingworld's rules are different. You are only more durable, he tries to kill you and," Yemma made a 'popping' noise, "you burst open like a balloon. Goku was lucky, I highly doubt you would have the luck to be thrown into pure spiritual energy to save your life."
Vegeta spitting to the side was his response, "Tch, like some weakling like you has any ability to truly grasp the power I wield. All I need is an opening and that creature is as good as dead."
"Ha! Don't make me laugh Vegeta, Buu only has to look at you once and you'll be toast. If Goku couldn't do it what makes you think you can little prince?" Yemma taunted.
A vein pulsed on Vegeta's forehead, if there was one thing he hated more than losing to Kakarot at every turn, it was fools placing their undying trust in him. Kakarot had proven that he wasn't perfect like the Earthlings seemed to think, he had failed to kill Frieza and had given up against Cell whom his then ten year old son killed. Even when others had proven to be stronger and defeated those who Kakarot could not, they all believed with blind devotion that there wasn't a foe that their precious 'Goku' couldn't beat. It sickened him.
"Simple you red buffoon, we are all stronger than that fool Kakarot."
"I fail to see how that makes a difference. You haven't reached the third level where Goku has."
He couldn't believe it! Wasn't it obvious that the third level wasn't needed? Gohan had already proven it, and with the power that he now wielded it would be child's play to destroy Buu.
"I have something that Kakarot doesn't, if it isn't obvious by now then it never will. Besides, we should strike now before Buu gains even more power." Vegeta yelled up at Yemma.
"For the last time Ve-" Yemma was cut off by Piccolo. Ever the voice of reason, Piccolo refused to play favorites like it seemed that all the deities in Otherworld did.
"Vegeta is right, Buu is also gaining power and the longer we wait the harder it will be to defeat him. You made several pocket dimensions to handle the deaths that Buu would cause and so far they haven't been needed. I've been keeping close tabs on Earth and Buu is building it up, making an army. He is also personally stepping in to improve the planet, he is already the smartest person on the planet. He has absorbed almost the entire scientific community that Earth has to offer, with that kind of intelligence and the power he wields if we wait any longer he could become truly unstoppable."
King Yemma turned his gaze from the smug face of Vegeta to Piccolo's stoic expression.
"So you think we should strike now? And what happens if you fail?" The giant asked.
Piccolo lifted his hands up and removed his turban and cloak in one flourish. Releasing them, the two weights fell down to the ground and impacted with a loud crash. Cracking his neck side to side, Piccolo looked up at King Yemma and said, "Then the whole universe will suffer."
xXx
While one group of gods were coming up with their plan, another was already putting his into effect. High above the skyscrapers and domes of West City Rou appeared with the Metamorian clad Gotenks. Just as quickly as the elder god appeared he was gone, and not a moment too soon. As soon as the two had teleported to Earth their target had noticed, in fact he had been hoping they would do so soon.
In a bright flash of pink Majin Buu appeared, muscular arms taunt and crossed across his chest. With his first view of Majin Buu Gotenks concluded one thing, he did not look well. With each breath the demon puffed out bluish steam from the pores spread out along his body, periodically his muscles would bulge and his normally black eyes were threaded with blood red veins surrounding his red pupils. The demon grinned, his lips stretching impossibly tight against his sharp fangs.
"I've been waiting for one of those Kais to slip up, though I must admit, I'm curious as to who you are. Mind telling me your name before I eat you?"
Gotenks simply stared at Buu, he couldn't help but feel that this was right. That he had always been fated to fight this monster to the death.
"My name is Gotenks, and you aren't going to be eating anyone today or ever again. For my fathers before me and my brother, I will defeat you!" Gotenks roared and dashed forward, his sheer speed surprising Buu and leaving him open to Gotenks' right hand grasping his face and squeezing it like silly putty. As Buu's face deformed under his fingers Gotenks accelerated and angled down towards the ground. Buu's frantic punches and kicks had no real power behind them as he tried to fend off Gotenks' grasp. With a thundering crash the duo impacted the ground and even as the crater formed around them Gotenks pushed on. Releasing Buu's face he brought his hands back and unleashed a hailstorm of punches on Buu's body which split and splat with each impact.
Literally straddling the monster, Gotenks didn't stop his barrage even when the two breached through the crust and into the mantle, the intense heat of the molten rock having no effect on either combatant. Shielding his skin with a layer of ki, Gotenks gave one final punch and watched as Buu went flying through the magma, parting it into two halves. Buu was unable to fight the unstoppable force behind Gotenks' punch and was stopped when he smashed into the Earth's solid iron core. A curious fact about Earth's core is that its radius is about 70% of that of Earth's moon, this means that the core is actually large enough to be a moon in its own right. Buu struck it with such force that the core visibly deformed, the energy behind the punch transferring to it. Seeing the damage done to his planet's core, Buu let out a torrent of teal steam and thrust his arms out towards Earth's core.
Grasping the core with a portion of his magical might, Buu did what no other magician, sorcerer, and warlock had ever done. He repaired a planet's destabilized core. As the core stabilized and the planet shook around them Buu turned and looked at the interloper in his territory.
Red eyes locked onto Gotenks and Buu's body shook with sheer rage.
"You dare!" He shouted, "You dare to try and destroy all that I have worked for. You, a worthless nobody has the audacity to challenge my supreme might."
Drawing out more of his power, Buu's aura flared outwards vaporizing the magma surrounding them wherever it touched. Buu pitched his right arm back and brought it forward in a large arc, like a man would launch a baseball. At the apex of its arc Buu launched a piece of his fist out from his arm which was sent soaring towards Gotenks at a speed that the fusion was moderately surprised with. Cocking his head to the side, Gotenks dodged the flung projectile with hardly any effort and didn't give Buu the satisfaction of turning to watch it go by. That's why he was surprised when Buu smiled and he suddenly felt a foot smash itself into the back of his head.
For the first time in his existence Gotenks felt real pain and tears sprung unbidden to his eyes as he clutched at the lump forming on the back of his head.
Shit that stung! Gotenks thought through blurry eyes as he turned around to see what hit him. Illuminated by the harsh glow of the inner mantle he saw Majin Buu, but that wasn't possible, was it? Turning back around he saw that Buu hadn't moved and that proved that his eyes weren't deceiving him. Gritting his teeth as he positioned his to face both Buus, Gotenks got ready for whatever new tricks Buu would pull.
Smirking at the questioning and angry look on his foes face Buu couldn't help but feel the need to taunt his new enemy.
"Quantum entanglement is a bizarre and beautiful thing. I can be everywhere at once and it would still be me. Too bad you don't know how to use it to your advantage like I do," he gloated, his smile stretched impossibly wide across his humanlike face. Gotenks had never before heard of Quantum entanglement but if Buu was gloating about it it probably wasn't a good thing for him. Unfortunately for him this was unlike his experiences with Buu's clones from before. Buu had now effectively split himself into two exact copies, he had created a perfect clone. One thing Buu didn't realize that while he was able to clone his consciousness and body, he wasn't able to clone his one trump card. The cloned Buu's regeneration was potent, but near as total as the original, this being a fact that Buu was unable to recreate his original creation which was actually a byproduct of the universe's formation. Thus the new Buu could only regenerate as long as the molecules that made him up were intact, he would not be able to come back from mere atoms like the original.
"Now," suddenly Buu's face turned serious and blue steam hissed out of his body. "Let's finish this."
Buu whipped his arms out straight to the side, Gotenks watched in a mix of both confusion and awe as they stretched out and became thinner like whips. Gotenks traced Buu's arms down as far as he could and got worried when he saw that they were too small to see the ends. Licking his suddenly dry mouth Gotenks just knew that this wouldn't feel good.
"You lose boy," Buu said and suddenly whipped both of his arms across his chest. Feeling more than seeing the attack coming, Gotenks thrust his arms out and unleashed a pulse of ki out from his body effectively killing Buu's whipping attack. As the magma bulged out further away from the two fighters Buu capitalized on Gotenks' defenseless position by unleashing his master plan.
Right in front of Gotenks' face a puff of smoke signaled the arrival of several Buus. Eyes widening in shock the fusion tried to bring his arms in to strike the doppelgangers, but failed. Ducking under his wide arms, the first Buu smashed its fist into Gotenks' exposed abs. Bending forward over Buu's fist with enough force to send spittle flying Gotenks had to fight the instinctive urge to cry out and instead grit his teeth against the pain. Hanging in the air with his head resting on Buu's shoulder Gotenks suddenly screamed in pain as he was struck in the back by a series of lashes.
Swinging his arm out wide to dislodge himself from the Buu clone Gotenks dodged to the side and witnessed an invisible line suddenly carve itself into the side of the dome of magma surrounding them. Narrowing his eyes at the attack that he realized was the one that had etched itself into his back Gotenks turned his head at the loose formation of Buu clones and, while thrusting his right arm at them, unleashed a monstrously huge wave of ki. The sheer output was enough to propel him past the Buu sneaking up on him and into the magma dome. Yelping as the molten rock cauterized the wounds on his exposed back he quickly moved forward and sought out the original Buu.
Seeing his target spinning his arms like a propeller Gotenks knew that if he was hit with that it would cut into him like a hot knife through butter. Seeing Buu wearing that infuriating smirk was enough to make Gotenks throw caution to the wind and so the fusion launched himself towards Buu.
Grinning in triumph as he saw Buu shift his whips back into arms and move them in what appeared to be slow motion in an attempt to block, Gotenks knew that there was no chance for Buu to dodge. Laughing at the look of surprise on Buu's face Gotenks couldn't help but relish in the thought of teaching this monster a lesson he would never forget. First he would literally knock his block off, then when he regenerated the rest of his body Gotenks would beat him like his grandmother would beat fresh dough. He would beat him until the tough exterior of Buu's body dripped through his fingers.
The sound of snapping fingers reached his ears and Gotenks watched in horror as he stopped literally an inch away from pasting Buu's face all over Earth's crust again. Lifting up the offending fingers Buu shook them side to side like a mother scolding a child.
"Ah ah ah, you haven't learned your lesson yet. And good job you almost caught me by surprise there," Buu finished with a wink.
Buu then hummed to himself as he lazily drifted around the frozen Gotenks. He giggled as he watched the muscles in Gotenks' body tense up to the point of almost ripping, but no matter how much he strained Gotenks could not break Buu's magical hold over him.
Lifting a hand up to his chin, Buu stroked it as he thought out loud, "Now how should you be punished?" His free arm slowly morphed into that of a large and pointy sword. "Sword? No too quick." The sword was now an axe. Buu smiled and swung it down in an overly flashy arc complete with a mouth-made swoosh. "Seems good but it could be better." Now his arm shifted into that of a life sized guillotine, complete with basket! Giggling at the wide eyed expression on Gotenks' face he taunted, "Snip, snip?" Guillotine to buzz saw. Buzz saw to iron maiden. Iron maiden to mace. Mace to flail. Flail to hammer. Hammer to flamethrower. Flamethrower to… kitten?
Shifting his eyes away from the frolicking cat to Buu's face Gotenks was infuriated to see that Buu was no longer paying attention to him and was instead playing with the cat that he had made out of his own flesh. It was even pink for crying out loud!
He didn't really want to do this, but Gotenks felt that there was no other option if he wanted to free himself and get an attack on Buu while he was open. Drawing on his energy, Gotenks transformed, heralding the arrival of the most powerful super saiyan ever to exist. Snapping the magical bonds containing him with ease, Gotenks turned around and was pleased to see that from his perspective, Buu's eyes were only just starting to turn towards him. With the overwhelming amount of power he possessed now this would be child's play. None of the other Buu's had reacted either so it was now time to play a game of pinball. Lazily drifting over to each Buu clone he gathered each one up in his arms and was pleased to see the panic slowly spreading across their faces. Finally getting back to the original Buu, still with his kitty, he set the collected Buus in a rough area around the main Buu and spread his arms out wide.
Focusing his energy outwards, Gotenks then proceeded to arc it around all the Buus and enclose them within a sphere of ki. Bringing his arms together inwards Gotenks watched as the energy sphere contracted on the Buus crushing them smaller and smaller until the sphere was about the same size of a normal volleyball. Buus now safely contained, Gotenks picked up the ball of energy and blasted out of the core back up to the Earth's surface. Gotenks had a family and a younger Kaioshin to go visit, and he figured his prisoner would be an excellent gift.
Yes I realize that it has been a long time, I figured that it was finally time to finish this story and it will be done. More to come, there will be twists that I am sure nobody has even thought of.