Vegeta had absolutely no desire to fuse with Son Goku.
Just thinking about it made him sick.
But something had to be done — which meant working on his head.
The Grand Supreme Kai found Shin. Shin found Ino. Ino spared a sliver of her attention to whisper a few words to Himawari. Himawari passed the message to Krillin. Krillin went and found Piccolo.
After that lengthy chain of whispers, Piccolo quietly leaned down and murmured two sentences to Bulma.
"Waaah — my life is so tragic, I'm so scared! Wuwuwuwu, Trunks don't be frightened, Mama will definitely protect you from the Majin, wuwuwuwu, though Mama doesn't really have any power either, and honestly I'm terrified too!" Bulma dropped to her knees, pulled her son into her arms, and sobbed.
"I'm not scared... ow!"
Trunks — seven years old this year, one year older than Son Goten — stared at his mother with an expression of complete bewilderment. She had flipped into full drama-queen mode, turning on the waterworks without a moment's hesitation.
He'd been about to say he wasn't scared of Majin Buu at all — if the Majin dared come near, he'd be the one protecting his mother. But before the words could leave his mouth, his mother's fingers clamped down hard on his backside, and the pain was enough to bring actual tears to his eyes.
"You little brat, you cry too — no crying means no allowance this month, hehe!"
His mother's witch-like voice hissed right into little Trunks's ear. The young Saiyan prince had no choice but to wail along with her.
A hero's resolve crumbles before the tears of his family.
For Bulma's sake. For Trunks's sake. After the Grand Supreme Kai swore up and down that the fusion would only last one hour and they would absolutely separate afterward — Vegeta's expression went sour, and he took the earring with the most grudging reluctance imaginable, clipping it onto his right ear.
"Fine. That's it, then?"
A blinding flash of golden light erupted — and there stood Vegetto, the one proclaimed supreme under heaven, the mightiest warrior in all the universe.
Vegetto wore Vegeta's hairstyle and his sharp, cold eyes, but his face and orange short-sleeved vest were unmistakably Son Goku's. The outer jacket was the Turtle School's fighting uniform — though in the deep blue of Vegeta's everyday battle gear. He wore Vegeta's gloves and boots as well.
Vegetto combined Vegeta's cool-headed composure with Son Goku's combat instincts. The surge of raw power radiating from their fusion was so immense it dragged Ino's primary consciousness straight back from its meditation in the river of time.
What the — ?! She had always known Vegetto was strong, but she'd never imagined he could be this strong. This fusion was utterly absurd.
The trouble with Majin Buu had stopped feeling like a real threat to Ino. Her mind had already shifted to the Super Space-Time Championship.
She'd originally planned to have Himawari and Kale use the Potara Earrings on the battlefield to fuse and beat down all comers.
But after seeing Vegetto's power with her own eyes, she immediately killed that idea.
The big loli Aeos only had Bardock, Son Gohan, Piccolo, and one peculiar alien — four people to work with. What kind of unstoppable warrior could possibly be fused from that lineup?
The current Supreme Kai of Time Kuronoa was a different story. That one had Son Goku and Vegeta among her forces — different timelines, different points in time, but if they ever got to fuse into Vegetto, no matter how hard Himawari and Kale pushed themselves, they could never beat something like that.
Forbidden. Potara Earring fusion must be banned for the Super Space-Time Championship.
Ino was absorbed in her own thoughts and didn't join the others' excited chatter about Vegetto.
She slipped back into meditation shortly after.
Vegetto was powerful — but with no idea where Majin Buu had gone, it was like fishing for a needle in the ocean. They searched for a full hour and found no trace of the Majin anywhere. With the time limit nearly up, the two men flew back to the Lookout.
Tracking down Majin Buu's whereabouts had become the most pressing problem.
Splitting up to search would only leave them vulnerable to being picked off one by one. Even the Grand Supreme Kai was at a loss. The only thing anyone could do was rest and think.
By the time half the day had passed, Ino had finally recovered roughly a third of her Time Power — enough to re-enter the fight.
The Earth warriors hadn't been sitting idle. They'd been actively working on a solution.
Their solution was decidedly old-fashioned and superstitious: Krillin tracked down Master Roshi's sister, Fortuneteller Baba, to divine the Majin's hiding place.
Vegetto took the field again. What followed could only be described as absolute devastation.
...
The Majin had been hiding in Mr. Satan's kitchen, eating pudding, convinced her concealment was flawless. Yet Vegetto cornered her right there at the door.
She merely felt her odds weren't good — she wasn't afraid of fighting. But then... she saw what it meant to be the mightiest warrior in the universe.
The Majin let out a shriek as she was sent flying sideways from the impact. Mr. Satan's front door and several thick walls all shattered behind her. She lay on the ground, staring up at Vegetto in disbelief — he had only thrown a single punch, and it had already wounded her.
"You're so weak." Vegetto stood where he was, looking down at her from above, raising his right hand as if to say: I barely even tried, and you couldn't take it?
"Fine — let me show you my true power!" The Majin converted every shred of her malice into raw physical force, and her battle power shot upward in leaps and bounds.
In the spectators' group, it was plain to see that Krillin was a little worried.
Sensing his nerves, Vegetto waved up at the crowd overhead, gesturing that there was no need to worry about him.
Ino offered reassurance as well: "Don't worry. Vegetto's baseline battle power is about the same as mine — and on top of that... he can transform into a Super Saiyan."
A baseline of ten billion. No need for high-tier transformations. Super Saiyan 1 was more than enough. Vegetto's baseline of ten billion multiplied fifty times over — how much was that?
Madness filled the Majin's eyes. She let out a low growl and charged forward like a meteor, launching a kick straight at Vegetto's face.
Very true to Dragon Ball fashion, Vegetto neither dodged nor blocked — he took the kick square in the face. He rolled his neck, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and with a single roar, instantly entered his Super Saiyan state.
His right palm shot forward. At close range, it drove straight through the Majin's chest.
The Majin let out a vicious grin. The wound writhed and began to creep back like living clay, wrapping itself around Vegetto's fist — trying the same old trick, attempting to absorb this powerful enemy.
"Hm?" He blinked, confused. He hadn't absorbed anything.
He looked down — and found Vegetto's right arm was wrapped in a layer of white rainbow light. That light was cutting off her absorption ability entirely.
"You... you were prepared for this?"
"Obviously. That absorption trick of yours is a little annoying. Everything else about you is completely ordinary."
"Is that so — then witness my ultimate technique!" The Majin kept talking to split the enemy's attention, while lunging forward at the same time. Vegetto had already anticipated it. The hand-blade he'd been holding transformed into a ki sword; he didn't just retreat several meters — the blade also radiated searing energy, continuously incinerating the Majin's cells.
"Seems like this kind of slow cell-by-cell destruction really will take a while..." Vegetto muttered to himself. He vanished — and reappeared directly behind the Majin. The Majin only caught the briefest blur before Vegetto's fist, wreathed in white light, slammed into the back of her skull.
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