I'm Gonna Eat You!! The Starving Majin's Psychic Powers

Craters of various sizes dot the landscape and a layer of dust hangs just above the ground. The unconscious Son Goku's hair and clothes drift back and forth in a light wind. Deep in thought, Majin Vegeta steps up to the entrance to Babidi's spaceship's fourth stage."If I destroy this seal, I should be able to enter Babidi's spaceship. After I enter and destroy the spaceship, I should be at the same place as Majin Buu. I can't feel Gohan's ki anymore." He looks up from the ship's entrance. "I can't forgive myself. It was my fault." Clouds drift by overhead. Vegeta looks back over his shoulder. "Kakkarotto..." He turns away and walks up to the center of the fourth stage entrance, charging up his ki.

Majin Buu and Dabura stand quite a distance apart as they stare at each other -- Dabura with anger, and Buu with a smile. "I'm going to eat you!" Dabura's eyes go wide. "D-did you say that you're going to eat me!?" A breeze blows, pushing Majin Buu's cape toward the left. Babidi watches in anticipation. Faint breathing is the only life sign that Kaioushin can provide. The breeze dies away and Buu's cape falls back behind him again. He begins to tap dance. He ends standing on one foot and yelling a word that sounds a lot like his own name (and it probably was). Dabura, "What!?" He glares at Buu angrily. Buu begins hopping toward Dabura, alternating feet and the whole way chanting, "I'm gonna eat you! I'm gonna eat you!" Dabura gasps with a mixture of anger and fear. Babidi grins. "Oh well. Now that Majin Buu has been resurrected, I have no use for Dabura." He giggles. Buu continues his hopping and chanting, now nearing Dabura. Dabura begins to get angrier and holds up his fists. "Damn!" Buu seems to ignore him, still chanting and hopping. When Buu is perhaps two or three yards away, Dabura pulls back his fist. "Damn you!" He lunges forward and begins attacking Buu with a flurry of punches and kicks. He ends with a kick that sends Buu sailing into the sky. He appears behind Buu and kicks him again, leaving the imprint of his leg in Buu's side, then smashes him over the head with both fists. Buu crashes into some rocks, which then of course, explode. Babidi, "Majin Buu!" Dabura lands a few feet away from him, grinning. "How do you like that, Majin?" The dust dissipates, but is immediately replaced as Buu throws more debris into the air simply by jumping back up. He rolls through the sky and lands on his feet in front of Dabura. His cape falls behind him. Dabura recoils just a bit, glaring with frustration. Buu had landed in a bowing position, and he now lifts his head up and stands at full height. He smiles and makes some sound that kind of sounds like "Bah" (except without the "this sucks" kind of connotations).

Babidi laughs happily. "I like it! I like it, Majin Buu!" Buu ignores him, simply dancing around instead. He stops after a few moments and resumes his chanting and hopping. Dabura glares and clenches a fist. He slowly lifts into the air. Babidi, "Huh?" Trunks, "His ki is getting a lot bigger!" Dabura finally stops and holds out his hand, grinning. "Well, how about this one?" Babidi runs and hides behind a rock. Buu grins like an idiot at Dabura. Dabura gathers his ki for a moment, then yells as he begins to unleash a barrage of ki blasts on Buu. The explosion grows as more and more energy is fed into it. Babidi watches, worried. He gasps and turns from Dabura to the explosion formerly known as Majin Buu. Finally, Dabura ceases his attack and a dust cloud replaces the explosion. Panting, Dabura slowly drops back to the ground a few yards behind Babidi. He drops to one knee as he awaits the results of his attack. "No matter how strong he is, your Majin must be dead now." Babidi, "I-I can't believe it! Th-that can't happen to the Majin!" Dabura, "Hm?" Babidi turns around. "You did it..."

"I'm gonna eat you, I'm gonna eat you, I'm gonna eat you!" Dabura turns back to the dust cloud. "Huh? Wh-what!?" The voice continues. "I'm gonna eat you, I'm gonna eat you, I'm gonna eat you!" As the dust dissipates, Majin Buu comes back into view, still walking in his "special way" toward Dabura. Babidi laughs. "That's what I was expecting of Papa's Majin!" He holds his arms up. "Do it, Majin Buu!" Buu continues his chanting. Dabura charges forward and spits. Buu effortlessly dodges and a small lizard is turned to stone instead. "Turn into a cookie!" The tip of the thing on Buu's head glows pink/red. He aims it at Dabura and scores a direct hit. Dabura screams as he's encased in red ki. Babidi watches gleefully. Goten and Trunks, watching from their mountain nearby, gasp in shock. Slowly, the sound of Dabura's screaming dies away. His limbs straighten out and his facial expression disappears, so that he looks more like a cardboard cut-out than a person. Finally, the ki stops. A small cloud of smoke and dust surrounds Dabura. Babidi, "Huh?" When the dust clears, a life-size Dabura cookie is all that remains. It falls to the ground, but Majin Buu runs up and catches it on its way down. He opens his mouth wide and puts the entire thing in so that his cheeks protrude about three feet on either side. He laughs and begins hopping back and forth from foot to foot with his hands up at the ends of each cheek. He spins around and stops dancing. Trunks and Goten watch, stunned. Buu chews and Babidi approaches him. "That was amazing, Buu! You were incredible!" Buu swallows the last of the Dabura cookie. "You did a great job, Majin Buu!" Buu turns to him, smiling. He licks his lips.

Goten and Trunks turn away from the battle. Goten whispers, "He ate the other guy! He turned him into a cookie and ate him!" Trunks nods, speechless. The stone around the lizard that Dabura spit on a few moments ago evaporates. It quickly scuttles away under some rocks. The same happens for Kuririn. He looks around in shock, making incoherent noises of confusion. Goten hears him. "Hm?" He looks down over the side of the cliff. "Kuririn-san!" Trunks, "Huh?" He turns and looks down the side. Kuririn, "Ah, you two!" Goten and Trunks jump down the side and join him at his lower level. "What are you two doing here?" Goten, "Huh?" Trunks, "You were just a stone doll..." Kuririn, "I was a stone doll? Huh? That's right! If that guy with horns, Dabura spits on you, you turn to stone." He looks around. "I've been turned back to normal." Goten looks over to Trunks and whispers, "Does he mean that guy that was turned into a cookie and eaten?" Trunks, "Yeah, he must. That guy was just killed, so Kuririn-san returned to normal." Suddenly, Trunks' eyes go wide. "Ah!" His background turns white (and so does he). "Uh, there's something I need to check out..." Kuririn, "What's the matter?" Trunks jumps back up the side of the cliff as Goten explains, "Trunks-kun knocked over the Piccolo-san doll and broke it." Kuririn, "What!?"

Trunks gasps as he reaches the top of the cliff and sees a foot. His face turns blue and he quickly disappears again. Goten, "Hm? Trunks-kun..." He steps up to Trunks. "I-I don't think you should look..." Kuririn uncrosses his arms. "Trunks, you..." Trunks, "Please, let's keep this a secret." A voice calls out, "What do you want to keep a secret?" Trunks, "Huh?" He turns around and both of them gasp when they see Piccolo grinning down at them. He chuckles, but quickly changes his attitude when he notices an enormous evil ki a few feet away and all that bad stuff. He gasps and drops to the ground. "Wh-who does this terrifying ki belong to? H-him!?" He stares in shock at a fat, pink man. "I-I don't believe it! Is that Majin Buu!?" Trunks climbs up the side of the cliff and Goten hovers alongside him. Trunks, "Say, Piccolo-san, how did you get back to normal?" Kuririn runs up beside Goten, who lies down on a level just a foot or two below Piccolo's. Piccolo, "As long as my head isn't damaged, I can regenerate. But more important than that, tell me what's going on. Where are Goku and the others?" Trunks, "We don't know. We just got here ourselves." Kuririn, "Hey, who's that weird guy? I-is that Majin Buu!?" Piccolo, "Probably." Kuririn, "Th-this isn't funny! That scary ki belongs to him, doesn't it!?" He shrinks back a little.

Buu smiles. "That's it, Majin Buu! Eat Kaioushin too!" Buu looks over at him as Babidi giggles. Kaioushin can do little more than simply lie there and make faint breathing noises. Piccolo's eyes widen. "Th-that's Kaioushin-sama!" He starts to stand. Kuririn, "H-hey! Stop it, Piccolo! What do you think you can do!? You're going to have to hold yourself. I know how you feel, but there's nothing you can do to help him now! You'll only get yourself killed!" Goten holds up his index finger as he explains, "He wasn't hurt after being impaled by a spear and he turned his opponent into a cookie and ate him!" Kuririn looks back at Goten, amazed. Piccolo, meanwhile, resigns himself to watching Kaioushin get eaten by Majin Buu. Buu's shadow falls over Kaioushin and he laughs. "What should I change you into before I eat you? Chocolate? Or maybe jelly?" Ecstatic, Babidi laughs. "I love teasing you just before I kill you!" Majin Buu leans over Kaioushin and the tip of his head thing begins to glow again. Kaioushin's body quivers as he struggles to get up but is unable to. Babidi laughs, watching with excitement. Suddenly, an enormous explosion rocks the area. Babidi spins around. "Wh-what!?"

--COMMERCIAL--

A strong wind and a bright explosion expand outward. The Z Senshi watch in shock. Kuririn, "What the hell is that!?" Piccolo watches in astonishment. Babidi fights the wind, but the force of it eventually throws him back. Kaioushin groans as the wind and debris push against him. Buu stares angrily at the source. The bright light of a ki attack fades into the actual orange explosion, which then is engulfed in thick smoke. Babidi slowly climbs to his feet, his cape thrown over his head, a layer of dust hanging in the air. He lifts his cape back over his head and behind him and screams when he realizes where the explosion came from. "My space ship!" Little scraps of the ship litter the area. "Th-this is impossible! Damn it! Why did this happen to me!?" He turns around to Buu. "Hey, Majin Buu! Do you know who could have done this!?" Buu smiles, but doesn't answer. He looks away from the sky, slowly lowering his head to ground level. Babidi, "Is someone there?" Vegeta's shadow appears in the smoke. He emerges and lands a few feet away from the explosion. Babidi, "It's you!" Vegeta grins. "Yo."

Trunks smiles. "It's Papa!" Kuririn, "Vegeta!" Piccolo watches in silence. Babidi still sports wide eyes and a look of shock. "Vegeta, what are you doing here?" He doesn't respond. Kaioushin manages to choke out, "V-Vegeta-san..." Babidi's surprise finally turns to anger. "How dare you do that to my spaceship!" Vegeta, "Yeah, it was a little flashy, but it did provide me with a shortcut to you." Babidi, "Damn you, Vegeta! Why did you have to destroy my spaceship!?" Vegeta grins. "You're the first person I've ever met who wouldn't follow orders!" Majin Buu smiles at Vegeta. "Is that ugly oaf Majin Buu?" His grin fades as showy self-confidence is replaced with anger. "I'm going to get you for killing Gohan!" Piccolo, "Wha-!?" He falls to one knee, staring blankly at the ground. Trunks, "H-hey! What did Papa just say?" Kuririn, "Piccolo!" Piccolo, "G-Gohan..." His shock is quickly replaced with anger.

Majin Buu takes a step forward. "'Ugly'?" He looks down at Babidi. "What does that mean?" Babidi, "Huh?" He turns around. "It means he thinks you have a funny face and he doesn't like you." Buu turns back to Vegeta, cocking his head back forth. Vegeta's grin returns as Buu's smile vanishes. Buu suddenly becomes very angry and spreads his legs. His entire body bulges. "Hey! Majin Buu!" Babidi begins to back away, but falls over. Buu growls. His body begins to deflate as a lot of steam shoots out of the holes in his head, making the tea kettle whistling sound. Vegeta, "I think he's going to melt down." The steam finally stops. Buu waves his fists in the air. "He's made me mad! I'm gonna kill him! I'm gonna kill him!" Babidi stands again. "Damn you, Vegeta! Kill him, Majin Buu! He's rebelled against me and I don't need him anymore!" Buu begins pounding his stomach and yelling. Kuririn, "Hey, that monster's ki just shot up again. I can't believe him..." Trunks smiles. "Papa! Beat up that Majin!" Piccolo, "Vegeta..."

Vegeta glares at Majin Buu and Majin Buu smiles back. Buu holds up his hands on either side of his head. Meanwhile, Babidi starts running away, and eventually stops to catch his breath. He turns around after taking a quick breather and cups his hands around his mouth. "Kill him, Majin Buu! Kill Vegeta!" Buu grins at Vegeta, but Vegeta glares back at him seriously. Vegeta begins to mentally replace Majin Buu with Son Goku. "Kakkarotto... I hate you, you bastard." 'Goku' charges up his ki in front of Vegeta as Vegeta thinks back to the past. Super Saiya-jin Goku on Planet Namek. "You've always been just one step ahead of me. You've also saved my life and beaten my enemy." Freezer is sliced into four pieces by his own kienzan. "But this time, I'm going to take care of the problem." Son Gohan watches in shock as his father smiles, holds his fingers up to his forehead, and, glaring at the bloated Stage 2 Cell, vanishes. Gohan takes a step forward and screams. All of the Z Senshi undergo similar reactions of shock. Seven years later, Son Goku lies unconscious, miles away as the universe is threatened yet again. "Have a good nap. When you wake up, everything will be over and I'll probably be dead." Vegeta grunts, then yells as he charges up his ki.

"I'm not going to Hell alone! You'll be my honor guard!" Kaioushin slowly lifts his head. "No! Vegeta-san doesn't plan on surviving!" Vegeta screams and the ground trembles. A shockwave flies out from him. Another, and then another. He directs the brunt of his power-up toward Majin Buu. The wind and shockwaves jiggle Majin Buu's fat face and stomach, but he's otherwise unaffected. Babidi, on the other hand, has to shield his eyes from the dust and wind as he growls. He finally removes his hands and looks up at Vegeta, gasping. Clouds of dust are pushed out from Vegeta at the center as he raises his ki. He takes a fighting pose and electricity flickers through his aura. Majin Buu is pushed back a few inches, his feet digging trails through the dirt. He hunches over to better set himself against the wind. As Vegeta's power-up continues, rocks begin to lift out of the ground and hover around him.

"Papa's incredible!" Kuririn, "Vegeta just might be able to win after all!" Piccolo, "H-how did he get so much power!?" Vegeta screams and begins directing the rocks toward Buu. The boulders pile up around him as he continues to be pelted with whatever other debris is picked up by Vegeta's focused power-up. The boulders don't stay for long, though, as Buu explodes them into tiny fragments.

Vegeta leaps forward, screaming. His knee connects with Buu's face. Buu falls back, and Vegeta stops himself a few feet farther, then spins around and comes back for another. He goes into a brief flurry of hits and kicks on Buu, then stops to deliver stronger, slower hits. A punch to the gut, a kick to the face, and then another punch to the face. As Buu is thrown back by the last hit, Vegeta grabs his arm and spins himself inward, kicking Buu hard in the face. Buu bounces back through the dirt as Babidi watches, worried. "I-impossible! Buu...! Majin Buu!" Trunks, "Way to go, Papa!" He waves his fist in the air. "Kill him, kill him!" Goten smiles, but says nothing.

Buu stands and the imprints left from the punches and kicks disappear. Vegeta and Majin Buu stand separated by several yards for a few seconds, then Vegeta lunges forward again for round two, pulling his fist back.