Part VIII:


X skidded across the sands. Goten gave chase. Goten appeared above X and pummeled him further into the sand. "Take this! And, this!" Goten screamed out.
Piccolo and 18 told Buu to follow after the two warriors. Buu flew behind the two wounded fighters. 18 seemed to be exhausted so much, mostly from emotion. Piccolo was trying to save as much energy he could. They caught up to the two, and saw Goten having the upper hand. Goten was delivering beautiful kicks and punches at X's head. Goten figured he would try and smash X's head in. X was having a hard time defending. Even putting his arms up to protect his face and cranium, Goten would still find a way to manuever his fist threw, and crash it into X's skull. Even if X blocked an attack, his arms would recoil in pain, Goten was putting a lot of force behind his punches and kicks. Goten's speed was unmatched, as well, X couldn't even return a word, let alone a punch.
Goten swung from below, with an attempted upper-cut, but X bent back and avoided the punch. Seizing this opportunity, X continued in his backward motion, and used the momentum to bring up his feet. He drop-kicked Goten directly in the chest. Goten doubled-over with a short loss of breath, but came back with a spinning kick to X, who was just regaining his up-right-again position.
X flew back, Goten gave chase. X shot 4 balls of ki directly at Goten, who easily swiped each one in an opposite direction. "You're gonna have to do better than that, X," Goten shouted. X smiled at him. "What're you smiling at, beyotch?" Goten said, agitated with X's confident smile. It than dawned on Goten that X's left pointer finger was coreening in rapid, and decisive, movements. Goten looked at where he had swiped one of the balls of ki that X had shot at him, the ball of ki was hovering in the air, almost like it was awaiting X's command to go forth, and attack. Goten looked at another one of the balls of ki, than the other. He turned back to X. "His finger is moving, but the balls of ki aren't...." Goten thought to himself, pondering the situation. Just as he was about to make a conclusion on the matter, the 4th ball of ki-which Goten had carelessly forgotten-exploded onto his back.
Smoke started to develope around Goten, X shot the ball, on the right, at Goten. Goten flew out of the developing smoke; that ki ball had more ki in it, than the first. Than, X lifted his arms, and outstretched them. Goten opened an eye to see this, and wondered what on Earth he was doing just as the other two ki balls colided with his body. Goten became limp, as these to ki balls were more powerful than the last. Goten dropped from the sky, and crashed into the ground, causing the sands to lift into the air, and trikle back down quickly.
Goten stood up, a little shaken. He looked around for X, but couldn't find him. "Damnit, where could he be, now?" Goten thought, as he searched. X appeared above the unsuspecting Goten and smashed his own head into Goten's. Goten fell, and reverted back to regular form, unconscious, and buried under a foot of sand. Piccolo came shrieking towards X, X knocked Piccolo out of the way, by merely punching him; Piccolo went crashing, and yumbling, into the sands. 18 appeared next to X and kicked at his neck, X didn't even move from the collision. X looked at 18, and smiled, as he shot a ball of ki directly into the terrified face of Android 18; she blasted off into the air, and fell limp to the sand below. X reverted his attention back to the helpless Goten, who was still completely unconscious. X lifted his arm and started gathering the proper amount of ki to dispose of Goten's life. Piccolo felt the gathering ki, and struggled to stand up. Piccolo knew he couldn't get up, though. He knew 18 was injured badly, as well, and couldn't help even if she tried. Piccolo was relying on Buu, for he was the only one that was at full strength, and stood a chance to, not only save Goten, but the rest of the World.
X had just about gathered enough of ki to get rid of Goten, when he felt a fist brush by his cheek. He looked behind him and saw Buu, back turned and arm out-stretched. X than felt the effect of Buu's punch, and X flew and passed by Buu, spinning out of control from the delay-of-impact-punch. "Way to go...Buu." Piccolo breathed out before fainting. X was enraged that Buu could have stopped his attack, and hurt him quite badly. Buu stood, not taking his eyes off of X. X darted off at Buu and kicked his stomach, but Buu's flab just absorbed the kick. X sneered and punched Buu in the face, to only see the same thing happen.
"My CPU tells me I should take you on cautiously, and don't hold back," X's robotic voice buzzed. Buu stared at X, puzzled by its strange voice. "Therefore, Buu,..." X placed his left arm across his chest, gripping ahold of his right shoulder. Buu could actually feel energy pouring into X's being. "Since, I cannot underestimate a power as great as your's...." X continued in his robotic voice, placing his right arm over his chest, and his hand, gripping ahold of his left shoulder; forming an 'X' shape across his chest. Buu's eyes actually opened as he could now, actually, feel the true power of Project X; it was absolutely disturbing. X retained his appearance, and did not tranform, but he didn't have to, considering his power had already been sky-rocketing. But, with this power up, his power level went far above anything ever experienced; Buu was frightened of this tremendous power, and just watched as X's arms, from finger-tip to shoulder, reverted into large, twin, blades.
X than took a step back and bounced off towards Buu. Buu was frozen to the sand, from complete fear. X was upon Buu and started slicing, and dicing, at Buu's figure so fast that it seemed as if Buu hadn't moved, or never received a single blow; but, how wrong to deceive anyone's eyes, with that speed. Goten, had awakened, and stared at the two; X had had landed near Buu and just glared into Buu's being; neither moved. Goten stood up, but wavered from side-to-side from exhaustion. Finally, X's blades turned back into normal arms. Goten stood in shock as Buu began to disintegrate. X smiled and began shooting each of the hundreds of pieces, that lay in the sand, into oblivion.
"He just disposed of Buu with ease. He did it in a matter of 4 seconds, or less. Buu was fully powered, and hadn't fought; he should've been able to last longer than a few, diminutive, seconds." As Goten thought this his power started gathering. His emotions were filled with rage, and hate. 18 and Piccolo snapped from their unconscious states as they felt the power surge. X felt, and saw, it; he began regathering the energy he had used against Buu, for now he was in fear of Goten's emmense power increase. "What the hell is this?" X's robotic voice blurted out. Goten clenched his fist, and bent forwards as he screamed at such a high pitch that 18 and Piccolo had to struggle with what little strength they had to cover their ears. Goten than zapped into a SSJ2 state, and electricity filled the sandy area, and clouds appeared and instantly turned into a crimson-black colorization; but, Goten was far from finished with this power up. He continued to scream, louder and louder, making X cringe, even with his huge power up. Goten's hair soon began to grow out. Than, after a foot or so, his hair went at an arc, and than slanted down, and continued its decent growing ever-longer. Finally, it had reached down to his ankles, electricity than came, and zapped into Goten's figure, causing the sand to climb into the air; covering Goten's appearance from anyone. The screaming stopped, the sand began to settle back to the ground, the clouds had dissapeared, entirely, and X stood looking towards the wall of sand that was collapsing.
Piccolo went over and picked up 18, holding her up with her arm over his shoulder. "C'mon 18, we have to get some distance from here," Piccolo said, and levitated off, and away, some 25 meters; still able to view the match, though. 18 was slipping in and out of consciousness, Piccolo knew he could do nothing right now, and he couldn't leave. Piccolo jsut palced her down and looked on at the match that was going to happen.
The sand settled, and Goten no longer stood where he had once been. "HA! He must've died from that bolt of lightning," X gloated. X turned around and received a face full of a knee. X flew back and crashed into the sand. He stood up and looked at who had hit him; but, no one was there. X than felt a surge of power develope rapidely behind him. He couldn't even turn before the blast hit him in the back and sent him scattering across the ground, than, X felt a foot kick him in the jaw. He blasted into the air, than felt an elbow to his back. Having his back bent backwards made the next attack hurt even worse, as part of the shin, and most of the foot of the assassin collided into his back and sent him coreening, and screaming in pain, away.
X landed in a lake; they had come out of the sand, and entered a woodland area. X splashed out of the water, at full speed. "Damnit! Who the hell are you!?" X lashedo ut and looked frantically around, hoping to see a sign of the assailant. Than, from below, a fist connected under his chin. X recoiled as he gasped for air. He opened his eyes and looked into a long, golden, hair, and eyebrow-less, Goten; he had attained SSJ3. Goten spun and kicked X in the gut, and followed with an ax-handle to X's back, as he bent low. X found himself in the lake again. X darted out and had some ground away from Goten. "Allright, Goten, we'll play with full strengths than!" X placed his arms in the 'X' position across his chest. "You ready, Goten; this was reserved for an emergency, but I will use it to destroy you, and the rest of your planet, and friends!" X screamed out, as his power became apparent again, and it began rising frantically. It was frightening, but Goten held his ground, and retained his angry, and hateful, look. The power was gathering, and surpassed Goten's long ago, but X wasn't going to hold anything back.
Goten knew his power was only an ant compared to X's mammoth-like power; but he knew if he showed the fear, or anything other than his hate, it would be his downfall, even quicker than Buu's. "Is that all, X?" Goten's arrogance, pride, and cocky attitude, and nature, showed as he laughed out these words. X smiled, and than calling upon even more power. Goten restrained so hard from not crying out in fear of the immense power, his face contorted in weird expressions as he held it all back. X soon had to place his hands in fists, and place them above his head, as the power was getting greater, and greater. X's figure soon started to glow a blinding orange, and purple. X screamed one last time and the light shot out, and than dissapeared. Goten sheilded his eyes from the bright colors, and looked at X, who was just laughing, but it was different from before, it wasn't robotic. It had more of a sadistic echo in it. Goten's eyes were so wide that it would have been impossible to bluff what he was seeing.
"So, Goten," X asked, lazzily. Goten just stood in shock, and fear, at X. "Shall I just toy with you, or get right to your death?"


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