Jump City, one week after the awakening of Majin Buu
Feeling the fresh air against my body, I stood outside the Star Lab's building, still wearing the attire I woke up in. The pants and shoes weren't that bad, quite comfortable in fact, but I did like to switch it up in my last life.
Frowning a bit as I glanced up at the sky above, I still remember much of my life, an average person more or less; however, the memory of my last moments of my life are lost to me. I'm sure I'd remember something eventually, or maybe I made a deal with some transdimensional DC entity that for the life of me, I can't remember.
I do remember making it into my thirties, but after that, everything's foggy. Oh sure, If I died in my thirties, I'm pretty sure my siblings and parents would be weeping over my dead body, but me? I don't miss that life of mine. It was mediocre, and now I'm in this world with unbridled strength and power at my fingertips.
The only problem now? I don't know what to do with this freedom of mine. I'm not some amoral asshole to go around blasting shit up, I was raised better than that. If anything, I might have to do some menial labor or something to get my thoughts cooking and get a better picture of what I really want to do with this new venue of opportunity of mine.
Perhaps spend at least a month doing a bit of work or something. it usually helped me stew over things to not get right into anything I had, and calmly look at any given situation. Course, there were quite a few exceptions that demanded immediate attention, but here? I had enough time to figure out my shit.
Looking down at my hands, I clenched them a bit, before looking onward towards the city and its many buildings. The lab was definitely on a hill of sorts, given the fact I now stood in the parking lot, where I could see the ocean in the distance with a large bridge and lone island in the midst of the river pouring out into the ocean.
I'm going to take a wild guess that I'm in the Teen Titan's universe, cause this definitely looks familiar from a first person perspective. The only thing that's missing is the tower, leading me to the conclusion I woke up before the dawn of the Teen Titans.
Given the fact I have no desire to wreck shit up, that leads me to another question to myself. Do I want to be a hero?
I'm pretty sure Uncle Ben from Marvel said it best, the most iconic line anyone would know about in the comic book world and spider man movies. All this great power at my fingertips, does require a great responsibility to use.
But do I have the responsibility to be a hero? Yes, but I'm not Superman that can answer the call from super hearing, nor was I Batman, a caped crusader of the night with gadgets, kung fu moves and his mind as his weapons.
If there was trouble, in front of me, sure, I'd do something about it; but I wasn't about to start from the get go of being a hero.
I'm just some average joe now in the body of Kid Buu. This was rather infuriating, I could fly off to who know the fuck where, but I wasn't that much of a wonderlusting dude…then again, I never did travel due to expenses, but now I could just fly on my own and be somewhere within minutes probably.
Yeah, I might travel the world after a month or two, just need to get my shit into gear right now. No need to jump right into everything; I can appreciate everything afterwards, maybe even visit Paris and see if it really does smell like piss. Hell, I could even visit China to see the Great Wall of China.
Lots of options here…
The sound of the automatic sliding doors hissing open alerted me to looking over my shoulder behind me, to see that blue-haired woman, Catherine, jogging over to me. She definitely strikes me as some knock-off Bulma looking woman, but I think I'm just seeing things just because she has blue hair.
…as a matter of fact, why did Trunks's hair color change in Super? That was so fucked up.
"Wait!" Catherine called out to me, breaking me from my random thoughts, making me turn around to face the woman. She held her palm out in a halting gesture, "Please!"
I narrowed my eyes at the woman as she finally approached me, and stopped to catch her breath with her hands on her knees, "Wait…um…you…" she wheezed through her words.
I lifted a brow at her, before speaking my mind to her, "Woman needs to get out more, need better exercise." I chided her. I was about to tell her she needed to touch grass more often, but I decided to just tell her she needed to exercise more.
That's another thing that has bothered me for the past week, this damn speech impediment. I mean, I know I had a few problems in my last life speaking my words correctly for people to understand me, but it was immensely better than this; I also know for a fact that the few words Kid Buu spoke were on the bit barbaric side.
I can only guess, whoever put my soul into this body, forgot to fix the speech part as well. I'll have to figure out the means to fix this, cause I know for damn sure I wasn't this bad at speaking.
Catherine growled back at me, before resorting to a glare as she stood upright with her fists against her hips, "Look, I didn't come out here to get sassed by you! I was coming out to try and reason with your plans!" she scowled.
Definitely has that bravado of Bulma, I'll give her that. I smirked back at her, "Buu has no plans, not right now. Need time to think." I answered her, crossing my arms, "Just woke up, too many thoughts swirling in mind." At least I could string good words together the harder I tried.
Catherine huffed, before sighing to herself; she closed her eyes for a bit, before opening them back up to look at me with an earnest look, "Well, it's not everyday this happens." she remarked dryly.
I lifted a brow of confusion, making her explain what she meant. She made a flippant gesture before she answered me, "Well this isn't the first time a lab caused a mess, we're just fortunate you didn't kill anyone." Catherine gruffly answered my questioning face.
Ah, that's right. A lot of the DC cartoons episodes had lab incidents that led to a villain being created; and it didn't always have to happen in the labs, Static Shock started out with some tanker I think that crashed and spilled its fumes out to cause a boom in metahumans.
I smiled a bit back at the woman, before speaking up, "Buu can hurt others real bad, guards just lucky Buu was able to hold back." I jested a bit, making Catherine offer me a nervous laugh.
After a few seconds passed, Catherine finally straightened herself out, and offered me a gesture of offering, "Look, you didn't seem that bad inside there, I don't blame you for wanting to finally leave that place." she explained, and bent down a bit with her hands on her knees to get at eye level with me.
"I'm probably going to regret this, but if you want, you can borrow my spare room at my apartment." Catherine finished explaining with a simple smile, "I mean, it's not everyday a lab accidently releases a moderately good person or creature." she expressed kindly.
Oh sweet summer child, you were just lucky the original Buu wasn't woken by you; there has to definitely be some cosmic force that made this possible.
Present
Majin Buu
Staring up at Plasmus after flying over to him, looking into the television to see the villain and seeing him up close in person were two very vastly different things; As the villain roared into my face, right before the sludge villain grabbed and chucked me through the air.
As my body soared and impacted the asphalt with my head planted into it, another random thought ran through my mind as I began prying my head out from the ground; this was the third time I was interacting with characters from the cartoon show, meeting Cyborg was beyond amazing, but I did my best to play it off cool.
Then meeting Jinx in person was a whole 'nother matter. Again, I did my best to be conservative and play it cool around her, fucking Jinx was one of the best female baddies of the cartoon show, bar Starfire's goth sister, Blackfire.
Course, everyone's go-to favorite goth chick was Raven, but Blackfire was the kind of girl you wanted to do the 'I can fix her' sort of thing with her. It didn't help either that she flirted with Robin so well.
"Dude, why'd you just stand there and let that happen?" Victor's voice brought me back to reality as I finally pulled my head free, and light heartedly glared at him.
"Buu sorry, when was last time robot man confronted his own sludge monster." I answered him, making him shrug back at me while Plasmus began melting vehicles with his acidic sludge in the distance; What I meant to say was, 'I'm sorry, when was the last time you fought a sludge monster?', at least this time, it was almost spot on with what I wanted my mouth to speak out.
"Fair point." Victor answered me, before I took off back at Plasmus. Underneath all that sludge, I think it's implied the human part of Plasmus is supposed to be good, while his alter ego awake self is nothing more than a villain.
That meant I was left with one less option, no using magic to turn a villain into an object, even though I can turn him back; it just didn't sit right with me doing that sort of magic on a living person, doing it to a chicken, pig or cow however was a different matter altogether.
Making back to the fight with the villain just in time, just as Plasmus shot out one of his acidic juices at another building, I had landed behind him; extending my body up and over him, while at the same time flatting my torso out, pretty much used myself as a wall guard against Plasmus' acidic puke he was about to jettison into the nearby building.
A slight itch and nothing more was felt from the acid as I pulled my feet back to me while I was still in a wide handstand, Plasmus however didn't like my interference judging by his gurgling roar. Pulling myself into myself to become naught but a small pink ball, I reformed back to stand and quickly smacked my hands together to cause a sonic boom to burst the sludge villain apart.
No amount of punches would help me here.
Windows shattered around me, while cars had their windows do the same; considering superheroes of this world probably do worse on a given random day, this was probably up there with what Superman could do.
Plasmus gurgled and screamed as his body bubbled and collapsed from the sheer force of my sonic boom of my clapped hands, I of course waited a good few seconds, and watched as Plasmus collected himself back to form from the large glob of sludge he became after my attack hit him.
Well now, I need to think of more options here then.
Plasmus roared into my face again, and moved to grab me. I however made a different move this time than standing in place.
Opting to do something stupid and crazy, I shot myself up into the sludge villain's roaring mouth, filling the entire villain up with myself; I could feel nothing but sludge and heat from inside the innards of the villain, right before a part of me felt the human body that Plasmus's body came out from.
The name of the sleeping dude was on the tip of my tongue, but was lost to me.
Figuring I should try something, I began wrapping myself around the dude to pretty much absorb the dude into myself and deal with the problem later; I still remember Good Buu was able to keep Mr. Satan and Pan inside himself without being affected by them, to keep them safe from Goku's enemy Baby and his invasion of Earth in Dragonball GT.
It was like the invasion of the body snatchers.
Thought aside, I continued to wrap myself around the dude, until I wholly absorbed him into myself; the sludge villain Plasmus outside, made a muffled roar as he finally collapsed, leaving the sludge around me to dissipate away while I packed Otto away into a pod that hopefully wouldn't affect me in any shape or form.
My eyes widened and alarm as I now stood on a wrecked street, and promptly did my best to eject the dude out from my body; his name came to mind, which meant I absorbed him the wrong way that I didn't intend to do, and ended up making him a part of me.
While ooze started to seep out from my holes in my body, other foreign thoughts swarmed my mind as I quickly pressed Otto's body out into my arm; my whole arm was now an expanded mass of pink, while the dude's body was now inside a pod I put him inside myself. The personality and thoughts of Plasmus were now distant, as I detached him from myself.
I was quick enough to eject my arm off from myself, letting the now snoozing Otto inside an egg shaped pod lay on the street, his face the only thing visible as he slept.
Concentrating, I formed a new arm from out of my shoulder; my entire hoodie sleeve had ripped apart, leaving me with having to use some magic from my antennae to make a new sleeve for my hoodie.
Unlike Buu's white pants and boots, my current attire was not a part of me, something I should just make and do.
I glanced over at where Victor and Jinx were at, and the two were already on their way up the street; Judging by the looks on their faces, Victor had an unsure look on his face, while Jinx had a weirded out look.
In all fairness, what I just did was beyond weird. Hell, Evil Buu once stuffed himself down some dude's mouth, and made him explode from the inside out.
"Dude, That was…" Victor looked like he was trying to find the words he was trying to say, only to find nothing, while Jinx looked over at Otto's pod lying on the street. "...I mean…" Victor scratched at his head as he looked over at Otto as well.
I offered both of them an unperturbed stare while they looked at the sleeping dude cooped up in a pod, "What, Robot man saw what sludge man was before he became sludge monster." I shrugged, "Buu couldn't just punch sludge, sludge isn't flesh." I further explained.
Jinx crinkled her nose up a bit, eyeing the pod containing Otto, before she looked back at me, "Yeah, but it was still weird to see, you can deny that." She pointed out.
I looked over at Jinx, an haphazardly shrugged, "Jinx girl know better options?" I smirked back.
Jinx shrugged back at me, expressing an unsure gaze as she held her finger up, letting a pink zap-like energy ring emit from her finger, "Maybe, but I highly doubt bad luck would effect that well against that sludge monster." she answered.
Victor lowered his arm away from his head and looked at Jinx's powers, "Woah, hang on, you have what now?" he asked, bewildered.
Offering a hapless shrug, Jinx answered him, "Hey, between what have against what you guys got going on, I'm nothing different." she challenged back with a rueful smirk.
Victor clicked his tongue, before expressing embarrassment while he rubbed the back of his head, "Oh, yeah...you do sort of fit in with this little group we got going on." he chuckled a bit with mirth.
In the distance, police sirens were closing in on our location, no doubt to collect Otto after everything was done and over with. Who called them or what alerted them in time? I can only guess they were just a response to try and take Plasmus down first.
Afterall, I haven't really debuted wholly as the Hero of this city yet, so realistically, the police were probably coming with swat teams and all sorts of other assortments of teams.
Answering Victor's ealier question, I shrugged and said while pointing at the pod Otto was in, "Robot man think he can do better?" I challenged back, thumbing at Otto, still sleeping inside the pink pod.
Jinx spoke while eyeing Victor as well, "hmm...He kinda has a point, you know." She remarks while palming her hips and giving him a once over with a critical eye, "I mean, you have all that cybernetics, doesn't it come with other neat stuff?" she questioned with a raised brow as she looked up at him with a sideways look.
While I could almost see Victor's human cheek redden a bit, muttering 'neat?' He lifted his arm and looked down at it to transform it into the cannon he used to stop a police chase with, "Uh…well…it's not like I know all the functions of this body yet…I really should see what my pops gave me with this new body!" he smirked while de-transforming his cannon back to his cybernetic hand.
Before long, a squad of Police and Swat vehicles rounded the corner, before all of them came to a screeching halt behind me, prompting all three of us to turn around and face the law enforcement, "STEP AWAY, FROM THE PINK PERSON, CIVILIANS!" One of the cop vehicles had their speakers on full blast with the squad captain yelling into it, visible within one of the cars.
I glanced over at Victor and Jinx, who traded back with me an unsure look, "Buu handle this, Victor man take new friend to lab." I shooed them off, earning a shrug from Victor.
"CIVILIANS, DO NOT LEAVE, WE NEED YOU TWO FOR QUESTIONING AS WELL!" The squad Captain announced next.
"Okay, never mind then." Jinx muttered at my idea of them leaving, while teams of swat police marched out from the vehicles and 'hupped' towards me and the pod containing Otto.
While both Victor and Jinx stepped aside, the squad of swat police finally approached me and the pod, with the squad captain exiting his car to approach me. The guy himself looked in his mid forties, brown matted down hair, a scruffy beard and the appearance of an average man that looked like he put in the work to stay in shape for his age.
One of the swat police stepped past me, and inspected the pod, before turning to face the approached squad captain, "Sir, Otto has been neutralized." He hollered over.
As the Captain finally approached me and the sleeping form of Otto, his eyes honed in on me. The captain let out a gruff scoff, before he sighed, "You again? I thought you said you weren't a hero when you stopped that armored truck?" he somewhat jested, judging by his tone of voice.
Raising a brow at that, I answered him plainly, "Does police man prefer I let sludge man run amok then?" I challenged back, smirking. "Buu was in area, so what other choice did Buu have?" I followed up asking with a smirk.
The squad captain sighed to himself while rubbing at his face, and gestured with his hand, "Alright boys, get this sleeping beauty into containment," he urged them, as another semi truck with a more stable looking container was on the back of its trailer.
While his men began picking up and taking Otto off to be contained within a sleeping capsule, or whatever they used to keep the dude asleep, the squad captain looked back down at me, "Well, whatever in any case, at least you were within the area to stop Plasmus in time. Who knows what damage he could have done." he smirked.
….um….
I turned around and looked at all the destroyed windows I caused, before looking back at the Captain, "Buu can fix this." I nodded to myself.
The squad captain, unsure what I meant no doubt, expressed confusion.