Killer King, Beauty Queen

53

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"How could you?!" I hear Vegeta's voice. Were we dead now? "You did one good thing and saved my wife-- but the Namek boy and that Big Oaf?! Instead of your own sons?!" Vegeta bellows. My eyes snap open and I stare at the expansive sky above me. The grass is soft underneath me, and I want to lie in it forever. But I can still feel that Buu's energy, clear as day. He wasn't gone, not by a long shot. "Have you lost your mind?!"

"Vegeta..." I murmur lightly. My body throbs as I turn on my front, and sitting up to gaze at him. Vegeta shunts Goku off and stomps towards me. I'm hauled upwards and wrapped in a protective embrace. Tears burn at my eyes as I press my face against his neck. My shoulders start shaking as I try to contain the sobbing that's burning in my chest. "You-- You-- HOW DARE YOU!" I shout up at him, my fist shooting upwards and catching him in the chin.

Vegeta's head flies backwards as he bellows out in pain. He grasps at his chin as he glares at me. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"

"YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE I WANT TO HIT, YOU IDIOT!" I shout. "You guys had the chance to destroy him before he could-- could--" My lip wobbles again. "At least with Earth, I could've made a dragon radar and wished-- wished everyone back, but now-- now I can't! Because of your stupid Saiyan pride!"

"Mara--" Vegeta tries, his hands reaching out to soothe me. I slap his hands away from me.

"Don't touch me! Both of our children are gone! Both of them! Majin Buu turned your daughter into chocolate and ate her! And now our son is gone! My kids are-- are--" I slump to the ground, my fists rubbing desperately at my face. "My babies--"

"Yes... Earth is gone." The old man mentions with a sigh.

"What are you talking about? The Earth can't be gone," Mr. Satan mentioned. My bleary gaze trails to him and I frown so heavily, I wonder if my face will remain in that position. He just laughs. "What do you think this is? Huh? Put that in your diaper, old man!" Mr. Satan points at the ground.

"Please, you don't know what you're saying!" Dende exclaims to Mr. Satan. "That's no ordinary old man! He's a Kai!"

"He does look a little strange." Mr. Satan mentions. "A Kai? What's that? Some sort of purple leprechaun?"

I sniffle a little and palm at my belly. "No! Kai's are the illustrious overseers of the Universe! Each Kai protects one of the quadrants. But these two-- they're actually Supreme Kais!" Dende explains. "No one in the whole Universe has more authority than them."

Vegeta once again tries to help me stand, and this time I let him as Mr. Satan continues to ramble. "Okay, I've got a question, then! If these two are so Great and Powerful, why don't they stop Majin Buu?"

I pull off my remaining shoe and lob it at Mr. Satan. "They tried to! But this idiot--" I snap at Vegeta. "Didn't wanna bury the hatchet, now did he?!"

"How long are you going to put that over my head?!" Vegeta roared back.

"DON'T YOU YELL AT ME!"

"Hey, they have pointy ears like you and Mara," Mr. Satan mentions. I grunt and my hands fly up to protect my ears from his gaze. "I'm thinkin' you two must be one of them." Dende and I just groan. "Hey! Yeah, I get it!" Mr. Satan laughs. "This is all a dream! Just a silly ol' dream! Of course! Of course! Now it all makes sense! First of all, there couldn't be somebody who's stronger than me, the undisputed Martial Arts Champion of the World!" Mr. Satan just nodded as if it were a logical conclusion. "Secondly, pink monsters like Buu don't exist! And either do purple people with pointy ears, do they? And there's no such thing as little green men that guard the Earth from evil."