I could be wrong, but I think they don't need to molt because they don't have exoskeletons. I think I read somewhere that the ones with external shells just keep adding more shell at the lip until they get to be full sized. Sadly I am not an expert on Mollusca, so I don't know if this is right or not.
Yep, many land snails with external shells grow larger by adding growth at the lip, increasing the size of the shell whorl - in some species it helps determine juveniles from adults because the outer lip turns out once they reach maturity.
Ch 500 oh hey i don't have to think of something to say here because it's a multiple of 100, so it's time for a little bit of * celebration emoji *. the last * celebration emoji *, in fact (A Turn of the Tables/The Great Reversal) It's very appropriate that I've recently been listening a lot to a Japanese song called "Don't Cry" because things like that being the last time I'll be saying * celebration emoji * for reaching certain arbitrary chapter numbers makes me pretty sad. Way more than probably a silly let's-read thread deserves. Also I'm in a weird spot where I want to read a bunch but I also want to draw things out as long as possible because there's so little left. Anyway, enough about me. Shit is looking kind of grim again. Like, what happens to Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo if Boo (why the hell did I nearly type Cell?) gets killed now? I suppose Gohan could theoretically defeat him without killing him, somehow, but with those regenerative properties of his, I'm not sure how. So the best method would be something completely annihilatory, and would the dragon balls be able to resurrect the ones he's absorbed? Speaking of, what does that mean for all the people that got treat-ified and eaten? Well. Hmm. I guess maybe it's not so much of an issue then? Fr'ex, all the people Cell killed apparently got brought back, no problem, despite the fact that they were all absorbed. So maybe I'm worrying about nothing. Wow, okay, that got rambly. Boo wants to get this fight started, because he's limited by the amount of time Gotenks can stay in his 3rd form. (And maybe the length of time he can stay fused in general? It's kind of an interesting concept that despite being absorbed, there's still enough something to be 3rd form/be fused.) Gohan doesn't really have any issues with that, although if I were him I might try to drag stuff out because of that fact. He tries to kick Boo in the side of the head, but Boo grabs his ankle and keeps a hold of it. Gohan tries a kind of stomp with the other foot, and Boo grabs that one too. Awkward situation. Having lost the use of both legs and kind of in a bad spot for trying a punch, Gohan fires a beam at him. damn boneless taffy creature And, having thrown his head back so dramatically, he's generated some nice head-appendage momentum which he makes use of. yep that's sure a thing that just happened alright He punches the dangling Gohan into the side of a mountain and then fires his own beam attack at him. Gohan barely manages to dodge it because of a timely warning from Dende. He tries to buy some time by hiding his ki and lying low in the wreckage following Boo's attack, but Boo finds him and gets super mocking. Gohan's maybe slightly more resistant to the effects of Taunt than the kids were, but not much, and he maybe attacks a little more recklessly than he should. Boo does a full somersault kick (!!) and then makes use of one of Gotenks' attacks. He traps Gohan in three of of those ki-rings, completely immobilizing him. Well, that didn't last long. :I i'm gonna fucking explode But he can't, he's dead and used up his one chance to go back. The elder kaioushin knows that, but has a work-around: he'll give Goku his life. Of course Kibito objects strongly to that plan, and Shin jumps in offering his instead, because he really, really wants to be useful somehow and has just been failing at that at every turn. The elder kaioushin tells him not to be ridiculous, he's still young, and the old dude only has maybe a thousand years left anyway. Besides, if they don't figure out something to do, Boo's going to destroy the whole universe eventually. So no big loss. (What does that mean for Goku, then? If he decides to go through with this, is he gonna be super long-lived?) Boo's about to use the kamehameha on Gohan ("How's it feel to have your friends' techniques used against you?") when Gohan breaks the ki-bonds holding him through the power of sheer determination and throws himself out of the way. Meanwhile... Enma is making a hard decision. oh? oh??? I'D RECOGNIZE THOSE LEGS ANYWHERE HEY VEGETA!!!! Goku's accepted the elderly kaioushin's offer, and so he laces his fingers together, says "bye", and slumps over. Goku's halo disappears and... I guess that's that. He's alive again! He promises the elderly kaioushin's still body that he'll make good use of the life, and the body sits up and tells him that he had just better. i just want to hug shin sometimes And while all of this nonsense is happening, Gohan's trying not to get killed. look at that powerstance
Ch 501 awwwwww heck. the good thing about the scanlations was that the color chapters were in color and they were pretty and fun. the good thing about this is that it's nice and clean looking and the translation is a lot more reliably comprehensible (Enter a Savior?!) Boo's attack continues, but Gohan hasn't given it up as a bad job just yet. When Boo elbows him into the ground, Gohan retaliates with what looks like a pretty potent, concentrated blast attack. Boo sees it coming and double axe handles it back at him. I may be misreading these panels, but it looks like it goes straight through the fucking planet and exits somewhere on the other side. Well, that's gonna fuck with shit for sure. Like, I'm no geologist or planetary scientist or whatever you might call someone who studies things like that, but I feel pretty confident in saying that that can't be good. (A huge rock lands ON Mr. Satan, which also can't be good, jeez, poor guy, although I am glad it didn't land on Dende, who's right next to him.) Boo goes down the hole he just made in the planet and finds Gohan partway down it. He's in kind of a bad way and might be trapped under something, although I could also be misreading the art. why does "enjoying oneself" often come down to being violent? at least with the original boo, "enjoying himself" could also be licking a dog or listening to mr. satan read him a book. oh, and boo is just hanging out upside down because why not. he seems to like doing things like that Sounds of Gohan getting thoroughly thrashed are audible from the surface, where Dende and Mr. Satan are. Dende tells Mr. Satan to take his dog and run, because otherwise he's probably going to get himself killed. Oh, my sweet boy. You're ((probably)) such a good Guardian. Mr. Satan says "naaah" and pulls out a gun to show Dende ("Check it out!!"). ... i kind of want dende and mr. satan to become friends now. just like the most unlikely pair of friends possible Goku is almost ready to teleport to Earth, but the elder kaioushin stops him. Does he have any kind of plan for defeating Boo, or is he just running off blindly and gonna get himself killed? Nope! Goku was absolutely just running off blindly with no plan. He takes a moment to think about it, because the elder kaioushin has reason to believe that even working together, he and Gohan won't be able to defeat Boo. Aha! They might not be able to do it working together as two separate people, but if they fuse...! (never mind the whole "you have to do really good at the dance or else the fusion won't work" thing....) The elder kaioushin doesn't think Boo will give them a chance to do the dance (AND ALSO THERE'S THE THING I BROUGHT UP WHICH I THINK IS ALMOST A BIGGER ISSUE HERE HONESTLY), but he has an idea for how to get around that little issue. He takes off his earrings and hands one of them to Goku, telling him to put it on his left ear. Goku does so. well ain't that fuckin' convenient Shin and Kibito are astonished; they had no idea these "Potara" earrings had that kind of power. The elder kaioushin "tsk"s at them and tells them to try it out with Shin's earrings. (Something I'm not clear on: where do these earrings come from, and is it only those of a kaioushin that work? Because Kibito has some too, and Gohan's fancy outfit also came with a set of earrings that all look basically the same.) They do so. seems more... violent?... than the dance. kinda like being put into an LHC or something Scene change, so we don't get to see the results of the earring fusion just yet. Gohan comes flying out of the ground and lands near where Dende and Mr. Satan are. Dende rushes out to heal him (aaaaaaaaaahhhhh be careful!!), because Gohan's not doing good. Boo comes shooting out of the ground shortly after, ready to finish off Gohan. AAAAAAH GET OUT OF THERE DENDE D: don't worry about it Boo sends a pulse of force at Gohan, then decides that he's going to get right of the little healer after all. He fires a blast in his direction, which Mr. Satan shoots at... and the blast disintegrates. Boo goes "?!", because, after all, no one in the know expects a bullet to do anything about anything in DB universe, but Mr. Satan is all confidence in his .45. mr. satan: >:D But, naturally, it wasn't the gun that did anything. hey tien! where were you when there was volleyball going on? also dang you got some cool posing going on dude Finally, the Potara fusion results are revealed! a) basically shin with kibito's body and hair; b) i wonder what his name would be (shibito? kishin...?); c) i dunno about fusions, man. they ALL seem to get super confident and bloodthirsty? is it really just that they're suddenly so much stronger or is something else going on, like it concentrates and intensifies those kinds of feelings from the sources? if fusion is something that exists solely to improve odds in combat, something like that might make sense The elder kaioushin tells him to settle down, he's nowhere near strong enough to take on Boo. Goku asks how long they'll be fused. The elder kaioushin grins fiendishly. How long? Why, forever! The Potara's fusion is permanent! The Shin/Kibito fusion is very distressed to hear this. well that might not be the worst thing that ever happened to you, but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that does not seem like the most pressing problem with that arrangement The elderly kaioushin tells him to get going, so he does. Pop! Boo's gotten fed up with all of these interruptions and whatnot (and might be feeling the time limit creep up on him too; way back when he started beating on Gohan, he said he only had ten minutes left), so he decides it's time to destroy the entire planet. Tien may have been able to save Dende and Mr. Satan by disrupting that little blast, but this one that Boo's making is much larger and there might not be anything they can do about it. (Mr. Satan, however, is still full of trust in his .45, and aims it at Boo, saying he's sorry, but he has to kill him.) ETA I'm wrong, apparently Goku didn't quite manage to get going. God dang it, people are in danger on Earth, hurry it up already!
On one hand, a high school education would probably do Goku some good, especially so he would know (for example) what a marriage was before agreeing to one. On the other hand, we've seen Goku's... Goku-ness. Best case scenario: he leaves twenty minutes in because he's bored. Worst case scenario: entire school is incinerated by robots/aliens/demons/bears.
Ch 502 flow is good tonight, might as well read more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (Will the Potara Prevail?!/Is This Gonna Work?! The Potara Fusion!) I guess it's good that Goku hasn't transported himself to Earth yet, because he's come up with some more questions for the elderly kaioushin, namely: should they fuse as super saiyans or in baseform? The old man advises against being super saiyan before fusion. If they fuse in that state, they'll stay that way forever in their fused form, and being super saiyan is not great for the body. It'd shorten their lifespan. Not to worry, though; they can still go super saiyan after fusion. IF they need to. Also, Potaras are a once-a-lifetime thing. Aww man, that means you can't make infinite fusion chains of progressively, exponentially stronger people to make the Ultimate Fighter. Goku asks if the elder kaioushin used them with someone before, and it turns out that he did. Apparently his appearance is at least partially due to being fused with an old witch. DON'T FUCKING STEAL PEOPLE'S SHIT! WHETHER IT'S A MAGIC EARRING OR NOT! godDAMN. The Shin/Kibito fusion interrupts (god, I wish I knew his name). Shit's getting intense on Earth, couldn't this wait until later?! Finally, Goku does actually get going, one earring on his left ear, the other in his hand. Shouldn't he just wear it? He can't fuse with himself, and I'm worried he's gonna lose it. Boo's just about to annihilate the planet when Goku shows up and does something cool. hahahaha fuck yeah get rekt. not like this will do any good in the long run but it's pretty satisfying in the moment Everyone is startled to see Goku (well, those who know what the deal is, anyway. Mr. Satan is distressed because he thinks he somehow shot Boo perfectly and cleanly in half, and somehow he still manages to be fond of the original, rotund Boo, despite everything). Boo's lower half goes crashing down right behind Tien (watch out, man, don't get snagged!). Boo's upper half, however, hangs around in the air, relatively unaffected by the loss of his legs. He recognizes Goku and speaks to him. Came to help out, did he? Doesn't he realize that Boo's become "infinitely more" than he was before? something so funny to me about goku in that pose bragging to the truncated boo like that Boo's legs stand up and kick Tien in the face. Tien wasn't even doing anything! He was just standing there watching things unfold! Leave him alone, he's got three eyes and that seems hard enough without you kicking him. Boo's legs drift upwards and reconnect with the rest of his body. The join seals up and there's no indication that Boo was ever cleaved in twain. This little demonstration is not just to put the bits of his body back together, but also to show Goku that he can't be hurt. Goku plans to show that his proclamation of "infinitely more" isn't just hot air, so he throws the second Potara earring at Gohan... who completely fumbles it. C'mon, Gohan, fucking Vegeta caught a senzu at god knows how many yards way back on Namek a hundred years ago! It goes rolling down between some rocks. Gohan goes searching for it, but, it's a tiny earring. Goku tells him to put it on his right ear when he finds it, and they'll fuse. (I REALLY THINK YOU SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT IT'S A PERMANENT THING BEFORE YOU DO. I REALLY REALLY REALLY THINK THAT.) Boo picks up on that, thinks that it's interesting, probably useless, and that he doesn't want to take the chance that it's not, so he's going to kill Goku/everyone else before they have a chance to fuse. oh goku Gohan still can't find it. Back on Shin's planet, the elderly kaioushin is calling Goku rude names. In an attempt to forestall death for a bit longer, Goku goes super saiyan 3, which Boo says is no use. He charges at Goku... but something stops him at the last second. Even better, Gohan manages to turn up the earring (although he can't remember what he's supposed to do with it). He asks his dad what the deal was, but they both get sidetracked because something weird is going on with Boo. oh!! a new shape! goten and trunks must have defused. wow, that's a lot of piccolo influence going on Well. That changes things a little bit. Without Gotenks' fused strength, Boo's power has decreased significantly. Goku's a little disappointed; at this point, Gohan's strong enough to take on Boo on his own, and win. Looks like they won't need to permanently fuse after all! Which is good, because what the hell would their fusion name be? They already share the "go", after all. more piccolo-esque facial features, or am i just making myself think that? oh fuck i completely forgot about that bit The head-appendage wriggles up behind Gohan... and envelops him. He drops the Potara earring and summons the flesh back to himself... and absorbs Gohan. Goku dives for the earring and snatches it before it can disappear into the cracks in the earth. :( piccolo-form didn't last long. this one has a shirt!!! ... but this is a pretty bad development, huh? Since he can't fuse with Gohan now, Goku desperately searches for a Plan B fusion partner. lol
i really really can't read a whole other chapter right now because i have to sleep but good lord do i want to
Goku doesnt need to fuse with someone stronger, he needs to fuse with someone smarter. By this point 80% of their problems in Dragon Ball are because one of the Saiyans went 'how about we let him power up first' or 'I want a fair fight' or something like that. Piccolo seemed to have a pretty consistent pragmatic streak but never quite had enough power for the follow-through. Trunks was pretty good about that sort of thing, (except that one time, which coincidentally happened after spending a year with Vegeta) and Gohan was pretty good except for the part where Super Saiyan 2 turns on your aggro. This is why Dende's your best bet. He's not a fighter and that's the point. He doesn't want to fight Boo, he wants to make all this bad shit stop happening. These are different goals and I imagine Dende might be smart enough to sort this shit out if he had Goku's power on his side.
I think that's definitely a fair point! Although I will say, as much as I love my good good god child, we don't have much idea of he'd actually be useful in that particular way. And even if he was, given that Boo's just absorbed the permabuffed Gohan, the resulting fusion might be in the same boat as Piccolo at that point: having a reasonable plan but just unable to pull it off. I would be very interested in seeing a Namekian/non-Namekian fusion though. Very curious about how those features blend.
Oh, also: couldn't Dende just heal Tien, who'd then presumably regain consciousness, and Goku could then fuse with him? Like, he's strong, he's also probably a pretty good option in terms of brains (could be wrong but he always struck me as the more sensible type), and then we could see how fusion deals with a hair/no hair situation.
Ch 503 hell yeah hell yeah this one's gonna go into extra parts (The Ultimate Combination!!/Son Goku's Final Fusion!!) Boo gloats about absorbing Gohan before Goku had a chance to fuse with him. yeah! leave some for goku to fuse with Boo doesn't care that he's not being a good sportsman. Winning is everything. Doesn't Goku know that? Having considered it for like a second, he decides he's going to be nice and not make Goku suffer for very long. How kind. Goku's only half-listening, because he's trying to decide what exactly he's gonna do. He has very few options right now, and he looks over at them. dende is tired of gun Possibly because Goku said it wasn't fair earlier, Boo graciously grants Goku five seconds to choose someone to fuse with. a) pffffffffffffffffffft; b) is that possible? Boo counts down from five as Goku continues to do some frantic mental calculations. As Boo reaches one in his countdown, Goku finally makes a choice: it has to be Mr. Satan. He cocks his arm back to hurl the earring at him and yells at him to "catch". (Odds of Mr. Satan actually catching a thrown earring? I feel... low.) But. Before Goku can actually follow through on the earring pitch, he senses something. you bet your goddamn britches it could be hell yeah i mean this was obviously the only possible outcome after he made his surprise appearance whenever that was, a couple chapters ago, but still, hell yeah! (also look at all those exclamation points) old man you seem to have had a bit of a change of heart after dying that last time. not quite so confident. or maybe you've just further embraced your pessimistic side. that's cool, i'm there with you on that Having reached the end of the count of five, Boo attacks... and Goku disappears. Boo realizes he's done his teleportation trick and looks pissed as fuck. Talk about unsporting and unfair, Goku's Instant Transmission skill really takes the cake in that arena. And it has like no cooldown either. mods plz nerf IT Goku appears near Vegeta and startles both him and his transport from the afterlife. hell yeah neither of you should really be here right now! Boo is, in fact, pretty hecking cheesed. Goku thinks he can escape his fate, huh? Wrong! Boo will track him wherever he goes... and kill him. He takes off at high speeds. This Boo knows how to sense ki, so he's probably heading straight to where Goku and Vegeta are. Luckily, Mr. Satan and Dende are unharmed, although a little disheveled from Boo's takeoff, which created quite a draft. no dende do not??? please do not? the beautiful friendship i imagined is all falling apart before it's even begun, mr. satan, please, you're bothering God Goku only wastes a tiny bit of time trying to make conversation with Vegeta, who doesn't seem particularly receptive to having a chat about how it is that he's still Vegeta and not a reincarnated soul on its way to another life. Or whatever was supposed to happen to him when he died, according to Piccolo. I don't remember the exact details. So he gets right to the point and holds out the earring to Vegeta, telling him to put it on his right ear. i love that suspicious vegeta face Vegeta says "Fuck no." (My paraphrase.)
(continued) he's done it twice before, he should know Boo notices that there's a second powerful ki out there with Goku, but isn't scared. Goku entreats Vegeta to ditch the pride and just put the damn earring on already. okay what is it this time vegeta This time... it's that Goku didn't reveal the third super saiyan form to him during their fight. Was he being manipulated, or mocked?! Man, Vegeta sure is touchy about this shit. oh my god vegeta please just make an effort for once in your goddamn life and get over it Boo's almost there. Goku brings out the big guns: namely, what happened to Bulma and Trunks. That gets Vegeta's attention. And just in time, too: Boo has nearly caught up with Goku. However, he hasn't quite made up his mind. oh stop doing ellipses and just do it already there ya go! Goku slaps the earring into Vegeta's palm and he tries to get it on. (It always takes me like ten minutes to get earrings in, so I feel this. Although this is a clip-on, so it should, in theory, be easier. Just try having pierced ears that constantly want to close up on you, Vegeta. And then try to put earrings in without a mirror.) let vegeta say fuck Boo is mere seconds from reaching them when Goku finally gets around to mentioning to Vegeta that this'll be a permanent merger. all these damn saiyans look so good in earrings * anticipation!!! * literally why are you surprised. you knew that he was planning on fusing with someone. you gave him five seconds to choose someone to fuse with. he went and found someone and then fused with them. so why are you all "!!" about it now? i have to say i was expecting more flamboyance in the outfit after gotenks... but maybe there's an element of choice involved. obviously gotenks would choose something ostentatious, while vegeta+goku would not. vegeta: "no we absolutely must have the boots and gloves"
Ch 504 name discrepancies ahoy! (The Ultimate Fighter/The Fused Fathers are Unrivaled) * cough * vegito (those eyebrow tho, all vegeta) So I'm familiar with Vegito because it's what's used in the anime and in most of the fanstuff I've seen. I'm gonna use it because wow, uh, I hate the alternative a lot. Although I get why they'd do it. Because Kakarrot gets romanized in the official translation as Kakarrot, and not as its slightly more true-to-katakana form Kakarotto, that "to" ending just seems weird and it doesn't seem like there's much of Goku in there. (I think the katakana for the name is ベジット, which would give us two katakana from Vegeta, the べジ, and two from Goku/Kakarotto, the ット. Everything still fair and balanced in fusion name land.) Anyway, the upshot of all of that is that I hope that you'll forgive me for yet another name discrepancy. Vegito isn't even going to try this in baseform; he goes straight to super saiyan 2. (And calls himself Super Vegito, which is... a thing that they do sometimes that I almost never remember to mention.) Boo sarcastically tells them how scared he is of him, and lobs the ki blast that he's had hovering over his palm at them. Vegito looks serious, focuses, and then backhands that shit right back at its creator. benefits of being a taffy creature, fig. 14 After getting his head back out of his chest cavity, Boo tries for some nonchalance. Knocked back one attack, huh? Is that it? Fools! He springs towards Vegito, fistfirst, and gets kicked in the face before he can do anything. YES. TRUE FACTS. Boo takes a moment to get his nose back in order, then tells Vegito that all this is doing is making him angry... and the angrier he gets, the more he's going to make Vegito suffer before he dies. So, of course, Vegito punches him in the face. spite punch Vegito grabs Boo by the leg and dives towards earth, dragging Boo with him. Boo makes a very good face. \o/ Vegito hurls Boo into the ground. Shin+Kibito, watching with the crystal ball, attributes Vegito's incredible strength to the earrings, but is admonished by the elder kaioushin. Vegeta and Goku are the ones whose strength makes this possible. And he seems to think that because they're such incredible rivals, that makes it better, somehow? Maybe he's just into the aesthetic of reluctantly working together. Vegito stretches out a hand and sends a narrow beam down into the ground, where it impales Boo. (Why do I keep almost writing Cell?! That's the second times it's happened.) He hauls Boo out of the rubble and debris on the end of the ki-skewer and wonders: what happened to all the talk? He's kind of disappointed, thought this would be more exciting, more of a real fight. Or maybe this was a real fight? In that case, he has to apologize; didn't mean to be so rude. (Brutal. Absolutely brutal. Vegito got Goku's cold-blooded streak.) Boo slips off the skewer and gets himself back to his normal state, hissing all the while. guess he was almost to a full rolling boil Boo generates a huge cloud of steam which envelops both himself and Vegito. He's confident that this should give him a stealth advantage. Sounds of attack drift out from the steam, and as it clears, a battered and swollen Boo, missing his head appendage, is revealed. It doesn't matter if Vegito can't see him, because he can follow the flow of ki and track Boo's movements that way. Can't rely on your eyes too much in a battle. Vegito tosses the torn-off head appendage away and vaporizes it. He promises to do the same to the rest of Boo later (the elderly kaioushin yells at him to "do it now!', uselessly, because it's not as though Vegito can hear him). Boo regrows his head appendage and looks pissed as fuck while he does so. And maybe just a little bit worried.
Ch 505 happy birthday to me, and happy 5 (?) month anniversary to this thread * gets out celebratory gummy candy * (Vegerot's Game/Vegito the Instigator) Boo's upset. Things weren't supposed to be like this. Giving Goku a chance to fuse wasn't supposed to actually make a difference! dude. Boo isn't a fan of being laughed at, so he's gonna give Vegito something else to laugh at. why this I PREFER THE GOTENKS GHOSTS!!! THEY WERE CUTE! THESE ARE NOT NEARLY SO MUCH SO! now that i think about it i'm kind of sad that the ghosts explode. i mean, obviously you can't just have a bunch of ki ghost gotenks floating around all over the place, but they seemed sapient? so... that just has some kind of unpleasant implications okay you're right! you gave me something else to laugh at, and that's that you're actually using the name the ((roughly)) eight-year-old gave his fucking weird grenade ghost attack! listen. look. look and listen. i'm here to tell you that you don't have to use the name just because it's what the attack's originator called it Vegito recognizes the attack (I guess Goku saw it while watching the battle in the HTC or something like that), which saves Boo the trouble of having to explain what it is and what the ghosts do... but he does anyway, before sending them out to explode. Vegito gets out of the way and safely detonates them at a remote distance by tossing out a couple of ki charges. Boo is surprised, and so Vegito decides to twist the knife a little bit more. Did Boo really expect that to work? A couple of kids thought that up! Boo must be getting desperate. Well, even if he's not getting desperate, he's certainly getting angry. He lets out a roar. The elder kaioushin begs Vegito to just finish it already. That's a good point; Vegito seems to be having no trouble at all with Boo, so why is he dragging this out so much? The elderly kaioushin believes that it's that good ol' fusion overconfidence. Which could certainly be a contributing factor, but it's also a fusion that involves Goku and Vegeta, so. Y'know. They are just kind of That Way, to varying degrees. Although Vegeta seemed kind of less That Way, or at least more resigned to his (presumed) fate. * shrugs * Maybe he's just having a bit of a depressed episode. (OTP: vegeta/therapy) Vegito's disappointed. Is this really the limit of Boo's power? He expected more. He challenges Boo to make him use his full power. Of course, Boo can't let those kind of statements just stand without trying to do something about it. He flies at Vegito with a roar and a complaint: it's not fair, there's two of them in there. Vegito stops his attack with his foot. Boo's one to talk about unfairness! yeah seriously there's like at least f...ive? people in there, if we count the rotund boo and think that trunks and goten are unfused dende is too good for us. we don't deserve him. sweet and preternaturally patient son <3 Boo gets kicked in the face and so, once again, is the proud owner of a bloody nose. Vegito, hand on hips, tells him it's pointless, because there's nothing Boo can do to defeat him. Boo takes the conversation down a sudden very different path: how does Vegito feel about coffee candy? And doesn't even give him a chance to answer before turning him into, presumably, a coffee-flavored candy drop that he snatches out of the air. Rude! What if Vegito hates coffee? there's something kind of cute about this Boo makes a brief speech to the candy clutched in his fist: how sad, ending his life as a candy! And then the fist holding the candy punches Boo in the face. you were saying??? Somehow, despite this never being the case before (maybe no one was strong enough?) Vegito's kept his considerable strength (and... ability to talk. somehow.) as a candy drop. The words "Ready to fight the world's most powerful candy?" are literally spoken aloud. By a piece of candy. What am I even reading. Despite everything, candy!Vegito has a kind of advantage in this new form of his: his hitbox is super super tiny now, making him nearly impossible to hit. However, because he's still just (?) as strong as before... he can use his new shape like a sucrose bullet. Which he does, at one point flying straight through Boo's open mouth and clipping off his head appendage for, like, the third time or something. goku's vore fetish still alive and well i see i'm so sorry Boo's had enough of candy!Vegito, and turns him back to normal. elder kaioushin over here embodying most of my thoughts for a lot of these battles Vegito tells Boo that he's getting bored and, much like Boo gave Goku five seconds to find a fusion partner, Vegito's giving him ten seconds to make peace with his own death. He begins a slow count, and Boo struggles to find some way out of this situation.
(continued) alllllright, suddenly things make a lot more sense. you had a plan going on, it wasn't just for fun Boo realizes that his "one option" is to absorb Vegito, but how to do that without Vegito cottoning to what's happening? Well, there's that conveniently lopped-off chunk of head appendage just lying on the ground, not doing much of anything. He seizes control of it and stealthily brings it up behind Vegito. what would you have done if he didn't? As Vegito's count reaches ten, Boo unfurls the appendage into one of his flesh "nets", and engulfs him in it. yeah don't let it get in your hair Boo sucks in the ball of flesh and... absorbs Vegito. you sure did!
