Breaking Point

Sweetopia; Egg City

The Exciting Egg City was a bustling metropolis built within a mountain valley. With a slight Arabian mixed with futuristic aesthetic, all the buildings were giant eggs, some based on the ground, some situated on pillars, and magic carpets were used to travel in-between places. A palace was built upon a mountain overlooking the city, and this was where Buu made his home. The Majin returned here after their attack on Zootopia, resting on his egg throne. Team Pilaf had come to visit him.

"WHAT?! You lost Buu's Dango-Dango Fruit?!" yelled the Majin.

"We swear we don't know what happened to it!" Pilaf panicked. "Pea just wanted us to tell you, it was meant to be delivered to her mansion, and she was going to inject it with the Awakening Serum to make it stronger before we fed it to you! But it disappeared from the ship it was on, and it doesn't seem like any of the crewmen ate it by accident."

"NYEEEAAAH! Buu want Dango Fruit! Buu was gonna use Dango Fruit to control the Kremling Krew! Buu was gonna surprise Mama with K. Rool as his slave! What's Buu gonna do now?!"

"Relax, Buu! You're already powerful enough without a Devil Fruit. Plus, when I permanently restore your youth with my enhanced power, you'll become unstoppable! You can crush all the other pirates in no time at all!"

"Mmmmm… Buu guesses…"

"Master Buu! We've got trouble!" A buff Glomourian man rushed in. "There's a fleet of ships crossing the valley behind the castle! They're flying the Sky God colors!"

"Waaaah! Can't you do it yourself?"

"W-Well, the flagship has a giant mask that kinda looks like one of their Commanders."

"Bleh. Fine, Buu take care of it." The Majin broke through the ceiling and took off.

"Buu, wait! We can help!" Pilaf and co. ran out of there.

The fleet of Star Knights were in battle with Big Mom ships as the Halberd sailed across the egg mountains. Chris, Aurora, and Meta Knight watched from the bridge as the palace drew into view. "Our reports claim that Buu has not yet released Sheila, so this may be our chance to rescue her and defeat the Majin in one fell swoop." the knight said.

"How do we kill a genie, anyway?" Chris asked.

"Majins are not the same as genies, though they are a species who can live for thousands of years and possess magical attributes. Most people mistake a Majin to be unkillable, because their cells constantly regenerate if destroyed. However, there is a limit to the regeneration. If all their chi is exhausted, the regeneration will fail and death will be permanent. To that end, we are lucky to have firebenders like you. Burning or destroying the cells will require more energy for the Majin to respawn, and thus ending him will be just a bit simpler."

"But we can't do serious damage to Buu until we save Sheila and anyone else inside, right?" Aurora asked.

"You are mistaken, Aurora. For as many powers a being like Buu has, there is just as many weaknesses. First, a Majin, like a genie, is unable to kill mortals, even if they are able to injure them. If a Majin were to swallow his victims, they could never be digested, and furthermore, even if the Majin's body were destroyed and reformed countless times, it would show no visible effect on the 'dimension' inside its body. The inhabitants inside would be perfectly safe. That being said, I surmise that Buu has crewmen who voluntarily let their selves be swallowed to guard prisoners or treasures, and there may be nothing to stop those 'guests' from killing each other. Indeed, Buu's body is a fortress all on its own. If he needs to kill someone, he need simply weaken his target and let his crewmen handle the rest."

"But what happens if the body is destroyed completely?"

"Buu's stomach is a Pocket Dimension, much like an Infi-Cube: if the host of a Pocket Dimension is destroyed, everything contained inside it will be forcibly ejected. We had best hope then that Chris's attack will have ceased at that time, otherwise Sheila will be in for a rude greeting."

"I could care less at this point." Chris stated coldly. "'Soon as I rip Sheila out of there, I got a ton of things I wanna say."

"Mmm… I fear this is more than a rescue operation." Meta Knight could sense a dark aura emanating from Chris. "I feel it is not my place to be here for this… but I shall protect you regardless."

Buu's Belly

As soon as she was swallowed, Sheila was forced into a red cellular pod, pressing her body from all sides. "Hnnnnhh… oi, I thought his stomach would have just a bit more room… c'mon, ya bloody box." She wriggled her rear in attempt to crack open the Vanish Box in her pocket. "Almost… there we… ARE!"

The box opened, and Mason burst out of it, his front completely smooshed into Sheila's in this tiny space. "Aip! S-Sheila!"

"Heheheh! Looks like my plan worked, eh?"

"Y'p! We were successf'lly… swallowed." Mason smiled awkwardly; with their mouths pressed together, their words were muffled. "Uh… how d'we get outta here?"

"I feel like this thingy is suckin' my chi. Eh, it's just like bein' in Big Mum. Well, only one thing to do."

"EEEEEEEHHHHH!" The outside of the pod was seen shaking as fist-shaped lumps popped around it, cartoon beating sounds heard within, until it finally broke with the combined force of Light and Poison, the two friends plopping on their behinds. "…Hehehehehehehehehe!" They both laughed off that silly moment.

"Bonkers, Mason, we got eaten by a real live genie! This is one for the adventure books, I tell you what!"

"It sure is. You really think Chris will come and save us though?"

"'Soon as he hears what happened, he'll be here in a jiffy."

"Even so… I'm still not sure how I feel about this whole thing. I mean, you're purposely making Chris more angry just so he'll fight this guy. There were plenty of other firebenders that coulda helped us."

"Yeh, but Chris ain't the guy that'll just get tired before the battle's over. Besides…" Sheila pushed herself up, Mason following, "that bloke has some things ta get off his chest, don't ya reckon?"

"I do, but… is this even the time or place?"

"We'll find out, won't we? Until that time comes, let's do some good old-fashioned exploring. Getting swallowed doesn't happen every day, you know!"

"Yeah, but if it happens once, most people tend to not want it again." (Play "Wriggle Sweet Room" from Charlie Chocolate Factory!)

Stage 23: Buu's Belly

Mission: Escape from Buu!

The chamber they were in had several pods that Sheila decided to break open, but they only contained shriveled-up food, a puppy, and a picture of Buu with a grinning dark-haired man on Coruscant. The exit door resembled lime-green cells that Sheila could punch open. Immediately, two Pianta guards saw them and threw punches, but were swiftly overpowered by Sheila's superior fists, and Mason gassed them into submission when they were knocked down. The duo approached a pool of pink digestive acid; though it wasn't designed to melt living creatures to death, it would still turn them into candy. Fortunately, Mason's poisonbending could open a path through the acid.

They crossed to a stairway that led up to a round corridor. The walls were stretching out in the form of Buu before detaching—they were White Buu Cells! One zapped Mason with a beam and turned his legs into marshmallow, causing him to trip. Sheila had Light Spheres bounce around the hall and bash the Buus, and once Mason freed himself, he burped Gas Bombs to intoxicate the cells, but after defeating them, they realized several walls of sticky marshmallow webs blocked the passage. Sheila's spheres would only bounce off them.

"Sheila, check it out!" Mason found an alternate passage, leading to a Rock Candy bushel. "You still remember how to use Candy Powers, right?"

"Heck yeah I do!" Both friends took a bite of candy, dropped it at their feet, and a crystal sphere formed around them. They rolled back down the passage and charged momentum before blowing through the marshmallows, the tunnel sloping and snaking in every direction before a ramp launched them over a pool of acid and onto a platform. There was a trail of syrup leading along the wall, and their Rock Candy was able to stick to and roll along it. The trail carried them over an acid river, but cannons in the opposite wall were shooting chunks of ice cream to try and take them down. They evaded the ice cream until they could safely land on a platform, having to break out of their Rock Candy against a ledge.

They climbed the ledge to view a processing plant-like area. Eggs, candy, and other foods were falling into a giant bucket, and little brain-shaped cells called Metroids were lifting the foods out and dropping them into machines, where they would be pumped of their nutrients and transferred through the appropriate pipe. "Danger, danger!" yelled a Gearmo that was cleaning a pump. "Prisoners have gotten loose! Get them, Metroids!" The Metroids turned focus on the kids. Sheila's spheres bounced off the first one as it latched onto her, sapping her energy, but some forceful punches were able to knock it off. Sheila dodged the cells while punching or kicking them directly, her melee attacks proving more efficient until the Metroids were down for good.

"So like, do these pipes go to different stomachs built for certain types of food?" Mason asked. "If I cared about Majin biology, I might look into it, but for now:" he used his bending to grab the acid and destroy the machines, KOing the Gearmo in the process. "Maybe it won't be healthy for him if I mess up his diet!" Alarms went off as Piantas raced in, whirling Chain Chomps and lunging them at the intruders.

"'ey, guess who found some Licoropes!" Sheila grabbed and pulled Mason away from the enemies, keeping hold of him as she latched the Licorope to a floating hook cell, swinging across a series as Piantas hurdled Chain Chomps from platforms. They set foot on a path leading into a wide, open room with pools of yellow, lava-like yolk. Hothands rose out of the yolk, holding large eggs that would explode when thrown. Mason and Sheila frantically ducked and ran through the room, but the captain noticed a hanging pod over a pit. Sheila punched to destroy the pod, freeing a Glacian girl, whom she caught before she fell in.

The Glacian hid in their Infi-Cube, the two escaping the room quickly afterward. They had to sidle along a ledge over a river of molten yolk, and Hothands would pop out of gaps and try to smack them. Sheila's Light Fists would subdue them enough to sneak by until they arrived at a dead end with an orange soda fountain. They recognized it as Fizzy Lift and took a drink, their bodies becoming light as bubbles as they floated further down the yolk river. The ceiling sloped down, forcing the two to lower just a few meters above the yolk. Yolk Bubbles bounced out of the lava, and they seemed to be intentionally chasing the duo; judging by their eyes, they had sentience.

Mason saw a treasure chest floating in the yolk and pulled it along with him, making dodging the Bubbles just a touch more difficult, but they were able to reach safe land by the time the soda wore off, the contents of the chest theirs to keep. They went up stairs to another processing area, but a police car shaped like a pill drove up. "You shall go no further, foul villains!" A robotic, red and yellow robot with a pill head was aiming a cannon at them. "Officer Drix is here to put you on ice!" Drix fired ice balls that would explode, freezing the ground around it.

Sheila dodged his attacks and punched Light Spheres at his face from afar. Drix endured the attacks, but was growing more annoyed and prepared a stronger ice blast. Sadly, Mason chucked a soda into his cannon and clogged it up, causing Drix to freezesplode himself. Mason grabbed the acids to destroy the processer machine. Alarms went off as the kids raced across a slightly narrow path with several gaps. There were spinning, hamburger-like creatures crossing the path, their eyes shadowed under the top bun.

These Spunburgers tried to bonk the duo into the acid, but were too weak to survive Sheila's fists. Hordes of hamburgers kept coming, but they advanced bravely until they could jump to a ledge with a path above the burgers. They encountered a waterfall of acid, which Mason could split open with his bending, but when he split open the second one, a Cuphead shot him in the face with a small energy bullet. Mason recovered and splashed acid over the Cuphead, KOing him before they passed through.

They entered an expansive room where the ground was made of bouncy pink marshmallow. Multiple Cupheads and Mugmen were bouncing joyfully, trying to shoot the intruders. They nimbly evaded Sheila's spheres, prompting the kids to get closer and knock them out directly. "Heheheheh! I wish my belly were as bouncy as this!" Sheila giggled, flying up and down.

"It's fun, but it's not worth it, I would think." Mason laughed as well. The two bounced over to a set of parallel walls over a pit, obviously needing to use Wall Jumps with extra bounce. They made it to some tilted giant marshmallows that bounced them further, landing them on a large bouncy ground where more White Buu Cells emerged. The Buus would shove them off with just as much bouncy force, but Sheila's Light Fists kept them at bay before that could happen. The duo bounced up a stairway of giant marshmallows, which had Springmallows bouncing on them that would force them away with great force.

One of these Springmallows was actually tied to a yeti operative from Glacia. Mason bounced over to carefully untie the yeti without touching the spring, and afterwards he took cover in the Cube. They ascended the marshmallows through a diagonal corridor, with windows showing the whipping outdoors—"WHOA!" Mason yelped when a blaze of emerald fire enveloped the view. "That fire… Sheila, I think Chris is here now!"

"See, I told ya he'd come! Hehe, we'd better get outta here before he cooks us for dinner!"

The duo arrived in a rather cold hallway with a bunch of Ice Spanias (resembling the Spunburgers, but made of ice cream disks and spikes). The Spanias didn't react to their presence, but they noticed another creature: a walking dark-green imp with a ghostly tail on its head and sad yellow eyes. The Ice Scream spotted the kids and, "EEEEAAAAAAIIIIII!" His bellowing scream hurt their ears and caused the Spanias to spin rampantly. Not only were the Spanias durable, but they hurt a lot worse than the burgers. Mason coughed a Gas Bomb toward the Scream and choked it; the silence caused the Spanias to stop, and the now-vulnerable creatures were swiftly dealt with.

The duo arrived at another processing center called Vomit Control, which seemed to exist just below Buu's throat, and a Big Mom flagpole was built above it. Hordes of Piantas charged forward, desperate to shove the kids away, but Mason stunned them with a Gas Bomb, leaving Sheila to jump and race across their heads, each step resulting in a "Dope, d'oh, dwoh!" Once across, Sheila hopped some platforms to get onto the pump, Ground Pounding a switch repeatedly in attempt to overpower it.

"Sheila, let me give you a hand!" Mason drank some Green Flurp, amplifying his bending as he blew through the Piantas with a giant Gas Bomb. He twirled a Silver Flurp in his hand as he raced past the brutes and poured the soda into an opening on the pump. It took a few seconds for the soda to pour out completely, during which time Sheila also had to punch away Metroids. The Silver Flurp increased the instability of the vomit, and with Sheila adding extra pressure with each pound, the explosion was now irreversible.

"Oi, it's gonna blow, Mason! Grab on and let's get outta here!"

"At least we're going together this time!" Mason jumped up to her platform and took her hand. "WOOHOOOOO/WHOOOOOAAAA!"

Their trajectory was in alignment with the top of the flagpole, the duo grabbing and spinning around it like a fan, the black flag morphing into a gold one with Sheila's logo. "VOMIT VOLCANOOOOOO!" They would enjoy the rest of the ride up. (End song.)

Several minutes ago

Mages swooped down on magic carpets, casting spells at Meta Knight, but the winged night was too swift, their carpets and wands ripping before they could even process what happened. "You bully! Leave Buu's friends alone!" cried the Majin, swooping in for a punch, but a sudden beam struck the Commander and exploded him.

Chris glared at the smoke, waiting until Buu fully reformed to speak. "You're one to talk, you pink piece of shit. You swallowed some of my friends."

"Ohhhh? Three-Eye Boy is friends with Sunny Fist?"

"I was referring to Sector IC, but sure, go ahead. Just spit Sheila out."

"Nuh-uh! Mama has special surprise for Sunny Fist! Buu keep her comfy in his tummy 'til surprise is ready."

"Fine. You asked for it." Chris whipped in the direction of Buu's mages and shot a quick, small Combustion Beam in the center of them, exploding and burning their carpets.

"YOU MEANIE!"

"Chris, save your strength for Buu!" Aurora stated.

"Oh, this is nothin'!" Chris cupped his hands in a circle above his third eye, blasting a massive emerald flame to burn all the nearby mages, Meta Knight flying away to avoid after-burn. "That piss you off, Genie Boy?! 'Cause you're gonna get it 50 times worse!"

"NNN!" Buu punched Chris off the Halberd's deck with great force, the boy crashing into the yolk field below. "NO ONE hurt Buu's friends but BUU!" The Majin zipped down in a fury. "Fire Boy PAY!"

"Heh." Chris recovered and readied his burning fists. "Finally, we're on the same page." (Play "Boss Battle 1" from Smash Brawl!)

Boss fight: Breakfast Commander, Minister of Eggs, MAJIN BUU

Power Levels: Chris – 8,402. Buu – 15,000

Buu lunged at Chris with a flurry of punches, Chris rapidly countering with flaming fists. The onslaught was ceaseless until Chris kicked a powerful blast from his foot, sending Buu away. The Majin willed giant eggs to pop out of the ground and fly at Chris, the boy destroying them with emerald fireballs, but in the midst of it all, Buu was charging his antenna. Buu whipped his antenna and shot a magic beam with bullet speed, Chris dodging by a hair's breadth, but Buu followed with more beams that he dodged in quick succession. After too many misses, Buu grew frustrated and decided to vacuum Chris in directly, but this gave him the chance to shoot his Combustion Beam directly down Buu's throat. The Majin inflated like a balloon and exploded.

Chris awaited his reformation, but was suddenly punched from the left by a floating fist, then a right fist, so he ignited his body to keep them at bay. Buu's body returned, and Chris didn't hesitate to tackle and rip him apart like a flaming tiger. Buu forced him off with a pulse of energy, then he willed the ground beneath Chris to become an egg yolk that would ensnare him. Noticing this instantly, Chris leapt out of the yolk's range, but there was another, and again, and once more, before Chris ultimately took to the sky on Rocket Boost. However, the crafty Majin created a tower of chocolate bars to shield himself. Chris flew to the very top, dodging cannon-jawbreakers that shot out, and fired his Combustion Beam directly into the opening, down the hollow tower, and exploded the base with Buu.

The melting tower collapsed into the smoke, but Buu suddenly flew out after reforming, Chris flying back to dodge, and the two engaged in an aerial fight between Buu's gloves and Chris's boots. Buu tried to zap the Candy Beam, but Chris evaded, swooping behind the Majin and grabbing the antenna. Chris swung him around while setting him ablaze like an emerald comet, eventually slamming Buu into the ground. The Majin flipped up and rolled away, the flames dousing as his body regenerated. "MASTER BUU!" 50 crewmen were saluting behind him. "We offer our lives!"

"Good! Buu need fodder!" The Majin flew over the troops and sucked them all into his throat. A cannon formed on his belly, blasting the men at Chris with bullet speed, but the Demon Prince continuously ran to the side to stay out of range until all 50 had fired. However, Chris was caught in a Yolk Trap, and by the time he burned himself free, Buu was able to snipe him with the Candy Beam, shrinking Chris into the body of a lollipop. The vacuum of Buu's lungs was drawing him in, but even in this sweet form, Chris's rage fueled him to a point where the lollipop shattered and he blew up to normal size, immediately shooting the Combustion Beam down Buu's throat as he exploded like a gas balloon.

After reforming, Buu transferred the fat from his body to his head, inflating it so that he could start munching along the ground like Pac-Man. He wasn't chasing Chris, so the Uno merely watched as he ate up a trail of the edible ground. When he finished, the Majin flew in the air and called, "Buu Barf SNAKE!" All that he had eaten spewed out as a flying snake, Chris flying to outrun it. Even when it was fully out of Buu's body, the Majin controlled and had it keep chasing Chris. With a burst of fire, Chris flew along the top of the snake and ignited the whole thing, the smell of burning puke torture to his nostrils. Chris could control the burning snake and willed it to wrap around Buu, and the fire combusted into a spire under Chris's power to severely damage the Majin.

"MASTER BUU!" This time, a band of 30 giants lined up with a salute. "We will serve you 'til the end!"

"Time for Buu's Big Belly Cannon!" Buu inhaled all the giants into his little body as if they were nothing. Chris growled and kicked on his Malladus Fury, a body of green aura with horns fitting around him. Chris blocked the first giant with his own strength and set him completely aflame, resulting in an unpleasant impact and chain reaction for the other giants. The crewmen cried and begged for help, but Chris granted said salvation as he flew over and sucked all that fire into his lungs. Buu met him in the air and unleashed a Super Candy Beam, wider and with neon colors, but it was intercepted by Chris's, "Emerald HELL BEAM!"

His third eye unleashed a one-foot wide beam of gaseous green, pressing against Buu's beam with near equal power. If this were a game, Chris would be button-mashing like crazy, that's what his beam looked like as it struggled to overcome Buu's. "EEEAAAAAAHHHH!" Hellfire proved stronger than candy as the Majin was completely evaporated. There wasn't a trace left when the beam died away, but because Buu's prisoners weren't popping into existence, they knew the fight was not done. When Chris saw Buu reforming, he set the Majin aflame, but Buu kicked him away with a severed boot. Buu was whole again, flying away as Chris hurdled giant fireballs, but a lucky shot of the Candy Beam was able to chocolatify Chris and make him fall.

Chris broke free in seconds, but Buu was given time to charge his antenna. The antenna flashed, and a soft purple aura appeared around Chris. The boy gasped when chocolate meteors began to fall from the sky, and this aura was some kind of gravity field leading them directly toward him! Chris had to destroy them with consecutive Combustion Beams, but he would still be drenched in the fast-melted chocolate. "D'AH!" Even after he thought he shot them all, a hand-size comet was able to bash him in the Combustion Eye. His chi paths were weakened, and worse was that Chris was unable to escape the chocolate pressing around him. Buu caught the mass of chocolate in an energy whip and began to swing and bash Chris around the ground.

"Haha! Buu poked your eye! Now you can't see!" the Majin taunted, whirling Chris in the air before letting him crash. "Majin CHI BEAM!" Buu channeled energy to his hands and unleashed his own deadly beam upon Chris, evaporating the chocolate and leaving the Uno a charred mess. He was still conscious through the endeavor, but his Fury aura was fizzling.

"MASTER BUU! Your dessert is served-goro!" A line of 10 giant, Pound Cake Gorons saluted loyally. Buu slurped them all into his endless gullet and readied to unload them on his fallen opponent.

"Oh, just fuck all of you!" Chris's emerald aura flared and exploded, a gargantuan fist sending Buu flying. Chris's aura was now the shape and size of Malladus's upper torso.

"I didn't know he could do that!" Aurora exclaimed.

Buu recovered in midair and fired the Goro Cannon, but the speed and power of the 10 giant rock men was nothing to Malladus's furious fists, hitting them away like volleyballs. The demon then snatched Buu out of the air and squeezed him to ashes like a marshmallow. However, Buu willed his cells to reform several yards away, and as Chris chased after him, Buu began rolling around the ground to amass all the edible matter into a giant ball that dwarfed the Demon King. When it was complete, Buu had it face Chris, spin extremely fast in one place, and launch at Chris with devastating momentum.

The demon's torso grasped the ball in his mighty hands, Chris's own arms mimicking the motion as he kept his stance as firm as possible. The heat was dramatically rising in both fighters as the kinetic energy was longing to burst, but had nowhere to flow. Chris's eye shone and launched the Combustion Beam, blowing the Gunk Ball all the way toward an egg mountain where the very top exploded. Little did Chris know that Buu had already escaped the ball and was burrowing underground to gulp him—but Chris felt the Majin's rage and dodged just in time, and the godly hands of Malladus clapped Buu in a trap. The Majin shook frantically to escape, but Malladus kept him firmly in place as the eye began shining again.

"But Buu hit your eye! Fire Boy should die!"

"'Guess you didn't hit it hard enough. Majins can't kill people, right? Your biggest weakness is you're forced to hold back. And that weakness earned you a one-way trip to HELL!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Buu suffered the full shower of the Emerald Hell Beam. He hadn't felt pain this great for 5,000 years, as if his very existence was being erased from the universe. As the Majin grew ever more charred, he saw little chance of regeneration.

That is, until Aurora grabbed Chris in a hug, using her Ice Chi to cool his aura and make Malladus vanish. "AGH! Aurora, what the hell are you doing?!"

"You did enough damage, but if Buu dies with that attack still active, Sheila and anyone else inside him could get fried!"

"FUCKIN' GET OFF!" Chris kicked her off. Aurora was notably charred from holding him, but the Hell Beam had died away.

Buu was able to reflate his body to its proper shape and color, panting as he cracked his eyes open at Chris. "Fire Boy… not playing nice anymore… uub!" His cheeks puffed. "B-Buu… feel weird thing… in mouth! BLAAAAAAH!"

A mass of gas and light exploded from Buu's mouth, and out came Mason and Sheila. "YAHOOOOO! We're freeeeee!"

"I never wanna get eaten again." Mason wept.

"Mason! Sheila!" Aurora beamed. "I didn't know you were BOTH in there!"

"You could say I snuck Buu an extra snack." Sheila winked. "This smelly marshmallow weren't nothin' to the greatness of Sunny-Fist Sheila and her first mate-" (Play "Welcome to Despair Academy" from Danganronpa.)

At first, it seemed that a small comet hit Sheila's face with the most unlucky trajectory of all time, but in actuality, it was Chris's emerald fist. "We got your message, Sheila. Fucking clever captain you are, doing all this to make your damn point. We lost our faith in the KND, is that it? We lost our damn loyalty and you're tryin' to make us remember who we're faithful to? HERE'S MY FAITH!" Chris socked her in the jaw, Sheila keeling over.

The raccoon pushed herself to her rear, rubbing the roasted skin of her face. "I knew ya'd be the one wantin' to save me, Chris. You're a big ol' sweetheart."

"THE FUCK IS WITH YOU?!" Chris kicked her back further. "It's bad enough listening to stupid naïve brats who think the KND is some sort of game; the cadets, Sector LN, or that piece of garbage that's in our class, whatever his fucking… I thought you would've been just a bit smarter, but you've made everything worse since all this shit began. You made things worse for Tani and her friends, you made things worse for the KND with this 'Fifth Emperor' bullcrap, and now you're making us waste time to save your stupid ass!"

"Hey, don't ignore Buu!" The Majin flew to attack them-

SHING SHING SHING SHING! He was carved into a million pieces by Meta Knight's Aixalag. "This is a personal matter. You will not interrupt!"

Sheila stumbled as she rose to her feet, a faint dark glimmer in her vibrant eyes. "I'm smarter than you think I am, Chris. When we were talkin' about how to beat Buu, and how there's a limit to his regeneration, we decided the best person to fight him would be a firebender. And there ain't no stronger firebender than you, Chris. You've been really upset lately… we figured it was only a matter of time before you snapped. If you took that anger out on Buu… it might actually be enough to beat him, no matter the difference in your Power Level. You really last long in a fight. And when you get angry, there ain't no stopping you."

Chris grabbed her by the shirt and punched her in the face. "So, my anger makes a good tool, is that it? Well, that's fucking hella better than what you have." He dealt a punch every second, holding her so she wouldn't fly off. Mason and Meta Knight couldn't bear to look and rooted their selves in the opposite direction, despair shadowing their eyes. "You never get angry, or worried, or feel bad about anything!"

Chris stopped to let Sheila catch her breath and spit out some blood. "Ya think I don't feel bad for what happened to Tani? Ya think I don't feel like you do every day? All I wanna do is go exploring with me mates… but all these bastard villains won't let us. I have ta keep smiling and reminding you guys there's a reason we're doing all this. And c'mon, Chris… the Sky Gods were never gonna ally with the KND. They just wanna use us. And just look at the way they treat their own crew. I wasn't gonna be a part of that. Still, I get why you wanted to. You just didn't want any more enemies. I'm sick of it, too. But that don't mean I'll let these pirates get away with it."

"Yeah, better beat them so you can get back to your adventure. Give it a few days and this whole thing will happen all over again, so why the fuck do I even care?"

"That's what I wanna know, Chris." Her sky-blue eyes cracked open at him. "Just why aren't you happy, anymore?"

Chris KICKED her away. His Malladus Fury ignited as he tried to ram her like a bull, but Aurora intercepted and used her full icebending to restrain him. "Chris, I think this has gone on long enough."

"What the hell do you mean?!"

"Every time Haruka checks your blood pressure, it's way too high, even by firebender standards. But no one knows better than we do, Chris… you're not healthy. You haven't been healthy ever since the Lights Quest started. It just kept getting worse, but we weren't sure what to say… because we needed you. You were an invaluable member of the team… but it needs to stop. You need to stop lying."

"DON'T put me in with that KOKICHI TWERP!" His aura brimmed a gaseous green as Malladus's tremendous arm erected from it and tried to push Aurora away, but in a flash of lightning, the fist was thwarted by the Galaxia Sword. The world vibrated as the sacred sword and demon's fist engaged in a test of endurance.

"Of course… so, that was all the sword needed." Meta Knight spoke in awe as the light glistened off his eyes. "Her love and concern for her family… it is no different from her father's."

"Chris… here and now… tell me your true feelings. Tell me your true beliefs. I want to hear the truth from your mouth."

"Why should it fucking matter?! The most important thing is our mission, to save our friends."

"You're lying again! I told you to TELL THE TRUTH!" Aurora blasted him away with ice, then leapt to sever the arm of Malladus. "NOW!"

"I DON'T FUCKING CARE, ANYMORE!" As tears escaped his eyes, emerald auras were spewing out of his body like a shattered gas tank. "I'm tired of being everyone's HERO. I'm sick of the fighting… the missions… saving people… EVERYTHING! I wanna just stay at home and forget about ALL OF IT! Kids and adults can save themselves! THAT'S how I feel! But those are the wrong feelings to have, right? You said it yourself, we sacrifice our happiness so that others can-"

Aurora slapped him. The flow of his aura seemed to die down. "There's no such thing as wrong feelings, Chris. What's the point of saving others if your own health has to suffer? If that's truly how you feel, then leave. Let us take care of it."

"But what if you end up in danger again?! What if there's a powerful enemy that only I can beat?! I couldn't just leave you to-"

Aurora embraced her brother in a gentle hug, cooling his mind and soul. "Your feelings are more important than we are, Chris. Your health is more important. Just leave… let us take care of things. You've done way more than we ever could've asked of you. So, just live your life happily… and don't be concerned with us."

A blue, calm mist rose from his body, erasing the toxic green aura. His pain and rage were free from his heart, and a feeling he could not comprehend took over. "I don't care, anymore… For some reason, hearing myself say that… makes me feel so happy… I thought it was wrong to not care for people… but I…I really don't want to… Why does this feel so good, Aurora?"

"Because those are your true feelings. It doesn't matter if they sound selfish… There's no point following a cause you don't believe in. Just be glad… you know more than all those ignorant bystanders will ever know."

"Still… this feeling is too powerful… I think I need to… take it out on something." Chris stood as Aurora released him. He faced the reformed Majin Buu with an entirely new outlook. His sapphire flames flared with purity. (Play "Fierce Demon King" from Zelda: Spirit Tracks!)

"Uuuu… Fire Guy doesn't look as scary as before… but Buu feels like… he's even scarier, too."

"BUU! Up here!" Team Pilaf flew overhead on a magic carpet. "Now's our chance! With my awakened Back-Back Fruit, I will restore you to your prime! AGE CIRCLE!" A faded white sphere expanded from him, Buu flying up into it. "Reduce Buu's age to 10 years old!"

Before their eyes, the chubby Majin compressed to a skinny body and a height just a few inches taller than Chris. His black and red eyes were open in a glaring fashion, and his voice carried far more malice than it had before. "Nnnnh… Fire Guy will pay for hurting Buu. Buu will turn all Mama's enemies into food. Buu will destroy everything… until Mama rules ALL!"

Phase 2: Only living son of Sherry, KID BUU

The speed of Buu's kick flung Chris 10 miles away, the boy spinning until his rockets kicked on and he halted himself. Buu caught up with equal speed, both engaging in a fist fight that human eyes couldn't keep up with. With each impact, the flames of Chris's fists grew hotter, until the Uno unleashed powerful sapphire flames. Buu countered the flames with his own chi, the forces equal in power as they expanded and exploded, practically turning the surrounding ground into lava. Buu flew back and willed that sweet lava to fly up and envelop Chris, but his sapphire flames evaporated it. Chris fired a Combustion Beam, but Buu dodged as the beam flew all the way to destroy the top of a mountain.

Buu decided to follow his example and fly to another egg mountain, decimating the entire mass and slurping it all into his mouth. A massive cannon emerged from Buu and unleashed a mountain-size egg yolk, but Chris pierced his Combustion Beam clean through the middle, tucking himself inside to let it pass through, but Buu was already following up for a punch. The attack landed, dropping Chris's guard as Buu grasped his arms and tried to morph him into candy. "Hnn?!" The Majin felt heat rising behind him—the flames that erupted from the mountain's explosion were being drawn to Chris, burning through Buu's body as they were sucked into the Demon Prince.

Buu quickly reformed and whirled his antenna to send Candy Crackers around the air, fireworks that exploded into bladed candies. Some were melted by Chris's aura, but others managed to get through and cut the boy, so he decided to fly away from their blast radiuses. Buu molded a chocolate sphere around himself, and that was enveloped in silver syrup, followed by golden syrup, creating a powerful 3-layer shield. Buu could still sense Chris's position and willed ground chunks to fly up from below and hit him.

Chris whirled a Fire Shuriken in his hands and threw it to cut around the golden shield, dodging the attacks as he willed it to keep going. The gold shield was eventually burned in half, so Chris created another shuriken to cut around the silver shield until it was no more. Rather than do the same for the chocolate shield, Chris conjured the head of Malladus to completely munch it, trapping Buu between his teeth. With the Majin unable to flee, he suffered a direct hit from the Hell Beam. Buu was once again evaporated, but the particles of his antenna reformed first, zapping Chris with the Candy Beam and turning him into gold-coated chocolate. Chris fell to the ground, struggling to break free as Buu fully respawned.

The Majin fired a Chi Beam at the gold statue, freeing Chris from the prison, but drastically damaging the boy. Buu shot down with a stomp that would bury Chris 20 feet under, but with a smirk, the boy clapped, and the air above him combusted and burned Buu's legs. Chris shot up through the smoke for an uppercut, then he cleaved off Buu's neck with a shuriken, then sliced his body in vertical halves. The head flipped upright and spat an egg into Chris's mouth, choking him just long enough for his foot to respawn and kick him in the crotch. Buu was given time to reform and fly the great distance to the Exciting Egg City.

"Looks like Buu needs some nourishment." Pilaf said. "I thought for sure he woulda won by now. That boy is a demon!"

"But Buu should be way stronger with his youth restored!" Shu figured.

"He is stronger, you idiot! The problem is, my Age Regression can't erase damage that was done to my targets. In Buu's case, even though his regeneration is stronger, he still wasted a lot of it in the first fight."

Once Buu arrived at Egg City, without a care for his peoples' consent, he sucked the entire metropolis into his extremely cramped lungs, screams erupting all throughout town. When he returned to Chris, the Majin blew up to 30 feet in size and clapped him in his gloves! However, a sapphire Malladus erupted from Chris, torso, legs, and everything. Malladus grabbed the half-as-tall Majin, Buu wrestling with equal power as they plummeted to the sweet soil and completely burned through it, creating an ever-sinking tunnel. Buu finally kicked the demon off and tried to enclose the ground around them, crushing Chris with the mass of thousands of tons worth of edible rock, but because it was edible, it was easily reduced to ash.

As the spectators viewed the hole they had fallen into, a godly spire of sapphire flames erupted from it, and it seemed to be burning along the ground as Chris was chasing Buu underneath. The spire stopped and compressed down to a tiny sliver, but soon vanished. Then, Chris came zipping up from the muck, holding Buu by the antenna as he was flying straight for the sun. The closer they drew to the atmosphere, the more Chris's third eye absorbed the radiance of the light. Sensing inevitable danger, Buu destroyed his own head and escaped Chris's grasp, catching his boot between his legs, but Chris abandoned that shoe and continued the flight, while Malladus's arms stretched out and grabbed the Majin.

Nearly at the peak of the stratosphere, Chris absorbed the divine heat of the sun into his eye. "Sheila ain't the only one who draws power from the sun. Malladus's fire originated from the Sun God, Solaris, and this eye of mine will condense it all into THIS!"

Buu was more desperate than ever to escape, but Malladus's arms showed no signs of weakness. Seeing the eye shining like a mini sun, Buu decided to condense all that remained of his chi into a single Ultra Candy Beam. At the same time it unleashed from his antenna, Chris faced down at his foe and called, "NEON SOLAR BEAM!" All the colors of the rainbow met Buu's beam, creating a light so bright that none would dare gaze upon its beauty.

It was impossible to tell, but Buu's beam had already failed, and the Majin's nerves were all but ashes under Chris's power. "NOOOOO! BUU IS THE STRONGEST! Buu has been the most powerful Big Mom Pirate for 5,000 years. Fire Boy CAN'T be stronger than Buu!"

"Let's see how strong you are in the pits of Hell!"

"AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE. . . . . . . ." (End song.)

When Aurora, Mason, Sheila, and Meta Knight found Chris collapsed on the ground, a black charred worm was clasped in his hand. They could barely make out Buu's gaping face. "Peeeh… Buu can't…Buu can't… die like this…"

"You will no longer harm another soul!" Meta Knight snatched the shriveled Majin and flew across the valley to where Egg City once stood.

"Please…Please… spare Buu!"

"You use your own people for nourishment, but now I will set them free!" And so, the Aixalag Sword laid the final blow upon the Majin.

The entirety of Egg City exploded out of Buu's sliver of a body, buildings collapsed and people lain exhausted on the ground. His duty done, Meta Knight returned to the Nextgen Kids. "IMPOSSIBLLLLLE!" cried Pilaf. "Our most powerful Commander was defeated by that boy! How can we crush the Four Emperors without Buu?!"

"Your plan was doomed to fail from the start." declared the knight. "Now leave, or you shall share his fate!"

"WAAAAAAHH!" The magic carpet whooshed them off into the sky. "You'll pay for this! I'm telling my mommy!" Twinkle.

Sheila, still bloody and bruised, patted Chris's face with a somber expression. "I knew you could do it, mate. Ya don't have ta put up with me, anymore."

"Such an exertion of chi will surely render Chris's bending in disrepair for some time." Meta Knight said. "I believe this proud warrior has fought his last battle."

"Even if he had strength to spare," Aurora replied, "there was no way he could survive the rest of this war. We should take him home."

"I still remember where your treehouse is located." Meta Knight lifted the boy in his arms. "I will personally return him home on my Mini Halberd. And I will protect him if the Sky Gods wish to force him to stay."

"Thanks, Meta Knight. We've got things covered here."

The knight's cape became wings as he flew toward the Halberd. "But if your prowess was that astounding, Chris… Imagine what your sister will display, when her Galaxia meets my Aixalag."

"Oi, Aurora." The Uno sister turned to Sheila, who had a finger aimed at her. "I still plan to punish the rest of you. A captain needs to discipline her crew."

Aurora smiled and saluted. "Aye-aye, Captain. Do you need a way out of here?"

"No worries, we have a Vanish Box." Mason assured. "We'll be outta here shortly. You guys were briefed on the rest of the plan, right?"

"Yeah, we know who we're up against. Let's hope everything goes well for the rest of us."

Uno Household

Chris opened his eyes to a familiar ceiling. He felt his body lying on a soft object. He felt no weight on his feet except for his socks, and his jacket was absent. He awoke in his room, as if it had all been a terrible dream.

The boy walked into the living room to find his grandpa. "Ah, there's my boy." Monty greeted cheerily. "I would say 'Top of the morning,' but it's evening now isn't it, so 'Bottom of the evening' as it were! Not that we're even Irish anyway, eh wot?"

"How did I get here…?"

"Oh, this little masked, ball-shaped fellow dropped you off. Odd one, he was. You were out like a lamp, old boy! Did something happen?"

"Uh… no. I think I just conked out. I'm, uh… gonna lie down for a bit longer."

Chris returned to his room and lied down. There was absolute quiet, and his eyes were glued to the ceiling. For some reason, something as common and boring as his ceiling was such a welcome sight. He felt like he could talk to his ceiling about anything and not feel judged. Several questions were on his mind. Was this the right choice? Can his friends really protect themselves? Could they really save Squitaba? Could they beat the Four Emperors? Which lucky operatives would score the winning kill?

"…It's not my problem, anymore." This was the answer to all those questions. And he had no second guesses. He was perfectly content with his answer. He removed his jeans, the last article of heavy clothing on his person, and relaxed his body on the comfort of his bed. "Just call me for the victory party." Until then, Chris geared up for another important battle: he opened his 4DS and locked himself into the world of Mario Kart.