Chapter 4 — The Wizard Who Chased a Monster
I. A Disturbance in the Dark
Far beyond Earth, in the cold vacuum between dying stars, a crooked smile formed beneath a hood.
Babidi had spent years preparing the resurrection of his father's masterpiece.
Majin Buu.
In the original timeline, energy from Saiyans would awaken the creature.
But this time—
Something else burned on Earth.
Not Saiyan.
Not divine.
Human.
And impossibly vast.
Babidi felt it like a beacon in the void.
"What… is that?"
He adjusted his scrying orb.
The image sharpened.
A mustached human training calmly in extreme gravity.
Ki output perfectly contained.
Infinite depth.
Babidi's thin lips trembled.
"If I harvest that energy… Buu would awaken instantly."
He changed course.
Earth was no longer a feeding ground.
It was a target.
II. The Champion Feels It
On Earth, Hercule paused mid-punch inside his gravity chamber.
He lowered the pressure from 8,000x to 1x without strain.
There it was.
Malice.
Focused.
Searching.
He stepped outside onto the balcony.
The sky was quiet.
But something had locked onto him.
Launch approached softly.
"You felt it too?"
She had grown more perceptive over the years.
"Yes," he replied.
"Should we be worried?"
Hercule smiled gently.
"No."
III. The Wizard Arrives
Two weeks later.
A meteor-like pod descended outside Satan City.
The Z Fighters sensed it immediately.
Goku (alive again through Other World arrangements),
Vegeta,
Gohan,
Piccolo—
All converged.
But Hercule arrived first.
Babidi stepped from the craft, flanked by Dabura.
Dabura, King of the Demon Realm.
Dabura's eyes narrowed immediately.
"That human…"
Babidi grinned.
"Ahhh… there you are. The anomaly."
Hercule folded his arms.
"You're looking for energy."
Babidi blinked.
"Yes… and yours will do nicely."
IV. Attempted Possession
Babidi's eyes glowed.
He raised his hand.
Dark magic surged.
A sigil flared above Hercule's forehead.
The Majin mark began forming.
Vegeta stiffened in alarm.
But then—
The sigil shattered.
Instantly.
Not resisted.
Erased.
Babidi stumbled backward.
"What?!"
Hercule stepped forward.
"You can't corrupt what isn't divided."
His mind was unified.
Fear integrated.
Ego disciplined.
No cracks.
Dabura lunged.
Sword drawn.
Faster than light.
Hercule caught the blade between two fingers.
Crushed it to dust.
One palm strike to Dabura's chest.
The Demon King vanished in a contained implosion.
No shockwave.
No debris.
Gone.
Babidi shrieked.
"You monster!"
Hercule tilted his head.
"You came here to awaken one."
V. The Egg
Babidi, desperate, activated the sealed sphere behind him.
Majin Buu's cocoon rose from the ground.
Energy readings spiked.
But Hercule extended his hand.
He didn't attack.
He didn't destroy.
He simply… compressed.
Space folded inward around the egg.
All potential energy collapsed into itself.
The cocoon shrank.
Smaller.
Smaller.
Until it fit in his palm like a marble.
Dormant.
Neutralized.
Babidi fell to his knees.
"That took centuries…"
Hercule flicked two fingers.
Babidi disintegrated.
Silence fell across the wasteland.
VI. Reaction of the Saiyans
Vegeta stared at the marble in Hercule's hand.
"You just… ended a god-tier threat."
"Yes."
Goku scratched his head.
"So no big fight?"
"No."
Goku looked disappointed for half a second.
Then grinned.
"Well, that was still cool!"
Piccolo exhaled slowly.
"He didn't even power up."
Gohan approached.
"Is Buu… dead?"
"No," Hercule replied calmly. "Contained."
He closed his fist.
The marble dissolved completely.
Energy dispersed harmlessly into the upper atmosphere.
Majin Buu would never exist in this timeline.
VII. Ripple Effect
Far away.
In the realm of destruction.
A cat-like deity stirred.
Beerus opened one eye.
He felt it.
A mortal.
Erasing forces meant to reshape universes.
His ears twitched.
"That wasn't supposed to happen."
He turned slightly.
"Whis."
From behind him, staff in hand, stood
Whis.
"Yes, Lord Beerus?"
"There's a human on Earth who just disrupted prophecy."
Whis smiled faintly.
"Oh my. How exciting."
Beerus closed his eyes again.
"I'll deal with it later."
But the thought lingered.
And for a God of Destruction—
Curiosity was dangerous.
VIII. The New Reputation
Back on Earth, news spread that the Champion had "prevented a terrorist incident."
The public would never know the truth.
The Z Fighters would.
Vegeta approached Hercule privately.
"You're beyond us."
"Yes."
Vegeta's pride flared—then stabilized.
"Then teach me."
A pause.
Hercule studied him.
"I can't teach you strength. You already have it."
Vegeta frowned.
"Then what?"
"Control."
That answer lingered with him for months.
IX. Home
That night, Launch stood beside Hercule on the balcony.
"You ended something big today, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Are more coming?"
"Always."
She slipped her hand into his.
"Then we'll face them."
Videl joined them quietly.
"I want to be ready too."
Hercule looked at both of them.
This.
This was why.
Infinite strength meant nothing without something to guard.
X. The Cosmic Shift
In canon, the Buu saga forged new transformations.
Super Saiyan 3.
Fusion.
Ultimate Gohan.
None were needed now.
The power scale had collapsed.
A human stood at the peak.
The gods had noticed.
And somewhere beyond mortal sight—
The Grand Priest tilted his head.
A deviation in probability.
A mortal who was not meant to stand so high.
The board was changing.
And the next move would not come from a wizard.
It would come from a god.
Closing Scene
Hercule stands alone in his gravity chamber once more.
10,000x Earth gravity.
He breathes calmly.
Reads ancient ki manuscripts.
Refines technique.
No wasted motion.
No arrogance.
Outside—
The universe adjusts itself around a man who refused to let fear define him.
And above—
A Destroyer begins to wake.