Rebirth of Fusion
Movie 12 starts off with a After-Life Tournament with all of the Kai's watching. There is fierce competition between some of the Kai's as to which fighter will prevail. It all accepted that Frog, Goku, and Pikkon are the front runners in the tournament. After Goku easily defeats his opponents, and Pikkon and Frog follow suit, it all comes down to Goku vs. Pikkon. Mid-battle the screen flashes down to hell, where King Yemma, the demon lord, is dealing out some harsh decisions as to who goes to hell and who goes to heaven. As almost EVERYONE knows, (sarcastic) your soul (should you be sent to hell) is put through as massive washing machine. Strangely enough, this is guarded by a seemingly rebellious, teenage demon, who plays music from his headphones quite loudly. As expected, his irresponsible actions lead to the machine exploding. But what should come out of this disastrous catastrophe? Not an evil monster, not a horrible malignancy, but...... a cuddly squishy fellow that goes by the alias Janemba. None would think that this squishy fellow would be a totally evil villain, but they find that out the hard way. One of the great points of the movie are the various sub-plots that appear throughout the movie. One of these plots is the escapades of little Trunks and little Goten, whose childish antics are present during the entire movie, and their titanic battle (well, not so titanic) against Hitler and his army of Nazi warriors (brought back to life by Janemba. He brought back all of the dead back to life). Now. where was I? oh yes... back to Janemba. Down in hell all is havoc. The entire world is totally enveloped in little colorful blobs that are suspended in the air. Most of hell is now totally inanimate. So.... guess who comes to the rescue?...Goku! but now he brought Pikkon along to help out. (they did not get to finish their battle). Once in hell they realize quickly that Janemba is no easy
foe, regardless of how harmless he looks. Pikkon is deployed to help release the demon lord from his little work office (now totally sealed in a blob), while Goku goes off to fight Janemba. Right off the bat Goku starts to treat Janemba like a baby, even though it does have a baby's intellect. Goku lures Janemba into a safer fighting spot to try to gain the advantage and make the fight do as little damage as possible to the spirit world. Immediately after starting the battle, Janemba makes little clones of himself to fight
Goku. They all pile onto Goku and he fends them off easily. This should be a piece of cake, right?....Wrong. Goku takes the offense. Right after diving at Janemba, Goku realizes that he overlooked one factor of Janemba: his ability to punch through space and time to hit targets otherwise impossible to hit. In other words, Janemba could punch right in front of himself and his hand would come out of a portal some 15 feet away to strike an unwary target. After seeing that he cannot defeat this monster in his normal form, Goku blasts Super Saiyan! Immediately following super Saiyan #1, he goes SS2 and SS3 in rapid succession. Now it seems like the battle will be too easy. He starts to attack Janemba and literally rips him in half. But wait! What's this? the seemingly lifeless blob of the once great Janemba is bubbling! Now Janemba shows his true face, that of an evil monster. Now Janemba is kind of purple-blue with horns and a menacing face. Goku attacks... but this time Goku's attack = disaster. Janemba easily deflects Goku's attacks and now has the power to dissociate and completely re-appear somewhere else without notice. Now Janemba takes up a mighty sword, which is more than enough to slice and dice Goku. Goku almost gets hit but manages to stay alive. He is now all but dead. He is totally beaten up, out of super Saiyan, and hovering in a strange red liquid in hell. This is just the kind of day everyone wishes for. But when Janemba is just about to finish Goku off... who should save the day but the great Vegeta!!!. With his usual attitude, he makes sure Goku knows that his saving of Goku's life was coincidental. But we all know that he respects Goku... Goku tries to warn Vegeta of Janemba's power but our stubborn Saiyan prince will hear none of that. (go Vegeta!). He recklessly attacks Janemba but is easily defeated with this crazy arm thingy that strikes Vegeta into a state of extreme pain and he is easily put away (but not dead). Now all seems lost. Goku drags Vegeta into a save place to rest, away from the monster but for how long, none knows. He explains to Vegeta that there is now only one way to defeat Janemba.....Fusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now for a trip to the rest of the Z cast
Trunks and Goten are having a blast looking for the dragon balls; the last of which the find on a golf course. After returning with the four starred dragon ball, Shenron appears (spelling is what appears on the tape and is not my opinion as to how it should be spelled). Since all these strange dead people have been coming back to life (Frieza included) total mayhem has rocked the city. After the great Saiyaman defeats Frieza with a PUNCH Goten and trunks take on Hitler and his Army. When Shenron reveals that since the dead spirits are the work of the Demon Lord, he cannot do anything to stop them. Goten remarks: "Shenron is stingy!!!" and Trunks claps a hand over Goten's mouth wisely. After the vain summoning of Shenron, Goten and Trunks go off to fight Hitler and his Nazi army. They easily start wrecking them right off the bat but there seems to be no end to the army. Goten and Trunks easily dodge the strangely multi-colored shells that the Nazi warriors fire, and retaliate with vicious efficiency.
back to Goku and Vegeta...
After a whole LOT of persuading, Goku finally makes Vegeta see the light about fusion. Vegeta, with his immense amount of Saiyan Pride, obviously refused to fuse straight out. But after seeing how pointless a battle with Janemba is without fusion, he agrees. Goku teaches a reluctant Vegeta the fusion dance, and they start to perform it. However Vegeta extends his fist instead of his forefinger in the performance of the dance and screws it up as a result. What should come out of the faulty fusion? none other than a Fat Gogeta. The Kai's are horrified at what a mistake happened and realize that Gogeta does not have a chance ^_^. however this is where they are wrong. Gogeta easily recovers from Janemba's attacks when they bounce off his abundant blubber and in no time, his fusion span runs out and Goku and Vegeta are apart. "What kind of fusion was that?" Vegeta demands. Then they hear from the sky King Kai yelling: "Vegeta didn't extend his index finger!". After Vegeta argues that he did nothing wrong they start to do the fusion dance again. They start to do it but then..... Janemba interrupts their fusion and they do not get to complete it. But the hero of the day becomes Pikkon! even though he was almost forgotten, he comes back to save them. While Janemba is busy with Pikkon, Vegeta and Goku fuse successfully to form the REAL Gogeta!!!!!. Yeahhh!!!. After Pikkon is dispatched easily by Janemba, its Gogeta's turn to whip some ass. Gogeta very quickly starts beating up Janemba with invisible punches. Then, while Janemba is distracted, Gogeta charges a Spirit Bomb-like attack. He hits Janemba with it and suddenly, Janemba starts to disintegrate. Now when the dust settles all you see is a little teenage demon boy running off into the distance. Upon Janemba's death, all the resurrected people return to their graves and peace reigns once again.... But there is still one problem.
Shenron: "Um... does anyone have a wish yet?" |
