Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Super and all associated characters (but that would be lovely!). Akira Toriyama is the genius creator and Toei Animation brought it to life. Domo Arigato!
Author's Notes: I was inspired by the Universal Survival arc of the anime and a couple of other things. See if you can spot the other influences. Now, onto "New Genesis"!
Champa, God of Destruction for Universe 6, was sitting on one of the enormous and luxurious coaches in the massive lounge of his palace. Normally, he would be yelling at his Angelic attendant Vados to get him something to eat, or to help him come up with some ideas for what to do.
Today was quite the exception, however.
It had been but a scant week since the Tournament of Power, and Champa was still reeling from the fact that his ass-hole brother had not only come out on top, but that one of his fighters had used his wish from the Super Dragon Balls to restore all the universes that the Omni-Kings had erased. The two-fold humiliation had been driving him crazy, but an unexpected visit had him a much better mood; Well, after he learned the reason for the visit, that is.
It had started two days after the tournament and Champa was going crazy, trying to come up with a crazy scheme or a nasty plan to try, yet again, to one up his skinny punk of a brother, Beerus. Vados had been calmly and serenely, as always, acting as a sounding board to the chubby God of Destruction, weighing the pros and cons of each scheme. From Champa's point of view, she was poking holes in everything and making him look like a moron, to which she always replied with a soft giggle and a comment about how often her Lord Champa lets stress get the better of him.
He was about to retort (along with dropping some very bad language aimed at Vados' pretty face) when a soft glowing orb appeared right in the middle of his living room. Vados and Champa both very surprised by this, but became quite startled when the Omni-Kings themselves, the Grand Zen-O's, appeared before them with their body guards flanking them, and the Grand Minister to the left of them. The Omni-Kings were smiling and laughing like little children at play, while the Grand Minister looked like he would rather stab himself in the eye with a white-hot knife than be here right now. What surprised Champa even more was that Fuwa, the Supreme Kai of Universe 6 was with them, a surprisingly joyful smile threatening to split his chubby face.
"Glorious sires! How gracious of you to visit my humble abode! How can I serve you today?!" Champa blurted out almost as fast as he bowed to the rulers of the Multiverse. He was scared to death because usually if the Omni-Kings needed to see anyone about anything, they called you to come to them; Not the other way around, most certainly!
"Hi Mr. Champa! We just had a really fun idea! A really really fun idea!" Both the child-like deities exclaimed with almost palpable glee. Champa hadn't a single clue as to what the Omni-Kings "really really fun idea" was, but since the last one was a martial arts tournament that saw the losing teams and their home universes erased from existence, he was loathe to even hazard a guess. Since not answering the Omni-Kings would be blatantly disrespectful, he simply asked, "And what would that be, Sires?"
"Another Tournament of Power!"
Champa and Vados both looked surprised, but where Vados looked contemplative, Champa despaired, thinking he was possibly going to be erased again. His fears were unfounded as the Grand Minister spoke up for the first time.
"No need to worry, Lord Champa, the Omni-Kings won't be erasing any universes this time around. Their Majesties have decreed that the Tournament of Power would become an annual event. Since the idea for the tournament was first proposed by someone from Earth, than Earth-time will be used to determine when the Tournament shall be held. It will be held every three Earth years, as was the World Martial Arts Tournament that was held on Earth. There have also been some changes to the rules, nothing really demanding of attention but nonetheless, still important. Would you like me to go over the new rules, Lord Champa?"
Champa really had no idea how to respond so he simply nodded and waited for the Grand Ministers response .
"Excellent! Before we get into the rules though, well...", here the Grand minister seemed particularly reluctant to continue, but as Grand Minister, he had a duty to perform, no matter how much it despaired him. Champa was perplexed as he had never seen the Grand Minister so reluctant to speak his piece before. And soon realized why as the Grand Minister soon explained.
"Before we get into the rules, we need to discuss the grand prize for winning the tournament", the Grand Minister proclaimed after taking what looked like a steadying breath. He continued, "For the winning universe, the Supreme Kai and his Destroyer counterpart will be...be named...named...".
"Yes?", a curious Champa asked, despite it being considered rude to pry when the Grand Minster was speaking.
The Grand Minister was about to finish when both the Grand Zen-O's jumped and happily squealed at the top of their tiny lungs, "The winning universes Supreme Kai and God of Destruction get to become the new Omni-Kings!"
Both Grand Zen-O's had in fact squealed so loud, the Grand Minister hit the roof (quite literally!) , Champa had straightened up so fast, his spine popped like a series of gunshots going off in rapid-fire, and poor Vados had been so startled, she had actually fallen over a sofa, flailing her arms trying to catch herself, over-turning the sofa and falling over it herself. She landed flat on her back, knocking herself loopy with her feet twitching now and again.
As Champa tried to push a couple of vertebrae back into place, his Supreme Kai counterpart Fuwa spoke up. "It's true, Lord Champa! The winning universe of this next tournament will have their respective Supreme Kai and God of Destruction promoted to Omni-Kings! Isn't it wonderful?! Also, all of the fighters get a ridiculously massive amount of local currency to play with! A wish from the Super Dragon Balls! And a whole bunch of other stuff! I just can't believe it myself! Money and wishes and crowns, oh my!"
As Champa began to snap out of his pain-induced stupor and registered what was said, the Grand Minister gave Fuwa a pointedly dirty look for stealing his thunder, so to speak. He noticed both Grand Zen-O's giving the Grand Minister their own dirty looks too, so he decided to leave Fuwa alone. He'd speak to the rotund Supreme Kai later in private.
"Ahem!" The Grand Minister cleared his throat as loudly as he could while trying to maintain an air of decorum. "Now, if everyone has been briefed on the 'prize' for the next tournament", he grumbled. His tone showed he had no love for the so-called "Grand Prize" and was loathe to talk about it further. The Grand Minster decided to focus on the actual rule changes so to get the awful taste out of his mouth. A large yellow covered book materialized out of thin air right in front of him and opened of its own accord to approximately the middle. The Grand Minister cleared his throat again and even put on reading glasses. If for effect if nothing else.
"Aha! Here we go! Revised Tournament of Power rules, first edition. Revised rules, in addition to new rules are as follows: As with the original format of the rules, any contestant knocked from fighting stage shall be declared defeated by ring-out. In addition to ring-outs, contestants are now allowed to render their opponents unconscious, using any and all force they may deem necessary. Also...", it was here the Grand Minister stopped, and seemed to heave a heavy sigh, as though something troubled him. He looked about ready to continue when the Omni-Kings interrupted him themselves.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Get to the good part!" Said the Original Omni-King. The Future Omni-King chimed in, "Yes! Get to the good part! The Good part!" Everyone turned to the Omni-Kings. Vados had pulled herself and was massaging her head when she glanced over at the Omni-Kings and gasped. Champa finally realized that something was off with them. Both Grand Zen-O's were wearing what appeared to be armoured battle gear instead of their usual robes.
Both wore shiny black metal boots with wrap-around grieves the colour of an evening sky, trimmed in polished gold. They also wore metal body armour of the same colour, also trimmed in gold, matching skirts of armour over black leggings and golden belts with the Omega symbol serving as the buckle. Their shoulders had matching spaulders with matching gauntlets. Their new look was completed by open faced helmets that covered the entire backs of their heads and were held in place by golden metal chin straps.
While the new outfits were strange, what made Vados gasp and Champa swallow hard was the icy cold of their eyes which had somehow turned bloody red, glowing with an eerie, fiery light. When they spoke again, it was like something cold and malevolent was speaking through them like they were puppets. Champa was too scared to open his mouth so he let the changed Omni-Kings have they say.
"The best part, is that now everybody is allowed to kill! Murder, mutilate, massacre! Our three favourite new words! Everybody gets to have some real fun! Oh, we almost forgot! The other new rule, if stupid Grand Minister had mentioned it earlier", and they glared hatefully at the short angel, "was that each team is to use at least one dead warrior. We want 'um mean, nasty, and perfectly happy to rip off some heads! Bring 'um back to life first, or as a reward for after, that's up to you. We think you should bring 'um back to life right away, though. Your only allowed to use guys from Hell, though. Wishy-washy guys from Heaven are crap anyway!"
Champa listened intently, and had to admit, it was a great idea! Who cares if the fighters are allowed to kill each other? Not him! If you get killed at this new Tournament of Power, then you didn't deserve to be there in the first place! He saw the Omni-Kings turn to him and thought he had done something to earn their combined ire, but they smiled at him and nodded, as though they agreed with his train of thought.
Champa had just received massive inspiration from the Omni-Kings and he was going to run with it! He had heard along the cosmic grape vine that the Hell of Universe 7's Earth was full of nasty dudes he could recruit, and he knew for a fact that signing up somebody from another universe was actually allowed by the original rules, and if the Grand Zen-O's transformation was any indication, it would probably be encouraged in the revised rules! He and Vados had work to do, and he just couldn't wait to see the look of defeat on his idiot brothers face when a warrior from his own universe would be used to best him and his fighters. He knew he'd have to pay a discreet visit to Universe 7's after life to do some checking, but he knew he'd find someone to fill the "Dead Warrior" role.
He also began to wonder about the dramatic change that had overtaken the usually sweet and friendly Grand Zen-O's, but decided to worry about that later. Before he could begin to plan out his next moves, the Grand Zen-O's made one last pronouncement. "Okay guys! Listen up! Each universe has been given a special laboratory to equip and upgrade the warriors you pick, even the dead guys you decide to bring back. These labs were provided by a very awesome fella we met recently, another God in fact, and he comes from a completely different multiverse! These new labs are massive, and look really expensive, so you break it, you bought it! This new guy had to get another God that he met to transport these labs to everybody's universes, so make the most of them. They might decide to take them back or blow them sky-high if you screw up, so don't screw up!...or else! Okay?"
They both leaned forward, giving everybody the stink eye, as though daring somebody to talk back or contradict them. When no one did, they waved good-bye and singsonged, " see ya later!" and vanished along with their body guards and the beside-himself Grand Minister.
Vados looked to Champa and saw the gears turning in his cat-like head, hoping against hope that he would just forget about this new tournament and recruiting a new team, especially if it meant using a lab provided by a Deity that no one had met before but had obviously corrupted both of the Omni-Kings! She knew that if Champa went for it, she would at least try to convince the God of Destruction that restraint would be the better choice and to refrain from going for the throat, as the saying went.
Even Vados, with her divinely attuned senses never realized they were all being watched. Six blood red eyes stared out from a mirror in the room, a mirror which surface was clouded by swirling, undulating obsidian smoke. Even as Vados and Champa began to talk about what just happened, a mouth full of long, razor sharp teeth opened in the swirling mists of the mirror and pulled back into a demonic grin!
Author's Notes: Well, it's been a long time since I made a multi-chapter story, but I'm glad I've started again! I hope everybody enjoyed this first chapter as I have enjoyed writing it for you! TTYL!