Dragon Ball Z
The Rise of the Dragon King
Part 1: Finding the hero
Throughout the realms, chaos has broken out. A great evil known as The Dragon King has collected the six legendary tools of the Elder Gods known as the "Kamidogu" and his plans for total domination is at hand. The Warriors of Earthrealm, Edenia and Outworld have challenged the Dragon King, but with the power of the Kamidogu none were successful in defeating the mighty beast. Scorpion, Leader of the Shirai Ryu clan and Champion of the Elder Gods had met up with the mighty Thunder God Raiden in the Nexus for an important assignment by the Elder Gods.
"Raiden, Onaga has become all powerful and so far none of the guardians of the realms have been able to defeat him." stated Scorpion as he approached the Thunder God's presence.
Raiden then turned to Scorpion and said "There is only one left, A man by the name of Goku may be our only hope, he has beaten many evil beings bent on destroying all that exists in his homeland, he even sacrificed himself in an attempt to destroy an evil even greater than him. The man seems strange at times but he may still be our only hope."
"Tell me Raiden, where is this… Goku you speak of?" asked Scorpion looking determined.
"He lives in a parallel Universe from ours in which the dead walk freely much like the Netherrealm, so be careful." warned Raiden as he then turned his back to Scorpion in order to open a portal into Goku's world but then he turned around and said "The two of you are the last hope of the Realms."
Scorpion walked towards Raiden and said "I will find Goku, and we will defeat the Dragon King.
Raiden nodded and then handed Scorpion a bottle full of a blue glowing liquid stating "This might come in handy in case one of you gets hurt" then he waved his hand and opened a portal that lead to Goku's world, finally with that Raiden said "Go now and may the Elder Gods watch over the both of you."
Scorpion bowed to Raiden and dove through the portal beginning his search for Goku.
Meanwhile in Otherworld, Goku had just finished competing in a race against the East Kai to enter in the Otherworld Tournament. Unfortunately they both lost, but yet Goku was still able to participate in the Tournament.
As Goku looked onto West Kai and saw that his friend and rival, Pikkon was also going to participate in the Tournament. In surprising joy he asked "Pikkon's fighting in it too?! YEAH! IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!"
"This Tournament will be much more intense than anything you've experienced while alive! You must be very careful!" snapped King Kai.
"Sure!" agreed Goku still sounding excited, suddenly he felt the air around them. He could feel a strange aura surrounding the area around him and stranger still it seemed to be directed towards everybody in the arena including himself.
Meanwhile, outside the arena a portal opened up in front of the giant mansion in which the Tournament was being held and out emerged Scorpion fully focused on his mission.
Scorpion quickly dashed into the mansion only to then himself in a giant astrological-like room with what appeared to be a giant rock-formation with a Battle Nexus floating in the middle of the vast space.
Scorpion knowing this area Raiden had sent him to had to be Goku's Universe then brought his arm forward and from the middle of his palm shot out his signature spear, which latched itself onto a nearby asteroid, then Scorpion swung from that asteroid and shot out another spear from his other hand that latched into a different nearby asteroid and soon Scorpion was swinging from asteroid to asteroid getting closer to the Nexus by the second.
As he continued to swing from the asteroids he heard a voice that yelled "…Next up in the rear are Goku, the newest face from the north quadrent and Caterpy, a long time favorite from the south side of space! This should be interesting!"
"I've found you," Scorpion murmured to himself as he continued to swing from the asteroids.
Back on the nexus, Caterpy spread out all ten of his arms in front of Goku as if he were about to grapple Goku.
"DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES!!" Bellowed King Kai from across the arena.
Goku obeyed by not looking at the right moment and quickly retreated into the air. Then, somehow Caterpy extended his top set of arms which then grabbed onto Goku's ankles and dragged him down into a powerful vice-grip of Caterpy's other arms.
"D-Darn it!" grunted Goku as he struggled to escape the Ten-armed Adversary.
As he looked down on the Saiyan, Caterpy then cackled evily and said "You can't escape me now!"
"GOKU!!" Yelled King Kai as he watched in nervousness.
Caterpy cackled one more time this time in a sinister tone, then to everyone's surprise proceeded to tickle Goku with six of his arms, sending Goku into a state of uncontrollable laughter.
Meanwhile, Scorpion who had finished swinging from the asteroids had landed on the edge of the Nexus only to hear the voice that informed him of Goku's presence inform the audience "Caterpy's giving Goku the tickle tourtue! Could it be any cheaper?!"
Scorpion walked closer to the edge and looked down to find an enourmous Stadium and at the center was a giant squared Battlefield with two combatents. One of them was a man in orange clothing struggling and screaming with laughter underneath what appeared to be a giant, ten-armed, humanoid Caterpillar trying to convince him to give up.
Scorpion stared down at the laughing man in orange and thought "So he must be Goku… Strange, I expected better."
Goku was indeed breaking from the tickle tourtue being given by Caterpy, his head throbbing from side to side, tears jetting from his eyes and his body withering uncontrollable from the constant tickling of one area per arm of Caterpy.
"Gggaaaahhh!! This is ridiculous!" grumbled Scorpion.
Suddenly, Scorpion then heard a faint groan coming from Goku. Scorpion then was temporarily blinded by a bright yellow flash of energy emitted by Goku, then as he regained his sight Scorpion then saw the body of the giant Caterpillar being flung into the air by a beam of the same glowing colored energy and then come back down hitting the ground with intense force.
"I stand corrected…" Scorpion thought as he witnessed the power of Goku before him.
Back on the Battlefield, Caterpy was rising from the intense give off of energy from Goku only to have his combatant comment "Um… Gee guy, you're not very strong."
Enraged, Caterpy fighting an urge to cry grunted "You m-meanie, picking on me like that! Y-You're… gonna be sorry!"
Caterpy then lunged towards Goku in a clumsy attempt to grapple him, however Goku quickly stepped out of the way as Caterpy clumsily tripped and fell to the ground holding his face while continuously fighting the sobbing urge grunted "He h-hit me!"
Goku then asked "…But aren't you supposed to fight in a fight?"
Scorpion, who was still watching from the edge of the Stadium put his hand to his head and groaned disdainfully "Disgraceful Wretch!"
Goku and Scorpion then stared and gasped at Caterpy who was then turning completely white while the announcer yelled "What a development! Caterpy's begun his Metamorphosis!!"
The crowd and the other combatants from the other quadrants soon began to murmur in disapproval or disappointment as Caterpy then incased himself in a giant ball of silk.
"What's… he doing?" asked West Kai.
South Kai, the mentor of Caterpy said proudly as he stared onto the battlefield "He's become a pupa, in time he will change into his ultimate form."
As Scorpion then stared down at South Kai, the announcer asked "Pardon me South Kai, but may I just ask ya how much time this Metamorphosis of his is gonna take?"
South Kai then cleared his throat and said "I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood about twelve-hundred years."
Scorpion lifted one of his eyebrows, then he crossed his arms, sighed and shook his head with even more disapproval at the answer as everyone else in the Stadium stumbled as they always did in this universe from an answer like that.
Goku then climbed on top of the cocoon of Caterpy and said "I don't think I can wait that long to finish this!"
"Yeah, well neither can I," agreed the Grand Kai "…so Goku wins this round by default."
The Audience soon yelled uproarious cheers as Goku stood their dumbstruck but victorious while saying to himself "Guess... They like me."
"Finally" groaned Scorpion as he climbed down the edge leading into the Stadium.
Suddenly, Scorpion was violently thrown onto his back as the crowd was then blasted back by a green lightning bolt that struck the cocoon of Caterpy sending Goku hurtling into a wall.
As Goku got back up from the lightning he soon saw the cocoon crackling with green energy and shaking violently.
Seconds after the strange reaction occurred, the cocoon exploded to reveal a hideous, ugly reanimated Zombie Caterpy.
"W-What?!" Goku gasped as he stared at the reformed Caterpy.
"South Kai," asked the announcer "Is this 'the ultimate form' of Caterpy you were tellin' us about?"
South Kai, who was also shocked at this, was lost in words until he responded "No!"
Suddenly, the Zombie Caterpy dashed towards Goku at a faster speed and re-attached Goku to his ten armed grasp again.
Goku believing that Caterpy was going to tickle him again yelled in a frightened tone "Let me go!"
Then as the Zombie Caterpy spoke, his voice now sounded dead and evil as he then muttered "Long live the Dragon King…"
Suddenly the Zombie Caterpy took out a small dagger and cut open Goku's chest sending Goku hollering in pain. The Zombie Caterpy then took two of his hands, grabbed on each side of the giant wound in Goku's chest and held it open sending Goku screaming into even more pain while the Zombie Caterpy then began to chant in an unknown language which then drew green energy out of Goku's body and into his own.
"Onaga!" gasped Scorpion as he saw Goku screaming in pain from the Zombie Caterpy. At that moment, Scorpion then began to wave his arms around in a summoning gesture and then his entire arms suddenly were engulfed by flames. Then with his arms still on fire Scorpion bolted down the stairs of the Stadium and with his left hand unleashed a ray of fire which covered the north and east side edges of the battlefield and with his right hand covered the west sided edge of the battlefield, then Scorpion did a double front-flip, landed on the battlefield and then finished covering the last, uncovered edge of the battlefield.
Inside the flaming battlefield, the Zombie Caterpy was looking around at the flames and soon noticed Scorpion staring at him and posed for battle.
Soon the Zombie Caterpy got to his feet and slowly walk towards him, Scorpion then lunged his left hand towards the Zombie Caterpy and out came the spear which then drove itself into the chest of the behemoth.
The Zombie Caterpy reeled back from the spear that stuck him, but continued to walk towards Scorpion.
Scorpion then with his right hand unleashed another spear which drove itself next to the left spear which also made the Zombie Caterpy reel back even more than the first one.
Finally, Scorpion then unleashed two more spears with one from each hand and then they both drove into the area above the two other spears which then knocked the Zombie Caterpy off his feet.
Scorpion then yelled "GET OVER HERE!!" retracting the Spears back into his arms before the Zombie Caterpy could then fall to the ground pulling him towards him.
Scorpion's boots were then covered in flames and as the Zombie Caterpy drew close enough, Scorpion then did a back flip and kicked the Zombie Caterpy in the jaw with his boots still on fire.
Scorpion then ran up the Zombie Caterpy, drove the spears into all around the Zombie Caterpy's body, jumped in the air and proceeded to trample the Zombie Caterpy's face.
After a double dropkick before releasing him. Scorpion then vanished into a fireball, reappeared in the air in which the Zombie Caterpy was kicked into and kicked him again this time in the back of his head.
Scorpion then once again vanish into a fireball like before but landed on the ground this time and just before the Zombie Caterpy could finally fall to the ground, Scorpion then put his hands to the ground and then quickly kicked the Zombie Caterpy in the gut, causing the colossal corpse to regurgitate hundreds of insects and bugs from his mouth.
As the Zombie Caterpy got back up from up-chucking the rest of the bugs, he was soon thrown back by a kick right in the face by Scorpion.
Then at the right moment as the Zombie Caterpy's was facing his back towards Scorpion but was still stunned by the kick, Scorpion then shot out two spears with one from each hand which then dove into the back of Caterpy with one in the middle of the back and the other in the back of the head which then pulled the Zombie Caterpy towards Scorpion who at the right moment jumped in the air and did a dropkick right in the back of the behemoth causing his both to violently bend in the way of how Scorpion kicked him.
As the Zombie Caterpy fell to the ground from the dropkick by Scorpion, The Zombie Caterpy then emitted a scream of pain much similar to Goku's scream of pain when his chest was cut open.
Then as the Zombie Caterpy got back up from the kick, Scorpion then grabbed him by the neck with both of his hands and Scorpion who then showed the Zombie Caterpy the energy given to him by the Elder Gods, hoisted him up into the air by his neck and slamed him back down to the ground as he sat down while continuing to clutch his neck.
Scorpion then pulled the Zombie Caterpy towards him by the neck and dropkicked him in the face causing the behemoth to roll back even further.
Scorpion then let out a strained yell that went "You're FINISHED!!"
As the Zombie Caterpy wearily got up from the dropkick, Scorpion then threw his arms up in the air as if he were summoning something and suddenly the Zombie Caterpy's body was engulfed in flames.
The Zombie Caterpy ran around in a desperate attempt to put out the flames but nevertheless the flames continued to burn his entire body.
Finally, Scorpion crossed his arms up into air and quickly threw them to the sides causing the flames all over the Zombie Caterpy's to disappear and to reveal that the Zombie Caterpy's body was completely burnt black with bugs oozing from his mouth.
Scorpion finally yelled in a finishing manner, ran forward and dropkicked the Zombie Caterpy in the stomach causing the burned behemoth to explode in an ash-scattering explosion.
Scorpion looked all around the area to see bit and pieces of flesh and ash falling from the explosion and said to himself "Fatality."
Suddenly, Scorpion felt something grab at his leg, so he quickly turned around to find Goku who was still groaning in pain from the deep gash in his chest trying to get on his feet but needing some leverage to help himself up.
As Goku got back onto his feet, he soon saw Scorpion right in front of him staring at him.
"W-Who are you…?" grunted Goku as he continued to hold his chest.
Scorpion, without answering wrapped one arm around Goku's chest and the other around Goku's back arm and locked them together as they then began to fall back into what appeared to be a flaming portal linked to the ground.
Soon, both men were swallowed by the flaming portal and the fire that surrounded the battlefield during Scorpion's fight vanished into thin air leaving the entire audience stunned in awe…