AN: This is set after Dragon Ball Heroes Manga and all the source material that came along with it. As well as, the games and such. Enjoy.
Beat's House
Beat slouched himself on the couch all rested up and groggy, he had very big party last night that forced him to extend his sleeping hours a lot more. He had been busy keeping the Universes, the timelines, and other universes all safe and sound with his trusty assistant, now girlfriend, Note. He was happy, but that wasn't the last of them all in his career. Beat had been have going to multitude of other universes around at the time and it seemed normal at his young age. Eventually, he got and yawned as he stretched his arms in the air. He placed his hands behind his head, and was wondering what he should do next.
"Should I pick up the newspaper to see the funnies?" Beat wondered curiously. "Meh. Same old, same old. I could go on with something-"
His phone began to rumble, he laughed a little before picking it up and answered it.
"Hello, Beat speaking." Beat called. He heard a voice that was familiar to him.
"Hey, sport." The voice had said, Beat smiled. "Doing fine over there?"
"Apollo!" Beat shouted, it was Apollo Justice from Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice. "How have you been!? Got any new recruits yet from your local law office?"
"Hehe... Not quite, Beat." Apollo replied, he can hear that he's straightening his tie. "I've made a few good people, but my stack of cases has bored me more than cleaning the toilet. How's about maybe you and Note come on over and hang out sometime with me, Amara, and maybe Wright?"
"I'd love to, Apollo." Beat replied, he looked outside the window seeing Note carrying goodies. "But Note is coming along now, I've got quite a lot of stuff I need to do, I'm a hero in my universe. Me and Note would love to come and help you, but I just got too much pass by."
"That's no problem." Apollo had said. "My days in Khura'in are positive, the country looks more progressive than conservative than it past was. Now that the former queen's been dethroned. I hope you and Note find the truth that your heart knows much right."
"I will, Apollo. Thank you." Beat hangs up his phone and places it on the coffee table. "Goodbye, AJ. Me and Note will certainly visit you one day."
"No problem." Apollo chuckled. "Take care."
Note, Beat's assistant, came in the living room of Beat's House carrying goodies. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and quietly placed each item on the ground one-by-one. Beat went close to Note, and he smiled as Note was putting each item in as time went by. At that same moment, Beat raises his voice to her.
"What's up?" Beat had said to her. "Need a helping hand? Cause if you're getting tired, you can go in the kitchen and make some lunch."
Note smiled at her boyfriend, "No thanks, Beat." Note sighed. "Thanks, but guess what? Not only did I bring snacks, but I got new electronic devices that are helpful with the video game set that we have. Care to try it out?"
"Gee, what features does it have?" Beat scratched his head. Note reads the instruction Manuel.
"Features include Bluetooth, good-quality stereo, long-distance phone call, and HD quality sound." Note had read, she smiled. "Beat, I'd think this would be great for us!"
"REALLY!? Beat had replied shockingly. "I'm confused, how much did all of this have to cost you exactly?"
"All my savings." Note replied. Beat was shocked even more.
"A-A-A..." Beat bursted out as if he was in flames. "ALL YOUR SAVINGS!? You could've kept that for our dates, trips, or other hot places we could visit! Why did you have to blow it all away for this?"
"Beat, I keep separate piggy banks in my room in case you haven't noticed." Note frowned, Beat sighed in relief.
"Oh, thank Super Saiyan God for that." Beat placed his right hand on his hip. "Anyways, can we plug this thing in our TV and get rolling?"
"Sure, go for it." They turned on the console, the TV blasted out high-definition that feasted Beat and Note's eyes to sparkle glittering.
"WOOOOW!" Beat and Note said, suddenly the TV was getting a distress message. The two teens were suddenly startled.
"Huh?" Beat opened the message up, he eyes widened. "Hey, it's from Froze!"
"Froze?" Note gasped. "This is strange, I thought you two parted ways?"
"I don't know, Note." Beat opened up and read thoroughly. "But let's read and find out what it says."
To Beat,
I am delivering this message to you Beat to come on over to my house at this address [Beat reads the address], the reason is that there is something I'd like to tell about our rivalry and how it's going to make an impact to the future. And unfortunately for you, I have some dire news to spill. I know you wouldn't like it, but it's a hero's job to get every last bit of information to discipher the truth once and for all. I look forward to see you at my place Beat, and don't worry. Note can come to.
Signed, Froze
"Froze wants to talk about your rivalry?" Note looked at Beat confused. Beat scratched his head in curiosity.
"It's been a while since our rivalry has ended." Beat placed his finger on his forehead. "Froze is sure crafty, I wonder if he's thinking about bringing the rivalry back to fight like we did last time with Forte?"
"That, or he could just be messing with us." Note said, she later sighed. "Let's just follow this message and see what he's up against. The nature of the message may seem dire than the looks of things."
"Alright, let's make haste then." Beat and Note stood up from couch and exited out through the front door of Beat's house. "Hang on, Froze. We're coming!"
Froze's House
"Welcome Beat and Note." Froze greeted the two heroes into his luxurious house. "Please step on in, there's some snacks I've made left for you on the table."
Beat and Note looked at each other dumbfounded, until they saw the snacks piled up on Froze's table and the two smiled. Wondering why Froze is being nice to them despite his cynical and standoffish attitude, but they accepted his request regardless.
"Thanks, Froze." Both Beat and Note said, Beat began to think to himself. "Man, is this the first time that Froze has ever done nice to us? This is such an unexpected surprise!"
"So, Froze." Note called to him while Froze looked outside his front window. "Wanna give these snacks you gave us a try? They're really scrumptious!"
Froze shook his head and took a deep breath. "No, and as a matter of fact, this about an important concerning you Beat." Beat looked at Froze as he stopped eating, he looked bewildered at what Froze was going to say.
"Froze, chill. We just came by for that message you sent us through Bluetooth." Beat began to scratch his hair moment. "And uh, how did you know Note was going all the TV messaging accessories to our home?"
"Don't fool me, I obviously knew your girlfriend had the money to pay for your stuff anyway." Froze looked back at Beat with a dour stare. "...And I've taken my chances to speak with you and Note for a very important meeting."
"What meeting are we talking here, Froze?" Note replied, she raised an eyebrow. "Is this about ending our feud with Beat? We last fought you with Forte back at the Arcade and-"
"This isn't ABOUT our past battle." Froze interrupted loudly, he took a deep breath and calmed down. "It's about to let both of you know, I'm resigning from the Dragon Ball Heroes."
"WHAT!?" Both Beat and Note were shocked, Froze quitting the Dragon Ball Heroes was nothing they expect from him, Beat quickly rejoiced back.
"You can't leave Froze!" Beat raised his fist in argument. "The Dragon Ball Heroes has a mission that we swore with throughout our natural lives! And besides, even when you always wanted to turn our backs on us, you always fought by us in the end!"
"Beat's right, Froze!" Note supported Beat argument the same way he did. "You're one of the most figurative members of our group! It's the only way we can rally the rest of the Heroes and help make each other safe and sound!"
"That's a lovely rebuttal, but no." Froze crossed him arms and eyes were shut lid. "Ever since I became a Freeza Race Hero, I lied that my attempts of redeeming the Freeza Race was failure. In fact, I lied to you more about my admiration of Son Goku to you Beat. As a result, I sticked to Freeza's philosophy on destruction, mayhem, violence, terror, tyranny, and despair. They were always the key component of how I won all my battles before you and Note showed up and took that greatly away against me."
"You mean..." Beat eyes widened at the confession Froze gave. "You NEVER admired Goku and instead to Freeza? Why!?"
"Yeah, why Froze!?" Note chimed loudly, her expression was angry. "Freeza was always Goku No. 1 enemy after the Universal Tournament Saga, and you support him and his beliefs!? He's a monster! And he's always a cruel sadistic monster he always turned out to be in the very end!"
"My master Freeza is indeed a monster, but he taught me some things that you two don't seem to recognize." Froze explained to the couple very coldly. "You two were always on the spotlight, helping with Goku, helping with Mirai Trunks, helping with whoever was there at the time fix the problems threatening time and reality altogether. Me? I was living on the edge. We turned poor. My parents aren't making good income anymore. Then I discovered that money talks, you Beat, made more Zeni thanks to all the hard earned battles you competed with your girlfriend. I always wondered why I wasn't able to do that truly on my own. My popularity, fame, and fortune vanished into dust as the time flew by. You and Note were always up on stage, not giving up no matter what the odds came be. But when you and your allies are all backed into a corner, plan B always starts with me as if you see as a trophy card than an adversary."
Beat and Note looked at each, they felt sad when Froze gave a very sad sigh. He continued further.
"Beat, it's time I let you listen to what I have to say." Froze cleared his voice and explained. "I always wanted to be the hero, at first. My arrogance and passions threw that away a lot. I realized that my role at this stage of being a "Freeza Hero" wasn't enough. It instead made want to believe that by becoming your eternal rival, I would face the harshness of life with people scolding me and thinking I'm a loser for pitting myself against you. I wasn't nice, I was just introverted into dealing with the cool way like I did in my past feats. You and Note; however, were always the nicest people in the competition. There was no way I was going to let my heart away for that. I instead listened to myself closely. I don't want to be the hero again because it will make me antagonize myself and Beat, for better or for worse. I'm sticking to the latter."
"Froze... You were always the one to believe in yourself for that." Beat calmly rationalized his argument. "I mean, even if you feel me and Note destroyed you, you can always join us and your reputation would be clean."
He shook his head and turned his back on him. "I'm sorry, Beat. Forte gave me the same reason when she had antagonized your girlfriend as well, we figured I'd follow you all the time in your adventures, but it would make us look like we're playing savage instead of being on fair terms with each other. It's just not healthy."
Note placed her hand to her heart as she realized. "Oh, you're right." She said. "You and Forte have been getting along well. It seems that you think me and Beat were always together forever as the cutest, heartfelt, and righteous couple while both of you were left in the grey."
"All grey, yes." Froze said. "And like I said, I'm NOT a hero. I'm your rival. A rival shouldn't help the hero fuel more of his conflicts while the hero has to do his job all at once. It's ridiculous. And I do not want to have suffered the same mistakes before nor do I want it thrown shut from your self-righteous beliefs that you've taken from Goku!"
Beat and Note looked at each other for a moment, Froze raised his voice again. "So you got my message, me and Forte are leaving to live in peace and harmony. No more will you two make either of us suffer because of our beliefs. Now go, I got some homework I need to do."
"Froze-" Beat tried to raise his voice, but Froze raised a hand.
"I mean it, GO." Froze growled, startling both Beat and Note together. They both sighed as they saw Froze go upstairs to his room and the couple leave the house to his front yard. They both look at each other worryingly what to do next, without Froze and Forte, the Dragon Ball Heroes are gonna be more weaker than ever.
"This is bad, Beat." Note wonders cautiously. "Froze and Forte are no longer with us, which means that without our strongest allies we're cooked!"
"Don't get so riled up, Note!" Beat calmed her. "Besides, we got the other heroes by our side! What's the worse that could happen?"
"I'll tell you what's worse." Note chimed. "They haven't been trained in a long time because of stuff we had to handle that was done by us AND by Froze with Forte!"
"Dang..." Beat sighed. "Well, in that case. We'll have to see if Froze is going to keep his word on this or not. Our partnership is important and has helped us stop the greater worse for the greater good, Note."
"Beat, you're right." Note said, she tapped her chin softly. "I wonder if what Froze said about Forte quitting was also true?"
"She's a berserker, so he's just playing with us." Beat laughed. "And besides, there's a good sign she might come back for some more violence and fast-paced action. That's her thing!"
"You know, you're my hero." Note kissed Beat on the cheek. Beat smiled, and the two went off to buy some Green Tea Ice Cream.
"And don't worry, you can beat ourselves that Froze and Forte are gonna be back at the Arcade before you know it!" Beat thought optimistically. "Just you wait, you two! You haven't seen the last of us yet!"
To Be Continued...