Three entities could be seen from up above, participating in a skirmish on what appeared to be an upside down square pyramid. The structure resembled obsidian in color and material, while also having several sections of the edifice detached and hovering slightly above another piece. Several celestial bodies orbited the pyramid, some of which bore semblance to "gas giant" planets. On top of the building, there was a single organic structure, that looked like a colossal tree.
"HOLD STILL," howeld the frustrated bipedal organism, that was donning a suit of armor. His combat suit consisted of a grey spandex material as the base layer, along with a white and gold chest plate, as well as the same color for a pair of gloves and boots.
Punches too fast for the normal human eye to follow were sent out in multiple directions towards another organic lifeform that had several similarities, especially the anatomy, to the "felis catus". While bipedal, this being had a tail, generally only seen in quadrupedal beings, and was purple in color. An additional part of this creature that was strange was its clothing, as he only wore a pair of blue baggy pants that stretched a little further down than the knees. He had various pieces of jewelry, along his chest, ankles, forearms, and neck.
"Too slow Vegeta," responded the feline, with what sounded like a hint of cheekiness. With greater speed than that of Vegeta, the purple entity shifted to the right, and struck out at the Prince's side, nearest to the right kidney. In response to the blow, he coughed up blood.
'UGH! You'll pay Beerus," shouted the angered Saiyan. With a burst of speed, the prince soared forwards, and attempted to continue a barrage of attacks.
"Wait Vegeta," yelled the third figure, who had been dormant in the battle up until this point. He sported a sleeveless orange gi, with a piece of blue cloth acting as a belt, tied around his waist. He also had blue armbands on his wrists.
"Stay back Kakarot! I will not have you impede my battle!"
"Don't listen to Vegeta, Goku. Working together is vital if you hope to beat me."
Deciding not to heed the request of Vegeta, and to follow Beerus' advice, Goku rushed forward to engage the God of Destruction alongside the saiyan prince.
Working together, both Vegeta and Goku fought Beerus. The saiyan prince swung right at Beerus' head, while Goku lashed out at the God's legs with his feet. Beerus, being the faster of all three warriors, took hold of Vegeta's fist, and swung Vegeta's entire body into Goku's leg, causing the Saiyan to loose balance and fall to the ground. Beerus discarded Vegeta's body by tossing him into Goku.
Goku was the first to get up, even though he struggled, as his right leg was damaged from Vegeta's body slamming into it. The saiyan took a moment to understand the situation, and got his head to register what had transpired.
"Whoah. I must say, Lord Beerus, that was really impressive!"
"Thank you, Goku. Although you still have much to learn from me," replied the deity.
Vegeta began to stir, as Goku took notice, and it took great effort for the prince to scramble to his feet as well.
Goku walked over to Vegeta, and extended a hand to his saiyan partner. Too proud to accept this offer, Vegeta slapped Goku's hand out of his face.
"Stay away from me Kakarot! I do not need your help, I would be better off without you! You are a constant thorn in my side, a weakling!", exclaimed the Saiyan warrior.
Setting sight on his combatant, the Saiyan prince rushed forward to begin his assault on Beerus. Before he even reached the God, he began to feel his lungs tighten up. Stopping dead in his tracks, Vegeta fell to the ground, and began to choke, as Beerus held up his glowing hand and tightened it to a fist.
"Ack! What is this? Gahh, my chest," screamed Vegeta.
"Vegeta!"
Goku rushed towards the downed warrior. He took hold of the prince, and attempted to diagnose the issue.
"Vegeta, what's wrong? You need to tell me what's happening," exclaimed Goku.
"Don't bother Goku", said Beerus.
"What! Why?"
"Because he, unlike you, has even much more to learn. Although he has the power of a God, he does not know how to be one."
Vegeta began to roll around on the dirt. He continued to bellow out in anguish, and to hold his chest with his hands.
"Enough of this Beerus! Stop it!" yelled Goku.
Beerus looked away from Vegeta, and gazed into Goku's eyes. "I can't. The power has begun to take it's effect," he replied.
Vegeta's screaming soon died down, as his eyes slowly closed shut. He soon blacked out, and his body went limp.
"What did you do? I can't feel his energy!"
"Calm down Goku. I didn't kill him."
Goku's facial expression turned sour. "Then what did you do?"
With a sigh, Beerus took a deep breath of air. "To understand what I did, you have to understand the hierarchy of energies" explained Beerus.
With a puzzled expression Goku said, "I already know it. There is normal ki, with positive and negative energy, and Godly ki above that"
"There is also another form of energy Goku, one below normal ki. It's called chakra"
"Chakra?" questioned Goku.
"Yes. It is similar to ki, however, much weaker. Even the chakra users with the highest power levels will be but an idiot child compared to the weakest of ki users." said the God of destruction.
"You don't mean to tell me that this effect you placed on Vegeta is permanent," Goku questioned.
"No it isn't. If you know how to convert it back," said Beerus. The deity goes on to explain, "A god can never reach his apex unless they possess all the traits necessary to do so. Although Vegeta is an excellent fighter, he lacks what you have plenty of. The ability to work as a team, or to work with other people."
Goku's expression appeared to lighten up. "So you plan to teach him a lesson then?"
"More or less. I'm going to send him to another planet, that holds mostly chakra users," said Beerus. Beerus began to walk towards the limp body of Vegeta, and slung him over his shoulder. "On said planet, I'm going to plant the knowledge necessary to restore his powers."
"How long is this going to take," questioned Goku
"It depends. Once Vegeta witnesses himself from the outside, he'll be able to understand his dilemma," replied Beerus. "I'll be back Goku, we can continue our training in a moment"
Beerus began to form a purple colored aura around his entire body, and blasted upwards at a rapid speed.
Vegeta, Goku thought, what have you gotten yourself into this time?
"Ugh! Kakashi Sensei how much longer," groaned out a sluggish blonde teen.
Five figures were walking at a steady pace, along a dirt path. On both sides of the road, laid a thick forest with a variety of flora bursting out from its depths. The young adult who was previously complaining, wore a tight fitting orange and black jacket, along with black sandals and a forehead protector attached to a black cloth.
A humanoid with grey spiky hair sighed, "Not too far Naruto". The grey haired individual sported a dark blue long sleeve shirt and a pair of dark blue pants that matched. Over top he wore a dark green flack jacket, and he also had navy colored sandals and gloves. He too, like Naruto, wore a forehead protector.
"Naruto you idiot! Stop complaining! We will get there, when we get there," yelled a pink haired teenage girl. She, unlike the others, truly stood out in her choice of attire, when she wasn't wearing her coat that is. She wore a red sleeveless top, with black spandex underneath a light pink skirt. She also donned a pair of sandal-boots that reached all the way up to just below the knee cap. She too, wore a forehead protector unlike the others.
Naruto laughed upon the chastising given to him by the pinkette. "Jeez Sakura, I did just get poisoned by your knife, so you can show me a lil respect," Naruto said in response.
The other teenage male with the group, barked in response with a laugh. "Ha, what a show you two are," he said.
Naruto turned around to face the brunette boy, who had two fang shaped symbols painted in red on his face, while walking backwards. "I bet you wish you had someone to yell at you all the time Kiba," exclaimed Naruto, with a beaming smile.
"I do Naruto. My mother," Kiba replied jokingly.
The group chuckled in response, including the redhead female, who was being carried by Kakashi. Her facial expression appeared distraught after, as she did not look all too comfortable with the position that she was in.
While walking along the path, the clouds seemed to shift, and several rays of light were caught in the glasses of the redhead known as Karin. With her free hand, she adjusted her glasses, as her expression turned into that of a shocked individual.
Her voice began to stutter, as she pointed upwards. "L-look u-up there! What is that?"
The rest of the group looked up in the sky, and observed what looked like a figure falling from the sky, set on fire.
"Oh shit. That's fast," said Kiba.
The object kept racing towards the ground, until a loud collision sound was heard, along with the crashing of multiple trees.
Kakashi immediately reacted, as he was never a stranger to the bizarre and unusual. "Kiba, Naruto, Sakura! We'll approach this with caution. We don't know what, or who that was. Naruto, take point, Kiba flank right side, and Sakura left."
"Yes sensei," shouted out Naruto, Kiba, and Sakura.
The group approached the point of contact, and observed the surrounding damage. A sizable amount of devastation had been produced. All of the trees around the twenty meter crater lay broken with some of them set ablaze. There was a large cloud of dust floating up above the crash site, making it harder to breathe for the group. Chunks of rock, both large and small, were scattered all across the crater.
The group congregated together at the edge of the crater, with all eyes fixed towards the center.
"No way could anyone have survived that," said Sakura.
"Probably not, but let's check it out," replied Kiba.
Kakashi turned to his right to face the dog ninja. "Go and dig in the center Kiba, be careful. The rest of us will set up a defensive perimeter."
Kiba began to walk forwards. "Alright Kakas- WOAH," yelled the sinobi as he fell to his left side.
Naruto dashed forward past Kiba and into the pit yelling, "I got this Kakashi Sensei!"
"Wait! Naruto," Kakashi shouted.
Everyone else jumped into the crater and ran after Naruto. While running, they saw him digging around in the center making wishes as to what it was, "Maybe this will be a ramen package sent by Kami himself!"
They all stood behind Naruto, scowling at him for his childish actions. While standing idle, they were soon startled when a hand with red coloring shot out of the rubble and grasped at the air frantically.
Everyone, including Naruto, was surprised at what they saw. Naruto rushed forward, grabbed the hand, and soon felt a strong hot grip hold back.
Unbelievable! How could someone survive this kind of a fall! Kakashi's eye widened slightly.
With a strong pull, Naruto pulled out the burned figure from the rubble who donned clothing with excessive holes and tears.
Sakura was beyond shocked, "I don't believe it! That's a person."
Naruto held the man with two arms, and soon felt the person's body go limp, as Naruto slowly rested him on the ground.
With all eyes fixed on the man, Kakashi said, "Sakura, tend to his wounds."
Sakura knelt towards the man, and inspected the damage done first. He clearly had first degree burns all over his body, and a fair amount of his spiky hair appeared to be singed. She touched what resembled the remnants of a chest plate for body armor, and immediately retracted her hand from the heat. She winced in pain, "Ouch! That's hot."
"Well no shit Sakura," replied Kiba, which earned him a scowl from the pink haired medic.
"It would be much appreciated if you took care of Vegeta for me," everyone promptly turned their heads to face the source of the voice. The origin came from a silhouette floating in view of the sun. They could make out the basic tracing of the entity, and saw that he had a tail, and protruding ears. He began to lower himself from the sky, and came into view.
"I know he may be a bother for you, what with current events raging on for you and all that, but you might find that he'll be able to suit you for your future endeavors," said Beerus.
The look of shock from discovering a man who crashed into the ground while on fire, and alive, paled in comparison to when the group saw the God known as Beerus.
"What the hell! Is that a cat," Kiba shouted.
Shocked and outraged, Beerus bellowed, "YOU WATCH YOUR TONGUE DOG BOY! THE FELINE SPECIES IS FAR SUPERIOR TO YOU MUTT ABOMINATIONS!"
The group sweatdropped and scratched their heads in response to the outburst from the God of Destruction.
"I do apologize for my outburst. Anywho, I must be going. Naruto, I expect you to work wonders," Beerus said with a toothy smile.
"Uh, sure," said Naruto, while scratching the back of his head, as he had a confused look on his face, partially for seeing what Beerus looked like.
The God of Destruction flew forward, at what looked like an instant speed, and poked Naruto in the forehead, causing his body to collapse. Berrus then disappeared at an even faster speed.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted.
She rushed forward to catch his body after it went limp. Kakashi laid Karin down and rushed forward as well.
"What's his condition Sakura," questioned Kakashi.
"He's gonna be fine, he's just knocked out cold," she replied with a look of slight relief on her face.
"What's the plan Kakashi Sensei," asked Kiba as he stepped forward.
"Well, considering a Leaf shinobi was just assaulted by an unknown assailant, who happens to be connected to our friend here," said Kakashi as he gestured towards Vegeta's body. "I think we're gonna have to carry both this "Vegeta" and Naruto back to Konoha ourselves," Kakashi sighed out.
Kakashi stood up, and pointed at Sakura, and gestured towards Vegeta, while also pointing at Kiba, and then signaled towards Naruto. He walked over to Karin and proceeded to sling her over his back. The world certainly keeps getting stranger and stranger huh Minato?
Unknown to them, Beerus floated several miles up in the sky, watching the scene unfold. Well Vegeta, it's time to see if you have what it takes to truly become a God.