Chapter 1: No Better Plan
Dr. Verne's Lab, 784 AD
Night had fallen, and most of the researchers had left work. Only the custodians remained, who were busy cleaning up the lab for tomorrow's early morning tests. The lights were dimmed on the Time Machine, while one of the janitors was mopping up the ground in front of the Time Machine.
"Hey, Al, can you grab the mice from the machine!" one of the other janitors yelled.
Al nodded and stopped mopping the area in front of the Time Machine. He pressed a few buttons located on the side of the gigantic machine.
After a few beeps, the massive hatch of the Time Machine opened. A dark, eerie mist flowed from the freshly opened hatch.
"Uhh, Ed, what's with the ghastly stuff?"
"Who knows, just grab the mice."
Al shrugged, and walked into the misty machine.
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World of the Kaios
"You're God's, you're on a Planet which can supposable see all of the universe… and yet, you can't find where the link is?" Father Time asked.
"You're the Time God here! Why don't you tell us?"
"I couldn't even if I wanted too… I'd need to be at my Palace, which is promptly covered in Dark Matter."
Rou Dai Kaio and Kaiobito-shin sighed, and continued searching galaxies on their crystal ball.
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"Uhhh, Al, are you ok in there?" Ed asked, as he checked the inside of the Time Machine. He could barely see a thing with all the Dark mist.
"Al?" Ed called, when he noticed a formation in the mist appearing before him. "There you ar-AHHHHHH!"
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It hit them all at once. The Kaio's felt it; Father Time felt it, and the Z senshi felt it. There was a dark presence in the Universe once more, and it had just arrived.
"Rou Dai Kaio… it's…."
"They have arrived!"
"Huh?"
"What is it Master Gokou?"
"Ubuu, your training may not be complete, but we may need to fight."
"Dad!"
"Brat, you feel it too?"
"What the…?"
"What is it, Dende?"
"Dende… I feel it too…"
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The roar of fire engines and ambulances rushed down the street toward Verne's lab. The entire complex was, in just a few seconds, a pile of burning rubble. Thick, black smoke rose from the ruins. As the fire fighters tried to put out the raging fires, Paramedics moved in to find any wounded.
Gokou was the first to pin point the dark force and teleport in with Ubuu.
Verne's lab was a city away from Capsule Corp, so Vegeta and Trunks arrived no soon after.
"Kakarotto, what is going on?"
"Vegeta, you felt it too? Someone bad has arisen, and their here, but I can't sense where."
As the fire trucks dosed the flames, several screams were heard within the standing parts of the complex where the paramedics had been sent in.
"Lets go!" Trunks yelled, and ran in. Gokou, Vegeta, and Ubuu followed.
When they reached in inside of the Complex, they saw dark ooze splattered all over the crumbling walls. Mixed in with this ooze, was a faint red, slowly being absorbed by the ooze. Blood.
"Oh no…" Ubuu pointed to one of the paramedics, whom was impaled against the wall by a solidified version of the ooze. The black substance was replacing the blood in the wound around the paramedic's body, causing the veins around the wound to glow bright purple, and fade in a repeating cycle. The skin had taken on a more pale purple. All as if the spear that hit the poor fellow was rinsed in a sick poison.
Another corpse had been torn in half, the wounds having a similar infection. There were no more corpses in sight; just large puddles of blood being absorbed by the black ooze.
Vegeta and Trunks searched the area for any ki's, or ANY signs of life. However, the dark presence they had felt was now all around them, causing their ki sense to become disoriented.
"Show yourselves!" Vegeta yelled. There was no answer.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Arggggh, God help!!!"
Gokou, Vegeta, Trunks, and Ubuu all turned their attention to the screams outside. They rushed even quicker outside, to find even more chaos.
Despite the fact that they had ran outside faster than light, it appeared that the attackers had managed to strike and hide in that very short period of time. Several of the fire trucks had been overturned and were ablaze. The fire fighters had met a similar fate to the paramedics. Some had been torn, others impaled.
Not only that, but also several of the nearby civilians that had come out of their homes to witness the events had also met a gruesome fate.
A strange, eerie silence fell over the ruins, only met with the sound of the blazing flames, and ruptured water pipes.
"This is impossible! No one could cause this much destruction so fast!" Trunks yelled.
"Brat, Buu destroyed humanity in 5 minutes. Either way, we didn't take our time getting here, so whoever it is we are up against must be very fast, powerful, and have a sick twisted mind."
"Nothing new on the agenda…." Gokou sighed. "Hopefully we can wish these people back with the Dragonballs."
"We might have to wish more than strangers back." Trunks said.
"What do you mean by, 'wish back'?" Ubuu asked.
"You will see soon enough, kid." Vegeta laughed.
"What the hell happened here?"
The four turned to see that Piccolo, Dende, Goten, Gohan, Kuririn, and Android 18.
"It looks like we are in for trouble… not again!" Kuririn whined.
"God of Earth, Dende, it's not safe here!" Gokou warned.
"But I must help…" Dende replied, and in vain attempted to revive the fallen humans to no avail.
Rou Dai Kaio, Kaiobito-shin, and Father Time had finally found the place and arrived. Rou Dai Kaio had to lock onto Gokou's location before he could even get close.
"I see we are to late." Rou Dai Kai said.
"I knew we should have checked Earth first… all the trouble brews there." Kaiobito-shin groaned.
"Kaiobito-shin, sir, who is that with you?" Gohan asked, pointing to Father Time.
"This is the honorable Keeper of Time, nicknamed Father Time. He is one of the four "creators" of all the universes."
"Yes, although it is forbidden for even the Dai Kaio's to speak of us to mortals, I'm afraid of with the Fate of the Universe, no, all Universes, resting on all of our shoulders, we must banish this barrier." Father Time explained to the shocked mortals before him. "Although my brothers and sisters may disagree with it, I believe I have no choice but help you people out in what little ways I can."
"Father Time, I am honored. Please tell me, you are a God of ALL universes, different times and all?" Dende asked.
"Yes, young God. In different timelines, you may find another Kaiobito-shin. However, all timelines have the same Keepers, including me. We do not dwell in any single time, we dwell in our own place in time."
Dende and Piccolo simply stared at each other.
"Explanations can wait. I'll tell you about your foes later." Father Time explained.
"FOES? You mean there are more than one?" Gokou yelled.
"Ahahahaha. Not one, but millions."
Father Time gasped, while everyone else froze.
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To be continued...
