Project Spring Board
Story 2: Dragon Ball GX
AN: This idea takes place during the first part of season 3 of Yugioh GX and just after Resurrection F from Dragon Ball Z. Basically, what would happen if Jaden didn't have the power of the Supreme King, rather something otherworldly?
Jaden laid down sore beyond reason. "I should be dead." He groaned. He remembered what had happened. He, Alexis, Chazz, Syrus, Hassleberry, Jim, Jesse, and Axel stormed the compound Viper was using. The visiting professor had set up survival duels, and was draining everyone on the island of their energy. After he duel Professor Stein, a trap went off, sending the boy over the edge of the bridge.
Now here he was, his right leg busted, and his duel disk in shambles. He could also feel the effects of that stupid Bio-band on his wrist, still functioning.
"Of course that stupid thing still works." Jaden groaned. Jaden struggled to stand. However, now it was here Jaden heard it, the screams of his friends. Viper had them, and struck them into machines to sap their life force. But then, he had a vision, he saw all the students in pain and suffering on the island.
"No, this has to stop." Jaden growled. As he did, rage grew, a bright light soon engulfed him. The area around Jaden shook and trembled, as if an earthquake was slowly starting. His dual colored hair soon spiked up into a flame like pattern, and turned bright blonde, as did his eyebrows. Jaden's eyes turned from dark brown, to emerald green. "THIS STOPS NOW!" A wave of energy blasted the ground beneath him and destroyed the bio-band in the same blast.
Viper's attention was soon converted to the machines behind him. "What the hell?" The scanners began to flux, and went wild.
"How is this possible?" Viper demanded, he turned to the security feeds, only to see static in their place.
It was then the machines the students were hooked up to were destroyed, releasing them.
"Oh, my aching head." Syrus groaned.
"What happened?" Alexis asked confused.
"Where is it?" Viper demanded. "Where is this energy coming from!" To Axel's surprise, Viper was sounding scared.
"VIPER!" Jaden's voice boomed down the hall. Before anyone could react, the steel doors leading into the room were broken in, by one of Jaden's mighty punches.
"Big bro?" Syrus asked confused and frightened.
"Jaden." Alexis gasped, seeing what had happened to Jaden.
"You're finished Thelonious, get the hell off our island." Jaden ordered.
"I'm suddenly terrified of him." Chazz whispered. Jim and Hassleberry nodded. Shirley even started to whine in fear.
"You, you think some two bit special effect trick and some hair dye will intimidate me?" Viper demanded, fear evident in his tone.
"No, but this might!" Jaden roared. At incredible speeds he ran forward, fist first, and destroyed Viper's duel vest. The resulting attack knocked Viper on his ass several feet away.
"Uh Sarge, since when do you do that?" Hassleberry asked confused.
"Now." Jaden said as he grabbed Viper by the ankle, and hammer threw him into a wall, revealing the main Generator.
"How in the world?" Adrian asked confused. He had snuck in, and had initially intent of destroying the generator himself.
"So this is behind the bio-bands?" Jaden asked, as he floated (Yes floated) in.
"Jaden, what happened to you?" Adrian asked confused. "Don't get me wrong, the hair is awesome."
Jaden didn't respond, only he threw his hand forward and a small yellow energy ball shot out of it, and it damaged the device.
"Don't, *cough* you dare Yuki." Viper demanded weakly. "I need this, in order to bring my son back."
Jaden stopped and looked at him. "Didn't you die or something?"
"Jaden." Alexis shouted frightened. "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" He asked sarcastically. "Ending this."
"Still the selfish hero huh boy?" Viper chuckled, all though still weak. "All you do is treat duel monsters as a game, nothing more, that is why Shepard hired me to knock that horrible notion out of your head."
"Wait, Chancellor Shepard knew about all this?" Chazz demanded.
However before anyone could say anything more, Jaden began to laugh.
"The selfish hero, god you're stupider than you look." Jaden laughed his eyes closed and looked up. "I never asked to be the center of attention, I didn't go up to our superintendent, and say: Go resurrect three powerful monsters and rule the world, I didn't invite Sartorius over so he could turn my friends into cultist." He paused and then directly looked at Viper and venomously spat. "And I sure as hell didn't ask you to up and kill everyone on the island just because you were hung up on your own past mistake!"
"What!" Viper demanded, despite his injuries.
"You think I'm the problem Thelonious, just ask yourself: What would your son think about what you've done here?" Jaden demanded.
"How dare." Viper began.
"Oy Jaden." Chazz demanded rudely. "Do us a favor, quit with the speech and blow that thing up already, we've got to kick Shepard's ass too."
"Gladly." Jaden raised his and shot a far more powerful energy blast into the main reactor. The device began to shake wildly, clearly overloading from Jaden's attack.
"Time to go." Hassleberry said shocked.
"Good plan." Jesse said.
Jaden flew over and picked Viper up. "I should leave you here to die Viper, just know it's because I'm such a nice guy."
The team ran out, with one goal in mind, survival.
Meanwhile out in a temple several billion light years from where this was happening, a blue skin man sighed with the results of the time honored temple. This man stood about seven feet tall with white hair and sharp looking goatee. He wore a strange red and silver robe like outfit with shoes to match. Around the mysterious man's neck was a silver ring, however it never touched his neck or clothes, it just floated in midair.
"No matter how many times I tell Lady Chardonna." The man began. "She refuses to clean up after her herself." He opened his eyes to see a mountain of empty potato chip bags. He turned to see snack food wrappers everywhere. "How can the Goddess of Destruction of this dimension be so slothful?"
"Oh Sakena!" A shrill voice ordered.
"Coming Lady Chardonna." He sighed. Sakena floated over into the next room.
Not to his surprise, Lady Chardonna, Goddess of Destruction of the Ninth Universe, was seated in front of a large viewing globe. She looked like an Egyptian cat with purple fur. Her ears were folded forward giving off the appearance of bangs, while some more fur draped down the back of her head like a ponytail. She was dressed in the traditional garb. However it was littered with soda stains, and other stains.
"For the last time milady, I don't care for the antics of that Umaru girl, nor those giant naked humans." Sakena groaned. "You're love of the popular culture on Earth is becoming troublesome."
"Yeah well that's all about to change. " Chardonna said ecstatically, turning around. "There's a saiyan on this Earth, from Universe 7."
Sakena then got interested. "Saiyan, as in that warrior race from Beerus' dimension whose home world was destroyed decades ago?"
"Check it out." Chardonna said with a smile. To Sakena's surprise, it was Jaden, flying through the air with Viper in his grip. The way Viper was positioned, he was getting hit in the head by every passing obstacle, and Jaden purposely swung him around twice.
"I'm confused." Sakena admitted. "I thought Saiyan hair was a solid color, not all that glowing nonsense."
"Yeah, but I peak into Beerus' dimension sometimes, and this is called Super Saiyan." Chardonna explained. "Basically when pure heart Saiyan's get mad, they can summon incredible power."
"This technique is indeed potent." Sakena admitted. "But the poor boy's burning through more ki than he can handle, probably affecting his personality too." Sakena then noticed something. "Milady, you know you're not permitted to peak into other dimensions."
"What, this guy Goku went into a powerful version called Super Saiyan God and fought Beerus on equal terms, I felt it from here." Chardonna admitted. "Besides it was only once." She threw her hands down and hit the remote.
The sphere now showed images of a boy with red and green hair, using strange half orange/ half green duel monsters cards. "Now I set Scale 1 Stargazer Magician with Scale 8 Time Gazer Magician." The boy placed the two cards on either side of his duel disk. "Now I can Pendulum Summon Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (LV 7 2500/2000)!" A red scaled dragon with two different colored eyes took to the field. It had a yellow beak and silver armor with three colored orbs on it.
"Only once?" Sakane asked slightly irritated.
"This Universe is going through a four way dimensional war, I'm just making sure it won't leak into ours." Chardonna shot back.
"Ok, now." Saken began, changing the channel back to Jaden. "What to do about him?"
"I say we ask Beerus, maybe he planted the boy to be funny." Chardonna suggested.
"I doubt Whis would entertain such an idea."Sakena admitted. "But I do agree, we should investigate on his side of things." Sakena raised his hand and a strange staff with a large blue sphere at the end. Before he was going to open a portal to the seventh universe, he paused a moment.
"Milady, didn't you have an oracular dream about a Saiyan showing up in this dimension to stop some dark entity?" Sakena asked confused. "Something by the name Shadow Veil?
Chardonna stopped for a moment to think, then joyfully said. "I don't remember."
Sakane resisted every urge to smack her hard. "No matter, let's be off."
Back on Earth, Jaden landed outside the complex, just as the building blew up.
"Jaden, how did you do that?" Jim asked after a moment of silence. Viper just gurgled, on the verge of going unconscious.
"I don't know." Jaden admitted, as his hair faded back to normal. Jaden then slumped forward on his face, falling asleep.
"Well, he's back to normal." Chazz said with a sigh of relief.
"Jaden, what happened to you?" Alexis asked incredibly concerned, kneeling down before her friend. Just then, everyone panicked as a monkey tail appeared out of the back of Jaden's pants.
"Sam Hill." Hassleberry shouted horrified.
"I knew he was primitive, but not that badly." Chazz shouted shocked. Alexis backhanded him for that.
"Kids." Everyone turned to see several members of the staff run up, including Shepard, Crowler, Bonaparte, and Adrian's associate Echo.
"Oh joy, just the man who's ass Jaden gets to kick next." Chazz said, directing this at Shepard.
"What, children what happened?" Shepard asked confused.
"And what in blazes is sticking out of Jaden's pants?" Crowler asked horrified.
Meanwhile in another part of the dimension Chardonna was visiting, Goku, the Saiyan hero she mentioned was presently doing what he loved most, training in the fields near his home. However, Goku wasn't enjoying himself like he normally would.
You see, not long ago, Frieza, one of Goku's most powerful enemies, had returned far more powerful than ever. Goku and his comrade Saiyan, Vegeta, managed to defeat Frieza using a powerful new form called Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, or Super Saiyan Blue as Whis called it. However to Goku, it was a bittersweet victory. They had only won when Whis had rewound time to give Goku a second chance at defeating him.
"I have to be stronger." Goku thought determined. "I have too."
"Goku." His thoughts were cut short when to his surprise, Dende showed up behind him, with his loving wife Chi-Chi, and youngest son Goten right behind her.
"Dende, what's wrong?" Goku asked, noticing the concerned look on the Namakian's face.
"It's Porunga, he's at the lookout, wanting to talk to you about something important." The guardian explained.
"Really, someone used the Namakian Dragon balls again?" Goku asked confused.
"No, that's the strange thing, they weren't touched and he'll only talk to you." Dende explained, shocked by his own words.
"Ok, let's go." Goku said, about to put two fingers to his forehead for the instant transmission technique.
"Hold it." Chi-Chi shouted. "You were gone for months training last time, we're coming too."
"Ok." Goku said nonchalantly, completing the technique.
The four found themselves at the Lookout, and the massive alligator like dragon already present.
"Hi Porunga, what brings you to Earth?" Goku greeted cheerfully.
"Goku, show him some respect." Dende quietly whispered.
"A wish I granted several of your planet's years prior to the destruction of Planet Namek." The dragon boomed. "To a pair of Saiyans."
Everyone was taken back by that statement. A pair of Saiyans had survived, and Goku was ecstatic.
"Great, where are they?" Goku asked happily.
"They left the mortal plain not long after the wish was granted." The dragon explained. "Their wish was to leave this dimension for another, to raise their only son."
"What?" Goku asked confused.
"The couple had been a part of an exploration team that was off world when Planet Vegeta was destroyed." Porunga explained. "However they came across a dark being, whose mission was to eradicate pure emotions, believing they corrupt the innocent." Porunga shuddered momentarily, remembering what he was told. "The couple were the only survivors, and having learned of the Dragon Balls, used them to flee this realm, only for the darkness to follow them."
"Ok, that's a pretty cool story, but why are you telling me this?" Goku asked confused.
"Because the wish to leave dimensions was their first wish, the second was for someone to guide their son when they could not, and he needed a guardian when they were no more." Porunga explained. "Today the boy accessed the first level of Super Saiyan."
"Wow." Goten said impressed.
"Let me guess, this darkness you mentioned is back too?" Goku asked sounding serious. The alien dragon nodded.
"I know not its true form, but the boy has faced the darkness many times before, whether it be directly, or indirectly."
"Perfect." A familiar voice said excitedly. Everyone turned to see Beerus, Whis, Chardonna, and Sakena arriving. "I've been wondering how a Saiyan accessed my realm."
"Your excellencies." Porunga bowed both respectfully and fearfully.
"Beerus, what are you doing here?" Goku asked confused.
"My counterpart from the ninth dimension informed me of a Saiyan, and so after some convincing." Beerus added that last part with a glare towards Chardonna. "I figured you should know, only to see the answer is being presented to us."
"It's an honor to meet you." Whis said respectfully to Porunga.
"So this darkness, do you know what it is?" Goten asked Beerus.
"Yes I do, all too well." Beerus explained, evidently infuriated. "It's called Nightshroud, and he thinks I'm too lenient with my job."
"He has a tendency to influence things in his favor." Whis explained, equally distraught.
"Well then, let's go." Goku said. "It's the right thing to do."
"No hold on, what did I just say?" Chi-Chi demanded.
"I meant you too Chi-Chi." Goku explained. "We may need a gentle touch, and you have the best I know."
Chi-Chi was taken back, then quickly regained her composer. "Of course, that's a great idea."
"I can't believe I just said that to Goku." She thought.
"Can I come?" Goten asked happily.
"I don't see why not." Goku explained, then he turned to Porunga. "You can bring us back when needed right?" The dragon nodded.
"Awesome." Goku said with a smile. "Well then, let's pack up and get ready to leave in an hour." Everyone nodded. With a new resolve, Goku was ready for his newest adventure.
The next day, Jaden woke up in the infirmary, sore in places he shouldn't be sore. "Ow my aching everything."
"Jaden." He weakly tuned to see Alexis, Jesse, and Syrus walk over. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I fell off a bridge into a stone cavern." He said dryly. "What happened?"
"You don't remember beating Viper?" Jesse asked confused.
"I beat him in a duel?" Jaden asked weakly, sitting up.
"No Jaden, you physically beat him up he's in such bad shape, he was transported to the mainland for medical assistance." Alexis corrected. "You're hair turned yellow, you flew, and you shot out energy blasts."
"And then you grew a tail!" Syrus shouted pointing at the twitching limb.
Jaden turned, looked at his tail and gasped. "Dear god, this explains it."
"What?" Alexis asked confused.
"This recurring nightmare I've had where someone comes into my room late at night with a pair of hedge clippers. " Jaden explained.
"You've had recurring nightmares like that?" Jesse asked. "Do your parents know why you have a tail?"
"I doubt they would, I was adopted." Jaden explained, his expression darkened. "They never showed interest in me anyways." The three students look at Jaden shocked. They never heard Jaden mention his family before, and now they knew.
However before anyone could do anything, a massive flash of light appeared outside, revealing a massive dragon/alligator hybrid. The four rushed outside to see a series of people and two humanoid cat people.
One person with massive spiked black hair then whined. "I'm hungry."
Ok, a GX /Dragon Ball Z X-over where Jaden is a Saiyan. His birthparents died and Goku's here to help take on Nightshroud. Like it, hate it whatever. Just remember this is a one shot, and anyone's free to use this to start their own story.