Xenoverse: Altered Fates

Chapter III: Rivalry

~AGE 762~

A group of three Sibamen are making strange noises, probably communicating, over the corpses of Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Piccolo, and Chiotzu. They suddenly look up as Goku flies over them, chased by two MASSIVE apes, wearing black and blue armor respectively. "And you'd just revived as well!" The ape wearing blue armor, Vegeta, taunted, his cohort Nappa laughing.

Goku gritted his teeth and clenched his fist, yelling out "KAIOKEN!" He was wrapped in a flaming red aura, and flew towards Nappa nearly twice as fast as before. He barely managed to dodge the giant fist Nappa threw at him, and quickly threw up a guard to block the second fist that Vegeta slammed him with. Not that the guard did much, and Goku was slammed into the ground, barely standing, the Kaioken aura leaving him. The two great apes approached…

~AGE 850~

I let out a whistle at the scene the scroll showed me. "That looks…. fun?"

Trunks merely shook his head. "This is not how history is supposed to go. I need you to fix it." I simply nodded, picking up the scroll and letting it take me away.

However, I couldn't resist a parting joke. "I must go, my people need me!" I then jumped up into the air as I traveled through time. Trunks shook his head and turned back to the scroll.

~AGE 762~

"Kamehameha!" Yamcha shouted, firing the energy wave at a Sibaman, sending it flying into oblivion. However, three more Sibamen quickly took it's place, leaving him and Tien surrounded by six Sibamen. I arrived into existence a few meters away, and quickly assumed a fighting stance.

Krillin, who was behind me, glanced over. "Uh, no offense or anything, you look like a good fighter, but those two over there," He gestured to the Saiyans, Vegeta and Nappa, who were a shortie and a hulking figure, respectively. "Well, we're gonna have to fight them. That's right, fighting these little guys isn't the end."

As he finished speaking, a Sibaman leaped up behind him, and I blasted it away with minimum effort. "Oh please, like you're one to talk, bald midget." I let a small smirk cross my face. "The five year old is stronger than you." Krillin mumbled something about aliens.

Yamcha decided to chime in. "Another Saiyan….. you got a grudge against these guys or something?" He punch-uated the statement with a fist that went through a Sibaman.

I leaned my head back slightly, as three Sibamen jumped me. "In a manner of speaking." I quickly threw a punch that went through one into a second, and punted the third into the air where I fired a mouth beam at it. I then shook my head. "That was weird." Yamcha then had a Sibaman latch onto him, before blowing itself up, taking Yamcha with him.

As strange as it is, I really didn't care, knowing everything would turn out okay. However, it caused Krillin to use all his power and fire a blast that flew up and then split into many beams, arcing towards and evaporating all the Sibamen. Except two, which proceeded to suicide bomb Tien and Chiotzu. Oh, and another 10 or so. So not all, just like 15. Piccolo and I took on five each, and I'm running out of ways to describe fights so basically, I slaughtered 5, Piccolo took out 3, and then I helped him out with the last 2.

Nappa stepped forward, cracking his knuckles and neck simultaneously, and looked us over. "Let's see….. I choose YOU!" He yelled, launching himself at Gohan, the aforementioned 5 year old, Goku's half-breed son. I casually held out my arm, letting Nappa slam himself into my arm, winding him. His eyes bulged in surprise at being stopped, and then I dropkicked him in the gut, sending him careening into a mountainside. I followed it up with a volley of blue energy blasts, turning the mountain to a crater. When the dust cleared, Nappa was panting, but was able to disappear from everyone except me and appear behind Gohan, firing a massive cylindrical beam at the child, who stepped back in fear. Piccolo, however, threw himself in front of the blast.

Piccolo's corpse fell to the ground, a resounding thud. A few seconds later, Goku landed, and looked around. "Yamcha….Piccolo…..Tien….Chiotzu…." As he spoke, his power level rose to it's maximum, 8,001. NO IT'S NOT OVER 9000 THAT WAS A MISTRANSLATION! As my power level was about 5,000 at the time, Vegeta prioritized.

"Nappa, you take care of the small fry! I'll fight Kakarot." He barked. He then quickly rose to his maximum power of 21,000, and then further all the way to 40,000. Goku….. didn't have a chance for the following fight. Ignoring that, I turned to Nappa, who had risen to a power level of 10,000, double his normal.

"Alright, pipsqueak, let's see what you've got." He yelled, flying directly at me. I instantly spiked my power to my comfortable limit of 60,000. He went from almost faster than I could follow to slow motion. I dodged his leading right hook and grabbed his foot, and then YANKED his leg clean off. Well, not clean, there was blood everywhere. Not wanting to traumatize Gohan anymore, I disintegrated him before he could scream.

"Gohan, Krillin, GO!" I yelled, and they didn't need to be told twice. I flew over to the fight- scratch that, the slaughter that was Vegeta vs. Goku. Goku was barely able to avoid death with Kaioken times three. Vegeta, having his scouter off, had no warning to my sudden strength. I slammed into his ribs, headfirst. He went flying, allowing me the perfect opportunity to charge a beam. "Ka….Me…..Ha…..Me….HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I screeched, flinging the beam into him. He barely had time to register the speeding blast before he was flung sky-high.

Goku was staring at me in awe, having sensed my power and watched my decimation of Vegeta. "He's coming back." I said simply, to which he nodded. Suddenly, Vegeta appeared.

"The form disgusts me, but…. I'll have to become a great ape!" He yelled, creating an energy ball that he flung into the sky. It exploded in midair, turning into an artificial move. I knew I would regret it, but I let him transform because I knew it needed to happen for the timeline to be correct. I realized Trunks had been speaking the entire time, I had just tuned him out. I did, however, catch his intake of breath as his future father began the transformation. The small form of Vegeta became absolutely gigantic, the size of a 5-story building. He was towering, and I knew I was screwed when I sensed his power level. "Let me tell you something fun!" He called, his voice shaking the rock formations. "Saiyans in their great ape forms have powers ten times greater than normal!" Do the math, it's a power level of 400,000.

"Ah, crapbaskets." Goku and I said simultaneously. I quickly charged to my max power of 80,000, my muscles expanding slightly as I pushed the limit. Goku went back into Kaioken x3, not that it mattered much. After getting smacked around for about 30 seconds, it was clear nothing even bugged him. Goku was nearly unconscious, and lying in a ditch. I could barely stand, and I'd only taken a glancing blow. As I stood there, panting, I realized what I had to do.

"Trunks." I said simply. "I'm about to do something stupid, and I need you to help me with it." My tail thrashed in anticipation.

"I don't know what I can do, but I'll do what I can. What's the plan?" He asked.

"I'm going to become a great ape." I replied.

"THAT'S CRAZY!" He yelled, hurting my eardrums. "DON'T YOU KNOW GREAT APES ARE NORMALLY FERAL?!"

"Yeah, I know." I spoke. "That's why I need you to talk me out of my craziness."

Trunks sighed. "If this goes horribly wrong, I'm pulling you out so we can try again."

"Fine by me." I said as I looked up into the false moon, and everything turned red.

A/N: CLIFFHANGER! KILL ME NOW!