Hey Guys, I'm back!
With Spring Break being here, at least for a few more days, I had plenty of free time on my hands to upload the third chapter to Xenoverse.
Now before you read this chapter, I'd just like to say that this chapter is a little...bumpy, for lack of better word. Not a whole lot happens in this chapter in terms of action, mostly dialogue. Oh and another point I'd like to make is that this chapter is mainly exposition, this is in large part due to my OC, sorry if you don't like it.
And lastly I'd just like to give a shout out to all the people who faved and reviewed the previous chapter. It was a very heartwarming experience for me to hear back the nice things, or improvements, that you all said. You guys rock! All of that being said let's continue onto the story.
Side note: I do not own Dragonball Z, Dragonball, Dragonball GT, or Dragonball Xenoverse; they all belong to their rightful owners/companies
On Another Side Note: I do own all my Original Characters (OC's)
-Age 850-
Trunks remained alone in the Time Vault, keeping his eyes focused on the Scroll of Eternity, watching the projection that was being shown to him on the paper. The assistant to the Supreme Kai of Time was sure that Kanan could hold his own against Raditz, but there were a few times were it appeared that Raditz held the advantage. Fortunately, this didn't last very long as the warrior that Shenron summoned was able to counter attack his offensive and send the long-haired saiyan strait into Goku. Who held on to his elder brother long enough for Piccolo to hit the pair of brothers with his attack the 'Special Beam Cannon'.
'Just like history was supposed to be.' Trunks thought to himself as he watched the battle between the fighters come to an abrupt end.
The dark purple magic around the scroll began to fade away as Raditz slowly died on the ground, sharing some hate filled remarks with his killer: Piccolo. Trunks immediately took a notice to the aura disappearing and came to the conclusion that Kanan was able to stop the anomalies from occurring and correct the time-line, well at least in this era of history.
The Saiyan hybrid carefully rolled up the scroll, "Looks like that's one moment in history that won't be suffering from the effects of these anomalies." He muttered to himself.
But how many more specific points in time that were being affected by this strange occurrence remained unknown. The demi-saiyan still had no idea what was causing any of these changes to occur in the first place. But Trunks had a feeling once he was able to get to the root of the problem then all of these alterations in history wouldn't last very long.
'But that's for another time…right now.' Trunks thought while examining the scroll of eternity in his hand 'This needs to get to the Supreme Kai of Time; there were no side effects from what I could tell… so all she has to do then is put it in a scroll and it'll all... be... done.'
The scroll then began to glow a light blue color, making Trunks turned his head over to his right and notice a flash of light appearing within the vault. The demi-saiyan watched as the light took the shape of a humanoid form before it disappeared, having the rookie Time-Patroller, Kanan, in its place. His grey eyes blinking a few times as they adapted to his surroundings.
"Great, you're back." Trunks stated as the human fighter looked over to him "You did a good job out there, you held your own pretty well against Raditz."
Kanan let out a slight smile at the compliment "Well, I aim to please…even if I do get a little banged up along the way."
The human looked down at himself, his gi was practically gone only part of it still remained, crossing the upper part of his torso on a diagonal angle. His martial arts boots looked pretty torn up as well, having many deep stains of dirt on them in addition to that; thankfully his dark-colored baggy pants didn't appear to be damaged. Yet, the fighter's body was in fairly bad shape with multiple cuts and bruises littering the exposed patches of skin.
Trunks quickly took notice at the condition that the human fighter was in. "It's not too bad…I've got something that should be able to take care of those cuts and wounds on you."
The saiyan hybrid then placed the Scroll of Eternity back onto the table before motioning for Kanan to follow him. The two time-patrollers walked out of the Time Vault, both of them shielding their eyes from the intense light of the blinding sun in the green sky.
"Yeesh," Kanan commented as he lowered his hands from his eyes "Someone could end up blind from that."
"You're preaching to the choir on that one." Trunks stated as he walked towards the building that had a lawn littered with strange machines of some type. Kanan swiftly caught up with him and stopped when they were both in front of the white dome shaped building.
Trunks turned around to face the human warrior, "I'm going to ask you to wait here, I'll be back in a few minutes."
Kanan nodded his head as Trunks went inside of the house, leaving the warrior chosen by Shenron on his lonesome outside. In an attempt to try and kill some time as he waited for Trunks to return form the building, the human began to observe his surroundings; like he did beforehand when he had first arrived to this strange world.
Ignoring the obvious sights that he saw initially such as the weird cage bars above his head, or the colorization of a green sky. Kanan did notice a nearby pool of crystal clear water that he did not initially see when he first arrived in the 'Time Nest' as Trunks referred to it, if his memory was right.
'My memory.' He thought to himself as he stared down, frustrated, at the ground.
It didn't matter how hard he tried to recall anything about himself before he arrived to the Toki-Toki world; everything, save for his name, just came up blank. Needless to say, it was infuriating. He had absolutely no knowledge of who or what he was, the only thing that he seemed to remember was how to fight; thanks to his instincts and his muscle memory. Perhaps he was a fighter of some kind? He couldn't come up with a proper answer to that question. All he did know is that he was summoned by a dragon named Shenron to defend time from whatever was creating all of these anomalies.
'Maybe that's how I lost my memory…It could've had something to do with Shenron choosing me.' His thoughts his identity, though, were soon put to a rest as Trunks came out of the house, carrying something in both of his hands; catching Kanan's attention.
When Trunks finally got in front of the amnesiac human he extended his arms out offering what appeared to be new clothes to Kanan.
"Here, these are for you."
The rookie time-patroller inspected the clothes that were given to him. It appeared to be some kind of red clothing on the bottom of the stack, with a black cloth on top of it. Then on the very top of the stack of folded fabric appeared to be two blue boots and a small green bean shaped object in-between the two boots.
"Look this really nice of you and all," Kanan spoke up as he looked back at Trunks "But, uh, how are these clothes going to heal me?"
"That's what the bean is for."
Kanan looked down at the stack of clothes again and balanced them in his right hand as his left grabbed the small bean.
"You mean this?" he said holding up the bean for Trunks to examine.
Trunks nodded his head in agreement, "Hmh, that's a senzu bean. Once you eat it, the bean will be able to heal all your wounds and restore you back to 100%." Kanan looked back down at the, apparently, magical bean in his hand.
"Huh."
The human slowly brought up the bean to his mouth and reluctantly ate it; the flavor of the bean was very similar to that of a very bitter herb. Kanan bit down on it, chewing at the crushed bean until he swallowed it. At first nothing happened, the human fighter didn't feel any different than he did before he took the bean; then, something strange happened to him. He felt a massive surge of energy well up in his body, his tired muscles felt as if they had been properly rested and ready to do anything. Both his mind and body felt entirely refreshed, like he had just woke up from a very deep sleep. Kanan felt stronger than he ever did before, man did those beans do the trick!
"Looks like you weren't kidding about that bean."
Trunks grinned a little at the remark, "Yeah, well just remember not to eat too many of them…you won't like the results of that."
"Noted."
Kanan turned his attention back to the stack of clothes that was balanced in his right hand, the human placed them down on the ground and started removing the articles of clothing. Removing the pair of blue boots that was on the top of the pile.
"Hey, Trunks." Kanan asked as he sat down removing his ruined martial arts boots.
"Yeah?"
"Seeing as how I'm not…" He let out a small grunt as removed his second boot. "Being sent back in time to fix these anomalies, feel up for a little game of twenty questions?"
Trunks folded his arms over his chest, "Sure, what's on your mind?"
Kanan grabbed the right boot and put his exposed foot in the covering. "Well… to start out, I recall you mentioning that Raditz guy as being a Saiya-something."
"A Saiyan," Trunks corrected "That's what I called Raditz."
"Saiyan, right…" The human responded as he pulled down the left boot on his other foot. "Care to elaborate on that?"
Trunks let out a slight sign through his nose, preparing himself to give the time-patroller the explanation on the Saiyan race. "The Saiyans are a warrior race... they came from a world in outer space called planet Vegeta, or Vegeta for short."
"Vegeta…" Kanan repeated as he got back on his feet; breaking in the blue boots on his feet.
"That's also the name for, most, members of the Sayian Royalty."
Kanan stopped breaking in his new boots once he realized they were a perfect fit and faced the senior time-patroller, "You mean like king 'Vegeta' or prince 'Vegeta'?"
"Mhm." Trunks hummed, agreeing with Kanan's statements.
The human fighter then turned his attention back to the stack of clothes and grabbed and article of black clothing.
"So… what makes a Saiyan so special then?" Kanan asked while examining the black cloth, which turned out to be a sleeveless black tank top.
"Well Saiyans, as you've probably figured out by now, are naturally stronger than most of your usual opponents."
"You've got that right." Kanan interjected as he removed what was left of his gi and placed the black tank top over his head.
"In addition to that," Trunks continued "they get stronger every time they suffer a serious or fatal injury multiplying their strength once they recover from back to full health. In short… the more deadly the attack, the stronger a Saiyan becomes. Assuming they survive of course. "
"That's unique." Kanan commented as he once again turned his attention back the stack of clothes, all that remained was a folded red piece of cloth. "I guess I should consider myself lucky that Raditz guy didn't have anything to the effect those beans on him when we fought."
"I suppose so." Trunks remarked calmly.
Kanan held out the last piece of clothing that Trunks gave him. It was a red jacket, a tracksuit jacket to be more specific; with two details in the shape of 'V's on the upper torso portion of the jacket. Having the colors of blue for the top one and white for the lower of the two as well as a zipper running vertically down the middle of the jacket.
"Here's another one for you," The human said while he unzipped the jacket and began to put it on "Is there any chance I'm a Saiyan? I really can't remember anything about myself… and you seem to know a fair amount about them."
"Sorry to say this… but I doubt it." Trunks replied "A Saiyan would have a lot of key characteristics that make them easily stand out from other races. And, unfortunately, you don't possess many of them…which leads me to believe that you're just human."
"Ah, well that kinda stinks." Kanan concluded as he zipped up the zipper for his jacket. "But… beggars can't be choosers, I suppose." He zipped up the jacket to the collar, before inspecting himself. The clothes were a perfect, they fit him like a glove. "Thanks for the clothes by the way."
"No problem." Trunks replied. Those clothes were originally given to him by his mother before he left for Toki-Toki World. Unfortunately for her, the Supreme Kai of Time had given him his current outfit as his uniform; so he never got around to wearing them. Personally, he was glad to give them away, they were taking up too much space in his living area.
"Alright then…"the freshly dressed human stated "I've just got one last question for our 'little game'."
"Okay…shoot"
"What happened to that Goku guy after he got killed by Piccolo?" Kanan asked, even though he knew that Goku was supposed to die according to Trunks. The amnesiac human held some respect for the earth raised saiyan; due his noble effort to prevent Raditz from killing his son.
"Oh!" Trunks exclaimed, a little perplexed by the question, "You don't have to worry about Goku. He'll eventually get resurrected by the Dragonballs."
"Well, that's good." Kanan stated "So, where are we off to now?"
Trunks turned his head towards the Time-Vault, knowing that the two of them would inevitably have to wait before the next major change was made in history.
'Until then…' He thought to himself as he looked back to Kanan. 'He'll have to undergo some training to improve his strength. It's the only way he'll be able to survive and fix the next anomaly that heads out way.'
But that left the question of where the rookie time-patroller would train. He couldn't train in the Time-Nest for obvious reasons. The Plaza of Time was also off-limits for any kind of training as well; the same went for the Industrial District. That only left the Time Machine Station… perfect.
"We'll head to the Time Machine Station." Trunks stated "It's not that far of a walk from here."
Kanan nodded his head "Go ahead, lead on."
The two swiftly walked away from the Time-Vault and to the transport portal. Trunks briskly walked through the blue energy followed, reluctantly, by Kanan who still felt like his body had practically lost all of its energy as he quickly wound up on the other side of the portal.
'Gah…I'm never get used those damn things.' He thought as he arrived back at the place where he had first been at in Toki-Toki world.
The garden appeared to be cleaned up quite nicely since the little skirmish that Trunks had with Kanan, no doubt in large part to those little machines that were tending with the turf near the Alter and trimming the little bushes nearby.
The human fighter, though, put these thoughts behind him as he saw Trunks motioning for him to keep on following him. As Kanan once again caught up to the lavender-haired Saiyan, the two came upon another transport portal which Trunks walked through with no hesitation, like beforehand.
Kanan watched, dumbfounded, as the demi-saiyan walked into the blue energy "I should really ask him how he deals with going through these portals."
With a shrug of the shoulders and a deep breath the warrior stepped through the gate, still feeling absolutely exhausted and drained when he got to the other side of the portal.
The human put effects of the transport portal behind him as his eyes quickly became set upon the area Trunks had called the 'Time Machine Station'. And, out of all the areas that the human time-patroller had seen during his brief time in the Toki-Toki world this one was easily the most diverse out of all of them thus far.
The sky in this area was a nice natural blue color with clouds populating its vast openness, like the garden they visited beforehand. There also wasn't any grass as far as he could see, instead there were light grey colored tiles on the floor with a dark orange pathway had some palm trees going along the path.
Trunks was on the orange path, only a few feet in front of Kanan, who looked at the fighter as he slowly walked on the orange pathway. "Don't worry, we're almost there." He said aloud.
The human nodded at the remark as he once again followed Trunks, noting all the strangely shaped buildings and sights as they continued down the pathway.
As they kept on walking Kanan's eyes became fixed on some individuals directly across from them. One of them had green skin, pointed ears, and antenna like Piccolo except for the fact that this green man wore armor very similar to Raditz. The person next to him looked like a female human; having short brown hair and wearing a purple and yellow color gi.
Both of them waved over to Trunks, who returned the wave, and to Kanan, who returned it a little sheepishly. The strange duo then turned around walking on their own path, heading to another transportation portal.
'Wonder who they were? Perhaps, I'll see them later on…'
Kanan thought as he continued to follow Trunks, who walked in front of a building that was in the literal shape of sphere, having four legs on it to keep it's balance on the tiled floor, with bolded words 'CAPSULE CORP.' printed on the top of the sphere.
"Here we are." Trunks chimed, as he walked into the oddly shaped building with Kanan following closely from behind.
The room inside of the sphere had white metallic walls with a row of windows circling around the interior, as well as exterior, horizontally and the floor of the room was tiled with a sharp red color. As Kanan observed the room even further his eyes quickly became set on something in the center of the room. It appeared to be a long column of technology that seemed to sprout out of the floor and rise high into the roof of the sphere. Trunks kept on moving towards the standing piece of technology while Kanan walked on the red tiled floor still observing the new room.
The human let out a whistle, which echoed in the empty room, as he kept walking around "Interesting place you have here… nice and spacious."
Trunks, who was busy pressing a couple buttons at the control console, gave a second before he responded. "Glad you like it. My mother designed it for me to help with my training."
"She must be quite the woman then."
Trunks let out a chuckle at the comment "Oh, you don't even know the half of it. But I'm sure that you'll know what she's capable of accomplishing sooner or later."
"Right." Kanan said calmly as he kept on observing the room with a little bit of curiosity. Trunks stated that this room was made for training, but it was basically empty with nothing in it other than that center console. "So what kind of training do you do here exactly?"
"Well," Trunks said as he finished his work over at the console "This room is made so that an artificial gravity wave will be produced in order to increase the strength of whoever decides to train here."
Kanan stared blankly at Trunks who had a bit of a nervous look on his face, understanding that the human didn't properly understand what he had just said. "Uhh, how do I rephrase this? This room can be used to improve your strength by increasing the amount of gravity."
"Oh," Kanan remarked "Okay, so how does it work then?"
Trunks gestured for the human to come by him as he explained the functions of the gravity chamber. Kanan approached him from behind and peered over Trunks' shoulder as he explained the functions of certain buttons placed on the console.
"You'll be able to increase the amount of gravity for your training with this." He pointed to a dial near a back screen with the digit '1' on it. "Just give it a turn to the right and you'll be increasing the gravity."
"Neat."
"I should warn you though, you don't want to increase the gravity too much. If you do that… your body will literally become as flat as pancake under the strain of the gravity."
Kanan blinked in surprise at the warning "Guess I should take my training one step at a time then."
Trunks shrugged his shoulders "That's what I would do… but trust me you'll be a lot stronger than you were before once you're done."
"Humph, that sounds pretty promising. Alright, let's see what this thing can do then."
Trunks grinned, mischievously, at Kanan's eagerness to begin; boy oh boy would he be in for quite the surprise when the strain of gravity began to kick in, especially for a human. Not wasting any more time Trunks slowly turned the dial and the number on the screen flashed '5'.
Kanan was visibly shaking as he felt the air around him get heavier, pushing down immensely on his figure. Sweat droplets began form on his forehead when he took a few slow, forced, steps away from Trunks and the control console. The human began to throw high-speed punches and kicks at an imaginary target as his warm up his training session.
Trunks watched Kanan begin his training in the gravity chamber with a little bit of surprise; most of the new recruits generally fell flat on their asses if they decided to begin training at 3 times normal gravity, mostly due to their bodies only being able to handle only 2 times the amount of gravity. Then again Kanan was slightly stronger than most of the rookie time-patrollers, so he shouldn't been that surprised.
Trunks glanced at the person of interest, who was still training his body intensely under the stress of five times normal gravity. "Remember, once you're able to overcome five times normal gravity, just spin the dial and train on the next setting."
Kanan breathed heavily as he began preforming some martial arts "Dial… *Huff*… *Huff*… got it."
Trunks began to walk, with absolute ease, to the exit of the gravity chamber. The demi-saiyan still had to make sure that the Supreme Kai of Time was able to put all the corrections that Kanan made in scroll. As well as the fact that he had to keep the Scroll of Eternity under his watch for the sign of the next anomaly, which was bound to happen sooner rather than later in his mind.
Before he left he turned back to the human fighter that Shenron chose for his wish, "I've got a couple of things to do, I'll come back for you when another anomaly turns up. Until then good luck with the training."
"Yeah, see…*Huff* …ya 'round." Were Kanan's only words to him as he watched Trunks leave the Gravity chamber.
The human began his training with the simple exercise of pushups under the severe gravity, 150 of those would be a good start for his workout. Sweat began to drop like rain from his forehead as he kept pushing himself off of the tiled floor. It went without saying that this training was very trying on his body. But Kanan was determined to overcome it, he wouldn't back down from this challenge or the one that the Dragon had chosen him for…not by a long-shot.
Like I said, I felt this chapter was a little bumpy; but if you enjoyed it (which is perfectly fine by me) then, by all means, let me know.
Now onto pressing issues with the story, the mentor system of Xenoverse, sadly, will not be apart of the plot of this Xenoverse fanfic. The reason being was that, I felt, the mentor system would interfere with the direction that I wanted to go with this story, which was to be much closer to the canon of DBZ than the game was. So I'm sorry to those who were looking forward to it implemented but, I just had to remove it.
On another topic I have made a cover image for the story which will be uploaded, alongside the updated versions of the chapters, when the forth chapter is up and running. And to further play on this announcement the image is pencil drawn (not the best when it comes down to computer drawing or animation) and will feature what I envision Kanan to look like; with the outfit he receives in this chapter.
And finally, this is the AnimeAverageJoe wishing you all a good day.