The Game of Life: Dragon Ball Edition


A/N: "The following is a fan-based work. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, is owned by Funimation, Toei Animation, Shueisha, Dimps, and Akira Toriyama. I'm just a guy havin' fun. :p."


Chapter 18: A Legendary Problem

"Come on, Sub! I don't remember you being so weak!"

The growl that came out of my mouth was unearthly. Sweat poured down my entire body in droves, simultaneously evaporating due to my intense aura. I tried to push myself off of the ground while intense gravity, like a blanket, held me down.

Paragus effortlessly stood above my struggling form, his arms crossed over his chest. When it became apparent that I wasn't going to be able to get up, I felt the gravity chamber lighten. I gasped in relief while rolling onto my back.

"Wow," was all that came out of my mouth. As I looked around the extremely large room around me, that was the only word that came to mind.

Takia, the Tuffle Head of Innovation and Design, had been serious when he had told me that he had taken my Gravity Room sketch as his passion. Not only were Gravity Rooms in pretty much every Saiyan house; they even had Gravity Gyms of varying difficulties, and my Gravity Bands had been improved into Gravity Clothing. They weren't nearly as useful as a Gravity Room, but from what I'd been told, they were used as 'training wheels' all across the Saiyan Empire, spanning a massive portion of the Universe.

Much to my delight, Okro gave me a very generous amount of universal currency, due to it being my invention.

Well that, and for me ridding them of the Cold Family.

I was pleased when I was informed that my wish was a success. A little more concerning was the fact that all of the other Frost Demons, minus Rover, also vanished. That hadn't been a part of my wish, so where did they go? Did Cooler or Frieza destroy them before I got a chance to banish them?

That thought had only been temporary though, replaced with the realization that I was no longer close to being the strongest mortal in the Universe. Now, I was more like an ant surrounded by dinosaurs.

I couldn't have that.

Hence why I was sweating buckets on the ground of a Gravity Room, with my new personal trainer Paragus, staring down at me. Well, technically not my trainer, but it sure feels like it...

"Alright, now attack me with all that you have," Paragus ordered me calmly. I pushed off the ground, expanding into my second form in the blink of an eye. My fist crashed against Paragus's open palm, the shockwave shaking the room for a second before the built-in protective shields absorbed the impact.

Thanks to the last two weeks of training, I'd finally mastered my second form. It wasn't even particularly extreme training, but due to training in the Gravity Chamber with someone as powerful as Paragus a few times a week, plus wearing Gravity Clothing when I wasn't training, my stats were climbing impressively fast.

Paragus clenched my fist and drew me in, driving his fist deep into my stomach. I was helpless as the air was driven out of my stomach and another hit sent me into the closest wall. I tried to recover quickly, but he was on me not a second after.

"Sub! Your enemy isn't always going to allow you to transform into your most powerful form! You'll have to force them to give you time to transform!" Paragus's arm swung into my right side, severely damaging my bio-armor and sending me tumbling across the ground.

I'll give myself time alright. When Paragus blitzed over to me again, I was more prepared. A portal opened up a step in front of him, which he unintentionally flew into. The exit point was on the wall on the other side of the room, causing him to crash hard.

I immediately began to transform, my lower half growing exceptionally. Before my top half could finish though, I felt a hand on my throat. Paragus fazed into view, his hand tightening around my throat and his very light green aura flaring around him.

My serrated tail shot at him, aiming for his face. He barely moved his head in time as my tail sliced through the air, missing him by an inch. He was forced to let go, as planned, and fell back into another portal which brought him back to the other side of the room.

This time the rest of my body followed through; my transformation completed. I stood up at 12 or-so feet tall, allowing my crimson aura to swirl around me like a tornado.

"You've gotten much stronger since the day that you arrived. I'm impressed," Paragus's voice came from all around me, much to my confusion. Where is he?

"You've almost reached the power of my base form. And for that, I'll show you the next level," Paragus' voice vibrated through the room. I tried to focus and locate him, receiving an unpleasant shock when I realized that he was right behind me. I jumped forward and turned as I did, only to see that Paragus was standing still.

The air in the room turned sour, and the usual red light was washed by the tint of green and yellow. What is this? I glared at Paragus with uncertainty, as his power level continued to rise. The energy around him seemed to wrap around him like a covering, before shattering a moment later.

Even from across the room, Paragus's energy was suffocating me and burning at my armor. His hair stood up in harsh golden spikes, although from a distance I could swear that there were several strands of green. His aura was now an extremely bright gold, but with a very faint green pulse.

This doesn't seem like an ordinary Super Saiyan. I wonder...

Observe Activated!

Enhanced Super Saiyan Transformation!

This transformation is exclusive to Paragus! Due to partially mutated DNA, while not able to completely mutate Paragus into the Legendary Super Saiyan, his DNA offers him a slightly more powerful version of the Super Saiyan transformation!

Ah. That did make sense in away. It wasn't canon, as far as I knew, but then again, neither versions of Paragus got strong enough to even attempt a transformation.

I was violently snapped out of my musing by my stomach being caved in by multiple attacks. I fell to my knees on the verge of unconsciousness; dropping into my second form. I didn't even see him move….

"Alright, we're done for the day," his oppressive energy vanished, returning the room to its original shade of red, "You need to get ready for Leek and Rot to get back from their mission. They'll be arriving in an hour or so, at the City Landing Pad ."

I didn't have the energy to respond before he left. I continued laying there in agony while my HP was replenished. I considered using [Self-Healing] to fix the wounds, but I didn't want to waste the feat, seeing as I could still only use it once a day. No point when I can just take a short nap…


HP Fully Restored Due To Sleep!

I heard footsteps the moment that I got back into consciousness. When I opened my eyes, I was confused to see that it wasn't Paragus standing above me. The person seemed familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

"Can I help you?" I asked the Saiyan, who was now beginning to circle me. I cautiously sat up and kept my eyes locked onto his form.

"I heard rumors that you were back, but I didn't believe it until now…" The man said once he circled me once. A large grin spread across his face, but something about it was unsettling. "You surely remember me?"

"I can't say that I do," I used my tail to lift myself from the ground and onto my feet, "Enlighten me?"

"Let me give you a reminder," he moved like a bullet, his hand snaking around mine before I could properly jerk it away. His aura was already flashing a murky gold and orange, much to my dismay.

One powerful squeeze later and the bones in my left arm were crushed like twigs. I held in the scream, thanking myself for not going back into my first form when I slept. My arm would have probably been torn off.

Battle Start!

Enemies:

Sal (False SSJ form)

40,000 EXP

"Remember me now?" He let go of my arm, proceeding to kick me in the side and send me through the air. I caught myself before I hit the wall.

"Pain doesn't usually increase someone's recollection, Saiyan," I growled out in annoyance and pain. He just grinned up at me ferally, his hair spiking all around him, but not turning golden yet.

Wait a minute… I narrowed my eyes at the man, memories beginning to come back. Could this be the same guy?

"You're the guy from the Metamoran world, right? The one that wanted to kill them off when they were escaping?" I asked him in disbelief. Does this guy remember from back then?

"Yeah, it's me," He clenched his fists tightly at his side. "You broke my arm that day, embarrassing me in front of the captain and my teammate. I could never forget it. It was an incredible blow to my pride and was what got me kicked off of Paragus' team."

"Back then I wasn't strong enough to redeem myself… But now…" He stalked towards me as his power level began to increase. His murky aura flashed into bright golden as he ascended. His hair flashed once, before taking on the same golden color of his aura.

Battle Difficulty Increased!

Enemies:

Sal (SSJ form)

80,000 EXP

I wasn't an idiot, so I began my transformation the moment that he started walking towards me. I was done transforming shortly after he was, much to his surprise. He probably didn't know that I had another transformation.

"You seriously want to fight to the death over something that happened so long ago?" I fell into my battle stance, seeing his face drop into one of even further aggression. He bared his teeth like a rabid dog and his eyes rolled into the back of his head for a second.

"My pride was challenged! I can't allow myself, a former member of Captain Paragus' squadron, to be disrespected by such a lowly creature!" His golden tail wrapped around his tightly, as he prepared to launch.

Ah. I tensed my muscles and waited for his attack. This is Paragus personal gravity chamber. Why is he even here?

"I'm warning you, you won't be leaving this fight alive," I narrowed my eyes at him, hoping to get my point across. Apart from I wanted to fight him, but another part of me had a very bad feeling about it all. This is going to come back and bite me in the ass.

Currently, his power level seemed to cap at just below 80K. Two weeks ago, this would have been a challenge, but today…

I brought my arms up at my side, my crimson energy flowing through them and forming two large orbs. Slamming them together, I formed a large energy beam with an arrow-shaped tip.

"Arrow Of Death!" I fired off my attack at Sal, who barely managed to dodge it. Unfortunately for him, though, I didn't intend to make this a long fight. A portal swallowed up the attack, which then reopened right next to him. He managed to detect it and tried to move out of the way, but the attack still tore a chunk out of his side.

"Gah!"

I didn't give him time to recover, reaching through a new portal and grabbing a fist full of his golden locks. With a hand as big as mine, I was holding all the majority of his head.. I dragged him through the portal and slammed my broken hand into his face, breaking his nose with a loud 'crack'.

My hand stung a little, but I used [Self Healing] to fix the damage done by him earlier.

He managed to tear out of my grip, not without losing quite a bit of hair in the process. Even with a hole in his side, he formed an energy ball that slammed into my body, sending me skidding across the floor. A second energy ball flew at me, but I opened up a portal that sent it right back at him.

If it wasn't for the surprise attack that allowed me the first critical hit, this fight would have probably been much longer. I recognized as I threw a few ki balls in his direction. But I had the element of surprise. I knew of his transformation, but he didn't know about my portals.

He slapped my ki balls away from as I approached him with my tail aiming for his face. He dodged it with confidence, but that was his downfall. Half of his leg, from his kneecap downwards, was cut clean off as my tail slid through a portal behind his head, which led to right underneath him.

He tried to scream out in pain, but I grabbed his entire face in a tight grip, not even his eyes being visible underneath my massive palm. I slammed the back of his head against the force shield that enclosed the room, while also dragging him across it.

When I was finished, I threw his body into the middle of the room. It took him a few seconds to get onto his last remaining knee and I was surprised that he hadn't fallen out of Super Saiyan yet. The blood loss from his abdomen and his knee should make him blackout any minute now.

"S-She didn't say that you could make portals…" He stuttered to himself, the shock and panic clear in his voice. "She said that this would be easy…"

She? I raised an eyebrow as I approached him slowly. Was he sent here by someone?

"Who sent you here?" I asked him once I was standing menacingly above him. My tail flickered behind my back while I did, before striking viciously downwards, piercing Sal's tail into the ground. His face twisted into one of pure agony, and then it was as if he had fallen into near unconsciousness.

"Like... I'd tell... you..." He was prideful, despite his pain and defeat. He looked up at me in defiance, his teal eyes disappearing into his ordinary dark eyes.

"Then perhaps I can convince you…"

The room was filled with screams of agony. All the while, a flashing red dot in the corner of the room blinked...


Enemy Defeated! + 80,000 EXP

1 Battle Point Gained!

-4500 To Level 11!

LEVEL UP!

I wiped off some dust from my shoulder as I exited the gravity chamber. There was nothing left of him by the time that I was done. He was a stubborn one. He didn't even tell me who sent him.

In the end, he had died a pointless death. The main reason that I killed him was that someone with that much pride was bound to come back time and time again, attempting to kill me. Knowing how powerful Saiyans can get when they have a goal that they want to overcome, it was better with him out of the way now, rather than later.

But now I was curious, and maybe even a little paranoid. Someone had sent him to try to kill me. That meant that someone was either after my life or was trying to test me. Maybe both. Only time would tell. Until then, I wasn't going to go into my first form. I would be was far too vulnerable now that the Saiyan were stronger than my base form in their base.

"They're about to land. Are you here?" Paragus' voice called to me out of a small device that was on my arm. A Tuffle invention, or so I've heard. It looked similar to an Apple Watch from my last life but much thinner. It was the new form of scouter, able to sense power levels and communication insane distances, without blocking the view from the eyes.

"I'll be there in a second," I took off through the skies and away from the countryside. It didn't take me very long to get to the city, which was bustling with life as usual.

Honestly, I tried to stay away from the city as much as I possibly could. The newer generation didn't recognize me, so they just gave me weird looks. But the older generation had a distaste, maybe even a hatred, for me. Well, not exactly for me, but for the Frost Demon race in general. Frieza gave us a reputation that couldn't be easily forgotten. Unfortunately for me, all the work that I did to fix the war was done from behind closed doors, so they had no idea that I was the reason they were all still alive.

And for that reason, I refused to go into the city unless I was with Paragus. Until I get stronger, that is. Right now, if a Super Saiyan mob decided to make me a puddle on the floor, I wouldn't be able to stop them.

Okro had explained to me just how much of a difference the merge between races made, and what they'd done with the foreknowledge that I had granted them. Due to the Gravity Chambers being mass-manufactured, the Saiyan race started to grow in leaps and bounds. The Tuffles that were willing to train also got much stronger, but not as quickly as the Saiyans.

Due to my telling Rot, Okro, and Paragus about the Super Saiyan transformation, they took it to heart and remembered it. Rot was the first Saiyan on the current record to transform; after her squad was nearly eliminated on a mission. She quickly set the trend, which was quickly followed by many others surpassing their limits and ascending. That only increased when the Tuffles realized that the transformation stemmed from emotion and began creating situations that could trigger the new form.

Not every Saiyan was a Super Saiyan but it was safe to say that a great majority could very well be. And on top of that, the Tuffles launched schools for Saiyans that were interested in increasing their intelligence. It wasn't popular at first, but after a while, it picked up speed.

I put the sense of worry that I was feeling away, as far into the back of my mind as I could. Even still, it crept up like the trickle of a tap. At least they don't know about Super Saiyan 2 and beyond.

Wait, isn't this what I wanted? For the Saiyan race to reach their potential? As I approached the landing zone, I looked up to see a large flying into orbit. Why do I have this strange feeling of uncertainty?

I stopped my flight as I approached Paragus, who stood alone on the platform with his arms behind his back. He looked unusually happy; more than usual.

"What's got you so happy?" I asked him curiously. The large, spherical-shaped ship, landed in front of us.

"You're not the only one expecting people," He said with a smirk on his face, "My sons were on this mission. They're both apart of Rot's team."

"S-Sons?" My heart stopped for a moment, before [Gamers Mind] calmed me down. I'd been crashing at Paragus' house since I got back, and not once had I thought about the possibility of Broly having been born. "I didn't know that you had children."

"Oh yes. Two, actually," His voice radiated with pride. "Believe it or not, but they've both already surpassed me. You'll be meeting them shortly. Rot's team is a force to be reckoned with."

Two… Oh god. Two Legendary Super Saiyans? I would have been panicking if it wasn't for [Gamers Mind]. Instead, I just stood in anxious anticipation.

The entrance for the ship opened not long after, several people walking out. The first person that I saw was, by no mistake, Bardock. It was my first time seeing him, and he looked the same as he did in the movies. However, the person behind him shocked me to a greater degree.

Goku? I narrowed my eyes at the boy, who looked to be about 11 or 12. He was a bit taller than I remembered him being in Dragonball, but it was him. However, there were some differences. Instead of Goku's usual smile, he had a straight face, maybe even a little irritated. This isn't Goku. It's Kakarot…

Many times in the past, I wondered what Goku would have been like if he hadn't bumped his head as a child. It looks like I'd be able to explore that. I felt massive power levels coming from both him and Bardock, but before I could get a read on them, they both flew off into the distance along with some of the others.

This Goku is way too old to fit into the original timeline. Looks like I've derailed things more I originally thought. I turned back to the ship to watch the rest of the arrivals. We watched as a few more people came and left.

"Ah look, there they are!"

The ship must have been suppressing some of their power because the moment that the next group stepped out, I felt a pulse of energy. Nothing too powerful, but it was noticeable.

The tallest in the group was one of Paragus's kids. He looked just like the Broly from the Super Broly movie, except about 14 years old, and with a whole lot more expressions. He was laughing and joking with the people walking alongside him, looking genuinely happy. It was a pleasant surprise.

In the movie, growing up on that desolate planet with only his father seriously stunted his social skills. Even still, he somehow ended up being a relatively nice person when put into social situations. From what it looked like, being with his species did very well for him. Interestingly enough, his name tag pinned him as Ikari.

The wave of energy seemed to intensify, which caught my attention. It wasn't coming from the group. It's coming from behind them. I peered into the darkness of the ship behind them.

A sneering Saiyan stepped out of the darkness and I immediately knew that this one was where the energy was coming from. The original Broly… He was the younger of the siblings, much shorter than he would eventually become. Despite that, he was still as ripped as ever; his muscles on full display due to his lack of a shirt or armor.

He looked feral, unlike the rest of them. While the others seemed to be kept together slightly better than Saiyans had been 15 years ago, Broly didn't share that. He was a Saiyan, through and through. I'm staying as far away from that one as I can.

Paragus walked over to meet his sons. I would have stayed back, but he motioned for me to go ahead and follow him. As we got closer, their group of friends began to leave. When Ikari saw Paragus, he beamed and walked straight over to him.

"Dad!" Ikari and Paragus shared a high five, followed by a pat on the shoulder by Paragus, "It's good to see you!"

"How did the mission go?" Paragus asked in anticipation. All the while, I couldn't take my eyes off of Broly, who stalked behind Ikari silently. It didn't take me long to realize that his eyes were on me too.

The rest of the conversation around me didn't matter too much, because staring into his cold, dark eyes, told me something that I didn't want to accept. It might have been a bad idea to give the Saiyans my Gravity Chambers…

Name: Broly

Race: Saiyan Anomaly

Age: 12

Relation: None

Status: Alive

HP: 6,750,000

Power Level: 500,000,000 (Suppressed)

Level: 15

Broly is the second son of Paragus, inheriting the Legendary Mutation. His Saiyan Instincts are on overdrive as a default, only enhanced when he's triggered by his bloodlust and anger. Currently, he's eager to fight someone new.

I didn't break eye contact with the boy, even after his status sheet informed me of how much more powerful than me that he was. If I showed any signs of weakness, he'd think I was a doormat. But the longer that the staredown lasted, the more I realized that this might have been a bad choice of action.

Broly's smile curved up into a grin, showcasing all of his teeth. I felt his power level suddenly begin to rise, and his muscles rippled all over his body. Oh god, I accidentally initiated a fight.

Combat has begu-

A powerful hand landed on Broly's shoulder, causing all of us to turn dramatically up at the figure. Even Broly immediately calmed down once he caught sight of him.

Combat has Ended!

I didn't even sense him approaching. Who is this guy? I scanned the guy immediately. His pale skin and murky white eyes were a dead give away, but it was still hard to believe. Compared to last time, he was insanely tall, even for a Saiyan. From his forehead, two small horns protruded, which wasn't there before.

"Leek…" My voice was uncertain, although I knew that it was him. Gamers Mind must have been letting certain emotions seep though because I was feeling incredibly nervous and speechless. It was followed by a sense of pride. I reached forward in an attempt to put my hand on his shoulder...

The deathly glare that he gave me made me recoil.

"Alright, boys. Let's go." Paragus, noticing the awkward encounter, patted his boys on the shoulders and took off into the sky. They followed, but not before Broly gave me one last stare down; probably memorizing my appearance and aura signature.

When I turned back to Leek, he seemed eerily calm, although his hands were tightened into tight fists. From behind him, I could see Rot exit the ship and look over in our direction. The look of shock on her face reminded me that they hadn't been informed that I was back. This doesn't look good.

"Explain. Now."


I hope that you enjoyed the chapter! I've been on a roll! I probably need to stop and start writing Saiyan Gamer XD But yeah. As a few of you noted, it might not have been very smart for Sub to do some of the stuff he did. The repercussions are coming back to him.

Review and let me know what you thought!