Lands have rose up and have fallen down. The ground beneath quivered at the tremendous might of a dominant force that was making large dark shadows that was surrounding whatever light there was remaining on this land. Actually surrounding wouldn't be right description for the man that was desperately hanging on to his life. To him, it was devouring everything in sight.

His rapid breathing was heard coming out of his mouth. Heart kept beating so fast from his chest that it felt like his ribs would come out flying. The injured body he was wounded with wasn't helping his case at all. No matter how bad this was getting, he was going to clench his teeth and keep on going, even if his muscles and lungs were begging him to stop running. This could not be afforded. He was the last line of defense.

"Why do you continue to try to resist? Can't you see it's hopeless now?" Ichigo heard the man's voice as he kept on hopping between lands on the ground all while slicing the gooey shadows, approaching the dark shadows of a figure closer. Yes. He knew how futile it was for him to keep fighting. There was no-one else to help him. His Bankai might be destroyed at any moment. He could die at any moment. Yet he stubbornly persists, knowing he had to win this… somehow. "I see… so that is your response." he heard Yhwach sigh, with a grain of what was sworn to be sadness on his tone.

"Haaaaaarh!" Ichigo jumped above, charging down blindly with his sword raised so he could attack with all the strength that remained in him. He saw Yhwach not moving at all from where he was standing. The Quincy King just let Ichigo come down at him within blank range before he got down and striked with his sword with just random attack pattern with brute force at his side. "Haah! Haah! Haah! Grah!" Ichigo striked again and again, desperately hoping to cut down the King but the shadows just protected him with ease each time. Nothing was working.

Yhwach couldn't even budge a millimeter from the blows were coming at him. "Futile, futile, futile… do you not understand already?!" Ichigo just kept on swinging like a brute. "Even if you cut me down, my Almighty allows me to rewrite my own death! There is nothing you can do to stop me! So just stop this before your death becomes more painful!" Yhwach had shouted from the anger to his son of darkness. But he could not hope to convince the naive boy's ears. After all, the roles of Hero and Villain had to be played out, and only a victor could emerge from this.

Ichigo was gritting his teeth hard enough to the point where he might break them. His body was under so much pain but he refused to let that weakness be shown. "Enough of this!" the Soul King enhanced Quincy had then had his shadows try to pierce through the Tensa Zangetsu blade so they couldn't shatter apart like before. Except this time there were only cracks made out of it instead and it didn't move itself away within the boy's grasp. 'It's stronger than it was before! I have to end this right now before the tables turn!' he thought to himself, seeing Ichigo leaping at him again. 'It appears these will be your last hours, Ichigo… the part of me in your world warned you of the dangers like this, yet you choose this anyways. Oh well…'

Ichigo was prepared to use his Getsuga Tenshou to strike down again. To do this, he had used his energy to perform a Flash Step and he already got in front of Yhwach once more, this time crouching down while swinging his blade for his head. Suddenly he felt his body become a lot heavier, and sluggish when he heard the the sound of flesh being torn. The teenager looked down to see that his chest area has been cut through by through one of the shadows that formed into a tendril that pierced through his heart. "Hugh… gough!" he coughed up blood from his mouth as the tendril let go of him.

Ichigo felt his life already slipping from him. He could just barely hold onto his sword despite the pain screaming at him to let it go already. The color of his eyes were already starting to fade as well. He still wanted to move but he could barely just stand anymore. Yhwach saw the shocked look on his face before he moved in front of Ichigo, turning off his Almighty in the process as he had firmly believed that victory was his now. "There is nothing to frail about anymore. Your chances of winning this battle had been zero the moment I have used my ability on you. There's nothing else for you to do anymore."

He was going to die in just a few moments now. There was nothing nor anyone who could save him now. No-one was capable of standing up to his power now. Soon, his goal of merging all the worlds into one would be complete. And no-one would have to fear death anymore.

"...Not yet…"

Yhwach widened all of his eyes from the dark shadow of his figure. Before he knew it, Ichigo's large Bankai blade had pierced through the Quincy's heart. He had coughed up blood of his own with a pool of his blood leaking on the floor. 'The last defense mechanism in him! The final strike within in case he died! How could I forget that?!' Yhwach thought in shock. His guard had been down, and he had played the price for his arrogance. To think that his goals had been stripped away just like that…

Ichigo didn't know just how much longer he could last right now. The only reason he was clinging onto life at this point was out of sheer stubbornness. Despite this incredible will there was only so much he can hold on before his body gave up. Despite being steps away from death's door, the resolve of his iron willed determination to kill this man was far greater than the fear he had of death. So with that, Ichigo had kept trying to shove his sword further while it still remained within his grip. But the burning pain was becoming unbearable for his body to handle anymore.

"No…" Ichigo forcefully looked up to see Yhwach gripping onto his sword with his hand, looking as though he was trying to remove it. But Ichigo wasn't having any of that. "No…!" Ichigo could just see and hear the Quincy King's voice filled with anger. "No! NO!" actually scratch the anger back, he was enraged. "I CANNOT BE DEALT LIKE THIS! I HAVE COME TOO FAR TO BE STRANDED ASIDE! ESPECIALLY AT THE HANDS OF A MUT LIKE YOU!" Yhwach was practically screaming with every bit of bubbling rage he was releasing now that he was dying. And Ichigo found it odd that he didn't seem to be coming back from this. The dark shadows released by Yhwach were spreading themselves even faster than ever before, as if it was some disease. "IF I'M NOT GOING TO SEE THE WORLDS REUNITE WITH MY EYES, THEN I'LL JUST USE EVERY BIT OF MY POWER LEFT TO MERGE THEM AS ONE! EVEN IF IT SEEMS THAT WE'LL BOTH DIE HERE!"

The land of the Soul Society had been taken over by the shadows of Yhwach. The once proud stand had been completely ruined by now as the shadows have spread all over of what they could find, emerging the world into a total state of darkness. Yhwach had physically begun to disappear, his eyes all over had bursted like hot bubbles while the shadow goo was disrupting by melting itself down onto the ground. And Ichigo could only watch as the proud Quincy King had been removed from existence as there was no more weight holding behind his sword. Yhwach had gone down first. And soon it would be Ichigo's turn to disappear entirely upon this realm.

'I won…' the boy had mused to himself. He had won the battle, yet to him it felt hollow and empty. It didn't feel like he won at all. 'But what's even the point of that anymore? Even if Yhwach is dead, those shadow things are still moving to merge worlds into one place. There will be no-one to protect anymore. And I'm so tired…' Ichigo had been looking down at the empty soulless ground before he started falling back down as his body had finally succumbed to his injuries. His back had hit the ground on his back as the pool of his blood had been oozing out his body. 'If only I could have done better… the outcome wouldn't be like this. I just…' his eyes had started to go black, as abyss was coming down upon him. 'I just wish that… there was some other way for me to keep going. I just want to have a second chance to protect everyone around me…'

He had then finally closed his eyes, his last thoughts heard to himself before he had fallen to a state of deep slumber, never to be seen again from this world.


"Hey! Bardock! Good to see you're back!" a Saiyan from the planet known as Vegeta had greeted his comrade who was walking by while holding a bag that hangs onto his shoulder.

"Yo!" the spiky haired Saiyan had greeted back, and along with the other Saiyans that were walking back or away, passing the small houses that they lived in. Bardock had gotten back to his home, and he saw his wife slicing down meat in the kitchen. Though she didn't really seem to be aware of his presence.

"What? I come back and I don't get any kind of greeting?" Bardoc had half joked behind Gine.

This seemed to have spooked Gine a little as she had turned around to see her husband standing before her with a smirk stretched around his face. The woman had went ahead to drop the butcher knife and wrap her arms around the taller man. "Bardock, you're back!" she joyfully said.

"Sure am. Everyone here seems to be going crazy though."

"Well of course they are. No-one actually expected that everyone was going to return from such a gruesome mission like that alive. It's a miracle really!"

This still didn't add up to the Saiyan soldier. "So, where's Raditz at?" he asked his mate, wanting to know where his first son was at.

"He's in the military now. Somewhere off world. Partnered up with Prince Vegeta as well." she answered him.

That one had the Saiyan man smirk. He held pride within his elder son of joining such high ranked soldiers at the age he was at. Although… "Prince Vegeta huh… well that's pretty impressive. Though I wouldn't want to get stuck in the same ship as that kid." he told her, referring to the prince. And there were a number of good reasons why that was the case. Despite being a mere child, the Prince was very powerful for his age, and unfortunately with that power came with the hot temper, and the proud arrogance he held like his father, their King as well, along with being a royal member of their family. "How's Kakarot doing?" he asked her. "Is he still in the nursing capsule?"

Gine let go as she nodded her head. "He still is. Though I think it would be about time to let him go though! You should see him!" she gleefully said, as she was walking past the open door as Bardock followed her.

In the other room, there was a capsule there where inside it was a toddler that looked to be around 5 years old with yellow liquid filled up inside along with a mask that allowed the toddler to breathe in there.

Except that this toddler wasn't exactly… normal. Physically at least. While he did look like a 5 year old, he looked far different than that of the average Saiyan. His most notable appearance was his with long and orange spiky unkempt hair that almost appears transparent. His only notable trait was the Saiyan tail he held like every other one.

"I still find it hard to believe that this is our son. I mean, he doesn't resemble anything like us." Bardock commented, looking at the toddler Saiyan in the pod who still seemed to be sleeping.

"Yeah, I know. It's like this is someone else's child instead. I still don't really understand the whole orange hair this little guy has." Gine scratched her hair. "I never heard of a Saiyan that had orange hair before… but hey at least he doesn't have his father's hair." she jokingly added.

Bardock didn't really seem to react to this at all. Instead he was just staring at his son's pod with a serious look. There was no doubt in his mind that as cruel as this may seem, the entire race of Saiyans was going to be exterminated by Frieza very, very soon. And he was not going to allow his son to die by that tyrant's hands. And as much as he hated to admit this, even if all of them stood up together to fight Frieza, they would simply be no match for him and get wasted even faster. Raditz was at least in some other world so he should be safe, especially with Prince Vegeta at his side. Kakarot on the other hand was completely defenseless, and something about that left a bad taste in his mouth. He had no choice. He had to send his somewhere on another planet. Far away from Frieza as possible.

"Gine…" Bardock clenched his fist as he looked back at his wife. "Somewhere around dark, I'm going to steal a pod and send Kakarot to a distant planet."

Gine seemed to have been taken aback by this out of blue remark. "Huh?! Hang on, are you kidding me right now?!"

"I'm serious."

"Have you gone insane?! Why would we abandon our son like that?! He hasn't even learned how to talk yet!" Gine argued.

"With his latent abilities, he would be sent off to a planet. Most likely somewhere horrible. So I have to send him to let him grow up on a decent planet."

"He's too young for that!"

"I know… but I'm only doing this because I'm not sure just how long we could hold out much longer."

Gine was confused by this. "What do you mean?"

Bardock turned to look at her again. "It's Frieza that's the problem. I think he's afraid that one of us might turn into a Super Saiyan and be able to stop him." he told her his reason.

"The Super Saiyan? Like in the legends?" Gine seemed to be confused by this. "But that's… that's just a myth! A bedtime story that we only heard as children!"

Bardock had a smile on his face. "I know that. But I don't think Frieza would want to take any risks with us anymore." he then had a frown on his face. "Because I have a feeling that death is approaching to all of us very soon." he had a grave expression shown.

The night has fallen; Bardock had managed to steal a pod and put Kakarot inside, and Gine had followed suit as Bardock had been carrying it out into the badlands outside the village they lived in. Both Saiyans were hearing the sounds of whaling, along with the pounding heard from the pod that was carried.

"Isn't there another option?" Gine still protested her husband's decision, hoping he could change his mind about this.

Bardock shook his head, not wanting to let his resolve falter because of this. "No. This is the only way we could save our son like this." they set down on the ground and they started walking.

"In that case, why don't all the three of us just run off together?"

Bardock scoffed by this. "Even if we did do that, they'll be able to track us down in no time with those damn Scouters."

Gine saw Bardock put the pod down. "What if you turn out to be wrong?"

"If I do somehow end up being wrong about Frieza, then we'll simply go back after Kakarot. Good news is that I programmed the pod to take course on a place called Earth. Their technology isn't really advanced like ours is, and they shouldn't pose any threat even to Kakarot with how low their power level is." Bardock tried to reassure her as much as he could all while he was seeing his son crying inside the ship.

"Bardock…"

"Yeah?"

"...Why are you going through all this trouble? It's not like for a Saiyan man to care about his children. What has gotten into you? When Kakarot was born, you simply refused to be anywhere near him. And now you're trying to save his life? Why?" Gine didn't really mind the change. She liked it that he was trying to be better. But the unexpected change of this and the threat of Frieza destroying them all just didn't make her understand.

Bardock took a sigh as he got up and looked over at Gine. "Honestly, I'm not sure myself. Maybe because as a Saiyan, I keep on fighting, I keep destroying over and over. Maybe I actually want to save something for once…" he kneeled down to the pod and saw Kakarot had stopped crying now. "A-Anyway… the good news is that this Earth isn't a valuable planet, so it should be off of Frieza's radar."

Gine had then gotten to the pod as well, kneeling next to Bardock as she pressed her hands against the pod. "Listen to me… if your father is wrong about this, then we'll pick you up immediately!"

The orange haired toddler was looking at his parents, seeming to be confused and scared as well. "Listen to me, son. Survive, no matter what." Bardock firmly told him, as he was pressing his hand against the glass of the pod, and Kakarot had seem to be doing the same. The pod had then started to hover from the ground. "Goodbye…" he spoke in a soft tone.

The pod had then launched itself, and little Kakarot was pressing his small hands to look down at his parents for whom he was going to see for one last time. "Don't forget about us, Kakarot!" his mother had shouted from below but it was already too late as the ship had glowed blue before it from the planet Vegeta's atmosphere within mere seconds. Gine had broke herself down in tears as Bardock held her close to him in his comfort.


In the middle of the Mount Patzu woods, there was an elderly man walking by in the bamboo forests with a large wooden bag that was strapped onto his back while carrying it with his hands over his shoulders. This old man had seemed to have been minding his own routine till he had picked up sounds of what seemed like crying. "Hm?" Curiosity had taken over the old man as he went ahead to investigate what was the noise, since it wasn't very often you got hear crying from these areas.

When Gohan had went ahead to see the source of the crying noises. He was both shocked and confused to see an unknown ship had somehow crash landed here without his knowledge that caused a crater to form. What was more confusing however, was that he saw a toddler outside of this hatched pod that seemed to be crying his eyes out, wearing the strangest armor he had ever seen in his lifetime.

"My goodness!" the old martial artist had went ahead to walk towards Kakarot. "A little boy? What's someone like you doing all the way out here?" he tried to ask calmly but the only thing he got was senseless crying. Gohan had went ahead to pick up the toddler in the air with his arms. This seemed to have stopped the toddler from crying before Gohan could see a tail coming out. "A tail?" Gohan chuckled. "You're quite a strange little fellow aren't you?"

The toddler looked like he was trying to say something but the only thing that was coming out of him were baby noises. Odd. He didn't really seem to capable of speech compatibility yet. Another strange thing about this toddler was the strange style of his orange hair. The toddler Kakarot had then kicked Gohan in the chin, which had the old man back away the toddler from while he was giggling. "My, my! You're quite a feisty one aren't you? You should be more careful, I'm old enough to be your grandfather ya know?" Gohan said, but the toddler hadn't seemed to pay attention much.

Though then Gohan had seemed to remember something. "I do wonder what your name is…" the toddler Kakarot didn't really seem to register his words as he was still giggling. "Well till I find out who you belong to, I'll have to come up with a name for you. Now what to name you…" he looked at the little Saiyan boy. The armor and the ship would have to be checked on that later. The tail didn't really seem to be much of help with the name either.

A boy with a monkey tail? Well it seemed possible, but with the hair he had it didn't really seem to fit. Wait, his hair! Now that Gohan looked at it, the sheer amount of shiny brightness from that couldn't help him but remind him of the sun itself. Wait, the sun… if he remembered correctly, there were Mythologies of some Gods with that name weren't there?

Gohan looked at little Kakarot again, now that he came up with a name to call him. "I know! The name I'm going to give you till I found out where you belong little fella will be... Karna!"

The new named Karna giggled again. "Oh? You like it already then? Alright! Then from now on, Karna will be your name!"


Hello there everyone! Combatlighting here again with a new story to have it published! This is something that my Co-Author, Assasin_Ichigo, and I had been planning on to write for a while now.

Since you have seen the summary, and the read the very first chapter of this, you would get the idea that Ichigo is the reincarnation of Goku in this now that Yhwach has merged all the realms into one world. And most people that Ichigo knows are practically dead right now in his world. Also he has lost all his memories of his previous life so he doesn't remember anything. But the good news for me is that he will get them back extremely soon, which would make it a lot easier for me.

Also with Ichigo's name being Karna, my Co-Author and I didn't really agree that his name should be Goku since it was really weird and unfitting as both Ichigo and Goku are completely different people. So we looked up to see what his name could be till my Co-Author suggested the name from another Anime more or less. As for the hairstyle Ichigo currently has, just look at the Image that's for the story for a better visual understanding. You'll see why this is the case later on.

Also another thing to more or less warn is that there will be some DRASTIC changes throughout the Dragon Ball story of Ichigo's perspective, some changes that weren't really supposed to be there but will be added as it should be necessary to explain some things there.

Also if you enjoyed reading this, I really recommend if you check out my other stories I made. Because trust me you will not be disappointed with what I wrote for the other ones (except the abandoned ones). I would really appreciate it if you left reviews since it boosts my motivation.

And just one last thing… Merry late Christmas, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!