"Did you enjoy your bath, Lord Beerus?" Whis asked of the god as he walked around the large table and sat down a bowl of grapes, and smiled pleasantly as Beerus happily snatched up a bundle and dropped it into the food compactor that was currently his mouth.

The god took his dear time munching away on his food before taking a long sip of wine and then diving into yet another dish that joined the variety of food set before him on the massive table. He ate so much, so quickly, he nearly choked on a bone before hastily washing it down with a gulp of water. "Horrible!" he belched and then picked up some kind of smoked fish from a foreign planet. "You know that I hate baths, Whis! I still don't even understand why I had to take one. You act as if I smelled!"

"You did," Whis replied, not missing a beat as he took away a now empty plate and pretended not to see the death glare Beerus tossed him.

The deity gobbled down the fish and munched it around as he said, "That's beside the point. One of these days I'll figure out how to completely eradicate baths from this universe and we'll see who gets the last laugh."

"Of course you will," Whis stated and then took a seat on the far end of the table with a glass of wine in his hand. A moment passed between the two – the sounds of Beerus's ravenous eating bouncing around the dining hall – and Whis spoke again. "So, would you care to tell me why you chose to awaken so early? Normally, you would've still been unconscious for at least another decade."

Beerus looked up at Whis for a moment, strings of noodles hanging from his mouth as he pondered over the question and found that he had no idea what the answer was. With a quick slurp of the noodles, he shrugged and said, "I'm actually not sure myself. I didn't leave a note or anything before I fell asleep, did I?"

"Um…no." Whis offered the god a very unamused, blank stare as the deity began munching on some sushi. When Beerus simply shrugged in defeat, as if giving up on caring about why he'd awoken, Whis could only sigh in exasperation.

"Whatever the reason, I'm sure it was important and will come back to me in due time," Beerus admitted with an air of nonchalance as he took a moment to study a piece of squid before plopping it into his mouth. Whis looked ready to complain about Beerus's uncaring attitude, so the god quickly changed the subject. "In the meantime, why don't you catch me up on some of the happenings that I've missed since being asleep…like, er…Frieza? Yes, Frieza! Tell me what my favorite little imp has been up to since I last seen him. Did he destroy that Saiyan planet like I commanded?"

At the mention of Frieza, Whis perked up. "Why yes he did, Lord Beerus? He seemed to enjoy the show quite a bit if I remember correctly. He said it was the best light show he'd ever seen."

Beerus scoffed with a smug smile. "Did he now? I should really pay him a visit now that I'm awake. He's lived the high life a bit too long for my taste. It's about time I destroy him. And I don't remember Cooler or Cold being too fond of me either. I think I'll destroy them as well."

"No need for that," Whis mentioned and bit into an apple. "The Cold family and its empire have already crumbled. You were beaten to the punch, I'm afraid."

Beerus completely stopped eating to look over at Whis with a puzzled look on his face. "Frieza was defeated?" he asked in surprise. When Whis nodded in the affirmative, the god demanded, "By who?! That lizard's power didn't hold a candle to my own, but for him to have been defeated by anyone else is quite the accomplishment."

Seeing that the deity was indeed fascinated with the story, Whis straightened up his staff that had been leaning against his chair and allowed a green holograph to project for them to view. In a moment, the screen seemed to dive into the past and present some of the highlights of Goku and Frieza's fight back on Namek. "This is the culprit," Whis explained as his eyes looked from the screen to Beerus and back again. "He is a Saiyan from Earth. Born by the name of Kakarot, he was renamed Goku as a child when he was discovered on the planet."

"Saiyan?" Beerus parroted with another look of confusion. "I thought you said Frieza destroyed the Saiyan's planet?"

"Frieza, indeed, blew up Planet Vegeta and basically exterminated the Saiyan race. However, there were a few survivors that happened to be stationed at other planets at the time of their home world's destruction." Whis paused just briefly to sip some of his tea before going on to say, "As it stands, there are only three full-blooded Saiyans left. That includes Goku, and the two Saiyan princes, Vegeta and Tarble. In addition, there are three half-breeds that are part Saiyan and part human."

"Interesting…" the god muttered, having completely dismissed his food momentarily to look back at the screen at just the right moment to see Goku transform into a Super Saiyan. The sight made the god's eyes widen in curious amusement. "You say he is a Saiyan, but what has happened with his hair and eyes? Saiyans transform in the Oozaru form, do they not? What is this?"

Whis glanced back up at the screen and explained, "Ah! I believe this is a highlight for this Saiyan in particular because he managed to achieve a form of power that hadn't been seen in their race for a millennium. It is drastically different from the great ape form, in both size and power. If I'm not mistaken, they refer to it as Super Saiyan?"

The cyan-skinned assistant then allowed the screen to fade away and his staff to lean back against his chair as he then chose that very moment to begin clearing away a few more dishes. He stepped past Beerus as the cat-god seemed caught in a momentary stupor of some sort. Whis didn't pay the man's zoned-out appearance too much attention though, and was already beginning to balance a huge stack of plates. "Oh, Lord Beerus!" he began, a thought suddenly dawning on him in regards to Frieza. "I suppose that it may be worth mentioning that Frieza isn't exac…"

"I've got it!" Beerus suddenly announce, so abruptly that Whis startled at the deity's surprising vigor. While Whis attempted to reclaim his balance with the stack of plates in his hands, the god leapt out of his chair out of unbridled excitement. "I've got it! I've got it!" he cheered with a bright smile and then bounced right down to land directly in front of Whis. "I now remember why I chose to awaken so early, Whis!"

"Oh, do you?" Whis said, sounding very unamused at the god's boisterous display.

"Yes!" he cheered in response. "On this day, I am set to meet my sworn rival! I creature of such power that we will make the cosmos quake with our battle! It's been foretold by the Oracle Fish, so it shall pass!" Despite the god's excitement, Whis still looked unconvinced and practically bored as he still balanced the plates. "Why aren't you happy for me? You're making me angry," Beerus admitted with a deep scowl.

Whis just sighed and began walking out of the room, "Not to say that I'm not happy for you, Lord Beerus, but you have a tendency to get a bit overwhelmed by the Oracle Fish's predictions." He walked out of the room just briefly before returning, now freed of the dishes. "Need I remind you of the prediction of the famous pop singer coming to live with you? That still has yet to come to fruition."

"It will happen! Be positive, Whis!" Beerus demanded, hotheadedly and then scoffed at Whis's expression. "It doesn't matter anyhow because I have faith that that Saiyan is set to be my rival. It's no coincidence that he'd be brought to my attention on this very day. This Goku is my rival, Whis. He is the Super Saiyan God that I was prophesied to do battle against!"

Whis still looked unconvinced of the situation, but he smiled nonetheless. "Well then, Lord Beerus, we aren't going to find him sitting around here all day, are we? Let us seek out this Super Saiyan God that you're so interested in meeting."

Beerus turned back to Whis with a triumphant smile. "Yes! Let's find Goku at once!"

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"You're unbelievable, Goku! Truly, truly unbelievable!" King Kai yelled in anger as he chastised the hero. The portly deity glared over to Goku as the Saiyan and Gregory meekly hammered away to patch up the large whole that had been created in King Kai's house. Despite Goku's saddened appearance and the assortment of bruises and bumps on the back of his head, the kai couldn't muster up much pity for the man. "And I don't mean that in a good way!"

Goku lifted his head, mouth opened to speak, but was shushed when King Kai leveled him with a harsh glare. He simply lowered his head again and continued patching up the house.

"I mean really?! Not only do you fly off the handle and create a skylight in my house, but you have the nerve to go thinking you can fight with the God of Destruction! Have you lost your mind!" When Goku lifted his head to try and defend himself again, King Kai glared once more to make the Saiyan look back down and continue patching. "We're not talking about some tyrant of the galaxy, Goku! Not some lab experiment or magical being of evil, we're talking about a god! And you never, EVER mess with a god! Do you understand me, Goku?!"

"Yes, King Kai," Goku whined, like a small child that couldn't get his way. "I won't do it again. I promise."

"You better promise!" King Kai demanded and then folded his arms with a huff. "Going around thinking you can just pick fights with the god of destruction. You'd better be happy that Lord Beerus is nowhere around, Goku. You have no idea what kind of mess you'd be getting into."

"And what kind of mess would that be, West Kai?"

King Kai seized up all of a sudden, as if a shiver ran up his spine, and slowly, the kai turned around, dreading what he knew would be behind him. Sure enough, once King Kai turned fully to gaze out onto his lawn, he found just what he didn't want to find. Lord Beerus and his faithful assistant, Whis, were standing out on the grass with curious – and slightly mischievous – smiles on their faces as they looked back up at King Kai, Goku, and Gregory atop the small house. The portly kai's mouth turned dry as sand as he looked across at the god of destruction and while words eluded King Kai, Goku peeked around the deity with a questioning look on his face.

"King Kai, who is – ?" Goku didn't even get a chance to finish before King Kai spun on his heel and punched the Saiyan down into the house in an effort to get him out of Beerus's sight.

And while he lied down in the rubble of the kai's new skylight, King Kai leapt off of the building and landed back onto the grass with the kindest and most submissive smiles he could offer. "Greetings, Lord Beerus, Master Whis!" he cheered merrily as he walked closer to the upper-level deities. "It's a lovely day, isn't it? Would you like to join me for a cup of tea?"

"Don't try to overstep that comment you made a moment ago. I want to know what you meant!" demanded Beerus, who looked ominously angry at the moment. "You did a good job whittling down the remnants of your last planet, West Kai. Would you like me reduce the size a bit more?"

"No, no, no!" whined King Kai and waved his hands around frantically. "I wasn't talking about you, Lord Beerus! I was talking about my friend!" The portly deity tried to wave off insinuation like a big misunderstanding. "He can be such a slob sometimes!"

"Quite." The ominous aura that had emanated from Beerus then retracted as the god turned his eyes away from King Kai and looked over to where Goku was stumbling out of the house while holding his head. "I suppose that was the friend that you were referring to?"

King Kai turned to look back at Goku and gasped again before turning back to Beerus and offering a meek head nod. "Please…allow me…to get him…" King Kai didn't wait for a response before he bolted over to Goku.

"Ouch! King Kai that really hurt!" Goku whined, but the deity paid it no mind.

"Listen, Goku! And when I say listen, I mean listen!" He reached up to pull Goku's ear down to his mouth, so as not to allow Beerus to hear them this time. "Over there is Lord Beerus and his assistant, Whis. This is where that promise you made comes in! You cannot –under any circumstances – challenge Lord Beerus to a battle! His temper is worse than Vegeta's and Frieza's combined, so whatever you do, stay on your best behavior!"

"Now this is just getting rude, West Kai," Beerus called out, impatiently.

"Oh, my apologies, Lord Beerus!" King Kai cheered and then reached up to pull Goku over towards the other two. "This is a good friend of mine, and former trainee," he said as he indicated up to the saiyan hero. "His name is –,"

"Goku," Beerus finished with a smile as he now addressed the hero. Goku looked at Beerus as if not quite believing that the god knew who he was, but Beerus nodded to affirm his knowledge. "I've learned a little bit about you recently, Goku, and I've actually come all this way just to see you."

"Oh no," King Kai grumbled under his breath.

"Oh really? Well, I don't know why you'd want to see me, but it's nice to meet ya!" Goku admitted cheerfully, making King Kai groan even more with the informal way that Goku spoke to the god.

"I'm sure," Beerus mused and then said, "but I'm tired of the pleasantries. Now, show me your Super Saiyan God power so that we may do battle."

Both King Kai and Goku then gaped at the god, who simply stared back at them with a twinge of anger running through his veins at the expressions he was receiving. "Umm…" Goku said, being the first to find his voice. "A Super Saiyan…what again?"

"God." Beerus looked very unamused. "A Super Saiyan God! Do you not know your own power?!"

"I have never heard of that," Goku responded as he scratched his head innocently. Then, a sudden flash of golden power overtook his body as he leapt into his SS form. "I have this," he said before another flash overtook him, this time sparks of lightning rushing around his body. "And I have this…and well there's another level beyond this, but that's about it," Goku admitted.

"I don't think this is what you're looking for, Lord Beerus," Whis spoke up, to which Beerus simply scoffed.

"He said he had another level beyond his current one. Don't be a storm cloud, Whis!" Beerus demanded, and turned away as Whis simply shook his head. "I don't know what's what, or what I'm looking for even looks like. So, how about this? You just come at me with your full power and I'll decide if you're the Super Saiyan God I seek."

Beerus's stance didn't change a bit as he said this, making Goku not sure if the man was really serious or not. "Are you sure? I mean, you don't want to warmup a bit or, I don't know…prepare yourself?" the Saiyan hero asked in curiosity that turned to astonishment when the god answered in the negative.

"No, it's fine," he admitted and folded his arms behind his back. "Move on to that next level that you mentioned and let's see what you've got."

Goku scratched the side of his face for a moment and then looked to the side to gain confirmation from King Kai, but was shocked to find that the kai had already retreated to his house and was peeking out of the doorway at the exchange. "Umm…okay then," Goku said before he suddenly smiled widely. "This is actually perfect! I wanted to get a chance to fight you anyway, Lord Beerus!"

"Good. Now, let's move this along."

"Fine," was Goku brief reply before a bright, near blinding light, sudden encapsulated his body. A short battle cry poured out from the hero as his blinding aura flashed all around the planet and when the light faded, Goku stood proudly in his SS3 form and smiled confidently over at Beerus. "Is this what you were looking for?" he asked.

"I don't think so, but we'll just have to see how you handle yourself in battle," Beerus admitted plainly.

Goku didn't bother with a response. He merely smirked with confidence and suddenly rushed the god with a blur of speed that very few could've followed. However, Beerus managed to follow the movement with ease and simply tilted his head to the side to avoid getting it punched off by the saiyan.

The hero had to pause in surprise in that moment as he saw how lazily Beerus dodged the move and then looked at the god to make note of the bored expression on his face. With a bit of grunt, Goku yanked by his fist and fired off yet another, in which Beerus lazily dodged again as if the punches were in slow motion. Deciding not to play around anymore, Goku then began swinging out his punches at a blinding speed. Over one hundred punches had to have been slung out in the few seconds of his attack, but still Goku hadn't managed to graze Beerus through the onslaught.

"Hmph…a bit slow I'd say," the god announced, still looking utterly bored.

"What!" Goku demanded, before sneering a tiny bit and then whipping out a kick for the god's midsection.

Beerus deftly leapt over the attack and floated a few meters away from the saiyan in the moment, now a ghost of a smile on his face as he looked back at the frustration slowly creeping up on Goku. The hero looked back at the god with the smallest of scowls before he warped with instant transmission. Beerus, for his part, actually arched a brow out of mild curiosity at the movement, but his interest passed as quickly as it had come as he suddenly yanked up a hand just in time to block another kick that had been aimed at his head. With his attack blocked, Goku materialized with a look of pure shock on his face before Beerus used the hold on his leg to toss the Saiyan aside as if a nuisance.

Goku recovered from the toss easily enough and turned back on Beerus with a golden blast of energy, only to gape in awe as Beerus caught the minor attack in the palm of his hand as if it had been a butterfly. "I should also mention that you boast a modest power level," the god denounced before tossing the golden orb of ki aside and folding his arms behind his back.

Looking completely dumbstruck for a moment, Goku reclaimed his senses and suddenly lunged at Beerus with an arm pulled back in preparation for the assault. The god of destruction merely watched the hero close in on him as if watching rainfall, the act making Goku's irritation spike. A battle cry tore from Goku as he dropped down upon Beerus and fired out a fist for the god, but Beerus practically vanished right before Goku's eyes, allowing the fist to crash into the ground and the mere force of attack caused an explosion of energy on the opposite side of King Kai's planet.

"Oh, come on!" King Kai cried out.

But the kai's complaint went unheard as Goku straightened back up and whipped around to find Beerus once more, who was calmly standing a ways away with that taunting smile plastered to his face. The god teetered his head a bit and revised his previous statement. "Maybe an above average power level instead," he said, condescendingly.

Goku couldn't help smirking at the comment, despite how frustrating things were getting. "Alright Beerus, for the sake of King Kai's planet, I wanted to hold myself back a little bit, but for this one I think I'll go all out!" The Saiyan hero crouched down a bit and cupped his hands at his side as his aura flared to life and a blue orb of energy began gathering in his palms. "Kaaa…meeee"

"Wait a second, Goku! I think this is taking things a bit far!" King Kai yelled out from the safety of his house, only to briefly glance around Goku's powered up body to lock eyes with Lord Beerus briefly. The glare Beerus sent the kai specifically demanded that he shut up, now. "Nevermind," King Kai said and then moved back behind the doorway.

"Haaa…meee!" King Kai's small planet actually began to tremble at that point as the lightning from Goku's aura began flashing out in all directions. And despite the power emanating from the saiyan hero, Beerus remained in that formal, yet lackadaisical position with his arms folded behind his back.

"HAAA!" Goku roared as a colossal wave of energy shot out from his palms and rushed right for the god of destruction.

"Oh my!" Whis announced as the rushed of wind and energy from the blast struck his body, now moderately surprised at the power that Goku had.

Beerus, on the other hand, looked unmoved, although he now wore a bit of smile at the expectation of a challenge. The wave of energy rushed at him like a speeding freight train. In the brief seconds before impact, the god seemed to ponder if he wanted to use his hand to fight off the attack, but allowed a wicked smile to dawn on him before he turned to the side and swung his tail up to meet the attack.

"No WAY!" Goku yelled out at the sight.

But Beerus pressed on in his attempt and though he looked to have a moment of intense effort, he still managed to angle the colossal Kamehameha wave away from his body using his tail and slap the energy blast away. A moment of laughter poured from Beerus's mouth before he warped away into thin air and then appeared directly in front of Goku with his finger poised to flick the Saiyan away. "Yes way," he said mockingly before the finger was slipped out and smacked into Goku's head with enough force to send the Saiyan flying back into King Kai's house and considerably wreck the recently created home.

"Are you done having fun, Lord Beerus?" Whis asked as he appeared at the god's side.

Beerus sighed. "Yes, unfortunately. It appears Goku isn't the Saiyan God that I seek. Take me to the Saiyan prince instead, surely he must know of my rival!"

Whis looked ready to sigh in exasperation, but happily reclaimed his breath when Beerus narrowed his eyes on him. "Yes, of course, Lord Beerus," he instead said and a sparkling aura encapsulated them both before they disappeared.

And with the deities gone, King Kai released the breath he didn't realize he was holding, now happy to know that Beerus was long gone. "Glad he didn't blow up my home again," the kai commented and then glanced down at the unconscious body lying on top of him and sighed. "But did he really have to use Goku to destroy my house."

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Meanwhile, deep in the recesses of space, a lone planet could be found, a planet usually devoid of major conflict, war, or terror. The place was filled with beauty and wildlife, and its citizens lived very peaceful lives, never knowing the horrors of the PTO or any other interstellar crime syndicates. However, on this day, chaos reigned supreme as the citizens of the planet ran for their dear lives, screaming in horror as beasts of many variety attacked them. Even some of their very own citizens had forgone their peace and began attacking loved ones and strangers alike. Cities crumbled, homes burned, and people cried out for relief of the tragedy that had struck them.

And while the planet swarmed with terror, just outside of the planet's atmosphere, an invisible figure moved through the chasm of space, laughing evilly at the horrors that he'd created for the people of the planet.

"Stop right there, Demigra!" the Supreme Kai of Time announced.

The invisible figure indeed stopped and turned towards the kai to see the pink skinned deity alongside Shin and Old Kai. Another laughed poured from his mouth and seeing as he didn't need the invisibility anymore, allowed it to pull back to show his entire form. He was a red haired creature with white skin and red facial markings. He was dressed in robes of blue, reminiscent of a deity and carried a long, silver staff with a red crystal at its head. The malicious being smiled wickedly over at the kais and said, "All of this attention for little old me? I'm flattered."

A shiver ran up Jiran's spine at the evil smile on Demigra's face, but old kai floated forward and said, "How could you do that to those people?! A whole civilization of peaceful beings terrorized and killed!"

Another dark chuckle poured from Demigra and he said, "Oh that? I was just bored and decided to kill some time is all. And what better way to pass the time is there than inciting a bit of chaos?"

"You're despicable!" Jiran shouted.

"Maybe," Demigra admitted, unaffected by the comment. "But I'm a god, and with no imminent force here to stop me, I do as I please. This is all that's left of the kais of this universe, isn't it?" When the kai's all looked insulted by Demigra remark, the demon god could only cackle out a dark laugh. "How pathetic."

"Our numbers might be few, but we will stand against you, Demon God! You will not prevail!" Shin declared.

"Oh? And who will stop me? A weakling kai of time? An old, pruned fool? Or a fused, disgrace of a kai?" When neither of the trio made an immediate move, Demigra could only mock the trio more with a round of laughter.

"I think we can handle that!" a defiant voice announced before two beams of golden energy rushed in at either side of Demigra. The god looked unconcerned though as the blasts connected with an invisible barrier and simply disappeared.

In that instant, Cell and Frieza appeared at the sides of the three kais, both looking just as devious as Demigra as they exchanged glares with the god. "So, this is Demigra, huh? Doesn't look too impressive," Frieza remarked with a sneer.

"Are we sure he is a god?" Cell asked, only to watch Demigra's smirk turn challenging.

"Did you neutralize the chaos on the planet?" Jiran asked before the duo could attack the god.

"About 95% of it anyway," Frieza admitted. "The rest of the population banned together and began taking care of the rest. Cell and I didn't want to miss an opportunity to meet a god."

"So, the supreme kais have done some recruiting, I see. That's unfounded, but certainly necessary considering your numbers. Still, it won't make much difference. I will have this universe and all of time itself at my fingertips soon enough!" Demigra demanded.

"No, you won't, because your terror on this universe ends right – ARE YOU IGNORING ME?!" Cell barked all of a sudden as Demigra brought up a finger in a shushing fashion and inclined his head as if trying to hear out something far in the distance.

After a few seconds, an evil smile claimed Demigra's face and he looked back to the group with malice dancing in his eyes. "I'd continue this happy reunion of ours, but it appears the little feline has finally awoken from his cat nap. I should really say hi." And before anyone else could say anything, a dark portal wrapped around Demigra's body and he teleported away.

"Feline? Cat nap? He couldn't mean who I think he means!" Jiran announced frantically.

"Oh no," Old kai sulked.

"I think he's on Earth! We need to get to Earth now!" Shin demanded.