Dragon Ball Aftermath

Earth

High above the ice covered ground of a frozen continent, in this moment a clash between two titanic warriors was taking place. But this was not entire correct.

In truth it were actually three warriors - two of them however fused into a single being.

All of them were Super Saiyans - Legendary Warriors.

The first was Gogeta - a fusion of Son Goku and Vegeta, created by the Fusion Dance - the other was a mysterious saiyan named Broly, who had spend his entire life being exiled on an off-side planetoid because of his incredible potential that Vegeta´s father King Vegeta had feared.

It was clear however that the fight was already decided. As unbelievable powerful as Broly was, he was no match for the fusion of Son Goku and Vegeta. As soon as Gogeta turned into his SSB form, he was getting overpowered easily.

But just as his blast was about to hit him, Broly suddenly disappeared.

In fact, he had been send away by Shenlong, back to the planet he had grown up on. The wish had ironically been made by two now former members of Freeza´s army. They had been the ones who had originally found him there and recruited him. These two soldiers however had also quickly become his friends.

And now they had been rebelling against their superiors to get their hands on the Dragon Balls, which they had collected earlier... and were using the wish to send Broly away to keep him from getting killed.

He vanished just moments before Gogeta´s last attack hit him.

After the battle had ended, Freeza and his remaining troops retreated quite quickly.

Just as Broly´s two friends, who were in fact fleeing from Freeza´s wrath for snatching the Dragon Balls away from him.

After a few minutes more, the fused Gogeta separated and split once again into the two individual saiyans.

"It seems we have done it Vegeta," Goku said with a grin on his face.

Vegeta however only scoffed.

"I told you that Freeza would be a threat," he reminded him sternly and with barely suppressed anger. "And now we have this Broly to deal with on top of that."

"I know that too," Goku replied. "But we really had needed his help in the tournament and it was better this, than risk having our whole universe erased."

Vegeta gritted his teeth. He hated to admit it, but he knew Kakarot had a point.

xxx

It was a few hours later. Both Goku and Vegeta and also the Freeza Force members were long gone by now.

As another small group of figures appeared in the air and landed at the same spot the battle had taken place. All three of the figures were wearing a symbol consisting of two red R´s on their clothes - the sign of the Red Ribbon Army.

After a few more minutes of searching, they found what they were looking for. It were only a few small splatters of blood... Broly´s blood.

The tallest of the group, a imposing looking man in a light green body armor and with red hair that he was wearing as a mohawk, was activating a small radio-device he was wearing on his left arm.

"Twenty One," he spoke into the communicator, "we have found the samples."

"Very good," a female voice answered him. "I knew I could count on you. Secure the blood and then return to base."

"As you wish," he responded.

He knew this was probably a mistake. Their sensors had detected what this saiyan was capable of. And handing this blood-samples to an obviously unstable being like Twenty One? It was a bad idea.

But it was not as if Android 16 had any real choice anymore. The true mistake had been to reactivate Android 21 in the first place, he knew. No matter if she had been the one to reconstruct his body or not.

Once again the Android cursed his own loyality to his re-creator.

`I am sorry 17,´ he thought silently.

xxxxxxx

It was only a few days later, on a certain island in the south. The island was also the largest and most important wildlife ressort on the planet. A place filled with various sorts of rare animals. Some of them being already extinct everywhere else.

And it was the place where nobody else than Android 17 was working as park-ranger.

The scene that was happening in this moment was closely ressembling events from a few months ago.

Just like back the same two fighters were having a sparring match above the ocean close to the island - one of them Son Goku, the other Android 17. Like the last time, they were exchanging blows up in the air, with Goku currently in his SSB form.

They were fighting for several minutes now.

But so far neither of them was even serious yet.

One difference however was that this time, they were not alone. The a bit unusual pair of Android 18 and Piccolo was watching their match from the ground.

Goku was smiling. He was now using the SSB Kaioken for short periods of time - first Kaioken level 1, then all up to level 5. But the Android simply powered up even more and matched him every time.

"I have to say I am impressed Seventeen," he commented. "You have gotten even better since the Tournament of Power, haven´t you? You are really great."

Instead of answering right away, the Android suddenly moved and landed a hard kick into the saiyan´s side, sending him flying a few meters away from him.

"Thanks," he finally answered stoically. "I have been training since then," he stated. "But this time not alone." He send a short look down to 18 and Piccolo on the island.

His sister gave a short nod in return.

Then she lifted off from the ground and joined the fight.

The two Androids took position to both sides of Goku, who was now back in his regular SS Blue form for the moment. He positioned himself sidewards to them, so that he could see them both at the same time.

Then he gave them an encouraging nod by himself.

18 was the first who attacked. He threw a punch which the SS Blue managed to block with his hand, quickly followed by a kick, that was however also blocked by Goku´s underarm.

But he was clearly surprised by the power and speed of the attacks. His arms actually hurt from stopping them.

That however didn´t keep him from sending out a punch on his own. But 18, to Goku´s even greater surprise, caught his fist with her own hand.

"Wow 18 - you have improved too, even more than 17," he told her. "I have heard that you and Piccolo were training together, but this?"

"It was not just normal training," she stated with a slight smile. "We have actually been in the Room of Spirit and Time."

"You were!?" Goku said, sounding excited.

"17 had joined us as well for a short time. We took turns. The one of us who was not busy training with him, was here, taking care of the island in his place."

"Really? This is great," Goku called out. "You have both gotten so much stronger."

"Let us just say the Tournament of Power was a good kick in the behind for all of us," she remarked.

In fact the unbelievable power her brother displayed during the tournament had demonstrated to her drastically that - while she had become incredible strong from her training alone or with Krillin (more powerful than she had ever imagined herself to be actually) - it was not nearly as much as she could be.

And the very fact that a tournament like this, where entire universes were being erased, showed even more drastically that they all needed to say at the head of their game and be as strong as possible - always. They could not longer just rely on Goku and Vegeta. That was something that she, Piccolo and Gohan had all realized.

xxx

18 remembered. First how her entire family had been easily slaughtered by Majin Buu. The sheer fact how completely helpless she had been back then had caused her to train more seriously, instead of just the regular sparring matches with Krillin or the short time for the 25th Budokai.

She actually made incredible progress in just a short time. But as things staid peaceful after Buu was defeated, her family duties became priority once again. She still trained regulary. But not as much as she could have and not with special methods like high gravity or weights.

Then Lord Beerus came and then the resurrected Freeza. And she decided to step up in her training once again. Krillin did as well, after the day she had called him out on slacking off so much that a simple thug with a gun nearly managed to be close to a threat to him.

Then came the Tournament of Power.

18 remembered her victory over that Ribrianne woman, after she had powered herself up with power from the entire Universe 2 team - a completely hillarious, but incredible strong opponent.

This had been the point where she believed her effords were finally paying off. Ribiranne - at least in that form - made Majin Buu at his strongest look like nothing. And she had been strong enough to puch through her strongest blasts with her bare hands and take her out with one hit.

18 had even been able to both dodge and tank hits from Aniraza, a being who could overpower several God-Level opponents at once.

But even all that was nothing compared to the power 17 had shown.

He had not only crippled the same Aniraza with a single blow, he had also been able to put up fights against Toppo and Jiren himself. Opponents who, as she admitted, would have overwhelmed her in a single second.

So after the Tournament she had finally decided to talk to Piccolo and ask about the same training the Z-fighters had done all those years ago against Cell. As it turned out, she was not the only one who had similar ideas.

xxx

17 had now joined the fight once again as well.

They were now attacking the saiyan from both sides. The nearly perfect coordination and teamwork between the Android twins caused even for Son Goku great trouble and he was forced at the defensive. He had improved as well during the last months, but not nearly as much as his two opponents.

Then finally he unleashed his full power and activated Blue Kaioken times 20.

xxxxxxx

At the same time somewhere in space, doom had come to a small planet and it´s inhabitants.

And this doom came in form of the newly reformed Freeza force. In the months since their master´s resurrection after the Tournament of Power, the remains of the Freeza Force had spend the time searching and recruiting new members to bring themselves back to fighting strength.

Since then, this world was actually their first larger target.

And so this planet was now falling victim to yet another global genocide in Freeza´s name. Hundreds of the natives, defending warriors and unarmed civilians alike, were being slaughtered by Freeza´s troops.

xxx

The Emperor himself was watching the battle from the command chair on his ship. He had not really decided yet of he would give this race the chance to join his new Empire as his subjects like so many others, or if he would completely wipe them out, also like so many others.

His curent thoughts at the moment however had little to do with the massacred beneath him, that he had ordered. No - they centered around the saiyans. That meant Goku and Vegeta, who he had sworn revenge against... and their newest addition, Broly. The last one however, he saw not necessarely as an enemy, but also as an potential pawn. If things worked out well at least. But he wasn´t deluding himself about the fact that the new saiyan could also become a dangerous enemy.

But if he staid where he was, the chance of it coming to that were pretty low. His subordinates had told him that the two deserters had send him back to the planetoid Wampa where he came from. And the traitors had joined him there a short time later. No doubt because they thought the saiyan could protect them from him.

No matter - he had ordered his soldiers to make regular checks on Wampa. When the time came, he would ever have a promising plan to bring Broly back under his control... well, or he could simply blow the planetoid up from a save distance, just like he had done it with planet Vegeta. No matter how powerful that saiyan was, if he couldn´t breath in vacuum, it wouldn´t help him. This would also get rid of the two ingrates who had betrayed him - two birds with one stone.

Goku and Vegeta were still the greater and more direct threat to his rule. And they would not simply let him destroy their planet so easily. He knew, he had tried after all.

There was however something else that worried him more. The great jumps in power he had made during the last years had by now shrunken down - not to say disappeared.

He was still growing stronger through his training, yes. But not more than any regular person. Too bad. It seemed that his emormous potential and giant raw power that had brought him so far had now finally reached it´s limits. That meant from now on, he would only make progress by the same standards like everyone else.

But he could imagine just how fanatically the saiyans were training. Unless something drastically happened, he would never surpass them.

Freeza suppressed a growl as he thought about the situation. As he was now, he was pretty confident that he could take on Son Goku or Vegeta separately. But both of them together? Or worse, fused into that damned united form?

And they were not even the only ones. There was Son Goku´s son. When he had first returned to life, he had been a complete weakling. But at the Tournament of Power, just a couple of years later, he had been a impressive warrior. Not quite on his level, but not so far away either.

Then there was Android 17. In opposite to the brutish and arrogant saiyans - a part of Freeza admitted this was to a great part to the fact that his own ego just could not tolerate someone like the saiyans beside him - the Android was a being quite to his taste... quiet and laid-back, but shrewed and cunning, powerful and competent.

If it were not for his disgusting morals and compassion, under different circumstances, he would have possibly even offered him to become his Second in Command. But all of his behavior during the tournament had made it all too clear that he would never get along with Freeza´s methods - alone his wish to bring back all the erased universes proofed that... that and that 17 would never take orders from anyone - too bad.

But on the other hand, the Android had also made it clear that he planned to return to that island or whatever where he was residing. And most likely only another universial threat would bring him back. Good - as long as he staid there, he was no real threat to him. If he changed his mind and got himself involved again, then 17 simply had to die as well.

When he thought back about the Tournament of Power, Freeza had somehow mixed feelings. He admitted in the end, he had quite enjoyed it.

He recalled the feelin of triumph as he, Goku and 17 had together brought down Jiren - the so called strongest in all universes. Despite that he still hated the saiyan more than anyone else, they had been working together perfectly. Of course he still liked nothing more than to break every single bone in his body before ripping him apart limb by limb. But that single time, they had made a great team. It had been just glorious.

But on the other side he felt his rage rising up, as he remembered just how outmatched he had been against Jiren and Toppo. He had come against the tournament, deceiving himself into thinking he could manipulate the Gods of Destruction and the Omni Kings themselves, bending the entire situation to his advantage. He had even hoped for a chance for universial domination. As it had turned out, he could not even keep up with some of the other fighters taking part.

And now he was back where he had been before. Back in his own small Universe 7, attacking random planets that are not even worth learning their name and surrounded by weaklings who could not even understand a glympse of the level of power he had achieved.

Not for the first time he played with the thought of just killing the entire Freeza Force once again -Maybe with the exception of and a few of his other officers, simply because they amused him - blow up the pathetic planet beneath them for good measure and then go on his way by himself.

But what then? After all he had tried on his own before and his plans had failed. His current Empire, as pathetic as it was, at least served the purpose of keeping his name known and feared across the universe.

No, Freeza did not care about conquering planets and controlling armies anymore. Or the money he could make from selling worlds. All what he cared about was that the weak and useless being of this universe feared him and lived in terror of him... and his army was merely a tool to achieve that.

There were only a few beings in this universe who were actually worth his time. Like Lord Beerus and the other Gods of Destruction, or his former teammates from the tournament (most of them he would actually like to kill in person) - or some of the fighters from other universes he had met. As much as he hated most of them, at some level they were at least worthy of his respect. Most living being in this universe however were simply trash, just as insignificant in life as in death.

Freeza looked down on the planet and could not bring himself to care how the battle was going. How many of his worthless soldiers were killed by the warriors of this world, if the native species died or lived, it didn´t matter to him, as long as they lived fearing the name Freeza.

All he cared about here was setting a sign, sending a message to all worlds and races of Universe 7... to tremble - because he was back.

Suddenly however Freeza was ripped out of his thoughts, by a contact-signal that was suddenly lighting up.

"Lord Freeza," one of his soldiers reported, "the ship´s sensors have detected an intrusion. Two unknown beings have suddenly appeared in orbit over the planet."

This however was not what had truly caught Freeza´s attention. No, it was what he was sensing from this two newcomers. It was something he had met several times before... God Ki users.

"We have a picture of the intruders Lord Freeza," the soldier reported.

"Yes, yes - show me," Freeza replied.

The picture showed the two beings. The first was a tall woman with light blue skin and long white hair. Most races would consider her as remarkable beautiful. She was also wearig a skin-tight red outfit, that did a good job of showing of her curves.

The second being was a man, a bit taller than her. Also with similar colored skin and the same white hair.

Who was that? Freeza asked himself. They both reminded him somewhat of Beerus aid Whiz and the other Angels. Where they members of their race? But he had seen them nowhere during the tournament. Or where they something completely else.

Freeza saw that a few of his soldiers were actually attacking and shooting at this two. But the woman was simply lifting up the staff she was carrying in her left hand, a bright light was radiating from it and they all were instantly being disintigrated. Fools, he thought.

"Berryblue," he addressed his adjutant, "give order to open the upper air-lock. I will talk with this newcomers in person."

"As you with my Lord," the short middle aged alien woman answered him a moment later.

xxx

A few minutes later, he was meeting their two `guests´ at the outside.

The battle with the natives of the planet had meanwhile stopped for the moment and his soldiers were concentrating on the two strangers instead.

"You must be Freeza," the woman greeted him, as they had come close enough, "the Emperor of Universe 7." Out of her mouth the title nearly sounded like a meaningless word.

"Indeed I am," he responded.

"We have come here, hoping to meet you. I am Towa and this here is Saek, one of my colleagues." She gestured to the man next to her.

"Oh and what can I do for you?"

"We come to you with an offer," she said.

"An offer?" he asked.

"Yes - in the name of our Master, the allmighty Lord Demigra, we are offering you an alliance. You see, our Lord is an ancient being that had been locked away from the twelve universes a lon time ago. But now he is returning. In the close future our Lord will move to bring all known universes under his control... and he is giving you the chance to join him as one of his warriors."

"What?" Freeza said nearly tonelessly.

`Join him?´ `one of his warriors?´- he could barely hold back his rage. Who did they think he was?

This two - two henchmen, two mere lackies - came here and asked him - him - to join their Master, as if he was just another subordinate.

"Who do you take me for?" he growled. "I am the Emperor of this universe."

"Well," the woman named Towa answered smugly, "if you are not interested, then we will just leave again. It is your loss."

In this moment he could not longer contain his anger.

Even the usually prideful and arrogant Freeza realized on some level that what he was doing right now was a stupid stupid thing. But he just could not help himself, as he formed a Death Ball in his hand and threw it at them.

xxxxxxx

Earth

The sparring match between Goku and the two Androids had now continued for about another 15 minutes.

18 had by now drawn mostly back and for the most part positioned herself to send well placed ki blasts at Goku from a save distance, while 17 took over the most of the fighting. It was a good and very effective strategy.

Goku was getting more and more worn down by the two never tiring Androids. Just like he had wanted.

At this point Goku prepared a Kamehameha. He gave 17 a short look, before he fired it in his direction. In opposite to their last fight however, the Android didn´t use his barrier, but instead countered with a blast on his own.

They were both now locked in a beam-struggle, that they held up for several seconds. But Goku´s strength had already been wearing beforehand. So his Kamehameha was starting to get pushed back.

"17," he called out, "I am powering down the Kamahameha now. Be careful."

"Okay," the Android answered, "I will do the same."

They both slowly depowered their blasts, until they both attacks finally dissolved a few moments later.

Goku was breathing heavily now, having fought both of them at the same time for nearly a half our. And having used Kaioken for most of that time.

He had now returned to his regular Super Saiyan Blue.

"So tell me, what was the purpose of this sparring match again?" 17 asked him.

Goku gave him a smile.

"You see - I have been trying to activate Ultra Instinct again. But as you know, that only happens when my body is completely pushed to the edge. I have been training a lot with Vegeta. But we both are getting tired at about the same rate. And since you two never get tired, I thought you are the ideal candidates to push me so far."

"I see," 17 replied. "Then I guess you don´t want us to stop now?"

"Now that I am finally starting to get where I wanted?" the tired out Goku asked him. "Of course not."

"Okay. But don´t say I didn´t warn you." 17 used his technik to form small barriers around his fists, before he charged at Goku once again.

The saiyan forced himself to use blue Kaioken once again. Goku managed to block the first punch, barely. But then he got another one into the stomach he failed to stop. He doubled over.

Behind him, 18 suddenly joined the fight once again and smashed both fists into his back, sending him flying downwards.

Goku barely caught himself in the air before he fell into the sea.

"Do you truly want us to just continue to beat you up?" 18 asked him. "You know there is no guaranty that you will ever unlock Ultra Instinct without any actual threat to your life... and you are just getting more tired."

Goku gave her a contemplating look.

"I still want to try," he said.

"One moment," they heard another voice, "I am here as well after all." It was Piccolo.

"I am taking over from her," he said to 18.

He had left his cape and turban lying down on the island. 18 gave him a shot nod in return, before she flew down and landed, letting him take her place.

"You want to fight too Piccolo?" Goku asked him. "Good, I am curious how strong you have become."

"Okay," the Namek told him and started to power up.

But then suddenly, much to Goku´s surprise, his energy completely changed.

The Named moved forward, faster than he had ever expected him to and landed a punch right into his face, that was powerful enough to send the weakened SSB a few meters backwards.

"Piccolo, that..." Goku said as he had somewhat recovered from the hit, "God Ki, you have learned it too."

"Have you expected something different?" Piccolo asked him. "I had years watching you, Vegeta and Lord Beerus and Whiz to figure out how it worked. Of course I still needed long time to be able to use it. But I decided to use the Room of Spirit and Time to give myself some extra time.

xxx

Flashback

Piccolo and 18 were sparring together. Behind them was nothing but a endless white room.

xxx

Another scene:

Piccolo was sitting in lotus position on the ground of the time-chamber, meditating to train his energy.

18 was sitting in opposite to him, trying the same method.

"Are you sure that in the outside world only a few hours will have passed?" she asked him. "I do´t want to leave Krillin and Marron alone for so long."

"Of course I am," he answered gruffly. "We have done this before after all."

xxx

Flashback end

In the present Piccolo and Goku exchanged another few blows.

Goku had by now powered down into his SSGod form. He was weaker now. But he was tired and it cost less stamina than Blue... and in exchange he used the special abilities of this form to heal some of the damage his body had taken.

Still his exhaustion was visibly getting to him.

Than however, their match was getting interrupted, as they sensed two quite large energies coming closer and then saw an aircroft, wearing the Capsule Corp logo approaching the island.

Next to the machine they could see two small figures, the source of the energies, flying by themselves - Son Goten and Trunks.

On board of the aircraft, they could sense Bulma and also Krillin and Marron. But they were not alone.

Goku was more than a bit surprised as he realized who this other energies belonged to. He had met them before... at the Tournament of Power. What were they all doing here?

xxxxxxx

Meanwhile in space

`No-not again,´ Freeza thought desperately, as his wounded and battered body was drifting nearly powerless through space.

xxx

Towa and her temporally partner Saek were meanwhile standing on the surface of the planet. Above them in the orbit were the mangled and torn apart wrecks of Freeza´s fleet, along with the mostly vaporized remains of thousands of soldiers.

"Lord Demigra," Towa called out. She had just used her power to open up a small gap between the dimensions and was at the same time sending out a mental call to their Master.

"Towa," they heard his voice answering their call.

Their Lord then appeared to them in form of a mental projection. A pale blueish face, flaming red hair. Eyes that had eons ago once been light blue, but were now red, with irises glowing bright golden from power. The face of their Master.

"Have you contacted this being named Freeza?" he asked them.

"Yes, but he rejected our offer," she informed him.

"A unwise choice," he responded casually. "Tell me, how much of the rumors we have heard about his powers were true?"

"All of it my Lord. His power was unbelievable for a mortal. He was actually not that far away from a God of Destruction."

"But you still dispatched him," Demigra stated.

"Quite easily My Lord," Towa replied with a grin.

"And there are more like him out there. Mortals with powers that could be a threat, even to us," Demigra resumed.

"My Lord, what about this planet and it´s inhabitants?" Saek asked him.

After a few moments the projection answered.

"It will be better if we remove any chance about them revealing any chance about your presence to the gods of this universe - either here or in the Afterlife. You know what you have to do."

"My Lord, is that truly necessary?" Saek questioned.

"You know, if there is even the slightest chance about then finding out about our return too early, it has to be removed. You know what is at stake for us."

"Of course," Saek replied. Deep down he hated what had become of them. But he knew there was no going against Lord Demigra´s wishes. He was the most powerful being in all universes after all, right behind Zeno himself.

Towa begann to unleash her powers over the entire planet... and everywhere the natives were crying out in panic and pure terror as not only their energy, but their souls themselves were being drawn from their bodies... and being collected in a small blue shimmering globe floating above Towa´s hand, with all the energy and all the souls trapped inside.

As a few minutes later Saek fired a blast at the planet´s core and blew it up to erase all traces of what had happened, every sentient being was already gone.

This is the beginning of my new Dragon Ball fanfic. It is pretty much my personal version of how I would imagine a continuation of Dragon Ball Z and Super.

Major villains will as mentioned be a version of Demigra and Android 21.

This versions of Demigra and Towa will however, following the example of the new Broly, be somewhat different and have different backstories.

As background the story will be having Dragon Ball, Z, the Super Anime and the the Broly Movie, but will probably also include the Galactic Patrol/Moro Arc from the manga.

But it will also draw much from FightersZ. The idea of 21 rebuilding 16 for example comes from the game.