Chapter 8 The IW Universe History Part 1

(Based on my own Goten what if I haven't written yet)

In this alternate universe, after the cell games Chi Chi gave birth to not one but two babies. Their names were Goten and Xavier(Chi Chi wanted one of her children to have a fancy name) twin brothers. Both looked identical to their then deceased father Goku, though he did return after Buu, and seemingly acted like him too. However this couldn't have been further from the truth. While Goten was indeed kind, energetic and loving to a fault like Goku, unlike Goku he harbored a lot of pain, sadness and anger. These negative feelings would often make him very depressed and sometimes eager to join his father in heaven. Why was this?

At the son household about six years ago

"Hey Goten!" Seven year old Xavier yelled as equally aged Goten walked in to their bedroom with a nervous look on his face. "Y..yes Xavier?" Goten stuttered fearfully. "Did you kill that Bald Eagle like I told you too?" Xavier asked as though it was the most normal question in the world. "N..no" Goten responded. "What?!" Xavier screamed enraged, "why not!?". "I just couldn't, I went over to its nest and saw it had a family!" Goten bellowed out crying. "So?" Xavier asked sounding genuinely confused. "So I couldn't just kill him! You didn't even give me a gun so I could end it quickly!" Goten rebutted. "First of all, your fingers are practically guns, second why would I want you to end it quickly, that's no fun, plus the damn bird's been screeching at me every time it's around" Xavier explained disturbingly calmly. "Yeah probably because it hates you dick face" Goten whispered under his breath. "What was that?" Xavier asked his eyes narrowing darkly and his quiet voice becoming deeper and creepier. "N..n...nothing" Goten nervously answered. "Well anyway I want you to go back, break that eagle's neck, make his family watch and then kill them too, maybe mom can cook the remains for dinner" Xavier ordered with a blank expression on his face. "No I won't!" Goten rebelled. Xavier's blank expression turned into a somewhat angered one. He got up from the chair he was sitting on and began to robotically walk towards Goten. He picked up a bloodstained steel spiky bat that was laying on the counter halfway through. Goten could only whimper and back away in terror as Xavier walked ever closer, his fear filled legs not being able to back up quickly enough. Goten froze once Xavier came right up to his face, staring at him with the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes. Xavier then in a lightning fast move struck Goten's knee with the bat. "Aaaaghh!" Goten screeched in pain falling onto the floor holding his knee, the hideous wound gushing out blood. "Very well" Xavier said coldly retracting his freshly blood-soaked bat, "since you refuse my command and I'm pretty sure you just called me dick face, you'll need to be punished". "Here Bee" Xavier suddenly exclaimed with his best impression of a cheerful call. Hercule and Buu had left there pet dog Bee at the son's home for awhile while they went shopping. The puppy came into the brother's room happily barking. "Wait what are you doing?!" Goten asked anxiously. His fears were confirmed as Xavier raised his bat over Bee, the puppy now gaining a worried look and whimpering. "No don't! I'll do it just don't aagh!" Goten screamed as he tried to get up but his busted knee prevented him from doing so. Xavier then struck Bee right on the head, killing the puppy instantly, blood pouring and part of its skull showing. "No!" Goten screeched in horror. He painfully got up and limped his way over to Bee's corpse crying softly. "Now when our parents get home you tell them you petted him too hard, is that clear?" Xavier threatened. "Y...yes sir" Goten said in between sobs.

Yeah, because of shit like that.

For as long as Goten could remember, Xavier was always beating and berating him like he was his slave with very little or no reason. Goten would do everything and beyond to please his twin bro but at best Xavier just shrugged and at worst he would break something on Goten. Half the time even if Goten did exactly what he was told Xavier would hurt him to quote on quote "keep you on your toes" even though the toes were sometimes the thing he broke. No one in Goten's entire roster of friends and family knew about these atrocities, how? Because Xavier always pretended to be a sweet, meek boy around just about everyone else. He never showed off any exceptional strength, ki control, flight or a lust for battle, leading the rest of the group to thinking Xavier was the normal one in the family. Goten would also cover up most injuries he sustained with make up or clothes whenever he could, and when he couldn't he would lie and told them he was clumsy and hurt himself. This as well as the many bad accidents, pranks and other strange occurrences that happened around the group that Xavier committed but pinned on Goten, would often have him be chastised for his perceived clumsiness or stupidity. Despite having lots of people he loved around Goten felt hated and alone in this world and he was resigned that it would remain that way forever.

That is until he made a new friend.

A few days after the Bee incident, after sparing with Trunks(which Goten struggled in because of his knee) the twin son brothers were walking through West City. Xavier claimed he wanted to go over to a friend of his's house and that he was scared to go there by himself. "Hey Goten put this into this root beer" Xavier ordered handing Goten a bottle of root beer and a vile containing a clear liquid. "What is it?" Goten asked confused. "It's some poison I grabbed from Capsule Corp, I'm gonna give my friend the root beer and kill him with it" Xavier said shockingly casually. "What!?" Goten screamed shocked, "w..why do you wanna kill your friend!?". "I don't know, just feel like it, why does it matter, go on pour it in we're almost there" Xavier said emotionlessly. "No! No! No! That is it!" Goten yelled enraged, "I'm done helping you do bad things and covering for you! I've covered you for Mom's garden being ruined, the windows broken and even you killing Hercule and Buu's puppy but I am not covering for the murder of a person!, I'm gonna fly back home and tell everyone about you and they'll disown you!" "Hmph so that's how it's going to be huh tattletale? Oh well" Xavier said very quietly his voice getting lower as he turned and got closer to Goten. Goten attempted to fly away only for Xavier to lunge at him, rapidly pull out a knife and stabbed Goten right in his heart. Goten descended back onto the ground clutching his punctured heart and coughing up blood struggling to breath. Xavier then pulled out his bloodied steel bat and wracked Goten in the head twice causing the young saiyan to go into a seizure. "Farewell bro I had some plans for you but I guess I'll have to try them on someone else and I already have someone in mind" Xavier coldly monologues as he prepares to deliver a third fatal strike. Suddenly Xavier is hit by a laser stopping his attempted murder. "Aagh who did that?!" Xavier shouted angrily. The beams keep coming forcing Xavier to flee, Goten dizzily witnessed this before losing consciousness. An indiscernible amount of time later Goten wakes up in a some sort of tank with a breathing mask over his mouth floating in a pink liquid. "Huh? Where am I?" Goten thought very confused and a little scared. Taking in his surroundings he quickly realized his head wound was gone as well as his knee injury, and his clothes. He also could make out what appeared to be a dimly lit lab of sorts. Then the pink liquid suddenly started to drain out of the tank he was in. Once all of the pink substance drained a door opened on the tank and the breathing mask loosened on Goten's mouth. Removing the mask, Goten hesitantly stepped out of the tank and onto a platform placed below the tank. Goten now without any liquid or glass to obstruct his view saw that the lab was not of Capsule Corp. He'd been over there plenty of times to know how each lab looked like and this lab was completely unrecognizable. Suddenly the lights in the room brightened lighting up the whole lab with a white bluish haze. "Ahh good your awake" a voice called out. Goten spotted the source which was a boy about the same age and height as him carrying a towel. He was wearing a lab coat though you could see more civilian clothes though the veal and had nicely combed brown hair. "Here take this" the boy said throwing the towel to Goten. Goten caught the towel and began drying himself. "Who are you? And why am I here?"Goten asked. "My name is Zachary but you can call me Zach for short" the boy now named Zach replied, "I saw you being assaulted by that despicable doppelgänger of yours and chased him away. I then brought you here to my basement lab in my house to heal you with my experimental regeneration fluid to save your life. Sorry that I somewhat used you as a Guinea pig but your vital signs were dropping too fast for any normal medical treatment to save you in time, if I hadn't risked it you would have most certainly died" Zach explained. "Wow t..thanks Zach I'm really grateful" Goten said genuinely touched and happy that someone saw him and stepped in to stop his pain for once. "No problem bud, but I do have a question" Zach said gaining a questionnaire's face, "While you were healing I ran some tests on your body to make sure it and the fluid were working properly and they were but the tests also revealed extraordinary levels of strength, endurance and energy readings and half your DNA didn't match any DNA found on Earth, so at the risk of sounding inappropriate I must ask, what are you cause your clearly not fully human but your no machine either?" Zach inquired. "Oh well I'm not really supposed to tell anyone this, but since you did save my life and apparently gave me a health exam" Goten said nervously smiling, "I'll tell you everything". Over what felt like two hours Goten told to the best of his ability the story of himself and his family including him being part alien and the battles he and his family had fought to save the universe, he also told him about his devil of a twin brother Xavier and that he was the one who assaulted him. "Holy shit!" Zach exclaimed mind blown by everything Goten said, "damn and yet no one has noticed your brother's behavior?!". "No" Goten answered despondently. "Well chin up Goten" Zach said suddenly piping up, "you can come to me whenever you need or want someone and I'll do everything I can to help you, someday we'll expose Xavier and have him locked up or kicked out, that sound good to you pal?". "P..pal Goten stuttered touched, "y..yeah that sounds wonderful!" He finished excitedly, so much so that he dropped the towel exposing himself. Goten quickly noticed, blushed and then immediately covered with his hands. "Don't worry I'm desensitized to that kind of sight ha ha!" Zach said laughing, "it's getting rather late, why don't you spend the night, your clothes should be done in the dryer by now, I cleaned them for you so you can grab pants or something before coming to my bedroom, I'm sure you can come up with some sort of excuse to your parents tomorrow?". "Yeah I think I can do that" Goten said as the two newly made friends made their way to get ready for bed. Over the next few months Zach and Goten become really close friends despite their vastly different interests and capabilities. Sometimes they would work on figuring out how to expose Xavier for the monster he was. Other times they'd simply hang out enjoying each other's company and activities, with Goten even beginning to absorb some of Zach's intelligence and Zach absorbing some of Goten's energy and excitement. It seemed as though Goten's life was finally brightening. Little did he know that this was just a respite before much worse events unfolded and things would really turn ugly.