Chapter 10 The IW Universe History Part 3
"Boss?" Goten asked bewildered, "what are you talking about Xavier, where are we going?". "You'll see soon enough bro" Xavier said. The ship suddenly came to a stop. Goten and Zach after picking themselves up looked out the window again. This time they could make out what appeared to be a very dim green and white planet. The light of the planet's home star was being blocked by a massive black circular ufo that looked like the Death Star from Star Wars but it was actually the size of a star rather than a mere moon. Surrounding the planet were several smaller ufos of different shapes and sizes and the surface though mostly dark was dotted with random lighted areas. Zach and Goten looked on curiously and nervously at the sight before them before their ship suddenly descended to the planet's surface. "I'll alright you two move it!" Xavier ordered yanking on their chains. "Ack you think these will restrain us? HA!" Zach exclaimed confidently, "Goten do your thing!". Goten nodded and began to power up to break the chains, however something strange happened. Just when Goten had harnessed enough power, he felt the power leave his body, he tried again only for his energy to keep depleting. "What's wrong?" Zach asked worried. "Your chains are made out of absorbtonium, it sucks energy out like a sponge" Xavier explained. "What!" Both Goten and Zach scream in shock. "Now!" Xavier commanded pushing a button opening the ship's door, "get a move on, my master doesn't like to wait". The two captive friends marched out of their ship led by Xavier and into a white, dark and desolate landscape. Snow blanketed the ground and was knee high, a blizzard raged on blowing snow both from above and below into the groups faces and it was stupid cold, at least negative twenty degrees Fahrenheit. Goten and Zach shivered and chattered their teeth uncontrollably from the cold having nothing but summer clothes on and Goten unable to produce any heat via energy due to the chains. Eventually they came across one of the lit areas they saw from space earlier. It was revealed to be a prison camp of sorts, and in the camp was a horrific sight. Within the fence in an open yard space were countless numbers of dead or dying, freezing or frozen Namekians. All of them, big and small had sad, scared or deathly expressions with purplish black skin. Their cries and moans could be heard amongst the howling winds. It was like hell had come, burned every living soul and then froze what was left. Goten and Zach stopped and could only stare feeling storms of sadness, horror, disgust and rage bubble up in their bodies. After a moment Zach felt nauseous and convulsed puking profusely while Goten stood shaking, looking like he was gonna cry and lash out at the same time, tears forming in his eyes yet his teeth gritted and let out a moanful growl. He turned around to Xavier, who stood there with his usual blank expression. "What the fuck is going on here Xavier?!" Goten growled. "My master wants the password for the dragon balls of this planet and for them to join the empire" Xavier explained nonchalantly, "but they are refusing to give it or work for him so this is their punishment". Zach composed himself after dry heaving. "This is madness!" Zach yelled. "Quit your whining and get going!" Xavier barked pushing them into the prison camp building. Once inside they entered a throne room and sitting on the thrown was a towering, muscular man dressed like a samurai. No skin was visible, every inch of his body was covered in grey and black armor or spandex. Even his face wasn't visible hidden by a helmet with a crown like top, the only thing of his face the three boys could see were two red eyes shrouded in pitch black. The eyes bore into Goten and Zach making them feel a bigger chill than they did outside before the figure they belonged to sat up and walked towards them. "These are the new recruits you told me of?" The man asked his voice sounding like one would imagine the devil to sound like. "Yes they are, they'll be very useful to you" Xavier affirmed emotionlessly. "Who are you?" Goten asked scared. "You may call me The Shredder! Ruler of all mortals!" The tyrant now known as Shredder announced triumphantly. "A kitchen utensil is ruler of all mortals?" Zach joked as he and Goten were weirded out sweat dropping. "You two shall become members of the Mortal Empire!" Shredder shouted as a huge flag came down behind him with a logo that seemed to depict an angel being impaled by a large dagger. "One day this glorious empire will rule the entire mortal realm in all twelve universes! And once that's complete it will march into the God Realms and slay every single last one of the supposedly divine, wretched God hierarchy and I will become the supreme ruler of all!". Goten's bewildered face morphed into an angry one after hearing Shredder's monologue. "Your a nut job! Why are you torturing the Namekians!" Goten questioned enraged. "I don't need insubordinate weaklings in my empire" Shredder shouted back, "If they have some sense and join me then I'll relinquish them, if they don't, then there worthless and must perish as will you two if you don't submit!". "Like hell we are!" Zach yelled as he suddenly cut through the chains him and Goten were wearing. "What!" Shedder exclaimed surprised. Goten was overjoyed feeling his ki return to him. "How did you get us out!?" Goten asked. "Apparently these chains can be cut fairly easily with something sharp and I had a blade with me for the GR repair" Zach replied, "now let's get out of here and free Ahh!". Zach was knocked out by a sudden punch from Xavier. "Zach!" Goten screamed furiously. He quickly powered up to super saiyan three and launched towards Xavier. In a blink of an eye however three blades suddenly pierced Goten's body. The blades belonged to Shredder coming out from a knuckle belt on his right hand, dug into Goten's back and came out bloodied through his chest and stomach. Goten's eyes became dead and he quickly reverted back to base form. Shredder then pulled his blades out of the nine year old child and punched his body down before it could fall to the ground with his other hand. Shredder and Xavier looked at the unconscious boys in thought. "What should we do with them master?" Xavier asked. Shredder's eyes then began to glow, illuminating the spot where the boys lay. After half a minute they stopped glowing. "Your brother has extraordinary potential in him, enough to pose a threat to me or be a valuable asset in our conquest" Shredder said inquisitively, "perhaps we can keep him under control but how?". "I have an idea" Xavier said blankly with a dark look. Sometime later Goten wakes up in a different room wrapped up in chains again. He looks around to see in front of him were hundreds of soldiers of many alien species lined up in two rows leading to another throne where Shedder was sitting. Memories rushed back into Goten's mind and he realizes Zach's not with him. Goten immediately began thrashing and screaming. "Where is Zach?!" Goten shouted angrily. "We took care of that pest" Shredder responded coldly. Before Goten could question further Xavier walked up from somewhere in the dark room and in his hand was the mangled corpse of Zach. "Nooo!" Goten screeched in agony and horror. Goten then suddenly shot his up looking daggers at Shredder with angry eyes his pupils gone, snarling and growling looking like a wild animal. He began to glow with a faint green aura, his hair started to stand up and his muscles began to grow stretching the clothes he was wearing. The energy absorbing chains also began to glow green and even started to crack, indicating that they were nearing their limit. Shredder looked on for a moment nervously before quickly opening a large window. It was revealed that they were on the star sized space station, it now having moved away from the star and facing New Namek's solar system. Shredder then formed an enormous energy ball about a fourth the size of the ship. The tyrant then threw the energy ball at the solar system, it devoured and vaporized every planet that was unfortunate enough to be in its path, including planet Namek. Goten's power up froze his eyes still pupil less but now had a look of fear in them. Then in a instant the ship went into hyperdrive flying a few million light years away from its original spot. Shortly after coming out of hyperdrive the energy ball shredder threw collides with the Namek star causing it to super nova. Goten could only look on in shock and fear of the display of power, his pupils returned, his hair dropped back down and his muscles shrunk back to normal. "Now" Shredder said turning back to Goten, "here's the deal, you work for me and do as I command without any question or error I will spare earth, if you don't or you tell anyone on earth I'll destroy it and everyone you care about. Is that clear?!". Goten pondered for a moment, as much as he wanted to shred this Shredder to pieces, the power he displayed was far beyond his or any of his families combined. He knew that if he provoked Shredder now, his home and his loved ones would all die in a blink of an eye. Goten couldn't bare the thought of losing everyone so with a very bitter, heavy heart he bowed and said "Yes master shredder".
Two weeks later, at the son family house.
Life now felt like purgatory for Goten. Whenever his parents were home everything was right in the world. His mom would kiss and hug him while he helped with house chores and did his studies and his dad would take him to spar or play outside. When they left however him and Xavier would sneak off world with one of Bulma's spaceships to meet up with Shredder and his empire. Goten was always used as either a test monkey for the army's new weapons and/or experiments or as one of the many soldiers sent to a planet to conquer it. All of this began to take a heavy toll on Goten's already fragile mental state though he hid it well as he always had but it was getting harder and harder. One morning the family were having breakfast together. "Thanks for the bacon mom it's yummy!" Goten exclaimed joyfully. "Thank you sweetie" Chi Chi said with her boo boo baby voice she frequently used around her children. "Yeah it's good, say bro whatever happened to that Zach guy you hung out with? I haven't seen him around lately" Xavier taunted with a sly tone in his voice. Goten barely managed to swallow the food in his mouth before he began to shake and sweat turning pale, the memories of Zach's death and Namek's destruction flooding his mind. "Honey what's wrong? You look sick!" Chi chi said worryingly. Goku also began to look concerned taking notice of his son's change in demeanor. "Z..Zach and his family went for a vacation and the plane they took crashed, there were no survivors" Goten explained lying with a lot of shakiness and sorrow in his voice. "Oh baby I'm so sorry to hear that" Chi chi said trying to comfort her distraught boy. "Hey relax son, we can use the dragon balls to bring him back!" Goku said with a smile piping up. "Uh dad he was already brought back to life once when Buu killed him a couple years back, don't the dragon balls only bring back a person once?" Goten said. "Oh yeah" Goku admitted deflated before another idea popped into his head, "hey I know we'll use the Namekian dragon balls, sit tight a second while I try to lock on to them!". Goku placed two fingers on his forehead preparing to instant transmission to Namek, however he couldn't lock on to any Namekian signal except for Dende and Piccolo who were on earth. After about ten minutes of trying Goku gave up and sighed. "Sorry Goten I can't seem to find Planet Namek, it's like it just vanished" Goku apologized. "It's ok Dad" Goten said, knowing of Namek's destruction and not expecting his father to find it. "Don't worry I'm sure he's in a better place" Xavier teased Goten knowing it might set him off. Goten tensed up at Xavier's comment and quickly got up from his chair. "I'm gonna go play outside for awhile" Goten said rather quickly. "Alright Goten just be back before-" Chi chi said before being cut off. "Yeah yeah thanks bye!" Goten almost yelled slamming the door and flying off. Goten flew off erratically before touching down somewhere in the woods a few miles away from his home and once he landed he let out an ear piercing scream of frustration and rage before falling his knees whimpering and crying. "Why?" Goten asked softly tears falling down his eyes, "why is my life so cursed? Zach is gone, Trunks is never going to forgive me, Xavier hurts me and now I'm working for a madman! I can't even tell anyone anymore!". "Ah ha ha ha there is something you can do" a very creepy voice spoke laughing manically. Goten got up confused, he looked around for the source of the voice only to find no one and nothing. "Who said that!? Where are you?!" Goten yelled freaking out. "I'm inside you and all around you" the voice spoke again. "I don't understand" Goten said his anxiety and fear worsening. "Follow the cold shiver running down your spine" the voice ordered. Goten stumbled looking for anything unusual. He came across a small pond in the ground. Goten bent down looking down at the pond checking to see if the voice was coming from a fish or something. That was until his reflection changed its expression. "I'm right here!" Goten's reflection suddenly yelled at him with the same creepy voice he was hearing before. "Ahh! What! How!? What are you?!" Goten screeched becoming hysterical. "I'm your friend Goten, I want to help you get everything you rightfully deserve" Goten's reflection said with an evil grin on its face. "R..really?" Goten asked hearing his reflection's words. "Yes Goten" Goten's reflection confirmed with exaggerated enthusiasm. "Power, respect, happiness and revenge are at your fingertips and it can all be yours, all you have to do is kill other abusers!". "What!?" Goten screamed in shock. "Why would I do that?!" Shredder's the only one that I even want to remotely kill and I'm not strong enough to do defeat him!". "Precisely, you'll never be strong enough so long as you keep bowing down to their whim and wallowing around sulking during your free time, there are so many other abusers out there Goten and they all deserve death!" Goten's reflection yelled back. "Maybe your right about me getting stronger" Goten conceded, "but not all abusers need to die! Most are relatively good people with some issues they need to work out!". "Oh really does Xavier seem at all hesitant or troubled when he hurts you? Seems to me one would show that if they had any good in them as you claim" Goten's reflection argued back. Goten's face became blank as the words sunk in and his mind started spinning the wheels. "No" Goten said in a deadly quiet voice his face turning serious, "he takes pleasure in it or doesn't think anything of it!". "All abusers are like that, look at those squirrels over there" the voice ordered. Goten looked up to see two squirrels fighting over a acorn. Eventually the bigger of the two won, snatched the acorn away and then pushed the other squirrel into the mud, it fleeing away. "You see now deliver that abusive rodent his punishment" the voice commanded. Goten slowly walked towards the big squirrel. Goten gained a evil, crazed grin on his face before levitating off the ground and then coming back down onto the squirrel crushing it. Goten's devilish smile suddenly collapsed replaced by shock and horror. He lifted up his foot to see the squirrel's remains on his shoe. Tears quickly formed in Goten's eyes realizing what he just did. "See wasn't that fun?" Goten's reflection asked with a smirk. "No no! That was horrible and disgusting! I never wanna do that again!" Goten screamed defiantly clutching his head. "Heh Heh you say that now but we both know that pest deserved it, you enjoyed putting him down and deep down you wanna do it again Ahh ha ha ha ha!" The voice finished laughing. "No no no noooahhh ha ha ha!" Goten screamed in terror before morphing into a crazed laughter, sounding just like his reflection did, the other personality having taken control.
