Chapter 11 The IW Universe History Part 4
(Originally this was only gonna be 3 parts but I decided to add it bit more to scarred Goten's backstory)
One year later
Goten had now developed a split personality, one that had no qualms about murdering those he detested and anyone else unfortunate enough to be in the way. His other self dubbed itself The Goblin due to its manic trickster nature. Goten tried to fight his other self but no matter how hard he fought, the goblin would eventually win and whoever the chosen victims were (most often some type of abuser or criminal) weren't long for this world. The Goblin would attack viciously in a blink of an eye, the souls barely having any time to realize they were gonna die and the demon would just laugh at their horrifying screams. Realizing that he might be caught and invalidate the deal he made with Shredder Goten ran away from home. He became a homeless kid living on the streets begging for food in North City. He made sure to tell Xavier where he was so that he wouldn't think he was betraying their master. Goten didn't know what was more heartbreaking, the worried and sad glimpses of his family and friends faces that he had to hide from when they searched for him or the fact Trunks was never among them.
In a forest with a huge lake a few miles away from North City.
The damaged twelve year old came to this spot to wash off his clothes of the filth and blood he accumulated. He also planned to do some hunting since pickings had been slim in the city lately. "Will this hell never end?" Goten thought in his mind despondently as he made his way over to a large clearing with a huge crystal blue lake sparkling in the sun. Goten stared out in admiration of the beauty of this place. Even though he had been living in the woods at his old home for years, some part of him was always awestruck and amazed by sights of unspoiled nature. It helped him forget about his troubles even if only for a little bit. Not wanting to spoil the beauty of lake, Goten walked over to a smaller lake separated from the big one to wash his clothes. Eventually he managed to clean them as best he could, the small lake now dyed brown and red, and put them on the shore for them to dry off in the sun. Goten now nude, sat on a rock to wait for this only set of clothes to dry. "Maybe I should take a bath while I'm here?" Goten wondered. He took a quick whiff of his armpit before immediately recoiling, yep he needed a bath. Goten walked back over to the big lake and dived in, swimming around underwater enjoying the sights and creatures of the deep. Goten began to swim back to the surface only to notice that there was a silhouette of a person. Goten stopped and stayed down hoping whoever it was would go away. The figure however wouldn't go away and at some point appeared to look down as though it saw Goten. As much as Goten wanted to avoid detection especially in his current state his lungs were urning for oxygen. Resigning to whatever happened next, he zoomed to the surface. After taking a deep breath and shaking some water out of his hair, he looked out to the shore to spot the person who was looking at him underwater. It was girl, looking about the same age as Goten, she wore a red and yellow outfit, black shoes and had a ponytail in her black hair. Her big sparkling grayish black eyes complemented her sweet smile. Her appearance sent Goten into a trance like state, his cheeks turning red, is mouth hung open and his eyes blank unblinking. Had it not been for the water a fourth indicator would have been very obvious. "Hi there!" The girl greets Goten cheerfully. "H-hi" Goten said nervously blushing even more. "Whatcha doing?" The girl asked curiously. "Oh nothing just uh swimming around Heh heh" Goten explained laughing slightly embarrassed putting more of his body in the water. "Yeah I love that too! I always love diving down and seeing all the fish, I sometimes ride on them if there big enough!" The girl said excitedly. "Ha Ha me too!" Goten laughed, "what's your name?". "Note, my parents love music so they named me that, yours?" Note said. "Goten, my mom named me that because I looked a lot my Dad who died so she named me something that means Gateway to Heaven" Goten explained. "Aww sorry to hear that about your dad" Note said sadly. "It's ok I'm used to loss, don't even have my mom anymore" Goten said sad. "Why not what happened?" Note asked. Goten tensed up knowing he was gonna have to lie, "um she died from tuberculosis and I don't have any other family members to go to so I just became homeless, a bit of a drifter" Goten explained only half lying. "Oh I'm so sorry" note said gaining a sad face, I'd offer you to come live with me, but my parents aren't exactly the nicest people, between you and me, they're very snotty and uptight, they may not accept a person like you, even though I think your handsome" she finished with a sly smile. "Well thanks I appreciate the off- did you call me handsome?" Goten blinked in disbelief. "Yes I did! That hair of yours is nuts, I love it! And you have the cutest face I've ever seen, lots of muscle, plus there's that cute little tail of yours" Note complimented Goten with gusto. Goten's cheeks went full red as Note's words came out, "well I do work out and take care of myself, wait did you say tail?" Goten finished bewildered. "Yeah looks like a monkey's tail, it's got brown fur and everything!" Note pointed out happily. Goten looked behind him and sure enough there was a soaking wet brown furred tail coming out from his lower back. "What the?! When did that grow back?!" Goten said panicky, he thought his mom had permanently cut his tail off when he was a baby so that they never had to deal with the Oozaru transformation in the future. "It's alright I like it, really completes your wild boy look!" Note assured joyfully. Goten stopped panicking and regained his shy smile, "really? Thank you". "Your welcome, hey mind if I swim with you?" Note said already beginning to remove her shoes and socks. "Uhh sure" Goten replied apprehensive about note seeing his, everything. "Cool!" Note shouted as she stood and threw off her shirt, revealing bra less chest, she then pulled down her pants and underwear together and kicked them off, leaving her naked. "Woah!" Goten yelled quickly covering his eyes. "Ha ha what are you doing?" Note asked giggling as she undid her ponytail letting her hair fall down. "Giving you privacy as you change into your swimsuit" Goten replied still covering his eyes. "Why do I need a swimsuit? Your not wearing one" Note said cheekily. "How did you know?" Goten asked. "He he water's very clear, come on uncover your eyes" Note said assuringly. Goten uncovered his eyes his entire face went red looking at Note's body. "Yippee Kai yay" Note exclaimed as she ran and jumped into the lake splashing Goten. Note surfaced and instantly looked at Goten with a cheerful smirk, "come on dude let's have a splash war!". Note then took her hands and made dueling waves hitting Goten. Goten dazed and confused face morphed into a happy, gleeful one and started laughing as he began making opposing splashes.
Another year later
Over the next year, in between surviving and working for Shredder, Goten and Note's relationship blossomed into something of a strange infant romance. Though they never "did it" they frequently kissed each other on the cheeks and lips. Note surprised Goten with how physically strong she was despite her not being very familiar with martial arts. Though she was nowhere near his freakish half alien strength, she was at least as strong as Tien or Krillin which was impressive to say the least and his saiyan blood was excited by it. She showed off this strength when a group bikers tried to have their way with the couple only for Note to throw the leader while on his bike almost a mile away. Her cheerfulness and zest for life reminded him of how he used to be before darkness caved into his life. The Goblin, though Goten still felt it inside him, practically disappeared and he considered going back home. He ultimately decided not to though due to the fact that they would ask where the hell he's been and fear the Goblin could resurface.
One day, Goten had just arrived at one of Shredder's battle ships getting ready to conquer another planet with other soldiers. "Alright soldiers you ready yet!" Shouted a big, purplish black winged robot. "Y-yes General Starscream!" Goten hastily responded as did thousand or so other soldiers. "Excellent now this mud ball- what was that!?" Starscream yelled after an boom rocked the ship. Before anyone could say anything else another explosion destroyed part of the wall filling the room with smoke. "Grab the goods and let's get out!" A rough, tough voice yelled out as five figures made their way in hidden by the smoke. "It's the resistance! Soldiers deal with these maggots!" Starscream ordered. Goten stood still flabbergasted for a moment, in the two years he'd been working in the empire he'd never heard of a resistance. The empire soldiers tried to exterminate the intruders, but they began to fall like dominoes. A huge muscular entity bit one soldier's head off. Another big one seemed to transform into a car before turning back crushing a few soldiers. The next figure, this one more human sized seemed to tear part of the wall with telekinesis it's eyes glowing white, sending it and more soldiers flying. "Let my blades show you the flyby!" The third intruder yelled, this one also human sized, slicing a soldier's hand off before swinging back severing the head. Zipping from place to place the fifth and final figure knocked out several soldiers with just one kick or punch and sometimes held several in place using some form of paralysis, giving him and his comrades opportunities to strike. Eventually they busted into the weaponry room. "Oooh shiny!", the human like swordsman said goofily. "Grab the cargo!" The now hedgehog looking resistance fighter yelled again. "Goten! Kill them!" Starscream commanded Goten angrily. Goten stood frozen, unsure of what to do as the resistance fighters turned to look at him, thinking he was another enemy. Goten considered destroying them, but then a thought occurred to him, these fighters were strong and very skilled. Perhaps if he joined their resistance, shredder would follow him, leading him away from earth and he could get stronger. He could fight the empire, saving the universe from his tyranny. "What are you waiting for?! Attack!" Starscream yelled. Goten turned around and blasted Starscream away with a ki blast. The resistance fighters looked at Goten in surprise and shock. "Come on let's get out of here!" Goten yelled as he grabbed some supplies himself from the weaponry. The resistance fighters looked at each other uncertain of this soldier's true allegiance, but they wordlessly agreed that, if anything they can at least get some useful information from him. "Alright come along" the other human like fighter said revealed to be a muscular girl wearing a peculiar outfit of dress and animal fur. "Thank you, where's your ship?" Goten gratefully asked. "Ha ha we don't need a spaceship! We got teleporty gems!" The human like fighter in red and black said weirdly. "There called Chaos Emeralds Deadpool!" The big black monster like alien screamed annoyed. The big yellow robot guy opened a compartment in his chest to reveal two large glowing emeralds, one red, one blue and tossed them to the black and red hedgehog. "Grab onto me and I'll chaos control us out of here" the black hedgehog explained. Goten nodded and began making his way over. He briefly turned around and looked at the star he knew earth belonged to and shed a tear as he whispered, "Goodbye everyone, especially you Note, I hope to see you all again someday, but this is something I have to do".
Goten went on to join the resistance at their asteroid belt bases. He came to know the team that had liberated him from the empire. Shadow the hedgehog, from the planet morbious in Universe 6, Bumblebee, an Autobot from cyberstron in universe 3, Venom, a symbiotic organism known as Klyntar from random comets in universe 11, Avatar Korra, a spirit and human chosen one from universe 6 earth and Deadpool, the ultra healing merc with a mouth from planet marvel universe 2. Though they were wary of Goten at first naturally because he came from the empire. Eventually after a few missions and telling them his story they all came to accept him and he quickly became a valued member and friend. The many, many battles and death severely scarred Goten both physically and mentally becoming a cold, hardened warrior with scars riddled all over his body. But has pushed on with the hope that he will one day kill Shredder with his own bare hands.
Back to the main timeline
If the group couldn't get more shocked, they just did. Most could barely breathe after seeing what they just witnessed. No wonder this Goten was so violent and angry. Little Goten looked at IW Goten with a mix of respect, awe, fear and sadness. Vegeta felt like he was staring at some bizarre Kakarot version of himself as a child serving under Frieza. MC Goten now really regretted challenging and insulting his scarred counterpart. Kid and GT Trunks felt extremely guilty that a version of them treated Goten so badly and basically pushed him into the lion's den. Goku just wanted to grab his alternate son and protect him from his universe's horrors but he was nervous that he might set him and The Goblin off. "Suddenly I'm really glad I don't have a twin brother" MC Goten said to himself getting over his own disbelief and shock. "Me too" both GT and Super Goten said in unison. Interestingly Shadow also had a somewhat surprised look on his face and walked over to his partner. "You told me about your brother and your family, but you never mentioned Zach or Note?" Shadow inquired. IW Goten let out an agitated growl before looking at Shadow, "yeah so what!? I don't talk about them! You don't talk about your lost friend Maria either! Fuck off!" IW Goten snapped at Shadow, causing the normally calm stiff hedgehog to become nervous and back away a little. "Hey calm down pull yourself together!" Shadow shouted back angrily but nervous. He had seen what Goten could do when enraged and even he didn't want to deal with that. IW Goten took a deep breath and turned away. "Sorry, it's just, agh I don't know" IW Goten said putting his hands over his eyes and forehead trying to soothe a headache. Shadow and the rest even Beerus and Whis looked with pity and sadness. Little Goten stood up from where he had been sitting and walked up towards IW Goten. "Is he still there?" Little Goten asked. IW Goten uncovered his face and looked at Little Goten with annoyance and confusion. "Who's still there? What the shit are you talking about?!" IW Goten yelled in frustration. "The Goblin, is he still inside you or is he gone?" Little Goten clarified. IW looked daggers at his little counterpart before signing and answering. "He's always there, always talking" IW Goten answered. The group were stunned by this. "You mean he's talking to you right now?" Beerus asked. "Yes" IW Goten confirmed, "no matter what I'm doing or where I'm at, sometimes it's just a whisper, other times he shrieks, telling me to do crazy shit regardless of how much sense it makes! The only time he ever went away entirely since he first appeared was when I was with Note, who I can't see again until I defeat Shredder so get us back there now!" He finished yelling. Bulma gulped unsure of how to tell IW Goten that it could be months before he and the rest of the other dimension visitors could go home. "I know, I understand what your going through" Little Goten said with compassion in his voice. IW Goten looked down at his little counterpart curiously with one eyebrow raised. "I experienced a massive loss because of someone's actions, it filled me with terrible pain and rage. But you gotta learn to manage and control it. If you let it control you, before you know it you turn into someone else, something else and before long you become just as bad if not worse than the person who wronged you in the first place" Little Goten said with an aura of regret and guilt. The group's eyes widened at that statement. IW Goten looked genuinely surprised by his counterparts words before narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "Why are you talking as though you done that yourself?" IW Goten asked getting suspicious. Little Goten suddenly tensed in fear and began to sweat. "Um I don't know what your talking about" Little Goten stuttered trying to play dumb. Shadow walked up behind Little Goten. "You've been saying some weird cryptic shit about your universe since we got here, explain!" Shadow interrogated. "I.. I don't want to!" Little Goten shouted in a panic. "Fine, whis start reading his memories!" Shadow ordered. "No! Leave me alone!" Little Goten screamed as he took off into the sky. Before he could get far though Shadow chaos controlled in front of him and grabbed him. Shadow then teleported back down to the ground with the group struggling to hold the feisty kid. "No no no please just kill me instead! Nobody needs to know about me! I deserve to be forgotten! Kill me!" Little Goten screeched tears streaming down his face as whis began pulling and projecting his memories.
