Chapter 13 The GD Universe History Part 2
Zamasu and Goten walk through the portal with angered determined looks on their faces, Goten looking down still angry and thinking of all the ways he would make he's so called father pay. Moments later they exit the portal. "We're here" Zamasu announced. Breaking out of his brooding Goten looked up to see an alien landscape. The sky had no sun, moon or stars, just blackness with an eerie reddish hue. There were no plants or animals anywhere, just rough, jagged, sometimes scorched rock, pointed mountains pot marked the land with one mountain in front of the having a cave in it. "Where-where are we Zamasu?" Goten asked stuttering becoming frightened by his surroundings. "It's...a special realm I know about" Zamasu explained. "Come with me Goten, I don't want you to get lost, just stay close to me" Zamasu said tenderly lightly pushing on Goten's back ushering him into the cave. Little did Goten know was that Zamasu blocked him from seeing a direction sign near the entrance of the cave, the sign pointing to the cave reading "Hell". The two made there way deeper into the cave. Goten began to shake and sniffle, the sadness of his home and loved ones gone resurfacing and the fear of this strange place getting to him. Zamasu takes notice of this and stops himself and Goten before picking the child up into his arms and onto his shoulder. "It'll be ok I promise, I won't let anything happen to you" Zamasu said comforting Goten, "Just remember your home, remember your loved ones and your memories with them, let them be your strength". Zamasu's words, though they made Goten cry, also made him more determined to get his revenge against Goku. "Shh shh we're almost there" Zamasu soothed Goten as the child sobbed in his arms. They walked into what appeared to be another cave, however the rock was purplish in color rather than red or black like the rest of the cave and the entrance seemed to resemble a ghostly face, it's oval shaped mouth being the entrance and two circles above that glowed with a grayish white light. A little ways in the flat rock transitioned into stairs and the walls became more neat and narrowed with an oval shaped exit. "Where are we going?" Goten asked. "To the lake of Umibozu" Zamasu answered as he and Goten entered a chamber. There was no ceiling and walls were made out of white squares with black diamond like formations in the corners. Within this chamber was a lake, the water however wasn't blue, it was a bit odd gray with blobs of black. Walking out onto a black balcony Zamasu put Goten down as the young boy asked, "who's Umibozu?". "A sea spirit who used to..."punish" sailors at sea" Zamasu explained matter of factly. "So why are we here?" Goten asked clueless as to what this had to do with their mission. "Umibozu had a few children, some who rewarded the worthy with incredible power. However, the ones who couldn't handle the darkness would perish with a single drop" Zamasu said with a low, foreboding voice. "Did anyone survived?!?!?" Goten shouted alarmed by the story's implications. "One did, and he saved his world" Zamasu answered unknowingly referring to the time Goku drank the Ultra Divine water as a child many years ago to defeat King Piccolo. "So you want me to drink this?" Goten guessed pointing to the water. "Not quite, I have something else in mind" Zamasu stated shocking Goten as he somehow walked on the lake water, a mysterious force somehow keeping him from falling into it. "If Umibozu's children could create incredible power, imagine what the original source could do?" Zamasu said wonderingly gaining a creepy smile. "But drinking it won't be enough" Zamasu said turning back to Goten who still standing on the balcony, "I want you to absorb it, through a baptism". Goten was taken aback, both from confusion and fear because he didn't know what a baptism was or what it and Umibozu's power would do to him. "What will happen if I do?" Goten asked nervous looking down at the spirit water below him. "If you do, you'll have the power to kill Goku. You will become a deity like me, you will have the powers of a god. You'll be a god of justice, Goten!" Zamasu said excitedly. Goten's eyes beamed and had a joyful smile, the prospects of the water and divine position it could give him making him feel honored and excited. "And all you have to do is.. give up your humanity" Zamasu finished with a low creepy voice. "My...humanity?" Goten said slowly horrified at what Zamasu was proposing. "It's the only way" Zamasu said firmly. "But why?" Goten asked still scared. "To reach our goals, there has to be sacrifices. You said you'd do whatever it takes. Don't you want to avenge your universe?" Zamasu asked explaining the deal. "I do but.." Goten said anxiously, unsure if he's willing to give up the very thing that makes him who he is and arguably better than his wretched father. "I wont force you to do this Goten, but I want you to remember what you're fighting for, remember the dead, your friends and family" Zamasu encouraged. Goten's face paled and his eyes went blank as images and memories of his universe and his loved ones being erased flooded his psyche. He clutched his head and closed his eyes trying to block out the nightmarish screams and cries of their last moments. "Don't fight it" Zamasu ordered with a dark look, "Let it flow through you and let it be your power". Goten let go of his head, eyes still closed with tears leaking out as he let the memories and the pain, hatred and rage they caused him to enter his heart. "Now remind me, who's responsible for that? Who was so selfish that he killed multiple universes so he could have a "good fight?". Goten growled eyes still closed and watering his ruined life making him sadder and angrier at the same time before he opened his eyes and answered, "Goku" he said in a dangerously low voice. "And he left it all behind with no chance that anything could live again" Zamasu said with sadness in his voice. "Goten, there's so many other timelines that have a Goku. Do you want those timelines to go through what you went through?" Zamasu asked. "No" Goten said all sorrow gone with fiery determination and anger in his eyes. "Then you know what you have to do" Zamasu stated gesturing for Goten join him on the lake. "I do" Goten said obediently. He then jumped into the lake, his lower half sinking in much to his surprise, him expecting to be able to walk on it like Zamasu. "It's ok, come to me" Zamasu assured Goten, ushering him to swim over to his spot. Goten swam with some discomfort to where Zamasu was, the water feeling strange on his body and because he had all his clothes on. "Son Goten" Zamasu said looking down at Goten floating in the water right beside him, "you are about to enter the realm of Umibozu. When you enter the water you must accept the lake and its gift. When you come out you will no longer be yourself. Your old self will be left in the water and out comes a new being". Goten looked down scared and sad at the water and his reflection, he was terrified of what he would become. Within a minute however he ultimately decided that whatever happened to him was worth it so long as he would be able to make every Goku in existence pay for their crimes. Taking a deep breath, he accepted his fate. "Are you ready?" Zamasu asked kneeling down. "Yes" Goten answered instantly. "Don't fight it, let it in" Zamasu instructed, "I'll be right here when it's all over" he finished with a smile before pushing Goten's body into the water. "Ok" Goten said nervously his head still above water. "Hold your breath" Zamasu gave one last instruction before Goten took a deep breath, grabbed his nose and dived into the water. Goten sunk to an unknown depth in the lake. He opened his eyes and looked around seeing nothing confusing him. Then suddenly from the dark bottom of the lake came several black hands. They began to grab Goten by his arms, legs and torso pulling him deeper into the water. Goten obviously scared, started panicking , trying to get these things off of him and back to the surface. But then the words of his friend and savior Zamasu came into his mind, "don't fight it, let it in. These words made Goten stop fighting and he let the hands drag him down. As they did, they morphed into tentacles and moved their way up to his chest. Then one of them started to faze into his chest where his heart was, latching onto the speck of evil in his otherwise pure soul created by recent events. The pain caused the child to open his mouth and let out his breath, and as he did he heard another dark voice yell "embrace it!". More of the tentacles started fazing and flowing into Goten's heart and he let out more air bubbles seemingly drowning as he disappeared into the depths of the lake. Sometime later, Zamasu stared at the spot where Goten had dove into the lake, waiting patiently for his return. Then out from the lake a hand popped out. Zamasu grabbed it pulled it's owner to the surface, it was Goten, but he was different. His orange gi had turned grey and his blue undershirt turned black, his blue waistband was now red and his black shoes had turned white. His skin was also now a bit paler then his previous peach colored tone. Goten had an evil grin on his face revealing himself to now sport two fangs in his upper teeth making him look a little like a vampire. "How do you feel Goten?" Zamasu asked with an evil grin of his own helping Goten steady himself before letting him down as boy could now float on the water like the Kai. "I feel... reborn!" Goten yelled triumphantly. "It worked!" Zamasu exclaimed happy that his idea worked. It was true, Goten had been in a sense reborn. When Goten absorbed Umibozu's essence the darkness quickly overwhelmed his entire being and he blacked out. When he regained consciousness he felt like a new person. He gained an indescribable amount of power and with it a sense that he could do anything, literally anything he wanted to. If he doesn't like a person, he could just kill them. Just like that, and he knew who he wanted to kill first. "I'm ready to kill Goku!" Goten shouted excitedly with an evil ish animalistic tone to his voice. He looked like a wolf wanting to tear a deer open for dinner. "Wait!" Zamasu yelled out grabbing Goten's arm getting Goten's attention. "You only absorbed the power, now you need to master it. You need to learn to control this new power" Zamasu explained. "But you said-!" Goten began to bark back angrily before Zamasu cut him off. "You will kill Goku, but first we need to make a quick stop" Zamasu assured with an evil smile. The two traveled back to the kai realm of Universe ten where they killed Gowasu, making Zamasu an official Supreme Kai and Goten his apprentice. Zamasu then began to send Goten to other worlds to exterminate all mortals on them, telling him it would build his strength and endurance for his revenge against Goku. Goten, with his mind clouded with darkness believed it and gladly accepted, mercilessly hunting down every mortal on each planet, wiping out entire species and civilizations. One day, however about a week after his "accession", Goten had just finished killing the last member of another alien race and he happened to glance at a mirror. At first he smiled evilly proud of himself and his work, but then the blood of the alien he blew up splattered on him. This seemed to snap him out of his rage/evil trance he'd been in as his face turned shocked. The blood soaked his hands and boots. Goten looked at himself in horror dropping out of his super saiyan state he was in tears forming in his eyes having realized what he'd been doing, his good nature seemingly trying to come back. However the darkness wouldn't let go. The internal conflict made Goten angry, him blasting the mirror in frustration and confusion. The troubled child raced back to the Kai realm to confront his mentor. "Zamasu!" Goten screamed in a fury bursting through the gate entrance to the Kai palace. "Hello Goten" Zamasu responded in a calm tone as if he had expected this. "What is this training? I signed up to kill Goku! Not to do this!" Goten shouted with a mix of anger and disgust. "But don't you see, you're doing good and getting stronger" Zamasu reasoned coolly. "This universe is rotting, the mortals here are causing more harm than good. They must be stopped. Mortals only seem to run into the same vicious cycle over again, it's all over there history. And yet they never learn. So we're restarting the universe. We're making a new world like a time before mortals entered to destroy it. Does that make sense?" Zamasu rationalized their actions to Goten. Goten thought for a moment, he wasn't sure but Zamasu hadn't lied to him so far and he didn't have any reason to think what his master was saying wasn't true, other than his family and friends but they were gone now. "I guess, but this is too easy! I need to be ready to kill Goku!" Goten complained getting frustrated. "Be patient, it'll happen" Zamasu assured calmly. "I can't wait, not when I know there's more Goku's out there! I want to stop Goku now!" Goten yelled furious punching and breaking on of the pillars in the palace walls. Suddenly in a flash, Goten found himself in a black void, standing on water looking similar to the water in the Lake of Umibozu. Goten looked around bewildered wondering where he was. "Zamasu?, where are-?" Goten called out before noticing a figure appear in a fog near him. "Who are you? Show yourself!" Goten shouted charging a black ki attack, his ki glowed black now since he absorbed Umibozu's essence. Soon the fog cleared revealing the figure to be his mom Chi chi. "Mom is that you?" Goten asked smiling believing his mother to have somehow came back. "Mommy!" Goten exclaimed joyfully tearing up as he ran across the water to reunite with his mother. Halfway to her however a black hand came out of the water and grabbed Goten's making him fall to the surface of the water. He looked at the hand in confusion before looking up to see all his lost loved ones standing around him looking at him smiling devilishly, revealing their eyes to all be a demonic grayish white and sporting fangs like him. "Guys?" Goten said confused and scared. "Avenge us, embrace him, let him take control" Gohan, Trunks and Chi Chi said with weird ghostly distant voices. "What, why?" Goten asked wondering why his friends and family would be telling him give in to Zamasu's orders. "It's the only way" chi chi said as the telltale white aura of erasure enveloped her, though she did not appear distressed. "No!!! Don't leave me again!" Goten screamed in terror as his mother vanished before his eyes once again. "Mom!!! Nooo! Come back to me!!!" Goten screeched as all his family and friends disappeared again. "You were all I had... don't leave me alone" Goten cried quietly tears flowing down. He then looked up to see Goku's standing in front of him smiling. "You! This is your fault!" Goten screamed enraged trying to attack what he thought was Goku. Goku began laughing evilly showing his fangs and grayish eyes. Then to Goten's horror black tentacles like the ones from the lake came out from the water and began grabbing and dragging Goten underwater while Goku's laugh grew to hysterics. Goten fought back but it was futile as he was eventually submerged. In the water pulled by the tentacles, Goten saw huge white grayish eyes like the ones he saw in his family's faces opening in the water before a giant black mouth belonging to some unknown creature opened and Goten was about to be eaten. Then in another flash Goten was back with Zamasu at the palace he hadn't moved from his spot, revealing the whole ordeal to be an hallucination. Goten frightened by his vision clutched his head moaning in fear and pain. "Really? That's how you feel?" Zamasu asked nonchalantly, seeming to ignore Goten's distress. "Well then, if this is "too easy". Then show me, fight me" Zamasu ordered. "Huff huff you sure?" Goten asked recomposing. "Turn super saiyan and hit me" Zamasu commanded firmly. Goten began to power up before Zamasu slapped him in the face interrupting his transformation. "Ow! What the-?!" Goten asked mad and confused. "I said turn super saiyan and hit me" Zamasu reiterated blankly. Goten tried again to power up and once again was interrupted by Zamasu, this time by punching him in the gut sending Goten down on his knees clutching his stomach in pain. "What's the matter Goten? I thought it was too easy?" Zamasu taunted, "if it is then take me out with super saiyan". "You won't let me!" Goten shouted frustratingly. "Exactly!" Zamasu shouted back charging at Goten with a ki blade. Goten became scared and leap out of the way only for the blade to slice his side. "Not everyone will let you transform! Not everyone is going to lay down and die!" Zamasu yelled as he continued to swing at Goten with his blade, the boy barely missing each swing. "So neither shall you" Zamasu whispered coldly before launching a energy blast sending Goten flying out of the palace. Zamasu instant transmissioned behind Goten's flying body hitting him with a chop to his back stopping the boy's flight and falling to the ground. Goten moaned and groaned in agony as he tried to pick himself back up only to have Zamasu slam his foot onto his back. "You must be ferocious! You will be ruthless! And never let your opponent have a second to think!" Zamasu yelled as he kicked Goten's head making the child flip to laying on his back his forehead bleed. "You say you want to kill Goku now! Well if this was a real fight. Haaa!" Zamasu yelled again as he charged another ki blade lunching at Goten. Goten looked on in terror and fear as it looked like Zamasu was about to kill him. He closed his eyes and put his fist up near his face preparing for the attack, only for it to never come. He opened his eyes to blade centimeters away from himself before Zamasu retracted it. "You'd be dead" Zamasu said quietly looking down at his beaten student. Goten collapsed onto the ground overwhelmed by the fight and the realization of what Zamasu had showed him. If he had gone off to kill Goku now, he would have died. "Since you do want harder training I'll send you to harder planets. But from now on, no more super saiyan, you will only fight in your base form and only rely on techniques. You will do this until you perfect it. You will start tomorrow and don't come back until you finished" Zamasu said sternly. Goten shook with fear at the conditions Zamasu had layed out for him. "Oh and fix this before you go" Zamasu said pointing to the pillar Goten broke earlier, "this is no way for a god to behave". Goten lay on the floor whimpering and moaning from the pain of his injuries, his hallucination and the darkness of Umibozu taking further hold of him. Tears escaped his eyes as he wondered in his mind, "did I make a mistake?".
