Chapter 14 The GD Universe History Part 3

(The series this universe is based on is incomplete, from this point onwards is just my guess of how I think or hope the series will go, if the real continuation is significantly different I'll do a rewrite one day.)

Goten continued his purges the way Zamasu instructed him to do so. With each world though his uncertainty and guilt grew. "All these mortals can't be bad right?" Goten asked himself in his mind, "my family and friends weren't bad people and they taught me differently than this. What would they think of me if they saw me right now?". Despite the darkness infection within him, part of Goten's soul was still good and it felt dirty and disgusted by what he'd been doing. Even if it was earning him more skill and power to kill Goku, did it justify the genocide of all these other mortals? Goten couldn't take it anymore and went back to the Kai realm to reason with his master. "What are you doing back here?!" Zamasu yelled angrily, "I told you not to come back until you mastered non ki attacks with no super saiyan and I know you haven't yet! Explain yourself right now!". "Master I don't know if I can keep doing this" Goten said somberly. "You said you would do everything I said, didn't you? So why the sudden reluctance?" Zamasu asked annoyed. "It's just" Goten began before continuing, "my family, friends and I never hurt anyone unless they attacked us first and to always give them second chances. Now I'm killing people just because you think there bad. And I don't think they all are bad. I have no doubt that there are bad mortals out there but do they all need to die?" Goten asked. "Yes Goten" Zamasu answered instantly, "you see my student, mortals took what we gods gave them and have used it to ruin all that is beautiful in the cosmos. Nature is being destroyed every time a new mortal civilization arises and whenever mortals go to war with each other. They enslave animals and even each other to do their bidding, the list goes on. And eventually every single time they destroy themselves through their own actions, leaving nothing but death and ugliness in their wake. There might indeed be exceptions like you out there Goten, but none of them have the power nor the potential that you wield, so they end up dying with the rest of their kind when there day of reckoning inevitably arrives, so it's much better and more merciful if we put them down before they suffer too much at their own hands or their brethren". Zamasu's words did make some sense, but this raised another question in Goten's mind. "If what your saying is true, are you saying my universe would have been ruined even without Goku or the tournament of power?" Goten inquired. "Precisely and it would have been a much slower and painful death as well, at least that way it went out peacefully with no pain" Zamasu said. "Well my friends and family were all exceptions, none of them were bad and they didn't contribute to their death. They were different from other mortals" Goten reasoned. "Were they?" Zamasu asked raising a quizzical eyebrow at Goten. "Huh?" Goten exclaimed taken aback by Zamasu's question. Zamasu sighed before explaining, "I didn't say anything about it because I didn't want to hurt your feelings so soon after that terrible day, but now you must know the truth, your family and friends weren't really all that different from most of these other mortals". "What!?" Goten shouted shocked and angry at his master's words, "how could you say that! They cared and loved me! How dare you say they didn't?!". "You thought Goku loved you but did he?" Zamasu asked quizzingly. Goten froze upon hearing this. "No he didn't he wouldn't have ignored you or put your universe's existence in peril if he truly cared" Zamasu stated coldly. "And your mother paid no mind to your desire to train or to hang out with friends, she just made you sit in a room toiling away in books making you too weak to stop your father and his reckless actions. Trunks, your best friend practically forgot about you after getting a girlfriend and if I recall correctly you said he convinced you to toy with Majin Buu rather than finish him off immediately back when you two were little and that resulted in your defeat, requiring Goku to be brought back from the dead to deal with the threat, if he hadn't done that you two would have won, Goku would have remained dead and maybe your universe would still be here" Zamasu explained. Goten was shaking at the revelations Zamasu had revealed to him. He was right, he could have been better. He could have been stronger, but instead he was complacent and did everything his friend and mother told him to do and was told by everyone else to have faith in Goku. In the end he was left defenseless as he watched his home get erased. Goten began to have doubts about his family and friends. "And believe it or not Goten, but it's not the first time Trunks has committed a crime" Zamasu said matter of factly. "What do you mean?" Goten asked confused. "Goku was originally supposed to die many years ago from a fatal heart virus, but he didn't because another Trunks from another timeline came and gave Goku medicine from his future so he would survive" Zamasu explained. Goten became enraged after hearing that. "Why did he save him?!" Goten shouted angrily. "I'm not sure, but from what I've heard, it was because of some robots that Trunks or the others was too weak to handle so he ventured to your timeline and prevented Goku's death" Zamasu speculated. "He..saved Goku because of some damn robots!" Goten screamed in anger and surprise. "This.. this can't be true" Goten muttered shakily trying to deny the info given to him, "my friends and family wouldn't have been so weak and stupid that they needed Goku to help. There more than capable of smashing some tin cans!". "Goten" Zamasu said firmly getting Goten's attention, I want you to try and harness more of Umibozu's power within you, it might help make your mission easier" Zamasu stated with a evil smile on his face. "Are you sure?" Goten asked bewildered, "I thought you wanted me to learn to fight without powering up or ki attacks?". "I know what I said and I still don't want you turning super saiyan or use ki attacks, but I also see your having difficulty so I'm going to be a little lenient, besides harnessing Umibozu's power will increase your base power, not transform you, although it is possible it could with enough time" Zamasu explained his smile still holding. "O..ok" Goten said a little scared, "how you I harness Umibozu?". "Think of your universe being erased again and think of Goku and Trunks's crimes that led to its destruction, let the anger and darkness flow through you and grant you strength" Zamasu instructed encouragingly in a cold, quiet voice. Goten concentrated on the thoughts Zamasu told him to and began to feel power beyond his wildest dreams flood into him. Then in a flash, Goten found himself in the strange place that looked like the lake of Umibozu again. He looked around to see all his loved ones around him again with the same demonic grey eyes and fanged teeth like before. Unlike last time however, instead of being happy to see them, Goten looked at them with confusion, suspicion and sadness. "Guys, you loved me right? You didn't mean to ignore me, did you? And you guys seriously didn't run to Goku for help against some robots right?" Goten asked pleading that Zamasu was wrong. The ghostly versions of the z warriors and their families just continued to stare at Goten with no discernible reaction. Goten quickly got nervous and afraid at the lack of response, wondering if this was there was there way of confirming his doubts. "Mom! Trunks! Please tell me it's not true!" Goten shouted halfway to tears. "Yes it is" the Gohan figure said in a ghostly voice. "W..what?" Goten stuttered in disbelief. "You really thought we loved you? The piccolo figure said with a smirk. "We only tolerated you because we thought you'd grow up to be like Goku" the Chiaotzu figure said. "But your only like him in appearance" the Krillin figure said with contempt. "You ended up being nothing more than a reminder of who we really wanted and would still take him over you if we were still alive" the tien figure said. "B-but he got you all erased! Why would you still choose him over me?!" Goten shouted in anger and disbelief at what his lost ones were saying to him. "You were an amusing little pet, until I got my girl here, now I don't need you" the trunks figure said pulling the Mai figure closer to him who giggled creepily in response. Goten panted heavily with all sorts of negative feelings welling up inside him as the words of his once thought loved ones sunk in. He looked at his mother out pleadingly on the verge of tears. "Mommy, you love me right?" Goten said sweetly hoping with all his heart that he had at least one person who truly loved him. "Move over you little shit! Your father is trying to get to me and your blocking him!" The chi chi figure berated the child. Goten's heart was completely shattered upon hearing those words come out of what he thought was his mother's mouth. He then heard footsteps behind him and when he turned he saw a the same ghostly Goku from before. The Goku figure walked past Goten and into the chi chi figure's arms in a romantic like way. Goten collapsed onto his knees crying as he shouted, "no! This can't be! You all really didn't love me?! I love you!". The figures of Goten's former friends and family laughed at him hysterically as Goten stared on whimpering and eventually burying his face into the ground in despair. Then in a flash the hallucination was over. In the real world, Goten had been powering up, before stopping with an emotionless blank expression on his face. "You we're right" Goten said bluntly with no emotion, "they never cared for me and they worshipped Goku despite his idiocy". "I'm sorry Goten, truly" Zamasu said with a hint of genuine sadness before refocusing, "let me show you, this is how all mortals act. Zamasu held out his hand for Goten to grab. The broken child grabbed it with no hesitation. Zamasu then rose his hand before saying, "Kai Kai" and the two were launched into space. They were now in a swirling vortex traveling through the cosmos at lightning speed. As they traveled they saw countless images of various mortals across the twelve universes and the atrocities they committed including a few that resembled what Goten's family did to him. Goten held a slightly shocked expression with tears threatening to fall witnessing all these horrible things happen. Eventually the two came to a sudden stop, the vortex disappearing, leaving the two deities floating above a random solar system with four planets right in front of them. Goten shut his eyes, stuffing out his tears before they could escape. "You see now, Goten?" Zamasu asked his student, "mortals, no matter who they are or what there doing, they always end up hurting everything around them even each other. Your family lied to you, and if they lied about mortals, who's to say they didn't lie to you about anything else". Goten clenched his fists as though he was angry but his face held the same serious neutral expression with his eyes still closed. "So what are you gonna do now Goten?" Zamasu asked. "Don't call me Goten anymore" Goten said in a new deeper, evil sounding voice, "that is what those mortals I used to call family called me, but I am no longer a mortal". "Oh" Zamasu asked smiling slightly surprised and intrigued, "then how shall I address you?". Goten opened his eyes, revealing that his pupils had changed from their former black to grey. Goten grinned evilly as he announced, "call me Phoenix! Like The Phoenix rising from the ashes, I have risen from a dead universe!". Goten, now known as Phoenix powered up, spreading his arms out, his aura turning flamelike and focused an unbelievable amount of energy behind him. The energy grew until it was three times as big as the four planets in front of the pair illuminating the area in its brilliant light. It took the shape of a bird and it spread its wings in the same position Phoenix was in. "And into my fire, all these mortals shall all burn!" Phoenix yelled as he thrust his arms outward. The energy Phoenix took off and flew right towards the planets. The Phoenix flew through the first planet, setting everyone and everything on its surface on fire. The energy Phoenix proceeded to do the same to the other three planets until it disintegrating upon finishing the last one, the four planets now all resembling Venus. Phoenix watched his attack do it's work and smiled delightedly. With no love from his family, Umibozu's essence had now eroded away all but a speck of Goten's soul and now it was almost all darkness. Over the next sixteen years, Zamasu and Phoenix went about eradicating all mortal life in the twelve universes. Once Phoenix was strong enough, he took out the supreme Kai and Gods of Destruction in each universe as well, knocking out the angels in the process.

Sixteen years later

"Well here we are my student, your old home" Zamasu said hovering over planet earth. "The one who traveled in time to save Goku lives here. What would you like to do to make him and the other earthlings suffer?". Floating next to him was a now fully grown, twenty nine year old Phoenix, formerly known as Goten, in the same outfit he'd worn since becoming a deity. Phoenix looked down at his old home with a sickly toothy smile before replying, "Everything under the bloody sun, and a few other things hidden by the dark moon, aha ha ha ha ha ha!" Phoenix finished laughing like a madman. Now earth's day of reckoning was here.