Chapter 15 The GD Universe History Part 4

Phoenix began terrorizing planet earth, destroying cities and mercilessly hunting down every man, woman and even child. The deranged man announced himself as their Supreme Kai and that he judged all them as guilty sinners. The adult future trunks of that timeline fought valiantly against the monster, but failed every time only slowing down humanity's extinction event. Trunks, along with his girlfriend Mai and aging mother Bulma, formed a resistance to try and stop Phoenix, though they dubbed him Goku black because of his heavy resemblance to Goku with black clothes and because he never mentioned his real name. An entire year passed, the population dwindled steadily despite Trunks's efforts and what remained struggled to survive. The demon was toying with them, he could've wiped them all out in an instant and they knew it. Not all hope was lost however as Bulma had barely managed to gather enough fuel for a one way trip to the past for the Time Machine. Trunks and Mai intended to go back to the past to get help from Goku and Vegeta to defeat Goku black. On the day they scheduled to leave however, the monster had tracked Trunks to Bulma's secret lab just as he finished making the fuel. "Say goodbye to Mommy" Phoenix said coldly smiling as he held Bulma by her throat. "Get away from her!" Trunks yelled angrily pulling out his sword ready to save his mother. "Trunks no!" Bulma screamed as tears streamed down her face, "leave me, save the future, save the-". Her speech was cut short as Phoenix snapped her neck killing her. "No!" Trunks screamed in horror. "Save the future, save the world blah blah blah, save me your hero's speech" Phoenix mocked as he shot a ki blast disintegrating Bulma's corpse. "Well, I just saved you from a very sappy speech ha ha!" Phoenix joked in a surprisingly and disturbingly childish manner, even giggling like a little kid. "How could you!?" Trunks yelled enraged barely keeping himself from attacking Black. "What are you gonna do about it?" Phoenix said tauntingly switching back to his usual sinister expression. Trunks shot a blast at Phoenix who easily dodged it, but then noticed Trunks speeding off. "Running again! Is that all you can do?!" Phoenix yelled annoyed before calming down smiling devilishly, "no matter, I'll always find you! Aha ha ha ha" Phoenix laughed hysterically as he blew up the surrounding area. Trunks eventually met up with Mai and the two we're headed to the remains of the Capsule Corp building where the time machine was stashed. Phoenix however had tracked them down again. Mai sent a battalion of soldiers to try and slow him down, but they were dropping like flies. "As much as I love killing these ants" Phoenix said as he stabbed one of the soldiers with an energy blade, "I want to end this as quickly as possible". Mai and Trunks listened to the carnage in fear and horror knowing their comrades were dying and that Black would reach them soon. "Trunks go leave now!" Mai shouted to Trunks frantically. "What! Mai I'm not leaving without you!" Trunks rebelled in shock. "My people are being killed because I sent them out, I have to stay here and try and save as many as I can" Mai said with sorrow and regret in her voice. "Go, your our best hope you have to survive!" Mai shouted frantically before a large explosion rocked the area and all gunfire ceased. "Oh Trunks! Come out and play!" Phoenix called out in a creepy yet weirdly childish voice as he walked slowly out of the smoke. Mai pulled Trunks in for a goodbye kiss before running up to the lunatic with the intent to distract him. "Mai!" Trunks screamed before realizing it needed to be done and so after a moment's hesitation ran to complete his mission. "Well if it isn't the little soldier who could, where's your boyfriend?" Phoenix taunted chuckling to himself. "Not here! Your opponent is me!" Mai yelled out with as much fake confidence she could muster pulling out her gun and firing a few bullets only for them to bounce off of the freak and said freak lazily catching one of them is his hand. "Really? I'm an all powerful god and your attacking me with bullets?" Phoenix asked condescendingly. "Not just any bullets" Mai replied snidely before the fired bullets below Phoenix popped creating a big flash temporarily blinding him. "Ahh you bitch!" Phoenix yelled out enraged. Meanwhile Trunks had made it to the time machine and started it up, charting a course for seventeen years into the past. The machine flew out of the Capsule Corp building charging up. Trunks witnessed Black recover from the flash and zoomed right to Mai and grabbed her by the throat. "You stupid slut, did you really think that you could beat me, that you could-" Phoenix's monologue was cut short when he sensed Trunks's energy above him. He turned around to see Trunks in the time machine. "Mai!" Trunks yelled out before him and the machine disappeared to the past. "I didn't need to stop you.. just stall you" Mai said with a satisfied smile despite being barely able to breath in Black's grasp. "You sneaky.." Phoenix whispered in a deadly quiet angry tone tightening his grip on Mai's throat, but stopped just short of breaking it. "No you don't deserve a quick death" Phoenix whispered in a cold, dead tone gaining a terrifying smile on his face laughing evilly. "Do your worst Goku Black!" Mai yelled defiantly despite clearly being afraid. "Excuse me?" Phoenix asked befuddled before laughing, "is that what you mortals have been calling me? Ha ha! Well I guess I do bear an unfortunate resemblance to that accursed barbarous imbecile!" Phoenix finished switching from happy to furious within seconds. "The name's Phoenix you pathetic cow! And I am nothing like Goku! For instance, Goku goes back on his word and breaks promises, I on the other hand always keep my word and fulfill my promises, so when I say I'll do whatever it takes to get revenge, I mean!" Phoenix paused as he grabbed Mai's head and began squeezing tight, blood pouring out where his fingers were digging in as Phoenix leaned in with a big grin and whispered, "whatever". He squeezed harder and harder Mai's head becoming misshapen and one of her eyes popping out of its socket. Trunks was the last word she managed to gurgle under her own blood before her head was crushed entirely. After Phoenix finished cleaning Mai's bodily fluids off himself the time ring that Zamasu entrusted him with a few years back glowed and opened a portal to an unknown location, but Phoenix presumed it went to where his prey had escaped to. "Alright Trunks old pal, let's see where you ran off too" Phoenix said as he flew into the portal. A few minutes later Phoenix reappeared in the sky above the demolished city where he left. He had found Trunks, who apparently went to yet another timeline where the Z warriors including Goku were still alive, Goten and Trunks were still young teenagers and the tournament of power hadn't happened yet. He told Future Trunks about Mai's death, leaving the young time traveler devastated. Phoenix got into a fight with Goku after destroying Trunks's time machine and easily overwhelmed him, not even giving him a chance to transform past super saiyan. At some point Goku recognized his eyes and realized that Phoenix was a future Goten. Before Phoenix could finish Goku off, the rift in time pulled him back into future trunks's timeline. "God damn it! I was so close!" Phoenix yelled furious shooting a ki blast destroying more of the city's remains. "Why didn't master warn me this thing had a time limit! Being a supreme Kai sucks!" Phoenix whined in frustration. "Ughhh I guess it doesn't matter, knowing them Bulma will build them a new time machine. They'll be coming right to me aha ha ha!" Phoenix said with a evil smile laughing.

Sure enough Trunks returned with Goku and Vegeta in tow, the latter two shocked and infuriated by all the carnage and destruction Phoenix had caused. "Alright kakabrat before I pummel you to oblivion, tell us why you turned on us and how do you even exist!? You shouldn't have been able to have been conceived since Kakarot died in this timeline!" Vegeta interrogated. "Oh Uncle Vegeta why so serious? You really should loosen up, your gonna pop a blood vessel, course I am about to pop a lot more than that on you so I guess it doesn't matter ha ha!" Phoenix teased the prince cracking himself up, "I'd tell you, but I prefer my prey to not know why I'm killing them, the lack of reason adds to their fear and dread ha ha!". "Goten.. what happened to you son?" Goku said with sorrow and compassion in his voice. "Oh now you try and be a parent! How touching!" Phoenix said sarcastically, "Your seventeen years too late and let's get something straight here you lowlife mortals! I am not your son anymore, I don't go by the name Goten anymore and I'm sick of that nickname "Goku Black"! I am Phoenix! The God of Justice and soon all of you mortals shall bow and burn under our feet!". "Our?" All three saiyans asked bewildered. Then from somewhere in the clouds that shrouded the sky, Zamasu touched down next to Phoenix. "Ah my student, it would appear your three biggest targets have come to you, how wonderful" Zamasu said in a somewhat cheerful tone. "Student?!" Future Trunks exclaimed in surprise, "who are you!? Why did you send him to torture us?!". "Are you mind controlling Goten!" Goku yelled joining in Trunks's rant. "How dare you!" Phoenix hissed in anger at Goku's claim, "I am not being controlled, this is who I am now and it all started with you destroying my home!". "What!?" Goku exclaimed in shock. "I don't care what your reasons are or your name!" Future Trunks yelled pulling out his sword getting everyone's attention, "you're going to pay for everything you've done especially Mai!". "Ah yes, Mai, quite the woman you had there buddy" Phoenix taunted knowing it would rile Trunks up, "though she wasn't much to look at in her final moments, but I guess crushing the head will make anyone look ugly ha ha ha! If it makes you feel any better she cried out your name while drowning in her own juices ha ha ha!". "You monster!" Future Trunks screamed enraged and charged at Phoenix with his sword. "Ha ha right!" Phoenix chuckled as he caught Trunks's sword with ease, "Sorry old friend but your no longer the stronger of the two of us, that time is long since over and now you shall witness my ultimate divine evolution!". Phoenix powered up and in a brilliant purplish flash he transformed into a new form with pink hair and a blackish purple aura. "I call it Super Saiyan Rose! Quite pretty no?" Phoenix asked with a devilish smirk. Within minutes Phoenix defeated all three warriors to the ground. Goku and Vegeta however managed to scurry away back to their timeline and Trunks to somewhere else with the help of the remnants of Mai's resistance. "Damn it all they got away again!" Phoenix growled in frustration. "They'll return Goten and when they do we can complete our Project Zero Mortals" Zamasu said assuring his friend and student. Phoenix however glared angrily at the Kai. "Our plan? I'm the one doing all the work!" Phoenix barked. Zamasu was taken aback by his students words and was insulted. "How dare you, I saved you and made you the god you are today Goten! So I think you should be more grate-ahh!" Zamasu's scolding was interrupted when Phoenix hit in the stomach and then again on the head sending him flying into the nearby ruins of a building. "That's Phoenix to you! I am more of a god than you! Call me Goten again and I won't let you have any say in how I reshape the universe in my image!" Phoenix snapped his grey eyes briefly glowing red with a new demonic voice flying away. Zamasu dug himself out of the rubble and stared at his wound. It was healing rapidly due to the immortality he gained some time ago with the super dragon balls before he destroyed them. Even so he couldn't believe his student, his friend had done this to him. Goten preferred being called Phoenix amongst the mortals but he was always fine with Zamasu calling him by his old name Goten and never once attacked him outside of training. But now he just did and showed no regret. And his eyes had a strange, red glow in them for a second and they frightened Zamasu to his core. "I wanted Goten to rise up and be at my side as we cleansed this universe of the mortal plague, but now I'm starting to wonder if he's becoming something worse, something ugly?" Zamasu wondered in fear.

Sometime later Goku and Vegeta returned to the future, but this time Videl was with them carrying a bag of some kind. "You sure this will work Kakarot? I'm don't think there's anything of the Goten we know left in this one" Vegeta asked with an unusual amount of sympathy in his voice. "I hope so Vegeta and if there is, this might be the only way to reach him" Goku replied softly. Phoenix and Zamasu show up to the time traveler's location. "Back so soon are we? That's a first for you Goku, too bad it'll be the only time" Phoenix greeted menacingly. Future Trunks then showed up. "Good you guys are back, let's finish him off!" Future Trunks yelled pulling out his sword ready for the fight. "Wait Trunks! We have something that might get through to the real Goten!" Goku yelled back trying to halt Trunks's assault before looking back up at Phoenix, "Goten I know what happened to you, Fortuneteller Baba showed us everything and I'm so sorry, you have every right to be angry, but your very sick son, that Umibozu has poisoned your mind and heart, please let me help you, we have something that can!". "Oh please, can you believe this? They think showing me something will make me spare them. Am I right?" Phoenix said to Zamasu raising his hand expecting a high five. The Kai however didn't return the gesture and had a troubled looked on his face. "Uh maybe you should listen to what they have to say just this once" Zamasu said nervously. "Are you serious?!" Phoenix shouted enraged, however his master's pleading and sad eyes made him relent. "Oh fine, show me what you got there Videl!" Phoenix yelled down to the group, "you got ten seconds before I castrate Goku's dick off and shove it down your-gasp!". Phoenix froze when Videl unwrapped the bag revealing to be baby Pan. Pan looked at Phoenix for a second confused before giggling and squealing as though she recognized him. "P-pan?" Phoenix stuttered his eyes watering as memories of the times he spent with his long lost niece flooded his mind. "We all may have done something to deserve your wrath, but did she? If you keep following what that Kai told you to do then you would eventually have to kill her too" Vegeta said firmly. "What? No I.." Phoenix stuttered unable to rebuke Vegeta's words. "Think of all the babies like pan you slaughtered and the anguish their parents feel. They are feeling the same way you did all those years ago when your universe got erased. You may not have erased the universe but to them you might as well have. What would pan think of you if she understood what you were doing? I'll tell you, she wouldn't see you as a god or even an uncle, she would see you as a monster and hate you forever" Vegeta finished with an ominous dark voice. Phoenix eyes went blank as Vegeta's words sunk in, the thought that his niece would hate him struck at his heart like a lightning bolt. And that bolt started a chain reaction. The tiny spect of humanity that had long since dimmed and gone dormant within Phoenix began to grow and shine again illuminating his blackened heart for the first time in seventeen years. "What have I done?! I'm not a god or even a man! I'm a monster!" Phoenix screamed out crying upon realization of what he had been doing. Everyone even Future Trunks looked on with pity and sadness at the sight. Suddenly Phoenix's body jerked and began involuntarily spazzing him screaming in pain. "Goten!" Everyone yelled alarmed by Goten's seizure like state. "No! They must suffer!" Goten suddenly yelled in a new demonic voice stopping his face now having a mad crazed look and his eyes glowing red like before. His face contorted again, now with a sad face on the verge of tears and his beaming there old black color. "No! I don't wanna do this anymore!" Goten screamed out again this time with a voice similar to his own back when he was seven years old. It was clear what was happening. Though the light had weakened it, the darkness inside Goten was too strong to die entirely and now the two sides were battling for dominance. Goten continued violently shaking and spazzing, switching between innocent and sinister faces while sparks of yellow and black lightning started shooting out of his body. His body began glowing purple. Eventually his body seemed to split into two spheres of energy, one bright yellow and the other pitch black. The yellow sphere shot down to the ground creating a small crater. The group watched anxiously as the yellow sphere seemed to coalesce into the shape of a small child. The light faded and everyone was shocked to see what appeared to be Goten back when he was seven years old unconscious in the crater. "Goten?" Goku asked anxiously. Kid Goten moaned at the sound of Goku's voice. "Uncle?" Baby pan squeaked out, the sound making kid Goten come to fully. "Pan? Pan!" Kid Goten shot up and zoomed to where pan and videl were and grabbed pan hugging her tightly. "Pan! Is it really you?! I missed you so much! You saved me! Thank you!" Kid Goten yelled out happily baby pan giggly cheering in response. Everyone even Vegeta and Zamasu couldn't help but smile at the scene, the Kai being reminded of when he first met Goten. With a cracking sparking sound however their attention was drawn back to the black sphere as it too began to coalesce, this time into the shape of a full grown adult, about as tall as Phoenix once stood. When the dark aura faded it revealed a being who's appearance sent chills down their spines. It looked like a demonic clown with greenish slicked down hair with two pointed curves at the top, skin as white as snow, blackish lips, yellowish teeth, glowing red eyes, a purple suit and black shoes. It was the evil half of Goten, he had split from himself similar to how Piccolo and Kami did ages ago. Unlike that fission though because of the strange nature of umibozu and the extreme suppression of Goten's good soul the two halves took on drastically different appearances, the evil half being an abomination of Zamasu's influence, umibozu's essence and Goten's own rage and insanity and the good like Goten did back when he was seven years old, when he was at his most innocent and happy. The evil half stared at everyone with an insane toothy smile that never waned. Suddenly the demon zipped to right in front of Vegeta. Vegeta jumped back and quickly powered up to Blue charging at the demon to attack it, only for the demon to grab him by the throat, kicked and broke one of his legs and head butted him with enough force he was knocked unconscious and broke his nose and teeth. "Sorry folks but the show must go on! Aha ha ha hai!" Evil Goten bellowed out in laughter with the same demonic voice. "And for my next trick, I shall make a bitch disappear! Ha ha!" The demon said as he pointed his finger at Videl along with Kid Goten and Pan. Kid Goten frantically gave pan back to videl and ran up getting into a protective stance in front of them. "No! Stop this! I don't want anyone else to die!" Kid Goten cried out hysterically. "Sorry Boy Scout but I like red fireworks ha ha ha!" Evil Goten retorted sinisterly using telekinesis to move Kid Goten and Pan out of the way. The demon then zoomed to Videl and prepared to strike her with his hand. "No!" Future Trunks yelled as he pushed Videl out of the way, saving her, but ended up with his heart literally grabbed and ripped out by evil Goten. "Trunks! No!" Kid Goten yelled out in anguish. "Aww wrong heart, oh well so long trunksey old pal! Ha ha ha!" Evil Goten laughed crushing the heart just as future trunks's eyes went white and he fell to the ground lifeless. The devilish clown then turned to his most sought after target, Goku who was frozen with horror. "Finally after all these years I can finally have my revenge! Ha ha aha ha ha!" Evil Goten laughed hysterically beginning a long series of torturous acts on Goku, everything from berating him to making a waterfall of blood come out of his back. "Please stop.." Goku whimpered through his swelled discolored mouth. "Oh no Goku we're just getting started, I intend to keep you alive until it's possible to have a bloodbath made out of your blood in all seven seas! Aha ha ha ha!" Evil Goten bellowed out proudly. Zamasu watched all of this in horror and with it a realization occurred. In his haste to cleanse the universe of ugliness he had unintentionally created the ugliest thing to ever exist and worse, his one and only friend Goten almost turned into that. "What have I done?! I've got to fix this but how?!" Zamasu thought panicking. Then he spotted the time ring on the ground, it had fallen of Goten's hand during the fission. An idea came to Zamasu and with a determined face he used the time ring to create a portal to an unknown location. He then instant transmitted to where Kid Goten was and handed the child the ring. "Zamasu what are you doing?" Kid Goten asked confused. "This is all my fault and now I need to fix it" Zamasu said somberly but determined. The Kai then teleported behind Evil Goten grabbing him into a full Nelson stopping his latest assault on Goku. "What are you doing?!" Evil Goten shouted angrily. "I'm going to seal you away in the void between realities! I shall become the chains that will bind you there forever in exchange for my immortal life!" Zamasu announced bravely. Everyone that was conscious was shocked at the declaration. "No! Zamasu don't leave me!" Kid Goten cried out, not wanting to see the only person that could possibly like him in this timeline to go away. "You traitor!" Evil Goten screamed enraged. Zamasu with a struggle dragged Evil Goten to the portal and just before jumping into it he turned back to Kid Goten and said, " I'm so sorry I nearly turned you into a devil Goten, I was so blinded by my hatred of mortals that I didn't see what you were becoming, what I was turning you into, it was not worth it, Farewell my friend". Zamasu along with evil Goten hopped into the portal and once inside Zamasu's body and soul morphed into chains chaining Evil Goten there hopefully forever. The portal closed and just like that it was over. Kid Goten collapsed onto his knees crying.

Goku limped to Goten putting his good hand on Goten's shoulder. "Son.." Goku began only for his hand to be slapped away. Goten picked himself up and looked at Goku bitterly with watery eyes. The child then put the time ring on his finger and opened another portal, this one leading to the timeline where Goku, Vegeta, Videl and Pan came from. "Get out" Goten said quietly with bitterness in his voice, "take Vegeta and go". "What? Goten, I'm not leaving you here, I'll take you home with me, the you in my world will accept you and I wanna-" Goku offered before being cut off by Goten shouting. "No! I will not stay in the same house as you ever again! You think just because I separated from my evil half that I'll love you again! I still hate you and will never forgive you! Go away now and never come back!" Goten finished screaming breathing heavily like an animal. After a moment to catch his breath, his angry face faltered into a depressed, regretful one. "Besides I need to stay here and atone for my sins as best I can. I caused all this destruction to this world and I just can't leave it in ruin. Plus staying in another timeline where all of my friends and family are alive along with another me will just make me miss the ones I lost more" Goten stated despondently. Goku looked at his son and though he didn't like that he was gonna stay in a wrecked timeline, he understood why he wanted to. "Just promise me one thing Goku" Goten stated firmly. "What's that Goten?" Goku asked curious. "Take that tournament seriously and don't leave the other me out of everything, train with him, talk to him, be an actual god damn father or else you, your universe and your Goten might suffer the same fate" Goten requested seriously. "I will, good luck Goten" Goku said with compassion before limping over to Vegeta's still unconscious body and walking through the portal. Videl and Pan were about to head through as well before being tugged by Goten. "Can I hold her, one more time please?" Goten asked holding out his hands. "Of course" Videl said warmly handing Pan over to Goten. Goten held Pan in his arms as she squirmed and giggled trying to grab his face, tears welling up. "Goodbye Pan, thank you again, I hadn't felt anything but anger and hatred for years and you brought me back. Maybe in another lifetime I'll get to be your uncle and watch you grow up, but now you need to go home, tell everyone that I love them and you grow up to be the beautiful girl I know you can be! Got it!" Goten asked playfully cheery, which Pan responded by squealing happily. "Goodbye Pan, I'll always miss you" Goten finished whispering giving his niece a kiss on her forehead before giving her back to Videl and sending them through the portal.

Goten went back to this timeline's version of his old home and eventually started a farm like the one his universe's home had. He lived alone as all his family and friends had long since passed away or died because of the androids, or in some cases, himself. The child dedicated all his time and energy into the farm. When it bore results, he took most of his crops and tried to gift the remaining populace with his food. Unfortunately, the people always repelled and chased the boy off, thinking that he was the spawn of the monster that left their world in ruin. Goten kept at it however, starving himself to try and feed the people he wronged so much. He even tried aiding in any reconstruction once it commenced though he met the same reaction even when he saved a person's life. Everyday would end the same however, him lying in bed, looking at a picture of all his friends and family he found in the house crying because he would never see them again and because he knew he never existed in this universe, but Goku did.

Back to the super universe

Everyone except GD Goten had their eyes widened and mouths agape, completely overwhelmed and unable to process all they saw. None of them except maybe IW Goten himself could ever have imagined that any Goten could become not just a bad guy, but a genocidal psychopath wiping out nearly all mortal life. "Christ " GT Trunks muttered under his breath. Even IW Goten's mood had become softer and toned down. Goku was utterly devastated at what he had done and the horrifying effects it had on his son. "Goten.." was all he could mutter. GD Goten began crying profusely still being held by Shadow. "I'm so sorry, I lost control of myself and I wahh ahhh!" Goten cried out unable to contain his ungodly amount of anguish and sorrow. Shadow then shifted his grip and turned GD Goten around pulling him in for a hug. "Hey bud it's alright" Shadow comforted the crying child, showing a very rare amount of sympathy and gentleness. "How can you say that?! You saw what I did! I should have been erased along with my universe!" GD Goten screeched out hysterically before burying his face into Shadow's chest. "You know" MC Goten said quietly, "I always wanted to meet my father and wished many times that he could have been part of my life, but now I'm starting to wonder if I should be grateful he wasn't".