This chapter took me a while to write, lots of ideas and ways for me to progress the story that went and stopped with. Happy with what I have here. Enjoy.


Planet of the Kai

"So then Zamasu have you made the proper arrangements for your trip?" I had just finished my preperations and Gowasu was making sure I had done so properly.

"Yes master everything needed has been properly prepared. I have several meals prepared, changes of clothes, shelter and tools for taking notes." I doubt I would be needing them for this trip but Gowasu needed to see that I took the proper measures.

"Well then I won't hold you any longer my student." Gowasu closed his eyes and bowed his head and I returned it in kind. "So planet Transibat, a fine choice Zamasu, I fine their language and small statures quite endearing."

"Agreed master I think their society and settlements are quite well developed, they should prove to be a interesting race to observe." I was eager to leave as began to prepare to Kai Kai to my destination when Gowasu called out once more.

"And Zamasu," I turned back suddenly nervous at what Gowasu had to say. "i'm sure I have nothing to worry about but just a reminder. You are going to this planet just for observation, you are not to get involved in matters concerning the mortals on that planet."

"I understand master I will not bring any shame on to you."

"Then my apprentice, I will see you in 3 days." As I turned to finally leave I felt relief as I made my way off the Planet of the Kai without a mishap. Then with a simple Kai Kai I was gone.


Earth

"So you didn't find anything out?" Trunks seemed pretty peeved when me, Beerus and Whis got back from Universe 10 without any leads yesterday. "There's nothing that we can use to link Zamasu to Black?"

"Nothing concrete I'm afraid, anything we did come across is merely circumstantial." Whis was pretty bummed too when when we didn't get anything that could prove Zamasu connect to Black.

"But what if Zamasu found a way to change himself to look like Goku?" I swallowed some more food while listening in. Change himself into me and then go on a rampage in the future? Sounds super weird. "You said Black's energy was similar to Zamasu's that has to mean something right?"

"There are simply too many discrepancies in the two cases. While similar Black's Ki had such a negative feeling that it's unmistakable. Meanwhile Zamasu's ki while similar lacks such intent." Trunks looked down, he must've been upset that our only lead was a dead end. "At present there is nothing that we can act on at this point."

"Keyword is present." I looked over to my right Beerus was eating next me and pointed his fork at Trunks. "If he harbors enough evil intentions he could very easily darken into that Black fellow."

Just finishing off my 3rd plate, I wasn't sure Zamasu was anything to worry about. "I don't know guys Zamasu didn't strike me as that bad of guy. I mean he might be a bit of a stick in the mud but so is Vegeta and we all still like him." I heard Vegeta growling from another table "I mean I fought the guy, and you can learn alot from just trading blows with a guy. " Before I could get up for fourths Beerus grabbed my ear and yanked it.

"Oh your one to talk about judging character! Just a few months ago I recall you trusting Freeza and having a hole blasted through your chest for your troubles."

"Ow ow hey everything worked out didn't it?" I was rubbing my ear before Bulma grabbed it and starting pulling.

"Worked out? What part of Freeza blowing the planet up is everything working out?"

"Ow ow! Bulma come on, take it easy!" Why is it always the ear? I get enough of this with Chi Chi. "Besides that one wasn't my fault, Vegeta was the one fighting Freeza when it happen."

Then it was Vegeta's turn to get mad at me, getting right up in my face. "Don't you dare try to blame that on me! I was just finishing what you couldn't!"

"Then why did you get so mad when I finished off Freeza?" Vegeta was turning red and I cracked a smile at him.

"That's not the point you moron!" Before Vegeta could yell at me some more Whis poked him with his staff.

"Really now Vegeta? I remember it you being quite poignant about it that day." That really got under Vegeta's skin and he looked like he was gonna exploud! That's when we all noticed Trunks kind of just standing there.

"Freeza blew up the planet?!" Oh huh guess we never told him about that one.

"Yeah but don't worry Whis here fixed it for us!" For some reason Trunks just looked even more freaked out.

Everyone was just finishing up lunch, I'm calling it at plate seven, I had a pretty big breakfast. Beerus and Whis take off back home after finishing their desert and everyone else starts heading inside.

I hear Vegeta calling after Trunks, i didn't catch what for but if i had to guess probably some father, son training. I oughta get in on it later, I'm sure they won't mind if I jump in. Until then I think I'll just hang around Capsule Corp while Bulma fixes that time machine.

Bulma was walking next to me and asked "Hey Goku, did you see where Krillin and Piccolo went off to?"

"Piccolo and Krillin? Hm I'm pretty sure they left after you brought out the food, Krillin said 18 had made dinner, and Piccolo well he's never been big on food you know?" How could someone live life without ever having to eat? Man I couldn't imagine it.

Bulma just sighed and sounded annoyed. "Ofcourse they did, now who am I gonna get to fill those craters."

"Well don't look at me."

"What do you mean don't look at you! Your the one who crashed into my yard!"

"Hey it's not my fault Whis decided to crash with me and Beerus!" There had to be a way to distract her. "Hey uh by the way how's fixing the time machine going?"

"Oh the time machine?" Nailed it! Bulma took me down to her lab, a bunch of fancy looking machines and computers with mumbo jumbo I didn't understand. "So everything has been going pretty well, all things considered the machine was in pretty good condition after all these years."

"Oh yeah really?"

"The flux compactor was completely rusted out and the transfer panel burnt out when we tried powering it on."

"No kidding."

"The navigation computer needed complete rewiring, and I had to find a way to synthesize the fuel from the blueprints I had."

"Hmm. That's what I would do." I have no idea what any of what she just said means. But it sounds like she's making progress!

"Do you even know what I'm talking about? Listen here don't start pretending your some kind of brilliant scientist!" Bulma was getting mad again, she got up in my face with her arms at her side and I laughed nervously, looks like she found me out.

"Ah sorry just wanted to seem like I was smart." Bulma looked like she was about to knock my head when a guy in a Capsule Corp shirt came running in.

"Mrs. Bulma, we have a situation!" The guy looked pretty freaked out. "There's this weird looking green guy here asking for a Goku, and he's not the green guy we have on file."

"What? The only green person I know is Piccolo if it's not him then send the weirdo packing!" Bulma didn't seem all that interested, but I'd want to get a look at this other green guy.

"Wait he wants to see me?" I pointed at myself just make sure.

"He's being very insistent madam. Please can you deal with him?"

Me and Bulma headed to the entrance and heard some guys yelling.

"Please sir if you don't have the authority then I can't let you pass !" The second voice sounded familar.

"Fool! I am a god! I am authority! Now begone or bring me the one called Goku!"

Me and Bulma walked into the room and I saw the mohawk and the green skin. It was Zamasu, and boy did he look mad.

"Hey Zamasu! Is that you?" I called out getting his attention. I wasn't expecting to see him here at Capsule Corp, what was he doing here?

"Ah Son Goku so I found you finally." Zamasu put his hands behind his back and got back into his usually Kai-ly pose.

"What are you doi-" Oh wait that's right, fancy talk, gotta bow my head. "Oh holy Lord Kai Sir! What-" Zamasu put his hand and stopped off.

"No need for formalities mortal, I'd rather you not embarrass yourself again."

"Oh that's a relief, and here I was thinking I was getting the hang of it." I laughed and almost started laughing again when I saw Bulma's face from my fancy talk.

"And to answer your question as to why I am here. It's a simple matter I have come to grace you with my presence and lend you mortals my aid."

"Wait so your gonna help us stop Black?" No way! I guess Beerus really was wrong about Zamasu! I was about to thank him before Bulma pulled me back.

"Your not just going to believe him are you?" Bulma whispered to me while the two of us huddled up.

"What's wrong he says he's here to help us, I mean if he was Black he wouldn't be doing that."

"Ofcourse he would say that he wouldn't just walk up and tell us that he's destroying the future! For all we know he could be planning something."

"Well even if he is planning something we can't just jump right now! Whis said we can't fight him until we're sure he's Black. So until then I think we should just let him stick around until we figure him out."

"Ugh fine but if he turns out to be Black just make sure he doesn't kill me too."

I gave Bulma the ok sign and we turned to Zamasu.


The mortals returned to face me, were they scheming something against me? The Saiyan was the first to speak.

"Sorry bout that we were just talking about how happy we are to have you helping us!" I had my doubts about that looking as the blue haired woman looked at me with caution.

"But of course you are. It's not every day that a god steps down to help mortals in their endeavors." I raise my hand and posture to better show my elegant form before the blue haired female questions me.

"I thought gods weren't allowed to interfere in mortal matters?" She crossed her arms giving me a quizzical look, luckily I was prepared for such a question.

"Well your well informed mortal! While it's normally forbidden for the gods to interfere in mortal matters, under certain circumstances lower Kai can interfere." I did quite a bit of research into the matter myself. "And dealing justice to one who would steal a Time Ring, one that is causing havoc surely calls for an Apprentice Supreme Kai for such a crime wouldn't you say?"

"I would say so! So Gowasu sent you to help us out?" Goku happily agrees with me, meanwhile the blue haired one seems less convinced. No matter she isn't the one I need to worry about.

"Yes indeed he did. As a full Supreme Kai Gowasu is unable to get interfere so he sent me." My body tensed with my next question "Ah so tell me Goku are Lord Beerus and Whis present, I would like to inform them of my presence."

Goku shrugged his shoulders. "Nope sorry you just missed them, took off back home after lunch." The blue haired one hit him on the back of the head, evidently I heard something she didn't want me to. "Ow Bulma come on!"

Luckily that works to my advantage, while my reason is sound I myself am not entirely sure about the rules that allow me to be involved. I'm truly not sure if this event would allow me to interfere here. If that angel finds me I'm almost certain he'll find a reason for me to not be here. It would be disastrous and likely destroy my career as Supreme Kai.

The sooner I could find this Black and retrieve the Time Ring the better. "Well that's too bad, but regardless Black must be dealt with. So tell me where can I find him."

The blue haired woman smirked "Check 12 years in the future."

"Excuse me?" 12 years in the future what is she playing?

"Black showed up chasing after my son from the future two days ago. According to Whis he arrived here on accident when his Time Ring dragged him here through a tear in time." A tear in time? Son from the future? What is she talking about? "Lucky for us that was just a freak occurrence, so Black is stuck in the future."

"Yeah it's all real complicated, makes my head hurt just thinking about it." To my surprise Goku voiced my confusion as I tried to put the pieces together and figure out what to question first.

"Please explain how exactly you expect to travel into the future mortal?" She wasn't implying they had some means to travel through time?

She crossed her arms and smiled proudly "Firstly my name is Bulma not mortal. Secondly I'm a brilliant scientist, I created a time machine or well the me from the future did!"

My eyes widened in horror, the mortals have created a means to travel through time? "That is not possible! Time travel is a exclusive right to the gods! For you to do so would be-"

"Yeah yeah, a sin, a crime against nature, and a danger to the fabric of reality." How dare she cut me off? "Beerus and Whis already told me about how awful what I did was."

Well good! Because it is! Then again I barely understood the true nature of time travel myself.

"Hey come on Zamasu don't sweat it." Goku placed his arm on my shoulder, to my annoyance when I tried to pull away he just pulled me back in. "We need the time machine to get to future and stop Black!"

So a necessary evil then, fine I'll play along with these mortals for now. "So be it, for the time being I shall turn my gaze away from your egregious crime Bulma." She simply kept her arms crossed and glared at me. Before I could reprimand her for such a look a massive amount of God Ki grabbed my attention as Goku and I turned towards it.

"Lord Beerus?" It couldn't be him, it felt vastly different but who else could carry such a massive amount of God Ki?

"Nope feels like Vegeta!" Goku announced with a excited smile, I don't recall any gods by that name. "Seems like him and Trunks are really going at! Come on Bulma!" Goku grabbed Bulma's arm and flew off against her protest.

My own interest piqued I followed suit towards the massive power. Flying out to it we followed a path of destruction that led to two powers, one significantly smaller then the other. Goku, Bulma and I landed at a cliffside to see to see a blue haired male mortal, being held by the collar of his shirt. The second male holding the other, he radiated godly power, but being closer to it now I could sense it was diluted. He was clearly mortal no doubt, but his power was vast it greatly outstripped my own! First Goku and now this mortal! How is it mortals can attain the power of the gods so easily?

The second male was barking some nonsense about being a Saiyan, pride, and blood at the other one. Bulma attempted to intervene but Goku held her back saying this is how Saiyans work. Apparently the two were father and son, repugnant this is how Saiyans treat their kin?

The older Saiyan turned to our group releasing the younger, his hair turning black. "What are you doing here and who's the green skinned punk." Green skinned punk! How dare talk about me like that!

Before I could say anything, the younger Saiyan headbutted the older one while he was facing us. Goku and Bulma seemed surprised but I simply snickered. Ah the universe has a fine way to bring swift justice sometimes.

"So that means I win right?" The boy looked at his father smiling, I couldn't imagine why. "I hear you father I will get stronger then Black and strong enough to protect my future." He extended his hand to help the other up be simply brushed him aside as he stood up, turning back to us.

"I believe I asked you who that green skinned punk was." Does he have no respect!

"Watch your tongue!" I would've started a reasonably lengthened tirade about respect and this mortals place as a servant beneath the gods. How his strength meant nothing in the face of divine beings such as myself! But then Goku interjected himself to diffuse the tension.

"Hey Vegeta take it easy Zamasu here is our guest!" At the mention of my name the two Saiyans tensed, surely realizing the mistake of disrespecting me. Goku walked over and pulled the two together probably explaining who I was and the proper protocol to speak to me. "Alright so Zamasu, this Trunks and Vegeta." The two gave me an odd look before Vegeta pulled away from the other two.

"Listen here Kai, I don't give a damn about your reason being here, if you want the Time Ring fine. But know this Black is mine and mine alone." With that rude 'greeting' the mortal flew off to heavens knows where. How utterly dreadful, thus far with these mortals how is that it is Goku who has given me the most proper respect?

"Well looks like everyone is pretty much set to go after Black huh?" The blue haired boy, Trunks was it, looked at Goku with a determined look on his face, finally someone focused ok the task at hand. "Mother how much longer before the Time Machine is ready?"

Bulma responded, guess that makes her his mother. "Just a few hours for the computer to finish rebooting and it'll be good to go."

"A few hours what am I supposed to do until then?" Goku gave a puzzled look before an answer from the heavens came down in a beam of light.

"Hello everyone hope I'm not interrupting anything!" It was Whis! What was he doing here? Was he aware of my presence? Had Gowasu found me out? While I silently panicked the mortals around me were far more cordial about the divine being before them.

"Whis what are you doing here? Your usually gone after lunch. What did you guys forget something?" Bulma asked so calmly as if she didn't just witness the beam of heavenly light.

"Oh no no, nothing like that. I'm here for Goku we have some very important matters to attend to." What matters could they be calling Goku for? I suppose it must be some matter concerning Beerus, Goku is after all his study.

Goku rubbed the back of his head, "Will it take long? I kind gotta be around for Black."

"Now Goku this is of the upmost importance, as in non-negotiable. We can't dilly dally with this one." I may be mistaken but I could swear that I hear worry in the angel's voice.

"Well alright as long as it doesn't take too long." Just when I thought they Whis was going to leave with noticing me. "Oh hey Whis before we go! Zamasu is here!" And like a excited puppy Goku points at me stupidly.

"Oh." Whis finally turns to me a surprised look on his face that turns to curiosity upon seeing me. "Zamasu what a pleasant surprise!" He sounded jovial to see me, but I know well enough from Cus that angels are very versed in hiding their true intentions. That bath of pudding still rings in my memory.

I quickly but calmly bow and explain myself before Goku starts again. "My apologies for not making my presence to you known sooner Lord Whis. I was expecting you to be with Goku when I arrived here."

"Oh don't you worry about that you know us gods are always moving about. But tell me what brings you to Earth Zamasu? Here to try some fried lobster cause I must say it is quite divine!" Whis smiled to himself.

"Thank you but no, I am actually here on Gowasu's behalf. I have come to help deal with this Black fiend who has stolen the Time Ring." Alright I laid it out now I can only hope my reasoning is solid. "As an Apprentice Supreme Kai, we believed my position would not disturb the mortals too much."

Whis gave a blank look for what felt like an eternity, I could just feel him looking through me before he smiled and replied with a laugh. "Well I must say that is quite the relief!"

I felt relief myself then that Bulma blurted out "Wait so it's ok for him to help us but you and Beerus have your hands tied?" She sounded quite flabbergasted by Whis' answer.

"Well of course Bulma, this Black is quite dangerous but as it stands now he's hardly a universal threat." Whis continued to smile in face of my calm exterior and Bulma's exasperated expression. "But he surely is a threat worthy of the Apprentice Supreme Kai!" I almost felt patronized when he said it like that.

"Awesome!" Goku shouted completely missing the underlying tension in the air. "Alright then when I get back, me, Vegeta, Trunks and Zamasu will head to future and show Black what happens when you mess with the Earth!"

"Right Goku!" The blue haired Saiyan roared in agreement "We'll go back to the future we'll stop Black and avenge everyone!"

Goku took his place next Whis and the two warped away. With just myself left with Bulma and the boy apparently called Trunks a awkward silence fell over us. I wasn't well versed in speaking with mortals, Goku fool that he was, his overly enthusiastic ways made him easy to talk to.

Bulma was the one to break the silence. "Alright well if that's decided then all that's left to do is wait." She turns to Trunks, "You go wash up, and rest, I have no idea what your father was thinking 'motivating' you before a big battle!"

"Don't so hard on him mom. I think dad understands me more then you realize."

"Well I'll never understand you Sayains." Something we can agree on, with that Trunks flew off but not before eyeing me with suspecion. Then Bulma turned to me with intrigue in her eyes. "So Mr Kai, you have some time to kill?" Mr Kai ? Well I would prefer Lord but that has a nice sound to it as well.


Was worried this chapter may just come off as nothing happening, and I didn't want it to be too long with nothing happening so ended it where I did. Also drew the idea of Zamasu being able to help from King Kai helping Goku and the Earth deal with Freeza, a galactic threat but not one that would necessarily end it.

Thank you for all the views that I can see now that Traffic is working. I'm having a lot of fun writing this story which is why I'm able to push the chapters as fast as I am. I just hope they come out well.