Fanfiction and the character Unlimited is property of Josh Kovatch, 2008
Unlimited: The Story of a Dreamer
Chapter 3: From Dreams to Reality
NOTE: "Text" Someone talking in present time while a flashback is in progress.
Begin Flashback
A tall teenaged boy with brown hair, glasses, and a blemished complexion walked swiftly through his school, trying to make it to his next class among the massive amount of students.
"Before I gained my power, I was an achiever, getting great grades in school," Unlimited began.
The teen stops to talk with someone from one of his classes about the homework from last night.
"Everyone thought I was happy with the life I had, but..."
The teen turns and looks to the sky, as if waiting for something to happen. His blue eyes mirror the color of the sky, a deep rich blue.
"I wasn't happy. I was stuck in a life I didn't desire. I wanted this power to break free of that life and walk into surreality, to make my dreams come true. It was on that day that it began."
Suddenly, someone else from behind the young man yells, "HEY LOOK OUT!"
The teenaged boy spins around to see a ball of light flying right towards him. Instead of trying to move away from being hit, he throws up his arms and prepares to withstand it, in defiance of his body's limitations.
"HEY, MOVE!" Others say as they get out of the way, but he stood there for an entire second to take the attack.
The teen then petitions to a higher being, Give me the power, I beg of you.
"Power beyond all comprehension, strength greater than words can explain. I prayed for it."
The blast then connects and explodes on the young man, who flies backwards and hits the ground hard. He groans as the pain registers, his arms now bloodied and burned somewhat badly. Many crowd around him, trying to help him to his feet. Although some tell him to go to the nurse's office, he does not respond, trying to see if his wish had come true.
"At first, I thought I had just been attacked and mocked, fooled into thinking that I could achieve such power. But then, one of the people told me."
"Dude, what's on your arm?!"
He looks down to see that over the burn marks and blood from the attack, five bracelets had appeared.
"It was bizarre, indeed, but I knew what I had just been granted, but I told them..."
"I don't know," the boy responded.
The teen would go to the nurse's office, and then would be taken home early after treating the wounds, the bracelets proving impossible to budge.
He would go to his room to rest after this weird incident, but he would just sit there on the bed, staring at the bracelets on his arm, wondering how to release them.
"I sat there, willing it to come off my arm, pleading to give me the power I wanted. All my dreams were wrapped around my arm, and now, I needed to open them."
The young man sat there for 20 minutes, his determination rising each second, and then, he finally became angry enough that he felt a surge of heat and his body swell with strength. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and did everything he could to remove one.
Please, give me the power that I desire...
"I was almost too distracted to notice that the first bracelet had fallen off my arm, and then I looked and saw it lying there, my dreams released into the real world."
He stared at the bracelet, wondering if anything had happened, when he suddenly became aware of abilities he felt he knew forever. He used one, and he felt his power charging, his body swelling with energy, and then he stopped, and the energy dropped back down. He used another ability, and felt something form in his hand. He opened it and found an energy ball forming.
"All the skills I had wanted were awarded to me, taught to me without me really learning them. I just had them."
"You got all your powers without learning them?" Goku said in disbelief, as he had to go through rigorous training to reach the level of power he was at.
"Yes."
The teen searched through all of his abilities and came across the ability to snap his fingers and obtain a desire, which was to heal his arm. When he snapped his fingers, his eyes grew wide as his arms began to heal.
"I knew that these powers would be far too great to use in a world like this, and that's when I sensed this world."
"What?" Goku said puzzled, "Aren't you from Earth?"
"Yes," Unlimited replied, "But not this one. I am actually from another dimension."
(All of the Z-fighters and family looked at Unlimited with total shock, wondering if this being really was from across reality.)
The teen raised his eyes to the ceiling and felt the incredible powers in another realm, powers that could truly test his own.
"From my dimension, I could feel spectacular powers, energies that could contest my own potential, so I began to prepare to enter this world."
He then looked back at the bracelets, and then used much of his strength to release another on his arm. He felt his body burgeoning with power so much that he couldn't bear the stress it was having on his body.
"Unfortunately, I was given the powers but not the body to use them. I knew that the only way to be ready for this world was to train my body to be broken in to the energy flowing through me."
The young man went to school the next day, getting many questions about his arms, the incident yesterday, and the weird bracelets on his arm. He continued to deny knowledge of the actual nature of this entire situation, and simply went to each class and sat there, letting the energy pulse through him, strengthening and breaking his body into becoming an incredible fighter.
"As the days wore on, I soon brought out more power, sitting in my classes secretly consumed in a pool of power, and my body's resilience built up. I felt massive strength emanating from this realm, and I pushed myself onward to be ready. I soon was able to remove all 5 bracelets. Over the course of those two weeks, my body's imperfections were eliminated. I no longer needed glasses, my face was cleared of any blemishes, and my body's overall health exceeded anything I possessed before."
"So what did you do once you got that far?" Gohan asked.
The teen, finally ready to test his powers, snapped his fingers to make himself invisible, and then took off into the sky, estatic with the joy of flying. He flew for an hour, his body now able to hold all of his powers, except for the tailend of the power released by the final bracelet.
"I knew trying to reach my full power would be risky, so, I took the precautions to make sure nothing would happen."
He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, an infinity sign appearing on his forehead, and then snapping again and another sign appearing on the ground.
The teenaged boy then began to yell as he floated 35000 feet above the ground, and his power began to rise. As his energy increased, he felt his body holding this incredible energy, not stressed in the least. Soon, his powers amassed to a height he thought was unreachable, and he felt the tip of his energy coming closer. He soon didn't care about anything but reaching that goal, and finally, the powers he dreamed of, he waited, he suffered, and struggled for, hit their max.
"It was the most wonderful feeling, to have such magnificient power at my disposal."
The powerful figure then returned to the ground and became visible.
"It was that day that I felt comfortable with my powers that I felt a horrible abomination emerge in this world. If I'm correct, that was Majin Buu, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, it was," Goku said, knowing that this teen held much more knowledge than they had ever imagined.
The teen narrowed his eyes, and then moved into the sky to become stronger, to learn new attacks and to further his strength to beat such a horror.
"I trained hard to come and help as soon as I could, and I forced myself to become even stronger than I had thought I was. I learned my best attack, my Death Matter Blast, and in its greater form, Final."
The teen looked to the sky after feeling a huge amount of energy return to the realm, and felt a battle reaching its peak.
"I knew that there wasn't much time, so I tried to get to this realm and help fight Buu."
He raised his hand, and in deep concentration, he snapped his fingers and watched as the world around him began to slow greatly. Soon, all movements were now frozen, and the teen then opened a portal with another snap of his fingers.
"I walked into the portal, and I finally reached the destination of my dreams now in real life."
End Flashback
"When I reached this world however," Unlimited continued, "I felt the monster Buu vanish completely, and I knew it was over."
Unlimited looked up at his audience and continued, "So I waited, waited for a moment when I could test my powers against such incredible prowess."
Unlimited then said, "To this day, I still don't know where that first blast had come from, but one thing's for sure. I am in great debt to it."
The Z-fighters looked marvelled at the teen as he thought back to that day, his eyes no longer focused.
"And that's where my story ends in another plane. It was then that I came here, just after Buu had finally been defeated."
"So you know about Buu, but how did you know about Frieza and Cell?," Goku said, everyone listening intently again.
"Before I challenged you five, I looked into the history of this Earth, and I learned much about the fighters you faced in the past, and how much of a threat each were."
"So you know about all of our previous opponents?" Goku asked, even further disbelieving.
Unlimited simply nodded, and looked back up once again.
"Well, I guess that explains your powers, but why did you want to find us and fight us, specifically?" Gohan asked, and then Videl, who was sitting next to Gohan, added, "And more importantly, how did you resurrect me?"
Unlimited looked to the two, who sat nearby on a loveseat, and the teen smirked, saying, "After I came here, watching you two from afar made me fond of your relationship."
Gohan laughed nervously and asked, "Uh what do you mean?"
"You should know that since I've been here since Buu, I've seen the two you together a lot."
"Hey! We're friends!" Gohan defended, but looked to Videl and saw a slightly hurt and irritated face, and then added, "Best friends."
Videl shook her head and then asked, "So you've been watching us?"
"Yes, but it was mainly to make sure that none of you were hurt before I got a chance to fight you."
"So why did you come and resurrect me? For the millionth time!" Videl said annoyed, wanting to know the answer to her question.
"I was near ready to reveal myself, as you remember when I sent out the energy signal that day? But I felt Frieza's power on its way to Earth, no doubt to get revenge."
Unlimited then paused, thinking about that time, when he first appeared, and then said, "If you are also wondering how I learned the Kamehameha wave, well..."
Flashback
Frieza had only a second to change his expression from smug to horrified as the irate Saiyan zoomed at him and punched him in the face so hard, it nearly knocked the house down.
The tyrant yelled in pain as he flew through the air, and Gohan rushed behind him and booted him up into the air, Frieza bellowing in pain.
Then, all of his pain and sorrow rushing together in one moment, he put his hands together and summoned up energy beyond comprehension.
"KAAA--MEEE--HAAA--MEEE...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gohan then released a blast as big as the one he used to finish Cell from his hands, heading right for Frieza.
Finally, Frieza regained himself, but then yelled, "WHAT?! HOW CAN THIS BE?!"
The brilliant blue blast collided with the former top power of the universe, and the results wouldn't be good for him. The white purple monster tried with all his efforts to stop the blast, but then couldn't hold on any longer.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"I saw the raw energy and incredible power surging in that one attack, and it was incredible. I knew that to be able to fight an attack like that, I needed to learn it."
The dark figure in the shadows looked to the house at the mortally wounded girl that Gohan had just tried to avenge.
"I saw Frieza strike you down, Videl, and I knew that both you and Gohan wanted to be together more than anything," Unlimited continued.
The unknown being walked towards the house, hearing chokes of pain and sobs of sorrow. He reached the house entrance and looked down at Videl, Gohan crying into her shoulder.
"I wanted to be able to fight you all, but I also felt a will to help because I wanted to see the two of you continue to develop your bond."
The dark teen raised his hand amid shouts of worry, snapped his fingers, and within seconds, had resurrected the fallen Videl.
"And with that, I had appeared to you and got your attention, but I did something else. I had sparked a deep feeling within the two of you, and that was enough to make me want to return today."
End Flashback
"So you just wanted to see me and Gohan happy?" Videl asked, finally happy and touched by the reason Unlimited had given.
Unlimited smiled and nodded, and Videl finally breathed a sigh of contentment.
"With all of you alive and aware of my presence now, I believed it was finally time to put my powers to the test. And the rest is history."
Unlimited paused, as if awaiting another question, and when one did not come, he said, "That ties up all the loose ends then."
The Z-fighters and company nodded and many got up, now happy to have met Unlimited.
"So what will you do now, since you came back?," Goku asked.
"I have decided to stay here and help to protect this Earth, and to watch you all continue to grow through time," Unlimited answered.
"So you're staying to help in future fights?" Gohan asked.
Unlimited nodded, and then said, "I'm willing to become an ally to you, but you must remember, I may leave for longer than I'll know, so don't get your hopes up about a permanent ally. Besides, you've shown that you are all stronger than me in a group."
"Then it's settled," Bulma then piped up, "Looks like your on the 'save the world' side now!"
"Yeah, welcome aboard," Goku added.
"Thank you, it's what I wanted since I desired this power," Unlimited said gratefully.
Then, suddenly, Trunks and Goten, who had lost interest, jumped, "YEAH! HEY, now you can teach us how to snap our fingers and heal and stuff, we GOTTA know how to do that!"
Unlimited turned to them, smirking, and said, "If you think you can handle it..."
The two half-Saiyans yelled some affirmative word as they raced out the door to get to it.
Unlimited chuckled to himself, and then stood up to walk outside, when Videl, who wanted to know how much he knew about Gohan and Videl's relationship, stopped him and said, "Hey, how much do you know about us?"
Unlimited smirked and said, "I'll talk to the two of you later, but right now, I have hyper kids to teach."
The dark teen went out of the room and outside, and Goku said, "Man, having all those powers just given to you. Talk about luck."
"Yeah, no doubt," Gohan agreed.
"Well, now that everything's cleared up now, what happens next?" Chichi then asked.
They all looked to each other, and then Videl said, "Go back to normal life?"
"That sounds good," Chichi decided.
But outside, Unlimited, as he walked towards Goten and Trunks, thought, Hmm, everything is normal and happy now, but I have a feeling that this won't stay like this for long...
With the story of Unlimited now revealed, the newest and strongest addition to the Z-fighters is made. Now it looks like normality is going to set back in. But what is Unlimited worried about?
Preview for Chapter 4: A Day in the Life: The teen superpower teaches the hyper-half-Saiyans about his powers, while the strongest fighter of his universe learns from a superpower of his own plane. Later, the favorite teenaged couple hear how much Unlimited knows about them, and they are very much shocked about what they hear. However, they are more shocked at what Piccolo has to say... Stay tuned for the next installment of Unlimited: The Story of a Dreamer!