Disclaimer: Kid Golden in no way claims ownership of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, or Dragon Ball GT, or the characters that are featured in those series. I do however own all characters not seen or mentioned in the series, namely Tarra, Shinji, Sakana, and Kirikuzu.

The Revenge Pact.

"Fool…" spat the weakened Potoschy, "Do you know what you do?" Slowly wiping blood from his jaw with the back of his fist, he whispered, "Would you—"

"Be quiet," snapped Gohan, clenching his fists, "Just shut up!"

Potoschy languidly climbed to his feet, clutching his abdomen. "Imbecile! Do you—" He stopped abruptly, his jaw dropping as his eyes fell upon Gohan's hair, gasping as he took in the white locks."Tarra was right…"

"Shut up," Boomed Gohan. The sound waves, magnified infinitely by his power, rushed forward and flung Potoschy backward into the sky.

Unable to stop his flight, Potoschy sailed through the air limply. All of a sudden he came to a halt, a lightly tanned palm catching him. Potoschy shook his head, groaning faintly from the vocal blast.

The mental menace cried out and spun around, swinging his fist with all his might.

Gohan scowled and caught the fist. "Idiot."

Potoschy growled. "Let me go—AH!"

Gohan had begun to clench the fist, the bones in the red behemoth's hand shattering with loud, disgusting cracks. Blood leaked out of Potoschy's hand, coating Gohan's hand in a thick purplish fluid.

Gohan's lips parted in an angry snarl as he cocked his fist back and swung, driving the balled sack of knuckles into Potoschy's face. The psychic's nose bone cracked noisily as he plummeted to earth, his body's collision with the surface cratering the planet in a massive eruption of dust.

As the dust slowly cleared, Gohan could make out a figure imbedded inexorably in the dirt floor of an incredibly deep and wide hole in the earth's surface. Growling, he cupped his hands at his side, a dense sphere of golden energy taking shake between his palms.

The Hyuraiku-jin leader's eyes had swollen out, as visibly bruised as his profusely bleeding nostrils, his face hidden beneath blood and bruises. Barely able to see, Potoschy stared up at Gohan as the Super Saiyajin assumed an awkward stance.

"KA…." Began the Saiyajin, a whitish blue fire corrupting the golden ball.

Potoschy's eyes widened as the sky began to grow dark, the syllables Gohan had started to spout seemingly commanding the clouds to blot out the sun.

"ME…." Gohan's golden orb started to lose its golden luster, the radiant color consumed by the whitish blue flames.

Thick black ominous clouds crept into sight, shrouding the world in shadows. Potoschy trembled faintly, his soul gripped with an unfamiliar emotion: Fear.

"HA…" The orb grew bloated on this syllable and the sphere started shaking wildly with instability.

"ME…." As the orb betwixt Gohan's palms began to swell, the inky wisps began to crack as if the sky itself was being put under intense pressure.

The fear in the pit of Potoschy's stomach faded away as he took in what was happening. His usually stoic face, although covered in bruises, began to show signs of smiling as his lips spread as far as they could into a grin.

"HA!!" With this booming cry, the entire universe shuddered as Gohan thrust both palms forward, unleashing the most powerful blast reality had ever endured.

And it was then that reality ceased to exist.

The blast dissipated into nothingness as the sky shattered like a stain glass window and black, blue, yellow and white shards of the heavens fell from their perch to the world below.

Too powerful to be unnerved, Gohan looked up. His golden pupils fell upon a massive black mass descending languorously from the broken skies, its form encompassing the entire expanse of the heavens.

"What is this?" Gohan asked, still calm even in the face of this seemingly insurmountable darkness. He turned his head and looked down at Potoschy. "Answer me!"

The psychic continued to grin, even as he started to drift out of consciousness. As his eyes finally fell shut, the enormous black mass of pure energy plunged down from the sky past Gohan and crashed into Goku. The deceased Saiyajin's corpse lifted itself off of the ground, disappearing in the mass of darkness.

"Dad!" Cried out Gohan as he rushed down to his father and swung his fist with all his might on the cloud of evil energy.

A powerful gust of wind deflected his punch, knocking Gohan aside. Upon recovering, Gohan turned and looked at his father, the dark matter now within his flesh.

"Dad?" Asked Gohan, staring at the corpse. The corpse smiled evilly, its empty eye sockets giving it a demented look. "Dad!"

"Your father, I am not," hissed the corpse, a resounding clap of thunder accompanying the sound.

"Then who are you!"

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…" The possessed Goku grinned. "I am Makkura… Death incarnate."

--Scene Change--

"No!" Screamed an elderly voice, its tone hoarse and grating.

A wizened, purple skinned Kaioushin stood over a crystal ball with a taller, younger, yet also purple associate standing behind him. "We can't do this Higashi! It breaks every law, every ordinance… It is an abomination!"

"But Rou Dai sir," said Higashi, "There really isn't any other recourse now."

"Nonsense," snapped the elder, "Sending the Saiyajin back to earth was enough rule breaking… what you're suggesting may destroy the fabric of reality!"

"Sir… The mortal universe is seconds away from being linked with ours… I really don't think reality is in anymore danger from us freeing the mind of—"

"Don't speak his name," interrupted Rou Dai, "His name is a curse on all things in existence." A soft sigh, then, "But… What you say is true. This may cost us everything… But if we don't do it, we will have nothing."

Higashi took a long exhalation. "So… shall I go free his mind?"

"No," the elder said with a sigh as he turned to look at Higashi. "The legendary one must unlock the deeper power himself… I already awoke the mystic energy in him. So now, it is up to him and only him to realize the depths of his power." Turning back to face the crystal ball, Rou Dai sighed deeply.

"It is up to him to fully reawaken Saruo."

--Scene Change--

"Get out of my dad!"

Goku laughed. "Your father wasn't actually dead, child. I am sustaining the little life he had left."

Gohan's eyes went wide. "You mean—"

Goku grinned, interrupting Gohan. "Should I leave his body, he will die. And this body isn't mortal anymore… so should he die now, he will cease to exist."

Gohan gasped, shocked.

"I have seen the horrible things that brought you to this place," said Goku grinning, his lips moved by Makkura within him. "But even with your pain, you know nothing of being betrayed by the father of your children… You know nothing of slowly going insane… trapped in a realm of absolute darkness…"

Goku paused for a second, then smirked. "But I destroyed all my husband knew when I manipulated that simple wizard Bibidi into creating Majin Buu." His smirk grew. "And now that I am free… I will not rest until I with my own hands drag him screaming and crying into the void of nothingness he banished me to."

"I don't care about your stupid revenge," spat Gohan, agitated. "I don't care about any of that… I just want you to die!"

Goku chuckled. "There is much wrong in this world, child. The Kaioushin claim to be guardians of reality yet they allow so much evil and destruction to run rampant. It is only when they too are threatened that they interfere directly." The possessed Saiyajin smiled. "But what will killing me bring you? Peace of mind? Killing me will not bring your daughter back..."

Gohan froze for a second, shaken by that comment.

"The Kaioushin made sure no one would ever find out about their crimes against me…" Goku said quietly. "Anyone who has been killed by me or a descendant of mine is now locked within the void above us," explained Goku, pointing up at the solid black sky.

"The only way to free them is to fully free me," said Goku with a grin. "And the only way to fully free me and break my bond to the realm of darkness…"

"Is to kill the person who exiled me."

--Scene Change--

"Rou Dai sir!" Cried Higashi, "This—"

"Quiet fool," snapped Rou Dai. "I heard her…" He turned to face his junior. "Why on Kaioushin-Kai did you do what you did?"

Higashi sighed deeply. "I loved Makkura sir… But there was a darkness in her heart that love could not quell. A darkness so frightening… That I just had to turn her in to your predecessor… I had her banished into the darkness of her own heart."

Rou Dai's eyes widened. "The dead zone… is Makkura's heart?"

"Yes," whispered Higashi, "Yes… I couldn't let her live in reality, the darkness would've consumed her… and the entire cosmos would've be destroyed."

"Yeah… That backfired," Rou Dai said sarcastically.

"I did what was best!" Higashi shot back, "I… I did what was right for the universe…"

Rou Dai eyed him sadly. "But that was wrong for you."

"I don't understand… Rou Dai, our job is to protect the universe… If I had followed my heart, the universe would've been destroyed!"

"That doesn't seem to be too different from what's happening right now, now does it?" Rou Dai eyed his junior warily. "Did you want to awaken Saruo… to destroy Makkura?"

Higashi sighed again, dropping to his knees. "It was the only thing that was right… she has to be destroyed, she has to be—"

"Listen to yourself," snapped Rou Dai. "Righteousness… has its limitations. The decision that will benefit the majority isn't always the best decision." He sighed. "A leader is expected to put the people ahead of himself… But sometimes, the greatest act of selflessness… is an act of selfishness."

"What on Kaioushin-Kai are you talking about sir? That makes no sense."

"In order to save the universe… you're going to have to put aside your desire to do what's right for the universe and do what's right for you." Rou Dai stared deeply into his junior's eyes. "You're going to have to allow your wife to live..."

"You have to love her."

--Scene Change--

Goku grinned at Gohan. "So child… are you willing to murder the Kaioushin?"

Gohan fell silent, staring at the ground below him. His expression had grown indiscernible, his emotions hidden under the mask of a Super Saiyajin.

"Well boy," Asked Goku, his voice still being manipulated, "Are you with me… or are you against me? Will you follow the path of Kaioushin styled righteousness and stop me… Or will you join me and free your daughter?"

"I don't care about right and wrong anymore…" Whispered Gohan, his gaze averted. "The person you're inside… My dad… He cared about that so much he abandoned me, my mom and my little brother…" His mane wavered for a second, an electric blue overtaking the solid white. "I am not my dad… And if that is what it will take to save my little girl…"

After a moment of silence, Gohan looked up, meeting Goku's soulless gaze.

"Then consider me a murderer."

Looks like all that power might be going to our fav. Demi-Saiyajin's head... Uh oh... Well, what'll happen next? Stay tuned and find out! Kg out.