Dragon Ball GX, Side Story: The Alchemic Saiyan
Chapter 2: The Day Everything Changed
Son Goku
When our energies collided, I was worried we might blow apart the arena; thankfully it held, and there was merely a mile wide, 3000 foot deep crater which we now stood in.
"(Pant) Good one Vegeta, I'm impressed man" I say as I take a moment to catch my breath, before my energy instantly rebounds back to normal; I was still getting used to the amount of sheer power SS12 held.
"Same to you Kakarot (Pant) you're still as good as ever" Vegeta says as he catches his breath as well.
Suddenly, My senses picked up something familiar.
"Vegeta…do you feel that?" I ask, my tone graven with realization.
"Yes…I do…" Vegeta replies.
As we focuses are senses to make sure we weren't dealing with a case of mistaken identity, the truth revealed itself to be what we feared.
"A SPATIAL TEAR!" we both yell in alarm.
Adam had warned us what could happen if a Spatial Tear wasn't stabilized and someone or something was caught in it. I could hear my son's voice in my head even now.
"Goku, Spatial Tears are extremely unstable wormholes, created randomly by a collision of pure energy. For at any moment, it could collapse into a black hole, and kill almost any being trapped inside. If you ever see one formed, you must fire a pulsed burst of Ki into it, to force it collapse, but only once you are sure there is no one inside, or near it" Adam's voice says in my head.
As we looked above us, there was a glowing portal, that flickered erratically.
"Vegeta, can you sense anything beyond the portal?" I ask as I stare at the wild blue tear in space and time.
"Barely anything, probably an insect or small animal" Vegeta comments.
As I concentrated my Ki sense, I realized how wrong Vegeta was.
"No…NO IT'S A PERSON-A HUMAN! VEGETA WE HAVE TO SAVE HIM!" I scream as I take flight.
"KAKAROT! Be reasonable, you'll be crushed if you go into there and it collapses; don't be a Baka!" Vegeta yells angrily.
"Not if I zip in and out faster than light, and you know we can easily surpass the speed of light in our SS12 state" I retort.
"But what if it collapses and you end up trapped in another universe or dimension? Use your head Kakarot!" Vegeta screams.
I thought for a moment about what Vegeta was saying. But then I remembered what Adam told me about being a true Christian.
"Remember the Good Samaritan Goku; even a kind stranger can do incalculable good" my son states as the memory echoes in my head.
"I'm not using my head Vegeta, I'm using my heart!" I reply back forcefully.
Without a second thought, I flew through the portal, and passed through the light.
As I went through, I saw a strange light all around, and a strange figure approached me.
"You're an interesting one aren't you? Neither Human nor Homunculi…what are you?" the white faceless figure asks, his tone showing incredible surprise.
"I don't have time for this! There is someone dying on the other side of this portal-OUT OF MY WAY!" I scream, shoving the being aside. Within moments, I landed on solid ground again.
The scene that lay before me was one of minor devastation (By Saiyan standards) but I knew to humans it was a disaster.
"Whoa…wonder what happened here?" I ask myself as I look around.
Seeing there wasn't anyone standing in the immediate vicinity, I looked on the ground. Then at my foot, I saw a young boy in his mid teens with long blonde hair in a ponytail.
"GOOD LORD! He's almost dead" I yell in shock.
As I picked up his body, and began to fly back through the portal, I realized a few things.
"Wow…he has 2 artificial limbs; poor kid, he must have had one hell of an accident to need those" I say to myself out loud as I head for the other side of the portal.
However, before I could finish traversing the wormhole, the white figure appeared before me again.
"Hold on! Where do you think you're going with this inhabitant of Amestris sir?" he asks firmly.
"I'm taking him back to my world for healing, so I can save him from death" I answer stoutly.
"And what makes you think you can just ignore God mortal?" the white figure says angrily, as his face morphs to match my own.
Upon seeing his seriousness, I was severely angered.
"YOU'RE NO GOD! I KNOW THE REAL GOD-AND HES A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN YOU! AND MORE POWERFUL THAN I AM BY INFINITY! SO YOU BEST SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE YOU FUCKING PROUD BLASPHEMER!" I roar.
The white figure's copy of my face instantly vanished, and he stood aside.
"You're quite observant, I' am not God; you know the truth beyond the truth-I merely work for God in the Universe you're taking this boy from. Go ahead, I cannot stop you, and you have earned the right to do this. Before you go-may I ask your name please?" the glowing figure asks.
"Goku, Son Goku" I reply shortly.
"And I go by many names. But many refer to me simply as-The Truth" the white figure says as I prepare to pass through the other side of the portal.
As I stepped down onto the ground of the Arena, the portal suddenly shut off by itself.
"Kakarot, did you do that?" Vegeta asks as he nods toward the space where the portal used to be.
"No-I guess The Truth did" I reply, as I divert my gaze down to the boy I now held.
"You were right Kakarot, he's in terrible shape-we'd better get him to Dende right away" Vegeta remarks.
With that, we used Instantaneous Movement and popped up to the Lookout.
Dende
As I finished talking to Popo about how nice the latest Church the humans had built by a river, Goku and Vegeta appeared before us in a flash.
"(GASP) oh! Goku, Vegeta-its just you two. (Pant) I'm still getting used to that teleporting, so take it easy, I almost had a heart attack" Popo gasps, trying to regain his composure.
"Long story, and we can tell you later-but this boy needs healing now Dende!" Goku yells, his tone indicating total need for immediate healing for the boy.
"I understand Goku, just put him down and I'll work my magic" I reply as I kneel down, and open my palms.
As I saw the boy, I noticed the injuries, and how odd two of his limbs were.
"Mechanical limbs…well I can't heal those, but I can fix the rest of him up" I say cheerfully as I begin to expose the boy to the healing energy I so often used.
As it pulsated and glowed, his injuries vanished, and the scuffs on his skin disappeared.
"There, that should do it" I say proudly.
However, in an instant, his injuries reappeared.
"But…but that's impossible! YOU'VE HEALED ME BEFORE AS I WAS NEAR DEATH!" Vegeta screams.
"I know, that's why this doesn't make any sense" I say as I notice the resurgent wounds.
"Maybe it has to do with the nature of his injuries and the properties of physics from the universe he came from" Goku suggests.
"Well there is always one person who can heal anything short of a broken heart or soul no matter what the physics are" Popo interjects thoughtfully.
As we all looked at each other, we said the same thing each other was thinking simultaneously, "PSYAGON!"
Son Adam/Psyagon
It was just another peaceful day, as I held my beloved wife Katie in my arms. Her soft brown hair flowing in the wind as we hovered in the clouds where my daughter Katherine was currently flitting around with glee.
The peace was suddenly interrupted when I heard an all too familiar psychic alert from my father.
"Son, we have a situation" Goku says gravely.
I nodded instantly, knowing Goku never joked about such things.
"We're on our way dad" I say out loud and telepathically at the same time.
"Darling, we've got a situation, get Katherine and meet me at the Lookout" I say as I kiss my wife quickly before warping away.
As I arrived on the Lookout, I glanced around and found my father and Vegeta standing with Dende and Mr. Popo a mere 300 feet away. With incalculable speed, I burst right next to them.
"Hey dad, saved another one from certain death eh?" I smile as I throw my arm around his shoulder.
"Yeah, but this one is different son" he reply, his smile changing to a serious gaze as he stares down at the boy again.
"Yes Adam, when I tried to heal him-the injuries just came back in an moment; it was like they magically un-healed" Dende explains.
I kneeled down to get a better look at the boy Goku had rescued. I was struggling to identify him-when I noticed 2 artificial limbs; a robotic right arm and left leg.
In an instant, I was shocked with the realization of who this boy was.
"GOKU! Have you any idea who you just rescued!" I shout in surprise.
"No, I don't; who did I save?" he asks with innocent inquisition.
At that moment, Katie appeared with Katherine beside me.
"Dad, this is Edward Elric-THE FULL METAL ALCHEMIST!" I yell with excitement and realization.
Katie instantly gasped and I snapped my fingers to place Edward within a life support barrier.
"Dad, we gotta get the others up here now" I say, realizing this was big.
Within a matter of minutes, all our closest friends had arrived up to the Lookout, wondering what the big news is.
Naruto Uzumaki
When I got the call, I knew we had to get to the Lookout post-haste, so Sakura and I immediately teleported with our only son, Ulrich.
"So Adam, what's so important that you have to drag us all up here right now?" Talos asks as he holds his wife Ellen in his arms.
"Yeah, me and the missus had plans man" Kiba says as he holds Hinata close too.
"Guys, Adam never jokes with us-whatever this is, it is undoubtedly important" Sango rebukes as she holds Miroku's hands.
"Yeah, Adam doesn't screw with us" I add defensively as I hold my beloved Sakura in my arms, our oldest son Ulrich standing beside us.
"My fellow friends, and author friends especially, you will be amazed to hear this; my father, he rescued…EDWARD ELRIC!" Adam announces excitedly as a floating blue energy barrier flew out into full view for all to see.
As soon as the name rang out, the whole assembly of Author's broke into shock and shouts of amazement as they looked at the boy inside the sphere.
"Edward Elric…THE Full Metal Alchemist!" Meegan squeals as she holds Daniel.
"No way…so the FMA universe does exist" Sakuya comments, as she stands with Sesshomaru.
"Yes, but some very disturbing things have come to my attention about the universe that this Edward came from" Adam says as the barrier holding the boy hovers before us.
"This Edward was fighting the Homunculi, got knocked out, and then they blew up the Fifth Laboratory and saved Ed for his need to be used in the Sacrifice; but then, Ed's anger at what they had done to his much needed clues and evidence for the Philosopher's Stone snapped him out of his unconsciousness, and allowed him to fight the Homunculi with his damaged automail arm for a while longer" Adam explains.
"So…what happened during the fight?" I speak up, becoming just as curious.
"Apparently, Edward was fighting the Homunculi known as Envy, at the same time Goku and Vegeta were fighting each other here. When Edward and Envy used their Destruction Alchemy move on each other, it was at the same time Goku and Vegeta's Ki attacks collided with each other. This caused a Reality Ripple from the FMA universe, to the DBZ universe. Edward and Envy's moves cancelled each other out and did no damage to either member of the opposing party, but they allowed the blast wave from Goku and Vegeta's attacks to trace their way through time and space to create a spatial distortion or tear, linking the two universes temporarily. The blast wave from Goku and Vegeta's attacks had been weakened because most of its energy was spent creating the portal, but the remaining energy must have blown through the spatial portal that formed, and caused a tremendous explosion. Nearly killing poor Edward here" Adam explains calmly.
"But that still doesn't explain why my powers couldn't heal Edward; why did his injuries return even after I fixed him?" Dende inquires with curiosity.
"Because for some reason, the physics of Edward's body are under the effect of the Law of Equivalent Exchange" Adam replies.
Upon hearing the phrase, I was immediately perplexed.
"Adam…what's Equivalent Exchange?" I state with curiosity.
Upon turning to face me, he opened up his palm, and a flash of blue light appeared, then changed to a holographic display.
"You know what this is right?" Adam asks as he holds the glowing display of a sphere studded with smaller ones orbiting it, surrounding a cluster of spheres in the middle.
"Yeah, basic Carbon atom-what's so important about that; what's it got to do with the Equivalent Exchange stuff?" I reply dully, not the least bit interested.
"It has everything to do with!" Adam snaps, pointing out that my response to the Carbon atom was tactless and short sighted.
"Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy, Law of Equivalent Exchange…the two are essentially the same thing" Adam goes on.
I stared at him cluelessly, not seeing the connection between physics and Equivalent Exchange.
"(Sigh) Still dense like you were all those years ago I see; alright-Daniel, would you care to recite the Law of Equivalent Exchange for our friend Naruto?" Adam continues with an annoyed tone.
Immediately, Daniel picked up where Adam had left off and clapped his hands.
"Alchemy: the science of understanding, deconstructing, and reconstructing matter. However, it is not an all-powerful art; it is impossible to create something out of nothing. If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be given. This is the Law of Equivalent Exchange, the basis of all alchemy" Daniel states in a textbook fashion.
"Matter, Energy, Life, Spirit, Soul; Equivalent Exchange dictates that one is all, and all is one. For most mortals, one cannot get something tangible for nothing, something else of equal value must be given, a gram of matter gets you a gram of matter, just in another form" Adam continues.
Goku and Vegeta then dropped out of SS12 in surprise.
"Is there anything else to that law?" Vegeta asks, his tone indicating he suspects that he knew there was more.
"In accordance with this law, there is a taboo among alchemists: human transmutation is strictly forbidden - for what could equal the value of a human soul…?" Daniel adds, his tone eerie and unsettling.
"No kidding; but if that's the case-then why are we able to do so many fantastic things, even outright defy the Law of Equivalent Exchange?" Sakuya comments.
"Hasn't it sunk in after all these years?" I blurt out, amazed at how blind she was to the obvious.
"Yeah, our powers work outside the laws of physics; practically the only limit to the powers Reality Warping allows, is your own imagination" Meegan explains.
"Which means that is what I shall be using to fix Edward, after a quick study of his entire physiology with my Omnigon" Adam states, as his eyes glow an intense ethereal golden shade.
Son Adam/Psyagon
As my mystical gaze penetrated into Edward's form, down to the cellular and atomic structure, I marveled at how hardy the fellow was for a mere human-and remembered how I was like him in a way for a short time.
However, my trip down memory lane was cut short as I deepened my gaze to into the genetic level when I noticed something terrible regarding his .
"Oh my Lord…guys…there is something seriously wrong with Edward" I say, as I realize I would have my work cut out for me on fixing him up.
"What's wrong with him dear?" Katie asks as she holds my hands.
"Its his DNA…its become damaged from the explosion he endured" I say gravely.
"What does that mean?" Luffy asks as he walks over to look at Edward's body inside the barrier.
"It means that his body's very composition has been harmed from the energies of the blast that went through the portal into his universe Luffy" my daughter Katherine explains as she puts a hand on his shoulder.
"Which means there is only one way to repair him reliably" I say as I kneel down and disperse the barrier.
"I have to destroy him, then reconstruct him as another species-as a Saiyan" I state solemnly.
Upon hearing this, many people began to oppose my decision.
"Adam, the kid has been through enough; he lost his mother, and nearly his brother-he doesn't need more crap to deal with man" Daniel states angrily.
Immediately, Vegeta choke-gripped Daniel and slammed him into the ground in rage.
"YOU'VE GOT SOME NERVE CALLING OUR SPECIES CRAP YOU INGRATE!" Vegeta bellows with pure wrath.
"(Gagging) But he's just a kid, and he already has enough to deal with" Daniel argues.
"We were kids when we became Saiyans too you dummy" Meegan says as she grips Vegeta's hand and applies a crushing grip, causing a harsh crack to resound from Vegeta's wrist.
"GAAHHHHHHH! BAKA ONNA, YOU COULD HAVE JUST ASKED ME TO LET GO!" Vegeta complains as he rubs his sore wrist.
"Anyways…It doesn't matter what you all think; it's the only safe way to save Edward-so I'm turning him into a Saiyan" I continue flatly.
With a burst of golden light, I shoot a beam of identical color into Edward's chest.
In seconds, his entire body began to glow the same golden color, as it became filled with pure energy.
"Just a few more seconds" I say as the energy continues to fill Edward's still form.
After a few more moments, his body now glowed golden throughout his entirety, even beneath his skin and inside.
Then, with an mighty pop, he exploded into glittering golden dust.
"(Gasp) whoa…" my daughter says in awe, as the dust of Ed floats all around us.
With a twirl of my hands, I forced Ed's dust to coalesce back into an orb.
"Now, I'll keep this recorded so Edward won't be able to deny what I did" I say as I point to the tripod camera beside me that I'd made before I began the procedure.
Everyone looked at me with amazement, as they hadn't been paying attention, or they would have noticed the subtle air flickers when the camera began to appear when I made it.
Now the orb of Ed's mass was collected into a single area, so I began the next step; I let his dust flow back into the shape of his body.
"Now for the final step; altering his DNA" I say as I snap my fingers.
With that, Ed's dust avatar lurched, as if struck by lightning. Then began to solidify and become a form of flesh and blood again.
The dust slowly changed back to skin, bone, and organs, like they were being poured into a mold.
"Aaahhhhhh…" Ulrich sighs with awe as the transformation nears completion.
The last physical parts to appear, were flesh versions of Ed's right arm, and left leg, and a new golden blonde saiyan tail.
"Wow…is he…a Saiyan now?" Inuyasha says as he inches closer.
"See for yourself man" I reply confidently.
With a few sniffs, he was convinced.
"Yep, he's the real deal alright; nice work man" Inuyasha compliments as he pats my back.
"I strive for perfect transformations every time; wouldn't want anything to go wrong now would we?" I chuckle.
With that, Goku and I both broke out into a hearty laugh.
"(Laughter trails off to a sigh) well, we'd better get him to a comfy bed so he can fully recover; Katie dear, would you mind making a Tempur Pedic Foam Memory bed for our boy Edward here?" I ask my wife sweetly as I gently levitate Edward.
"Of course, the dear child definitely needs rest" Katie says as she nods her head, and a floating bed appears.
With that, I tenderly placed the now sleeping Edward onto the bed.
"Now just for the heck of it, I think I'll use Alchemy to make a hut over Edward's bed" I say as I clap my hands together, causing a flash of blue light.
Upon putting my hands to the tiles of the Lookout, they erupted upward and reformed into a white dome shaped hut directly over Edward's bed.
"Well that was pretty fun; I'd forgotten what its like to obey the laws of physics" I laugh.
"Ok everyone, time to let the boy sleep; you can all ask him questions once he wakes up" Katie says as she gently pushes my dad and Luffy away from the hut door.
As I began to levitate away toward the Lookout edge, I couldn't help but think, "Edward…you're about to experience an entirely new world; I hope you can handle it"
Edward Elric
As I woke up, It felt like the weather had changed, and it was cooler.
"(Yawn) well looks like whatever that explosion was didn't have enough kick in it to take the Full Metal Alchemist-dow-dow-de-du-huh!" I begin, cutting myself short as I swing my right arm toward my field of vision, and notice the change.
"I-Impossible…could it really be…my own arm?" I say to myself, as I gaze at what my right arm had become.
Then I looked down at my left leg, and saw it too was flesh and blood as well.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH; WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" I scream in alarm.