Dragon Ball GX, Side Story: The Alchemic Saiyan
Chapter 3: There is a God?
Edward Elric
Everything was all wrong; the surrounding, the air, the atmosphere, everything.
"What the hell is going on-where am I?" I say out loud as I stand up and admire my new limbs.
"How could my limbs just grow back like…" I begin, then trail off as I notice something around my waist.
I grabbed it, and felt really weak all of a sudden. Then when I trailed to where it was attached, my face nearly fell off.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME!?" I bellow with horror.
Suddenly, the door opened and a very concerned figure burst in.
"What's going on, is everything ok Edward?" the man asks kindly.
"No, I'm not ok; something very freaky is going on and…how do you know my name?" I ask intensely, my suspicion growing with each passing moment.
Immediately, the man began to sweat and rubbed the back of his head.
"Well…uh…that's kinda hard to explain, it's a long story" the man says hesitantly.
I eyed him with the greatest of scrutiny, until I noticed how much his hair looked like…
"Its…you!" I say as I realize who the man really was.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" the man asks, with a hurt tone in his voice.
"YOU BASTARD! YOU DESTROYED IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE!" I scream with rage.
Immediately, I clapped my hands, then placed them on the floor and transmuted a naginata pole from the materials.
"DIE YOU ASSHOLE!" I scream as I thrust the spear tip at his face.
Suddenly, I felt the pole's motion stop. Then I realized that he had stopped it-with a pinching motion!
"Calm down Edward, I'm not…whoever you think I' am" the man says as he twists his fingers, and disarms me effortlessly.
Upon seeing this, I nearly threw up with shock.
"Wha…how…-" I stutter, totally baffled by how he had done that.
After several moments of intense silence, I snapped out of my daze and said, "HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?"
Suddenly, the man looked at me like I'd never seen a feat such as his performed before and replied, "What, this?"
Then, he flipped the pole around like it was a chain between his fingers, then did a quadruple flip and caught it in his fingers again.
"Yeah, I could barely see you move; (Growl) must be a new trick you got by using your power-Envy" I say with contempt.
With no warning, I clapped my hands again and put them on the ground.
As I had hoped, he expected me to make another weapon-but he was in for a surprise.
From right beneath his chin, a gargantuan human sized fist slammed an uppercut square beneath his jaw, and sent him flying through the roof.
Son Goku
Man, I knew that the kid was tough-but I hadn't expected anything like this. He had no advanced martial-arts training, no Ki powers, and no inherent biological abilities of extreme degree; but his ability to do Alchemy without the so called "Transmutation Circles"…this was as incredible as Reality Warping in many ways.
"Kakarot,! What's going on here?" Vegeta yells as he flies over to me.
"Its Ed…he didn't take my arrival too well, he thinks I'm a bad guy" I reply as I rub my chin momentarily.
Upon hearing this, Vegeta began to laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
"BWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OH MY GOSH! THAT'S THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS EVER THOUGHT YOU WERE EVIL!" Vegeta howls with laughter.
Suddenly, the entire hut began to rumble.
"Uh…Vegeta…I think we need to focus on the angry kid" I say, concern filling my voice.
"You have GOT to be kidding me Kakarot; you faced a demon just 20 years ago, and now you're telling me that the kid is scary!?" Vegeta bellows.
Suddenly, 20 giant stone fists erupted from beneath us, knocking us square in our chops multiple times, and then to our feet.
"Yeah-CAUSE HE'S INSANE!" I scream back as I get up and show the small bruises, indicating how dangerous the kid is if you let your guard down.
As another stone fist came us, Vegeta smashed it to smithereens.
"Then we'll just have to reign him in Kakarot" Vegeta smirks.
Edward Elric
I was astounded, I'd never seen anyone ever break the giant stone formations I'd attacked with.
"Damn…this guy is strong, but there's no way he'll be able to break out of this" I say to myself as I clap my hands.
With that, I sat down to fake them out, make it seem I had surrendered instead of using my powers.
Then, as I used my hands to slow my slump onto the tiles, I sent my power through them.
Without warning, the man with the spiked hairdo was swallowed up by the now volcanic ash ground in nanoseconds; thus giving me the perfect opening to transmute the ground back into solid tile again.
"HA! Where is your big scary friend now tough guy!?" I gloat, making sure he got as steamed as possible for besting his short friend.
However, just when it seemed I'd gotten the upper hand, the ground began to rumble violently.
"You REAALLLLLY shouldn't have done that Edward" Envy says with concern.
Wait a minute-CONCERN!? What the hell was Envy showing concern for? HE WANTED TO KILL ME!
However, my thoughts were interrupted as the ground began to rumble even more, and the area where the short man had sunken in began to bulge upward like a pimple.
With a tremendous explosion of debris, he reappeared-glowing with a golden aura and levitating!
"YOU HALFASSED PUNK! FEEL MY WRATH!" the man thunders with rage, causing me to be swept off my feet as a sudden sonic pressure wave washes across the landscape.
But…that's impossible…no one can scream that loud…not even me or Winry.
However, what he began to do next made my blood run cold.
He held his hand out in front, palm first-right at me.
Then, it began to glow! Light started to form an intensely bright orb in his grasp!
"YOU TRIED TO KILL ME YOU INGRATEFUL SHIT! NOW PREPARE TO DIE!" the man bellows.
With no further warning, the orb was released, causing the air to shimmer in its wake.
I desperately tried to form stone walls to halt its advance, but even after 20 walls, it just kept coming at me; fortunately it appeared to have been released at a moderately slow pace, giving me the chance to outrun it. Seemed this guy liked to toy with his opponents.
"VEGETA NOOOOOOO!" Envy screams as he suddenly flashes, and becomes Golden as well. Another thing I noticed, was that both of them had Golden hair and Cyan eyes.
Just before the blast hit me, Envy knocked it into the sky with a double handed fist.
After traveling several miles, it detonated! With more light than a whole city block of TNT and Dynamite-IMPOSSIBLE!
Vegeta Briefs
Just as my blast was about to hit the boy, Kakarot ran in front of it and knocked it away; typical.
"VEGETA! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR DAMN MIND!?" Kakarot bellows.
"BLAST IT YOU DUMB IMBECILE! DIDN'T YOU SEE THE LOOK IN HIS EYES!? HE WAS FULL INTENT ON KILLING THE BOTH OF US!" I scream back.
"AND THAT JUSTIFIES KILLING A DEFENSELESS YOUNG BOY WHO HASN'T EVEN GROWN UP YET!?" Kakarot retorts.
Immediately, the boy started looking funny and thundered, "HOW DARE YOU SAY I'M LITTLE! COME SAY THAT TO MY FACE I DARE YA!"
"Pipe it junior, the grown-ups are having a conversation here" I reply with an irritated tone.
However, ignoring him turned out to be a bad choice, as we both suddenly found ourselves trapped within two fists of metal.
"Alright talk you two; I WANT ANSWERS YOU BASTARDS!" he screams.
Son Goku
Things were getting out of hand, I knew at this rate Dende would be awakened from his weekly nap, and he needed his rest to keep an eye on the world. So I decided it was time to talk.
"Edward, please listen to me" I pleaded, making my voice as gentle as possible.
Upon hearing this, Edward nearly screamed again.
"LISTEN TO YOU!? WHAT SO YOU CAN TRICK ME AGAIN YOU SHAPE-SHIFTING FREAK!?" Edward shouts angrily.
"HA! A Shape-Shifter-please; Kakarot couldn't pull that off even if he had the ability to do so, he's a terrible faker-always has been" Vegeta comments dumbly.
"HA! Like I'm gonna listen to an alchemic abomination who shoots explosive light bombs from his hands" Edward huffs as he folds his arms and turns his face away from Vegeta.
With a scarily intense growl, Vegeta's eyes glowed yellow and he shoot a sharp burst of Ki into Edward's butt.
"YIIIIII-YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! MY ASS IS ON FIRE!" Edward wails as he runs around in pain.
"See? Binding us was pointless for two reasons; that was the first-" Vegeta begins.
Then with an effortless grunt, he bulged his muscles, and his Ki flared, melting the metal fist that had contained him.
"Haaaa ho hooooo" Edward wheezes with horror as the molten remains of his offensive metal limb pooled around Vegeta's boots with no ill-effect on him whatsoever.
"This is the second" Vegeta says coolly.
In a flash, he appeared behind Edward and restrained him by his arms, holding them as far apart as possible to prevent him from using Alchemy.
"PUT ME DOWN YOU BASTARD OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!" Edward bellows.
"(Chuckle) Yeah, I don't think so shorty" Vegeta taunts.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT!? YOU'RE NOT MUCH TALLER THAN ME!" Edward whines angrily.
"Calm down, both of you!" I yell calmly, but firmly.
Immediately, they stopped-sensing the subtle threatening tone of my voice.
"Alright Edward, tell me who you think I' am-cause my name is Son Goku, and I'm as far from evil as stones are from clouds" I state authoritatively.
"You're a shape-shifter called Envy, a member of the ouroboros; why the hell should I believe a word you say!?" Edward argues fervently.
"Cause I'm gonna prove I'm not a shape-shifter or the person you think I' am" I state plainly.
With that, Edward stared at me in disbelief.
"Vegeta, do it" I order my friend.
"(Sigh) As you wish mighty Saiyan warrior" he says with an annoyed tone.
With that, he shoot another beam from his eyes, and severed my left arm.
"Yeah, big deal, in a few moments your arm is gonna just regenerate and…WHAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! ITS NOT REGROWING!" Edward shrieks with fright.
Edward Elric
I was 100 percent sure that this guy was the same one I'd fought earlier before the explosion and before I arrived here.
But then, he willingly had his own arm blown off! And to top it all off, it didn't regenerate!
"But…you…your arm…" I begin, trailing off as I stare at the cauterized bloody stump once again.
"But…if you're not a member of the Ouroboros then…who are you, and how do you know my name?" I ask, this time with apprehensive curiosity instead of anger.
"It's a VERY long story Edward" Goku says as he pulls a red satin pouch off his belt sash. Then popped a Golden bean into his mouth and began to crunch it.
Within seconds of swallowing it, the area around his elbow stump began to boil and bubble as though there was something beneath it.
Then, defying all logic-A FULLY FORMED ARM BURST OUT GOOD AS NEW!
"AAAAHHHHHHH! WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!?" I scream with pure bafflement.
"I ate a Golden Senzu bean, most marvelous food in this universe, and probably any one there is" Goku says calmly as he rotates his new arm at the shoulder joint in a test of flexibility.
"Ahhhh, see-good as new" he states with a smile as he flexes it gleefully.
I was about to say something, when I remembered his comment relating to "other universes".
"What do you mean by that, by "universes" what's that supposed to mean Goku?" I ask calmly.
"Kinda hard to explain in a simple way, perhaps we should wait on my son to come here and explain" Goku replies sheepishly.
"YOU ARROGANT JERK! I'M A CERTIFIED STATE ALCHEMIST-A FREAKIN GENIUS! JUST TRY ME!" I bellow; the insult to my intelligence stinging just as badly as those regarding my height.
Son Goku
I realized he wasn't going to rest until he got the answers he needed. But I knew I was definitely not the one to give them to him, as I was sure he still had doubts about my trustworthiness since he thought I was a villain known as Envy.
"Well I'm afraid I can't tell you what you want to know Edward, I'm not really qualified to explain" I apologize.
"(Groan) Figures, I knew you weren't too bright" Edward complains.
"(Growl) I'm going to ignore that comment since I have such a good disposition" I say as I focus on continuing where I left off.
"However, though I do not know how to explain the other universes issue to you, I know someone who can; my eldest son Adam" I say cheerily.
"But Adam isn't here, he went back with his wife and daughter for family time Kakarot" Vegeta argues.
With no effort at all, I flexed my muscles and powered up, snapping the metal fist encasing me like a twig.
"AAAHHHHHHH" Edward moans, his face looking like he had seen a ghost.
"That's why we raise our power levels Vegeta, Adam and the others are sure to come here if we transform into Super Saiyan 3" I reply.
"We'd better be careful then, the Lookout is nowhere near as stable as the arena continent" Vegeta warns.
"No kidding" I say as I begin to power up.
Edward Elric
When they said Super Saiyan 3, I became very curious.
"Hold on, what's this "Super Saiyan" stuff?" I start, until the ground begins to rumble.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Goku and Vegeta scream, as the ground begins to rumble violently, more so than before in fact!
Then, the wind picked up to hurricane strength, and I almost lost my footing.
To prevent that, I clapped my hands and transmuted some poles with handles to hang onto.
Soon, the wind became even more powerful, and their respective golden auras around them began to look more like a wild fire.
Eventually, the wind became so powerful, I had to transmute a pair of chains to put around my ankles because I couldn't keep my grip.
Then, the entire area rumbled, and a huge series of fissures spread out from where they stood. Unfortunately, some headed right for me!
The cracks buckled the area where the poles I'd transmuted, and caused them to loosen, and fly out-WITH ME CHAINED TO THEM!
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" I howl, as I am blown across the landscape.
But even worse, after a few thousand feet, I realized this whole area I had been at wasn't merely a fancy compound; IT WAS IN THE SKY!
Then, I was blown over the edge-AND I WAS FALLING BACK TO EARTH NOW!
"OOOOOOOHHHHHH SHIIIIITT!" I scream, as I begin to plummet to my death.
However, several seconds after my plummet began, I felt my momentum suddenly drop to zero; I'd stopped falling!
"Whoa…what the…" I say, as I trail off into amazement and speechlessness.
Suddenly, I felt myself begin to float back up again. Within seconds, I was back on the solid white tiles of the so called "Lookout".
I realized that some invisible force had levitated me upward, something…unnatural.
"Vegeta, I knew Edward would get on your nerves; but hell, that doesn't justify you killing him" a new voice states, filled with slight anger, but so soothing at the same time.
Son Adam/Psyagon
I had been flying around with my wife and daughter again, but then Goku and Vegeta's power levels went from high, to unbelievable for ordinary days.
In a flash, I warped space and zipped over to the Lookout. When I saw that Edward was falling over the edge, I quickly used my Psychokinesis and saved his butt from sure death.
"So, anyone care to tell me why Edward was blown off the edge and nearly killed?" I ask flatly.
"It was my fault son, I didn't make sure that we controlled our ascension to Super Saiyan 3 well enough; we generated too much power and wind from our transformation. We're sorry about that Edward" Goku says as he apologizes to Edward.
Over to the side, Edward was having a mental breakdown and whimpering like a beaten cat.
"Um…I think he needs medical attention son" Goku says calmly.
"Definitely" I reply as I float over to Edward and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Edward, please calm down-no one is going to hurt you" I explain in my most soothing velvety voice.
Almost immediately, his expression softened a little, and he stopped whimpering, though he was still crying and filled with pure terror.
"Hey-" I say as I gently grasp his chin and direct his eyes into mine so he can see how soft my expression is.
"-Its ok Edward" I continue, as I throw him into a soft hug and pat his back.
"Its ok" I whisper as I pat his head, calming him down as I emit golden energy of my own calmness into him at the same time.
After several minutes, the glazed expression coating Edward's eyes vanished, and he came to his senses.
"W-who…who are you?" Edward asks timidly, yet also with curiosity.
"I'm known by many names, my two most common are The Divine Saiyan Psyagon, and my real name-Son Adam" I reply softly.
"A-Are y-you a god?" Edward asks timidly.
"No, but I know the real one-and I work for him" I answer gently, giving him one last hug.
Immediately, Edward remembered seeing me instilling the golden energy that helped him calm down, I saw the realization in his eyes.
"It was you wasn't it; you saved me from dying and restored my body" Edward whispers in a monotone.
"Yes, that is correct Edward" I reply.
With a soft whine of repent, and a sigh of relief, Edward said, "So…maybe there really is a god of sorts after all"