UPDATE 3: Chapter 6 is DONE. I'm just getting somebody to proofread it because it was written in the grip of both exams and hayfever, so I'm making sure it isn't total crap. So expect it soon! Finally!
UPDATE 2: Chapter 6 is almost done. It's a fairly long one, too. The reason for the continued delay is that in addition to exams, I have been afflicted by hayfever, which is highly annoying and makes it difficult to write. One week until I'm done with exams! Hopefully the chapter will be finished even sooner than that, though!
UPDATE: The next chapter is about halfway done. Sorry for the wait, guys. In less than two weeks I'll be done with exams and back to normal schedule.
Chapter 5: Notice of Resignation
Hadesu! Muteki no ryū!
Okay, something I want to quickly address here: Just in case you were wondering how long the bit with Goku and Raditz is going to go on for. Because yes, I know there hasn't been an explanation for what's even going on there forthcoming yet.
Basically: It will last until they've gathered all seven Dragon Balls, and defeated all the saiyans in their way. And this chapter should make it clear how many saiyans there are.
Also, a fairly important announcement at the end, plus some important-ish Qs and As in the Q&A this week.
Whis slowly rose from the ground, gaining speed and floating level with the top of the tower, before landing gracefully on the roof.
Alpha Shenron was standing a few feet away, arms folded, scowling at him. "You could have at least made it look like dispelling those barriers was an effort for you. They're supposed to stop anyone getting up here without passing through the whole tower."
Whis smiled sweetly. "Please. The counterspell was simple beyond belief. You should try harder with these things."
"It's not like I was expecting you," she grumbled. "What are you doing here, anyway?" She grew serious, turning to face him fully. "The Kaioshin create worlds. The Hakaishin destroy them. Equally, just as you create these universes, the Eternal consumes them. The balance is maintained." She took a step towards him. "You should not be here so close to the end. It's been too long since you've done your job."
"Maybe I've hung around in one universe too long," Whis offered. "Maybe I've gotten…attached to this one." His smile faded. "Besides…this 'balance' you speak of…what's so great about it? If the Eternal was stopped from destroying universes, I wouldn't have to create them. And that way, countless living beings wouldn't have to perish."
Alpha snorted. "You're a fool. It doesn't matter whether you care about them or not—it is for this reason that the Hakaishin are stronger than the Kaioshin—that the Eternal is stronger than you! The destroyer dare not harm the creator, or it will have nothing left to destroy—and the creator doesn't have the power to overcome the destroyer! This is a cycle you can't break!"
Whis sighed. "Well, true, the Eternal is a far greater being than I am…but I don't have to kill it, do I? Just you."
"You really intend to fight me? Over this?" She got no response, so threw off her jacket, dropping into a ready stance. "You've lost your mind. Very well—I'll beat you to within an inch of your life, and maybe then you'll realise you have no choice in your duties." Her eyes blazed red. "Come at me, Wistarion!"
The flamboyantly-dressed deity's eyes flicked left and right. This is indeed what was prophesied back then…the build-up of negative energy, 'the Shadow'…Alpha Shenron, 'the First'…and, of course, 'the Eternal'. Well, enough of that now. He whipped off the outer layer of his elaborate outfit, revealing a sleek red undersuit. A quick shake of his head took the rigidity out of his hair, bringing it flowing down over his shoulders. He kicked off the clownish black extensions to his shoes, leaving on the more sensibly-sized white beneath. Finally, the odd blue halo-like ring hovering around his neck blinked out of existence. All in all, he looked a completely changed being. "Wistarion…aah, it has been some time since I have been called by that name."
"Your little Hakaishin friend doesn't know?"
"All he knows is that I am something greater than him. Now…prepare yourself." Whis—or Wistarion—raised one arm to head-height, keeping the other hand clenched into a fist at his side. "Do not make the mistake of assuming that I am out of practice."
Inferno Gauntlet…
"Let's not waste any time talking," Break said, rapidly cycling upwards through her transformations to Super Saiyan 3. "And full power, this time."
"Gotcha." Uub powered up as well, his ki rising steadily until it matched Break's.
"Hey, you're at my level now?" Break grinned. "Nice work, kid."
"Kid? I'm twenty, thanks." His eyes narrowed. "And sorry, but I gotta overtake you now. KAIOKEN!"
Eighteen took a step backwards, shielding her face from the twin explosions of energy in front of her. Will this…be enough?
Hades Shenron didn't move, his expression behind the mask impossible to guess. "Well, come on then."
"All right!" Break made the first move, but she was barely half a step into her attack when Hades was among them, cloak swirling into her face as he dashed past her, throwing a punch into the side of Uub's face and launching him away into the air.
He went for the strongest first, of course… Eighteen brought an energy blast up while Hades' arm was still extended, hoping to catch him off-guard; his speed increased again, however, and he ducked backwards, flipping away to also avoid Break's attempt to kick his legs out from under him. He landed behind Break, grabbing her head as she was straightening up and throwing her upwards, before hurling her back with a casual, one-handed kiai. Eighteen fired again, this time at the ground at Hades' feet, throwing up a cloud of dust and rubble, then punched where she'd last seen him—but he was already behind her, flicking an energy bullet into the small of her back and sending her sprawling.
"Tch!" He grunted. "You fools with mortal power…coming at me with something pitiful like that…"
Uub blurred into view behind him, swinging both hands down, and Hades thrust an elbow backwards, driving the wind out of Uub before his own attack could connect. Stepping away from his coughing, shaking opponent, Hades sighed. "Really…this won't even entertain me for very long."
"Damn it…" Break stood, already sweating profusely in the unnatural heat. "He might really be even stronger than Gaia, like she said…"
"Heh. She does like to exaggerate," Hades chuckled. "While the strength of the Shadow Dragons generally increases as you climb the tower, personally I'd say my power is roughly equal to Gaia's. But, trust me…power isn't everything. She, or indeed you, couldn't defeat me no matter how strong you were. Not if you had a thousand years."
"Hey, what'd I say?" Break growled, charging up a two-handed energy blast over her head. "We don't have time to waste talking to you!" Yelling with the effort, she fired, the backblast carving out a mile-long trench in the blackened rock behind her.
Hades' voice continued to speak, now from directly behind her head. "Is that so," he whispered. "Well, if you say so." His hand drew back to strike again.
In the vicinity of the square root of –1'th dimension…
"Hmph," King Vegeta snarled, "Broly didn't kill either of them."
"Him and his father always were unreliable…" Nappa agreed.
Goku took another unsteady step. "Look, I'm a bit tired to run at you or anything, so why'nt you come to me, 'kay?"
"Nappa, dispose of this trash already," the king grumbled, turning away. "I have sullied my noble hands enough with his pathetic brother."
"It'll be over real quick, don't worry." Nappa cracked his knuckles, grinning sadistically. He lumbered towards Goku, swinging a fist down at the cracked ground. Goku was already moving, however, springing up to head height and landing a kick to Nappa's chin. The giant saiyan staggered back, growling, and quickly recovered, a hammer fist knocking Goku to his knees. Nappa struck again in quick succession, and Goku caught it two-handed, straining to hold the blow back. Argh…after Broly…barely got anything left…for this guy! If I was at full strength… He saw Nappa's other arm rising slowly. And it's taking both my hands just to hold back one…gotta do something, now!
"D-Didn't wanna use this again…Kaioken…!" Fire coursed through his tired limbs, and he threw Nappa's hand back with ease, performing another jump-kick and flooring the massive soldier, rendering him unconscious with a single strike. However, the red light almost immediately burned out, and he collapsed onto his face, holding in a scream.
King Vegeta turned, seeing both of them downed and rolling his eyes. "Oh, for—! Such an incompetent. I'll actually have to finish him off myself." He strolled over, forming a deep purple energy sphere and aiming it at Goku's head. "Goodbye, renegade."
It was at this point that a vicious blow took him in the stomach, doubling him over. This brought his head down into reach of the second, which snapped him back upright, giving him something of a concussion and sending him stumbling away, blood trailing from his mouth. Another impact took out his feet from under him, and then something hit his head again and everything went black.
Raditz stood over him, rubbing his bruised knuckles. "Don't fight so well when it's one-on-one, huh? Who did you say was weak again?"
Several miles away…
Bardock looked over to his prince, seated in midair. "Your scouter pick up the same thing as mine?"
"Indeed," Vegeta concurred, smiling unpleasantly. "Now all that's left is your squad, and myself. Which means, by the way, that killing them is now your job. I hope your feelings for your family won't interfere."
"Don't be ridiculous," Bardock said calmly, face turned away from Vegeta again so the prince wouldn't see the insincere look in his eyes as he said it. "Though I was under the impression that you wanted to fight them yourself. Or at least Kakarot."
"Well, look at it this way," Vegeta replied. "Either he'll become strong enough to interest me, and he'll kill you, and then I'll kill him. Or he won't, and you'll kill him, and I couldn't care less."
"Comforting thought," Bardock said, laughing softly. "Sorry to disappoint you, but I'll do my best not to die."
"Of course you will." Vegeta waved an idle hand. "Well, be on your way. We mustn't let them get bored."
The battle between Wistarion, creator of the universe, and Alpha Shenron, chief herald of the Eternal, began on top of the Shadow Dragons' tower.
It did not stay there for long.
It was no ordinary battle; they were truly gods, after all. They circled the planet, appearing for brief moments in the sky all around the globe. When they clashed, those below saw merely sudden storms of lightning, heard thunderclaps that were audible for thousands of miles. Earthquakes were reported in several regions.
Fire filled the sky over one city. A strange pressure afflicted the inhabitants of another, causing them to bleed from the eyes and ears. A third almost froze as heat was sucked away from it, formed into a great burning lance that blazed out into the heavens. Lightspeed was a distant memory; they were breaking it with every movement, visible only as a series of uncoordinated flashes of random colour even to each other as the light rays hitting their bodies were smashed aside by their impossibly-fast attacks and manoeuvres.
Still the fighters rose higher, rapidly escaping the Earth's atmosphere and continuing their battle in the cold void of outer space. They were still in the planet's gravitational field, however, and after tens of thousands of attacks, when Alpha finally landed a solid hit, it was back towards Earth that Wistarion fell.
Propelled by her attack, he fell in a corona of flames, desperate to regain his balance, an enraged falling star. He stopped himself barely a mile from the Earth's surface, using his energy as a shield to cancel out a blast wave which would have caused unthinkable damage. He turned his head towards the heavens, seeing her following him, wreathed in a blaze of power, a malicious bolt of lightning on a collision course with him, or if he dodged, the Earth. So he braced himself to meet her charge, and an immeasurably-short instant of time later, the unstoppable force crashed head-on into the immovable object. They grappled with each other, each straining with the force to unmake countless worlds to get some advantage over the other.
"You're tiring too quickly," Alpha hissed. "When was the last time you fought a real battle? We make war as a way of life! You can't match my experience!"
"Experience? I am far older than you can comprehend, dragon."
"I thought age came with wisdom. You have strayed from your duty!"
"My duty is to these people now! And what will you do? Kill me?" Wistarion grinned. "Then who will make universes for your master to devour? The Eternal will starve without me!"
"There's a lot I can do to you…" Alpha growled, pulling her hands away and charging up energy blasts in both hands. "…short of killing you!" I can handle this one, hopefully. As for those in the tower…even if they defeated Gaia, I have no fear of them progressing any further. Of all of us Shadow Dragons, I consider only two to be truly invincible.
Hades is one of those two.
"Damn it…" Pan made another dive, snatching a pair of children out of the path of the onrushing waters. She set them down on higher ground, pausing to catch her breath. I was trying to get back to the tower…but something's causing all these natural disasters all over the place! I guess it's my grandfather's influence, but even though I know the whole universe it at stake, I can't just leave these people with all these earthquakes and floods going on…I guess I'm too much of a short-term thinker.
But still…what's happening up there? She turned at the sound of another collapsing building. "Give me a break…" Gritting her teeth, she ran off towards it.
Inferno Gauntlet…
Another explosion brought Hades Shenron's three opponents down once more. Uub rolled over onto his back, pushing himself off the ground, panting. Been pushing…Kaioken to the limit…still, nothing!
Hades looked on in surprise. "Why do you still get up? Have you learned nothing? Your power and speed can't do a thing to me!"
"Gonna…die anyway…" Break muttered, swaying to her feet. "…'F we keep fighting…a miracle or something might happen…better chance than sitting back and waiting for the end…"
"Huh. I'll never understand you lower beings." He sighed. "Perhaps I should show you the true futility of your efforts." Folding his arms, he approached them slowly. "You may all hit me, simultaneously, with your strongest attack. I'll even lower my power to its minimum, so your pathetic strength might actually damage me. What say you to that?"
"Well…" Eighteen answered, rising slowly. "If you're giving us this chance, I bet you've got some weird ability that'll let you survive…but it's a better shot than we've got so far, so what the hell."
"Excellent. Show me what your little power can do." Hades stood perfectly still, ki dropping almost to zero as promised.
"Go for it!" Uub yelled, burning his Kaioken to its maximum and bringing a full-power Kamehameha to bear. Next to him, Break and Eighteen also let fly their own charged-up beams. The three met in the air, mixing into a single, larger attack inches from Hades before violently colliding with him. He was instantly thrown back by the impact, body wracked and twisted with overwhelming force. When he hit the burned ground, he was half-disintegrated, large chunks of him blown completely away by their combined power.
Eighteen lowered her hands, blinking. "Okay…or not. Guess he was just dumb."
"Yeah, that would barely have scratched him if he hadn't lowered his power like that," Uub agreed.
However, their celebrations were, of course, premature. Almost immediately, wisps of black smoke erupted from the ground around Hades' unmoving body, enveloping him completely. A few short seconds later, he rose through the dark cloud, fully-reformed, power back to its previous, ridiculously high level. "There. You see? Futile. Even if I stand there and let you hit me, even if I lower my power completely, you can't defeat me."
"Meh," Break said.
"'Meh'?" Hades spluttered. "'Meh'? I just recovered from that, and all you have to say is 'meh'?!"
"Well, we've fought enemies that can regenerate before, is all," Break explained, smiling at him. "And Buu did it much quicker than you."
"Hah! Regeneration? Regeneration is nothing." Hades indicated himself. "Death…the underworld…these are my domain. I cannot die. All I require is one evil soul from Hell to resurrect myself, even if my body is completely destroyed, no matter if not a single atom remains! That soul is then bound within my body, fuelling my continued existence." He laughed. "I don't actually have that many within me…it's not an ability I need to use very often, since most enemies I face are like you. Worthless."
Eighteen frowned. "Just felt like showing off today, eh?"
"This tower is an idea we only use occasionally, and when we do…it's not often that someone even manages to reach me. So I felt you deserved to at least know the full hopelessness of your battle."
"And Hell isn't exactly short on evil souls…not that we can really tag you when you're actually trying…" Break mumbled. "Great."
"How perceptive. But I think I'm almost done here." He raised one hand to the sky, the darkened red sky with its drunk-looking sun tracing its irregular circle about the horizon. Ripples of power expanded from his open hand, hurling his opponents away once again.
Hades lowered his hand, snorting. "Hah! Is that all this universe is capable of producing? I expected better."
"Aagh…" Uub sat up, wincing. "He's too much…there's no way…we can fight something like this…"
"Hey, now," a friendly voice said behind his ear. "I thought you were Goku's star pupil. I didn't think he taught his students to give up."
Uub looked back, mentally grinding to a halt as he saw the new arrival standing in the doorway. "Uh…Master…Roshi?"
The old martial arts teacher gave a cheery wave. "How's it going, everybody?"
Okay, hey there all! I said there'd be an important announcement, and here it is:
It's exam season again. And these particular exams are EXTREMELY important and I have been revising like crazy—and shall continue to do so.
The upshot of all this? Updates here might—MIGHT—slow down (by how much, I don't know). I'll try and keep as close to a weekly schedule as I can, but for a few weeks, no guarantees.
Naturally, back to normal schedule after that.
Anyway, also as I said, some of these Q&A's are kind of important, so I'll just get on with those straight away.
Q: [Note the following is not meant to be offensive to you at all, it is just a possible correction I would like to point out.] When Whis shows up Alpha Shenron asks why the Creator is here. Whis has nothing to do with Creation. He isn't the God of it unlike common belief, Akira Toriyama revealed that the Supreme Kais are the ones who make planets. Akira Toriyama also revealed Whis' role in things, Whis is an attendant to the God of Destruction, he is basically Beerus' Mr Popo, his job is to train the Universe 7 God of Destruction and to help him in his duties. If Whis were the God of Creation and Beerus the God of Destruction, why would Whis train Beerus and make him into a Galaxy Buster level character? They would be exact opposites, ruining the work of each other. They probably wouldn't hang around each other either. Now that I've typed up that long message I want to add in that this is an amazing story and I am a fan. The entire reason for this correction is because I love this story, it's a favorite of mine. Now I feel as though I can waste three more lines saying some extra useless sentence or phrase just because I don't want to send the comment yet. Well there you go. Lines written for days.
A: Oooookay, where to begin. Oh! With this: No offence taken, don't worry, you were just trying to correct me.
However:
-Whis is only ever shown, in the movie, to be Bills' assistant at first…and then at the end, it's revealed that he's actually the stronger of the two, and Bills' martial arts teacher, which raises all sorts of questions. So I decided that, for EFB, he's actually a higher being hiding out as Bills' assistant, which is why he's so powerful.
-The Kaioshin create planets, the Hakaishin destroy planets. Whis (in this story only, as far as canon goes we don't know what his deal is yet) creates universes, the Eternal destroys universes. Same thing, higher scale.
-Galaxy buster? I'm pretty sure the more correct translation of that line is "solar system".
Thank you anyway, I can see where your concerns came from, but rest assured I'm on top of things.
Q: Firstly..,
Janemba, did you say? A being of purest evil." Strange...I could have sworn that I've heard the name 'Janemba' before...but where? Never mind. Focus.
Secondly
raditz and goku both knowing dragon fist? And kabito and kaioshin seemingly knowing something about it...
Are these going to be explained soonish?
A: Soonish, yes.
Q: Captain Space, can you guess and tell me how is it that Kuriza never attacks Earth on DBZ canon and never try to seek revenge on Goku and company for killing his Frieza and King Cold. Also, how strong is Raditz in Even Further Beyond.
A: Sure! The reason is that Frieza is still alive at that point in canon, so talks his son out of doing anything rash (Frieza wants to take revenge himself, and doesn't believe Kuriza is mature enough for that sort of mission yet). In BTtL, Frieza's already dead.
Raditz is…hmm, don't know exactly. I mean, he's still a Super Saiyan 3, but he's had a lot of time to train that since the Buu saga. Let's say, the proportional difference between Namek-era SSJ and FPSSJ is about the same as the difference between Raditz in the Buu saga and now.
Q: Captain Space, I like to some questions again:
BTtL Future Gohan is alive, is Future Pan is going to exist in the BTtL Mirai Timeline and does Mirai Gohan have a tail.
2.I want Even Further Beyond series finale to have a similar ending to DBGT finale "Until We Meet Again" in which where Goku jr. and Raditz jr. to fight each other at the World Martial Arts Tournament. Also, Goku's staue will be feature in the Tournament and not Hercule's statue because he was beaten on screen twice. Also, I want to see Kuriza to achieved the 6th form and have human girlfriend and has a Half Human/Half Frost Demon descendant living on Earth.
3. What happened to Hercule in Even Further Beyond, is he still alive and is trying to improve himself and will Valese appear in Even Further Beyond because she was Goten's girlfriend in DBGT and I want to see Vegeta jr. to have a human girlfriend just Goten and have a descendant living on Earth.
4.I want you to create a another planned story which involves around at the BTtL Future Timeline. It tells the story of Future Gohan, Future Break, and Future Broly after the events of "Siege of the Androids" in the BTtL Timeline. I want the story to take place after the defeat of the Androids but before the Majin Buu Saga.
5.I want Raditz sword to be upgraded in Even Further Beyond. I want Raditz upgraded sword to generate and can fire lightning and have a stronger cutting power and can fire and generate sonic wave. Also, I like Raditz sword to have the ability to generate Lightning force field shield and can fire Ice Lightning blast and can generate ki. I like the Sword to be called "Ice Lightning Storm Katchin Sonic Sword."
Space, can you tell me the canonical divergence between Break Through the Limit and Dragon Ball Z. For example, Gohan and Videl became childhood best friends when they are 11-12 years old instead of being friends at teenagers. Or Raditz, Zarbon, and Baby are the reformed villains instead of Piccolo, Vegeta, and Good Buu.
7. How strong is Kuriza in Even Further Beyond. And since you've mentioned BTtL Goku is stronger than canon Vegeta, is he strong as canon Goku. Yes or No
A: 1. I don't think Future Gohan has a tail. The chance of Gohan meeting Videl in the future is pretty small, even if she is alive, so if there is a Pan she'd be very different to the present one since she'd likely have a different mother.
2. I'm not sure if I'll do that…I'd kinda like to just end it with the villains beaten and everybody like, "is it finally done? Whew. Barbecue, anybody?" Or something relaxed and peaceful like that. Or perhaps more subdued and mournful than that, depending on if any characters died in the battle or not.
As for Kuriza, I'm not sure if there even is a 6th form, and his species is pretty different from humans. I don't think they can have kids. I mean, to be blunt, we've seen Frost Demons naked and they…they don't…work like humans…in that way, so I really don't think them cross-breeding with humans is even possible.
Kuriza may have an epilogue of some sort, though. Maybe.
3. I don't know, Hercule is probably a professional wrestler or a gym instructor or something. I will probably not include random minor characters from GT, no. Some of these characters may already be in relationships after 20 years, but there are so many characters I haven't had time to detail all of them. Maybe I'll reveal some at some point.
4. First, I'm done with the future timeline, as I've said repeatedly. Second, what's "Siege of the Androids"?
5. I don't think Raditz would randomly get something like that. Besides, I'm not sure if you can add technological upgrades to Katchin. It's a pretty good sword anyway, it's made out of the hardest material in the universe.
6. The original canonical divergence is that Goku defeated Piccolo easier at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. That tiny change caused a larger change, which caused an even larger change, which spread out to affect countless other things, such as the things you mentioned. I changed a few things related to non-canon/movie/GT characters to fit the story better, and of course this final story arc is heavily altered from GT's version, but other than those everything can be traced back to that.
7. Kuriza is…pretty strong? I don't know. Maybe somewhere between Semi-Perfect Cell and FPSSJ level.
Well, EFB Goku is stronger than a SSJ2 in base, and stronger than a SSJ3 with a Kaioken x2, and he can take the Kaioken higher, so…yeah, he's stronger than canon Goku. But not that much stronger.
…
Your reviews tend to have a lot of questions, not to mention a few demands.
Q: I fought there was 7 floors but u got two shadow dragons in one room then
A: It looks like there are seven floors from the outside, but the inside is…weird. I mean, currently the heroes are in a part that doesn't even look small enough to be inside the tower at all…it looks more like they're outdoors to them right now, so yeah. The inside and outside do not match.
Q: so, whis is weaker than the eternal, but he still is going to fight all of the shadow dragons by himself?
A: To be fair, he doesn't have to fight the Eternal if he can kill Alpha.
Q: Whis, I had already guessed, was the Creator god...but what's Alpha talking about, how he should be doing his job? Guess he's supposed to passively let them destroy a universe while he builds a new one. Seems a bit one-sided.
A: Indeed, which is one of the reasons he's had enough.
Q: And one final question that just occurred to me, would your Alpha Shenron, due to having divine ki, be more powerful then GT's Omega in your opinion?
A: Yes, since in my opinion GT characters from SSJ4 and up have very high levels of demigod ki. But I needed Alpha to be a challenge to Battle of the Gods-level beings.