Lands have rose up and have fallen down. The ground beneath quivered at the tremendous might of a dominant force that was making large dark shadows that was surrounding whatever light there was remaining on this land. Actually surrounding wouldn't be right description for the man that was desperately hanging on to his life. To him, it was devouring everything in sight.

His rapid breathing was heard coming out of his mouth. Heart kept beating so fast from his chest that it felt like his ribs would come out flying. The injured body he was wounded with wasn't helping his case at all. No matter how bad this was getting, he was going to clench his teeth and keep on going, even if his muscles and lungs were begging him to stop running. This could not be afforded. He was the last line of defense.

"Why do you continue to try to resist? Can't you see it's hopeless now?" Ichigo heard the man's voice as he kept on hopping between lands on the ground all while slicing the gooey shadows, approaching the dark shadows of a figure closer. Yes. He knew how futile it was for him to keep fighting. There was no-one else to help him. His Bankai might be destroyed at any moment. He could die at any moment. Yet he stubbornly persists, knowing he had to win this… somehow. "I see… so that is your response." he heard Yhwach sigh, with a grain of what was sworn to be sadness on his tone.

"Haaaaaarh!" Ichigo jumped above, charging down blindly with his sword raised so he could attack with all the strength that remained in him. He saw Yhwach not moving at all from where he was standing. The Quincy King just let Ichigo come down at him within blank range before he got down and striked with his sword with just random attack pattern with brute force at his side. "Haah! Haah! Haah! Grah!" Ichigo striked again and again, desperately hoping to cut down the King but the shadows just protected him with ease each time. Nothing was working.

Yhwach couldn't even budge a millimeter from the blows were coming at him. "Futile, futile, futile… do you not understand already?!" Ichigo just kept on swinging like a brute. "Even if you cut me down, my Almighty allows me to rewrite my own death! There is nothing you can do to stop me! So just stop this before your death becomes more painful!" Yhwach had shouted from the anger to his son of darkness. But he could not hope to convince the naive boy's ears. After all, the roles of Hero and Villain had to be played out, and only a victor could emerge from this.

Ichigo was gritting his teeth hard enough to the point where he might break them. His body was under so much pain but he refused to let that weakness be shown. "Enough of this!" the Soul King enhanced Quincy had then had his shadows try to pierce through the Tensa Zangetsu blade so they couldn't shatter apart like before. Except this time there were only cracks made out of it instead and it didn't move itself away within the boy's grasp. 'It's stronger than it was before! I have to end this right now before the tables turn!' he thought to himself, seeing Ichigo leaping at him again. 'It appears these will be your last hours, Ichigo… the part of me in your world warned you of the dangers like this, yet you choose this anyways. Oh well…'

Ichigo was prepared to use his Getsuga Tenshou to strike down again. To do this, he had used his energy to perform a Flash Step and he already got in front of Yhwach once more, this time crouching down while swinging his blade for his head. Suddenly he felt his body become a lot heavier, and sluggish when he heard the the sound of flesh being torn. The teenager looked down to see that his chest area has been cut through by through one of the shadows that formed into a tendril that pierced through his heart. "Hugh… gough!" he coughed up blood from his mouth as the tendril let go of him.

Ichigo felt his life already slipping from him. He could just barely hold onto his sword despite the pain screaming at him to let it go already. The color of his eyes were already starting to fade as well. He still wanted to move but he could barely just stand anymore. Yhwach saw the shocked look on his face before he moved in front of Ichigo, turning off his Almighty in the process as he had firmly believed that victory was his now. "There is nothing to frail about anymore. Your chances of winning this battle had been zero the moment I have used my ability on you. There's nothing else for you to do anymore."

He was going to die in just a few moments now. There was nothing nor anyone who could save him now. No-one was capable of standing up to his power now. Soon, his goal of merging all the worlds into one would be complete. And no-one would have to fear death anymore.

"...Not yet…"

Yhwach widened all of his eyes from the dark shadow of his figure. Before he knew it, Ichigo's large Bankai blade had pierced through the Quincy's heart. He had coughed up blood of his own with a pool of his blood leaking on the floor. 'The last defense mechanism in him! The final strike within in case he died! How could I forget that?!' Yhwach thought in shock. His guard had been down, and he had played the price for his arrogance. To think that his goals had been stripped away just like that…

Ichigo didn't know just how much longer he could last right now. The only reason he was clinging onto life at this point was out of sheer stubbornness. Despite this incredible will there was only so much he can hold on before his body gave up. Despite being steps away from death's door, the resolve of his iron willed determination to kill this man was far greater than the fear he had of death. So with that, Ichigo had kept trying to shove his sword further while it still remained within his grip. But the burning pain was becoming unbearable for his body to handle anymore.

"No…" Ichigo forcefully looked up to see Yhwach gripping onto his sword with his hand, looking as though he was trying to remove it. But Ichigo wasn't having any of that. "No…!" Ichigo could just see and hear the Quincy King's voice filled with anger. "No! NO!" actually scratch the anger back, he was enraged. "I CANNOT BE DEALT LIKE THIS! I HAVE COME TOO FAR TO BE STRANDED ASIDE! ESPECIALLY AT THE HANDS OF A MUT LIKE YOU!" Yhwach was practically screaming with every bit of bubbling rage he was releasing now that he was dying. And Ichigo found it odd that he didn't seem to be coming back from this. The dark shadows released by Yhwach were spreading themselves even faster than ever before, as if it was some disease. "IF I'M NOT GOING TO SEE THE WORLDS REUNITE WITH MY EYES, THEN I'LL JUST USE EVERY BIT OF MY POWER LEFT TO MERGE THEM AS ONE! EVEN IF IT SEEMS THAT WE'LL BOTH DIE HERE!"

The land of the Soul Society had been taken over by the shadows of Yhwach. The once proud stand had been completely ruined by now as the shadows have spread all over of what they could find, emerging the world into a total state of darkness. Yhwach had physically begun to disappear, his eyes all over had bursted like hot bubbles while the shadow goo was disrupting by melting itself down onto the ground. And Ichigo could only watch as the proud Quincy King had been removed from existence as there was no more weight holding behind his sword. Yhwach had gone down first. And soon it would be Ichigo's turn to disappear entirely upon this realm.

'I won…' the boy had mused to himself. He had won the battle, yet to him it felt hollow and empty. It didn't feel like he won at all. 'But what's even the point of that anymore? Even if Yhwach is dead, those shadow things are still moving to merge worlds into one place. There will be no-one to protect anymore. And I'm so tired…' Ichigo had been looking down at the empty soulless ground before he started falling back down as his body had finally succumbed to his injuries. His back had hit the ground on his back as the pool of his blood had been oozing out his body. 'If only I could have done better… the outcome wouldn't be like this. I just…' his eyes had started to go black, as abyss was coming down upon him. 'I just wish that… there was some other way for me to keep going. I just want to have a second chance to protect everyone around me…'

He had then finally closed his eyes, his last thoughts heard to himself before he had fallen to a state of deep slumber, never to be seen again from this world.

In the midst of outer space, there was a flying pod that was sent out to reach a destination, just so it could carry whatever was inside and clear it's mission. The inside of this pod carried a baby, one that had orange spiky hair and a brown tail. The baby in question watched with curious eyes aa he saw something bright and shiny through his glass, remaining completely oblivious as to what it was.

The baby didn't understand what was going on, lacking awareness as of the momentum until he grew older. Nor could he understand what was he doing on a flying space pod. Right now all he could do is shut his eyes and be taken over by his slumber until it awoke to a destination he was sent to.

In the middle of the Mount Patzu woods, there was an elderly man walking by in the bamboo forests with a large wooden bag that was strapped onto his back while carrying it with his hands over his shoulders. This old man had seemed to have been minding his own routine till he had picked up sounds of what seemed like crying. "Hm?" Curiosity had taken over the old man as he went ahead to investigate what was the noise, since it wasn't very often you got hear crying from these areas.

When Gohan had went ahead to see the source of the crying noises. He was both shocked and confused to see an unknown ship had somehow crash landed here without his knowledge that caused a crater to form. What was more confusing however, was that he saw a baby outside of this hatched pod that seemed to be crying his eyes out,

"My goodness!" the old martial artist had went ahead to walk towards Kakarot. "A little boy? What's someone like you doing all the way out here?" he tried to ask calmly but the only thing he got was senseless crying. Gohan had went ahead to pick up the baby in the air with his arms. This seemed to have stopped the toddler from crying before Gohan could see a tail coming out. "A tail?" Gohan chuckled. "You're quite a strange little fellow aren't you?"

The baby looked like he was trying to say something but the only thing that was coming out of him were baby noises. Another strange thing about this child was the strange style of his orange hair. The baby Kakarot had then kicked Gohan in the chin, which had the old man back away the baby from while he was giggling. "My, my! You're quite a feisty one aren't you? You should be more careful, I'm old enough to be your grandfather ya know?" Gohan said, but the boy didn't seem to pay attention.

Though then Gohan had seemed to remember something. "I do wonder what your name is…" the baby Kakarot didn't really seem to register his words as he was still giggling. "Well till I find out who you belong to, I'll have to come up with a name for you. Now what to name you…" he looked at the little Saiyan boy. The ship would have to be checked on later. The tail didn't really seem to be much of help with the name either.

A boy with a monkey tail? Well it seemed possible, but with the hair he had it didn't really seem to fit. Wait, his hair! Now that Gohan looked at it, the sheer amount of shiny brightness from that couldn't help him but remind him of the sun itself. Wait, the sun… if he remembered correctly, there were Mythologies of some Gods with that name weren't there?

Gohan looked at little Kakarot again, now that he came up with a name to call him. "I know! The name I'm going to give you till I found out where you belong little fella will be... Karna!"

The new named Karna giggled again. "Oh? You like it already then? Alright! Then from now on, Karna will be your name!"

Hello there everyone! Combatlighting here again with a new story to have it published! This is something that my Co-Author, Assasin_Ichigo, and I had been planning on to write for a while now.

Since you have seen the summary, and the read the very first chapter of this, you would get the idea that Ichigo is the reincarnation of Goku in this now that Yhwach has merged all the realms into one world. And most people that Ichigo knows are practically dead right now in his world. Also he has lost all his memories of his previous life so he doesn't remember anything. But the good news for me is that he will get them back extremely soon, which would make it a lot easier for me.

Also with Ichigo's name being Karna, my Co-Author and I didn't really agree that his name should be Goku since it was really weird and unfitting as both Ichigo and Goku are completely different people. So we looked up to see what his name could be till my Co-Author suggested the name from another Anime more or less. As for the hairstyle Ichigo currently has, just look at the Image that's for the story for a better visual understanding. You'll see why this is the case later on.

Also another thing to more or less warn is that there will be some DRASTIC changes throughout the Dragon Ball story of Ichigo's perspective, some changes that weren't really supposed to be there but will be added as it should be necessary to explain some things there.

Also if you enjoyed reading this, I really recommend if you check out my other stories I made. Because trust me you will not be disappointed with what I wrote for the other ones (except the abandoned ones). I would really appreciate it if you left reviews since it boosts my motivation.

And just one last thing… Merry late Christmas, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!