11pm that same Tuesday night Son Goku woke feeling fully recovered, he felt a faint surge of Ki but discarded the feeling thinking it impossible. But when he saw the thin stranger, appearing even skinnier lying unconscious across him beyond the embers realised the man had to have been responsible for his unnatural recovery and astonishing vitality. Goku got up and went back to see the students, most were now awake and he talked to them and instructed them not to panic and that he would get them home safely.
Goku left the rocky beach and walked till he found an empty road, in which he waited a few minutes till the headlights of a car shine his way. Goku quickly went and stood in the middle of the road waving his hands, till her person behind the wheel startled stepped firmly down on the brakes. . . Before five in the morning Goku was back in his apartment, lying contentedly on his couch in one of Satan city's residential district: Hours earlier when the single car on that empty road has stopped, and the driver (a woman) had stepped out to yell at and call him crazy, Goku had cut in during her expletives;
"I need to make a call! Be patient and listen, I'm a driver for one of the school buses of prem high, there was an accident and I have thirty adolescents with me that need to get home to their troubled and anxious parents."
Goku had not need to convince the woman further, for the woman being a resident of Satan city had heard the news of the fiery tragedy and of the missing thirty highschool students. The woman had two friends, one was a troubled and wailing mother, the other was a police commissioner. (the latter was a man she intimately knew) The cops were the first to be called, parents came later. Goku explained to the cops as best he knew it, though omitting the fact of Nobody being the reason behind the explosion: Nobody was taken to the hospital and the cops would later find out that the man had no identity, and was not registered in the database. The stranger truly was a nobody.
He had decided to pay for all of Nobody's treatment, and would fix him inside his apartment once discharged. Till then Goku would sleep as an happy man, without any tragedy on his conscience.
At midnight the next day Goku, whom in his apartment had been unable to wake up woke up. As his eyes opened to the darkness of his sitting room, Goku became puzzled; there was no wariness in his eyes or body to make him feel like had had slept. Strange. He thought. But more so was the dark, for in the sitting up Goku looked to the window and saw that it was still dark out.
' All that stress and I couldn't even get an hour of sleep? ' said he to himself annoyed.
During the years Son Goku had been spending as a retired martial artist, the man had lost some of his hard acquired patience and now easily got annoyed and irritated. Just as he'd now become at the thought of not being able to sleep.
But when his eyes unintentionally glanced down at the watch, still strapped to his wrist, Goku was surprised to be surprised. Cause he had been certain to have gotten home sometime before the sun could come up, but now eyes affixed he saw the time to be 2am.
' Nani! ' He uttered and it wouldn't be his last.
Certain now that he'd overslept Goku decided to check if he'd gotten any newspaper from the now passes day, and as he hoped he indeed had. For as he switched on the lights, it was lying down there at beneath the door, but as Goku bent down to pick up the magazine he notices the bit of hairs on his exposed arms to be. Red? They were they'd been painted with blood.
Son picked the item up whilst focused on the hairs, which for he made his way to the one bedroom to look himself in his large mirror to confirm. While on the way, Goku also noticed the cuts on his arms, the firmness of his skin; inside his bedroom Goku tossed the magazine unto the matress, and took off his work uniform shirt to expose his upper body to the mirror. And Goku found that he could hardly recognize the Saiyan man looking back at him, it hadn't simply been his hairs having transformed into that familiar so long ago red that pronounced his ascension into Saiyan godhood that surprised him. But rather the youthfulness of his own appearance, Son Goku was lean, ripped and young.
Goku's bewilderment turned to curiosity and his curiosity turned to disappointment, despite appearing to be in the super Saiyan god form, Goku did not possess any (as he believed) of the stats or abilities. He was still within the confines of human limitations, and it so grieved him that he threw himself down unto his matress and lad there a while before deciding to catch up on the latest news...
It was there headlined on the third page: The miraculous and tragic event of the prem highschool bus.
With a slowly rising heartbeat Goku read what had been printed, which had miraculously been the discovery of the thirty students, as well as the tragic discovery of the bus driver's body which had been burnt beyond recognition. It was at that point Goku repeated the word, ' Nani! ' still being bedazzled by the printed nonsense he went ahead to read about how the bus driver's family had come, confirmed, and recovered the body from the morgue.
A rage which was sourced by his discovery came over him, and instinctively without meaning to incinerated the newspaper: the item had caught on fire that had risen from the hands holding it and immediately been reduced to ashes. Goku's rage at the shock of what he'd been able to do, erased his rage and the orange flames vanished. Where they'd gone Goku supposed back inside of him, but he couldn't be sure, he searched and was unable to find the source. Goku however suspected the why something this unprecedented could be happening to him, and got dresses determined to have a word with. Nobody. In the heat of his determination, Son Goku left his apartment only to find himself out on a subglaciar with Aurora's in the sky and pillars of elements in the distance. With mouth agape, Goku looked back at the building in which was his apartment. To his surprise it was gone, and now he was freezing.
' Fuck ' he swore...
Bemused and displeased Goku had been all the while journeying through the strange extraordinary plane with an air of mystique. He was not happy and he wasn't quite sure if there was actually was anything to be unhappy about: There was the bit of news, which as it now happens could be true or false, if stepping out of that door he has stepped out into the midnight street of his residential area, he could have a solid reason to be unhappy. But fortunately unfortunately he did not. And there is to him the why would his family, give two fucks about his body, everyone he knew friends, children, and Chichi have all decided ten years ago to treat him like he was dead.
Why they had all been so extreme Goku could never figure out, but those angry and disappointed expressions they had all worn back then he could in no way forget, nor did it need figuring out. They had treated him with contempt, as if he was shit or vomit: That hardly matters to him now, they forsook him and he accepted that majority decision without demur. However Goku still was trying hard to figure out why he was in this situation. Is a wizard at work? Am I in a dream, perhaps comatose? That could be, but why here, where is here... Wait how long have I been walking. He stopped and checked, his watch which was still working showed 4.21. It's been over two hours. Is that relevant? Or perhaps am again dead and this is heaven... I've been to heaven, this isn't it and there's no fucking Halo above my head. Goku thought feeling his heartbeat hastening at the building rage, which crumbled as he heard:
"What are you doing here..."
Goku glanced about alert, surveying the Aurora sky, and the ambiance with his eyes, and he realized the voice seemed to have boomed in from within the distant sound of sea waves; "no wrong question, how did you get here?" asked the voice sounding familiar.
The retired MA practitioner wasn't stupid (at least not anymore) neither was he dull of hearing, thus within seconds he remembered and identified the voice.
' Nobody the fuck are you asking me, I don't fucking know where this FUCKING is, I believed you might. You saying you don't? ' replied Goku irritated feeling like he was being falsely accused for something he knew nothing about. Just like back then.
"This is my sanctum and not at all a place I expect you to be, and... Wait a moment," He would have been alert but the waves distracted him.
"Oh my, you've changed." said Nobody appearing behind Goku, whom annoyed turned without apprehension at the suddenness, and spoke without thinking.
' And you haven't you skinny fuck! '
Goku regretted his thoughtless blurt when he saw the unpleasant savagery in Nobody's blazing cold blue eyes. This damn hell cursed wraith will kill me. He thought. But seeing his life not having flashed before his eyes, thought, all shall be well. And indeed in that moment it was, for with a sage like mastery Nobody reined in his unusual Savage desire to murder.
"Tell me, what exactly happened before..." he asked with practised equanimity.
' It all began with the phantom vortex that spewed you out, you crashed through the bus's windshield and perhaps into me, then my visions before waking up opposite you, '
"You said perhaps, why?"
' Cause I think I lost consciousness as soon as the windshield was compromised, '
"Alright, go on what else?" He asked.
' After the police interrogations and that you've been settled in the hospital, I went home... I believed I went home, and I woke up, skipping a bit ahead found and took up the daily news magazine I read when in noticed my transformation- '
"Which is?"
' Super Saiyan god, ' replied Goku the frown back to note his irritation.
"I'll circle back to the SSG. This news magazine, what did it contain?" Nobody genuinely was curious and presently was multi-thinking.
' The miraculous discovery of the students, and the tragedy of my death: apparently my body was found burnt beyond recognition and recovered by my family, ' answered Goku.
"Any mention of me?"
' No just that. '
"And what is your conclusion?"
'I don't believe it's true, couldn't be. We both know am not dead. Right?'
Nobody saw that Goku needed to be assured on his life's status, he sympathized.
"I don't think you're a restless ghost, neither do I think what you read was a lie made up by your subconscious to trick you. But to be sure you need to go back to reality,"
Goku was feeling suddenly hopeful, he didn't think he cared about life this much. But alas being alone and single does have it's perks.
' Is there a way? Can you send me back? ' asked Goku eagerly.
"You may have without my knowledge by some mystical or cosmical ruse entered my sanctum, but it is still my domain and I will expell you. However, super Saiyan god, what is that?"
' It is a form of power I achieved over a decade ago through the combined ki of others like me into my body, allowing me to ascend to a godly state that I may have the power to face my for. A god of destruction of my universe, Lord Beerus, whom at the time was threatening to destroy earth. ' said Goku.
"Earth uh... No matter. We are both for now linked in this shady matter, and need find out more. For that to happen we must wake up, and face your reality."
When Goku wakes up, he'll remember those latter words from Nobody and wonder as to what they mean. At the moment everything went black.
