Nexus HWR 12.0 Since He Left:

One Month Ago…

At the base of a frozen mountain, in between the crumbling natural formation and the hundreds of new craters lining the landscape on the other side of him, was a small boy with spiky hair. Pieces of robots lay on the ground all around and the men in front of him were covered in their own blood. The boy had just flown in to save these three men from the robots that had cornered them, but they did not look too appreciative of the boy who recently told them their name.

"Where are you going?" Goku asked.

"You are coming with us," Apragus told him. Goku frowned that he was not asked, but he lifted up his eyebrows and started smiling after the next sentence the Saiyan told him. "We are returning to see the King."

These were the last words the man with long spiky black hair said to Goku before lifting off and flying away. His comrades followed behind him, one of them carrying the other who was too weak because of his missing arm and blood loss as a result of it. "The King huh?" Goku asked as he shot after these men. His hair was no longer gold but even black it stayed spiky, even if there were more spikes now all going different directions. "I heard he's a really strong guy!" The boy shouted over the wind.

Apragus ground his teeth as he continued flying forward. One of the other two men though, the one with vertical scars over his paling face, Dobaka, turned his head towards the kid flying on his right side. The bald man coughed up some blood that got on Bora's shoulder, the man who was carrying him, then called out, "You haven't met the, King, before?" He coughed some more and tried to reach up his left arm to wipe his mouth, only to grimace as nothing happened because he was missing that arm.

"No," Goku replied. The little kid's face turned somewhat serious, "But I heard from my friend that he's a really bad guy. I want to fight him."

"You would fight, your own… King?" Apragus shouted, spinning around and glaring at the kid at first, then stopping himself and calming down by the end of his sentence. "Nevermind," he muttered turning back forward and continuing to fly at full speed.

"He's not my King," Goku called out in response the the man whose long hair reminded him a lot of someone he once fought, long ago yet when he was a dozen years older.

Dobaka chuckled and his laughter caused him to cough some more which got more blood on Bora's right shoulder. "If you're going to die, do it already," Bora snapped, giving his comrade an elbow in the side that made the one-armed man wince but grind his teeth together instead of opening his mouth to let more blood splash out. "And clean my armor when we get back if you live that long," the man with short hair growled.

Goku frowned at the chubby, mean Saiyan, but the man on his shoulder just grinned a bloody white smile as he continued laughing in his throat. As if ignoring his comrade, he spoke to Goku, "If you are a Saiyan, then the Saiyan King is your King, isn't he, Kakarott?" Dobaka started laughing and he wound up coughing more blood up.

Goku came to a complete stop out of nowhere. Apragus did not notice at first because the boy's energy was masked by his Power Blocker, but Bora shouted up at him to stop and the long haired man turned to see the boy had stopped flying. "What is it?" Apragus snapped.

"The King," Goku mumbled slowly. "He's a Saiyan?" His eyes opened up wide as he wondered if the evil King was actually a Super Saiyan like him. Or even an ascended Super Saiyan, or a Super Saiyan 3?!

The kid started shaking in anticipation but he stopped when Bora growled towards him, "Yeah, our King, the Saiyan King, is a Saiyan. Who did you think we were bringing you to? That fucking Ant?" The spiky haired boy tilted his head in confusion, and the man carrying his bloody comrade growled gutturally as it seemed Goku was still confused. "We're Saiyans," Bora began again, motioning at himself with one arm while holding onto Dobaka's with the other.

"The Saiyan King is different from the other King?" Goku asked, and he felt a huge feeling of relief rush over him before he even knew it. "That's great," he said in a more relaxed tone. "Though I still want to fight him," he mentioned and a smirk came back to his face as he continued to fly.

Apragus shook his head and he flew forward to continue leading the group. This is turning out to be a weird day. At least I'm still alive, he glanced back as they flew hundreds of miles per hour and frowned deeply. You never told me Kakarott was just a kid. I'm disappointed in you.

"Wait out here," Apragus growled down at the small Saiyan boy who flew to the top of the tallest mountain with him and his fellow two Saiyans. He looked to his comrades next and growled at Bora, "Take Dobaka to the hospital. Don't want to get his blood in the King's house."

Goku did not look at the other two men who left for a larger building at the top of the mountain. Apragus glanced back at the child for another second to see Goku looking past him at the house on his other side. As soon as they arrived on top of the mountain, the men told Goku he could take off his Power Blocker and telling from the other people he had felt up there, Goku realized they must have passed through a barrier that blocked all ki's that were inside from being felt outside. Apparently the three Saiyans he was with had taken theirs off somewhere but had had to leave without getting them back on, so they only told Goku he could take his off after they got on the mountain. Now that he was on top of the mountain, he could feel Saiyans all around him, yet the most powerful Saiyans on the entire mountain were the two he felt inside the building directly in front of him.

This King guy is really strong. I wonder if he's a Super Saiyan? Goku looked to his left towards a busy street that only started a hundred feet away from the front door of the two-story building he was standing before. There was a market down it a ways, and houses on both sides of the road that was made of dirt and unpaved. All of the Saiyans he could see felt strong, and he wondered, Are any others Super Saiyans? They could all be masking their energies, but Vegeta always made it seem like a really rare thing to happen...

"Stay," Apragus repeated to the kid who did not look focused at all. He sighed as the boy only turned to him and smiled, then the Saiyan with long spiky hair knocked on the door in front of him twice. He waited a few seconds, then they heard a gruff voice come from inside. It was a voice Goku had never heard before, but it sounded familiar somehow. Apragus opened the door and walked inside, closing it behind him.

Goku sensed the man's energy as he got farther away, and he himself grinned that he had not taken off his PB-6 like they told him he could. He waited until the man felt like he had walked into a different room from how far away he was, then the boy who was masking his own energy on top of wearing a Power Blocker stepped towards the door and twisted the bronze knob slowly.

The front door of the house creaked open, and Goku winced at the noise and froze. He listened around, but heard loud talking around a half-wall in the living room on his right where he could see a part of what looked like a kitchen. Apragus's back was partially visible, but the man was faced away from him talking to someone out of sight. Goku snuck forward and he looked around the first two rooms of the house. There was a staircase on his left at the far edge of a common room that was small and had a bunch of chairs on a rug in it and nothing else. He wondered what was upstairs for a second, but got more interested in the King whose voice he could hear and turned the other way. He looked to the far right of the living room to his right that had a couch in it and a television near the windows. Goku was surprised at the sight of a tv, as ever since coming to Nexus he could not remember a time he had seen one in a house as a commonplace item. There were big screens in Metropolis for advertisements, but he did not recall ever seeing a flatscreen like the one the King of the Saiyans had in his living room. That must be what 'living like a King' means, Goku thought as he tiptoed through the living room.

Goku got closer to the edge of the dividing wall between the two halves of the first floor. He could make out a dining room table, and more of Apragus's nervous expression as the middle-aged Saiyan warrior reported about his mission. "...The meeting with the Frost Giants started out shaky, as expected. Ymir himself didn't show up, guess he figured you wouldn't be there either-"

"What happened to Dobaka?" Apragus stayed silent as the other voice of the man Goku could not yet see spoke up. The other voice continued angrily, "I could sense his flickering power. What happened to you out there? It's been days!" A loud crash made Apragus wince and Goku looked at the Saiyan who was the strongest of the three he met in surprise that the man looked nervous here.

The long haired Saiyan calmed himself down a bit and started, "One of the Frost Giants, right when the meeting started looking up, he stood up and his eyes glowed red. Turns out, Terminus snuck into the fucking meeting. Bastard self-destructed, killed most of the Frost Giants, and then a whole fucking army of Terminators showed up."

"And you defeated this army?" The King asked, sounding semi-surprised.

"Actually..."

"Who are you?"

Goku jumped, having been too focused on listening to this King talk that he forgot to pay attention directly behind him. The power he initially felt upstairs was downstairs now, and Goku could see a shadow looming over him. He slowly turned around while opening his mouth to respond, and was getting even more nervous as the other two voices had stopped talking as they had definitely heard whoever was behind Goku. "Umm, I-" Goku began, but that was all he managed to say before dropping his jaw the rest of the way at the sight of the figure behind him.

The muscular man had on a long-sleeved black muscle shirt that accentuated his toned figure that was broadest at the shoulders. His hair was as long as Apragus's, even longer actually so it was as long as Goku's in his Super Saiyan 3 form. Goku looked the man up and down and stopped on the figure's face, while the menacing-looking man himself glared at Goku's face, though his eyes examined the kid's hair closely as well. Normally he would have attacked a stranger in his home on sight, but the short child's hair had him faltering from his first glance of the kid's head. He looked into the boy's eyes again, black eyes of a Saiyan that matched the brown furry tail sticking out behind him unlike the man's own tail that was wrapped around his waist like every other Saiyan Goku had seen in the last few hours.

"I'll ask you again," the older man growled down at the kid while two others stepped out of the kitchen behind him. The man who Goku recognized very well crossed his arms and took a step towards him, glaring even harder at the boy as he did. "Who, are, you?"

"Raditz?" Goku asked. His eyebrows narrowed, but they un-narrowed after a second as the older man's eyes turned into saucers. The boy scratched the back of his head and he said, "It's me, Goku."

"Kakarott?" a voice muttered behind the boy. The voice was so recognizable, but Goku still could not place where he had heard it before.

Goku slowly turned around while an annoyed Apragus continued to the man next to him, "Terminus almost had us, until Kakarott showed up and destroyed them. He wrecked over a hundred Terminators in seconds."

"Of course he did," the man next to Apragus replied as Goku kept turning towards him, getting a first glimpse at the older man's face and the scars on it. The man had a vertical scar over his right eye, and an x-shaped one on his left cheek. He had on a baggy blue t-shirt with a tighter white undershirt on beneath it, and black pants just like Raditz was wearing. Goku turned fully away from his older brother, and lifted his gaze to the man whose hair looked exactly the same as his own. The man had a deep frown on his face, his arms were crossed, and he looked somewhat confused at the appearance of the kid in front of him. This angry man's frown lifted up a little though so he almost looked like he was smirking as he said, "I'd expect nothing less, from my son."

A/N Huhhh? The Saiyan King appears, as does Raditz! I swear someone predicted it earlier on so good on you. Short chapter this time, didn't realize how short 'til I uploaded it and saw it barely broke two thousand words. Good way to start up chapter 12 though, and for anyone who thought we were jumping straight into that world-shaking battle, well you've gotta wait a little longer. For now, we get Saiyans! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading!

asdf chapter 77 . 13h ago

"Someone is powering up... but we can't feel them." Th only thing I can think this indicates is someone with God ki. Have the gods, not self proclaimed gods like Luthor but real divine beings finally made their move? Will there be a Battle of Gods? Will Beerus have to slap a bitch? The only way to know is check in on the next chapter of Nexus: Heroes Will Rise!

Have you read the Toriko manga? They become crazy fucking strong near the end of the manga! I know Toriko and Yu Yu Hakusho characters are on Nexus so I can't wait for our favorite Spirit Detective and Bishokuya to appear!

God ki... or maybe a Power Blocker, or those buoys that surround all of Aebrith so Gohan and Vegeta wouldn't be able to feel them. XD You'll see whether it's God ki or Gods or Beerus or whatever later on this chapter! As for Toriko, I've only seen him during those crossover specials with One Piece and DBZ, which is why I only added that Komatsu guy to the Port Royal celebration thing after the Castle Oblivion arc. Might wind up reading it or watching the show sooner or later, but as for Yu Yu Hakusho... we'll see if Hiei and Kuwabara are the only ones around ;). Thanks for the reviews!

cyber chapter 77 . 1h ago

MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE ALL AROUND NEXUS!, the battle is about to begin I cant wait for the next one, AND TIMMY HAS ARRIVED, but this wizard king has him under his control, cant wait to see what is next.

What's going on!? We hop back a month this chapter so we won't find out just yet. We'll see what happens with Timmy and the Wizard King when we return to the present, but for now, hope you enjoyed! Thanks for the review! And thanks to everyone who read this far! 'Till next time!