Nexus: Heroes Will Rise

by tmb1112

Universal borders have been erased and beings from thousands of universes now live on the same world: Nexus. In the first Saga of Nexus, Awul was saved, but the mysteries of Nexus remain. Now our heroes sail across the sea to Aebrith to search for lost loved ones and save the world. MCs from DBZ, KH, Soul Eater, FT, Blue Exorcist, Bleach, 7DS, OP, Ben 10, SAO, HxH, and many more!

86. Nexus HWR 12-8 How It All Began

Nexus HWR 12.8 How It All Began:

Thor walked in front of Sora and Goku as they treaded across the white floor of this strange place. All around them was bright white nothing. In the sky high above, the white light surrounding them grew brighter, and although the place originally looked empty, there were big fluffy white clouds in the horizon. The God of Thunder walking ahead of them in the direction of those clouds spoke in a deep tone to the men behind him. "It is time, Keybearer, Super Saiyan, that you learn how this all came to be."

Goku had Dash under his right armpit and he heard a moan and looked down at the kid, but Dash's eyes were closed and it looked like he was having a nightmare. Sora glanced to his left side and looked at Dash as well, then turned to Thor and in an angry voice snapped, "Tell me!" Thor turned, somewhat surprised at the tone of the teen's voice. Sora was just thinking of what Dash's screams earlier sounded like though, and the sight of his friend's little brother's body. "Why? Why did such a world need to exist? What was the point?!"

Thor sighed as he looked at the boy, then turned to the man next to him, "Normally, this would wait until one of your people becomes a Super Saiyan God, however, even those who came before you have not been told as much as what I am going to tell you now." Thor looked back at Sora, "For you need to understand the gravity of this situation, if you are to save us."

"Then tell me," Sora said, crossing his arms over his chest. He darted his gaze around but did not see Castiel anywhere around him anymore, not that it was the most pertinent thing on his mind.

Thor nodded and they did not look like they were going to continue walking. He took a deep breath and began, "A long time ago, there was but one world. On this world was an abundant amount of light, so much so that everyone was happy. They all loved this light, but some loved it too much. They began hoarding it for themselves, fighting over it, and darkness was born in their hearts."

Sora winced and he grabbed the side of his head. "Ughh," he groaned and stumbled to his right side. A memory flashed in his mind of long ago, only it was a memory he had no recollection of. "I've, heard this, before," Sora muttered, opening back up his eyes and looking back at Thor. The God seemed surprised, but he got even more so as Sora continued for him, "'The darkness spread, swallowing the light and many people's hearts.' Right?"

Thor nodded his head and continued anyway as it seemed that what Sora heard was only a tale passed down through time. "Yes, the darkness spread from those who became greedy and coveted the light, to cover the entire world. It was encompassed by darkness, and the world disappeared." Thor paused then looked towards an unconscious Dash, "But there were fragments of light that remained, surviving in that darkness. Those lights survived, in the hearts of children." Goku lifted up his eyebrows and looked towards Sora wondering if this was all making sense to him but saw Sora nodding so he shrugged and just stayed quiet for now.

"The children of this lost world gathered together and with their lights, they made a new world; a new, universe, some might say." Thor turned around and he continued in a darker voice, "However, when all that light was in a single place, it brought the darkness to it again. The children of this new world had just created a new universe together, but as the darkness reappeared on their world, they realized that something had to change. For when their old world fell, all those who fell with it made it even stronger."

"What is it?" Sora questioned with narrowed eyes.

"It, is the Darkness. The children of old and those on the original world believed themselves to be the first creations in all existence. That is why they did not see the Darkness coming, they had no idea of its existence. When their world fell, the Darkness absorbed all of the light inside it, in all the people who were corrupted by the darkness that slipped through the cracks. The Darkness was stronger than those children, so when it came for them in their new world, they did what they could to preserve themselves. They scattered. All of their light in a single place drew the Darkness to them in thousands of years, a short time for the children."

"Wait wait," Sora shook his head confusedly. "They were still children, after thousands of years?"

Thor nodded and answered, "Time in the way you imagine it was created by those children." Sora gained a confused expression on his face matching the one Goku had for the last several minutes. "I'll explain," Thor promised him and he looked the teenager in the eyes. "These children I speak of, are what we call, the Originals. They are Gods, however greater than that, they are the first Gods. They created everything, they created the cosmos, the multiverse, the vast number of realities that you already know exist from your time on Nexus. The Originals split apart from each other to keep their lights hidden from the Darkness that would not be able to locate each of them so easily. If it took thousands of years for the Darkness to find a world with the light of all the countless children on it, they believed it would be an eternity before it could find a single one of them again."

That seemed to make sense so Sora nodded his head, but he was still confused and full of questions. Before he could ask however, Thor continued his story, "The Originals found themselves in new universes, bored and alone without any of their comrades with them. They had the power to create universes, something that on their own world was so common that it was like a human building sandcastles on a beach. They would create, and destroy worlds, but it used to be only a part of their lives. Once separated from the other Originals however, the creation of universes became more complex. These Gods were tired of infinite boredom, living in eons in isolation, so they created the laws of physics, and made planets that resembled their original world, and created beings that looked like themselves to resolve them of their eternity alone."

Thor bowed his head a little and continued, "Other Gods were created, most of whom had no knowledge of the truth behind their universe. The Original of my own universe never took part in the happenings of our worlds. She created a hierarchy and let things take their own course. I only learned of the Darkness, and the Originals' eternal struggle against it once I was brought to this world, to watch over Nexus with all the other worlds' Gods."

"And that brings us back to- Why Are We Here?" Sora sounded serious and he understood enough of what Thor said so far that he now believed he was ready to hear whatever Thor had to tell him.

Thor nodded and continued to the boy, "The Originals did not know it, but the worlds they created, however small in their scheme of things, were more important than they knew. By creating beings in their own images, they created more light. Before this, they had no idea that light could be created. It was abundant in their original world, and since then they had only seen it grow dimmer. Even in themselves they could feel the light that they had in them slowly disappearing after millions, billions, and trillions of years. But on these worlds, worlds that they created, light formed inside the bodies of individual life forms. These humans and other beings of light were not as powerful as the Originals, and thus the light did not shine as bright. It was so dim in comparison, that most of the Originals did not see the need to destroy their creations."

"Destroy?" Sora questioned harshly. "You're talking about them annihilating entire worlds?" Thor nodded his head, and Sora shouted, "How could they even think of doing something like that?!"

"Because," Thor responded without hesitation, "by not doing so, they led the Darkness straight to them." Sora's eyes widened and Thor continued darkly, "The Darkness that had been searching for them, located one of the children of old after another. The Darkness existed before their original world, and its sole purpose seemed to be returning all of existence back to that nothingness. It was everything, and nothing, and everywhere, and nowhere, all at the same time, and at no time at all." Sora tried to imagine all of that but he found it impossible. The blond God in front of him could see the frustration on Sora's face, and he added, "I understand. I myself was angered when I first heard this story. It frustrated me to learn that my existence was no more important than…"

"That's not it," Sora said and he lifted his darkened gaze back to Thor's. "Your existence is as important as any. I'm mad that these 'Original' Gods you're talking about seem to think they have the right to destroy people and worlds in order to escape from the Darkness. Sure, it sounds scary, but that doesn't mean they should kill people so that their lights go out!"

"You don't understand," Thor said with a shake of his head. "With each world the Darkness discovered, it grew stronger, and stronger. The majority of Gods would not destroy their creations, even though they were full of light and leading the Darkness straight to them. They tried fighting the Darkness, but more and more of it always slipped through the cracks. It would start off small, a manifestation of Darkness appearing and dragging others into it, or Heartless, emerging on the surface of the world. The Heartless killed people and dragged others into the Darkness, which created more darkness as beings of light saw loved ones killed in front of them and bore hatred and resentment towards the ones who did it. Once the Gods saw their creations being taken by the Darkness, many tried to escape as there was nothing they could do against it. They attempted to flee, but the walls between universes were made to be incredibly strong so as to prevent the Darkness from getting in. The Originals needed to make those walls stronger than themselves, since admittedly, the Darkness was stronger than them and they knew it from the start. So trillions of trillions of years after universes were created, the Originals who had themselves become weaker over their time idly watching over their universes, could not escape the boundaries of their own domains. Many fell to the Darkness, making it even stronger, strong enough to break down universal walls and seep into each and every world. And it was not hard for it to take hold in those worlds, as with the light that was born in the worlds the Originals created, darkness formed in the people of those worlds as well. The Darkness used the dark hearts of people on these worlds to make them greedier, more lustful, more full of rage and hatred."

The God took a pause and he shook his head around, "Which brings me to you, Keybearer." Sora tilted his head in confusion as he did not see how that brought them to him at all. "The Gods themselves could not destroy the Darkness, nor any of its creations. However, when the Keyblade cuts through the darkness, it releases the souls, and the light, of those taken by it. You may have seen beings on this world who you thought had fallen to the darkness," above Thor's head appeared images of people Sora fought on other worlds, Maleficent, Clayton… "But they were freed by the Keyblade. The Keyblade is the only weapon able to face the Darkness, and why that is, not even the Original Gods know. I was told that the Keyblade warriors existed even on their original world, that it was they who fought the Darkness and saved the children full of light from their falling world. Every generation for eons Keybearers have been chosen. They existed through all of eternity, warriors who could wield the Keyblade and fight the Darkness. Warriors chosen by the light, to be its Guardians."

"The Guardians of Light," Sora whispered.

"Exactly," Thor responded.

"So you're telling me," Sora began slowly, with a bead of sweat dripping down the left side of his face, with a twitching lip and shaking hands. "It's my job, to stop the Darkness? After trillions of generations of Keybearers before me failed? And the Darkness has been growing stronger that entire time, right? And something even worse must have happened if- Wait," Sora shook his head around, "You never explained why Nexus was created."

"Hmm," Thor hummed while nodding. He turned and started walking which made Sora and Goku follow behind him as there was nothing else to do in this empty white world. "Honestly, I do not believe I was told the whole truth. The Originals I have met so far are secretive, they keep amongst each other which I can understand after eternities apart. I met the Original Thor, who my universe's Original based me off of. That was common through the universes, to make Gods above their other creations, and make those Gods look like specific friends of theirs from the Originals' world. It seems my brother Loki was quite popular on the original world as many universes had a version of-"

"What. Is. Nexus?" Sora asked, stopping Thor's rant and making the God of Thunder sigh again. Goku lifted his eyebrows as he heard mention of Loki, but he did not bring up how he had met a God with that name in Skypiea after Sora snapped.

The God spoke quietly as they neared the big puffy clouds that seemed so much farther away a minute ago. "Many of the Originals saw their walls breaking. Universes were falling one after another. As a Keybearer, you were supposed to be the one of only ones able to travel between universes. Even the Gods themselves could not escape their own domains, many built several universes in their own realm to be able to jump between different ones, but they were never able to escape their own boundaries that they set when they first separated themselves from the other Originals. However, more and more people began learning how to travel between universes, it was an ominous sign to the Gods when mortals could hop through universes utilizing the power of darkness. Most Gods had separated themselves from their worlds though, setting arbitrary rules declaring that they would not take part in mortal affairs. I myself broke these rules and went down to fight with humans against many of their enemies, but then, soon before Nexus was created, a being appeared on my world's Earth, a being who could use powers I had never imagined before. Maleficent," Thor said in a hateful tone, and Sora nodded in recognition, "she appeared on our world, plotting to bring darkness to it. She does not understand what she was doing, as all she wants is power, but her thirst for power grows stronger with the Darkness's influence, subconsciously telling her to travel across the cosmos, bringing it along with her everywhere, weakening the walls of each world when she does, searching for the Keyholes that exist in every world, Keyholes that are created as soon as beings of light come to be on those worlds."

"Thor, just get to-" Sora began.

"It was because the worlds grew so weak," Thor continued over Sora, as he was just about at the point already. "That Nexus was made," he finished. They were now at the edge of the big puffy clouds, and Thor turned to the two behind him. Behind the God was a tall golden gate that stretched between two paths between the clouds, and those gates started opening out towards them as Thor stood there. "I will now take you to the Originals, who wish to tell you not only why Nexus was made the way it was, but also what your role is in saving it, and in saving the rest of the multiverse."

"And what's my role in that?" Goku asked. "Because I just really want to fight the King."

"Hahaha," Thor laughed. "You will have the chance for that Son Goku, I do believe that."

Thor turned back around and he led them towards the gates into a big puffy world of clouds. There were soft white clouds on their sides, some of those clouds had white doorways on them with nameplates over the doors. Sora looked up high and saw smaller clouds above, some with waterfalls on them, and he saw a few children jumping off a cloud and sliding down the waterfall. "What is this place?" Sora questioned.

"This is the entrance, of Heaven," Thor replied.

As Thor mentioned it, a little boy in the crook of Goku's arm was opening his eyes. Dash's vision was blurry as he stared at the floor beneath his face. He heard what Thor just said, and though confused at what was happening, his head lifted and he stared forward with giant eyes. Heaven? Dash thought.

Goku looked down at the boy in his arm. "Dash," Goku said, and the other two looked down at Goku's hand as well as the Saiyan started lowering the boy. On their sides, the gates clanked to a stop after fully opening, and then they started closing behind them. As soon as Goku lowered Dash's feet to the ground, the small boy with blond hair sped off of the Saiyan's hand. Sora leaned back in surprise as well as from being hit by a strong wind from how fast Dash started sprinting, and even Thor who tried to reach for the boy found his hand gripping at nothing.

"Well," Thor said, turning his head and following a trail of white through the gate of Heaven and far inside. "That may be a problem," he said and scratched the back of his head.

"I know where he's going, or what he's looking for at least," Sora said and took a step farther past the closing gates. He glanced up in the sky where he saw the children playing around on clouds before, but the ones he saw earlier were no longer near the waterfalls he could see. Wonder if Dash saw those kids up there? It would be a good place to start looking for him…

"Actually," Thor began, and the other two looked back at the muscular blond God. "Dash would not have been allowed to hear what the Originals intend to tell you. Do not worry, however," Thor began in a reassuring tone. "We are in Heaven. Nothing can happen to him up here except getting in trouble. Heaven has innumerous guards. It is well protected."

"What happens if Dash gets in trouble?" Goku asked.

"The angels or other guards will bring him to us. Everyone knows you are here so they are sure to catch him soon," Thor chuckled to himself.

Goku and Sora looked at each other, wondering what Thor meant by that last part. The God kept leading them forward, but he lifted off the ground all of a sudden and started lifting up into the air. Sora glanced the direction Dash ran off to one more time, then he lifted his gaze and followed Goku up through the air after Thor. They flew up and up, past huge puffy clouds with scattered people on them, or beings with big white wings. In one direction Sora spotted what looked like a wall, until he saw it lift up. His jaw dropped as he spotted a foot take a step away from him, moving so far with a single step that whatever giant God it belonged to was gone from his sight, and the wall that was actually the God's leg was replaced by more white nothingness.

Thor lifted and lifted, then he lowered down onto a cloud platform so high up that everything above them was almost too blinding to look at. It felt like it should have been impossible to stare straight at because of its brightness, but Sora and Goku kept lifting their gazes and staring into the brightness that did not hurt their eyes at all. Goku felt something strange in front of him after looking up, and he lowered his eyes down to Thor's back. He leaned to the left to look around the blond God in his way, and Goku's eyes shot open huge at the sight of the figure standing ten yards in front of Thor. The man had on a purple gi, he had green skin, and two antennae stuck off the top of his head. "Piccolo!" Goku shouted, running around Thor and towards the Namekian he had not seen in years.

"Goku," Piccolo greeted back, though he just nodded while keeping his arms crossed. He did not seem as shocked or excited as Goku did, but he did smile when Goku ran up to him. "It is good to see you," Piccolo said.

"You too," Goku replied. His eyes then lifted above Piccolo, and he sighed but kept smiling as he saw a ring floating above his head.

The sight of the halo surprised Sora though as the younger man walked up to them. "Are you…" Sora began, but he did not know if it was rude to finish that question.

"Dead? Yeah," Piccolo replied. Piccolo kept staring at the teenager for a few seconds, then he turned back to Goku and said, "After I died though, I became one of heaven's guardians." Goku's eyebrows lifted up in some confusion, and Piccolo explained, "Along with the lower Gods and the angels, there are countless warriors protecting this world of the Gods. Heaven's host protects all of those who have passed on and come here."

As Piccolo mentioned it, he was looking into Goku's eyes trying to get the man to catch his hint. Thor was standing to the side, not saying anything though he did glance up at the brightest sky above hesitantly. Goku kept nodding for a few seconds, gears slowly turning in his head. Sora started thinking about all those people he knew who had died, but then he spun to Goku as he realized why Goku's old friend was bringing it up. Goku's eyes popped open wide and he smiled, asking, "Is ChiChi here?"

Piccolo nodded his head. Goku got a hesitant look on his face like there was something else he wanted to ask, but did not know if he could. He frowned, and Piccolo decided to just add something without being asked, "She and your third child are-"

"I have another-" Goku started excitedly, then cut himself off with a confused look.

"The soul of your child had not been fully formed yet, but after her death, ChiChi nurtured that incomplete soul. She is happy, they both are." Piccolo told Goku with a small smile on his face.

Goku smiled back, and the bad mood he had been in for a little while now shifted. "Where is she?" Goku asked. Piccolo's smile faded, and Goku gained a quizzical expression, "What? Can't I see her?"

Thor spoke up this time, "Your wife does not currently have a physical form like Piccolo. The majority of souls in heaven are in ethereal states. They can become more solid, and move around to travel the heavens if they so wish, but most of the time they are intangible. On our way here, we passed several doors on the sides of clouds." Sora and Goku nodded as they each remembered that. "Behind each door you would not see anything, but the soul inside would take shape before you as they were once again connected to this world." Sora tilted his head to the side in confusion. Goku did the same. Thor rubbed his forehead and tried to think of a better way to explain it, but then his eyes darted back up to the sky above them that seemed even brighter now.

"The truth is, Son Goku," Thor began, looking Goku back in the eyes again. "You can see your wife and child right now, but if you choose to do so, you will not be allowed to return to the world of the living. Your presence here in heaven is already causing strife amongst the Gods. If you stay any longer than what they deem necessary, they will not let you leave with Sora."

"What about Dash?" Sora brought up, a nervous tone in his voice. "He's running around right now, so won't he-"

"As I said before, Dash would not be allowed to hear to what you and Goku are about to be told. The Originals instructed me to keep him away from here, but he ran off before I could have my comrades take him off your hands," Thor explained.

Wait a second, how did they have all the time for this? Sora thought with a confused expression on his face. He already got orders about taking us to the Originals, and what to do with Dash, before he came to talk to us? That was like, five seconds after Castiel brought us here! Unless, did they know I would call for Castiel's help? As Sora opened his mouth to snap something at Thor, four beams of white light surrounded the four of them standing there. Piccolo looked down at his hands in surprise, then over at Thor who was looking at him in some surprise as well.

"It looks like you will be coming along with us Piccolo," Thor said.

I'm meeting the Originals? Piccolo thought, lifting his gaze to stare straight up through the white beam of light surrounding him.

"'Coming with us?'" Sora repeated in confusion as he looked around at the strange light all around him. "Where are we- ah!" Sora's feet lifted off the ground and he started shooting up into the sky in the beam, flailing around a little as he tried to get control over his body. Goku looked up in the direction he was flying, and he tried flying up through the beam but could not speed up from the already fast pace the beam was lifting him at. Although it did not feel like anything was touching him, he tried moving in all directions but could only move his limbs, not use them or his ki to ease away from the center of the light column.

"We will be there in a few seconds," Thor said while looking towards the beams Sora and Goku were in. "Remember to be respectful before them. The Originals created everything, but just as easily they can use their powers to destroy. Don't forget…" The light pillars brought them so high up that they entered the brightest part of the sky where they could no longer see even the other tubes of light around them. They lost sight of each other, and then the four of them popped up on top of a flat white surface that stretched in every direction endlessly, but above that white ground nothing else was white anymore. The air around them was not dark, but it had no bright light in it either. Colors just filled the air, creating a sky of bright reds and yellows, blues and greens, pinks, purples, and all the colors in between. Those colors lit up every once in a while, and sound came out of random areas in the air where small spheres of light floated, or shimmers emerged that faded just as fast as they appeared.

Two swirls of color lowered down from the air. "Originals," Sora whispered, as those swirls turned into human-looking beings a hundred meters in front of them. Sora looked down where they were descending to, and his eyes opened wide at the sight of a familiar angel in a trench coat. He opened his mouth to shout over, but Thor held up a palm for Sora to stay quiet. Goku wondered who the figure in the trench coat over there was, but he was more focused on those two beings who appeared right in front of Castiel.

I wonder if they're strong, Goku thought, eying the beings whose kis he could not feel unlike Thor and Piccolo who did have noticeable, and powerful, energies.

"Good work Castiel," the man who appeared in front of the angel said. He patted a hand down on Castiel's left shoulder and nodded at him with a small smile on his face. Then the figure looked beyond Castiel where the other man who appeared was already looking. "You may leave us now," he added, and Castiel nodded his head before vanishing in an instant.

Goku's eyes darted around as he did not see where the angel moved to. Sora's eyes stayed focused straight ahead though towards the two figures looking back at him. The Original next to the one who thanked Castiel said in a scolding tone, "You should not let your creations overstep their bounds. We gave no command."

"We also gave no command not to save the Keybearer, and his friends," the other Original countered. The one who seemed in a better mood lifted a hand and motioned towards himself, "Come, Sora, we need to have a talk."

Sora started walking forward. Goku walked towards the Gods as well on Sora's left side, and Piccolo and Thor followed behind more cautiously like they were anticipating an order to go somewhere else. Sora stared at the God who beckoned him with a curious gaze, thinking on the conversation he had with the other Original. He's Castiel's creator? "So you know my name, what's yours?" Sora began as he drew close to the man. The guy looked like a normal human in his mid-forties, a scruffy dirty-blond goatee on his face and some short curly hair of the same color.

As the God opened his mouth to respond, voices shouted down from above. "How disrespectful!"

"Thor! Why did you not explain to the Keybearer how to address us?"

Another, calmer voice spoke from a different part of the sky where a blue swirl of light flashed, "This is a Keybearer, after all, should we not be the ones acting more respectful in his presence?"

"If it were any other human, I'd smite-"

"That's your answer for everything, Mars."

"You cannot smite the Keybearer! He is the only one who can save us!"

"Excuse me!" Sora shouted, and the voices echoing loudly all around them simmered down. Thor and Piccolo gawked at Sora's back, and the other Original standing next to Castiel's creator lifted his dark eyebrows up a little. He had jet black hair smooth and long falling behind his head, and he wore a black leather jacket and dark pants to match unlike the friendlier God's green jacket and khakis.

Sora looked back at the smiling God who chuckled at how Sora shouted at all his brethren. The man saw that Sora was still waiting for him to answer, and finally he was able to respond, "My name, is Chuck."

"Chuck?" Sora asked, wondering if that was really his name. The God nodded back at him, and Sora took a deep breath before taking one more step forward and stopping. He stared straight into Chuck's eyes and said, "Well Chuck, I've got a whole lot of questions. And I feel like you've got the answers." Chuck nodded to show Sora that he was not wrong in that feeling. Sora smiled a little, feeling waves of relief wash over him as Chuck gave him an affirmative nod. All his time on Nexus, the cryptic messages from King Mickey, from Saix right before his death, he had so much he wanted to know but no one ever had enough answers for him. "Great," Sora began. "Then tell me, how do I save the world?"

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Dash sprinted through an empty white nothingness for minutes before seeing something other than puffy clouds. Up ahead of the boy he could see what looked like tall palm trees sticking out of the white ground. A closer look at the ground told him that it was getting less white though, turning into a more beige color, and the flat ground had started to get coarser like he was running over sand. Then he spotted the people, and the bright blue ocean, and the distant clouds floating above the ocean that people were jumping off of. Everyone was smiling. Everyone he could see was happy.

It's paradise, Dash thought, slowing down a little as he took everything in. He was still far back on the beach, but he came to a stop near a palm tree and looked out around it towards the water's edge where he saw some children playing around. The kids had halos over their heads, they were making sandcastles and having cloud-ball fights which Dash thought was super cool. He watched as a kid reached up to a puffy cloud floating near him, and though the cloud was too high above his head to reach, a piece of the cloud just floated down to his hand without the kid saying anything. He kept calling out to his other dead friends, while morphing the cloud into a ball like someone would snow, then he threw it at his friend who got hit by the ball and stumbled back laughing at the feeling of a cloud bursting into him.

Dash walked out from behind the tree and took a step forward, and then the distance between him and those children doubled. The blond boy's eyes widened and he started running forward, but as he halved the distance to the kids, the length between them doubled again. He sped up more, getting closer to the kids this time, but the amount of distance suddenly put between them got larger this time, then another increment happened even faster. "What's going-" Dash began as he pushed harder into his run, then he skid to a stop as hard as he could as two figures dropped down in front of him.

"Man you are hard to catch," one of the men said as he looked down at the kid before him. The guy had on red and silver armor covering his legs, fists, shoulders, and most of his torso, as well as a silver helmet on his head with golden ears sticking up on the sides of it similar to the gold spikes sticking out behind his silver boots. The Pegasus Saint, Seiya, took a step forward towards the boy and said, "Now let's go kid. You can't be over here."

Dash darted his eyes from the man in front of him to the other. The other man had longer and darker hair than his brown-haired comrade, and he wore light blue armor the color of diamonds that covered his entire body. He also had on a helmet, but his had the appearance of a dragon's head with glowing red eyes pointed down at him. Shiryu, the Dragon Saint, looked down at the boy with some pity in his eyes. "We know why you are here, Dash Parr," he said.

"Then let me pass!" Dash shouted, before the guy could continue with the 'but' that Dash heard coming. Dash sprinted to his left, but the two men ran right to block him off. Dash was surprised by how fast the two were, and he sped up even more before curving to run forward again.

Seiya grit his teeth and thought about what they were told about the kid. I get his pain, but he can't be up here. If we let him get past, they're going to keep him here forever. He sped up and shouted, "Pegasus Flying Kick!" He leapt up in the air and extended his right leg, and he shot forward and slammed his right foot into Dash's side right as the kid was about to sprint past him. Dash felt the heavy steel boot imbed in his side and he gasped in pain, flying off the kid and shooting far away into the white void. He shot so far off that the ground below him turned white again, and everything in every direction was pure white once more with only scattered clouds to give him any sense of direction.

Dash yelled in frustration as he started spinning around after standing up. His side did not hurt as much as his chest did, and he spun the direction of the two Saints running towards him. "I want to see my brother!" Dash yelled towards the two men. He did not know who they were, but the one with brown hair kicked him much harder than he was expecting. "I have to know if he's here!"

Seiya glanced left at Shiryu, but the Dragon Saint shook his head 'no.' "What?!" Dash yelled towards them. "Tell me!"

"Those who are still alive have no right to go into heaven," Shiryu said in an unwavering tone as he approached the child. "You can choose to die right here, right now, and then you can search Heaven all you wish for your brother. Then again, that is only if you stay in Heaven once you die."

Dash's eyes opened wide. "Why?" He asked. "Is there somewhere else I would go? Is there somewhere else my brother could be?" Neither of the men in front of him responded, though Seiya looked to be holding his tongue at the desperate look on Dash's face. "Tell me! I'd come to Heaven right?! My brother was just a little kid, so he's here, right?! TELL ME!" Dash screamed, and an aura of energy pulsed out of his body so strong that all the nearby clouds pushed away. The two Saints felt the huge power push into them and they had to cross their arms at the strength of it. Dash started panting after he screamed, because while he shouted at them, something else was creeping into his mind.

"I will rot the flesh from your bones and feast on your eyeballs! And once you are dead, I will find you in Hell, and the torture will never stop!" Dash started trembling as he thought about what Astaroth threatened him with back in Pyraxas. "That's right! You think losing here means death? Means it's the end?! NO! You don't get to die just once, you get to die forever! I'll enjoy killing you in every way you have ever imagined, and thousands of even more terrible ways your mortal minds can not comprehend! HEEEEHEHEHE!" Dash shook even more, a look of fear and panic spreading across his face. Astaroth seemed so sure that I would be going to Hell. He said that once he killed us, he would get to keep killing us forever! Why did he say that? His threats sounded so real. "What decides," Dash began in a soft voice, lifting his gaze to the men in front of him. He continued in a quiet voice, "Who gets to come to Heaven?"

Shiryu stayed quiet for a few seconds, and then he said in a low voice, "I do not know."

"You don't know?" Dash whispered. "You don't… you," Dash clenched his eyes shut and felt his heart pounding so hard it felt like he would die. He thought about the offer the Dragon Saint made him that he could die right now and search Heaven, an option he had seriously considered until all the doubt filled his mind. What if I die, and I don't get to come to this place? Why wouldn't I though? I'm a hero! I help people… but I've done bad stuff before too. Am I good enough? Was, JackJack? Tears filled Dash's eyes, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I just, want to see my little brother again."

"Ch," Seiya looked away from the crying boy in front of him, a frustrated look on his own face.

Shiryu stayed more composed, and he just said, "I'm sorry. You cannot."

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"'Defeat the Darkness?' How am I supposed to do that?" Sora asked. The man who told him what he needed to do stayed silent after Sora asked, and the teenage boy sweatdropped as he thought about it himself. "Oh yeah, no one's ever done it before, so you wouldn't know the answer to that question." Sora looked down and stared at the palms of his hands. "Why me?" He whispered.

"No one knows the answer to that question either," Chuck responded to the boy. Sora's gaze lifted back up, and Chuck continued while making eye contact with him, "Just as there is the Darkness, we believe that there must also be the Light."

"What even are those?" Sora snapped. "What is the Darkness?" He questioned.

Chuck sighed at the question, as understandable as it was. He looked next to the boy at Son Goku, then back at Thor and Piccolo who were both watching him closely as both wanted to learn more about this as well. "The Darkness is nothing like anything else in existence. The Originals like myself created worlds, but we also created concepts like time, space, senses, dimensions, the laws of physics. How you perceive the world was determined by us, and everything you see is that way because of our designs. However, the Darkness was not created by us Originals, so it does not follow the same rules and laws that everything else obeys."

"It's why you can move freely between different places in space by using the darkness," the other Original next to Chuck said. The man with longer black hair looked into Sora's eyes with his black irises and continued, "Darkness does not need to obey any rules. We cannot put restrictions on it, and our barriers do little to stop it. Beings using the power of darkness could travel freely between worlds despite the barriers we put up that those like Son Goku would never be able to break through." He looked at Goku who seemed confused by the comparison. "Physical strength means nothing against this cosmic entity. Some of us think it has sentience, that it chooses to destroy, while others think it has no will and is just a force of nature, existing solely to destroy."

Chuck continued where his fellow Original left off, "Although the Darkness could not break through our barriers itself, it can corrupt and use our creations to pass through our boundaries. It has other methods as well though," Chuck added, and his fellow God looked to him in some surprise at what Chuck was about to tell them. Chuck gained a serious expression on his face, and he started in a low but serious voice, "In the universal boundary I was stuck inside for eons, a sliver of the Darkness had made it in before the barrier was completed." Chuck shook his head and continued darkly, "That piece of Darkness became something else. It turned into a being, a woman with sentience and the sole desire to destroy everything I created. I would build universes, and she would destroy them. We played at that for millions of years before I had forgotten what she was. I knew the truth, somewhere deep inside, that she was the very thing I had run from, that I was still hiding from, but she was the yin to my yang. She had called me 'brother' since the first day she appeared, and at some point I had started calling her my sister."

Chuck clenched his eyes shut, while Sora stared at this God with huge eyes at the story. "A tiny, tiny piece of the Darkness," Chuck continued. "She was nothing but a sliver of that evil force that made it into my universe. After millions, billions of years, I finally defeated her with the help of my archangels. I created beings so powerful that they were able to fight her alongside me. I could not destroy her however. As much as I tried, there was no killing that which was pure darkness. Nothing I could create had that power, and none in my universe showed the ability to wield a Keyblade. All I could do was trap her inside a mark, a mark that became a curse." Chuck's voice got darker, and he continued, "I gave the mark first to my strongest creation, Lucifer."

"Named after our older brother," the God next to Chuck started. The others looked to him as he interrupted Chuck with this. "While we were fleeing from our original world, the Keybearers of that world were the ones who saved the children still full of light while everyone else had been corrupted. The oldest among us who remained fought alongside the Keybearers, but the oldest of us were also the ones closest to falling to the darkness like all the adults of that world had. Lucifer was the strongest of our comrades who stayed behind to fight, and he was the first to turn against us and kill one of the Keybearers who thought him a friend. In the thousands of universes I created since separating from the others, I always created a being of immense power who I named Lucifer. As many times as I tried though, his nature always turned dark. I do not know if while creating him I had the subconscious thought deep in my mind that he would betray me, and that led to his fall later on, or if the name itself is forever destined to lead to the corruption of that being."

"Just as my Lucifer did," Chuck said in a sad voice. "I want to believe that he would not have turned though, had it not been for the mark I left under his responsibility. You see, even after I had trapped Amara-" Chuck froze with his mouth open, and he shook his head before continuing softly, "Even after I had trapped the sliver of Darkness that had entered my universe, its power continued to grow and fester."

Sora realized as Chuck mentioned that name, that something inside the God he was talking to still thought of the piece of Darkness as his sister. The Darkness, is terrifying, Sora thought, and he only became more in fear of it as Chuck continued.

"The Darkness corrupted Lucifer and made him jealous of my other creations. I was forced to cast out Lucifer, but he passed the mark off to one of my other creations: Cain. That man became so dark that he turned into a demon. Still, my mark held. I found a way to keep that piece of Darkness trapped indefinitely, but when I received the message that the other worlds were falling one by one to the Darkness, I knew it was the end of everything. I could already feel the mark weakening, the dark power inside it growing stronger to a point that I knew very soon, the mark would start to expel its darkness out into the world I had created and watched over for millennia."

Sora gulped and tried to keep his hands from shaking to no avail. "And that, wasn't even a fraction of the Darkness?" Sora questioned in a raspy voice. He coughed a few times to try and get his voice more steady, but when he continued his words came out shaky, "The rest of it, what if it finds us? What if it finds Nexus?"

"You'll have to fight it!" A voice shouted down from above.

"Why are you asking us? We already told you that it is the Keybearer's duty."

"The answer must come from inside you."

"I'm nowhere near as strong as half of my friends!" Sora shouted up at the swirling colors yelling down at him. "And you are the most powerful beings in all existence! Why are you leaving it up to me? And why," he shouted even louder, "haven't you told me this already?!" Sora looked around in the air, then he looked back down at Chuck and the other God who were not answering him. "Well? Why couldn't you just tell me? Tell everyone about the Darkness? If everyone on Nexus knew about it, maybe they'd stop fighting each other and start preparing to face it! If you had told me years ago what was going on, I would have had so much more time to prepare!"

"Well," Chuck began, "we decided not to get involved on Nexus."

Sora's eyes shot open wide. He looked from Chuck to the other Original, then up in the sky where all the floating cosmic entities were. "Why not?" Sora asked. "You're the most powerful beings. You could have stopped so much evil from happening. So many things happened that-"

"Although we do wish for light to triumph over darkness on Nexus, there is nothing we can do to interfere with the world below," the God next to Chuck said.

He said it firmly and without room for argument, but Sora was not going to just accept it and he shouted, "Why?!"

"Sora," Chuck said. He spoke in a tone that showed he wanted Sora to understand, though Sora was so angry that he did not want to understand and started grinding his teeth at the sound of that tone. "If we had stepped in even once, we would be destroying the concept of free will." Sora looked confused, but a little less angry like he was willing to let the God continue. "We have so much power, that if we decide to step in when we feel it necessary, our choice equals the result that we hope for. We can make things go exactly the way we will them to, but then what does that make you? Would you prefer it if every choice you have ever made was not a choice at all, but an order that we gave you?" Sora started shaking his head as that sounded terrible to him.

"But," Sora started. "How could you just let such terrible people, like Luthor, or Meruem… how could you just let them do what they wish?"

"If we step in to destroy beings full of darkness, to assist ones full of light, you would become reliant on us," Chuck explained. "You would not think your decisions meant as much anymore, if you knew that all results of them would be okay because the Gods will fix it if it goes wrong."

"Take Son Goku and Meruem for a minute," the other Original next to Chuck began. Goku looked at the God in confusion, and then the man in a black leather jacket continued while looking into Goku's eyes, "You chose to save Meruem on the third day after you arrived on Nexus." The Original stepped closer to Goku whose face filled with many different emotions at the mention of that. "You chose to do this because you are a good man, but you do not always think of the consequences of your actions. Now if we had gone down and erased Meruem from existence before he could go on to take over most of Aebrith, your decision to save his life would not have been a decision at all. Decisions must have consequences and differing results depending on the choice. If you had chosen to kill Meruem, or chosen to let him live, only for him to have died either way, it would erase free will from existence."

"We love our creations," Chuck said, his voice containing some pity as he shook his head at Sora. Sora could see what Chuck was thinking about as he looked at him, and Sora thought back on a certain day many months ago that the look of pity on Chuck's face reminded him of. "We love them so much that we won't just control them with our omnipotence. We will not reduce humanity and all the other creations we have made to nothing more than playthings. That is why we stay here, isolated even from Heaven."

"Every single Original, except for one," the black-haired God began. "Has remained in this realm above Heaven since arriving on Nexus. It had been so long since we last saw each other, and you do not know what it feels like to all be reunited after such a long time apart."

"It's already been two years though," Sora said in a soft voice, yet he did not sound as angry anymore after that explanation. He was actually appreciative of the Originals for not involving themselves once he thought about what that would really mean. The teen continued, "Couldn't you have told me this earlier?"

"Already two years?" Chuck questioned. "Time here passes differently from anywhere else. We have spent thousands of what you conceive as years in this realm, and it still feels like we have only just reunited with each other."

Sora and Goku's eyes shot open wide at the idea of that amount of time. "Wait!" Sora shouted, realizing something as he pieced that together. "Does that mean time on Nexus is moving at only a fraction the speed it is up here then?"

"Not exactly," Chuck replied. "We control time in this place, but only time as we perceive it. Time here is in constant fluctuation. In the few seconds you perceived after you first arrived, a day passed on Nexus in that same period. At the same time, we had five days to prepare. We told the other Gods we created, many of whom do partake in human affairs on our behalf, to prepare for your entrance into Heaven. I was chosen by my kin to answer your questions, as one who has fought the Darkness for longer than anyone else, and survived to tell about it."

"And I just wanted to look upon you with my own eyes," the Original in the black jacket said, while narrowing his dark eyes and gazing upon both Sora and Goku with interested looks.

"Why are you the only ones who look human though?" Sora questioned.

"We all have our Original bodies," Chuck replied. "However, most prefer to stay in forms that are easier to communicate with each other in. As the forms you see above, we are able to speak without making words. We can see memories and feel what each other feel. We can feel what our kin felt during those memories. In those forms we can recreate those exact moments and then insert ourselves into that new universe to live it in a new way."

Sora tried to imagine it, but he started shaking his head as it was all too much. Are they just memories, or are the Gods up there creating universes just to enjoy a memory? If it's the latter, what do they do with those universes afterwards? Or do they involve themselves in those worlds so much that the people in them don't actually have free will? Does that make them less of people though? He stopped thinking about that as it got too confusing and caught on to something Chuck just mentioned. "We all have our Original bodies," was he talking about himself? The body he's in right now is his original one? That's right, Thor said the Gods created people in their image, so I guess it makes sense that we'd look alike.

"So," Sora began, glancing next to him at Goku who just shrugged like he did not know what to say. Goku was so lost by everything going on around him that he just decided to start thinking on the Darkness and ways he might be able to fight it. He had never faced anything that sounded like the Darkness before though, yet the idea of its power made him grin. Sora looked into Chuck's eyes and continued, "I don't really know how I can defeat the Darkness, but I guess I have to try. If I'm stuck here on Nexus with everyone else though, how are we supposed to fight the Darkness?"

"You cannot fight the Darkness," a voice scolded down in a high-pitched, all-knowing voice. The Original who sounded like a female called down, "Why do you think we have hidden here?"

"If this generation of Keybearers was a little more reliable, then perhaps we would come up with a plan."

"To do so now with what we have, it would be a waste of time."

Sora was gawking as he looked around at the illuminating colors in the sky. "What are you talking about? We're great Keybearers!"

"Yet what of the darkness in your heart?" An Original asked, sounding annoyed, and also a bit hesitant as he brought it up.

Sora's face scrunched up and he narrowed his eyes at the color that just lit up, only for it to dim and fade away quickly. "This is why we shouldn't have brought him here. What if his darkness infects us?"

"I saw it take Hades, and Sekhmet when he tried to stay to help him."

"Who are they?!" Sora shouted up, though the mention of Hades reminded him of a certain blue-skinned demon.

"Other kin of ours who fell when the Darkness chased us into the void. They could not last seconds against the corrupting powers of the Darkness, turning on their own kind and then growing so dark that they became a part of it before long." The female God's voice got quieter and finished, "Yet you use the darkness freely and without worry of its consequences."

"I am worried!" Sora shouted back at whoever was speaking to him. "If you've been watching me, you know I'm afraid of what will happen if my darkness gets out of control!"

"Yet you still use it!"

"And Riku is even darker than you!"

"His darkness threatens this world. He has grown stronger than the Heartless known as Ansem ever was."

"And to top it off, one of the Guardians is a Nobody now. Axel wields the Keyblade, and though Lea's heart is now his, how are we supposed to trust a Nobody to save the multiverse?"

Sora's hands were shaking at his side with everything the Gods shouted down at him. "Axel's my friend!" Sora shouted in an angry voice, silencing all of the Originals at once. Thor stared at the back of Sora's head with wide eyes at the kid's angry shout, and his right hand tightened around the shaft of a hammer he was holding. "And Riku can control his darkness better than I can!" Sora clenched his fists at his sides, then swiped an arm in front of him and yelled, "If you aren't going to help us, then don't start criticizing the people you want to save you! Don't insult my friends!" Sora took a few deep breaths, then he lowered his arms and glared up in the sky where an unknown number of all-powerful beings were looking back at him.

"I might not be all that strong, but I'm a Guardian of Light, and I'm going to beat the Darkness whether or not you believe in me. I can do it too, because as afraid as I am, I'm not alone!" Sora spun in a circle and looked all around the strange sky above him. "I have friends who will help me. And my friends are my real power! So even though I'm afraid, I know I can do it. We can do it, together." Sora smiled thinking of all his friends back on Nexus. He had more than he could count, and even though they were not all Keybearers or Guardians, he knew every one of them would help him if he asked for it.

Goku looked at the back of Sora's head while the teen was turned away from him for the direction he was looking up. All his confusion from what the Gods were talking about this whole time, it wiped from his face and replaced with a confident smile like Sora's. "I'll help you out Sora," Goku said, and Sora spun to look at the man with spiky black hair. Goku was smiling at him, the Saiyan man only an inch taller than the teen whose eyes he was looking into. "I can't wait to fight the Darkness too. I wonder how we can even fight something like that?" Goku knew from what the Originals said that the Darkness was not a physical being he could just beat up, but that only made him more excited at the thought of a new kind of enemy.

"Your confidence is encouraging." A deep voice boomed from the sky, one the others had not heard before. Lightning crackled around the bright blue part of the sky that flashed when the man spoke.

"I will gladly put my faith in you." A female's voice spoke in a smooth tone. She continued and her voice seemed to wrap around Sora and Goku and made them feel warm. "I doubted that we would be able to survive for long. I believed that we were simply prolonging our existences and those of our creations. But if you are an example of the Keybearers I must believe in, then I can find faith again."

"GO!" Another God's voice shouted, full of determination and manliness. He was shouting so loud that Sora flinched at the bellowing voice in his ears. "PROVE YOUR WORDS ARE TRUE! GATHER THE GUARDIANS AND GO!"

"If you find the King, he will have means for you to leave this world without disrupting its barrier." The smooth woman's voice spoke again.

"King Mickey?" Sora asked, as mention of the "King" made him think of Meruem instead now.

"Yes," Chuck replied. They looked back at the curly haired God who added, "He was the first to come to us. The King has been preparing ever since then for the fight against the Darkness, but he is taking too long. It is why we had to tell you how grave the threat is. So that you could understand the gravity of this situation. Sora, it is time. You must go out and stop the Darkness."

"RIGHT NOW!" The bellowing voice yelled, the sky flashing red because of it.

Sora gazed around at the colors filling the sky. He looked back down at Chuck. Sora glanced next to him at Goku, then back at Thor and Piccolo who had stayed mostly quiet since they arrived. Then Sora turned back and looked at Chuck with a smile on his face. "No."

Chuck lifted his eyebrows up, and the Original in a leather jacket next to him gave Sora a strange look as well. "WHAT?!" The God who just shouted at Sora yelled, this time louder than ever which made Sora actually wince from the yell.

"What do you mean, 'no?'" The woman Original's voice asked, and the air around Sora got colder this time.

"You must!"

"It is your duty!"

"Sora," Thor began, taking a step towards the younger man's back. He hesitated as he felt like the eyes of all the Originals shifted to him, even though he could only see two pairs of them. Sora turned to him though and awaited him to continue, so Thor did. "What of all I told you? The worlds being are being consumed by the Darkness. The Originals have given you an order."

"Once I am reunited with my friends," Sora began. "And I help Roxas, save Kairi, stop Meruem, and find King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, then I'll be ready to leave this world."

"Stop Meruem?!" One of the Originals shouted. "An impossible task for you."

"What does your Nobody matter in the grand scheme of things?"

"An unwise decision to make, young Keybearer."

"Sora," Chuck started and took a step towards the boy. "You don't understand-"

"You must go!"

"It is your responsibility as a Guardian of Light!"

"Alright so first of all!" Sora shouted, cupping his hands next to his mouth to be able to shout over all the Gods speaking over each other. "I don't take orders from you!" He called out, and the Originals fell silent. Thor dropped his jaw at the disrespectful and arrogant tone Sora was taking, and Piccolo sweatdropped as the boy shouted that at the most powerful beings he had even seen before. Sora himself looked a little sheepish after a few seconds of standing there in silence, but he still managed to continue before he could face the wrath of the Originals. "And second of all," the corners of his lips lifted up a little. "It's because I'm a Guardian of Light that I have to do those things first. I wouldn't deserve the title otherwise."

Chuck's eyes opened wide, but the Original next to him humphed and crossed his arms, a satisfied look coming to his face at the sound of that response. All of a sudden though, Sora's body surrounded in bright yellow light. "Umm," Sora began, as he feared the Originals were about to smite him for that outburst. The yellow light surrounded Goku, Thor, and Piccolo as well. Goku looked down at his hands and clenched them into fists as he thought he might be being attacked. Piccolo and Thor just dropped their jaws and went wide-eyed, and then all four of them fell.

They fell straight through the floor, but they did not move at the normal speed of gravity. It was like they were in an elevator of yellow light, and it was expelling them from the Originals' realm so much faster than they arrived in. "Ahhhh!" Sora yelled as he fell so fast through the air that he could not recall a time he had ever moved faster.

After only three seconds, the four of them slammed down on a floor of puffy clouds that finally slowed them down, though all of them fell on their backs after bouncing off the clouds. Sora's eyes were clenched shut during the fast fall, but he opened them up after bouncing and landing on his bum. When his eyes opened he was about to let out a sigh of relief that he was not smitten by the Gods. He opened his mouth to breath out, but he froze at the sight of the people in front of him. He slowly closed his mouth and got up to his feet, while looking around with wide eyes at all the beings surrounding him and the other three who fell.

An old man with long white hair and an eyepatch over his right eye reached down over Thor and grabbed the blond man by one of his hands. "My son," Odin said while he lifted Thor to his feet. "How did your meeting with the creators go?"

Thor gazed around at all the hundreds of Gods gathered around them. Mixed in with them were angels, saints, and other heavenly guardians similar to Piccolo who had halos over their heads, and some who did not. Thor turned back towards Sora and hummed before saying, "I do not know." A small smile cracked on his face despite what he said as he watched the Keybearer. But perhaps there is hope for us yet.

"Goku!" a voice shouted on Goku's left side. He turned and looked at a side of the circle full of beings that were tall, short, red, blue, all shapes and sizes. He did not know what they all were, but he did recognize the voice that shouted towards him and it made his eyes open huge. Piccolo turned with Goku and they both watched a pudgy blue-skinned God who looked a little like a catfish running up to them.

"King Kai!" Goku exclaimed with a smile.

Thor and Sora looked over to see Goku start talking to the short pudgy God. Thor walked his way, but Sora froze and turned his head the other way as he spotted something flying towards him. A small smile formed on his face and he took a few steps forward, and all the Gods and angels in front of Sora moved to the sides as the Keybearer stepped towards them. Some of them had arrogant expressions as they looked down at him, others looks of wonder, while some had looks on their faces like they were all too wise and all-knowing for such emotions.

The two figures Sora was watching lowered down to the white floor in front of Sora and one of them put down the small blond boy in his arms. Sora was still relieved to see how Dash's body was no longer covered in wrinkles, and the boy actually looked alright. "Dash," Sora said as the boy started walking towards him. "Did you find-"

Dash frowned deeper and shook his head with an angry look in his eyes. Sora frowned too and lifted his gaze to the men who just put Dash down. "You didn't let him see his brother?" He questioned harshly.

The brown haired Saint in front of Sora looked surprised, then he started to grin. Shiryu started though, "He does not have permission to search heaven to-"

"He just wants to find his brother," Sora argued, and Dash looked up at his friend with wide eyes as Sora spoke on his behalf. He spun back to the Saints hopefully, and Shiryu had a hesitant look on his face like he did not know what to say.

"Come on Shiryu," Seiya said, grinning at the more mature man next to him who was trying to come up with something. "If the Keybearer says it's alright, then we should-"

"Silence!" a voice thundered and a bolt of lightning hit the ground between the Saints and the two boys trying to reason with them. Sora spun to the right and watched as a tall muscular god in a long white toga marched to the front of the other Gods he had been standing silently behind. "That is enough of this nonsense."

"Lord Zeus," Shiryu said and bowed his head. Seiya bowed too, but he grimaced as he did like he was hoping them could have helped the kid out.

"It's not nonsense," Sora started, and Dash spun again to his teenage friend in surprise that Sora was this willing to stand up for him. This was the 'Zeus' after all, or at least that's what Dash thought as he stared at the Greek God with long white hair and holding a giant lightning bolt in his right hand. "It's a simple request-" Sora tried to continue.

"Keybearer!" Zeus shouted and thunder cracked around him. "You know not to meddle in the affairs of other worlds."

"This isn't another world though," Sora argued. "I've lived on this world for years now, which makes it-"

"You have lived in heaven for that long?" Zeus questioned.

Sora froze with his mouth open, and he muttered, "No, but Nexus is-"

"Then you would come to heaven, and use your position as Keybearer to have our guards alter the rules for you? You would have them change our ways to better suit your desires?" Zeus yelled this at the boy who started shying back at what he was saying.

"I-" Sora began, but he did not have anything to counter what Zeus was saying. He looked down at Dash's hopeful look that was turning into one of desperation, and he winced but had to shake his head at the kid. "I'm sorry, Dash," he whispered, unable to think of a way he could fix this without meddling like Zeus said.

Dash looked crestfallen, and he bowed his head sadly to look at the ground. As Sora put a hand on the boy's shoulder and tried to comfort him, Goku was still talking to King Kai who he had not seen in what felt like ages.

"…At least you're alive again," Goku mentioned to the halo-less God who was dead the last time he saw him.

"No thanks to you," King Kai snapped, and Goku laughed and scratched the back of his head sheepishly as he recalled why King Kai had been dead in the first place.

"I said sorry," Goku reminded, only to get another earful from King Kai.

Someone cleared their throat behind King Kai as he was snapping at Goku, and the God froze up with some sweat on his face. He started dabbing at that sweat with a handkerchief, and then he walked forward fast and leaned up to whisper in Goku's ear. "You better show some respect or I'll be the one who gets it! Remember!" King Kai backed up and then stepped to the side so that the three people behind him could walk forward. Goku gazed at the three of them with an odd look, as each of them had as weird an appearance as King Kai.

The first figure who stepped up was to Goku's right. He was a short figure with a mohawk of white hair that spiked up high over his head with the front spike dipping down a little to act like bangs. He had light purple skin and wore a pair of golden earrings. "Goku, this is the Supreme Kai of our old universe," King Kai introduced.

"Hello, Son Goku," the short figure said. His voice was high-pitched, and his eyes were narrowed giving him an ominous and powerful presence. He had on light blue pants and an undershirt of the same color that puffed out at the shoulders, and a darker blue sleeveless cloak that he wore over his clothes with an orange belt around his waist. "It is good to finally meet you, face to face."

"I thought Grand Kai was as high as the Kais got?" Goku mentioned while looking back at King Kai.

"Nope. The Supreme Kai is," King Kai corrected him. "Then again…" he started, but stopped as Shin looked towards him, and he decided to let the Supreme Kai continue instead.

"Goku, this is Lord Beerus," he motioned at the figure next to him who had large ears sticking off the top of his head that made him look like some sort of dog or cat, along with the fact that his body was covered in dark purple fur. He had a longer tail than Goku's brown one, a slender purple tail that narrowed at the end into a point. He had on some strange black ornamental clothing on over his baggy blue pants, and he had golden wristbands and a gold necklace tight around his neck. "The God of Destruction of our universe and my counterpart."

"Enough with the introductions," Beerus said, and he marched forward towards Goku who looked down at the slightly shorter figure. He smiled at the God who looked back up in his eyes and glared harshly at him. "A Saiyan huh? Pff," he scoffed and then started glaring at Goku while a dark purple aura surrounded him. "You are no Super Saiyan God. I wanted to see one," he said it in a harsh way like it was Goku's fault that he had gotten his hopes up and was about to pay for it.

"Ooh hoo hoo," the third figure who King Kai revealed to Goku started laughing while covering his mouth with one hand. "I did not expect to see you here, father," as soon as he said it, the God of Destruction in front of Goku tensed up and sweat formed on his face. His dark purple aura disappeared and he turned his head sideways to see that next to the tall angel behind him who had light blue skin and a single point of white hair over his head, there was a shorter angel standing there staring straight at him.

"Whis, let's go," Beerus said, quickly turning and walking away while the Grand Priest watched him. Goku saw the attendant who Beerus called 'Whis' nod and respond respectfully to his God, yet at the same time he looked towards Goku and smiled in a knowing way.

Sure are a lot of Gods from my universe, Goku thought while cracking a bigger smile again. He turned towards the short figure who wore a blue baggy outfit with an upside-down orange triangle in the center of his chest. He had on a red belt too with a golden buckle in the center that had the symbol for 'Great' designed in it. As the Supreme Kai and King Kai saw this man, they had as strong as reactions as Beerus did. Instead of running off though, the two said, "Great Preist," and bowed their heads to the short blue-skinned figure who appeared before them. He was a small man who like Whis had a glowing blue halo floating behind the back of his head, a strange position for it, or at least Goku thought it was from what he knew of when he had his own halo. The short Great Priest had white hair pulled back over the top of his head and had a soft expression on his face as he looked Goku up and down.

"So," Goku began, looking back at Supreme Kai who had bowed to him, then to the Great Priest again. "Are you like, Super-Duper Kai?" He questioned, and the two Kais to his right spun towards him with dropped jaws at his disrespectful tone, though King Kai smacked himself in the forehead a second later as he knew he should have expected something like that.

Great Priest just chuckled though, and then said, "No, I am not the highest God of your universe. I am not a God at all." He took a step towards Goku and continued, "Your universe was one of many that a single Original created. Zeno-sama was responsible for the creation of your universe, and the Supreme Kai was the one who was in charge of it." He added the last part to show the purpose of the God next to King Kai. Both King Kai and the Supreme Kai were looking at the Great Priest with wide eyes though at what he was saying.

"So he created all of you?" Goku asked, looking surprised and excited by the idea of this 'Zeno,' wondering if it was one of the voices he heard while in that upper realm a few minutes ago.

The Great Priest shook his head no and Goku re-became confused, as did the other two Gods still with them. "When the children fled the original world, some children were much younger than others. The older children knew that they could not stay with their younger brothers and sisters, but they also did not want to leave them alone. So though they were forced to separate, some Originals left beings such as myself to watch after other Originals. I was created to protect and follow Zeno-sama by a different Original soon before the walls between worlds were made."

Goku nodded along though hardly following that, while the other Gods stared in awe at all this lore they were learning. "So," Goku began. "Who created you?"

The Great Priest chuckled again and said, "Mortals like yourself would not be able to pronounce, let alone hear this Original's name. But you may call him Larry." The Great Priest looked up and smiled at the sky in a mischievous way, and the others near him felt like they were missing out on some kind of inside joke.

Sora stood before a group of Gods, but the one he was speaking to was a beautiful woman with long curly black hair. "I don't know if it's against the rules or what, but Annabeth really wants to talk to you. You should at least give her a few minutes of your time, if you're not too busy doing… whatever it is you're doing up here," Sora told the Goddess before him.

Athena smiled down at the teen who was three feet shorter than her. "My daughter is not yet ready to learn what you just have." Sora nodded at her while she said it, but in his head he was wondering if she even knew what the Originals had told him considering Thor had treated it like his first time hearing that stuff. Athena continued to Sora, "However, I will take it into consideration, Keybearer," The goddess of wisdom assured him. "Anyway, I do believe it is time you return to Nexus," she continued to the boy.

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing," Sora said back, and he started looking around him like he was searching for an exit. Oh, I've got an idea.

On either side of the Highfather, the archangels Michael and Gabriel stepped forward to speak to Son Goku, but Goku turned to Odin instead as the one-eyed old God began, "You will become a Super Saiyan God sooner or later, and we will welcome you back here after you do. Your father and the other Super Saiyan Gods all made the trip before."

Goku nodded, and he said, "I'm going to find a way to transform on my own."

He hesitated and opened his mouth to ask something, but Odin continued first, "I cannot tell you what happened in the war between Bardock and Meruem after you left. I apologize."

Goku shook his head and smiled at the old man, "It's okay. I'll find out for myself."

He turned his head as he saw Sora out the corner of his eye motioning for him to come over. Sora had walked back to where Dash was standing still with his head pointed down, ignoring all the Gods around him. This would have been such a cool moment if it were not for the fact that no one was telling him about his brother. He was so deep in thought about JackJack that he did not even notice Sora and Goku walking back to him until they started speaking at his sides and he lifted his head.

"Alright," Sora said once the three of them were together. He looked the other two over and nodded as their injuries were all still gone. I don't even feel tired anymore. We can go back to Nexus and be safe, as long we don't run into Meruem right after we get back. "Hey Thor," Sora said to the God holding a war hammer in front of him. Thor nodded at Sora, and the spiky haired teen questioned, "Will we ever see you again?" Thor was expecting many questions, but not that one.

He chuckled after a second of surprise that Sora would ask him something like that. "Most Gods chose to stay in Heaven and watch over creation below as they did on their own universes. However, many have always interacted with the world below and chose to stay below. It is not easy to travel back and forth, and so most Gods do not have the ability, or the privilege to travel back and forth between the realms of God and man." Thor started smiling as Sora began frowning though, and he continued, "I am one of the very select few like Chuck's angels, and a handful of other lower Gods like myself, who can make the journey." Sora smiled and Thor finished, "So perhaps we will meet again."

Sora nodded, and then he started looking around at all the Gods, angels, and Saints around him. "The Gods who stayed down on Nexus," he started, and he turned back to Thor to ask what he had on his mind. "If they chose to stay there in order to involve themselves in human affairs, they might be more willing to help me out than you guys, right?" Sora asked. Many of the Gods around him got angry or annoyed looks on their face, but Thor just nodded at Sora's question. "Do you know where I could find them?" Sora asked.

Thor glanced over at his father, but Odin did not make any movement to tell his son what to do. It was up to Thor as the sole being from his universe who had the right to travel between worlds, as one of very few from all the universes brought to Nexus, whether or not to respond to Sora's question. "The Tower of Babel," Thor finally said, and some other Gods around the circle gave Thor harsh looks at what he said. "If you go there, I believe you will find what you are looking for."

"Do not waste your time traveling there!" A God called out from the crowd.

"You have a mission, Keybearer-"

"Find the Keyhole!"

"Stop the Darkness!"

"Save our worlds!"

All the Gods started shouting at the same time as it felt like Sora was about to leave. Dash stared at Sora with huge eyes as all the Gods started shouting these things at him. He already knew a little about how Sora had traveled to different worlds because of his time traveling with Riku, but all the Gods were looking at Sora like he was going to be their savior. Sora, if the Gods all think you can save them, then why didn't you save… Dash clenched his eyes shut as his heart filled with pain.

"Alright, you two ready to go?" Sora asked, while ignoring all the Gods shouting at him. He focused on Goku and then Dash who his expression saddened at the pained look on the boy's face. Dash opened his eyes though and nodded at Sora who put a hand on his shoulder again and clenched it tightly. There was not much he could think of to say to Dash in this situation, but he hoped the squeeze could convey everything he wanted it to.

Dash nodded again at Sora, and Sora opened his mouth to shout something, but Goku's eyes widened and he called out, "Wait!" Sora looked at him in confusion and hesitated, and Goku spun to Thor who was still the closest God to them. "Do you know why my Instant Transmission isn't working anymore?" Goku asked.

Thor nodded at Goku and began, "The Gods decided that the barrier around Nexus was incomplete if teleporters' powers were still intact-"

"But since I've gotten to Nexus, I've fought people who could teleport," Goku countered. He thought Thor would correct himself, but the God of Thunder froze with his mouth open and looked like he was trying to come up with something. Goku got a confused look on his face, while Sora narrowed his eyes at the blond God before him.

Thor could see that Sora just caught him, and he frowned as his lie was seen through. He looked back into Goku's coal-black eyes and said, "I am not permitted to tell Son Goku that, yet," he said, adding 'yet' at the end to keep the Saiyan hopeful. "When you return as a Super Saiyan God, as all in heaven hope that you will, the truth behind the Gods' plans for you will be revealed."

"For me?" Goku asked, sounding confused as since he got there, the Gods only seemed to be interested in Sora. Thor nodded, and Goku cocked his head to the side before just shrugging and smiling like it did not really matter all that much to him.

"You good?" Sora asked, and Goku turned and nodded at him that he got all he wanted. "Okay," Sora said. He cupped both hands to his mouth and called out, "Castiel!"

Most of the Gods and angels around them quieted down, though Michael and Lucifer looked the most surprised as a figure appeared in front of Sora. "Brother?" Michael questioned, an interested look in his eyes as he did not know how Castiel knew the Keybearer.

Castiel glanced back at his older brothers, then turned to Sora and said, "What do you need?"

"Well, I don't know how to get back to Nexus," Sora said. "And I'd rather not use the darkness to get there, considering what I just learned about it," he added, and Castiel lifted up his eyebrows like he was interested in that subject. Sora cupped his hands to his mouth again and added in a whisper, "I'll tell you all about it later."

"Please don't," Castiel said with a dart of his eyes up, as he was sure the Gods above heard Sora say that.

"Haha," Sora laughed. "So can you help us out? If you could send us down south to where most of our friends are, that'd be great."

"'Down south?'" Castiel asked, as that was a very vague direction while inside a different realm than the one Sora was referencing.

"Oh, um," Sora started. "They're at this Resistance base really far south. Luffy, Natsu, and a bunch of the others are probably with them… oh! There was this ninja there who could make this giant purple aura thing-"

"They are not at the base you are describing," Castiel said, and Sora stopped speaking as he wondered how Castiel knew what base he was speaking of. He was just about to say that he was still being too vague and laugh about it, but now he furrowed his brow and scrunched his forehead as he wondered where they could have went.

"Could you look around for them?" Sora asked.

Castiel nodded at the teen in front of him. A few seconds went by while everyone around them stayed quiet, then Castiel opened up his closed eyes and said, "I located them." He did not sound very happy about that, but then again his expression always looked emotionless to Sora. For some reason though, the tone of Castiel's voice there made him hesitant. Castiel continued, explaining his tone, "However, they are inside the Wizard King's domain."

Sora started looking around in confusion as many of the nearby Gods started murmuring in annoyance. "I don't get it. Who's the Wizard King?"

"Another strong guy?" Goku asked excitedly.

Dash got a nervous look on his face though after he heard what Castiel said. The Wizard King? That's the guy Lancelot told me about. "Any farther south, and you get into the Wizard's territory. Everything south of here from east to west coast is all his. And the Wizard's land is just about the most dangerous place you can find on this planet." Why did they all have to go there? Wait… wait wait wait, are even the Gods afraid of him? Dash started looking around with wide eyes as he saw the Gods looking annoyed and upset at the mention of the Wizard King. Does that mean...

"What's so bad about this guy?" Sora questioned Thor.

"The Wizard King put a divine block over his lands. We sent angels there before, but he… well he defeated them," Thor said, and a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face afterwards. Defeated, and humiliated them, he thought to himself. "Just, be careful Sora," Thor told the teen who did not look deterred by the Gods' feelings towards the Wizard King.

"I will be," Sora replied. He then looked from Thor over to Athena, and then the Gods from Goku's universe. He gazed around at all the different Godly beings protecting heaven, and although they were not helping with matters on Nexus, Sora smiled at the idea of all of them staying there. It made him less sad about those he had lost, knowing how well guarded they were in the afterlife. He finally turned back to Castiel and nodded his head at the angel. "Send us down, Cass."

A flash of light surrounded the three mortals in heaven, and they returned to the land of the living.

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A/N The Darkness! The reason Nexus was created! After more than 2 million words some answers are finally revealed about this world. So much lore packed into one chapter. I hope you enjoyed the penultimate part of this chapter where we get a look at heaven for the first time. In the next part the chapter ends, as we return to the moment that Castiel whisked Sora and his friends away from the war on the Saiyan Mountains. Thanks for reading, I'll put a short list below of characters before the review responses:

DBS: Goku, Piccolo, ChiChi, King Kai, Supreme Kai, Grand Kai, Beerus, Whis, Great Priest, Zeno

Supernatural: Castiel, Chuck, Amara, Michael, Lucifer, Cain, Gabriel

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Athena, Annabeth, Zeus? (maybe, could have been another Zeus XD )

Marvel: Thor, Odin

Saint Seiya: Seiya, Shiryu

Incredibles: Dash, JackJack

Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Axel, Lea, Saix, King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Riku

Limit-Breaking chapter 85 . Feb 23

Beep...Beep...Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep... Clear...Beeeeeeee... Clear...Beeeeeeeeeeeee... Nurse:Doctor the shocks aren't working,

Doctor: God dammit Who Dies From So much Hype. He shouldn't have read this entire chapter in one go i warned him not to.

So far there is nexus and Nexus-Heroes-Will-Rise, no third heroes will rise?
So if you can explain it, that will really help cause i have no idea what you mean by that.
Either way i had a feeling bardock was going to die, something about the way goku talked about bardock like that helped me realize that. Though i am surprised and i wonder what type of gods are in the world of gods.

Though it's time to say it, BARDOCK NO WHY NOT KRILLEN OR GOHAN OR VEGETA OR ALL OF THE SAIYANS EXCEPT FOR BARDOCK. HE HAD SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR HE NEVER EVEN GOT TO REALLY MEET GOHAN. ALL I ASK FOR IS TO GIVE GOKU MERUEM DEATH IN ANYWAY I DON'T EVEN CARE IF YOU HAVE TO SACRIFICE GOKU LIFE TO DO IT, BY ALL MEANS PLEASE AS LONG AS HE KILLS MERUEM.
Though i am curious did bardock predict or saw a vision when he saw goku cause he did smile and bardock may still have the abilities to see in the future. Also the scene where bardock was dying felt to relatable to the time he either died by frieza or if anybody believes he survived and went back in time. What im trying to say is he saw the future where goku fought frieza, so did he see the same thing here but with goku vs meruem. Also Meruem also had that same feeling of death creep up on him while bardocked smiled.
Seeing goku experience fear was so sad at this point he needs to fight and train and surpass meruem otherwise all hope is lost for nexus. But still it was good development for his character.
Also poor sora the dude was just shitting himself to the point where he was crying and felt actual fear where he was constantly telling goku let's run. I never really thought i would see it to this extent. Though only way i see goku beating the ant king is with the fusion technique and he combine bodies with vegeta.
Though i do wonder what they will do know that the ant king will most likey attack his enemies as well as raditz, i mean raditz is he really going to side with the ant king or what or does he have super saiyan blue and that is why he is so confident right now.
And now meruem has saiyan dna so everytime he gets injured and heals with the regenerative ablities he gets stronger as well.
The only hope left is for yamcha to come in and take care of the rest. Only he can take out the ant king. But i am curious will we being seeing the god of destruction beerus and blizzard and even more charcters as well such as the twelve gods of destructions, the percy jackson gods and so many more.
Crazy long review! Thanks for it, tried not to remove that much before writing this. I laughed at how much hype that hype got you with. As for the "thirds" I've been mentioning, I don't mean as in a whole other story like Nexus and Heroes Will Rise. What I mean was that in my plans for Nexus Heroes Will Rise I split the plans into three "Thirds" each full of several arcs and ending in a big event like the war on the Saiyan Mountains this time. Hope that clears it up a little. Glad I got you to like Bardock enough that you woulda preferred all those others to die instead of him, though then again sorry I killed him off then... Bardock caught a glimpse of the future at the moment of his death, though we didn't catch much of what he saw. If only Yamcha was there to save him... XD We'll see what the Ant King does in the next chapter as we continue on with the war, and who knows, maybe Hit will go off on them all! Meruem getting Saiyan DNA was a big issue for Pitou and a main point of Meruem eating Bardock's brains, who knows what kind of consequences it will have? Thanks for the long review, again, and I hope you enjoyed the new chapter!

chapter 85 . Feb 23

Please make goku ssj4 and ssjgod and ssjgodssj

Okay. Maybe. Thanks for reviewing!

Jokering chapter 85 . Feb 23

Wow, that escalated quickly, i knew meruem wouldnt just die here since you have been mentioning on notes just how big the story is and that there is still a lot to tell, that and it would be a bit lack luster because you could pretty much end the Aebrith Saga there since there was no build up or hinting of someone above Meruem and worth of taking the spot as current main villain, yet. I was hoping Bardock would survive this but the dialogue he had with Goku killed that hope. Its nice that you also took this arc as a chance to introduce Meruem's private army as well as the strongests among them, like final boss unless you get S rank on five or more chapters ( Deus) or one of the most known characters of a popular jrpg ( Sephiroth) or worst villain of a certain quality declining tv show ( Savitar, although my opinion on him is completly biased and season 4 of The Flash hasnt really sound appealing to me), but in the end its a good way to give the reader what to expect when the story reaches the Capital.
And since its your story if you decide to take SS4 as power up then thats fine, it will take a while to swallow it up since i am not a fan of this form but its okay, however if you want to take the God ki as power up then i suggest you read the DBS manga, as of now its only 33 chapter long and it doesnt waste time telling the story so you can read it in about a day but the main reason i suggest it is because it does a great job at explaining power levels and the drawbacks that Goku and Vegeta have with the new stage they have reached with SSB. But hey its your choice.
I've gotta say, you really are going all out taking multiple pieces of fiction here, there are some here that have never even heard about. Did you search for some of those or did just take every single one you could possibly remember and just did a quick recap to have an idea of how play things out with the them? Overall, this was a great chapter and with that description i am looking forward to the next one. Btw you welcome about that review, i tried to focus on what i liked the most and not fanboy too much ( but if i could i would definetly take an entire review page breaking down Nexus and Nexus HWR)

Thanks for the review! Glad you like the way I set up these chapters and you're totally right with the way I'm using the 5 Guardians and Meruem's army to build up later-on wars. I don't really know how I feel about this season of the Flash too (by the way). Was never too much a fan of GT either, then again I did like it just not as much as DB or DBZ (on the fence about Super, though Goku Black arc was epic). May read the DBS manga later on to study up on the God forms once, if, Goku obtains those forms. Every tv show/movie/comic/manga/anime/book/game I've used I myself have watched or read or played, mostly. In a couple of scenes back in Metropolis I looked up some doctors from tv shows, as I have never seen Grey's Anatomy but I think I used some from there, and I used some cops from maybe CSI or some other cop shows I knew of but hadn't seen so I had to look up. Other than those though, most are just the ones I myself remember. Hope you enjoyed the new chapter, and if you've got more you want to ask about Nexus/Heroes Will Rise, you can always shoot me a PM if it's gonna be too long to put in the reviews. Thanks again!

Espada-001 chapter 85 . Feb 24

Guess who's back! I'm sorry that I haven't made a review in forever but for some reason I just haven't been able to get myself to make one. Anyway since I'm so behind I'll mainly focus on the more recent chapters information. First off the battle between Bardock and Meruem was awesome! Although the entire time that this war was going on I was wondering why Bardock's future sight didn't even show him a glimpse of what was going to happen beforehand since while the events of the future don't change it still showed the user major turning points for the future, atleast that's what I got from seeing his movie anyway. Anyway moving on another thing I've been confused on is why hasn't Sora tried calling on Arceus to get more information about the gods, or even try to call for some serious backup once everyone around him started reaching levels of power far exceeding his own? I'm mean not only are Arceus powers broken due to being practically immune to all forms of combat he's also pretty much the level a primordial god of the pokemon universe. From this point on its going to just be random questions and thoughts from the last few chapters and I'm probably going to be forgetting something. How could you get my hopes up for Jack Jack only for him to get his head chomped on like one chapter later! I was actually really sad at that point T-T. When you cut back to Jack and crew fighting the Neo Marines I thought that was pretty cool to, although I'm pretty sure that a lot of the crew members on Will's ship have cursed to serve on it for at least a few decades so I'm not entirely sure how many of them would actually be released from their contracts by being touched by Ain only once or twice. Also now that I think about it if Sora ever wanted to sneak past the gates of hell I'm pretty sure that Will would be able to do it given that he ferries people to the afterlife so long as they die at sea.

On another side note I was wandering if you planned on adding Digimon to the Nexus verse. I mean if you do you get a whole new line up for powerful characters plus if the Digital world was brought over then that could give the characters two things if they were to use it. One is for Kirito, since if someplace like the Digital world existed there'd be a good chance for Yui to be brought over to finally end the depression he's in. And second depending on who finds it they could end up using it like the hyperbolic time chamber since time in the digital world is a lot faster than the mortal world. Well it's about 3:30 in the morning here and I'm getting tired so I'll be ending this review here for now, but I just know that I'm forgetting something. Well anyway like always I meant no disrespect with any questions and I truly enjoyed this, so until next time have a good day and I look forward to the next chapter as well as your comment to my review!

Glad you're back! What is up with all the long reviews this chapter? XD Bardock's future sight always seems to be too little too late, but like when Frieza was destroying him (or sending him back in time) he caught the glimpse of the future at the last moment. As for Sora calling on Arceus, I don't know if you remember but right after Castle Oblivion, Sora and Arceus had a talk where Arceus said that he did not want to be under someone else's command after all that time for Giovanni. Sora asked to summon him though, and when Arceus asked why, Sora said to help his friends. Arceus said that was a noble reason, so I think Sora might feel a little awkward summoning a God just so that he could ask him a couple questions. As for JackJack, I had been building up his arrival for a while and then bam! Sorry ;(, I'm sure after Incredibles 2 comes out I'm gonna be even more ;( that he's gone, considering they're gonna focus on his powers a lot from what I've seen in the trailers. Lots of cool stuff about Neo Marines, and yeah there are guys there who have been on the crew for decades, but Will may have added some to his crew after arriving on Nexus as well. Either way, I think all of them would have been happy for Ain to get them out of their contracts, though it looks like she won't be doing that anymore... The digital world, Yui, lots of ideas for what I could do for a virtual world but no spoilers as to whether or not there will be one. Hope you enjoyed the new chapter, and this comment! Thanks for reviewing!

cyber chapter 85 . Feb 23

another great story, sad bardock died, and I bet goku is going to get serious on him, and I see new villians like sephiroth, sandman, monkey guy grodd, and vandal savage and other members of the seven deites, and now sora has made it to the city of the gods, wonder what type of gods are out there cant wait to see the next chapter

oh and I'm glad to see sora greeted by thor.

Thanks! Bardock noo! Goku's intent on fighting the Ant King now, though he knows he needs to be stronger before he can face him again. Lots of new villains appear, and though Raditz punched a hole through Grodd's chest, the King has a lot of other powerful allies surrounding him. Hope you liked Thor's role in this chapter, and as one of the few who can travel between heaven and Nexus, he is one of the most important Gods we've seen so far, so he'll continue to have a big role in this... Anyway, thanks for the reviews!

Limit-Breaking chapter 8 . Mar 2

i just had to put this
If you want to see this picture copy and paste it to the top of the page.
This picture reminds me of the newest chapter and i thought it was kinda ironic and

XD Nice pic. Don't know if you got cut off there or just finished on 'and' but thanks for the review!

asdf chapter 85 . Mar 1

Are any more Game Of Thrones/ A Song Of Ice And Fire characters gonna appear? Because I can remember Drogo and Daenerys appearing. It would be fun to see someone like Joffrey or Cersei's reactions to being dragged into Nexus and realizing that they are not as powerful as they originally thought and going from riches to rags in some way. Or a flashback of Melisandre trying to seduce Goku into following the Lord of Light and failing horribly or just a chapter from the viewpoint of Tyrion (that's always gonna be funny). I know that there's not much point in showing regular humans but it would be really fun to see them anyway.

Again after seeing Mereum's action, I really want to see Beerus appear and kick his ass. He'd probably say some shit like "I'm going to put you in your place like than ant you are." But that wouldn't be good from a story telling stand point if the Gods just appeared and solved your problems for you... DON"T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF NINGENS!

Just watched the start of Goku vs Jiren. Fucking complete Ultra Instinct. Definite improvement from Vegeta vs Toppo. Lets see what just might be the peak of Goku's power that will ever be shown... Until the movie maybe... And that's only if this the actual end to the Dragon Ball Series. Most likely not but we'll see.

I'm breezing through the list of GoT characters I've got already. Daenerys and her dragons, Khal Drogo and the Dothraki, The Night's King and the White Walkers (same chapter as Dothraki, Ben fought them as Heatblast), Jon Snow (he was the Commander at Pon-Gatso before Sokka, before the League of Assassins...), Malko (the slaver who sold Tyrion and Jorah, and who also sold Mine and Lily before getting fucked up by the Sith who took Romeo), Grey Worm and Ser Barriston (both were with Daenerys in Metropolis). So I've def been using them scattered throughout the story, from back in the first chapters of Nexus to parts in chapter 11 of HWR. Anyway, I'll just say that there is another GoT character coming up within the next 3 full chapters that I know of off the top of my head... but no way I'm telling you who it is :P, you could always predict it though. As for Beerus, or any God for that matter, stepping in to put down Meruem, the Originals have rules that seem arbitrary at first glance but have their reasons behind it for why they won't step in on Nexus. Beerus finally makes his appearance this chapter, though he's only there for a moment as a non-SSG Goku doesn't interest him much, and Great Priest gives him the chills XD. Liking the new fight, hoping next episode we get an epic conclusion to Jiren v Goku. And I doubt this is the end, not when there're still 4 more universes full of fighters even stronger than Jiren for Goku to fight, or someone else who has Ultra Instinct since there have been beings before who have it, and I can't wait to see an Ultra Instinct Goku vs Ultra Instinct Anybody-Else. Thanks for the (several) reviews!

kg833998 chapter 85 . Mar 6

i am with Espada-001 please add the digital world to these so we can see yui but if you do just do the first 3 series because they would be easy to put in also BARDOCK NOOOOOOO so sad to see him go but we all know what he saw he saw the future just like with freiza also please when goku fights meruem put in to listen to the dbs ost ultamite battle i fell like it would fit

Lots of people looking forward to the digital world! Can't tell you guys whether or not I'm going to do it yet... but a whole lot of ideas for it when/if it comes. Knew a lot of people saw Bardock's death coming, but at least in his last moments he was able to smile. Maybe he was Bardock D. Something, dying with a smile on his face and all XD. Listening to that ost while I write this, and I feel like this comment should be much more epic than it is. Lol anyway I hope you enjoyed the new chapter, and thanks for reviewing! Thanks again to everyone who read, faved, followed, and reviewed! As always guys... 'Till next time!